Re: is there a tarsnap pkg avaialble for debian

2011-06-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/23/2011 01:09 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: [snip] Is there a source for a `tarsnap' pkg (http://www.tarsnap.com/index.html) that is accessible with `aptitude'? https://www.tarsnap.com/download.html [quote]At the present time, pre-built binaries are not available for Tarsnap — it must

Re: Almost everyday a new issue: this time Amarok

2011-06-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/21/2011 02:26 PM, he who wrote: [snip] Speaking of multiple music directories, do you know of a way to set which directory Amarok imports music files too? It just uses the first (and main) directory I selected but I may need to change that. What if I've already got an organized scheme

Re: Almost everyday a new issue: this time Amarok

2011-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2011 07:35 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: [snip] Unfortunately Aqualung has only a small subset of Amarok 2s capabilities. And I've yet to find anything that matches Amarok - it easily handles my 260GB music collection (53k+ songs (5130 albums) as well as lyric files, photos, music videos,

Re: Almost everyday a new issue: this time Amarok

2011-06-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/19/2011 01:22 PM, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 19 June 2011 19:01:07 AG wrote: Did that and the Amrok app still crashes. Is this Anarok 2.x. I have heard complaints about it before. I am still sitting pretty on Amarok 1.4.5, which is more than adequate for my (admittedly undemanding) needs.

Re: message threading; was Re (3): QCAD Pro in Squeeze

2011-06-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/19/2011 06:15 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From a private message; From: C P Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:30:55 -0400 Would you please fix your mail client so you stop breaking the list threading? Usually I manage to set In-reply-to to the Message-id of the message being replied to.

Re: broadcom [WOOT]

2011-06-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/14/2011 03:14 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: LMAO. This thread is made of win. Except that you top-posted ONE LINE over 60 and converted the email from text to html. Bad Cal. Very, very Bad Cal. On 14 Jun 2011 04:22, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com

Re: HELP: Number of CPU cores is not right

2011-06-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/18/2011 05:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:49:41 +0200, Armin Kneip wrote: The computer OS running has 48-core CPU, but the OS now only can recognize 32-core of CPU. The kernel version is 2.6.26-2-amd64. The current Debian kernel supports only 32 cpu's. Set CONFIG_NR_CPUS

Re: news/mail client and the text borders

2011-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/12/2011 09:28 PM, Davide Baldini wrote: What software do you use for mail/news? I see all your messages are proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in pages of 80 columns, while I have to push return each line. If i forget, lines gets splitted in my window but then when i send it out i

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/11/2011 04:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [snip] I don't like to insert a CD either :). I can't tell if you're telling a joke or being eccentric. -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

Re: Plug in with FIREFOX

2011-06-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/10/2011 12:47 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:17:40AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 15:12 -0400, Michael Checca wrote: Squeeze autoinstalls gnash which seems to work perfectly. Is there a reason to install flashplugin-nonfree and icedtea6-plugin?

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 06:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:21:23 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/08/2011 06:32 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] I use alcohol to clean the ball and internal rollers. But I'm afraid laser based mice get also dirty (bottom surface has also to be cleaned for fast

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 12:16 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: [snip] Pass - I'm thinking about changing email clients, just as soon as I can figure out how to keep all my email, and, what's causing the encoding problem. It's definite not Icedove per se, since Camaleón's name has always rendered correctly

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 12:38 PM, AG wrote: Hi all Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional. These are some of the issues: 1. Windows manager is unknown and no

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 01:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [snip] (gedit:7637): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to rename '/root/.recently-used.xbel': No such file or directory GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common Why in ${DEITY}'s name are you logged in as root?? -- Neither the

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 01:26 PM, AG wrote: [snip] This is a complete nonsense - why are config files being over-written by a safe-update ? Sorry - don't mean to rant, but this is a complete waste of time when I have work to do! It doesn't. But your existing session might have scribbled over

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 02:52 PM, AG wrote: On 09/06/11 20:03, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/09/2011 01:26 PM, AG wrote: [snip] This is a complete nonsense - why are config files being over-written by a safe-update ? Sorry - don't mean to rant, but this is a complete waste of time when I have work to do

Re: Native Oberon; was Re: Re (4): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/08/2011 11:25 AM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: * From: Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net * Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:37:25 -0500 By the way, Native Oberon the Niklaus Wirth OS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Oberon; And it runs Firefox? -- Neither the wisest constitution

Re: Re (2): Native Oberon

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/08/2011 12:02 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:38:28 -0500 And it runs Firefox? Reference the last topic in this message. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg00521.html The best it can do is FF on another

Re: [OT] Native Oberon

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/08/2011 02:41 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 14:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: ETHNO can easily be installed from a diskette in an evening. I experienced having a disk notcher at hand is very comfortable http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/foto/cip/mix_disk_notcher_01.jpg Bah

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/08/2011 06:16 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:28:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/07/2011 01:40 PM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] I still see some disadvantages for laser or BlueTrack based mice: 1/ They do not work on crystal or clear surfaces I can't remember the last time

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/08/2011 06:32 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] I use alcohol to clean the ball and internal rollers. But I'm afraid laser based mice get also dirty (bottom surface has also to be cleaned for fast sliding). Once a year. Maybe. But as I said on my previous post to Ron, I

Re: is this hard disk failure?

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 08:02 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: [snip] - install SMART utilities and run smartctl -A /dev/your drive -- the first line is usually the raw read error rate -- if the value (last entry on the line) is anything except 0, that's the sign that your drive is failing, if it's in the

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) when using a PS/2 mouse with stable or testing the mouse wheel very seldom does work, usually it doesn't. For Ubuntu Maverick and Natty it's the same. Did you choose 3-button emulation? -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 09:48 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [snip] How should I break mouse wheel support, when I break ALSA? I try to get Not at the same time, but with *different* fiddling. -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose

Re: Missing device nodes

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 04:00 AM, titantopp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, I'm running Debian Wheezy (testing) on the latest kernel (2.6.38-2-686) as my file server. This server has a RAID 5 array composed of 4 SATA hard disks connected to the motherboard controller. mdadm complains that it is unable to

Re: Missing device nodes

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
So it's md that can't find them? On 06/07/2011 09:52 AM, titantopp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm actually not too concerned about the missing partitions, as I do know that they exist - fdisk shows the partition table, and partprobe will make the partitions show up in /dev again. I'm thinking

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 12:37 PM, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2011 14:23:19 Camaleón wrote: I'm using a PS/2 mouse with Debian and works very well. +1 Moreover, it has a ball not a light. I dread the day it dies!! You *like* ball mice? -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 01:40 PM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] I still see some disadvantages for laser or BlueTrack based mice: 1/ They do not work on crystal or clear surfaces I can't remember the last time I put my mouse on a clear (glass?) surface. But if I did, then I'd use a mousepad.

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 01:27 PM, William Hopkins wrote: On 06/07/11 at 01:00pm, Paul Johnson wrote: If you have one of these new-ish Dell laptops, maybe we can help each other. The newer kernel appears to be necessary to use either the wireless ( Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 ) or the

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 06:00 PM, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2011 18:41:19 Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/07/2011 12:37 PM, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2011 14:23:19 Camaleón wrote: I'm using a PS/2 mouse with Debian and works very well. +1 Moreover, it has a ball not a light. I dread the day

Re: security-warning

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 11:12 AM, Klaus Wolf wrote: Dear guys, her is again a warning of the german Ministry for Security Internet: We do appreciate you thinking of us, but this isn't a security list. -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 11:23 AM, prad wrote: in the past we've had two partitions: / /data into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any data copying to

Re: Re (4): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 04:12 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Camaleonnoela...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:34:24 + (UTC) Can you give a concrete example of your goal? In your home directory, make a file named Category2.html containing any valid html text. The example you gave in

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) when using a PS/2 mouse with stable or testing the mouse wheel very seldom does work, usually it doesn't. For Ubuntu Maverick and Natty it's the same. [snip] Since you didn't tell us what kind of PS/2 mouse, how in Eris' name are we supposed

Re: How to use ALSA from the kernel?

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) after removing all ALSA packages, excepted of libasound2, ALSA is broken. I kept libasound2, because it's a dependency for audio apps. If needed I could replace it by a dummy package. Right now I build kernel 2.6.39.1 to replace my kernel

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 07:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 18:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Since you didn't tell us what kind of PS/2 mouse, how in Eris' name are we supposed to help you? Trekker Wheel Mouse 2.0A Is that a MS two-button

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 08:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 20:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/06/2011 07:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 18:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Since you didn't tell us what kind of PS/2 mouse, how

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/05/2011 07:59 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 04 iun 11, 22:56:19, Ron Johnson wrote: (I'd suggest that you give static IP addresses to your desktop machines and use the /etc/hosts file -- yes, even Windows has one -- to give your machines permanent symbolic names. Makes things easier

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 01:10 AM, Doug wrote: On 06/04/2011 01:55 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/04/2011 12:48 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] No, I don't have a network up. As I said, I really don't know anything about networks. What I want is not only file sharing, but the ability to use the Win 7 machine

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 01:31 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] I opened the suggested url, and read the following intro: *Reader Prerequisites*: To get the most from this article, understand the following concepts before reading: basic unix command line tools, text editors, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, netmask, gateway I'm

Re: Gnome/KDE program launches hang when Internet disconnected - Lenny

2011-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 08:34 AM, Jack Dodds wrote: Thanks to those who commented. I tried/etc/init.d/networking stop . When this is done, programs launch without delay. Of course, this makes it impossible for any program to access the Internet so it's not a solution! However, taking gedit as

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 02:52 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 06/03/2011 07:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] And admittely, in such programs (like Getmail or Fetchmail) it is very useful to have the keep option while configuring the

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 06:21 PM, Doug wrote: On 06/04/2011 02:53 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/04/2011 01:31 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] I opened the suggested url, and read the following intro: *Reader Prerequisites*: To get the most from this article, understand the following concepts before reading: basic

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/02/2011 07:31 PM, John Hasler wrote: Arno Schuring writes: I find DDG (http://duckduckgo.com/Duck_Duck_Go) satisfies my needs perfectly. Requires Javascript. Google doesn't. I've been using ever since Google decided to start showing site thumbnails on mouseover events. I've never

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2011 07:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] And admittely, in such programs (like Getmail or Fetchmail) it is very useful to have the keep option while configuring the application so you don't delete e-mails unless you are sure they're well routed locally and messages reach their inboxes.

Re: What kernel for AMD Sempron system?

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2011 07:11 AM, Thomas Milne wrote: Hello all, I just assembled a system with an M2V motherboard and Sempron processor, with Nvidia graphics card. I installed Debian Squeeze, then upgraded to unstable. Installed nvidia-glx, nvidia dkms, a new kernel and headers. The kernel that was

Re: FAIL: where is snes9x?

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2011 05:53 PM, Dirk wrote: LOL, after 15 years snes9x has a GUI and the first thing that happens: debian removes it from the distro... so much fail... it impossible to grasp such a huge amount of fail... There's this amazing new tool called the Search Engine. Type in a few words

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2011 11:43 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: [snip] NFS is by far simpler to use in pure Linux environment, Samba is for Windows networks. NFS has no passwords, just install it with apt-get, and declare /etc/exports in the server, and mount the shares in the clients /etc/fstab. That's

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 12:48 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] No, I don't have a network up. As I said, I really don't know anything about networks. What I want is not only file sharing, but the ability to use the Win 7 machine as a print server. (Linux is not fit to be a print server since it takes forever to

Re: converting apple quicktime to mpeg

2011-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/2011 01:25 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 31 May 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: The mplayer.log file displayed as a couple of dozen garbled bytes. The log has 66 text lines, followed by the garbled bytes written while mplayer is reading the input file, but you can display the whole

Re: converting apple quicktime to mpeg

2011-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/2011 04:03 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, I tried several methods to convert a .mov file to .mpg, but none really works, and google didn't help me in that case. ffmpeg seemed to me the best choice, but I get: Invalid data found when processing input We need the exact command and all

Re: debian on NVIDIA(R) CUDA

2011-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/2011 12:12 AM, William Hopkins wrote: On 05/31/11 at 10:18am, surreal wrote: hi there.. has anyone tried using debian on NVIDIA® CUDA platform? Forgive my ignorance, but I thought CUDA was a distributed computing toolset? That is, 'using debian on' is sort've meaningless. You

Re: converting apple quicktime to mpeg

2011-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/2011 04:57 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 31 May 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: We need the exact command and all the output. (OK to attach as a text file.) Here it is. Actually, I called ffmpeg with some options, but the ouput is exactly the same. Try this: ffmpeg -loglevel

Re: converting apple quicktime to mpeg

2011-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/2011 01:37 PM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 31 May 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: Try this: ffmpeg -loglevel verbose -i file.mov mplayer -identify file.mov the ffmpeg output is the same as before, even with -loglevel debug -v 10 I attach, in addition to mplayer.log, the outputs

Re: LVM + USB drive

2011-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2011 02:56 AM, Itay wrote: [snip] # ) # Before unplugging $ umount /mnt/point/of/lvm $ lvchange -an /dev/myVG $ vgexport -a # After plugging-in $ vgimport -a $ lvchange -ay /dev/myVG $ mount [options] /mnt/point/of/lvm # (Question: vgexport/import is needed if volume groups are

Re: Scratchy sound when encoding mkv to DVD with mencoder

2011-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2011 03:36 AM, François TOURDE wrote: Le 15124ième jour après Epoch, William Hopkins écrivait: I don't want to discourage you from posting to debian-user, as someone there may have a solution for you (although I regrettably do not). But may I recommend the mplayer-user ML? Hi. I

Re: Scratchy sound when encoding mkv to DVD with mencoder

2011-05-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/29/2011 04:21 PM, François TOURDE wrote: Hi, I've a problem trying to convert a mkv video into a DVD suitable for a home DVD player: I use stable/testing, with debian-multimedia repositories for mplayer and mencoder, and when I try to encode the mkv, I've a scratchy sound, and only the

Re: multi-boot mess: have I destroyed Windows 7 ?

2011-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/2011 05:10 PM, Charles Blair wrote: [snip] We can only pray that you have... grin -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749 -- To

Re: Viewing YouTube in slow motion?

2011-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2011 12:34 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 05/24/11 07:26, Mihira Fernando wrote: On 05/24/2011 07:55 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there any software out there to allow me to download, or capture the stream of a YouTube video and then play it back at a slower pace. There are some videos of

Re: How to rip double discs albums?

2011-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
Another strong vote for abcde. Lets you rip to a multitude of formats and naming styles, is multi-processing, so transcodes song #1 while ripping song #2 and lets you edit the cddb file before processing starts. On 05/24/2011 12:23 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: And if you are comfortable on

Re: USR 5633 Robotics Modem in Debian

2011-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2011 06:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 20:43:14 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/25/2011 08:17 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 07:41:38 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Camaleón writes: How can a modem be both serial (rs-232) and internal By having a UART on the card

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2011 12:04 PM, Mark Grieveson wrote: [snip] Others here have argued that it's not necessary to worry about viruses and stuff when using Linux, but I still like to do it to feel a bit safer (admittedly, if I were to deactivate the root account and set up some sort of sudo thingy, as

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2011 02:02 PM, Brian wrote: [snip] Broadly I agree with your sentiments. Now all that remains is to convince the other 100,000,000+ who run everything as root to adopt the same atitude. Antivirus software is for after the event. Failure has already taken place. Obligatory xkcd

Re: Gnome start menu on ubuntu

2011-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/23/2011 11:11 PM, shawn wilson wrote: [snip] i went with ubuntu instead of debian because of the ui extension things they add. ie, plug in an iphone and a message pops up asking if a rythombox iirc package can be installed to help manage the music - stuff like that. i don't think this

Re: Viewing YouTube in slow motion?

2011-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/24/2011 09:26 AM, Mihira Fernando wrote: On 05/24/2011 07:55 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there any software out there to allow me to download, or capture the stream of a YouTube video and then play it back at a slower pace. There are some videos of karate katas that I would really like to

Re: USR 5633 Robotics Modem in Debian

2011-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/25/2011 08:17 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 07:41:38 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Camaleón writes: How can a modem be both serial (rs-232) and internal By having a UART on the card and appearing to the computer as a serial port. I have several of these in my junkbox (all ISA,

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/25/2011 07:55 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: [snip] Thanks Camaleón, you were the only one to reply. And this puzzles me BTW. I doubt people do not use clamav in Debian. Is there anything wrong with my posting. I'm new to Debian community and willing to learn. :-) The main (only valid?)

Re: received sms possible or not with debian ??

2011-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/25/2011 02:22 PM, thuillier-charmet wrote: i am looking a tip(s) for received sms without commercial intermediate ? i am more beginner than a geek, so thanks in advance for a full explanation. You want to send/receive SMS messages with cell phones without hooking in some how with the

Re: Chromium 11 on Debian 6.0.1 Stable

2011-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/25/2011 06:28 AM, Perry Thompson wrote: [snip] I still think that this should be possible. I mean, Chrome 11 works from chrome.google.com, why shouldn't Chromium work? Deep, internal, slight library dependencies. End-user packages are built against certain specific versions of

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/25/2011 11:44 PM, Mark Grieveson wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 22:11:52 -0500, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: The main (only valid?) purpose of clamav is for mail server computers in Windows offices. I've found it useful for removing unwanted and/or broken applications

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2011 12:28 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 22:11:52 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/25/2011 07:55 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: [snip] Thanks Camaleón, you were the only one to reply. And this puzzles me BTW. I doubt people do not use clamav in Debian

Re: Gnome start menu on ubuntu

2011-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/23/2011 02:17 AM, shawn wilson wrote: (This might be a ubuntu themeing issue) I installed ubuntu 11.04 on an HP netbook. Everything works great (even [snip] You're gonna get flamed for asking an *obviously* Ubuntu-related question on a non-Ubuntu mailing list. Try

Re: UUID - autmatically entries?

2011-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/21/2011 11:52 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20110522_035930, annathemerm...@hush.com wrote: snip... I recently performed a manual installation of Debian, bypassing partman (in order to bypass a severe problem with partman and/or yaboot that was breaking another OS), and thus configured

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/22/2011 11:45 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 00:06, Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: Poking holes in the firewall sounds to me like a firewall problem, not a Skype problem. If Skype has admin rights, it will use them stealthily. Why

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/22/2011 09:47 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will stay like this for probably 5 secs. although it seems longer, and it

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/22/2011 10:22 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:30, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Because it thinks it needs system privs? Just like any other app that runs as root. Do you run Skype as root? And if you do, then there is no basis to complain about Skype then

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/22/2011 11:22 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:29, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: I was thinking of setuid() magic. Again an OS issue, Insofar as the OS provides the feature. not a Skype issue. Yet, *if* Skype uses the function it's

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/23/2011 12:01 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 07:40, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: [snip] Yet, *if* Skype uses the function it's because Skype's programmers programmed Skype to use the function. Which the OS allows them, so I pass no blame on the Skype devs.

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/21/2011 02:54 AM, Klistvud wrote: [snip] How's this for a reason: Epson not giving a rodent's undertail for their non-Windows users? Surprising, since Epson printers used to be well-supported by CUPS. -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and

Re: lsusb lists nothing and webcam gone -- romance ruined

2011-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/21/2011 05:51 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Fellows, there I was all ready for a webcam call with my potential date, but my romance was ruined by following sid too closely. [snip] Yes, I know. Don't use sid if you want a love life. How oh how did humanity survive w/o webcams?

Re: GTK - WARNING ++ : XID collision, trouble ahead

2011-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/21/2011 02:09 PM, Charles Blair wrote: I recently installed squeeze on a laptop with an ethernet connection. Wired, you mean? When I run iceweasel from root terminal, it Bad, bad, bad form. Just like logging into Windows as Administrator. Don't do that. works

Re: lsusb lists nothing and webcam gone -- romance ruined

2011-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/21/2011 08:07 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 15:51, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: How oh how did humanity survive w/o webcams? GOML! We weren't competing with others that have them. Just like cellphones Fight with different weapons: I comb my hair and

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/21/2011 12:51 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: [snip] for the purposes of this conversation - what do you think - is normally a subset of may or of must? :-) Neither. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Normal \Normal\ (n[^o]rmal), a. [L. normalis,

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/20/2011 02:01 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 20 mai 11, 09:14:21, Vladimir Morozov wrote: Dear sirs, how to restore ability to install official NVidia driver? The latest driver 270.* included in debian package is buggy for my adapter, so i need to downgrade to previous one. There are no

Re: unique identifiers for cdrom drives

2011-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/17/2011 12:17 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20110516_120833, Camaleón wrote: [snip] How does your /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules look like? There are too many entries in it. More entries than I have ever had distinct cdrom drives installed. I think these spurious entries maybe

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/17/2011 04:52 AM, Jesus arteche wrote: Hi, We have a problem. We are building an app which uses Roundcube to read mails. It's ok for IMAP accounts, but we need to read an account provider who just uses POP3. We need to read it without download the mails. But that's what IMAP is for.

Re: Quality Assurance of mailserver?

2011-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2011 06:19 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: You can also use uptimed, to create mails at long uptimes. I got 500 days uptime confirmed, which is really good, I think. Chances are that bragging about up times that long is a failing, not a feature. Kernels and

Re: Dovecot Problems on Sid

2011-05-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/14/2011 11:32 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/14/2011 6:07 AM, deloptes wrote: Someone is brainless - but definitely not me! deloptes@yahoo.com Nope, definitely not you. ;) That's pretty rude, and definitely uncalled for on a public list. -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/11/2011 06:40 AM, consul tores wrote: [snip] Could you please explain which concept of terrorists are you referring to? Real or political? Do any terrorists have (in the broad sense of the term) non-political aims. -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the

Re: How to join forever an alsa device id to a particular USB port?

2011-05-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/11/2011 08:38 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: owl...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I bought 2 identic USB audio device that work correctly with linux but when I restart linux or I keep the devices out and I put it in again they take another id. I need that the id would be always the same. Every

Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/10/2011 02:26 AM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: Tom Furie wrote: Ahem, don't you mean Jeroen? Sorry, couldn't resist. Yeah me, thanks. :-) Thing is, normally I see little to no spam from a mailing list. That's because they're managed in such a way spam hasn't got a chance of getting through.

Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/10/2011 03:42 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Not forgotten, but a consequence of the policy decision to let Debian lists be open. I question the wisdom of that decision. There are ways to, on the one hand not hinder openness much at all and on the other hand prevent spam

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/09/2011 03:23 AM, Daniel Linux wrote: Hi, Can anybody tell me the steps to troubleshoot disk space issues. Too generic. Not enough information. -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
You look for the biggest file. (I feel a GOML moment approaching.) On 05/09/2011 03:48 AM, Daniel Linux wrote: What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an answer. Thanks, On Mon, May 9,

Re: iceweasle history search by specific time

2011-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/09/2011 11:19 AM, lina wrote: Hi, I know sometimes I looked through a website, let's say Saturday 07,May,2011 02:47:36 PM SG actually it's something I downloaded, but I failed to find the exact URL. and the history list is so long. How can I find the specific url of that time,

Defending yourself

2011-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/09/2011 11:00 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: [snip] This must be the most spam infested mailing list I have subscribed to, and I am only subscribed for half a day, 3 or 4 spam emails in about 8 hours. Has this list list been forgotten by its maintainer(s)? Aren't you running your own spam

Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/09/2011 11:57 PM, shawn wilson wrote: [snip] To Ron Johnson, do you always reply to spam or just when a thousand plus people see it? (That's a rhetorical question btw) I don't understand your question. -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty

Re: Need debian package management status files explained

2011-05-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/08/2011 06:51 AM, Ciaran Smith wrote: Hi I have read up on Debian Package Management as much as I can at this stage. [snip] I figure I need to understand how dpkg works because apt builds on top of it. How this is not too many questions and thanks in advance for the help, Why?

Re: Trying to reinstall exim4

2011-05-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/08/2011 07:55 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: I was trying out postfix but I was unable to get it working the way I wanted, so I tried to purge postfix and reinstall exim4. I used aptitude to select postfix to purge and to install exim4, exim4-base, exim4-config, and exim4-daemon-light. It

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-05-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/02/2011 10:58 AM, Jeffrin Jose wrote: On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:25:30PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote: On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:26:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Why don't you accept the lateral black bars? Because it seems to get a bigger view of the Video. I mean bigger view without

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