Re: openntpd not adjusting the clock

2008-06-26 Thread j t
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Robert Jerrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The time adjustment keeps going up and up but the clock is never reset, > it just continues to fall further behind. Anyone know how to fix this? > I realize that it's not exactly an answer to your question, but after day

Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-26 Thread j t
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Vwaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I can tell, there is no pre-computed md5 checksum provided > with the download (http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst#smallcd). > Am I missing something? Yes. http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r3/i386/iso-cd/MD5SU

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-26 Thread j t
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > md5sum -b /dev/scd0 > The output should match the md5sum of the ISO image. Not _strictly_ true (due to blank/null padding which is sometimes added to the end of iso disk images, and issues with the infamous read-ahead bug

Re: openntpd not adjusting the clock

2008-06-27 Thread j t
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please see the replies by Mike Bird to my questions in the thread in the > debian-user list with subject >"ntp not any more supported in Debian or did I miss something?" > for ways to get the original ntp package from

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-27 Thread j t
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for that. With pleasure (I remember all too well the pain of banging my head against a wall, trying to understand optical disk burning/verification under linux). I've also found a much simpler method for checking tha

Re: openntpd not adjusting the clock

2008-06-27 Thread j t
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Robert Jerrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Awesome, just got it. It installed easily, default configuration used, > and it seems to work fine. Log messages like > > Jun 27 08:32:06 riemann ntpd[17589]: time reset +161.150330 s > Jun 27 08:36:53 riemann ntpd[17589]:

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-29 Thread j t
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adding all this extra equipment is going to cost you *much* more > than buying a Linksys WRT56GL and reflashing it with the Tomato or > DD-WRT firmware. OK, I've just spent 10 minutes searching for Linksys WRT56GL (a pair of

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-29 Thread j t
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've heard of this. I was kind of hoping to do all this with Debian, but it > sounds like the WRT54GL is a better bet, but only if it can actually > firewall the wired subnet from the wireless subnet. A little bit of > go

Re: Thanks to all the devs and maintainers of Debian

2008-06-29 Thread j t
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Ezra Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Much respect for you cats. Keep up the great work. And another huge thank you from me too. I've no idea what I'd do without my fave distro. Jaime :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-30 Thread j t
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:41:58PM +0100, j t wrote: >> Having said that, I run openwrt on a couple of asus routers: one >> wl-hdd and one asus wl-500g and they have the same issue with regards > >

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-07-01 Thread j t
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:03 AM, thveillon.debian > Looks like Netgear is about to bring us a nice toy : > > "The high-performance WGR614L, which is "Works with Windows Vista" Sorry to rain on the parade, but (to echo some comments on slashdot), no pre-N, gigabit ethernet or usb ports? 4MB flash an

Re: Diagnosing non-working trackpoint button

2008-07-01 Thread j t
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I shut off the trackpad in the BIOS (I only use the clitmouse and it's > buttons) but i dont see > any BIOS settings about this. I don't know whether it'll help, but with my T60 I've also found that shutting off t

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-01 Thread j t
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I prefer to host my own DNS on my own server, if only to keep my memory of > how to configure BIND relatively fresh. Does anyone know of a similar agent > that pairs with a daemon I can run on my DNS server, to track the IP a

Re: Recording TV with Debian

2008-07-02 Thread j t
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:38 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:48:10 +0200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What are you using to capture video? Disclaimer: I know nothing about Pinnacle video cards (I have an Adaptec avc2010 pci card which works perfectly under linux). Surely i

Re: Re: Debian 4.0r3 cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system.

2008-07-02 Thread j t
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:45 PM, zhaohscas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Also, soon after a boot: >>$ dmesg | less My guess: Intel chipset limitation? (know to affect certain 915nn and 945nn chipsets) See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us (and yes, I already know that you're not using

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-04 Thread j t
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Kent West >>> So I tried going the route of doing a network install via >>> http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com, but it installs grub and doesn't give me >>> any option to feed the "pci=nomsi" parameter (or any other similar >>> parameters); I've been unable to find a

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-04 Thread j t
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:34 AM, j t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Kent West >>>> So I tried going the route of doing a network install via >>>> http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com, but it installs grub and doesn't give me

Re: Lenny

2008-07-04 Thread j t
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Daniel Ngu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I read that Lenny will be released sometime in September this year. > I've been using Etch and am contemplating on moving to Lenny now instead. > How's usable is Lenny at the moment, in particular the Beta2 version > or

Re: Why do you add spaces to your url links?

2008-07-10 Thread j t
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> please post back the actual url, without space of course. > > WTF? Seconded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tool to show maximal repeating patterns / structure in (text?) data

2008-07-13 Thread j t
Hi all, Does anyone know of a tool which will analyse a block of data and find structure / repeating patterns in it, and then somehow show that structure to the user? As an example, pretend I give it the following paragraph of text (but I don't tell it that the following paragraph contains a stri

Re: Tool to show maximal repeating patterns / structure in (text?) data

2008-07-13 Thread j t
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're on the right track here, at least for getting as far as detecting > maximal-length identical strings. As I recall, Huffman encoding should > be what you're looking for. > > Another place to look would be search ind

Re: Anything better than gopchop...

2008-07-13 Thread j t
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 14:51:32 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> ... for snipping sections of video from an mpeg2 file? >> >> gopchop seems to be dead upstream, and I can't find any way to >> pause, move forwar

Weird Internet routing / mtu setting / browser / packet fragmentation problem

2008-07-23 Thread j t
Hi all. Does anyone here know how I can diagnose exactly where / why the following problem occurs...? I've got a typical adsl setup (in the UK) with my internal (192.168.0.*) network behind a nat router. Everything works perfectly (!) except for 1 problem, which is: If I try to view http://www.o

Re: Wi-Fi in Inspiron 1720 - Help!

2008-07-29 Thread j t
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Dennis Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have lenny running very good except for one big hangup. I can't get the > wireless card to work. It shows in lspci as a Broadcom BCM4310 USB > Controller. Disclaimer: I don't own and have never owned one of these cards...

Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread j t
Hi all. Does anyone have any suggestions for a command-line-interface (CLI) calculator that can work out the difference between 2 (gregorian) dates (i.e. that is calendar aware). My favourite cli calculator ("bc") doesn't seem to have any knowledge of the gregorian calendar. Just to make it clear

Gnome desktop on fresh lenny install won't logout - how do I debug this?

2008-06-10 Thread j t
Hi all. I've just installed a fresh Lenny on my Thinkpad T60. In addition to the base install, I've installed the "xorg" package and the "gnome-core" package, so I don't have gdm (I just login and run "startx"). When I've finished using X, I logout by clicking on "System" (on the Gnome Menu Bar)

Re: Gnome desktop on fresh lenny install won't logout - how do I debug this?

2008-06-11 Thread j t
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If, however, I run startx, wait a few seconds (without starting >> anything else) and then try to logout by clicking on "System", then >> "Log Out ", the system will hang about 50% of the time. >> >> Does anyone have an

Re: Shutdown/logout not working

2008-06-13 Thread j t
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently switched from IceWm to Gnome by installing gnome-core. But I > notice the shutdown and logout icons available from the taskbar don't > work. I have to logout with ctrl-alt-backspace, and then shutdowm or > reb

How to debug "error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon."?

2007-05-28 Thread j t
Hi all. I have a fresh Etch install on a Thinkpad T21 (x86 - 686). Two things to note: a) I use a network install to just put the base system on, then I add xorg, then I add gnome-core. b) I uncheck aptitude's "install recommended packages automatically" to get a "lean" machine. Everything wor

Re: How to debug "error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon."?

2007-05-28 Thread j t
On 5/28/07, j t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unfortunately, I'm not too good at understanding all this lib-gnome/bonobo stuff, so I'm stuck for what to do next. Any suggestions? TIA, Jaime :-) It seems I am not alone: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422315 -

What's the easiest way to obtain a debian kernel which contains snd-cs46xx module?

2009-03-12 Thread j t
Hi, I've just done a fresh install of Lenny on my Thinkpad T21, which (according to lshw) contains a "Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator" (pci id 1013:6003). /proc/asound/cards shows no soundcards, and I assume this is because there is no snd-cs46xx.ko module

Whatever happened to Unicode input (using + )?

2009-06-14 Thread j t
Good morning all. I'm reasonably sure that I used to be able to input unicode characters by holding down and and then tapping out the hex code for the character that I wanted, and then releasing and . For example, pressing and holding and and then tapping 20AC would give me a euro symbol. No

Re: Whatever happened to Unicode input (using + )?

2009-06-17 Thread j t
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > On what system did you see it work - and in what application(s)¹…? > Good question. I couldn't answer it immediately, so I've just installed etch on a spare machine, and gnome-terminal does the trick. Here's screencast of 20ac and 30db, whic

Re: Whatever happened to Unicode input (using + )?

2009-06-17 Thread j t
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:28 PM, j t wrote: > I think it's time for me to have a chat with the gnome-terminal people... >From http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2009-June/msg00037.html "I think you now need to do Ctrl+Shift+u, then the Unicode number, then then the spa

Re: How to connect Nokia 6310i to Dell Vostro 1700 with Bluetooth?

2008-09-27 Thread j t
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Joost Kraaijeveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to connect my Nokia 6310i to my Dell Vostro 1700 with > Bluetooth on Debian Lenny amd-64 2.6.26-1 . I have read > http://users.tkk.fi/u/kehannin/bluetooth/bluetooth.html and > https://help.ubuntu.com

Re: debian is amazing

2008-09-27 Thread j t
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/6 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Guess what? Debian's got it! Amazing! > > Hear, hear. > > All worthwhile free software is packaged for Debian. And when it > isn't, you should package it yourself fo

Re: OT: scanner

2008-09-27 Thread j t
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Jose Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm about to buy a scanner, which will be used to scan A4 text > documents scattered with the occasional picture here and there. I > plan to convert them afterwards to either pdf or djvu (haven't > decided yet) with

Re: console font corruption after exiting xorg

2008-09-27 Thread j t
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Scott Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After I switch to a console screen, or exit from xorg, the console > font is corrupted. I can see what I type, but you cannot make out > what the characters are on the screen. > > Does anyone have suggestions on how troubl

Re: Turning off touchpad "scroll"

2008-09-27 Thread j t
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi. Up to date Sid. > > Back before the recent changes in X, I had put this in my xorg.conf: > > Section "InputDevice" >Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" >

Having Trouble Printing From Netscape

1997-11-20 Thread J. T. Lawson
I am a computer teacher in a public school system. I am having difficulty printing from Netscape 3.0 on some sites that play music and/or include java script. I have emptied the caches.Please advise. Thanks, J. T. Lawson

Sound problem on Lenny PPC: can't find /dev/dsp

2008-01-13 Thread J . T . Chittleborough
Hey, all. The sound abruptly stopped working on a Lenny KDE installation on my PowerBook G4 12"; I dual-boot with Mac OS X, which it's still working fine with. I'm running a stock Lenny PowerPC kernel, and can't find anything in the APT logs about software changes which might have affected th