Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread Michal
On 05/11/10 02:50, ZephyrQ wrote: If you could not/did not use Debian (either Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid), which other distribution would you use and why? Since I don't use debian for everything and it depends what I'm doing, I can't really answer that. For firewalls, load balancers, routers

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri November 5 2010 08:54:23 am ZephyrQ wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 05 nov 10, 10:18:04, John Hasler wrote: Drew writes: Consider installing apt-listbugs if you're going to run sid. Good point. Also, don't feel that you should track Unstable. Upgrade individual packages

Re: lenny thunderbird filters-SOLVED!

2010-11-05 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:52:50 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 11/05/2010 11:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: And that remembers me the third of the Thunderbird's annoyances: storage files for each folder cannot go beyong 4 GiB). oh, ow, I did not know that. so, is archiving the answer? I hate

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 05 nov 10, 10:54:23, ZephyrQ wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 05 nov 10, 10:18:04, John Hasler wrote: Drew writes: Consider installing apt-listbugs if you're going to run sid. Good point. Also, don't feel that you should track Unstable. Upgrade individual packages as needed

Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny

2010-11-05 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010, Volkan YAZICI yazic...@ttmail.com writes: Now cross your fingers and hope wpa_supplicant do the rest: # wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0 -d The debugging output should tell you more. Inform us about the progress, maybe we can help you

*fox + gmail

2010-11-05 Thread B. Alexander
I'm having a weird problem on my workstation at home. I can't do anything on gmail any more. I can pull the site up and look at emails, but I can't compose, I can't go into the settings and my chat contacts are gone. This started happening about 2 days ago. I'm running 32-bit sid (with an amd64

Re: *fox + gmail

2010-11-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Sex, 05 Nov 2010, B. Alexander wrote: I'm having a weird problem on my workstation at home. I can't do anything on gmail any more. I can pull the site up and look at emails, but I can't compose, I can't go into the settings and my chat contacts are gone. This started happening about 2 days

Re: *fox + gmail

2010-11-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I'd go for clearing cookies and cache first, and making sure you're not blocking any scripts. HTH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread Joe
On 05/11/10 15:54, ZephyrQ wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 05 nov 10, 10:18:04, John Hasler wrote: Drew writes: Consider installing apt-listbugs if you're going to run sid. Good point. Also, don't feel that you should track Unstable. Upgrade individual packages as needed and do an

how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Arthur Bela
Does anyone has a generate-pi.c source code? Thanks.. :D :\ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Nov 2010, ZephyrQ wrote: I hate to ask the question this way, but in terms of problems/fixes/downtime--approximately how often do you find that you have to 'fix' something in Sid? 1x week, 1x month? (I know that my MMV, but if I start playing with either testing or unstable, I don't

Re: Mozilla products in Debian

2010-11-05 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:00:13 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-11-05 15:38 +0100, Camaleón wrote: What happens with Mozilla packages (more exactly with Firefox/Iceweasel) is that upstream version correct security flaws, meaning that right now, Debian's lenny stock version of Iceweasel is

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
I hate to ask the question this way, but in terms of problems/fixes/downtime--approximately how often do you find that you have to 'fix' something in Sid? 1x week, 1x month? (I know that my MMV, but if I start playing with either testing or unstable, I don't want to get into a problem/find

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Arthur Bela jozsi.avad...@gmail.com writes: Does anyone has a generate-pi.c source code? Answer to your homework is here[1]. Also you can find a couple million digits of pi as a text file on the web. Regards. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#Estimating_.CF.80 -- To

Re: *fox + gmail

2010-11-05 Thread Richard Lawrence
I recently had a problem with Google Docs -- they started saying Iceweasel was an unsupported browser. The fix was to modify the User-Agent string. I'm not sure if this will help the OP or not, but the Docs issue was discussed (with instructions for changing your User-Agent string) here:

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Michal
On 05/11/10 16:40, Arthur Bela wrote: Does anyone has a generate-pi.c source code? Thanks.. :D :\ Don't cross post like that, your just doubling up on people doing your own research for you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread John Hasler
ZephyrQ writes: I hate to ask the question this way, but in terms of problems/fixes/downtime--approximately how often do you find that you have to 'fix' something in Sid? 1x week, 1x month? Once every year or two (but I use neither Gnome nor KDE). The fix usually consists of waiting for a

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 07:14:18 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message pan.2010.11.05.07.14...@gmail.com: On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:52:44 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: No, I cannot see any i586 kernel (i686 is the right one for pentium). AFAIK

No hidden/backup files in desktop (GNOME)

2010-11-05 Thread Camaleón
Hello, I am hitting an strange behavior in both lenny and squeeze systems. Hidden (.my_hidden_file) or backup (my_backup_file~) files cannot be displayed on the desktop but they can be viewed/managed/accessed/deleted within nautilus file manager, MC or command line (ls -l). Needless to say

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-05 Thread Sthu Deus
Camaleón: How is that? Are you saying that you cannot boot a Pentium III using i686 kernel? It is designed explicitly for that architecture :-? No. I say that it is impossible to load the kernel packaged for i686 on Pentium CPU - not Pentium III CPU. You are right, - it is packaged for the

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread godo
I really want Thunderbird and Firefox, with their familiar icons, on my screen, not the goofy clones that Debian has come up with. Why not install Firefox and Thunderbird in /opt? I was looking to replace SuSE 10.1, because it wouldn't play music; none of the SuSEs I have had ever would.

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:17:12 -0400, Andrew wrote in message 4cd403d8.50...@walrusgroup.com: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/5/10 8:56 AM, John Hasler wrote: ZephyrQ writes: Lately, though, Debian seems 'stale'. If you are talking about a desktop and want to be

Re: linux-image for i586

2010-11-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 01:10:14 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Camaleón: How is that? Are you saying that you cannot boot a Pentium III using i686 kernel? It is designed explicitly for that architecture :-? No. I say that it is impossible to load the kernel packaged for i686 on Pentium CPU - not

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread godo
I hate to ask the question this way, but in terms of problems/fixes/downtime--approximately how often do you find that you have to 'fix' something in Sid? 1x week, 1x month? (I know that my MMV, but if I start playing with either testing or unstable, I don't want to get into a problem/find

Re: Mozilla products in Debian

2010-11-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-11-05 17:48 +0100, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:00:13 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: That is true, but the Debian iceweasel/xulrunner maintainer and the security team backport security fixes. How is that possible? :-? As soon as Mozilla stopped offering security patches

RE: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread owens
Original Message From: jozsi.avad...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: how to generate pi in c Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 17:40:27 +0100 Does anyone has a generate-pi.c source code? Thanks.. :D :\ GIYF http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/classes/soft_dev/C_simple_ex.html

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread John Hasler
Arnt Karlsen writes: ..IME, it's Unstable, it and Experimental doesn't quite live up to the expectations of adrenaline kicks you want from these PR'y buzzwords. ;o) Don't try to install Experimental, though. It is not intended to be a complete distribution: just an archive for experimental

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 18:19:55 +0200 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: ... I don't recall the last time sid was broken so that manual intervention was needed to get the system running, but individual applications can have annoying bugs. I've been using Sid for years, and while

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 18:19:55 +0200 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: ... I don't recall the last time sid was broken so that manual intervention was needed to get the system running, but individual applications can have annoying bugs. Let's consider something like the kernel

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:50:08 +0100 Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: ... Among the distros I did try out - Knoppix, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Mandriva, and some minor ones - there is not a single one I'd be willing to revert to. I guess there's a reason I'm staying with Debian after all

Re: lenny thunderbird filters-SOLVED!

2010-11-05 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 11/05/2010 12:18 PM, Camaleón wrote: oh, ow, I did not know that. so, is archiving the answer? I hate archiving (I hold fresh e-mails dated on 1999) :-P I also note that archiving is ONLY for IMAP folders, so it is useless to me, because I have everything filtered to LOCAL folders.. Tyou

Re: Mozilla products in Debian

2010-11-05 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:48:04 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-11-05 17:48 +0100, Camaleón wrote: Do you think Debian packages include all these bug fixes? http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html No, MFSA 2009-11 is not fixed (that is a Firefox-only bug).

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread John Hasler
Celejar writes: Someone who was doing ordinary stable upgrades would see the warnings in the release notes, but it was pretty easy to get bitten by this if you were just tracking Sid. Which is why you should not track Sid at all. Since any DD can upload to it at any time (that is what

Re: lenny thunderbird filters-SOLVED!

2010-11-05 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:04:08 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 11/05/2010 12:18 PM, Camaleón wrote: (about the 4 GiB space limit per folder in Thunderbird...) how do you know if you are reaching the 4GiB limit? I would expect a warning message written in old arcane gibberish stating that

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:53:05 -0500 John Hasler jhas...@debian.org wrote: Celejar writes: Someone who was doing ordinary stable upgrades would see the warnings in the release notes, but it was pretty easy to get bitten by this if you were just tracking Sid. Which is why you should not

Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny

2010-11-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 10:27:45PM -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: I have just installed lenny from cd-1 (5.0.6), but I cannot get wireless network to work. I have installed wicd from lenny-backports, and followed the instructions on the page http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse

Re: Searching inside e-mail clients (was: KMail - forwarding issues)

2010-11-05 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 07:01:28 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:35:31 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:48:30 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: ... with mbox and searching strings in Icedove is bit slow if mbox files are big (measured in GiB

New DNS serwer - hardware

2010-11-05 Thread pch0317
Hi I must buy new DNS servers (hardware) to our company. Now DNS (bind on debian) works on PC machine (3 identical NS servers). How to check number of DNS request to current DNS machines (how to check current DNS load). How to match new server components like processor, memory and other to

Re: New DNS serwer - hardware

2010-11-05 Thread Allan Wind
On 2010-11-05T22:29:01, pch0317 wrote: How to check number of DNS request to current DNS machines (how to check current DNS load). The first step is to identify the dns server (software like bind) you use, then you want to consult the documentation for said software to answer your question of

Re: getting rid of errors in Xorg.0.log

2010-11-05 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Andrei Popescu wrote: ii xserver-xorg-video-radeon1:6.13.1-2 X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display driver You need a newer kernel, probably the one from squeeze. Could you please elaborate why I need a new kernel? Where is the incompatibility? thanks -- Kamaraju S

Re: Mozilla products in Debian (was: A question for the list:)

2010-11-05 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Klistvud wrote: Dne, 05. 11. 2010 15:10:44 je Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napisal(a): No. That's NOT what those who know and love Debian stable want. The lack of upstream changes is one of the main reasons I use stable on servers. +1 You can say that again. +2 Seriously! I do not

Re: Mozilla products in Debian

2010-11-05 Thread Doug
On 11/5/2010 12:00 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-11-05 15:38 +0100, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:10:44 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: /snip/ I see only one reason to force the upgrade of a stock package with a newer version and is precisely the lack of support (nor

mount IDE via USB-bridge

2010-11-05 Thread Bernd Kloss
Squeeze KDE 4.4.5 Hello, I need to import my data from my former IDE-hd and thought it might be easily done with an usb-bridge. But mounting does not work. This is my old disk: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 38298 307628653+ 83

Re: Mozilla products in Debian

2010-11-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 08:07:13PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:48:04 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-11-05 17:48 +0100, Camaleón wrote: Do you think Debian packages include all these bug fixes? http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html

KVM: High CPU load with audio enabled

2010-11-05 Thread Stefan Pietsch
Hi all, I'm running a Windows XP guest in KVM. After enabling the audio support (-soundhw es1370) the CPU load of the KVM process in the host system goes up to 100%. Tested with: qemu-kvm-0.13.0 Debian 0.13.0+dfsg-1 KVM start command: kvm -m 512 -hda xp.img -soundhw es1370 Did you experience

Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny

2010-11-05 Thread Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
see below. On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 13:08, Volkan YAZICI yazic...@ttmail.com wrote: Hi, wicd just parses the outputs of ifconfig/iwconfig/iwlist/wpa_supplicant commands. Maybe manually executing this sequence may help you to spot the problem. Here it goes:  # ifconfig wlan0 up Now, you

OpenOffice

2010-11-05 Thread farid
*How do I get an upgrade of Openoffice. My new Debian 5 still has office 2.4. Please help. farid * debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: OpenOffice

2010-11-05 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
enable lenny-backports install the latest OO.o from there 2010/11/6 farid ansari.fa...@gmail.com *How do I get an upgrade of Openoffice. My new Debian 5 still has office 2.4. Please help. farid * debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
www.gnulib.org On 06/11/10 01:10, Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Arthur Belajozsi.avad...@gmail.com writes: Does anyone has a generate-pi.c source code? Answer to your homework is here[1]. Also you can find a couple million digits of pi as a text file on the web. Regards. [1]

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, On 06/11/10 12:31, Jerome BENOIT wrote: www.gnulib.org I made a mistake here: http://gmplib.org Computing billions of π digits using GMP: http://gmplib.org/pi-with-gmp.html hth, Jerome On 06/11/10 01:10, Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Arthur

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