On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Mihira Fernando wrote:
> It is possible that there is a conflict with the onboard eithernet card
> and the addon card. Disable the onboard card from the CMOS setup and
> see if this problem persists.
>
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On 13 March 2010 10:20, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in
>> the 1960s.
>>
>> http://www.hyperwords.net/
>
> it doesn't like iceweasel..
>
latest version requires v3.5/v3.6 or above, so maybe tha
On 2010-03-13 16:44, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:19:12 -0500 (EST), Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-13 16:06, Stephen Powell wrote:
Nevertheless, in the unlikely event that I fry my monitor by overriding the
EDID specs, I asked for it, didn't I?
Stephen, Stephen, Stephen. There'
On 2010-03-13 19:21, Celejar wrote:
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:31:53 -0600
Ron Johnson wrote:
...
Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in
the 1960s.
Apparently, it can be argued * that much of the standard modern
computer UI paradigm is "based on the ideas of Douglas
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:10:25 +0800
Timothy Wu <2hug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This seems like an easy problem but I've searched all over without
> explicit solution.
>
> I'm fiddling with a computer which I've not turn on for a while. My
> ethernet interface which comes with the motherboard
On 2010-03-14 00:24, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 05:35:55AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Acknowledging the Truth is the first step towards Enlightenment!
and of course: No man is an island!
Silly man, of course we're not mineral. Nor vegetable, for that matter!
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On 2010-03-13 23:10, Timothy Wu wrote:
Hi,
This seems like an easy problem but I've searched all over without
explicit solution.
I'm fiddling with a computer which I've not turn on for a while. My
ethernet interface which comes with the motherboard did not appear (not
with ifconfig -a),
W
On 2010-03-13 20:26, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
When device is plugged:
$ dmesg | tail -n 9
usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiti
On 20100313_223702, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:38:40 -0500 (EST), Mark Allums wrote:
> > On 3/13/2010 4:51 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> >> On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:13:17 -0500 (EST), John Hasler wrote:
> >>> Stephen Powell writes:
> But I want a way to override things if the d
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 05:35:55AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Acknowledging the Truth is the first step towards Enlightenment!
and of course: No man is an island!
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CCing Frank, as I'm guessing he is not subscribed. He hasn't responded,
in this thread, which enforces my opinion.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:04:23PM +0200, Jari Fredriksson wrote:
> On 11.3.2010 22:36, Frank J Niertit wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > First of all let me thank you for a great system. You ha
Hi,
This seems like an easy problem but I've searched all over without explicit
solution.
I'm fiddling with a computer which I've not turn on for a while. My ethernet
interface which comes with the motherboard did not appear (not with ifconfig
-a), so I plugged in another ethernet card and now it
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:38:40 -0500 (EST), Mark Allums wrote:
> On 3/13/2010 4:51 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:13:17 -0500 (EST), John Hasler wrote:
>>> Stephen Powell writes:
But I want a way to override things if the defaults are not to my
liking. As I mentioned i
When device is plugged:
$ dmesg | tail -n 9
usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
sc
On 3/13/2010 4:51 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:13:17 -0500 (EST), John Hasler wrote:
Stephen Powell writes:
But I want a way to override things if the defaults are not to my
liking. As I mentioned in another post, there are some things, such
as HorizSync and VertRefresh, th
Tom H wrote:
You're welcome. I hope that you have an actual Windows CD/DVD to use
the above commands given that most manufacturers ship recovery CDs
only that may or may not allow you to use these commands. :(
Maybe the mbr package is what we're looking for here.
http://packages.debian.org/l
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:03:51 +0100
pch0317 wrote:
> Hi
> I have problem with my wireless embedded device.
>
> I use Debian testing and Compaq 615 notebook with Broadcom 802.11 b/g.
>
> Only if I enable in BIOS "embedded WLAN" and "embedded bluetooth" my
> Debian can't boot up.
"Can't boot up"
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:06:14 -0430
Germana Oliveira wrote:
[I wrote - please leave attributions when quoting.]
> > This really seems bizarre - you're saying that it shows up in dmesg
> > as /dev/sda, but 'ls /dev/sda' shows 'No such file or directory' ?!
> >
> > Please report the *exact* dmesg
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:31:53 -0600
Ron Johnson wrote:
...
> Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in
> the 1960s.
Apparently, it can be argued * that much of the standard modern
computer UI paradigm is "based on the ideas of Douglas Engelbart".
* Weasel wording, sinc
>>> MS-Windows used to have an undocumented switch "fdisk /mbr" which would
>>> remap the MBR and erase any copy of lilo or grub present. I don't know if
>>> they still have that option.
>>
>> Undocumented?
>>
>> The command above works pre-XP.
>>
>> For XP, it is fixmbr and/or fixboot..
>>
>> For
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:09:13 +0100
Florian Kulzer wrote:
...
> The kernel seems to use the information in
>
> /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.alias
>
> to decide which module(s) to try for a given device. AFAIK, this
> information is generated/updated by running depmod, which is handled
> au
Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:26:58 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote:
A bit worrisome to me. UUID must be persistent during normal life of a
device, so it can be used as an identifier.
It is important to distinguish between a device and a partition.
/dev/hda is a device. /dev/h
On 20100313_144620, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:26:58 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote:
> >
> > A bit worrisome to me. UUID must be persistent during normal life of a
> > device, so it can be used as an identifier.
>
> It is important to distinguish between a device and a parti
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:13:17 -0500 (EST), John Hasler wrote:
> Stephen Powell writes:
>> But I want a way to override things if the defaults are not to my
>> liking. As I mentioned in another post, there are some things, such
>> as HorizSync and VertRefresh, that cannot be overridden for a
>> plug
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:19:12 -0500 (EST), Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-03-13 16:06, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> Nevertheless, in the unlikely event that I fry my monitor by overriding the
>> EDID specs, I asked for it, didn't I?
>
> Stephen, Stephen, Stephen. There's a butt-load more lawyers than
>
Ron Johnson writes:
> Incorrect values might bzzt the monitor??
No way are there any monitors new enough to support EDID but still
vulnerable to wrong synch. That problem was solved before EDIDwas
invented.
Besides, maybe I _want_ to bzzt my monitor.
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Stephen Powell writes:
> But I want a way to override things if the defaults are not to my
> liking. As I mentioned in another post, there are some things, such
> as HorizSync and VertRefresh, that cannot be overridden for a
> plug-and-play monitor.
You _could_ cut off pin 12 on the connector...
On 2010-03-13 16:06, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:34:15 -0500 (EST), Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-13 13:57, Stephen Powell wrote:
As I mentioned in another post,
there are some things, such as HorizSync and VertRefresh, that cannot
be overridden for a plug-and-play monitor. I
Stephan Powell writes:
> But an explicit configuration statement should always, in my opinion,
> be able to override any probed value.
I agree. "It might damage the monitor" would not really be an excuse
even if there were vulnerable EDID monitors. "Newbies" are not going to
put modelines in xor
On 13 March 2010 21:26, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> what version of iceweasel do you have
>>
>
> v3.5.8
>
It's 3.0.6 for me, and works well.
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On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:34:15 -0500 (EST), Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-03-13 13:57, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> As I mentioned in another post,
>> there are some things, such as HorizSync and VertRefresh, that cannot
>> be overridden for a plug-and-play monitor. I don't like that trend at all.
>
>
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:17:10 -0500 (EST), Stephen Powell wrote:
> I did indeed do the math incorrectly! What a schoolboy mistake!
> I neglected to convert from bits to bytes. But I don't understand
> your version either. The correct math, by the way I have traditionally
> done it, is
>
>13
On 2010-03-13 13:57, Stephen Powell wrote:
[snip]
if the defaults are not to my liking. As I mentioned in another post,
there are some things, such as HorizSync and VertRefresh, that cannot
be overridden for a plug-and-play monitor. I don't like that trend at all.
Incorrect values might bzzt
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 07:19:13PM +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:53:35 -0800, Freeman wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:16:48PM +, Camaleón wrote:
>
>
> > I typo-ed the label for my root partition on my last fstab update but it
> > mounted anyway as rootfs in mtab.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 06:00:49PM -0800, Maria McKinley wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I cannot believe how difficult this is to figure out. In Debian
> Lenny, Shut Down appears in the System menu in the top panel by
> default, for all users. In Debian Squeeze, this does not appear to
> be the case. I h
On 2010-03-13 13:11, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-13 04:20, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote:
Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in
the 1960s.
http://www.hyperwords.net/
it doesn't like iceweasel..
Sure it
On 2010-03-13 09:05, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote:
http://www.hyperwords.net/
it doesn't like iceweasel..
Sure it does. Me using it is QED.
when I click on the download, it said I had to install firefox, chrome, or...
something else..
now, it DID install
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:45:13 -0500 (EST), John Hasler wrote:
> Stephen Powell writes:
>> But the designers of X are probably more interested in preventing
>> damage to the monitor.
>
> It is rather unlikely that any monitor modern enough to have EDID would
> be damaged by incorrect synch. It would
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:57:35 -0500 (EST), Ed Jabbour wrote:
> Ahh, the vagaries of machine translation. I took the word "other" in the
> phrase "other top stories" and ran it from English to Arabic to Chinese to
> English. I got "detention top stories".
That reminds me of a story in which a p
Stephen Powell writes:
> But the designers of X are probably more interested in preventing
> damage to the monitor.
It is rather unlikely that any monitor modern enough to have EDID would
be damaged by incorrect synch. It would just shut down if it was sent
something it couldn't deal with.
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On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:27:48 -0500 (EST), Mark Allums wrote:
> First of all, thanks for the running commentary, it is well done.
> Second, it shows that X tends to ignore stuff it finds inconvenient.
> From one other post, we see that xorg.conf is optional these days, and
> from a different post
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:26:58 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> A bit worrisome to me. UUID must be persistent during normal life of a
> device, so it can be used as an identifier.
It is important to distinguish between a device and a partition.
/dev/hda is a device. /dev/hda1 is a partition.
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-12 23:27, Mark Allums wrote:
On 3/12/2010 12:11 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:58:08 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote:
On 20100312_092355, Stephen Powell wrote:
Paul, please provide the following information:
(5) The contents of /var/log/Xo
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:13:38 -0500 (EST), Mark Allums wrote:
> I am asking such silly-seeming questions because xorg.conf these days
> tends to be ignored by the Xservers if it seems inconvenient to the
> driver+server. That is, in my experience, if the monitor is
> plug-and-play, then X goes b
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:53:35 -0800, Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:16:48PM +, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> Well, that said I like Lenny still uses the old scheme "/dev/sdx". At
>> least if it changes, I still understand it better than the new udev
>> naming :-)
>>
>>
> I've been c
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:09:27 -0500 (EST), Tony Nelson wrote:
> On 10-03-12 13:11:14, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:58:08 -0500 (EST), Paul E Condon wrote:
>>> ...
>>> (--) SAVAGE(0): probed videoram: 32768k
>>
>> Plenty of video RAM to do true color mode even at 1366x768
>> res
On Saturday 13 March 2010 12:31:53 am
Ron Johnson wrote:
> Since I stumbled onto this a couple of months ago, it's become
> indispensable! Highlight some text, right-click and a little b/w
> bull's eye appears. Mouse onto the bull's eye and a pop-up menu
> appears which lets you perform a mult
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-13 04:20, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote:
Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in
the 1960s.
http://www.hyperwords.net/
it doesn't like iceweasel..
Sure it does. Me using it is QED.
what version o
Hi
I have problem with my wireless embedded device.
I use Debian testing and Compaq 615 notebook with Broadcom 802.11 b/g.
Only if I enable in BIOS "embedded WLAN" and "embedded bluetooth" my
Debian can't boot up.
When this option are "disable" linux boot up, but I can't play with
wireless and
On 20100313_111314, Tom H wrote:
> > When I install a 2nd/3rd distrib on a HD, I have made it a practice
> > to set up fstab so the existing distrib are mounted automatically.
> > Repeated use leads to all functioning distrib to be crosslinked.
> > But when a distrib must be reinstalled because som
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heard to say:
> On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >> http://www.hyperwords.net/
> > >
> > > it doesn't like iceweasel..
> >
> > Sure it does. Me using it is QED.
>
> when I click on the downl
> lrhorer :
> My servers are on a secure network, unaccessible from outside the
> network, and I almost never do anything that doesn't require root
> access on them,
LOL
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On Saturday 13 March 2010, Ron Johnson was
heard to say:
> > $ strace mpg123
[snip]
> > chdir("/usr/lib/mpg123")= 0
> > open("/lib/output_alsa.la", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or
> > directory)
>
> This is odd-looking.
>
Germana Oliveira wrote:
This really seems bizarre - you're saying that it shows up in dmesg
as /dev/sda, but 'ls /dev/sda' shows 'No such file or directory' ?!
Please report the *exact* dmesg and ls output here.
How can i find my pen drive so i can format it.
If you can't fin
lrhorer wrote:
I have been using kde4 for over a year. The only issues that I have
had are the lack of a couple of programs that haven't been ported from
kde3 to kde4 yet but I have managed with out them. You didn't explain
what your problems are with kde4 so I am going to have to guess here.
Yes
>
> This really seems bizarre - you're saying that it shows up in dmesg
> as /dev/sda, but 'ls /dev/sda' shows 'No such file or directory' ?!
>
> Please report the *exact* dmesg and ls output here.
>
> > How can i find my pen drive so i can format it.
>
> If you can't find it, you have wo
I reported this issue to bugs.debian.org and solution
is to install libgtk2.0-dev and libgtkhtml2-dev
packages. After that example programs do work.
Martin
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> When I install a 2nd/3rd distrib on a HD, I have made it a practice
> to set up fstab so the existing distrib are mounted automatically.
> Repeated use leads to all functioning distrib to be crosslinked.
> But when a distrib must be reinstalled because something drasticly
> wrong happened, or wha
On 20100313_095320, Tom H wrote:
> >> I believe a UUID is generated when the partition is "formatted", either
> >> with
> >> mkfs or mkswap.
>
> > I confirm - just tried shrinking and growing back an extfs. UUID is left
> > untouched (as expected); that Mint article is BS or just obsolete.
>
> I
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:19:05PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I am trying to get a USB device working. In lsusb the ID shows up, but
> the name of the device does not. Is this an indication that the driver
> is not properly installed?
>
> For instance, this is how functioning devices look in lsus
Martin wrote:
I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude
then with synaptic without worry that something will break?
They both use same database of installed packages, right?
I guess the answer is 'yes' - I just want to be sure.
Martin
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On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> http://www.hyperwords.net/
> >
> > it doesn't like iceweasel..
>
> Sure it does. Me using it is QED.
when I click on the download, it said I had to install firefox, chrome, or...
something else..
now, it DID install just fine on my separate firefox 3
>> I believe a UUID is generated when the partition is "formatted", either
>> with
>> mkfs or mkswap.
> I confirm - just tried shrinking and growing back an extfs. UUID is left
> untouched (as expected); that Mint article is BS or just obsolete.
I have never come across the problem described by t
Johan Grönqvist wrote:
> Merciadri Luca skrev:
>> For TeX reasons, I would like to open the same PDF in two different
>> acroread processes. How can I do this?
>
> From "man acroread" it seems to me that the following option should work:
>
> -openInNewInstance
> It launches a new instance of ac
I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude
then with synaptic without worry that something will break?
They both use same database of installed packages, right?
I guess the answer is 'yes' - I just want to be sure.
Martin
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Merciadri Luca skrev:
For TeX reasons, I would like to open the same PDF in two different
acroread processes. How can I do this?
From "man acroread" it seems to me that the following option should work:
-openInNewInstance
It launches a new instance of acroread process. The application
On 2010-03-13 04:20, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote:
Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in
the 1960s.
http://www.hyperwords.net/
it doesn't like iceweasel..
Sure it does. Me using it is QED.
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Hi,
For TeX reasons, I would like to open the same PDF in two different
acroread processes. How can I do this?
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On Sat March 13 2010, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Apparently, it's based upon the ideas of Douglas Engelbart back in
> the 1960s.
>
> http://www.hyperwords.net/
it doesn't like iceweasel..
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:16:48PM +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:21:14 +0100, Javier Barroso wrote:
>
> (...)
>
> >> Maybe there is a good comparison chart about all these methods that
> >> list their "pros" and "cons" :-?
>
> > Not a chart, but yes references to why uuid ... :
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-03-12 19:52, lrhorer wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> My servers are on a secure network, unaccessible from outside
>> the
>> network, and I almost never do anything that doesn't require root
>> access on them, so I set them up with a chooser that has root as one
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