Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

Celejar: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:06:33 +0100 > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I suspended while compiling kernels a few times already. I didn't even >> bother to suspend the process. No problems so far. But I agree it takes >> a while to gain confidence that this

Re: My confusion about lenny and sid

Kousik Maiti: > > It may be silly question. I suddenly noticed my /etc/debian_version. It > contains sid/lenny. When did you do the last upgrade? What's in your sources.list? I have "5.0" on a lenny system and "squeeze/sid" on sid. The file belongs to the package base-files. Which version of base

Re: Can't ping to other ip addesss

Lisi Reisz: > On Thursday 26 March 2009 16:41:02 Carl Johnson wrote: >> Alex Samad writes: >> >> Sorry to break into this thread, but what package is the 'ip' command >> in? > > I've got it in Bash. Are you sure that you have not? Have you tried it? It is not "in bash". Bash includes just

Re: Problems with some web sites (tuning?)

Carl Johnson: > > I have been having access problems with some web sites for quite a > while now, with wikipedia being one of the worst. I can access the > web site, but articles often freeze, especially large ones. It will > sometimes work for small articles, but large articles will almost > nev

Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

Bret Busby: > > Apparently, multimedia applications, such as Totem MPlayer, in Debian > can play movies that are recorded on DVD's. > > Are these movie players able to read and play DVD's from any and all > Region Codes, or, are they limited to particular region codes? The region code is not

Re: thunar-data package issue in sid

Spiro Harvey: > > background: I just upgraded from Lenny to Sid and thunar broke. I > don't have all of xfce installed, as I just use fluxbox. A new version of Xfce (4.6 I think) just got uploaded this weekend. A little breakage is expected during such transitions. > however, thunar_0.9.0-10_i386

Re: Question about ext2/3 directory lookups

Paul E Condon: > > Some time ago, ext2/3 became capable of organizing directories as > binary trees rather than linked lists. It's even "b-trees", not "binary trees". :) J. -- Americans have a better life. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Klistvud: > Starting the new 5.00 Lenny DVD and selecting (any type of) install, some 5 > to > 10 minutes into the installation process, my laptop overheats and shuts down. > It's a HP Compaq 6715b with an AMD Turion 64 and an ATI Radeon 1200. Needless > to say, I have the BIOS option "Fan alw

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Klistvud: > Dne sobota 11 april 2009 ob 10:47:36 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a): >> >> Does that mean that the fan doesn't turn on at all? >> >> It may help to disable ACPI during installation (boot parameter >> acpi=off). > > On the contrary, the fa

Re: Lenny overheating, preventing installation

Aleksa Šušulić: > > The laptop is less than a year old and still in warranty. It has never been > used in dusty or dirty places. That's not necessary for dust to enter the system. > And this overheating only happens with Debian > (installing OpenSuSE or Mandriva or Ubuntu or Fedora works a bree

Re: Best way to install a new session manager

Rick Thomas: > > After installing from the default CD (e.g. "businesscard") I'd like to > make other session managers than Gnome available. (e.g. xfce or kde). > > What's the best way to do that so as to get all packages installed the > same way they would have been had I used the associated

Re: disk space used by apt

Javier Barroso: >> * Marcin K?apkowski [090412 18:19 +0200] >>> >>> Is there any locking mechanism which allow avoid eating whole disc by apt? -- snip > This option in apt config help: APT::Archives::MaxAge Thanks for that! Unfortunately, the only place where I can find it documented is /etc/cron

Re: Update-alternatives questions

Paul E Condon: > > I can't find a way to simply list the link groups, or a way to learn > what packages actually use/set which each link group. "ls /etc/alternatives" shows all the link groups on your system. It doesn't say which package uses which link group, though. For each file in /etc/altern

Re: ffmpeg, swf and flv files

Dancing Fingers: > > I've been experimenting with ffmpeg to create "Flash" videos. I can > create a .flv (and .swf) video this way: > ffmpeg -i myVideo.avi myVideo.flv > This .flv file works great in linux but if I plug it into an html > object I get squwat -- in Windows. Has anyone else got

Re: HOWTO run xorg without hal

Dirk: > John Hasler wrote: >> >> File a bug against xserver-xorg and firmly but _politely_ explain your >> objection. > > someone already did... > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515214 > > and the replies, nitpicking and bullshitting already took more place, > energy and t

Re: Setting EmulateWheel with hal (new X model in sid)

Micha Feigin: > I'm trying to restore my X settings with the move to X 7.4 in sid which > requires moving keyboard and mouse settings to hal settings. I tried creating > a > file under > > /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty > > that contains -- snip > But it doesn't seem to have any effect >

Re: Versioning control

Adrian Chapela: > > Now the copy on the repo is bad, because the User1 is using a function > which isn't on the file3 commited by the User2. Is there any way to > advice User1 that some other files are changed by another user ? Apart from commit messages by mail: no. Probably the best approa

Re: email notification when a process ends?

Zhengquan Zhang: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:16:23PM +, Pedro Insua wrote: > >> echo "End" | mail -s "subject text" user > > THank you very much, but now the problem is that the process has already > started and how can I detect its end time? In another shell: while ps -ef | grep $process

Re: email notification when a process ends?

Spiro Harvey: >> while ps -ef | grep $processname; do sleep 60; done && echo "done" | \ >> mail -s "subject" user >> But it might be tricky to identify the right process. > > grepping ps will invariably also return the grep line, so this will > hit a false positive. Better to use pgrep rather than

Re: Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

Divick Kishore: > > make-kpkg clean > > I get error that file system is read only. Somehow just before running > this command, the file system wasn´t readonly but after running this, > my file system has become read only. Your problem is most probably unrelated to your building a kernel. Take a

Re: where to download sid?

Don Raikes: > > I am wondering where I can download the sid cd isos from? There are none. You can use the lenny installer to install sid or install lenny and upgrade to sid afterwards. But you will probably not be very happy with it if you don't know Debian (or even Linux). If you want try out De

Re: Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

Divick Kishore: >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Jochen Schulz > >> wrote: > >> Your problem is most probably unrelated to your building a kernel. Take >> a look into /var/log/syslog and/or dmesg output. You will probably find >> messages about hard dis

Re: Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

Divick Kishore: > > General SMART Values: > Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity > was never started. > Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. > Self-test execution status: (

Re: Looking for Lenny to keep the spam away...

Phillipus Gunawan: > > If possible, I would prefer a conf like: > > ***Internet*** <–> Spam Filter <–> Exchange Server <—> LAN For my own domain I use Postfix with policyd-weight. The latter is invoked by Postfix and determines a score for every mail, depending solely on information sent before

Re: Change location of SSH Private Key

Harry Rickards: > > I was wondering whether it was possible to give a path to the SSH > Private Key in the ~/.ssh/config config file, instead of having to give > it as an option. I can't find anything by RTFM, or STFW. Thanks. I think it's IdentityFile, documented in ssh_config(5). J. -- As a ch

Re: SheevaPlug

Daryl Styrk: > > I'm looking for some input from the list. Does anyone have one running > Debian? http://www.cyrius.com/journal/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/debian-lenny-tar-ball J. -- Atrocities committed in Rwanda pervade my mind when I am discussing mundanities with acquaintances. [Agree]

Re: Great experience with debootstrap

Harry Rickards: > > I just thought I'd tell everyone about the great experience I've had > recently with debootstrap. Congratulations! I used deboostrap once to install Debian on a remote machine via SSH using only the swap partition as the initial root filesystem. Installing Debian has become t

Re: Great experience with debootstrap

Harry Rickards: > On 4 May 2009, at 22:12, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> You are probably looking for something like xsetroot. I have no idea >> how openbox handles background images. -- snip > Sorry for not making it clearer, but I want to change the colour of the >

Re: Great experience with debootstrap

Harry Rickards: > -- snip lots of useful info > > Thanks for the help and pointers. Thanks for sharing your findings! J. -- Watching television is more hip than actually speaking to anyone. [Agree] [Disagree] signature

Re: Untrusted packages

M. Lewis: > > WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed! This can always happen if your (aptitude|apt-get) update happens in the middle of your mirror being updated from the main repository. Maybe you just need to update again. J. -- I'm being paid to act weirdly. [

Re: Current WM - Lenny

Miguel Obliviemo: > On Tue, 12 May 2009, Harry Rickards wrote: > >> On 12 May 2009, at 08:02, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: >> >>> What is Lenny's default window manager? >>> >>> How do I configure gdm to use a different one? > >> I may be completely wrong here, but I *think* it's xfce4. To change >

Re: Current WM - Lenny

Miguel Obliviemo: > On Tue, 12 May 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Do you want to run another window manager *inside Gnome*? Then you need >> to kill metacity and directly afterwards start your preferred window >> manager: pkill metacity && openbox. > > W

Re: Is there an IM Client that Does Not Use X

Martin McCormick: > > Is there any sort of instant message application that can run in > a command-line terminal, similar to talkd? mcabber, irssi. J. -- I have never been happier than I am now; a fact which depresses me immensely. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Alt-F7 fails

Jan Willem Stumpel: > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "DontZap""off" > EndSection > > By this means I got control-alt-backspace back. Or is there also a > non-xorg.conf way of getting the same thing? No, that's exactly what you are supposed to do. J. -- I throw away plastics a

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

Paul Johnson: > ZephyrQ wrote: > >> I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying >> eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. >> >> Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being >> saddled with cell phone that won't

Re: Installing Debian 5 Lenny 64bit from DVD - Problem

St. Joseph's College of Engineering and Technology: > > I downloaded *DVD version of Debian 5 Linux 64bit (IA) from your site > ( 2 ISO images)*, I tried to install it on my* Intel Core2 Duo* machine. For an Intel Core2Duo you need an amd64 image, not ia64. The latter is only for Itanium pr

Re: Cross-compiler tool chain

Oliver Schneider: > > Debian is available for a whole lot of different architectures. Is > there a cross compiler tool chain which is used to do the builds and > if so, is it available to the Debian users? As far as I know, all packages ending up in the official archive need to be built on their

Re: convert e-mails to pdf / ps

Johannes Wiedersich: > > Is there a simple approach to convert emails to pdf or ps? It should > basically work like printing from a mail program, ie. stripping most of > the header except to, from and subject and only print the text of the > email without attachments. > > It's quite a few mails i

Re: convert e-mails to pdf / ps

Daryl Styrk: > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:52:56PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> mutt + muttprint give acceptable results, but I have no idea how to >> script it. > > > Wow muttprint want the following... -- snip Yeah, sorry. I forgot that muttprint is ridic

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

lee: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:41:57PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: >> >> Spying? > > look at > http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html > > They get a list of sites you have visited --- and who knows what else. No, they don't get that list. At lea

Re: Bestätige n Sie Ihre daten.

DHL Sicherheitscenter: > > Lieber DHL-Kunde, Achtung, Phishing (falls das nicht offensichtlich war). Abuse-Meldung an Hetzner ist raus. J. -- When I am doing sex I wonder if my emotions can be detected by alien civilisations. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: java

Todd A. Jacobs: > > However, installing it doesn't seem to update the plugins, or create an > option in update-alternatives for selecting sun-java6-plugin over gcjweb > or icedtea. How exactly did you get it to work with iceweasel? Most of the time, the best way to configure the numerous java rel

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

明覺: > > thanks, but before I got the benifit of so many languages, I have been > tired of learning them, maybe it cannot be called "learning", it's > just some parallel memory, for none of them bring new concepts to > C/C++. This is plain wrong. How do you do closures in C/C++? What about higher o

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

Micha Feigin: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:39:53 +0800 > 明覺 wrote: > >> Then what's the only one language for linux? I think >> it's C/C++. > > I'm afraid you are out of luck. All the init scripts are as the name sugests, > scripts (you may get away without bash but you won't get away without sh whi

Re: [OT] Linksys wireless router on debian

Raffaele Morelli: > > I bought a LinkSys WRT54GL wirelss router and I am going to configure > it to extend my DSL connection at home. > I am not new to debian but network(ing) skills are modest. > > Does anyone own this device and running debian? Yes, I do. I am running OpenWrt on it, though. >

Re: [OT] Linksys wireless router on debian

Raffaele Morelli: > > 1. assign a static ip to the WRT in the range of 192.168.1.0/24 but > different from the one of DSL modem Most probably you will not need to do that since this is the default behaviour of the WRT. The public (modem) interface gets its IP address assigned automatically. > 2.

Re: Unicode recommendations in a terminal - Please advise.

Chris Jones: > > Wondering if anyone has some multilingual experience with terminal-based > applications such as mutt for mail, text-mode browsers - ELinks here... > irc clients, etc. and would be able to provide some advice. > > How should I set up my terminal - xterm - and what might be a good >

Re: bug in installer? (was Re: debian testing installer & encrypted LVM question)

Giorgos Pallas: > > -> failed to create a file system > The ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of LVM VG vg1, LV rootFS > failed -- snip > Is this supposed to happen? Did I do something wrong? I had the same issue when using the AMD64 squeeze installer a few days ago. I think it is a bug,

Re: MTA

Pawel Cholewinski: > > I want to install MTA in my network. I want to know which mail transfer > agent is recommended (postfix, exim, sendmail or other else) and why. > And which is unsafe and why. I would avoid Sendmail since it is *really* old and hard to configure. Exim is Debian's default MT

Re: MTA

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > In <20090706212028.gd31...@wasteland.homelinux.net>, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I would avoid Sendmail since it is *really* old and hard to configure. > > Sendmail gets more modern all the time, but m4 is quite the beast for > configurati

dpkg --set-selections and aptitude

Hi, due to a major brainfart on my part, I recently had to reinstall my sid system. To quickly install all packages I had installed on my previous installation, I used 'dpkg --set-selections', feeding it a file created on the old system. An 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' and an hour later my system was

Re: dpkg --set-selections and aptitude

Suno Ano: > Jochen> - How should I proceed concerning the auto/manual status of all > Jochen> those packages? > > below you can see how I replicate a system; since two or so years now, I > simply "inject" the package list on the new system and then "aptitude > install" does the trick i.e. ther

Re: Does Debian = Ubuntu?

Andrew M.A. Cater: > > Upgrades between releases > = > > You'll hear lots of views on this. SUBJECTIVE OPINION FOLLOWS:GUT > FEELING AND EXPERIENCE IN EQUAL PARTS. Ubuntu is harder to upgrade > cleanly between releases and it may actually be quicker to reinstall. > You

Re: no xorg.conf on debian5.02

abdelkader belahcene: > > I was suprised by the xorg on debian 5.02 (the latest release). There is no > file xorg.conf in /etc/X11. X.org nowadays tries to autoconfigure itself. If everything works, you don't need an xorg.conf anymore. If it doesn't, you can write a minimal /etc/X11/xorg.conf wher

Re: dpkg --set-selections and aptitude

Jörg-Volker Peetz: > > First, let's see why aptitude wants do de-install a package: > > aptitude why-not $ sudo aptitude install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing

Re: dpkg --set-selections and aptitude

Jörg-Volker Peetz: > > aptitude keep-all > > cancels all scheduled actions on all packages (from the man-page). Ah, thanks. I didn't know that. That one helped. J. -- I am on the payroll of a company to whom I owe my undying gratitude. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: X11 without HAL: "DontZap" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesn't work anymore

Dirk: > > the X11 in debian/unstable is very broken right now. It requires HAL > which i replaced with a dummy package and now the "DontZap" option in > /etc/X11/xorg.conf is also broken... I can't quit X11 with ctrl+alt+bs > anymore... I have that problem as well and I am using the real HA

Re: ssh and X display forwarding

Alan Chandler: > > I ssh into my server, but when I get there the DISPLAY variable is not > set up, meaning I can't run graphical programs. What command line are you using? $ ssh -Y server should suffice. > On my desktop > > /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc has the ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten TCP commented

Re: error in script

L.V.Gandhi: > > #!/bin/bash > rm -f ~/stock/flstock.csv > grep FUTSTK ~/stock/today/$1 |grep "25/09/2008"|cut -s -d, -f9|sort -nr > > temp You really shouldn't use "temp" as a name. See 'man mktemp'. > i=0 > for trv in $(cat temp) > do You could save this use of cat with this idiom: while read

Re: error in script

L.V.Gandhi: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> cat ~/stock/flstock.csv |cut -s -d, -f2|sort >> ~/stock/fliquidstocks.txt >> >> Useless use of cat. :) > > How it can be done more efficiently, please?

Re: AMD or Intel: performance, price and ethics

Augustin: > > Now, what really matters to me the most is that I want to do some > video editing with ffmpeg and Kdeenline and maybe some simple 3D > modelling with blender. I don't edit videos but I transcode them quite often and you can be sure: the more cores for encoding, the better. But be

Re: thanks Re: AMD or Intel: performance, price and ethics

Augustin: > On Saturday 20 September 2008 21:57:04 Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> From my two minute research, it appears Blender can use multiple >> threads as well, so it's better to use, say, 4*2.6GHz instead of >> 2*3GHz. -- snip > The multi-thread capabilities o

Re: libc6

Antonis Antoniou: > > I have a machine which is debian lenny > and I have tried to upgrade the package libc6. I was having libc6 2.5-11 > > I install the package via dpkg and I got errors Why do you use dpkg? Where did you get the deb from that you are trying to install? > = > mchine:~/m

Re: libc6

Antonis Antoniou: > 2008/9/25 Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Antonis Antoniou: >>> >>> I install the package via dpkg and I got errors >> >> Why do you use dpkg? Where did you get the deb from that you are trying >> to install? >

Re: libc6

Sven Joachim: > On 2008-09-25 19:15 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Correction: I guess it isn't broken in any way, it's just that all your >> other programs are linked to an older version and don't work with the >> new one. > > Please stop spreadi

Re: aptitude update - Bad header line

Csanyi Pal: > Hi, > > I did > sudo aptitude update > > and get error messages: > > Err http://ftp.hu.debian.org etch/main Packages > Bad header line That looks like a problem with the mirror you are using. Try another one, until ftp.hu.debian.org works again (if it doesn't already). J. --

Re: editing menus

Robert Holtzman: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Aniruddha wrote: > >> Which WM do you use? I assume Gnome. Gnome's default menu editor is >> alacarte, you can find it in the Gnome menu at 'System" -> "Preference" >> -> "Main Menu". > > Thanks for the reply. > > Gnome is correct, but there is no Main Men

Re: any .WMV to .FLV converters

Siju George: > > Is there any Converter that can convert from .WMV format to .FLV > format for debian? ffmpeg -i foo.wmv -vcodec flv foo.flv You probably have to install ffmpeg from debian-multimedia.org. J. -- If I had to live on a desert island I would take a mobile phone, preferably a Nokia

Re: any .WMV to .FLV converters, now a bit OT

Mark Allums: > Siju George wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Siju George: >>>> >>>> Is there any Converter that can convert from .WMV format to .FLV >>>> format for debian? >>

Re: any .WMV to .FLV converters, now a bit OT

Jochen Schulz: > > Only for the video, I think. I usually use -crf which is one-pass-only. Correction: I use -cqp since -crf appears to be ignored by current ffmpeg from debian-multimedia.org. J. -- I am not scared of death but terrified of people in Tommy Hilfiger sweatshirts.

Re: Can't run aptitude

Dennis Wicks: > When I try to do nearly anything with aptitude I get > > dgwicks:~# aptitude update > Writing extended state information... Done > Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg > Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect > (111 Co

Re: chmod, or better solutions ?

Shams Fantar: > > I'd like to know if it's very fine and "clean" to chmod -R 700 / ; This will prevent non-root users from reading *any* file on the system. If user 'shams' wants to list his home directory /home/shams, he has to have permissions to list / and /home as well. > Or are there any b

Re: interpreting smartmontools output

Johan Grönqvist: > > I read about smartmontools on "debian package a day", and tried it out. > Running "smartctl -A /dev/sda" on my recent laptop (bought it this > spring) gave me 8 times pre-fail and 15 times old_age. You are misreading the output. The words "pre-fail" and "old_age" are just d

Re: New Kernel

Matthew Lane: > > I'm new to debian, just switched over from ubuntu. I heard news of the > new 2.6.27 kernel coming out, and has atheros driver support. My laptop > has an atheros card I haven't gotten to work yet, and I'd like to get > the new kernel to get that card working. Which drive

Re: interpreting smartmontools output

Jochen Schulz: > > Generally, you only have to look at two columns, value and threshold. As > long as value is below threshold, everything is fine. The numbers in s/below/greater than/ J. -- Fashion is more important to me than war, famine, disease or art. [Agree]

Re: Changing NIC in existing Server results in no ETH0

Keith Steensma: > > I have a sever that has been running for months with a single Realtek > 8139 network card. The NIC failed and I put in a 3Com 3C905B-TX card > (that I pulled from a working test machine). When I rebooted the > server, the 3Com card was no configured and I ended up with

Re: kernel config q

Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is immaterial as to the > functioning of the driver. > > Am I correct? Generally yes. There are modules which are better compiled statically (IDE/S-ATA, filesystems) but they work either way. > This in regard to trying to get smar

Re: Can't run aptitude

Dennis Wicks: > Jochen Schulz wrote the following on 10/12/2008 08:06 AM: >> >> To me that looks like you have a http_proxy environment variable set. I >> think Synaptic and aptitude honour that. Or you have set the >> corresponding option in apt.conf. > > Tha

Re: About apt-file

Stephen Liu: > > What I'm looking for is the package providing the command 'mysqladmin' > if neither having MySQL installed nor knowing which package provides > mysqladmin. I need to install that package. What about a simple 'apt-cache search mysql admin'? It reveals there is a package named mys

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

Adam Hardy: > > For instance, there is one file name like this: > > 2AE2EAEE-57AC-46D8-B619-C2167D4C6786:ABPerson.abcdp > > which has a colon in it that I guess is the problem. I am not sure either, but I'd bet on that, too. I guess this is not even a problem with neither MacOS X or ext3 -- it

Re: USB ownership

Paul Cartwright: > > My wife plugged in a USB stick, to save a file to it. It would not let > her save a file, permission denied. ... > I am logged in first, vt7, she is logged in 2nd, vt8, and when I > switched to my login, there was the disk window open ( /media/disk). I don't know what Debian'

Re: USB ownership

Dotan Cohen: > 008/10/17 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> thanks, I'll let her know! >> >> I looked in /var/log/messages and it didn't say anything about >> ownership, though it did say write protect was off.. > > Be careful how you word it. I think this message just refers to the physica

Re: USB ownership

Paul Cartwright: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >> If you found that your session had a disk window open then your session >> (and hence your user) must have automounted the medium. For your user, >> go to > > actually, she plugged in the USB stick about an hour before I got up, so > it was her in he

Re: Inode issue

Shaun Martin: > > Ok so my filesystem ran out of inodes :( > Is their away to increase the inodes without reformatting? The manpage of mkfs.ext2/3 says there isn't: -i bytes-per-inode Specify the bytes/inode ratio. mke2fs creates an inode for every bytes-per-inode bytes of space on the di

Re: is a stupid problems but is a problem with my music

John Vera: > > I need one solution because i have someone music files with .m4p > extension... for that reason y write XD is a collection complete of > KISS, I want to converter from .m4p to the .mp3 extension.. ffmpeg -i foo.mp4 -acodec mp3 -ab 160k -ac 2 -ar 44100 foo.mp3 This will create a s

Re: GNOME 2.24, was: Re: Keeping more up to date than Lenny, safely?

spacemarc: > 2008/10/24 Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Parts of GNOME 2.24 have entered Experimental now, for those who are >> interested. > > hi, how long does it take to get the 2.24 in the Debian Testing version? Probably a few weeks after lenny has been released as stable. J. -- I a

Re: Cdrecord loses permission to write CD's...

Kenward Vaughan: > > Speed set to 7056 KB/s > /usr/bin/wodim: DMA speed too slow (OK for 6x). Cannot write at speed > 40x. This might be your problem. Did you already try burning in a slower mode? J. -- If nightclub doormen recognised me I would be more fulfilled. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Cdrecord loses permission to write CD's...

Kenward Vaughan: > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 23:29 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Kenward Vaughan: >>> >>> Speed set to 7056 KB/s >>> /usr/bin/wodim: DMA speed too slow (OK for 6x). Cannot write at speed >>> 40x. >> >> This might be your

Re: Nvidia, apt-get & Synaptic

MLewis: > > I'm running Lenny Beta2. There is no such Debian version. What you probably have is lenny (in its current or an earlier state), installed by the Debian Installer beta2. (Sorry for the nitpicking, it's just that Debian doesn't have any releases which it calls beta. Only single package

Re: Nvidia, apt-get & Synaptic

MLewis: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >> Install the mesa-utils package, then use these commands to see if direct >> rendering is working. > > rattler:/etc/X11# glxinfo | grep direct > Error: unable to open display > rattler:/etc/X11# glxgears > Error: couldn't open display (null) You have to run t

Re: Accessing Repositories with 'Lenny'

Abdul Haqq: > > My only gripe is I can't access the repositories. Which one? What's reason to browse them directly? Are you referring to the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list at all or are you talking about something different? > browsing on the net I > find pages that are empty. Is the reposi

Re: nmap package obsoleted?

rex: > > when I do "apt-cache pkgnames | grep nmap", I get nmap. Try 'apt-cache policy nmap' to find out whether apt knows a source to install nmap from. J. -- Thy lyrics in pop songs seem to describe my life uncannily accurately. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Export Public Key

Frank Lanitz: > "Zaki Akhmad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Could you hint me some information, which server have exchanging >> public key service? I'd like to do some experiment exchanging public >> key then use it to encrypt and decrypt email :-) > > First at all, I think it is not a good ide

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

Sarunas Burdulis: > > Would you care to elaborate? Running Xorg/xinit and an X app is pretty > austere without window controls... not that it's useless, of course. Or > did you mean something else? I guess he meant that desktop manager is a program like xdm, gdm or kdm (guess why all of them are

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

NN_il_Confusionario: > > The huge problem is that all combination of therminals, fonts, color > depths, screen resolutions, and refresh rates which I could try were > always "infinitely" less tolerable for my eyes than linux or *BSD vt > consoles. Did you try terminus? It's available as console a

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

NN_il_Confusionario: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:25:07AM -0600, lee wrote: >> >> and instant >> messengers > > i do not use them, but the first "instant messanger", talk on unix and > phone on vax, is text based. There are many more, even with "modern" > protocols. Just to name two of them: irss

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

H.S.: > François Cerbelle wrote: > >> ImageMagick for altering the images and there are viewer in framebuffer >> mode (fbi ?). > > Installed and tried fbi on a console (CTRL+ALT+Fn). Wow! Got a kick out > of displaying a jpeg image in the console ... and panning it, zooming, etc. Then you should

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

NN_il_Confusionario: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 06:02:24PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> Firefox (which, incidentally, is the same application I absolutely need a >> mouse for)... > > one can emulate mouse in X using the numeric pad of the keyboard. Many > year

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

Ron Johnson: > On 11/14/08 02:09, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: >> >> some months ago this list suggested me the excellent youtube-dl (there >> is also clive). Then mplayer plays without problem the files (even on >> powerpc, so without evil codecs) > > If you tell it to, clive will automatically co

Re: How to send tunes to MP3 player?

Dennis Wicks: > > Is there a program on Debian/lenny that will send/write tunes onto an MP3 > player? It is one of those little ones that you plug into a USB port. On > windows we use Win. Media Player but haven't found anything shat seems to > work on Debian yet. If your player is a regular m

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