Re: Transferring files between Samsung tablet and a Debian box

2012-07-13 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, On 12.07.2012 18:55, Ken Heard wrote: > Can anyone tell me how I can transfer files between my Samsung > tablet with Honeycomb and my Debian boxes with Lenny or Squeeze, > using either a USB or Bluetooth connection between them? I know I > can

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-07-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 12 iul 12, 19:40:33, Gary Dale wrote: > On 12/07/12 06:41 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Jo, 12 iul 12, 09:04:48, Gary Dale wrote: > >>On 12/07/12 04:58 AM, Ivo Ugrina wrote: > >>>I've bought ATI 6750 a few months ago > >>>and I'm not satisfied with FLOSS driver. > >>>I can't suspend anymor

storage server fail-over

2012-07-13 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i have a storage server (samba) and now there is a requirement from my management that i should provide a centralized document storage server where people can store their working document. (so this means another layer of responsibility :*(, (never mind)). i already have raid 1 implemented on SAMBA

Re: Transferring files between Samsung tablet and a Debian box

2012-07-13 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12.07.2012 19:39, m...@neidorff.com wrote: > If I can add value to this postI just got a Samsung Galaxy S > III and would like to know how to transfer my music and podcasts > from my PC to the phone. Just like the tablet, the phone is not > r

Re: Transferring files between Samsung tablet and a Debian box

2012-07-13 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12.07.2012 20:22, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > I hear newer versions of android no longer support the usb mass > storage protocol. They use something called Media Transfer > Protocol. The libmtp package (and associated utility packages) > should help,

Re: CD image doesn't exist for download?

2012-07-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 iul 12, 17:10:17, Chris Bannister wrote: > > I'm saying that Linux rescue CD's are for rescuing a broken Linux. Sure, if you know what to do with them :) https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/12/msg01379.html (as far as I recall this is my first post to the list) Kind regards, And

Re: Transferring files between Samsung tablet and a Debian box

2012-07-13 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 12.07.2012 20:22, Kushal Kumaran wrote: >> I hear newer versions of android no longer support the usb mass >> storage protocol. They use something called Media Transfer >> Protocol.

what graphic card to buy?

2012-07-13 Thread Matej Košík
Hello, I was given a desktop which has the following graphic card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc NI Caicos [AMD RADEON HD 6450] The graphics card works. In case of Fedora, I can use both monitors at their native resolution (1900x900) in non-mirroring mode. In case of

Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses

2012-07-13 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 12 July 2012 18:29, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Does anyone use sc, the text based spreadsheet program? > > Over the years I've become more fond of the console and > ncurses applications. I've recently found myself using sc > as my first spreadsheet application for our new small > business. Doing in

Re: Debian won't install via businesscard

2012-07-13 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Camaleón writes: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:31:20 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> From: >> >> http://www.us.debian.org/CD/netinst/ >> >> I downloaded the file debian-6.0.5-i386-businesscard.iso and burned it >> onto CD, then tried to install Debian on my pc. Everything went fine >> until the

Re: Debian won't install via businesscard

2012-07-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Jul 2012 at 10:11:50 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >From debian-boot I got no reply. I also tried with another iso file: > debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso, downloaded from > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/current/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-busine

Re: Debian won't install via businesscard

2012-07-13 Thread rodolfo . medina
On Friday, July 13, 2012 10:50:02 AM UTC, Brian wrote: > On Fri 13 Jul 2012 at 10:11:50 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > >From debian-boot I got no reply. I also tried with another iso file: > > debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso, downloaded from > > > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimag

Re: Debian won't install via businesscard

2012-07-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Jul 2012 at 04:23:36 -0700, rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, July 13, 2012 10:50:02 AM UTC, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 13 Jul 2012 at 10:11:50 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > > > >From debian-boot I got no reply. I also tried with another iso > > file: > > > debian-testing

Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses

2012-07-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:29:15PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > I can foresee issues exchanging data with people who use Excel. But then > I don't know if any of the graphical clients have that capability either. apt-cache search excel | grep spread | less -- "If you're not careful, the newspap

Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses

2012-07-13 Thread John Hasler
Nick Lidakis writes: > Does anyone use sc, the text based spreadsheet program? My wife uses it extensively in doing the bookkeeping for our business. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: storage server fail-over

2012-07-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/13/2012 2:26 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i have a storage server (samba) and now there is a requirement from my > management that i should provide a centralized document storage server > where people can store their working document. (so this means another > layer of responsibility :*(,

Re: what graphic card to buy?

2012-07-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/07/12 04:39 AM, Matej Košík wrote: Hello, I was given a desktop which has the following graphic card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc NI Caicos [AMD RADEON HD 6450] The graphics card works. In case of Fedora, I can use both monitors at their native resolution (19

Re: storage server fail-over

2012-07-13 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
thanks, i was also looking for that but i didn't have the idea if thats gonna work since i have zero knowledge about DRBD. anyways thanks for the tip it is very helpful. On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/13/2012 2:26 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> i have a storage

Re: Netbook acer ao-722 bz-893

2012-07-13 Thread Dr Beco
> I bought an Acer AO 722-C52kk because it looked good; wished I hadn't, nice > machine but, oh the trouble to get it working properly, (sound still using > wrong card, or some such). > > Your ethernet should just work with almost all Linux distros OOB using DHCP; > I think there is a problem there

Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses

2012-07-13 Thread hvw59601
Wilko Fokken wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:29:15PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: Does anyone use sc, the text based spreadsheet program? Hi, (Not a precise answer to your question): I remember 'slsc', a text based spreadsheet, based on 'sc', but more advanced. Unfortunately, Debian doesn't

Re: Iceweasel trouble, anyone else?

2012-07-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 22:25 -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Wednesday 11 July 2012 21:21:11 Rob Owens wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 07:20:45PM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > > Hi: > > > > > > Debian testing, i386, KDE 4.8.4, iceweasel 13.0.1 > > > > > > Lately iceweasel suddenly started t

Re: [OT] Re: Test Post

2012-07-13 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120712_102219, Bob Proulx wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > > Shouldn't be (or "wouldn't be nice to have", I don't want to sound too > > agressive) a dedicated mailing list for this purpose? I mean, for testing > > how messages will appear before getting into the real "dangerous jungle" > > and do

hardware raid and xfs

2012-07-13 Thread Alexander Mestiashvili
Hi Debian folks, Could anyone please explain me why does this warning appear? mkfs.xfs: Specified data stripe width 640 is not the same as the volume stripe width 2048 How does xfs know about volume stripe size width ? here is the command: mkfs.xfs -fb size=4k -d su=64k,sw=5 /dev/mapper/mpath2

Re: storage server fail-over

2012-07-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/13/2012 8:40 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > thanks, i was also looking for that but i didn't have the idea if > thats gonna work since i have zero knowledge about DRBD. > anyways thanks for the tip it is very helpful. DRBD simply mirrors disk blocks between two hosts' block devices (single

Re: hardware raid and xfs

2012-07-13 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 07/13/2012 05:21 PM, Alexander Mestiashvili wrote: > Hi Debian folks, > > Could anyone please explain me why does this warning appear? > > mkfs.xfs: Specified data stripe width 640 is not the same as the volume > stripe width 2048 > > How does xfs know about volume stripe size width ? > > here i

Re: what graphic card to buy?

2012-07-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 13 iul 12, 09:39:26, Matej Košík wrote: > > In case of Fedora, I can use both monitors at their native resolution > (1900x900) in non-mirroring mode. > > In case of Ubuntu, I can use both monitors at their native resolution > but only in mirroring mode (it is not possible to set non-mirror

Re: [OT] Re: Test Post

2012-07-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:14:13 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 12 Jul 2012 at 10:22:19 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> Camaleón wrote: >> > Shouldn't be (or "wouldn't be nice to have", I don't want to sound >> > too agressive) a dedicated mailing list for this purpose? I mean, for >> > testing how messa

Re: Debian won't install via businesscard

2012-07-13 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:14:28 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 13 Jul 2012 at 01:45:09 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Jo, 12 iul 12, 15:44:28, Camaleón wrote: >> > >> > Anyway, I recently read that Debian is thinking about dropping the >> > business card installation media, so consider starting

Re: what graphic card to buy?

2012-07-13 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:39:26 +0100, Matej Košík wrote: > I was given a desktop which has the following graphic card: > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc NI Caicos [AMD > RADEON HD 6450] (...) > In case Debian (6.0.5), I cannot use the graphical mode (Xorg) at all > becau

Re: storage server fail-over

2012-07-13 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/13/2012 8:40 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> thanks, i was also looking for that but i didn't have the idea if >> thats gonna work since i have zero knowledge about DRBD. >> anyways thanks for the tip it is very helpful. > so, you c

(Some advances...) Re: Shutting down error

2012-07-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:32:50 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 12 Jul 2012 at 16:03:58 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> I'm running an updated wheezy and since weeks ago, when shutting down >> (or restarting) the system I can see this message: >> >> [FAIL] Killing all remaining processes... failed. (...)

Re: Debian won't install via businesscard

2012-07-13 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:11:50 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Camaleón writes: (...) >> It can be a problem with the burned image or the ISO itself, then :-? >> >> Anyway, I recently read that Debian is thinking about dropping the >> business card installation media, so consider starting to use t

Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses

2012-07-13 Thread hvw59601
hvw59601 wrote: Wilko Fokken wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:29:15PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: Does anyone use sc, the text based spreadsheet program? Hi, (Not a precise answer to your question): I remember 'slsc', a text based spreadsheet, based on 'sc', but more advanced. Unfortunatel

Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses

2012-07-13 Thread hvw59601
hvw59601 wrote: hvw59601 wrote: Wilko Fokken wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:29:15PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: Does anyone use sc, the text based spreadsheet program? Hi, (Not a precise answer to your question): I remember 'slsc', a text based spreadsheet, based on 'sc', but more advan

Re: wheezy backports

2012-07-13 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 13.07.2012 21:15, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote: > __ Type your response ABOVE THIS > LINE to reply > > > Re: wheezy backports > > *1QA4xxx2a* | JUL 11, 2012 | 04:30PM UTC Thank you for > submitting your

Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses

2012-07-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 01:14:09PM -0500, hvw59601 wrote: > > http://www.picpaste.com/slsc-1-MDWRIfxK.png WTF tal% wget "http://www.picpaste.com/slsc-1-MDWRIfxK.png"; --2012-07-14 06:26:59-- http://www.picpaste.com/slsc-1-MDWRIfxK.png Resolving www.picpaste.com (www.picpaste.com)... 87.239.128.

Re: wheezy backports

2012-07-13 Thread Brian
On Fri 13 Jul 2012 at 21:17:42 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > On 13.07.2012 21:15, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote: > > __ Type your response ABOVE THIS > > LINE to reply > > > > > > Re: wheezy backports > > > > *1QA4xxx2a* | JUL 11, 2012 | 04:30PM UTC T

Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses

2012-07-13 Thread Linux-Fan
On 07/13/2012 08:29 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 01:14:09PM -0500, hvw59601 wrote: >> >> http://www.picpaste.com/slsc-1-MDWRIfxK.png > > WTF > > tal% wget "http://www.picpaste.com/slsc-1-MDWRIfxK.png"; > --2012-07-14 06:26:59-- http://www.picpaste.com/slsc-1-MDWRIfxK.png

Re: `dget --build` permissions problem

2012-07-13 Thread Tom Roche
Tom Roche Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:59:34 -0400 > me@it:/tmp/gdal$ dget --build > http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gdal/gdal_1.9.0-3.dsc > fails at end (after long successful build) with > > error: could not create '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/osgeo': > > Permission denied > ..

Quiero crear mi propio SO me recomienda que comienze de cero? o que tome una distro ya existente como lo hizo ubuntu? y tengo otras preguntas?

2012-07-13 Thread Armando Barrera
Hola, quiero utilizar debían pero me surgieron muchas interrogantes: Porque debían no evoluciona como las demás distros, existe alguna ventaja? Osea por que sus Paquetes no son renovados y sus aplicaciones son actualizadas? Existe alguna ventaja en que debian use en su paquetería dkpg, apt, apti

User group in SW Missouri?

2012-07-13 Thread Richard Owlett
I live in Springfield, Missouri. Only Linux users group I knew of died due to lack of interest. -- 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/500082a5.4010...@cloud

slsc, i.e., spreadsheet calculator using s-lang (Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses)

2012-07-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Wilko Fokken wrote: > I remember 'slsc', a text based spreadsheet, based on 'sc', but more > advanced. Unfortunately, Debian doesn't contain it any more. > > At least up to Debian 3, this prog was provided. > > If you can find an 'slsc' source, you might be instrumental in > bringing it back

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Atıf CEYLAN wrote: > For example, my wireless card is not supported by debian wheezy standart > kernel. Also non-free package is not working. So I compile it from > source code and I change some part of the code (because some part of > code is not working with my hardware). So I must make com

Re: slsc, i.e., spreadsheet calculator using s-lang (Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses)

2012-07-13 Thread hvw59601
Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi, Wilko Fokken wrote: I remember 'slsc', a text based spreadsheet, based on 'sc', but more advanced. Unfortunately, Debian doesn't contain it any more. At least up to Debian 3, this prog was provided. If you can find an 'slsc' source, you might be instrumental in bri

OT: Web based newsreader suggestion?

2012-07-13 Thread T Elcor
Hi, Does anyone know of a free, good web based newsreader? I plan to use it to read debian user group. I know of http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user and http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ but don't particularly like either of them. Old Google Groups would be fine but they now require

Re: OT: Web based newsreader suggestion?

2012-07-13 Thread Dom
On 14/07/12 02:26, T Elcor wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a free, good web based newsreader? I plan to use it to read debian user group. I know of http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user and http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ but don't particularly like either of them. Old Google Group

Re: OT: Web based newsreader suggestion?

2012-07-13 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:26:22 -0700 (PDT) T Elcor wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know of a free, good web based newsreader? I plan to use > it to read debian user group. I know of > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user and > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ but don't particularly like >

Re: OT: Web based newsreader suggestion?

2012-07-13 Thread T Elcor
--- On Fri, 7/13/12, Dom wrote: > Before I subscribed to this list, I used to read it using > Icedove as a newsreader (I still do for some other groups). Perhaps I should clarify that by web-based I mean browser-based. Preferably, the server would group all messages related to a thread and pres

[OT] Re: wheezy backports

2012-07-13 Thread lina
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 3:05 AM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 13 Jul 2012 at 21:17:42 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > >> On 13.07.2012 21:15, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote: >> > __ Type your response ABOVE THIS >> > LINE to reply >> > >> > >> > Re: wheezy backports >

Re: Debian quiet boot

2012-07-13 Thread Mostafa Hashemi
thank you all ... and specially you, Mika Suomalainen :) i did edit grub , but i can see the messages at boot time what should i do ??? :(