Re: Audiobooks

2012-02-28 Thread Julien Claassen
Hi Sian! I don't know, which codec .aa will be exactly, but you might want to try mplayer, esepcially with the codecs pakc, which is available from their site at: http://mplayerhq.hu You won't probably find it in Debian, because there are some non-opensource codecs in that. It's legal, but

Re: Audiobooks

2012-02-28 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 28 February 2012 23:14:28 Sian Mountbatten wrote: > So are audiobooks only for Windoze or MacOS? Audiobooks come in many different formats, including MP3, CD and tape. aa is somewhat problematic and I don't kno wwhat can read it. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-

Re: [Ubuntu-hams] Contest logging project

2012-02-28 Thread Martin Ewing
Nate, Good luck on this. If it was me, and I've thought about it from time to time, I would have done it in Python first. The syntax and high level aspects are so much easier than C/C++ IMO, and execution speed probably isn't critical. It seems that logging is a very personal thing. I haven't f

Re: Free movies on the Internet -- download scams [OT]

2012-02-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/02/12 21:20, nepal wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:53:54 + > Sian Mountbatten wrote: > >> Hi All! >> >> It occurred to me that there might be free movies to download. So I >> did a web search with Google and got lots of sites; >> >> So no movies for free. >> >> Anybody else had this

Re: Debian and OSS vs vSphere

2012-02-28 Thread Alexey Eromenko
Basically the idea is this: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le 28/02/2012 22:11, Alexey Eromenko a écrit : > >> Since here are 2 proxmox heads, let me ask: >> 1. What's the name of their WUI ? (Web GUI) "Proxmox VE web interface" is the official name. >> 2. Does it fit

Re: Audiobooks

2012-02-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Sian Mountbatten wrote: > I received a DVD from Amazon which came with a slip of paper saying >Download 1 FREE AUDIOBOOK > I went to the site, signed up for 30 days free membership, selected > a book and downloaded two files of type .aa. I noticed that the only > software available was for Wind

Re: Audiobooks

2012-02-28 Thread Julien Claassen
Hi bob! Hm, audible might have 95% of the downloadable audiobook market, but you can still get more than enough CDs and tapes, which is mostly allright. In any case: I always found audible's quality inferior, to put it mildly. I haven't listened to anything very recent though, because of thei

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-02-28 Thread Stayvoid
> Please attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log X.Org X Server 1.7.7 Release Date: 2010-05-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 xorg-server 2:1.7.7-14 (Julien Cristau ) Current version of pixman: 0.25.1 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest

XKBOPTIONS:"ctrl:nocaps" is not working with console-cyrillic

2012-02-28 Thread Stayvoid
Hi, I have no idea how to make it work. "ctrl:nocaps" works fine if console-cyrillic is disabled. Maybe console-cyrillic blocks /etc/default/keyboard... Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: history configuration

2012-02-28 Thread lina
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:19:19 +0800, lina wrote: > >> How to configure to make each terminal shared one "history" >> >> I found each terminal saves its own history and no sharing. >> >> Is it possible to let them share? > > Have you Googled for tha

Re: Audiobooks

2012-02-28 Thread lina
You may try upload it into the youtube and then download back in other format. -- 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/CAG9cJmkK6CZYe_=-_piy7f4upkeh12a-x_3+

Re: Persisting a one-off hostname change

2012-02-28 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 28 February 2012 13:40, Tom H wrote: >> >> Everywhere that I've worked the hostnames have had something to >> indicate its purpose and its location. > > I don't think this reasoning can be applied here though. There will be > dozens of ide

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-02-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 29 feb 12, 05:21:03, Stayvoid wrote: > (EE) [drm] failed to open device > (EE) No devices detected. Earlier you mentioned http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting did you check the section that applies to this error? http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/TroubleShooting#Xorg_fai

Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel

2012-02-28 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:15:40 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> >>> I'm getting the kernels in the /boot partition of one system matched >>> with the file-system root partition of the other system. >> >> I looked at the update

Open bug in Kino

2012-02-28 Thread Friedhelm Mehnert
There is a long standing bug in the version of Kino which shipes with Debian Squeeze. Kino seg faults and dies when creating video segment in FX tab Bug #567588. It was reported first in 2010. And google is full of complaints from frustated users who have upgraded from lenny (where it was working

Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System

2012-02-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 28 feb 12, 19:35:00, Bernard wrote: > > What did I do since my last post ? As Richard suggested, I opened up > the box and checked cables around the cdrom hardware. I noticed > something that I thought weird at first: the CDROM blocks were connected > to a cable where one could read: "HD

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