Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 09/11/2011 19:18, T o n g wrote: Well, not exactly now but at lease Adobe flash is dead for all mobile devices: Adobe confirms Flash Player is dead for mobile devices http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/adobe-confirms-flash-player-is-dead- for-mobile-devices/ Steve Jobs wins: Flash being phas

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/11/11 15:46, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 09/11/11 T o n g said: > >> Adobe flash is one of the tech-inventions that I resent the most. >> Now it is dead for all mobiles, and I wish it is dead on the web tomorrow. > > I like watching youtube videos. Silverlight is a problem for me on Lin

Re: Testing Gnome3 Radeon OS complete system freeze

2011-11-10 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 20:47 +0100, Javier Silva wrote: > > After freeze you can be accessed by ssh? > Your machine respond to ping? No , I cannot access the machine with ssh and I cannot ping the machine. I have tot use the on/off button to reboot the machine. Rebooting the machine with the just

Can I mount a local directory to remote host?

2011-11-10 Thread Benimaur Gao
seems sshfs can only mount the directory from remote host to local mount point. I want to do the contrary -- mount the local dir to remote host, and including the content under this directory. Is it possible? if so, one more step, can i do such things behind NAT? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Adobe flash is dead [OT]

2011-11-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/11/11 19:07, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 09/11/2011 19:18, T o n g wrote: >> Well, not exactly now but at lease Adobe flash is dead for all mobile >> devices: >> >> Adobe confirms Flash Player is dead for mobile devices >> http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/adobe-confirms-flash-player-is-dead-

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 09 nov 11, 20:14:28, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:51:14 +, Andrew Wood wrote: > > > Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by default? > > Interesting question. Which distributions do that? Debian of course :) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussi

Re: aptitude vs. apt-get/dpkg purge

2011-11-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 09 nov 11, 21:54:26, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > > I have not seen an explicit bug for it, but the 816 open bugs on > aptitude are somewhat hard to browse. Is this a known issue or > works-as-designed? I can only confirm your findings, still looking for a workaround. Regards, Andrei -- Off

Re: Adobe flash is dead [OT]

2011-11-10 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 10/11/2011 09:22, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 10/11/11 19:07, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 09/11/2011 19:18, T o n g wrote: Well, not exactly now but at lease Adobe flash is dead for all mobile devices: Adobe confirms Flash Player is dead for mobile devices http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/adobe

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:28:53 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 09 nov 11, 20:14:28, Walter Hurry wrote: >> On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:51:14 +, Andrew Wood wrote: >> >> > Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by >> > default? >> >> Interesting question. Which distributio

Re: gnome-shell en testing (Sorry mixing lists)

2011-11-10 Thread Javier Barroso
Sorry I mixed debian-user-spanish with debian-user :( 2011/11/10 Javier Barroso : > Añado a la lista .. > > 2011/11/10 Jose Diaz : >> Saludos, muy buenas noches >> >> Referente al hilo, sobre Unity y Gnome3 veo que al abrir una ventana ej: >> /home/miusuario y moverme a otra ruta, algo de rutina,

Re: aptitude vs. apt-get/dpkg purge

2011-11-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-11-10 09:35 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 09 nov 11, 21:54:26, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: >> >> I have not seen an explicit bug for it, but the 816 open bugs on >> aptitude are somewhat hard to browse. Is this a known issue or >> works-as-designed? I have the feeling it might have t

Re: apache 2.2.16 deadly slow

2011-11-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/9/2011 10:37 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: > On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:53:57 -0600 > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 11/9/2011 7:38 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: >> >>> This is a apache server with php 5.3 >>> The pages are based on php. Even the viewvc aka svn viewer is also taking >>> tooo >>> much response tim

Re: Suspending script.

2011-11-10 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 06:44:30AM GMT, Sthu Deus wrote: > It was the permission problem - I did not set it to be executable. Now > it seems to work. > > Thanks, Raf, again, for the point. No worries mate. Most problems are usually easy to fix. However, sometimes you need someone else to ask the

Re: OT: Just a simple query

2011-11-10 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 11:12:01PM GMT, Ismael Scalcon wrote: > To clarify things up (ok, a bit off topic): > > Red Hat Linux is a commercial distro, but what they sell is the supporte To clarify things, Red Hat Linux _was_ a distro available as a free download with or without commercial support.

Re: Can I mount a local directory to remote host?

2011-11-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 04:15:12PM +0800, Benimaur Gao wrote: > seems sshfs can only mount the directory from remote host to local > mount point. I want to do the contrary -- mount the local dir to > remote host, and including the content under this directory. > Is it possible? if so, one more step

Re: Yikes, 140 held packages

2011-11-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Jo, 27 oct 11, 15:08:57, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I noticed this command posted for another recent thread: >>aptitude search ~ahold >> >> I was curious so ran it myself. I was shocked to see quite a bunch of >> held packages.. 140 to be exact. Are there any circum

Re: Preseeded installation with non-standard locale

2011-11-10 Thread Philipp Tölke
Am 04.11.2011 22:18, Bob Proulx wrote: Of course you know you will have to try Squeeze now. :-) Can you test Squeeze? If it works there then the problem you are seeing must have been fixed in the intervening time. Yes, squeeze works. Thanks for the help! I will now try if squeeze is viable

Re: emacs RMAIL -- help needed

2011-11-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Sian Mountbatten writes: > Having loaded gnus into emacs23, in the group buffer I keyed ^ > and got a list of servers. Two entries caught my attention: > > {nnimap:Opera} (denied) > {nntp:nntp.aioe.org} (opened) (agent) > > Why was Opera denied? Will there be a log anywhere? The *Messages* > buff

Re: wheezy / gnome3

2011-11-10 Thread Pablo Sánchez
It looks prettier than mine, indeed... Pablo On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:12:02 +, Richard wrote: On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:51:30 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:42:44 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: (...) Still holding back the upgrade and quite unsure on how to proceed. Resis

GRUB: "error incompatible license. Entering rescue mode..."

2011-11-10 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello Yesterday I created an empty guest system on a VMware Host, bootet it with a GRML CD, copied over a running system and installed a boot loader using grub-install. When rebooting this newly cloned guest system I got the following error: GRUB loading. Welcome to GRUB!

Re: OT: Just a simple query

2011-11-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Walter Hurry writes: > On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:12:01 -0200, Ismael Scalcon wrote: > >> But it's still opensource, so the source code is free to download and >> compile. The guys at CentOS do it, they get all the source code for RHL, >> remove the Red Hat branding and distribute it. > > And the guy

Re: KDE package manager

2011-11-10 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Doug writes: > On 11/09/2011 03:33 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Jo, 03 nov 11, 10:59:43, Ken Heard wrote: >>> Sian Mountbatten wrote, in part: >>> Is there a KDE package manager available? >>> >>> What happened to KDE's Kpackage? It is in Lenny, but I do not see it in >>> the Debian repo

Re: Getting mail using gnus

2011-11-10 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Memnon Anon writes: > Sian Mountbatten writes: > >> When I issue the command M-x gnus in Emacs, some messages flash >> by in the echo area, but I do not get any mail. > > Have a look at your message buffer: *Messages* I've done that, but the only clue is the report that gnus is analysing the f

Re: Debian install , need to add wireless firmware

2011-11-10 Thread Brian
On Thu 10 Nov 2011 at 09:32:21 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Why so complicated? Just download the full DVD1 iso and loop-mount it > under Debian. I only hope the Windows partition is not NTFS, because the > base install does not contain ntfs-3g. One option would be to resize the > Windows par

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:10:13 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 10/11/11 15:46, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > On 09/11/11 T o n g said: > > > >> Adobe flash is one of the tech-inventions that I resent the most. > >> Now it is dead for all mobiles, and I wish it is dead on the web tomorrow. > > >

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread J. Bakshi
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:02:55 -0500 Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:10:13 +1100 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > On 10/11/11 15:46, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > > On 09/11/11 T o n g said: > > > > > >> Adobe flash is one of the tech-inventions that I resent the most. > > >> Now it is dea

Re: Can I mount a local directory to remote host?

2011-11-10 Thread Chris Davies
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 04:15:12PM +0800, Benimaur Gao wrote: > I want to [...] mount the local dir to [the] remote host > can i do such things behind NAT? Darac Marjal wrote: > I shall assume you are trying to share a directory on A called /srv to a > remote machine B as directory /mnt. This CAN

Re: OT: Just a simple query

2011-11-10 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 11:12:01PM GMT, Ismael Scalcon wrote: >> >> To clarify things up (ok, a bit off topic): >> >> Red Hat Linux is a commercial distro, but what they sell is the supporte > > To clarify things, Red Hat Linux _was_ a distro a

Re: OT: Just a simple query

2011-11-10 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:29:03PM GMT, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Raf Czlonka wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 11:12:01PM GMT, Ismael Scalcon wrote: > >> > >> To clarify things up (ok, a bit off topic): > >> > >> Red Hat Linux is a commercial distro, but what they sell is t

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 10/11/11 Scott Ferguson said: > Choices are nice :-) > > http://www.youtube.com/html5 > > (let youtube/google know *you* would prefer a choice). Nice link. I'm using Squeeze so I have FF 3.5. I could update outside of the .deb package though to something more recent. Remember when Firefox

Re: virtualbox just became slow

2011-11-10 Thread Steve Kleene
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 12:54:11 + (UTC), I wrote: >> I've been happily running a virtualbox Windows XP machine (VM) on a Wheezy >> host for eight months. However, the VM just became pathologically slow. For >> example, if I boot the VM, call Photoshop 6, and open a small JPG, it all >> works but

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 10/11/11 Celejar said: > And of course, there's always youtube-dl, cclive, etc. when they work... fetch config ...done. verify video link ...error: libquvi: server returned http/404 I get that for cclive on every url... and I don't see youtube-dl packaged for squeeze. Mike signature.asc

Re: aptitude vs. apt-get/dpkg purge

2011-11-10 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
Andrei POPESCU wrote: Hello, >> I have not seen an explicit bug for it, but the 816 open bugs on >> aptitude are somewhat hard to browse. Is this a known issue or >> works-as-designed? > I can only confirm your findings, still looking for a workaround. I have reported bug #648313 for this. htt

Re: OT: Just a simple query

2011-11-10 Thread Ismael Scalcon
O right, sorry, I was talking about RHEL, just didn't notticed the talk was about RHL, as RHL doesn't exist anymore. @Walter And I'm having the same doubt, why CentOS is so despicable? Just to know. Or is Scientific Linux technically better than CentOS, and that's why you choose it instead? Rega

flash plugin for firefox and chrome

2011-11-10 Thread J. Bakshi
Hello list, What packages should I install in debian so that firefox and chrome can play flash? It is already there in ububtu. Don't know the name though of those packages in ubuntu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: flash plugin for firefox and chrome

2011-11-10 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 10/11/11 16:53, J. Bakshi wrote: Hello list, What packages should I install in debian so that firefox and chrome can play flash? If you want an Open Source flash player implementation try gnash otherwise the flashplugin-nonfree will basically download and install the player from Adobe.

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 00:07, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > > youtube ... is still very 'betqaish' with html5 You must be using a different YouTube than me. I have had very little in the way of problems with HTML5 on YT, and nothing recently. Not all videos are available in HTML5 yet, but fallback has

Re: flash plugin for firefox and chrome

2011-11-10 Thread J. Bakshi
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:59:19 +0100 Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 10/11/11 16:53, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > > Hello list, > > > > What packages should I install in debian so that firefox and chrome can > > play flash? > > If you want an Open Source flash player implementation try gnash > otherwise the

Re: flash plugin for firefox and chrome

2011-11-10 Thread David Roguin
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:22 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:59:19 +0100 > Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > > > On 10/11/11 16:53, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > > > > Hello list, > > > > > > What packages should I install in debian so that firefox and chrome can > > > play flash? > > > > If you wa

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Tom Furie
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 07:10:13PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Choices are nice :-) > > http://www.youtube.com/html5 > > (let youtube/google know *you* would prefer a choice). > Thanks for the link, didn't know about that. Cheers, Tom -- Mike: "The Fourth Dimension is a shambles?" Be

Re: flash plugin for firefox and chrome

2011-11-10 Thread J. Bakshi
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:43:26 -0300 David Roguin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:22 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:59:19 +0100 > > Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > > > > > On 10/11/11 16:53, J. Bakshi wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello list, > > > > > > > > What packages should I install

Undocumented detail from ls -l?

2011-11-10 Thread peasthope
Folk, peter@joule:~$ dmesg | grep Debian [0.00] Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-38) (b...@decadent.org.u k) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Mon Oct 3 04:15:24 UTC 2011 peter@joule:~$ ls -l /dev/fw1 crw-rw+ 1 root video 252, 1 Nov 7 11:54 /dev/fw1 What is the m

Re: Undocumented detail from ls -l?

2011-11-10 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:16 PM, wrote: > > peter@joule:~$ dmesg | grep Debian > [    0.00] Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-38) > (b...@decadent.org.u > k) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Mon Oct 3 04:15:24 UTC 2011 > peter@joule:~$ ls -l /dev/fw1 > crw-rw+ 1 root

Re: flash plugin for firefox and chrome

2011-11-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
J. Bakshi wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:43:26 -0300 David Roguin wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:22 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:59:19 +0100 Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 10/11/11 16:53, J. Bakshi wrote: Hello list, What packages should I install in debian so that firefox an

Re: Suspending script.

2011-11-10 Thread Sthu Deus
Raf wrote: >No worries mate. Most problems are usually easy to fix. >However, sometimes you need someone else to ask the right questions. ABSOLUTELY right! Every whit! Especially the permission problem - that accompanies our way! We usually tend to pay attention to more serious problems and forg

Dead keys in Gnome3/Shell?

2011-11-10 Thread Olav Lavell
Hi list, I decided not to resist futilely and to go along with the recent Gnome upgrade in Wheezy. So now I can't type anymore :( Longer version: I depend on the "International (with dead keys)" keyboard layout, as configured in System Settings, Region and Languages. I chose the first of thr

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 08:39:30AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 10/11/11 Scott Ferguson said: > > > Choices are nice :-) > > > > http://www.youtube.com/html5 > > > > (let youtube/google know *you* would prefer a choice). > > Nice link. I'm using Squeeze so I have FF 3.5. I could update

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > Andrew Wood wrote: > > Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by default? > > I understand the desire to have a free flash player but Gnash is a very > > poor implementation and I think it tarnishes Linux's image rather than > > enhances it. > > ... >

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert Holtzman wrote: > Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > Nice link. I'm using Squeeze so I have FF 3.5. I could update outside of the > > .deb package though to something more recent. > > A .deb package for firefox? Where? The Debian Mozilla team makes Firefox deb packages available for Stable tha

Re: Testing Gnome3 Radeon OS complete system freeze

2011-11-10 Thread Javier Silva
2011/11/10 Joost Kraaijeveld : > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 20:47 +0100, Javier Silva wrote: >> >> After freeze you can be accessed by ssh? >> Your machine respond to ping? > > No , I cannot access the machine with ssh and I cannot ping the machine. > I have tot use the on/off button to reboot the machi

Re: Undocumented detail from ls -l?

2011-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: > peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > peter@joule:~$ ls -l /dev/fw1 > > crw-rw+ 1 root video 252, 1 Nov 7 11:54 /dev/fw1 > > > > What is the meaning of the + following the permissions? > > An ACL is set. You can use "getfacl" to see the additional perms. The first hit when searching fo

Re (2): Undocumented detail from ls -l?

2011-11-10 Thread peasthope
From: Tom H Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:31:42 -0500 > An ACL is set. You can use "getfacl" to see the additional perms. From: Bob Proulx Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:51:07 -0700 > The first hit when searching for a "+" in the ls info pages is: > > A file with any other combination of al

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:44:35 +0530 "J. Bakshi" wrote: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:02:55 -0500 > Celejar wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:10:13 +1100 > > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > > > On 10/11/11 15:46, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > > > On 09/11/11 T o n g said: > > > > > > > >> Adobe flash

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:45:49 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > On 10/11/11 Celejar said: > > > And of course, there's always youtube-dl, cclive, etc. > > when they work... > > fetch config ...done. > verify video link ...error: libquvi: server returned http/404 Beats me - they usually work

gnome 3 refugee; How to just run compiz as the Window Manager, no "session" management

2011-11-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Like others, I had carelessly allowed my apt repositories to include Unstable, and the introduction of Gnome 3 packages made my system un-login-able. Rather than try to fix that, I'd like to just forget about Gnome altogether and run Compiz as the windowmanager. Does anybody have advice about how

Re (2): Undocumented detail from ls -l?

2011-11-10 Thread peasthope
From: Bob Proulx Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:51:07 -0700 > The first hit when searching for a "+" in the ls info pages ... Incidentally, searching in tldp.org for ACL found this. "http://tldp.org/LDP/LGNET/152/prestia.html"; "... if you do an "ls -l", the listing will show a "+" at the end of t

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Celejar wrote: > Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > Celejar said: > > > And of course, there's always youtube-dl, cclive, etc. > > > > when they work... > > > > fetch config ...done. > > verify video link ...error: libquvi: server returned http/404 > > Beats me - they usually work for me (I usually u

Re: mutt and maildir++ format

2011-11-10 Thread Allan Wind
On 2011-11-10 09:06:20, Johann Spies wrote: > mailboxes + `\ > for file in ~/.maildir/.*; do \ >box=$(basename "$file"); \ >if [ ! "$box" = '.' -a ! "$box" = '..' -a ! "$box" = '.customflags' \ >-a ! "$box" = '.subscriptions' ]; then \ > echo -n "\"+$box\" "; \ >fi;

nfs howto - are debian docs dated?

2011-11-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Searching with `site:debian.org' in google with keywords `how' and `nfs'. I don't really see what looks like a full HOWTO walk thru. The wiki site (wiki.debian.org/NFS) seems to just point off to ancient HOWTOs elsewhere. Changing my search terms by dropping the `site:' bit and using the keyword

Re: gnome 3 refugee; How to just run compiz as the Window Manager, no "session" management

2011-11-10 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:20:33 -0600 Paul Johnson wrote: ... > Here's my angry rant: > > I'm an old timer, can remember time when "startx" would just call a > window manager and start a terminal, before Gnome, KDE, etc existed. I still do exactly this with XFCE (although I believe some other st

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:26:50 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: ... > Because of this I always use the youtube-dl from Sid. It is a script. > It only depends upon ffmpeg being installed. It runs just fine on And ffmpeg is not even a hard dependency, only a recommends (not sure what happens if ffmpeg isn

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Siard
Michael P. Soulier wrote: > and I don't see youtube-dl packaged for squeeze. The reason for this, as stated by the maintainer of youtube-dl himself, is given in this post: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/12/msg00433.html But the wheezy version appears to be working well in squeeze.

Re: nfs howto - are debian docs dated?

2011-11-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 01:34:47PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > On one site (the one cited above) I noticed said something about > having to change kernels. I'm currently running wheezy with > 3.0.0-686-pae. Will that need to be changed? No. aptitude install nfs-kernel-server Now you have the r

Re: virtualbox just became slow

2011-11-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/11/11 00:41, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 12:54:11 + (UTC), I wrote: > >>> I've been happily running a virtualbox Windows XP machine (VM) on >>> a Wheezy host for eight months. However, the VM just became >>> pathologically slow. For example, if I boot the VM, call >>> Phot

Re: Testing Gnome3 Radeon OS complete system freeze

2011-11-10 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi Javier, Thanks for responding. On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 19:36 +0100, Javier Silva wrote: > 2011/11/10 Joost Kraaijeveld : > Before upgrade to Gnome3 and radeon opensource driver... > > what driver you had installed? The closed source driver from AMD latest version (10.10) > which graphics card

Re: Testing Gnome3 Radeon OS complete system freeze

2011-11-10 Thread Javier Silva
2011/11/10 Joost Kraaijeveld : > Hi Javier, > > Thanks for responding. > > On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 19:36 +0100, Javier Silva wrote: >> 2011/11/10 Joost Kraaijeveld : >> Before upgrade to Gnome3 and radeon opensource driver... >> >> what driver you had installed? > The closed source driver from AMD la

HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
I often have a situation that I would like to improve. I need to access web servers that exist on a private subnet. I can log in using ssh. I can of course use lynx, w3m and similar for text mode browsing. But sometimes those text mode browsers are not suitable to the needed tasks. I don't wis

Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-10 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I am sure this must be a common need and already solved many times > over.  Can someone recommend a simple HTTP proxy program that I could > run on the remote ssh logged into system that I could then use to > provide my local browser access to

Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-10 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Thursday 10 November 2011 23:15:35 Bob Proulx, vous avez écrit : > I often have a situation that I would like to improve. I need to > access web servers that exist on a private subnet. I can log in using > ssh. I can of course use lynx, w3m and similar for text mode > browsing. But sometimes

Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Christofer C. Bell wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I am sure this must be a common need and already solved many times > > over. Can someone recommend a simple HTTP proxy program that I could > > run on the remote ssh logged into system that I could then use to > > provide my local browser access to

Re: gnome 3 refugee; How to just run compiz as the Window Manager, no "session" management

2011-11-10 Thread Weaver
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:17:10 -0500 Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:20:33 -0600 > Paul Johnson wrote: > > ... > > > Here's my angry rant: > > > > I'm an old timer, can remember time when "startx" would just call a > > window manager and start a terminal, before Gnome, KDE, etc > > exi

Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-10 Thread Philipp Tölke
> I often have a situation that I would like to improve. I need to > access web servers that exist on a private subnet. I can log in using > ssh. I can of course use lynx, w3m and similar for text mode > browsing. But sometimes those text mode browsers are not suitable to > the needed tasks. I

Re: Laptop / wifi issues

2011-11-10 Thread Edward Morbius
Well, it seems that a few long-standing issues have resolved for me since upgrading to testing/unstable: - Wireless, as noted. - Video wouldn't update following hibernate restore, or exiting an X11 session without killing/restarting X server. - Video would lock hard displaying movies (variously fl

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Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Bob Proulx, vous avez écrit : > > Can someone recommend a simple HTTP proxy program that I could run > > on the remote ssh logged into system that I could then use to > > provide my local browser access to the web on the remote private > > network? > > What I have used : >

Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Philipp Tölke wrote: > Did you look at the -D option for ssh? Yes. I use it regularly. The -D option sets up a socks server. But that is a socks proxy not an http proxy. It is awesome for socks forwarding though. I use it with the dante socksify program. Works great. For example I have a ne

Re: help rebuilding RAID 5 [solved]

2011-11-10 Thread Chris Purves
On 2011-11-08 16:48, Chris Purves wrote: Hello, I have a software RAID 5 consisting of 5 disks. One of the disks (sdc) failed and could no longer be recognized by the BIOS. I replaced it with a new disk and while the array was rebuilding, another disk (sdd) experienced a read error, which cau

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:31:29AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Robert Holtzman wrote: > > Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > > Nice link. I'm using Squeeze so I have FF 3.5. I could update outside of > > > the > > > .deb package though to something more recent. > > > > A .deb package for firefox? Wher

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert Holtzman wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > A .deb package for firefox? Where? > > > > The Debian Mozilla team makes Firefox deb packages available for > > Stable that tracks the current release. > > > > http://mozilla.debian.net/ > > Nothing about FF here or in any of the backport sites

Re: Adobe flash is dead (now Firefox/Iceweasel/Mozilla)

2011-11-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/11/11 11:47, Bob Proulx wrote: > Robert Holtzman wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: A .deb package for firefox? Where? >>> >>> The Debian Mozilla team makes Firefox deb packages available for >>> Stable that tracks the current release. >>> >>> http://mozilla.debian.net/ >> >> Nothing about FF

Re: nfs howto - are debian docs dated?

2011-11-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Dan Ritter writes: [...] snipped useful input... thanks > Doing NFS4 exports is a little harder, but you can get better > access-control. Google for "nfs4 exports debian" to find a > howto. Is there any other reason to use nsf4? Faster...? or .. whatever? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-10 Thread Rob Owens
> On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:12 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend, and he uses a dial-up > > modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a modem, so I could use > > a few tips. > > Thanks for the tips, everyone. But it seems I have forgotten more about

Re: virtualbox just became slow

2011-11-10 Thread Steve Kleene
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:37:49 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >On 11/11/11 00:41, Steve Kleene wrote: >> On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 12:54:11 + (UTC), I wrote: >> I've been happily running a virtualbox Windows XP machine (VM) on a Wheezy host for eight months. However, the VM just became pa

Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-10 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi! * Bob Proulx wrote: > Philipp Tölke wrote: > > Did you look at the -D option for ssh? > > But I don't know how to make it operate as an http proxy. Perhaps > there is a way but unknown to me. I don't want to run my local > firefox under socksify. I am sure that would work but then I could

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:54:39 -0500 (EST), Rob Owens wrote: > > Thanks for the tips, everyone. But it seems I have forgotten more about > modems than I realized. > > I'm now using gnome-ppp as a dialer, which uses wvdial as a backend (I > think). I'm also using martian-modem, which provides a dr

Re: virtualbox just became slow

2011-11-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/11/11 13:07, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:37:49 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 11/11/11 00:41, Steve Kleene wrote: >>> On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 12:54:11 + (UTC), I wrote: >>> > I've been happily running a virtualbox Windows XP machine > (VM) on a Wheezy host for

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-10 Thread Weaver
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:54:39 -0500 Rob Owens wrote: > > On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:12 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend, and he uses a dial-up > > > modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a modem, so I > > > could use a few tips. > > > > Thank

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-10 Thread Weaver
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:54:39 -0500 Rob Owens wrote: > > On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:12 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > > I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend, and he uses a dial-up > > > modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a modem, so I > > > could use a few tips. > > > > Thank

Removing evolution but leave gnome intact?

2011-11-10 Thread keitho
I realize it is not necessary, but if possible I'd like to remove evolution. This is what I have tried so far: # aptitude unmarkauto gnome-control-center evolution-data-server # aptitude unmarkauto libedataserverui1.2-11 capplets-data # aptitude unmarkauto evolution-data-server-common # aptitude

Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Timo Boettcher wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Philipp Tölke wrote: > > > Did you look at the -D option for ssh? > > > > But I don't know how to make it operate as an http proxy. Perhaps > > there is a way but unknown to me. I don't want to run my local > > firefox under socksify. I am sure tha

Re: Removing evolution but leave gnome intact?

2011-11-10 Thread Weaver
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:24:16 -0800 kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > I realize it is not necessary, but if possible I'd like to remove > evolution. Excellent move! Then install kdepim. Much better than evolution in my book, but, to the problem: I'm horrendously lazy like this. I'd simply remove evo

Gnome3 and external screen

2011-11-10 Thread Johann Spies
When I configure my display areas and select the external screen to be above my internal one, I am unable to move windows to the external screen. When the setup is left/right/below this is not a problem. Does anyone know how to convince Gnome3 to make the first choice setup workable? Regards Jo

Re: mutt and maildir++ format

2011-11-10 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 09:05:40PM +0200, Allan Wind wrote: > Does it work if hard-code maildir++ files? It finds the mailboxes but when I want to change ('c') to ones with new mail in, it does not show them. > > I use regular maildir mailboxes and use find to populate it: > mailboxes `find $H

Re: debian wheezy 64 bit --- on HP Pavillion dv6921la Notebook --- driver question!

2011-11-10 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
On a HP Pavilion dv7-4151sg the camera is connected internally to the USB bus. In this case it is listed in the output of the command lsusb -v as "USB Camera" or "Webcam" or "Camera Sensor". I've tested the camera with guvcview. -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

2011-11-10 Thread Philipp Tölke
> Philipp Tölke wrote: > > Did you look at the -D option for ssh? > > [...] > there is a way but unknown to me. I don't want to run my local > firefox under socksify. I am sure that would work but then I couldn't > easily switch it on and off as needed. Therefore having an actual > external htt