Re: new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

2009-04-15 Thread H.S.
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: KDE4 doesn't cope well with pre 180 Nvidia drivers. There is a 180+ driver in the sid-reps. Try to install that one, maybe that will help? Sjoerd Yes, that seems to have worked. Dolphin does not hang now and starting even a single widget (clock) does not appear to hog

Re: new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

2009-04-14 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Hello, Has anybody been playing around with the new KDE we got a few days ago in Sid? The graphics are nice, but looks like the GUI is not as fast or responsive as the older one. This is on a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ with 2 GB of RAM and GeForce 8600

Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

2009-04-12 Thread H.S.
Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another. Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so there was never a permission issue. Now I'm trying to back up from my iMac to my Debian server. I can't put the iMac on NIS (or probably

Re: Rsync Insists on Replacing Files

2009-04-12 Thread H.S.
...@server:Data (Thanks to H.S. for that help in another recent thread.) Try the options -auvn Search the man page for -u to see what it means. Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just

Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

2009-04-12 Thread H.S.
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:20 PM, H.S. wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another. Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so there was never a permission issue. Now I'm trying to back up from my

related to mail servers, mta and mda

2009-04-12 Thread H.S.
Hello, This is a beginner's (no experience with setting up mail servers) query about MTA's and MUA's. I am trying to see if I can setup an mta or a related application on my Debian machine which is being run as a router for my home lan such that it can send email to an external email address. It

chipcardd : devicemanager.c: 3421: Error scanning

2009-04-10 Thread H.S.
On Debian Sid I am getting these kind of messagein /var/log/syslog since the last some days after an upgrade: Apr 10 10:41:54 red chipcardd[4276]: devicemanager.c: 3421: Error scanning Apr 10 10:42:34 red last message repeated 4 times Apr 10 10:43:34 red last message repeated 6 times Apr 10

cannot eject a DVD disc

2009-04-10 Thread H.S.
Hello, I inserted a DVD disc in to an extern DVD reader and now I am not able to eject it. The reader is a NEC external USB DVD reader/writer. It was working perfectly till a few days ago and seems like an upgrade messed something up. The disc in it is a re-writable DVD with some avi files on

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-08 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:17:56PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Where does it hold the decrypted data? Does it stay in RAM, does it get swapped, does it go to a scratch file

new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

2009-04-08 Thread H.S.
Hello, Has anybody been playing around with the new KDE we got a few days ago in Sid? The graphics are nice, but looks like the GUI is not as fast or responsive as the older one. This is on a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ with 2 GB of RAM and GeForce 8600 Nvidia card. On this

dnsmasq: it shows a public IP of a lan machine

2009-04-08 Thread H.S.
Hello, I am running Debian Testing on an old machine as a router. That machine is also running dnsmasq for a dhcp server. I am also using opendns nameservers by the router machine, and the router machine as the dns server for my lan. I did some changes in dnsmasq.con a few days ago (was playing

[fixed] Re: dnsmasq: it shows a public IP of a lan machine

2009-04-08 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Hello, I am running Debian Testing on an old machine as a router. That machine is also running dnsmasq for a dhcp server. I am also using opendns nameservers by the router machine, and the router machine as the dns server for my lan. I did some changes in dnsmasq.con a few

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-08 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:26:20AM -0400, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:17:56PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: $ cat /proc/swaps: Filename

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-07 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Where does it hold the decrypted data? Does it stay in RAM, does it get swapped, does it go to a scratch file? Doug. This might help: http://www.easypg.org/ -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org.

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-07 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:46:31PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Where does it hold the decrypted data? Does it stay in RAM, does it get swapped, does it go to a scratch file? This might help: http://www.easypg.org/ yea, it looks like it can leak info

Re: Disabling RSA host key check temporarily

2009-04-07 Thread H.S.
Dotan Cohen wrote: After reinstalling the OS on my desktop, SSHing in gives me this error: Offending key in /home/hardy1/.ssh/known_hosts:28 Just remove this line from this file ^^^ -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on

Re: Pulseaudio problems--certain parts not playing

2009-04-06 Thread H.S.
Jesse Sheidlower wrote: On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 05:24:27AM +0100, Mark McCorkell wrote: I've no handy solution, since after way too much messing around with configuration files, I took the easy option and killed off PulseAudio. IMHO, there are still too many applications that don't work nicely

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-06 Thread H.S.
Hello, Axel Freyn wrote: A much safer approach (using vim instead of emacs) is e.g described in http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gnupg.en.html, 14.4.2: In this way, the clear-text version is never stored on the hard-disk, but only kept in memory while you are editing the

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-06 Thread H.S.
Samuel Bächler wrote: Dear Everyone I store logins and passwords of some dozen of Web-Services in an encrypted file. I used to use kgpg to read and update this file. Some weeks ago I found on debian-security [1] the following script: #!/bin/sh gpg keys.gpg /dev/null emacs keys rm

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-06 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: As Alex mentioned, tools exist for both vim and emacs. I have found this for vim (a vim plugin): http://ry.ca/blog/2008/10/transparent-editing-of-gpg-encrypted-files-in-vim/ and installed easypg package for emacs. I am yet to play with them. Better still

Re: pulseaudio blaming alsa driver [was: Re: youtube videos choppy in Testing and Iceape]

2009-04-05 Thread H.S.
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,04.Apr.09, 23:21:27, H.S. wrote: Apr 4 23:16:48 red pulseaudio[6096]: module-alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write! Most likely this is an ALSA driver bug. Please report this issue

youtube videos choppy in Testing and Iceape

2009-04-04 Thread H.S.
Hello, Since I upgraded a few weeks ago after the release of Lenny, I have noticed that youtube videos in Iceape browser are kind of choppy. This wasn't the case earlier before the upgrade. Anybody else also having this problem? Thanks. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on

Re: new problem - networking is strange

2009-04-04 Thread H.S.
Miles Fidelman wrote: As some of you have followed (and helped - THANKS!), I had a server crash, moved all my disks to a 2nd chassis, and have been busily restoring things. Meanwhile, I discovered that I really didn't have a hardware failure on my 1st chassis - a disk drive failed in a

Re: new problem - networking is strange

2009-04-04 Thread H.S.
Miles Fidelman wrote: H.S. wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: As some of you have followed (and helped - THANKS!), I had a server crash, moved all my disks to a 2nd chassis, and have been busily restoring things. Meanwhile, I discovered that I really didn't have a hardware failure on my 1st

Re: new problem - networking is strange

2009-04-04 Thread H.S.
Miles Fidelman wrote: H.S. wrote: Is udev giving your interface a new name (ethx instead of, say eth0)? how would I check that, and why would it just start doing that? You could just list the devices: $ /sbin/ifconfig -a and ensure you have the correctly named eth device(s

Re: youtube videos choppy in Testing and Iceape

2009-04-04 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Hello, Since I upgraded a few weeks ago after the release of Lenny, I have noticed that youtube videos in Iceape browser are kind of choppy. This wasn't the case earlier before the upgrade. Anybody else also having this problem? Thanks. Further problems. I am using Ekiga

pulseaudio blaming alsa driver [was: Re: youtube videos choppy in Testing and Iceape]

2009-04-04 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: Hello, Since I upgraded a few weeks ago after the release of Lenny, I have noticed that youtube videos in Iceape browser are kind of choppy. This wasn't the case earlier before the upgrade. Anybody else also having this problem? Thanks. Further problems. I am

Re: youtube videos choppy in Testing and Iceape

2009-04-04 Thread H.S.
Steven Demetrius wrote: H.S. wrote: Hello, Since I upgraded a few weeks ago after the release of Lenny, I have noticed that youtube videos in Iceape browser are kind of choppy. This wasn't the case earlier before the upgrade. Anybody else also having this problem? Thanks. If you

Re: Brother HL2040 printer/lpr stopped working after update

2009-04-03 Thread H.S.
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: beatrice wrote: I have a Brother HL2040 printer that worked perfectly well on my Debian testing with the .deb driver package Brother provides. I don't have CUPS installed, I use lpr. My printer stopped working without me changing any system configuration other than

bank web page problem in iceweasel/iceape

2009-04-03 Thread H.S.
Hello, A friend has asked me about this weird problem he is having. He is using tdcanadatrust.ca bank website on a Debian machine. When he wants to add a payee, he does a search in the search field and click on search button, but this brings him to the bank's welcome/login page! This happens in

Re: bank web page problem in iceweasel/iceape

2009-04-03 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Hello, A friend has asked me about this weird problem he is having. He is using tdcanadatrust.ca bank website on a Debian machine. When he wants to add a payee, he does a search in the search field and click on search button, but this brings him to the bank's welcome/login page

Re: bank web page problem in iceweasel/iceape

2009-04-03 Thread H.S.
tyler wrote: H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com writes: H.S. wrote: I tried the same web page on a Debian Sid machine and tried to add a payee. Here it works, when I type a string in payee search field, the field drops down and shows a list of possible matches. Difference in systems

video not smooth anymore after recent updates in Testing

2009-04-03 Thread H.S.
Hello, I updated my Debian Testing machine on a few weeks ago after the Lenny release. Since then, mplayer doesn't play the videos as smoothly as it did earlier. When I stip forward in a video (avi video file), the video sometime pauses as the next step and resume in jerks. Sometimes the video

Re: video not smooth anymore after recent updates in Testing

2009-04-03 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Hello, I updated my Debian Testing machine on a few weeks ago after the Lenny release. Since then, mplayer doesn't play the videos as smoothly as it did earlier. When I stip forward in a video (avi video file), the video sometime pauses as the next step and resume in jerks

Re: bank web page problem in iceweasel/iceape

2009-04-03 Thread H.S.
Frank wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:13 -0400, H.S. wrote: I'm not sure either...but on Debian testing I **never** use anything but FIREFOX. Matter of fact I don't think I've ever run..what is it?? Iceweasel ? The noscript extension might definitely affect operation on the banks

Re: bank web page problem in iceweasel/iceape

2009-04-03 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Hello, A friend has asked me about this weird problem he is having. He is using tdcanadatrust.ca bank website on a Debian machine. When he wants to add a payee, he does a search in the search field and click on search button, but this brings him to the bank's welcome/login page

acroread, ERROR: Cannot find installation directory.

2009-04-02 Thread H.S.
Hello, Since last few days at least, I am getting this error when I try to start acroread: $ acroread ERROR: Cannot find installation directory. This is on Debian Testing, fully updated, and acroread 8.1.3-0.0. I have taken a look at the other current thread on acroread, I am sure if this is

Re: acroread, ERROR: Cannot find installation directory.

2009-04-02 Thread H.S.
Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:07:10 -0400 H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello H.S., $ acroread ERROR: Cannot find installation directory. Exactly the same error as I got. After upgrading the acroread-debian-files to version 0.0.32, I had to change (as root or sudo

[OT] why does mutt ask twice for the password?

2009-03-30 Thread H.S.
Hello, I must admit that this problem is actually on Hardy. I am trying it here because: 1) I imagine there are more users familiar with mutt here 2) Users understand Debian based systems better here I hope people who do not want Ubuntu problems will spare me the flames while keeping in mind

[Solved] Re: [OT] why does mutt ask twice for the password?

2009-03-30 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Hello, I must admit that this problem is actually on Hardy. I am trying it here because: 1) I imagine there are more users familiar with mutt here 2) Users understand Debian based systems better here I hope people who do not want Ubuntu problems will spare me the flames

Re: any image viewer for etch that you can recommend?

2009-03-29 Thread H.S.
Long Wind wrote: I want a image viewer It should be small (use less disk space) It does not depend on KDE or GNOME because I use neither It can show image in full size by default (thumbnail isn't important) It can let me delete image file that I don't like Thanks! I like gqview, but not

size problem of large file transfer over https

2009-03-26 Thread H.S.
Hello, I have a large data tar file of 4.4 GB. I have made it available over https to be downloaded by the recipient. This is on a Debian Sid, 2.6.26 kernel and the partition is ext3. When the remote user clicks on that download link, his browser is showing the file size to be only around 130

Re: size problem of large file transfer over https

2009-03-26 Thread H.S.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In gqg8ru$4j...@ger.gmane.org, H.S. wrote: I have a large data tar file of 4.4 GB. I have made it available over https to be downloaded by the recipient. This is on a Debian Sid, 2.6.26 kernel and the partition is ext3. When the remote user clicks

Re: size problem of large file transfer over https

2009-03-26 Thread H.S.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In gqgau4$e8...@ger.gmane.org, H.S. wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: If the Content-Length is correct, it is a problem client-side. If the Content-Length is incorrect, it is a problem server-side. I gave it a shot myself with my own machine using Iceape

[work around] Re: size problem of large file transfer over https

2009-03-26 Thread H.S.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In gqgau4$e8...@ger.gmane.org, H.S. wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: If the Content-Length is correct, it is a problem client-side. If the Content-Length is incorrect, it is a problem server-side. I gave it a shot myself with my own machine using Iceape

Re: [work around] Re: size problem of large file transfer over https

2009-03-26 Thread H.S.
Rob Starling wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 01:27:27PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Well, I split the tar file to smaller chunks of 680M each (using the split command). $ split -d -b 680M /tmp/datafile.tar datfile ... just be sure that the * expands to the names of the files in the right order

Re: size problem of large file transfer over https

2009-03-26 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In gqgau4$e8...@ger.gmane.org, H.S. wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: If the Content-Length is correct, it is a problem client-side. If the Content-Length is incorrect, it is a problem server-side. I gave it a shot myself with my own machine

Re: testing microphone - how?

2009-03-25 Thread H.S.
T o n g wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:52:06 -0400, H.S. wrote: Wonderful explanation of the magic that alsa does! Thanks a ton. Yes, very impressive. Thanks Emanoil. One very important issue for people to use the microphone is the input gain setting, ie. Mic Boost. If not set

Re: testing microphone - how?

2009-03-24 Thread H.S.
Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 05:51:37PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:21:06 Thorny wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:26:33 +, Lisi Reisz posted: I am trying to test a microphone by some method other than ringing the same poor person repeatedly by VOIP. I

Re: testing microphone - how?

2009-03-24 Thread H.S.
Rick Pasotto wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:44:24PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Alex Samad wrote: arecord, aplay - command-line sound recorder and player for ALSA soundcard driver Yes, I second that. Try with the following command (duration is in seconds): ~$ arecord -D plug:hw:1

Re: testing microphone - how?

2009-03-24 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Rick Pasotto wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:44:24PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Alex Samad wrote: arecord, aplay - command-line sound recorder and player for ALSA soundcard driver Yes, I second that. Try with the following command (duration is in seconds): ~$ arecord -D

Re: testing microphone - how?

2009-03-24 Thread H.S.
Rick Pasotto wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:38:55AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:50:22PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:44:24PM -0400, H.S. wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 05:51:37PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 24

Re: testing microphone - how?

2009-03-24 Thread H.S.
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: excuse me but you are not correct use amixer amixer | grep Input Simple mixer control 'Digital Input Source',0 Items: 'Analog Inputs' 'Digital Mic 1' 'Digital Mic 2' 'CD' Item0: 'Analog Inputs' Simple mixer control 'Digital Input Source',1 Items: 'Analog

Re: why there are unusual space between letters when view pdf file in pdf reader?

2009-03-18 Thread H.S.
明覺 wrote: I use the default pdf reader, but I think the display is unusual, for there are space between letters, not good for reading. how to solve it? thanks. Perhaps it is a font problem? What are the fonts that are listed in the document information? I think if your system does not have

Re: why there are unusual space between letters when view pdf file in pdf reader?

2009-03-18 Thread H.S.
明覺 wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:29 AM, H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com wrote: 明覺 wrote: I use the default pdf reader, but I think the display is unusual, for there are space between letters, not good for reading. how to solve it? thanks. Perhaps it is a font problem? What are the fonts

Re: why there are unusual space between letters when view pdf file in pdf reader?

2009-03-18 Thread H.S.
明覺 wrote: 2009/3/19 H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com 明覺 wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:29 AM, H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com wrote: 明覺 wrote: I use the default pdf reader, but I think the display is unusual, for there are space between letters, not good for reading. how to solve it? thanks. Perhaps

mixer problem? Ekiga and skype calls together give audio errors

2009-03-17 Thread H.S.
Hello, Perhaps I am trying to do something that is not possible, though certainly it is inconvenient. If I try to make a call with ekiga when a skype call is active (and the other way around), I get an error saying there is a problem with a sound device. I was under the impression that the mixer

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

2009-03-16 Thread H.S.
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: What about find . -name *.odt -exec unzip -c {} content.xml | grep what you want to find\; -print This one is not working, use find . -name *.odt -exec sh -c 'unzip -c {} content.xml | grep what you want to find' \; -print instead. Sjoerd

mplayer not showing multi-language subtitles

2009-03-05 Thread H.S.
Hello, If I have an avi file foo.avi, mplayer shows subtitles when I have them in a file called foo.srt. I understand that multiple language subtitle files are supposed to be foo-lang.srt where lang can by a string and that string (separted from foo by a - or or _ I think, I am not sure if this

Re: OT: matched string of a regular expression

2009-03-04 Thread H.S.
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Consider the following file. cat junk.txt a(i)1b a(j)1b a(ij)1b a(ji)1b a(ijk)1b a(jik)1b a(ikj)1b a(jki)1b a(kij)1b a(kji)1b In general the file is very long, might contain some other text. Now, I would like to replace all the occurrences of

pcmcia bluetooth card intro questions

2009-03-04 Thread H.S.
Hello, I do have any experience with PCMCIA bluetooth cards on laptop and have some questions. I have gone over some web pages about what these cards are, but my question are more of practical nature. This is on a laptop which has a slot for Type 2 PCMCIA (also called PC?) card. If I were to

Re: pcmcia bluetooth card intro questions

2009-03-04 Thread H.S.
Steven Demetrius wrote: H.S. wrote: What kind of cards are supported in Debian (Testing)? What I have mind, if it is possible, it to get a bluetooth card for the PCMCIA slot and use it for a mouse and a headset and probably also for a cell phone. Thanks. If you have USB on your laptop

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-04 Thread H.S.
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Because Debian sounds cooler. CentOS sounds like it's worth a cent. This one should be saved for the marketing people. They would definitely go for this one. That is one department less to convince. :) -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on

Re: OO.o 3.0.1 in Lenny

2009-03-01 Thread H.S.
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Aside from official installer (that somehow corrupted, happened to every tarball downloaded, don't know why), is there any backports or something? Yes, I have the same experience with the deb from OOo. I ended up with extracting the contents from the deb based on

what does easycam2 really do? and gspca vs uvcvideo

2009-02-28 Thread H.S.
Hello, I came across some websites related to webcam detection and working on Linux systems which describe a tool called easycam2. Here are the main ones: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EasyCam http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Easycam2 http://blognux.free.fr/ I do not understand the French and

mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick

2009-02-27 Thread H.S.
Hello, I have attached a USB stick (those little keychain devices) to my router machine. The idea is to add those 2 GB space so that my friends and family can transfer file to/from it. Now, I am also concerned with the number of read/write cycles limitation on these kind of memory devices. I

Re: mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick

2009-02-27 Thread H.S.
Daryl Styrk wrote: H.S. wrote: Any suggestion if this can be improved to prolong the life of the memory stick? Or at least not reduce it on a Debian Testing system? Thanks. I would bet the router dies well before you burn up a flash drive. http://www.getusb.info/what-is-the-life

Re: mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick

2009-02-27 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/27/2009 04:38 PM, H.S. wrote: Any suggestion if this can be improved to prolong the life of the memory stick? Or at least not reduce it on a Debian Testing system? 1. noatime has the most impact. Okay. 2. Modern flash memory lasts much longer than older flash

Re: Iceweasel, flash and usb headset

2009-02-26 Thread H.S.
Marco Vittorini Orgeas wrote: I've installed adobe flash plugin for iceweasel not through the packaged version (flashplugin-nonfree) but simply putting the .so file object that can be found here http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html for 64 bit systems because quite a good

VX-5000 works [was: Re: vx-1000 webcam in Debian]

2009-02-26 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Hello, Does anyone know if Microsoft's VX-1000 webcam works in Debian Testing or Sid? I did a little search and it appears that it works in Ubuntu and kernel 2.6.26 but does not work in many other cases (different kernels I presume). However, this website lists it as working

Re: Iceweasel, flash and usb headset

2009-02-26 Thread H.S.
Marco Vittorini Orgeas wrote: Maybe someone else can suggest a method to do so, or just some other thing to at least have some more verbose debug from Firefox/iceweasel and try to understand what is not working... I would be interested too. I remember a similar situation which lead me to

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-26 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which God intended us to use: apt-get. Whaa?!??! Wait a sec. This just an unsubstantiated claim. Since I learned about aptitude (a few years ago?), I have been using it consistently. It gives more information than apt-get

Re: Skype

2009-02-25 Thread H.S.
Andrew McGlashan wrote: Skype is proprietory, it is also a risk for your Internet connection if it is run with high enough privilege See here: http://www.affinityvision.com.au/voip-notes-detailed.html#skype NB: I don't know how applicable the article is today or whether it is

hal and alsa and order of audo devices (USB and onboard)

2009-02-25 Thread H.S.
Hello, I was having problem with detection of my audio devices during a reboot when a USB headset was connected. A kind soul had suggested what to do in one of my earlier queries about this. So here is what I did: 1. Appended this to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

gulus.usherbrooke.ca Debian repo down?

2009-02-25 Thread H.S.
Getting connection timed out Err http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca testing Release.gpg Could not connect to gulus.usherbrooke.ca:80 (206.167.141.10), connection timed out Err http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca testing/main Translation-en_CA Unable to connect to gulus.usherbrooke.ca http: Err

Re: Skype

2009-02-24 Thread H.S.
Lisi Reisz wrote: Has anyone used this software on Lenny? Etch? Sid? http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/ If you have, may I have some comments? Good, bad or indifferent. TIA Lisi Yes, I have been using Skype with Debian Testing and Sid for the last some years. Works

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread H.S.
Jimmy Johnson wrote: Neil Ellwood wrote: Personally I haven't found anything easier than Debian and it is more reliable than anything else I have tried. Why use a derivative when the original is marvellous? Hi Neil, I'm along time Debian user (7 years) and if there was something wrong

Re: Skype

2009-02-24 Thread H.S.
Wu-Kung Sun wrote: Just this weekend I started looking at skype. I read conflicting web pages about whether or not skype for linux has voicemail. Can anyone Not sure about voicemail. tell me? Also is there any other software which allows pc-to-phone and phone-to-pc connections? Ekiga

Re: Skype

2009-02-24 Thread H.S.
Celejar wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:59:20 -0600 Wu-Kung Sun sunwuk...@gmail.com wrote: Just this weekend I started looking at skype. I read conflicting web pages about whether or not skype for linux has voicemail. Can anyone tell me? Also is there any other software which allows

Re: fish://host protocol died unexpectedly

2009-02-23 Thread H.S.
Jonathan Kaye wrote: H.S. wrote: Sam Leon wrote: H.S. wrote: Though I should start a new thread for this after I posted about this just now as a response to another user. Just a heads up in Testing. It appears there is a bug in konqueror or something because when I try to fish://u

Re: Recommended TrueType fonts

2009-02-23 Thread H.S.
T o n g wrote: Hi, I want to install a minimum set of TrueType fonts. Which are ther recommended good ones? My current selections are: ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra But I've forgot why. Any recommended web pages that I can refer to? PS. I used

Re: Proper modern way to install TrueType fonts in Lenny/Sid?

2009-02-22 Thread H.S.
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:07:02 -0600 Kent West we...@acu.edu wrote: I'm trying to use an early-semitic font (midway down page http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/30_intro.html) on my Sid system. A couple of weeks ago I was playing with a Slashdot(?)-highlighted site that

Logitec quickcam pro 9000 [was: Re: good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')]

2009-02-22 Thread H.S.
thveillon.debian wrote: Alex Samad wrote : On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 04:49:27PM +, thveillon.debian wrote: Hi, I use a Logitech QC Pro 9000, bought it for ± £60, it's expensive but you talking about one of these 046d:0990 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro 9000 Yes, it's the one I have. I

Re: Logitec quickcam pro 9000 [was: Re: good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')]

2009-02-22 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Okay, bought this one yesterday and so far it is working with xawtv and skype and luvcview. Did nothing special to have it detected on Debian Testing. Did install the gspca module for my kernel though, but I am not sure how it actually helps. It low light performance is one

vx-1000 webcam in Debian

2009-02-22 Thread H.S.
Hello, Does anyone know if Microsoft's VX-1000 webcam works in Debian Testing or Sid? I did a little search and it appears that it works in Ubuntu and kernel 2.6.26 but does not work in many other cases (different kernels I presume). However, this website lists it as working:

good webcam for Linux (low light, mic, 'just works')

2009-02-21 Thread H.S.
Hello, I am looking to buy a good webcam for linux. Some of the things I have in mind are: 1. Have good low light performance (at least better among the usual consumer webcams) 2. Mic built in that works in Linux (Debian Testing, Sid, Ubuntu) 3. Reasonable price, it should be less than $125

Re: scp GUI?

2009-02-20 Thread H.S.
Nagy Daniel wrote: Is there a GUI for SCP? I mean like browsing through scp just like in a folder, in Midnight Commander. Thank you! In KDE, try in Konqueror: fish://u...@host to browse the folders at 'host' machine. In gnome you can do something similar by Places-Connect to network (I

Re: scp GUI?

2009-02-20 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Nagy Daniel wrote: Is there a GUI for SCP? I mean like browsing through scp just like in a folder, in Midnight Commander. Thank you! In KDE, try in Konqueror: fish://u...@host Just a heads up in Testing. It appears there is a bug in konqueror or something because when I try

fish://host protocol died unexpectedly

2009-02-20 Thread H.S.
Though I should start a new thread for this after I posted about this just now as a response to another user. Just a heads up in Testing. It appears there is a bug in konqueror or something because when I try to fish://u...@host I get --- An error occurred

Re: fish://host protocol died unexpectedly

2009-02-20 Thread H.S.
Sam Leon wrote: H.S. wrote: Though I should start a new thread for this after I posted about this just now as a response to another user. Just a heads up in Testing. It appears there is a bug in konqueror or something because when I try to fish://u...@host I get

Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs

2009-02-20 Thread H.S.
Adrian Levi wrote: 2009/2/21 Dennis Busboom dcbn...@yahoo.com: I just upgraded an older machine, PII 400mhz, 256mb RAM, from Etch to Lenny. The upgrade went smoothly, but the new Lenny kernel hangs upon booting. The old Etch kernel (2.6.18) is still present and boots up fine into the Lenny

Re: Seriously, no way to reconfigure video card in lenny?

2009-02-19 Thread H.S.
S D wrote: --- On Thu, 2/19/09, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: It appears that video card configuration was removed from dpkg-recofigure in lenny. Has anything replaced it? How can one reconfigure video card in lenny? It's supposed to be automagic now, built into xorg itself. If

Re: Any info about http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/

2009-02-19 Thread H.S.
Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com said: Greetings; I saw a regerence to http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/ in a recent email, but the site doesn't respond. I have tried several different browsers but they all go into a waiting for reply mode and nothing comes back. Any

Re: tools to get a mirror of modem/router configuration

2009-02-19 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Hello, I vaguely recall that we can somehow copy or mirror the configuration interface (accessible via a browser) of a modem or a router to a local hard disk. This can be then browsed from that saved copy. Anybody know if we have tools or packages in Debian to do so

Re: tools to get a mirror of modem/router configuration

2009-02-19 Thread H.S.
Celejar wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:32:19 -0500 H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com wrote: H.S. wrote: Hello, I vaguely recall that we can somehow copy or mirror the configuration interface (accessible via a browser) of a modem or a router to a local hard disk. This can be then browsed from

Re: emacs and terminus, proggy and ttf-inconsolata fonts

2009-02-19 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: Does not seem possible AFAIK. Your best bet would be to try Emacs 23 which has XFT support but is not released yet. Pre-compiled snapshots for Debian are available from http://emacs.orebokech.com. Wonderful! Fonts looks markedly better than in version 22

Re: emacs and terminus, proggy and ttf-inconsolata fonts

2009-02-18 Thread H.S.
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-02-18 02:25 +0100, H.S. wrote: I want to try terminus, proggy and ttf-inconsolata fonts. I can set terminus font by setting the Basic faces option in Emacs by specifying the family as Terminus. However, how I try ttf-inconsolata? It is not shown in xfontsel dialog

Re: Fedora guy asking for Debian guide

2009-02-18 Thread H.S.
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Is there any short install guide (like http://www.fedorafaq.org/) you can suggest for a debian newbie? Maybe http://www.debian-administration.org/ Very fuzzy. You can read the former and be crystal clear into fedora in 10 minutes. Im sure Debian has

Re: digital camera recomendations

2009-02-18 Thread H.S.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:40:04PM +, kj wrote: Mike McClain wrote: I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera. Just for snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations or knows where I could find which are going to work with Debian. Just

Re: emacs and terminus, proggy and ttf-inconsolata fonts

2009-02-18 Thread H.S.
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-02-18 02:25 +0100, H.S. wrote: This is on Testing. In Emacs if I left-click the mouse button with the Shift key pressed, I get the Font Menu from which I can select some of the preset fonts (fixed, courier, etc.). I want to try terminus, proggy and ttf

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