Re: how to remove GUI
Hi there. On 11/09/2020 01.40, Michael Morgan wrote: I recently installed Debian 9.13 on my machine. I was planning to use it for scientific computation so GUI is not necessary. For some reason, I installed the desktop environment with LXDE desktop during installation. Later I decided to remove them. These two commands were executed: tasksel remove desktop apt purge $(tasksel --task-packages desktop) (...) If you don't mind, I see at least two options: 1 - see what packages you would like to have/need and reinstall from scratch, if you can afford a re-installation. 2 - if you don't want/can't reinstall, then I would install aptitude and use its interactive interface for selecting the packages that you need. I like option 2 and whenever I install any Debian system, that's one of the first packages that I install (and I completely ignore this tasks thing). I like my installs to be absolutely minimal at first (they will inevitably grow with time). That being said, the system where I am typing this right now has its filesystem timestamp indicating that it was created in 2011... Regards, Rogério Brito.
Re: How do I blacklist a package?
Hi, Stefan. On 12/09/2020 17.30, Stefan Monnier wrote: APT keeps wanting to install `sse2-support` on my dear Thinkpad X30, but that machine's CPU does not support SSE2, so the package's installation always fails. How can I tell APT that it shouldn't *try* to install `sse2-support`? I tried to put a "hold" on the package with echo "sse2-support" | dpkg --set-selections but it apparently only works to pin an *installed* package to it current version, whereas I'd need it to "hold" the "uninstalled" status. Any hint? Here is a very, very wild guess: does pinning (via /etc/apt/preferences) the package to a negative priority only work when the package is already installed? I would say that you could create a dummy version (say, with an epoch) of it, but I just saw that the presence of the package indicates that your system *supports* SSE2, which is not the intended outcome... :-( Regards, Rogério Brito.
Looking for suggestions of a "modern" desktop that runs Debian
Dear people,
As all my computers are quite old so far (including the ones that I
use to develop my packages and contribute to Debian), I would like to
get a "modern" desktop that is able to keep up with compiling stuff
and doing basic web surfing/web and typing texts in Emacs.
Unfortunately, I have assembled computers way, way, way back then and
I don't know which processors should go with which motherboards and so
on.
I would gladly appreciate some help choosing a computer (or computer
parts) that has a configuration along the following lines:
* Is able to run Debian without any problems (I am willing to use
something that requires firmware from non-free, but not proprietary
drivers)
* Is a budget system (I'm short on money, unfortunately)
* Is silent, with as little fans as possible
* Has the ability to have 16GB or 32GB of memory (this is one of the
parts where I am willing to focus spending the money)
* Has a processor like a modern AMD Ryzen 5 or whatever is similar in
Intel-land (the 2nd part where I am willing to focus spending the
money)
* I don't care too much about video cards; As long as it can drive a
Full HD monitor, I am satisfied. Integrated card with the CPU is
perfectly ok with me (and, actually, preferred if that would make the
final cost of the computer lower).
Any recommendations are more than welcome,
Rogério Brito.
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Preço típico de aulas de Linux?
Oi, pessoal.
Eu sou um Debian maintainer (veja o link na minha assinatura e é possível
que você tenha pacotes que eu mantenho instalados na sua máquina).
Um ex-aluno meu deseja que eu dê algumas aulas personalizadas para ele
(leia-se: assuntos tratados são escolhidos por ele).
Mas eu tenho uma dúvida: nós não sabemos quanto é um preço justo por 1 hora
para um serviço como esse. Em vista disso, eu gostaria de perguntar para o
pessoal quais são valores típicos e que sejam justos (dados os
requerimentos, minha qualificação etc.) no mercado.
Quanto o valor por hora aumentaria se ele quisesse (ele quer) que as aulas
sejam gravadas em vídeo para ele?
Agradeço desde já quaisquer bases que vocês tenham.
Abraços e obrigado,
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Re: A DVDtoMKV package.
Hi there.
On 2012-09-26 13:40, Sthu Deus wrote:
I did not find a package in Debian official repo.s for compressing a DVD
to .mkv . Am I correct in supposing there is no such a tool?
For some time before I did use handbrake-gtk from DMO, but since
recently it ceased working - just keeps crashing and also I would
remove the repo - in favor of the official repo.s.
I have been working (since mid April, IIRC) on porting handbrake to Debian
proper (not DMO) and it should be available in Debian soon:
http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/handbrake_0.9.8-1~19.gbpc8b9ba.html
Unfortunately, for *license* incompatibility reasons alone, what was uploaded
had to have some features of handbrake disabled:
* we use the AAC encoding from vo-aacenc via libav, not from faac (faac is not
free)---depending on your needs, you may not even notice much difference, but if
you need more channels than stereo (e.g., 4.0, 5.1 or higher), this won't be
currently possible.
* we generate only mkv files, not mp4, because mp4v2, the library used for
wrapping the audio, video, subtitle contents etc. *is* free, but its license
essentially forbids linking to other GPL-licensed software.
We (the official Debian multimedia team) advise against using DMO, as the
packages from that repository can cause serious conflicts and bugs that are hard
to reproduce with the rest of a Debian-provided system.
Also, one should generally not need to install packages from there, since the
new debian releases will have full-fledged multimedia codecs, like MP3 (lame),
MP4 ASP (xvid), and MP4 AVC (x264). And this is tightly and neatly integrated
with other Debian packages like gstreamer, mplayer, mplayer2, libav/ffmpeg,
audacity and so on.
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Compiling samba (almost) minimally for a NAS
Dear people,
I have an ARM NAS that runs Debian, and it is currently serving files via
NFS to some machines of mine.
Unfortunately, my wife has to professionally use Windows and, as the NAS
only has 128MB, I would like to cut back both the number of programs and the
memory footprint of them.
For sharing files, I plan on using a stripped down version of samba (taken
from Debian's samba packages), with, essentially, only file sharing being
enabled (and browsing the network, so that my wife can find the NAS).
I don't need things like directory services, authentication, roaming
profiles, printing support etc.
Is there anybody that has attempted to create such a smaller package? If
yes, which options did you disable? And which build-dependencies did you
strip from the package to get it as small as possible?
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Re: Experiences on using zram with ARM?
Hi.
2011/7/14 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br:
As many ARM systems (and other embedded architectures) happen to be
memory-starved, I thought about playing with zram (the new name of
zramswap) on some of my systems, but I found out that not all platforms
have zram enabled in the stock kernels in Debian.
So, my question is: does anybody have experiences running zram with
non-{i386,amd64} platforms? It would be nice to know before I start
compiling many kernels and stuff.
I sent this message about 5 days ago and I didn't have any responses
in debian-arm. For that reason, I am resending it to debian-arm and
also crossposting it to debian-{powerpc,user}. Any experiences shared
here regarding the use of compressed ram would be more than welcome.
Just for the record, if the module is available, it should be simply a
matter of issuing:
modprobe zram # load the module
echo 67108864 /sys/block/zram0/disksize # size of RAM to reserve to
be compressed
mkswap /dev/zram0 # create a swap in that area
swapon /dev/zram0 # use the swap on the compressed RAM
The basic idea here is that by compressing a portion of RAM:
* we may be able to hold more content in RAM.
* while we use some CPU cycles, it should beat the option of going to disk.
So, again, if anybody has any feedback on using this on a non-x86
arch, it would be very much appreciated.
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Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC
Hi there (reading from -powerpc).
On Dec 16 2009, Rick Thomas wrote:
Debian on PowerPC seems to be in trouble...
I just purchased me a new (used, in fact) iBook G4 and this is the
first altivec-enabled box that I have. It is also a bit faster than my
other powerpc machines.
(BTW, if you can donate a powerpc machine, I am interested in
that---please, reply privately if you can).
1) The daily d-i CDImage for PowerPC hasn't been updated since Dec 12th.
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
I will see with Otávio what can be done from the d-i side of it (I'm not
really up to d-i things, since I've been working with the main
distribution instead of with installers). But I can try to look at it.
2) Even if it were updated, it still would not be possible to install
Debian Sid on PowerPC due to the lack of a linux-image package more
up-to-date than 2.6.30. This problem has existed for several weeks.
Did not know that, as I am usually running my own kernels. Is there any
breakage in any drivers with a current git tree? I just compiled
yesterday a kernel from Linus' tree for an OldWorld mac and it was
successful (actually, that was a cross-compilation).
3) When I install a graphical desktop environment with Squeeze
using the above d-i images, I get a system that is missing almost
all of gnome due to un-resolvable dependency conflicts.
Can anything be done about to fix this? What can I (as a user, non-
developer, but willing tester) do to help?
Well, there is probably things that can be done. The problem would be to
get a more precise diagnostic. And, yes, a tester is always, always
wanted.
For instance, which part of gnome is not installable? Have you tried
seeing the subpackages which gnome uses (if you're going for the
full-blown metapackage---I always stay away from that for philosophical
reasons, as I want a different gnome from what one gets by default).
Regards, Rogério Brito.
P.S.: Otávio, please, get in touch.
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Questions regarding hardware for a Free Software (especially Debian)
Hi, All.
I would like to purchase a new system to replace my current Desktop.
Unfortunately, it seems that getting some new hardware is not as easy, due to a
multitude of unavailable drivers for Free Operating systems or differences
regarding the role of the systems.
It seems that most sites where hardware is discussed (say, slashdot,
tomshardware, arstechnica and similars) as well as vendor sites (e.g., Asus, MSI
etc) seem to aim at the Gamer person.
I was reading some reviews and I am confused regarding getting a new Desktop and
I would sincerely appreciate some help.
I did a bit of homework, and some of my choices seem to be hard to satisfy, but
they seem to be quite mundane (at least, I would be lead to think so):
* I would like to have a moderately powerful CPU (regardless of manufacturer).
Perhaps a 4-core to use as a build constantly programs (I am a Maintainer of
some packages in Debian and I would like to take action on some big packages and
do some QA work).
* Besides the CPU, I would like to have a reasonable amount of memory (perhaps
8GB of memory). Again, no preferred brands here.
* I have no need for dual graphics cards or anything fancy. I video necessities
are, at most, playing a video and nothing much. I use fluxbox as my Window
Manager and I don't see me changing it in the future.
What all this means is that I am more inclined to take money from a fast
graphics card and put it in a CPU (I saw that some video cards are *really*
expensive!).
* I prefer to assemble the system myself (since this is the cheaper route), but
as the last system that I built was in 1999, I'm not that up-to-date with the
newer technologies. I have no fear of learning things, though.
* And, finally, but very important, something that is fully supported by Free
Software only. I want to get a system where I can run Debian with Linux as a
kernel and, it would be fantastically nice if it could, work acceptably with
Debian with the FreeBSD kernel.
As I stated above, I have no predilection for manufacturer and I may go with
Intel or AMD. Some of the options that are available at the manufacturer's sites
don't seem to target users like myself:
Asus P7P55D-E Premium, Maximus III Formula, Maximus III GENE, MSI 790GX-G65 etc,
etc.
Is there anybody that could shed some light with recommendations?
Thank you very much, Rogério Brito.
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Re: AAC audio encoding through faac in Squeeze
Hi, Jason.
On 12/13/2009 10:24 AM, Jason Filippou wrote:
ja...@debian:~$ sudo aptitude show faac
(...)
ja...@debian:~$ soundconverter
[1] 3807
ja...@debian:~$ SoundConverter 1.4.4
using Gstreamer version: 0.10.25, Python binding version: 0.10.17
using gio
'faac' element not found, disabling AAC.
using 2 thread(s)
/usr/bin/soundconverter:2615: Warning: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
gnome.init(NAME, VERSION)
[1]+ Donesoundconverter
It seems that soundconverter is trying to use the gstreamer infra-structure to
do its job, not the faac program.
I'm not exactly sure if that would be a problem with the python bindings or with
any gstreamer problem, but some things that you might want to check:
* Do you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad installed?
* For this one, I'm not really sure, but does soundconverter need any python
bindings for AAC? I'm not really sure here (for Vorbis, you can see that there
are python-pyvorbis, python-vorbis and siblings, python-pymad for MP3 decoding,
python-lame for MP3 encoding etc).
Any ideas on how to get a working AAC encoder in my Debian system? Or
perhaps there's some known issue with 'soundconverter' that I'm missing and
you'd like to recommend another converter to me (I'm using KDE, by the way,
and have come to understand that soundconverter is a GNOME application, not
that I mind, just saying).
Just ignore that GNOME vs. KDE issue that people tell you about.
Oh, and BTW, AAC is evil. If you can, just use Vorbis instead.
Regards,
Rogério Brito (Member of the LAME/MP3 team of developers).
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Re: keeping an obsolete package (libx264-78) removes its automatically installed status
Hi, Celejar.
On 12/13/2009 11:59 PM, Celejar wrote:
The package 'libx264-78' is installed on my (Sid) system:
This package provides the x264 video encoder/decoder (an implementation of the
part 10 of the MPEG 4 standard, also known as H.264).
This video standard is the same that is used by Blu-ray videos, iPod videos, a
good amount of videos (the majority?) available in Youtube, many of the
standards of HDTV etc.
The x264 library is an open source implementation of the coded (and quite
possibly, one of the highest performers). Unfortunately, the H.264 is an
encumbered format, as a landmine of patents and royalties to be paid, even for
the casual user (and nastier, from the political, not necessarily the technical
side of it).
Theora is a very good alternative, especially now that it is in version 1.1 (and
it is available in Debian's archive---I helped put the theora packages in shape
from the 1.0 to the 1.1 version and I am glad that it now has a new, competent
maintainer).
OK, but this only touches the subject that you brought us.
Aptitude shows it in the 'Obsolete and Locally Created Packages'
section. When I try to upgrade the system, aptitude (initially)
suggests that I keep this package, but whenever I accept the
suggestion, the package's status of 'automatically installed' goes
away, and it becomes marked as manually installed (which is certainly
not what I want, since I have no idea what the thing is - I just want
mplayer to be happy).
I hope that, now, you have a clearer idea of what the package does (and why it
is important).
I am not familiar with the internals of aptitude dependency resolver---so, this
is only a guess: I would say that the package gets marked as manually installed
since you manually chose to keep it by the resolver. I am really not sure on
this paragraph.
This doesn't seem to happen to most packages -
does this have anything to do with the fact that it's 'obsolete' (i.e.,
currently not available in the archives)? Is this a bug?
The package, as you discovered, is marked as obsolete when it is not in the
archive anymore (gee, let me see which version of libx264 that I have
here---that is libx264-79).
You can get rid of the package if you just recompile mplayer with a newer
libx264 (you can get those from Christian Marillat's repository---well,
actually, you can grab the unstable version of his packages, most of the
time).
Hope this helps,
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Re: About getting videos from youtube
Hi, Celejar.
On Dec 08 2009, Celejar wrote:
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:08:33 -0200 Rogério Brito wrote:
I am the maintainer of the youtube-dl package and, unfortunately,
due to a decision of the release team, it won't migrate to the
testing distribution (and, as a consequence, it will not be part of
a stable release).
Can you explain just *why* the release team won't allow its migration?
I took a quick look at the various dev and PTS pages associated with
the package, and I couldn't make out the reason.
The release team won't allow youtube-dl to be part of a stable release
for fear that the interfaces with youtube change during the life cycle
of the stable release.
Of course, similar statements could be made about many packages in the
distribution that rely on services on the web that are beyond our
control, but...
Anyway, for reference, the thread here gives the justification.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/11/msg00033.html
Also
http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile/2009/12/msg8.html
But, frankly, my forces for arguing are a bit drained and I don't want
anything disruptive. I'm too old for that.
I just maintain the package and I wanted to get some wider audience, as
a lot of people may have extreme fear of the unstable label,
preventing them of knowing about a given package that may be nice to
have.
User feedback is warmly appreciated, BTW.
[Please reply to -user and not to me personally; I accidentally sent
this first to -user, before noticing your request for cc., and I'm now
sending the message to you.
Done, no problem. Please, do keep me in the CC'ies.
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Re: Why CUPS?
Hi there.
Sorry for jumping in late in the thread.
On Dec 08 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 08 Dec 2009, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
After my problems with CUPS --- discussed in a previous thread
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/07/msg01157.html --- I
decided to move to LPRng for print job spooling.
/me wears the hat of the magicfilter maintainer. :-)
Nice. :-) lprng and magicfilter is a killer combo. Once they are
configured, things just work.
I, BTW, print everything that I need with the pcl3 drivers from
ghostscript to inkjet printers (well, that's what I have at my disposal)
and I can switch between 3 different HP printers (just unplugging them
and plugging).
I also have an Epson Stylus Color II printer (that's connected via a
parallel port) and it works fine with this setup also.
The only problem that I have is me forgetting to turn the printers on,
but no software would take care of that anyway. :-)
While it possible that I wasn't using CUPS correctly (I tried!), I
clearly can use LPRng with far less effort.
Well, I may be called an old-school Unix user, but I like the
traditional Unix way of doing things and lprng fits my needs very well.
But there is some danger here: lprng is an orphaned package in Debian
(which means that it currently has no one looking after it).
If you want to ensure that it has a long life, please help maintaining
it.
I wonder then why Debian prefers to bundle CUPS as its default print
spooler?
Pointy clicky interface, perhaps? (But if I am not mistaken, there are
some GUI interfaces for lpr/lprng also).
I very much agree with this. I ditched CUPS two years ago or longer in
favour of LPRNG plus magicfilter. Much easier to set up and the results
are better. Unfortunately a lot of apps these days expect you to be
using CUPS as a matter of course. Herd mentality.
One hint that I included in the NEWS file of the lprng package:
,[ NEWS.Debian.gz ]
| lprng (3.8.A-2.1) unstable; urgency=low
|
| Programs based on the gtk library (which includes a lot of popular
| programs in Debian) have lost the ability to print to lpr/lprng.
|
| A way to work around this problem of gtk+2.0, please use:
|
| + for a one-user setup, include an entry in the file .gtkrc-2.0 in
| your home directory with the line:
|
| gtk-print-backends = file,lpr
|
| + for a system-wide setup, include the same line in the file
| /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
|
| It may happen that your setup will be broken again if GTK 3.0 doesn't
| read the gtk-2.0 files or don't provide an appropriate upgrade path.
|
| -- Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br Mon, 18 May 2009 21:36:28 -0300
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About getting videos from youtube
Dear users,
I am the maintainer of the youtube-dl package and, unfortunately, due to
a decision of the release team, it won't migrate to the testing
distribution (and, as a consequence, it will not be part of a stable
release).
The package is, OTOH, quite stable, and I use it everyday, without any
problems (and so are the people using it already).
For those that don't know, the package is meant to grab (store) videos
from youtube (even videos in 1080p resolution!) and it can automatically
download a given video in the best resolution available.
So, I would love if more people used it and informed me of potential
problems that they may run across.
The package is at: http://packages.debian.org/sid/youtube-dl and any
feedback is warmly appreciated.
Regards, Rogério Brito.
P.S.: Please, keep me in CC'ies, as I am not subscribed to -user.
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Feedback requested on the package magicfilter
Dear people,
I am the maintainer of the magicfilter package, which is a package for
converting files (say, Postscript or PDF) to printers. This is its long
description:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Magicfilter is a customizable, extensible automatic printer filter.
.
It translates the files that you send to a printer to a language that
your printer can understand. To accomplish this goal, it determines
the type of the file that is to be printed and uses its knowledge to
convert the file to something that is printable.
.
This is done by use of magicfilter's own magic database (a la file(1))
to decide how to print out a given print job.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I have adopted this package in the last few weeks and I would really
appreciate some feedback on any aspect of it. The older maintainer has
kept this package updated since 1997 and I am preparing an update with a
newer upstream version.
But before I do anything drastic with the package, I would love to
know about your experiences.
The package is especially suited for small systems, especially those
running lpr or lprng.
Regards, Rogério Brito.
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Feedback needed: New version of rtorrent uploaded to unstable
Dear users, I one of the maintainers of the rtorrent/libtorrent packages in Debian. Many probably know, but it doesn't hurt to say here that rtorrent is a very lean bittorrent program meant to be used in the terminal, but very powerful and with advanced features like Peer Exchange (PEX) and Distributed Hash Tables (DHT). It has feature parity with other bittorrent clients and is very lean and can be flexibly used, even with remote downloads. The team of maintainers has just released a new update of the packages. The new versions are found in unstable, but I believe that there's nothing that would prevent them from working in a testing/squeeze environment, which means that you can grab the packages from your preferred mirror and install them (along with their dependencies, of course). So, I would like to kindly request some feedback on rtorrent/ libtorrent, since it incorporates major features and some incompatible backwards changes that are important to be known, as we think that the package is fit for a new Debian release (if nothing else blocks it). Please, test it and let us know how things are going. If you find bugs, please report bugs against rtorrent. Your feedback is very much appreciated, as we are working to get you a solid release. Thanks, Rogério Brito. P.S.: Please, keep the CC'ies, as I'm not subscribed to debian-users and I don't know about the other developers also. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: On VHS capture hardware/software that works with Debian
Hi, Rainer.
On Mar 02 2009, Rainer Kluge wrote:
Rogério Brito schrieb:
I have a friend of mine that has an old ATI Rage 128 card (if I am not
mistaken) with line in. Would it be possible to make it work under
Linux?
Should work without problems, I had this card working in the past.
I just remembered what the card seems to be (if I'm not mistaken, it is
an ATI Rage 128 Fury).
I read about some old gatos things, but it seems that some of the
support for those things (parts of the ati.2 driver) was incorporated
into upstream (X.org mainline).
If I happen to have to purchase something, what would be the recommended
hardware (with Free Software support)?
I used some old TV cards from Pinnacle (PC TVSAT) and Terratec
(TValue), which have a video-in port which is supported by the v4l2
drivers. So you should have a look at http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki for
supported hardware.
That is quite nice to know. I didn't know about that already. I am
always voting with my pocket, since I only get things that are Free
Hardware, and I'm not that experienced with video cards.
Then you have the choice to capture video in raw format (yuv4mpeg) and
encode it offline to whatever you want. Or to encode it on the fly to
MPEG4 while capturing.
Nice. I think that I will package a new trunk version of mplayer with
the multithreaded support (the experimental branch).
I already packaged newer things than Christian Marillat's packages (and
am willing to keep up with some packages that were dropped from sid,
like grip).
There is a bunch of tools for capturing from /dev/video: transcode,
mencoder, xdtv, xawtv
I've been using mencoder for the task, as I'm not familiar with this
video 4 linux {1,2} thing. Only now is that I have the (strong)
motivation to keep me updated.
On my P4 / 2.8GHz / Lenny, I got best results with xdtv, encoding
directly in high quality mode to MPEG4/AVI.
I don't seem to have such a powerful machine (it's a Pentium D 805, with
2.6GHz in each core, and I'm tracking sid).
When capturing in raw format, I loose lots of frames, probably due to
insufficient processor performance or slow hard disk access.
Yes, I know, too much bandwidth.
If you want to do some post-processing on the video (de-noising), have
a look at transcode's hqdn3d filter.
Yes, the material, coming from VHS, will have a *lot* of noise. For
those purposes, I'm used to using two solutions:
* yuvdenoise, from mjpegtools;
* hqdn3d, with the hqdn3d=7:6:9 option to mencoder.
The part where I am a complete layman is regarding hardware and the v4l{,2}
that you just pointed me to.
If you prefer a GUI approach, have a look at avidemux, which provides
the same filters as transcode, and allows also video editing.
Even though I prefer the command line approach (I'm an old Unix user), I
may, on occasion, use some GUI, but that is only occasionally.
My experience shows that you can do everything in video capturing and
editing with Linux, but it takes a lot of time to find out the best
solution for your specific case.
Thank you very much for that part. I didn't know anything about the
hardware support. I'm only familiar with videos that are already
grabbed.
If you need a quick solution, maybe you better buy one of those
Pinnacle USB boxes and do the job under windows (gr..)
I will see if I can get the ATI card, experiment a little and post back
the results. Going to Windows is a very last resort option, as I'm not
familiar with the environment.
Thank you very much, Rogério.
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Re: On VHS capture hardware/software that works with Debian
Dear Tim,
On Mar 02 2009, Tim Beauregard wrote:
Rogério Brito wrote:
Therefore, I would like to know the experiences of people from the
Debian community regarding both software and hardware for this very
task. I would like to record what I have in analog form with the highest
quality possible (and, latter, I can think of converting the final
result to a DVD, iPod, MPEG-4 ASP file etc).
I went through this about a year ago, first attempt was with an ATI
Radeon 9200 PCI card, I had problems with finding suitable cables and
then with macrovision on commercial films.
Well, in my case, I would be using an ATI Rage 128 Fury card, which
predates the Radeon's, as far as I know.
The macrovision thing wouldn't be a problem, as I'm mostly concerned
with home-made recordings (like family encounters and such things) but
it is nice to know about that limitation. As I posted in an earlier
message, I'm not that familiar with the hardware side of things.
I then bought a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150, it does hardware encoding
which means nil CPU usage. This proved faultless for all my
conversions.
Nice to know. Encoding in which format, BTW? MPEG-2?
v4l2-ctl is used to set all the parameters used by the card; the
capture command is as easy as
$ cat /dev/video0 raw.mpg
That's perfect! Just what the doctor prescribed.
I used ffmpeg to encode to DVD format, with the commands
$ ffmpeg -i raw.mpg -ss 00:00:02.9 -t 00:49:49.1 -ildct -ilme -target
dvd -b 5172k -cropbottom 16 -pass 1 pass1.mpg
$ ffmpeg -i raw.mpg -ss 00:00:02.9 -t 00:49:49.1 -ildct -ilme -target
dvd -b 5172k -cropbottom 16 -pass 2 pass2.mpg
Very nice. I will keep those 2 pass lines here for further reference.
I may, perhaps, take the input directly from /dev/video0 (if I ever
manage to get things right), depending on my processing power (even
though I'm using a Pentium D 805 like I mentioned in the earlier
message, I will probably use a Duron 1GHz for this task).
Bitrate was calculated to produce a file sized for a single layer DVD
(alter this depending on the length of your mpegs).
No problems.
I used dvdauthor to produce basic DVDs, and
http://mightylegends.zapto.org/dvd/dvdauthor_howto.php
has an excellent walk-thru on more elaborate DVD menus.
Thanks. Authoring the DVD menus was/is something that i used to do by
hand, and not with many tools that are available today. They surely
help.
Thank you very much for all the comments, Rogério.
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On VHS capture hardware/software that works with Debian
Hi.
I have a good sized amount of VHS tapes that contain some material of
high personal value and, unfortunately, those tapes keep deterirating
their quality.
I am, thus, in a hurry to transfer them to a digital format where I can,
say, freely copy them, give my relatives a copy of some videos of my
late grandpa etc.
Therefore, I would like to know the experiences of people from the
Debian community regarding both software and hardware for this very
task. I would like to record what I have in analog form with the highest
quality possible (and, latter, I can think of converting the final
result to a DVD, iPod, MPEG-4 ASP file etc).
I have a friend of mine that has an old ATI Rage 128 card (if I am not
mistaken) with line in. Would it be possible to make it work under
Linux?
If I happen to have to purchase something, what would be the recommended
hardware (with Free Software support)?
Although not exactly a piece of hardware for a computer, I see that
there are some interesting devides that work without being connected to
a computer, like Pinnacle's Digital Video Transfer USB thingy. Is it
recommended? Are there other similar tools from other manufacturers?
For those that don't know about Pinnacle's Digital Video Transfer,
here are some links:
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/Consumer+Products/Home+Video/Studio+Family/Instant+Video+Recorder.htm
http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/review/pinnacle-video-transfer/
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/pinnacle-video-transfer-records-video-to-anything-usb-2-0-even/
http://www.trustedreviews.com/multimedia/review/2008/03/13/Pinnacle-Video-Transfer/p1
Anybody knows of comparable devices?
So, the gist of it is that I am undecided and that I don't know if I
should get my friend's card (I don't have too many tapes), if I should
get a computer hardware card or if I should get one of those devices
like the DVT USB thing.
Since I'm currently not subscribed to the list, I would kindly
appreciate if you could Cc me.
Thanks in advance for any comments, Rogério Brito.
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Please, testers of hfsprogs are needed
Hi there. I am the maintainer of hfsprogs, which provides both a mkfs and (more importantly) a fsck for HFS+ filesystems (used by default on Apple's operating system). I have uploaded some revisions of the package to the unstable archive, but I actually believe that everything is alright, even for production use, but I would like to have more feedback on that. I fixed, through a less than desirable way, a problem on amd64 (actually, a problem that would affect any 64 bit architectures), but I have only enabled the build of one 64 bit arch (amd64) right now. I, therefore, would appreciate if you could send me feedback on hfsprogs so that I can improve the packaging and include other patches there, if needed. The following would be a good first test after installing the package: dd if=/dev/zero of=disk.img bs=100M count=1 mkfs.hfsplus disk.img mount -t hfsplus -o loop disk.img /some/mount/point (perform some tests) umount /some/mount/point fsck.hfsplus disk.img Feedback is appreciated in the form of bugs for it or as Cc'es to this e-mail, as I am not subscribed currently to -user nor to -amd64 (only to -powerpc). Hope you find the package useful, Rogerio Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looking for help with maintainance of a package
Dear people,
I am the maintainer of hfsprogs, which is a package taken from Apple's
Darwin code that provides a mkfs.hfs{,plus} and, more importantly,
fsck.hfs{,plus}.
Unfortunately, the present version has problems not being 64-bit clean
and, as a result, I had to restrict the list of architectures to those
that are 32 bit only.
This has been reported as bug #436159 on our bug tracking system. As I
myself have all the interest to have this package available on as many
architectures as possible (since, in particular, I use an amd64 machine,
but keep some of my data/backups on external HDs formatted with HFS+),
it would be ideal to have it as arch: any.
But alas, it is not. :-( It won't compile without a number of patches
and I have already got Gentoo's patch as a starting point for the
package. But it would be better to have it divided as a series of
independent patches (as I already use quilt to manage the patches). I
have already started doing this.
Seeing that Apple has released a new version to match their Leopard
release, it would be a good thing to keep the patches separate as some
parts will apply nicely while others are obsolete now (the code has
changed a bit, but not much).
As I posted on ubuntuforums.org [*], for this goal, I would like to see
if there are interested developers so that I would create a project on
Alioth to maintain patches that are team-maintained and which would
clean up miscoding, warnings, consistency, correctness and, perhaps,
submit them upstream so that we can reduce our work in the future (and
have a more solid filesystem for exchange of data between computers).
I have already made a package yesterday that uses the 32-bit emulation
of amd64 to have a functioning fsck.hfsplus program and I plan on
uploading it to experimental, but it is based on older source code, not
on the new upstream version (let's move one step at a time).
So, that is it. If you have interest and know of more people interested
in this (like Ubuntu people), please let me know. BTW, as I am not
subscribed to any specific Debian list nowadays (besides
-devel-announce), I would appreciate CC's.
Regards, Rogério Brito.
[*] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4919975
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Re: Any suggestions on good CLI newsreaders?
Hi, John, On Aug 06 2007, John Hasler wrote: Amit writes: They have too many graphics and ads which are not necessary. I guess I'm just looking for a more efficient may to read the news. You want an adblocker for your Web browser. I use Privoxy. This is indeed a very good recommendation and I think that privoxy is way better than using something like an extension to Firefox, as it is browser agnostic. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: searching for graphical torrent client
Hi, Wayne. On Jul 30 2007, Wayne Topa wrote: Rogério Brito([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Can anybody tell me if rtorrent has Distributed Hashtables (DHT), UPnP, and peer exchange? If it has those features, I would have no need for other clients. Not that I can see. Yes, the same thing with me. Ktorrent does though. Unfortunately, I don't have enough space on my machine to another set of infra-structure libraries, but it seems that this and amarok are quite helpful utilities. :-( Is there anything like screen's detach feature for graphical utilities? I'd love to use this feature, as I am mostly using my machine at home via a remote connection. - uTorrent compatible peer exchange - Port forwarding with UPnP - Support for distributed hash tables (mainline version) More info with apt-cache show ktorrent, of course. Thanks for the hint. I didn't know about ktorrent. It seems to be a good replacement to azureus, when one has to use it. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Semi-solved] Re: Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?
Hi, Andrew. On Aug 02 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: (...) select Open With, click the list box to the right, select Other... enter /usr/bin/firefox in the file picker and away you go. Thanks. can you post your mailcap hack? Sure. Here it is: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .mailcap text/pgp; /usr/bin/iceweasel '%s' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I guess that this just shows that I'm not that good with graphical tools, but that I can work my way with the command line without doing too many damages. :-) Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Semi-solved] Re: Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?
Hi, Tong. On Aug 03 2007, - Tong - wrote: I've tried to find such thing everywhere but all failed. Please share the url that you found. Here is the url: http://www.spasche.net/mozilla/ Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?
Hi, Kevin. On Aug 01 2007, Kevin Mark wrote: I subscribe to debian-devel-changes. Is that not useful? Yes, that is good, but not exactly a solution to what I had in mind. Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any suggestions on good CLI newsreaders?
On Aug 06 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: snownews for RSS, slrn for nntp. What about using mutt-ng for this task, especially if you are already using Mutt for e-mails? I have never used the newsgroup feature of mutt-ng (and, BTW, I'm not using mutt-ng), but I would be interested in knowing the opinions of others. Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disabling Print Screen key
Dear Luís, I lost the beginning of this thread. :-( So, I may not know what you're talking about here. On Jul 31 2007, Luis Finotti wrote: First, thanks for the reply! Perhaps you inadvertently made Print a shortcut for ksnapshot. If so, you should be able to disable it by going through the above sequence. No, I haven't... As I stated in the beginning, I checked it to make sure. This is really weird, but I'm using a plain window manager here in my system (not using a heavier Desktop Environment, as the resources here lack the horsepower). :-/ Now, I am at work using Fedora Core 5, and again the PrtSc key is NOT set in KDE, but pressing starts KSnapshot (which I find quite funny). Yes, I *think* that it would be problematic, especially regarding the Magic Sysrq function of the kernel, which IMVHO, is essential as a fallback to issues that may arise (especially when X stops responding). On the other hand, here I can make it work as BackSpace with xmodmap -e keysym Print = BackSpace (which did not work with Debian). So, I assume it is a Debian-related problem... Now, this is funny. I'm using similar things here (but in a different architecture, powerpc), but again, without a DE (and, in particular, KDE). Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?
Dear fellows, I am usually looking closely the development of Debian and I like to see which packages have been uploaded to Debian (including some of the packages maintained by me) at http://incoming.debian.org/ There, I often like to look at the *.changes files, since they contain the description of what has happened with the packages in the version uploaded there. Unfortunately, this worked with Mozilla (and siblings) with the .changes files (which are pure text files) opening in the browser without any problems up to a point where (I think) the ftpmasters changed the description for the web browsers that the .changes files content is text/pgp, instead of text/plain. So, in light of this would anybody know how to force Firefox (etc) to open the files instead of trying to launch, say, less for such files? Any help here would be quite welcome. Thanks, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Semi-solved] Re: Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?
Hi, Andrew. On Aug 01 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:55:58PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: So, in light of this would anybody know how to force Firefox (etc) to open the files instead of trying to launch, say, less for such files? I'm sure there is a 'proper' way to do this, but the quick hack which works right now is to specify /usr/bin/firefox (or iceweasel, whatever) as the program to use to open this file (instead of the default less). Yes, how did you do that? I did that by creation of a .mailcap file here with the inclusion of the proper entry, but I could not do it inside the browser itself, which is a shame. :-( Works here, but forces the download dialog to appear as well (though that is a configurable item in edit-preferences. That's not really what you're after though, i'd bet. Yes, that's a semi-solution to the problem, but I could find an extension to the browser somewhere with Google that makes it open things with the browser, but as I don't want to have extensions (I want here a pretty minimal environment), I'm using the mailcap hack. :-( Thanks, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: searching for graphical torrent client
On Jul 28 2007, Michael M. wrote: Between aptitude, mc, rtorrent, cplay, and one or two others, I'm developing a real fondness for ncurses apps. Then, you might want to check Music on Console (moc). It is a really impressive program. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: searching for graphical torrent client
On Jul 27 2007, Kelly Clowers wrote: I haven't used it a lot yet, but transmission seem pretty good so far. It's available in the Debian repo. One good thing about transmission (which I am not sure if it is present on rtorrent) is that it features peer exchange, which seems to be an extension of Azureus to the bittorrent protocol. Can anybody tell me if rtorrent has Distributed Hashtables (DHT), UPnP, and peer exchange? If it has those features, I would have no need for other clients. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#433168: ITP: hfsprogs -- mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems (fwd)
Hi. Here is a package that I'm working on and that is quite certainly of interest to those that work with PowerPC (and now, even Intel machines, as Apple has gone x86-64 now) machines and Linux. If you want to help, don't be afraid. I am open to all suggestions and I sincerely hope to have this package uploaded soon. It is long overdue (since the death of Jens, which used to maintain a lot of packages for PowerPC in Linux). Having filesystem diagnostic and repair tools is a handy way to use HFS+ filesystems with the Linux kernel (which, BTW, already provides HFS+ support out-of-the-box). Summarizing, if you are interested in what is written below, please let me know and I will try to shape the package as well as I can. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. P.S.: Please, keep the Cc:, as I'm currently not following the PowerPC mailing list nor Debian User. I may subscribe to debian-powerpc in the near future, as I want to get my iBook running Linux, but Ubuntu has dropped support for that platform as they saw that there were not many downloads of the PowerPC releases. :-( - Forwarded message from Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#433168: ITP: hfsprogs -- mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:41:25 -0300 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: hfsprogs Version : 332 Upstream Author : Apple Computer Inc. * URL : http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4/ * License : APSL 2.0 Programming Lang: C Description : mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems This is taken from closed bug report at http://bugs.debian.org/229769. It seems that the package never actually materialized itself unfortunately. :-( - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The HFS+ file system used by Apple Computer for their Mac OS is now supported by the Linux kernel. I've had ample experience with the mkfs and fsck utilities for this file system in Linux, both from personal use and from reports of the users of my Debian package hfsplus. Right now, mkfs and fsck from this package are best described as nonexistent and totally unsuable, respectively. The upstream author has declared he is not going to develop these tools any further. So there goes another nice piece of free software. Of course, Apple provides mkfs and fsck for HFS+ with the Unix core of their operating system, Darwin. Experimental ports to Linux and FreeBSD exist, so I will start with the original Darwin source and these ports. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - For those needing the executables, the best option up to now has been following http://www.debian-administration.org/users/lee/weblog/21, but a proper Debian package would be, of course, the preferred solution. There are more reasons for having this package in the archive, namely: As I see it, HFS+ seems to be a good compromise to carry files between MacOS X and Linux Machines (and Linux has already gotten hfsplus support in the kernel for a long time). HFS+ doesn't suffer the problems of FAT32 like: * huge space waste (in slack space as devices grow faster); * ability to create files that are more than 4GB in size (especially good for those working with multimedia and that need to carry large ISO files); * ability to use case sensitivity (but I don't know if this is already supported by the Linux Kernel); * ability to be a journaled filesystem (idem); * ability to use uid's ang gid's on the filesystem. Among others that I don't know. I plan on getting the newest changes/patches that I can, especially from other distributions, especially from gentoo (which already seems to have such HFS+ utilities available to their users). I think that Debian users in general (since Macs have gone ix86-64 and have also been available under PowerPC for ages) would benefit greatly from a filesystem that is not as limited as FAT32 as pointed out above. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.5-1 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org - End forwarded message - -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE
Re: EAC vs. CDPARANOIA
On Dec 26 2006, Nelson Castillo wrote: There are some. We use some scripts: http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/mp3-encode This is quite nice. Nice to see that some people are using the work that I've kept (the upstream packaging of lame). I am, BTW, going to update the packaging of it soon and it may, perhaps, increase in quality: I plan on merging fixes and good ideas from Christian Marillat, from Mike (from Rarewares) and from debian-mentors. Any other ideas are welcome. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: minimal kde system for amarok?
On Dec 01 2006, Matt Price wrote: I want to install a fairly minimal set of packages as I really don't want the machine to feel sluggish -- it should act like a smart stereo component, not a slow-bu-versatile computer. You can install amarok only (see with aptitude what it would install) and don't install Recommend:'s (only those you choose to install). Alternatively, is there a gtk alternative to amaork that comes close? There is a package that is being evaluated to be uploaded to Debian, called exaile, which is a clone of amarok, but written with gtk in mind. See http://www.debian.org/debian-mentors/ for the latest discussions. I haven't used banshee for a while -- how is t hat shaping up? Do its mono dependencies make it similarly 'heavy' to amarok? I don't know, as usually avoid things that need a virtual machine (the same thing with Java), but I'd be interested to know others' opinions. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Off-Topic: Re: how to find GCD and LCM in C ?
Hi, Jabka. On Dec 02 2006, Jabka Atu wrote: im studieng math now and many time i need to find GCD (Great Common Divider) and LCM (Least Common Member). I supose that you're talking about integers here, since you didn't say anything about polynomials, Euclidean Domains and such (and, come to think of it, if you actually knew about them, you'd know how to compute that in no amount of time). Anyway, since this sounds like homework, I will only give you guidelines for your task: * first of all, you can find the gdc of two integers a, b (not both zero) quite efficiently with Euclid's Algorithm (search the web for this). Even more instructive is the use of Euclid's Extented Algorithm, which calculates the gdc(a,b) as an (integer) linear combination of both a and b; * second, given the fact that the bot a and b are divisible by gcd(a, b) *AND* ab = gcd(a,b) lcm(a,b), you can find the lcm(a,b) quite easily. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Intel network adapter (was: Re: which driver provide support for Intel 82557/8/9 network adapter)
Hi, Serena. On Nov 09 2006, Serena Cantor wrote: I have sarge and a Ethernet Pro 100 card (see Subject). Which module should I use? Thanks I think that the best maintained driver for this card is the e100, even though you have the option of using Donald Becker's eepro100. BTW, since you have one of these cards, do you happen to have a multithreading CPU? I'm looking for some way of enabling multithreading on a dual core CPU. Any help is quite appreciated (I already sent a message to the list, but it seems that this got unnoticed). Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to enable/use Hyperthreading?
Hi there, People. I have a question and haven't been able to get an answer for a week already. I bought recently a new computer with a Pentium D processor (which is supposed to have two cores, if I understand it) and one of the first things that I did with it was to enable SMP. Seeing in /proc/cpuinfo that the CPU supports Hyperthreading (the ht flag is in the supported CPU features of this computer), I compiled a brand new kernel (2.6.19-rc4 at the time) and answered Yes to the option of using Symmetrict Multithreading (aka Hyperthreading in Intel-speak). I posted things that I thought were relevant at http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/pentium-d/ and it shows two processors, but I don't actually know if they are two real processors (cores) or two virtual processors (1 processor with hyperthreading). Also, the dmesg put there doesn't mention that the system has hyperthreading enabled after I booted it with the acpi=ht kernel option. I would love to know if anybody could help me with this. Thanks in advance for any help, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Delete Win 2K partition on Debian dual boot to re-use space.
Hi there, Del. On Nov 04 2006, del wrote: I have looked at the partitions with live cds (Knoppix and similar) and have burned the few things that mattered from 2K. I have also a qtparted live cd to hand. I don't know about the qtparted live CD that you have, but with a live gparted live CD [*] I used two three times already, I could do the following: * boot an iBook's HD (that's a powerpc computer) in target mode via a Firewire port, shrink the HFS+ partition and make partitions for a Debian installation; * expand an ext3 filesystem of an HD of a friend of mine; * shrink a FAT32 filesystem with Windows 98 for my father and created partitions for a Debian installation. Later, I copied the contents of the HD to a larger HD expanded the ext3 filesystem and moved it around (and the partition table was correct after all these actions). I highly recommend it. Regards, Rogério Brito. [*] http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Working with xfig (was: Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file)
Hi there, all. On Oct 26 2006, Brad Sawatzky wrote: Skencil's interface is still a little clunky but I found it worked better than xfig when editing the converted files. I have been working with xfig a lot to be stubborn even if people tell me that there are other tools that are better. Once you happen to learn its modus operandi, it is almost second nature. And I especially like the fact that the figures it generates in the .fig format is in text format *and* quite readable. Its sibling, transfig, can do the job of transforming .fig files into many file formats. I may work with inkscape in the future (I've heard that it is a very good vector drawing program), but the fact that it doesn't export the drawings in the .fig format makes it less attractive to me. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Badly formed dpkg-status entry.
Hi, Wulfy. On Oct 16 2006, Wulfy wrote: In my cron-monthly e-mail I got this message; /etc/cron.monthly/vrms: vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #74! pkg=[sysutils], pkgstatus=[install ok installed], section=[] vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #1603! pkg=[xjig], pkgstatus=[install ok installed], section=[] I have not seen this in a while (I'm currently maintaining vrms). One weird thing is that the section field of your packages are empty (they should not be, AFAIK). What can I do to fix this? Which distribution are you using? The newer distributions (testing, unstable) have newer versions of vrms which are slightly more robust (and have additional features). Hope this helps in any way, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Making Firefox use certain fonts for printing (was: Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?)
Sorry for jumping latter in this discussion, but this is one of the
topics that interest me the most (preparing documents, including for
archival).
On Aug 14 2006, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach George Borisov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.08.14.1338 +0100]:
The resulting file is _not_ searchable (xpdf and evince,) and at 28K
is more than twice the size of the same text being printed through
Acrobat (12K)
This is really Firefox's fault (who would have thought???)
I usually generate Postscript with Firefox and, then, for the sake of
portability, I convert them to PDFs with ps2pdf1{2,3,4}.
But one thing has changed from Firefox 1.0.x to Firefox 1.5.x under
Debian is that Firefox 1.0.x used to use the Base14 fonts (Times,
Helvetica and Courier, among others, with their variations), while
Firefox 1.5.x creates Postscripts that use the exact font that I use
while viewing the page (which happen to be some variant of
ttf-bitstream-vera).
So, in light of this, would anybody know how to tell Firefox to
explicitly use some given fonts in what it prints?
This way, I could generate PDF files that don't have some fonts,
resulting in smaller files (yes, I know that this is not
recommended---even Adobe recommends embedding the fonts, or, at least, a
subset of them, into the document).
Thanks for any hint, Rogério Brito.
P.S.: Other programs that still use the older engine of Mozilla (like
nvu) generate Postscript files that use the Base14 fonts, despite what I
have told it to use for displaying the page.
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Policy Routing (was: Re: rsync, ssh, scp: How to send via eth1 or higher ?)
Hi, Hans. On Jul 28 2006, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: is there any way, to send files over a device greater than eth0 ? You have already received some response on your question regarding the bind to an address. I would like to point out another possibility: you may use policy routing (if you have it enabled in your kernel) and, say, route all traffic that is ssh to a given interface. This is a really nice feature of the kernel and little known. For manipulating the routes, you will need the package iproute. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RFC: Well supported scanners under Linux?
Dear people, I have some photos that I would like to preserve in a digital form and I thought of using a scanner for this. Unfortunately, I my knowlegdge about scanners is zero and I have already visited the sane project page, but could not decide what would be a good purchase. So, in light of this, I would like to ask you some recommendations based on your experiences for scanners that are fully functional under Linux, from open-source friendly companies. I am open to recommendations for other devices, like the multifunctional devices, but I'm not sure if they are adequate and would give me the best bang for the buck. Thanks in advance for any advice, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On emacs-snapshot-gtk (was: Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken)
Hi, I am sorry for jumping in this thread a bit late. I hope that this is still relevant. On May 08 2006, Carl D. Blake wrote: I've been trying to install emacs21 on unstable for the last few days and aptitude keeps reporting that emacs21-bin-common package is broken. If you are an Emacs user and you use unstable, then I would recommend you to ditch emacs21 and install emacs-snapshot instead. This way, you will have all the goodies that come with the next version of Emacs (and I was pleasantly surprised with what I saw). In my particular case, I'm using emacs-snapshot-gtk, which uses the GTK+ 2 widgets, which is simply nice to have without dissonance with other applications. The emacs-snapshot packages are frequently upgraded and the maintainer does an outstanding job. Highly recommended. Regards, Rogério Brito. P.S.: My system is running testing/etch. I make an exception to that getting packages from sid just to have emacs-snapshot-gtk, since it is so good, IMVHO. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless Network Cards
On May 08 2006, Magnus Therning wrote: The RT cards are also well supported in Linux, the package is called rt2500-source and the module can be built with module-assistant. I second that. I have D-Link cards with the rt chipsets and they work well for my needs under Linux. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Torrent client for CL
On May 07 2006, H.S. wrote: I second that. Originally my favorite was bittorrent command line client in Debian, but recently I started using rtorrent and simply love it so far. rtorrent uses libtorrent, AFAIK: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --status rtorrent | grep Depends Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.5-1), libcomerr2 (= 1.33-3), libcurl3 (= 7.15.2-2), libgcc1 (= 1:4.0.2), libidn11 (= 0.5.18), libkrb53 (= 1.4.2), libncurses5 (= 5.4-5), libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (= 2.0.2), libssl0.9.8 (= 0.9.8a-1), libstdc++6 (= 4.0.2-4), libtorrent6 (= 0.8.5), zlib1g (= 1:1.2.1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Anyway, it is highly recommended, IMVHO. Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please explain quote and trim...
On May 03 2006, Jochen Schulz wrote: Generally this is a good idea, but Outlooks (in it's default settings) doesn't generate the quote signs, so this may be very hard to do with Outlook. And I am not even talking about line lengths... Perhaps this may help: http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ Disclaimer: I have never used it, since I use Mutt mainly. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2
Hi there. I think that this may be interesting to anybody that has to work with computers that are not the latest/more recent as most people in richer countries seem to have. It seems to be that a good amount of people upgrade their computers in a regular basis and, then, don't notice how things can get slower in weaker computers. Those of us that live in a country where the already installed base of computers is not recent have to live with software that is ever growing in terms of both RAM and CPU cycles and this leaves less computing power for the applications needed to run. One way to mitigate the memory consumption is to, among other things, compile packages with optimization of GCC set to -Os, instead of -O2, which seems to work at least for some programs (the Linux kernel, mozilla-firefox and my own home-grown programs). Just to see the effects of compiling programs with -Os, I tried to get the sources for firefox 1.5 from testing (which is what I use by default) and compiled it with -Os, instead of -O2. The program was much more responsive, with less use of swap (sorry, I don't have numbers right now) and the installed size of my own compiled package was 2MB less than that of the stock Debian package. As I don't like the behaviour of firefox 1.5 [1], I promptly downloaded the source for firefox 1.0.4-2sarge6, tried to recompile it -Os, but had problems FTBFS [2]. I then created a chroot of sarge, installed gcc-3.4 and compiled firefox 1.0.4-2sarge6 with -Os. I still see around 2MB of economy in size: * here is what my copy of dpkg --status mozilla-firefox says: Installed-Size: 21260 [3]; * here is the same information taken from http://packages.debian.org/stable/web/mozilla-firefox: The installed size is 24400. So, I would like to ask the developers about the feasibility of getting packages compiled with -Os instead of -O2 for the default distribution [4]. This could be a small change that could make a lot of people happier, since the packages would be smaller and consume a tiny bit less bandwidth on the mirrors, potentially without any loss of functionality, less space used on disk and, potentially less problems with small caches (like the cache-starved CPUs that I happen to see in my country). Well, that is it. is this unfeasible? Would it not be desired for some reason? Please, note that I am not demanding that the packages be compiled this way. Just asking for some discussion and enlightenment. Thanks for any comments, Rogério Brito. [1] If I have many tabs opened in Firefox 1.5 and I control-scroll the mouse to resize the text, Firefox 1.5 operates burning a lot of CPU cycles without any feedback for the user and this lasts for quite a good amount of seconds on my slower computers. This doesn't happen with Firefox 1.0, where the resizing is instantaneous. [2] Bear in mind that the compiler used in testing is gcc 4.0.3, while sarge's default is 3.3.x. [3] I use 4kb blocks on my i386 system, which seems to be the default for not-so-new installations, and, I suppose, both developer's machines and buildds; [4] Of course, for packages requiring being compiled with -O3, it may or may not be a gain to compile with -Os and this would have to be studied on a case by case analysis. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Taking care when going the closed-source route (was: Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN)
On Apr 21 2006, Steve Lamb wrote: Look, comes down to this. I'm tired of wrangling with my machine to do anything on both sides of the fence. Windows is pissing me off daily and this constant fighting for the basic stuff now on the Linux side is pissing me off just as much. For a time my Linux box did what I wanted to do. World zipped by and not the restrictions are mounting. :/ I am an old Unix user that is divided between using a desktop system and the old, proven method of more simpler (yet, quite powerful) tools of using basically a window manager and doing most things in a shell prompt, after I have used MacOS X. Yes, I am undecided. But the guideline of having Free Software available weights heavily in my decisions regarding productivity. Yes, I don't want to be the guy that fixes the computer anymore. I want to just use the computer as a tool. But I agree that some software that we may want to use may have deficiencies. Helping it surpass its deficiencies is a good way of going from the fixing the computer to just using the computer as a tool, yet having the nice side-effect of learning how things work. If only more game developers would produce for the Mac I'd switch in a heartbeat. And, then, forget about the ability of upgrading your system easily. Well, in fact, you may even discover that your *hardware* is neglected and even if you are willing to pay for the software, without seeing the source code, you are left alone. My iBook G3 doesn't run certain new applications that Apple has released recently. Yet, the ones that interest them the most (like iTunes---which gives them loads of customers for the iTunes Music Store) are supported. Another problem that I faced with Apple is that my iPod (second generation) is fairly able to run newer software (e.g., letting me read a text file/small book on its screen). But the last update it received was to run AAC songs. Which does take a lot more development than implementing a simple, stupid text viewer in for little notes (which was available for the third generation iPods, at the same time the AAC decoder was available for *all* then current iPod). Why? That's because the iTunes Music Store sells music encoded in AAC. So, be careful when deciding to go the closed-source route. It's nice to have Free Software boot into my computers to use *recent* software, with all the security updates (and functionality updates too). Oh, and regarding games, I don't care for them. Regards, Rogério Brito. P.S.: Despite my comments above, I should grant you that some of Apple machines are indeed *nice*, like the Mac Mini. And the nicer thing seems to be that you can run Linux on them, AFAIK. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Older Mozilla not supported anymore
Hi, continuing with the subject, On 04/26/06 12:15, Rogério Brito wrote: Anyway, I am not able to perform everything with Firefox 1.5 that I could with Firefox 1.0 (I'm using testing). Happily, today a security update for Mozilla was announced by the project. And, I am, right now, building an optimized compile of Firefox for my own computer (I like to use -Os, among other things, to compile programs, since my processor is cache-starved). Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Older Mozilla not supported anymore (was: Re: Sunset Announcement for Fx/Tb 1.0.x and Mozilla Suite 1.7.x -- what does it mean to sarge?)
On Apr 26 2006, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: mozilla developer center announced 'sunset' for mozilla 1.7.x and Firefox 1.0.x etc. ie. these won't be supported by mozilla any more. Thank you very much for this information, Johannes. What does this mean for mozilla, firefox and thunderbird in *sarge*? Assuming there are vulnerablities discovered, will sarge (silently) move to Firefox 1.5.x etc or will all problems be backported? This whole mozilla thing is turning to be a nightmare, with zillions projects (side-projects?). Anyway, I am not able to perform everything with Firefox 1.5 that I could with Firefox 1.0 (I'm using testing). One of these things is the ability to generate postscript files with Times/Helvetica/Courier only. Firefox 1.0 did this by default. I would appreciate if anybody could help here. Trying to set the hidden preference that the fonts shouldn't be downloaded don't work. I don't know why. And, if I understand it correctly, Firefox 1.5 is already with its days counted, as it seems that the trend now is to use the base for applications called xulrunner (already packaged in Debian and present in testing the last time I checked). I just guess it'll be rather hard to backport any security issues to sarge, when the upstream version doesn't exist any more. Yes, this is a similar problem to the one faced by people using proprietary software, when the support for the version you use is dropped. Backporting fixes will be an herculean task, indeed. Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN
Hi there. On 04/20/06 17:21, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: If all the Ubuntu patches make into Debian then that would be a huge boost for Debian! Well, this seems to be a point where there must be some work left to do: not all patches are being feed back to Debian (or upstream, for that matter). For instance, I installed dapper flight-4 on my old laptop and the translations to Brazilian Portuguese were bad. I tried registering to Launchpad and then translated some strings from Abiword (or was it another program?). I got tired of the web interface and it was late at night. I then mentioned this opportunity of getting involved with Free Software development to a student of mine. He translated a helluva strings and, still, after talking with the responsible people on IRC (to get the work of this student integrated soon), I asked if they were willing to feed it back to Debian or upstream and the response I got wasn't that human or as kind as Ubuntu is promoted. :-( Still, having some core Debian developers working for Ubuntu is a good thing for Debian. Regards, Rogério. P.S.: And then, there's, the utnubu project... Which, in an ideal world, would not have to exist. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multiple ubuntu-based distributions (was: Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN)
On 04/21/06 19:58, Steve Lamb wrote: And, of course, why there's UBUNTU and KUBUNTU. Waiting for XUBUNTU myself. ;) Indeed. I'm on the same boat here... After using pure ubuntu on an old laptop of mine I wouldn't expect it to run s poorly. With all the talk about Gnome getting leaner and snappier, with a focus on reducing the amount of RAM needed to run, I expected that it would be a nice thing to base a course of mine regarding Linux to some co-workers, but given that we don't live in the richest country of the world, our machines are not as fast as some developers think that they should be. I installed xubuntu and it worked much better. My only complaint regarding it was that I could not hibernate my system, as I could when I booted with Gnome. Actually, I'm right now with both installed on this sacrificial machine, but I am surely waiting for xubuntu to get slightly more polished... Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supported Video Cards under Free Software (was: Re: Best Video Card)
On Apr 19 2006, Ron Johnson wrote: When Intel makes stand-alone video cards, they'll get more notice from those of us who don't want on-board video. Actually, between the choices of being able to use the driver even if the card is on-board or not using it (or it having poor support under Free Operating Systems), I'd go with the former. Oh, and before anybody jumps quickly into conclusions, I do prefer off-board video. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supported Video Cards under Free Software (was: Re: Best Video Card)
On Apr 19 2006, Ron Johnson wrote: Still, if they come out with reasonably priced cards that can do 3D like an NVIDIA FX 5200 using the nvidia binary driver, I'd How exactly is the performance of such a beast? I have never had the opportunity of using a binary driver for video, since I don't need 3D and my trusty, old Matrox card is keeping up with my necessities. But I'm frequently asked (by friends) to recommend hardware that would run Linux well and, well, the topic of video cards is where I get most undecided... Thanks for any experiences shared, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Supported Video Cards under Free Software (was: Re: Best Video Card)
Hi, Manaen and others interested in Freedom. On Apr 18 2006, Manaen Schlabach wrote: From a recent ZDNet article http://news.com.com/2102-7344_3-6061491.html?tag=st.util.print Yes, I read this very same article with great interest (and what a good timing it had, considering our discussion here) and was pleased by what I read. I personally value my computing freedoms and believe in what Debian and the FSF stand for so it looks like Intel will be getting a wad of my hard earned cash in the near future. The very same here. I don't want to ge tied to a given operating system and I would like to be able to use my hardware with other systems like, say, OpenBSD (which I have not experienced before). And, for this reason, having a big company like Intel backing the development of drivers (which, after released, would be imported by other projects) is indeed a nice thing that is able to guide my buying decisions (and even what I recommend to the Universities where I work, so that I can actually teach the use of Free Tools for students). Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
About initng and speeding up boot (was: Re: init script editor)
Hi, Florian. On Apr 18 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: If you have disabled all services that you can do without and you are still unhappy about the boot-up time, you might want to take a look at the initng package. Quoting from the package description: (...) Homepage: http://initng.thinktux.net I had already thought about using initng, but my conservative side kept me from installing it. Could you or other users of it give us some feedback about how it works currently in a Debian system? I'm quite interested to know. Thanks, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best Video Card
Hi, Manaen. On Apr 15 2006, Manaen Schlabach wrote: (...) I know that ATI and Nvidia both have decent cards but their drivers are completely closed. I know and understand that companies must protect some of their trade secrets but I would like very much to support a graphics manufacturer who opens their specs as much as possible to opensource and free software developers. Having said that, what are everyones thoughts about which card that might be? Thank you very much for posting this. I'm very interested in reading the others' experiences with this part of hardware, which seems to be one of the most problematic for desktop users. I'm 100% aligned with your views as you can see from my other postings to debian-user on this subject: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/01/msg02389.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/01/msg02442.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/11/msg00650.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/12/msg00863.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/08/msg03563.html At one time it was Matrox are they still the most GNU/Linux friendly out there or has someone else taken the lead on that? Well, it seems that they are not that open anymore, from what I just saw in the x.org (or was that dri?) support page. I wouldn't mind supporting ATi/nVidia if they at least opened up their specs on old cards (say older than 3 years) My sentiments, *exactly*. do they really have that much to lose by doing so? Thanks for raising the point, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: External hard drive woes
On Apr 08 2006, Paul Johnson wrote: I've tried both, but currently using firewire with it. I'm also using an external drive (for backup purposes) inside a dual USB/Firewire enclosure, but, to be honest, I only use the Firewire function. I have not had any problems like what you describe. I'm running current kernels (taken from kernel.org), though, and my system doesn't have a high uptime (it's been raining a lot here with thunderstorms and I fear leaving everything working). For the core of my system, I'm using mondoarchive for backing up the system onto CDs. Ok, so this doesn't help you. Do you get backtraces on your system? Are they logged? -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?
On Apr 05 2006, Ali Milis wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: The debian default of my sarge installations is that the ext3-FS are fsck'ed about every 30 mounts or 180 days (whatever comes first). This is just my Euro 0.01 opinion: 180 days is reasonable for new disks. Except that the kernel can have bugs that may corrupt the data-structures laid on disk. Perhaps you would like to lower it when your disk goes old. Almost all data goes cached before going onto the disk. Your memory mal malfunction also independently of your disk. These are just *some* of a long list of reasons to check your disks with some regularity. And being on the safe side is, of course, not a bad idea. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reconfiguring packages (was: Re: How do I restart the ez-ipupdate wizard?)
On Mar 25 2006, Tyson Varosyan wrote: (...) How do I get that wizard to start again? The general recipe, not only for ez-ipupdate, is to use the program (as root): # dpkg-reconfigure -plow package_name The -plow actually happens to be the default and, thus, it is not strictly necessary. Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Open Source Support of hardware (was: Re: Best Linux Laptop)
On Mar 19 2006, Manaen Schlabach wrote: You might want to consider walking into the store with a Knoppix boot CD/DVD and booting the laptop with Knoppix. If it works you know the hardware will be supported by Linux. And if you are concerned with hardware that works with Free Software, be careful to see if the CD/DVD hasn't loaded any non-free software, like ndiswrapper or such other evil things. Please, since you are voting with your wallet and you are in a position to choose what to use, don't support those that make the life of Free Software developers harder. Regards, -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System hangs at boot
On Mar 19 2006, Luis R Finotti wrote: Leo Britto wrote: I will try to reinstall the system from scratch and see if I will have the same problem. I hope I wont :) That's what they call the windows way... :-) And this is *rarely* needed with Debian. In fact, trying to resurrect a dead/problematic system is almost always a nice learning experience. It, of course, takes time, but that's the price to pay. (If someone with experience with ndiwsrapper -- or some who really knows what he's talking about :-) -- would give any advice, maybe you could avoid it...) I lost the initial postings, but using ndiswrapper is an evil thing... -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System hangs at boot
On Mar 19 2006, Luis R Finotti wrote: I'm not sure removing exim4 is a good idea. It's part of the base system and used to deliver local error messages... (But I am not sure it's really that bad.) If the original poster doesn't need the full power of exim4 (well, I actually only know well one MTA and that is qmail, which I packaged myself for some friends and for me), then some other lighter MTAs may be an option, like nullmailer or ssmtp. Oh, and you can interrupt the hanging processes at boot with Control-C, if you don't care that much about them being up. Of course, this is a dirty solution. Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: On rtorrent
On Feb 25 2006, Michael M. wrote: Rogério Brito wrote: That's strange. I've been using a plain/vanilla etch system here (in fact, I always track testing) and I *do* have rtorrent available here. Well I'll check again. Perhaps it is available for in Etch for your architecture, but it wasn't for mine (powerpc - an iMac). Humm, two things here: * I *do* use a powerpc here all the time with Debian. A quite old PowerMac 9500/180MP with a G3 replacement card and rtorrent is indeed available for etch here. * A package only migrates to testing (currently, etch) only if it builds on the major architectures supported by Debian (and powerpc is definitely one of them). It can get frustrating at times because many websites fail to mention that some piece of software or other is x86 only. I happen to live quite well with a i386 desktop that is driven completely by Free Software (I don't have non-free currently listed in my sources.list file). The last major problem for me was getting evince to work correctly with PDF files that I generate with Mozilla - ps2pdf (and gs-esp for my printer). But, then, my necessities aren't that big or complex compared to others'. Oh, BTW, if you have any suggestions for the vrms package, I'd love to know. :-) It seems just as many Windows users presume that everybody uses Windows, so do many Linux users presume that everyone uses x86. They forget that Linux (especially Debian) runs on many more architectures. I just took the opposite direction: I try to teach them why having an 'agnostic' position is good. But then, I have the privilege that most of the people with whom I live heed to my words. :-) I have been using more and more command-line/curses apps ... (...) abcde and crip for cd ripping, If you don't know about moc (which is a superb audio player), I'd recommend it, since you mentioned this intention of using more curses applications. vim for text editing, mplayer for videos, even w3m instead of Firefox for looking up certain things on the web ... I can't speak for vi(m), as this is a matter of religion (I'm an Emacs user myself), but mplayer+mjpegtools+toolame+dvdauthor is definitely the suite that I use to produce DVDs here. And I frequently use w3m, links and lynx for surfing the web (I still haven't made up my mind---all three have their strong and weak points). next step is to learn mutt instead of using Thunderbird. Definitely a worthy goal. And while you are at it, it may perhaps make sense to put all your mail on your computer under an IMAP server. This way, you can choose if you want to read your e-mail in your own computer with mutt, with Thunderbird or from a friend's place with another graphical MUA. Maybe not all text, all the time, but more text, less gui -- that's my goal! :-) Graphical interfaces aren't inherently bad. :-) But the problem with them is, actually, the people designing them, that have absolutely no idea of computer-human-interaction/interface. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: On rtorrent
On Feb 24 2006, Mark Grieveson wrote: On Feb 24 2006, Rogério Brito wrote: Well, you may be surprised with the steep learning curve for rtorrent (and its interface), but it is definitely worth learning, because of the non-interpreted nature of the program and the fact that it consumes *far* less resources than similar programs written in Python or Java. I suggest using qtorrent. It works, and it's simple to use. And hey, q comes before r :-) Well, it seems that you missed one of the points that I was trying to make with rtorrent: the fact that it doesn't use an interpreted language and is quite mean with the resources that it uses. BTW, please, don't send HTML mail to the list. Thanks, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using bittorrent for large downloads (was: Re: DVD ISO files)
On Feb 22 2006, Peter Colton wrote: http is not a very good way of downloading large file. You would be better of using the torrent method. This is definitely a good suggestion. More people should use bittorrent, because: * you are always giving back to the community when you use torrents; * your downloads tend to get faster, especially if you have a fat pipe and one of the peers can't sustain the upload speed to your place; * you put less load on the server and allow more people to have the software at the same time as you do; * it seems to be more reliable, as hash checks are made periodically for the pieces of files downloaded. One program for downloading torrent file is bittornado. And another suggestion would be to use rtorrent, which is much less fat than using bittornado, the original bittorrent client or azureus (which needs a Java Virtual Machine environment to be run). Since I like to be minimalistic with my choices of programs, I found rtorrent to be perfect, as it is written in a compiled language and runs in native speed---and both the memory and space consumptions are better than those used by the clients that I cited above (sometimes by two orders of magnitude). And it is a nice motivation for using the screen program (also packaged for Debian), just for the detach feature that it offers. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package error after debfoster
Hi, Luís, Lars Co. On Feb 22 2006, Luis Finotti wrote: Lars Staun Knudsen wrote: I cleaned out my system with debfoster, but unfortunately the package menu is stuck. (...) Removing menu ... chmod: cannot access `/usr/bin/update-menus.real': No such file or directory (...) I am not at my Debian machine, so I can't double check, but I think you need dpkg --force-purge. (Careful with that! Check the man page. Search force-thing.) I think that a simpler touch /usr/bin/update-menus.real as root would work better than using --force-* for dpkg. This way, you can still use higher level tools than dpkg. I've been using this for some broken packages that I've made in the past and it works for me (the package should never get in such a state, anyway). Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On rtorrent (was: Re: Using bittorrent for large downloads)
Hi, Michael and others. On Feb 23 2006, Michael M. wrote: Last time I checked, rtorrent was available only in Sid, and aptitude complained when I marked it for installation. That's strange. I've been using a plain/vanilla etch system here (in fact, I always track testing) and I *do* have rtorrent available here. I would like to try it though, as Bittornado is not so much to my liking. I hope it moves to Etch soon. Well, you may be surprised with the steep learning curve for rtorrent (and its interface), but it is definitely worth learning, because of the non-interpreted nature of the program and the fact that it consumes *far* less resources than similar programs written in Python or Java. Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmms in sid
On Feb 18 2006, Nate Bargmann wrote: [About xmms] Despite the slight version difference, the changelog does show quite a few fixes and improvements. Not bad for a package no longer officially in development anymore. I didn't know that xmms wasn't in development anymore. What is its substitute? I've been using moc (Music On Console), already packaged in Debian, which is able to play a quite impressive list of music formats. It, together with easytag, are the must haves audio applications for those interested in messing with music with Free Software (of course, grip is also a quite nice application, especially when coupled with Lame). I'm just curious to know what others are using. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Supported Hardware - Monitor
Hi, Robert. On Jan 07 2006, Robert Thompson wrote: I am researching using Debian over Windows, but I just bought a Dell Wide Aspect Ratio Monitor when my Hard drive gave up on me. Now, I am looking at buying a new hard drive and taking the opportunity to switch to Debian. First of all, I see that you are using Microsoft Entourage for sending your e-mail, and this would lead me to the conclusion that you're using a Mac. You can, BTW, install Debian, not only on regular PC's, but also on Macs (see the debian-powerpc mailing list for discussions related to using Debian on PowerPC-based machines, like recent Macs). Anyway, back to your question, it will be a good learning experience to use Debian in your new computer, especially if you take some time to make experiments and not care that much about not messing your installation. You will take some few days to learn what programs you need and what programs you don't. Hope this helps, Rogério. P.S.: Please, avoid sending messages in HTML format for this mailing list. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 10 second startup for emacs on system with 1GB ram Athlon64 3200. postgresql shared memory issues. vi ok immediate
On Jan 01 2006, Mitchell Laks wrote: ede-speedbar semantic-idle flash by in the minibuffer. What in the world is that? Those are packages packages for development of large programs. You can learn more if you search google for cedet or ecb. How to dispense with it? Do you possibly have anything like ecb, semantic, eieio, speedbar-*, cedet-* installed in your machine? If you don't have any use for them, I'd suggest you to uninstall those packages. Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge)
On Dec 29 2005, Marc Shapiro wrote: Xine seems to actually be doing the job, at least with the w32codec installed. (I will try it w/o the codec tomorrow.) So far it is the only player that is playing a .mov file. How does it do on other file types (RealAudio, MPEG, mp3, OGG, other Quicktime formats, etc)? I'd just say that you should give mplayer a try. Especially the version neatly packaged by Christian Marillat, it seems work beautifully for anything that I have tried. And, BTW, you can get it to be hooked into mozilla by installing mozilla-mplayer (already in Debian, but in contrib instead of main). I have contributed some code to both xine and mplayer and, while mplayer code is a mess (or, at least, it was the last time I tried to contribute), it gets the job done. Well, xine isn't bad, but at the time that I contributed some code, it had a much cleaner design, but didn't work with as many file types, but since they share a lot of code, I wouldn't be surprised if xine worked today with all the formats that mplayer does. One winning thing that mplayer has and that xine doesn't is that it can output the decoded video in formats that I can easily convert to DVDs or (S)VCDs. Together with mjpegtools, this combo is quite nice. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. P.S.: If you can get away without using the non-free w32codecs, then it would be better. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recover ext3 deletion
On Dec 30 2005, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 05:43:12PM +0400, Danielyan, Ashot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've run rm /*/* as root Can I recover all deleted files? Yes. From your regular, updated, comprehensive system backups. Indeed. I've saved my life once in a quite stressful period just because I had taken the time to religiously make backups. I'd recommend using mondo for creating backups (if you are running on ia32---AFAIK, it doesn't support other architectures right now). Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question
On Dec 25 2005, John Hasler wrote: Katipo writes: Fine! Now, define *his* product. He builds computers and installs Debian on them. They are his product. He can sell them for whatever the market will bear. He must comply with the licenses on the software in Debian, but none of them limit the price he can charge. And, to Katipo, this is exactly one of the freedoms that Free Software is about. No strings attached (or almost none). Regards, -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Free JVM implementations
On Dec 25 2005, Daniel Webb wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 04:55:15PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote: If you have problems running your applications with some of the Free JVMs, then please let the maintainers (or upstream) know about that. They will surely appreciate to know which programs don't already work with their implementation. I tried Kaffe in the past but it never seemed to work for anything I tried to run on it. That was a while ago, though, I imagine it's improved. Yes, the situation regarding kaffe and other Free JVMs has improved a lot in the latest years---some non-trivial code is able to run under the Free JVMs now, but, of course, they are not perfect. I just don't have time to test another package, I'm in the process of releasing about 50,000 lines of my own code GPL. I have to pick my battles. Nice. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Free JVM implementations
Hi, michael. On Dec 25 2005, michael wrote: On the other hand, and this is my main point here, have you tried using one of the Free JVM implementations that are already packaged in Debian? Some good starting points would be to try kaffe, sablevm or gij. Unfort with kaffe I get the following error: I am sure that the kaffe developers would be pleased to know what exactly doesn't work with their implementation. BTW, have you tried to use any other JVM for comparison purposes? It would be good to know. 15:27:32 ~/src$ kaffe -jar JabRef-1.8.1.jar kaffe-bin: /build/buildd/kaffe-1.1.6/build-tree/kaffe-1.1.6/kaffe/kaffevm/support.c:351: lookupClassMethod: Assertion `cls != ((void *)0)' failed. Aborted I'm leaving this in the message and including the proper mailing lists in the Cc: field of this message, to raise awareness about this problem. Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using Free JVM implementations (was: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2005 #3025)
On Dec 23 2005, Daniel Webb wrote: Yeah, Java yuck. I agree. There are two programs that are so good it was worth it to me to install Java: jabref and jbidwatcher. They are both the best in their area. Jbidwatcher is a Ebay auction manager, and it is fantastic. I will check jabref, but, currently, the Emacs mode for keeping, sanitizing, sorting etc references in bibtex format already does more than what I need. On the other hand, and this is my main point here, have you tried using one of the Free JVM implementations that are already packaged in Debian? Some good starting points would be to try kaffe, sablevm or gij. I use the nonfree Blackdown packages from stable: It would be better to avoid non-free software (speaking as one of the maintainers of vrms), of course. If you have problems running your applications with some of the Free JVMs, then please let the maintainers (or upstream) know about that. They will surely appreciate to know which programs don't already work with their implementation. (Or if it is just a matter of having a few more classes implemented in GNU Classpath). Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using LaTeX and references (was: Re: sharing a bibliography)
On Dec 23 2005, Daniel Webb wrote:
Ah, well, I'm not sure. I have always used it with Latex/Bibtex.
You'll notice in the Jabref window where a reference is edited, there
is a bibtexkey field. Supposing the bibtexkey for an article is
bob:95:pumpkin. Within a Latex document, I just put
\cite{bob:95:pumpkin} and it inserts a citation, then adds a perfect
entry into the references. For a large document (like a
dissertation), this is wonderful.
Have you already played with Emacs + AUCTeX + RefTeX? RefTeX is amazing
in what it allows you to do.
In fact, I can't recommend AUCTeX enough for people that use LaTeX. It
is a superb mode that is highly recommended for editing of large LaTeX
documents. Way much better than the stock LaTeX mode provided by Emacs.
And for those that want a little bit more of WYSIWYG, you can also try
to use preview-latex with AUCTeX.
Of course, everything is already packaged in the Debian repository.
Latex is a huge learning investment, but if you write a lot, or are
planning on writing something very large, like a dissertation, I think
it's worth it.
I agree 100%.
Regards, Rogério.
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Re: sharing a bibliography
On Dec 23 2005, Joe Mc Cool wrote: I am sometimes worried that I am investing a lot of time in something that just _might_ be superceeded in a few years time ? Well, there is also quite a lot of advance in the (La)TeX land. And I wouldn't worry too much about LaTeX becoming obsolete, because (at least for the features that I use) I still see that the other options are light-years behind what I do in LaTeX, with the quality provided by the TeX engine. And, of course, since everything in LaTeX is pure text, you can, at any given moment, take a conversor to get (automatically) your text (or a large portion of it) into any other format that suits you better. Just my 2 cents, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Leet-speak WAS:[Help with Linux selection please?]
On Dec 20 2005, Steve Lamb wrote: I disagree. Simply put if someone cannot bother to put some effort into making their writing moderately comprehensible why should I be expected to put any effort into decyphering it? 100% agreed, let alone the fact that the list may have a lot of non-native English speakers. If l33t-speak is allowed, why not other *proper* natural languages? And then the mess is created... Regards from someone whose primary language isn't English, Rogério. P.S.: Can't you see how strong my accent is? :-) -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Keeping your system clean (was: Re: Suggestions for vrms package?)
Hi, Richard. On Dec 21 2005, Richard Hector wrote: How hard would it be (and how much sense would it make) to have an option to list all executables that don't belong to any package? This is a sensible request. I think that the package cruft does a better job here, as it is specialized in doing that. [1] I think that vrms could recommend or suggest cruft... They may or may not be non-free, of course, but it would be a reminder to check. Indeed. Thanks for your input, Rogério. [1] Actually, cruft is more general than that: it searches for any file that doesn't belong to a package. Of course, assuming how a standard system is laid on disk, filtering just the binary/executable files would be a job of grep'ping with a simple regular expression. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [debian-vrms] Re: Suggestions for vrms package?
Hi Clive and everybody else that replied. On Dec 19 2005, Clive Menzies wrote: I use it and it seems to work well :) Nice that you have vrms installed. :-) I'm at a bit of a loss as to what you're thinking in terms of development; ie. what more one would want it to do unless you're thinking along the lines of recommended free alternatives to proprietary software. I have already received some good suggestions like: * an option for listing contrib software; * an option for ignoring non-free packages when they are documentation; * an option for suggesting alternative software to something in non-free. I checked out the alioth page and not much has seemed to have happened since August. Unfortunately, the alioth page doesn't show exactly where we are. I think that one of the main reasons is that the subversion repository manipulations aren't accounted for in the alioth page (only CVS?). I have tried to contact some people responsible for alioth on irc but didn't find them on-line and the answers that I got were just to ignore the apparent lack of activity. This is not a criticism; I share your enthusiasm for the using free software wherever possible. I guess I'm suffering from a lack of imagination :) Thank you very much. I am also open to any criticism, if it is constructive. And imaginative suggestions are also quite welcome. :-) Thank you very much, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [debian-vrms] Re: Suggestions for vrms package?
Hi, Andrew. First of all, thank you very much for giving vrms a try. On Dec 20 2005, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: If you purge a package, could it please disappear from the vrms listing? Yes, this is already fixed in current vrms. I think that you may have an old version of it installed in your system, right? Just so you can track our improvements, please see [1] for more information. Thank you very much for your feedback, Rogério. [1] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/v/vrms/vrms_1.11/changelog -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Suggestions for vrms package?
Hi there, people. I'm currently one of the maintainers of the virtual Richard M. Stallman package (vrms), whose purpose is to indicate to the user which packages installed in his system are not Free Software. The package had active development up to 2002 and, then, it wasn't given so much attention. As a user of it, I thought that I could lend it a hand trying to fix some problems and doing some janitorial work on the Bug Tracking System (BTS) part of vrms. This resulted in some new life in the development of vrms [1] and a move to a team maintainership [2], with the source package being developed on Debian's Alioth server [3, 4]. So, I would like to ask you to, please, install it, use it, suggest what could be improved (preferrably reporting the bugs to the BTS) and tell us of any bugs that you encounter. For those not aware of it, you can report a bug against a package with the use of the nice reportbug program (in the reportbug package). I think that the package has huge ways to be improved and, as always, any help is welcome. I firmly believe that the Free Software applications that we have today are mature enough (and also sufficient) that we can drop most of the use of non-free packages. In the pursuit of this task, I think that vrms is an important assessment tool, so that the user knows how much non-free software his system has installed and which Free Software alternatives exist. Thank you very much for any help, Rogério Brito. [1] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/v/vrms/vrms_1.11/changelog [2] http://lists.gag.com/pipermail/debian-vrms/ [3] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/vrms [4] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/vrms -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: *nix cert
On Dec 08 2005, Justin Gallardo wrote: Haha, funny enough. I am currently a student at a four year, and a term of tuition, including my housing costs (3 terms a year) was $4600, for in-state tuition. I would say that a few good certs would be much more cost effective. Well, but a Computer Science course, if done right (i.e., with theorems, proofs and a solid background on theoretical foundations of Computer Science) would be much more illuminating. Getting a certification would be just like studying for another subject (perhaps much easier than studying for some course---again, such courses are done right, since much of Computer Science deals with problems that are simple to state, yet utterly hard to solve). And a graduate degree is even more mind-opening, I can assure you. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Querying packages about installed files
On Dec 09 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: Also have a look at wajig. One of the best-kept secrets in linux IMO. I don't know if wajig works for other distributions, but indeed, it is a wonderful tool. It merges many of the functionality that other dpkg-* and apt-* supply, with a simple consistent interface. Recommended. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hints on keeping the system clean
On Dec 04 2005, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:45:13AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: If you know of any other hints to save space, please, let me know. localepurge - Automagically remove unnecessary locale data Thank you very much for this hint. It is not for the faint of the heart, as the package description says, but it is surely a good thing to have in mind when you are tight on space. Thanks, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 1.3.1 (Bo) ISO files
Hi, Andy. On Nov 28 2005, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: I have them here. I can put them up on my machine - but I only have 256k upload bandwidth - I'd also need to set up some sort of account for you or some ftp. What is easiest? Perhaps you should contact the people in charge of archive.debian.org. I think that they would be interested in that. One more or less effective way of transferring what you have is to create a jigdo template and set the source of the packages as archive.debian.org or planetmirror.com (I don't remember which one had Debian 1.3.1 packages as discussed earlier). This way, the upload would be orders of magnitude less than what you'd do if you were to upload the whole image. Otherwise, I can burn them to CD and send them to you via mail. I guess that contacting a central authority would be a better way of preserving the golden copies of history that you have with you. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mplayer and mp3s
On Nov 24 2005, Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 12:44:54AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: But I would like to give you all a recommendation: try to use a music player called moc (which stands for Music on Console). Thanks for the wonderful suggestion. It is indeed a nice player. Nice that you liked it. Since moc uses far less resources (according to top) than any other player, and it understands so many formats, this is my current player of choice. This, along with easytag are highly recommended tools for those interested in music, IMVHO. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Off Site Backup: Removable hard-drive racks or external USB hard-drives?
On Nov 24 2005, Andy wrote: Hello List, Hi, Andy. I wonder if I might ask the list's opinion about which hardware I should use to store the off-site backups on? (...) - external hard drives connected through a USB2 or firewire interface This (an external PATA drive in a dual USB2/Firewire enclosure) is the solution that I have been using for quite some time now. In fact, I'm only using the Firewire side of it and it works quite well for all my needs. Q) Is hot-plug supported for external hard disks connected through a USB2 or firewire interface? Yes, at least for Firewire and USB 1.1. My script can umount and mount as necessary, but I would like to avoid reboots if possible. No reboots needed here. Q) Do you foresee any problems configuring LVM or software RAID on top of removable or external disks? I have never used LVM, though. I'm only using this external disk as a way of backup/exchange of data among filesystems. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 1.3.1 (Bo) ISO files
On Nov 25 2005, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 12:44:50AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: I would think that something like jigdo or a torrent would be more helpful for the community, of course. Jigdo is only relevant if the archive is still around to build images from easily I think. Of course, but it seems that at least planetmirror has it archived, IIRC from other posts. This way, the person providing the ISO would not really have to cope with the full upload of the ISO: in the case of jigdo, much smaller files would be sufficient. Understood. Where is all this interest in really old versions of Debian coming from? At this rate I'll bring a 386 with 4M to the next Linux Expo in London _because I can_ :) Heh, it's cool to have old hardware running well. :-) And not only that, but it is also a good way of benchmarking the current programs (say, glibc against libc4 or libc5). And building a (statically built, as you woulnd't probably want to mess with installation of module-init-tools in such an old distribution) 2.6 kernel for such a beast would be nicem, if possible. :-) It's all a good learning exercise, to know the limits of our software and hardware. :-) Such pet projects are indeed quite cool, IMVHO. :-) For instance, I have an old PowerMac 8500/180MP here where, with a slow (SCSI) disk, but still alive. :-) Official support from its original manufacturer for such beast has ended quite some ago, but it works perfectly with sarge, for instance. :-) Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvd authoring question
On Nov 24 2005, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: k l u r t [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: STAT: Processing final.mpg... ^^ may be you missunderstand my question because of my poor english. I don't want to copy or clone a dvd. I haven't got mpg files to convert to VOB. I think that dvdauthor can still be a solution to your problem. The fact is that dvdauthor operates on various stages: first, it will convert the MPEG files to VOB files. *THEN*, with another invocation, it will create the IFO and (the backup IFO files) based on information you provide and the VOB files you already have. The exception to this rule is if you use an XML file to dvdauthor: then, everything is done with a single invocation and the information from the XML file. Oh, BTW, there is also a tool called qdvdauthor that is a frontend for dvdauthor, but I have never used this frontend myself as I prefer doing almost everything without a graphic interface. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On checking the security of a system (was: Re: debian and the malware problem)
On Nov 24 2005, Jude DaShiell wrote: (...) The bastille package doesn't mention spyware or make any suggestions for what Linux software might be useful for system protection against this kind of malware. (...) In addition to bastille and cruft, that you mentioned in your previous e-mail, you can also try to use tiger as a very good package for checking security. Just run it and it will spend, say, 15 minutes on your system trying to find things that could be a problem from a security point of view. All is neatly commented in a log file. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 1.3.1 (Bo) ISO files
On Nov 24 2005, Manou J.M. Eifes wrote: Does anyone have the Debian 1.3.1 CD 1 ISO (and perhaps the CD 2)? I know there is a copy of Debian 1.3.1 on archive.debian.org but, if possible, I want the original ISOs. There is no problem for downloading the files, because I have a fast ADSL connection. I would think that something like jigdo or a torrent would be more helpful for the community, of course. This way, the person providing the ISO would not really have to cope with the full upload of the ISO: in the case of jigdo, much smaller files would be sufficient. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mplayer and mp3s
On Nov 23 2005, Oliver Lupton wrote: Just `mplayer mymusic.mp3` works for me, make sure your mplayer was compiled with MP3 support (uses lame iirc). Yes, mplayer may use liblame0 (I am the upstream packager of lame). But I would like to give you all a recommendation: try to use a music player called moc (which stands for Music on Console). It plays a large variety of sound files, lets you navigate with a very intuitive curses interface and it was made in such a way that you can quit the curses interface and leave it playing in the background. Later, you can connect again to the daemon playing your music, if you change your mind. It is highly recommended, if only by the very, very broad range of music file formats supported out-of-the-box (without you having to go hunting for plugins and such). Really recommended. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!
On Nov 23 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: The moral of the story is that hardware can go bad all of a sudden with no warning. Yet another moral of the story: be paranoid and keep your backups. I don't leave home when going to work without backing up my system with mondo. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: make an updates CD?
On Nov 22 2005, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: Make a CD which apt-cdrom will accept is the part I still haven't found. The package you want is called apt-move and it is *quite* neat for exactly this purpose. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dual boot on mac osx and 2wire internet support
On Nov 20 2005, George Cantwell wrote: is it possible 2 have 2 boot drives 1 runing mac osx and one debian? I think that yaboot is able to do that without any problems, but I may be wrong here. OTOH, you can always drop into OpenFirmware and boot from there. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. P.S.: Don't format your mails in HTML. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
