Re: How to send tunes to MP3 player?

2008-11-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dennis Wicks: Is there a program on Debian/lenny that will send/write tunes onto an MP3 player? It is one of those little ones that you plug into a USB port. On windows we use Win. Media Player but haven't found anything shat seems to work on Debian yet. If your player is a regular mass

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-14 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: On 11/14/08 02:09, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: some months ago this list suggested me the excellent youtube-dl (there is also clive). Then mplayer plays without problem the files (even on powerpc, so without evil codecs) If you tell it to, clive will automatically convert the

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: irssi is an

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 try

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 then it got

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
NN_il_Confusionario: The huge problem is that all combination of therminals, fonts, color depths, screen resolutions, and refresh rates which I could try were always infinitely less tolerable for my eyes than linux or *BSD vt consoles. Did you try terminus? It's available as console and X11

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-06 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sarunas Burdulis: Would you care to elaborate? Running Xorg/xinit and an X app is pretty austere without window controls... not that it's useless, of course. Or did you mean something else? I guess he meant that desktop manager is a program like xdm, gdm or kdm (guess why all of them are

Re: nmap package obsoleted?

2008-10-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
rex: when I do apt-cache pkgnames | grep nmap, I get nmap. Try 'apt-cache policy nmap' to find out whether apt knows a source to install nmap from. J. -- Thy lyrics in pop songs seem to describe my life uncannily accurately. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Export Public Key

2008-10-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
Frank Lanitz: Zaki Akhmad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you hint me some information, which server have exchanging public key service? I'd like to do some experiment exchanging public key then use it to encrypt and decrypt email :-) First at all, I think it is not a good idea to upload

Re: Accessing Repositories with 'Lenny'

2008-10-30 Thread Jochen Schulz
Abdul Haqq: My only gripe is I can't access the repositories. Which one? What's reason to browse them directly? Are you referring to the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list at all or are you talking about something different? browsing on the net I find pages that are empty. Is the

Re: Nvidia, apt-get Synaptic

2008-10-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
MLewis: I'm running Lenny Beta2. There is no such Debian version. What you probably have is lenny (in its current or an earlier state), installed by the Debian Installer beta2. (Sorry for the nitpicking, it's just that Debian doesn't have any releases which it calls beta. Only single packages

Re: Nvidia, apt-get Synaptic

2008-10-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
MLewis: Florian Kulzer wrote: Install the mesa-utils package, then use these commands to see if direct rendering is working. rattler:/etc/X11# glxinfo | grep direct Error: unable to open display rattler:/etc/X11# glxgears Error: couldn't open display (null) You have to run these inside

Re: Cdrecord loses permission to write CD's...

2008-10-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kenward Vaughan: Speed set to 7056 KB/s /usr/bin/wodim: DMA speed too slow (OK for 6x). Cannot write at speed 40x. This might be your problem. Did you already try burning in a slower mode? J. -- If nightclub doormen recognised me I would be more fulfilled. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Cdrecord loses permission to write CD's...

2008-10-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Kenward Vaughan: On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 23:29 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Kenward Vaughan: Speed set to 7056 KB/s /usr/bin/wodim: DMA speed too slow (OK for 6x). Cannot write at speed 40x. This might be your problem. Did you already try burning in a slower mode? I don't get the DMA

Re: GNOME 2.24, was: Re: Keeping more up to date than Lenny, safely?

2008-10-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
spacemarc: 2008/10/24 Mark Allums [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Parts of GNOME 2.24 have entered Experimental now, for those who are interested. hi, how long does it take to get the 2.24 in the Debian Testing version? Probably a few weeks after lenny has been released as stable. J. -- I am getting

Re: is a stupid problems but is a problem with my music

2008-10-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
John Vera: I need one solution because i have someone music files with .m4p extension... for that reason y write XD is a collection complete of KISS, I want to converter from .m4p to the .mp3 extension.. ffmpeg -i foo.mp4 -acodec mp3 -ab 160k -ac 2 -ar 44100 foo.mp3 This will create a

Re: Inode issue

2008-10-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Shaun Martin: Ok so my filesystem ran out of inodes :( Is their away to increase the inodes without reformatting? The manpage of mkfs.ext2/3 says there isn't: -i bytes-per-inode Specify the bytes/inode ratio. mke2fs creates an inode for every bytes-per-inode bytes of space on the

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
Paul Cartwright: My wife plugged in a USB stick, to save a file to it. It would not let her save a file, permission denied. ... I am logged in first, vt7, she is logged in 2nd, vt8, and when I switched to my login, there was the disk window open ( /media/disk). I don't know what Debian's

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dotan Cohen: 008/10/17 Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: thanks, I'll let her know! I looked in /var/log/messages and it didn't say anything about ownership, though it did say write protect was off.. Be careful how you word it. I think this message just refers to the physical

Re: USB ownership

2008-10-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
Paul Cartwright: Florian Kulzer wrote: If you found that your session had a disk window open then your session (and hence your user) must have automounted the medium. For your user, go to actually, she plugged in the USB stick about an hour before I got up, so it was her in her login.

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Stephen Liu: What I'm looking for is the package providing the command 'mysqladmin' if neither having MySQL installed nor knowing which package provides mysqladmin. I need to install that package. What about a simple 'apt-cache search mysql admin'? It reveals there is a package named

Re: ext3 filesystem and file name restrictions

2008-10-15 Thread Jochen Schulz
Adam Hardy: For instance, there is one file name like this: 2AE2EAEE-57AC-46D8-B619-C2167D4C6786:ABPerson.abcdp which has a colon in it that I guess is the problem. I am not sure either, but I'd bet on that, too. I guess this is not even a problem with neither MacOS X or ext3 -- it might

Re: Changing NIC in existing Server results in no ETH0

2008-10-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Keith Steensma: I have a sever that has been running for months with a single Realtek 8139 network card. The NIC failed and I put in a 3Com 3C905B-TX card (that I pulled from a working test machine). When I rebooted the server, the 3Com card was no configured and I ended up with no

Re: kernel config q

2008-10-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hugo Vanwoerkom: But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is immaterial as to the functioning of the driver. Am I correct? Generally yes. There are modules which are better compiled statically (IDE/S-ATA, filesystems) but they work either way. This in regard to trying to get smartctl

Re: Can't run aptitude

2008-10-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dennis Wicks: Jochen Schulz wrote the following on 10/12/2008 08:06 AM: To me that looks like you have a http_proxy environment variable set. I think Synaptic and aptitude honour that. Or you have set the corresponding option in apt.conf. Thanks for the pointer! That was the problem

Re: Can't run aptitude

2008-10-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dennis Wicks: When I try to do nearly anything with aptitude I get dgwicks:~# aptitude update Writing extended state information... Done Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111

Re: chmod, or better solutions ?

2008-10-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Shams Fantar: I'd like to know if it's very fine and clean to chmod -R 700 / ; This will prevent non-root users from reading *any* file on the system. If user 'shams' wants to list his home directory /home/shams, he has to have permissions to list / and /home as well. Or are there any

Re: interpreting smartmontools output

2008-10-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Johan Grönqvist: I read about smartmontools on debian package a day, and tried it out. Running smartctl -A /dev/sda on my recent laptop (bought it this spring) gave me 8 times pre-fail and 15 times old_age. You are misreading the output. The words pre-fail and old_age are just descriptions

Re: New Kernel

2008-10-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Matthew Lane: I'm new to debian, just switched over from ubuntu. I heard news of the new 2.6.27 kernel coming out, and has atheros driver support. My laptop has an atheros card I haven't gotten to work yet, and I'd like to get the new kernel to get that card working. Which driver do

Re: interpreting smartmontools output

2008-10-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jochen Schulz: Generally, you only have to look at two columns, value and threshold. As long as value is below threshold, everything is fine. The numbers in s/below/greater than/ J. -- Fashion is more important to me than war, famine, disease or art. [Agree] [Disagree

Re: any .WMV to .FLV converters

2008-10-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Siju George: Is there any Converter that can convert from .WMV format to .FLV format for debian? ffmpeg -i foo.wmv -vcodec flv foo.flv You probably have to install ffmpeg from debian-multimedia.org. J. -- If I had to live on a desert island I would take a mobile phone, preferably a Nokia

Re: any .WMV to .FLV converters, now a bit OT

2008-10-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mark Allums: Siju George wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Siju George: Is there any Converter that can convert from .WMV format to .FLV format for debian? ffmpeg -i foo.wmv -vcodec flv foo.flv You probably have to install ffmpeg from debian

Re: any .WMV to .FLV converters, now a bit OT

2008-10-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jochen Schulz: Only for the video, I think. I usually use -crf which is one-pass-only. Correction: I use -cqp since -crf appears to be ignored by current ffmpeg from debian-multimedia.org. J. -- I am not scared of death but terrified of people in Tommy Hilfiger sweatshirts. [Agree

Re: editing menus

2008-09-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Robert Holtzman: On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Aniruddha wrote: Which WM do you use? I assume Gnome. Gnome's default menu editor is alacarte, you can find it in the Gnome menu at 'System - Preference - Main Menu. Thanks for the reply. Gnome is correct, but there is no Main Menu under Desktop -

Re: aptitude update - Bad header line

2008-09-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Csanyi Pal: Hi, I did sudo aptitude update and get error messages: Err http://ftp.hu.debian.org etch/main Packages Bad header line That looks like a problem with the mirror you are using. Try another one, until ftp.hu.debian.org works again (if it doesn't already). J. -- I am

Re: libc6

2008-09-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Antonis Antoniou: I have a machine which is debian lenny and I have tried to upgrade the package libc6. I was having libc6 2.5-11 I install the package via dpkg and I got errors Why do you use dpkg? Where did you get the deb from that you are trying to install? =

Re: libc6

2008-09-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Antonis Antoniou: 2008/9/25 Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Antonis Antoniou: I install the package via dpkg and I got errors Why do you use dpkg? Where did you get the deb from that you are trying to install? The reason I did not use aptitude because I couldn't install any package due

Re: libc6

2008-09-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sven Joachim: On 2008-09-25 19:15 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: Correction: I guess it isn't broken in any way, it's just that all your other programs are linked to an older version and don't work with the new one. Please stop spreading that clueless FUD. In fact, the glibc has been

Re: thanks Re: AMD or Intel: performance, price and ethics

2008-09-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Augustin: On Saturday 20 September 2008 21:57:04 Jochen Schulz wrote: From my two minute research, it appears Blender can use multiple threads as well, so it's better to use, say, 4*2.6GHz instead of 2*3GHz. -- snip The multi-thread capabilities of blender and (partially) ffmpeg is a good

Re: AMD or Intel: performance, price and ethics

2008-09-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Augustin: Now, what really matters to me the most is that I want to do some video editing with ffmpeg and Kdeenline and maybe some simple 3D modelling with blender. I don't edit videos but I transcode them quite often and you can be sure: the more cores for encoding, the better. But

Re: error in script

2008-09-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
L.V.Gandhi: #!/bin/bash rm -f ~/stock/flstock.csv grep FUTSTK ~/stock/today/$1 |grep 25/09/2008|cut -s -d, -f9|sort -nr temp You really shouldn't use temp as a name. See 'man mktemp'. i=0 for trv in $(cat temp) do You could save this use of cat with this idiom: while read trv; do

Re: error in script

2008-09-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
L.V.Gandhi: On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat ~/stock/flstock.csv |cut -s -d, -f2|sort ~/stock/fliquidstocks.txt Useless use of cat. :) How it can be done more efficiently, please? Just pass the filename to cut as an argument: cut -s -d, -f2

Re: ssh and X display forwarding

2008-09-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Alan Chandler: I ssh into my server, but when I get there the DISPLAY variable is not set up, meaning I can't run graphical programs. What command line are you using? $ ssh -Y server should suffice. On my desktop /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc has the ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten TCP commented out

Re: Pls help: memory leaks (my own, of course)

2008-08-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Thierry Chatelet: Anyway, there is a line command to use to change the amount of reserved space on the partition. I have used it some time ago, but forgot what it is. If some one could refresh my memory You are looking for tune2fs (if you are using ext2/ext3). J. -- People talking a

Re: Best fs for imapserver?

2008-08-19 Thread Jochen Schulz
Aniruddha: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-305871-highlight-ext3+optimize +optimize.html ITYM http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=305871 J. -- No-one appears to be able to help me. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
kj: What I'm worried about is the tools I use. In particular, I need a browser with all the usual suspects working properly: flash and java (unfortunately some of the tools I need to use at work are written in these abominable languages). Does anyone do heavy java and flash usage

Re: Official Release Update Method

2008-08-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
freeman: I mean, is there a standard operating procedure for updating from one release to the new stable? Or is it only a matter of what the release notes say for each update? The standard procedure is always more or less the same. Edit sources.list if it doesn't contain the new release yet,

Re: Debian Sid first time user

2008-08-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rodolfo Medina: Please can anybody indicate how to fetch and install a Debian Sid distribution You have been using Debian and don't know how to do that? -Interesting. :) You only have to add sid to your sources.list (copy existing lines and replace etch/stable with sid) and then run aptitude

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-08-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Vwaju: Couldn't I add http://packages.debian.org/sarge to /etc/apt/ sources.list and then say: # apt-get install xlispstat You could try that but then you'd have to make sure that you don't install other things from sarge as well without you noticing it. And you might get dependency

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-08-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jochen Schulz: You could try that but then you'd have to make sure that you don't install other things from sarge as well without you noticing it. And you might get dependency problems when packages from etch with packages from sarge. I meant to write: ...when packages from etch *conflict

Re: i want to make an image copy of my system

2008-08-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
darren naidoo: Hi there i want to do the above but the partition is a boot partition and when i boot from a disk it says i cannot because i am not root but i am root user. What a pity. I hope you'll get it fixed somehow. ;-) Seriously, just in case you actually wanted to receive help here:

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-08-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Vwaju: I am setting up an internet server as a training exercise, using the O'Reilly book referenced at the top of this thread. The server is only for training (to learn Debian and networking). If it's not publicly available, you could do that. But since lenny is already on its way, I

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Andrew Sackville-West: [...] Maybe you could just run multiple kernel compiles simultaneously, including one or two that are reading/writing to a network share and see what happens that way? To use all cores available when compiling a kernel, you don't need to run several compilation jobs

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Please don't CC people unless requested. Thanks. Account for Debian group mail: On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Jochen Schulz wrote: To use all cores available when compiling a kernel, you don't need to run several compilation jobs at the same time. Just set CONCURRENCY_LEVEL to the number of cores

Re: 64 bit Dual-Core Moron

2008-08-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Account for Debian group mail: Andrew Sackville-West: To use all cores available when compiling a kernel, you don't need to run several compilation jobs at the same time. Just set CONCURRENCY_LEVEL to the number of cores you have. I looks like both CPUs are doing their thing on the

Re: error messages from apt-get

2008-07-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
Vwaju: Here's the output: Reading package lists...Done Building dependence tree...Done wget is already the newest version Package xlispstat is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from

Re: display on remote machines?

2008-07-30 Thread Jochen Schulz
abdelkader belahcene: I have a serveur running an application, to be simpler gnome-terminal, I want to run on my serveur gnome-terminal and receive on a remote machine the display, in other word I want to redirect the omage to remote machine. You realize that this is a ridiculous exercise?

Re: Debian Etch cdrom is not showing all mp3's

2008-07-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: Have you tried Sound Juicer, or ripping it with abcde? If it contains MP3s, it's obviously not an audio disc and there's no point in trying to rip it. J. -- I am getting worse rather than better. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Adam Hardy: I use mt-daapd but it snips the last 2 seconds off the end of every song. I haven't seen that behaviour yet. It may be a bug in the package in etch, I am using the latest build fireflymediaserver.org. What does the Soundbridge do? It's nothing but a client for audio streaming.

Re: Which graph tool is used for the release-critical bugs graph?

2008-07-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Gerhard Horecky: I want to produce charts from time series like the rc bug graph in http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/. I think the same tool is used for the popcon graphics. Can anybody give me please a hint which debian package is used for that? It's most probably gnuplot. J. --

Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nick Lidakis: I had been researching way to assemble an audiophile grade music server since early last year for my dedicated listening room. There were several ready to go retail (Sonos, Slim Devices, McIntosh, etc.) I don't know whether it suits audiophile needs, but this is my setup:

Re: network not starting at boot

2008-07-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
michael: On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 18:32 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: Are you using Gnome? If yes, do you have Network Manager installed (package network-manager). This has messed up a lot of users' networking setups. I'm trying xcfe Network Manager may be running anyway because IIRC

Re: [OT] Looking for a Debian based Linux distro

2008-07-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
Santanu Chatterjee: This might be a bit off-topic. Anyway, I am looking for a Debian based Linux distribution (liveCD or something that can be installed on a pendrive) that is mostly command line oriented (just a fluxbox like WM maybe, but most of the things done via command prompt, also

Re: debian no client name??

2008-07-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
Lóránd Erik: I don't know what's the problem, i just can't figure it out: I install standard debian etch without gui, i give hostname at install, etc, and when i log in the console, and i install ssh [apt-get install ssh openssh-server] i just can't ssh from an ubuntu, For some reason,

Re: [Debian-User] Gtk fonts on non desktop (non gnome) X environment.

2008-07-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
Javier Vasquez: Is there a configuration file I can create by hand under ~/.some_name which would help me accomplish getting the fonts I'd like to see? IIRC ~/.gtkrc-2.0. I don't have an example at hand but you will find examples when googling for that filename. J. -- I want to look

Re: network not starting at boot

2008-07-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
michael: I've had a quick look around but can't see why my network's not starting at boot, but works okay if I run 'sudo dhclient'... this is with 2.6.25-2-amd64 kernel from backports (build by debootstrap and then apt-get from backports)... I've copied over various /etc files such that I

Re: network not starting at boot

2008-07-17 Thread Jochen Schulz
michael: On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 17:37 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: Plaese post the contents of the interfaces file. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/network$ cat interfaces # Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or # /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information

Maildir vs mbox again (was: IMAP is teh r0x0rz!)

2008-07-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Steve Lamb: Right now my trash is 2000 messages at 14Mb. 50,000 messages would be ~350Mb. Certainly doesn't take me 20 minutes to begin to work with a 350Mb flat file. Hell, at work I've opened larger flat files over the network in shorter time. I don't see a problem with several

Re: Linksys Router

2008-07-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mark Neidorff: Why would I want to replace the software in the router with openwrt/X-Wrt? Because after flashing you have full access to all of the operating system's features instead of what the original firmware's web interface offers to you. Essentially, you have a full-fledged linux

Re: broken system after srm -r -d /tmp/.* (user login and several services not working)

2008-07-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jonas Meurer: But I discovered something really strange. If I compare the output of 'ls -al /' on my system and in the chroot, several directory sizes seem to be different. I thought that directorys always have a size of 4069 bytes, but apparently this is not the case: No, it's not and your

Re: Report a bug relative ssh key exchange.

2008-07-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
By the way, bugs are usually reported using the tool reportbug. That way your message ends up in the Debian Bug Tracking System (BTS). You sent your mail to a mailing list for users of Debian. Maintainers of Debian packages (who are responsible for dealing with their packages' problems) don't

Re: {SOLVED} Re: CPU Frequencies Don't scale independently

2008-07-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hakan BAYINDIR: After subscribing to cpu-freq mailing list and asking the same question here, Venkatesh Pallipadi from intel answered my question. He said that since voltages in a CPU package is constant across cores, keeping frequencies low on other cores while clocking one up doesn't

Re: wireless with atheros

2008-06-30 Thread Jochen Schulz
Daniel Dalton: So could someone please see if they could show me an online add of an atheros pcmcia card supported by linux? Madiwif cards: http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility J. -- I am no longer prepared to give you the benefit of the doubt. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: CPU Frequencies Don't scale independently

2008-06-30 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hakan BAYINDIR: P.S. I cannot send a config.gz since the kernel is prepackaged. You'll find the configuration of the currently running kernel in /proc/config.gz. At least Debian kernels have that feature enabled by default. J. -- Looking into my eyes is the only way you'll know I'm telling

Re: CPU Frequencies Don't scale independently

2008-06-30 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hakan BAYINDIR: Jochen Schulz wrote: Hakan BAYINDIR: P.S. I cannot send a config.gz since the kernel is prepackaged. You'll find the configuration of the currently running kernel in /proc/config.gz. At least Debian kernels have that feature enabled by default. Unfortunately

Re: Open Source Video Codec and Container (alternative to Xvid)

2008-06-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Simon Jolle sjolle: 1) Its very generic command line to convert videos. What would you improve? The size is much bigger than the original FLV :( Why do you convert in the first place? Re-encoding files with a lossy codec can only degrade their quality, no matter what bitrate you are using.

Re: Open Source Video Codec and Container (alternative to Xvid)

2008-06-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Simon Jolle sjolle: On 06/28/2008 08:28 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: Why do you convert in the first place? Re-encoding files with a lossy codec can only degrade their quality, no matter what bitrate you are using. I know that re-encoding degrades the quality. But my eyes don't see

Re: Open Source Video Codec and Container (alternative to Xvid)

2008-06-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Simon Jolle sjolle: It means AVI is the best choice for out-of-the-box playing on all platforms and devices? AVI is only a container for audio and video content. It can contain video encoded in many formats (MPEG2, MPEG4, H.264 etc). Just because a player knows the container format doesn't

Re: Open Source Video Codec and Container (alternative to Xvid)

2008-06-28 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jochen Schulz: Simon Jolle sjolle: How accepted is Ogg Theora in Non-Geek environments? Not at all. It is even quite uncommon in non-geek environments. Of course I meant to write even quite uncommon on geek environments. J. -- When I am at nightclubs I enjoy looking at other people

Re: Mailbox conversion

2008-06-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jan Willem Stumpel: After all this smalltalk, my real question: I still have lots of old e-mail in Microsoft format (with names like in-2005.dbx, out-2006.dbx, etc; some filenames are in Japanese, and the messages inside the .dbx files are mostly Japanese). I searched the web for converting

Re: Remote upgrade headless server with businesscard ISO?

2008-06-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Please don't top-post. Thanks. David Barrett: Well, debootstrap is great (totally awesome, really) for setting up a chroot, but I'm not super sure how to pull the rug out from underneath the old bootable OS installation and insert the new bootable chroot, swap in the new kernel, etc.

Re: Remote upgrade headless server with businesscard ISO?

2008-06-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
David Barrett: Toward this end, do you know if I can just unpack the businesscard ISO into this new filesystem (instead of using debootstrap) and configure it with a preseed file? This seems sensible, but I don't see how to avoid deleting itself midway when I do the full-drive format.

Re: Trouble adding SATA HDDs to Etch box (ProLiant ML110 G4) that boots from USB flash drive

2008-06-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sam Kuper: Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev Alert! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! I guess one of your new drives uses /dev/sda which was previously used by your flash drive. You probably need to find

Re: large HD partition plan

2008-06-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
gary turner: Usage will will be primarily web development using multiple browsers, Emacs, GIMP, Inkscape and ImageMagick. I also plan to run Vista Home Premium in a VM (probably VirtualBox). I suspect that large swap and temp partitions will be helpful, as I tend to leave my apps up

Re: OT: MP3 Player for Ogg?

2008-06-22 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mark Allums: More than you wanted or needed to know, but Rockbox is IMO probably your best bet for ogg support. I second this. I bought an Iriver H120 two years ago, installed Rockbox on the very first day and have never regretted it. Take a look at their website, buy any player Rockbox

Re: Warning in syslog

2008-06-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Frank McCormick: I noticed this is my syslog today---what does driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus type methods mean ??? I think that's the kernel telling you that the driver you are using for device sda needs an update (to use a new API or something to that effect). I would either

Re: lynx and mutt

2008-06-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Daniel Dalton: Does anyone know how to make mutt use lynx when I enter on a url? aptitude install urlview. J. -- I throw away plastics and think about the discoveries of future archeologists. [Agree] [Disagree] http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html

Re: SSH private keys, dangerous to carry around or not. Was Re: Where do you run ssh-keygen

2008-06-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nathaniel Homier: Sudev Barar wrote: Yes, but if you are carrying private key in your pen drive and you loose it or some one copies it your total security is compromised howsoever strong encryption algorithm was used to generate the key pair. I was under the impression that the pass

Re: Where do you run ssh-keygen, server or client.

2008-06-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nathaniel Homier: I have 1 desktop computer (we will call it son) and it runs a ssh server. When I visit my mothers house I would like to be able to access (son) from my mothers computer (we will call it mom). I have setup the ssh server on (son) to use key based authentication. Now

Re: mutt signatures

2008-06-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
James Richardson: What package/software do you use to rotate signatures in email? I use mutt. I have used signify for years. J. -- Looking into my eyes is the only way you'll know I'm telling the truth. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.

2008-06-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Brad Rogers: Frank McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All's well that ends. Indeed. Now, where is your PGP public key? It doesn't appear to be on the regular servers. As such, signing messages is, pretty much, redundant. $ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 3710949B gpg:

Re: Homepage management system?

2008-06-02 Thread Jochen Schulz
Micha: I am looking for some framework to allow easily setting up homepage for all the people in my uni lab. The idea is to setup some template that they can fill out as no one is getting around to it I don't know how tech-savvy your users are, but I found rest2web to be a quite good and

Re: java plugin for Debian testing on an AMD64?

2008-05-29 Thread Jochen Schulz
Robert Jerrard: Can anyone tell me where to get a java plugin for Debian testing on an AMD64? As far as I know, there is none. At least not for a current Java version. The best solution (if you really need that plugin -- I haven't missed it yet) is to run your browser in a 32 Bit chroot. J.

Re: root, -1 unkown

2008-05-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
David Baron: What the h*ll is that? Running Debian Sid, KDE4-devel from experimental. This is an error message reserved for people running software from experimental who don't know how to ask smart questions. :) J. -- As a child I pulled the legs from a spider. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Javier Vasquez: Do you suggest using dd instead? Would it work even if the destine partition is bigger (I read somewhere it works perfectly when source and destine are the same size, but I never read it works perfectly when destine is bigger)... Yes, it works. You have to resize your

Re: [debian-user] How to copy a laptop HD?

2008-05-20 Thread Jochen Schulz
Javier Vasquez: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you only copy 446 Bytes back? That's what I read is necessary, since the last 64+2 bytes of the 1st 512 bytes correspond to the partition table, which shouldn't be copied over I believe

Re: Anti-gaming Behaviour of Keyboard Driver

2008-05-19 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dmitryi Elf: The default keyboard driver doesn't allow multiple simultaneous key presses. This is a big problem for an FPS, as it means the player can either strafe, turn, or shoot. Looks like only four or so keys can be pressed simultaneously (tested with a couple Quake clients, Tyr

Re: top command results from an ssh

2008-05-16 Thread Jochen Schulz
avilella: how can I get the results of doing a top sorted by memory usage from an ssh command? I am not sure what exactly you are trying to do, but $ ssh -t host top will show top's output from the remote host in your current terminal. You need the -t option when you want to force ssh to

Re: GRUB Error 17

2008-05-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Cassiel: I did not install/re-install anything, resize partitions or anything else could do something wrong. I was trasferring data from my usb HD when the process stopped (input/output error) and the system went completely frozen. From that moment on I can not boot from HD. Using knoppix

Re: How to turn on mail led in laptops ?

2008-05-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jabka Atu: I'm working on laptop mail script (will turnon and turn off mail led). With acerhk it is : echo 1 /proc/driver/acerhk/led but about other laptops ? Some Asus laptops have a similar interface in /proc/acpi/asus/[mw]led. J. -- I want to look younger than my friends so I will

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