Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-12-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 08:54:39PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:12 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend, and he uses a dial-up modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a modem, so I could use a few tips. Thanks

audio over HDMI

2011-12-02 Thread Rob Owens
I've got an nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400GS] and I'm trying to get audio working over HDMI. I'm running Squeeze and the proprietary nVidia driver from non-free. alsamixer -c 1 shows me the card HDA NVidia, but instead of mixer controls I see This sound device does not have any controls.

Re: audio over HDMI

2011-12-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 05:21:39PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I've got an nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400GS] and I'm trying to get audio working over HDMI. I'm running Squeeze and the proprietary nVidia driver from non-free. I upgraded to Wheezy and am having some success. I have sound

configuring Streamzap remote on Wheezy

2011-12-02 Thread Rob Owens
Modules for the Streamzap remote are included in Wheezy's kernel, so I don't need to install lirc in order to use it. Problem is, I don't know how to configure the buttons now. Do I do it in xorg.conf? Any advice would be appreciated. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 07:38:46PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 10:17 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: Stable still might use GNOME 2, but starting with a dead desktop environment is nonsense. That's a good point about not wanting to start down a dead-end street. I'm not sure yet

Re: XDMCP and GDM3

2011-11-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 04:22:07PM +0100, Martin Feuersänger wrote: Hi list, a while ago we played a bit with XDMCP at the local LUG gathering here in Frankfurt, Germany. One machine was running KDE 4.6.5 (sid) and the other Gnome 3 (squeeze). We managed to get a Chooser on each machine

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-26 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 05:36:09PM -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: Hi Sam, I'll throw in my 2 cents as well... On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Weaver wea...@riseup.net wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:43:54 -0500 Sam Vagni sam.va...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, Hello Sam,

Re: backuppc a dog to get rid of now blocking updates

2011-11-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 04:59:27AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I decided to try out backuppc and set it up for a trial... decided it way more complicated and overdone for my needs and uninstalled it. Only it didn't really get uninstalled. I don't remember now all the steps I took but do

Re: Is for this community XFCE the most common DE to replace GNOME 3?

2011-11-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 08:39:06PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) do most of you replace GNOME 3 by XFCE? I'm undecided what to do, but I guess it would be wise to install parallel to GNOME 3 the most used alternative installed by users who are subscribed to this list. Excepted of

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:51:06AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On 12 November 2011 09:56, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 10 nov 11, 08:56:46, Walter Hurry wrote: Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by default? Interesting question.

Re: Into: Coming over to Debian from Ubuntu

2011-11-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 02:47:33PM -0500, Douglas Saylor wrote: I used Debian once before, years ago at the time Debian seemed difficult to configure software was way behind the times. I don't know if I'm just getting older more cranky, but I *think* I'd rather have older but stable just

Re: problems

2011-11-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:47:07PM +, HEDDY, WILLIAM wrote: To whom it may concern, I downloaded and installed Debian on my computer last night and I rebooted the computer and now all that comes up is a white cursor on a black screen. Did I just completely kill my Windows 7 operating

Re: dial-up modem usage

2011-11-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:12 -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend, and he uses a dial-up modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a modem, so I could use a few tips. Thanks for the tips, everyone. But it seems I have forgotten more about modems

dial-up modem usage

2011-11-08 Thread Rob Owens
I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend, and he uses a dial-up modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a modem, so I could use a few tips. I know that winmodems probably won't work, so I may have to swap it out for something in my old parts bin. What is used to control dialup these

Re: ethernet raid

2011-10-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:56:50PM +0100, Jesus arteche wrote: Hey guys, I am not sure if it is the right terminology, but I would like to build a raid ethernet, I amean I have 3 ethernet cards...10 Mg, could I build soething for getting a bandwidht of 30Mg in this machine??? I think the

Re: Does anyone know how to Compile Mythtv 0.23.1 on current testing with qt 4.7

2011-10-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 08:50:41AM -0400, S Scharf wrote: I recently upgraded my desktop hardware and installed the current testing distribution, but by myth backend server is still running old-stable. The last debian-multimedia release of myth for old-stable was 0.23.1 which is incompatible

Re: good integration of pulseaudio and alsa in wheezy

2011-10-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 03:06:19PM +0100, Richard wrote: Hi, Subject says it all. I was surprised to find that I still had control over each sound card with gnome mixer when pulseaudio is running. Everywhere else it gets force to a single pulse volume control.. Nice one :) Alsamixer

Re: Encoder for linux

2011-09-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:47:24AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 06:08:30PM +, Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:06:56 -0400, cosme wrote: Hi I'm looking for something similar to Windows Media Encoder Series 9 ES in Linux. I'm use Debian

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was -- Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:32:38PM +, Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:15:13 -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst administration mistake and how did you recover? The worst admin mistake is failure to secure proper backups.

Re: Holiday Project for my job

2011-09-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 10:35:12AM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: I am trying to set up several Linux desktops for a secure (locked) facility for troubled teenagers. I brought one home to set up (so I can have unfettered internet access) but then I need to be able to 'clone' it to others without

rtorrent - verifying encryption

2011-09-02 Thread Rob Owens
I have encryption enabled, but not required, for rtorrent. How can I tell if a particular connection is using encryption or not? Does anybody have a good guide to help understand the rtorrent interface? -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: rtorrent - verifying encryption

2011-09-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 08:31:53AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: I have encryption enabled, but not required, for rtorrent. How can I tell if a particular connection is using encryption or not? Does anybody have a good guide to help understand the rtorrent interface? Argh, I found the answer

Re: A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

2011-08-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:25:31AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: How hard is the ext3 file system on present-day flash drives? I have some older Dell systems that run lenny and I put a flash drive on as the boot drive on one of those systems and it works great, but for how long? I've

Re: Need dial-up friendly install on USB stick

2011-08-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:41:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm currently a Windows user who's trying to escape. I have an unusual batch of constraints: 1. It must reside *completely* on a USB stick and be able to read/write an existing NTFS hard drive. 2. It must be able to connect

Re: Need dial-up friendly install on USB stick

2011-08-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:31:16AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Rob Owens wrote: Did you know that most live USB systems can use a mode called persistence that allows you to install new software? I heard _of_ persistence when I first attempted to use Ubuntu. I'm not sure if that is quite

Re: Basic advice for setting up sound? Ubuntu convert

2011-08-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 03:20:07AM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi. I used to use Debian but recently have been using Ubuntu. For various reasons (mainly hating the Unity interface) i now am back on Debian. I have a clean install of Wheezy running under Xfce on a basic desktop

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 06:12:24PM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Martin McCormick mar...@x.it.okstate.edu writes: Ivan Shmakov writes: It's possible to dd(1) just the filesystem (partition) instead of the whole disk. Moreover, the filesystem can be downsized prior to that with

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

2011-08-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 09:32:12PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: I have a 10-gigabyte hard drive that sounds like a 747 just before takeoff so the time has come to replace it. I replaced it with a 16-gigabyte SATA flash drive and IDE adaptor as the system it runs on is a little too old

Re: how to set up the right click options when open a webpage in iceweasle

2011-08-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 04:20:57PM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, seems the iceweasle has updated today (wheezy). How can I set up the right click, open links in new tab open links in new window back to the open links in new window open links in new tab Just curious: are you aware

Re: rhythmbox converting files to ogg

2011-08-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 02:59:34PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:26:11 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: I have a bunch of music in encoded in flac. When I drag the files in rhythmbox to my Sansa Clip player, rhythmbox converts them to mp3. I want them to be converted to ogg. I

Re: rhythmbox converting files to ogg

2011-08-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 05:28:56PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 02:59:34PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:26:11 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: I have a bunch of music in encoded in flac. When I drag the files in rhythmbox to my Sansa Clip player, rhythmbox

Re: Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread Rob Owens
You could put /var/log in its own partition. That way when it's full it doesn't mess up anything else. Gnome gives an alert when a drive is nearly full (at least it does on my dad's Ubuntu machine). I'm not sure what the name of the daemon is, though. -Rob On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:56:44PM

rhythmbox converting files to ogg

2011-08-05 Thread Rob Owens
I have a bunch of music in encoded in flac. When I drag the files in rhythmbox to my Sansa Clip player, rhythmbox converts them to mp3. I want them to be converted to ogg. I have my preferred format set to ogg in rhythmbox's preferences. Any suggestions on how to get rhythmbox to convert flac

Re: fstab for usb devices in Squeeze

2011-07-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 07:51:37PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. Back in the good old days when I used Lenny, I was able to mount my usb stick, mount my digital camera, and sync my palm pilot, at the same time. After upgrading to Squeeze, this now seems like an impossible dream. My

Re: Computer Freezes - how to find out what happened?

2011-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 06:23:45PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On 20/07/11 09:25, Alan Chandler wrote: I have just built myself a new computer (i5 2500 with Intel Motherboard) and am getting a situation where the user interface freezes every so often. It is too early yet to be super

GDM3 login screen user list, was Re: Setting up FTP server with specific username and password - SOLVED

2011-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:22:24AM +0200, Dejan Ribič wrote: I would like to thank everybody for their help, my FTP is up and running. After reviewing a few differentFTP servers, I decided on Proftpd-basic, which with gadmin-proftpd was easy to set-up just the way I wanted. I

Re: ..move mail between laptops? Mail in MH folders, Claws style.

2011-07-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 06:02:05PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: Hi, ..move mail between laptops? Mail in MH folders, Claws Mail default MH folders with one file for each message, from spare netbook to real laptop, howto pointers? Tried the formail -ds route and must be overlooking

Re: Game for toddlers

2011-07-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 08:51:20PM +, T o n g wrote: Hi, Do you have any *first hand experiences* of games available in Debian that toddlers of 2 to 4 can enjoy? Or, a bit OT, your *first hand experiences* of online games for toddlers please? I found my child extremely slow in

Re: Urgent XFS Recovery

2011-07-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 12:35:48PM -0700, consul tores wrote: 2011/7/4 yazicivo yazic...@ttmail.com: Hi, I have an XFS partition, which is I have never used XFS, but it could be helpfull! If you use Lilo, then look for mbr copy. If you are not using Lilo, testdisk could be the

Re: Problem about ldap

2011-06-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 06:26:14PM +0800, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: Hi, This may not be a proper place to ask this. I am using ldap-utils in debian sid. When I do search, kind like: $ ldapsearch -x -h ldap-server -d CN=Users,DC=M,DC=com -b CN=Magicloud,CN=Users,DC=M,DC=com -w A^b3 It

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1154

2011-06-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 07:05:16PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Wed 15 Jun 2011 at 19:58:05 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011 schrieb John Mollman: How would I add myself to the plugdev group? John Try groupadd in the commandline. In KDE you can use kusers, which

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:43:43AM +0100, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 11 June 2011 00:41:10 Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:21:41AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: packages. I'm actually looking for a simple comand line entry for apt to list all the available packages for a system

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:05:16AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20110611_074343, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 11 June 2011 00:41:10 Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:21:41AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: packages. I'm actually looking for a simple comand line entry for apt

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

2011-06-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:21:41AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: packages. I'm actually looking for a simple comand line entry for apt to list all the available packages for a system, rather than directly parsing /var/lib/dpkg/available, but this is not it. Does this do what you want?

Re: Backup script

2011-06-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 08:29:23PM -0400, mark wrote: On Wednesday 01 June 2011 10:23:48 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the MBRs on my machine. Is there a way to copy all 4 Linux by running one of

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 12:39:15AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 6/1/2011 6:07 PM, R. Clayton wrote: I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable release independent of what the release is called. I changed all non-commented appearances of squeeze

Re: About MBR in usb

2011-06-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 09:18:42AM -0400, co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote: Following the steps to make a memory USB booteble Using syslinux /dev/sdx5 and install-mbr / dev / sdx I copy the portfolios boot and gparted adding ISO of they Owed squeezy, when I restart for bootear for this

Re: Convert .doc to Open editable format

2011-06-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 02:14:16PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 May 2011 17:58:05 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Currently I'm making the Final University Project and I've found that the templates provided by teachers for the reports are in Microsoft Word format. It is sad to note that

Re: Samba usershares permissions problem

2011-05-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 05:34:28PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a fairly simple requirement I am running Debian Unstable on my Desktop and I want to provide a folder for my Windows 7 laptop to deposit some files. I thought that the simplest approach would be using samba on its own,

Re: Problems installing squeeze netinstall

2011-05-28 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:45:09AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear list - It went nowhere w/ the full iso of squeeze [see my previous post Difficulties installing squeeze], so I moved on the netinst. The CD runs perfectly until it gets to Select and Install Software, at which point it

Re: How to rip double discs albums?

2011-05-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 05:19:42PM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote: On 24 May 2011 15:38, Leonardo Ruoso leonardo.ru...@gmail.com wrote: Because I'll move to another state and I'd like to carry out all my music without my old discs I'm trying to tip my original albums. I'm having problems with

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 02:41:04AM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, Daniel Andersson wrote: Trying Ekiga now and I can't get chat to work at all. I was not impressed I'm sorry to say. But I guess Ekiga's strength is in calls not messaging. Will maybe try that later on. I was looking

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 03:59:39AM +, annathemerm...@hush.com wrote: Now, if only I could find a SIP client that works on Debian and OpenBSD (bonus points for Mac OS X Tiger/powerpc too) *and* is robust enough to deal with my poor internet connection, which sometimes has 50% packet loss,

Re: Automounting USB drives

2011-05-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 08:30:04AM -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: I recently did a base install and then installed a handful of packages to get myself X and Openbox running on my system using XFE for my file manager. I am running into an issue where when I plug my external (NTFS) hard drive in

Re: SWF (Adobe Flash) support

2011-05-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:53:56AM -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: Who knows? Since Adobe has stated that new versions of the Flash server are going to automatically serve html5 when the client lacks the Flash reader, perhaps users of free software will benefit. The html5 content at YouTube

Re: I deleted /usr/src/linux

2011-05-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 08:21:42PM -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: On 05/17/2011 08:15 PM, Robert Wolfe (Debian) wrote: On 5/17/2011 8:10 PM, Perry Thompson wrote: In my struggle to make Nvidia work with a new kernel, I deleted /usr/src/linux. Is this bad? I had never used /usr/src in Ubuntu

Re: Ralink driver connection, speed problems

2011-05-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 03:24:16AM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Hi. Yesterday i sent a message about having trouble with finding the driver for my ralink card. I got help with that but now its working but not in any good way. The card is: 05:00.0 Network controller [0280]:

Re: diamondcard (so much for Skype.)

2011-05-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:15:40AM -0500, green wrote: Rob Owens wrote at 2011-05-13 20:11 -0500: I've used diamondcard.us for calling POTS lines from Ekiga's SIP client. Though I only used it a few times, I don't have any complaints. Their rates were better than Skype, too. (I am a USA

Re: Re (2): So much for Skype.

2011-05-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 06:41:24PM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Chris Davies chris-use...@roaima.co.uk Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 21:10:29 +0100 My favourite software SIP client is twinkle. Yes, Twinkle keeps configurations and contact lists in plain text and is economical with

Re: debian packages

2011-05-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 02:15:06PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:18:00AM -0400, Robert Wolfe (Debian) wrote: .snip... Viden, I _believe_ that you can still use RPM with Debian as well, as long as you use alien to convert the packages

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 04:42:06PM +0100, Jamie Thompson wrote: In an ideal world, I'd like to see ubiquitous Jingle support, and properly maintained XMPP transports for each proprietary network, with Jingle support added to those if possible. A ubiquitous free solution for NAT traversal would

lirc serial IR blaster

2011-05-10 Thread Rob Owens
I'm trying to get my serial IR blaster to work. Before I join the lirc mailing list, does anybody know of any bugs in Debian Squeeze that would prevent this from working? I bought the light-up blaster from here: http://www.irblaster.info/ It is lighting when I send channel change signals, but

Re: OT: Safe to access SSH server from work?

2011-05-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 03:46:27PM -0700, cac...@quantum-sci.com wrote: On Thursday 5 May, 2011 15:09:02 Brian wrote: Use a strong password or ssh keys for access to the server. The question is whether you trust the machine you use at work. OK, say you -don't- trust your machine at work.

Re: Sound for Intel 82801DB-ICH4

2011-05-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 12:45:34AM +0100, Freddie wrote: Dear Debian-user, Please could you help me get sound working on this laptop? It's a phillips freeline X10. Have you made sure that the the volume is up and not muted? Are you sure you've plugged your speaker into the correct jack?

Re: mythnetvision on Squeeze -- anybody got it working?

2011-05-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 03:30:25PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:42:21 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: I've installed mythnetvision from debian-multimedia, but can't seem to subscribe to any sites. Can anybody confirm for me that it does work? And were there any special tricks

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 09:37:25PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote: Hello Everybody, Is there any method to encode DVD to a fullscreen video without getting stretched,using mencoder ? I'm not an expert, but maybe you could use '-vf expand' to do this. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 01:12:36PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/30/2011 11:07 AM, Jeffrin Jose wrote: Hello Everybody, Is there any method to encode DVD to a fullscreen video without getting stretched,using mencoder ? I don't think that mencoder is the right tool for that task. Let

mythnetvision on Squeeze -- anybody got it working?

2011-04-30 Thread Rob Owens
I've installed mythnetvision from debian-multimedia, but can't seem to subscribe to any sites. Can anybody confirm for me that it does work? And were there any special tricks required? Thanks -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:28:01AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Apr 23, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:03:00PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: I now know I can use smbclient to read files on an SMB share without having to mount it, but I need to do more than

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:03:00PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: I now know I can use smbclient to read files on an SMB share without having to mount it, but I need to do more than that. I want to be able to access either Java classes or an executable on a shared volume on a server without

Re: Ideas for mapping users to specific uids

2011-04-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:16:45PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: I know the answer is going to be LDAP, but that's not really an option for me. I have, at work, a number of boxes with various users spread across our network. And I have encountered this on several different jobs. In essence,

Re: taskbar is missing

2011-04-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:33:46AM +0200, Engi Zoltán wrote: Hi, I upgraded to Debian 6.0. After upgrading the taskbar is missing. I can get back it with killall gnome-panel command. What is wrong? Same thing is happening to my father on his Ubuntu 10.04 machine. It's intermittent. I

Re: Procmailrc question

2011-04-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 03:38:21PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I once had my email working nicely, but over the last few years the setup has decayed. I am now running wheezy with fetchmail to get email from my ISP, exim4 to send outgoing email to my ISP, and do other things locally, and

Re: mua and mail service provider statistics

2011-04-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:05:43PM +0800, Chen Wei wrote: hi list, as a first time debian-user subscriber, I feel been buried alive by incoming emails, though I heard there are some monster maillists, linux kernel maillist for example, are carrying even heavier traffic. Wondering how to

Re: obtaining copy of debian

2011-04-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 07:22:34AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Re Windows and ISO's. 'Doze don't do ISO's. IOW you can't use a native Windows MS product to burn ISO's to CD. There is a free program out there, can't remember the name, that you can use. It's infra recorder. I've used it

Re: Managing large numbers (100+) of Debian-based machines

2011-04-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 12:11:31AM +0200, Peter Beck wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 17:55 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: If you decide not to go with your own apt repo, I highly recommend you at least use something like apt-cacher-ng. It'll save a lot of download bandwidth and time. If you're

Re: Managing large numbers (100+) of Debian-based machines

2011-04-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 12:21:30PM +0100, Laurence Hurst wrote: Hi folks, I am looking at possibly deploying Debian (or a derivative thereof) on a large number of machines (initially 80 but I fully expect the final number to end up being in excess of 100) which are intermittently connected

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-07 Thread Rob Owens
, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: With Ubuntu (I believe) you get 5 years for a server and 3 years for a desktop if you go with an LTS release. What packages are server packages and what ones are desktop packages? Server = X-less so WM-less, DE-less, GUI-less Do you have

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:37:16PM -0700, Mark wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Freeman hew...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:03:41PM -0400, Matt Harrison wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On 2011-04-05

Re: Ubuntu Versions

2011-04-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 06:15:26PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/05/2011 05:37 PM, Mark wrote: [snip] upgrading. For all its flaws, one nice thing about Windows is that it has a 10-year (14-year for XP) support cycle, so while there may be service packs, etc., to the end user, the

Re: system-wide bogofilter, procmail, fetchmail

2011-04-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 09:42:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/04/2011 07:43 PM, Rob Owens wrote: I'm successfully using fetchmail, procmail, and bogofilter as my user, but I'm looking to set it up system-wide and have some questions. I'm running an IMAP server with accounts for several

system-wide bogofilter, procmail, fetchmail

2011-04-04 Thread Rob Owens
I'm successfully using fetchmail, procmail, and bogofilter as my user, but I'm looking to set it up system-wide and have some questions. I'm running an IMAP server with accounts for several family members. I'd like to scan for spam and file the spam in a spam folder for each user. My personal

Re: recover partition table

2011-03-26 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 02:59:20PM +0100, Geronimo wrote: Hello, thank your for your assistance. Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Samstag, 26. März 2011 schrieb Geronimo: Can anybody please shine me a light, how to patch the partition tables with informations from that file, so it might be

Re: [help-a-newb] adduser okay? (problem with authenticating with gui users-groups manager)

2011-03-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:19:45PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Nuts. I keep forgetting the list when using google's webmail. On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 19 March 2011

Re: custom init script

2011-03-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:39:27PM +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: On 03/18/2011 01:35 PM, Rob Owens wrote: If I create a custom init script (it's for a second instance of ssh), do I still use the update-rc.d command to set that script to start in the various runlevels? Or is there some new

Re: I should not be trying to use tor, but...

2011-03-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 05:50:10AM +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: I am trying to install tor without knowing what I'm doing. I typed apt-get install tor, and that seemed to work. Then I downloaded torbutton from the tor website, and it seemed to install. [was that a mistake?] A while

custom init script

2011-03-18 Thread Rob Owens
If I create a custom init script (it's for a second instance of ssh), do I still use the update-rc.d command to set that script to start in the various runlevels? Or is there some new procedure due to the dependency-based init sequence. During the squeeze upgrade, I had to remove my custom init

Re: problem building lirc modules

2011-03-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 02:37:57PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: Funny thing is, I successfully build lirc on another similar (but not identical) system. The two systems are my MythTV frontends. So I'm pretty sure I'm not screwing up anything with module-assistant or lirc. I purged all old

Re: OT: servers vs. lightning and power outages

2011-03-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 01:58:00AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hi ! On 15/03/11 01:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jason Hsu put forth on 3/14/2011 1:31 PM: How do you protect servers from lightning? During facility construction: www.erico.com/public/library/fep/LT1421.pdf What backup power

SPAM SPAM SPAM !!! Re: Sip?

2011-03-14 Thread Rob Owens
I've seen posts like this on Freecycle, and they're almost always spam or malware. I haven't looked at this link, and I suggest you don't either. -Rob On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:08:20AM +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: With reference to some of the posts I have seen here lately, this looks

Re: problem building lirc modules

2011-03-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 09:03:15AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-03-13, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: When I run 'm-a a-i lirc' I get this error: echo ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.; \ echo include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config

Re: problem building lirc modules

2011-03-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 05:35:16PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: Just checking :-) module-assisitant has never failed me once prepared properly. Mind you, I've never tried to compile and install lirc. Anyway, apt-file reports that the files include/linux/autoconf.h and include/config/auto.conf

Re: SIP services and softphones: what do you guys use?

2011-03-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 12:02:50AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I'm trying to get rid of proprietary Skype and two of my most important contacts are willing to give SIP a try. We all installed Ekiga and signed up for ~@ekiga.net SIP addresses, but the sound quality was very choppy and unusable.

Re: help with nvidia and BusID

2011-03-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:37:02PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I'm trying to run the nvidia proprietary driver for a PCI video card. I also have an onboard video card. I think xorg.conf needs to specify the BusID in the device section like this: Section Device Identifier nVidia FX

problem building lirc modules

2011-03-12 Thread Rob Owens
When I run 'm-a a-i lirc' I get this error: echo ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid.; \ echo include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing.; \ echo Run 'make oldconfig make prepare' on kernel src to fix it.;

Re: Assistance for Visually Impaired Student

2011-03-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 11:47:19AM -0800, ow...@netptc.net wrote: List I teach a course in Digital Integrated Circuits at the local University. One of my students is visually impaired-not totally blind but he requires a powerful reader for documents and the equilivant of a telescope to

Re: Your favorite server apps (firewall, DHCP, etc.)

2011-03-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 09:48:49AM -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: Since I'm looking for a job as a Linux IT consultant, I need a portfolio of favorite server applications - firewall, DHCP server, mail server, print server, etc. Just as I have favorite distros for the desktop (Puppy Linux, Linux

Re: Has anyone installed squeeze on an HP Pavillion ?

2011-03-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 09:49:32AM -0600, Charlie wrote: My attempted installation gave me a warning about problems with apic, which I have not been able to fix. Has anyone else encountered this? My experience with two different HP dv6xxx laptops was not good. They both corroded slowly

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:04:20AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi Boyd, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I do believe a Free Software system should be as easy to use as MS Windows for Joe Sixpack and Jane Boxwine. This might already be the case; it is really hard for me to judge. I've

Re: Debian stable vs. testing for Swift Linux (antiX derivative)

2011-02-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 08:52:22PM -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: I recently started a new Linux distro called Swift Linux (www.swiftlinux.org). I wonder if you ever considered creating a Debian Pure Blend instead of a standalone distro. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends I think some

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