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

2008-06-28 Thread Carl Fink
to seeking, but Good Enough is good enough for me. -- 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: Increase of un-usable PDF usage.

2008-06-27 Thread Carl Fink
other PDF reader. I'm not even sure Ghostscript is actively maintained anymore. It is. Currently at version 8.64. ghostscript.com says 8.60 was released in August of last year. I personally like xpdf for many purposes. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog

Re: where is xmms?

2008-06-22 Thread Carl Fink
After reading this thread, I was irritated to find that audacious isn't in Lenny. Linux Journal just mentioned minirok. Haven't tried it yet. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Re: where is xmms?

2008-06-22 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 05:54:51PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Fink wrote: After reading this thread, I was irritated to find that audacious isn't in Lenny. And what is http://packages.debian.org/lenny/audacious

Re: where is xmms?

2008-06-22 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 07:24:23PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 05:54:51PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Fink wrote: After reading this thread, I was irritated to find that audacious

Re: postfix

2008-06-08 Thread Carl Fink
the password on the mail server? Depends on your setup. If you're using Linux accounts for mail accounts, it's your account password. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-05 Thread Carl Fink
translates as If you have a laptop made in the last year, and you don't like bugs, don't use Debian. -- 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: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-04 Thread Carl Fink
so obsolete as to be hard to use for anything but some servers. -- 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: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-04 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: Fetchmail

2008-05-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:17:07AM +0300, Tero M?ntyvaara wrote: How do I set fetchmail to automatically fetch mails of all user? Every user have to give command fetchmail -a at the moment to get their mails. Fetchmail was designed for single-user use. -- Carl Fink

Re: vmplayer installer cannot find libs (amd64)

2008-05-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 01:21:19PM +0100, michael wrote: Fantastic! Installing ia32-libs did the trick! Now if only I could work out how to make some folders on my amd64 Debian system appear on the WinXP virtual machine (without dragging them)! One way would be setting up Samba. -- Carl Fink

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 08:21:43AM +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:32:22PM +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote: FF, Iceweasel, Konqueror same battle (perhaps slightly better for konqueror but por flash support). Well I do not want to argue no more

Re: Firefox irresponsible

2008-05-14 Thread Carl Fink
, Epiphany? -- 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: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-05-13 Thread Carl Fink
driver (if such a thing exists) or must I revert to the generic x86 kernel at 32 bits? -- 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: vmware questions

2008-05-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 06:39:53PM +0200, Chris wrote: On Saturday 10 May 2008, Carl Fink wrote: Having used both: how would you rate VMware vs. VirtualBox for running the occasional Windows program in a Guest system? I've been using VMware Player for quite a while now an been quite

Re: vmware questions

2008-05-09 Thread Carl Fink
computer, and that also works and DOES have a Debian package, if you prefer. -- 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

Virtualbox, DVDs, and keyboards

2008-05-07 Thread Carl Fink
a DVD or DVD image? -- 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: Barry? Also berry_charge

2008-05-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 07:50:48AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: grep berry_charge /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep ; \ depmod -a ; \ grep berry_charge /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep ; \ modprobe berry_charge FATAL: Module berry_charge not found. -- Carl Fink

Re: Re: Barry? Also berry_charge

2008-05-05 Thread Carl Fink
/2.6.22_3_k7/kernel/drivers/usb/misc/berry_charge.ko not found. So, is refusing to admit that a file which is clearly present in fact exists a bug in the kernel worth reporting? I may just go ahead and compile a custom kernl with berry_charge integral. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL

Barry? Also berry_charge

2008-05-04 Thread Carl Fink
/modules/2.6.22-3-k7/kernel/drivers/usb/misc/berry_charge.ko but 'modprobe berry_charge' returns FATAL: Module berry_charge not found. Eh? I'll be grateful for any assistance. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations

Re: wakeonlan

2008-04-19 Thread Carl Fink
, but it would certainly be special. Wake On LAN wakes a system from poweroff. There is no need to suspend or hibernate. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Xen in Etch, basic setup

2008-04-11 Thread Carl Fink
Just to clarify: if I need 2.6.24 to support my WiFi card, I therefore can not use Xen until some later kernel is released that can support both? I should therefore try one of QEMU/VirtualBox/VMWare/Something Else Entirely? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog

Re: Addons and Iceweasel

2008-03-27 Thread Carl Fink
, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread Carl Fink
be built on the XO kernel?? Does any of this make sense or is this a pipe dream? You can buy the Asus EEE PC for $299, and it already comes with OpenOffice.org. It isn't as cool--no portable charger, no sunlight mode, and so forth, but it's closer to what you want. -- Carl Fink

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread Carl Fink
. That program is now over, ending 31 December of 2007. Now you cannot buy them at all, apparently. http://laptopgiving.org/en/faq.php -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Re: VMWare player: why no package?

2008-01-02 Thread Carl Fink
Integration, that allows you to run Win windows on top of your X desktop). By using VBox, you can also create and edit VMs without having to resort to external apps, like easyvmx.com or a text editor. Thanks, I'll keep this in mind if I ever have to do this again. -- Carl Fink

Re: VMWare player: why no package?

2008-01-02 Thread Carl Fink
) something important x) No, that's me. -- 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: VMWare player: why no package?

2008-01-02 Thread Carl Fink
(K7) if that helps. I run Testing. -- 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

VMWare player: why no package?

2008-01-01 Thread Carl Fink
VMWare Player's source has been released. Does anyone know why it isn't packaged for Debian? Should I just submit an RTP? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Re: VMWare player: why no package?

2008-01-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 09:52:36PM -0500, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 20:46:47 -0500, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: VMWare Player's source has been released. Does anyone know why it isn't packaged for Debian? Should I just submit an RTP? -- FYI: a similar program

Re: Iceweasel version question

2007-12-28 Thread Carl Fink
and frequently confuses me. -- 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: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6

2007-12-20 Thread Carl Fink
a new server, and install the current Stable on it, then migrate over. By Monday. Servers are cheap these days. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Carl Fink
Well, xfe is small, light, and remarkably (consciously) like Windows Explorer. I find it clunky in many spots, but then I only want a graphical FM once a year or so. At that pace I'm just not willing to learn a new interface. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-25 Thread Carl Fink
. I learned WS on a CP/M machine just before the IBM PC took over the market. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Convert .OGG to .MPEG or .SWF

2007-11-13 Thread Carl Fink
is ironic. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Convert .OGG to .MPEG or .SWF

2007-11-12 Thread Carl Fink
this: FFmpeg is notorious for mysterious and confusingly documented options. Try ffmpeg -i your.ogg -target ntsc-dvd your.mpg. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Removable hard disk not recognized under Lenny

2007-11-11 Thread Carl Fink
continues to recognize it easily. If it matters, it contains one VFAT partition. So what obvious thing am I missing? Any other information that will help figure out what's up? Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com

Re: docx files

2007-11-07 Thread Carl Fink
-C6BB74CD1466displaylang=en I have no idea whether they work under WINE, but if they do your problem is solved. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to set up postfix logfile

2007-11-03 Thread Carl Fink
. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WINE under Lenny

2007-11-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:10:22PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:10:21 -0400 Carl Fink wrote: Is anyone having any luck with WINE? Yes, I have a few programs running successfully with Wine on Lenny. MS's Word Viewer, for example. And ies4linux (www.tatanka.com.br

WINE under Lenny

2007-11-01 Thread Carl Fink
. Thank you. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WINE under Lenny

2007-11-01 Thread Carl Fink
version from their website, and if you like it enough to pay for it it'll cost you $40. It is closed-source, but apparently some of the money makes its way into WINE development. In fact, Crossover Office is built on WINE by WINE developers. -- Carl Fink

Re: system load spike

2007-10-21 Thread Carl Fink
between each compression step, which gives the system I/O a chance to catch up. Obviously you could also vary the 1 as needed. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Re: Remote execution on Win machine

2007-10-09 Thread Carl Fink
on that Win machine. How about rdesktop/grdesktop? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Red 5 or other Flash video server on Etch?

2007-10-06 Thread Carl Fink
Does anyone out there have experience installing Red 5 (www.osflash.org/red5) on Etch? Or know of superior alternatives? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Re: VNC install--possible dependency error?

2007-10-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:44:47PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:37:19PM -0400, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Here's a transcript: NewPicking:/home/carlf# apt-get install vnc4server xvnc4viewer vnc-java xtightvncviewer Reading package lists

Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs

2007-10-04 Thread Carl Fink
OOo macros and its command line interface. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs

2007-10-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 09:30:24AM -0700, Bill wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-10 at 07:34 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: These instructions: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/01/11/from-microsoft-to-openoffice.html show how to script the conversion using OOo macros and its command line interface

VNC install--possible dependency error?

2007-10-03 Thread Carl Fink
: vncserver tightvncserver I'm installing vnc4server explicitly. Why is Debian recommending that I install two other VNC servers as well? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can

Re: USB ports not responding

2007-09-01 Thread Carl Fink
files ... and no detection, no /dev/sde existed, and no messages in /var/log/messages when I plugged or unplugged it. I tried restarting udev, and even rmmod'ed all USB related modules and re-modprobed them, and it still won't detect the drive. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL

Re: capture real audio stream

2007-08-27 Thread Carl Fink
in my Iceweasel. (I use Unplug to get video urls, myself.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-25 Thread Carl Fink
will have the same security hole as the first. If it does, then why bother reactivating the former Trojan? Just install it again. In any case, the LKM warning is a WELL KNOWN FALSE POSITIVE from chkrootkit. IIRC it can be cause by something as simple as a very high system load. -- Carl Fink

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread Carl Fink
. Chkrootkit has been un-updated (by the original maintainer, not by Debian) for something like a year, and that's a well-known false positive. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes

Re: Conversion of .flv to .mpg format?

2007-08-10 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:16:10PM -0500, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: On 8/9/07, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:50:42PM -0500, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: Use mencoder. A basic example: mencoder your.flv -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video -o your.mpg

Re: Conversion of .flv to .mpg format?

2007-08-09 Thread Carl Fink
-o your.mpg This shouldn't work. oac copy means to copy the video unchanged, but then you try to use the lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video, a flag that only works if you select oac lavc. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com

Re: MS Word under wine/crossover office

2007-08-02 Thread Carl Fink
Word Viewer worked great under Wine. If you just want to inspect formatting that would help you, and it's way lighter-weight than Word itself. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you

Re: mounting usb frustration

2007-07-30 Thread Carl Fink
USB detection has been broken on Debian for years, literally. It works fine for me with removable drives, but my Testing system will detect my Palm device once -- and never again, until I reboot. Then I can sync once more. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read

Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions

2007-07-21 Thread Carl Fink
is the mechanism? Does a browser access a default style sheet for printing? Can someone point me in the right direction? Every PDF reader I'm aware of can zoom in. It's not quite as good as zooming in on HTML, because the text doesn't reflow, but it works. -- Carl Fink

Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions

2007-07-21 Thread Carl Fink
you'd basically have to create each document with double-sized fonts. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: MP3 + Patent issues in Debian

2007-07-16 Thread Carl Fink
stated a policy of not pursuing consumers for patent license fees: http://www.webcitation.org/5MeUrGbFN They also seem to say that no license is needed for non-commercial activities, which might (again, I'm not a lawyer) cover Debian. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Is the Debian-user server slow or ... ?

2007-07-15 Thread Carl Fink
routinely takes 12 hours to send posts. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Qemu and existing windows partition

2007-07-11 Thread Carl Fink
a cracked XP image. I know HOW to break the law, but I do not. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Qemu and existing windows partition

2007-07-09 Thread Carl Fink
. Is there any reason I can't just define /dev/hda (real) as hda (for qemu)? If not, it's only 15 gig--what if I just dd a copy of it? Thanks in advance. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid

Re: Continuing saga of xorg restarts

2007-07-03 Thread Carl Fink
you have a backtrace and we can give them more information in a single package. Meanwhile I'll try booting Knoppix tonight and see if I get X crashes there. (I want to eliminate the possibility of hardware failures.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog

Re: Continuing saga of xorg restarts

2007-07-03 Thread Carl Fink
can always crash X by saving my VLC hotkey preferences. Before I report, may I assume that you (like myself) are using Lenny and the latest software from debian-multimedia? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews

Re: Continuing saga of xorg restarts

2007-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
xOn Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:00:19AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:33:43PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: I tried switching to VLC. I was resetting the hotkeys, clicked Save, and xorg restarted. how are you start X? xdm have you looked in .Xsession-errors

Re: Continuing saga of xorg restarts

2007-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
appreciated. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Continuing saga of xorg restarts

2007-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
Switching from icewm to fluxbox didn't make any difference. Now I can kill X just by having VLC *open* and task-switching from iceweasel to the open vlc window using alt-tab. This is ludicrous. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog

Totem restarting xorg (continued)

2007-07-01 Thread Carl Fink
I just switched from totem-xine to totem-gstreamer. The third time I used it, xorg restarted. I believe I've noticed a pattern: it only seems to happen if I have a playlist longer than one file. One file, no matter how long, doesn't seem to cause a restart. -- Carl Fink

Continuing saga of xorg restarts

2007-07-01 Thread Carl Fink
I tried switching to VLC. I was resetting the hotkeys, clicked Save, and xorg restarted. I'm utterly unfamiliar with the internals of X. What would VLC have been doing when I clicked Save that would cause a xorg restart? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read

Xorg crashes when playing video with totem?

2007-06-24 Thread Carl Fink
Is anyone else experiencing occasional Xorg crashes when totem is running? I've had six, all of them while totem-xine is playing video. I read the list, no need for personal answers. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog

Re: Xorg crashes when playing video with totem?

2007-06-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 11:14:40PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Carl. Carl Fink, 24.06.2007 22:37: Is anyone else experiencing occasional Xorg crashes when totem is running? I've had six, all of them while totem-xine is playing video. Any errors? What about ~/.xsession-errors

Re: firefox slows system

2007-06-18 Thread Carl Fink
know little about low-level X stuff. Is there a way to prevent one app from bloating xorg so much? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Netinst was Re: please

2007-06-06 Thread Carl Fink
-posting. Hm ... does the kernel at goodbye-microsoft.com support WiFi? Anyone know? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Slow web browsing redux

2007-06-04 Thread Carl Fink
FF addons. Any suggestions? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 01:31:26PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Journaling, not so much, but the routing and firewalling chores of a large ISP can put a serious load on a machine. Panix uses a NetApp for storage, so a journaling filesystem in the OS is not needed or usable anyway. -- Carl Fink

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-06-02 Thread Carl Fink
favorite is elinks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: set up MUA under only has console system

2007-06-02 Thread Carl Fink
a manual coming with them? There are several. I personally use mutt along with fetchmail (although mutt can connect directly to an IMAP server and doesn't need a local spool). Both fully if imperfectly documented. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 05:05:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/31/07 20:53, Carl Fink wrote: Actually, I just uninstalled three plugins and everything seems to be dramatically faster. I may have been right in my initial guess. Sooo, which three plugins? Media Pirate, the defunct Mozex

Re: [OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 06:16:46AM -0500, Klein Moebius wrote: * Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-31 21:58:47 -0400]: In fact, at the time of the naming (1776), there were no other recognized states in the Americas. Just colonies. I think Hopi, Navajo, Pueblo, Apache, Kiowa, Nez

Re: [OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
that state means state. And that at the time of the founding United States of America was literally true. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 05:31:39AM -0700, Peter Gruessing wrote: I thought this was a Debian Linux mailing list? Yup. I was just complaining about off-topic postings, too. My apologies. OTOH, don't top-post. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
to instability. (Mind you, I've never had Debian Stable crash on my servers either.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness from iceweasel, like 30 seconds to close a tab? Or am I just using too many plugins? Current Testing version. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
right in my initial guess. As for alternative browsers, I rather like Galeon and Konqueror, but I'd miss the plugins. Adblock in particular makes many sites bearable. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews

Re: [OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
. Just colonies. And if you don't like it, stick it in your pipe and shove it where the sun don't shine. But that doesn't justify being stupidly scatological. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations

Re: protest: why etch exclude mencoder from mplayer

2007-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
is the encoding component of mplayer. Back when I compiled my own mplayer, it came as part of the package. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:18:26PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Carl Fink writes: As for alternative browsers, I rather like Galeon and Konqueror, but I'd miss the plugins. Adblock in particular makes many sites bearable. Try Privoxy for blocking ads. I used Privoxy for years, but having

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Carl Fink
a hardware problem or I need to choose a new power supply, that would be OT but appropriate to the list, IMHO. Sounds pretty reasonable to me. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-18 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:41:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Frans, Cord, Martin, Pascal, I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to read our user lists) ... Thank you. -- Carl Fink

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-17 Thread Carl Fink
. And the smallest ones you see around now hold 80 gigs. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:33PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/17/07 20:29, Carl Fink wrote: The solution (okay, my solution) is to switch to one of the nifty new removable USB hard drives. Bigger than a flash drive, sure, but you can format it EXT2 if you'll never use it on a Windows

Re: I had the same problem and I fixed it.

2007-05-12 Thread Carl Fink
-highlight user-properties and change it from there. chad Chad, note that your message above is effectively useless. You changed the subject line, so there's no way for anyone to know what the same problem is, and also cut out all the context for the same result. -- Carl Fink

Re: I had the same problem and I fixed it.

2007-05-12 Thread Carl Fink
. The web forums force people to change subject lines and remove context? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Remote desktop into my linux server

2007-05-10 Thread Carl Fink
for it to work. Is there anyway to remote desktop into the box without having to always be logged into the system? I'm far from an expert, but if you're using X, there is no desktop unless you're logged in. Just xdm or one of its imitators. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL

Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter

2007-05-09 Thread Carl Fink
in mplayer or another player that uses libavcodec. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter

2007-05-07 Thread Carl Fink
it to AVI using mencoder (from the debian-multimedia repository), which depends on ffmpeg. A plausible command would be mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac mp3lame -o newname.avi oldname.flv where all of that is one line. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL

Re: Lean lenny on USB stick

2007-04-27 Thread Carl Fink
I would just like to point out that to any non-geek, the subject line of this thread sounds like cannibalistic snacks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

2007-04-24 Thread Carl Fink
though, but that is out of the proffesor's grasp. I don't even know what SUNYIT stands for. I asked a computer lab assistant at SUNY Stony Brook about this story. All their lab PCs have CD and USB booting switched off, and the BIOS password-protected. And the cases padlocked. -- Carl Fink

Re: Openoffice won't display whole document word count in document over 73,763 characters

2007-04-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:00:55AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: In regards to your problem. Exactly how large is said document? Large is a very relative term. Joe? Read the subject line. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog

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