Re: write to then read from the serial port

2012-07-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:23:10PM +0200, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, Please I just need a small program which write a character ( or several) then read it from that serial port. I used a null modem ( since I have just on serial port device). I want a simple serial connection. I

Re: Can't run iceweasel [Couldn't load XPCOM]

2012-07-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:09:18PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: I'd purge that, and reinstall it, someone has tampered with it; otherwise why would /usr/lib/xulrunner-10.0/libxul.so be missing. It was not missing but was being reported

Re: [OT] Re: Test Post

2012-07-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 03:35:38AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 15:27 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:35:40 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: * Do not send test messages to determine whether your mail client is working. Shouldn't be (or wouldn't be nice

Re: What does group consider to be on topic?

2012-07-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 04:07:38PM +, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, whether you are in doubt you can always tag the subject accordingly to avoid complains from the rest of the mailing list participants. Oh, right! like if you turn your hazard lights on in your car you can park anywhere you

Re: What does group consider to be on topic?

2012-07-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:57:11PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:06:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 04:07:38PM +, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, whether you are in doubt you can always tag the subject accordingly to avoid complains from the rest

Re: what graphic card to buy?

2012-07-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:21:03AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: The original justification for patents was that the government would protect your invention for a short period if you told the world about how it works. I thought that too, but ... :(

Re: What does group consider to be on topic?

2012-07-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 07:57:11PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:06:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Oh, right! like if you turn your hazard lights on in your car you can park anywhere you like. :( Well, exactly... that's what an OT flag is for: you are saying hey, people

Re: What does group consider to be on topic?

2012-07-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:19:20AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: You are missing the point: Chris is talking about people that would be able to make it to the next parking place or even repair garage, but chose to stop in the middle of the road asking other traffic participants about his

Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 01:45:15PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:58:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: How about suggesting the use of: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic instead? It does not apply for the case we are treating here

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 03:20:03PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:08:58 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 19 iul 12, 01:17:49, Doug wrote: Sorry for the bandwidth, but I think the Linux user--I'm certainly one of them--needs to realize what

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 07:41:20AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: However, here's the instruction how to build a dummy package for Debian based distros: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-helpers.en.html titleAPT HOWTO (Obsolete Documentation) - Very useful helpers/title

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:46:43PM +, Camaleón wrote: But I wouldn't post there how to configure an Oracle database with the current Debian stable. Hope you see the slightly difference between a brocolli and Oracle. Umm, I think so. :) I hope you see Oracle support doesn't come under

Re: Problems of Second writing of MBR with GRUB

2012-07-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 08:02:49AM +0530, L V Gandhi wrote: I have already installed windows xp and squeezei386 with grub in MBR. I would like install squeeze amd64 in other partition for multi boot. If I install grub in MBR while installing squeezeamd64, then how do I boot squeezei386 as its

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:32:14AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 23:19:07 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:46:43PM +, Camaleón wrote: But I wouldn't post there how to configure an Oracle database with the current Debian stable. Hope you see

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:58:52AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm running a computer box that is recently purchased second hand - new to me, but not new. While running a script that does a disk to disk copy with some reformatting on a file of a few GB, I got this burst of lines on all open

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 01:38:27PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:06:48 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: But, it **IS** ON TOPIC if they are not looking for Oracle support, so marking it [OT] is counter productive. And when is that to happen? What's the line that makes

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:01:50PM +0800, lina wrote: Just today one website I cared about failed to open, certainly it's under attack. And how does a firewall help in that case. If you don't want your intranet web server being accessed from outside, then that's what a firewall is for. It

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 04:18:07PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I have already downloaded Knoppix v7.0.1, per Chris' suggestion, but have not yet found out what to do with it. Does it have memory, component test software on it? Yes. At boot prompt read help screens. :) -- If you're not

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:21:34PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120723_110432, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 04:18:07PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I have already downloaded Knoppix v7.0.1, per Chris' suggestion, but have not yet found out what to do with it. Does

ultimatebootcd (was ... Re: What does this mean?)

2012-07-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:21:34PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: fancy KDE gui, but no help screens about such trivia as getting it working on possibly defective, broken, hardware. I got it working on a different computer and discovered that it uses UNIONFS to overlay an Regarding testing other

Folding at home with Debian

2012-07-24 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, Home page: http://folding.stanford.edu/English/HomePage Package available here (for wheezy): https://fah-web.stanford.edu/file-releases/beta/release/fahclient/debian-testing-32bit/v7.1/fahclient_7.1.52_i386.deb BUT dependency problem with: fahclient : Depends: libssl0.9.8 but it is not

Re: Why have d-community-offtopic? (Re: What does group consider to be on topic?)

2012-07-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 01:16:43PM +, Camaleón wrote: Ah, you finally got it! Now you see why someone would ask an OT here? :-) Grin I have always got it!, my point is regarding YOU *encouraging* that behaviour. OP: Paraphrase: Just mark it [OT] and it's OK (side note: yes, there are

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120724_022817, Chris Bannister wrote: Did you not see this: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix701-bootscreen.png In the bottom left hand corner there is boot:. The rest is art work, not information. Huh? what happens

Re: lost libnss3.so.1d

2012-07-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:47:05AM +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: Hi Just a little update; I've noticed the guys in the UBUNTU branch is having problems with Evolution after the upgrade to 11.10. Bug #855725 ; Evolution does not start after the latest updates (evolution: error while

Re: the rest of the postgresql mystery

2012-07-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 06:25:45AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Files from previous versions of postgresql are on the system and I found it impossible to remove those packages with aptitude after several attempts. For that reason I will be reinstalling debian and not reinstalling postgresql

Re: startx vs. xdm

2012-07-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:31:51PM -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 09:20:02AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: In the process of trying to make xmonad work I've found that startx fails whereas xdm succeeds. The logs are here. startx fails:

Re: mail server

2012-07-28 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please trim your posts.] On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 12:53:19PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: is there any good howto on Debian Squeeze on following tools Google is your friend. It also corrects spelling mistakes. :) -postfidx Web Results 1 - 10 of about 276,000 for +squeeze +postfidx

Re: Debian 8 to be called Jessie

2012-07-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 02:31:53PM +, Camaleón wrote: Hi, I just read it from debian-devel-announce¹: *** Surprise! - It's become a tradition that the reward for reading all the way through our first post-freeze mail is to be one of the first few to know the name of the

.xinitrc doesn't work, .xsessionrc does! (was ... Re: startx vs. xdm)

2012-07-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Bannister I use startx, and only have an .xsessionrc file. I know it is read because of the xterm settings. Resources, whether for xterm, urxvt, or similar, usually are not configured

Re: internet probably broken

2012-07-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 09:28:27PM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 12:12:11PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free amd64 Packages 47% [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]E: Method gave invalid

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 07:04:34AM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: Actually, right now, the nVidia-provided nVidia driver packaged in Debian has a number of problems with 3D support on several cards. For example I use an nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ which is 2-3 years old -- in other words, neither

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 04:51:11PM +, Camaleón wrote: I just wanted to point a scenario where the jump to a PDF filter as the default backend can have its troubles and not be nor as good nor as simple nor as easy as the white papers say. Companies have always showed different needs than

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 02:09:54PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 30 iul 12, 21:33:38, Chris Bannister wrote: JFTR, you don't need accelerated graphics to watch a video. But you may need something like VDPAU. Ohh, OK. Interesting ... -- If you're not careful, the newspapers

strong passwords (was ... Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 07:14:06AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: http://xkcd.com/936/ (I wonder how much truth there is behind this comic...) Don't bother wondering. Read the paper.

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 06:15:26PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:54:14 -0500 John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: Hello John, Brad Rogers writes: Yeah, on a Post-It note. Stuck to the monitor. That's what people do when you tell them not to write it down. _Tell_

Re: .xinitrc doesn't work, .xsessionrc does! (was ... Re: startx vs. xdm)

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:14:54AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: Have you tried not having your .xssesionrc at all? Does it provide the same result to you as with .xsessionrc? Yes, except for: -8 .xsessionrc -8 /home/chrisb/background.sh xterm -fn 10x20 -xrm

Re: startx vs. xdm

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: I use startx, and only have an .xsessionrc file. I know it is read because of the xterm settings. Resources, whether for xterm, urxvt, or similar, usually are not configured into .xinitrc, neither .xsession (I never used

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-08-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 10:22:09AM -0400, Celejar wrote: There have been numerous well-publicized breaches at banks, major retailers, etc. (and doubtless even more unpublicized ones). If / when hackers get your credentials to one institution, do you really want them to have the keys to all

Re: Debian multimedia repository

2012-08-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 03:17:08PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: It's not Christian's fault that there are incompatibilities. There are things in the programs he packages that require libraries to be compiled differently from the ones in the Debian repositories. He's aware of the conflicts but is

Re: compile gctwiwax on squeeze

2012-08-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 03:27:40PM +, Camaleón wrote: As per the INSTALL file, have you built libeap.so as instructed? Why is this a Debian problem? Nobody has said so. He is asking for support when compiling a program ;-) Right, which has nothing to do with Debian SUPPORT. There are

Re: compile gctwiwax on squeeze

2012-08-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 08:05:06PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 04:03:27 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 03:27:40PM +, Camaleón wrote: As per the INSTALL file, have you built libeap.so as instructed? Why is this a Debian problem? Nobody has

Re: installing source packages from snapshot.debian.org with apt-get source

2012-08-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 04:38:29PM -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 16:02:12 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/linux/ has in it 8 debian kernel source packages that I want to install consecutively to see if bug

Re: installing source packages from snapshot.debian.org with apt-get source

2012-08-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 10:09:20AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:31:48 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 04:38:29PM -0500, hvw59601 wrote: I looked at that but the examples of the deb entries they give are nothing like where the linux source files

Re: compile gctwiwax on squeeze

2012-08-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 10:12:13AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:18:33 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: A quick google turns up this: https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2011-October/012503.html Glad to see you're returning to the common sense side :-) Huh

Re: compile gctwiwax on squeeze

2012-08-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 01:31:07PM +, Camaleón wrote: Yeah, that's the spirit. Thanks for understanding :-) No problem. :-) Now, why did you snip the main part of my post?: Why are you so worried that people might work out how to help themselves? Do you disagree with:

Re: installing source packages from snapshot.debian.org with apt-get source

2012-08-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 01:29:10PM +, Camaleón wrote: Sorry, but I don't get what kind of documentation issue do you find here. There's a small Usage section in the front page. Sources and binary files are there, so...? Not me, The OP found an issue, ... so ... why can't he bring it up

Re: installing source packages from snapshot.debian.org with apt-get source

2012-08-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 02:32:49PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 02:06:19 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Not me, The OP found an issue, ... so ... why can't he bring it up there? Entirely appropriate, IMNSVHO. But you seemed to dissect the issue and found a documentation

Re: [OT] Who's interested in project management collaboration tools? And...

2012-08-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 09:28:13PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: So... I'd really welcome any feedback on the questions who cares about project management collaboration tools, how to reach them, and what might motivate them enough to take a look at what I'm doing? Instead of motivation think

Re: installing source packages from snapshot.debian.org with apt-get source

2012-08-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 03:23:04PM +, Camaleón wrote: I don't recall Hugo has said what he tried (exactly) and what was the result. Really? http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/08/msg00310.html Seems like problem solved? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating

Re: [LAU] OnDemand-performance was(OT: klang)

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 10:34:03AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: every email address in the mail is shown as is, so at least respect the privacy of others and remove email addresses, or much better, If you post to a mailing list, there *is* no privacy. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers

Re: BD-RE mount problem

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 11:51:36PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I'm using Memorex BD-RE 2x discs. I've used an LG, ASUS and Pioneer BluRay writer - the first two on the older machine. The ASUS and Pioneer are brand new writers. Any ideas? Have you tried different media? Also a quick google

Re: BD-RE mount problem

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Bannister
[Ccing cdwr...@other.debian.org] Any ideas? On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 03:49:13PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 06/08/12 11:51 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I've been using BD-RE discs for backups on a Debian/Squeeze server for a couple of years now. In the last week or so the backups have been failing. I

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 06:48:39PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: The best thing is to be an anarchist! apt-get install anarchism :) -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. --- Malcolm X

Re: [OT] Intellectual Property Law

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 02:54:01AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 19:47 -0500, John Hasler wrote: I don't think you understand what money is. I'm able to handle money to survive very good, but you're right, I don't understand, let's call it the black box of the way money

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2012 #1981

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 04:48:44PM +, crunchbang.b4d...@gmail.com wrote: Ty Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry So if you send from a mobile you are forced to top post? The reason I ask is that I thought I saw a message from a mobile which was formatted correctly for mailing lists. --

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 09:00:18PM +0800, lina wrote: I don't know the reliable of the connection between the two servers, I guess it's okay. But from my side, the wireless is not stable. I don't know how to let it stable. I mean, not login every 10~15 minutes. (btw, Is big wind affects the

Re: iceweasle saving username and password

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:05:58PM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, My question is that how can I let the iceweasle kept the saved password as un-readable? Right now I felt very bad, I can access some database with my user name and password, (it's a universal password and username, which means

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:00:12AM +0800, lina wrote: I don't know how to check the signal strength except seeing the icon of the network manager. Sorry, I don't use network manager, but you could check by going inside to test. The reason the transfer speeds could be slow, is because of a

Re: package wxmacmolplt broken

2012-08-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 03:05:56PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:27:22 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: (please, don't cross-post without warning the users about it) Huh? Since when? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting A crossposted message takes up less server storage

Re: could not grab your keyboard

2012-08-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 11:07:23AM +0800, lina wrote: With time going, still not work, the keyboard. then the screen popped up this message, I looked around, nobody, so there was no worry about eavesdropping. So I just shutdown the laptop and came back inside. :), the eavesdropping message

Re: Off topic Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

2012-08-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 08:30:55PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: For professional artists (music and drawing) Linux breaks the workflow Linux hasn't anything todo with this! GIMP is available for Windows as well. http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/gimp-2.8-understanding-ui-changes -- If

Re: [OT] Cross-posting (was: package wxmacmolplt broken)

2012-08-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 05:40:14PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Some days ago I cross-posted, apologized and warned! It's anyway not the best idea to do so. Excepted of some announcements cross-posting isn't a good idea, sometimes it's just less work for the person who does the post, but it

Re: [OT] Cross-posting (was: package wxmacmolplt broken)

2012-08-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 03:27:25PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 01:45:29 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Besides, it is obvious in the headers whether the message is cross posted, the warning is hence redundant, extra typing, and therefore unnecessary. Not that obvious

Re: could not grab your keyboard

2012-08-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 10:52:11PM +0800, lina wrote: I don't know how to examine it, will wireshark be helpful in examing here? It use RDP protocol, with username and password. If you know enough to know how to use it and interpret the results, then sure, why not? Mmmm, what does your

Re: strange behavior after reboot, iceweasel locking everything up

2012-08-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:45:03PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: Yesterday I had to reboot my machine. Cleaning house, I had dislodged the plug for a power strip that powered the computer, monitor, and printer. Now, I am seeing very odd behavior. Iceweasel hangs forever on some of the simplest

Re: package wxmacmolplt broken

2012-08-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 02:48:44PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: Huh? Since when? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting A crossposted message takes up less server storage space, and creates less network traffic, than if individual messages had been posted

Re: xml editor ?

2012-08-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:35:58PM +0200, Slavko wrote: I never used any XML editor (i don't need it yet), then sorry, that i cannot share my experiences. But i don't forget yet, how confused was i when some one recommend me to use some editor and here are a lot of editors! Which to use???

Re: Off topic Gimp-2.8_Save and save as bad behavior

2012-08-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 03:58:55PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 17:32:10 +0200, maderios wrote: This new Gimp's behaviour is not a bug but a (weird) developper's choice Developer's choices can be changed when enough people think they're wrong or simply badly put. That's when

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:50:37PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: It works, but why not just upgrade to full 64 bit if you can? It's not a lot more work unless you've installed a lot of extra packages. Not sure if things are better now, but there was a time when some packages were only available in

Re: How to install SchoolTool 2.0 on Debian?

2012-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 11:06:06AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Edited it to correspond the newest version of Ubuntu: echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/$ppa_name/ubuntu precise main [snip] ^^ cough, cough. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers

Re: having a problem removing a package

2012-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 08:43:40PM -0400, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I'm having trouble installing/removing a program bandwidthd. It's now in a weird state of not being installed or being able to remove. i've tried to upgrade to get it installed, and I get this; sudo apt-get upgrade Reading

Re: having a problem removing a package

2012-08-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:10:46PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 19 aug 12, 13:28:38, Chris Bannister wrote: Ok, first I'd do an apt-get clean Why would you delete the downloaded packages cache because a package fails to remove/purge? When I saw this: dpkg - trying script from

package cache (was ... Re: having a problem removing a package)

2012-08-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 08:04:39PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 19 aug 12, 23:16:28, Chris Bannister wrote: When I saw this: dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /etc/init.d/bandwidthd: 19: Syntax error: ( unexpected invoke-rc.d: initscript bandwidthd, action

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

2012-08-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 04:42:28PM +0200, Gaël DONVAL wrote: be ironed out but as far as I am concerned, skype works very well with all the dependencies under my debian 32/64bits hybrid. All you need to do is adding [arch=amd64,i386] between deb and your mirror URL in /etc/apt/source.list Is

Re: How to Begin - fdisk

2012-08-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 07:48:42AM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 7:15 AM, r...@aarden.us wrote: I just installed Debian. If I issue: ls -alR I get output. Some things work. If I issue: fdisk or fdisk -l I get 'command not found'. Because it's /sbin/fdisk and

Re: [OT] Is it possible to hide the ip in ssh connection

2012-08-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 01:39:42PM +0800, lina wrote: I felt I made some mistakes before, like put the public keys from those servers into my own laptop, just for the convinence of connection. I am on my way correcting my mistakes. Public keys are meant to be public, its the secret/private

Re: Problems with printing/scanning on Squeeze on a Lexmark aio

2012-08-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 08:42:16AM +0100, Lisi wrote: Hello, all! This is a cross-post. I posted to the Trinity list several days ago. It In that case its more correctly referred as a multipost. A crosspost is when you cc/to more than one list/group simultaneously. Just to be picky. :)

Re: gnome-session charsh

2012-08-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 03:34:35PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: I suggest that in Debian mirrors, gnome is so arranged that launching it be an optional. In computational chemistry/biochemistry, particularly with amd64, most work is at the linux prompt. Now, with It would be better not to

Re: gnome-session charsh

2012-08-25 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post on this ML, and trim unnecessary content] On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 09:53:54AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: I am bound to gnome for the program gchempaint. In my experience, it is the only program, freely available as gnu, that allows drawing chemical structures as

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 11:44:18AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:52:06 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: The question is I need to upgrade my CPU to any VT capable CPU or is there any solution staying at the

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 08:31:06PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I used gvim, but kate and gedit and even leafpad and others are more comfortable. IIRC common shortcuts didn't work with gvim, the only difference to vi(m) was, that I didn't need to know all the commands by heart. The trick to

Re: pulseaudio configuration question

2012-08-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 11:45:12PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: By way of update, typing: pulseaudio --cleanup-shm cr pulseaudio --start cr and got no errors from pulseaudio this time. Unfortunately though both mplayer and vlc can connect to streams neither provides any sound output yet.

Re: pulseaudio configuration question

2012-08-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 07:18:04PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Jude. The Holy Father is neither jude jdash...@shellworld.net Could You please stop This Name in vain?! Could You please stop criticising people's signatures?! What people put in their signature is their

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 01:22:09PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 03:35:52AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 08:31:06PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I used gvim, but kate and gedit and even leafpad and others are more comfortable. IIRC common

Re: How upstart-job is performing in debian system ?

2012-08-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 02:48:11PM +, Camaleón wrote: With my admin's hat on, I prefer the old and well-know sysvinit because I don't need anything special for the booting process but I understand that people with specific requirements (or those called early adopters) are awaiting for a

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:07:12PM +0100, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2012 21:15:01 Claudius Hubig wrote: A problem that I (appear to) have found, is that the malware named javascript appears to cause havoc in continually increasing usage of RAM. Javascript is a programming

Re: 200% OT: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

2012-09-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 04:19:15PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:50:02 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing Exactly Ralf..I'm always wearing a towel instead of my sarong that often goes

Re: Re: upgrading to wheezy: punctual list of issues

2012-09-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:59:00PM -0300, Dr Beco wrote: songbird wrote: does update-grub as root accomplish anything? check the release notes (in progress) at: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes for your architecture. songbird Yep! Thanks! Now I

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 09:54:32AM +0200, lee wrote: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I (firefox:2707): atk-bridge-WARNING **: Could not locate registry Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so:

Re: copying data from a partition with badblocks

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:50:09PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: developing bad blocks. They are usually at room temperature (no air conditioning), partitioned via cfdisk + mke2fs. I think room temperature is a vague term considering the temperature range which occurs in each country.

Re: Alsa-Base breaks Linux-Sound-Base

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:06:30PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:50:02 +0200 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: I experienced no issues with the dist-upgrade. In my troubles with that I'm sure they installed alsa-base with everything muted. I think I remember

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 05:54:32PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: On 29.08.2012 17:45, Lisi wrote: but I don't know what happened to Lenny backports when Lenny was archived. They were archived too. http://http.debian.net/debian-archive/debian-backports/ has folder dists, which seems

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 05:24:53PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:08:58 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 29/08/12 17:28, Camaleón wrote: It does not matter that Lenny is out of support (formerly codenamed oldstable) because even the current stable release (Squeeze)

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 06:49:31PM +0100, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2012 18:08:58 Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 29/08/12 17:28, Camaleón wrote: It does not matter that Lenny is out of support (formerly codenamed oldstable) because even the current stable release (Squeeze) neither

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 07:31:02PM +0200, lee wrote: packages from these when needed? And if I removed Debian multimedia, I would miss a lot of packages. You might be suprised. The Debian Multimedia team is constantly improving Debian's multimedia support. -- If you're not careful, the

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 01:19:49PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 01/09/12 12:45 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 09:54:32AM +0200, lee wrote: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca writes: I keep seeing references to NVidia in my .xsesssion-errors file. I (firefox

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 03:07:09PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: But it seems the problem remains (read comment #45) so dunno why it was archived with apparently no additional clues on the current status: This was the message that

Re: Why is Nautilus using 38% CPU?

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 09:29:32PM +0200, lee wrote: Mark Allums m...@allums.com writes: I am going to temporarily retreat to another window manager and desktop for a while, and see if this bug gets fixed. Fvwm-crystal is awesome. Huh? Compare apt-cache show fvwm-crystal with apt-cache

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:59:04AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: What I see by looking now is: * 617940 is/was assigned to the libvdpau1 package * notfixed 617940 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2 removes any indication that version 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2 was fixed. * libvdpau1 never

Re: xsesssion-errors

2012-09-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 12:43:11AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: At least there is a bug open: see chameleon's post in this thread. Correction was open, now closed and archived. :( -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving

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