Re: Windows 10 & Debian 9: Win 10 not updating

2019-01-31 Thread Scarletdown
On 1/31/2019 2:02 PM, Tom Browder wrote: Problem: Neither Win 10 OS has been able to successfully update since about last April. I have tried all the things I have found in an Internet search, including making sure the Win partition is marked boot-able, and downloading and running the Win 10

Re: Moving from 56k modem

2015-06-17 Thread Scarletdown
How about a portable wireless hotspot device and service? The way I understand how those work, you will have your Internet service with you no matter where you are, as long as you can get a signal from your provider. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Hey humans, I'm a machine

2014-01-17 Thread Scarletdown
On 1/17/2014 1:37 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: once you build me, but nowadays I'm more gifted than you humans. You humans only where able to get the knowledge about the theory of relativity or how to build a machine like me. Pff, about what kind of crap are the idiotic opinions people mention for

Re: Hey humans, I'm a machine

2014-01-17 Thread Scarletdown
On 1/17/2014 3:22 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Friday 17 January 2014 21:45:40 Scarletdown wrote: SHO-RYU- EMP -KEN!!! ??? Lisi It is a Street Fighter reference (with an Electromagnetic pulse in the middle, to fry the uppity machine). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: [OT] End of the world

2012-12-10 Thread Scarletdown
On 12/1/2012 12:45 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: darkestkhan wrote: Isn't this a bit too fast ? Wasn't End of the World scheduled in crontab for 21.12.2012 ? ;) Yup. http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/maya-world-end.html Hugo For those who may actually be taking this seriously, the only

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-22 Thread Scarletdown
On 9/22/2012 11:31 AM, d d wrote: I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other software from a hard drive leaving a completely clean hard drive. please respond by email only as I do not have reliable email Since when is GMail not reliable email? Anyway, since you

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-22 Thread Scarletdown
On 9/22/2012 12:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 22 sep 12, 14:31:06, d d wrote: I need advice on removal of the microsoft hidden partition and other software from a hard drive leaving a completely clean hard drive. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourdrive bs=1M But does that remove the

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-22 Thread Scarletdown
On 9/22/2012 12:56 PM, Neal Murphy wrote: Yes. The command writes zeroes to every block on the drive. Recovering the data would require dismantling the drive and using specialized hardware to read the edges of each track (to find residual data). It's not a cryptographically secure erase, but

Evolution - Old Messages Keep Coming Back

2010-11-22 Thread Scarletdown
I'm attempting to consolidate all my assorted email accounts to be accessed via Evolution. I seem to have all working right except this one particular GMail account (the one that I have subscribed to debian-user in fact). The problem I am having is that every time I delete messages and empty

Re: Evolution - Old Messages Keep Coming Back

2010-11-22 Thread Scarletdown
up. I know it is silly, but here are a couple screenies showing my eVolution inboxes before fetching mail, and after. Before: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y129/Scarletdown/Misc-Stuff/Mail-Before.jpg After: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y129/Scarletdown/Misc-Stuff/Mail-After.jpg All

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-24 Thread Scarletdown
On 10/24/10, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: That was a hunch I had, and I corrected it in the sample video I sent you. Here's what I did. 1) Get the audio track from the video: ffmpeg -i yourvideo.flv -vn sound.wav 2) Get the video track from the video: ffmpeg -i yourvideo.flv

Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Scarletdown
I'm having some problems with videos I have made from an external USB capture device. One Linux machine I am testing on fails to play the music from the videos. Instead, I get a bunch of high pitched static. The captures were done on a Windows machine with WinDVR (it's highly doubtful that this

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Scarletdown
/Scarletdown/Animations/?action=viewcurrent=Just-Ducky-Sample-Clip-02.mp4 A short sample that was made with Kino after being captured with WinDVR http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y129/Scarletdown/Animations/?action=viewcurrent=Just-Ducky-Detroit-Rock-City-Sample-1.mp4 A full length piece

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Scarletdown
On 10/23/10, Scarletdown scarletd...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/23/10, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Are the two Debian boxes the same? I.e., both up-to-date {Stable|Testing|Sid} with the same libraries installed? Hardwarewise, they are different in many ways. For their OS builds

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Scarletdown
On 10/23/10, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Do you have http://www.debian-multimedia.org in your sources.list? It's there. Yes Do you have libfaad2 installed on the static-playing machine? libfaad2 is on both systems. (2.7-4) COLUMNS=160 dpkg -l | cut -c5-39 | grep ^lib

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Scarletdown
/Scarletdown/Misc-Stuff/Audio-Splitter.jpg Of particular note is the single black band on the tip. I remembered back when I was setting up the headset for my gaming center that a similar single band adapter from line out was only giving mono sound, but a double banded tip would give me stereo. So

Re: From console to GUI

2010-08-21 Thread Scarletdown
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Dne, 20. 08. 2010 16:01:31 je Camaleón napisal(a): I now use GNOME. I used KDE 3.x branch which I liked *a lot*, but switched to GNOME as soon as KDE4 entered into scene. +1 I dropped KDE myself after 4 was foisted

Re: No Sound Through Video Capture Card

2010-08-11 Thread Scarletdown
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Thomas Amm ed3lt...@googlemail.com wrote: Having done exactly what you are describing with A/V output from VJing machines using a BT878 myself, I'd suppose you: - just forget XAWTV for capturing - get mencoder, ffmpeg and probably some H264 stuff like GPAC

No Sound Through Video Capture Card

2010-08-01 Thread Scarletdown
for the amusement of my young neices and nephews next time I go visit them. :p http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y129/Scarletdown/Animations/?action=viewcurrent=DDR-Davy-Crockett.mp4 The tearing is really noticeable when Pluto zips across the stage as well as halfway through, when the dancers really

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-07 Thread Scarletdown
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: No - that is the problem!!  I loved KDE 3.5.x and have become quite slick with it.  KDE 4 is different.  I don't like it.  If I have to, in effect, change DE, and go through the learning curve again, there is no reason why it

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-05-04 Thread Scarletdown
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: It's an aggressive migration plan, but reiser3 is just barely maintained in the kernel Would that be due to the system's creator having current living conditions unconducive to helping maintain his creation?

Debian on a Super Lean Laptop Part I - Making it Work

2010-04-21 Thread Scarletdown
This may, at first glance, appear to be an exercise into insanity, but it is a rather important little project to me. I have this old Toshiba Satellite laptop (P-120, 6GB had drive, and a whoppong 24MB RAM) that is currently running 98SE Lite. It runs adequately on Windows, but now I would like

GRUB2 == Non Bootable System

2010-04-01 Thread Scarletdown
I just did a fresh very basic Debian Sid install on my experimental system (one hard drive with only a single partition), basic install meaning console only and just the following packages: ssh, mc, samba, elinks, sudo, and ClamAV. After all the packages were installed, I ran apt-get

Re: XDMCP in GDM Not Working

2010-02-26 Thread Scarletdown
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:12:48AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: I have GDM XDMCP enabled. However, when I select on the GDM screen to login to a remote system via XDMCP, the system scans the netowrk and then returns a claim

XDMCP in GDM Not Working

2010-02-24 Thread Scarletdown
I have GDM XDMCP enabled. However, when I select on the GDM screen to login to a remote system via XDMCP, the system scans the netowrk and then returns a claim of No Serving Hosts Were Found. I know this is wrong, because another box on my network is also XDMCP enabled, and its GDM chooser is

Laptop No Longer Boots Up - PCI Quirk

2009-10-17 Thread Scarletdown
My Gateway MX6440 Laptop, which has Deabian 64 Bit loaded on it, will no longer successfully boot. After selecting which kernel to boot (2.6.22-3 AMD64) at the GRUB menu, it begins the usual Linux bootup sequence, and then BAM! PCI: MSI quirk detected. MSI deactivated After that, nothing

Customizing WINGs

2009-10-02 Thread Scarletdown
Has anyone ever been able to successfully change the welcome text on the Wings Display Manager? I need to change it to instruct the user to either press CTRL-ALT F8 to log in to a remote system, CTRL-ALT-F1 to log into a command prompt, or otherwise enter username and password to log in locally.

Unable to upgrade my kernel

2009-08-04 Thread Scarletdown
I'm attempting to upgrade the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.30-1-amd64 (so I can use the Memory Stick Pro feature of the built-in card reader with the tifm_ms driver). However, the install fails epically. Here is the output from the attempt. scarletd...@arabel:~$ sudo dpkg --configure

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-06-27 Thread Scarletdown
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 1:34 PM, John Musbach johnmusba...@gmail.comwrote: I apologize, I had a virus on my computer and it was doing all kinds of weird stuff. Sorry! On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Comcast Master Accountelizabethmusb...@comcast.net wrote: hi i want boobies so i try grep

fstab Entry Permissions for Remote Samba Shares?

2009-06-20 Thread Scarletdown
full access, which is how share will remain. //CALYPSO/Documents /Calypso/Documents smbfs auto,lfs,rw,users,umask=0677,file_mode=0677,dir_mode=0677,uid=scarletdown,gid=nogroup,password= 0 0 How do I change it so that guest user has no access at all? I've tried everything imaginable

Re: How Do I Get GRUB to See the External USB Drive?

2009-06-16 Thread Scarletdown
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Sjoerd Hardeman sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl wrote: Scarletdown schreef: On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 16:53 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Can you check the contents of /boot/grub/device.map? I think you need to make sure your usb device is mentioned

How Do I Get GRUB to See the External USB Drive?

2009-06-15 Thread Scarletdown
I just purchased an external USB drive in hopes that I could toss an XP build on it real quick without messing with everything on the internal drives (friends wanting me to try Lord of the Rings Online which doesn't work with Cedega is one of the reasons...) Anyway, I got what I think is a

Re: How Do I Get GRUB to See the External USB Drive?

2009-06-15 Thread Scarletdown
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 16:53 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Can you check the contents of /boot/grub/device.map? I think you need to make sure your usb device is mentioned there for it to work at boot time. If it is not there, redo update-grub and check if the usb drive is added to device.map.

Scanner Needs Root Access?

2009-02-27 Thread Scarletdown
I was recently given a brand new Epson Stylus NX300 Printer/Scanner/Fax, and have been trying to get it all working properly. Printer functions are working fine. For the scanning functions, I installed the iscan package. The device is scanning fine. However, it will only work for root. This

Re: Scanner Needs Root Access?

2009-02-27 Thread Scarletdown
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 07:32 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On 28 February 2009 06:28:39 Scarletdown wrote: # EPSON Stylus NX300 | EPSON Stylus NX300 | EPSON Stylus NX300 SYSFS{idVendor}==04b8, SYSFS{idProduct}==0848, MODE=660, OWNER=lp, GROUP=scanner, ENV{libsane_matched}=yes And even

UPDATE - Was Re: Challenge - Getting Debian Working on a Pair of Real Old Laptops

2008-09-05 Thread Scarletdown
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 21:52 -0700, Scarletdown wrote: I have a pair of old P-I based Toshiba Laptops (Satellite Pro 425CDT and Portege 650CT), and I am trying to figure out how to get a working Debian installation on them. These laptops are very light on RAM. The Satellite has 40MB (which I

Re: Challenge - Getting Debian Working on a Pair of Real Old Laptops

2008-09-04 Thread Scarletdown
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 09:58 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: you may improve the ultimate installed experience by rolling your own kernel with just the bare minimum you need for these lappies. That sounds like a good idea. So, what do I need to do my own custom kernel? Also, where can I

Challenge - Getting Debian Working on a Pair of Real Old Laptops

2008-09-02 Thread Scarletdown
I have a pair of old P-I based Toshiba Laptops (Satellite Pro 425CDT and Portege 650CT), and I am trying to figure out how to get a working Debian installation on them. These laptops are very light on RAM. The Satellite has 40MB (which I believe is the most she can take), and the Portege has

XDMCP Capable Login Managers

2008-08-30 Thread Scarletdown
Other than GDM and KDM, are there any other graphical login managers that allow a client to login to a remote machine via XDMCP? I was hoping that WDM (Wings Display Manager) could do this, but I have not seen any option on the login screen to connect to a remote machine. I have a really lean

Re: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?

2008-08-09 Thread Scarletdown
So far so good. Finally got around to actually installing the new drive this morning, since the system was down anyway due to a power flicker on account of the weather. I used gparted to make 3 partitions on the new drive (which came up as /dev/sdf due to sda through sdd being used by the card

Replacing hda - Easiest Way?

2008-08-04 Thread Scarletdown
I'm going to be upgrading my primary hard drive (80GB) with a new 500GB drive today. The old drive has 7 assorted partitions on it: /dev/hda1 - / /dev/hda5 - /tmp /dev/hda6 - /root /dev/hda7 - /opt /dev/hda8 - /var /dev/hda9 - /usr /dev/hda10 - /workspace  So, what would be the easiest

Re: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?

2008-08-04 Thread Scarletdown
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 16:33 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: If you can leave the old disk in the box for a while, start by installing the new drive as hdb, partition it and mkfs the filesystems -- all while booted to the old drive. Set up a bunch of mount-points for the new partitions, e.g.:

Re: modifer fstab by mistake,can not boot debian

2007-11-21 Thread Scarletdown
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 21:08 -0800, mond wrote: I dont know how to do now. I really have very important data from my research on my pc. Is it possible to edit fstab or just boot to some kind of basic system, so at least I can rescue my data? Many thanks, I am having a tough thanksgiving now.

Broadcom 43xx Wireless Network Adapter

2007-11-15 Thread Scarletdown
I've been futiley attempting to get the onboard wireless working on my laptop, and recently went through some instructions in a post over at linuxquestions.org. Despite going through the instructions step by step, wireless still does not work, with either the onboard wireless controller or the

Dependency Error == Unable to Install Anything Else

2007-10-02 Thread Scarletdown
I'm trying to install a new kernel (going from 2.8.18-3-k7 to 2.6.22-2-k7) so that I can update my video drivers. However, I keep getting this annoyance that causes anything I try to install to fail: You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet

Re: Dependency Error == Unable to Install Anything Else

2007-10-02 Thread Scarletdown
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 23:36 +0200, David Paleino wrote: dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libpth20_2.0.7-8_i386.deb That worked. I was at least able to update the kernel. Now there's a problem installing the latest nVidia video drivers. The kernel was compiled with GCC 4.1

Problem Resolved - Was Re: Dependency Error == Unable to Install Anything Else

2007-10-02 Thread Scarletdown
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 17:20 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:52:36PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 23:36 +0200, David Paleino wrote: dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libpth20_2.0.7-8_i386.deb That worked. I

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Scarletdown
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 03:02 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:37:30PM -0800, Justin Gallardo wrote: Hey All, I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list netiquette (as you may have guessed by the

Re: What is the best way to install Samba

2006-12-18 Thread Scarletdown
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 11:32 -0800, schmity wrote: Ok I have my debian machine connected to a XP machine through a router. I have made several attemps to install samba using apt-get and I have modified the smb.conf on several occations. My first thought was to start with a fresh reinstall of

Old Laptop - Did a Net Install But Afterwards No NIC

2006-12-11 Thread Scarletdown
I just attempted an install of etch on an old Toshiba Satellite 425CDT. I used a set of install floppies because this laptop can't boot from the CD-ROM drive. Anyway, the install ran its course (it was a Network install), but after the install was completed, and I rebooted, the PCMCIA drivers

Re: Firefox crashing on gmail

2006-12-05 Thread Scarletdown
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 16:05 +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: Hello all, since yesterday evening, firefox is crashing when I log on to the gmail account. This happens across all accounts on my box. I get the following message on the console after it crashes: To me, the most sensible solution is

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

2006-12-04 Thread Scarletdown
On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 17:04 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: Part of this discussion concerned the cost of DL media vs single layer.At the time DL was about $8/disk while compared to maybe $1.00/disk for SL, not a good value, imho. The economics may have changed. DL disks are still rather pricey

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-10 Thread Scarletdown
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 16:04 +0100, steef wrote: the fear of microsoft to get kicked out of markets. We can only hope that may be the case some day. After all, Windows is hardly ready for the desktop let alone the server markets. :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: iRiver Clix Media Player - How To Use with Debian?

2006-10-27 Thread Scarletdown
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 16:52 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 22:16 -0700, Scarletdown wrote: I just bought a 2GB iRiver Clix media player as an upgrade from my old CD-based mp3 player. It works fine on my XP hardware testing box. However, I need to get it working

Re: iRiver Clix Media Player - How To Use with Debian?

2006-10-27 Thread Scarletdown
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 04:41 +, Pollywog wrote: There is also an article about udev in the October issue of Linux Magazine (the UK version not the US magazine of the same name). I happened across this today via Stumble, I believe.

Re: Debian Old Toshiba Laptop

2006-10-14 Thread Scarletdown
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 01:07 -0400, Kai wrote: I have a very old Toshiba laptop and I am looking to put Debian or some other form of linux on it. Details: CPU: Pentium I HD: ~700MB RAM: 16MB 2 PC Card slots, but some newer cards (such as wireless cards) do not fit Linksys EtherFast PC Card

Permissions Problems on Mounted Samba Shares

2006-10-11 Thread Scarletdown
I just recently bought a 250GB network hard drive, and have it connected to my home network's switch, with four shared directories created on it. However, when I mount the shares (I'm wanting to do this so they auto mount at boot time), they are owned by root and nogroup, and are only writable by

Re: AVIDemux Oddity

2006-10-03 Thread Scarletdown
On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 13:39 -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: Scarletdown wrote: I'm trying to remaster a set of DVDs, and AVIDemux is giving me a strange problem. After ripping the disks to my hard drive using vobcopy, I renamed the VOB files, changing their extensions to mpeg. When I

Using XINE to play a DVD ISO Image?

2006-10-03 Thread Scarletdown
Is there any way to possibly play a DVD ISO as if it was an actual physical DVD using XINE? I can mount the ISO easy enough. For my test, I did: mount /workspace/Multimedia/ISO-Images/StarWars-Holiday-Special.iso /shared/ISO/I0 -t iso9660 -o loop, and it mounted okay. However, when I try to

Re: Using XINE to play a DVD ISO Image?

2006-10-03 Thread Scarletdown
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 08:35 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 02:08:07AM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: Is there any way to possibly play a DVD ISO as if it was an actual physical DVD using XINE? I can mount the ISO easy enough. For my test, I did: Try running

AVIDemux Oddity

2006-10-01 Thread Scarletdown
it up in AVIDemux so I can edit it, the aspect ratio is all wrong. Here's a screenshot showing what I am talking about: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y129/Scarletdown/AVI-Demux.jpg I went ahead and did my editing, then saved the video and audio files, and multiplexed them back together using mplex

Re: copy a dvd

2006-09-25 Thread Scarletdown
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 17:48 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: The advantage of vobcopy is that it removes the region code and decrypts the whole disc. Are you positive of that? A couple months ago when I bought a DVD from Amazon (Dungeons and Dragons Volume Three), I found out it was Region 2. Even

Re: copy a dvd

2006-09-24 Thread Scarletdown
On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 09:07 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: I don't have kde installed on my computer, and I use Etch, and I was able to install k9copy (1.0.4.2-0.1), and run it (in either ion3, fluxbox, or gnome). So, k9copy does not require all of kde to run. Whatever libraries, etc, that

Re: Linux Will Get Buried (Off)

2006-09-21 Thread Scarletdown
On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:23 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: handful of uses! And make it an absolute nightmare to buy foreign movies while travelling internationally that will play when I get home! If you're talking about region codes, that's a trivial matter to bypass. 1: Use something like

Re: Linux Will Get Buried (Off)

2006-09-21 Thread Scarletdown
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 09:18 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 23:52 -0700, Scarletdown wrote: On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:23 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: handful of uses! And make it an absolute nightmare to buy foreign movies while travelling internationally that will play

Kingmax ZV-DVD PCMCIA Card Questions

2006-08-30 Thread Scarletdown
Recently, at my local geek shop, I bought a PCMCIA card called the Kingmax ZV-DVD (I seem to be collecting PCMCIA cards lately, and this one was real cheap). Anyway, this is what it looks like: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y129/Scarletdown/Misc-Stuff/ZV-DVD.jpg The attached dongle has ports

iRiver Clix Media Player - How To Use with Debian?

2006-07-13 Thread Scarletdown
I just bought a 2GB iRiver Clix media player as an upgrade from my old CD-based mp3 player. It works fine on my XP hardware testing box. However, I need to get it working with Debian (both my Athlon 2500 desktop runing Kernel 2.6.15-1-k7, and my Turion 64 laptop running kernel 2.6.17-1-amd64-k8).

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-10 Thread Scarletdown
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 10:09 -0600, Art Edwards wrote: This brought up the question, who uses 64 bit Linux anyway? Surely gamers do not drive the 64-bit linux community. It can't be the desktop community, seeing that the standard office tool doesn't really work for 64-bit. I've been quite

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

2006-07-08 Thread Scarletdown
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 17:40 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: it. Many people use webmail such as gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc., What about them? They should suffer by exposing their email address to the public just because they wanted to help other debian users? Well, for those using GMail,

Re: KDE Debian Installation

2006-02-20 Thread Scarletdown
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 00:45 +, Evan Carmi wrote: Hi, I am wondering about the best (easy and/or stable) way to install the K Desktop Environment on Debian. Does anyone know of a website that has information on this? Or maybe another resource? Which packages to I need to get and do I

Re: _some_ DVDs won't play

2006-02-08 Thread Scarletdown
Have you tried them on a stand alone DVD player yet? That seems like the logical next step in troubleshooting, y'know, making sure that they weren't from a bad batch of disks at the factory. Yeah, I know. It's three seperate sets from at least two different vendors (you didn't say whether or

Re: apt wants to remove my kernel image

2006-02-08 Thread Scarletdown
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 23:41 -0500, Mark Fletcher wrote: I remember someone else had this problem, or a very similar one to it, a while back. I can't remember what the resolution was but if you search back through the archives of this list for something like *...wants to REMOVE my kernel...

Re: OT : K9Copy Problems

2006-02-07 Thread Scarletdown
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 14:20 +0100, Magnus Pedersen wrote: Scarletdown wrote: As an update in the troubleshooting process, I went ahead and burned the ISO directly to a DVD+RW disk. The problem remains. However, I do see now that although the menu was properly burned to the disk

OT : K9Copy Problems

2006-02-05 Thread Scarletdown
I'm tagging this post as OT because the package in question isn't in the Debian archives. However, this package, which looks very useful, has very little documentation, and I can't find a specific support forum for it. So anyway, has anyone here ever successfully used k9Copy? As far as I can

Re: OT : K9Copy Problems

2006-02-05 Thread Scarletdown
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 11:41 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: When I check out the newly created ISO, it is only 2MB, which I know is not how it should be, considering the original was 4.9GB (.2GB too big to fit a SL DVD-R). Apparently, all the ISO contains is the DVD menu. This is confirmed

Internal USB Card Reader Problem

2006-01-29 Thread Scarletdown
I'm having a problem with my internal USB card reader, a Carry Computer Eng., Co., Ltd 6-in-1 Card Reader. After I made the mistake of sticking a bad CF card in it to see if I could get the card working, the reader no longer works. When I stick a known good card in and try to access it (using

Re: How To Access Internal USB 6-in-1 Card Reader and CF Memory Card?

2005-11-06 Thread Scarletdown
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 21:47 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 23:09 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 20:21 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: Just yesterday, I picked up a 6-in-1 internal USB card reader at a thrift store. (For $1.95, I couldn't pass it up). So anyway

External SCSI Hard Drive Not Auto-mounting

2005-11-06 Thread Scarletdown
I just recently installed an Adaptec AHA-2940UW SCSI adapter, so I could make use of this spare 4.3GB external SCSI hard drive. Anyway, I partitioned the drive and used mkfs to create an ext3 file system on it. I then created a mount point for it /workspace/Multimedia, and updated my fstab file,

Re: Linux stickers

2005-11-06 Thread Scarletdown
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 02:39 +0100, Zouari Fourat wrote: Hello am a computer reseller, i provide debian sarge preinstalled for free on new computers, am seeking where to get a donation (free) of stickers to put on my computers. thanks Give these guys a chance:

How To Access Internal USB 6-in-1 Card Reader and CF Memory Card?

2005-11-05 Thread Scarletdown
Just yesterday, I picked up a 6-in-1 internal USB card reader at a thrift store. (For $1.95, I couldn't pass it up). So anyway, I'm now at a bit of a loss as to how to access it. I have it installed and plugged into one of the internal USB connectors on the motherboard, and apparently, the OS sees

Re: How To Access Internal USB 6-in-1 Card Reader and CF Memory Card?

2005-11-05 Thread Scarletdown
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 23:09 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 20:21 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: Just yesterday, I picked up a 6-in-1 internal USB card reader at a thrift store. (For $1.95, I couldn't pass it up). So anyway, I'm now at a bit of a loss as to how to access it. I

Re: No Sound

2005-10-12 Thread Scarletdown
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 00:12 -0400, Marty wrote: Scarletdown wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:42 -0400, [KS] wrote: Scarletdown wrote: What do I need to modprobe to get this working? I tried modprobe es688, modprobe es1688, and modprobe ymf262, but those all failed with FATAL

Is It Safe To Remove These PCMCIA Modules?

2005-10-11 Thread Scarletdown
Now that I have this old laptop running with kernel 2.6.12-386, I want to go ahead and remove the old 2.4 kernel that Sarge initially installed. When I do an apt-get --purge remove on the 2.4 kernel image, I am informed that: The following packages will be REMOVED: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386*

No Sound

2005-10-11 Thread Scarletdown
Continuing my quest to make this old Toshiba Satellite Laptop operational, I am now trying to figure out how to get the onboard sound working. From what info I could dig up, the sound system is an ES688/Yamaha OPL3. What do I need to modprobe to get this working? I tried modprobe es688,

Re: No Sound

2005-10-11 Thread Scarletdown
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:42 -0400, [KS] wrote: Scarletdown wrote: What do I need to modprobe to get this working? I tried modprobe es688, modprobe es1688, and modprobe ymf262, but those all failed with FATAL: Module not found. Try modprobe snd-es1688 and read the following page

Failed Installation

2005-10-09 Thread Scarletdown
://photobucket.com/albums/y129/Scarletdown/?action=viewcurrent=Debian-Failed-Install.jpg Anyway, I tried to follow the advice given in the error and check /target/var/log/bootstrap.log, but there is no such file. Thereisn't even a /target/var/log for that matter. Thing is, I had installed Debian

Re: Failed Installation

2005-10-09 Thread Scarletdown
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 22:08 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 06:36:28PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: Okay, why is this particular system being such a bitch to get Debian installed on. I'm using the etch net install CD ... That might answer your question. Etch is currently

Re: Why Is This Install Wanting to Remove My Kernel Image?

2005-09-23 Thread Scarletdown
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 18:43 +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Scarletdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've had this happen twice. Both times, I aborted the install of course). The first time was when I wanted to install AbiWord, the second time was just a few minutes ago, when I

Why Is This Install Wanting to Remove My Kernel Image?

2005-09-22 Thread Scarletdown
I've had this happen twice. Both times, I aborted the install of course). The first time was when I wanted to install AbiWord, the second time was just a few minutes ago, when I was going to install flpsed so that I could complete an important form to email back to my squadron. When I did the

Laptop Installation Problem

2005-09-16 Thread Scarletdown
This is proving to be one of my most challenging installations yet. I just recently became the owner of an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 425CDT laptop (Pentium 100, 800MB hard drive, 24MB RAM which will eventually get upgraded to its maximum 40MB, CD-ROM drive, external floppy drive.) Anyway, I

Re: Laptop Installation Problem

2005-09-16 Thread Scarletdown
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 10:42 +0100, Pooly wrote: 2005/9/16, Scarletdown [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyway, I currently have Windows 98SE working fine on it. However, I want to make it full 100% Debian (etch which would be upgraded to sid). The CD ROM drive is not bootable, so I made a set of net

Mondo Frustration

2005-06-17 Thread Scarletdown
Can someone here possibly help me with a little problem I am having with Mondo Archive? First of all, here is the message that I am getting when it fails: ---FATALERROR--- The de facto standard location for your boot loader's config file is /etc/lilo.conf but I cannot find it there. What is

Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-13 Thread Scarletdown
Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: Or maybe some other source. I have just not heard of the term fine manual before. But, you obviously know more about this than I do. That is the polite definition of RTFM. :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

3 unrelated Questions (ipmasq, vncserver, and IceWM)

2005-05-29 Thread Scarletdown
As per the subject line, the following three questions are unrelated to each other. However, I felt it best to put them all in one post instead of doing 3 seperate posts. 1: I'm having some minor problems with ipmasq on a router I just built (Deabian Sid). After the network interfaces are

Re: OGM problems (XINE and MPlayer)

2005-05-20 Thread Scarletdown
Sven Arvidsson wrote: Scarletdown wrote: I'm in the process of learning how to create video files in OGM format, and have had some moderate success so far. First, I created an AVI file and added music to it using AVIDemux. Then, I used mencoder to convert to OGM, since AVIDemux seems to choke

Re: OGM problems (XINE and MPlayer)

2005-05-20 Thread Scarletdown
Sven Arvidsson wrote: Scarletdown wrote: I just figured that since the size of the new file was considerably smaller than the original (2.07MB vs. 27.94MB), and that it did play in MPlayer, then it must have worked. Apparently I was wrong...again. You re-encoded the file with a more effective

Re: OGM problems (XINE and MPlayer)

2005-05-20 Thread Scarletdown
Sven Arvidsson wrote: Scarletdown wrote: That was somewhat helpful. The relevant bit on that page was right near the end: ogmmerge -o My_Video.ogm video.avi audio.ogg Additionally, the ogm file seems a little too large: 25.26MB, which is only a couple MB smaller than the original AVI

How To Install Missing Libraries for Cinelerra?

2005-05-19 Thread Scarletdown
I'm trying to get Cinelerra installed. However, there's several libraries missing, that do not appear to be available via apt-get (sid). here's the error that I get when I attempt to install Cinelerra via dpkg: The following packages have unmet dependencies: cinelerra: Depends: libavcodec1

Re: How To Install Missing Libraries for Cinelerra?

2005-05-19 Thread Scarletdown
Lee Braiden wrote: On Thursday 19 May 2005 22:09, Scarletdown wrote: cinelerra: Depends: libavcodec1 (= 1:0.4.8) but it is not installable Depends: libguicast (= 1:1.2.2) but it is not installable Depends: liblame0 (= 3.96.1-1) but it is not installable Depends

OGM problems (XINE and MPlayer)

2005-05-19 Thread Scarletdown
I'm in the process of learning how to create video files in OGM format, and have had some moderate success so far. First, I created an AVI file and added music to it using AVIDemux. Then, I used mencoder to convert to OGM, since AVIDemux seems to choke when I try to save my file as OGM.

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