Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

2012-07-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Keep in mind that Debian is currently migrating to Wheezy. Cheers, Jerome On 20/07/12 08:20, Britton Kerin wrote: Hi everyone, I keep trying to download a big pile of packages and most of them keep failing. Internet is working and I can ping things, but most of the packages

Re: difficulty downloading packages, is ftp.us.debian.org having a problem?

2012-07-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
my mistake. On 20/07/12 09:48, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 20 iul 12, 08:25:23, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Keep in mind that Debian is currently migrating to Wheezy. What do you mean by that? Wheezy is not being released just yet, it's just been frozen (it will take a few more months

Re: UEFI install

2012-08-10 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Have you tried with Wheezy ? On 10/08/12 11:17, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden: On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com wrote: On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote:

Re: man in the middle attack ?

2012-08-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/ssh/ - Don't ignore ssh host key warnings (at the end) On 21/08/12 05:43, lina wrote: On Tuesday 21,August,2012 04:29 AM, Dr Beco wrote: Dear linuxers, Today I registered a lot of students in the class, and 4 hours later I was in home and got a message one

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread Jerome BENOIT
gz: tar zcf bzip2: tar jcf xz: tar Jcf On 22/08/12 16:07, Ralf Mardorf wrote: PPS: For my needs tar czf aka .tar.gz is the best way to go. More compression doesn't lead to smaller files, but it takes much more time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: compressor

2012-08-22 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 22/08/12 16:24, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 16:15 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: xz: tar Jcf I'm using a distro that packages with xz. I'm sure that there never was a big difference between gz: tar zcf and bzip2: tar jcf for the length of the files, that higly depends

Re: Obtaining a Newer Kernel

2012-08-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 27/08/12 05:30, lina wrote: On Monday 27,August,2012 11:13 AM, Alex Robbins wrote: On 08/26/2012 09:48 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: or you could install: linux-headers-amd64 linux-image-amd64 this would insure you always had the latest kernel and headers. Your architecture may be different

Re: What Version To Install On iMac?

2012-09-07 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 07/09/12 16:34, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:28:25 -0700, T Elcor wrote: - Original Message - Hello, I would like to know which version of Debian 6 I would download for installing on iMac with specifications shown below. Model Name:iMac Model Identifier:iMac8,1

icedove and IceOwl: ICS attachment

2012-09-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: I use IceDove to manage my emails. Today I got a message with an ICS (Calendar) attachment. IceOwl detects the event: a banner ``This message contains an invitation to an event'' is printed. But, amazingly, I can not figure out a way to make IceOwl register the event: any idea ?

Re: icedove and IceOwl: ICS attachment

2012-09-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 24/09/12 16:30, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:20:17 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I use IceDove to manage my emails. Today I got a message with an ICS (Calendar) attachment. IceOwl detects the event: a banner ``This message contains an invitation to an event'' is printed

Re: Current status for wl driver in Wheezy

2012-09-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 24/09/12 19:13, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:14:52 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) so can anyone confirm the wl driver cannot be compiled right now in Wheezy? Are you dealing with broadcom-sta ( http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/broadcom-sta ) ? It works well on my

Re: icedove and IceOwl: ICS attachment

2012-09-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 24/09/12 18:50, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:33:52 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: On 24/09/12 16:30, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:20:17 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I use IceDove to manage my emails. Today I got a message with an ICS (Calendar) attachment

Re: GRUB: error incompatible license. Entering rescue mode...

2012-05-10 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: I have exactly the same issue, and the same wondering: any (fresh) idea ? When rebooting this newly cloned guest system I got the following error: GRUB loading. Welcome to GRUB! error: incompatible license. Entering rescue mode... grub

Re: Backup2l config

2012-05-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Have you tried with the given sample (slightly adapted) ? It can be a time stamp issue: what is the fs type of the partition of your directory ? Jerome On 11/05/12 11:08, Bastien Rocheron wrote: Hi, I'm trying to backup a directory with backup2l and I don't understand the

Re: GRUB: error incompatible license. Entering rescue mode...

2012-05-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 12/05/12 11:04, Brian wrote: On Fri 11 May 2012 at 01:20:04 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: I have exactly the same issue, and the same wondering: any (fresh) idea ? Your setup is possibly inconsistent. The modules in /boot/grub do not match the version of GRUB

Re: How to install drivers for this nVidia graphics card?

2012-05-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/nvidia-graphics-drivers On 16/05/12 12:12, aditya menon wrote: Hello everyone, Can you give me an easy way to install drivers for this card *Nvidia GeForce GT520M*? I'm on a laptop. I've tried many things, including this command: aptitude install

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: On 14/06/12 18:28, Curt wrote: On 2012-06-11, linalina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am a bit confused. Today during upgrade, it showed me Not starting slurm-llnl slurm.conf was not found in /etc/slurm-llnl Please follow the instructions in

Re: something about slurm-llnl

2012-06-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi ! On 14/06/12 19:07, Curt wrote: On 2012-06-14, Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net wrote: SLURM can also be run on a multi-core box: it makes sense to use SLURM on a Mac Pro (24 cores). It can also be installed on a box for developing and testing jobs. Thank you. I don't think the OP

Re: Wheezy on UEFI

2012-07-10 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: There is actually a discussion about it on the debian-devel list. Jerome On 11/07/12 04:08, Darren Baginski wrote: Hi list! Today I have installed Wheezy on UEFI system, Asus UX31A to be more particular. While installing I faced some issues. Looks like installer can't recognize and do

Re: Wheezy on UEFI

2012-07-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 11/07/12 09:19, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net wrote: On 11/07/12 04:08, Darren Baginski wrote: Today I have installed Wheezy on UEFI system, Asus UX31A to be more particular. While installing I faced some issues. Looks like installer

Re: Macintosh LCD brightness control

2012-11-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi List, have you tried pommed ? http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/pommed Best wishes, Jerome On 14/11/12 13:31, lina wrote: On Wednesday 14,November,2012 08:03 PM, adam wolter wrote: Release 6.0.6 (squeeze) i have the PowerPC version installed on a lampShade iMac G4. LCD monitor

Re: adobe reader + multiarch

2012-12-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi, have you tried the acroread debian ball at www.deb-multimedia.org ? hth, Jerome On 24/12/12 21:44, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I am trying to install adobe reader with multiarch. Has anybody done that? This is as far as I got: ===

Re: Adobe Reader 9.5.4 on 64 bit Linux

2013-02-28 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, as Wheezy is on the edge to get stable, a good option would be either to wait for Wheezy or to migrate right now to Wheezy then make the Wheezy box a bi architecture one (i386+amd64), and then to install the acroread Multimedi-Debian deb ball. Jerome On 28/02/13 10:46, Chris

Re: moving /var

2013-03-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 01/03/13 09:53, Lars Noodén wrote: On 3/1/13 10:41 AM, Maroš Žilka wrote: What would be better way to do it ? Is it even possible to do such change on running system without worries to lose some data ? I wouldn't do it on a running system. Better to boot from a live CD or

Re: moving /var

2013-03-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 01/03/13 12:06, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: Hello List, On 01/03/13 09:53, Lars Noodén wrote: On 3/1/13 10:41 AM, Maroš Žilka wrote: What would be better way to do it ? Is it even possible to do such change on running system without worries to lose some data ? I wouldn't do

Re: wheezy / gnome3

2011-11-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 09/11/11 00:12, Richard wrote: On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:54:17 + (UTC) Camaleónnoela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:20:58 -0200, Pablo Sánchez wrote: Hi there : help ! Here we go :-) I updated wheezy(amd64) and i got gnome3, i didn't see it coming Oh,

Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 14/11/11 12:08, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 14/11/11 11:19, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hello all, I'm going to start using xfce4. Can I safelly apt-get remove/purge gnome Or should I expect any side impacts ? Depends on what you call 'safely' and on what you are going to

Re: wifi without applets [WAS] Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: On 14/11/11 12:34, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Jerome, On 14/11/11 12:19, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: On 14/11/11 12:08, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 14/11/11 11:19, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: [...] I am still currently unable to manage network-manager through the nm-applet

BibTeX memory limits

2011-11-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: I encounter memory limit issue with BibTeX similar to the ones reported in Q37 of the `BibTEX Tips and FAQ' by Michael Shell and David Hoadley : I know that memory limits for tex and its derived, for metapost can be can be configured in the /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf configuration file:

Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

2011-11-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer for PDF files is now GIMP: I would rather expect acrobat or evince. Where is the place to fix this ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

2011-11-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: On 17/11/11 17:08, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Hello List: Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer for PDF files is now GIMP: I would rather expect acrobat or evince. Where is

Re: Xfce: GIMP as default PDF viewer ?

2011-11-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 17/11/11 17:37, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 04:45:19PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Since I migrated from Gnome3 to Xfce, I have noticed that thdefault viewer for PDF files is now GIMP: I would rather expect acrobat or evince. Where is the place to fix

Re: BibTeX memory limits

2011-11-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi ! On 17/11/11 19:18, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:44:04 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I encounter memory limit issue with BibTeX similar to the ones reported in Q37 of the `BibTEX Tips and FAQ' by Michael Shell and David Hoadley : Who also add additional tips to deal

Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Xfce: manual lock screen

2011-11-18 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 18/11/11 17:00, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 18/11/11 16:57, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? Yes. With the command xflock4 - part of the xfce4-utils which you probably already have installed. You are right

comment diff files

2011-11-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Is there any way to comment a diff file ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ecfd177.3000...@rezozer.net

Re: comment diff files

2011-11-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks ! On 25/11/11 19:14, Clive Standbridge wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Is there any way to comment a diff file ? Interesting question. I don't know, but perhaps this paragraph from the patch(1) may help: patch tries to skip any leading garbage, apply the diff, and then skip

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2011-11-28 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 28/11/11 19:07, Camaleón wrote: Hello, I'm running an updated wheezy and today faced with this little problematic. While running Midnight Commander to open (on-the-fly decompression for browsing the archive) the kernel source package (a ~75 MiB .tar.bz2 file) I got this error:

libpam-ssh

2011-12-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: What have happened to libpam-ssh ? Is it replace by an other package ? Thanks in advcane, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: libpam-ssh

2011-12-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 03/12/11 23:29, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 11:15:07PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: What have happened to libpam-ssh ? It was removed, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650644 Poor me: I really like it ! Is it replace by an other package

Re: libpam-ssh

2011-12-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: Actually it sounds as maintained project, as the last update is stamp 2011/06/14: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pam-ssh/ On the other hand, I have no trouble with it on my boxes. Jerome On 04/12/11 03:38, Allan Wind wrote: On 2011-12-04 00:56:44, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Poor me

Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux

2011-12-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
what about D ? On 24/12/11 21:56, David Christensen wrote: On 12/24/2011 06:44 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Lisp Smalltalk Erlang Haskell Caml/OCaml APL - if you're crazy or want to be; or you could go all the way to Brainfuck (http://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck) for that matter, Ada, if you're

Fwd: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux

2011-12-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Original Message Subject: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:23:46 -0500 From: tony baldwin tonybald...@gmx.com To: g62993...@rezozer.net - Original Message - From: Jerome BENOIT Sent: 12/24/11 04:06

Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux

2011-12-24 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Jerome BENOIT wrote: what about D ? On 24/12/11 21:56, David Christensen wrote: On 12/24/2011 06:44 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Lisp Smalltalk Erlang Haskell Caml/OCaml APL - if you're crazy or want to be; or you could go all the way to Brainfuck (http://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck

xfc4 migration next step: get rid of gnome

2012-01-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: I have recently migrated to Xfce, and now I would get rid of gnome as it seems to become an heavy machinery: what is the best way to so ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: sbin

2012-01-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 01/01/12 17:58, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:42:10 +0800, lina wrote: Is it safe to add /sbin into PATH? To you user env? If it's not an exposed system, I'd say yes. and if you really know what you do ! Why the default path not include /sbin, I guess this is a FHS

D programming: rdmd

2012-01-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Where is rdmd in Debian ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f05cee9.4010...@rezozer.net

Re: D programming: rdmd

2012-01-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks. I am looking for Debian ways: right now I play with gdc-4.6 On 05/01/12 17:56, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:25:13 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Where is rdmd in Debian ? *** http://www.d-programming-language.org/faq.html#q5 Will D be open source? The front end for the dmd

Re: D programming: rdmd

2012-01-06 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 05/01/12 18:10, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Thanks. I am looking for Debian ways: right now I play with gdc-4.6 It appears that rdmd.d is distributed within the source of the pacakge gdc-4.6. Jerome On 05/01/12 17:56, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:25:13 +0100, Jerome

Re: xfc4 migration next step: get rid of gnome

2012-01-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 08/01/12 16:17, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 01/01/2012 19:48, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:02:55 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I have recently migrated to Xfce, and now I would get rid of gnome as it seems to become an heavy machinery: what is the best way to so ? I would start

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: just use a job scheduler as SLURM: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/slurm-llnl Jerome On 04/08/11 16:23, lina wrote: Thanks for suggestions, Actually I got a job which contains several small jobs inside. if run the bash script, it will do those one by one and it is pretty

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 04/08/11 18:26, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/4/2011 11:03 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: just use a job scheduler as SLURM: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/slurm-llnl She already has PBS. Apparently you didn't read her posts. She run jobs on a lab cluster and on her

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 08/08/11 19:30, Chris Brennan wrote: On 8/8/2011 11:36 AM, shawn wilson wrote: I would have gone with slackware. But that's just me. :) Slackware is a great way to learn Linux without many 'isms to worry about. Slackware 4.x/5.x was my first distro to try on my own and I used

Re: ntp problem: the server clock slowly recedes

2011-08-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hell List: On 09/08/11 09:40, owl...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, the server clock continually recedes as you can see the ntpq -p offset is too high. Setting the right time at hand not solve anything after a while the server clock slowly recedes Any suggestions? ahve you tried an other server ?

orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src

2011-08-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On my Debian (Wheezy) boxes, the /usr/src is a link to /usr/local/src , /usr and /usr/local being mounted on different partitions. I guess it is a common practice. Whatever, I have noticed that in my /usr/src (- /usr/local/src) an orphaned link was created linux-kbuild-3.0.0 -

Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src

2011-08-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 12/08/11 08:08, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-08-11 21:10 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On my Debian (Wheezy) boxes, the /usr/src is a link to /usr/local/src , /usr and /usr/local being mounted on different partitions. I guess it is a common practice. It might be common

Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src

2011-08-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
My advice would be to delete the symlink and move any files belonging to Debian packages to /usr/src. Use dpkg -S usr/src to find out which files belong to packages. If you don't want to do that, use a bind mount rather than a symlink for /usr/src. Then the /usr/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0

Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src

2011-08-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
hello List: On 13/08/11 08:13, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-08-12 09:29 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 12/08/11 08:08, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-08-11 21:10 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On my Debian (Wheezy) boxes, the /usr/src is a link to /usr/local/src , /usr and /usr/local being

Re: orphan link linux-kbuild-N.N.N in /usr/local/src

2011-08-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List On 13/08/11 08:24, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-08-12 23:54 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: If you don't want to do that, use a bind mount rather than a symlink for /usr/src. Then the /usr/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0 symlink will work (but /usr/local/src/linux-kbuild-3.0.0

What happens to kernel.org ?

2011-09-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: does anyone know why `www.kernel.org' can't be found ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: What happens to kernel.org ?

2011-09-09 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Thanks for your replies: indeed it is `down for maintenance' according to itself. Jerome On 09/09/11 02:02, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net wrote: does anyone know why `www.kernel.org' can't be found ? The servers are

gvim: hide hidden files

2011-09-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Since a while, I have noticed that File-Open in gvim exhibits hidden files: is there a way to hide hidden files ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: gvim: hide hidden files

2011-09-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: thanks for the quick reply. On 11/09/11 17:45, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:46:26 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Since a while, I have noticed that File-Open in gvim exhibits hidden files: is there a way to hide hidden files ? Usually all of the GTK+ based menus share

Re: Nvidia drivers

2011-09-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: have your tried the Debian instead: http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/nvidia-graphics-drivers http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/nvidia-cuda-dev hth, Jerome On 12/09/11 15:05, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, Having a terrible time trying to get nvidia drivers working. I had

Re: Nvidia drivers

2011-09-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Have you tried to neutralized the wrong nvidia module by renaming it. On 12/09/11 16:30, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, problem is that I can't get x to start now and need some help, any ideas? On Sep 12, 2011 1:58 PM, Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net mailto:g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Hello

key shortcut rendering xterm console full screen

2011-10-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Since a while on my Wheezy box, by accident under Gnome, my fingers slide and render the xterm console full screen. As I would like to reproduce it and to scape from it, but not by accident, I want to know the involved key shortcut. Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: key shortcut rendering xterm console full screen

2011-10-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 02/10/11 18:56, Dom wrote: On 02/10/11 17:27, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Since a while on my Wheezy box, by accident under Gnome, my fingers slide and render the xterm console full screen. As I would like to reproduce it and to scape from it, but not by accident, I want to know

Re: key shortcut rendering xterm console full screen

2011-10-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 02/10/11 22:38, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:27:58 +0200 Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Hello List: Since a while on my Wheezy box, by accident under Gnome, my fingers slide and render the xterm console full screen. As I would like to reproduce

Re: i wish to generate a Debian package from source written in c++ with makefile already prepared

2012-03-21 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: you may ask on the Debian mentor list. hth, Jerome On 21/03/12 12:58, Gershon Celniker wrote: i wish to generate a Debian package from source written in c++ with makefile already ready, so i used dh_make and prepared all the needed configuration file, all but rules file - this one is a

Re: skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb

2011-06-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
can run Skype provided that some basic 32 bits libraries are also installed. You may use something as dselect to install Skype and its dependencies. hth, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit-at+rezozer*dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-06-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: My boxes are Apple boxes running Debian (stable): a MacMiniServer and a MacBookPro 15 (MacBookPro6,2). Let say that the installation may not be so straightforward for Debian newbies, second, for recent Apple, you may install a recent kernel and recent graphics support. hth,

Re: Experience of Debian in a Macbook pro

2011-07-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 03/07/11 14:19, lee wrote: Jerome BENOITjgm...@rezozer.net writes: The very first stage is to install refit ( http://refit.sourceforge.net/ ) from Mac OS X. And then Debian can be installed quite as usual. For more details see http://wiki.debian.org/MacBookPro Thanks for the

Re: printing image full page

2011-07-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
. Thanks -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit-at+rezozer*dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e128f0a.7000...@rezozer.net

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 26/07/11 23:04, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:52:20PM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: I'm looking to buy one of these B/W Laser printers: Samsung ML-2855ND or Brother HL-2270DW. I have no personal experience with printers of these manufacturers and have no idea how good

Re: Debian 7 'Wheezy' to introduce multiarch support

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: I have a very naive question regarding the multiarch transition: will the upgrade of Debian box from Squeeze to Wheezy be messy ? or as smooth as previous upgrades ? Jerome On 26/07/11 13:04, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:

Re: Debian 7 'Wheezy' to introduce multiarch support

2011-07-27 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 27/07/11 04:16, T Elcor wrote: --- On Tue, 7/26/11, Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net wrote: I have a very naive question regarding the multiarch transition: will the upgrade of Debian box from Squeeze to Wheezy be messy ? or as smooth as previous upgrades ? In my case, the upgrade

kernel 3.0 : shutdown issue

2011-07-28 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: I have just installed kernel 3.0.0 on my Squeeze box (with some Wheezy stuff): while shutdown process works well with kernel 2.6.39 , it gets into troubles with kernel 3.0.0. In fact, I do not where to look. Any hints is welcome, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: kernel 3.0 : shutdown issue

2011-07-28 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 28/07/11 17:32, lina wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Jerome BENOITg62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Hello List: I have just installed kernel 3.0.0 on my Squeeze box (with some Wheezy stuff): while shutdown process works well with kernel 2.6.39 , it gets into troubles with

Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file

2011-08-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: I have just migrated from Squeeze to Wheezy. It appeared that gnome-keyring agent interferes with my ssh-agent set-up: I want to disable gnome-keyring agent for ssh. At the end of the README.Debian for gnome-keyring, it is suggested to ``simply edit

Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file

2011-08-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Thanks for the link. On 01/08/11 13:51, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:43:10 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I have just migrated from Squeeze to Wheezy. It appeared that gnome-keyring agent interferes with my ssh-agent set-up: I want to disable gnome-keyring agent for ssh

Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file

2011-08-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 01/08/11 19:53, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:39:27 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 01/08/11 13:51, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:43:10 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: I have just migrated from Squeeze to Wheezy. It appeared that gnome-keyring agent interferes

Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file

2011-08-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 01/08/11 20:19, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:02:56 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 01/08/11 19:53, Camaleón wrote: (...) Should you have removed/renamed If I remember well, this causes trouble. I meant removing the `/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-keyring-ssh.desktop

Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file

2011-08-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 01/08/11 22:16, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:16:43 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I disagree. If the package isn't useful then removing it is very likely the easiest solution. Why frustrate yourself trying to work around the problem when removing

Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file

2011-08-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 02/08/11 00:10, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20110801_230130, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Indeed, because I would suspect that a lot of packages depend on gnome-keyring as I could read on Google. But as only a `minimal' Gnome is actually installed on my box, it appeared that no package

Re: Firewall Setup

2011-08-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
quid firehole ? On 02/08/11 09:04, Jude DaShiell wrote: Why not check out arnos-iptables-firewall? On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Alan Chandler wrote: On 01/08/11 21:56, Paul Stuffins wrote: Hi Guys, I am trying to set iptables up, but am getting into a right mess editing the rules direct in the init

Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file

2011-08-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: On 02/08/11 17:42, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:06:48 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 02/08/11 00:10, Paul E Condon wrote: (...) This does not actually remove gnome-keyring, but it does allow lower level system software to handle SSH keys, for instance. Yes

Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file

2011-08-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: On 02/08/11 19:46, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:22:06 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello: On 02/08/11 17:42, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:06:48 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 02/08/11 00:10, Paul E Condon wrote: (...) This does not actually remove gnome

Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file

2011-08-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: On 03/08/11 14:07, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:23:27 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 02/08/11 19:46, Camaleón wrote: (...) This does not actually remove gnome-keyring, but it does allow lower level system software to handle SSH keys, for instance. Yes, but is it a per

Re: Wheezy: how to disable SSH gnome-keyring by editing desktop configuration file

2011-08-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: On 03/08/11 19:04, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:33:39 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 03/08/11 14:07, Camaleón wrote: (...) Anyway, I sincerely doubt the only way to widely disable gnome-keyring- ssh starts by forcing the user to compile the application with ssh keyring

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hi , On 21/12/10 10:18, Jim Pazarena wrote: what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS? having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer. And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the goofy naming system which throws the novice? do you really

Re: o/t ipod

2010-12-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
have you tried to share your iTune stuff ? On 26/12/10 21:24, shawn wilson wrote: On Dec 26, 2010 7:57 AM, Ted Wager t...@trufflesdad.plus.com mailto:t...@trufflesdad.plus.com wrote: My son has bought me an ipodtouch for Xmas..Anyone tell me how I can transfer the music files on his ipod

Re: what process is sending this packet?

2010-12-27 Thread Jerome BENOIT
quit all unnecessary applications as firefox, and as root enter: lsof -i it may give an idea. On 27/12/10 22:29, S Mathias wrote: I can see, that theres a program that keeps sending packets on port 25: Dec 27 14:11:46 a kernel: [ 6336.992320] O_D_LOG: IN= OUT=lo SRC=127.0.0.1

Re: Where to download rtl8168d-1.fw

2010-12-30 Thread Jerome BENOIT
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5t=58390 On 30/12/10 16:22, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: My one machine need rtl8168d-1.fw . Dell Studio 1557. network is not working on that machine. And how to install this .fw file on my system. #NSDJ -- ┌─┐ │Narendra

Re: Web calendar sharing in Evolution

2010-12-30 Thread Jerome BENOIT
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/calendarserver On 30/12/10 21:13, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 12/30/2010 07:55 AM, Camaleón wrote: Last time I searched for such solution in Icedove I reached the conclusion that having a local server for ical (calendar sharing in the LAN using caldav protocol)

Fwd: Re: building a desktop that will be supported by Lenny

2011-01-19 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 19/01/11 23:16, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:09:30 +, Steve Kleene wrote: I'm about to get a new desktop and want to run Lenny on it. I'm replacing a seven-year-old PC, now running Lenny, that has been crashing off and on for a couple of years. When I built my first Debian

Re: Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 22/01/11 18:44, S Mathias wrote: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MwDnhknf $ ls -Sl total 461252 -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 111709730 Jan 22 11:06 linux-2.6.37.zip -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 93174605 Jan 22 11:03 linux-2.6.37.tar.gz -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 73552510 Jan 22 11:10 linux-2.6.37.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r--. 1 g

Re: Release file expired

2011-02-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Joe, On 01/02/11 21:58, Joe Riel wrote: Ran apt-get update today and received E: Release file expired, ignoring http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/dists/testing/Release (invalid since 6h 36min 31s) Do I have to install/update an ssh key? Have you tried an other mirror ? Jerome

Re: Squeeze release date according to distrowatch

2011-02-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Mark, you may want to read the news: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/02/ Jerome On 05/02/11 12:51, Mark Panen wrote: Hi, A few days ago i read on distrowatch that squeeze will be released on the 6h Feb, can't find the article now again. Is this true? Mark -- To

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

2011-02-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
amd64 On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: * amd64 http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/amd64/iso-dvd/ * armel http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/armel/iso-dvd/ * kfreebsd-i386 http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/kfreebsd-i386/iso-dvd/ *

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

2011-02-08 Thread Jerome BENOIT
who does play with Itanium box ? expert or newbie ? On 08/02/11 14:53, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Camaleón put forth on 2/8/2011 4:55 AM: On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:34:33 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: which version for intel chipset 64bit? (...) amd64

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