Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-13 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 19:42:45 -0800, Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:29:06PM -0600, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > Chris Jones wrote: > > > I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this > > > list require

Re: Package signing

2008-11-13 Thread Michael Wagner
* Paras pradhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 14.11.2008 >I am creating a local debian lenny pool in which I need to add customized > debian lenny packages. For good practice  do i need to sign the modified >packages that I modified? If yes how do i do it? Hello Paras, I have here also a local

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
NN_il_Confusionario: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 06:02:24PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> Firefox (which, incidentally, is the same application I absolutely need a >> mouse for)... > > one can emulate mouse in X using the numeric pad of the keyboard. Many > years ago it was in "accessx", and the

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:44:56PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Mrxvt.xft:true > Mrxvt.xftAntialias: true > Mrxvt.xftAutoHint:true > #Mrxvt.xftFont: bitstream vera sans mono > Mrxvt.xftFont:dejavu sans mono > Mrxvt.xftWeight: medium > Mrxvt.xftWidth:

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/13/08 23:43, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] GRML 0.9 has grub on it too. It takes a lot longer to dl an .iso than a floppy image. Hard to fit a standard CD in a shirt pocket. DSL fits on 8cm mini CDs. Presumably if you installed Debian, you'll have the installation media. I last in

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 08:49:56PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > The only thing that tells the two contexts apart (that I badly miss..) > is that the linux console does not support 256 colors. I am not able to understand your needs, but surely linux framebuffer console supports 256 colors (but I nev

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-13 Thread Marc Shapiro
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:23:27PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package. [Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug... This is the 21st Century. Only crotchety

Re: Vbox -vs- OpenVZ?

2008-11-13 Thread Mark Allums
Stephen Liu wrote: --- Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Just saw a mention of another interesting product; OpenVZ. Has anybody done any comparison between VBox and OpenVZ? Any opinions about which is better? Many TIA! Dennis VirtualBox has been gettin

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:40:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/13/08 21:30, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:23:27PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>[snip] > >>>If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk pac

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:54:05PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > video was being played in the console. Ascii art mode is where the video > is showed as ascii characters, right? yes. When you want to amuse yourself, try it. And look at the monitor from a sufficiently big distance. -- Chi usa software non

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:18:26 +0200 "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > audio player: mplayer > desktop OR window manager: Xfce / Xfwm > development: Bluefish / Gvim / Vim > e-mail client: Sylpheed > file manager: mc > ftp client: ncftp > games: Wesnoth / Nethack > im

[OT] runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1

2008-11-13 Thread Celejar
Hi, [OT since this may not be Debian related.] My 2.6.28 kernels with initramfs hang on boot, a problem that I found discussed here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/28/98 I can use kernels without initramfs. What is the protocol here? Should I add my two cents on lkml? Just wait? Do anything els

Re: Vbox -vs- OpenVZ?

2008-11-13 Thread Lachlan
2008/11/14 Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dennis Wicks wrote: >> >> Greetings; >> >> Just saw a mention of another interesting product; OpenVZ. >> >> Has anybody done any comparison between VBox and OpenVZ? >> >> Any opinions about which is better? My vote is for vbox. Virtualbox OSE has serv

Re: Vbox -vs- OpenVZ?

2008-11-13 Thread Stephen Liu
--- Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis Wicks wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > Just saw a mention of another interesting product; OpenVZ. > > > > Has anybody done any comparison between VBox and OpenVZ? > > > > Any opinions about which is better? > > > > Many TIA! > > Dennis > > >

Re: Vbox -vs- OpenVZ?

2008-11-13 Thread Mark Allums
Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Just saw a mention of another interesting product; OpenVZ. Has anybody done any comparison between VBox and OpenVZ? Any opinions about which is better? Many TIA! Dennis VirtualBox has been getting a lot of maintenance lately, which I regard as a Good Sign.

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:42:45PM EST, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:29:06PM -0600, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > Chris Jones wrote: > > > I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this > > > list require that I provide a "PGP

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:37:52PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/13/08 21:33, Chris Jones wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:28:03PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:17:24PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > >>>I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:29:06PM EST, Kent West wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this > > list require that I provide a "PGP passphrase" .. whatever that may be. > > > > > > I'm sure someone more knowledgeable about PGP/GPG tha

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-13 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:29:06PM -0600, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Chris Jones wrote: > > I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this > > list require that I provide a "PGP passphrase" .. whatever that may be. > > > > > > I'm sure someone mo

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/13/08 21:30, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:23:27PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package. [Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug... This is the 21st Century.

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/13/08 21:33, Chris Jones wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:28:03PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:17:24PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this list require that I provide a "PGP passphrase" .. whatever t

Solved: Using git shallow checkouts

2008-11-13 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:15:08 +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > > The git's "shallow checkouts" feature enables people to download the > latest version of the repository without downloading all the history. > > It is "adequate if you are only interested in the recent history of a > large project w

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:28:03PM EST, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:17:24PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this > > list require that I provide a "PGP passphrase" .. whatever that may be. > > > > You should

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:23:27PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] > > > >If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package. > > [Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug... > > This is the 21st Century. Only crotchety old geezers h

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-13 Thread Kent West
Chris Jones wrote: > I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this > list require that I provide a "PGP passphrase" .. whatever that may be. > > I'm sure someone more knowledgeable about PGP/GPG than am I will answer shortly, but in the meanwhile, I'll take a shot. It

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:17:24PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this > list require that I provide a "PGP passphrase" .. whatever that may be. > You should only be posting replies to the list address (e.g. debian-user@lists.debian.

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package. [Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug... This is the 21st Century. Only crotchety old geezers have computers with floppy drives in them. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson L

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Le Friday 14 November 2008 04:17:24 Chris Jones, vous avez écrit : > I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this > list require that I provide a "PGP passphrase" .. whatever that may be. > > I would gladly comply .. but I have no idea what that "PGP passphrase" > is and

Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-13 Thread Chris Jones
I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this list require that I provide a "PGP passphrase" .. whatever that may be. I would gladly comply .. but I have no idea what that "PGP passphrase" is and how I can obtain it. Someone just asked a question to the "community".. So,

Re: failed to install msttcorefonts

2008-11-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Le Friday 14 November 2008 01:35:58 Bernard, vous avez écrit : > Hi to Everyone, > msttcorefonts This package exists to facilitate upgrades to ttf-mscorefonts-installer. It can safely be removed from your system Sorry for the personnal mail to bdebreil I clicked to fast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:02:24PM EST, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Just to name two of them: irssi is an excellent IRC client and mcabber > is a great Jabber client. You can also take a look at weechat. Maybe it's me but everything I needed was there and implemented in such a way that I never even

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 06:39:09PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2008, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: > What is the point of RAID?': > >On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:59:09 -0600 > >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RAID-5 might not be the

Re: small web browser

2008-11-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:33:25AM -0600, lee wrote: > what's a good web browser that doesn't need so much memory? I have the > same group of tabs open in each browser to compare memory useage: > > > USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > lee 24253 3.0 3

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 04:22:16PM +0100, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:36:15PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Did you try terminus? It's available as console and X11 font and last > > time I tried it looked equally well in both modes. > > yes, since their first apparenc

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:12:50AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:40:51AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Last night, I (foolishly) added a couple of items (hda=noprobe > > > hdb=noprobe) to the "app

Re: kdm will not accept my password

2008-11-13 Thread Ken Heard
On 13/11/2008, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just finished installing Etch in a new box. KDM appears on the > monitor with my user name and place to enter my password, but KDM will > not accept it. > > In a virtual box I am able to log in to my user with the same > password; so the

Re: Static device naming with udev, help please

2008-11-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Nov 13 13:13 -0600]: > Try > > udevinfo -a --name=/dev/usb/ttyUSB0 > udevinfo -a --name=/dev/usb/ttyUSB1 > > These commands list all known attributes of the devices and of their > parent devices. The parent devices will have attributes which allow to

failed to install msttcorefonts

2008-11-13 Thread Bernard
Hi to Everyone, On my desktop running under Debian Sarge, I had no problem installing 'msttecorefonts', which was done about 18 months ago. However, now, on my laptop under Etch, I can't get those fonts installed. Upon launching: #apt-get install msttcorefonts the install process started all

kdm will not accept my password

2008-11-13 Thread Ken Heard
I just finished installing Etch in a new box. KDM appears on the monitor with my user name and place to enter my password, but KDM will not accept it. In a virtual box I am able to log in to my user with the same password; so the user name and password are correct. Keyboard is US, which I used a

Package signing

2008-11-13 Thread Paras pradhan
I am creating a local debian lenny pool in which I need to add customized debian lenny packages. For good practice do i need to sign the modified packages that I modified? If yes how do i do it? Thanks Paras.

Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-13 Thread diane mittnik
On 11/12/08, S.D.Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:07:29 -0500 (EST), Doug Mitton in > gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > >> Yes, I agree BUT by update you keep updated in your current version >> "stream". That I did. I don't always jump to be the first to use a >> new relea

Re: Ctrl key stuck? with every key press?

2008-11-13 Thread diane mittnik
On 11/13/08, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/13 diane mittnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> tia for any help, >> >> Di. >> > > Enable the Show Keyboard Status applet to ensure that you do not have > Sticky Keys enabled, or that for some other reason Ctrl is being held. > Note that pr

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread Tom Rauchenwald
Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, I find your discussion quite interesting (although I started to > skip a few paragraphs). I could give up X anytime if it weren't for > Firefox (which, incidentally, is the same application I absolutely need a > mouse for)... Used to be the same fo

OT: Using git shallow checkouts

2008-11-13 Thread T o n g
Hi, The git's "shallow checkouts" feature enables people to download the latest version of the repository without downloading all the history. It is "adequate if you are only interested in the recent history of a large project with a long history, and would want to send in fixes as patches".

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread H.S.
NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:21:06PM -0500, H.S. wrote: >> Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> Then you should try mplayer playing movies in ascii on the console. :) >> Just did, awesome! >> >> BTW, while playing an avi file in a console, trying to change to another >> console cause

Touchpad + keyboard extreme slowliness

2008-11-13 Thread Kevin ALLIX
Hi, I'm running Debian unstable with the Debian 2.6.26-1-amd64 kernel, and I'm randomly facing a ugly keyboard and touchpad problem. From times to times, keyboard and touchpad are incredibly slow to react : I press a key, and have to wait for half a second before the letter is printed in the ap

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:21:06PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Then you should try mplayer playing movies in ascii on the console. :) > Just did, awesome! > > BTW, while playing an avi file in a console, trying to change to another > console caused the computer to hang. This is

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Lachlan
2008/11/13 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > there's a couple of nice edit

Re: Grub2 settings on dual boot (SOLVED)

2008-11-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Le Wednesday 05 November 2008 09:34:28 Brad Rogers, vous avez écrit : > On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:01:46 +0100 > Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Thierry, > > > I am wondering how and where to choose which OS will be chosen by > > default on a dual boot machine running lenny and gru

pam bug

2008-11-13 Thread Dmitry Kischukov
OS: debian etch I have a large group. More 1000 users. Linux PAM not apply /security/limits.conf for some users. in small group all work fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: jpilot won't sync with Palm IIIe

2008-11-13 Thread Mark Grieveson
Well, I solved it. Apparently this happens when the serial speed is set too low. So, after setting it at 115200, from 9600, and after restarting my computer, it now syncs. I discovered this tidbit at Debian bug #396751. So, anyway, all is well now, and I can now get organized. Mark -- To

Re: minimal mirror for lenny net install

2008-11-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:36:35AM -0600, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > Not sure this is what you are looking for, but I use apt-cacher. It > works really well. It only downloads the packages you request from it so > you get the benefit of a local mirror, without having to actually host a > full mirro

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/11/13 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > there's a couple of nice edit

Re: Ctrl key stuck? with every key press?

2008-11-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/11/13 diane mittnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm using Debian Etch on a laptop with KDE (everything is stable > version unless otherwise noted). I've had problems in the past where > some app would crash, or seg-fault (or possibly some other error would > happen) and as a result, the screen sav

Ctrl key stuck? with every key press?

2008-11-13 Thread diane mittnik
I'm using Debian Etch on a laptop with KDE (everything is stable version unless otherwise noted). I've had problems in the past where some app would crash, or seg-fault (or possibly some other error would happen) and as a result, the screen saver wouldn't work, or the keyboard repeat would stop wo

Re: jpilot won't sync with Palm IIIe

2008-11-13 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:20:32 +0100 François Cerbelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Grieveson a écrit : > > Jpilot won't sync with my Palm IIIe, which is a serial connection > > pda. Jpilot was working with a usb palm that I had, but this palm > > broke. > > > > I entered the command "ln -s

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-13 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:30:58PM +, Aneurin Price wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:44 PM, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nye writes: > >> How do you prevent both Linux and Windows from attempting to correct the > >> time for DST, and ending up an hour out? > > > > Linux doesn't

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 06:02:24PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Firefox (which, incidentally, is the same application I absolutely need a > mouse for)... one can emulate mouse in X using the numeric pad of the keyboard. Many years ago it was in "accessx", and then it got introduced in X proper, a

Re: Stic device naming with udev, help please

2008-11-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:12:08 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Hopefully there is a udev guru on board. > > I have two USB to RS232 dongles that seem to get their names swapped > with every system restart (not often, but enough to make me search for > a solution). Both devices are the same and ID

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:48:39AM -0600, lee wrote: > > I do not use spreadsheets but > > > > apt-cache show sc > > Well, have you tried sc? As I said, I never used any spreadsheet (or word processor, for that matter). I have seen once a person using excel, and I decided that the use of anythi

postgresql or mysql for request-tracker on etch?

2008-11-13 Thread Philip
I'm currently rebuilding a request-tracker server at work. Luckily I have some spare servers so I can build a new one and migrate the off the old one when I'm ready. The old one is a neglected and hacked about sarge box, which I want to rebuild. Luckily it's in a DMZ behind and behind a reverse pr

Re: Poor Wine sound quality on Intel AC'97 (T41 laptop)

2008-11-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Nov 13 12:18 -0600]: > On 2008-11-13 19:03 +0100, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > * Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Nov 07 19:36 -0600]: > >> I'm trying to figure why the sound from WINE is poor to non-existant on > >> this laptop. I am running Sid and

mozilla seamonkey: SSL protocol has been disabled

2008-11-13 Thread H.S.
Hello, Just now I tried to browse to yahoo mail web page and Mozilla Seamonkey on Debian Testing reported something to the effect of "This page cannot be loaded because SSL protocol has been disabled." Never saw this before. I searched google and followed the steps on Mozilla's web page that I go

Re: jpilot won't sync with Palm IIIe

2008-11-13 Thread François Cerbelle
Mark Grieveson a écrit : Jpilot won't sync with my Palm IIIe, which is a serial connection pda. Jpilot was working with a usb palm that I had, but this palm broke. I entered the command "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot", and then tried, via jpilot, to sync. It did establish a sync connection, b

Re: Poor Wine sound quality on Intel AC'97 (T41 laptop)

2008-11-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-13 19:03 +0100, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Nov 07 19:36 -0600]: >> I'm trying to figure why the sound from WINE is poor to non-existant on >> this laptop. I am running Sid and ALSA with the latest kernel 2.6.26 >> package and KDE. Sound from KDE

Re: Need suggestions for internet messenger app

2008-11-13 Thread Frank Steinborn
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:08:22AM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions, but the really important thing is *webcam*. > Grandma has to be able to see those grandkids > grow! ;) aMSN is a MSN Messenger client that does webcam very well. I know that MSN is not the protocol of choi

Re: image problem

2008-11-13 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Robert Robert wrote: Hi all, I tried to put with clonezilla an image of debian on a target disk. I keep getting a gpt_read() failed error. Any idea what is wrong ? There is a clonezilla mailing list that's very helpful. You can get to it off their web site. -- Bob Holt

Stic device naming with udev, help please

2008-11-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hopefully there is a udev guru on board. I have two USB to RS232 dongles that seem to get their names swapped with every system restart (not often, but enough to make me search for a solution). Both devices are the same and ID the same to lsusb: Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation

Re: small web browser

2008-11-13 Thread green
On Thu, 2008.11.13, 318, lee wrote: > what's a good web browser that doesn't need so much memory? You might want to check out midori (available in Sid), though I don't think it is really ready for use yet. I hope to switch to midori eventually and leave behind all the Gecko junk for webkits.

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Nov 2008, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > there's a couple of nice editions to l

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread John Hasler
machiner writes: > what's your favourite FLOSS? I've been using some Johnson & Johnson "Reach" brand that the dentist gave me recently, but I think that the "Equate" stuff from Walmart is just as good. I guess I don't have a favorite. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Poor Wine sound quality on Intel AC'97 (T41 laptop)

2008-11-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Nov 07 19:36 -0600]: > I'm trying to figure why the sound from WINE is poor to non-existant on > this laptop. I am running Sid and ALSA with the latest kernel 2.6.26 > package and KDE. Sound from KDE and Audacious is working well only > WINE is not worki

RE: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Juan Carlos Avila
| Category | | |---+-| | audio player | | | desktop OR window manager | gnome/fluxbox | | development |

RE: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread Juan Carlos Avila
> -Mensaje original- > De: lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Enviado el: Jueves, 13 de Noviembre de 2008 11:04 a.m. > Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Asunto: Re: Very slim Desktop Manager > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:58:46 -0200 > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > l

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-13 Thread Aneurin Price
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:44 PM, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nye writes: >> How do you prevent both Linux and Windows from attempting to correct the >> time for DST, and ending up an hour out? > > Linux doesn't do that. > That's a bold statement. Could you clarify, as it sounds like y

Vbox -vs- OpenVZ?

2008-11-13 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Just saw a mention of another interesting product; OpenVZ. Has anybody done any comparison between VBox and OpenVZ? Any opinions about which is better? Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:48:39 -0600, lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] > > apt-cache show bmv > > apt-cache show fbi > > Those are not pdf viewers. I installed the fbi package and can confirm it definitely does display pdf files. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Debian on

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread H.S.
Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Then you should try mplayer playing movies in ascii on the console. :) > > J. Just did, awesome! BTW, while playing an avi file in a console, trying to change to another console caused the computer to hang. Had to restart gdm from another machine (could connect via ssh

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Teemu Likonen
Fixed version: | Category | | |---+-| | audio player | Amarok | | desktop OR window manager | KDE | | development | Emacs

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Teemu Likonen
| Category | | |---+-| | audio player | Amarok | | desktop OR window manager | KDE | | development | Emac

jpilot won't sync with Palm IIIe

2008-11-13 Thread Mark Grieveson
Jpilot won't sync with my Palm IIIe, which is a serial connection pda. Jpilot was working with a usb palm that I had, but this palm broke. I entered the command "ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/pilot", and then tried, via jpilot, to sync. It did establish a sync connection, but gave me the following err

Re: small web browser

2008-11-13 Thread elijah rutschman
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:59 AM, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Dillo didn't work, I tried it. It's not even possible to get the fonts > to a readable size ... And links2 shows text only in a totally messed > up display, same as lynx. For dillo, you can change the font size using a dillor

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > t

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread lee
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:58:46 -0200 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lee escreveu: > > [snip tons os comments on console vs. X11] > > Do you really think this discussion is going anywhere? It already did. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
H.S.: > François Cerbelle wrote: > >> ImageMagick for altering the images and there are viewer in framebuffer >> mode (fbi ?). > > Installed and tried fbi on a console (CTRL+ALT+Fn). Wow! Got a kick out > of displaying a jpeg image in the console ... and panning it, zooming, etc. Then you should

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
NN_il_Confusionario: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:25:07AM -0600, lee wrote: >> >> and instant >> messengers > > i do not use them, but the first "instant messanger", talk on unix and > phone on vax, is text based. There are many more, even with "modern" > protocols. Just to name two of them: irss

Re: small web browser

2008-11-13 Thread lee
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:34:07 -0600 "elijah rutschman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dillo or links2 might be what you are looking for. They are both > low-memory footprint, graphical web-browsers. I've used Dillo on a > NetBSD machine that only had 16mb of RAM and it ran just fine. Dillo didn't

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
lee escreveu: > [snip tons os comments on console vs. X11] Do you really think this discussion is going anywhere? -- Eduardo M Kalinowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread lee
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:46:56 +0100 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:25:07AM -0600, lee wrote: > > Well, maybe I should learn more about using framebuffer stuff > > why? If you are satisfied with X, you have no real reasons. It could be interesting and u

image problem

2008-11-13 Thread Robert Robert
Hi all, I tried to put with clonezilla an image of debian on a target disk. I keep getting a gpt_read() failed error. Any idea what is wrong ? Thanks rr

RE: minimal mirror for lenny net install

2008-11-13 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Tzafrir Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:05 AM > Subject: minimal mirror for lenny net install > > Hi > > I'd like to run a network installation setup on my LAN. With previous > versions I could just take a Debian Installer CD (e.g.: the netinst) and >

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Le Thursday 13 November 2008 13:18:26 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, vous avez écrit : > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > ther

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Jeu 13 novembre 2008 13:18, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a écrit : > audio editor: > audio player: rhythmbox > cd-ripper: > desktop OR window manager: LXDE > DBMS: mysql > development: gcc/g++/php/perl/bash > disc burner: mkisofs/wodim > e-mail client: mutt/icedove > file manager: PCMan / Thunar > fina

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 03:21:34PM +0100, François Cerbelle wrote: > You should try Tetrinet ;-) A Networked multiplayer Tetris ! ;-) I am not so good at tetris, so the other players would be bored. > >> and image processing software (like gimp) > > i do not use it (but I have seen it), and I a

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread machiner
Hello, audio editor: audio player: vlc cd-ripper: sound-juicer desktop OR window manager: Xfce4 DBMS: development: disc burner: Brasero e-mail client: claws-mail file manager: finance: ftp client: gftp games: Nexuiz image editor: image viewer: instant m

Re: crash recovery

2008-11-13 Thread tyler
Michael Iatrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When the date was Wednesday 12 November 2008, tyler wrote: > >> >> I just experienced a complete freeze of my laptop - amarok was stuck >> looping through the same second of music from an online stream, and the >> keyboard and mouse stopped responding c

Re: Need suggestions for internet messenger app

2008-11-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Le Thursday 13 November 2008 16:17:47 H.S., vous avez écrit : > Dennis Wicks wrote: > > H.S. wrote the following on 11/12/2008 11:17 PM: > >> Dennis Wicks wrote: > >>> Greetings; > >>> > >>> I have installed Ayttm and Pidgin and both work OK except they don't > >>> support microphone/speaker or web

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-13 Thread H.S.
François Cerbelle wrote: > > ImageMagick for altering the images and there are viewer in framebuffer > mode (fbi ?). Installed and tried fbi on a console (CTRL+ALT+Fn). Wow! Got a kick out of displaying a jpeg image in the console ... and panning it, zooming, etc. I have been using Linux for th

Re: Need suggestions for internet messenger app

2008-11-13 Thread H.S.
Dennis Wicks wrote: > H.S. wrote the following on 11/12/2008 11:17 PM: >> Dennis Wicks wrote: >>> Greetings; >>> >>> I have installed Ayttm and Pidgin and both work OK except they don't >>> support microphone/speaker or webcam. > ^ >>> >>> Does anyone

Re: crash recovery

2008-11-13 Thread tyler
Michael Iatrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When the date was Wednesday 12 November 2008, tyler wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I just experienced a complete freeze of my laptop - amarok was stuck >> looping through the same second of music from an online stream, and the >> keyboard and mouse stopped respo

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