Re: please help me for buy laptop-i need your opinion

2011-12-08 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2011/12/8 hamed hosseini > thank you,but tell me why you choice number 1? > i need to know Debian support Nvidia GeForce GT 550M 1GB and Atheros > AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter or Broadcom 802.11n Wireless Network > Adapter http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Model/1005HA i just prefer ath o

Re: (argh) "Could not perform immediate configuration"

2011-12-08 Thread Jeff Gordon
Hi, Stephen -- Thanks. :-) Half those hits appear to be my own message -- sometimes I think Google must be watching over our shoulders. :-) Others don't seem to have a solution, but it looks like this is a prematurely closed Bug, known about back in October -- #645713. -- Jeff -- On Wed, Dec

Re: cron.daily error for apt

2011-12-08 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, John Hasler wrote: From debian-policy: hi John, Thank you for this very useful reply. I think that it is a good practice, when giving an information, to give also the way to get it, (it is sometimes enough to give the link to the doc, when available) I install

Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

2011-12-08 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: >I won't make furthers comments on this, it's your position and I'll >respect it although I don't share your POV :-) I appreciate Your this "POV"! :) >> Camaleón, I think we are going in wrong direction here - I just have >> tried w/ chromium runnin

Re: please help me for buy laptop-i need your opinion

2011-12-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:32:04 +0330, hamed hosseini wrote: > hi, please,i have 2 choice,i need your opinion,tell me your choice(1 or > 2)? If I'm not reading it wrong, configuration #2 is more powerful, I'd go for it :-) There are basically three main differences: - Option #2 adds more system r

Re: audio over HDMI

2011-12-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:53:25 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: (...) > The only thing I didn't try yet is blacklisting modules for my onboard > audio. Maybe that would simplify things by eliminating one audio > device. If you want to completely disable the onboard audio chipset you can also try to disab

Re: please help me for buy laptop-i need your opinion

2011-12-08 Thread steef
broadcom chips load nowadays with (allmost) no trouble at all with the broadcom-sta software. reg., steef hamed hosseini schreef: hi, please,i have 2 choice,i need your opinion,tell me your choice(1 or 2)? note:i want best laptop for Debian and Linux OS. 1. Notebook Ideapad Y470 59-303427

Re: Wheezy: Iceweasel: Bank login fails with "Skype buttons for kopete" plugin disabled

2011-12-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:45:42 -0800, T Elcor wrote: > I'm experiencing a weird problem when I'm not able to log in to my bank > account if I disable the "Skype buttons for kopete" plugin in iceweasel. > Login attempts just fail with a cryptic "Unable to Process Request - Try > Again Later or Contac

Re: QT appearence in gtk apps

2011-12-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:22:25 +, Fábio wrote: > First, sorry for my limited english. Don't worry, we're on the same boat ;-) > I'm using the testing repository in my notebook (as default), togheter > with unstable and experimental. > > The problem is my gtk apps appear ugly, different from q

Counting occurances of a word in a file.

2011-12-08 Thread peasthope
What is a convenient tool for counting the occurances of a specific byte sequence in a file? Count the occurances of "the" or %13%10"the " in a text file for example. Thanks,... Peter E. -- New telephone 1 360 639 0202. Old telephone 1 360 450 2132. bcc: peasthope at shaw.

Re: Counting occurances of a word in a file.

2011-12-08 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:53:33 -0800, peasthope wrote: > What is a convenient tool for counting the occurances of a specific byte > sequence in a file? Count the occurances of "the" or %13%10"the " in a > text file for example. Quick and dirty sample: *** grep -o "the" /path/to/file.txt | wc -w

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-08 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:15:56 +0100, afuentes wrote: > when i manually use the wall command (or when i shutdown or halt > command) i hear a annoying very loud beep. Is there a way to shut it up? I wish there is a way :-) > the pcspkr mop is not loaded. the gnome consoles opened have the beeping >

Re: SGE (grid-engine-*) versus open grid scheduler

2011-12-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:08:55 -0400, francis picabia wrote: > Maybe this isn't the best list to discuss grid cluster software, but > I'll see... JFYI, there is also: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-gridengine-devel > Oracle has discontinued the development of the open

Re: disable beep for wall command

2011-12-08 Thread Go Linux
--- On Thu, 12/8/11, Camaleón wrote: > > The only thing I've found is that when you stop gdm3 > ("service gdm3 > stop") and go to a tty, a "shutdown -r now" won't produce > any sound so > I'm starting to think this loud beep is coming from the > GNOME side... > > Perhaps /etc/gdm3/greeter.gc

Re: SGE (grid-engine-*) versus open grid scheduler

2011-12-08 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:08:55 -0400, francis picabia wrote: > > > Maybe this isn't the best list to discuss grid cluster software, but > > I'll see... > > JFYI, there is also: > > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-griden

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-12-08 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:15 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: > Hello, > > I am always interested in Full disk encryption for my laptop ( i5 + 3 GB ), > but what makes me stop > is the thinking of performance lag. Recently I have seen an ububtu laptop ( > i5 + 4 GB ) with full > disk encryption and it is pe

xfce4-panel often stops running?

2011-12-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Is anyone else seeing a lot of crashes of xfce4-panel in stock Squeeze stable? It frequently drops off the screen and stops running. No messages related to this are logged to ~/.xsession-errors. Restarting it with Alt-F2 xfce4-panel brings it back up again. But of course it shouldn't be crashin

determining package creating group

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Due to some NIS misconfiguration (now fixed), I'm missing some groups (notably netdev and bluetooth) on one of my machines. Is there a way to determine which packages create those groups, so I can reinstall the packages? I realize I could just create the groups by hand, but presumably there are s

Re: determining package creating group

2011-12-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Due to some NIS misconfiguration (now fixed), I'm missing some groups > (notably netdev and bluetooth) on one of my machines. Is there a way to > determine which packages create those groups, so I can reinstall the > packages? I would grep through the postinst scripts for pa

Re: determining package creating group

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Bob Proulx writes: > Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> Due to some NIS misconfiguration (now fixed), I'm missing some groups >> (notably netdev and bluetooth) on one of my machines. Is there a way to >> determine which packages create those groups, so I can reinstall the >> packages? > > I would grep throu

Re: determining package creating group

2011-12-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > This is exactly what I needed -- thanks! Great! > (I wasn't aware the postinst scripts were kept around) They are used by dpkg-reconfigure to re-configure the package. # dpkg-reconfigure foopackage That runs the postinst script for the named package in an officially sup

Disabling Keyboard shortcuts in Wheezy (Gnome 3)

2011-12-08 Thread Andrew Wood
Hi Im having a problem disabling keyboard shortcuts in Wheezy with Gnome 3 / Gnome Shell. Ive gone through all the ones in the list in System Settings and set them to disabled, yet pressing the Windows key still switches to activities, and Alt-` still switches between open windows. How can

Why is it...

2011-12-08 Thread Phil Dobbin
... I tried to install Fedora & ended up with half a boot partition, tried CentOS (I'm taking my RHCE exam soon) & the laptop ended up D.O.A. (wouldn't even boot from a rescue disk) so I tried Debian Squeeze which I use on my desktop machine & the laptop is now sitting there quite happily without a

Re: Why is it...

2011-12-08 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 12/8/11, Phil Dobbin wrote: > ... I tried to install Fedora & > ended up with half a boot partition, > tried CentOS (I'm taking my RHCE exam soon) & the > laptop ended up D.O.A. You evidently made a mistake (or several) during the installation. You need to discover what BEFORE taki

Re: determining package creating group

2011-12-08 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Bob Proulx writes: > Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> This is exactly what I needed -- thanks! > > Great! > >> (I wasn't aware the postinst scripts were kept around) > > They are used by dpkg-reconfigure to re-configure the package. > > # dpkg-reconfigure foopackage > > That runs the postinst script for

true to gnu, making cash too ? perhaps in single purpose too...

2011-12-08 Thread Sam
yet without erasing the source code or lying about how it works either, perhaps the software bits are the key to not cash but to make mroe physical goods via cnc... yet the point, is that the web site with the gnu/debian is not very user friendly, nor specific in intent... how about a nice little

Re: Re: no sound with flash videos....

2011-12-08 Thread Guo, Xunhua
Same problem here. It worked some time ago. But after some upgrading the sound for flash was gone. Really weird. -- Xunhua -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debia

Re: Why is it...,

2011-12-08 Thread Phil Dobbin
On Thu, 2011-12-08 at 19:40 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > You evidently made a mistake (or several) during the installation. >You need to discover what BEFORE taking that exam. Won't impress a >future employer or client of your talents if you can't even install Red >Hat. > > FWIW, I've never ex

uid and gids not mapped in nfs

2011-12-08 Thread land fish
Hello,I have a nfs setup with the server running wheezy and the clients are running squeeze.In the server nfskernelserver 1:1.2.52+b1 is installed and the clients have nfscommon version 1:1.2.24 installed with nis.In the clients the uid and gid s are not mapped, file permissions are showing nobo

Re: uid and gids not mapped in nfs

2011-12-08 Thread Erwan David
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 07:53:38AM CET, land fish said: > Hello,I have a nfs setup with the server running wheezy and the clients are > running squeeze.In the server nfskernelserver 1:1.2.52+b1 is installed and > the clients have nfscommon version 1:1.2.24 installed with nis.In the clients > th

Re: Re: no sound with flash videos....

2011-12-08 Thread Jeff Gordon
Hi, Xunhua -- Some possibilities: If you've got alsa installed, and pulseaudio just came in with the upgrade, they may be fighting for control of the audio. That has killed sound for me more than once. My solution is to remove or disable pulseaudio; someone else might approach it differently.