Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Timothy Legg put forth on 2/13/2010 10:27 PM: >> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Chris Jones wrote: >>> ...and might be able to >>> comment on the respective merits of air compressors vs. air cans..? >>> >>> CJ >> >> in a recent point and shoot camera surgery i regret using compressed >> air cans

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Chris Jones put forth on 2/13/2010 8:30 PM: > Just paid c. $10.00 for a DYNEX Compressed Gas Duster, IOW a 10 oz. can > of compressed air from my local Best Buy. > > Not so much the money per se, but each time I buy one of those, I get > this nagging feeling that I've had been had. That's becaus

Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

2010-02-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:42:42PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/13/2010 6:39 AM: > > > I've already tried this one. That works on virtual machine in amd64 but > > not on the HP Server. It's the first thing I've done ;) smart arrays don't turn up as /dev/sda from m

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-13 Thread Timothy Legg
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Chris Jones wrote: >>...and might be able to >> comment on the respective merits of air compressors vs. air cans..? >> >> CJ > > in a recent point and shoot camera surgery i regret using compressed > air cans. after a certain * of rotation the can might expel hig

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-13 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Chris Jones wrote: >...and might be able to > comment on the respective merits of air compressors vs. air cans..? > > CJ in a recent point and shoot camera surgery i regret using compressed air cans. after a certain * of rotation the can might expel high velocity

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-13 Thread John Hasler
Air from most compressors (other than those for filling diving tanks) tends to be wet and oily. If you use a lot it might be cost-effective to get a tank of compressed nitrogen from your local welding supply store. You'll need a regulator. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Sam, On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:25:35PM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: > On Fri, February 12, 2010 23:41, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > >> > The most likely cause is a problem with the video driver's kernel > >> > modules. Assuming that you indicate that the X login screen doesn't > >> > appear and that

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-13 Thread Sam Leon
Chris Jones wrote: Just paid c. $10.00 for a DYNEX Compressed Gas Duster, IOW a 10 oz. can of compressed air from my local Best Buy. Not so much the money per se, but each time I buy one of those, I get this nagging feeling that I've had been had. Has anyone with real world experience in the

Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

2010-02-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/13/2010 6:39 AM: > I've already tried this one. That works on virtual machine in amd64 but > not on the HP Server. It's the first thing I've done ;) Have you tried contacting HP support? IIRC, they support Debian. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

2010-02-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/13/2010 6:24 AM: > This method works on a virtual machine without problems. But when I try I'm not at all familiar with preseed. What I can tell you is that VM guests typically deal with abstracted phantom hardware because the virtual machine itself is a phantom.

Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-13 Thread Chris Jones
Just paid c. $10.00 for a DYNEX Compressed Gas Duster, IOW a 10 oz. can of compressed air from my local Best Buy. Not so much the money per se, but each time I buy one of those, I get this nagging feeling that I've had been had. Has anyone with real world experience in the area of computer clean

Re: Debian installation on laptop with damaged screen

2010-02-13 Thread Odd
Chris Davies wrote: Odd wrote: Partially success. I booted the Debian Live CD, and could see everything, until the text mode booting was over, and Debian logo came up. Then it changed back to the laptop screen, and remained there. Fn+F4 did not work anymore. What about using the text installe

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-13 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, February 12, 2010 23:41, Kumar Appaiah wrote: >> > The most likely cause is a problem with the video driver's kernel >> > modules. Assuming that you indicate that the X login screen doesn't >> > appear and that the computer does try to indeed start X, could you >> > please check if there is

OT: automake --add-missing

2010-02-13 Thread T o n g
Hi, >From automake doc: ,- | The '--add-missing' argument copies some boilerplate files from | your Automake installation into the current directory and the | '--copy' argument copies files instead of linking to them. `- However, why I can't make it work: rm ./NEWS ./README ./AUTHORS .

Re: not working my DVDROM

2010-02-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:17:02 -0500 (EST), Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 02/13/2010 05:46 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Second, the contents of /etc/fstab are intended to be for permanent >> file systems that are always there. Since a DVDROM drive uses >> removable media, you wouldn't want to mou

Re: not working my DVDROM

2010-02-13 Thread mtp5150
Germana Oliveira wrote: HI!! (me again) i just realize that my DVDROM does not work.. /etc/fstab: # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda6 /home ext3d

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:01:58AM -0430, Germana Oliveira wrote: > Rob: Sorry not to trust you!! > > I already read a little bit of Debian Live, so should i follow : > http://live.debian.net/manual/html/ch02s03.html > > so i can install Debian Live in a HDD, or maybe i go for the USB ... > How m

Re: not working my DVDROM

2010-02-13 Thread mtp5150
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 02/13/2010 05:46 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: Second, the contents of /etc/fstab are intended to be for permanent file systems that are always there. Since a DVDROM drive uses removable media, you wouldn't want to mount it at boot time in /etc/fstab. That's why

Re: not working my DVDROM

2010-02-13 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 02/13/2010 05:46 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: Second, the contents of /etc/fstab are intended to be for permanent file systems that are always there. Since a DVDROM drive uses removable media, you wouldn't want to mount it at boot time in /etc/fstab. That's why he has noauto there, so that

Re: not working my DVDROM

2010-02-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:33:41 -0500 (EST), Germana Oliveira wrote: > > HI!! (me again) > > i just realize that my DVDROM does not work.. > > /etc/fstab: > > # > proc/proc procdefaults0 0 > /dev/hda1 / ext3defaults,err

Re: suspend/resume on IBM ThinkPad 600 running Lenny using APM (not ACPI)

2010-02-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:53:19 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote: > > There is a FAQ about that in ThinkWiki, but almost sure you already saw > it :-) > > How to make APM work > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_make_APM_work > > My suggestion? Just test suspension/hibernation with the steps provide

Re: Debian installation on laptop with damaged screen

2010-02-13 Thread Chris Davies
Odd wrote: > Partially success. I booted the Debian Live CD, and could > see everything, until the text mode booting was over, and > Debian logo came up. Then it changed back to the laptop > screen, and remained there. Fn+F4 did not work anymore. What about using the text installer (or has that o

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-13 Thread Mark Allums
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:44:59AM EST, Germana Oliveira wrote: Well, no, what i really want is a portable Debian, so i can, for example, build a web app and show it everywhere without need a web server and just have my own configuration and run it every where Some "live" distributions ha

not working my DVDROM

2010-02-13 Thread Germana Oliveira
HI!! (me again) i just realize that my DVDROM does not work.. /etc/fstab: # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda6 /home ext3defaults0 2 /

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:27:39AM EST, Germana Oliveira wrote: > I have problems with that: The attachment only contains personal notes and is not to be taken as a formal HowTo or anything of that type. It was meant to answer your question: 'is it possible' and hopefully provide general direction

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-13 Thread Germana Oliveira
I have problems with that: "Well, I guess that since my pcmcia nic won't be there on the target system(s), I should remove the corresponding udev rule for instance. " So, what i understand is that i have to remove this rule in my 'external Debian' ? and something i dont understand is the UUID s

Re: suspend/resume on IBM ThinkPad 600 running Lenny using APM (not ACPI)

2010-02-13 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:53:28 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: (...) > Just > keep in mind that it is part of the problem definition that I *must* run > APM and I *cannot* run ACPI. What should I do? Where should I look? > Any suggestions? There is a FAQ about that in ThinkWiki, but almost sure yo

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:44:59AM EST, Germana Oliveira wrote: > Well, no, what i really want is a portable Debian, so i can, for > example, build a web app and show it everywhere without need a web > server and just have my own configuration and run it every where Is this what you are talki

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 06:32:13AM EST, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 17:12:54 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > What I vaguely had in mind is that you select a given string or > > paragraph, and you have an option called "Properties" maybe, that > > tells you everything about

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-13 Thread Germana Oliveira
Rob: Sorry not to trust you!! I already read a little bit of Debian Live, so should i follow : http://live.debian.net/manual/html/ch02s03.html so i can install Debian Live in a HDD, or maybe i go for the USB ... How many space do i need to have a standard Debian + Apache + mysql and a web app fra

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 09:14:59AM -0430, Germana Oliveira wrote: > Well, no, what i really want is a portable Debian, so i can, for > example, build a web app and show it everywhere without need a web > server and just have my own configuration and run it every where > Debian Live offers a "p

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 12/02/10 04:20, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Tony van der Hoff put forth on 2/11/2010 11:53 AM: > Thanks for your help, everyone. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-13 Thread Germana Oliveira
Well, no, what i really want is a portable Debian, so i can, for example, build a web app and show it everywhere without need a web server and just have my own configuration and run it every where El mié, 10-02-2010 a las 20:34 -0500, Rob Owens escribió: > I think you want Debian Live. http

Re: Debian installation on laptop with damaged screen

2010-02-13 Thread Odd
Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:46:41 -0500 (EST), Odd wrote: Partially success. I booted the Debian Live CD, and could see everything, until the text mode booting was over, and Debian logo came up. Then it changed back to the laptop screen, and remained there. Fn+F4 did not work an

Re: Debian installation on laptop with damaged screen

2010-02-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:46:41 -0500 (EST), Odd wrote: > > Partially success. I booted the Debian Live CD, and could > see everything, until the text mode booting was over, and > Debian logo came up. Then it changed back to the laptop > screen, and remained there. Fn+F4 did not work anymore. > > I

Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

2010-02-13 Thread Emmanuel Chantry
Le 13/02/2010 13:36, Michael Mohn a écrit : Am 13.02.2010 um 13:24:26 schrieb Emmanuel Chantry: Le 12/02/2010 23:25, Michael Mohn a écrit : Am 12.02.2010 um 23:16:14 schrieb Emmanuel Chantry: Le 12/02/2010 22:30, Stan Hoeppner a écrit : Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/12/2010 12:32 PM:

Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

2010-02-13 Thread Michael Mohn
Am 13.02.2010 um 13:24:26 schrieb Emmanuel Chantry: > Le 12/02/2010 23:25, Michael Mohn a écrit : >> Am 12.02.2010 um 23:16:14 schrieb Emmanuel Chantry: >> >> >>> Le 12/02/2010 22:30, Stan Hoeppner a écrit : >>> Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/12/2010 12:32 PM: >>>

Re: Alt+F7 fails to switch to graphical console (X server) from a text console under some conditions

2010-02-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 20:32:44 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: [...] > I was able to reproduce the symptoms that you describe above when I first > arrived home. I verified that the X server was running on vt 7, then > did a logout. The login screen started on vt 8. From then on, no matter > wha

Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

2010-02-13 Thread Emmanuel Chantry
Le 12/02/2010 23:25, Michael Mohn a écrit : Am 12.02.2010 um 23:16:14 schrieb Emmanuel Chantry: Le 12/02/2010 22:30, Stan Hoeppner a écrit : Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/12/2010 12:32 PM: Hi, I've tried to install a Debian Lenny on HP DL360 G6 server. I have a RAID 5 s

Re: font substitution by acroread

2010-02-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 17:12:54 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:09:22PM EST, Camaleón wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:44:55 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:13:42PM EST, Camaleón wrote: > > >> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:58:39 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:

RE: Wireless networking stopped working

2010-02-13 Thread Ogya Chief
> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:05:03 -0700 > From: waterho...@ultrasw.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Wireless networking stopped working > > Ogya Chief wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am running sid on a laptop computer and I had wireless networking > > working. I run tasksel

Re: error python-axiom

2010-02-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:34:32 +1030, Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: [...] > s...@jill:~$ sudo apt-get install -f [...] > Setting up python-axiom (0.6.0-1) ... > pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: Not overwriting local files: >dpkg: > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/axiom/benchmarks/benchmark

Re: avi to dvd

2010-02-13 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Bogdan wrote: > Hey, > > Can someone point me to a decent GUI  [i don't want to go through the > command line for this] avi to dvd converter? I've Googled a little and found > some references for DeVeDe and ManDVD, but i'm not able to make a documented > decision.

Re: Debian installation on laptop with damaged screen

2010-02-13 Thread Odd
Klistvud wrote: Dne, 13. 02. 2010 10:46:41 je Odd napisal(a): I suppose there's a way to change the display output from Bash. Anybody know how? My googling has come up short. Don't know about that, but here's what I do: -- check out thoroughly any display-related BIOS settings Nothing there

Re: Wireless networking stopped working

2010-02-13 Thread Paul Scott
Ogya Chief wrote: Hi All, I am running sid on a laptop computer and I had wireless networking working. I run tasksel afterwards and a number of things went wrong including wireless networking. I managed to fix things like printing with cups but wireless networking still does not work. I keep

Re: exclude packages from updating: apt vs yum

2010-02-13 Thread Huub
> Yes it is possible for dpkg, apt and aptitude. The description is in > the Debian FAQ: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-puttingonhold > > HTH > -- David Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Debian installation on laptop with damaged screen

2010-02-13 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 13. 02. 2010 10:46:41 je Odd napisal(a): I suppose there's a way to change the display output from Bash. Anybody know how? My googling has come up short. Don't know about that, but here's what I do: -- check out thoroughly any display-related BIOS settings -- connect the external display

Re: Debian installation on laptop with damaged screen

2010-02-13 Thread Odd
Partially success. I booted the Debian Live CD, and could see everything, until the text mode booting was over, and Debian logo came up. Then it changed back to the laptop screen, and remained there. Fn+F4 did not work anymore. I assume there's an option for changing output under preferences, but

Fwd: gfax issues squeeze i386

2010-02-13 Thread Francesco Pietra
Following mkdir /var/spool/gfax/francesco command "gfax" as user francesco opens the fax window for an instant only, such as for a segmentaion fault. Nothing on the console from which the command "gfax" was issued. francesco -- Forwarded message -- From: Francesco Pietra Date:

Re: network-manager not connecting automatically anymore

2010-02-13 Thread Felix H. Dahlke
Tixy writes: > This could be the problem I reported in bug 568784¹ which was fixed the > next day with the release of version 0.7.999-3 to Unstable. > > -- > Tixy > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568784 That's apparently exactly the problem I'm experiencing, using "auto

Re: exclude packages from updating: apt vs yum

2010-02-13 Thread David Maus
At Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:18:27 + (UTC), Huub wrote: > > Hi, > > On RedHat/Fedora, I can exclude packages from being updated like this: > "yum --exclude -y upgrade". > Can someone please tell me (or provide a link to it) if this is also > possible with apt-get. Reading the apt-get manpage, I didn

Re: exclude packages from updating: apt vs yum

2010-02-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 13 February 2010 09:18:27 Huub wrote: > Hi, > > On RedHat/Fedora, I can exclude packages from being updated like this: > "yum --exclude -y upgrade". > Can someone please tell me (or provide a link to it) if this is also > possible with apt-get. Reading the apt-get manpage, I didn't fi

exclude packages from updating: apt vs yum

2010-02-13 Thread Huub
Hi, On RedHat/Fedora, I can exclude packages from being updated like this: "yum --exclude -y upgrade". Can someone please tell me (or provide a link to it) if this is also possible with apt-get. Reading the apt-get manpage, I didn't find an equality. Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

gfax issues squeeze i386

2010-02-13 Thread Francesco Pietra
Installed gfax on Debian Linux i386 squeeze. Also installed: libc-bin libc-dev-bin libpaper-utils. Also upgraded: libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686 libmono-corlib2.0-cil libmono-security2.0-cil libmono-system2.0-cil locales mono-2.0-gac mono-gac mono-runtime. It fails to work. As user: france...@deb32:~$