Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread s. keeling
Anders Wegge Keller we...@wegge.dk: On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:33:55 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: This to one of our best and most measured contributors. It's enough to make one weep. He could have been the pope. His attitude is part of the problem, not the I didn't

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread s. keeling
Curt cu...@free.fr: Given the number of retarded posts we've seen in the last couple of weeks, you might think things would be cooled off by now, but no. This's DU. This sort of thing is expected, even welcomed. People expressing passionate opinions wrt their choice of software? Great!

Re: For Help!

2013-02-07 Thread s. keeling
Aijun Xuan aijun_x...@yahoo.ca: ---485831647-466411508-1354984718=:50704 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello, Debian: First of all, I would like appreciate what Debian had offered to us! I would thank GUN very much! I am a new user. I just set up Debian in my desktop

Re: Help needed

2011-03-17 Thread s. keeling
BALAJI :) balaji.p...@gmail.com: I am using Debian Lenny, kernel version: 2.6.26-1-686. I am very new to linux. Can you please let me know the steps for backing up my linux PC (maybe to a CD) and later restoring from it when required. Also let me know if I can install any Open source

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

2011-03-15 Thread s. keeling
Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net: On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: * amd64 http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/amd64/iso-dvd/ * armel http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.0/armel/iso-dvd/ * kfreebsd-i386

Re: Postfix SASL SMTP AUTH help, please. [re-post from comp.mail.misc]

2010-12-18 Thread s. keeling
s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com: [I asked this in cmm, but see no help there yet. I'm trying to get this: http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/smtp_auth_mailservers.html working on Debian Lenny.] Camaleon, Darac, Osamu, Bob, thanks. All good suggestions, lots

Postfix SASL SMTP AUTH help, please. [re-post from comp.mail.misc]

2010-12-14 Thread s. keeling
[I asked this in cmm, but see no help there yet. I'm trying to get this: http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/smtp_auth_mailservers.html working on Debian Lenny.] Background: I run fetchmail in a script wrapper called by

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-20 Thread s. keeling
ow...@netptc.net ow...@netptc.net: GIYF Who? http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/classes/soft_dev/C_simple_ex.html (0) phreaque /home/keeling_ time pi 20 # of trials= 20 , estimate of pi is 3.14158 real4m41.812s user4m29.736s sys 0m0.055s Thanks. Fun to play with.

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-11-06 Thread s. keeling
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com: Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: I have a minimal Debian installation ... You might be interested in reading through a discussion that is happening right now on debian-devel: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/10/threads.html#00310

Re: how to umount a usb flash drive through cli as a normal user

2010-10-12 Thread s. keeling
Jason Heeris jason.hee...@gmail.com: On 11 October 2010 23:52, vishnu vardhan vishnuvardhan.li...@gmail.com wrote: [a] start mc and search for jet under /dev/disk/by-id folder and note down the name, for e.g. sdb1 This is a bit tangential, but do you know about the pmount-hal [...]

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-12 Thread s. keeling
Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com: Thanks, Camaleón. I get nervous when the computer I am working on does not belong to me!! Prudent thinking. Especially when you're logged in as root (walking around with lit sticks of dynamite in each hand). Plan. Research. Backups! Try plan on a disposable

Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

2010-10-12 Thread s. keeling
Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com: I think I'll give it one more try using your link and any tips other people have given me by then, and if I still can't do it I'll just install normally. No offense meant, but wrong attitude. I've been saying this since ca. '97: try again. The more installs

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-12 Thread s. keeling
Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net: Wicd from the repos. Much more informative than nm. I can attest to that. I found wicd difficult to turn off the other day (until I looked for /etc/default/wicd). Then again, Win* guy next door, now running linux, took to nm with no problem, way before I knew

Re: X radeon flash youtube problem

2010-10-06 Thread s. keeling
Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz: I recently caved and installed flashplugin-nonfree on my squeeze system (once the 64-bit player was re-released). However, when I watch some (not all) youtube videos, the screens (2) first go black, then (possibly triggered by switching to a text

Re: Staples Relay (tm) 4 Gb USB sticks - slow or normal (lenny)?

2010-10-02 Thread s. keeling
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com: On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:15:42 +, s. keeling wrote: Is it just that usb's slow, or is the box doing it wrong? Is it my preference for ext2? I've tried w both usb hubs and directly into Did you run any read/write speed tests on the flash device

Re: Staples Relay (tm) 4 Gb USB sticks - slow or normal (lenny)?

2010-10-02 Thread s. keeling
Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr: Dne, 01. 10. 2010 10:35:09 je Camaleón napisal(a): On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:15:42 +, s. keeling wrote: [snip] To avoid wild guesses, you could test your USB key on another machine, monitoring its average read/write speed there; that way, you'd

Re: cpufreq not loaded in amd64?

2010-10-02 Thread s. keeling
s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com: Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com: error. My bios had Cool and Quite turned off. I did not catch that, I was looking for some other bios settings. I really am not a big fan Makes me wanna reboot and hunt around for Cool and Quiet. No such animal

Re: A simple GUI volume control tool for fluxbox

2010-10-02 Thread s. keeling
Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt: If you just want volume control, i use gkrellm's volume plugin. Does That's excellent! Thanks! -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -

Staples Relay (tm) 4 Gb USB sticks - slow or normal (lenny)?

2010-09-30 Thread s. keeling
I keep one copy of my latest backup on usb sticks that I keep in my pack. Yesterday, I recreated it. It's an ext2 ptn: /dev/sdb1 on /media/usb0 type ext2 (rw,noexec,nodev,sync,noatime) That happens when I plug it in (udev?). drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2009-05-20 22:55 /media/sdb1/ I

Re: cpufreq not loaded in amd64?

2010-09-30 Thread s. keeling
Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com: error. My bios had Cool and Quite turned off. I did not catch that, I was looking for some other bios settings. I really am not a big fan Makes me wanna reboot and hunt around for Cool and Quiet. I usually have this on 525 MHz using ondemand governor.

Re: I don't understand why bug reporting bothers you

2010-09-29 Thread s. keeling
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com: On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:20:00 +, s. keeling wrote: Damn, you're prolific. How anyone can come up with as many problems to post about as you do, I'll never understand. Sorry, that was unkind. It was just the impression I felt at the time after so long

Re: cpufreq not loaded in amd64?

2010-09-29 Thread s. keeling
Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com: For some reason, I don't have cpufreq scaling enabled: Well that's pretty damned sad. :-P I really don't get cpufreq* myself. Methinks it's far too young software. da...@dam-main:~$ sudo powernowd -d PowerNow Daemon v1.00, (c) 2003-2008 John Clemens

Re: Can start X once but no more

2010-09-05 Thread s. keeling
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com: Following up with http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/389399 DR. I have exactly the same symptom: Damn, you're prolific. How anyone can come up with as many problems to post about as you do, I'll never understand. $ uname -rm

Re: .xsession kills X server with sqeeze/fluxbox

2010-09-05 Thread s. keeling
Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com: On 9/5/10, brownh bro...@historicalmaterialism.info wrote: I'm used to using an .xsession file in ~/ Me too. I use .xinitrc, and start X from CLI (ssh-agent startx). No [XKG]dm. . But I find that when I have sqeeze installed with fluxbox, the

Re: What is Recommend CLI Package Manager Tool for Newb?

2010-08-28 Thread s. keeling
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net: Is there a description or screenshot of it somewhere? Can I easily engage it from the command-line? I'd like to play with it and see if it is as useful as the aptitude one. See the -s switch, just like aptitude. -- Any technology

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

2010-08-26 Thread s. keeling
Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:13:26PM +, s. keeling wrote: T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com: I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it OK to do so? Joey Hess wrote a long critique in here a couple of years ago, saying

Re: Debian updates worth to follow as a normal user

2010-08-26 Thread s. keeling
Joe j...@jretrading.com: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: s. keeling wrote: T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com: Where is the recommended place to read about Debian updates that would affect end users? I think it's about this time that some jerk pipes up and says production

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread s. keeling
Tixy debianu...@tixy.myzen.co.uk: On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 05:46 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: On 08/26/2010 05:37 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: noela...@gmail.com : In Kmail, and probably some other MUAs, you can select the text first and then hit reply, and only the selected

Re: Lockups in Xorg with Radeon HD 3450 and different drivers

2010-08-25 Thread s. keeling
Nick Lidakis nlida...@verizon.net: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 02:13:08AM +0200, Thomas Amm wrote: Am 24.06.2010 20:06, schrieb Nick Lidakis: I figured, these days, getting to a 2d desktop with a 2 year old video card would not cause a machine to lock hard. Although,I am on unstable.

Re: Mixing apt-get and aptitude

2010-08-25 Thread s. keeling
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com: I used to use either apt-get or aptitude to install packages. Is it OK to do so? I've not read your link. Joey Hess wrote a long critique in here a couple of years ago, saying essentially yes. aptitude (I thimk) logs more of its actions than does apt-get,

Re: Debian updates worth to follow as a normal user

2010-08-25 Thread s. keeling
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com: Where is the recommended place to read about Debian updates that would affect end users? For example, the recent massive update on the sid repo side, I know it is I think it's about this time that some jerk pipes up and says production machines serving

Re: Transmitting a webcam's flux to the Internet: how?

2010-08-16 Thread s. keeling
Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be: Many cities/special places, etc., have `live' webcams which allow Internet users to see these places `live.' This is often achieved thanks to hosting websites, etc. I'm here asking myself how I could, from a device (not necessarily a

Re: meta-question

2010-08-16 Thread s. keeling
Louis Hinman sl...@rcn.com: I don't see an administrator to address this question to, so please forgive me for addressing it to all and sundry: Along with the other excellent advice others have suggested, subscribe to whitel...@lists.debian.org, with all its resulting goodness. -- Any

Re: setting sensor limits fails

2010-03-01 Thread s. keeling
António PT acmps...@gmail.com: 2010/2/1 Nima Azarbayjany i.adore.deb...@gmail.com On a recent install of Squeeze I get a message that setting sensor limits fails. I am wondering whether this can be a threat to the hardware and if there are any workarounds for this issue. I am running

Re: How to enforce use of dhcpcd instead of dhclient in debian/testing?

2010-03-01 Thread s. keeling
wzab w...@ise.pw.edu.pl: I have a problem with wireless networking on my laptop (uses iwl3945 wireless). When dhclient3 is used to obtain IP address via DHCP, the connection is unstable. Especially when I move my laptop to another location and switch to another network, the IP is not

Re: setting sensor limits fails

2010-02-02 Thread s. keeling
Nima Azarbayjany i.adore.deb...@gmail.com: On a recent install of Squeeze I get a message that setting sensor limits fails. I am wondering whether this can be a threat to the hardware and if Is lm-sensors installed? cpufreqd? powernow_k8 kernel module? there are any workarounds for

Re: garbages in man page output

2010-02-02 Thread s. keeling
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com: On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:13:43 +, T o n g wrote: On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:55:07 +, Camaleón wrote: Or try by appending -d for debugging. Here's it. What's wrong? $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man -d xrandr I'm not sure I understand the problem, but in X,

Re: dealing with grub2?

2010-01-28 Thread s. keeling
tv.deb...@googlemail.com tv.deb...@googlemail.com: Liviu Andronic wrote: Could you help to either completely get rid of grub2 or properly configuring it (to recognise the other two OSs, Windows and Ubuntu)? For the first part, I've uninstalled grub-pc and reinstalled grub-legacy,

Re: console resolution

2010-01-25 Thread s. keeling
tv.deb...@googlemail.com tv.deb...@googlemail.com: s. keeling wrote: Isn't it strange that we now need to `update-grub`, when having to run lilo was such a hardship before? Grumble, mumble, wtf doesn't OpenBSD ever show up in the grub* boot menu, grumble, mumble, ... Grr. Hi

Re: Warning: Illegal hostnames no longer work

2010-01-24 Thread s. keeling
David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il: For ever, I was getting a bootup message that by hostname was illegal. After that, everything, I mean everything, worked with that hostname 100% As of the latest upgrades off Sid, the illegal hostname is no longer accepted by the system and there is

Re: How to grab music from remote cdrom?

2010-01-24 Thread s. keeling
Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com: Thank You for Your time and answer, Camale: Export the CD share via samba or nfs and mount it locally into the target machine where you are going to run the ripper. And let the program doing its work. This is a somewhat annoying problem. You'd think,

Re: console resolution

2010-01-24 Thread s. keeling
Jeffrey Cao jcao.li...@gmail.com: On 2010-01-22, Nima Azarbayjany i.adore.deb...@gmail.com wrote: I have recently installed Squeeze on my laptop and most things seem to work fine right now. I used to add vga=xxx to the kernel parameters line to adjust the console resolution but this

Re: Gnome [Nautilus] debuggers: please reopen bug 358731

2010-01-14 Thread s. keeling
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com: On 2010-01-11 at 21:27:02 -0500, s. keeling wrote: I've been running Linux for a long time. I'm pretty sure Linus would answer, Show us your code! If you've enough energy to complain, you've enough to help with the fix. As for Mr. McCormick, I

Re: Gnome [Nautilus] debuggers: please reopen bug 358731

2010-01-14 Thread s. keeling
Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca: On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:45:53 + (GMT) s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com wrote: s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca: How many developers does it take to fix a bug? Apparently too many. Read

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-12 Thread s. keeling
Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com:  What is your 40... entry? Generic chainloader +1 stuff:  (1a) There is no (hd0,0) in grub2. sda = (hd0,1), etc Ah!  This is a most informative/educational reply, thanks. You're welcome. I've a few leads to track down now:    sed '%s/hda/sda/g'

Re: Gnome [Nautilus] debuggers: please reopen bug 358731

2010-01-12 Thread s. keeling
s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca: How many developers does it take to fix a bug? Apparently too many. Read through Bug 121113. (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121113) You've got to be kidding me. That's what you consider

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-11 Thread s. keeling
Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com:  What is your 40... entry? Generic chainloader +1 stuff: (1a) There is no (hd0,0) in grub2. sda = (hd0,1), etc Ah! This is a most informative/educational reply, thanks. I really am out of the loop I see. I'm beginning to understand what all the bleeding-edge

Re: Gnome [Nautilus] debuggers: please reopen bug 358731

2010-01-11 Thread s. keeling
Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca: On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:57:26 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On 2010-01-09 at 16:40:22 -0500, Dotan Cohen wrote: Does someone here have the proper permissions to reopen a Gnome bug that was incorrectly marked as dupe?

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-09 Thread s. keeling
Freeman eve...@worldwidehtml.com: On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:30:32AM +, s. keeling wrote: I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-09 Thread s. keeling
Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com: What is your 40... entry? Generic chainloader +1 stuff: # OpenBSD 4.6 on /dev/hda1 title OpenBSD 4.6 root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 Are you loading the ufs module(s)? Never heard of 'em. Will research,

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-09 Thread s. keeling
Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr: Dne, 08. 01. 2010 01:32:32 je s. keeling napisal(a): Thanks. That's looking very tempting at the moment. So far, I've not solved it. It would not be unwise to switch to Grub 2 (the new Grub that's slowly becoming the default in many distros

Re: Grub 2

2010-01-09 Thread s. keeling
Tixy debianu...@tixy.myzen.co.uk: On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 12:33 +, James Allsopp wrote: snip Problem is, I want to use grub2 as the first thing I'm going to do is upgrade to debian testing, which uses this. snip Is there a reason for not just installing Debian Testing rather than

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-07 Thread s. keeling
Wayne linux...@gmail.com linux...@gmail.com: s. keeling wrote: I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6. How do I add

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-07 Thread s. keeling
Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net: On 20100106_033032, s. keeling wrote: first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6. How do I add the latter to testing's grub? /boot/grub/menu.lst doesn't exist, and /boot/grub contains stuff I've never seen before

New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-05 Thread s. keeling
I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the first time. I just installed both squeeze(?)/testing and OpenBSD 4.6. How do I add the latter to testing's grub? /boot/grub/menu.lst doesn't exist, and

Re: Removing the indent-string quote marker '' in emails.

2010-01-02 Thread s. keeling
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 02:33:32PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,01.Jan.10, 13:26:59, Chris Jones wrote: I noticed that some e-mails come back to this (and other) mailing lists with the traditional '' quote markers removed. [...] [snip] More

Re: Removing the indent-string quote marker '' in emails.

2010-01-02 Thread s. keeling
John Hasler jhas...@debian.org: Celejar writes: What's wrong with using technical solutions to solve social problems? Shooting them is a technical solution. Strangling them would be a social one. Damn, I love your posts. Sorry, but shooting them is a philosophical problem first

Re: Removing the indent-string quote marker '' in emails.

2010-01-02 Thread s. keeling
RobertHoltzman hol...@cox.net: On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 11:55:59AM +, Camale=EF=BF=BDn wrote: Educating them it always better than shooting them ;-) I dunno, thinning the herd has its merits :-) Trust me, ya gotta be careful with that kind of thinking. There were a lot of people

Re: Help Please !

2009-12-25 Thread s. keeling
Kwaku Obeng kwakb...@gmail.com: My name is Kwaku Obeng and a Ghanaian by birth. I read about Debian a few months ago on website and I have been trying to download the DVD packs so I can practice the tutorials on the site but always end up with a corrupt copy which I am unable to boot

Re: mutt deletes 1st unread

2009-12-18 Thread s. keeling
freeman free...@worldwidehtml.com: On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:55:54AM +0100, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: freeman free...@worldwidehtml.com writes: I use folder-hooks to archive mail after n weeks. Here is the l-debusr hook: folder-hook l-debusr 'push

Re: dlink dwa-556

2009-12-08 Thread s. keeling
lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de: Hi, Hi yourself. My only purpose here is to note that some of your posts are excruciatingly long. This elicits flames (some pay by the byte). Suggest: http://paste.debian.net/ --- Thanks for starting this thread. I'm learning as fast as I can (friend's

Re: gpm buffer: CLI vs. X

2009-09-28 Thread s. keeling
replaces ~/sh/things.sh; datestamps, # separates, and pretty-prints entries. # # 13Apr2002 s. keeling 0001 replace things.sh # 10Oct2004 s. keeling 0002 writes html # 12Jun2005 s. keeling 0003 reformatting, lt; gt; # 1Jul2005 s. keeling

help w wodim burning audio.

2009-09-11 Thread s. keeling
Hi. This is frustrating. I've been burning backups happily with this for years. Now, my musician buddy wants to distribute a demo cd, and I can't get anything to work (burn a playable audio CD). I know I've done something like this (ripped CDs) in the past, but burning a few .wav's is stumping

Re: how to set up iceweasel 3.5 to use mutt as mailer for link sendto

2009-09-06 Thread s. keeling
Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de: I've tried settings - apps - mailto - shellscript Shellscript: #!/bin/sh exec xterm -e mutt $@ The xterm only pops up for 1 second. Any hints? Ben at linuxgazette.net and I've been playing with this for years (I haven't used it in a while;

Re: Help with dict-client in Lenny?

2009-08-25 Thread s. keeling
Charlie aries...@clearmail.com.au: On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:29:56 -0600 s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com shared this with us all: Hi. I've two Lenny boxes, both pretty much hand-crafted (as in no Desktop Environment on install; I startx into fluxbox). On one of them, dict-client works

Re: Power management on older laptop.

2009-08-18 Thread s. keeling
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com: This is an old Dell Inspiron 7500 with an Intel PIII - (Coppermine) running debian 'lenny'. The hardware supports an early version of the SpeedStep technology that makes it possible to switch clocking between 650MHz and 500MHz. This is normally done via

Re: [SOLVED] Sound isnt working properly

2009-08-17 Thread s. keeling
Gregor Galwas g.gal...@highantdev.de: Ok, found the problem - kind of. 1. /etc/group was *READ*/write only to root. group/other were totally forbidden. Just to verify, are you sure that was /etc/group, or might it have been /etc/group- (namely its backup copy)? The latter should be

Re: software fan control

2009-08-17 Thread s. keeling
andy baxter a...@earthsong.free-online.co.uk: Dale wrote: 2009/8/15 andy baxter a...@earthsong.free-online.co.uk: I have just built a mini-itx box with a jetway J7F4 motherboard. It's great, apart from the fan is a bit noisier than I had hoped - I bought it hoping Have a look at a

Re: Laptop dv6650br is getting so warm

2009-08-17 Thread s. keeling
Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr: I've got a HP laptop (Compaq 6715b with a Turion 64 dual core) and it's running quite hot. When the CPU governor is set to PowerSave, it runs at roughly 52 C, and when the CPU governor is set to OnDemand, it easily reaches 90 C and more. FWIW, this

Re: What is the best setup to compute in the burning hot sun?

2009-08-01 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net: On 2009-08-01 08:31, Ian L. Target wrote: [snip] That is what the lawn is for. ;) Dud, I think your TMI alarm is broken. Three Mile Island alarm?!? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

Re: question about email delivery triggered by resent thread on musings

2009-07-29 Thread s. keeling
Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net: I think it has something to do with Procmail. I run Procmail to distribute emails by topic/sender/etc. When fetchmail terminates, procmail is still running, I suspect. Is this what is happening? Is procmail will log its activities, with VERBOSE =

Re: Sadly...

2009-07-24 Thread s. keeling
Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi: On 2009-07-23 17:46 (UTC), s. keeling wrote: vim (from mutt) also puts the cursor at the beginning. ... While emacs, called from mutt or slrn, puts it right at the start of the body text. :-) These command-line text editors have +n option to choose

Re: Sadly...

2009-07-23 Thread s. keeling
Celejar cele...@gmail.com: On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:29:35 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue,21.Jul.09, 21:01:22, Sven Joachim wrote: The right position for the cursor when starting a reply is at the beginning of the quoted text so that you can -

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread s. keeling
ron.l.john...@cox.net ron.l.john...@cox.net: 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. (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants to, but things fly by so fast

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread s. keeling
ron.l.john...@cox.net ron.l.john...@cox.net: s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com wrote: ron.l.john...@cox.net ron.l.john...@cox.net: 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

serial port mouse fouls up lenny?

2009-07-05 Thread s. keeling
Canibalising my desktop for a ps/2 mouse, I replaced it with a serial mouse. Now, X on desktop is seriously hosed. I've tried dpkg- reconfigure, but it never asks where the mouse is. What am I missing? I'll dig into backups to see what I need in xorg.conf, but I'd like to understand what

Re: How do you get aptitude to do what you want?

2009-06-23 Thread s. keeling
lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de: I'm trying to upgrade my testing installation, but aptitude keeps yelp in its current state, claiming that upgrading yelp would break a dependency with gman. But gman is not even installed. When I mark yelp as upgradeable, it says that it would break

Re: Question about Installing Lenny on a laptop

2009-06-19 Thread s. keeling
Cláudio E. Elicker elic...@gmail.com: On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Petrus Validus wrote: ... Usually I just install the base and build from there (on desktops) but since I'm on a laptop I'm wondering what tools and packages are part of the Laptop selection? Try this: aptitude

Re: xautolock does nothing...

2009-06-13 Thread s. keeling
Tony Baldwin photodha...@gmail.com: I have xautolock and slock installed, and have tried to use this: xautolock -time 5 -locker slock for those times I walk away and forget to engage slock. But it doesn't work. Any idea why? No, but I can offer a solution. Try xscreensaver (and

Re: [OT] SQL Syntax Error '????????????????'

2009-06-10 Thread s. keeling
Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com: I know this is off-topic, but I don't really want to have to subscribe to or constantly read the MySQL mailing lists, and the IRC channel's no help. Search the archives: groups.google.com comp.databases.mysql # guessing. However, I think your

Re: MySQL admin qref? [Solved]

2009-06-07 Thread s. keeling
deb...@waysoft.com deb...@waysoft.com: On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 18:41:10 -0600 s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com wrote: Incoming from Robert Baron: On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:13 PM, s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com wrote: (0) [root] infidel /root_ mysql ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html!

2009-06-07 Thread s. keeling
Chris Bannister mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz: On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:07:51PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,02.Jun.09, 16:27:18, Harry Rickards wrote: While I use Thunderbird, some people use CLI-based mail clients such as alpine or mutt. In these, HTML shows up as the

MySQL admin qref?

2009-06-06 Thread s. keeling
Hi. I'm trying to config mysql. I've done this before, and it worked well, and I took notes, but they're not helping at the moment. I haven't tried everything yet, and I'd rather come up with a plan than work from flawed notes. On Debian, how do you set the mysql root user pword? I've tried

Re: MySQL admin qref?

2009-06-06 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Robert Baron: On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:13 PM, s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com wrote: Hi. I'm trying to config mysql. I've done this before, and it worked well, and I took notes, but they're not helping at the moment. I haven't tried everything yet, and I'd rather come up

[OT] Gmail posters! turn off html! (was: Re: How to improve performance on laptop?)

2009-05-30 Thread s. keeling
Michael Yang michael@gmail.com: [snip] This is a mailing list. The text is all that's needed. Thanks. [html makes your posts ugly and difficult to read.] -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-30 Thread s. keeling
JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com: lee wrote: the subject says it all: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays? Try this: http://clive.sourceforge.net/ ITYM: aptitude update aptitude install clive -- Any technology

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-30 Thread s. keeling
JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com: s. keeling wrote: JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com: lee wrote: the subject says it all: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays? http://clive.sourceforge.net/ ITYM: aptitude

Help with dict-client in Lenny?

2009-05-10 Thread s. keeling
Hi. I've two Lenny boxes, both pretty much hand-crafted (as in no Desktop Environment on install; I startx into fluxbox). On one of them, dict-client works as expected. It brings the result up in a pager. In the other box, no pager. It just dumps it to stdout. How do I change this, or track

Re: less secure login

2009-04-30 Thread s. keeling
David Jardine da...@jardine.de: When logging into a console under squeeze, a false user name is now rejected immediately. Up to recently there was no reaction to a false user name until the password had been entered. Although I personally find the new behaviour more convenient, it

Mutt, Exim4, Debian, Ubuntu and BCC. FAIL (debian-news.net).

2009-04-30 Thread s. keeling
Hey. Please see: http://www.debian-news.net/2009/04/29/mutt-exim4-debian-ubuntu-and-bcc-fail-fix-included/ Do any of you out there have any more details on this problem? I've tried the fix suggested, and on my first test (no Bcc:) exim4 bounced it saying no recipient addresses found. I've

Re: All locales in /usr/share/locale

2009-04-26 Thread s. keeling
Nuno Magalhães nunomagalh...@eu.ipp.pt: Technicly, can i safely remove unused locales? I do use localepurge (on the new system since isntall), but there don't seem to be included in the process. dpkg-reconfigure locales Unselect the locales you don't want, then run localeourge again.

Re: Intro

2009-04-22 Thread s. keeling
Ben Badgley mortecan...@peoplepc.com: My name is Ben Badgley. I live in rural Virginia, we can visit Have fun. Wise choice. If you need help, *please* tell us what you've got and what it's doing so we have a chance at helping (/var/log/* is useful). I've been loving this stuff since '93.

Re: Lenny 5.0 AMD64 install hangs

2009-04-21 Thread s. keeling
Luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato lgeme...@terra.com.br: I am trying to install Debian 5.0 Lenny on AMD64 machine but it hangs at partitioning. Why ? I don't know. It had no trouble installing on my AMD64. I need some help here. I need some more details to be able to help. I can suggest

[OT] Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread s. keeling
Zhengquan Zhang zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com: ... [snipped] -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Good one, but lacks originality? Cf. Goedel Escher Bach? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)

[Solved] Re: No sound on HP dv4

2009-03-25 Thread s. keeling
I just plugged a pair of external speakers into this thing this morning, and found it all appears to work. YouTube videos and wmv files play fine. s. keeling keel...@nucleus.com: Nigel Henry cave.dnb2m9...@aliceadsl.fr: Repost of info posted on the /dev/sndstat thread by s. keeling. s

Acomdata 320 Gb external USB Linux/Sidux.

2009-03-16 Thread s. keeling
Acomdata 320 Gb external USB has so far been useless on every Linux I've tried it with. Thanks to a hint from d-u, I finally got around to loading usb_storage (Doh!). That manages to get this drive to elicit sdb (finally). The box says it's USB 2.0 (Interface: Hi-Speed USB 2.0). Acomdata E5

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

2009-03-13 Thread s. keeling
? create iso fs for wodim to burn. # mkiso() { genisoimage -o ${iso} \ -allow-leading-dots -pad -max-iso9660-filenames \ -input-charset iso-8859-15 -r -relaxed-filenames \ -T -publisher 's. keeling keel...@nucleus.com' \ ${workdir} sleep 10 chown keeling:keeling ${iso

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

2009-03-12 Thread s. keeling
Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com: Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca writes: Yup, I did a reinstall of Etch. I just did a minimal install this time (unchecked all the options in tasksel). I was able to get througt the base install and right up to the installation of GRUB and the

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

2009-03-12 Thread s. keeling
Robert Hodgins ehodg...@telusplanet.net: Lenny installer isn't. Should I still be using this machine down the road (and I'd like to keep it going as long as the hardware holds up), I'm all for driving it into the ground in order to get your money's worth out of the price of a car, but

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-12 Thread s. keeling
Robert Hodgins ehodg...@telusplanet.net: and boot from the CD reader using an SBM card Not a card. Sorry. I meant a floppy. I use a floppy with Smart Boot Manager v. 3.7.1 on it so that the computer will boot from the CD. I've used this before (a long time ago) on a AMD 486DX3-100.

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