Liviu Andronic wrote:
> How often do you update your testing?
As always in such situation: YMMV.
I'm sure that you are not running testing on a production server,
permanently exposed to the threats of intruders, but also your desktop
needs security updates, as they become available.
As far as I
Nate Bargmann wrote:
> I'll add my vote for the virtualbox-ose package, assuming you have a
> legal copy of XP to install, of course. If you need USB support then
> you'll have to try the commercial version.
FWIW the commercial version is free (as beer, no source code) for
evaluation, personal u
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> It is purely digital. 16-bit (not sure if this is floating- or fixed-point),
> stereo, 44.1 kHz samples, IIRC.
What's the difference between 16-bit floating-point and 16-bit
fixed-point? I always thought those are jus
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Paul E Condon wrote:
> Now, it is quite feasible to store my entire CD collection on hard
> disk, even without compression, and all computers have audio
> output. But what is the audio quality of the analog sound signal?
It depends on the quality of
Peter Crawford wrote:
> http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=
You are on the wrong track. Removing linux and moving to M$ won't solve
any problems, but create a bunch of new ones.
Take care and do not to trade in your freedom just to become dependant
on that company. Freedom is better than subordinati
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-09-03 09:44, Charles wrote:
>> Just did that...dl'ed the user agent switcher and tried nearly
>> all of the combos involving IE and Windowsno luck..same message.
>> It looks like it's looking for an Adobe plugin which of course I
>> don't have. Just one more rea
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bouncy...@gmail.com wrote:
> In my never ending quest to get some kind of functional way to use email for
> logging of events from a mail spool to some kind of trouble ticket
[snip the reminder of a single, very long line]
Sorry, what was the questi
Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Mohammed Rashad:
>> I am using Debian Lenny 5.0
>> when i open login manager select properties of root account home directory
>> for root changes from /root to /home/root
>
> What do you want to achieve?
>
> How do you try to reach that goal?
>
> What do you expect to happ
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Charles Kroeger wrote:
> If you get the Debian Testing Installer iso: (50-60 MB)
I'd suggest to start out with Debian stable 'lenny' 5.0. If you later
find out that the software released about 1 year ago is not
as up-to-date as you desire, you could
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Chris Lale wrote:
> Charles wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:42:09 -0700
>> Paul Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 20:51 +0100, Chris Lale wrote:
Hotmail does not like Iceweasel.
>>> Duh! When has Microsoft played well with others exce
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Hi list!
In an effort to write my scripts in a posix conform way, I try to use
dash instead of bash. One issue I don't understand:
Why does 'echo ' behave different for bash and dash?
It's a bit confusing that one cannot echo two \\ to another f
Jeff H. wrote:
> Been thinking of switching to Debian. Does it support Nvidia laptop cards?
For all the specialised discussion within the thread: Ordinary graphics
display (as for documents, web pages, movies, etc) is generally
supported out-of-the-box, and normally requires no manual intervention
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Hi list,
I don't seem to be able to figure this out with google or /usr/share/doc:
How can I (literally) print the output of my terminal in color?
I have a large diff that I would like to print to paper and retain the
colors set up by my terminal (kd
randall wrote:
> so, before i try disabling the firewall etc... to see if it has any
> results and risk losing the working LAN part of the story i wonder if
> somebody here has a clue on what it could be.
Factors external to the machine? Like limits on upstream / downstream
data rates, imposed by
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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:33:50PM +1000, Charlie wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:21:38 +0200 Sjoerd Hardeman
>> shared this with us all:
>>
>>> Charlie schreef:
>
How do I configure xpdf to print with cups?
>>> T
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Charlie wrote:
> Have been googling without much success:
'apt-cache search', 'aptitude search' or 'apt-file search' are probably
better choices for this questions at debian machines.
> Trying to find the KDE package that contains kpdf - says it's
>
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Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-08-26 14:14 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>
>> Bernard wrote:
>>> Thanks in advance for your help in switching my keyboard to the French
>>> setup.
>> dpkg-reconfigure xserv
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Bernard wrote:
[snip]
> My next problem is one of keyboard. I had chosen a kind of automatic
> setup for my install. Despites this, I was questioned about language,
> and I had replied 'French'. However my keyboard is in QWERTY instead of
> being in AZ
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Bernard wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Since I was unable to recompile my old kernel 2.6.20 under Debian Sarge,
> I decided to install Lenny. Unable to find a way to just upgrade (there
> has been Etch in between),
Why not just upgrade to etch (aka 'oldstab
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
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>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>> is there a way to just add php5 support to a
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> is there a way to just add php5 support to apache 1.3 so i can get
> horde up and running again, or should i just bite the bullet and do
> what it takes to switch to apache2? (apache2 is currently on the
> system, it's just
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i was hoping to continue running apache 1.3 on my new lenny system,
> just until i could make sure i had a clean upgrade path, then make the
> switch to apache2. but it seems like i won't have that option since
> i'm runnin
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Joe wrote:
>
>> My advice would be to grit your teeth and install a completely new
>> system, based on your existing packages. Then copy the data and as
>> much configuration information as possible. Sorr
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Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>>> Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny?
>>
>> Do you have libdvdcss installed?
[...]
> According to its authors, libdvdcss is "designed for accessing DVDs
> like a
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Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-08-20 03:15 +0200, Andreas Ronnquist wrote:
>
>> Trying to update pidgin after the last security-bulletin [1] i run into
>> problems:
>>
>> libpurple0 requires libdbus-glib-1-2 (>=0.78), on amd64 [2] but
>>
>> only 0.76-1
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Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny?
>
> Totem and VLC fail too. The disk is probably okay because it played
> on someone's Windows desktop. What is going wrong? Can I trust
> regionset? I check
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Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Today I removed some .tex files with the `rm' command. They were not very
> important, of course, but now I'm thinking that I'd had better wait before
> removing them.
>
> I sometimes heard about the possibility of recovering
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Charlie wrote:
> I think this is a reinstall for me, but just thought someone might be
> able to point me to some documentation so this isn't required. The
> system is fully backed up, so I can try some things, and if it breaks
> then will just reinsta
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jeremy jozwik wrote:
> thanks for those links as well. ive done color work on this same
> laptop within windows and never had to setup color management. in fact
> i disabled them in gimp and photoshop and had no issues with color
> when viewing from di
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Jochen Schulz wrote:
> hce:
>> I am going to create ext3 file system to an external USB HDD for being
>> used as an backup storage. I am not clear if it is necessary to
>> reserve super user blocks (5% by default), could you please advise?
>
> I do th
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Oli D wrote:
> In short, I'm wondering why dhclient is still the default considering this
> bug/caveat and possibly if it possible to use dhcpcd as the default DHCP
> client
> on a Debian [Lenny] machine?
Just install dhcpcd (and remove dhclient). Th
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Paul E Condon wrote:
> Why is the package debian-backports-keyring not available in the
> debian stable repository? in the contrib section perhaps, but
> somewhere that is a verifiable secure repository at the time
> that a user needs to install it ??
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> BTW, self-signed certificate != end-to-end security, it is trivial for an
> attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.
Except, if it is you who self-signed BOTH certificates (and verify that
it is still the one
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Paul E Condon wrote:
> I want DHCP in the Acer because I intend to use it in the outside world,
> not merely on my LAN. But I want to set it up on my LAN, and hopefully,
> prepare it for defending itself in the outside world.
>
> I now see wicd in apt
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Kun Niu wrote:
> Somewhere on debian.org are pages on how to upgrade from Woody to Etch. So,
> I'd read them first and try it.
What about sarge? IIRC, it was woody -> sarge -> etch -> lenny.
You'd have to find a sarge archive to upgrade to, though.
Scarletdown wrote:
> Also, is there any way to do a dist-upgrade without being forced into KDE
> 4? I don't really care for 4 and would prefer to stay with 3.5. However,
> it looks like apt-get dist-upgrade is going to force 4 on me.
Why not stay with lenny, then? And upgrade to kde 4, when more
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Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2009-08-02 13:04 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>>> On Sun,02.Aug.09, 12:14:10, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>
>>>> Wireless used to work with both kernels, when I us
Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-08-02 16:55 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> FWIW, removing bash from the list of essential packages (replacing it by
>> dash) is one of the release goals for squeeze [1].
>
> Not really, the goal for squeeze is to install dash as /bin/sh
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Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> Yes, even if it means to back out X's dependency on the almost dead
> HAL. I'm not yet fully decided, but I might even be inclined to help
> him forking a more back to the roots Debian (without bash essential).
FWIW, removing
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Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-08-02 13:04 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> On Sun,02.Aug.09, 12:14:10, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>>> Wireless used to work with both kernels, when I used wep instead of wap.
>> I seem to reca
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Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-08-02 04:05, hce wrote:
>> I bought an external disk (1 BT) and I am only connecting it to a
>> Debian box, not window. Is it a good idea to re-fomat it by ext3?
[...]
> Turn it on, plug it in and treat it like you'd treat
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hce wrote:
> I bought an external disk (1 BT) and I am only connecting it to a
> Debian box, not window. Is it a good idea to re-fomat it by ext3?
Yes. I consider ext3 to be more reliable than the vfat or ntfs that are
typically used for preformated
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Hi list,
I'm running lenny i386.
Having changed my dsl provider, I now use wpa to authenticate to my dsl
modem/router. It turns out that wicd (or any connection) will only work for the
kernel
$ uname -a
Linux e13-v21 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Jul 26
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Jon Dowland wrote:
> any reasonable frequency of backup. I currently use
> rdiff-snapshot. I personally think there is still a lot of
> space for new solutions (yet to see a good git-based one)
s/rdiff-snapshot/rdiff-backup
Johannes
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Tim Beauregard wrote:
> 1. Much less traffic. I previously got 250+ posts per day. Now 50-100.
> Could this be due to the development of ubuntu?
Could also be due to a better wiki (wiki.debian.org) with more users
getting help from there, from goog
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Robert Baron wrote:
> Although I agree in general with the notions of interleaving posts and
> trimming quotes, this sometimes takes things out of context.
Only if it isn't done properly.
>
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I Rattan wrote:
>
> Where can I find older .deb files for openoffice? I
> would like to install 2.4 or so (current installed
> version 3.1.1 has problems with display of .php
> files).
What happens, if you just rename .php to .txt? Does this work wit
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ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
> boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var
> (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after
> S55something.
Just to exclude the obvious:
what's the output of 'df' from the liv
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <2009074953.ga29...@codelibre.net>, Roger Leigh wrote:
>> I write software specifically for Debian as a
>> Debian Developer (schroot, sbuild and other bits). I'd say that those
>> were created by Debian, as is al
Ron Johnson wrote:
> Then still I don't see the real gain to separating /usr and /usr/local
> into their own partitions.
Just my humble guesswork: the same reasons as to why have /home on a
separate partition. /usr/local is the 'home' of custom software. ;-)
Johannes
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Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-07-20 15:44, green wrote:
>> Johannes Wiedersich wrote at 2009-07-20 11:12 -0600:
>>> josé Santos wrote:
>> I like qalculate because it
>> - can be used it on the command line
>
> Put this in your .bashrc :
>
> calc() { perl
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> On Seg, 20 Jul 2009, Micha Feigin wrote:
>> Any ideas on where the missing gb are?
>
> It's the space reserved for root.
>
> http://www.andremiller.net/content/recovering-reserved-space-ext2-and-ext3-filesystems
I wouldn't recommend that approach for / though. 5% of
josé Santos wrote:
> Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny,
> google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Thank you.
For one off calculations I find qalculate quite useful. Apart from
converting units, it is a fully fledged GUI calculator that is useful
for many scienti
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ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote:
>> On 2009-07-15_23:53:27, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
> [snip]
>> So you have 600/630 = 95% of the job done. To finish, I suggest
>> rsync starting with this as the destination of the copying.
MAD wrote:
> I would really like to start using Linux - I have it already as a VM on
> my Intel Mac Book Pro, and I think it will make my 12" PowerBook very
> useful. Is there anything someone from your Debian group could tell me
> to help? Thanks a lot.
In order to install debian on your book,
Sthu Deus wrote:
> Also, I tried:
>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info$ dpkg -S ace-of-penguins.md5sums | grep var
>
> and got:
>
> dpkg: *ace-of-penguins.md5sums* not found.
This is to be expeced. The md5sum is not part of the package. dpkg -S
searches files belonging to a software package, not files that c
Ron Johnson wrote:
> When I get the new device, I want to create 4x 250GB PVs, and then move
Why? Any reason why not just less PVs?
Cheers,
Johannes
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Mihira Fernando wrote:
> On Sunday 12 July 2009 10:09:50 pm AG wrote:
>> Can anyone recommend any good* audio CD player please?
[..]
>> unable to read any CD in the SATA drive. KSCD has become hug and ugly
>> and also doesn't play the CD although can recognise the tracks.
> Amarok ?
I like amaro
Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> Unfortunately, a few seconds after hitting the MEPIS desktop
> screen, it, too, locks up hard, and I have to reboot.
>
> Next suggestion? :-(
Just guessing: hardware failure?
On the face of it your machine worked before you sent it for repairs and
does not work after it
nquiry service. The topic
of the mailing list is "discussion about debian".
Your mail to this list and it's thousands of subscribers is highly
inappropriate and probably even illegal in many jurisdictions, as it is
considered 'spam'.
Regards,
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Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> I know that I could have used find to look for all files owned by the
> old UID, plunked it through xargs and chowned them that way, but is
> there a way, as root, to chown directly the hidden files without
> chowning the whol
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Duque Gorlois wrote:
> By the way, how could I update Iceweasel browser in order to always
> run a safer version in my machine ?
>
> Is it through "apt-get update" ?
Yes. The stable version of iceweasel gets security updates from debian's
security te
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Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> less stable system, more upgrades on a daily basis etc.), though.
s/system/software, of course! ;-)
Johannes
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Soren Orel wrote:
> When will Iceweasel 3.5 come to Debian Lenny? :P
Never. The concept of Debian stable is to have stable software, and
therefore also stable version numbers.
If you really need/want iceweasel 3.5 you could either hope for a
backport
kj wrote:
> Is anyone here running a dual screen (one big desktop) with the fglrx
> driver? I'm having a wild time trying to make this work with an ATI HD
> 2400 XT card on Squeeze.
I gave up on a similar endeavour when lenny was testing. ATI's
proprietary drivers are a mess for those kind of thi
AG wrote:
> I'm running Squeeze on a desktop and so far have an uptime of some 11d.
> I am just curious whether or not there is any guidance/ advice on how
> long uptimes should be allowed to be run, or whether it is wise to shut
> down and reboot?
It depends on what kind of machine it is for. If
Raffaele Morelli wrote:
> 2009/6/25 Jochen Schulz :
>> Raffaele Morelli:
>>> I bought a LinkSys WRT54GL wirelss router and I am going to configure
>>> it to extend my DSL connection at home.
>>> I am not new to debian but network(ing) skills are modest.
>>>
>>> Does anyone own this device and runni
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well.]
Dimple Patel wrote:
> Thank you for the clarification. But if I use 'apt-cdrom add', i
> think it will ask me to load the DVD everytime.
Why do you think that?
from ma
Dimple Patel wrote:
> I have installed the Debian 5.0.1 base system using the first DVD. I
> need to install the other dvds as well. Can somebody let me know the
> procedure to install the other dvds of Debian?
You don't install dvds, you install software packages. Just install the
packages you
Nima Azarbayjany wrote:
> I have been trying to use the disk-manager utility to mount my NTFS
> partition on /dev/sda1. The utility successfully identifies the partition
> and has added the following line to my fstab:
>
> /dev/sda1/media/sda1ntfs-3gdefaults,locale=en_US.UTF-80
Bret Busby wrote:
> I am running Debian 4.0 on this computer.
>
> The facility Desktop -> Lock Screen, is not working.
It's quite probable that this is just a configuration issue. What is
your configuration?
If you are concerned about security, you should schedule your upgrade to
Debian "lenny"
明覺 wrote:
> As I have decalared, I will build my own OS and applications by a
> "Only One Programming Lanuguage" way.
> Good bye! :)
Good luck!
It really is a shame that apparently no one stepped in to help you
reprogram a great part of the debian archives in c/c++. To some
estimations that's jus
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明覺 wrote:
> "One Microsoft Way" is perfect if all the microsoft softwares are
> free as LGPL.
You realize how silly it is to use "free" and "one way" in the same
sentence?
Freedom is the very opposite of having "one prefered way" for all.
Cheers and
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Bernard wrote:
> no one can tell
> which sound card is linux compatible... The sound card I have so far
> been using is included in my motherboard (ASUS P5LD2 SE, Soundmax ADI 986A)
There have b
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> otoh, I also dislike the need for many scripting languages. Perl, python,
> tcl, lua, ruby, lisp, scheme...
> I'd be also glad if packages like openssl-blacklist didn't require python...
I think it's a great service to the users that a program like
openssl-blacklis
ludovico van wrote:
> What's the simplest way to get ia32-libs back?
It won't help you now, but the simplest way seems to revert to an backup
taken before the upgrade. A good backup strategy should in future help
with cases like this.
Cheers, good luck!
Johannes
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Dave Thayer wrote:
> FWIW, Ripping vinyl involves a fair amount of effort, so if you can
> borrow CD versions of your LPs or find a cheap used CD you're better
> off ripping the CD than spending a lot of time in Audacity trying to
> get a clean LP rip.
Certainly, it is more involved to record a LP
Allan Wind wrote:
> On 2009-06-23T18:11:42, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> Where did you get this information? What changed within the
>> specifications between 1.1 and 2.0 so that they require a separate driver?
>
> linux-audio-us...@lists.linuxaudio.org
>
> When I lo
Allan Wind wrote:
> Linux support the USB 1.1 audio specification, and if the device
> is compliant it just works. USB 2 devices require a driver for
> each device.
Where did you get this information? What changed within the
specifications between 1.1 and 2.0 so that they require a separate dri
Bernard wrote:
> My purpose is to digitalize vinyl records. Using my default audio card
> gave poor results. On an audio forum, it was stated that I couldn't
> expect good results unless I use a usb audio interface. Lots of them on
> the market, but I'd be interrested to hear someone saying that it
Paul E Condon wrote:
> sai ram wrote:
> So to your questions:
> (1) clarify if I can have both Ubuntu repositories and debian
> repositories enabled at the same time?
> You can have both repositories enabled by having more lines in your
> sources.list, some for Debian and some for Ubuntu. It is not
Berni Elbourn wrote:
> Our nice network chappie has opened restriction on .gpg, .gz .bz2 .deb
> and files without . but something is is still not working...
I think it would help if you could be more specific about what was done
and how you connect to the internet.
> What real file is involved h
thveillon.debian wrote:
> And "handbrake" is a neat tool too for dvd ripping. But whatever the
> software you will need libdvdcss2 for commercial dvd's.
Which shouldn't be an obstacle for someone who does similar stuff on an
proprietary OS.
Johannes
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Celejar wrote:
> Jun 9 15:12:29 lizzie smartd[3474]: Sending warning via mail to
> r...@localhost ...
> Jun 9 15:12:29 lizzie smartd[3474]: Warning via mail to r...@localhost:
> successful
What does this mail say?
Cheers,
Johannes
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Tony Asnicar wrote:
> Hi
> Are there any good shells for a "guest user" - I mean not to give him
> "/bin/bash" :S - or does someone know good howtos for limiting a shell?
What exactly would you like to limit?
I don't see why bash is any more dangerous than running guis.
> (like "disabling it", s
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <20090610072551.ge13...@piper.oerlikon.madduck.net>, martin f krafft
> wrote:
>> mulutlitithtrhreeaadededd s siigngnatatuurere
>
> You are missing an 'm'.
I guess another 'm' would be wrong, but he /could/ add another 'e'
without harm 8-)
Cheers,
Johannes
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abdelkader belahcene wrote:
> HI,
> on my new laptop HP,
> I tryed debian 5.0, ubuntu 9.04 , linuxMint 7,
>
> the sound is not running on all, while the hardware is detected , the sound
> indicator is green correct, When I play a sound file, it plays normally, but
> no* sound is heard.*
What is
Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> You can combine these into a single sed invocation:
>
> set -i -e "/.gconf/d" -e "/.java/d" script
s/set/sed/
;-)
Johannes
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Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> Regardless of mode it should always ask for dhcp/static. Didn't it do
> this before?
IIRC, since sarge or etch it tried to automatically detect a dhcp server
and on success would configure the network for dhcp. On failing to
configure the network automatically, it would ask
Neal Hogan wrote:
> As Rob said, your questions are not very clear. You original post is
> probably not getting much action because 1) it's not clear and 2)
> configuring Postfix is such a basic/normal thing that it has been discussed
> like crazy.
3) it hijacked another thread.
4) there are manu
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> I did:
>
> # aptitude purge mplayer
>
> . After that, the bash completion was still working for the `mplayer'
> command,
> and besides the ~/.mplayer directory was still there.
>
> Does this mean that not *all* the configuration stuff was removed, as supposed
> `aptitu
thveillon.debian wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
>>> But unless you have a specific need to use stick to 32bit kernel
>>> (driver, old application [in]compatibility), it is wise to move to
>>> 64bits.
>> Why?
>>
>&g
András Péter wrote:
> What's the "best" EXT3, or "any" Linux FileSystem "Reader"-"Writer"
> software?
The kernel reads/writes directly to ext3, so you'd have it that this is
the linux kernel. I use 'mke2fs' for creating and 'tune2fs' for tuning
my ext2/ext3 file systems
:P What are people using
Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> But unless you have a specific need to use stick to 32bit kernel
> (driver, old application [in]compatibility), it is wise to move to
> 64bits.
Why?
I know that 64bit is the future. I have the feeling, however, that many
applications are still better supported on 32bit tha
Bernard wrote:
> I am using 'audacity' under Debian Sarge. At first sight, the results
> seemed OK... but this statement does not stand any challenge with the
> original vinyl records played with an old turntable, even when using
> cheaper audio equipment. Sampling was done at 44100 Hz on 32 bits f
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Are there any tips on moving the whole system from the old disk to
> the new one? Or do I just have to re-install ubuntu, re-install
> any updates and extra programs which are installed, find and copy
> modified config files, mails, bookmarks, etc?
Disclaimer: I have no
Peter Robinson wrote:
> Dear gurus,
Disclaimer: I am not a guru.
> I use emacs for most programming and scripting tasks (what else?), but
> have to come to like kile for writing LaTeX. I have never seemed to
> manage locales very well, and now after an update on testing, kile
> displays German ch
Hi list!
Is there a simple approach to convert emails to pdf or ps? It should
basically work like printing from a mail program, ie. stripping most of
the header except to, from and subject and only print the text of the
email without attachments.
It's quite a few mails in a folder on their own an
John wrote:
> IMP T-42p, not quite up-to-date sid
>
> Before upgrading, for some reason I tried suspend (Fn-F4). The machine
> suspended, but would not come back. Eventually I just held the power
> button until it stopped.
>
> Now it is almost totally locked up tight: I get an initial flash of
>
Alex Samad wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:17:23PM +0200, rimaya wrote:
>> 2009/5/28 Johannes Wiedersich
>>> rimaya wrote:
>>>
>>>> echo "blacklist ipv6" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist/ -->
>>>> reboot
>>> Why
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