Re: vmplayer installer cannot find libs (amd64)

2008-05-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
michael wrote: On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 06:45 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: michael wrote: eg: The installation of VMware Player 2.0.3 build-80004 for Linux completed successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any time by invoking the following command: "/us

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Javier Vasquez wrote: You mean grub-install it? I couldn't... For some reason grub doesn't even find the stage1 file after running something similar to "grub-install --root-directory /mnt/sda-boot /dev/sda". So I tried chroot to /mnt/sda-root (I also made the bind between /mnt/sda-boot and /m

Re: apt & cdrom repository

2008-05-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
John Knops wrote: Hi, I want to download various debs to my home directory to be burnt latter to a cd for use on an older computer which will not be connected to the internet. At the moment I'm downloading all debs, including dependencies manually one at a time. To speed up the process I've tried

Re: Cloning hda to new internal disk (was Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?)

2008-05-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/08 15:55, Lee Glidewell wrote: Have a look at partimage. Specifically you might be interested in the CloneZilla live distro. It's built specifically for the purpose of porting installations between hard disks. In a si

Re: screen resolution question

2008-05-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Glenn Becker wrote: Hi all - I am running a testing box. Recently, it seems, my X settings changed (w/o my intentionally changing them, at least as far as I can recall) so that the screen resolution on Gnome, for example, it was defaulting to 1400x1050. It is nice to see that my older laptop

Re: list of all background jobs

2008-05-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Consider the following scenario. I am on machine A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ nohup command1 & [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ nohup command2 & Now if I use the jobs command, I can display the background jobs on this shell. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB drive names

2008-05-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I bought some USB external hard disks recently. They automount beautifully on a Debian system. One is a "LACIE" disk, another one is a Western Digital "Elements" disk. They mount as /media/LaCie and /media/Elements respectively. Question: is it possible to change those

Re: DRM PDFs

2008-05-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Adam Hardy wrote: Just thought I'd ask, even though my web searches don't reveal anything but Adobe promises and work-arounds involving printing to postscript on a windows box first - but is there software for linux to read DRM pdfs? AFAIK the DRM in pdf files that prevent you from printing or

Re: [OFF] Sudo

2008-05-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi People, I wonder if it is possible using the sudo leave with only the user can edit the files that are in /etc/squid. A better option would be to chmod g+w the files in /etc/squid and then add the relevant users t

Re: [OT] signing a pdf document

2008-06-10 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, People I do business with want me to physically sign a contract that they send me as a small pdf (22K). I use Adobe Reader to print it, I sign the printed copy and scan the result and send the jpeg image back: 3 pages totalling 891K! That is ridiculous. Is that t

Getting rid of noise in /var/log/samba

2008-06-10 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
How do I disable all these silly messages that fill up /var/log/samba and syslog? Using 'grep -v' every time I want to inspect the logs is getting tiresome. The server is running etch. Typical messages: [2008/03/31 22:14:59, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(792) create_buil

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:50:27PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: On 15/06/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: First line unindented next four lines indented next line unindent

No sound in 2.6.30

2009-07-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Today I did an `aptitude full-upgrade' on my sid machine and during the process, kernel-image-2.6.30-1-686 was installed. Now if I boot the 2.6.30 kernel, there is no sound. None of the applications give any error. The volume controls are all normal. Just the audio is missing. If I boot the old

Re: remount removeable drive in Lenny - how?

2009-07-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul E Condon wrote: I have no objection to the status of hal as a required part of a standard desktop installation, but I do have a question as to how best to deal with a peculiar situation. I have several USB hard drives (ones with rotating machinery inside, not solid state 'disks'). From time

Re: No sound in 2.6.30

2009-07-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Tom Low-Shang wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:24:37PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Today I did an `aptitude full-upgrade' on my sid machine and during the process, kernel-image-2.6.30-1-686 was installed. Now if I boot the 2.6.30 kernel, there is no sound. ... sid:~$ sid:~$ sudo lspc

Re: No sound in 2.6.30

2009-07-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-20 10:54, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Today I did an `aptitude full-upgrade' on my sid machine and during the process, kernel-image-2.6.30-1-686 was installed. Now if I boot the 2.6.30 kernel, there is no sound. None of the applications give any error. The v

Re: new to debian need help with fonts rendering (?)

2009-07-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
thirstyh2o wrote: Hi, folks. I'm coming from Ubuntu crowd where I spent last couple of years. Finally decided:"Why 'Debian based', why not Debian itself". So to be. I've installed Debian 5.0.2 on my Dell Latitude D820 as dual boot to my Ubuntu Jaunty. The laptop has Nvidia video card on it.

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

2009-07-21 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Charlie wrote: Just a general off topic query. I was recently informed that my signature had a problem rendering correctly on someone's mailer - deliniter incorrect - and was told that my signature "Linux Debian" should read "Debian GNU/Linux" because: "considering that the majority of it is

Disable "a program is still running" dialog in gnome

2009-07-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Nowadays, when I try to shutdown my system, I sometimes get this unhelpful dialog: http://imgur.com/tRv5S.png It complains about an unknown program that is not responding and wants to give me the "option" of waiting for it to finish. Is there any way to disable this dialog permanently? More t

Re: Disable "a program is still running" dialog in gnome

2009-07-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-28 10:34, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Nowadays, when I try to shutdown my system, I sometimes get this unhelpful dialog: http://imgur.com/tRv5S.png It complains about an unknown program that is not responding and wants to give me the "option" of waiting

Re: Upgrading to Lenny & 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

2009-02-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Tim Day wrote: I have an old dual-P3 Intel STL2 motherboard has been running Etch no problem (2.6.18 kernel) for ages. It has an IDE drive (root filesystem and swap, and it boots off it) (/dev/hda on Etch) and a CD-ROM on the single IDE connector on the motherboard, and a couple of big SATA drive

Re: Sound volume user specific?

2008-08-31 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: Hi, Is it possible to control sound volume on each user account independently? So when user A logs in and changes the sound volume (with gnome alsa mixer) to max it won't affect user's B settings. It is desktop debian (sid) machine, ALSA, Gnome. It should be possi

Re: Convert HTML document to use relative links ?

2008-09-03 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Owen Townend wrote: 2008/9/3 Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is there is program to make all links relative in HTML documents saved in wget -x fashion ? (http://foo.com/a/b.html saved as ./foo.com/a/b.html.) For example, - if ./foo.com/a/b.html contains and ./f

convert odt to pdf via the command line

2008-09-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
I have a bunch of .odt files that I want to convert to pdf. Is there any tool that can do it? apt-cache search did not show anything helpful nor did google. Last time I needed this, I ended up adding a pdf printer and printing the documents to that printer using the -pt option of oowriter.

Re: convert odt to pdf via the command line

2008-09-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
François Cerbelle wrote: Le Mar 23 septembre 2008 14:59, Raj Kiran Grandhi a écrit : I have a bunch of .odt files that I want to convert to pdf. Is there any tool that can do it? apt-cache search did not show anything helpful nor did google. Strange, I should have a different question when

Re: convert odt to pdf via the command line

2008-09-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Roberto D'Oliveira wrote: 2008/9/24 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have a bunch of .odt files that I want to convert to pdf. Is there any tool that can do it? apt-cache search did not show anything helpful nor did google. Last time I needed this, I ended up adding a pdf

Re: editing menus

2008-09-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Robert Holtzman wrote: Gnome is correct, but there is no Main Menu under "Desktop -> Preferences". There is a "Menus and Toolbars" selection, however it has nothing to do with editing menu items. BTW it looks like "Desktop" has replaced "System". "Help" talks about creating a "XDG_CONFIG_DI

Re: Running app full-screen

2008-10-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 06:13:38PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I'd like to run a single application (tellico) full-screen in a dedicated VNC session *without* a window manager. I'm not sure how to force the application to be full-screen, though. If my xstartup contains

Re: Anti-Virus - seeking opinions

2008-10-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Don Sutter wrote: Hi All, I certainly hope the following doesn't start a flame war! I would like to use Linux to scan Windows drives for viruses. Since Linux is generally slime free are any of the Linux anti-virus solutions robust enough to handle Windows? Perhaps I should consider using VM, Win

Re: Question on configuration

2008-10-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, Debian Etch - base installation, running as domU (guest) on a Xen box I'm installing BIND on its tarball and encountering following problem. # ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/bind checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-

Re: Grub Question

2008-10-25 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Thomas H. George wrote: I am trying to convert from lilo where boot=/dev/sdb0 and root=/dev/sdb1 in lilo.conf I have tried kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 ro and groot=(sdb,0) in grub's menu.lst (also kopt=root=/dev/sdb0 ro since I understand grub counts from 0). The MBR is unchanged and the system still bo

Re: Grub Question

2008-10-26 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Thomas H. George wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 05:50:04AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Just install grub on all your disks, so that your system boots irrespective of the boot order in the bios. Also, it is better to use UUID for specifying the root filesystem in menu.lst as well as in

Re: cups-pdf

2008-11-02 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Chris wrote: On Sunday 02 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote: I am getting very poor results printing to pdf from Firefox, it seems to have worked better in the past. Changing the settings for image resolution does not help. Have you tr

Re: grub with sata drives? - Progress

2008-11-03 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:00:56PM -0600, elijah rutschman wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have two sata drives, sda and sdb with the root partition on sdb. I installed grub on sdb and made the following entries in /b

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
TW wrote: Hi, I'm going to be writing a political book soon and I'm not sure what software to use to write it. I want to use something like Vim to write it, but, I want to be able to convert it to OpenOffice/MicrosoftWord, etc. format(s). The reason that I want to use something like Vim is

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:04:03PM -0700, TW wrote: I'm going to be writing a political book soon and I'm not sure what software to use to write it. I want to use something like Vim to write it, but, I want to be able to convert it to OpenOffice/MicrosoftWord, etc. f

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Steve Lamb wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Latex should be fine. But I have not found any tools to convert latex to odt. You may also want to look at sisu. It is in the repos and claims to be able to generate most formats one would care about. Abiword. Do you mean abiword is capable of

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-07 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi escreveu: Can it convert from latex to odt format? I have spent quite a bit of time unsuccessfully searching for something that would do it without causing a lot of grief. Please point me to it. It would be a life saver in those cases where people

Print margins in iceweasel 3.0

2008-11-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
I find that I am no longer able to tweak the margins while printing in iceweasel 3. Am I alone? Also, the other print settings, such as paper size, header/footer options, etc are not persistent. I am being required to set them every time. I don't remember such behaviour from version 2. How do

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
H.S. wrote: Hello, I am in a situation where a friend of mine wants to send tons of photos to me. Internet connection being what it is regarding stability, I am aiming to a method where the photos' transfer can be resumed if the connection breaks and is recreated. Keeping security in mind, I am

Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Serena Cantor wrote: I have copy DVD to hard drive. It's at /mnt/dos4/1415 I want to convert it to save space. Do you know the command? The mplayer/mencoder documentation has a detailed chapter on ripping a dvd. It is really worth reading before proceeding. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML

Re: how to increase FAT partition size in extended partition?

2008-11-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Serena Cantor wrote: Is there any free software for doing that? Yes there is. Try gparted. It lets you do all sorts of things with your disk partitions. -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. -- Albert Einstein -- To

Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
about the source video and the desired target format, how do you expect anyone to provide the command to encode it? Thanks anyway! --- On Tue, 11/11/08, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: how to use mplayer to

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
lee wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:07 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead of localtime? It is simpler using localtime when I have wake on RTC alarm enabled. It's supposed to make it easier t

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
lee wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:16:03 +0100 "abdelkader belahcene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I want to change the time for my system, ( the time displayed doesn't correspond to my country which is gmt+1) I use date -s, but I have to do it at each reboot, how to do it permanently Set th

Re: NTFS: 3g won't shut up on chmod/chown errors

2008-11-19 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Dexter Filmore wrote: I use these options to mount an NTFS partition: users,gid=fuse,umask=0002,silent,utf8,locale=de_DE.utf8 Now "silent" is supposed to suppress warnings on chmod/chown errors, each time a copy operation is completed I get "couldn't change permissions on XY" I need to copy a

Re: how to get the mac address(network card physical address) of a remote computer by its IP address?

2008-11-19 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
中和刘 wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/19/08 07:06, 中和刘 wrote: when a user visit my website, it's easy to get the ip address of the user, but i think IP address is not as stable as mac address, so I hope I can get the mac address of the user acc

dpkg fails with parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2008-11-21 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
I tried to do a dist-upgrade on my machine running sid, when dpkg failed complaining about the following parse error in the `status' file. = # apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remov

Re: dpkg fails with parse error in /var/lib/dpkg/status

2008-11-21 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-11-21 18:12 +0100, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: I tried to do a dist-upgrade on my machine running sid, when dpkg failed complaining about the following parse error in the `status' file. = # apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency

Re: A lot of help needed with the automake process

2008-11-22 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Raven wrote: Hi all. I recently coded a small GNOME applet and before sharing it with a few friends I wanted to make it "noob-proof" :) Basically I wanted to create the usual "configure" and Makefile scripts so that I can give my buddies the 3 simple commands to install the applet. After reading

Re: A lot of help needed with the automake process

2008-11-22 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Raven wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 14:42 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: How are you compiling the applet at your end? Perhaps it would be simpler to create a small build script that installs the build dependencies, compiles and installs your applet. I am now compiling the hard way via the

Re: Colored less

2008-11-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Rob Gom wrote: Hi, do you know any colored less version? I often browse logs (not Linux system logs). I use less for that and it works fine. However it is single colored. I know that less has ANSI sequences support, but for that I would have to change program output (which is not possible). The o

Making a Video DVD with data

2008-11-25 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Hello, I am trying to make a video DVD out of some home videos for sharing with friends. I want it to be playable on standalone DVD players as well as readable on both linux and windows. In addition to the videos, the DVD will also contain html albums of several photos created by photon. So

Re: HELP - Installing Firefox 3 on Debian Etch

2008-11-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Carlos Carrero Gutierrez wrote: Hi, i would like to install Firefox 3 on my Debian Etch. Then, i need gtk 2.12 or newer. But when i try to compile gtk 2.14 i need: pango, glib, pkg-config, cairo, atk... Well, i have compiled all succesfully except atk 1.2.4, it says: checking for GLIB - version

Re: apt-cache as normal user behaves weird

2008-11-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
LÉVAI Dániel wrote: Hi! Why could it be, that when I use apt-cache search as a normal user, its output is only a subset of the one when I'm running it as root? Like this: $ apt-cache search ia32 ia32-libs - ia32 shared libraries for use on amd64 and ia64 systems # apt-cache search ia32 elilo

Re: OT: Hidden service disk

2008-11-29 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
T o n g wrote: Hi, Major PC vendors store their system installation/rescue disks in 1st partition (and call it service disk). I'm wondering how they are able to hide the partition from Windows. Is any tools under Linux that can create such hidden partitions from Windows. If so, how? and can L

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2008)

2008-12-01 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/01/08 02:36, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, Following is the results of a poll that has been running for about 2 weeks, one which questions readers of debian-user to list their favourite FLOSS -> Free (Libre) or Open Source Software. There's the usual stars in the for

Re: How to stop an active network connection

2008-12-02 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
T o n g wrote: Hi, How can I stop an active network connection? e.g., $ netstat Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 192.168.0.100:ssh ip-72-55-146-217.:35911 ESTABLISHED Bec

Re: lost my desktop

2008-12-07 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 17:22, Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank McCormick wrote: Well not all of it -- my regular icons have been replaced by

Re: expand /var, decrease /home space

2008-12-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
subscriptions wrote: On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 00:39 +0100, steve wrote: fairly successful attempt at running a webserver it made /var only 2.8 gig and made /home 280 something gig. now I want /var to be say 200 gig, and /home alot smaller. for obvious reasons. If the reason is using www, wh

Re: expand /var, decrease /home space

2008-12-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
steve wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, attempted to do this before, but never found a way, google is no use. is there no fairly straightforward way to expand /var and decrease /home? for some reason when I installed etch quite a while ago in my fairly successful attemp

Re: how to find trace of attacks

2008-12-31 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: Thanks, I am simpler user on laptop, with ssh server running. Ther is no important data on my laptop!!! Suddenly my Desktop froze, I changed the screen (CTRL+ALT+F1), I noticed that I was logout, so something jected me!!! I restart the gdm, after that I continu

Re: How to let a user login locally with a weak password

2009-01-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Stefan Monnier wrote: I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password. To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not over the network. It would be sufficient for it to be accessible only via GDM/XDM (since I don't need remote XDM/GDM logins). Stefan I

Re: mounting two disks on the same mount point (not at the same time)

2009-01-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I have a couple of USB disks that I use for backups. I rotate them so only one is attached at the same time. I have a nightly cron that mirrors the directories of interest onto whichever one is attached using rsync. I'd like to mount whichever one is attached at the same

Re: How to let a user login locally with a weak password

2009-01-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:08:41PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password. To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not over the network. Weak is not easy ... there is minimum number of character fo

Re: having DHCP use name server from PPP connection?

2009-01-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Daniel B. wrote: Can dhcpd be configured to pass on (to DHCP clients on a local, private (NATted) network) the DHCP server machine's current domain name server addresses (given to the machine by PPP (etc.))? What happens when your server's current name server changes before the DHCP lease exp

Re: Joining Two Videos

2009-01-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Hal Vaughan wrote: I have to join two videos, in different versions, one in .mpg for DVDs and one in .mp4. What's the best program that can do this without glitches or a high learning curve on Etch? No editing, no dissolves, just stick one after the other. For the mpeg files, mencoder -oac co

Re: Scrolling works in vim by default in gnome-terminal but not in mrxvt

2009-01-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Countable Infinity wrote: Experiment 1 === 1. Open gnome-terminal 2. Run vim 3. Run command :help in vim 4. Use scroll wheel of the mouse to scroll 5. Scrolling happens successfully Experiment 2 === 1. Open mrxvt 2. Run vim 3. Run command :help in vim 4. Use scroll wheel of the m

Re: mysterious loss of internet connection

2007-11-07 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
I didn't recognize anything scary. I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to continue chasing this down. It may go slowly, since the problem is at home but my only connection now is at work. Thanks. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-07 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ID is 47326c96, no volume label. Files still there. As I said, the drive was probably still mounted when you ran the commands. Unmount the flash drive, run dd, unplug it from the system, plug it back in, run mkdosfs, unplug, plug and then mount. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-07 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
y. Is it usually done with a proprietary low-level format utility? Just try the following, assuming your usb key is at /dev/sdd (change if it isn't) 1. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd bs=512 count=1 2. mkdosfs -I -v /dev/sdd Now you should be able to mount /dev/sdd. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -

Re: Striping comment from configuration files on stdout

2007-11-08 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
7; You can even eliminate grep altogether with sed -e 's/;.*$//;/^\s*$/ d' -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Yes I am having a problem

2007-11-08 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
exactly is the problem you are facing? Please excuse me if I failed to spot it in your post. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-08 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ov 8 16:41:21 teufel kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 109928 Nov 8 16:41:21 teufel kernel: printk: 113 messages suppressed. Nov 8 16:41:21 teufel kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdd, logical block 13741 ... It appears that your usb key is dead. :

Re: why does the shell show commands foolishly when I press UP key?

2007-11-08 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
want. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network configuration

2007-11-09 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
t your /etc/network/interfaces and the output of "route -n" Does your outside network share the same network number? I think if you define a static route to your device through eth0, you may be able to access it. For eg: # route add 192.168.0.2 dev eth0 -- Raj Kiran Grandhi

Re: Yes I am having a problem

2007-11-09 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ide better hardware detection, so you may get some information on what drivers to use for your video card. PS: When replying, please use reply-to-all, so that your mail reaches a wider audience and you are more likely to get a solution. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: (Partly solved)Re: why does the shell show commands foolishly when I press UP key?

2007-11-09 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Serena Cantor wrote: The ls command show once, but pwd show twice. It seems to me that HISTCONTROL=ignoredups sometime work, sometime does not work. It does not work as I have hoped. Probably you need to use HISTCONTROL=erasedups -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Can I resize partition?

2007-11-09 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
a backup. It uses partimage and is much faster than cp, tar, rsync or dd. You can find gparted and clonezilla live cds at [gparted|clonezilla].sourceforge.net (a multi boot cd offering both is also available) -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: chmod 670

2007-11-13 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
me reason why you would "chmod 670" and not "chmod 770"? -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: browser oddities

2007-11-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
, which couldn't be made to go away. In another case, a popup menu popped up _behind_ a flash image, making it impossible to see or click on the menu entries. Yes, that is annoying. But flash *is* annoying anyway, so I just adblock it away! -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: browser oddities

2007-11-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:20:49 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: 2. Flash image obscuring text. --- I've recently started seeing web pages using flash, in which some flash image obscures text. In once case, there was a navigatio

Re: unusual network installation problem

2007-11-17 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ght use the netinst cd to install the base system, configure the network after booting into the base system, and then install the remaining stuff. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Followup to my last posting

2007-11-18 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
annoying to have to save a file and open it in some text editor just to view its contents when there is no reason a browser cannot just display it :( -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Followup to my last posting

2007-11-18 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/07 09:59, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/18/07 04:20, David Fox wrote: Please give such files a .txt suffix so that Tbird knows what to do with them

Re: kernel headers and vmware

2007-11-18 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
no longer needs the any-any update. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT?] Replying to posts in debian-user

2007-11-18 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ught I'd better get my basics straight instead of continuing to annoy people with my ignorance. Thanks & Regards, Raj Kiran -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT?] Replying to posts in debian-user

2007-11-18 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
of icedove I am using. The bug report page says that a patch has been applied to the source. So probably it will appear in sid in a few days. I shall retry then. Thank you for clearing it up! Regards, Rajkiran -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: [OT?] Replying to posts in debian-user

2007-11-18 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
. What I was thinking earlier was that if the list sees that the person in the "To:" or "CC:" field is also subscribed to the list, then it refrains from sending the message to that person, since they would have received it "directly". From now on, I shall dutifu

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error DriveStatusError BadCRC

2007-11-19 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
a, sector 34030959 Buffer I/O error on device hda1, logical block 4253862 lost page write due to I/O error on hda1 This error appears to be more serious than the earlier ones though. The only time I see this type of error is when there *is* an actual problem with the hardware. I would recommend

Re: Multiboot

2007-11-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
partition. You might also try a chroot system or virtualisation to run different instances of operating systems at the same time. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System won't boot after successful Debian installation

2007-11-22 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
if your hard disk is accessible. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: verify the ip status

2007-11-22 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
networking scripts used in redhat systems use arping to check whether an ip address already exists before assigning it to an interface. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wget'ing files with relative paths

2007-11-22 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ut it's not working, and I'm hoping someone here might point me in the right direction. You really need to provide more information before you can reasonably hope someone to assist you. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: System won't boot after successful Debian installation

2007-11-22 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
n ide disk, then I think something might be wrong with the jumper settings for specifying whether the disk should be a master or a slave. Worth a look, I guess. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Asynchronous network start [Was: 1 in 2 chance : need to issue "/etc/init.d/networking restart" after boot]

2007-11-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
way to do it though. The link provided by Marc describes this issue, but I could not find any workaround anywhere. The relevant network module in my case was: bnx2 Thanks & regards, -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: wget'ing files with relative paths

2007-11-23 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Rogelio wrote: On 11/22/07, *Raj Kiran Grandhi* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Rogelio wrote: > I'm trying to wget some very specific files off a web page, but some of How? Basically, I'd like to run this command: wget (opt

Re: how to build from _modified_ source package

2007-11-25 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ebian specific patches, uncompress the package and apply the patches. Then you can perform whatever edits you want before running either 'fakeroot debian/rules binary' or 'dpkg-buildpackage' in the source tree Regards, Raj Kiran -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: networking: fixed ip address and dhcp

2007-11-26 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ly is a better/easier way to configure a laptop for multiple networks, but I do not have any experience with that. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adobe Reader 8

2007-11-26 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
happening when running heavy apps on lighter machines. IMHO, acroread is getting more and more bloated with each release. I prefer to use evince or xpdf most of the times and only try acroread when all else fails (which is rather rare and the converse is much more likely) -- Raj Kiran Grandhi

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