Re: open source time/expense tracking package?

2011-06-12 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: > >> "You get full /source/ code access so you can make the system behave just >> the" >> > > I guess I should have said it's not FOSS. > > > >> Give it a try, we've used it for years for internal ti

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
2011/6/13 Scott Ferguson : > Bell don't do a prepaid deal do they? No (my deal was the cheapest monthly contract, includes 500 MB with the monthly fee) Chr. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/06/11 15:57, Christian Jaeger wrote: >> which is.. > > sorry, I tend to hit sent too quickly. > > number => "*99#" > apn => "inet.bell.ca" That is as it should be. Bell don't do a prepaid deal do they? > > PS. here's how this thread started a year ago: > http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?3

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
> which is.. sorry, I tend to hit sent too quickly. number => "*99#" apn => "inet.bell.ca" PS. here's how this thread started a year ago: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?31,107067,202298 Also, for archival purposes (in case anyone ever replies me there), here's a link to my post on the network-

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
> Let's see if we can get it working with it's (the modem's) current > settings first - acting on the presumption (assumption?) that it would > work as it stands, should you plug it in to a Windoof box. (I meant modifying the source in places where it is sending AT commands that are not persistent

Re: Re (2): Configuring Iceweasel security policies.

2011-06-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/06/11 09:14, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > From: Scott Ferguson > Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:20:17 +1000 >> Stepping through what you've described above... >> >> You saved the page to "storage of Dalton" presumably "storage" is >> somewhere below /home/peter >> >> eg.:- >> home/peter/"P

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/06/11 13:56, Christian Jaeger wrote: > I wrote: >> the modem hasn't crashed >> anymore, I don't know yet whether that's just because I'm lucky or the >> newer version fixes the issue, I'll tell after more testing > > I was just lucky, it still crashes. So I intend to play with changing > the

Re: news/mail client and the text borders

2011-06-12 Thread Davide Baldini
This doesn't seem to be such a common/requested feature though nearly everyone uses it in newsgroups. On 06/13/11 05:05, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I suspect you get something similar to this > > dummytextdummytextdumm ytext dummytextdummytextdumm ytext > > Right? exactly > Perhaps you need to edi

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
I wrote: > the modem hasn't crashed > anymore, I don't know yet whether that's just because I'm lucky or the > newer version fixes the issue, I'll tell after more testing I was just lucky, it still crashes. So I intend to play with changing the AT commnds in the mm source. (Hm, I guess I should p

Re: news/mail client and the text borders

2011-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/12/2011 09:28 PM, Davide Baldini wrote: What software do you use for mail/news? I see all your messages are proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in pages of 80 columns, while I have to push return each line. If i forget, lines gets splitted in my window but then when i send it out i see

Re: installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/06/11 06:27, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 06:45:04AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 12/06/11 06:22, Robert Holtzman wrote: >>> How can I install multiple debs residing in a directory on my hard drive? >>> Unless I missed it, running a search, the Debian Reference man

Re: news/mail client and the text borders

2011-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 04:28 +0200, Davide Baldini wrote: > What software do you use for mail/news? > I see all your messages are proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in > pages of 80 columns, while I have to push return each line. If i forget, > lines gets splitted in my window but then when i

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/06/11 04:22, H.S. wrote: > On 12/06/11 07:18 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 12/06/11 11:01, H.S. wrote: >>> On 11/06/11 07:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 19:37 -0400, H.S. wrote: > On 11/06/11 07:21 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 12/06/11 08:48, Ralf Mardorf w

news/mail client and the text borders

2011-06-12 Thread Davide Baldini
What software do you use for mail/news? I see all your messages are proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in pages of 80 columns, while I have to push return each line. If i forget, lines gets splitted in my window but then when i send it out i see the big mistake... is there any margins set

Re: Can't install on an Intel iMac

2011-06-12 Thread Mike Hore
Hi Andu, On 2011-06-12 04:26, Mike Hore wrote: 3. Install rEFIt on the Mac. Don't forget to run enable-always.sh. It's installed, but I don't know what you mean by enable-always.sh. Sorry, I'm new to this. In MacOS, open up a terminal, go to /efi/refit/ and run 'enable-always.sh' so rEFIt i

Re: installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:24:37PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 12 Jun 2011 at 13:27:49 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > That did the trick. Thanks. BTW, where in the docs does it mention this > > situation and point to dpkg? I would love to know where I missed it. > > Debian Reference. Sectio

Re (2): Configuring Iceweasel security policies.

2011-06-12 Thread peasthope
From: Scott Ferguson Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:20:17 +1000 > Stepping through what you've described above... > > You are on a Dalton console. By console I mean the SVGA monitor, keyboard and mouse. It supports X11 in addition to plain CLI. > If you are *not* running as root (and why would

Re: psi instead of Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, Not an expert, but skype uses its own proprietary protocol, i think (plus SIP to initiate), so i think you'd need a skype transport on your jabber server. Again, not an expert. Try converting your friends to open protocols instead ;) [not an easy task, i know] HTH, Nuno -- Mars 2 Stay! htt

Re: installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Jun 2011 at 13:27:49 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > That did the trick. Thanks. BTW, where in the docs does it mention this > situation and point to dpkg? I would love to know where I missed it. Debian Reference. Section 2.4.1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: open source time/expense tracking package?

2011-06-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: How about redmine (www.redmine.org)? That is a real nice project management system. time sheets - fill in, "sign" and submit, approve, transfer to accounting/billing system, maintain audit log expense reports - fill in, "sign and submit, approve, transfer to account

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
I've now downloaded the source of the modemmanager package, both stable and testing; it doesn't really explain anything either: The only references to $CNTI are in plugins/mm-modem-novatel-gsm.c (there are references to *CNTI in replugins/mm-modem-sierra-gsm.c), and it's this code that emits the $

Re: installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-12 Thread Wayne Topa
On 06/12/2011 04:27 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 06:45:04AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 12/06/11 06:22, Robert Holtzman wrote: How can I install multiple debs residing in a directory on my hard drive? Unless I missed it, running a search, the Debian Reference manual a

Re: open source time/expense tracking package?

2011-06-12 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
How about redmine (www.redmine.org)? That is a real nice project management system. -- 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/it398g$kss$1...@dough.gmane.org

Re: open source time/expense tracking package?

2011-06-12 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
"You get full *source* code access so you can make the system behave just the" Quoted from their website. Sure, you have to pay a license, but you get the full source code to do whatever you want with after you purchase the license. Give it a try, we've used it for years for internal time tracki

Re: installing .debs from hdd

2011-06-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 06:45:04AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 12/06/11 06:22, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > How can I install multiple debs residing in a directory on my hard drive? > > Unless I missed it, running a search, the Debian Reference manual and the > > Maintainers Guide shows noth

psi instead of Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Andreas Weber
Hi list Has any of you experience in using psi instead of Skype? If been using it for years now for chat with huge success, but of course it didn't find the broad mass of users as Skype did. But now times somewhat changed, guess why - you guessed right. ;-) Multi-platform, chat, voice calling, v

Re: No input devices in wheezy +additional info

2011-06-12 Thread AG
On 12/06/11 19:34, AG wrote: My keyboard works fine at the GRUB screen, enabling me to select the kernel to boot. However, at gdm3 (and kdm as well now as the default), neither mouse nor keyboard works. Doing a hard reboot, I can boot into recovery mode and from there startx and as root, key

Re: icedove/yahoo imap: messages marked as read & filters not run on inbox

2011-06-12 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 12/06/2011 16:02, Chris Davies wrote: Nicolas Bercher wrote: Maybe the pop3 side config in fetching e-mails, leaving them on the server, etc. has an effect on the imap side. I should expect that reading a message with POP would indeed mark it as read for the IMAP presentation. IMO this wou

Re: icedove/yahoo imap: messages marked as read & filters not run on inbox

2011-06-12 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 12/06/2011 17:14, Nicolas Bercher wrote: ...but, the tricky thing is that I can't turn off the pop3 option WITHOUT setting up a mail transfert...! This is really stupid: it is impossible to disable the two options at the same time! In order to continue my investigations, I created another yah

[debian.li...@home.nl: Re: broadcom: SOLVED]

2011-06-12 Thread Chris Brennan
- Forwarded message from steef - Redirected back to list so it can be archived. Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:39:46 +0200 From: steef To: Chris Brennan Subject: Re: broadcom: SOLVED Chris Brennan schreef: > * steef [2011-06-11 15:32:00 +0200]: > >> >> hi list, >> >> bought my self a

Re: Is there any valid reason to add an [unneeded] script to /etc/init.d by an default Debian install that only cause a PITA?

2011-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 20:00 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 12 Jun 2011 at 20:16:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > I don't have any issue, . . . . . . > > Then I, for one, am lost as to why you sent your original mail if you do > not want technical help. With hope that Debian developers join a u

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
I wrote > AT$CNTI=0. > > Going to try to look up what the latter command means. > 27007-3d0.pdf does not reference it. Googling "AT$CNTI=0" turns up http://www.slideshare.net/Dominque23/novatel-u740-firmware-upgrade-272-release-notesdocdoc "Fixed AT Argument Pointer Issue (raised from the AT$CNT

Re: Is there any valid reason to add an [unneeded] script to /etc/init.d by an default Debian install that only cause a PITA?

2011-06-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Jun 2011 at 20:16:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I don't have any issue, . . . . . . Then I, for one, am lost as to why you sent your original mail if you do not want technical help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
ps. forgot to put up the log from today's crashed run; now here: http://christianjaeger.ch/scratch/bell_novatel/crashrun2/ Same thing as yesterday, the crash happens exactly at (or then within +-1 second of) the time nm sends AT+CSQ and then AT$CNTI=0. Going to try to look up what the latter comm

No input devices in wheezy

2011-06-12 Thread AG
My keyboard works fine at the GRUB screen, enabling me to select the kernel to boot. However, at gdm3 (and kdm as well now as the default), neither mouse nor keyboard works. Doing a hard reboot, I can boot into recovery mode and from there startx and as root, keyboard and mouse work fine. Bu

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Jaeger
2011/6/12 Scott Ferguson : > What colour is the blinking light? I think it just blinks in the color in which it was lit before the 'crash'; I've run another test now and it was yellow then blinked in yellow. (BTW I've tried 'screen /dev/ttyUSB1' and sending ATZ and ATH0, and while these give me O

[SOLVED] Re: Huawei e122 - how to make symlink to usb modem?

2011-06-12 Thread Kamil Jońca
kjo...@poczta.onet.pl (Kamil Jońca) writes: > I have e122 modem. I would have symlink to /dev/ttyUSBX. (modem device) > But simple rule: > > SUBSYSTEM=="tty",ATTRS{idVendor} == "12d1" , ATTRS{idProduct} == "1003", > SYMLINK+="e122" > > does not work. It was enough to put rule in /etc/udev/rules

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/06/11 07:18 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 12/06/11 11:01, H.S. wrote: >> On 11/06/11 07:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 19:37 -0400, H.S. wrote: On 11/06/11 07:21 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 12/06/11 08:48, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> Sorry, I can't help you,

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/06/11 06:12 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi, answers inline. > >> 12/06/2011 00:12, H.S. wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I have experienced this problem on and off for the past several months. >> But today it was the worst case. I am trying to burn a bunch of mp3 >> files to make an audio CD

Re: Is there any valid reason to add an [unneeded] script to /etc/init.d by an default Debian install that only cause a PITA?

2011-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 17:52 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 12 Jun 2011 at 17:35:02 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > - I run audio sessions by shell scripts, hence I can set the governor to > > performance, while it's ok when it's set to ondemand for non-audio > > usage. > > Some choices: > > 1

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/06/11 08:00 AM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > Excerpts from H.S.'s message of 2011-06-12 00:12:04 +0200: > > Afaik Debian uses a vastly inferior version of cdrtools called cdrkit, > so it may simply be due to a bug in cdrkit. > > Regards, > Philipp > > If it is a bug, it is recent. I have

Re: HP DL180 with P212 SAS controller

2011-06-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Jun 2011 at 17:19:15 +0200, owl...@gmail.com wrote: > I had seen that thread but i can't find any useful info Does this make you any happier? http://serverfault.com/questions/272982/adaptec-1405-or-hp-smartarray-p212-sas-controller-supported-in-the-stock-rh-5-5-k -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: After the Libc6 Fiasco

2011-06-12 Thread David Baron
> David Baron: > > Luckily, using the live-CD, I was able to download and re-install the > > "testing" packages for libc6 and friends and finally get my system > > working again. > > What problem are you referring to? The breakage from the missing > symlinks on amd64? That issue has been fixed

Re: Is there any valid reason to add an idiotic script to /etc/init.d by an default Debian install that only cause a PITA?

2011-06-12 Thread Brian
On Sun 12 Jun 2011 at 17:35:02 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > - I run audio sessions by shell scripts, hence I can set the governor to > performance, while it's ok when it's set to ondemand for non-audio > usage. Some choices: 1. File a bug report. But read bug #461470 first. 2. Install gnome

Re: Huawei e122 - how to make symlink to usb modem?

2011-06-12 Thread Kamil Jońca
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:14:53 +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> What's the output for udevinfo on that device? > > (...) > >> Udevadm info starts with the device specified by the devpath and then >> walks up the chain of parent devices. It prints for every

Re: Is there any valid reason to add an idiotic script to /etc/init.d by an default Debian install that only cause a PITA?

2011-06-12 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > - Why not making a Debian that OOTB fit to most needs, even for people >  who don't wish to read [fine] manuals and to learn how to program. Maybe the developers decided that the current setting's the one that fits most needs. If you feel

Re: Proper Use of adduser.conf

2011-06-12 Thread mark
On Thursday 09 June 2011 04:13:27 pm Martin McCormick wrote: > We have set up a backup server and the samba share > accounts we have on the system need to be in a file system that > is very large so I modified /etc/adduser.conf to put them in as > follows: > > # The DHOME variable specifies t

Re: Is there any valid reason to add an idiotic script to /etc/init.d by an default Debian install that only cause a PITA?

2011-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 13:35 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:23:16 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > (not sure if this post was targeted to this mailing list...) > > (...) > > > anyway, this is idiocy, hence the default can be set by the kernel. For > > the kernel-generic-default-off

Re: broadcom

2011-06-12 Thread Volkan YAZICI
IMHO, you have two options: 1. Solve the issue by fixing the drivers supplied by the distribution. (As others have explained in the previous replies.) 2. Use new brcm80211[1] drivers. For this purpose, I'd make a custom kernel package (see make-kpkg) using the latest stable kernel source

Re: HP DL180 with P212 SAS controller

2011-06-12 Thread owl...@gmail.com
I had seen that thread but i can't find any useful info Il giorno 12/giu/2011 16.47, "Camaleón" ha scritto: > > On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:33:18 +0200, owl...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Hi, I have proposed an HP DL180 with P212 SAS controller that seems > > supported by debian, but I doubt controller > >

Re: icedove/yahoo imap: messages marked as read & filters not run on inbox

2011-06-12 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 12/06/2011 16:02, Chris Davies wrote: Nicolas Bercher wrote: Maybe the pop3 side config in fetching e-mails, leaving them on the server, etc. has an effect on the imap side. I should expect that reading a message with POP would indeed mark it as read for the IMAP presentation. IMO this wou

Re: icedove/yahoo imap: messages marked as read & filters not run on inbox

2011-06-12 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 12/06/2011 16:02, Chris Davies wrote: Nicolas Bercher wrote: Maybe the pop3 side config in fetching e-mails, leaving them on the server, etc. has an effect on the imap side. I should expect that reading a message with POP would indeed mark it as read for the IMAP presentation. IMO this wou

Re: Huawei e122 - how to make symlink to usb modem?

2011-06-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:14:53 +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> What's the output for udevinfo on that device? (...) > Udevadm info starts with the device specified by the devpath and then > walks up the chain of parent devices. It prints for every device found, > all possible a

Re: HP DL180 with P212 SAS controller

2011-06-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:33:18 +0200, owl...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, I have proposed an HP DL180 with P212 SAS controller that seems > supported by debian, but I doubt controller > > I wanted to know if anyone has tried it and had no problems with that > controller and Squeeze > > http://h10010.www

Re: Huawei e122 - how to make symlink to usb modem?

2011-06-12 Thread Kamil Jońca
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:55:45 +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > >> I have e122 modem. I would have symlink to /dev/ttyUSBX. (modem device) >> But simple rule: >> >> --8<---cut here---start->8--- >> SUBSYSTEM=="tty",ATTRS{idVendor} == "12d1" , ATTRS

HP DL180 with P212 SAS controller

2011-06-12 Thread owl...@gmail.com
Hi, I have proposed an HP DL180 with P212 SAS controller that seems supported by debian, but I doubt controller I wanted to know if anyone has tried it and had no problems with that controller and Squeeze http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/15351-15351-3328412-241644-3328421-3884339.htm

Re: After the Libc6 Fiasco

2011-06-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
David Baron: > > Luckily, using the live-CD, I was able to download and re-install the > "testing" packages for libc6 and friends and finally get my system working > again. What problem are you referring to? The breakage from the missing symlinks on amd64? That issue has been fixed some weeks ag

Re: gnome sensors applet: which is which ?

2011-06-12 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 09:50 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:21:34 +0100, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > > > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 18:46 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> > which is which ? CPU ? Motherboard ? > >> > >> Most probably the CPU, as Brian pointed out (there should be an icon >

Re: icedove/yahoo imap: messages marked as read & filters not run on inbox

2011-06-12 Thread Chris Davies
Nicolas Bercher wrote: > Maybe the pop3 side config in fetching e-mails, leaving them on the > server, etc. has an effect on the imap side. I should expect that reading a message with POP would indeed mark it as read for the IMAP presentation. IMO this would be correct behaviour, and the corolla

Re: Sony Vaio VPC EE47FB Moved from Squeeze to Sid to get touchpad working

2011-06-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:49:17 -0300, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > I installed Squeeze amd64 on a Sony Vaio VPC-EE47FB and got a non > working touchpad. Looks like this: Synaptics Touchpad Drivers Don't work on New Laptop http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=64721 > Before trying anything els

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Simo
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:32:09 +0200, Christian Simo wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > >> > ! Whilst checking field 6a on the application form and whilst running > >> > a Reverse check... > >> > ! you specified that

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:32:09 +0200, Christian Simo wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> > ! Whilst checking field 6a on the application form and whilst running >> > a Reverse check... >> > ! you specified that "41.134.19.90" would map to "ns1.kom.co.za", ! >> > but DNS re

After the Libc6 Fiasco

2011-06-12 Thread David Baron
Luckily, using the live-CD, I was able to download and re-install the "testing" packages for libc6 and friends and finally get my system working again. OK: 1. Unstable can sometimes get broken. I accept that. 2. However, libc6 stuff is so critical that any upgrade posted must be installable and

Re: Is there any valid reason to add an idiotic script to /etc/init.d by an default Debian install that only cause a PITA?

2011-06-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:23:16 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: (not sure if this post was targeted to this mailing list...) (...) > anyway, this is idiocy, hence the default can be set by the kernel. For > the kernel-generic-default-office-non-real-time a distro could chose > 'ondemand'. This script is

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Simo
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:17:06 +0200, Christian Simo wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> I dunno how can we help you if we don't know what is your network > >> layout, what routers/gateways/modems do you

Re: Linux for humans that differ to averaged people was - Re: Subscription

2011-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 11:46 +0100, Lisi wrote: > There must be some multi-millionaires who are blind!! It's new technology, not really for the masses. In 100 years and perhaps earlier it could be less expensive or completely removed from the market, hence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_impl

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:17:06 +0200, Christian Simo wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I dunno how can we help you if we don't know what is your network >> layout, what routers/gateways/modems do you have configured at your >> site and what tests are you doing rig

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-12 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Rick Thomas a écrit : > > My point is that by setting your MTU to 1280, you have done *your* > part. By doing that you have just used a side effect of the MTU as a workaround to hide the problem originating at the other end, for TCP connections only. Nothing has been fixed. > At least you can

Re: Linux for humans that differ to averaged people was - Re: Subscription [OT]

2011-06-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/06/11 20:46, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 11 June 2011 16:42:12 Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:27 +0100, Lisi wrote: > [snipped] That is not sarcasm incidentally. I would genuinely like to know how you can use braille to read things on the Internet. >> >> http://en

Re: Linux for humans that differ to averaged people was - Re: Subscription [OT]

2011-06-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/06/11 20:46, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 11 June 2011 16:42:12 Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:27 +0100, Lisi wrote: > [snipped] That is not sarcasm incidentally. I would genuinely like to know how you can use braille to read things on the Internet. >> >> http://en

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-12 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from H.S.'s message of 2011-06-12 00:12:04 +0200: > Hello. > > I have experienced this problem on and off for the past several months. > But today it was the worst case. I am trying to burn a bunch of mp3 > files to make an audio CD using k3b. I was able to so do for the first > one after

Re: No sound in Totem

2011-06-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:07:00 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > Well after a bit of googling i give up. > > My volume control in totem is greyed out and i get no sound only the > video plays. Do you get any error when totem is launched from command line? > I have sound in vlc no problem. > > I am usi

Re: Huawei e122 - how to make symlink to usb modem?

2011-06-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:55:45 +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > I have e122 modem. I would have symlink to /dev/ttyUSBX. (modem device) > But simple rule: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > SUBSYSTEM=="tty",ATTRS{idVendor} == "12d1" , ATTRS{idProduct} == "1003", >

Re: skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb

2011-06-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:10:25 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > $ sudo dpkg -i skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb Selecting previously > deselected package skype. (Reading database ... 120513 files and > directories currently installed.) Unpacking skype (from > skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb) ...

Re: skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb

2011-06-12 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2011-06-12 11:10, Mathieu Malaterre skrev: skype depends on lib32stdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-21) Why put amd64 in the name then... Because it is a package for the amd64 architecture of debian. You could try installing the i386-package and see for yourself that it is less simple, and it would probably

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/06/11 11:01, H.S. wrote: > On 11/06/11 07:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 19:37 -0400, H.S. wrote: >>> On 11/06/11 07:21 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 12/06/11 08:48, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Sorry, I can't help you, but perhaps there's a better way to eject a CD. >

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-12 Thread Christian Simo
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:14:31 +0200, Christian Simo wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > Sorry to response let! > > Please, keep the replies into the same thread, there is no need to open a > new thread for every post :-) > > Sorry for that, I deleted by m

No sound in Totem

2011-06-12 Thread Mark Panen
Hi Well after a bit of googling i give up. My volume control in totem is greyed out and i get no sound only the video plays. I have sound in vlc no problem. I am using KDE if that helps. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: broadcom

2011-06-12 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 11 June 2011 19:20:42 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > On 12/06/11 00:27, Chris Brennan wrote: > >> * steef [2011-06-11 15:32:00 +0200]: > >>> hi list, > >>> > >>> bought my self a hp mini-netbook, included windoze7 and a very strong > >>> accu, 10 hours of life. > >>

Re: Subscription

2011-06-12 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 12 June 2011 02:24:57 Scott Ferguson wrote: > Email the management. Just to let them know that you won't be buying > their product because you *can't* view the site, and that you'll be > emailing their shareholder to tell them you emailed the management - who > don't give a stuff, so now

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 Jun 2011 at 18:12:04 -0400, H.S. wrote: > /usr/bin/wodim -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/sr0 speed=48 -sao See how you go on with burning at a much slower speed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: How to get Bell Canada 3G USB network up?

2011-06-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/06/11 11:12, Christian Jaeger wrote: >> Are you in a marginal signal area? > > No (rarely, and not now). > >> You *don't* want EDGE > > (I guess so; also, I think 2G isn't even supported by my contract at all.) > > >> cat /dev/ttyUSB0 should give you signal strength and available protoc

Re: Linux for humans that differ to averaged people was - Re: Subscription

2011-06-12 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 11 June 2011 16:42:12 Scott Ferguson wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:27 +0100, Lisi wrote: [snipped] > >> That is not sarcasm incidentally. I would genuinely like to know how > >> you can use braille to read things on the Internet. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refreshable_Brail

Re: skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb

2011-06-12 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Mathieu, On 12/06/11 11:10, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: $ sudo dpkg -i skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb Selecting previously deselected package skype. (Reading database ... 120513 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking skype (from skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: d

open source time/expense tracking package?

2011-06-12 Thread Guido Hecken
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Miles Fidelman [mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net] > Gesendet: Samstag, 11. Juni 2011 17:59 > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Betreff: Re: open source time/expense tracking package? > > Thanks for the suggestions. So far > > sillaj: too simple >

Is there any valid reason to add an idiotic script to /etc/init.d by an default Debian install that only cause a PITA?

2011-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Forwarded Message From: Ralf Mardorf To: linux-audio-u...@lists.linuxaudio.org Subject: Re: [LAU] Jack vs. Alsa, PianoTeq demo: Alsa wins! Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:15:20 +0200 On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 11:59 +0200, [...] wrote: > On 06/12/2011 11:44 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > What

Re: Configuring Iceweasel security policies.

2011-06-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/06/11 12:05, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > * From: Scott Ferguson > * Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:23:30 +1000 > Here is my explanation again, step by step. > * I sit in front of the console of dalton. > * Using Iceweasel in Squeeze, open this. > "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/#Links"

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-12 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Hi, answers inline. >12/06/2011 00:12, H.S. wrote: > Hello. > > I have experienced this problem on and off for the past several months. > But today it was the worst case. I am trying to burn a bunch of mp3 > files to make an audio CD using k3b. I was able to so do for the first > one after burnin

Re: Subscription

2011-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 11:24 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 12/06/11 09:10, Lisi wrote: > > On Saturday 11 June 2011 17:54:35 Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> *cough* some of us do design websites the blind and visually handicapped > >> in mindit's just not noticed by those with normal vision. (sig

skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb

2011-06-12 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
$ sudo dpkg -i skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb Selecting previously deselected package skype. (Reading database ... 120513 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking skype (from skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of skype: skype depe

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 22:02 -0400, H.S. wrote: > On 11/06/11 09:32 PM, H.S. wrote: > > On 11/06/11 09:30 PM, H.S. wrote: > >> On 11/06/11 09:09 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > >> > >> > >>> Does gnomebaker work? > >> > >> Haven't tried it yet. In fact, I have no idea how to use it to burn an > >>

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 21:01 -0400, H.S. wrote: > On 11/06/11 07:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 19:37 -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> On 11/06/11 07:21 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >>> On 12/06/11 08:48, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Sorry, I can't help you, but perhaps there's a better wa

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 11:09 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 12/06/11 09:52, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 19:37 -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> On 11/06/11 07:21 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >>> On 12/06/11 08:48, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > >>> > >> > >> er .. perhaps a dumb question, is a d

Re: Can't install on an Intel iMac

2011-06-12 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2011-06-12 04:26, Mike Hore wrote: >> 3. Install rEFIt on the Mac. Don't forget to run enable-always.sh. > > It's installed, but I don't know what you mean by enable-always.sh. > Sorry, I'm new to this. In MacOS, open up a terminal, go to /efi/refit/ and run 'enable-always.sh' so rEFIt is invo

Re: ssh woes

2011-06-12 Thread Bill
On Sun, 2011-12-06 at 03:10 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > It not being in your /etc/ssh/ssh_config means you're not overriding > the default, that's all. Ok. Thanks. I was curious. b. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: ssh woes

2011-06-12 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/11/11 at 11:04pm, Bill wrote: > On Sun, 2011-12-06 at 01:09 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > Yes. Try > > #ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password > > and paste the output > > PreferredAuthentications doesn't seem to be a correct option. > Nor does it show up in /etc/ssh/ssh_config or /

[SOLVED] Re: gdmsetup can't unlock problem: any workaround?

2011-06-12 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:26:04 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: I seem to be facing a bug where gdmsetup can't be unlocked: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622234 Does anyone know of a workaround to turn on/off automatic login without gdmsetup? I'm often switching, l