s/2mm/2cm (was Re: scrollbar on left side)

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 04:34 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/21/2010 03:48 PM, lee wrote: [snip] On a side note: Someone once asked me why the text is moving up when you move the scrollbar down. Where´s the logic in that? Why isn´t the text moving up together with the scroll bar? Take a piece

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 04:49 PM, post id wrote: I've set up a minimal system on one of my machines and used no login manager -- I login at the prompt and type startx to start the graphical session. Now I read a claim that if one didn't use a login manager to log in and start X, then one was logging in

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 10:11 PM, post id wrote: --- On Fri, 10/22/10, David Jardineda...@jardine.de wrote: --- On Thu, 10/21/10, David Jardineda...@jardine.de wrote: [snip] My setup is a seven-year-old laptop, with Lenny and Fluxbox and Icewm. The laptop has a cd/cdrw/dvd drive, a 40GB hard

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/20/2010 01:21 PM, lee wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:22:33AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:03:23 +0200, lee wrote: is there finally a way to get the scrollbar on the left side rather than on the right side in KDE? You mean in the whole KDE environment or just in

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/19/2010 04:58 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue October 19 2010, AG wrote: I was actually thinking of giving Sylpheed Claws (is it still called that??) a revisit since last I used it many, many moons back. I have stayed with kmail for years, through 3 different distros, because I like

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/19/2010 05:01 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue October 19 2010, Camaleón wrote: Icedove, of course. It allows the same features that Thunderbird. Greetings, I use thunderbird on my laptop, for when I travel.. Lately ( the last 6 weeks) I've been using nomachine on my laptop to get to

Re: photo printing

2010-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/20/2010 03:30 PM, Bob McGowan wrote: On 10/19/2010 11:25 PM, Johann Spies wrote: My question is simple: Are the lower cost colour laser printers worth while for printing photo's? Regards JOhann There are issues besides cost to consider. Modern color laser printers can do a decent job

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/20/2010 07:52 PM, jeremy jozwik wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Wayne Topalinux...@gmail.com wrote: Konsole lets you put the scrollbar on either side. WT how about gnome? im a lefty As am I, but decades ago I accepted that I'm in the minority and adapted to the

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/20/2010 08:05 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed October 20 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: I've tried evoSylpheed, but they all seem to croak/crash/fail at IMAPthe kontact app suite. Tbird/Icedove works fine with courier-IMAP. yes

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/20/2010 08:12 PM, jeremy jozwik wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: man gnome-terminal? at work without access to my debian machine http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=man+gnome-terminal -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/20/2010 10:49 PM, jeremy jozwik wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=man+gnome-terminal yah yah yah, i still dont see where or how gnome terminal will change all application scroll bars to the left side. Neither did

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/20/2010 11:14 PM, jeremy jozwik wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Neither did I, when I read the man page... :) ok, so gnome-term has an profile option for it, and iceweasel has a config value for it. there are no global ui changes that can

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/19/2010 04:30 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: Ron Johnson on 19/10/10 00:25, wrote: On 10/18/2010 04:54 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] I'm running a windows app to monitor it called 'ping plotter' which charts the ping responses and flags up the packet loss, and one server out there in particular

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/18/2010 04:54 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] I'm running a windows app to monitor it called 'ping plotter' which charts the ping responses and flags up the packet loss, and one server out there in particular loses 15% of pings: 213.120.176.62 Maybe not as fancy, but I find that mtr is

Re: problem with postfix and maildrop

2010-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/16/2010 09:43 AM, Christian Pinedo Zamalloa wrote: [snip] r...@xx I have googled and I don't find anything. I give you more information: # ls -lhd /root drwxr-x--- 18 root root 1,0K oct 16 16:38 /root # ls -lhd /root/Maildir/ drwx-- 6

Re: Chromium Browser Paralysis

2010-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/16/2010 12:30 PM, David Baron wrote: I have had chromium browser (not Google's) suddenly eat all my system's memory (2G worth), step into swap, and the system is paralyzed. I can eventually kill it without a need to hit the big switch. This is only on certain sites. Anyone had this

Re: Nvidia Proprietary Driver

2010-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/16/2010 12:37 PM, David Baron wrote: As followup to my post on Nouveau, which I would prefer using, the installation of the gallium experimental driver involves too many experimental packages. I installed nvidia's driver (for newer 620GeForce 6200 TurboCache) without a hitch ... almost.

Re: ping packet loss when size gt 1500

2010-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/16/2010 03:20 PM, Anticept . wrote: [snip] Use ... google DNS. So instead of just knowing everything you search, and all of your email, they also know everywhere you surf? -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: CPU synthetic benchmark

2010-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/2010 01:52 PM, Martin Spinassi wrote: Hi list! I'm searching for some good CPU synthetic test. I've found a few, but their last update where from ~1996, and don't know if they are the right tools to test modern CPU chips. The only problem with old code is that it might not compile

Re: CPU synthetic benchmark

2010-10-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/14/2010 03:36 PM, Martin Spinassi wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 14:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/14/2010 01:52 PM, Martin Spinassi wrote: Hi list! I'm searching for some good CPU synthetic test. I've found a few, but their last update where from ~1996, and don't know

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/13/2010 04:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] If mobility is not a requirement, I would go for a good and generous screen laptop (15 or 16). For someone who needs writing a lot, it is very convenient. And remember that wide screens chop off a lot of the vertical height that writers need, so

Re: Highly recommended openoffice packages

2010-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/11/2010 09:06 AM, T o n g wrote: Hi, I did a rough count, and there are over 230 openoffice.org related packages in Debain. I only want to install a minimum set, eg, openoffice.org-writer, openoffice.org-calc and openoffice.org-impress, but am wonder if any other packages are recommended

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/11/2010 09:59 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: On 11 October 2010 18:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuhh...@debian.org wrote: [snip] The box objected VERY HEAVILY to the ipv6 multicast operations trigerred by avahi. Given this, can you think of another way I might be able to trigger the bug? If

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/11/2010 10:11 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: 2010/10/12 Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net: My 1st thought was whether you need IPv6... Well, no, and if I can't sort this out then I'll recompile without it and see if the crash goes away (or... can I black list it, or is IPv6 Sure.

Re: Communicating with USB Modem

2010-10-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/09/2010 02:21 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a Debian Lenny system and I've plugged in a USB 56K modem. (I know that's as outdated as a Model T, but I need it for business.) When I type cat /proc/bus/usb/devices I get this: T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=480

Re: Pdf Font hardly legible

2010-10-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/09/2010 09:00 PM, Memnon Anon wrote: John Jason Jordanjoh...@comcast.net writes: Of the open source PDF viewers, Okular (formerly Kpdf) is the best overall . But Evince has a better export to PostScript and is more lightweight. I don't mind using closed source apps as long as they're

If you want it to be an appliance... (was Re: Communicating with USB Modem)

2010-10-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/09/2010 04:28 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] but, in short, I want what's in their offices to be as simple as possible and to be a black box. I do not want them hooking up a keyboard or monitor to it ever. I don't even want them to think of it as a computer, EVER! So I'm looking not at

Re: Debian - thunderbird not available

2010-10-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/07/2010 07:55 AM, Eric KOM wrote: [snip] many software's from Mozilla foundation was renamed by Debian Developer, as Firefox=Iceweasel. Because some development libraries was not matching with Debian policy. http://glandium.org/blog/?p=97 -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: tools to improve harddisk performance by short-stroking?

2010-10-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/07/2010 10:06 AM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: Thanks to the national holiday (Beijing) I begin to read some article marked for free-time reading a few years ago. One of them is short stroking. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/short-stroking-hdd,2157.html The article is awfully long just to

Re: [FOLLOWUP] video card reccomendation

2010-10-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/07/2010 04:40 PM, James Zuelow wrote: Original Message From: Sven Joachim [mailto:svenj...@gmx.de] In any case, more feedback on nouveau would be welcome. We've got a few positive answers when the package was uploaded in March, but since then all we received are a dozen of more

Re: [FOLLOWUP] video card reccomendation

2010-10-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/07/2010 05:11 PM, James Zuelow wrote: Original Message From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 1:47 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [FOLLOWUP] video card reccomendation My CPU seems fine at 100% while rendering video

Re: tools to improve harddisk performance by short-stroking?

2010-10-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/07/2010 07:33 PM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: On 2010年10月08日 04:03, Ron Johnson wrote: You'd need to add accounting complexity to the kernel (where would it put the accounting data?) I had been too brief, but if you read the article I referred to, it works best only in case you put rarely

Re: Excellent bootable usb - How to Duplicate?

2010-10-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/07/2010 07:21 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: I created this bootable 4Gb usb stick: Debian Lenny, 2.6.25.15 kernel. gnome, wacom mouse installed, network connection ok. one partition, 1.4Gb used and 2.5Gb available. I did it a year ago and I have lost my notes. I know that the creation

Re: 2 identical GSM-modems discern.

2010-10-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/06/2010 10:51 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Ron: Have you tried lsusb? Yes, but still have no idea how I can recognize the ports to which a device is connected. The records of the both differ only here: Bus 004 Device 002: Bus 005 Device 006: How do You

Re: Text overlow in Iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/05/2010 06:38 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm using Iceweasel 3.5.13 on Sid. 3.6.10 from Experimental. I find that on certain sites, e.g. www.peterrussell.com, portions of text are superimposed on top of one another - a sort of overflow. This also happens with Iceape but not with

Re: Text overlow in Iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/05/2010 09:34 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: [snip] Interesting. I can make that site work too, setting the default to 12. But on another site (www.medical-acupuncture.co.uk) I can't stop the text in the left column encroaching on the central area, no matter what I set the font size to.

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/05/2010 08:40 AM, Celejar wrote: Hi, I'm dabbling in transcoding flvs (e.g., from YouTube) to mp4s (for uploading to a service (Snapfish) which doesn't support flv. I'm doing something like this: ffmpeg -i example.flv example.mp4 Have you tried Handbrake? It's got a CLI mode, too.

Re: acroread and iceweasel

2010-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
It's always just worked for me. Do you have mozilla-acroread installed? On 10/05/2010 09:24 AM, #ZHAO LINA# wrote: It's pretty annoying especially when sometimes you need a bunch of papers. I cannot uninstall it, can somesome provide some solutions? Or anyone who works fine to open the pdf

Re: 2 identical GSM-modem discern.

2010-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/05/2010 11:33 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Michelle: In your connection script, you can check, on which USB-Port it is connected, then get the /dev/ttyUSBn or /dev/ttyACMn and youare done. But how I can identify which one of the modems is connected on

Re: Central configuration storage

2010-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/05/2010 09:38 AM, Nick Douma wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a solution to store configuration files in a central location. My first guess was to look at LDAP, and see if you can use that for keeping track of configuration. The intended setup is a farm of webservers, database servers and

Re: transcoding flv to mp4

2010-10-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/05/2010 07:22 PM, Celejar wrote: [snip] And flv is also a container, so I suppose that what I really want to do is transcontainerify rather than transcode, i.e., to repack the video into a different container, without reencoding it. Is this even possible? mplayer might let you do that

Re: need advice on a solution

2010-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/04/2010 02:33 AM, Doug wrote: On 10/04/2010 03:15 AM, Doug wrote: On 10/04/2010 02:59 AM, Long Wind wrote: I'm rather confused. Another user Ron just say the opposite. Suppose stock prices in an array (or table or database) and annual earnings of 10 years in another array (or table or

Re: need advice on a solution

2010-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/04/2010 07:08 AM, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson writes: PostrgeSQL is *the* way to go... For his purpose sqlite might be better. I thought about that, but it's datatypes are only notional. $ sqlite3 foo.db SQLite version 3.7.2 Enter .help for instructions Enter SQL statements

Re: need advice on a solution

2010-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/04/2010 01:05 AM, Long Wind wrote: (sorry, this is not Linux specific) I trade stocks. I put stock prices in file. Often I need compute PE for each day. To cope with stock split, I need to recompute prices as if un-split. Sometimes to compute PE, I want to use average of the last three

Re: Squeeze. Can't cd in directory which begin with .[dot]

2010-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/04/2010 10:09 AM, Mark Goldshtein wrote: Hello, list! After recent dist-upgrade was surprised with a loss of an ability to change a directory, which begin with dot. For example, home dir in gnome-terminal: $ cd ./wine bash: cd: ./wine: No such file or directory Meanwhile, I did it

Re: need advice on a solution

2010-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/04/2010 04:20 PM, Long Wind wrote: I have heard that sql can do all tasks that a procedural programming language can do so That is manifestly *incorrect*, since SQL is a declarative domain-specific language. However... RDBMSs like PostgreSQL and Oracle offer procedural language

Re: deluge to handle torrents

2010-10-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/03/2010 12:14 PM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:56:48 +0200 Vincenzo Tibulloenzo...@gmail.com wrote: Click on a .torrent link, a dialog window open, choose Open With, click Browse and go to /usr/bin/deluge If the windows do not open, the go to the Preference -

Re: [FOLLOWUP] video card reccomendation

2010-10-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/03/2010 01:49 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-10-03 20:00 +0200, Rick Pasotto wrote: [snip] The 'nv' driver works fine. Maybe it does now, but NVidia has announced to stop supporting in the future, and I think it will be removed from Debian at some point after the Squeeze release.

Re: Problem with eSATA Port Multiplier

2010-10-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/02/2010 02:08 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 10/1/2010 5:28 PM: On 09/30/2010 10:13 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Have you tried more than one eSATA cable? Only have one. Pick up a new one from a retailer that'll give refunds on returns no (or few) questions asked

Re: Problem with eSATA Port Multiplier

2010-10-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/30/2010 10:13 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 9/30/2010 7:16 PM: Hi, I've got a no-name PMP that I want to connect to the eSata port on my mobo. Attached are the output from lspci -vvv (It's a SiL 3132 chip and the sata_sil24 driver is loaded) and /var/log/syslog. I'm

Re: Distributed filesystem between 2 file servers

2010-10-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/01/2010 01:50 PM, Linux Expert wrote: I manage 2 offices which are connected via a VPN link, and both sets of users need access to a large filesystem (550GB). Currently we have a single fileserver (Samba domain member) on one side, but users on the other side of the VPN are frustrated

Problem with eSATA Port Multiplier

2010-09-30 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, I've got a no-name PMP that I want to connect to the eSata port on my mobo. Attached are the output from lspci -vvv (It's a SiL 3132 chip and the sata_sil24 driver is loaded) and /var/log/syslog. I'm running a stock kernel: $ uname -r 2.6.32-5-amd64 The actual h/w is different in

Re: (SOLVED) Re: ia64? amd64

2010-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/02/2010 10:52 AM, Jangita wrote: On 02/09/2010 3:50 p, Jangita wrote: Hello, Difference between ia64 and amd64? I'm moving to servers with larger memory 4GB so want to move to 64 bit. Google is your friend. When I search it using the string ia64, the first link is:

[Semi-OT] Process *name* a valid concept in Unix/Linux?

2010-08-31 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, I know that you can see a pid and it's complete command line, but is there the concept of name? For example, in OpenVMS, you can do: $ SET PROCESS/NAME=SOMEUNIQUENAME Then in SHOW SYSTEM (similar to ps aux) you'll see a line with a pid and the text SOMEUNIQUENAME. Also, no other

Re: Tell Ubuntu and Debian apart in a shell script ...

2010-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/27/2010 03:28 AM, Alexey Salmin wrote: [snip] think it's a good idea to check for some specific functionality you need in your script rather than rely a on distribution name from some file in /etc. This is Best Practices when writing a web page: check for functionality, not whether it's

Re: What is Recommend CLI Package Manager Tool for Newb?

2010-08-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/27/2010 02:24 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In1282920166.29761.13.ca...@huevos, Chance Platt wrote: I say pick one and stick to it. Apt and aptitude are close to parity feature-wise anymore (I'm sure others will disagree and it depends on how you define features) and there's some

Re: gcc: A while Loop Always Skips its first Statement.

2010-08-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/20/2010 08:01 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: I have written some C code that appeared to be good until I put a while statement in to one of the modules and then all went to at least Purgatory. It all compiles beautifully but I was alerted to something terribly wrong when the program began

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/19/2010 04:16 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed August 18 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: but I delete them in Thunderbird, or move them to a deifferent folder on thunderbird. So you have your email in two different places? yes! That defeats the purpose of IMAP. The emails should live

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/19/2010 04:32 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu August 19 2010, Camaleón wrote: well, kmail is pulling them in for my local user ( /var/mail/USER) and running filters on them. Fetchmail line says keep. Thunderbird on my laptop is setup as disconnected IMAP. Not sure how to do a kmail

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/19/2010 08:53 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu August 19 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: grep filter kmailrc|wc -l 581 didn't realize I had so many.. lots of deadwood there for sure.. You should use an MUA-independent filter like maildrop or procmail (in conjunction with fetchmail

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/19/2010 08:35 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu August 19 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: So you have your email in two different places? yes! That defeats the purpose of IMAP. The emails should live on an IMAP server in your primary machine and then you access them using IMAP from your

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/19/2010 12:23 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu August 19 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: so, I'm gonna manually put in 500 maildrop filters? that sounds painful.. It's a (non-Windows) computer: you automate the conversion of stuff like that with bash or Perl or Python, etc. my last

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/19/2010 11:43 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu August 19 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: I've got a fetchmail-postfix-maildrop-imap thing going. Works for all 3 of us. Each user has ~/.fetchmailrc and ~/.mailfilter files, and this is in /etc/postfix/main.cf: home_mailbox = Maildir

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/19/2010 12:57 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu August 19 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: Dumb questions: Did she have a ~/Maildir? ~/.mailfilter? yes, and yes Each user needs a ~/.mailfilter with at least this one line: to Maildir um, no. all lines in that file are commented

Re: Broken/Obsolete packages - I think we can do better.

2010-08-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/18/2010 02:48 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 01:56:44PM -0500, Timothy Legg wrote: I just installed a stable Debian package that advertises to perform so many wonderful tasks, but in reality, it does little more than provide an attractive graphical interface for a

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/18/2010 03:24 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed August 18 2010, Camaleón wrote: this only seems to happen with a thread, when it gets a message in the thread. I don't get 2 of the original messages, but I get 2 replies, as separate messages, that are the same. (...) can it be 2

Re: weird kmail double-messages

2010-08-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/18/2010 07:12 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed August 18 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: I get my email from my isp using fetchmail, keep setting. I also pull the mail IOW, you leave the emails on the ISP POP server? but I delete them in Thunderbird, or move them to a deifferent folder

Re: What to put on SSD

2010-08-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/05/2010 03:15 AM, Pasi Oja-Nisula wrote: I have this: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 37G 14G 22G 39% / tmpfs 3.9G 8.0K 3.9G 1% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 640K 9.4M 7% /dev tmpfs 3.9G

Re: Internet filtering

2010-07-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/26/2010 06:38 PM, vr wrote: What is a good utility to block outbound traffic on the home network? Ideally it will not need to be set in a browsers proxy setting to be effective. Your firewalling router? Plz be more specific in your needs. -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: How to fetch a binary package given the package name

2010-07-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/25/2010 01:01 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-07-25 19:43 +0200, Malte Forkel wrote: I can use apt-get sourcepkg-name[=version] to fetch and extract a source package, given its name (and optionally, its version). But is there any equivalent for binary packages? I.e., is there a tool

Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.

2010-07-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/24/2010 01:43 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Ron: This sure looks like it might be a Live CD: http://mirror.home-dn.net/d-i/2.6.32/lenny-custom-0116.iso How I can be sure it is official and by the Debian security team supported? What part of This

Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.

2010-07-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/24/2010 01:50 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Andrei: Yes it is. That's why I suggested the kmuto installer. Is there any reference fro Debian web site to the kmuto site - I have found one reference from searching machine but the link was not found on the

Re: wifi gets disconnected frequently

2010-07-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/24/2010 08:10 PM, Thomas Amm wrote: Am 24.07.2010 19:47, schrieb Kurian Thayil: I am using Squeeze and my Wifi link in my Laptop (Acer 5583 Series) gets frequent disconnections, but gets connected after a few seconds. This happens only with squeeze. While I was using Lenny, it was

Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.

2010-07-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/23/2010 11:08 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Wolodja: Do You know how safe it is? What do you mean? The kmuto installer is an installer for Debian stable releases with up-to-date kernels provided by a Debian developer. Are You speaking about this

Re: iceweasel vs google-chrome

2010-07-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/22/2010 07:55 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: I just found out I have an issue with audio playing in iceweasel, but NOT in google-chrome. I've mostly used iceweasel, but lately, every morning when I try to listen live to a news show ( http://wsbradio.com/ - listen live) the audio comes out

Re: iceweasel vs google-chrome

2010-07-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/22/2010 08:53 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu July 22 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: No, but I in these modern Web 2.0 times, web pages are much busier and thus burn more CPU (all the same CPU!), thus making each tab time slice with all the others. yeah, I do notice where some tabs have

Re: iceweasel vs google-chrome

2010-07-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/22/2010 10:02 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu July 22 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: With Forecastfox why do you need to go to weather pages? when severe weather hits, I watch the doppler radar site: http://www.wsbtv.com/wxmap/1865614/detail.html it regenerates every 10 Min. or so.. when

Re: CARTE SON PCI EXEPRESS

2010-07-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/21/2010 10:18 AM, Christopher Judd wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 05:36:57 Kelly Clowers wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 01:14, Michalmic...@sharescope.co.uk wrote: USB is for flash drives, printers, etc. Nothing good ever comes of using USB for sound or LAN OP, M-Audio makes good

Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.

2010-07-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/19/2010 12:09 PM, Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. Is it possible to obtain a cd image of the stable Debian w/ a kernel supporting ext4 so that I can install it on the FS and then boot from the HDD? Isn't the Stable kernel too old to have a stable ext4 implementation? -- Seek truth from

Re: Transfering iceweasel bookmark files to new system

2010-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/21/2010 03:37 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi; I am replacing my oldest 1GHZ box with a new 2.65 x 4 GHz box. Both are running Debian Squeeze. How do I transfer the iceweasel setup from the one computer to the other and combine the bookmarks from the two units. Bookmarks-Organize Bookmarks

Re: Transfering iceweasel bookmark files to new system

2010-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/21/2010 05:33 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 15:00, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: [snip] Reusing an in-place .mozilla/firefox tree when migrating from i386 to amd64 proved subtly problematic, though, in many ways. What kind of problems? I don't remember

Re: usernames that start with capital letter?

2010-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/19/2010 11:37 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:35, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: snip Anyway, in a gooey world, you click on an icon. Heretic! ;-) Nay, a saf acceptor of the reality that the world wants to point, click and top-post using web gmail.

Re: usernames that start with capital letter?

2010-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/20/2010 12:02 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Thanks. This will simply(?) be a generic/guest account on the centrally-located PC. It's the user that will stay logged in so that people have quick access to Google, dict, etc. If it is just a generic guest account then why go

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/18/2010 09:16 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: On 7/18/10, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: [snip] flashplayer-mozilla has never worked for me. Sorry to be stubborn... And this time? The flashplayer-mozilla from debian-multimedia has always worked for me on both both i686 and

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/19/2010 02:10 AM, Justin The Cynical wrote: On 7/18/10 6:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/18/2010 06:03 AM, Justin The Cynical wrote: [snip] Try this: http://www.macewan.org/2006/06/01/howto-firefox-flash-video-sound-on-ubuntu-linux-dapper/ IIRC, I had this problem on an old Linux

usernames that start with capital letter?

2010-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
Why aren't they recommended? $ sudo adduser Guest [sudo] password for ron: adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname' option to relax this check or reconfigure NAME_REGEX. -- Seek truth from

Re: Debian virus/spy-ware detection and detection technique.

2010-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/17/2010 03:11 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 17 iul 10, 14:06:58, Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. I have 3 questions on virus/spy-ware detection and detection technique. [snip] This has been discussed several times, but IMVHO the time and resources invested in scanning for malware on

Re: usernames that start with capital letter?

2010-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/19/2010 01:28 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Hi, 'Cos *nix (or rather most typical *nix FSs) is case-sensitive and it might generate confusion? Eh? If you can remember that passwords are C/S, why can't you remember that usernames are C/S? Anyway, in a gooey world, you click on an icon.

Re: usernames that start with capital letter?

2010-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/19/2010 02:01 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Subject: Re: usernames that start with capital letter? Why aren't they recommended? A lot of things are technically allowed but historically were terrible problems in practice. Mixed case user names. Spaces in user names. [snip

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/18/2010 06:03 AM, Justin The Cynical wrote: [snip] Try this: http://www.macewan.org/2006/06/01/howto-firefox-flash-video-sound-on-ubuntu-linux-dapper/ IIRC, I had this problem on an old Linux install I was using for MythTV, and it did come down to a lack of OSS support with the

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/18/2010 03:54 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 18:41:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/17/2010 05:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:13:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/17/2010 04:30 PM, Camaleón wrote: Run alsamixer and check the volume for all

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/18/2010 09:48 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:41:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/17/2010 05:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: Wait, is the USB device a headset or an external sound card? Speakers. But effectively big headsets

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/18/2010 04:05 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:44:10 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/18/2010 03:54 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 18:41:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/17/2010 05:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:13:35 -0500, Ron

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/18/2010 05:53 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:37:21PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/17/2010 04:09 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Ron I've had that problem a couple times before, what I found was one of my channels was not selected in the volume control

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/18/2010 07:40 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 06:22:23PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/18/2010 05:53 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 10:37:21PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/17/2010 04:09 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Ron I've had

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/18/2010 08:09 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: [snip] I have an USB audio device as well, one of those cheap ones, :-) But when there's no other sound device in the box, there's a problem with them, because some applications do not look for secondary devices, they just look for the first one

No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, My Google-fu must not be up to snuff, because I've Googled much without any luck. USB Audio 32-bit Sid ALSA 1.0.23+dfsg-1 Flash 10.1r53 (from adobe.com) Iceweasel 3.6.4-1 (experimental) vlc 1.1.0 users are in group audio Sound plays fine from local sources but not from Flash/Iceweasel.

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/17/2010 01:09 PM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Saturday 17 July 2010 20:02:58 Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, Any thoughts on how to solve this would be much appreciated, since otherwise my wife will insist on moving back to Windows. Thanks One solution will be to change your wife!! Wanting

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/17/2010 02:08 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:02:58 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: My Google-fu must not be up to snuff, because I've Googled much without any luck. USB Audio 32-bit Sid ALSA 1.0.23+dfsg-1 Flash 10.1r53 (from adobe.com) Iceweasel 3.6.4-1 (experimental) vlc 1.1.0

Re: No sound from Flash, but other methods work well

2010-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/17/2010 02:26 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 17/07/10 19:02, Ron Johnson wrote: Hi, My Google-fu must not be up to snuff, because I've Googled much without any luck. USB Audio 32-bit Sid ALSA 1.0.23+dfsg-1 Flash 10.1r53 (from adobe.com) Iceweasel 3.6.4-1 (experimental) vlc 1.1.0 users

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