transcode package for stable?

2006-05-03 Thread John Stumbles
Anyone know if there's currently a debian stable package of transcode? ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian no longer seems to have it. My sources.list has: deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian stable main # apt-get install transcode Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package

Re: where does grub put the MBR?

2006-05-03 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Is there a way to know *for sure* where grub puts the MBR? (No setup command) yes... Well the MBR, is always in the same place. It is *always* the first 512 bytes on the physical

Re: tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
On 5/3/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks andrew. these hardware monitors -- are they things like xseonsors and mbmon? I've just apt-get installed those and will try them out. other suggestions still welcome! er, having

Re: where does grub put the MBR?

2006-05-03 Thread Willie Wonka
Alvin Oga wrote: On Wed, 3 May 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Is there a way to know *for sure* where grub puts the MBR? (No setup command) yes... Well the MBR, is always in the same place. It is *always* the first 512

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-05-03 Thread Willie Wonka
Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: Willie Wonka wrote: [...] Oh - and I use Mozilla Mail - but this list (and others) have w-a-y too much mail for me to d/l and sort through Create a filter that sends the mail-list messages to a special folder. It is very manageable this way.

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-05-03 Thread Willie Wonka
Steve Lamb wrote: Willie Wonka wrote: Oh - and I use Mozilla Mail - but this list (and others) have w-a-y too much mail for me to d/l and sort through - which is why I prefer webmail over pop3. I did subscribe to this list (for 10 minutes) once, but again, it's too tedious to try and use

Re: Merging dirs with (almost) same name

2006-05-03 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:45:24AM +0200, listrcv wrote: Magnus Therning wrote: top/sub1/sub2 top/Sub1/sub2 ... Is there some way (other than mounting a case insensitive file system, such as FAT) to merge these directories? How did you manage to split up the directories? It's a p4[1] depot,

Re: Reproducing my Etch kernel

2006-05-03 Thread Anton Piatek
Digby Tarvin wrote: I have searched the web and several books, and all of the instructions say to obtain the kernel with an 'apt-get install kernel-tree', and I am sure that 2-3 months ago with Sarge I used apt-get install kernel-tree-2.6.8 but on Etch this package does not seem to exit.

Re: problems in gnome/gdm after weekend etch upgrade

2006-05-03 Thread Rick Reynolds
Chris Lale wrote: Rick Reynolds wrote: I run etch on my laptop system, and I usually do a dist-upgrade each weekend to keep up to date. This past weekend's update seems to have broken some things in either gnome or gdm that are decently difficult to work around. Wondered if anyone else

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-03 Thread hendrik
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:56:26PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 05:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:27:46PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Matthias Julius wrote: themselfes. Then a while later when they are upset or drunk they find they have a

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-03 Thread hendrik
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:16:58PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Matthias Julius wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthias Julius wrote: How do you recognize well-intentioned and law-abiding citizens? What makes this difficult is that people change. They buy a

Re: Please explain quote and trim...

2006-05-03 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 03 2006, Jochen Schulz wrote: Generally this is a good idea, but Outlooks (in it's default settings) doesn't generate the quote signs, so this may be very hard to do with Outlook. And I am not even talking about line lengths... Perhaps this may help:

etch udev not working with bttv capture card nor via82xx sound? WAS Re: upgrading gnome-desktop-environment broke via82xx sound

2006-05-03 Thread B. Bogart
Hi again, So after a little more digging I see that my third video capture device (bttv) is also not working, in fact according to the kernel and dmesg it is registered to /dev/video2, but there is no such device file. So I bet udev is not working right, not creating the correct devices for

Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-03 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. I think that this may be interesting to anybody that has to work with computers that are not the latest/more recent as most people in richer countries seem to have. It seems to be that a good amount of people upgrade their computers in a regular basis and, then, don't notice how things

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 03 May 2006, Rogério Brito wrote: One way to mitigate the memory consumption is to, among other things, compile packages with optimization of GCC set to -Os, instead of -O2, What -Os is likely to give you is much better cache locality, which might make the code run that much faster on

Re: Merging dirs with (almost) same name

2006-05-03 Thread Arafangion
Magnus Therning wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:45:24AM +0200, listrcv wrote: Magnus Therning wrote: top/sub1/sub2 top/Sub1/sub2 ... Is there some way (other than mounting a case insensitive file system, such as FAT) to merge these directories? How did you manage to split up

Re: Shared memory - using ps(1)

2006-05-03 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:42:28AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I get your point. Hopefully you get mine :-) I hope I get both points. ;) My 20 processes of statically linked MySQL may share memory between themselves (because they were forked from a parent??) but if MySQL was linked with

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-03 Thread hendrik
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:28:29AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 May 2006 02:09, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: - Public schools become a ground for experimenting with social policy (look at the progressive

initrd-tools strange problem

2006-05-03 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
So few minutes ago I upgraded some packages, includeing initrd-tools. I was asked if I want to overwrite /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf, and I answered yes, since I didn't modify at all this file. Note that I didn't install a new kernel After that I rebooted, and when I isuued route the program

Re: etch udev not working with bttv capture card nor via82xx sound? WAS Re: upgrading gnome-desktop-environment broke via82xx sound

2006-05-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:38:16AM -0400, B. Bogart wrote: Hi again, So after a little more digging I see that my third video capture device (bttv) is also not working, in fact according to the kernel and dmesg it is registered to /dev/video2, but there is no such device file. So I bet

Re: Reproducing my Etch kernel

2006-05-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:36:07PM +0100, Anton Piatek wrote: Digby Tarvin wrote: I have searched the web and several books, and all of the instructions say to obtain the kernel with an 'apt-get install kernel-tree', and I am sure that 2-3 months ago with Sarge I used apt-get install

Re: transcode package for stable?

2006-05-03 Thread Rob Sims
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:52:33PM +0100, John Stumbles wrote: Anyone know if there's currently a debian stable package of transcode? ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian no longer seems to have it. My sources.list has: deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian stable main Didn't the

Re: where does grub put the MBR?

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: On Wed, 3 May 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Is there a way to know *for sure* where grub puts the MBR? (No setup command) yes... Well the MBR, is always in the same place. It is *always* the first 512 bytes on

Re: transcode package for stable?

2006-05-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:52:33PM +0100, John Stumbles wrote: Anyone know if there's currently a debian stable package of transcode? ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian no longer seems to have it. My sources.list has: deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian stable main I'm not at my desk to confirm

Re: tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:22:48AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: er, having a little trouble here -- xsensors comes up blank! not sure if that means I'm missing the requisite kernel drivers. any way to tell what I need? You probably need to setup your lmsensors. try `sensors-detect` to get

Re: High Priority???

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Daniel L. McGrew wrote: [snip] You dont call 911 and ask for directions everytime you are lost, do you? There are people who do. There are also people who call 911 to ask what day it is, or the time. Mike -- p=p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);};main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made

mailman qrunner restarts every 15 minutes

2006-05-03 Thread Joern Allmers
Hello, I'm quite new to mailman so if you need more info I'll provide them - just tell me what you need! I have a Debian Stable server with the Debian mailman package (Version: 2.1.5-8sarge2) installed. It gets its mail from a postfix server on the same machine. Mailman works great and

Re: IC

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Daniel L. McGrew wrote: IC... interesting... I've already taught myself to go to the bottom of a post or email and start reading... or maybe it was automatic since that's the way it's always worked... as a matter of fact a lot of organizations who render tech support request that you include

Re: [OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die

2006-05-03 Thread anoop aryal
On Saturday 29 April 2006 11:39, Manaen Schlabach wrote: I haven't been around this list long but here are the ingredients for a thread that won't die. Can anyone think of further needed ingredients? Ingredients 2 Dozen Broccoli Growers A heavy dose of green color 1 Social Contract 1

Re: What is Top-Post???

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Daniel L. McGrew wrote: Please explain to me what top-post is??? Most sincerely, http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html [snip] BTW, usint GOOGLE with top post as the entry (note quote marks) gave as the first entry

Re: floppy boot for local installation

2006-05-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:35:39AM -0700, belahcene abdelkader wrote: Hi, I ve just downloaded the 2 floppies ( boot.img and root.img) to start installation from floppy. I have all the sarge in local ftp server. Since I haven't CD drive on some machines, I want to install from the server by

Re: CCing responses and signature

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Daniel L. McGrew wrote: Well I was hoping that you wouldn't say that... it won't boot from the DVD... I think that it's because the BIOS is so old... Try Smart Boot Manager. Works for me with CDROMs on an old machine with similar limitations. http://btmgr.webframe.org/ It may not

Re: [OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die

2006-05-03 Thread Manaen Schlabach
On 5/3/06, anoop aryal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 April 2006 11:39, Manaen Schlabach wrote: I haven't been around this list long but here are the ingredients for a thread that won't die. Can anyone think of further needed ingredients? Ingredients 2 Dozen Broccoli Growers A

Re: What is the dd command ???

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] bootable floppy disk with it. This is different than a windows/dos made bootable floppy in that it doesn't have any windows or dos system on it. You use any blank floppy and the rawrite program to copy the disk image over to the floppy. make sense? I

Re: Debian DVD autostart

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Jochen Schulz wrote: [snip] Just by the way: this list is not moderated. Au contraire, mon ami. There are some list admins around here who do moderate. Not too long ago one made some threats about forcible unsubscription. Mike --

Easiest Safest way to downgrade udev 0.89-1(etch) to 0.56-3(sarge) (including all that depends on it) WAS Re: etch udev not working with bttv capture card nor via82xx sound?

2006-05-03 Thread B. Bogart
Hello all, again. Sorry that I keep posting to my own messages. I could deal with no Sound for a month, but I really need them damn video capture to work. I guess I could try to manually add the device with mknod and then not reboot, but that is indeed a hack. forcing the downgrade of udev will

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-03 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Just out of curiosity, what is the Debian Way to change compiler settings like -Ox and -march? Can this be done with command line options when using higher level tools like 'apt-get -b source pkg' (with more options specified here, obviously)? Or does one download the source .deb, hack

Re: where does grub put the MBR?

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] The MBR is the first sector (512 bytes) of a hard disc. It is also sometimes called the Boot Label. As part of a standard OUCH! Of course, I meant Disc Label. I can't believe I wrote that. (Read first, then hit Send; Read first, then hit Send...) [snip] Mike --

Re: [OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die

2006-05-03 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Shouldn't all recipe additions be top-posted? (sorry about the top-posting, it just felt right) On Wed, 3 May 2006 11:19:05 -0400 Manaen Schlabach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/3/06, anoop aryal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 April 2006 11:39, Manaen Schlabach wrote: I haven't

Re: What is the dd command ???

2006-05-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:24:00AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] bootable floppy disk with it. This is different than a windows/dos made bootable floppy in that it doesn't have any windows or dos system on it. You use any blank floppy and the rawrite

Re: Offensive e-mail received

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Jon Dowland wrote: At 1146225401 past the epoch, Mike McCarty wrote: Err, I'd rather report it to the ISP of the originator, if it's really truly patently and deliberately offensive. Fair enough, but why copy the list in? It was unintentional to copy the original message back to the

Re: Easiest Safest way to downgrade udev 0.89-1(etch) to 0.56-3(sarge) (including all that depends on it) WAS Re: etch udev not working with bttv capture card nor via82xx sound?

2006-05-03 Thread Carlos Correia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bogart escreveu: | Hello all, again. | | Sorry that I keep posting to my own messages. | | I could deal with no Sound for a month, but I really need them damn video | capture to work. I guess I could try to manually add the device

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: For all you non-USAians: George H. W. Bush made the famous campaign promise: Read my lips: no new taxes! And then went ahead and signed a bill passed by congress raising taxes. Dan Quayle was his VP, and famously misspelled potatoe. Umm, not so. The word was

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-03 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if the neighbourhood thief is breaking into your home, he is more likely to be armed with a gun if he thinks you probably are. No, chances are if the neighborhood thief is already breaking the law by trespassing with the intent to break the law by stealing

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: George H. W. Bush made the famous campaign promise: Read my lips: no new taxes! Dan Quayle was his VP, and famously misspelled potatoe. 1. The spelling card Quayle was holding, given to him by the school authorities putting on the spelling bee,

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Matt Johnson wrote: - Original Message From: Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, 28 April, 2006 9:39:58 PM Read my lips is a metaphor, I do believe. The literal meaning is pay close attention to what I say, so it is certainly a figure of

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Willie Wonka wrote: You mean like Nuclear, as opposed to 'Dubbya's' *Nucular* pronunciation??? I find making fun of a person's particular dialect of a language rather low-brow, don't you? Many people in Texas pronounce the word that way. It doesn't mean that they are unintelligent.

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-05-03 Thread Kent West
Mike McCarty wrote: Kent West wrote: 2. potatoe is an acceptable, albeit archaic, spelling. I'm not so sure about that. It's the way I was taught to spell the word, back in the bad old days. I dunno when they dropped the e on potatoe and tomatoe (they look funny to me without them), but I

Re: daylight savings error on reboot

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
Apologies for a late reply. On 4/28/06, Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe my system clock is set to UTC, and I don't have any other OS operating on the system. If your system clock is set to UTC it should never be changed for daylight

Re: tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:22:48AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: er, having a little trouble here -- xsensors comes up blank! not sure if that means I'm missing the requisite kernel drivers. any way to tell what I need? You probably

Re: What is the dd command ???

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:24:00AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] bootable floppy disk with it. This is different than a windows/dos made bootable floppy in that it doesn't have any windows or dos system on it. You use any blank

dvd-9 -- dvd-5 backup with divx/ without wine

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, My 3-year-old has recently gotten in the habit of smashing his dvd's into our dvd player -- a practice which i am trying to discourage without much luck... In lieu of better parenting, I am trying to back up our dvd's using my dvd-burner. Most of these are dual-layer dvd-9 (8+

Re: dvd-9 -- dvd-5 backup with divx/ without wine

2006-05-03 Thread Wackojacko
Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, My 3-year-old has recently gotten in the habit of smashing his dvd's into our dvd player -- a practice which i am trying to discourage without much luck... In lieu of better parenting, I am trying to back up our dvd's using my dvd-burner. Most of these are

Re: dvd-9 -- dvd-5 backup with divx/ without wine

2006-05-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:14:15PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, My 3-year-old has recently gotten in the habit of smashing his dvd's into our dvd player -- a practice which i am trying to discourage without much luck... In lieu of better parenting, - dvdrip almost always freezes up

Re: [OT] Current Consensus: Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die

2006-05-03 Thread Hodgins Family
Ingredients for a thread that won't die. 2 Dozen Broccoli Growers A heavy dose of green color 1 Social Contract 1 smidgen of how do you address somebody... Politics (to taste) 1 dash of I don't want to be CCd 50 requests to Unsubscribe Stir. Add some light Colour if it still doesn't look

invalid operand smp kernel error

2006-05-03 Thread Lubos Vrbka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 hi guys, today, my smp machine (amd64 dual dualcore opteron) crashed with the following error Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wed May 3 18:44:22 2006 ... localhost kernel: invalid operand: [1] SMP i had 2 crashes today, hoever i didn't

Re: What is the dd command ???

2006-05-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:29:31AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:24:00AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] bootable floppy disk with it. This is different than a windows/dos made bootable floppy in that

Re: invalid operand smp kernel error

2006-05-03 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Lubos Vrbka wrote: thanks for any hints. with best regards, I've seen this once before on an overheating Opteron system. A rethink of the cooling strategy fixed it. -- Martin A. Brooks | http://www.antibodymx.net/ | Anti-spam anti-virus Consultant| [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Merging dirs with (almost) same name

2006-05-03 Thread Jason DeVita
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Magnus Therning wrote: top/sub1/sub2 top/Sub1/sub2 ... Is there some way (other than mounting a case insensitive file system, such as FAT) to merge these directories? I think something like this could work (in bash, anyway), though you'll probably have to do some

Re: dvd-9 -- dvd-5 backup with divx/ without wine

2006-05-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
My 3-year-old has recently gotten in the habit of smashing his dvd's into our dvd player -- a practice which i am trying to discourage without much luck... I sympathize... what solutions do other people use to make a dvd-9 to dvd-5 backup? Try k9copy. It's a nice GUI designed for exactly

Re: View Debian mailing lists in a news reader

2006-05-03 Thread Bill Marcum
I'm pretty sure you can post via news, at least on gmane.org, and am testing it with this very message. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 04:20:08PM -0500, Daniel L. McGrew wrote: Thanks, I appreciate the help, but that didn't work... it's not

Re: getting OOo to use Firefox

2006-05-03 Thread Bill Marcum
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 05:58:42PM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote: As indicated in another thread, I've recently switched to Enlightenment from Gnome due to the keyboard mapping bug (I'm still going to test out a workaround, but I need to get work done in the meantime...) I'm finding out that

Re: [OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die

2006-05-03 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Manaen Schlabach wrote: I haven't been around this list long but here are the ingredients for a thread that won't die. Can anyone think of further needed ingredients? Ingredients 2 Dozen Broccoli Growers A heavy dose of green color 1 Social Contract 1 smidgen of how do you address

Mounting Disk Images

2006-05-03 Thread David Baron
Virtualization may be the wave of the future but communications between the host and the virtual machine are needed: How might I mount qemu (raw) disk images and read and write to such files. I remember having done so once with a file used as /home in a qemu knoppix session. Forgot what I did

Re: getting OOo to use Firefox

2006-05-03 Thread Rick Reynolds
In Firefox preferences, do you have Firefox should check to see if it is the default browser when starting? Yes. This is no longer an issue for me since I've gotten gnome working again, but I'm happy to contribute to this thread with info if others want to get to a better solution.

udev: invalid rule

2006-05-03 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
I look into syslog after the last dist-upgrade (with new hal and pmount) and see this error 3 times: add_to_rules: invalid rule '/etc/udev/rules.d/050_hal-plugdev.rules:5' The 5th line in /etc/udev/rules.d/050_hal-plugdev.rule is SUBSYSTEM==block, ACTION==remove,

Re: What is the dd command ???

2006-05-03 Thread H.S.
Daniel L. McGrew wrote: What is the dd command and how does it work??? I've never heard of it??? It allows you copy, byte by byte, from a device to another device. I usually use it to make images of CDROM disks (data disks, not audio disks). Assuming my cdrom device is /dev/cdrom and I want to

Re: What is the dd command ???

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:29:31AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:24:00AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] No, a sector copy is not a bit-for-bit copy, as sectors do not have to be arranged sequentially on

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Johnson
--- Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Johnson wrote: - Original Message From: Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, 28 April, 2006 9:39:58 PM Read my lips is a metaphor, I do believe. I disagree. To ask someone

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-03 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 May 2006 10:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: And if the neighbourhood thief is breaking into your home, he is more likely to be armed with a gun if he thinks you probably are. Thus do fears create expectations. Actually

Re: invalid operand smp kernel error

2006-05-03 Thread Lubos Vrbka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I've seen this once before on an overheating Opteron system. A rethink of the cooling strategy fixed it. thanks for a hint. this also came to my mind, since the machine was really under constant load (scientific calculation) for very long time

Re: dvd-9 -- dvd-5 backup with divx/ without wine

2006-05-03 Thread steef
Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, My 3-year-old has recently gotten in the habit of smashing his dvd's into our dvd player -- a practice which i am trying to discourage snipsnip is mencoder an option?? see mplayer on 'their' hungarian site in that case steef matt

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-03 Thread John -
Since it seems this thread will never die, enough of CTRL-d, it's time to try to shift it to a better grasp on the issues. May I suggest that the various participants consider two points: I. It is obtuse to generalize about government, just as it is obtuse to generalize about operating systems.

Floppy stuff [was Re: What is the dd command ???]

2006-05-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:34:59PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:29:31AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:24:00AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] No, a sector copy is not a

Re: Reproducing my Etch kernel

2006-05-03 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 07:46:27AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:36:07PM +0100, Anton Piatek wrote: Digby Tarvin wrote: I have searched the web and several books, and all of the instructions say to obtain the kernel with an 'apt-get install kernel-tree',

Re: dvd-9 -- dvd-5 backup with divx/ without wine

2006-05-03 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 May 2006 12:52, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I've had good success with dvdrip, though I use it slightly differently. I'm ripping my dvd's and saving them as .avi's on my file server for easier watching

Re: Debian DVD autostart

2006-05-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mike McCarty: Jochen Schulz wrote: Just by the way: this list is not moderated. Au contraire, mon ami. There are some list admins around here who do moderate. Not too long ago one made some threats about forcible unsubscription. This is not what I would call moderation, but thanks for

Re: [OT] Current Consensus: Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die

2006-05-03 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Wed, 03 May 2006 10:50:44 -0600 Hodgins Family [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingredients for a thread that won't die. 2 Dozen Broccoli Growers A heavy dose of green color 1 Social Contract 1 smidgen of how do you address somebody... Politics (to taste) 1 dash of I don't want to be CCd

Re: Only mono sound when capturing audio thru mencoder.

2006-05-03 Thread Juanjavier
Uupss...forgot to mention...no physical connection, jack or cable issue here Window$ captures full resolution moving pictures with stereo PCM 44.1 khz sound... Any idea? Thanks in advance, Juan Javier Martínez. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Floppy stuff [was Re: What is the dd command ???]

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:34:59PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] Be sure that one of your discs is a 720K disc, and has been degaussed. BTW, if it Just Works on high-mu discs, even when never formatted, then I suspect that it will ruin your 720K disc. So make

Re: Debian DVD autostart

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Jochen Schulz wrote: Mike McCarty: Jochen Schulz wrote: Just by the way: this list is not moderated. Au contraire, mon ami. There are some list admins around here who do moderate. Not too long ago one made some threats about forcible unsubscription. This is not what I would call

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-05-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Matt Johnson wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. After reading your sig, I've used this line a couple of times... Thanks. Made me chuckle. It came to me one day after a particularly frustrating episode involving a notorious time-waster

Re: transcode package for stable?

2006-05-03 Thread John Stumbles
Rob Sims wrote: deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian stable main Didn't the stable/testing/unstable aliases get dumped by Marillat quite some time ago? Replace stable with sarge and retry. I think he's got them symlinked. In any case I get exactly the same error with s/stable/sarge/ in

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-03 Thread Steve Lamb
John - wrote: Despite the political prejudices of a great many participants, Debian may be the world's best instance of socialism in practice. If socialists were smart, they'd learn something from this. Ditto capitalists. Double ditto libertarian hardliners. And just what have you

Re: Floppy stuff [was Re: What is the dd command ???]

2006-05-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:02:10PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:34:59PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] Be sure that one of your discs is a 720K disc, and has been degaussed. BTW, if it Just Works on high-mu discs, even when never

Re: Mounting Disk Images

2006-05-03 Thread Linas Žvirblis
David Baron wrote: I can install downloads by downloading using the images IE but I have these files elsewhere so wish to use directly or copy to the image file. mount -o loop,offset=32256 image.raw /mnt/something The important part is offset=32256 because that is where the first partition

transcode erros [WAS: Re: dvd-9 -- dvd-5 backup with divx/ without wine]

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
Hi Andrew, On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:14:15PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: I've had good success with dvdrip, though I use it slightly differently. I'm ripping my dvd's and saving them as .avi's on my file server for easier watching in myth

Re: Mounting Disk Images

2006-05-03 Thread Christoph Nenning
Am Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2006 19:07 schrieb David Baron: Virtualization may be the wave of the future but communications between the host and the virtual machine are needed: How might I mount qemu (raw) disk images and read and write to such files. I remember having done so once with a file used

Re: udev: invalid rule

2006-05-03 Thread John L Fjellstad
Benjamí Villoslada [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I look into syslog after the last dist-upgrade (with new hal and pmount) and see this error 3 times: add_to_rules: invalid rule '/etc/udev/rules.d/050_hal-plugdev.rules:5' The 5th line in /etc/udev/rules.d/050_hal-plugdev.rule is

Re: Re: Only mono sound when capturing audio thru mencoder.

2006-05-03 Thread Juanjavier Martínez
Yay!! I think it has got something to do with the v4l2 audio output mode: it is set to «Language1» instead of «stereo». Hence the decoded audio output shows 705 kbits/sec and one channel instead of full 1411 kbits/sec and two full channels. Now that I (hopefully) found the problem...how do

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-03 Thread Rich Johnson
On May 2, 2006, at 11:23 PM, Curt Howland wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 22:40, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Portland, Oregon is a great argument against privatization of critical infrastructure. For the longest time, it was the poster child of privatization, with Portland

Re: transcode erros [WAS: Re: dvd-9 -- dvd-5 backup with divx/ without wine]

2006-05-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 04:17:17PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: Hi Andrew, On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:14:15PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: I've had good success with dvdrip, though I use it slightly differently. I'm ripping my dvd's and

Install amd64 using usb / How to load an iso that is in the pendrive?

2006-05-03 Thread Nelson Castillo
Hi. I followed these instructions to create a bootable usb memory that can load the Debian installer. http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/ch04s04.html http://d-i.pascal.at/ I booted the initrd and linux kernel I found here, but they don't have support for pppoe and I got stuck.

Re: Please explain quote and trim...

2006-05-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Rogério Brito wrote: On May 03 2006, Jochen Schulz wrote: Generally this is a good idea, but Outlooks (in it's default settings) doesn't generate the quote signs, so this may be very hard to do with Outlook. And I am not even talking about line lengths... Perhaps this may help:

ipw3945 and general WLAN questions

2006-05-03 Thread Stefan Bellon
I have a IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T60 which needs the ipw3945 driver in order to make WLAN working. I removed all of IEEE802.11 from the kernel sources of the 2.6.16 kernel, installed an up-to-date IEEE802.11 subsystem (version 1.1.12), installed version 1.0.2 of the ipw3945 software from sourceforge

apt-file will not update: bad link to the file list on security.debian.org

2006-05-03 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I am used to using apt-file to look at some information about packages before I install them - specifically the list of what file they provide ( apt-file list ). apt-file has to be updated with apt-file update just like apt-get does. For the last few days I've been trying to update apt-file

Re: Please explain quote and trim...

2006-05-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Roberto C. Sanchez: Rogério Brito wrote: On May 03 2006, Jochen Schulz wrote: Generally this is a good idea, but Outlooks (in it's default settings) doesn't generate the quote signs, so this may be very hard to do with Outlook. And I am not even talking about line lengths... Perhaps this

Re: Install amd64 using usb / How to load an iso that is in the pendrive?

2006-05-03 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 04:04:30PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: Hi. I followed these instructions to create a bootable usb memory that can load the Debian installer. http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/ch04s04.html http://d-i.pascal.at/ All good and well. I booted the initrd

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-03 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 May 2006 16:27, John - [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Despite the political prejudices of a great many participants, Debian may be the world's best instance of socialism in practice. If socialists were smart, they'd learn

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-03 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 May 2006 16:04, Rich Johnson was heard to say: Violent crime rates in MA are lower than in neighboring NY. Which ignores the other four states which border MA, all closer to the core of Mass crime, Boston, all of which have much

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