Re: OT: physical dimensions of male DVI connector

2012-02-20 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Heard wrote: > I need to know the outside physical dimensions of the male DVI connector > to know the diameter of the hole it will pass through. Thanks to both responders. the consensus seems to settle on 39.5 mm; so the hole size in the desk sho

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-20 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/20/2012 09:55 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Hendrik Boom writes: I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows takes it on itself to set my clock as if the UCT time were actually local time. I ha

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-20 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/20/2012 09:55 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Hendrik Boom writes: I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows takes it on itself to set my clock as if the UCT time were actually local time. I ha

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-20 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Hendrik Boom writes: > I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time > I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows > takes it on itself to set my clock as if the UCT time were actually local > time. I have no idea where it gets its idea of

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-20 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/20/2012 09:51 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time It's UTC. Having the hardare clock in UTC is normal and standard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time I boot to Windows XP (which I

Re: OT: physical dimensions of male DVI connector

2012-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 06:31 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 06:14 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 09:35 +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > > > I need to know the outside physical dimensions of the male DVI connector > > > to know the diameter of the hole it will pass

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Hendrik Boom wrote: > I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time It's UTC. Having the hardare clock in UTC is normal and standard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time > I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows >

Re: OT: physical dimensions of male DVI connector

2012-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 06:14 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 09:35 +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > > I need to know the outside physical dimensions of the male DVI connector > > to know the diameter of the hole it will pass through. Unfortunately I > > do not have one handy; googling f

Re: OT: physical dimensions of male DVI connector

2012-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 09:35 +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > I need to know the outside physical dimensions of the male DVI connector > to know the diameter of the hole it will pass through. Unfortunately I > do not have one handy; googling far and wide failed to find such > dimensions. Can someone prov

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Owens wrote: > If you instead use flac as an intermediate step, you may be able to > preserve the meta tags. Going to wav, you will almost certainly lose > them. In my case I don't care about the tags at all. The temporary mp3 form is a completely throwaway form. The original poster may car

Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-20 Thread yudi v
Hi all, I am trying to get gnome (default in tty7) and xfce (in tty1) to run at the sametime. I got as far as launching another x server session and xfce4 with the following command: startx startxfce4 -- :1 There are couple of issues I am trying to resolve: 1. when I switch back to tty7 X serve

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-20 Thread Kousik Maiti
May be the problem is with your motherboard battery... not OS ... On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time > I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows > takes it on itself to set m

Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows takes it on itself to set my clock as if the UCT time were actually local time. I have no idea where it gets its idea of what the current time is. Wha

Re: OT: physical dimensions of male DVI connector

2012-02-20 Thread Kleber Fortaleza
On Tuesday 21 February 2012 00:35:27 Ken Heard wrote: > I need to know the outside physical dimensions of the male DVI connector > to know the diameter of the hole it will pass through. Unfortunately I > do not have one handy; googling far and wide failed to find such > dimensions. Can someone pr

OT: physical dimensions of male DVI connector

2012-02-20 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I need to know the outside physical dimensions of the male DVI connector to know the diameter of the hole it will pass through. Unfortunately I do not have one handy; googling far and wide failed to find such dimensions. Can someone provide me with t

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Doug
On 2/20/2012 7:14 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:54:54PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 20 feb 12, 10:15:13, Curt Howland wrote: I also kept my old keyboard, since the motherboards all still have PS2 sockets for keyboards. I have been looking only at mini-ITX motherboards

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:54:54PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 20 feb 12, 10:15:13, Curt Howland wrote: > > > > I also kept my old keyboard, since the motherboards all still have PS2 > > sockets for keyboards. > > I have been looking only at mini-ITX motherboards lately and I seem to

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:50:30AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Curt wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > >> I'm lazy so I'd use the command line. > > > I have the opposite problem. Everything I have is in ogg format. But > > > sometimes I want to play on a device that doesn't understand ogg and > > >

Re: Netlogo not packaged for Squeeze?

2012-02-20 Thread Alexey Eromenko
>From my (limited) experience in the Open-Source world: Usually software that has 50,000+ downloads (or users) gets packaged for Debian, provided it does not conflict with other Debian components (unlike Ubuntu Unity or SUSE Yast). This is the number of users that makes the app visible for the wid

Re: Netlogo not packaged for Squeeze?

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 feb 12, 14:30:41, Roger Morgan wrote: > Netlogo doesn't seem to be packaged for squeeze. I find this strange > because Netlogo has been around for a while, is widely used, and is > licenced under the GPL. Details, see >  page,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetLogo > and the source is ava

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 feb 12, 16:29:18, Doug wrote: > > You need a real mechanical hard drive. The solid-state drives have > a limited read/write cycle. Recent studies seem to suggest that the limited read/write cycles are unlikely to affect normal usage. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions am

Netlogo not packaged for Squeeze?

2012-02-20 Thread Roger Morgan
Netlogo doesn't seem to be packaged for squeeze. I find this strange because Netlogo has been around for a while, is widely used, and is licenced under the GPL. Details, see  page,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetLogo and the source is available from https://github.com/NetLogo/NetLogo What's the

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread David Christensen
On 02/20/2012 06:58 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: If you definitely don't want to use proprietary drivers you can also consider Intel cards (or even built-in), I prefer full FOSS HW support OOTB and have had the best experiences with Intel processors and integrated motherboards (video, sound, PAT

Re: how to control fan speed?

2012-02-20 Thread David Roguin
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: > David Roguin writes: > >> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: >>> David Roguin writes: >>> Hi, I feel my notebook is heating up more than usual, what I do is manually write those commands # echo "1

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Doug
On 2/20/2012 9:19 AM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a new computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good thing. So I'm going to ask my friendly computer consultant, who is only downstairs from me, to build me a compute

Re: Looking for advice from the linux gods...

2012-02-20 Thread Doug
On 2/20/2012 5:16 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: /snip/ My brother tested Adobe Photoshop CS3 (or was that CS4?) in VirtualBox with a Core 2 Duo E8400, 2 GB RAM (of which 1,5 GB allocated to the virtual machine) and some capable nVidia card (with the proprietary driver). He was quite impressed (no

Re: Laptop Battery problem

2012-02-20 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 18/02/2012 22:36, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:51:27 +0100, Lorenzo wrote in message <4f3e4d4f.6090...@gmail.com>: Hi Darac, Thanks for the very insightful information... On 17/02/12 13:38, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:10:31PM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:

Re: window does not fit on screen

2012-02-20 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Thanks, it works. On 02/20/2012 03:58 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Thanks! I'll try it in the afternoon. On 20/02/2012 12:05 μμ, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 19 feb 12, 19:50:09, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: I would like to run this automatically at login, I tried .xinitrc and .bashrc but

Re: quick and dirty backup

2012-02-20 Thread David Christensen
On 02/20/2012 05:40 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > My Debian machines have almost no data, just packages and config files. Just before a major upgrade, and a few othe times, I'd like to have a quick and dirty backup of most files including logfiles, run files like dhcp.leases etc. So what I do is a

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 feb 12, 10:15:13, Curt Howland wrote: > > I also kept my old keyboard, since the motherboards all still have PS2 > sockets for keyboards. I have been looking only at mini-ITX motherboards lately and I seem to recall models without PS/2, but you are probably right about full-sized ATX

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 08:31, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 10:15 -0500, Curt Howland wrote: >> The card has >> it's own RAM, so system RAM is not shared, which is a very good thing > > It's a myth that shared RAM for the framebuffer is less good than a > graphics with it's own RAM.

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 feb 12, 17:09:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > If you definitely don't want to use proprietary drivers you can also > > > consider Intel cards (or even built-in) > > Do the

Re: Laptop Battery problem

2012-02-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:51:27 +0100, Lorenzo wrote in message <4f3e4d4f.6090...@gmail.com>: > Hi Darac, > > Thanks for the very insightful information... > > On 17/02/12 13:38, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 01:10:31PM +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > >> I am running XFCE 4.8 on d

Re: changing USB flash drive permissions

2012-02-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:47:35 +, richard wrote in message <20120218124735.495f9...@lap.g8jvm.com>: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:11:52 -0800 > "Weaver" wrote: > > > > > > Hi All > > > How do you change the drive permissions of a USB plugin flash > > > It was written with winxp, I feel nauseous e

Re: quick and dirty backup

2012-02-20 Thread Marc Auslander
Bonno Bloksma writes: > Hi, > > My Debian machines have almost no data, just packages and config files. Just > before a major upgrade, and a few othe times, I'd like to have a quick and > dirty backup of most files including logfiles, run files like dhcp.leases > etc. So what I do is a simple:

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/20/2012 11:00 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > So the solution seems rather simple. Run the HP Array Configuration > Utility (ACU). Create a RAID0 array of the new disk and export it, just > as you originally did via the BIOS ACU when you originally configured > the 8 disks. The ACU software is

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >> I'm lazy so I'd use the command line. > > I have the opposite problem. Everything I have is in ogg format. But > > sometimes I want to play on a device that doesn't understand ogg and > > can only play mp3 format. I simply convert the file to .wav format > >

Re: how to control fan speed?

2012-02-20 Thread Alberto Luaces
David Roguin writes: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: >> David Roguin writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I feel my notebook is heating up more than usual, what I do is >>> manually write those commands >>> # echo "1" > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_manual >>> # echo "4000

Re: Debian SID or Wheezy/SID?

2012-02-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >And for example you > > mentioned pinning and I left that out entirely. > > Did I? Oops. Sorry. No you didn't. Sven mentioned pinning. My bad! :-( Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [debian-mips][icedtea-jamvm] Any one using the icedtea-6-jre-jamvm on mipsel?

2012-02-20 Thread Javier Vasquez
I sent the following to debian-mips list before, cause I wanted acceleration on such machines, however maybe there's people using the jamvm icedtea plugin not only on mipsel machines, :-). Please see below. -- Javier. On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote: | On Sun, Feb 12, 201

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-20, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> I'm lazy so I'd use the command line. > > Me too. > > I have the opposite problem. Everything I have is in ogg format. But > sometimes I want to play on a device that doesn't understand ogg and > can only play mp3 format. I simply convert the file to .wav f

Re: how to control fan speed?

2012-02-20 Thread David Roguin
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: > David Roguin writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I feel my notebook is heating up more than usual, what I do is >> manually write those commands >> # echo "1" > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_manual >> # echo "4000" > /sys/devices/platform/apple

status bar colour

2012-02-20 Thread richard
Hi, The top horizontal bar in the gnome-shell, white on black ish, no complaints except the calendar, is there anyway of changing to something readable, grey on black is hard to read for me ? -- -- Best wishes / 73 Richard Bown e-mail: rich...@g8jvm.com or richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk n

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/20/2012 9:19 AM, Julien Groselle wrote: > Like I Said in the first thread : Few people read every post in every thread. At the point I jumped in to help, your hardware info was missing. My apologies for not back digging the thread. > My Hardware is HP ProLiant DL380 G7, with HP Smart Arra

Re: quick and dirty backup

2012-02-20 Thread keitho
I found this webpage useful for describing how to use tar for full backups: http://www.aboutdebian.com/tar-backup.htm Keith Ostertag > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 03:48:07PM +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: >> Hey, >> >> Bonno Bloksma wrote: >> > tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX-lenny.tar.gz / --excl

Re: how to control fan speed?

2012-02-20 Thread Alberto Luaces
David Roguin writes: > Hi, > > I feel my notebook is heating up more than usual, what I do is > manually write those commands > # echo "1" > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_manual > # echo "4000" > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_output > > Is there a package that controls the fan

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 10:17 -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > Memory is cheap. More is better as Linux uses it for disk cache > if nothing else. For heavy audio production I never noticed that even the swap gets touched with 4GB RAM. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

how to control fan speed?

2012-02-20 Thread David Roguin
Hi, I feel my notebook is heating up more than usual, what I do is manually write those commands # echo "1" > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_manual # echo "4000" > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_output Is there a package that controls the fan speed according to some temperature

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 10:15 -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > The card has > it's own RAM, so system RAM is not shared, which is a very good thing It's a myth that shared RAM for the framebuffer is less good than a graphics with it's own RAM. What exactly should be better if the graphics has got it's o

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread green
Andrei POPESCU wrote at 2012-02-20 08:58 -0600: > OTOH I doubt tuxracer has very high 3d performance requirements. Extreme TuxRacer works fine on my Intel GM965, fullscreen. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 04:58:56PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I always use two HDDs, to make backups from one to the other, but just > two, to get less noise and power consumption. > The casing is the week point of my machine. > Good point about the case. I've seen so many cases that only have

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > If you definitely don't want to use proprietary drivers you can also > > consider Intel cards (or even built-in) Do they have 3D support? > You can > drop ATA, all you need is SA

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:58, Rob Owens wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 02:19:36PM +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: >> My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a >> new computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good >> thing. >> > If you plan to use wireles

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Especially today most distros dropped the nv driver, > but the proprietary can't be used all the times. The nouveau driver for > most distros, including Debian ex testing, is the only alternative to > the proprietary one. This driver is mark

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:15, Curt Howland wrote: > > The only thing I did for "Linux compatibility" was to not get on-board > graphics. Onboard graphics (Intel) is the best way to get Linux compatibility, actually. Although they have not provide specs like AMD, the level of support they put in

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 20 feb 12, 14:19:36, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a > > new computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good > > thing. > > > > So I'm going to ask my fr

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:19, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a new > computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good thing. > > So I'm going to ask my friendly computer consultant, who is only downstairs > from me, to bui

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 02:19:36PM +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a > new computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good > thing. > If you plan to use wireless networking, make sure you check reviews on newegg, ama

Re: quick and dirty backup

2012-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 03:48:07PM +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hey, > > Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX-lenny.tar.gz / --exclude /mnt --exclude > > /proc --exclude /sys > >Is there anything else I need to exclude? Using Lenny with kernel > >2.6.26-2-686 it seems my

Re: debian-multimedia bugs reporting.

2012-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:30:47PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > > What's the practice of sending bug reports against packages from > debian-multimedia? - From its web page I get it as to: > > . developers list > > . developers of the software. > > It is the first time I

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:44:52PM -0600, Chris wrote: > Hey there all. > > I have taken my audio cd collection and ripped to 192 bit mp3 files. > > Is there something out there that will > > 1. Convert to ogg enbulk > 2. Then, I would like to duplicate the structure I have I place for the mp3

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Allan Wind
Hi Sian, Memory is cheap. More is better as Linux uses it for disk cache if nothing else. There is a large difference in performance of SSDs and the score board changes fairly quickly. Make sure you have non-crippled SATA 3 controller to get most out of them. Consider some of the high-end l

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Lisi
On Monday 20 February 2012 14:19:36 Sian Mountbatten wrote: > It's not overly clean, but I can live with it. Perhaps clean it??? I use methylated spirit here in the UK. You just want alcohol, a lint-free cloth and cotton buds. Then you would not have to live with it. I would certainly recomm

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Curt Howland
Sian Mountbatten wrote: > So I'm going to ask my friendly computer consultant, who is only > downstairs from me, to build me a computer with hardware 3d > acceleration, solid-state drive, 8Gb RAM. What else should I ask for and > what works with Linux? Sian, Two years ago I did the same thing. Q

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-20 Thread Julien Groselle
Like I Said in the first thread : My Hardware is HP ProLiant DL380 G7, with HP Smart Array P410i Controller version 3.50. This is a Smart Array, and it present to the server the disk (RAID0) directly. So with 8 SAS HDD (8 RAID0) I have made a RAID6. Performances are amazing comparate to hard RAID

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/20/2012 8:43 AM, Julien Groselle wrote: > Thank you for your answer Stan, > > Yes, I'm not a specialist about this kernel data structure, but i'm on the > way ;) > It's not so easy to find clear information about that. > > So for you, if i upgrade my kernel it will be possible to use this >

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 feb 12, 14:19:36, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a > new computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good > thing. > > So I'm going to ask my friendly computer consultant, who is only > downstairs from me, to buil

Re: quick and dirty backup

2012-02-20 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hey, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX-lenny.tar.gz / --exclude /mnt --exclude > /proc --exclude /sys >Is there anything else I need to exclude? Using Lenny with kernel 2.6.26-2-686 >it seems my backup is running "forever" I would suggest also excluding /dev, /tmp, /var/

Re: wheezy updates status question

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
I don't think "discontinued" is the correct term here, but rather wheezy-updates has not been instated yet. I assume it will be as soon as wheezy is stable. Kind regards, Andrei P.S. sorry for the top-post, relevant quote of previous message below On Lu, 20 feb 12, 09:15:03, Jude DaShiell wrote

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-20 Thread Julien Groselle
Thank you for your answer Stan, Yes, I'm not a specialist about this kernel data structure, but i'm on the way ;) It's not so easy to find clear information about that. So for you, if i upgrade my kernel it will be possible to use this script... But i can't reboot production servers, and change k

New computer planned

2012-02-20 Thread Sian Mountbatten
My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a new computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good thing. So I'm going to ask my friendly computer consultant, who is only downstairs from me, to build me a computer with hardware 3d acceleration, solid-state d

Re: wheezy updates status question

2012-02-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main Is put into the /etc/apt/sources.list file by the installation system on espeakup distribution at least so it makes sense that it would be discontinued for wheezy testing.On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > H

Re: window does not fit on screen

2012-02-20 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Thanks! I'll try it in the afternoon. On 20/02/2012 12:05 μμ, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 19 feb 12, 19:50:09, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >> I would like to run this automatically at login, I tried .xinitrc >> and .bashrc but neither works. > Use .xsessionrc > > Kind regards, > Andrei -- T

Re: window does not fit on screen

2012-02-20 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Thanks. This is a queer window, when I try to grab and move it, its parent window gets moved instead. But thanks! On 20/02/2012 08:03 πμ, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 03:41:03PM +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >>> On Du, 19 feb 12, 14:02:43, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: H

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/20/2012 4:47 AM, Julien Groselle wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to understand why this directory is empty : /sys/class/scsi_host/ > We have two types of servers, one like that > # uname -r ; cat /etc/debian_version > 2.6.32-5-amd64 > 6.0.4 > > And other one like that > # uname -r ; cat /etc/deb

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On 20/02/12 04:39, Carl Fink wrote: find . -name "*mp3" -exec oggenc {} \; On a multi-core system, for a small-ish number of files, I would suggest find . -name "*mp3" -exec oggenc {} + which will run the oggenc processes in parallel. (Of course you have two distinct lossy compress

Re: sample rate of ogg and flac files

2012-02-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On 20/02/12 01:59, Rob Owens wrote: I've got some flac files that are at high sample rates (96000 Hz and 192000 Hz). My Sansa Clip+ won't play them. When I encode them to ogg vorbis, the Clip+ still won't play them unless I resample them. I resampled to 44100 Hz and that worked, but I don't kn

quick and dirty backup

2012-02-20 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, My Debian machines have almost no data, just packages and config files. Just before a major upgrade, and a few othe times, I'd like to have a quick and dirty backup of most files including logfiles, run files like dhcp.leases etc. So what I do is a simple: tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX

debian-multimedia bugs reporting.

2012-02-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. What's the practice of sending bug reports against packages from debian-multimedia? - From its web page I get it as to: . developers list . developers of the software. It is the first time I try to help w/ the repo/software, and I did direct it to mplayer2-dev-ow...@mpla

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Proulx wrote: > I have the opposite problem. Everything I have is in ogg format. But > sometimes I want to play on a device that doesn't understand ogg and > can only play mp3 format. Likewise. I have a script that contains a loop around what amounts to three commands: oggdec -o "$WAV"

Re: How to share the Internet with Linux and an iPad by Wi-Fi?

2012-02-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 11:59 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 19 feb 12, 12:58:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > I only enabled wireless, the DSL connection isn't set up by nm, it was > > set up by pppoeconf and starts automatically at startup. > > You're probably better of doing it by hand, ap

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 19 February 2012 9:44:52 pm Chris wrote: > Hey there all. > > I have taken my audio cd collection and ripped to 192 bit mp3 files. > > Is there something out there that will > > 1. Convert to ogg enbulk > 2. Then, I would like to duplicate the structure I have I place for the mp3 > to

Re: Setting the compose key without KDE

2012-02-20 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Clive Standbridge wrote: Indeed it does, and I asked for the Left-Logo key. In the file /etc/default/keyboard I notice that the environment string XKBOPTIONS is set to "lv3:ralt_switch,compose:lwin,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" so obviously the configuration has done something. But what programs read

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-20 Thread Julien Groselle
Hi, I'm trying to understand why this directory is empty : /sys/class/scsi_host/ We have two types of servers, one like that # uname -r ; cat /etc/debian_version 2.6.32-5-amd64 6.0.4 And other one like that # uname -r ; cat /etc/debian_version 2.6.39-bpo.2-amd64 6.0.4 On the first one : # l /sys

Re: Removing hardware identifiers from an existing installation (esp. Grub2)

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 feb 12, 13:30:01, Jason Heeris wrote: > > In a more general sense, are there any other gotchas I might have to look > for here, where a Debian installation is tied to drive UUIDs, network > adapter MAC addresses, or any variable hardware identifiers? - /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-ne

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 feb 12, 20:44:52, Chris wrote: > Hey there all. > > I have taken my audio cd collection and ripped to 192 bit mp3 files. > > Is there something out there that will > > 1. Convert to ogg enbulk You are of course aware that this conversion might result in loss of quality, right? Depen

Re: Looking for advice from the linux gods...

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 feb 12, 12:16:06, timothy grey wrote: > My father is the owner of a small business. He has 2 registers with pos > software and a machine in the back for photoshop/pagemaker. I set up file > sharing and backups in windows to hold the pos database and his other > documents (ads, clip art, e

Re: window does not fit on screen

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 feb 12, 19:50:09, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > I would like to run this automatically at login, I tried .xinitrc > and .bashrc but neither works. Use .xsessionrc Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/

Re: How to share the Internet with Linux and an iPad by Wi-Fi?

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 feb 12, 12:58:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I only enabled wireless, the DSL connection isn't set up by nm, it was > set up by pppoeconf and starts automatically at startup. You're probably better of doing it by hand, aproximate steps from memory: - disable network manager - configure w

Re: Debian SID or Wheezy/SID?

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 feb 12, 15:25:48, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >> Hmm, maybe I should try to get the Release Team's current opinion on > >> this and suggest a patch for the Debian Reference... > > > > If you do then I would be very int

Re: Debian SID or Wheezy/SID?

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 feb 12, 11:35:55, Bob Proulx wrote: >And for example you > mentioned pinning and I left that out entirely. Did I? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Re: Setting the compose key without KDE

2012-02-20 Thread Clive Standbridge
> Indeed it does, and I asked for the Left-Logo key. In > the file /etc/default/keyboard I notice that the environment > > string XKBOPTIONS is set to > "lv3:ralt_switch,compose:lwin,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" so obviously > the configuration has done something. But what programs read that > file? I

MW 1.18.1 + FCKeditor 2.5

2012-02-20 Thread Лев Анатольевич Тарасюк
debian sid mediawiki_1.18.1 mediawiki-extensions-fckeditor_2.5 Apache log: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method MediaWiki::getVal() in /usr/share/mediawiki-extensions/fckeditor/FCKeditor.body.php on line 209 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject