Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 00:57:49 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 07:08:23 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > >> Clive McBarton writes: > >>> The debian-multimedia-keyring is not restricted by patents or any > >>> other licence issues. I understand why the o

Re: How to remove oowriter delay on opening document?

> Ron Johnson : >> So, do You know how I can activate it in KDE 3.5 ? >Nope. xfce is my preferred DE. Just for information, it's mine too. -- Architecte Informatique chez Blueline/Gulfsat: Administration Systeme, Recherche & Developpement +261 34 29 155 34 / +261 33

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -- further question

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 20:32, Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > One further question.  Gigabyte provides various drivers for their > boards, including one for configuring the use of the six audio jacks. > Would that driver be operating system independent? No,

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

Scarletdown wrote: > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-486 >   [Linux-initrd @ 0x10b3000, 0x76cdf9 bytes] > > After that, she's locked up tight, and all I can do is power off. > > This is obviously a problem with initrd.  Set too large for such a low memory > system perhaps? I doubt it, since you

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -- further question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One further question. Gigabyte provides various drivers for their boards, including one for configuring the use of the six audio jacks. Would that driver be operating system independent? Ken -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/L

Re: Linux compatible mainboards

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Clowers wrote: > I don't know specifically about buggy bioses, but in general, Foxconn > is not a brand associated with quality, while Gigabyte, Asus and Intel are. Aside from the quality issue, two+ years ago there was considerable internet

Re: How to trick my Debian in thinking that a package is not installed

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 03:27:28PM +, T o n g was heard to say: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:33:14 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Can you provide any more information about this? It shouldn't happen > > in any recent version of aptitude. > > I can only give you partial information. > > Th

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

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 06:30:58PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > 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 ru

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

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Scarletdown wrote: > Damn Small is fine for a live distro. However, I did not like having to > jump through so many hoops to get it configured the way I wanted (even > permanently changing the hostname was a big hassle). just wondering, best reason there is havin

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

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Scarletdown wrote: > ...but now I would like to make it dual boot with Debian. However, the laptop > hangs when I try to boot into Linux. Specifically, the last thing shown on > the screen before nothing else happens is: im interested to know why your choosing de

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

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 t

Re: backup apt tree?

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 07:49:32PM +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > What files contain the information on the current ("now") apt tree? I > would like to perform backups of these files so that I could restore > the tree if some package upgrade messed up my Debian testing. > I don't think

Re: Linux compatible mainboards

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:31, Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Two years ago I bought a Foxconn 45CM-S mainboard.  Unfortunately before > I bought it I failed to research adequately this board and other > alternatives.  In time I became unsatisfied with its p

RFH: slow awk scripts wanted

Hi, I am new to awk but quite like it, and I am considering working on some changes to mawk that would have an impact on performance. Problem: generally awk is already more than fast enough for me. So chances are, this would end up ruining it for everyone else! Unless you help. If you have -

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 07:08:23 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> Clive McBarton writes: >>> The debian-multimedia-keyring is not restricted by patents or any >>> other licence issues. I understand why the other d-m packages are not

The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:35:55 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-21 13:04, Camaleón wrote: 1/ "nv" driver (only 2-D) >>> Except that Nvidia deprecated this driver a few weeks ago... >> >> ... only for "newer" (fermi) cards ;-) > > Will they keep it current with X? Let me "copy/paste" f

Re: Heads UP icedove 3.0.4-2

Op 21-04-10 22:39, Andreas Weber schreef: > Wayne Topa wrote: >> just upgraded icedove on 686 & AND64 Squeeze. >> >> It runs on 686 but segfaults on AND64, my main system. > > Don't upgrade yet if you're using Engimail! > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=569804 > > 'Hold' is yo

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

On 2010-04-21 14:45, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] I use 3/ and 195.36.15 to drive 2 seats on 2 GeForce 6200 cards How's that Studebaker holding up? -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

On 2010-04-21 14:48, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Eh. I'm still running .31 from December. (Will soon be upgrading to .33, though.) So will I, as soon as it gets out of experimental Or roll your own kernel. You'll learn a lot. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember?

Re: Heads UP icedove 3.0.4-2

Wayne Topa wrote: > just upgraded icedove on 686 & AND64 Squeeze. > > It runs on 686 but segfaults on AND64, my main system. Don't upgrade yet if you're using Engimail! http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=569804 'Hold' is your friend unless this one is fixed. signature.asc D

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Stefan's suggestion is interesting, but I know pretty much nothing about the Law: I am doing (CS) engineering studies! Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21 at 15:04, Stefan Monnier penned: > > > Except that most technical people would probably rather hammer a nail > through their forehead

Re: Hi how to escaping under ` ` in sh

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Wes Garland wrote: > Try > > `mysql -u root -pmy\\\$qlPW -N -B -e 'show databases'` > > I think that's right. Escape the $ so it doesn't get processed by the > current shell, escape the slash so it doesn't get processed, falls to \$ > which then re-escapes the $ f

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

On Wed,21.Apr.10, 14:48:30, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >Eh. I'm still running .31 from December. (Will soon be upgrading > >to .33, though.) > > > > So will I, as soon as it gets out of experimental This will most likely not happen before the release. Regards, Andrei -- Of

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-21 13:04, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:44:38 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-21 12:22, Camaleón wrote: [snip] For GeForce 7600GS you have the following options: 1/ "nv" driver (only 2-D) Except that Nvidia deprecated this driver a few weeks ago..

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:14:09 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: Further to my original post, it was and is my intention to use replace the internal graphics card with Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS card, which I have already but have yet to install. It will of course will use a different driver.

Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Kevin Ross wrote: [snip] >> Well, I could be hallucinating, but FYI I tested this by comparing the >> two Epiphany versions side by side.  Version 2.29 was running in a Sid >> chroot (schroot -p).  The new version looked brighter and a wee bit >> clearer. I first

Re: Heads UP icedove 3.0.4-2

Le 21/04/2010 19:37, Wayne Topa wrote: just upgraded icedove on 686 & AND64 Squeeze. It runs on 686 but segfaults on AND64, my main system. Wayne Hi, running it on two different AMD64 Squeeze systems, works fine. I use iceowl 1.0b1 (lightning) calendar extension, Adblock Plus 1.1.3, contac

Re: Heads UP icedove 3.0.4-2

Joe wrote: On 21/04/10 18:37, Wayne Topa wrote: just upgraded icedove on 686 & AND64 Squeeze. It runs on 686 but segfaults on AND64, my main system. Wayne We've had it in Sid since at least 12/04. I'm using mail and news, LDAP addresses, I think I'm exercising most of it. No trouble here.

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

On Wed, Apr 21 at 15:04, Stefan Monnier penned: > > Now think about the other route: the one based on the law instead of > technology: the legal document can simply describe what she's > allowed to do, and that will automatically cover all imaginable ways > to circumvent any technological means yo

Re: Heads UP icedove 3.0.4-2

On 21/04/10 18:37, Wayne Topa wrote: just upgraded icedove on 686 & AND64 Squeeze. It runs on 686 but segfaults on AND64, my main system. Wayne We've had it in Sid since at least 12/04. I'm using mail and news, LDAP addresses, I think I'm exercising most of it. No trouble here. GA-MA74GM-

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

> My reason is quite complicated, and is really justified. Briefly, one > person that I know needs to have some report I wrote, but this person > should not be able neither to print it nor to extract content from it, > for a simple reason: this person could transmit a part (or the whole) > [of the]

Re: python-twisted-core not getting updated on i386, but is updated on amd64 [was Re: Increasing number of conflicts]

Hi. Rick Thomas (21/04/2010): > I don't know how this can happen, but it definitely did happen. > Enjoy! The list of Arch: all packages merged into the Packages list for a given architecture depends (!) on the build status of the related Arch: any packages. I can think of the following referenc

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

On 2010-04-21 13:04, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:44:38 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-21 12:22, Camaleón wrote: [snip] For GeForce 7600GS you have the following options: 1/ "nv" driver (only 2-D) Except that Nvidia deprecated this driver a few weeks ago... ... only for "ne

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

On 2010-04-21 12:54, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-04-21 19:40 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-21 12:31, Aioanei Rares wrote: [snip] how 'bout nouveau? :-) It's not up to snuff yet. [snip] be, it is already in good shape in sid. Note that it is still 2D only, but it should be muc

If you want a cogent answer... (was Re: PDF is ...)

On 2010-04-21 10:23, Merciadri Luca wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [snip] I think you might have gotten better replies in shorter time, if you had been more explicit and clear about what you try to achieve. > No problem, but I do not like (and want) to express my personal opinion and probl

[OT] Birthday Gear (was Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and

worse) Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <1391349987.168491.1271772706833.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:11:46AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:39:27 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2010-04-20 08:24, Lisi wrote: > >> On Tuesday 20 April 2010 03:

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 06:04:01PM +, Camaleón wrote: > I find it a bit more difficult to manage (if you change the kernel, you > need to recompile the driver again). IMHO that only depends on what Debian distro you use :P. I can live with logging in to the basic shell, running the .sh again

Re: How to remove oowriter delay on opening document?

On 2010-04-21 08:58, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Ron: For me, that version performs much better than an other than the old 1.x ones. Then, something else You have that I do not (libs?) that prevent me from running the testing repo OO... I run Sid. There was a feat

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:44:38 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-21 12:22, Camaleón wrote: [snip] >> >> For GeForce 7600GS you have the following options: >> >> 1/ "nv" driver (only 2-D) > > Except that Nvidia deprecated this driver a few weeks ago... ... only for "newer" (fermi) cards ;-)

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 01:14:09PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > Further to my original post, it was and is my intention to use replace > the internal graphics card with Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS card, which I > have already but have yet to install. It will of course will use a > different driver. In th

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

On 2010-04-21 19:40 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-21 12:31, Aioanei Rares wrote: > [snip] >> how 'bout nouveau? :-) >> > > It's not up to snuff yet. Not in Lenny (and it won't be there), but for Squeeze it should soon be, it is already in good shape in sid. Note that it is still 2D

Re: backup apt tree?

On 2010-04-21 06:58, B. Alexander wrote: [snip] I leave /var in a separate partition, only because I cut my teeth on Unix/Linux back in the days when filling / or /var would cause a system crash. It still can. But disks aren't 300MB anymore. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUB

Re: python-twisted-core not getting updated on i386, but is updated on amd64 [was Re: Increasing number of conflicts]

On Apr 21, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Tristan Seligmann wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: The reason seems to be that python-twisted-core version 10.0.0-3 is available on amd64 Sid, but on i386 Sid it's only available at version 10.0.0-2 . Maybe it needs to be rebuilt fo

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

On 2010-04-21 12:22, Camaleón wrote: [snip] For GeForce 7600GS you have the following options: 1/ "nv" driver (only 2-D) Except that Nvidia deprecated this driver a few weeks ago... 2/ "nvidia" driver from Debian "contrib" and "non-free" sources 3/ "nvidia" driver from nvidia website 4/ VES

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

On 2010-04-21 12:31, Aioanei Rares wrote: [snip] how 'bout nouveau? :-) It's not up to snuff yet. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:31:42 +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: > On 04/21/2010 08:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> For GeForce 7600GS you have the following options: >> >> 1/ "nv" driver (only 2-D) >> 2/ "nvidia" driver from Debian "contrib" and "non-free" sources 3/ >> "nvidia" driver from nvidia website 4/

Heads UP icedove 3.0.4-2

just upgraded icedove on 686 & AND64 Squeeze. It runs on 686 but segfaults on AND64, my main system. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bcf37c3

Re: Hash Sum mismatch

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:27:59 +0200, Martin wrote: > When I tryed to install simutrans game with aptitude I got this error > and was not able to install it: (...) > I have original DVDs. Content of /cdrom/.disk/info is: Debian GNU/Linux > 5.0.4 "Lenny" - Official i386 DVD Binary-3 20100131-19:16

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

On 04/21/2010 08:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:14:09 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: Further to my original post, it was and is my intention to use replace the internal graphics card with Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS card, which I have already but have yet to install. It will of course w

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Camaleón wrote: > For GeForce 7600GS you have the following options: > > 1/ "nv" driver (only 2-D) > 2/ "nvidia" driver from Debian "contrib" and "non-free" sources > 3/ "nvidia" driver from nvidia website > 4/ VESA driver (not recommended) > FWIW, I'm using opt

Re: python-twisted-core not getting updated on i386, but is updated on amd64 [was Re: Increasing number of conflicts]

Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:58:53AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 07:41, Rick Thomas wrote: The reason seems to be that python-twisted-core version 10.0.0-3 is available on amd64 Sid, but on i386 Sid it's only available at version 10.0.0-2 . Maybe it need

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:14:09 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > Further to my original post, it was and is my intention to use replace > the internal graphics card with Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS card, which I > have already but have yet to install. It will of course will use a > different driver. In that ca

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Further to my original post, it was and is my intention to use replace the internal graphics card with Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS card, which I have already but have yet to install. It will of course will use a different driver. In that case, does it rea

Re: python-twisted-core not getting updated on i386, but is updated on amd64 [was Re: Increasing number of conflicts]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:58:53AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 07:41, Rick Thomas wrote: > > The reason seems to be that python-twisted-core version 10.0.0-3 is > > available on amd64 Sid, but on i386 Sid it's only available at version > > 10.0.0-2 . > > > > Maybe it needs

Linux compatible mainboards

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Two years ago I bought a Foxconn 45CM-S mainboard. Unfortunately before I bought it I failed to research adequately this board and other alternatives. In time I became unsatisfied with its performance. Lenny was and is rock-solid stable on my Lenovo

Re: uploading to esnips

Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-20 12:11, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Uploading to esnips (http://www.esnips.com) doesn't work anylonger in Iceweasel. When *did* it work? You have to be a member to upload but it's free. I can only upload when I use FF on XP under VMware. Google-chrome doesn't

Re: How to trick my Debian in thinking that a package is not installed

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:10:24 + (UTC) T o n g wrote: Hello T, > Yes, that's what I am doing now. Moreover, I've put it on hold in both > dpkg and aptitude, but somehow it still get upgraded from time to time. If you're going to deal with durep outside the package management system, do so /c

Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:21:12 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: Hello Ron, > Yeah, but this is one of those "release the apple and it falls" > guesses. *Occasionally* it won't, but usually, like 10 9's, it will. or as Terry Pratchett puts it; Nine times out of ten, a million to one shot pays off. --

Re: python-twisted-core not getting updated on i386, but is updated on amd64 [was Re: Increasing number of conflicts]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > The reason seems to be that python-twisted-core version 10.0.0-3 is > available on amd64 Sid, but on i386 Sid it's only available at version > 10.0.0-2 . > > Maybe it needs to be rebuilt for i386 ? python-twisted-core is an Arch: all package,

Re: backup apt tree?

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:14:54 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Downgrading is not supported... It will *not* fix your problem. You can > of course uninstall the package and reinstall a previous version > directly from its deb. And most often, after a major upgrade, the previous versions can't be

Re: How to trick my Debian in thinking that a package is not installed

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:33:14 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> I am talking about the *standalone* durep package. I don't like the new >> 0.9 version but rather prefer the old 0.8 version. However, even I've >> put it on hold in dpkg/aptitude, from time to time if I do a 'aptitude >> safe- upgrade',

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Merciadri Luca wrote: > > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> Just use a grey-by-dotting watermark for black text, merge the layers > >> and it will > >> be rather difficult to remove the watermark. > > I did not merge the layers before sending it to them. Problematic? > >

Re: Plagiarism (was Re: PDF is blocked for ...)

Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich schreef: > May I advertise arXiv for this purpose? http://arxiv.org/ arXiv is a nice website. I tried it, but there is already a repo for my university. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If th

Re: PDF is blocked for printing, etc. OK for acroread (it behaves as expected), but KPDF allows me to print it, even if it is protected! Why?

Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > > You might use a password if you wanted to provide complete access for > some people and no access for others. For someone who has the password, > there is no real protection. I sent some financial documents to a loan > officer once as a pa

Re: How to remove oowriter delay on opening document?

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:55:17 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >>Life is hard :-) > > And I know what makes it harder! ;) > >>If OOo does not offer such feature anymore, you can get "preload¹" which >>is... humm, a "preloader" daemon ;-) > > Thank You ag

Re: Trunk version of linux-image ISSUE: SOLVED!Thanks to all who responded

-Original Message- From: Stephen Powell To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Trunk version of linux-image ISSUE Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:49:27 -0400 (EDT) On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:37:30 -0400 (EDT), JW Foster wrote: > Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d . > run-parts: executing /etc/ke

Re: How to remove oowriter delay on opening document?

Thank You for Your time and answer, Ron: >For me, that version performs much better than an other than the old >1.x ones. Then, something else You have that I do not (libs?) that prevent me from running the testing repo OO... >There was a feature where GNOME or KDE would pre-load OOo at DE >s

Re: How to remove oowriter delay on opening document?

Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: >Life is hard :-) And I know what makes it harder! ;) >If OOo does not offer such feature anymore, you can get "preload¹" which >is... humm, a "preloader" daemon ;-) Thank You again. Do I need to wait for some period when it will gather its statis

Re: Continuous wifi errors

Curt Howland wrote at 2010-04-20 09:27 -0500: > I get the following messages continuously, via dmesg: > > [10438.440147] wlan0: switched to long barker preamble > (BSSID=00:0c:41:fb:d5:50) > [10453.293891] wlan0: switched to short barker preamble > (BSSID=00:0c:41:fb:d5:50) > [10741.016287] wlan

Re: Why are there no latest books written for Debian systems?

On 21/04/10 06:15, surreal wrote: > I wanted to buy a book about Debian, I found that the last book written was > way back in 2005 by Martin F. > Krafft This is hardly a new book. In fa

Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:51:47 -0400 (EDT), Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:01:41 -0400 (EDT), Andrew Malcolmson wrote: >>> Couldn't say why they switched, but I find pages in Epiphany 2.29 in >>> Squeeze look vivid compared

Re: Hi how to escaping under ` ` in sh

Try `mysql -u root -pmy\\\$qlPW -N -B -e 'show databases'` I think that's right. Escape the $ so it doesn't get processed by the current shell, escape the slash so it doesn't get processed, falls to \$ which then re-escapes the $ for passing into mysql as part of your password. Nick is on to som

Hash Sum mismatch

When I tryed to install simutrans game with aptitude I got this error and was not able to install it: ┌──┐ │E: Failed to fetch cdrom:[Lenny DVD │ │ 3]/pool/main/s/simutrans/simutrans-dat

Re: problem with USB external hard disk My Book 1110

Adding something to my recent post underneath quoted : I have now installed u3-tool and tested it. At first, I had to check which devices were concerned. Plugging / unplugging my 'My Book' into a USB slot, activates/deactivates : /dev/sr0 /dev/sg2 /dev/sg3 /dev/sg4 I can also see /dev/sg0 an

Re: dash-as-bin-sh

Hi, Chris! On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Chris Davies wrote: > If you write your script portably it will work with /bin/sh, for many > values of sh. If you rely on features of ksh or bash you should specify > one of those shells on the #! line. > Of course, you're right about portability -- I

Re: problem with USB external hard disk My Book 1110

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:24:26 +0200, Bernard wrote: > #fdisk says : "sector size 2048 (not 512). Unable to write /dev/sr0 - > will not be able to write the partition table > When you run dmesg, what does it say about this drive? -- Virgo Pärna virgo.pa...@mail.ee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: backup apt tree?

Liviu Andronic schreef: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:18 AM, T o n g wrote: On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:52:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: so anything catastrophic as to trash var/ will best be solved by a complete reinstall. 2nd to that. package downgrading would never be "quickly and painlessly". Do a

Re: backup apt tree?

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Ron Johnson > > Honestly, though, how often does that happen? > It happened to me once, and that was enough to take appropriate measures. > Maybe it's because I "just" run a workstation, or maybe because disks are > so huge nowadays, or I'm just a fool, but I le

Re: web app lvm linux

Hi, > Webmin has a lot of features I does not use.. is there any easier than > webmin to manage lvm? you can install the minimal version, http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.510-minimal.tar.gz (1.6 M) and then add only the modules you need.. M

Re: web app lvm linux

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Mirco Piccin wrote: > Hi > >> Hi, do you know any web app for manage lvm on debian linux? Or ar >> least to show LVM  logical volumes via web? > > Webmin :-D Hi Mirco, Webmin has a lot of features I does not use.. is there any easier than webmin to manage lvm? th

Re: problem with USB external hard disk My Book 1110

Thanks for your reply. I did carry a search on the list, which lead me to 'u3-tools' for Linux, downloadable from sourceforge. It is an alpha testing program, which I ought to compile on my system. I will look it up more in details this afternoon. I don't really care that much if it renders my

Re: how to activate canbery

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:14:45 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, Please, keep quoting when replying e-mails to avoid messing the content :-) > I suppose so, since I hear sounds and can play music ? or it is > another thing ? AFAIK, it's another thing as I have disabled my system sound

Re: web app lvm linux

Hi > Hi, do you know any web app for manage lvm on debian linux? Or ar > least to show LVM logical volumes via web? Webmin :-D

web app lvm linux

Hi, do you know any web app for manage lvm on debian linux? Or ar least to show LVM logical volumes via web? -- Regards; Israel Garcia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Gramps in Lenny

2010-04-20 17:42, Ravi Sista skrev: Does it work? In the Gramps website, I see mention of it working against Sid/Squeeze but nothing about Lenny. That text refers to the latest version of gramps, and lenny provides an older version. I added a sentence to the documentation at

Re: Hi how to escaping under ` ` in sh

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Mart Frauenlob wrote: > > mysql | while read; do >        mysqldump -e "$REPLY" > ... > done > Thanks a million :-) It is working!!! --Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Re: how to activate canbery

Hi, I suppose so, since I hear sounds and can play music ? or it is another thing ? otherwise how to enable "system sounds" thanks for help bela

Re: dash-as-bin-sh

Wes Garland wrote: > 2 - Is there way to detect that a script is running as dash, instead of a > shell like Solaris' /bin/sh If you write your script portably it will work with /bin/sh, for many values of sh. If you rely on features of ksh or bash you should specify one of those shells on the #!

Re: Hi how to escaping under ` ` in sh

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 02:40:54PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > You got the output of 'show databases'. You then consider it a shell > > command and try to excute it. Why would you want to do that? What do you > > want to do with that ou

Re: Hi how to escaping under ` ` in sh

On 21.04.2010 11:10, Siju George wrote: [...] > > I was to get the script > > #!/bin/sh > for DB in `mysql -u root -pmy\$qlPW -N -B -e 'show databases'`; \ >do echo $DB; \ >mysqldump -u root -pmy\$qlPW -e $DB > /var/mysql-1hBak/$DB.sql; \ > done > > to work. > >> BTW: I would suggest th

Re: Hi how to escaping under ` ` in sh

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > You got the output of 'show databases'. You then consider it a shell > command and try to excute it. Why would you want to do that? What do you > want to do with that output? > mysql -u root -pmy\$ql -N -B -e 'show databases' works I wa

Re: Hi how to escaping under ` ` in sh

On 21.04.2010 10:57, Siju George wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Mart Frauenlob > wrote: >> > > # `mysql -u root -p'my$qlPW' -N -B -e 'show databases'` > -bash: information_schema: command not found there we go... now, i guess u want to save the output of the command into a variable ri

Re: Hi how to escaping under ` ` in sh

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 02:27:47PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Mart Frauenlob > wrote: > > > > how about: > > ... -p 'my$qlPW' -N ... > > > > # `mysql -u root -p 'my$qlPW' -N -B -e 'show databases'` > Enter password: > > asks for PW > > # `mysql -u root -p'my$ql

Re: Hi how to escaping under ` ` in sh

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Mart Frauenlob wrote: > > how about: > ... -p 'my$qlPW' -N ... > # `mysql -u root -p 'my$qlPW' -N -B -e 'show databases'` Enter password: asks for PW # `mysql -u root -p'my$qlPW' -N -B -e 'show databases'` -bash: information_schema: command not found > or > ...

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

B. Alexander schreef: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:07 PM, John Hasler > wrote: B. Alexander wrote: > I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a > while. This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of > broken

Re: Why are there no latest books written for Debian systems?

On 21/04/10 06:15, surreal wrote: I wanted to buy a book about Debian, I found that the last book written was way back in 2005 by Martin F. Krafft After 2005, Etch and Lenny were rele

Re: Hi how to escaping under ` ` in sh

On 21.04.2010 10:14, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > mysql -u root -pmy\$qlPW -N -B -e 'show databases' > > gives the right output but > > `mysql -u root -pmy\$qlPW -N -B -e 'show databases'` > > gives > > ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using > password: YES) > >

Re: Hi how to escaping under ` ` in sh

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Nick Douma wrote: >>> > When using single quotes ('), everything in the string is literal, so no > escaping is required. You only need escaping when using double quotes ("). > It is not quotes '' but `` :-) thanks --Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Hi how to escaping under ` ` in sh

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 01:44:33PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > mysql -u root -pmy\$qlPW -N -B -e 'show databases' > > gives the right output but > > `mysql -u root -pmy\$qlPW -N -B -e 'show databases'` > > gives > > ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using >

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:07 PM, John Hasler wrote: > B. Alexander wrote: > > I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a > > while. This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of > > broken packages, unmet dependencies and conflicts. I have been using > >

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