Re: Package update problem...{***SOLVED***}

On Monday, 12/12/16 11:49:01 PM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Sorry to seem stubborn, but I don't consider giving a user account full > > administrative access acceptable, even if there is only one user on the > &g

Re: Plasma: keyboard crash

On Tuesday, 12/13/16 06:48:54 PM Hans wrote: > Oh, sorry, yes of course. > > This is a notebook, running debian testing, proprietrary nvidia driver and > effects active in plasma. > > This behaviour appears from time to time, and it is a little bit annoying > when editing fields on a web page or

Re: Package update problem...{***SOLVED***}

On Tuesday, 12/13/16 02:34:00 PM Henning Follmann wrote: > > Good news! I solved the problem. This solution came from the openSUSE > > forums... (just giving credit where credit is due) > > > > As root, in the folder /etc/cron.* (where * is either daily, hourly, etc. > > depending on how often y

Re: Package update problem...{***SOLVED***}

On Wednesday, 12/14/16 11:06:52 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 13 December 2016 19:23:49 Mark Neidorff wrote: > > On Monday, 12/12/16 11:49:01 PM kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > > Sorry to seem stubbor

Re: k3b can't find cdrecord

On Wednesday, 12/28/16 01:00:52 PM Gary Dale wrote: > On 28/12/16 12:34 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: > > Gary Dale writes: > >> I'm running Debian/Stretch AMD64 using plasma desktop and I'm trying > >> to burn a CD image. However when I start k3b, I get an error message > >> "unable to find cdrecord e

Re: xboing has no sound on squeeze

On Friday 04 November 2011 2:23:38 pm Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:57:31 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:30:27 -0700, poenik...@operamail.com wrote: > > > > > >>> What's happened to xboing? > >> > >> It seems the package is considered to

Re: web server migration

More information needed, please. You said that your desktop machine is running lenny. I'll start with a few questions and let other folks add theirs 1. Do you want to try squeeze on the poweredge or stay with lenny? Is the hardware in the server supported in lenny or do you have to use

Which way to program this?

I am considering writing a "visual department scheduler" for schools. The concept is similar to an appointment calendar, but I'd like to include drag 'n drop functionality. A supervisor is provided with teaching session objects that meet in fixed time periods (call them 1-12). The supervisor

Music software

Morning, I'm running Mepis which is a squeeze spinoff. I have started taking music lessons. My instructor plays a tune and I record it. I want to then play it back slowed down, without changing the pitch of the notes so that I can "play along." Tried audacity (1.3.12), but it lowers the pit

Re:[SOLVED] Music software

On Tuesday 24 January 2012 5:25:17 am Mark Neidorff wrote: > Morning, > > I'm running Mepis which is a squeeze spinoff. I have started taking music > lessons. My instructor plays a tune and I record it. I want to then play > it back slowed down, without changing the pitch

Re: free software mini pc

On Monday 13 February 2012 5:04:04 pm green wrote: > David Goodenough wrote at 2012-02-13 11:31 -0600: > > On Monday 13 Feb 2012, green wrote: > > > Is Tegra 3 supported by Linux? Are any of the Tegras supported by > > > Linux? While I have found nothing definitive, everything I have found > > > s

Re: free software mini pc

On Wednesday 15 February 2012 2:01:22 pm green wrote: > Mark Neidorff wrote at 2012-02-14 17:45 -0600: > > When you purchased the server on which you run Lenny, did you know for sure > that the installation would go smoothly and all hardware would work > correctly? What if t

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

On Sunday 19 February 2012 9:44:52 pm Chris wrote: > Hey there all. > > I have taken my audio cd collection and ripped to 192 bit mp3 files. > > Is there something out there that will > > 1. Convert to ogg enbulk > 2. Then, I would like to duplicate the structure I have I place for the mp3 > to

Re: How to direct output into the LibreOffice Calc

On Tuesday 28 February 2012 9:06:48 am lina wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder: > > 1] > > can the output like: > > 5 > 3 > 1 > 5 > 3 > > direct it into the LibreOffice directly. without copy and paste. Since no one has addressed the libreoffice (I assume calc) directly, how about this: Look up the

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

On Tuesday 06 March 2012 7:18:49 pm Rob Owens wrote: > I'm considering using bittorrent to back up large files such as pictures > and home movies. I am the admin for several of my family members' > computers. The idea would be to back up my files onto their machines, > then eventually back their

Re: [1/8OT] How to open .cgi

On Wednesday 07 March 2012 11:53:02 pm lina wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know how to run .cgi in debian (or iceweasle) > > I put it in > > :/var/www/try$ ls -l > > total 4 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 212 Mar 8 12:29 hello.cgi > > Thanks for any suggestions, > > Best regards, You misunderstand CGI.

Re: [1/8OT] How to open .cgi

On Saturday 10 March 2012 10:50:14 pm David Christensen wrote: > On 03/10/2012 05:03 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > You misunderstand CGI. It is a way that a script that generates a web > > page can have that page displayed in a browser window. CGI is internal > > to the we

Video server and client

Suppose that I want to put up some in house tutorials on a linux server and have users on linux workstations view (and listen to, of course) these videos. What is a good way to do this? Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: zpipe.c: the zlib example

On Friday 16 March 2012 11:02:15 pm T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I believe that zpipe.c used to be working. > But it is still working now? > > I get it compiled OK, > > gcc -g -lz -o zpipe zpipe.c > > but wasn't able to run it: > > $ ./zpipe > bash: ./zpipe: Permission denied > Are the permissi

Re: migrate to new system disk

On Tuesday 01 December 2009 09:22 pm, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with > LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions: > > I would like to add a new IDE disk between say 160GB and 250GB, on > another IDE channel, and copy/mirror/

Re: migrate to new system disk

On Thursday 03 December 2009 03:34 am, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > I'll look into Mondorescue. What is its preferred backup media? Only > storage devices I have on the box are an HD and 3.5 floppy. > > I was really hoping I could just go disk-disk and be done with it, using > something like ghost, o

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

On Thursday 03 December 2009 02:12 pm, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > > No, but it help your users to decrease the amount of code with unsafe > > data at a very low prize for your server performance or security ;-) > > My worries come from the fact that many emai

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

On Friday 25 December 2009 11:49 am, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > After some data manipulation, I now have a free ext3 disk. My aim is > to put the entire content of my /home/merciadriluca/ in it, at the > place of on the HDD where /etc/, /sys/, and other stuff resides. > > The problem is that I

Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username

On Friday 25 December 2009 02:48 pm, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Thanks for the two answers. They are both really nice. The first > appears to be even `cleaner.' I thought my session would never boot if > my folder was `nowhere.' > > Concerning the first answer: let's say that I copy everything from >

Re: Case Preservation

Seems to me like a shell script using the tr command will do what you want. Here is a web site with (not the exact, but close) code that you need to solve your problem. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-use-linux-unix-tr-command/ Mark On Monday 04 January 2010 06:19 am, RogerV wrote: > I've

Re: Virtualbox and usb-SOLVED

On Wednesday 13 January 2010 06:35 am, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Wednesday 13 January 2010 02:03:10 Rob Owens wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:25:10AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > > Hi, > > > As the title says, I am looking for a virtualbox, under lenny, that > > > sees the usb device

Bogus Keycodes from Linux host to virtualbox client

I'm running Lenny and Virtualbox 3.0.12. The client OS in VB is XP. Yesterday, I wanted to listen to a web based music stream, so in lenny I connected to a radio station's stream using "movie player." Music plays, everything works. Then I started virtualbox/XP/MS Word. Every few seconds, w

Re: how to burn iso image over 4.7GB

On Thursday 12 April 2012 12:18:31 pm Dom wrote: > On 12/04/12 16:21, Indulekha wrote: > > In linux.debian.user, I wrote: > >> Check man cdrecord. > > > > Ooops, it appears I've been living in the past (or confusing > > another distro w/ debian) this morning. > > Apparently burn is the CLI tool no

Re: [SOLVED] kmail crashes on startup

On Sunday 20 May 2012 11:27:50 am Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 03:59:50PM -0400, m...@neidorff.com wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm using Mepis (a debian derivative) and I'm using kmail (4.4.4) as my > > e-mail client. It has been working just fine. > > Have you tried posting yo

Re: Computer case

On Friday 01 June 2012 1:03:15 am Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > any recommendation for a computer case that can be used with Debian > stable ;)? > Ok, it's slightly OT, I'm sorry for that. However, experiences with > cases regarding to noise (and heat), accuracy of fit for cards are > interestin

Monitor question

Hi Folks, Running Lenny updated. I'm wondering what I lose if I switch to a large wide screen monitor. I currently have a "regular" 17" Viewsonic (VP171s). Works fine, but since my eyes are getting older, I'm tempted by the crop of wide screen 25" monitors on the market. If you want to tell

Re: 2 Ethernet cabling question

On Saturday 25 December 2010 09:42 am, S Mathias wrote: > Two questions that was not always clear for me [sorry for posting to this > list :\]: > > ### >### > > Q1) when cabling, is the color order important? li

Re: need motherboard recommendation

On Sunday 26 December 2010 09:00 am, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Stan Hoeppner [101226 13:35]: > > Russell L. Harris put forth on 12/26/2010 5:12 AM: > > > I am tossing into the dumpster the last two motherboards which I > > > purchased -- Asus M3A78-T (AMD64) and Asus P5Q-EM (i386) -- because of

Re: need motherboard recommendation

On Sunday 26 December 2010 06:46 pm, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Mark Neidorff [101226 22:56]: > > Well OK. So, this seems to me to be a memory problem. I'm guessing the > > video ram. Whatever memory the 80X25 mode is mapping into has become > > flaky. When

Basic(?) network help, please...

Since I don't do this often, what may be very easy is confusing me. I have switched from DSL (static IP) to cable internet (5 static IPs).  I have a sort of network diagram (in a format that I hope can be easily viewed) available at neidorff.com . Below the line there is a link that says "N

Re: Basic(?) network help, please...

Thanks. You have clarified exactly what I need to know. Mark On Saturday 29 January 2011 04:19 pm, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:54:50 -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > (...) > > > I can't get PCs on the local LAN (192.168.1.x) to connect to the net > &g

Re: Copying DVD

On Wednesday 02 February 2011 08:30 am, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > > I am trying to copy a dvd (double layer). For some reason brasero > thinks there is no dvd (using a cd-rom instead of a dvd is ok). Here > is the output when the dvd is in: > I'm assuming that this is a video DVD.

BIOS boot message. How to fix?

I'm running kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 . Recently I have started getting this informational message on boot: Your BIOS doesn't have a aperture memory hole. Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup. The BIOS is ASUS M2N PV-VM ACPI BIOS R1201 When I enter BIOS setup, I see no option for enabl

Re: if the file changes send email about diff

On Sunday 06 February 2011 12:25 pm, kellyremo wrote: > The file only contains plain MAC addresses, separated with a new line: > > Like: > FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:F1 > FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:F2 > > Or: > FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:F2 > > On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 06:40:32 -0800 frank thyes > wrote > >

How about a new Lenny Debian Multimedia?

Based on these assumptions: 1. I'm going to take a guess that the owner of Debian Multimedia is not interested in serving lenny files any more (this, of course, could be wrong). 2. There is interest in being able to access the Lenny files that were stored at the DM site. A proposal: A group of

Re: Hardware - Boot issues: No post

On Tuesday 09 August 2011 15:30:53 KS wrote: > On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:47 -0500, "Stan Hoeppner" > > Thanks Stan. The motherboard has onboard video. But the behaviour of the > machine is the same with or without the PCIe video card. > > And the machine does not boot anymore with any of the RAM mo

Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition

On Friday 02 September 2011 11:01:56 pm jeremy jozwik wrote: > for those who are not fallowing, i last posted to the list about not > being able to see anything on my machine past the debian squeeze > install menu. > well that was solved a few days ago. and since then i had been able to > boot my m

Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition

On Saturday 03 September 2011 8:20:29 am jeremy jozwik wrote: > > right, there is no ACTUAL error that i can see. nor is there anything > more in the monitors output. [LCD]. also i only got any of that > because i booted from grub with the recovery mode option. otherwise > after the grub portion o

Re: more woes with my debian install: booting edition

On Saturday 03 September 2011 4:53:02 pm jeremy jozwik wrote: > > 1. Did you do a media check (sha1sum or whatever) on the install CD? > > nope. though during my troubleshooting of debian 6.0.2 i used my > "known to be working" debian 5.0.2 install disk and received the same > results. black scree

Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

On Wednesday 07 September 2011 3:33:10 pm jacques wrote: > Hi, > > by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-( > > The server is still up. > Most of the services are restarted either by copying (rsync) > the binaries from another squeeze server (both are running Squeeze) > or

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

May I suggest the following. From the other posts you know that there is slack space on the drive (5% of the drive) that is reserved for the root user to be able to log in and get things back in order. How about this: reboot the system into single user mode and run fsck on the drive. First th

owner group question

In backing up and restoring my filesystem while upgrading several times, I realized that I might have duplicate files in my home directory. I used fdupes and did find a bunch...that is not my question. fdupes did find that there were many files that could not be accessed. When I examined the

Filesystem fdisk and mount disagree

I'm not sure if everything is OK, or if I have to redo what I did. For backup I purchased a USB 3, 1.5 TB external drive. (Using it USB 2 mode) The drive came formatted NTFS. Not wanting to hassle with that, I reformatted it as EXT4. That went fine, or so it seems. Now when I run fdisk, the p

[SOLVED] [VERY IMPORTANT] How to undo updates....

On Saturday 08 October 2011 11:12:44 am m...@neidorff.com wrote: > Hi, > > This morning synaptic reported some 32 packages to update. So I updated > the packages. After the update I can no longer login (KDE) as myself. I > can login as myself in a terminal login. I can also login as root under

Should be easy

I'm running updated Lenny. I just got a droid phone and wanted to mount it on my Lenny box. So, I plugged the USB cable into the droid and the computer. I expected to see an sd? device show up with partitions (like sdb1, sdb2, etc.) but they don't show up. My primary HD shows up as sda1-7.

debian multimedia is back

The subject says it all. There was a hard disk crash. All (except mailing lists) is restored. Check it out. -- 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/2010061

Mini system...What image to use?

Hi, I'm looking at buying a mini system with a VIA 1.5 GHz C7 processor (VIA CN700 northbridge VIA VT8237RP high bandwith vlink client southbridge). The debian site doesn't mention this processor. What image would I use to install debian on this system? Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

ANSWERED Re: Mini system...What image to use?

On Saturday 18 September 2010 07:53 am, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > I'm looking at buying a mini system with a VIA 1.5 GHz C7 processor (VIA > > CN700 northbridge VIA VT8237RP high bandwith vlink client southbridge). > > The debian site doesn't mention this processor. What image would I use > > to

Change to 2 interfaces on 1 NIC?

Hi all, I currently have my 6+ year old server (web, e-mail, firewall, local lan) running with 2 NICs, one coming from the DSL router (on the 192.168.2.x lan) and the other connected to the local lan (192.168.1.x). (all local users get their mail, web surfing and firewall services from my box)

Please explain X strangeness

Hi all, Debian Lenny system patched up using nvidia driver. I have a KVM switch because I am setting up a new machine. Normal behavior is that X starts just fine if the Debian box has KVM "focus" as it boots. If it doesn't have "focus" (I see the video from the other computer on the screen)

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