Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Not sure what refernces to Chile, El Salvador or Nicaragua you are > making. Grenada was already covered. Panama was under US protection > until Jimmy Carter gave away the canal. > Let me refresh your memory Chile: Pinochet, forcibly got power with US assistance, af

Re: How to connect to debian server from Windows

2007-07-04 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
And if you want to know if the webserver is running, try `ps aux | grep apache'. This should give you an instance of apache. With nmap you can also check if something is listening on port 80. Good luck! Sjoerd Aenn Seidhe Priest wrote: > http://[server ip] in a browser. > > A piece of advice is

Strange symbols in konqueror blank page and metabar

2007-07-05 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
When I open a new tab with no content (about:blank) in konqueror, I get a bunch of Chinese looking symbols. I've pasted the contents below: 㱨瑭氾㱨敡搾㱴楴汥㹡扯畴㩢污湫㰯瑩瑬放㰯桥慤㸼扯摹㸼⽢潤社㰯桴浬 Also, when I open the metabar, such signs show instead of a normal metabar. Does anybody else have this problem? Thanks for a

Re: dir command

2007-07-30 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
pinniped schreef: (quote) To get sizes, du is the obvious choice, but you could do the ridiculous: $ find . -type f -exec cat {} \; | wc -c (end quote) I do the slightly less ridiculous: for X in $(find . -name '*'); do du -b $X >> mylogfile; done Which still uses du. One could also do find .

Re: which stands for openldap on debian

2007-08-22 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Openldap is provided by slapd Sjoerd Mathias Brodala schreef: > Hi. > > abdelkader belahcene, 22.08.2007 11:33: >> There is no openldap on debian, Which package stands for it > > Use "apt-cache search openldap". > > > Regards, Mathias > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Editing a text file with sed

2007-08-29 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
This command erases all line breaks sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n/ /;ta' -e 'P;D' although you have to adapt it to not delete paragraphs. Using regex, the line would then become something like sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n[^\n]/ /;ta' -e 'P;D' Good luck. Sjoerd Joe Hart schreef: > I am having trouble using sed

Re: fglrx driver problems

2007-01-03 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Why not use the fglrx package, It works fine on my Radeon 9600 Sjoerd Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Marko. > > Marko Randjelovic, 03.01.2007 11:14: >> Mathias Brodala wrote: DESCRIPTION radeon is an Xorg driver for ATI RADEON based video cards. It contains […] hardware 3D ac

Re: Dual head problems in Etch k7 kernel

2007-10-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Andrew Sackville-West schreef: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 08:43:44AM -0700, Dancing Fingers wrote: > >> On Oct 16, 10:40 am, Andrew Sackville-West >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:15:50AM -0700, Dancing Fingers wrote: >>> Hi guys, I have an dua

Re: Debian, Iceweasel, Firefox!

2007-02-01 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:04:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/31/07 10:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:52:55AM -0500, Max Hyre wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: The real interesting one to me is the battle Adobe

Re: right click and resize selected images in Konqueror

2008-02-14 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
> I am at present looking at this (though I would > like a package which I can suggest to the user to install using Synaptic > and not having to deal with scripts editing): > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Resize_Images_using_ServiceMenus_(right_click) At home I have it working, I think I have the pa

Re: German characters in English locale

2008-03-11 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
> Are you sure your input encoding is indeed "ansinew"? I'd bet it's > UTF-8. Last time I checked TeX didn't support UTF-8 so I'm still using > latin1 for TeX. It does work now. Just put \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} in the preamble. Sjoerd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Apache running vbscript-ASP

2008-03-22 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
talk with Apache? Thanks a lot for any help. Sjoerd Hardeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apache running vbscript-ASP

2008-03-26 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Well, apparently nobody knows. Then I'm afraid I have to use IIS for this project. And yes I know it runs only Windows, but I am not going to convert that whole site in a decent language. Sjoerd Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to alter some vbscript-files for a w

No sound after alsa-update

2006-05-20 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
spect a link to the update from alsa on the 5th of may. Thanks for any advice on this. Sjoerd Hardeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh connection without passwd

2008-06-19 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi every one, I am using DSL on small miniPC. I tried the ssh-keygen it seemed running correctly, it generates the key (pub and priv), Use ssh-copy-id to copy your public key to the ssh server. This requires that password based connection

Re: Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that "devices" section gone in Sid

2008-06-27 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
You can still make a "Devices" section, and explicitly name the driver you want to use there. At least in Lenny you can, which should be close enough to sid to translate this to sid as well. Sjoerd Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Friday 27 June 2008 08:38:02 Nuno Magalhães wrote: Man Xorg Thierry

Re: i386 or amd64?

2008-07-14 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Skype works on 64bit. Download the static version (http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-static), which has all library dependencies compiled in. Sjoerd Peet Grobler wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I am about to buy the mobo that Doug Tutty has: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe, albeit with a more

Wireless can't dhcp my AP after kernel update

2008-07-18 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Hi, After the most recent kernel update, my laptop can't get a dhcp from my access point (a linksys wrt350n) anymore, it receives time-outs instead. I'm connecting with an 4965N intel wireless card. It still works with other AP, all which don't run in the N-mode, so I suspect there's the problem.

No internal mic on the dell XPS M1330 laptop

2008-08-20 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
The result is that I didn't get it to work. So I think I'm looking for a less obvious answer. Can anybody help me with this? Sjoerd Hardeman signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: No internal mic on the dell XPS M1330 laptop

2008-08-22 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Thanks for the suggestion, but no, it still doesn't work. Sjoerd Magnus Pedersen wrote: Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Hi, I am unable to get the internal microphone to work on my dell XPS M1330 laptop. Has anybody succeeded in doing so? For the obvious answers: yes, I have googled, and have

Sound problems when using two sound devices

2006-08-06 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Hi, I have a SB Live installed on a motherboard with an on-board audio device (VIA 8237). When I disable the on-board audio, my sound card works fine. However, when I enable it, I get an error message during boot and the arts sound server crashes when booting kde. I also cannot use the SB live car

SOLVED: Sound problems when using two sound devices

2006-08-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
I have found on the alsa website the solution to this problem. Editing /etc/modprobe.d/sound the line options snd-emu10k1 index=0 to options snd-emu10k1 index=-15 did the trick. Sjoerd Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Hi, > > I have a SB Live installed on a motherboard with an on-board audio

Arts crashes on logout reporting CPU overload

2006-09-04 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Hi, Every time I logout from KDE, Arts crashes with a reported cpu overload. My computer continues with a shut down only after quite a while, and after I've clicked the 'ok' button. Killing Arts manually greatly speeds up this process (of course). Until recently the problems where even larger, as

Re: alsa troubles

2006-09-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 20:05 +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: >> the system has 2 soundcard, one onboard via card (which is disabled in >> the bios but for some reason shows up in lspci nevertheless), and a >> creative sb live 1024 run

Re: hardware info commands

2006-09-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Try hdparm -I Sjoerd Andrei Popescu wrote: > "Fred J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I am after the command which shows info about my hard drives >> $df >> is not doing it, I need more specifics because I am recompiling a kernel. I >

Duplicity does not run from cron-script

2008-05-08 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Hi all, I have a cron script that first calls automysqlbackup for dumping the database and dumps the package list. After that, it should copy this plus other stuff to a remote location using duplicity. This script runs fine when executed manually, but when run via cron it does dump the databa

Re: root, -1 unkown

2008-05-21 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Jochen Schulz wrote: David Baron: What the h*ll is that? Running Debian Sid, KDE4-devel from experimental. This is an error message reserved for people running software from experimental who don't know how to ask smart questions. :) J. In my system, user -1 would be the anti-daemon. Let's ho

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-28 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 05:13:47AM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: sk> i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: granted, but i didn't want my boyfriend to r

Re: arts / CPU overload, Debian Etch, KDE 3.5.4

2006-09-18 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Bernd Kloss wrote: > Hello, > > what is the reason for the warning 'CPU overload' by artsd-Server? No sound > running, no multimedia. > > What can be done? > > Thank You > > > ___ > Viren-Scan für Ihren PC! Jetzt für jeden.

Re: fglrx-driver installation failed

2006-10-10 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
T wrote: > On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:29:47 +0200, Christian Christmann wrote: > >> I'm trying to install the fglrx driver for my >> ATI card on my Etch system with Xorg 7. > > me too, Etch system with Xorg 7. > >> After installing the packages >> module-assistant, fglrx-driver and fglrx-kernel-sr

Samba update problem in etch

2006-10-23 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Hi, I can't update samba, as the package is inconsistent. However, removing or updating won't work either, at least I can't do it. Can anybody help me? Below is the output of trying an update with aptitude. Sjoerd Unpacking replacement samba ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/samba.postrm: line 22: update-i

Re: ntfs rw in etch??

2006-10-24 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
They claim it is more or less safe now. See http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ for more info. Sjoerd Bruno Buys wrote: > This is etch recently installed in an athlon with a ntfs win > partition. Mount tells me it is writable. Can I trust? I didn't write > anything to it yet, just read. Writing to ntfs f

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Stefan Schwarzer wrote: >> I've two Debian boxes. One one (sarge) it appears that `latex` is really >> `e-TeX` whereas on the other (unstable) it appears that `latex` is >> really `pdfeTex`. It must have been like this for a while and I've not > >> appears that 'e_TeX' will read in .eps files but

Re: xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem

2006-11-10 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Commend in /etc/X11/xorg.conf the following line out: Load "dri" As the output shows an error concerning dri. If it still doesn't work, look at the lines with (EE) in front, look if you can find something matching in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and comment it out. That should do it. Good luck!

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

2009-07-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Dirk schreef: You would have much more credibility in this thread if you provided solid technical reasons why HAL is bad rather than stomping your feet while saying "I don't like it!" Please provide a technical reason why HAL is unacceptable. HAL causes enough technical problems and negative s

pppd in a vserver

2009-07-20 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Hi list, Does anybody know if it is possible to use pppd in a vserver? I am currently trying to set up a pptpd vpn server inside a vserver environment, but it fails on Jul 19 23:09:02 vserver pppd[18802]: ioctl(SIOCSIFDSTADDR): Cannot assign requested address (line 2387) Jul 19 23:09:02 vserv

Re: pppd in a vserver

2009-07-20 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Tzafrir Cohen schreef: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:01:17PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Hi list, Does anybody know if it is possible to use pppd in a vserver? I am currently trying to set up a pptpd vpn server inside a vserver environment, but it fails on Jul 19 23:09:02 vserver pppd[18802

Re: apt can't verify package

2009-08-21 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Long Wind schreef: I use etch In sources.list, I have a line like: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main When I install packages with apt-intall, it warns: Install these packages without verification[y/N]? how to solve it? Thanks! It's because you don't have the proper gpg-key for ch

Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny

2009-08-21 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Giorgos Pallas schreef: Johannes wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: That means if you want to play a legally bought DVD on your computer, you either have to run proprietary software (which contains a licensed descrambler) or you have to crack the CSS key using something like libdvdcss. The latter m

Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny

2009-08-21 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Johannes schreef: Giorgos Pallas wrote: Of course playing a legally obtained DVD in itself is not something illegal. But technically speaking, in the course of playing it you may break other laws, for example the DMCA which says if I am not mistaken that breaking an encryption scheme is illegal

Re: KDE status in Squeeze/testing?

2009-08-22 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Andrew M.A. Cater schreef: > Where are we at the moment with KDE installability in Squeeze? I'm running KDE in Squeeze, and its mostly functional. I haven't noticed any serious issues. There are some general problems KDE still has, like not being able to change 'supersuer'-only settings in via the

Re: Converting Flac to MP3

2009-08-26 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Gav schreef: Does anybody know of a program that will convert Flac files to MP3. Preferably taking all the tag information from the flac file and setting it in the MP3 file. I converted my CD collection to Flac a while back but could now do with MP3's too. :o| Google is your friend: http://www

Re: Converting Flac to MP3

2009-08-26 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Sjoerd Hardeman schreef: Gav schreef: Does anybody know of a program that will convert Flac files to MP3. Preferably taking all the tag information from the flac file and setting it in the MP3 file. I converted my CD collection to Flac a while back but could now do with MP3's too. :o| G

Re: Either - or kpdf or xpdf print with cups...........

2009-08-26 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Charlie schreef: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:21:38 +0200 Sjoerd Hardeman shared this with us all: Charlie schreef: Hello all, Have been googling without much success: Trying to find the KDE package that contains kpdf - says it's kdegraphics, but it doesn't show up when installed

Re: Either - or kpdf or xpdf print with cups...........

2009-08-26 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Charlie schreef: Hello all, Have been googling without much success: Trying to find the KDE package that contains kpdf - says it's kdegraphics, but it doesn't show up when installed Do you use squeeze or sid? In KDE4 kpdf has been replaced with okular or How do I configure xpdf to print wit

Re: Dell or HP laptop with excellent support to Linux (Debian)

2009-08-28 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Mark schreef: ... In general, our experience at work has been: HP desktops are great (again, "business" grade not home or consumer grade), but HP laptops we gave up on and went back to Dell. That's just our experience though. HTH > G'day, > > My name is Alexander Kapshuk.

Re: Silverlight/Moonlight/Tuva

2009-09-01 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Jan Willem Stumpel schreef: David Fox wrote: ... It complains about silverlight/moonlight not being installed, while in fact it is. But apparently, what is missing is silverlight "version 2", while Debian only has "version 1". I wanted to advice installing moonlight from http://go-mono.com/

Re: Emacs

2009-09-01 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Teemu Likonen schreef: On 2009-08-31 07:53 (-0700), Steve Lamb wrote: Teemu Likonen wrote: Memory usage can be measured different ways. What we see here is the difference between usage of VSZ and RSS memory. Neither gives the ultimate answer, only a certain point of view. Yes, and neither

Having linux ldappasswd also update windows password hashes

2009-09-01 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Hi list, I am managing an ldap which contains a unix password field, which is nicely updated by the passwd command via exop. All fine. The only problem is that the LM and NT windows hashes are not updated. I need these fields since I need to support chap authentication, and also some windows based

[Solved] Having linux ldappasswd also update windows password hashes

2009-09-03 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Sjoerd Hardeman schreef: Hi list, I am managing an ldap which contains a unix password field, which is nicely updated by the passwd command via exop. All fine. The only problem is that the LM and NT windows hashes are not updated. I need these fields since I need to support chap authentication

Re: Samba reexport of mounted remote CIFS share - HOWTO?

2009-09-03 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Bruno Voigt schreef: Hi, on my debian/squeeze 2.6.30.5 x86 system I mounted a remote CIFS share and would like to reexport it on my system again via Samba. Is there a way to do it on linux yet ? FreeNAS/BSD seems to be able to do that... Thanks in advance for any hints, Yes, sure. Just tell sa

Re: Websites which insist upon Adobe Acrobat

2009-09-03 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Charles schreef: On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:15:05 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-09-02 23:44 +0200, Charles wrote: I have run across several websites lately which insist they cannot download PDF files to you because you don't have Adobe Acrobat installed. To say the truth, I cannot remembe

Re: Nvidia binary driver installation

2009-09-04 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
o...@larstennstedt.de schreef: Hello, Hello, Next time, begin a new message and don't reply to a message already in the list. Now your message appears as a reply to "Re: ssh hardly usable after login", which probably causes many people not to read your mail. I have a question about the inst

Re: sharing an ipp printer with a mac client

2009-09-08 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Leonardo Canducci schreef: 2009/9/8 Tom H : On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Leonardo Canducci wrote: I'm using cups 1.4.0 from debian sid and I have a deskjet printer connected via USB. This printer is shared (ticked "Share printers connected to this system" and "Allow printing from the Intern

Re: sharing an ipp printer with a mac client

2009-09-08 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Please keep this on the list. Leonardo Canducci schreef: 2009/9/8 Sjoerd Hardeman : Leonardo Canducci schreef: 2009/9/8 Tom H : On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Leonardo Canducci wrote: I'm using cups 1.4.0 from debian sid and I have a deskjet printer connected via USB. This print

Re: I would like to eject my cdrom

2009-09-08 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
John Hasler schreef: J writes: How can I regain control of this? I wrote: man eject, and pay special attention to the -a, -i, and -T options. CJ writes: -i ? He's having trouble getting the eject button to work. Yes, but the point of this questin is: $ eject -i eject: invalid option

Re: I would like to eject my cdrom

2009-09-09 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Lisi Reisz schreef: > On Tuesday 08 September 2009 17:19:35 Wayne Topa wrote: >> Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Tuesday 08 September 2009 16:33:00 John Hasler wrote: Sjoerd writes: > Yes, but the point of this questin is: > $ eject -i > eject: invalid option -- i "-i" takes an argum

Re: wicd fails to start (dbus related error)

2009-09-11 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Liviu Andronic schreef: Dear all Recently Wicd started to always fail at start-up, with a dbus related error: "Could not connect to wicd's D-Bus interface. Check the wicd log for error messages." Strangely the icon will load, but when clicking to access the interface it will pop up the next err

Re: Problem with ldap auth

2009-09-11 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Guillaume CHARDIN schreef: Hi, recently I had a debian lenny workstation on my network where authentication is handled by an openldap server. On this debian workstation, i'm unable to connect with my user account while I'm able with others fedora (9-10-11) workstation. I'm still able to connect

Re: Problem with ldap auth

2009-09-11 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Guillaume CHARDIN schreef: Thank for your reply Here are some details about what you ask 2009/9/11 Sjoerd Hardeman : Can you add the option 'debug' in /etc/pam.d/common-auth to the line of pam_ldap? What do you see when you try to log in in /var/log/auth.log? And when you log in as

Re: [Solved] Problem with ldap auth

2009-09-12 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Guillaume CHARDIN schreef: > Problem is solved... After some hours looking around... > Although i follow your advices because my pam config look like dirty. > (for info, the ldapsearch thing worked fine i've tested it before) > Now I start to read really carrefully the pam manual, but some > concep

Re: Exim4 configuration file (non split) on Debian

2009-09-14 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Peter F Bradshaw schreef: Hi; Anybody know which configuration file Exim4 uses when it is configured for "non split" configuration on Debian? Yes, it is generated from /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template, /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros and /etc/exim4/update-exim4.con.conf. Especially the last na

Re: listing installation minimal packages in lenny

2009-09-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Israel Garcia schreef: Another question, dpkg -l gives me the complete (whole) list of pkages installed on my server. I mean main packages and dependencies. How can I list only the main installed packages (without dependencies) in debian? You mean the list op packages you need to feed to aptitude

Re: OpenArena incredibly slow after apt-get dist-upgrade

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
david.ban...@gmail.com schreef: Folks, Not sure if this is an openarena issue or an xorg issue as both were upgraded during a squeeze dist-upgrade. Openarena is now unplayable slow on a 2.83GHz core2quad system with 8Gb RAM. Two days ago (before the upgrade) it ran like a scalded cat. There

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Robert P. J. Day schreef: i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm open to advice on the easiest and most error-free way to do that. i've already dupl

Re: OpenArena incredibly slow after apt-get dist-upgrade

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
David A. Bandel schreef: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 03:14, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: david.ban...@gmail.com schreef: Folks, Not sure if this is an openarena issue or an xorg issue as both were upgraded during a squeeze dist-upgrade. Openarena is now unplayable slow on a 2.83GHz core2quad system

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Jochen Schulz schreef: Sjoerd Hardeman: Why not just copy /etc, /home, /root and /var, and make sure you do not follw symlinks in copying. That should do. Not quite. This might lead to problems when UIDs have changed. Some packages (say, Apache) create new users and files which belong to

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Sven Joachim schreef: On 2009-09-16 13:46 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Robert P. J. Day schreef: i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'

Re: Squeeze lockups

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Charles schreef: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:10:13 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-09-16 05:24 +0200, Charles wrote: Several times lately I have come back to my computer to find it locked up so tight I have has to do the alt-sysreq thing. Kernel version and your video adapter are more useful

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Jochen Schulz schreef: Sjoerd Hardeman: Jochen Schulz schreef: Not quite. This might lead to problems when UIDs have changed. Some packages (say, Apache) create new users and files which belong to these users. Even if you install the same set of packages on a new system, you have no guarantee

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Sven Joachim schreef: On 2009-09-16 15:57 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Kept thinking a bit longer: are the uids and gids of daemon users actually determined during install? My experience is that these users actually preserve their uid over installations quite well. This is only true for

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

2009-09-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Emanoil Kotsev schreef: can use. But *after that* (or after a regular installation using d-i), there is no (officially supported, efficient) way to switch the architecture of the installation. J. What do you mean "way to switch the ? You mean perhaps once installed you can not easily swit

Re: Why can't I install skype on debian?

2009-09-18 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. schreef: This is all off-topic anyway; it's not helping get skype installed. IIRC, it should be available from either non-free or debian-multimedia repositories and installable via aptitude. No it is not. Download the deb from http://www.skype.com/intl/nl/download/skype

Re: logging out fails in KDE4 (debian testing)

2009-09-30 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Γιώργος Πάλλας schreef: Matthew Moore wrote: On Saturday September 26 2009 9:39:43 am Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Does this happen to anybody else? Should I report it as a bug? I googled it and found several references of the problem, although old (around April 2009). Are you using an intel g

Re: Running WindowsXP on debian

2009-10-06 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Mathieu Malaterre schreef: Hi there, I need to run a WindowsXP system for software compilation using M$ compiler (don't ask). Right now wine is not a solution (*). I cannot run a solution based on kvm extension as non of the computer I have access to have it. So AFAIK I only have two solution:

Re: Debian Testing and ext4 :?

2009-10-07 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Szymon G schreef: > hi > I've got question: can i install Debian Squeezy (installed from one of > those cds http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/ > ) be installed properly on ext4 (with seperate /boot on ext3)? i mean: > will it boot properly etc etc? > j

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-07 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
lee schreef: On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:00:52PM -0700, David Fox wrote: More to the point, since you have an amd64 system, why bother with ia32 components? I don't recall any need for ia32 for nvidia. Where do you get a 64bit version of X3? Or X2? Quake? Doom? Tribal Trouble? And so on ... My

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-08 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
lee schreef: > > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> >> lee schreef: >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:00:52PM -0700, David Fox wrote: >>>> >>>> More to the point, since you have an amd64 system, why bo

Re: Does d-i work automatically with LDAP servers?

2009-10-12 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
surreal schreef: In many networked environments, LDAP is widely used, most for user authentication etc.. Does d-i (debian installer) work with LDAP? Is it possible for d-i to get user information directly from local LDAP server, like it does in Fedore Core/Red Hat installers? You surely can h

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-13 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Micha Feigin schreef: There were times when software would modify itself in memory due to lack of memory space. I also saw contests where people wrote programs that would read the same start to end and end to start (forgot what that is called). A palindrome Sjoerd signature.asc Description:

Re: NFS or SSHFS?

2009-10-14 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Jerome BENOIT schreef: Hello List, Please follow the bottom-reply policy. so far I can remember NSF was not considered as a safe network stuff (see harden-servers) : may be the last version is safer. NFS < v4 is certainly not safe. It does not offer mechanisms for authentication and encrypt

Re: backupninja

2009-10-14 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Alex Samad schreef: > Hi > > I was wondering how many people where using this and how they found it. I'm using it and it works quite okay. I'm using it for backing up system data, mysql-db's and in the end backing up everything with duplicity. You can also quite easily write some additional task (

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-14 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
lee schreef: > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:45:02AM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > >>>>>> My quake3 copy is running fine with the 64-bit nvidia drivers. >>>> Without having the 32bit compatibility libraries installed? I have >>>> quake4 and don'

Re: How to REALLY restart networking?

2009-10-14 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Klistvud schreef: - running /etc/init.d/networking restart -- running /etc/init.d/networking-dispatcher restart -- killing the Gnome nm-applet and starting another instance thereof from a Gnome-Terminal -- running all of the above in every picturesque combination I could think of -- running if

Re: Sound card noise on Lenny amd64

2009-10-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Jose Perez schreef: Hi people: I have a Debian Lenny amd64 (up to date) running on a MSI K9A2 Neo2 mainboard. I have sound working without problems when suddenly some day started to sound badly: I hear a continuous noise like a 'shhh' (sorry if it seems funny but i don't know how to expl

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Stackpole, Chris schreef: > His exact question was "how do I measure the speed while I am doing cp > command?" > > I took the 'while' to mean 'as the cp command runs' aka progress during > the transfer. As for benchmarking, when rsync finishes it prints out > messages like: > > sent 17580260 byte

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Dotan Cohen schreef: > 3 m/s > 299792458 m/s, to be precise. But only when your bits travel trough a perfect vacuum. Sjoerd -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signa

Random crashes in squeeze

2009-03-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Hi all, My laptop (a dell XPS 1330) started about five days ago with suddenly crashing, mostly from idle state. The caps-lock and scroll-lock light start blinking and the system stops responding. I have checked my memory using memtest86+, and cannot find any problem. Also, nothing appears in any l

Re: Random crashes in squeeze

2009-03-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Andrew Sackville-West schreef: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:22:11PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> My laptop (a dell XPS 1330) started about five days ago with suddenly >> crashing, mostly from idle state. The caps-lock and scroll-lock light >> st

Re: Random crashes in squeeze

2009-03-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
明覺 wrote: I had a similar case, I had 2G memory first, then 1G of it was removed, then my machine got dead randomly, then I plug in the removed 1G memory again, and resolved this problem. Maybe it's not your case. I haven't done anything to the hardware, so I think it is unrelated. However, str

Re: Random crashes in squeeze

2009-03-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Andrew Sackville-West schreef: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:22:11PM +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Hi all, My laptop (a dell XPS 1330) started about five days ago with suddenly crashing, mostly from idle state. The caps-lock and scroll-lock light start blinking and the

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

2009-03-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
John O Laoi wrote: Hello, I sometimes need to find a file, and I only know of some text contained therein. |The problem is that this does not search within .odt openoffice files.| |It will located any .doc files that contain the string, but not openoffice files.| You mean MS-word? How d

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

2009-03-16 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: What about find . -name *.odt -exec unzip -c {} content.xml | grep "what you want to find"\; -print This one is not working, use find . -name *.odt -exec sh -c 'unzip -c {} content.xml | grep "what you want to find"' \; -print instead.

Re: Random crashes in squeeze

2009-03-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: 03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22) 03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12) 03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12) 03:01.4 System

Re: Random crashes in squeeze

2009-03-18 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Again, what kernel are you running when this happens? Sorry, forgot to mention that. The squeeze-included 2.6.26-1-amd64. Sjoerd -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments signature.asc Descri

Re: creating a compact binary

2009-04-08 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Isn't there a tool that takes a dynamically linked binary and creates a statically linked binary without recompiling from source? Googling gives http://statifier.sourceforge.net/statifier/main.html which according to the description is what the OP needs. Sjoerd -- () as

Re: new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

2009-04-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: Hello, Has anybody been playing around with the new KDE we got a few days ago in Sid? The graphics are nice, but looks like the GUI is not as fast or responsive as the older one. This is on a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ with 2 GB of RAM and GeForce 86

Re: Time keeps on slippin, slippin... (serious clock drift; suggestions??)

2009-04-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
John Hasler wrote: Paul E Condon writes: Look into the package chrony. I agree that he should install Chrony (everyone should :)) but I think he has more wrong than just an outlier crystal. Four minutes per hour is 66,667 parts per million. You can do better than that with an rc oscillator.

Re: Time keeps on slippin, slippin... (serious clock drift; suggestions??)

2009-04-15 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
John Hasler wrote: Sjoerd writes: Just for my information: why is chrony better than eg. ntp? I thought the ntp daemon also adjusted the clock rate to synchronise the system with the online ntp-servers. Chrony corrects the clock more quickly when it is far off, does a better job of keeping it

Re: which websites are running debian

2009-04-17 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
> > 明覺 wrote: >> If they can report the distribution of linux, that will be more >> interesting. Tim McDonough schreef: > The extent of the report seems to be site specific. I tried several > other sites and some just simply say "Linux". What can be found out about your system depends on Apache-s

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