How do I remove a bad file??

2012-05-01 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list; -? ? ?? ?? Inbox.msf I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I have thought of to get rid of it or write over it. Any ideas how I can get this thing out of

Re: How do I remove a bad file??

2012-05-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dennis Wicks wrote the following on 05/01/2012 06:20 PM: Greetings; I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list; -? ? ? ? ? ? Inbox.msf I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I have thought of to get rid of it or write over it. Any ideas how I

Quest: Moving IDE drives between machines

2012-11-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings: One of my Linux machines has crashed and root drive or IDE controller is bad. Can I unplug an IDE drive and plug it into another machine? I have a vague recollection that this caused problems back when I was running MS/DOS, but not sure. Is it OK today? Thanks for any help! Dennis

Need help recovering hard drive

2012-12-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; One of my hard drives quit working, and as luck would have it, just before the scheduled backup! So I need to recover some info that has been updated/added since the last backup. First, is there any thing I can do to get the system to mount that drive even with errors? As it is

Need help recovering hard drive

2012-12-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; One of my hard drives quit working, and as luck would have it, just before the scheduled backup! So I need to recover some info that has been updated/added since the last backup. First, is there any thing I can do to get the system to mount that drive even with errors? As it is

Need help recovering hard drive

2012-12-09 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; One of my hard drives quit working, and as luck would have it, just before the scheduled backup! So I need to recover some info that has been updated/added since the last backup. First, is there any thing I can do to get the system to mount that drive even with errors? As it is

Gnome workspace manager has disappeared -- Help!

2011-11-08 Thread Dennis Wicks
Somehow the workspace manager and the index which appeared at the lower right of the screen have disappeared. If I right-click on a window tab in the task bar I can move the window to another workspace, and the window selector will show that the windows are in the workspace where they were

relocation error: and segmentation fault

2011-11-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
I was running aptitude and it canceled for some reason. Now I am getting relocation error: /lib/libproc-3.2.7.so: symbol memset, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference and also -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

relocation error: and segmentation fault

2011-11-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
Sorry!! I clicked the wrong icon and sent the previous message by mistake!) I was running aptitude and it canceled for some reason. Now I am getting relocation error: /lib/libproc-3.2.7.so: symbol memset, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference and also

Re: relocation error: and segmentation fault

2011-12-03 Thread Dennis Wicks
It looks like I am going to have to restore some libraries at the least. Is there any way that I can refresh or reinstall my system without wiping out all the other things I have on the same disk? eg /home and other user directories and optional software. Tia for any and all help, Dennis

Re: relocation error: and segmentation fault

2011-12-04 Thread Dennis Wicks
Arno, et al, Thanks for the help and detail instructions. It isn't easy, but better than the alternative of a complete rebuild. And no, I can't run dpkg. The only things that run are those that were up at the time aptitude crashed. Like Thunderbird, browser, gthumb, OpenOffice, etc.

Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-04 Thread Dennis Wicks
Hi all, Is there any way to run apt or dpkg, etc. so I can install programs/pkgs on a different system than I am running on? I can't run anything on the other system right now, but I can mount the disks on a machine that is running OK. Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-04 Thread Dennis Wicks
Victor Nitu wrote the following on 12/04/2011 07:20 PM: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/05/2011 03:13 AM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Hi all, Is there any way to run apt or dpkg, etc. so I can install programs/pkgs on a different system than I am running on? I can't run anything

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-05 Thread Dennis Wicks
Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 12/05/2011 01:14 PM: On Du, 04 dec 11, 21:24:56, Dennis Wicks wrote: Both machines are nearly identical so that is not a problem. I have already gathered a lot of pieces of the solution and I hope that this is the final part of the solution! Because you

Re: GRUB2 themes

2011-12-05 Thread Dennis Wicks
Lisi wrote the following on 12/05/2011 04:16 PM: On Saturday 03 December 2011 22:19:54 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: IMO it is too bad that Debian does not put a nice theme together, it would look so much better at a first install. I do dislike nice themes. Surely there is Ubuntu for those that

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 12/06/2011 03:25 AM: On Lu, 05 dec 11, 15:15:46, Dennis Wicks wrote: I guess I still need a few more pieces! I now have the problem that everything I have tried to do after chroot gives me a segmentation fault. eg. chroot /dgwicks/root dpkg -i

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
(Sorry, went to the wrong place!) Bob Proulx wrote the following on 12/06/2011 04:38 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: All info was given in previous posts. To reiterate, Debian 5.0, intel 32 bit 2 machines, identical, one works, one doesn't, gets segmentation faults and/or relocation error on every

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Mike Bird wrote the following on 12/06/2011 07:55 PM: Hi Dennis, (Thanks Bob): Dennis Wicks wrote via Bob Proulx: I really appreciate all the help, each new response seems to get me a little further, but then there is another brick wall that I can't figure out how to get past. When I use

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Bob Proulx wrote the following on 12/06/2011 09:32 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: Just to clarify, the bad system is only bad because whein I was installing an update, for Open Office if memory serves, aptitude crashed and left something in an unusable state that causes segmentation faults

Re: Running apt*, help needed

2011-12-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Bob Proulx wrote the following on 12/07/2011 12:37 AM: Dennis Wicks wrote: Oops! Another thing I don't know how to do: Mount a disk from a system that isn't running! When I say mount I meant something like mount //host/share where fstab defines to mount it on /some/local/mount/point

Installing multiboot system ... advice?

2011-12-21 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings all, I would like to install a multiboot system but I don't have any free partitions that are anywhere near large enough. Is there any way that I can install into a directory on my existing boot/root volume? Say in /new-sys ?? I have been looking at the doc that I have found on

Need help: Rebooted and now /dev/hdx are /dev/sdx

2011-12-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings I rebooted and all 3 of my IDE hard drives were recognized as SCSI drives. I did a shutdown -h, pulled the power cord for about a minute, and booted again and same thing. It looks like everything is mounted alright except for my swapspace. They (swap space) are all defined by UUID=

Re: Need help: Rebooted and now /dev/hdx are /dev/sdx

2011-12-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Bob Proulx wrote the following on 12/29/2011 04:08 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: I rebooted and all 3 of my IDE hard drives were recognized as SCSI drives. Quite some time ago the Linux kernel changed so that all ide drives now use the scsi driver. What you are seeing is a normal change. But you

Pidgin questions ...

2011-08-04 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I am being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century! My kids and grandkids and wife are demanding that I get messaging. I don't want to get one for every network or vendor out there and happened to run across Pidgin, which seems to handle a lot of protocols. Does

Need help recovering lvm volume group

2012-03-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I can't figure out what exactly happened, but here is the result. I had an lvm volume consisting of a complete 250GB disk and about 75GB partition on another disk. Now LVM won't access either one of them and when I try any sort of lv command I get a message that Incorrect

Thunderbird says The folder xxx is full, and can't hold any more messages.

2012-04-02 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I am stumped. I am trying to use message filters to classify my email and Thunderbird keeps giving me this message, The folder is full, and can't hold any more messages. It does this for different folders, , and I can't determine why. I have been using filters for years

Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-22 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will stay like this for probably 5 secs. although it seems longer, and it happens often, every couple of minutes.

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

2011-05-23 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dennis Wicks wrote the following on 05/22/2011 09:47 PM: Greetings; My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) will just stop. No disk light, nothing works. No scrolling, typing, marking/selecting, no copying/pasting. Just frozen. It will stay like this for probably 5 secs. although it seems

TV tuner/capture cards?

2008-07-19 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Does anybody know of a tv tuner/capture card that will work with Debian? An FM tuner option would be nice, but not necessary. TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Linux on Dell Inspiron 1720?

2008-07-23 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; We just bought a Dell Inspiron Mod. 1720. It has Win. Vista installed and it really uis not very impressive. Does anyone know if Debian will install and run good on this hardware? It has integrated camera, wi-fi, sound and graphics. Do you think these will function under linux?

Re: Linux on Dell Inspiron 1720?

2008-07-23 Thread Dennis Wicks
Damon L. Chesser wrote the following on 07/23/2008 07:00 PM: On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 18:43 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; We just bought a Dell Inspiron Mod. 1720. It has Win. Vista installed and it really uis not very impressive. Does anyone know if Debian will install and run good

Wi-Fi in Inspiron 1720 - Help!

2008-07-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have lenny running very good except for one big hangup. I can't get the wireless card to work. It shows in lspci as a Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller. I have read many many how-to's and forum threads on how to get it to work, but after several days of attempts and retries, no

Need help installing ndiswrapper

2008-10-04 Thread Dennis Wicks
I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL it states: You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules directory. The command ls

Need help installing ndiswrapper

2008-10-05 Thread Dennis Wicks
I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL it states: You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the kernel. Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from the modules directory. The command ls

Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper

2008-10-05 Thread Dennis Wicks
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote the following on 10/05/2008 02:33 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL it states: You need a recent kernel, at least 2.6.16, with header files for the kernel. Make sure there is a link

Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper

2008-10-08 Thread Dennis Wicks
Florian Kulzer wrote the following on 10/07/2008 03:16 PM: On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 17:54:00 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote the following on 10/05/2008 02:33 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: I am installing ndiswrapper and can't get it to complete properly. In the INSTALL

Can't run aptitude

2008-10-11 Thread Dennis Wicks
When I try to do nearly anything with aptitude I get dgwicks:~# aptitude update Writing extended state information... Done Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused) and

Re: Can't run aptitude

2008-10-13 Thread Dennis Wicks
Jochen Schulz wrote the following on 10/12/2008 08:06 AM: Dennis Wicks: When I try to do nearly anything with aptitude I get dgwicks:~# aptitude update Writing extended state information... Done Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg Could not connect

Need help with Mail::Sender

2009-06-25 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Following the docs I have it working basically, but it is not handling html w/inline images correctly. Instead of getting a html message with inline image it is sending a blank email with both the html and the jpg image as attachments. Here is my program. Does anyone see the

How to create hidden files?

2009-07-03 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Back in the dim distant past I remember that one could create hidden or secret file with Basic on DOS and at least early Windows (3.0). I was never able to figure out where those files were. Any way, is there a way of doing this in linux? I know that some commands/programs won't

How can I throttle down aptitude?

2009-01-18 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; When aptitude is downloading packages it loads the network down so much that I can't do much of anything else that wants to get to the internet, either on the machine running aptitude or any other machine on the lan. Is there anyway that I can slow aptitude down so it doesn't

Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns to the beginning of the current line and writes over it. As you might suspect, this does not result in a

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing on the next line it just returns

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:56 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:52 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't

Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 10:33 PM: On 01/29/2009 10:00 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:56 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:52 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 01/29/2009 09:36 PM: On 01/29/2009 09:21 PM, Dennis Wicks

Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
Daniel Burrows wrote the following on 01/30/2009 09:46 AM: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:21:21PM -0600, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com was heard to say: I have just discovered that the command line in a gnome terminal window doesn't wrap correctly. Instead of doing a line feed and continuing

Re: Solved Re: Cmd Line not wrapping in gnome terminal window

2009-01-30 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ken Irving wrote the following on 01/30/2009 01:30 PM: It might be useful to compare the terminal settings in the `bad' vs `good' cases, e.g., using stty -a bad, etc.. You might be able to find something to tweak to fix that particular problem. Well behaved programs should return the

Re: Software for creating web page

2009-02-02 Thread Dennis Wicks
Cahaya Lilin wrote the following on 02/02/2009 10:56 AM: Hello all.. is there any one know what is a good software for creating web in linux like dreamweaver in windows ?? Thanx.. Nvu looks pretty good. It is WYSIWYG and is in Debian so you just install it with your favorite apt

Scanner recommendations?

2009-02-03 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Does anyone have any recommendations for a decent scanner that will work on Debian? Something with a hires of at least 1200dpi and OCR. The ability to scan slides and color and BW negs of all sizes would be a plus! Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Iceweasel blocking pop-ups

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I turned off the popup blocker in IW but it seems to still be blocking them. I am on http://www.rhapsody.com/channels trying to play one of the music channels. I tried it on Win XP I'net explorer and it said popups were being blocked so I turned off the popup blocker and

unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I regularly use the -a option to unzip to fix DOS/Windows line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday and today! Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each line. Yesterday it treated a pdf file as a

unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I regularly use the -a option to unzip to fix DOS/Windows line endings and have never had a problem. Until yesterday and today! Today it treated everything as a binary file and all the text/ascii files still had ^M at the end of each line. Yesterday it treated a pdf file as a text

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Dave Ewart wrote the following on 02/16/2009 10:42 AM: On Monday, 16.02.2009 at 16:37 +, Avi Greenbury wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I don't believe it. Show us! In the interests of satisfying my curiosity: vm-linux2:/# rm -rf / rm: cannot remove root directory `/' vm-linux2:/# That's

Re: unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
dgwicks:~# unzip -v UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP. It doesn't look like it has changed in the past five years, which makes me think it might be something else that unzip interacts with. But I have no idea what it might be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Iceweasel blocking pop-ups

2009-02-17 Thread Dennis Wicks
Jonathan Kaye wrote the following on 02/17/2009 12:55 AM: tyler wrote: Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com writes: Greetings; I turned off the popup blocker in IW but it seems to still be blocking them. I tried it in Iceweasel 3.0.6-1 and it doesn't work at all, even with the popup blocker turned

Re: unzip -a strange behavior

2009-02-17 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/16/2009 07:05 PM: On 02/16/2009 06:50 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: dgwicks:~# unzip -v UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP. It doesn't look like it has changed in the past five years, which makes me think it might be something else

Any info about http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/

2009-02-19 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I saw a regerence to http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/ in a recent email, but the site doesn't respond. I have tried several different browsers but they all go into a waiting for reply mode and nothing comes back. Any info appreciated. TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Numeric keypad doesn't work!

2009-02-25 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I just noticed today that my numeric keypad doesn't work under Gnome, but works fine in a console session. (Ctl-Alt-F1) I've tried changing the keyboard brands and models but nothing makes any difference. Still doesn't work, regardless of NumLock setting. And the LED does turn on

Re: Numeric keypad doesn't work!

2009-02-26 Thread Dennis Wicks
Jeff Soules wrote the following on 02/25/2009 11:36 PM: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com wrote: Greetings; I just noticed today that my numeric keypad doesn't work under Gnome, but works fine in a console session. (Ctl-Alt-F1) I've tried changing the keyboard

Error: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size

2009-02-27 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have two programs that are failing at startup with this message; /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size Does any one know what the problem is? I have already installed/reinstalled everything I coould find that seemed to be connected with font config.

Re: Numeric keypad doesn't work! - Solved

2009-02-28 Thread Dennis Wicks
Pal Trendweaver wrote the following on 02/27/2009 05:33 PM: Op woensdag 25-02-2009 om 23:27 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Dennis Wicks: Greetings; I just noticed today that my numeric keypad doesn't work under Gnome, but works fine in a console session. (Ctl-Alt-F1) I've tried changing

Re: Error: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size

2009-03-03 Thread Dennis Wicks
Florian Kulzer wrote the following on 02/28/2009 06:40 AM: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 20:08:06 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have two programs that are failing at startup with this message; /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size Does any one know what

Re: Staying on topic and quoting

2009-03-11 Thread Dennis Wicks
Steven Demetrius wrote the following on 03/11/2009 02:07 AM: Staying on topic and quoting. One of the things that causes confusion is going off topic and improper quoting. Staying on topic makes the thread easy to follow and understand. We all go off topic now and then but we need to curb this

Local mirroring How-To?

2009-03-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I remember there was a discussion sometime back about this but I can't locate it. Here is my situation. I have six Debian/Lenny machines that I have to update/upgrade at various times, and some of these runs take hours for each system over my 768Kbs connection. I have the space

virtual box version mismatch

2008-10-21 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have tried this on two different machines w/different kernels but both lenny and after I do the modprobe vboxdrv as demanded by vbox I get the message following and I have just installed latest vbox stuff. The version of the VirtualBox kernel modules and the version

Re: virtual box version mismatch

2008-10-23 Thread Dennis Wicks
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote the following on 10/23/2008 11:21 AM: Op Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:34:52 +0200 Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: Exactly what it says. 'The version of the VirtualBox kernel modules and the version of VirtualBox application are not matching.' You may have upgraded one (or was upgraded

Can I expand VBox disk drives?

2008-11-01 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I installed VBox with Dynamically Expanding Image for the disk drives but the C drive has expanded to the point that it is nearly full. Is there any way I can expand the available space for VBox vdi drives? Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Adobe Reader install fails - out of space

2008-11-01 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; When I installed Debian on my laptop I chose the option to set up various separate file systems. Should have followed the KISS principle! Anyway, I downloaded AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2_SU1-1.i386.deb from the Adobe web site and tried to install it with dpkg -i but I get this result.

Re: Can I expand VBox disk drives?

2008-11-01 Thread Dennis Wicks
Alex Samad wrote the following on 11/01/2008 04:32 PM: On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 03:48:56PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I installed VBox with Dynamically Expanding Image for the disk drives but the C drive has expanded to the point that it is nearly full. Is there any way I can

Where is touch pad configure?

2008-11-03 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have lenny/gnome installed on a laptop with a touch pad and I can't find any thing/place to configure/customize it. It is working, but is way to sensitive. TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Need suggestions for internet messenger app

2008-11-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have installed Ayttm and Pidgin and both work OK except they don't support microphone/speaker or webcam. Does anyone know of messenger/chat programs that do? Also need to work on Yahoo network. I'm running lenny/gnome. Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Need suggestions for internet messenger app

2008-11-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
H.S. wrote the following on 11/12/2008 11:17 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have installed Ayttm and Pidgin and both work OK except they don't support microphone/speaker or webcam. ^ Does anyone know of messenger/chat programs that do

Vbox -vs- OpenVZ?

2008-11-13 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Just saw a mention of another interesting product; OpenVZ. Has anybody done any comparison between VBox and OpenVZ? Any opinions about which is better? Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

How to send tunes to MP3 player?

2008-11-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Is there a program on Debian/lenny that will send/write tunes onto an MP3 player? It is one of those little ones that you plug into a USB port. On windows we use Win. Media Player but haven't found anything shat seems to work on Debian yet. TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to send tunes to MP3 player?

2008-11-16 Thread Dennis Wicks
Michael Pobega wrote the following on 11/16/2008 03:36 PM: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 03:29:23PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Is there a program on Debian/lenny that will send/write tunes onto an MP3 player? It is one of those little ones that you plug into a USB port. On windows we

Re: How to send tunes to MP3 player?

2008-11-18 Thread Dennis Wicks
Michael Pobega wrote the following on 11/16/2008 05:28 PM: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 05:08:42PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: Michael Pobega wrote the following on 11/16/2008 03:36 PM: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 03:29:23PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Is there a program on Debian/lenny

How to import T-bird files from Windows to Debian/lenny?

2008-12-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Since my wife's Windows machine has degraded to the point that it is barely usable I have managed to convince her it is time to move up to Linux! Hooray! The latest problem is how can I, if I can at all, import her T-bird mail folders/files/address books from Windows to Debian?

VirtualBox won't start

2008-12-14 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I just installed VBox 2.0.6 from their web site and it won't start. I did remove all VBox 1.6.6 things with Synaptic first and then used dpkg -i to install the .deb file from the VBox site. When I try to run VirtualBox I get VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain:

Re: VirtualBox won't start

2008-12-14 Thread Dennis Wicks
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote the following on 12/14/2008 08:51 AM: Dennis Wicks wrote: I just installed VBox 2.0.6 from their web site and it won't start. I did remove all VBox 1.6.6 things with Synaptic first and then used dpkg -i to install the .deb file from the VBox site. When I try to run

Re: Help needed with xserver (plain text)

2008-12-19 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 12/19/2008 12:08 PM: On 12/19/08 11:54, w...@mgssub.com wrote: Greetings; (Sorry about the html. Different computer, different everything!) When I try to start gnome I get messages: (WW) RADEON: No matching device section for instance (Busid PCI:1:0:1)

How to change Icedove default browser?

2008-12-21 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Icedove is using the Gnome(?) browser and I want to use Iceweasel. I found a post from 2007 that said to use update-alternatives --config x-www-browser but although that worked it didn't work, even though I bounced Icedove. And I can't find any thing about wihich browser

Re: How to change Icedove default browser? (Solved)

2008-12-21 Thread Dennis Wicks
Sven Joachim wrote the following on 12/21/2008 07:46 AM: On 2008-12-21 14:35 +0100, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Icedove is using the Gnome(?) browser and I want to use Iceweasel. I found a post from 2007 that said to use update-alternatives --config x-www-browser but although that worked

Need help finding social networking package.

2008-12-21 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I am looking for a social networking package, OS GPL if possible. Does anyone have a suggestion or two? I have looked in all the usual places, that I know of anyway, and haven't found one that sounds good yet. I would like one that allows people to set up their own

Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts

2008-12-22 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; When I run anything that is actually a shell script starting with #!/bin/sh and maybe any thing that uses a shell function I get five or six screens full of messages that look like the following and all start with /bin/sh /bin/sh: _openssl: line 25: syntax error near

Re: Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts

2008-12-22 Thread Dennis Wicks
Bob Cox wrote the following on 12/22/2008 08:35 AM: On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 08:09:31 -0600, Dennis Wicks (w...@mgssub.com) wrote: Greetings; When I run anything that is actually a shell script starting with #!/bin/sh and maybe any thing that uses a shell function I get five or six screens

Re: Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts

2008-12-22 Thread Dennis Wicks
Sven Joachim wrote the following on 12/22/2008 12:55 PM: On 2008-12-22 15:09 +0100, Dennis Wicks wrote: When I run anything that is actually a shell script starting with #!/bin/sh and maybe any thing that uses a shell function I get five or six screens full of messages that look like

Re: Help - Getting lots of errors from functions and scripts

2008-12-22 Thread Dennis Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 12/22/2008 01:13 PM: On 12/22/08 12:55, Sven Joachim wrote: [snip] These functions seem to be defined in /etc/bash_completion. [snip] Maybe /etc/bash_completion contains some code that bash doesn't like when it's called as sh. But another question is why

Bug Buddy doesn'r know about firefox/iceweasel

2008-12-22 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Everytime, which is often, Iceweasel crashes it runs Bug Buddy but B-B doesn't know where to send the dump, etc. Anybody else seeing this? What do you do with the report? What do you do about Iceweasel crashing? The application firefox-bin has crashed. Information about the

Re: Bug Buddy doesn'r know about firefox/iceweasel

2008-12-24 Thread Dennis Wicks
On 12/23/08 17:32, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Every time, which is often, Iceweasel crashes it runs Bug Buddy but B-B doesn't know where to send the dump, etc. snip My iceweasel [1] never crashes. It's your addons. Thanks for that tip, but what is the secret

Re: Bug Buddy doesn'r know about firefox/iceweasel

2008-12-24 Thread Dennis Wicks
Bob Cox wrote the following on 12/24/2008 02:46 PM: On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 14:27:50 -0600, Dennis Wicks (w...@mgssub.com) wrote: Thanks for that tip, but what is the secret incantation needed to figure out which add-on is causing the problem? If Iceweasel crashed withing a minute or two

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Dennis Wicks
Yannick Patois wrote the following on 01/01/2009 06:09 PM: Hi, Travis Crump wrote: I had a hard crash of my lenny system precisely when the leap second was added. While X has flaked in the past, I've never had a hard crash before. I have no other evidence they were related, but I wasn't

Iceweasel not remembering saved passwords

2010-03-22 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; All of a sudden Iceweasel has forgotten my userid and password for Paypal. All the others seem to be fine. Also, it will not offer to remember the info when I logon to Paypal. Again, other sites are working correctly. Any ideas what the trouble might be or how I can fix it and

Re: Iceweasel not remembering saved passwords

2010-03-24 Thread Dennis Wicks
Celejar wrote the following on 03/22/2010 10:03 PM: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:49:08 -0500 Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com wrote: Greetings; All of a sudden Iceweasel has forgotten my userid and password for Paypal. All the others seem to be fine. Also, it will not offer to remember the info when

Re: Iceweasel not remembering saved passwords

2010-03-24 Thread Dennis Wicks
Celejar wrote the following on 03/24/2010 08:16 PM: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:19:32 -0500 Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com wrote: Celejar wrote the following on 03/22/2010 10:03 PM: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:49:08 -0500 Dennis Wicks w...@mgssub.com wrote: Greetings; All of a sudden Iceweasel has

Strange msgs in syslog

2008-05-10 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have just noticed that syslog on my firewall contains hundreds if not thousands of messages like this. Do they indicate an error of some kind? If not, how do I turn them off? kernel: BANDWIDTH_IN:IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:10:b5:bf:2f:3c:00:0c:f1:a2:cf:0e:08:00 SRC=192.168.1.1

Help: Errors from aptitude install

2008-06-11 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Specifically I am trying to install samba and its parts, samba-common samba smbclient smbfs, on Lenny and I keep getting errors like the following. Setting up samba-common (2:3.0.30-2) ... Error: unknown response from debconf:'keep_current' dpkg: error processing

Samba problem

2009-06-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
All of a sudden (ie. I can't think of anything that changed.) samba on one linux machine is not working. One symptom is: dgwicks:~# smbclient -L joyce Connection to joyce failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED) another is: dgwicks:~# mount //joyce/edrv mount error 111 = Connection

How to stop Firefox from displaying large favicon?

2010-05-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have looked for ways to fix this problem several times in the passed few months and have had no success. Recently several companies have started displaying a large favicon in the address bar when you go to their site. In several cases it takes up over half of the space in the

Re: How to stop Firefox from displaying large favicon?

2010-05-06 Thread Dennis Wicks
CamaleĆ³n wrote the following on 05/06/2010 10:58 AM: On Thu, 06 May 2010 10:40:15 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: (...) Anyway, can anyone tell me how to get rid of these eyesores? I have already set browser.chrome.favicons and browser.chrome.site_icons to false

Suggestions for video/tv capture?

2009-09-29 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have a lot of VHS tapes that I would like to put on CDs or DVDs. Any suggestions for a decent capture card? I would prefer one that is O/S neutral so I can run it on Deb or XP, but that isn't an absolute requirement. Grateful for any help! TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

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