Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/15/2010 02:17 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:50:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] an USB enclosure and use it for backups. Having ~700GB of data with the most critical ~400GB backed up is definitely

Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/15/2010 03:20 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:59:09PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/15/2010 02:17 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:50:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip

Re: an apology - was Re: Backups - was: Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/15/2010 05:02 PM, Lisi wrote: Sorry for duplicate everybody. The list has been rejecting my emails with my usual SMTP set up. This means that I may think that something has gone when it hasn't or vice versa. Something like that happened to me a year or so ago when my ISP got much

Re: Chromium Xperience

2010-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/15/2010 10:12 PM, green wrote: Ron Johnson wrote at 2010-06-14 20:45 -0600: On 06/14/2010 09:07 PM, green wrote: KS wrote at 2010-05-18 20:15 -0600: What is the experience of other users who have tested out Chromium in Debian? I like chromium. To me it seems faster and the interface

Re: LVM

2010-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/15/2010 10:55 PM, Mark Allums wrote: (Hard disks are commodities; it is as easy to buy two as it is to buy one.) Unless you are on a tight pension... -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/15/2010 11:13 PM, ABSDoug wrote: If this isn't on topic, sorry ahead of time perhaps you can point me in the right place? I've been reading up on having a separate partition for your /home files. For quite some time, I've been using a ntfs partition named storage as it makes

Re: telnetd in Squeeze; was new authentication mechanism in Squeeze?

2010-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/13/2010 10:54 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 6/13/2010 10:29 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/13/2010 09:58 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 6/13/2010 8:23 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: (Presumably you know that telnet is considered a Bad Idea Who's Time Has Passed?) What about ssh? VNC? RDP? What about

Re: telnetd in Squeeze; was new authentication mechanism in Squeeze?

2010-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/14/2010 07:51 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 02:32:35AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Regarding ssh: this was the first entry when I Googled ssh vs. telnet: http://blogs.sun.com/JayzSpeak/entry/telnet_vs_ssh That misses an important point. SSH happens to be more secure

Debian Community Poll

2010-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
A section from today's issue of the Debian Project News: Debian Community Poll - After getting the idea during the recent Mini Debian Conference [8] in Berlin, Torsten Werner prepared [9] a poll for users of the Debian Operating System [10] asking different types of

Re: Re (2): telnetd in Squeeze; was new authentication mechanism in Squeeze?

2010-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/14/2010 01:03 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.ne. Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:23:50 -0500 (Presumably you know that telnet is considered a Bad Idea Who's Time Has Passed?) Telnet is used only between machines inside my Shorewalled network. What

Re: Re (3): telnetd in Squeeze; was new authentication mechanism in Squeeze?

2010-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/14/2010 03:54 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.ne. Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:53:42 -0500 ... nmap dalton.invalid. Results are consistent with function of services. Doesn't seem so to me. Joule also lacks /etc/pam.d/telnet but then Joule runs Lenny

Re: Re (3): telnetd in Squeeze; was new authentication mechanism in Squeeze?

2010-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/14/2010 04:22 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Tzafrir Cohentzaf...@cohens.or..il Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:45:16 + You try to login (from telnet) as root? Oh no. telnet as a user and then su. Isn't shorewall rather famous for producing not-so-efficient iptabnles rules?

Re: Chromium Xperience

2010-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/14/2010 09:07 PM, green wrote: KS wrote at 2010-05-18 20:15 -0600: What is the experience of other users who have tested out Chromium in Debian? I like chromium. To me it seems faster and the interface more efficient. Iceweasel (on amd64) always crashed occasionally for me. I don't

Re: telnetd in Squeeze; was new authentication mechanism in Squeeze?

2010-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
(Presumably you know that telnet is considered a Bad Idea Who's Time Has Passed?) On 06/13/2010 07:51 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Does anyone have telnetd working in Squeeze. What error(s) are you getting? -- There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or

Re: telnetd in Squeeze; was new authentication mechanism in Squeeze?

2010-06-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/13/2010 09:58 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 6/13/2010 8:23 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: (Presumably you know that telnet is considered a Bad Idea Who's Time Has Passed?) What about ssh? VNC? RDP? What about them? -- There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull

Re: remove old email address.

2010-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/12/2010 01:15 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote: On 6/11/2010 6:44 PM, Joe Prince wrote: I have new email address and wish to cancel the old number. My old address was beaujo...@gmail.com. My new address is drjp...@gmail.com. My name is Dr. Joseph Prince and I do not want any mail from the old

Re: Configuring java plugin for iceweasel on amd64

2010-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/12/2010 06:37 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 06/12/2010 01:40 AM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: I've been trying to get Java to work correctly on iceweasel (I'm using squeeze and amd64). I managed to get the sun-java6-plugin downloaded and installed. Currently, I see

aptitude can't find a package? (was Re: Configuring java plugin for iceweasel on amd64)

2010-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/12/2010 10:33 AM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: Eduardo -- thanks, your fix worked! I now have Java working correctly on iceweasel. Ron -- I'm having a problem which is unrelated to the one I posted on. Then let's not hijack threads. Very bad manners! For some reason I can't get aptitude

Re: debian architecture history question

2010-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/12/2010 09:11 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 22:39, Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.com mailto:aaron.topo...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/11/2010 11:03 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'm not exactly sure what the policy is for packages in the i386 archives

Re: ls -alR with wd?

2010-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/10/2010 03:58 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I find `find' very inefficient when trying to find some files. I prefer using `ls -alR | grep stuff' The problem is that the related output does not give me the directory where `stuff' is found. How can I add some row giving this? Thanks.

Re: Web browsers, Adobe Flash Debian

2010-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/11/2010 01:08 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/10/2010 10:04 PM, ABSDoug wrote: --- On Thu, 6/10/10, Neal Hogannealho...@gmail.com wrote: Fuck off! Now that I know Mr. Hogan here doesn't have anything intelligent to add, off to the kill file with him! Does Yahoo

Re: Opinions about my partition

2010-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/11/2010 03:18 PM, Germana Oliveira wrote: 2010/6/12 Mark Allumsm...@allums.com: On 6/11/2010 6:48 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: You can easily move to another disk/partition (LVM volume) from an existing (functioning) LVM volume with just a couple of commands and a little wait time. By far

Re: problem with ati driver in kernel 2.4

2010-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/11/2010 04:12 PM, Long Wind wrote: I have HP VL420 and etch ati rage 128 pro (or ultra?) works fine in kernel 2.6 but in kernel 2.4, it displays strangely I have to return to text mode (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and reboot and I have to use vesa driver in kernel 2.4 ati driver works fine in sarge,

Re: problem with ati driver in kernel 2.4

2010-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/11/2010 07:04 PM, Long Wind wrote: My reason for using old s/w doesn't matter Only if you're paying us lots of money for sustaining *really* way past EOL kit. But you aren't... There are plenty of reason for running old s/w that's why archive.debian.org exists not only to offer

Re: problem with ati driver in kernel 2.4

2010-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/11/2010 08:18 PM, Long Wind wrote: Thank Mark Allums ! I use kernel 2.4 because of producer, a video capturing application video capturing is hard to learn and config Are you implying that there's some specialized PCI card for which there's no known 2.6 driver? As I'm happy with the

Re: problem with ati driver in kernel 2.4

2010-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/11/2010 10:31 PM, Long Wind wrote: the ati card is AGP let me repeat my problem clearly the card/driver work in etch with kernel 2.6 they work in sarge with kernel 2.4 but they don't work in etch with kernel 2.4 though x server does not change! Then why not use a 2.6 kernel? -- There

Re: Configuring java plugin for iceweasel on amd64

2010-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/12/2010 12:13 AM, Alan Ianson wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 21:40 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: I've been trying to get Java to work correctly on iceweasel (I'm using squeeze and amd64). I managed to get the sun-java6-plugin downloaded Managed implies difficulty, which shouldn't be.

Re: debian-multimedia.org gone?

2010-06-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/10/2010 04:38 PM, Tyler MacDonald wrote: Lisilisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Le disque a crashé. The drive has crashed. Christian Marillat est en train de restaurer ... Christian Marillat is being restored ... No - Christian Marillat is not being restored (Christian Marillat est en train

Re: Web browsers, Adobe Flash Debian

2010-06-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/10/2010 04:39 PM, ABSDoug wrote: --- On Thu, 6/10/10, Mihamina Rakotomandimbymiham...@gulfsat.mg wrote: He will ask you the exact URL... If *I* was the person posting advice, *I* would have posted the URL. But then I try to make things EASY when helping... as opposed to being

Re: Web browsers, Adobe Flash Debian

2010-06-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/10/2010 10:04 PM, ABSDoug wrote: --- On Thu, 6/10/10, Neal Hogannealho...@gmail.com wrote: Fuck off! Now that I know Mr. Hogan here doesn't have anything intelligent to add, off to the kill file with him! Does Yahoo even *have* filter rules? -- There is usually only a limited

Re: It looks as if OpenOffice is sick.

2010-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2010 07:44 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: [snip] Sadly, it's not a success report. I failed to create a .fodt file. The openoffice I'm using reports itself as: ooo-build 3.2.0.10, Debian 1:3.2.0-9 Sun May 2 18:53:43 UTC 2010 I start OpenOffice writer from the many my window manager

Re: Problem playing DVD in Squeeze

2010-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/08/2010 11:15 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: I've been trying to get my new Squeeze installation to play store-bought DVDs using the Totem movie player and the AMD64 version of libdvdcss2. I can see the first 12 seconds of the DVD (before the main menu comes up), but then the player exits.

Re: Debian on SGI 02

2010-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2010 11:38 AM, Brennan Bonnet wrote: Hi All, I just obtained a Silicon Graphics O2 Unix workstation from 1996. I want to use it for 3D modelling of protein crystals using “Crystal Eyes Stereographics”. Through my research I have discovered that this old unit should (supposedly) run

Re: It looks as if OpenOffice is sick. Was: Looking for a .fodt validator

2010-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2010 03:13 PM, hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 05:44:13PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 07:08:55PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: I wrote a page with a footer containing a page number. I had no trouble saving it as an .odt file, but

Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

2010-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2010 02:26 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net writes: If poppler, for example, doesn't render *exactly* but searches /rapidly/, then you could search using poppler and read using Acroread. Alternatively, install poppler-utils for it's pdftohtml. Certainly

Re: It looks as if OpenOffice is sick. Was: Looking for a .fodt validator

2010-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2010 02:08 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: [snip] I wrote a page with a footer containing a page number. I had no trouble saving it as an .odt file, but OpenOffice 3.0 crashed when I tried to save it as .fodt. So it looks as if .fodt support in OpenOffice is totally fried. Not only that,

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2010 05:23 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, In a directory, using the `List' mode of Nautilus, how can I select `continuously' files from one to another? I.e. let's say that I have == file1 file2 . . . filen-2 filen-1 filen == I would like to select files from file1 to file filen-2. To

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2010 05:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] Yep, using the area selection does not work in list view mode What's area selection? -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2010 08:12 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/03/2010 05:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] Yep, using the area selection does not work in list view mode What's area selection? I guess he speaks about when you draw some area with your mouse and that this area delimits

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2010 10:28 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/01/2010 10:06 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: ... You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065

Re: FSCK seems angry with my filesystem

2010-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/2010 04:38 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: [snip] It will complain, but will it impede its `functioning'? I will probably try with a rescue disk, effectively. What could have caused such errors if I did not mistreat my computer these days? Bug(s) in the OS or HDD firmware? -- Dissent is

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/2010 10:18 AM, H.S. wrote: On 31/05/10 05:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: Besides, I also tend to name the files and folders as 2010-05-31_filename and so on, they keep my mind (and my computer) in a very well organized fit :-) Totally agree. This is one of the main uses of ISO date format

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/2010 10:06 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: ... You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg Can

Re: date bug?

2010-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/2010 01:41 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [snip] Section 6.30, General Rule 6b of the same document reads: If, after the preceding step, anyprimary datetime field of the result is outside the permissible range of values for the field or the result is invalid based on the natural

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/2010 03:23 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 01 iun 10, 13:56:12, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: From SUSv3: Thedate and time field shall contain the appropriate date and timestamp of when the file was last modified. In the POSIX locale, the field shall be the equivalent of the output

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/2010 01:39 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 31 May 2010 01:51:14 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,30.May.10, 18:05:43, Camaleón wrote: (...) This way I have to think *less* to be sure about the date. No guessing. You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date

Re: date bug?

2010-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/2010 12:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 31 May 2010 17:34:12 +, T o n g wrote: Please take a look at the following, do you think it is bug of date? (...) $ date --date='next month' Thu Jul 1 11:07:31 EDT 2010 I was hoping to get June. But June has not 31 days so the closest

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/29/2010 11:17 PM, Teemu Likonen wrote: [snip] Yes, the default has changed. You can change the default with TIME_STYLE environment variable, like this: export TIME_STYLE=long-iso Another method is the --time-style option. For example: $ alias dir='ls -aFl --time-style=+%F %T'

Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I sometimes have really long documents (4000 p) for specs., or for other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I do not know that my keyword is

Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2010 10:13 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I sometimes have really long documents (4000 p) for specs., or for other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2010 11:23 AM, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:58:59PM -0700, Brian Marshall wrote: Any idea why the default was changed? I guess it didn't really make The new default was the default years ago. Then it was changed to the ISO format output. Since then I hated it. The

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2010 01:05 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 30 May 2010 18:59:47 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,30.May.10, 09:19:03, Camaleón wrote: Having an option to change the default is very good, but ISO date representation is there precisely to avoid the date localization madness, Why

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2010 06:21 PM, Brian Marshall wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:51:14AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg Can you tell if these files were created 5th march or 3rd may?

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2010 05:51 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: [snip] You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg Can you tell if these

Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

2010-05-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I sometimes have really long documents (4000 p) for specs., or for Wow. How big is that? other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I do not

Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

2010-05-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/29/2010 02:34 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Have you tried other PDF readers? Searched for Linux-based PDF indexers? As I said in another topic, I am totally okay for free stuff (if it was not the case, I would not be using Debian: thinking unfree but using free

Re: is firewire broken in Debain?

2010-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/2010 12:53 PM, H.S. wrote: I used to grab video from my DCR TVR25 MiniDV camcorder without any problems in the past on Debian Testing using Kino or dvgrab. Since some kernel version and up, this has not been possible anymore. I am now using Debian Testing, KDE and kernel

Re: is firewire broken in Debain?

2010-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/2010 01:43 PM, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I think that the old Firewire stack is still in the kernel. Googling linux howto use old firewire stack, I found this link which might help: http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/troubleshooting-and-common-problems/troubleshooting-firewire

Re: mount failed

2010-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/27/2010 06:19 AM, roberto wrote: hello, i am trying to mount an external USB hard disk whose partitions i have previously deleted entirely; i am trying to repartition it with only one large ext3 partition but when i plug the disk in i receive the following: # dmesg | tail -24

Re: daemonizing a command

2010-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/27/2010 02:52 PM, Israel Garcia wrote: Hi, I need to daemonize this command on a debian lenny? ruby apd.rb It's a simple app for my network. I was thinking to use nohup ruby app.rb at rc.local, but I want to know if there's other ways to do it. Using Python, I create a module named

Re: Dovecot access imap folder via POP3

2010-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/25/2010 08:54 PM, Vincze Janos Istvan wrote: Dear All, I use postfix and dovecot (1.1.11) combo with maildir format. I would have a question about dovecot config. Can I confiugre dovecot to download mails from IMAP folders via POP3? Now, mails can be downloaded only from .INBOX. Why?

Re: ColdFire Debian kernel image?

2010-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2010 04:38 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: This list is likely the wrong place to ask. Ask here instead: debian-...@lists.debian.org mailto:debian-...@lists.debian.org Dear All According to you , I asked it on the 68k list but no reply received till now . Can you please let me

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of IT Helpdesk

2010-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2010 09:32 PM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: On 2010年05月25日 15:48, Camaleón wrote: Hard to tell as you are not providing many details :-) Perhaps culture difference does play a role in this. Thanks to wide use of cyrus-imapd and gmail among local technicians, I took it self-evident that the

Re: Mail errors or attacks?

2010-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/24/2010 11:31 AM, David Baron wrote: I get a zillion of these, every single day, about every 5 minutes or so: 2010-05-24 15:05:38 SMTP call from localhost (dovidhalevi) [127.0.0.1] dropped: too many syntax or protocol errors (last command was MAIL

Re: Moving /tmp to a separate partition. Advice?

2010-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/23/2010 03:37 AM, Klistvud wrote: Howdy, fellow Debianites! Given some extra hard drive space, I decided to move my /tmp dir (currently located under / ) to a partition of its own. I am looking Why? -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Moving /tmp to a separate partition. Advice?

2010-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/23/2010 07:22 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:10:19AM +0200, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 23. 05. 2010 10:45:36 je Ron Johnson napisal(a): Why? I frequently burn double-layer DVDs, requiring around 8GB of free space for temporary files. Until now, I had to do

Re: partitioning a new hard disk

2010-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/21/2010 01:38 PM, roberto wrote: hello, a friend gave me a laptop (sony vaio) where i want to install debian squeeze (in dual boot); actually the disk is partitioned as follows (output from mount command, #'s are my comments): # total 82.25 GB 82.25 free, extended partition, ntfs

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/21/2010 10:38 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,21.May.10, 11:23:15, Steve Fishpaste wrote: Good morning folks. Why is the Chromium-browser in Sid so old? Chromium has been on the 6.x branch for a couple of weeks now and Debian is still using the 5.x branch. In my opinion we should keep

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/21/2010 11:41 AM, John Hasler wrote: JohnRChamplin writes: ...which used to be available from unstable, but which I have heard is now in sid. Unstable _is_ Sid. In any case, a few weeks is not old. It is if you're 16... -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Evolution email question.

2010-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/21/2010 09:07 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm looking at Evolution as a GUI MUA to supplement Mutt Then I'd implement an IMAP server and move all your email to it. I'm running Squeeze on Intel hardware - nothing exotic. I go through the initial setup dialog - no problem I'm about to

Re: How do I fsck and XFS file system in Squeeze

2010-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/20/2010 07:59 PM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] If xfsprogs is installed, then I think fsck will do it, just first run something like: tune2fs -C912 /dev/sda3 Except that tune2fs is only for ext[234] filesystems. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Accelerating directory's content's viewing: how, is directory is huge?

2010-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/19/2010 05:56 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: I wanted to say that it now takes some seconds of less. I think that I'm going to use CLI, no problem. I'm not sure I understand you. Do you mean that it's many seconds faster, or just a few? -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To

Re: Is there a workaround for bug #578937 [SOLVED]

2010-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/18/2010 04:50 AM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 18/05/10 06:03, Ron Johnson wrote: Hmmm. Just occurred to me that maybe I don't have fam installed. pause Yup, not installed. gamin 0.1.10-2+b1 is, though. Bingo libfam0 had been installed automatically by courier-imap and/or courier-base I

Re: Accelerating directory's content's viewing: how, is directory is huge?

2010-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/18/2010 02:15 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2010 13:16:27 Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I have many media files in some specific directory (folder, call it as you want). Loading the folder takes ~30 sec., even if I am using quite fast HDDs, etc.

Re: Accelerating directory's content's viewing: how, is directory is huge?

2010-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/18/2010 03:56 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net writes: Don't use Nautilus, or reorganize your directory structure. Okay. Then, for browsing big directories with a GUI, which GUI do you advice to use? Thanks. I

Re: [SOLVED] New 3-button serial mouse not detected by Lenny

2010-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/17/2010 06:50 AM, Chris Austin wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010 Tom Furie wrote: Do you have some reason for not wanting to use a scrollwheel? Not really, but looking on Google for 3-button mice, I saw a message that said a scroll-wheel mouse is fiddly to use, and the scroll-wheel has to be

Re: Is there a workaround for bug #578937

2010-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/17/2010 11:25 AM, Alan Chandler wrote: My mail clients on my network are all reporting a strange FAM/Gamin initialization error when they access a mailbox for the first time. It appears to be bug #578937. The DD should apply the patch and release 0.64.2-2. I can't find anyone talking

Re: Is there a workaround for bug #578937

2010-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
(Let's keep this on-list!!!) On 05/17/2010 05:05 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 17/05/10 21:11, Ron Johnson wrote: We use courier-imap and have courier-base 0.64.2-1 installed but don't seem to have that problem. What's a reproducer? I am not sure what you mean by this - but I am using

Re: Is there a workaround for bug #578937

2010-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/17/2010 11:43 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 18/05/10 00:53, Ron Johnson wrote: (Let's keep this on-list!!!) Apologies - that was meant to go back to the list On 05/17/2010 05:05 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 17/05/10 21:11, Ron Johnson wrote: We use courier-imap and have courier-base

Re: How to check if device is busy without unmounting?

2010-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/16/2010 06:46 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:05:01 Dotan Cohen wrote: How can one check if a device can be safely unmounted at the moment. Sometimes umount fails as the device is busy. Is there a way to check if the device is busy, without unmounting? The

Re: How to check if device is busy without unmounting?

2010-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
Sorry: We couldn't find what you were looking for. On 05/16/2010 08:00 PM, Ardison Nicolas wrote: Hi, i'm new in this list, i wrote a post about how to do this [1] . With Fuse as Sthepen said. [1] http://www.ardsoluciones.com.ar/blog/?p=436preview=true On 16 May 2010 21:12, Ron

Re: How to keep debian current??

2010-05-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/15/2010 01:14 AM, Alan Ianson wrote: On Fri May 14 2010 09:48:47 pm RyanJB wrote: Hi, With the latest apps keep pouring in, is there any way to keep debian in the cutting edge? I mean, how to keep debian as updated as, say, ubuntu or even sidux?? You know, latest iceweasel, openoffice,

More important question... (was Re: How to keep debian current??)

2010-05-15 Thread Ron Johnson
Since your Internet connection is spotty and you want to stay relatively up-to-date and you're new, why not stay with Ubuntu (or Sidux, for that matter)? I used Mandrake for a year or so, then Libranet (spiritual predecessor to Ubuntu) before making the Debian plunge. It greatly helped to

Re: How to keep debian current??

2010-05-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/15/2010 08:16 AM, RyanJB wrote: Thanks for the comprehensive reply, it's like you just whipped up a new documentation for this problem ;) I think it's best for me to run lenny with backport. My need is actually only a stable home system. I do favor current apps though; I often use betas

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 01:52 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 13 May 2010 19:31:47 -0400, Celejar wrote: Adobe claims that they publish the Flash specs: (...) http://www.adobe.com/choice/openmarkets.html Mmmm, and there are others that think this is not enough: ***

Re: executable won't execute

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/13/2010 07:36 PM, Kent West wrote: I'm trying to start a daemon for Maple v 14, but when I try to run it, the system complains that the file doesn't exist. What's up? wes...@]goshen.acu.edu]:/usr/local/Maple_Network_Tools/FLEXlm/11.7: ls -lh total 2.8M lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff6

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 02:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2010 02:16:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/14/2010 01:52 AM, Camaleón wrote: *** http://www.openmedianow.org/?q=node/21 (...) One reason for the lack of excitement over the project in the free software world is that it omits huge

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 04:32 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2010 04:12:03 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/14/2010 02:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: Then, there must be an error in Wikipedia Adobe Flash¹ page. Not at all. It says: Licence: Proprietary EULA:-) ¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/13/2010 06:28 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: I figure this is probably something I would have to script myself because I can't find anything useful looking out there, but I thought I'd ask before I try (or perhaps before I procrastinate again): I have a machine here at home running some 24x5

Re: PDF grief - was Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 06:14 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:52 +, Camaleón wrote: snip Look at PDF. PDF became a ISO/IEC standard but we (at linux) still lack for a PDF editor that can compete with Acrobat Professional. snip That comment really strikes home. We are

Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 06:32 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: Merciadri Luca on 14/05/10 11:31, wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/13/2010 06:28 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: I figure this is probably something I would have to script myself because I can't find anything useful looking out there, but I thought I'd ask

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 07:04 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2010 13:37:44 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: Published does not means FLOSS or GPL. I would like to know what is the licence of Flash :-) http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/ The SWF file

Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 08:13 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: Ron Johnson on 14/05/10 12:54, wrote: [snip] Outgoing ports are randomly assigned, though, aren't they? Sure. I mean on the box at home that I'm monitoring from the online Ah, right. Never mind... server. Aaaah, just realised I don't have

Re: PDF grief - was Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 01:40 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:31 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/14/2010 06:14 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 06:52 +, Camaleón wrote: snip Look at PDF. PDF became a ISO/IEC standard but we (at linux) still lack

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 09:58 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2010 15:45:36 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: Can we (we=people) make our own Flash implementation by using Adobe Flash specs? Yes. Developers are now free to implement what is documented

Huh?? (was Re: Flash is open?)

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 02:22 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: [snip] But in either case, for users who care about their Freedom, both Flash and Javascript are real threats, because even if you use a Free Software implementation of the language, the code run in each web-page will usually be 100% proprietary.

Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 10:04 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] Isn't this what SNMP was designed for? There was probably a lot more that it was designed for. Plus one of the first things to appear in google: Despite its acronym, SNMP is not exactly simple! In fact, it never ceases to amaze me how much of

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2010 09:20 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: [snip] snip I would disagree. It was quite enlightening to see one of our clients work in a highly paperless way. They received FAXes via email as pdfs, open them in Acrobat, deskew, ocr to grab text for other documents based on those faxes,

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/13/2010 06:31 PM, Celejar wrote: Adobe claims that they publish the Flash specs: That, certainly, was what we learned as we launched PostScript® and PDF, two early and powerful software solutions that work across platforms. We openly published the specifications for both, thus inviting

Re: Trouble setting environment variables

2010-05-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/13/2010 11:15 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2010 10:49:35 Jason Filippou wrote: What am I doing wrong? Do I need to export something? You did log out and log back in, right? Your .profile is only read on login. Why not just re-source the file? $ . .profile --

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