RE: /var/spool/mail ?

2012-09-25 Thread Hadi Motamedi
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 06:52:24 -0400 Subject: Fwd: RE: /var/spool/mail ? From: wolf.hal...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Wolf Halton http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org -- Forwarded message -- From: Wolf Halton

Re: /var/spool/mail ?

2012-09-25 Thread Markus Schönhaber
25.09.2012 11:47, Hadi Motamedi: On my server , the /var/spool/mail/root is getting very big in size. To free up more space, can you please let me know how can I solve the problem ? Thank you Probably the best way to solve the problem is to find out what the *real* problem is. I. e. if

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 03:53:21PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/21/2012 10:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: Stan, just my personal opinion but I think there's no need (and no gain) to say this on the list. We all can think whatever we want -and we can be wrong or right as we don't have all

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 04:54:26PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/21/2012 4:16 PM, Neal Murphy wrote: On Friday, September 21, 2012 04:53:21 PM Stan Hoeppner wrote: It's not writing style but attitude. My attitude is that people should be self reliant. Only when they search and can't

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread John Hasler
lee writes: I've bought something, so I can sell it. I haven't signed any contract whatsoever that says that I can't sell it. That's all there is to it. That is the law here in the USA as well, though Microsoft et al. seem to have convinced some that it isn't. -- John Hasler -- To

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread John Hasler
lee writes: You are talking about some law that involves copies without explaining what a copy is. Under USA copyright law a copy is a tangible object which embodies a work (an intangible). Subject to some limitations, the creation of copies is the exclusive right of the owner of the copyright

Not able to access anything beyond the PPP server.

2012-09-25 Thread sai
Hi All, I'm Sai Krishna. I have a very fundamental problem. I'm trying to establish a connection from a client to LAN using PPP, where my machine is the client. Actually, I was able to ping the PPP server but not able to ping other machines in that network beyond the PPP server. I have done route

Re: pppd shutdown

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
Have you found the problem yet? On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 01:21:33PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: Howdy, I'm on dialup using pppd and loosing the connection often in the middle of fetching mail or loading some URL in the browser. I'm hoping for suggestions to help me debug the problem.

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 09/25/2012 03:25 AM, Weaver wrote: On Mon, September 24, 2012 10:33 pm, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 02:15:23PM -0700, Weaver wrote: On Mon, September 17, 2012 8:11 am, Chris Bannister wrote: Patches are still being accepted against d-i, but hurry. Done! Ummm,

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 09/25/2012 02:56 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 06:33:02PM +0200, lee wrote: They even have begun to use different keys to get into the BIOS quite some time ago. Really? Have you got a source for that allegation?

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:28:58 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:52:38 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: [shrugs] I don't know about that and I don't care. If someone would buy it, it's not up to me what they do with

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:18:25 -0500 John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: lee writes: I've bought something, so I can sell it. I haven't signed any contract whatsoever that says that I can't sell it. That's all there is to it. That is the law here in the USA as well, though Microsoft

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:52:10 -0400 Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 02:22:11PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: I've used it many times to watch / download media that I couldn't access any other way.

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:11:22 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:22:28 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote:

Re: Decompressing .m4a .

2012-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 04:14:00PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. I can not decompress .m4a files w/ mplayer2: /usr/bin/mplayer2 -nolirc -vo null -vc dummy -cache 32768 -cache-min 99 -ao pcm:waveheader:file=./1.wav ./01\ Waiting.m4a [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:41:04 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:24:22 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: You do not cite any sources for your various assertions, and I believe you

Re: Decompressing .m4a .

2012-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:14:00 +0700 Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Good time of the day. I can not decompress .m4a files w/ mplayer2: /usr/bin/mplayer2 -nolirc -vo null -vc dummy -cache 32768 -cache-min 99 -ao pcm:waveheader:file=./1.wav ./01\ Waiting.m4a

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 09/23/2012 12:42 PM, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:57:35 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 20 sep 12, 06:31:52, lee wrote: Why not? I haven't signed any agreement with them. You agreed to the EULA on install or first boot, same thing. Additionally,

Re: command line interface tool question

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 07:13:10AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: What command line interface tool or tools does Linux have available to snag a graphical image of what's on the screen and save that image in a file? If you're running lynx and you come up on a website with a captcha on a form

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread John Hasler
The Wanderer writes: The only potential angle I can see is the fact that, in the case of software, you actually do have to copy it (at least into RAM) to be able to use it. I personally think that that's a flaw in the design of copyright law USA copyright law explicitly grants that right.

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

2012-09-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 10:01:51AM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: Greetings, I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. I have found a LOC search form that will allow me to input the ISBN, and it will return the

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

2012-09-25 Thread craig
Have a look at: http://search.cpan.org/dist/WWW-Mechanize/ Have a read of: http://www.perl.com/pub/2003/01/22/mechanize.html Do a google search on perl www::mechanize Thanks for the reply (and to the other kind folks that took time to reply). I will have to put this quest off until

Re: Decompressing .m4a .

2012-09-25 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 04:14:00PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. I can not decompress .m4a files w/ mplayer2: Can you play it back with anything else? m4a implies an iTunes-style AAC-encoded file. VLC should be able to decode it, plus anything linking to libfaad, such as

Re: Fwd: RE: /var/spool/mail ?

2012-09-25 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 06:52:24AM -0400, Wolf Halton wrote: # echo /var/spool/mail/root will replace the content of the file with an empty string The smiley of death is better: # : /var/spool/mail/root -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 09/25/2012 10:14 AM, John Hasler wrote: The Wanderer writes: The only potential angle I can see is the fact that, in the case of software, you actually do have to copy it (at least into RAM) to be able to use it. I personally think that that's a flaw in the design of copyright law USA

Re: Fwd: RE: /var/spool/mail ?

2012-09-25 Thread Wolf Halton
I like the smiley of death! Wolf Halton http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On Sep 25, 2012 10:35 AM, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 06:52:24AM -0400, Wolf Halton wrote: # echo /var/spool/mail/root will replace the content of the

Re: Decompressing .m4a .

2012-09-25 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Rob. Thank You for Your time and answer. You wrote: It could be that the file is corrupted. Or it could be some whacky new codec. I don't think it's required, but just in case you might want to make sure w32codecs is installed. No. In this case it was not the case.

Re: Decompressing .m4a .

2012-09-25 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day, Celejar. Thank You for Your time and answer. You wrote: As noted ad infinitum on this list, mixing and matching A/V stuff from the official repos and dmo can cause just these sorts of headaches. Are you doing that? Does playback work using official Debian packages? You

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:48:47 -0400 The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 09/23/2012 12:42 PM, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:57:35 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 20 sep 12, 06:31:52, lee wrote: Why not? I haven't signed any agreement with

Re: Re: privoxy kinda slowish

2012-09-25 Thread Lou
Thank you both Sthu and John for your replies. Can you tell me what version of privoxy you both are using in debian/squeeze? There is the repository version (3.0.16), and then there is the deb you can download from the privoxy sourceforge website (3.0.19). None of them load sites reasonable

Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-25 Thread Conrad Nelson
Hello everyone! I have a conundrum for you. Today I had rebooted into Windows to take care of something and when I booted right back into debian, my sound became very very very quiet. To confirm my hardware wasn't on the fritz, I rebooted back into Windows to be greeted with normal volume.

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 25, 2012 6:02 am, The Wanderer wrote: On 09/25/2012 03:25 AM, Weaver wrote: On Mon, September 24, 2012 10:33 pm, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 02:15:23PM -0700, Weaver wrote: On Mon, September 17, 2012 8:11 am, Chris Bannister wrote: Patches are still

Re: Looking for an emacs replacement

2012-09-25 Thread Roman V.Leon.
Hi, Subject: My app-defaults won't work for emacs any more Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 01:25:20 + (UTC) I haven't updated my emacs for quite a while and today when I update it, I notice that the new emacs is not following my app-defaults settings, which has been working for quite a long time.

Slow boot when network up

2012-09-25 Thread Marek Pawinski
Hi, I have noticed recently when my DSL router is on and connected and i power on my machine, it's gets to the part (after i hit enter on my kernel of choice) where a message appears loading please wait and this goes on for a few minutes. However if my router is powered down Debian

monstermarketplace malware for linux?

2012-09-25 Thread Edward C. Jones
I use up-to-date Debian testing (wheezy), amd64 architecture. When I do a Google search, I sometimes get a window asking if I want to do a search at monstermarketplace.com. For Windows, there is a piece of malware with this name. Does this malware now exist for linux systems? If so, how do

Re: Looking for an emacs replacement

2012-09-25 Thread Jon Dowland
Are you using GNU emacs? Then how about Xemacs (formely Lucid emacs)? or vice-versa. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120925191858.GA26155@debian

Re: Looking for an emacs replacement

2012-09-25 Thread Dan Hitt
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: Are you using GNU emacs? Then how about Xemacs (formely Lucid emacs)? Actually, i guess somebody should bring up SXemacs. This variant has lots of goodies in it (e.g., quaternion support and lots of other stuff you wouldn't

Checksum for iso image netinst i386

2012-09-25 Thread Wally Lepore
Hi Members I just downloaded the netinst (stable) release of Debian for i386 architecture. The file will fit on one CD as it is only 180MB. Before I burn the iso image to a CD, I'd like to verify that it was downloaded without errors. Can anyone point the way to the checksum number? source:

Re: Checksum for iso image netinst i386

2012-09-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:30:45 +0200, Wally Lepore wallylep...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Members I just downloaded the netinst (stable) release of Debian for i386 architecture. The file will fit on one CD as it is only 180MB. Before I burn the iso image to a CD, I'd like to verify that it was

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sep 25, 2012 12:18 PM, Conrad Nelson y...@marupa.net wrote: Any ideas on why ALSA is suddenly outputting my sound so very quietly despite my volume levels being all the way up? Annoyingly, this has always been a problem for me with a Thinkpad T400. I'd be interested in a fix, too.

Re: icedove and IceOwl: ICS attachment

2012-09-25 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 02:29:21PM -0400, Worrier Poet wrote: On 09/24/2012 01:56 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 02:30:00PM +, Camale�n wrote: snip... P.S. Consider a replacement for IceOwl (Sunbird) because AFAICT is not being

Re: Slow boot when network up

2012-09-25 Thread hvw59601
Marek Pawinski wrote: Hi, I have noticed recently when my DSL router is on and connected and i power on my machine, it's gets to the part (after i hit enter on my kernel of choice) where a message appears loading please wait and this goes on for a few minutes. However if my router

Re: Slow boot when network up

2012-09-25 Thread Marek Pawinski
On 26/09/2012 01:33, hvw59601 wrote: Marek Pawinski wrote: Hi, I have noticed recently when my DSL router is on and connected and i power on my machine, it's gets to the part (after i hit enter on my kernel of choice) where a message appears loading please wait and this goes on for

Re: Slow boot when network up

2012-09-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/25/2012 1:33 PM, Marek Pawinski wrote: Hi, I have noticed recently when my DSL router is on and connected and i power on my machine, it's gets to the part (after i hit enter on my kernel of choice) where a message appears loading please wait and this goes on for a few minutes.

Re: Slow boot when network up

2012-09-25 Thread Marek Pawinski
On 26/09/2012 03:23, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/25/2012 1:33 PM, Marek Pawinski wrote: Hi, I have noticed recently when my DSL router is on and connected and i power on my machine, it's gets to the part (after i hit enter on my kernel of choice) where a message appears loading please

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-25 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/25/2012 04:21 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sep 25, 2012 12:18 PM, Conrad Nelson y...@marupa.net mailto:y...@marupa.net wrote: Any ideas on why ALSA is suddenly outputting my sound so very quietly despite my volume levels being all the way up? Annoyingly, this has always been a

Re: Installation

2012-09-25 Thread lee
Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: In this context, any problem with the definition of copy is irrelevant; you cannot legally (under US law) transfer *any* version of the software, original or copy, to anyone else without the copyright holder's permission, as you have not purchased the

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-25 Thread lee
Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: http://www.iba.org.il/gimmel/?entity=869508type=269page=248 Clicking the little red headphone-with-emanating-sound-waves brings up this message: You must install the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin. Click here to download and install the plugin. Or

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