Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-29 Thread Роман Новиков
2011/9/29 Thierry Chatelet > For a friend of mine, I am going to by a laptop/ In my country (france), it > is > impossible to get computer without $W exccept if you get acer.So she want > to > buy this one: > eMachines G443-E352G32Mn - Ordinateur Portable 17,3'' - AMD E-350 (1,6 GHz) > - > 320

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-29 Thread mforestier
Bonjour a toutes et tous! C'est mon premier message sur cette liste! C'est juste pour dire que je possede ce netbook: lemote-yeeloong 8101B que j'ai installe gNewSense, debian versions stable, testing et unstable dessus, que tout fonctionne tres bien, libre,... Et me tiens a disposition pour tout

Re: Debian installer dhcp problems

2011-09-29 Thread Niklas Jakobsson
I found this post to the dhcp-users mailing list: https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2011-July/013440.html It adds a new option ignore-client-uids to dhcpd. I applied the patch and recompiled my dhcp-server and it works exactly as intended. So, my problem is solved... /Nico -- Niklas

mini-buildd-rep ssh key howto?

2011-09-29 Thread Rui Miguel P. Bernardo
Hello everyone, I'm trying to install and use mini-buildd-rep and mini-buildd-bld (builder and repository) packages. After the install I can see the new website with the info about mini-buildd repo and builder. I can also see an example to dput.cf and a SSH key. I've created a new ~/.dput.cf fil

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
2011/9/29 mforestier : > Bonjour a toutes et tous! > C'est mon premier message sur cette liste! Hopefully it's also the last in french; there's another list for that: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/ As for laptops, i favour Toshiba (just bought one but keeping Windows for the moment)

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-29 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 29 September 2011 10:05:49 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > some say nice things about > Thinkpads, others say they're not built as they used to be. Those 2 statements are not necessarily contradictory. Thinkpads may still be good, whilst not being as good as they used to be. (I rather get t

Bug filling

2011-09-29 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, I tried to file a bug with "reportbug" in text mode, i got to a screen where it wanted to save a file to /tmp/*. One of the options was to press "M-G" how do i do that. I Ctrl X and was at a screen where it said it would send the report but i am unsure i have sent the bug report. GUI mode cr

Re: cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

2011-09-29 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Proulx wrote: > I would look for a file on the > filesystem that is always active on the system. I would extract the > time from that file and use it as the basis for the new system time. > Then at the very least you would have monotonically increasing time. That's a really good idea. If you

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-29 Thread mforestier
I'm very sorry for my first message, in french! :-( So, I try traduce because it serves presentation too... I answered about netbook Lemote: It was just to say I have this netbook: lemote-yeeloong 8101B. I'm install gNewSense, debian versions stable, testing and unstable on different partitions. A

problem in installation

2011-09-29 Thread Rajan Rai
Hi Dear Sir/Madam,, Can I get the some help on while installing the debain... -- Regards Rajan Rai 9321787008

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-29 Thread Роман Новиков
2011/9/29 mforestier > I'm very sorry for my first message, in french! :-( > So, I try traduce because it serves presentation too... > I answered about netbook Lemote: > It was just to say I have this netbook: lemote-yeeloong 8101B. > I'm install gNewSense, debian versions stable, testing and uns

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-29 Thread Роман Новиков
2011/9/29 Lisi > On Thursday 29 September 2011 10:05:49 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > some say nice things about > > Thinkpads, others say they're not built as they used to be. > > Those 2 statements are not necessarily contradictory. Thinkpads may still > be > good, whilst not being as good as they

Re: problem in installation

2011-09-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 02:21:00AM -0700, Rajan Rai wrote: >Hi > >  Dear Sir/Madam,, > >   Can I get the some help on while installing the >debain... > >-- >Regards >Rajan Rai >9321787008 Dear Rajan, Yes. Yours, The helpful but not clairvoyant

Re: problem in installation

2011-09-29 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 29 September 2011 11:03:47 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 02:21:00AM -0700, Rajan Rai wrote: > >Hi > > > >  Dear Sir/Madam,, > > > >   Can I get the some help on while installing the > >debain... > > > >-- > >Regards > >Rajan Ra

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-29 Thread Joe
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:42:58 -0500 Harry wrote: > Joe writes: > > > 1) If you need a mail server but have no previous experience, have > > heard of sendmail and are unaware of anything else, then yes, I'll > > join in the recommendations that you pick a different one. It is > > notoriously the

Re: cron on a system without a hardware persistant clock

2011-09-29 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:11:33 +0100, David wrote in message <201109271011.33513.david.goodeno...@btconnect.com>: > Does anyone know if there is a way to tell and of the crons to > ignore unset times? ..keep your script _simple_, on shutdowns or reboots etc (and unless you have very short life di

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-29 Thread Joe
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:29:27 +0200 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > For a friend of mine, I am going to by a laptop/ In my country > (france), it is impossible to get computer without $W exccept if you > get acer.So she want to buy this one: > eMachines G443-E352G32Mn - Ordinateur Portable 17,3'' - A

Updated Kernel-building Web Page Available

2011-09-29 Thread Stephen Powell
Based on new stuff that I've learned over the last month and a half, much of which has been learned from Camaleón's recent thread about reducing kernel compilation time, I have published a revised version of my kernel-building web page http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm The top entr

Re: Ill advised blundering = nasty mess

2011-09-29 Thread Harry Putnam
Joe writes: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:42:58 -0500 > Harry wrote: > >> Joe writes: >> >> > 1) If you need a mail server but have no previous experience, have >> > heard of sendmail and are unaware of anything else, then yes, I'll >> > join in the recommendations that you pick a different one. It

Ethernet alias fails to brought up sometimes when booting up

2011-09-29 Thread Santiago Castillo Oli
Hi all! I have a debian squeeze server with 2 NICs. There are several IPs assigned to one of the nic. All the addresses are static. After boot, the aliased interfaces are up sometimes, but sometimes not. This is the content of /etc/network/interfaces: --x8--x8--x8--x8--x8-

Re: Alternative archiving measures

2011-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:13:15 +0200, Lorenzo Beretta wrote: > On 09/28/11 13:40, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:37:52 -0400, RiverWind wrote: >> >>> Might any of you know of any utilities that will decompress or convert >>> archived files in "rar" format? The "unrar" utility that is pret

Re: Updated Kernel-building Web Page Available

2011-09-29 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 09/29/2011 07:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: Based on new stuff that I've learned over the last month and a half, much of which has been learned from Camaleón's recent thread about reducing kernel compilation time, I have published a revised version of my kernel-building web page http://use

Re: Debian testing my ftp server problem

2011-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:27:41 -0500, Johnny wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Hum... can you access/login ftp locally, I mean, from the same computer >> where you run vsftpd? >> > Yes i can connect, know problem there So FTP server is up and responding okay (at least to queries from lo

Re: problem in installation

2011-09-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2011 schrieb Rajan Rai: > Hi Hi Rajan! > Dear Sir/Madam,, > > > >Can I get the some help on while installing the > debain... Please try the installation according installation guide which is available in lots of languages: http://www.debia

[OT] Re: help

2011-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:46:24 -0400, neo haux wrote: >   :-P Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.09.29.12.51...@gmail

Re: problem in installation

2011-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:21:00 -0700, Rajan Rai wrote: >Can I get the some help on while installing the >debain... Yes, you can. But you will need a second computer: one where you're installing Debian and another from where to ask >:-) Greetings, -- Camaleón

Re: Question propmted by response to [Re: More USB install-images please!]

2011-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:14:55 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Camaleón wrote: (...) >> You should first clarify what's what you have in mind, I'm not seeing >> your goal. >> >> > Started a reply which got longer and longer as I realized not only what > I > had left out but some unspecified (even t

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-29 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
The problem to pay for an unwanted software from $M is one thing (whereat it is difficult to estimate the cost). But if you need a $W-OS to update the BIOS (e.g., with my HP Pavilion DV7) is IMHO a much bigger drawback. Check and clarify this point somehow before bying. -- Best regards, Jörg-Volke

Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

2011-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:24:54 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 28/09/11 21:25, � wrote: (...) Ah, Scott, Scott... the web turns into a lonely place when you can't play "Angry Birds" online and you need an html5 based browser to launch those softy balls of feather to des

Re: Debian installer dhcp problems

2011-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:32:02 +0200, Niklas Jakobsson wrote: > I found this post to the dhcp-users mailing list: > https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2011-July/013440.html W-o-w... that's incredible. So it is not working even in the upstream dhcpd? :-o > It adds a new option ignore-clie

Re: Bug filling

2011-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:21:46 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > I tried to file a bug with "reportbug" in text mode, i got to a screen > where it wanted to save a file to /tmp/*. One of the options was to > press "M-G" how do i do that. M+G? Could be... but true is that I don't remember that exact key c

Re: Bug filling

2011-09-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:21:46AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to file a bug with "reportbug" in text mode, i got to a screen > where it wanted to save a file to /tmp/*. One of the options was to > press "M-G" how do i do that. M-G is usually short for "Meta-G", or "Meta+G". Meta i

System slowdown - plugin-container responsible?

2011-09-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello, fellow Debianists: As of yesterday, my testing (current) system has slowed down a whole lot. I thought it was just the 'net, but that doesn't seem to be the case. top shows something called plugin-containe (I assume it's actually 'container', but the column's too small for the last letter

RE: Recommendations for ripping problem discs and organizing mp3's by genre?

2011-09-29 Thread keitho
Hi Chris- Thanks for your suggestion. I tried Sound-Juicer, but I cannot see anyway to create a hierarchy based on genre. Am I not seeing an option or preference setting? Thanks, Keith > I did much the same but with my CD collection. > I used Sound Juicer to rip (you can rip to many formats incl

Re: System slowdown - plugin-container responsible?

2011-09-29 Thread Brian
On Thu 29 Sep 2011 at 10:45:03 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hello, fellow Debianists: > > As of yesterday, my testing (current) system has slowed down a whole > lot. I thought it was just the 'net, but that doesn't seem to be the > case. top shows something called plugin-containe (I assume i

Re: Ethernet alias fails to brought up sometimes when booting up

2011-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:34:43 +0200, Santiago Castillo Oli wrote: > I have a debian squeeze server with 2 NICs. There are several IPs > assigned to one of the nic. > > All the addresses are static. > > After boot, the aliased interfaces are up sometimes, but sometimes not. (...) Have you verifi

openjdk-7-jre and Iceweasel

2011-09-29 Thread Lisi
I am trying, without success, to run: http://media.pearsoncmg.com/aw/aw_kurose_network_2/applets/dns/dns.html The problem is the applet. The Java I have on my Lenny system is too old. Hardly surprising. So I switched to Wheezy. Still not OK. I checked: I only had openjdk-6-jre. So I ins

Re: System slowdown - plugin-container responsible?

2011-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:45:03 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > As of yesterday, my testing (current) system has slowed down a whole > lot. I thought it was just the 'net, but that doesn't seem to be the > case. top shows something called plugin-containe (I assume it's > actually 'container', but t

Re: openjdk-7-jre and Iceweasel

2011-09-29 Thread Dejan Ribič
Dne 29.9.2011 17:54, piše Lisi: I am trying, without success, to run: http://media.pearsoncmg.com/aw/aw_kurose_network_2/applets/dns/dns.html The problem is the applet. The Java I have on my Lenny system is too old. Hardly surprising. So I switched to Wheezy. Still not OK. I checked: I onl

Re: Bug filling

2011-09-29 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > M-G is usually short for "Meta-G", or "Meta+G". Meta is one of those > keys that makes sense from a software point of view, but almost no-one > has one on their keyboard. It will be emulated in one of two ways; > either hold down "Alt", press "g", then release "Alt" or press "Esc", > then wi

an historical Q: how do I check the file writing issue

2011-09-29 Thread lina
Hi, It's a historical problem for me, I asked administrator and others, no really-solved solution I got. In some cluster, when I use 1 node, no problem in writing, when I turned to 4 nodes, sometimes writing, sometimes not writing, I mean, the job shows running, but for 4 hours, no writing, tot

Re: Bug filling

2011-09-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 06:07:51PM +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: > Hi, > > > M-G is usually short for "Meta-G", or "Meta+G". Meta is one of those > > keys that makes sense from a software point of view, but almost no-one > > has one on their keyboard. It will be emulated in one of two ways; > > either h

a quick question: how to add comments for several lines at the same time

2011-09-29 Thread lina
Hi, When I use vim (how can I add comments for several lines at the same time, not one by one) add # are there some trick? (without using some package: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1528 ) Thanks ahead, -- Best Regards, lina

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-29 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 29 September 2011 15:22:50 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > The problem to pay for an unwanted software from $M is one thing (whereat > it is difficult to estimate the cost). But if you need a $W-OS to update > the BIOS (e.g., with my HP Pavilion DV7) is IMHO a much bigger drawback. > Check a

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:29:27 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > For a friend of mine, I am going to by a laptop/ In my country (france), > it is impossible to get computer without $W exccept if you get acer. JFYI, HP also ships laptops (company/enterprise based) with SLED 11 and/ or FreeDOS: http

Re: a quick question: how to add comments for several lines at the same time

2011-09-29 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:31:00AM +0800, lina wrote: > Hi, > > When I use vim (how can I add comments for several lines at the same time, not > one by one) > add # I set a mark "a" at the first row that I want to comment, then move the cursor to the last row I want commented and type: :'a,.s/^/

Re: a quick question: how to add comments for several lines at the same time

2011-09-29 Thread lina
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:52 AM, John L. Cunningham wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:31:00AM +0800, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I use vim (how can I add comments for several lines at the same > time, not > > one by one) > > add # > > I set a mark "a" at the first row that I want to commen

Re: a quick question: how to add comments for several lines at the same time

2011-09-29 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:52 PM, John L. Cunningham wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:31:00AM +0800, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I use vim (how can I add comments for several lines at the same > time, not > > one by one) > > add # > > I set a mark "a" at the first row that I want to comment

Re: System slowdown - plugin-container responsible?

2011-09-29 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
> 29/09/2011 17:57, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:45:03 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >> As of yesterday, my testing (current) system has slowed down a whole >> lot. I thought it was just the 'net, but that doesn't seem to be the >> case. top shows something called plugin-containe (

Re: Bug filling

2011-09-29 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > > Actually, from what I was told, many keyboards have that Meta key - it is > > usually labelled with a Windows logo. > > I thought the Windows logo key was usually the SUPER key? Uh... I don't know. Qt and KDE call it "Meta". E.g. my shortcut to lock the screen is "Meta+L", windows key pl

Re: a quick question: how to add comments for several lines at the same time

2011-09-29 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:56:54AM +0800, lina wrote: > > How did you set a mark "a"? Type: ma in command mode. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201

Re: System slowdown - plugin-container responsible?

2011-09-29 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:09 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >> 29/09/2011 17:57, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:45:03 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> >>> As of yesterday, my testing (current) system has slowed down a whole >>> lot.  I thought it was just the 'net, but that doesn't

Re: cssed plugins

2011-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:53:30 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > Anyone know a debian way to get cssed plugins. I can get it done using > the tarballs, but I don't want that on my system. I don't see them pre-packaged as deb but rpm: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cssed/files/ I would take a look a

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-29 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-09-29 a las 10:32 -0700, devadmin escribió: (this e-mail reached my inbox but I'm not sure it was just intended to me as I already said I like HP based notebooks -and also their netbooks, desktop computers and servers- so resending to the list...) > DO NOT PURCHASE AN HP LAPTOP THEY ARE

Re: Kompozer plugins

2011-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:57:57 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > Any advice on getting plugins into Kompozer from stable. I tried to > follow the basic process from within Kompozer but it defaulted to > firefox plugins which would not install on it. Said pages did not exist > then tried to install them

Re: System slowdown - plugin-container responsible?

2011-09-29 Thread Brian
On Thu 29 Sep 2011 at 13:41:29 -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I think it's a browser problem. I simply disabled plugin-container > (by setting dom.ipc.plugins.enabled to 'false' in about:config) and > restarted Iceweasel. Things are now _less_ sluggish, although not as > fast as I might expect.

Trouble getting apt-get Default-Release to work

2011-09-29 Thread Chris Capon
This problem occurs on a Debian install predominantly intended to follow the Stable release. Some packages on the system need to be upgraded to Testing. A file has been added to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d called 88ccc $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/88ccc // APT::Default-Release "stable"; // And /e

Re: Debian installer dhcp problems

2011-09-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: > Niklas Jakobsson wrote: > > I found this post to the dhcp-users mailing list: > > https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2011-July/013440.html > > W-o-w... that's incredible. > So it is not working even in the upstream dhcpd? :-o It may be unintuitive but ignoring client id

Re: Bug filling

2011-09-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Mark Panen wrote: > I tried to file a bug with "reportbug" in text mode, i got to a screen > where it wanted to save a file to /tmp/*. One of the options was to > press "M-G" how do i do that. Reportbug launches an editor for you edit your report. I do not recall any meta-commands from reportbug

Re: an historical Q: how do I check the file writing issue

2011-09-29 Thread Bob Proulx
lina wrote: > In some cluster, > when I use 1 node, no problem in writing, > > when I turned to 4 nodes, sometimes writing, sometimes not writing, I mean, > the job shows running, but for 4 hours, no writing, totally abnormal. > > which was going to kill me, especially for some job I am desperate

Re: Ethernet alias fails to brought up sometimes when booting up

2011-09-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Santiago Castillo Oli wrote: > After boot, the aliased interfaces are up sometimes, but sometimes not. > > This is the content of /etc/network/interfaces: You don't have a gateway at all? None? Since I don't believe it I am going to ignore that suggest having one. But of course if you really a

Re: Debian installer dhcp problems

2011-09-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:39:06 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Niklas Jakobsson wrote: >> > I found this post to the dhcp-users mailing list: >> > https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2011-July/013440.html >> >> W-o-w... that's incredible. >> So it is not working even in the ups

Re: Installing icedtea-plugin from Sid on Wheezy system - was Re: openjdk-7-jre and Iceweasel

2011-09-29 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 09/29/2011 03:37 PM, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 29 September 2011 17:03:55 Dejan Ribič wrote: Dne 29.9.2011 17:54, piše Lisi: I am trying, without success, to run: http://media.pearsoncmg.com/aw/aw_kurose_network_2/applets/dns/dns.html I am not sure this works with openjdk-7 but try to

Re: Debian installer dhcp problems

2011-09-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Camaleón wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > It may be unintuitive but ignoring client identifier is incorrect. That > > is why patching to do so isn't accepted upstream. Ignoring client > > identifier violates the protocol. See RFC 2131. > > Yes, I guess that's what man page also warns about, so wha

Permission Problem with xsane

2011-09-29 Thread Thomas H. George
I can run xsane as root but not as user tom although tom is a member of the scanner group. What other group membership is required? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:

Re: cssed plugins

2011-09-29 Thread John Foster
On 9/29/2011 12:54 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:53:30 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: Anyone know a debian way to get cssed plugins. I can get it done using the tarballs, but I don't want that on my system. I don't see them pre-packaged as deb but rpm: http://sourceforge.net/projec

Re: Kompozer plugins

2011-09-29 Thread John Foster
On 9/29/2011 1:01 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:57:57 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: Any advice on getting plugins into Kompozer from stable. I tried to follow the basic process from within Kompozer but it defaulted to firefox plugins which would not install on it. Said pages did not

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-29 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-09-29 a las 20:01 +0200, Erwan David escribió: (sending back to the list) > On 29/09/11 18:51, Camaleón wrote: > > > My preferred brands for laptops are Toshiba and HP (the ones I have tested) > > and also have good references from Lenovo's (though not directly tried). > > I got a leno

Installing icedtea-plugin from Sid on Wheezy system - was Re: openjdk-7-jre and Iceweasel

2011-09-29 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 29 September 2011 17:03:55 Dejan Ribič wrote: > Dne 29.9.2011 17:54, piše Lisi: > > I am trying, without success, to run: > > > > http://media.pearsoncmg.com/aw/aw_kurose_network_2/applets/dns/dns.html >I am not sure this works with openjdk-7 but try to install > icedtea-plugin. I

Re: Permission Problem with xsane

2011-09-29 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
I had similar problem. My scaner has to load firmware and the problem was in permission of file with firmware. On 09/29/2011 11:20 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: I can run xsane as root but not as user tom although tom is a member of the scanner group. What other group membership is required? To

d.o slow upgrades?

2011-09-29 Thread Brad Alexander
Is it just me or is ftp.debian.org glacially slow today? I am trying to upgrade my workstation, and am getting between 16 and 35kB/s. --b

Re: d.o slow upgrades?

2011-09-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Brad Alexander wrote: > Is it just me or is ftp.debian.org glacially slow today? I am trying to > upgrade my workstation, and am getting between 16 and 35kB/s. I can't remember if ftp.debian.org is a single IP CDN or not (if not then I am sure it eventually will be) but as far as I know the recomm

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intermitant keyboard problem

2011-09-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
I've been experiencing an intermittent problem with no keyboard response. Running fully updated Squeeze on a desktop box with a PS/2 keyboard. No typing problem logging in, running a different OS (Ubuntu), or with a live Squeeze CD. A search showed nothing much that wasn't Windows related. An

Virtual resolution for desktop

2011-09-29 Thread Harry Putnam
For many years I've been able to get a really big desktop, so big you have to pan around on it. I used some code in xorg.conf to do it, but now that X and desktops are generated quite a lot different. I don't begin to understand the process but would like to find a way to get my old high resoluti

Re: Kompozer plugins

2011-09-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/09/11 06:51, John Foster wrote: > On 9/29/2011 1:01 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:57:57 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > When I click on the update for plugins for Kompozer, it says the page > is no longer available, then goes to the firefox plugins download > page This is b

Re: Permission Problem with xsane

2011-09-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/09/11 06:20, Thomas H. George wrote: > I can run xsane as root but not as user tom although tom is a member of > the scanner group. What other group membership is required? > > Tom > > Scanner group is correct. Did you logout and back in again to activate membership? You shouldn't requ

Re: Virtual resolution for desktop

2011-09-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/09/11 10:55, Harry Putnam wrote: > For many years I've been able to get a really big desktop, so big you > have to pan around on it. I used some code in xorg.conf to do it, but > now that X and desktops are generated quite a lot different. I don't > begin to understand the process but would

xserver-xorg-core and fglrx-driver

2011-09-29 Thread lina
Hi, When I update this morning (wheezy one but with sid fglrx-driver), the xserver-xorg-core was updated. my fglrx-driver was removed, when I tried to install, it's reported: fglrx-driver depends on xorg-video-abi-10 or -8 or -6. which are not avaiable. then I checked package xserver-xorg-cor

Re: Installing icedtea-plugin from Sid on Wheezy system - was Re: openjdk-7-jre and Iceweasel

2011-09-29 Thread Torstein Krause Johansen
Hi there, On 9/30/11 3:37 AM, Lisi wrote I am not sure this works with openjdk-7 but try to install icedtea-plugin. It seems to be available only in Sid. I have never tried to mix systems before. I first thought of putting Sid into my sources.list, installing icedtea-plugin and then comme

To create partitions from the 0-sector (was Partitions recovering on empty HDD)

2011-09-29 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. How I can create first partition starting w/ 0-sector and not w/ 2048? fdisk does not. testdisk - i did not find such an option (but may You know?). gpart - just hangs w/ message 'Scan began...' Thanks for Your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: openjdk-7-jre and Iceweasel

2011-09-29 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 29 September 2011 17:03:55 Dejan Ribič wrote: > Dne 29.9.2011 17:54, piše Lisi: > > I am trying, without success, to run: > > > > http://media.pearsoncmg.com/aw/aw_kurose_network_2/applets/dns/dns.html > > > > The problem is the applet. The Java I have on my Lenny system is too > > ol