Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-17 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 16.10.2012 um 15:48 schrieb Paul E Condon: I think you are mistaken about the sync only once a day. The signals giving the year month and day are given once a day, but the precise time-tics are given throughout the day. My clock has an indication when it is receiving the radio signal which

Re: Vaio Z RAID 0

2012-10-17 Thread Dan
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Dan wrote: > Hi, > > I bought a Vaio Z. It has 2 hard drives of 128 and they are setup with > a fake RAID 0 " Intel Rapid Storage Technology " . That makes a RAID 0 > of 256Gb. > > I have no experience with RAIDs and I am trying to install wheezy but > also to keep

Re: Vaio Z RAID 0

2012-10-17 Thread Frank Otto
Hi Dan, the good news is that I can confirm that it is possibly to run Linux on a VAIO SVZ13, using the original Intel-RAID0 and without destroying the pre-installed Windows. The bad news is that the way I did it is probably not easy to follow for everyone, and it might require some luck (i.e. us

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-17 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 16.10.2012 um 18:54 schrieb Doug: If you live within the coverage area and your WWVB clock is unable to synchronize, it usually means a source of radio interference is near the receiver. Some common culprits are computer monitors (some have a scan rate at or very close to 60 kHz), noisy

[ RAID-MD-ISSUE ]

2012-10-17 Thread kush soni
I am trying to create Raid1. I have got three hard disks. On one of the hard disk I have installed debian. And on my other two hard disks I want to do Raid1. I have checked their smartctl and they are fine. My System Configuration is *Debian version debian-6.0.5-amd64 * I formatted both the othe

Listen to audio..........

2012-10-17 Thread Charlie
I have a CD with just audio only tracks, not music, just people speaking. They are lectures. I don't know what extension they have, but VLC won't touch them and neither will totem. Could anyone please tell me what package I need to be able to listen to these audio files. Thank you. Charli

Re: Evolution: A warning about mbox data corruptions

2012-10-17 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 05:59 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > You didn't notice this yourself in recent years and you're aware of the > GNU General Public License's disclaimer of warranty ;). > > Don't get me wrong, I would be pissed off too. Yeah I know... guess I came down a bit over the night. I fu

Re: Number of Debian packages available.

2012-10-17 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 16 oct 12, 08:01:59, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Darac Marjal >> wrote: >>> >>> According to my reading of the manual: >>> >>> aptitude search '~smain' >>> and >>> aptitude search '~smain|~scontrib|~snon-free'

Re: Listen to audio..........

2012-10-17 Thread mark
> >I have a CD with just audio only tracks, not music, just people >speaking. They are lectures. > > I don't know what extension they have, but VLC won't touch them and > neither will totem. > > Could anyone please tell me what package I need to be able to listen to > these audio files. Ho

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 09:49 +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > cheap ones (20 - 40 EUR/USD) Radio-controlled table clocks cost less than 9,- EUR some time ago, at a German discounter. End of 2009 I bought a power meter for 9.99 EUR from a German discounter. I've got reasonable doubt that the m

Re: Header file for QQ Protocol

2012-10-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:29:46PM +, Kousik Maiti wrote: >Dear List, >I need some information about QQ protocol. >[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ. >I want a header file like linux/tcp.h or linux/ip.h . > >Thanks in advanced. Pidgin supports QQ, so you might wan

Re: Evolution: A warning about mbox data corruptions

2012-10-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 13:11 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Moreover, this fits so perfectly in the general philosophy problems > GNOME and especially also Evolution have... these guys really need to > be slapped IMHO to wake up and reconsider their way of doing things I switched from GNO

Re: mount cdrom?

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 05:14:58AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: > Thank you very much for your help. At now, I can read from the install CDs. > On my centos, I learned how to install extra programs from my install CDs , > as the following : > #yum -disablerepo=\* -enablerepo=c6-media install gimp

Re: OT: Various modethods accesing debian-user list

2012-10-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 06:22:36PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > PS: Isn't there a sandbox list for such OT talk? We do have a lot of > that discussions on that list and should continuing starting it here, > but then take it to another list. Well indeed, but you've selectively quoted an OT sentence

Re: code of conduct (was Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives)

2012-10-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:53:59PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > I understand. Thank you for correcting my humbly mistake. Will comply. You're welcome - and whilst I'm at it, welcome to the list! I hope you find it useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: mount cdrom?

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 05:37:55AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: > I found how to install packages from CD, as : > #apt-get install gcc Ahh! Should have read whole thread. :) > But can you please let me know where can I find the list of available and > useful programs that I can try to install the

Re: code of conduct (was Re: Another OT: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives)

2012-10-17 Thread Wally Lepore
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:53:59PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > > I understand. Thank you for correcting my humble mistake. Will comply. > > You're welcome - and whilst I'm at it, welcome to the list! I hope you > find it > useful. > Thank yo

raid

2012-10-17 Thread steef
hi all, my youngest son gave me two hd's (1 terab. each) included a raid-array on ech hd 500 GB; *made by windows7* how do i get rid of this array? mdadm tells me nothing up till now. how to handle this? thanks for all the help i can get here. i put the 2 hd's in a machine loaded with sid o

Re: raid

2012-10-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/10/12 10:19 AM, steef wrote: hi all, my youngest son gave me two hd's (1 terab. each) included a raid-array on ech hd 500 GB; *made by windows7* how do i get rid of this array? mdadm tells me nothing up till now. how to handle this? thanks for all the help i can get here. i put the 2

Re: Vaio Z RAID 0

2012-10-17 Thread Dan
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Frank Otto wrote: > Hi Dan, > > the good news is that I can confirm that it is possibly to run Linux > on a VAIO SVZ13, using the original Intel-RAID0 and without destroying > the pre-installed Windows. The bad news is that the way I did it is > probably not easy

Debian 6.0.5 32 bit Library Required for 64 bit System

2012-10-17 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I am running the 64 bit 6.0.5, but need the 32 bit canberra-gtk-module. Where can I find it? Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariate www.FoundationForChemistry.com (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smoln

Re: raid

2012-10-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 04:19:08PM +0200, steef wrote: > hi all, > > my youngest son gave me two hd's (1 terab. each) included a > raid-array on ech hd 500 GB; *made by windows7* > > how do i get rid of this array? mdadm tells me nothing up till now. No, it won't. As far as I know, mdadm will on

Re: raid

2012-10-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 04:19:08PM +0200, steef wrote: > hi all, > > my youngest son gave me two hd's (1 terab. each) included a > raid-array on ech hd 500 GB; *made by windows7* > > how do i get rid of this array? mdadm tells me nothing up till now. Use a partition tool such as gparted or cfdis

Re: raid

2012-10-17 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Hi Darac, for raid software you can use mdadm. Do you want install system on raid or do you want use raid for data? before creting raid array, write 0 on each sector with dd (man dd). There are different paper on the web for this. See you. Il giorno 17/ott/2012 17:27, "Darac Marjal" ha scritto:

Re: raid

2012-10-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 06:05:17PM +0200, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >Hi Darac, >for raid software you can use mdadm. Do you want install system on raid or >do you want use raid for data? before creting raid array, write 0 on each >sector with dd (man dd). There are different paper on

profile function: not found. Was: Dymo 450 ejects label on login

2012-10-17 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Darac Marjal writes: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 05:47:07PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> The issue is as above: new machine running xfce4 desktop, with two >> printers attached. One of them is an Epson Workforce 645, the other is >> a Dymo 450 label printer. The Epson is, of course, the default

Re: Vaio Z RAID 0

2012-10-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/10/12 11:16 AM, Dan wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Frank Otto wrote: Hi Dan, the good news is that I can confirm that it is possibly to run Linux on a VAIO SVZ13, using the original Intel-RAID0 and without destroying the pre-installed Windows. The bad news is that the way I di

Re: Debian 6.0.5 32 bit Library Required for 64 bit System

2012-10-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/17/2012 10:20 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running the 64 bit 6.0.5, but need the 32 bit canberra-gtk-module. Where can I find it? Do you have ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk installed? Start by installing those. Then go to http://packages.debian.org/ and search for libcanberra-gtk

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-17 Thread Doug
/snip/ If and since when the US take part of this coordination--I don't know. The US do not like international agreements. Have the US signed the Human Rights, or the international Woman Rights? Helmut Wollmersdorfer The NIST site I mentioned before details the US participation in Coordi

Newbie password problem(s)

2012-10-17 Thread Richard Owlett
I've been doing a series of Debian installs over the last several months. YES. There are easier ways to do things. *BUT* my purpose is _educational_ rather than "efficiency" ;) I have a history of problems with the root password not being recognized. If the problem *DOES* occur on a individ

Re: Listen to audio..........

2012-10-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Charlie wrote: > >I have a CD with just audio only tracks, not music, just people >speaking. They are lectures. > > I don't know what extension they have, but VLC won't touch them and > neither will totem. If it is an audio cd, they do not have file extens

Re: Evolution: A warning about mbox data corruptions

2012-10-17 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 14:49 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The only data losses I experienced > were not too dramatically and caused by bad hardware or by myself > *knocking on wood*. Good luck > Fortunately you didn't lost your mails, "just" some > might be really unreadable, regarding to the broke

can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW

2012-10-17 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, I made several attempts to put a UDF file system on a CD-RW, using the programs of the udftools package, but none worked. Google showed several people having the same problem, but I didn't find any "solved" flag... Is it hopeless? here is what I did ->>cdrwtool -d /dev/sr0 -b full using de

Re: Newbie password problem(s)

2012-10-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 17 oct 12, 12:22:48, Richard Owlett wrote: > > When rebooting into "Rescue Mode", the last two lines displayed are: > sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell > root@localhost:~# > > At this point I'm allowed to do "apt-get install xyz" - no password > required. > > Comments, quest

Re: mount cdrom?

2012-10-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Hadi Motamedi wrote: > > I found how to install packages from CD, as : > #apt-get install gcc > But can you please let me know where can I find the list of available and > useful programs that I can try to install them from my install CDs ? I recommend using apti

Re: Newbie password problem(s)

2012-10-17 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: ... > When rebooting into "Rescue Mode", the last two lines > displayed are: > sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell > root@localhost:~# > > At this point I'm allowed to do "apt-get install xyz" - no > password required. > > > Comments, questions, suggestions?

Re: can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW

2012-10-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I experienced two "things" as problematic with Linux. CD-RAM and independent from the CD-RAM issue, UDF too. I can't help, but I'll watch this thread ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW

2012-10-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I experienced two "things" as problematic with Linux. > CD-RAM and independent from the CD-RAM issue, UDF too. You must mean CD-R or CD-RW? Or DVD-RAM, but that pretty much failed early, leaving DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W). If you do have DVD-RAM,

Re: raid

2012-10-17 Thread steef
On 17-10-12 17:55, Jon Dowland wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 04:19:08PM +0200, steef wrote: hi all, my youngest son gave me two hd's (1 terab. each) included a raid-array on ech hd 500 GB; *made by windows7* how do i get rid of this array? mdadm tells me nothing up till now. Use a partition

/etc/vsftpd.conf, data_connection_timeout parameter.

2012-10-17 Thread peasthope
Two questions relating to one problem with vsftpd. * Has anyone noticed a case where the data_connection_timeout parameter in vsftpd.conf is not respected? According to online manual pages, the default value is 300 s. In my observations the client receives the following message after 60

Re: can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW

2012-10-17 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:33:35 +0200 Ralf Mardorf napísal: > I experienced two "things" as problematic with Linux. > CD-RAM and independent from the CD-RAM issue, UDF too. I have no experiences with udftool and CD-RW, only with DVD-RAM. I was playing with this a long time ago, but i was s

Re: Gnome recommends iceweasel-l10n-all

2012-10-17 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 16.10.2012 18:29, Artifex Maximus wrote: >> On last Wheezy upgrade my system install all iceweasel-l10-* packages >> because gnome recommends -all package. Is it normal? I only need > > This is wanted, yes. To get a translated iceweasel.

Re: Debian 6.0.5 32 bit Library Required for 64 bit System

2012-10-17 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 10/17/2012 02:14 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/17/2012 12:58 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 10/17/2012 12:22 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/17/2012 10:20 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running the 64 bit 6.0.5, but need the 32 bit canberra-gtk-module. Where can I find it? Do you have i

Re: can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW

2012-10-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Oops, yes I meant DVD-RAM. Sometimes they worked like a charm, but for many installs I couldn't get them working. I guess today DVD-RAM anyway is completely obsolet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW

2012-10-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Thank you Slavko :) On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 21:32 +0200, I wrote: > Oops, yes I meant DVD-RAM. Sometimes they worked like a charm, but for > many installs I couldn't get them working. I guess today DVD-RAM > anyway is completely obsolet. I guess I'm mistaken, on some installs they worked like a cha

Re: Debian 6.0.5 32 bit Library Required for 64 bit System

2012-10-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/17/2012 2:29 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 10/17/2012 02:14 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/17/2012 12:58 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 10/17/2012 12:22 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/17/2012 10:20 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running the 64 bit 6.0.5, but need the 32 bit canberra-g

Re: Debian 6.0.5 32 bit Library Required for 64 bit System

2012-10-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/17/2012 2:50 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/17/2012 2:29 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 10/17/2012 02:14 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/17/2012 12:58 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 10/17/2012 12:22 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/17/2012 10:20 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running the 6

Re: can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW

2012-10-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Thank you Slavko :) > > On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 21:32 +0200, I wrote: >> Oops, yes I meant DVD-RAM. Sometimes they worked like a charm, but for >> many installs I couldn't get them working. I guess today DVD-RAM >> anyway is completely obsolet.

Re: Listen to audio..........

2012-10-17 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:27:22 -0400 "m...@neidorff.com m...@neidorff.com" suggested this: >> >>I have a CD with just audio only tracks, not music, just people >>speaking. They are lectures. >> >> I don't know what extension they have, but VLC won't touch them and >> neither will t

Re: Question: install Wheezy to some laptops (radeon video) _without any effort_

2012-10-17 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:36:59 +0100 Brian wrote: > Kernel parameters can be added in > >/etc/default/grub > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= Thanks Brian :) Then, can debian-installer add some parameter to it during installation? -- Regards, Hideki Yamane henrich @ debian.or.jp

Re: Listen to audio..........

2012-10-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Perhaps you need "DVD Playback DVDs are usually encrypted with CSS. CSS is not a codec. In any case, here is some information on playback of encrypted DVDs. All media players use libdvdcss2 in order to playback these encrypted DVDs libdvdcss2 is available at the unofficial repository deb-mu

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20121016_164416, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 16:41 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 13:31 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > > > > > Which browser? > > > ^^ > > > > > I'm only using the browsers that installed with the debian netinst > > > > > file

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> http://wiki.debianforum.de/Google_Chrome Sorry, this link is in German, I didn't notice it :D, ignore this browser. -- 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.o

Re: Listen to audio..........

2012-10-17 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:45:21 +0200 "Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net" suggested this: >Perhaps you need > >"DVD Playback > >DVDs are usually encrypted with CSS. CSS is not a codec. In any case, >here is some information on playback of encrypted DVDs. All media >players use libdvdc

Re: Question: install Wheezy to some laptops (radeon video) _without any effort_

2012-10-17 Thread Brian
On Thu 18 Oct 2012 at 06:19:40 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Then, can debian-installer add some parameter to it during installation? The install Guide says 'yes'. Section 5.3.3. - Passing parameters to kernel modules. Parameters given on the installer command line are also propagated to the in

Re(2): GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-17 Thread peasthope
* From: Joe * Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:14:20 +0100 > If you install it in the Debian partition, you will need to run > this bootloader from the first stage of the Windows bootloader. This might help and it cites the Grub manual. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_loading Regards,

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20121016_120614, John Hasler wrote: > I just tried name1.glorb.com. It is distributing correct time and your > machine is synchronizing properly to it. Your wall clock is broken. > -- > John Hasler I've placed an order for a replacement 'atomic' clock. Thanks to everyone for the interesting

Debian Etch(Kernel 2.6.24) Can't insatll on Ivy bridge platform

2012-10-17 Thread richie . jf . liu
Dear, When we install Debian Etch(Kernel 2.6.24) on Intel Ivy Bridge platform, it pop out warning message: "no mount CD-ROM can be found". If we install this OS with Sandy Bridge platform, it works fine. but now, we need update to Ivy Bridge platform. we are facing this problem now. Any suggestio

32bit binaries on 64bit system?

2012-10-17 Thread Curt Howland
Dear Debian-user, newly installed AMD64 Squeeze. I've decided to try installing Debian in 64bit for the first time, and restoring my home files has exposed a 32bit legacy. "wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32" So I installed all the ia32libs, but the error is occurring. Clearly the "ELF class ELFCLASS