debian squeeze gnome-orca status

2009-06-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
A sighted friend came over and left a few minutes ago. We managed to get gnome up and me logged in and managed to get vlc to play sound files on the computer. When we ran orca though orca wouldn't talk even after preferences were set to have it talking after login. This is either an orca

[Solved] Re: up-to-date Sid, Need help with xorg.conf

2009-06-06 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So trying to make the VGA input on a Sharp TV work, we have the following: Using these elements from Wayne Topa: On Friday 05 June 2009 Wayne Topa linux...@gmail.com wrote: The DFP is for an LCD. Section Device ... Option Metamodes

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

Re: [OT] Hosting a DNS

2009-06-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 03.06.09 21:23, GNUbie wrote: What do you think is the main reason or the importance of hosting your own DNS when your ISP and/or Domain Registrar can host it for you for FREE? direct access to the zones, ability to change it whenever you want. However

Re: mp4 video file to mp3 audio file

2009-06-06 Thread ronggui wong
Dear all, Thanks for your response. I find that the output is mp2 if I use ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.mp3. Of course, I can use lame to further convert the mp2 file to mp3. How can I achieve the same mp3 by one command? I tried add the command mentioned by Sjoerd, but it says Unknown encoder

OT Picture in Web Page Problem

2009-06-06 Thread Thomas H. George
My first try at web page design. Installed Apache2, tried http://dragon.zoo/index.html and it worked. Created an html file: htmlbody h1Weekday Skiers/h1 img scr=/data/Scratch/47cc75e.jpg width=500 height=300 / a href=http://www.cnn.com;CNN/a /body/html and got a gray 300x500

Re: OT Picture in Web Page Problem

2009-06-06 Thread Steve Reilly
Thomas H. George wrote: My first try at web page design. Installed Apache2, tried http://dragon.zoo/index.html and it worked. Created an html file: htmlbody h1Weekday Skiers/h1 img scr=/data/Scratch/47cc75e.jpg width=500 height=300 / a href=http://www.cnn.com;CNN/a

Re: OT Picture in Web Page Problem

2009-06-06 Thread ghe
Thomas H. George wrote: My first try at web page design. Installed Apache2, tried http://dragon.zoo/index.html and it worked. Created an html file: snip the right direction I would really appreciate it. I see where somebody already corrected the scr/src oopsie. An editor that knows a

mdadm on lenny64, why two spares?

2009-06-06 Thread whollygoat
Can anyone tell me why the following command creates 2 spares instead of just one? # mdadm -C /dev/md0 -v -e1 -l5 -b internal \ -n3 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdg1 /dev/hdi1 \ -x1 /dev/hdk1 --name FileServ -a yes # mdadm -D /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 01.00 Creation Time : Sat Jun 6

Re: squeeze grep is broken

2009-06-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 11:57:56AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: I tried a command line like: grep -in print-installation-architecture * | less cr and got me a surprise. I was in /var/lib/dpkg/info when I did this and was curious to know what other scripts might have that deprecated command

Re: squeeze the whole grep suite is broken

2009-06-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
Interesting! I was one with wrong idea for the root cause. On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 07:49:18PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 12:01:35 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: rgrep throws the same argument list too long error as did grep. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6060

Re: MySQL admin qref?

2009-06-06 Thread debian
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: Hi. I'm trying to config mysql. I've done this before, and it worked well, and I took notes, but they're not

Re: mp4 video file to mp3 audio file

2009-06-06 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 18:20, ronggui wong ronggui.w...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Thanks for your response. I find that the output is mp2 if I use ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.mp3. Of course, I can use lame to further convert the mp2 file to mp3. How can I achieve the same mp3 by one command?

Re: What packages work like: DVDFab and / or ConvertXtoDvd under Debian?

2009-06-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/6/7 StOrM3 sto...@twlakes.net Hello, The only thing stopping me from dropping Micro$haft all together is that I use these programs faithfully on a regular basis. I need a good DVD Ripping / Converting application that is graphical based like DVDFab, so I don't have to figure out

Re: How to improve performance on laptop?

2009-06-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Michael Yang michael@gmail.com wrote: Hi, [...] fine, although some problems happened and got fixed. (Now is Lenny, 2.6.24, Xfce4). The system has been very stable, but just with performance issues now. The time to start the system is OK (usually about 22secs in

Re: squeeze grep status

2009-06-06 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Jude DaShiell wrote: Apparently argument list too long is an operating system error. I made it happen with ed too. I can divide and conquer though by limiting argument lists with regular expressions in this case. Does `find . -name REGEXP -exec COMMAND` help? See man

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