On 2010-04-21 13:04, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:44:38 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-21 12:22, Camaleón wrote: [snip]
For GeForce 7600GS you have the following options:
1/ nv driver (only 2-D)
Except that Nvidia deprecated this driver a few weeks ago...
... only
On 2010-04-21 14:48, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
Eh. I'm still running .31 from December. (Will soon be upgrading to
.33, though.)
So will I, as soon as it gets out of experimental
Or roll your own kernel. You'll learn a lot.
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On 2010-04-21 14:45, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
[snip]
I use 3/ and 195.36.15 to drive 2 seats on 2 GeForce 6200 cards
How's that Studebaker holding up?
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On 2010-04-20 08:24, Lisi wrote:
On Tuesday 20 April 2010 03:21:52 Ron Johnson wrote:
Why do women buy new clothes every year when their existing clothes
are completely functional?
A lot of us don't. And I don't fix things that aren't broken either.
(I _knew_ I'd get an email or two like
On 2010-04-20 06:58, Merciadri Luca wrote:
[snip]
So, you need to ask yourself:
(a) Does this colleague run Linux?
Nice question. He does not.
In that case, he should be using Acroread, which means you have
little to fear.
(b) If so, will he read it with Acroread?
/
(c) Will he be be
On 2010-04-20 03:07, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:02:25 -0500
Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote:
Hello Mark,
That ought actually to work, if a computer were plugged into the USB
side. Then you would have a very slow transfer cable.
Yes, but AIUI, the computer's on the RS232
On 2010-04-20 07:27, Merciadri Luca wrote:
[snip]
Yes, but there are some nuances. Let's take my example: how would you
have done this? You need to transmit the document, but the receivers are
sufficiently dishonest to print it and to claim they are the authors.
Haven't Academicians had this
On 2010-04-20 10:22, T o n g wrote:
Hi,
How can I trick my Debian into thinking that a package is not installed?
I am talking about the *standalone* durep package. I don't like the new
0.9 version but rather prefer the old 0.8 version. However, even I've put
it on hold in dpkg/aptitude, from
On 2010-04-20 14:34, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
[snip]
Just use a grey-by-dotting watermark for black text, merge the layers
and it will
be rather difficult to remove the watermark.
I did not merge the layers before sending it to them. Problematic?
Yup. It
On 2010-04-20 10:41, Mark Allums wrote:
On 4/19/2010 11:24 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
On 4/19/2010 10:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-19 21:47, Mark Allums wrote:
[snip]
Webkit 2.0 is imminent. Perhaps they are considering moving to it.
According to various sources, it is the bee's knees
On 2010-04-20 12:24, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:48:33 -0500
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
Hello Ron,
That's what OP wrote, but it makes no sense.
Indeed. Sounds to me as though Dotan's neighbour isn't all that tech
savvie.
Again, a bit of guess on my part
On 2010-04-20 17:12, Mark Allums wrote:
On 4/20/2010 4:18 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
Even though I'm an official Grumpy Old Man, the know the reasons for
2.0. It's just that now I know that most of them are screaming piles
of horse manure.
That won't stop them from moving
On 2010-04-20 15:27, B. Alexander wrote:
If you are asking what I think you are asking, as in which files would you
need to restore your system in the event that you lose your apt and dpkg
databases, then I do the following:
/var/backups
/var/cache/apt (less /var/cache/apt/archives)
On 2010-04-20 21:39, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Nick Douma put forth on 4/20/2010 5:01 PM:
Looks like I'll have to look for a new CPU cooler...
Or you could just properly seat the current factory HSF. You likely
buggered up the pre-applied thermal paste film when you attached the stock
HSF, or you
On 2010-04-19 03:00, Richard Hartmann wrote:
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 00:52, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
I'd use symlinks, where sources.list points to either sources.list.home,
sources.list.work or sources.list.internet, and a short script to flip
between them.
That means I
On 2010-04-19 02:55, Juha Tuuna wrote:
On 19.4.2010 1:52, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-18 17:20, Richard Hartmann wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering if there was any such thing as an opportunistic apt
source.
...
Does anything like the above exist?
I'd use symlinks, where sources.list points
On 2010-04-19 02:58, Dotan Cohen wrote:
It's a 2.6 kernel, so Etch.
Plonk
Why plonk me? Surely this is not the last Etch machine out there? In
any case, I could probably convince him to upgrade if you think that
Etch is not up to the task.
You completely missed (probably because gmail's
On 2010-04-19 02:54, Dotan Cohen wrote:
So, is does this SC reader (a) serial-over-USB or (b) USB-over-serial?
I should imagine (b), but I have not gotten there yet to see.
Then he probably is clueless.
(a) is common, (b) is what you described, but I've never heard of (b). Are
you sure
On 2010-04-19 04:24, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Why plonk me? Surely this is not the last Etch machine out there? In
any case, I could probably convince him to upgrade if you think that
Etch is not up to the task.
You completely missed (probably because gmail's web interface so incredibly
sucks) why
On 2010-04-19 13:11, Sthu Deus wrote:
Thank You for Your time and answer, Ron:
What version is that? v3.2 from Sid opens much faster than any
other version I've seen.
3.2.0-4
For me, that version performs much better than an other than the old
1.x ones.
Hang has a specific meaning.
Do
On 2010-04-19 16:19, Clive McBarton wrote:
[snip]
How come there is no link anywhere on debian.org pointing to
debian-multimedia.org? Anything to establish a chain of trust. As it is,
I looked and looked but didn't find. Even when searching for
multimedia on debian.org, it does not mention
On 2010-04-19 16:30, Clive McBarton wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
There use to be a preloader, but I don't see it anymore.
There was a feature where GNOME or KDE would pre-load OOo at DE
startup. That way, it *appears* that OOo loads much faster, even though
it was really just shifted.
There's
On 2010-04-19 16:17, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Russ Allbery wrote:
I think people are not understanding why users use this feature in some
environments.
/
Yes, sometimes it's a misguided attempt at DRM, but I've more often seen
it inside a workplace as defense in depth against *mistakes*. One
On 2010-04-19 17:00, Clive McBarton wrote:
[snip]
I understand that point of view. But it is a point of view that will
make people stay away from d-m (and pretty much all other repos for that
matter).
It would help a lot if the key of d-m (package
debian-multimedia-keyring) was in the debian
On 2010-04-19 19:53, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:59:29 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-17 21:32, Stephen Powell wrote:
Why did they switch from gecko to webkit anyway? It was working so well.
I still use it in Lenny. But not in Squeeze. Not anymore.
http
On 2010-04-19 20:40, Stephen Powell wrote:
[snip]
Hmm. Well, if they were going to design a brand new browser from scratch
today, you make a good case for webkit. But they already had a browser
that was working well with gecko. Why switch now? It's a lot of pain
for very little gain, it
On 2010-04-19 21:47, Mark Allums wrote:
[snip]
Webkit 2.0 is imminent. Perhaps they are considering moving to it.
According to various sources, it is the bee's knees.
Beyond crude process separation, what are it's benefits over v1?
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On 2010-04-18 11:41, John Magolske wrote:
[snip]
Now the 3gp audio files play fine. They do seem to take up a bit more
CPU than mp3 or flac, but maybe that's just inherent to how they are
compressed.
Or the quality of the ffmpeg decompressor.
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On 2010-04-18 11:20, Dotan Cohen wrote:
A neighbor with an old Debian (probably etch but could be sarge)
machine needs to know where a USB smart card reader attached via RS232
adaptor
Huh???
would be found in the filesystem. He went through /dev, with
special attention on the tty*
On 2010-04-18 14:08, Dotan Cohen wrote:
A neighbor with an old Debian (probably etch but could be sarge)
machine needs to know where a USB smart card reader attached via RS232
adaptor
Huh???
He's got a few of these connected via serial adaptors:
On 2010-04-18 14:20, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
On 04/18/2010 04:08 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
He's got a few of these connected via serial adaptors:
http://www.infinityusb.com/default.asp?show=productsdetailProductID=12
Why aren't they on real USB, I don't know. I am going over there to
help him
On 2010-04-18 14:40, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:20:49 -0300
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br wrote:
Hello Eduardo,
I see nothing about serial there. Just a plain smart card reader that
connects directly via USB.
True, but Dotan's neighbour has an RS232 to USB
On 2010-04-18 15:10, Clive McBarton wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
ATX means you'll get lots of built-in features. I like my Gigabyte
GA-MA780G-UD3H mobo with AM2+/AM2 socket.
8GM RAM, 6 SATA, 1 (or 2, I forget) rear eSATA, lots of USB, a front and
rear Firewire and decent on-board audio
On 2010-04-18 17:20, Richard Hartmann wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering if there was any such thing as an opportunistic apt
source.
By opportunistic, I mean that I want to be able to define repositories
that have no Packages.gz of their own and might or might not be
available at any given time.
On 2010-04-17 21:32, Stephen Powell wrote:
[snip]
Why did they switch from gecko to webkit anyway? It was working so well.
I still use it in Lenny. But not in Squeeze. Not anymore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit#Origins
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On 2010-04-16 14:00, John Magolske wrote:
I'm looking for a way to play *.3gp audio files from the command line.
Mplayer doesn't seem to work:
% Mplayer some-audio-file.3gp
[...]
Playing some-audio-file.3gp.
libavformat file format detected.
[lavf] Audio stream found, -aid 0
On 2010-04-15 00:48, Stefan Monnier wrote:
If you're going to buy two drives, you'd be stupid to not use
mirroring for fault tolerance and a little added read performance
here and there (depends on application).
I disagree. Mirroring only protects you against drive failures and not
human
On 2010-04-15 06:38, Merciadri Luca wrote:
[snip]
That is what I did. No ping answer, whatever the IP or DNS. Just as if I
was not connected. But my router is still connected to the WAN, and the
router is still connected to the LAN.
Hmph...
Before opening the pages, start capturing packets
On 2010-04-15 04:56, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
Hello, all. We've installed acroread 8.1.7-0.1 from debian-multimedia.
It is not seeing any of the printers on our cups print server. It just
shows the custom lpr printer. How do we get it to see our printers like
all the other applications in
On 2010-04-15 07:49, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
For example, if I kill -15 the Iceweasel pid then exit the GUI to
apt-get upgrade and then restart xfce and Iceweasel, all the (4 or 5)
windows and (total of 20-50) tabs restore. It takes 3-4 minutes for
all of them
On 2010-04-15 07:51, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-15 04:56, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
Semi-OT from your question, but v8.1.7 is *really* old. Make that
really *REALLY* old. If you're running Stable and that's what's in
the Stable repos, then remove it an go directly
On 2010-04-15 08:07, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-15 07:49, Merciadri Luca wrote:
[snip]
At all, ever?
Quite everything loads after some minutes, but this is really boring.
Moreover, just before the `Internet crash,' I encounter messages such as
`The connection
On 2010-04-15 08:17, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Hi,
I am using Icedove for some e-mails. If I click on a link in a message,
_most often_ Epiphany loads the page. Sometimes, Iceweasel loads the
page at the place of Epiphany. My default browser is set as `Iceweasel'
and Icedove should consequently
On 2010-04-15 09:07, Matthew Moore wrote:
[snip]
I also experienced this problem, and found that liberal use of noscript and
flashblock really helped.
Good point. While I got sick of creating noscript exceptions, I'm a
great fan of flashblock and ABP.
I finally
On 2010-04-15 08:52, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 07:25 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-15 04:56, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
Hello, all. We've installed acroread 8.1.7-0.1 from debian-multimedia.
It is not seeing any of the printers on our cups print server
On 2010-04-15 09:48, roberto wrote:
hello,
i was wondering if it possible to get a list of the software used by
myself, sorting them by frequence of usage;
this could be helpful to know which software are uselessly in my
laptop and i can uninstall them
If you have (and it's a good thing to
On 2010-04-15 12:06, Charles Kroeger wrote:
On my system, sid, this command wouldn't work:
$ update-alternatives --display x-www-browser
this command will:
$ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
why is that?
It better not work from an unprivileged account!
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On 2010-04-15 13:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-14 11:12, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-13 15:53, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
Anybody install a recent motherboard that they are happy with?
I am due for an upgrade and there are too many choices
On 2010-04-15 13:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
ATX means you'll get lots of built-in features. I like my Gigabyte
GA-MA780G-UD3H mobo with AM2+/AM2 socket.
8GM RAM, 6 SATA, 1 (or 2, I forget) rear eSATA, lots of USB, a front
and rear Firewire and decent on-board
On 2010-04-15 15:38, Camaleón wrote:
[snip]
I always try to fill the RAM slots of the board at their maximum capacity
(at least 2 GiB.) so upgrading memory will be worth for it.
That's a bit garbled... Did you forget a word somewhere?
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On 2010-04-15 18:12, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/15/2010 2:34 PM:
That's a real pain.
NewEgg has no filter on netcards for mobo's
Yeah, I know, it sucks. I wasted a lot of time doing research for a
previous thread trying to hunt down mobos with Intel or non-Realtek
On 2010-04-15 19:37, Stephen Powell wrote:
[snip]
I'm going to be filing a bug report against parted for (a) miscalculating the
starting
block of the implicit partition on an ldl (Linux Disk Layout) formatted disk on
the
s390 architecture when the block size is other than 4096, and (b) no
On 2010-04-15 18:45, Rob Owens wrote:
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:37:31AM +0200, Clive McBarton wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Anyway, the cron-apt package does what you want. It is recommended,
though, to use it only for downloads.
It does help the OP since he uses apt-get, but what about
On 2010-04-15 22:09, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
[snip]
still doesn't work. Setting the command line debugging variable, I
found that it cannot find the PPD file. Does it only work if the CUPS
server is running locally? In our case, we use a central CUPS server
running on a non-standard port.
On 2010-04-13 22:50, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/13/2010 3:53 PM:
[snip]
Either way, avoid onboard RealTek ethernet as it's not currently supported
well by Debian. One might be able to make it work, but the process requires
some serious hoop jumping.
Really?
On 2010-04-13 23:24, Sthu Deus wrote:
Good day.
I have oowriter from testing repo installed w/ all the necessary
What version is that? v3.2 from Sid opens much faster than any
other version I've seen.
dependencies. Now at opening of the first document it hangs for
Hang has a specific
On 2010-04-14 09:31, Paul E Condon wrote:
[snip]
non-obvious --- to the point that there was an open contest with
prizes awarded for the most obfuscated example of C code. The prizes
went to the code for which the judges were most surprised on seeing
it run after they read the code and tried to
On 2010-04-14 11:12, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-13 15:53, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
Anybody install a recent motherboard that they are happy with?
I am due for an upgrade and there are too many choices.
Come on, man... You should know the drill.
Specify:
o
On 2010-04-14 13:40, Stefan Monnier wrote:
If you're going to buy two drives, you'd be stupid to not use
mirroring for fault tolerance and a little added read performance
here and there (depends on application).
I disagree. Mirroring only protects you against drive failures and not
human
On 2010-04-14 21:58, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Ron Johnson put forth on 4/14/2010 8:28 AM:
On 2010-04-13 22:50, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom put forth on 4/13/2010 3:53 PM:
[snip]
Either way, avoid onboard RealTek ethernet as it's not currently
supported
well by Debian. One might be able
On 2010-04-14 22:35, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
[snip]
r8169 requesting rtl8169-1.fw
What package is that in?
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On 2010-04-14 23:29, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
[snip]
You mentioned you had problems building 2.6.32 and .33 kernel source. Do
you use the Debian kernel source or kernel.org source? I've been using the
kernel.org source for quite some time and have never had any real problems
with it (knocks on
On 2010-04-13 05:23, Jon Dowland wrote:
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
If you're going to buy two
drives, you'd be stupid to not use mirroring for fault tolerance and a
little added read performance here and there (depends on application).
I disagree. Mirroring only protects you against drive failures
On 2010-04-13 11:13, thib wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-13 05:23, Jon Dowland wrote:
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
If you're going to buy two
drives, you'd be stupid to not use mirroring for fault tolerance and a
little added read performance here and there (depends on application).
I
On 2010-04-13 15:53, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
Anybody install a recent motherboard that they are happy with?
I am due for an upgrade and there are too many choices.
Come on, man... You should know the drill.
Specify:
o budget
o needed features
o preferred features
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On 2010-04-13 17:16, Stephen Powell wrote:
I realize that this is not a C forum, per se, but this is a Debian-specific
C question. I am trying to add support to the parted utility for CMS-formatted
[snip]
I know how to do this in PL/I, but despite having spent the last two hours
paging
On 2010-04-12 01:41, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 19:43:30 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote:
im trying to type [copy from character map] power of 2. i can read
power of 2 on webpages but if i were to cope paste from that page,
the power displays as a normal character 2. is this a
On 2010-04-11 08:11, Clive McBarton wrote:
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a
rsync -ax / /media/newdevice.
What exactly is the advantage of this approach over cp -a or mv?
I would have suggested mv. It has the useful property that you can
On 2010-04-11 08:29, Clive McBarton wrote:
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a
rsync -ax / /media/newdevice.
What exactly is the advantage of this approach over cp -a or mv?
Over mv? That you keep the original files.
Of
On 2010-04-11 02:19, M.Lewis wrote:
I have a machine running Lenny with a 250GB IDE HD in it. The HD is on
its last legs giving S.M.A.R.T. errors.
I have a question about how best to divide things up in the new setup.
The current 250GB IDE HD has two partitions on it:
/dev/hda1 = linux
On 2010-04-08 19:44, Paul E Condon wrote:
I want to use the low cost high capacity hard drives that are
for sale in places like Best Buy and Costco. I have put ext3 on
several of them and started experimenting. The results so far
are puzzling.
On 2010-04-11 15:53, Clive McBarton wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Hah. Speeding up transfers is more likely, since the wire is always the
bottleneck, and compression means it will be carrying more bits per bit.
There's no mention of wire transfer anywhere in this thread, and in fact
Yes, wire
On 2010-04-11 15:54, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
Ron Johnson schreef:
On 2010-04-11 08:11, Clive McBarton wrote:
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a
rsync -ax / /media/newdevice.
What exactly is the advantage of this approach over cp -a or mv?
I
On 2010-04-11 18:49, thib wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Yes, wire is slang for network cables, but SATA cables are actual
wires too and orders of magnitude slower than CPU/RAM transfer.
This is true, but isn't relevant to what you suggested.
Think about it some more.
...
Oh yes.
We'll never
On 2010-04-10 02:20, Clive McBarton wrote:
Paul E Condon wrote:
dumpe2fs -b device is supposed to print the bad blocks that have
been marked on a device. When I run it, it prints nothing. I find it
hard to believe that a 500GB HD contains ZERO bad blocks.
Every HD that is even remotely
On 2010-04-08 23:38, Chris wrote:
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:40:12 +0200
godo go...@dobosevic.com wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Hi,
I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian
Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses
x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't
On 2010-04-08 20:27, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-08 19:44, Paul E Condon wrote:
I want to use the low cost high capacity hard drives that are
for sale in places like Best Buy and Costco. I have put ext3 on
several of them and started experimenting. The results so far
are puzzling.
I do get
On 2010-04-09 11:04, Paul E Condon wrote:
[snip]
But ... Why does the output say that the disk was modified
during the run? There were no badblocks found. What needed
modification?
Good question.
Do you have similar magic for dumpe2fs?
Nope.
Of course your output presented here
On 2010-04-08 03:03, Mart Frauenlob wrote:
On 08.04.2010 00:49, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-07 16:12, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
Mart's method is the shell way. The 3GL Way is:
grep -w $NAME $FILE
TMP=$?
if [ $TMP = 1 ];
That should be:
if [ $TMP = 0 ];
then
echo -e $NAME\n $FILE
On 2010-04-08 03:01, Mart Frauenlob wrote:
On 07.04.2010 23:12, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-07 15:45, Mart Frauenlob wrote:
On 07.04.2010 22:10, Kent West wrote:
[...]
I want a script that will read the file and look for the name fred,
and if it's found, leave the file alone, but if it's
On 2010-04-08 02:56, Mart Frauenlob wrote:
[snip]
2: saving me typing (quick web search):
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.shell/2006-12/msg00934.html
Interesting.
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On 2010-04-08 01:10, Robert Cates wrote:
Hi all,
I've got Lenny running, quite fine actually, and I keep up with the
updates, but I just noticed the following at the very end of my dmesg
which I've never seen before and I'm hoping somebody can explain to me
what this means and if I some kind
On 2010-04-08 06:40, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
The last few days, when using reportbug, I get (from two machines, on
two different networks):
Querying Debian BTS for reports on linux-2.6 (source)...
Unable to connect to Debian BTS; continue [y|N|?]?
except some very rare cases.
Anybody else
On 2010-04-08 08:42, Julio wrote:
El jue, 08-04-2010 a las 13:27 +, Camaleón escribió:
Anyone experiencing this error on Lenny and Iceweasel 3.0.6?
me too.
escomposlinix.org looks to be from Spain, and the name Camaleón sure
looks Spanish. So, since it works perfectly for me in the
On 2010-04-08 15:34, Abraham Chaffin wrote:
What training / certification courses would you guys recommend for Sys
Admin / Security Admin training or certification for Debian?
Is the LPIC a good route? Go with Red Hat certification? Or what do you
all suggest?
Towards what end? Better
Hi,
I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian
Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses
x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want.
update-alternatives --install seems to be what I want in order to
add /usr/local/firefox/firefox to the
On 2010-04-08 19:50, godo wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Hi,
I just locally installed upstream firefox, and of course Debian
Alternatives doesn't know about it, so Iceweasel, which uses
x-www-browser loads iceape, which I don't want.
update-alternatives --install seems to be what I want
On 2010-04-08 19:44, Paul E Condon wrote:
I want to use the low cost high capacity hard drives that are
for sale in places like Best Buy and Costco. I have put ext3 on
several of them and started experimenting. The results so far
are puzzling.
I do get errors. So I decided to do scans for bad
On 2010-04-08 20:50, Tom Furie wrote:
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:38:56AM -, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes:
# update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \
/usr/local/firefox/firefox 3
update-alternatives
On 2010-04-08 20:38, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes:
# update-alternatives --install x-www-browser firefox \
/usr/local/firefox/firefox 3
update-alternatives: error: alternative link is not absolute as it
should be: x
On 2010-04-08 20:48, Kaicheng Zhang wrote:
Hi there,
I have to ssh to a server A and then ssh to server B where I do my
job. Therefore scp cannot work well when I want transfer files between
remote and host machine.
I used secureCRT in Windows, and its feature allow me to type rz
in the
On 2010-04-08 21:38, Stephen Powell wrote:
[snip]
For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head:
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I'd rather learn to fish.
There's another proverb: Teach a man to
On 2010-04-08 23:49, Freeman wrote:
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 10:31:33PM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:58:38 -0500
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
On 2010-04-08 21:38, Stephen Powell wrote:
[snip]
For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head
On 2010-04-08 22:36, green wrote:
[snip]
I am using mutt. I had procmail set up to drop messages in different maildir
boxes. Then I switched to mailfilter. And because it is such a pain when a
new mailing list is added (or whatever),
??
It takes 30 seconds to pull up ~/.mailfilter
On 2010-04-07 02:51, Freeman wrote:
I'll always be slowly catching up on comp tech.
I was using Knoppix and ClamAV to remove a virus for a friend when the
futility of it all hit me. The free anti-virus hopscotch game that windows
users play to feel safe.
http://xkcd.com/463/
On 2010-04-07 04:38, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Solved through LinuxQuestions forum. Forget about this thread.
It would have been helpful to post the relevant link...
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On 2010-04-07 13:52, Jozsi Vadkan wrote:
how do you automate the updates in Lenny? [if you're using it as a
desktop os, and you don't want to give: apt-get update; apt-get
upgrade -y every week..]?
That's a foolish thing to do, since blind acceptance can lead to a
broken system.
Anyway, the
On 2010-04-07 14:21, Germana Oliveira wrote:
Hi!
Recently i start to use wodim by console to writte a CD-RW, my CD-ROM
(internal, writter) persented problems so im using an externar
cd-writter (hp cd.writer 2800 series), but still im having problemas.
i try this:
(root user) wodim -v -eject
On 2010-04-07 15:45, Mart Frauenlob wrote:
On 07.04.2010 22:10, Kent West wrote:
I'm asking you folks, 'cause y'all know this stuff (I've been wrestling
with this simple task all day).
I've got a text file; I just want a script (a one-liner sed or awk
command, etc, would be awesome) to check
On 2010-04-07 16:12, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
Mart's method is the shell way. The 3GL Way is:
grep -w $NAME $FILE
TMP=$?
if [ $TMP = 1 ];
That should be:
if [ $TMP = 0 ];
then
echo -e $NAME\n $FILE
fi
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