Re: Encoder for linux

2011-09-15 Thread Carl Fink
has only a limited number of codec choices. Some possible candidates not already suggested:- Arista, and Nautilus-Arista (Gnome) Winff (any DE) None of which would have occurred to me. How about ffmpeg and mencoder? -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my

Re: Boost sound volume?

2011-08-10 Thread Carl Fink
than 100%. (Yes, I know that's stupid.) Unfortunately the system will forget this setting if you ever lower the volume. You can run gnome-volume-control by right-clicking the volume applet and choosing Sound Preferences or from the command line. -- Carl Fink nitpick

network-manager to share connection

2011-07-30 Thread Carl Fink
this should be dead simple to set up (that's the point) and any problems should be explained to the user in clear error messages. Using Testing, updated this morning. Thanks for any help. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-07-17 Thread Carl Fink
right that this is reused--it's an ACER netbook rebranded, I believe. I'll see if Kizwan has anything. Thanks again for all the effort you've put into this, Scott. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: is there no sane, minimal, graphical RSS feed reader in existance?

2011-07-15 Thread Carl Fink
I missed the beginning of this thread and apologize in advance if this is redundant or doesn't answer the OP's question, but the Newsfox addon for Firefox is OK. Not perfect but quite usable. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com

Re: What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-09 Thread Carl Fink
or in the same way as a laptop or netbook. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-07-03 Thread Carl Fink
. There are no updates available for my BIOS. Thanks for that Do you have a /var/log/wpa_action.log?? If so please post No such file. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-07-01 Thread Carl Fink
? None at all. Thanks. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-30 Thread Carl Fink
as your wireless? Network controller: Atheros Communications INC. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) *do you have a /var/run/wpa_supplicant??* No. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-26 Thread Carl Fink
/gdm3 stop from a VT, then press Alt-F7, I can't ever enter any more text, ever. The visual for VT1 continues to display, but nothing I do on the keyboard except Ctrl-Alt-Del has any effect. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-26 Thread Carl Fink
service, and rmmod your wifi driver even). Then you'll know whether it's a factor or no. As you'll see if you look upthread, this has been tried repeatedly. WiFi pretty clearly is not a factor. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-25 Thread Carl Fink
.wpa_supplicant1 receive_type=signal/ /policy What do you use to handle wpa_supplicant's networks?? (eg. wicd, NetworkManager) I use nm-applet. Thanks again. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-20 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:53:23AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 19 iun 11, 14:27:34, Carl Fink wrote: Additional info: apparently it's not actually suspending. The fan stays on and the power button won't trigger a resume (nor will anything else). However, the CPU may be shut down

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-20 Thread Carl Fink
the programmer intended. I'm using it to mean not what the end-user expects or wants. Not to be argumentative but I'm correct and you're wrong. :-) Sounds right. Only way to break out it to hold down the power button - or pull the battery (and ps)?. Correct. -- Carl Fink

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-19 Thread Carl Fink
suspending. The fan stays on and the power button won't trigger a resume (nor will anything else). However, the CPU may be shut down, since the fan starts to blow cold exhaust, something that never happens while an OS is running, even if there is almost no load. -- Carl Fink

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 02:27:57PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 17/06/11 23:33, Carl Fink wrote: That's essentially what I did send you. Aaah - the Sun May 8 13:51:57 UTC 2011 caused me to jump to the conclusion it was an old, possible irrelevant log. No matter. No, it's just

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-17 Thread Carl Fink
is the value of:- cat /sys/power/image_size ?? root@cf-gw:/home/carlf# cat /sys/power/image_size 732598272 Thanks again. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Re: Hibernate fails

2011-06-16 Thread Carl Fink
XHacksSuspendHook2 ... hibernate: [98] Executing CheckRunlevel ... hibernate: [99] Executing DoSysfsPowerStateSuspend ... hibernate: Activating sysfs power state disk ... Thanks for taking the time. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog

Hibernate fails

2011-06-15 Thread Carl Fink
normally--but I wanted to hibernate. Any suggestions? File a bug? -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread Carl Fink
, but with the W3C since you're suggesting changing an international standard. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com -- 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

Re: Re (5): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread Carl Fink
be broken behavior, and if your mysterious Oberon is doing that it's broken. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-22 Thread Carl Fink
wondering if it's X or the entire system that is pausing. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Poll Summary Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-17 Thread Carl Fink
everyone on the list is a programmer? 49, arguably anywhere from 5-15 years, 14. The middle term depends on how you define Programming. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can

Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-03 Thread Carl Fink
BlackBerry Bold 9700. I once wrote an article on using BlackBerries with Linux for Linux Journal. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Icewm GNOME and KDE menus empty

2011-03-04 Thread Carl Fink
The GNOME and KDE menus in Icewm on my system have no elements. Odd, since I have GNOME installed. (Icewm is way better for a netbook, so I'd rather use it.) GNOME itself works fine. Testing x86 system, 64 bit. I thought I'd ask here before filing a bug. Thanks for any help. Carl Fink Sent

Re: Icewm GNOME and KDE menus empty

2011-03-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 01:40:52AM +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:41:15PM +, Carl Fink wrote: Iam not sure about this,but please install the packages named menu and icewm-gnome-support. Hope something happens... Both already installed. apt-get install menu icewm

Re: Why is Evolution and Epiphany now a part of gnome-core?

2011-01-17 Thread Carl Fink
? Well, in my case, I switch to different FOSS. So ... I guess I move to something other than Debian. Oh well. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 08:03:44AM +, Camale?n wrote: I have to stick with Icedove because is one of the two MUAs I know that can handle html e-mails in Linux. The second is Evolution, but I think is even slower than Icedove. Mutt works great. -- Carl Fink

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Carl Fink
to the FF 4 betas. They've also been working on speed increases. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com -- 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

Re: Where has my Windows partition gone?

2010-11-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:11:03PM +, John O Laoi wrote: Any other ideas Try mounting /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3 and see if they're still working right. If not, you might need to fsck them (ideally from a Windows install disk, which would call the function chkdsk). -- Carl Fink

Updated Squeeze, X won't start

2009-04-12 Thread Carl Fink
? Thanks. -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be. -Bruce Tognazzini -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-04 Thread Carl Fink
CentOS didn't exist when I started using Debian, and I'm used to it now. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: avi to swf format conversion in Etch?

2009-02-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 05:09:54AM -0800, Dancing Fingers wrote: Hi guys, My ultimate goal is to convert an .avi to a .swf video file. ffmpeg does't support the swf format ... Yes, it does. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com

Audio on Lenny becomes chirps, then loses human voices?

2009-02-03 Thread Carl Fink
with mplayer, xine, totem, or vlc. And audio tracks played with audacious have audible music, but only the barest trace of any spoken words? What on earth could CAUSE that? Well, I'm off to reboot. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog

Re: Audio on Lenny becomes chirps, then loses human voices?

2009-02-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:01:15PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: So on my Lenny system, I was playing a couple movies using xine-ui. And in mid-video, the sound track was replaced by little irritating chirps. Stopping xine and restarting doesn't help. Even a video that was just playing right

Possibly OT: Linux chat/desktop share client compatible with Windows NetMeeting?

2009-01-23 Thread Carl Fink
good at imitating Microsoft's Remote Desktop and samba does SMB *better* than MS operating systems, anything is possible. So: any suggestions? Thanks. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-06 Thread Carl Fink
to its next release, too? Anyway, IIRC someone posted to this list last year that a great number of Ubuntu developers are also the Debian developer for the same package. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-01 Thread Carl Fink
cards in Dell Inspiron E1505 are defective. That isn't a video card error, it's a driver problem (or it would happen under Linux). See if there's a newer, better driver for your chipset. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com

Re: Online video won't be downloaded

2008-12-31 Thread Carl Fink
. Streamed video is NOT downloaded and stored as a file anywhere. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-31 Thread Carl Fink
is not usable on my particular laptop, but the Ubuntu installer works great. Even if you intend to install Debian, the Ubuntu LiveCD (which does use gparted) can handle your partitioning needs. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews

Re: Partioning Vista equipped laptop.

2008-12-30 Thread Carl Fink
on this box, if anyone is interested. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Totem - satanta BB

2008-12-21 Thread Carl Fink
it works. For instance, does it require a special client or run in a browser? This may be useful to you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes

Re: Totem - satanta BB

2008-12-21 Thread Carl Fink
, and more useful information, the next time you ask a question. -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: mplayer playing HD files.

2008-11-20 Thread Carl Fink
combined (audio + video) bitrate using ffmpeg or mencoder, it played fine. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my article in the current (December) Linux Journal! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: mplayer playing HD files.

2008-11-20 Thread Carl Fink
Note: top-posting fixed. Please don't do that. On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 04:20:37PM +, x03 wrote: Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 02:38:01PM +, x03 wrote: I'm trying play a .mkv file (hd dvd file), but the sound is not synced with the image. In my experience

Re: virtualbox error

2008-11-11 Thread Carl Fink
?? Instead of just installing the debs, use the brilliant module-assistant to compile the needed modules, as explained here: http://debaday.debian.net/2007/12/05/virtualbox-a-virtual-pc-for-you/ -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews

Re: security question

2008-10-18 Thread Carl Fink
you need to bank. That's what I do with some specific software I need for my job. Alternatives include Xen and VMWare Player. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Login depends on X?

2008-10-15 Thread Carl Fink
Does it make sense to anyone that removing x11* also removes login? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

2008-10-15 Thread Carl Fink
OK, can anyone possibly explain to me why removing swfdec-mozilla results in removing gnome? That's a challenge. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

2008-10-15 Thread Carl Fink
experience. My point is that it's idiotic that removing swfdec (to install, say, gnash) removes all the GNOME packages, not just the metapackage. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Re: Removing swfdec-mozilla removes gnome?

2008-10-15 Thread Carl Fink
packages as manually installed. I've been using Debian since what, slink? No, wait, hamm. I knew that. It doesn't make the default behavior less ridiculous. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 01:18:25AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 10/13/2008 11:30 PM, Carl Fink wrote: [...] This sounded really promising. I was going to try it. But now the stupid computer won't boot past setting the system clock in Linux. Still works fine in Windows. Time to reinstall

Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
sysadmin, but not a systems programmer. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:35:58PM +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: Iceweasel plus swfdec on an amd64 works like a charm here too...(testing/unstable)...youtube and all that. In my testing earlier this year, swfdec won't run multiple instances, which is a thing I like to do. -- Carl Fink

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
in another thread, I was hoping to help. Nobody has ideas on how to actually find the cause of the problem? I'll test Knoppix when I get home tonight. I'm sure it doesn't come with the non-free Flash plugin, of course. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
to try it. But now the stupid computer won't boot past setting the system clock in Linux. Still works fine in Windows. Time to reinstall again, I suppose. This is becoming stupid. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations

Re: Load web page with Flash movie -- System freeze?

2008-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
know that flashplugin-nonfree was removed from Lenny in preparation for stable release, because of concerns about security? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Carl Fink
discouraging. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:07:41AM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:46:39 -0400 Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Data point: I reported a bug in the joe editor just over two years ago. Joseph H. Allen even listed a patch to fix the bug in response to the report

Re: any .WMV to .FLV converters, now a bit OT

2008-10-10 Thread Carl Fink
think. I usually use -crf which is one-pass-only. I use -sameq, which theoretically should ensure the best possible recompression. It's also one pass. Never seen a sync problem with ffmpeg. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews

Re: unable to play some flash videos

2008-09-25 Thread Carl Fink
. Hulu works perfectly for me, with Firefox and either the free clone or official Flash players. Two different Lenny systems. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: WPA/TKIP with Debian Lenny and Broadcom 4328 via ndiswrapper

2008-09-19 Thread Carl Fink
) :) I don't read French, but that appears to only explain installing ndiswrapper and the driver. I have done so, and I can connect to open and to WEP networks, but not to the WPA/TKIP network at my job. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com

Re: WPA/TKIP with Debian Lenny and Broadcom 4328 via ndiswrapper

2008-09-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 06:29:54AM +0200, Sebastian G?nther wrote: * Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [16.09.08 22:15]: Is the ESSID hidden? Then you have a won't fix bug. Nah, the ESSID is public, but that's ridiculous if so. How can it be wont' fix for such an ordinary situation

WPA/TKIP with Debian Lenny and Broadcom 4328 via ndiswrapper

2008-09-16 Thread Carl Fink
? [1]OK, I already had plenty of typing calluses. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: WPA/TKIP with Debian Lenny and Broadcom 4328 via ndiswrapper

2008-09-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 07:10:18PM +0200, Sebastian G?nther wrote: * Carl Fink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [16.09.08 16:51]: My setup works fine for open hotspots and for WEP, but I can't connect to the WPA protected network at work. Boot the same laptop into Vista and it works transparently

Re: USB devices not detected unless plugged in at boot

2008-09-09 Thread Carl Fink
002 Device 002: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia Pavilion Webcam Bus 002 Device 001: ID : That's with only a mouse and the built-in webcam. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Re: USB devices not detected unless plugged in at boot

2008-09-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 04:46:09PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Monday 08 September 2008 23:41:19 Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 03:24:13PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: could it be an ordering thing, I have a logitech 9000 webcam, if it is plugged in at boot up my usb sounds

USB devices not detected unless plugged in at boot

2008-09-08 Thread Carl Fink
perfectly for me, which I can't say about udev. Any suggestions? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: USB devices not detected unless plugged in at boot

2008-09-08 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:28:10PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,08.Sep.08, 07:52:25, Carl Fink wrote: On my Lenny system, USB devices (mouse, external drive, etc.) are only detected on boot. If plugged in after boot time, or removed and replugged, they are not detected and cannot

Re: USB devices not detected unless plugged in at boot

2008-09-08 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:51:49PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,08.Sep.08, 14:14:44, Carl Fink wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:28:10PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,08.Sep.08, 07:52:25, Carl Fink wrote: On my Lenny system, USB devices (mouse, external drive, etc.) are only

Kernel oops on Lenny, when opening tabs in Firefox

2008-08-10 Thread Carl Fink
in the log above. Any suggestions? Maybe just upgrade to 2.6.25? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Kernel oops on Lenny, when opening tabs in Firefox

2008-08-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:00:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Presumably this is repeatable? It repeats, but I don't know exactly what triggers it, except that so far it seems to happen when at least five FF tabs are open. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog

Re: Dual Core processor ?

2008-07-25 Thread Carl Fink
and runs hard for 24 hrs a day. Any suggestion for something fast but very stable? I've been running Debian Lenny on a dual-core AMD processor (admittely a laptop, not a server-grade system) for months now with a total of zero crashes. Some problems, but not hardware or distro-related. -- Carl

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel 3: agony of the snail

2008-07-21 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 07:30:54AM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my case, a reboot was required to load the new versions of about a dozen libraries. (Killing and restarting X did not do it.) Once I did that, weird rendering problems in Gecko went away

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel 3: agony of the snail

2008-07-20 Thread Carl Fink
libraries. (Killing and restarting X did not do it.) Once I did that, weird rendering problems in Gecko went away. It can't hurt. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-19 Thread Carl Fink
a total of, um, no broken systems since Etch was released. Some annoyances, but not a broken system. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Carl Fink
3. Can anyone confirm? If so, I'll report it as a bug. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-18 Thread Carl Fink
. A point. A distinct point. Maybe people should be looking at ReactOS? http://www.reactos.org -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Carl Fink
OK, if the page looks fine to everyone else, why would it be wrong in both Epiphany and Iceweasel on my box? Could it be that I've been reluctant to restart X (up for 74 days) despite installing several upgrades? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 06:07:41PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:25:35 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: OK, if the page looks fine to everyone else, why would it be wrong in both Epiphany and Iceweasel on my box? Epiphany is also based on the Gecko rendering engine, isn't

Re: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?

2008-07-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 06:40:31PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Carl Fink wrote: as root. This should list all processes that hang on to stale files. The checkrestart command from debian-goodies is supposed to do the same thing more comfortably, but this does not work for me at the moment

Re: Don't edit posts and claim OP posted it!!

2008-07-17 Thread Carl Fink
. That was just a mistake in quoting. That happens. I did not even notice it, but just mentally supplied the intent: The responder did not like my reply. His choice. Was that a deliberate joke? I didn't comment on anything. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-17 Thread Carl Fink
itself, the Guest Additions for Windows are *not* Free Software. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?

2008-07-16 Thread Carl Fink
. However, the command to do so references the partition from the /dev tree; something that obviously will not work for a Windows host. I'm looking for the Windows version of that command. Risky. The Linux kernel won't be seeing the real hardware, because VirtualBox virtualizes everything. -- Carl

Re: Don't edit posts and claim OP posted it!! (was ... Re: My first message...)

2008-07-16 Thread Carl Fink
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Re: Anything better than gopchop...

2008-07-14 Thread Carl Fink
deleted frames. Am I doing something wrong? So long as the edit point is a keyframe (selected using the and buttons) then IME the edit will be clean. If that's a problem, convert the video to MJPEG format. In MJPEG every frame is a keyframe. Of course the file will be huge. -- Carl

Re: How to create qemu-bootable image using debootstrap?

2008-07-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:41:30AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 11:34:52PM -0700, David Barrett wrote: Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 09:00:38PM -0700, David Barrett wrote: David Barrett wrote: What's the best way to create a raw disk image using

Re: How to create qemu-bootable image using debootstrap?

2008-07-06 Thread Carl Fink
you know how to install grub on a raw device file? Forgive a silly question, but why do you want to install grub on the image? Are you planning to dd it onto a physical disk? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations

Re: apt-get don't update or upgrade

2008-07-05 Thread Carl Fink
/updates/main Sources Impossibile connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused) What is the result of 'nslookup security.debian.org'? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 05:37:23AM +, Paul Johnson wrote: [DNS servers] You need a minimum of two if you're expecting to delegate your own zone. One will NOT get 'er done. A friend and I mirror each others' servers. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:49:40AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Carl Fink writes: I prefer to host my own DNS on my own server... Resolvers contact nameservers by IP number (how else?). If your IP is dynamic how will anyone know the IP number of your nameserver? I have a server

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 01:19:19PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Carl Fink writes: The server has a fixed address. Then I guess I don't understand your question. Why can't you just run a nameserver on that host and be happy? I do. That's what I said. The laptop moves from network

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:04:18PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 12:01 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Carl Fink writes: A friend and I mirror each others' servers. I suppose it might work if each of you is primary for the other guy and secondary for yourself and you set

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:08:53PM +0100, j t wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I prefer to host my own DNS on my own server, if only to keep my memory of how to configure BIND relatively fresh. Does anyone know of a similar agent that pairs

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:57:19AM +, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 17:09 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: Most consumer grade ISPs (cable ISPs, aDSL) use DHCP, so you have no guarantee you'll have the same IP address five minutes after you get it. Sure you do, DHCP doesn't change

DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-06-30 Thread Carl Fink
and point subdomain1.finknetwork.com and subdomain2.finknetwork.com to them? Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Help with VLC - no longer plays video files

2008-06-28 Thread Carl Fink
eye. This is the same regardless of the format I am playing *.flv, *.mpg, *.avi, *.wmv etc. I'll bet you're using files from debian-multimedia.org. Their libraries are no longer compatible with the VLC distributed with Debian. See the newsbox at that site for more information. -- Carl Fink

Re: Open Source Video Codec and Container (alternative to Xvid)

2008-06-28 Thread Carl Fink
as well, but the default MPEG4 ASP and MP2 works for me. (If size is an issue, force MP3 compression.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Help with VLC - no longer plays video files

2008-06-28 Thread Carl Fink
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