is not a
native English speaker perhaps he has had the same thing happen.
To prevent it happening again I now use passwords that don't contain
symbols that differ in different keyboard layouts.
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Anthony Campbell wrote:
Earlier today my router showed long periods of flickering, as if data
were coming in or going out. I am the only user. Log files do not show
You might try watching for the next time this happens, and run
tcpdump.
Mike
in the router and also via shorewall.
I have seen this previously on occasion but today was more prlonged.
Does it indicate an automated attack of some kind (which failed,
presumably)?
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gram less than real coins.
You have a scale. How, in one weighing, can you find which
bag has the counterfeit coins?
Mike
Hint: think about swapping some of the coins around.
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Not really what you want to hear, but try Ubuntu live; if it works, at
least you'll know that it's *possible* to get things running in Linux.
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on the machine stopped working but that's
another story ...
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two packages I didn't find on Ubuntu I imported from Debian and
installed them. I have to say my impression of Ubuntu has improved a lot
as a result of direct experience.
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don't have to
log out and in again each time. You can just issue a command, e.g.
export LANG=value at the command line and then do locale to see
the effect. When you have got it right you can put it in .bashrc to make
it permanent.
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have Icedove/Thunderbird set to filter out all mail with
@lists.debian.org to my Debian mailing list folder, and then from there
automatically sort which mailing list it's from.)
mutt?
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nature of documentation available
on the Net. A quick search on Google usually turns up step-by-step
instructions for whatever modifications you want to make and for
problems encountered. Information exists for Debian too, of course, but
it's often harder to find.
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tried Ubuntu and it worked instantly. And, as a bonus, the wireless
connection came up as well, which it refused to do with Debian (Sid).
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and it's running on my desktop and an older Thinkpad, but I'm grateful
to the Ubuntu people for getting me out of a serious difficulty.
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On 05 Feb 2007, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 04:48:00PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Just to round off this saga for anyone who's been following it: I tried
Ubuntu and what do you know: sound works! As an added bonus, so does the
built-in wireless. So I shall have
On 03 Feb 2007, John O'Hagan wrote:
On Saturday 03 February 2007 04:32, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 16:45:39 +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote:
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if booting the newest Knoppix version gives you
sound.
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Just to round off this saga for anyone who's been following it: I tried
Ubuntu and what do you know: sound works! As an added bonus, so does the
built-in wireless. So I shall have to install Ubuntu (well, at least is
is more or less Debian ...)
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but it did work in
the end.
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What now?
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Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 02.02.2007 09:34:50:
I've just acquired a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61M and am still in the process of
setting up Debian on it. It's a beautiful machine, if expensive. Last
time I bought a Thinkpad, about 2
On 02 Feb 2007, Marcus Blumhagen wrote:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:58:42PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
It tells me everything is installed correctly. I ran alsamixer and set
everything to the maximum loudness but still I can hear nothing.
What now?
By default the channels which
On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 13:58:42 +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
My Thinkpad Z61M has no sound (apart from beep).
I've installed Alsa and running alsaconf brought up the right sound
device:
Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family
On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 16:45:39 +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 02 Feb 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 13:58:42 +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
My Thinkpad Z61M has no sound (apart from beep).
I've installed Alsa
On 02 Feb 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I tried with saytime, realplayer, and connecting to the BBC and using
their player.
I was not familiar with speaker-test; I just ran it and it gives pages
and pages of error, so something is wrong!
Sorry: should have given an example:
ithaca
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:15:25PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 31 Jan 2007
On 31 Jan 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
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I failed
On 01 Feb 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Well, it worked this time. I did ntfsresize (from Knoppix); then cfdisk
to resize the disk to 11,000 MB with NTFS file type.
When I rebooted, Windows again failed to start and I got the rescue
stuff. However, instead of giving up and reinstalling Windows
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I'm getting a new Thinkpad Z61M and shall be installing Debian
(naturally!). When I last did this on a Thinkpad a couple of years ago I
just deleted the Windows partition completely, but I have found, *very*
rarely, that I
On 31 Jan 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I failed to resize the Windows partition (Windows XP) with both the
Debian installer disk and qparted. They appeared to work but at the end
the partition was still the same size.
If I delete the partition and then make a new one (HPFS/NTFS with
cfdisk
On 31 Jan 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:15:25PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 31 Jan 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I failed to resize the Windows partition (Windows XP) with both the
Debian installer disk and qparted. They appeared to work
.
If your machine has a FAT or NTFS filesystem, as used by DOS
and Windows, you can wait and use Debian installer's
partitioning program to resize the filesystem.
Won't this destroy all the Windows stuff?
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to the installer program, and
it was happy.
I just install flashplugin-nonfree and it installed the Adobe flash
plugin. The result was I could no longer access the BBC TV sites.
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...snip...
Seems like udev is handling everything now. Use dpkg -P hotplug to
purge, though you might get unexpected results on boot. For instance,
I had to modify my hard drives from hda -- sda
in the past I've
upgraded to the version in Unstable it has not worked. I did once
fiddle with udev but retired defeated.
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If I would try to make the web site what software would you guys recommend
using under Debian to make the web pages and road test them?
Your comments are appreciated.
Why use Debian to provide info on RH? Why not use RH, if you find it so
good?
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that acrobat does and is
probably easier to use. Keyjnote is prettier but slower.
A final thought; look at wajig for managing packages; it integrates dpkg
and apt-get and works better than aptitude for me.
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does.
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and installed my own in /usr/local. It has a
mailing list where the author answers questions helpfully.
See spamprobe.sourceforge.net.
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or other
recalcitrant files using mc. Never known it to fail.
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to icewm in the end.
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don't know if it is firefox or xprint that is causing the problem.
Anyone else seeing this?
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On 05 Oct 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote:
In the last week or so I'm finding that printing some pages (not all) in
Firefox crashes it. Googling shows quite a lot of similar reports and
there is a bug report (#344401) in Debian for the same thing. However,
nearly all these seem to relate to Cups
On 02 Oct 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Anthony Campbell wrote:
I installed the Debian version of a new pdf presentation programme
called keyjnote. It refused to run. I got the original version from
sourceforge and that also failed to run. This is version 0.8.2.
I emailed the author, who
was not required anyway. He posted a new version
(0.8.3) on sourceforge a couple of days ago. This produces a total crash
on my machine (blank screen) and I have to reboot.
It looks as if this programme is best avoided, at least for the present.
Has anyone else tried it?
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 10:53:01AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I installed the Debian version of a new pdf presentation programme
called keyjnote. It refused to run. I got the original version from
sourceforge and that also failed to run
On 02 Oct 2006, Victor Munoz wrote:
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:47:05PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I don't think 3D does work here; at least, googlearth does not. I have a
Matrox G550 using the standard mga driver.
I'll try the program on my IBM Thinkpad, though that does not give
. The same applies if you use the
hostname command.
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Mita FS1010. It has the merit that the drum never needs
replacing in the life of the printer (if it does fail, Kyocera are very
good about replacing it for free). It works well with Linux; it will
work with Cups but I prefer magicfilter.
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wrong.
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I started up my laptop just now (running Debian unstable) and could not
log in either as root or user. I have a separate installation of Debian
on a different partition and I can accaess this normally, so I can mount
the affected partition for repairs
of the
appropriate tool for you.
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On 06 Jul 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I had to burn 20 CDs. All but one of the first 18 went off OK; I put the
single failure down to a faulty disk. But after I'd done 18 they all
started failing. I tried a disk from a different source but the same
they were cheap but I used them previously
without problems. This time I had about 1 in 5 fail. I spent a long time
suspecting software and hardware problems but in the end it came down to
the disks.
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On 06 Jul 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I had to burn 20 CDs. All but one of the first 18 went off OK; I put the
single failure down to a faulty disk. But after I'd done 18 they all
started failing. I tried a disk from a different source but the same
thing happened. I then tried to burn disks
shows other people with a similar error message but no ready
solution. I can't understand why the first 18 disks went off almost
perfectly and then the errors started appearing.
Time for a bug report perhaps?
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accelerators
(development files)
fglrx-kernel-src - Kernel module source for the ATI graphics accelerators
I have these but 3D rendering is still not available.
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are not installed.
It asked for linux-headers-2.6.16-1-686 but only 2.6.16-2-686 is
available. I installed that but it didn't accept it.
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On 23 Jun 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 23 Jun 2006, Liam O'Toole wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:35:45 +0200
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That thread suggests installing fglrx-driver and fglrx-kernel-src and
then building with module-assistant. I tried that but module
the difference might be that he has the
AGPFastWrite option enabled in /etc/X11/xorg.conf but setting this makes
no difference here.
Any ideas about what is needed? Anyone got googleearth running on a
similar machine?
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laptop (Thinkpad) it does run, with various warnings about being
slow and not finding the font it wants, but the resultant picture is
considerably worse than that which I get from going directly to the
site.
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, for a weblog that would do its
formatting with LaTex, rather than proprietary code, parts of HTML, etc.
No such thing I guess.
H
I've found spamkarma 2 (http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/)
to be extremely effective in eliminating spam comments in WP.
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I've made a CD containing data (html and jpg files) which works fine
here but causes problems on Windows machines (surprise surprise!). The
browser (presumably IE) keeps saying Page not found.
I think
drive (see my sig!). I had asked the people
who received the CD to try copying it to their HD but I don't think any
of them did (most had little idea of what to do and just gave up when it
didn't work).
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following a recent apt upgrade but otherwise wajig is
still OK.)
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confirm this? I really DON'T want to have to rename all the files,
especially if that isn't the problem!
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that xdm is something I'm better without. If it fails
to start for any reason it may be impossible to log in at all,
especially if the crtl-alt-F* command doesn't work so that you can't get
to a console. I always disable xdm and use startx.
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Option Xkbdisabletrue
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I hope this may be useful to anyone who has encountered the same
problem.
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On 18 Apr 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 15:40:32 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
After the recent xorg upgrade, with its attendant excitement, I found I
could no longer switch to a virtual console with ctrl-alt-F1. However, I
have got it to work again by adding
I just reinstalled msttcorefonts just after the recent xorg difficulties.
However, they don't seem to show up with xfontsel or in firefox.
Any way to persuade this to work?
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On 17 Apr 2006, Liam O'Toole wrote:
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Anthony Campbell wrote:
I just reinstalled msttcorefonts just after the recent xorg
difficulties. However, they don't seem to show up with xfontsel or
in firefox.
(1) What
On 17 Apr 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote:
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I just reinstalled msttcorefonts just after the recent xorg
difficulties. However, they don't seem to show up
-match 'Times New Roman'
TimesNewRoman-Regular.ttf: Times New Roman Regular
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I just reinstalled msttcorefonts just after the recent xorg difficulties.
However, they don't seem to show up with xfontsel or in firefox.
Any way to persuade this to work?
Anthony
If the fonts
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I can't speak for xorg (especially after the upgrade in sid), but
for firefox and friends it doesn't matter. You need to concentrate
All the vim packages I've tried (vim, vim-gtk, vim-full) don't install a
help file. There does not seem to be any separate package which supplies
this. Is this a bug?
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On 17 Apr 2006, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
On Monday 17 April 2006 10:35, Anthony Campbell wrote:
All the vim packages I've tried (vim, vim-gtk, vim-full) don't install a
help file. There does not seem to be any separate package which supplies
this. Is this a bug?
$apt-cache search vim
that; no help. I think I can add the file from elsewhere but there
seems to be a bug in the vim package.
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On 17 Apr 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 17 Apr 2006, jlmb wrote:
No, I already have all these, including vim-doc, but it does not provide
help.txt which is what vim is looking for.
Anthony
vim-runtime should provide help.txt
Try removing vim-runtime deb from apt's
.
Has anyone any clue about this?
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have to install Stable to get a working X.
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- something about e2fsprogs needing to be removed temporarily.
I'm beginning to think I shall have to go back to stable to get a
working system.
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? I did
it this way and worked for me.
Toshiro.
I found that what was blocking things was that xorg objected to my
$HOME/.xinitrc. Removing this makes X come up but there is no icewm or,
if there is, it doesn't read its $HOME configuration files.
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Having just reinstalled xorg and reconfigured, I now have a working X
but only with twm. How can I get icewm to work again is the really
interesting question.
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On 16 Apr 2006, Andrei Popescu wrote:
Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Having just reinstalled xorg and reconfigured, I now have a working X
but only with twm. How can I get icewm to work again is the really
interesting question.
Anthony
If you use startx, then create
On 16 Apr 2006, David Baron wrote:
On Sunday 16 April 2006 19:07, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 16 Apr 2006, David Baron wrote:
Xorg update on Sid will remove a load of stuff without reinstalling
equivalents. There is also a list of new hardware oriented modules to
come in. What is safe
On 16 Apr 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 16 Apr 2006, Bradley Alexander wrote:
I just did (tried to do) a dist-upgrade on two sid boxes, one my desktop
running the nVidia drivers and the other my laptop, with the ATI fglrx
drivers.
Both upgrades failed miserably.
On the nVidia
After today's upgrade on Sid, X will no longer come up.
The error message says: Fatal server error: could not open default font
fixed.
The x fonts are still there however. Anyone else seeing this?
Anthony
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to purge.
Anthony
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On 15 Apr 2006, James Westby wrote:
On (15/04/06 11:10), Anthony Campbell wrote:
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
From: Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:10:58 +0100
Subject: Today's disaster with xorg update
Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On 15 Apr 2006, Gonzalo HIGUERA D?AZ wrote:
2006--04-15 15:00 +0200, Gonzalo HIGUERA D?AZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2006-04-15 13:56 +0200, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
and to make matters worse something I've done to
try to solve the problem has made matters worse. I'm now
On 15 Apr 2006, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 15 Apr 2006, Gonzalo HIGUERA D?AZ wrote:
2006--04-15 15:00 +0200, Gonzalo HIGUERA D?AZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2006-04-15 13:56 +0200, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
and to make matters worse something I've done to
try to solve
On 15 Apr 2006, Chris wrote:
On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 11:10 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
After today's upgrade on Sid, X will no longer come up.
The error message says: Fatal server error: could not open default font
fixed.
The x fonts are still there however. Anyone else seeing
regular user:
$ mkdir ~/.icons # if it does not exist already
$ cd ~/.icons
$ ln -s /usr/share/icons/whiteglass default
Thanks for this tip; never knew any way to do this.
Anthony
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therefore remade the link to point to /usr/bin/X11/Xorg
and everything worked again.
Question: why was the link remade in this way? Bug in some package, but
which?
Anthony
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On 12 Apr 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote:
Anthony Campbell wrote:
I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and
installed (can't remember them all). During the installation a message
appeared saying that the link /etc/X11/X was being redirected to
/bin/true. No idea why
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