Problemas de som

2004-03-17 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Oi! Eu uso o Debian versão unstable, com o Gnome. O som do navegador (Opera) só funciona quando eu vou em aplications-desktop preferences-sounde desabilito a opção sound server startup. Porém, o som do Xine funciona em qualquer situação (mesmo com a opção sound server startup habilitada). Como

Problema para configurar teclado e monitor

2004-03-17 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
O meu teclado é do tipo abnt2. No linux, a tecla ç está funcionando (o que já é meio caminho andado) mas tem algumas teclas fora do lugar. Por exemplo, no meu teclado, a tecla \ fica no canto inferior esquerdo, mas o linux acha que fica no canto superior direito. A minha tela também não está bem

Re: Problema para configurar teclado e monitor

2004-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:09:21 -0300, Guilherme de Freitas Figueiredo - [Gui] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Olá Pessoal! Jorge, Tente colocar isso na configuração do seu teclado setxkbmap -model abnt2 -layout br -variant abnt2 Em Qua, 2004-03-17 às 21:45, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto escreveu: O

hosts no Gnome

2004-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Oi! Eu uso o Debian unstable com Gnome. A seguinte mensagem aparece quando eu entro no Gnome: Não foi encontrado o endereço de dhalsim06. Isso impede o Gnome de funcionar corretamente. Isso pode ser corrigido adicionando a linha dhalsim06 ao arquivo /etc/hosts. Continuar/Tentar novamente eu já

Re: Dicas para webmail

2004-03-30 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:25:37 -0300, Mauricio Bonani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:00:23 -0300, Hélio José Poffo Junior wrote Pessoal, configurei um servidor de email com postfix+mysql+courier- imap, e gostaria de dicas para webmail para trabalhar com essa solução. Alguem

problema com Internet

2004-04-01 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Eu estou com um problema sério de internet. A instituição que fornece a nossa internet instalou um firewall e proxy, e agora não se tem conexão direta com a internet. Os navegadores (Opera/Mozilla) funcionam beleza, porque eu sei configurar o proxy neles. Mas o gnomeicu e o ams são outra

Posso deletar libs não usadas?

2004-04-03 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Se o deborphan disser que alguma lib não tem nenhum programa dependendo dela, eu posso deletar tranquilo? Ou será que o sistema pode precisar dela de algum jeito? E o pacote iptables?Eu apenas uso a internet e compartilho arquivos na rede, não sou servidor nem roteador nem nada. Então eu não

Re: vmware

2004-04-05 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
O VMWare é um software pago? qual é a página dele na internet? Pera aí, ele não roda jogos directx então? Em Dom 04 Abr 2004 20:53, Altecnet (Luiz Fernando) escreveu: Eu já intalei e testei e nunca vi nada igual, muito bom, um dos melhores softwares que já vi !! Ele emula outro sistema

Re: pppconfig command not found

2007-03-23 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Also after installation my ubuntu on the other partition doesn't see the partitions any longer. What could be the problem. If I understood right, when you installed Etch, Ubuntu ceased to see the partitions in which Etch was installed. Perhaps you changed the filesystem in the partition when

Re: pppconfig command not found

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
If you can post to this mailing list, then you have internet access from some other computer. I think it should be enough to download just these two files: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.4rel-8_amd64.deb How do you know his architecture is amd64? -- Software is like

Re: pppconfig command not found

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Thanks for the pppconfig package but I cannot install it because of dependency problems. jmak Which dependecy problems? Help us help you. You can always paste the relevant information in your email (in this case, it would be the output of dpkg). Also, depending on the amount of missing

Re: How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
The standard implementation of NTFS for Linux is read-only IIRC. There is NTFS-3g, which is rw, you can try that. As for the partition being mounted root-only, read the manual page of mount (man mount). Look in the section Mount options for ntfs for the options uid=value,gid=value and

Re: pppconfig command not found

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Which dependecy problems? Help us help you. You can always paste the relevant information in your email (in this case, it would be the output of dpkg). Also, depending on the amount of missing packages, you can easily download them from Ubuntu. This was the output massage: depends on ppp

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Can someone advise me on the pros and cons of deleting the contents of /tmp/ as part of general security conscious non-paranoia. I was thinking that it would be an okay thing to do periodically (or at logout, etc.) using a overwriting/shredding program. But, before I committed myself, decided it

Re: pppconfig command not found

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Thanks for clarifying the issue. I wait till the final version come out hoping that it will include the package. In the mean time I take up the issue on the developer-testing list or file a bug report as you suggested. It seems that all you have to do is install two packages, ppp and

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
mount /tmp onto tmpfs and run tmpreaper. No problems, just watch your swap space, limit its (/tmp) size and instead of separate partition for /tmp use bigger swap area. What is the performance impact of mounting /tmp in tmpfs? Some thoughts: 1) Maybe it will make the system faster, because

Re: Any feedback on Icedove?

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
icedove is debianised version of Mozilla Thunderbird (the same software, but different name due to licensing issues). so I'd say MANY people use it. Only to be mathematically rigorous: not only the name, but some of the artwork, is different. The actual *code*, however, is essentially the

Re: Any feedback on Icedove?

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings; I just learned of Icedove today. Is anybody here using it? What do you think of it? Where caqn I find some more info on it? Thanks for any info! Dennis Slightly off topic, but I use and like Sylpheed. Sylpheed is a very

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
The following little C program will illustrate: #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h int main(void) { FILE *f; f = fopen(check_my_size, w); int i; for (i = 0; i 100; ++i) fprintf(f, This is just filler for the file); system(ls -lk check_my_size); printf(Checking

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
If path specifies a directory, remove(path) is the equivalent of rmdir(path). Otherwise, it is the equivalent of unlink(path). I believe using unlink is less portable. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Copying files to a windows XP partition (mtools?)

2007-03-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
If you dont have/cant make a vfat partition there is another option. There is a windows driver for ext2 (1) (assuming that's what you use) which enables you to copy from linux to windows when in windows. Why not just use NTFS-3G? I hear that there is a stable release since January 2007. --

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-26 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Does anyone have experience in using either of these? How much is the performance different than the current init? I use Initng. Is is running perfectly. In fact, a bug I had (where Esound would not start on booting as it should) was solved by moving from Sysvinit to initng. The

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-26 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
1. It is a lot faster for a lot of stuff, as long as your kernel has proper swapping behavior. This happens because tmpfs can avoid a great deal of costly operations that other filesystems with backing store need to perform (such as the need to keep metadata in sync on the backing store). 2.

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-26 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I am attempting to get uswsusp working on my Debian Sid machine. After reading the docs, a couple of SuSe web pages (http://en.opensuse.org/S2disk) regarding s2ram and s2disk I am stuck on one detail: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y. I can not find this kernel option anywhere when attempting to

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I tried 0.6.7 from http://debian.space-based.de repository (given on http://www.initng.org/wiki/Install_Debian_Ubuntu ) and it booted the machine the first time. Then I thought of benchmarking both of them. After I was done with making a bootchart for init, I tried doing the same with initng and

Re: how to install debian if I can only boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I did try it, just for kicks since I already had Debian installed. It works just as advertised. It will detect which processor you have, and download appropriate net install (daily build if I am not mistaken) for Etch and then offer you a chance to install it next boot. The install works

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Hell, lots of people are missusing that phrase. Which begs the question: Are they wrong? It raises the question. And the answer is yes. Everybody behaving in a certain way does not make it right. Just as everybody thinking something does not make it true. -- Chris. == Don't forget to

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Everybody behaving in a certain way does not make it right. Just as everybody thinking something does not make it true. Except, of course, when it comes to language, especially idioms, where a large enough group can make any foul syntax and grammar correct. Remember, Lexicographers not

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Hmm I will try to get as much as possible here. As the system hasn't booted fully till the error comes, I can't find a way to copy the messages it gives. Essentially it stops due to inability to start system/mountfs daemon (or service ?). Hum... It would probably be more productive if you

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Skreenshot of the error is available here: http://open.faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg Why don't you send me , attached? If you compress it enough it will probably be just a few KB, and I think my mail can handle even a few MB. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Skreenshot of the error is available here: http://open.faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg I got a 404 on this. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-29 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I believe it would also be useful for you to try a more recent version of ifiles. I use it from cvs. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-29 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/29/07, KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Skreenshot of the error is available here: http://open.faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg I got a 404 on this. Sorry my mistake, should have been http://faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg Finally I see the error

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-29 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Is there a Debian package for initng yet? Couldn't find one... AFAIK, there is a package in experimental , and it is quite outdated. Don't ask me why. In the initng site, I found this: http://download.initng.org/debs/debian/ -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-03-30 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/30/07, Bruno Buys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From time to time I grab a diferent OS to install and try my hands at it. This time was OpenSolaris. The thing is, at some point in the install, OpenSolaris throws a license at my face that doesn't seem open at all. I can run the software, but I

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-03-30 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Except for Dell, most hardware vendors sell their product wholesale to retailers. These vendors need to convince retailers to stock their product and offer it to the public. The retail marketplace is dominated by Microsoft. Much as I like Debian and Linux, I find it hard to believe that

Re: add memory and spam question

2007-03-30 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Hi all I have add memory and spam questions 1/ After adding the memory from 1G to 2G, the bios can show the correct 2G memory. but the kernel can't show it. Do I need to change any setting? I believe this is related to a kernel config option. I am assuming you know how to configure the

Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)

2007-03-30 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I mean, since the price difference is so HUGE and the quality is mostly as good or even better, why Aldi is not deluged by people from open to close, I'll never know. For the same reason people want SUVs. For the same reason women like gold and diamond. For the same reason people want brand

Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)

2007-03-30 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I'll go out on a short limb and say that more than 95% of the stuff Aldi carries that has direct brand-name equivalents, is better tasting... This reminds me of restaurants. I like the small, family food ones 10 times better than the expensive ones. I prefer tasty food over fancy food that

Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)

2007-03-30 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
All* rechargable AA batteries are 1.2v whilst normal AA batteries are 1.5v. How embarrassing. I guess the battery was just broken then. There are a lot of other arguments against Sony still. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: keeping tar quiet in script

2007-03-31 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I'm using a simple script for making backups with tar. I can't make tar quiet, so cron keeps mailing me 'Removing leading `/' from member names' . Adding /dev/null doesn't help. What can I do to catch tar's output and keep it from shouting all over the place? a /dev/null redirects stdout

Re: keeping tar quiet in script

2007-03-31 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/31/07, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using a simple script for making backups with tar. I can't make tar quiet, so cron keeps mailing me 'Removing leading `/' from member names' . Adding /dev/null doesn't help. What can I do to catch tar's output and keep

Re: keeping tar quiet in script

2007-03-31 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
What about the classical 1 /dev/null 21? This probably has identical behavior identical to /dev/null, but is longer to type. /dev/null seems less portable. Here I have bash and dash, and /dev/null does not work under dash. 1 /dev/null 21 works everywhere. -- Software is like sex: it is

Re: Debian User List

2007-03-31 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/31/07, David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most recently, how much of the heavy traffic on this list has had anything to do with Debian? With Linux? With computers? The price of bread, love or hate Wallmart or Sponge-Bob, Ubuntu or Dell (ok U is a Linux distro and Dell makes computers,

Re: Accessing windows partition through debian etch

2007-04-01 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Cedric Thanks for the prompt reply - this is sounding less of a disaster. How would I go about reinstalling the bootloader (sorry if this is a dumb question, but I don't want to screw things up). And yes, should have been more explicit - the partitions *are* on the same box. If you perform a

Re: Accessing windows partition through debian etch

2007-04-01 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 4/1/07, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cedric Thanks for the prompt reply - this is sounding less of a disaster. How would I go about reinstalling the bootloader (sorry if this is a dumb question, but I don't want to screw things up). And yes, should have been

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-04-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
bootcharts: http://faaltu.net/pix/bootchart-init.png http://faaltu.net/pix/bootchart-initng.png initng's boot log is http://faaltu.net/pix/initng-log.txt It seems you have some error messages: system/mountroot : bash_helper[system/mountroot]: line 16: /usr/bin/awk: No such

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Ok so the min hour thing is wrong on the crontab. It should be something like this: 00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] /the/script for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month I didn't know it was possible to put this kind of thing (the output of a command) in crontab. I

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/15/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:26:25PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: Ok so the min hour thing is wrong on the crontab. It should be something like this: 00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] /the/script

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-17 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I haven't even read this entire (huge) thread, but it seems strange to me that KDE applications don't work with arts. Can it be that the apps are misconfigured to use ALSA directly but you are running arts? You should either: 1)Leave arts on with application set up to use it or 2)Set

Re: tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
- tar has been around forever - tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar becoming more common even on commercial Unices) Tar is easily available even on Windows. Good programs like 7-zip and many, many others, can handle tar well. - gzip provides better compression

Re: tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/17/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 12:33, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: - tar has been around forever - tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar becoming more common even on commercial

Re: Wine

2007-03-18 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Or if you run Sarge or Testing, grab the unstable deb-src and compile away... I friend of mine wants to run Dreamweaver, and I suggested wine. However he had some problems (which I don't remember, and my friend is not here right now). He runs Debian Unstable. So you guys are saying that the

Re: wine or VM

2007-03-18 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
we used to run programs on WIN98SE, Win2000 and XP using for instance QUICKTIME or being programmed in Pascal using graphics. Some people are using powerpoint-presentations and WINWORD-Textfiles. Both with problems since StarOffice 8 PP5 is not transferring everything exactly. So some of those

Re: Wine

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
This friend knows that Dreamweaver does *not* produce web-suitable HTML, right? (If it doesn't pass http://validator.w3.org/, it's not web-suitable). (And are you really his friend for not suggesting something better than Dreamweaver?) I did not know that. I know nothing about Web

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
So this is something like Ubuntu considered Debian ? :) -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Alternatives to Dreamweaver (was: Re: Wine)

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
While I haven't used DW in many years (since I realized it has serious vendor lock-in issues) I didn't know that. And I suspect my friend didn't know that before he started using DW. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Alternatives to Dreamweaver (was: Re: Wine)

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Two approches: 1. For creating a single web page: Try AbiWord, with the Save As XHTML feature. It tends to work well, render decently. It's fine for a quick page. However, 2. For creating an intricate web site, or a series of web pages, Learn XHTML, CSS, and perhaps javascript. Code it from

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
An Appeal to Authority is not always an invalid tactic. (Although it often is.) Agreed. This is a common confusion. People tend to refute Ad Hominen or Appeal to Authority, but they are often valid. If you claim that I am sick, I'll trust you more if you are a doctor. This is appeal to

Re: web browser choices

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
So right now I use iceape. Its big and clunky I suppose, but mostly I don't like all the security bugs that keep being found in the gekko-based browsers (per the debian BTS). Well, I was trying to find a lightweight browser too. Dillo is beautifully fast, but 1-) Lack some features as you

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
And for the people who actually want to use Linux, they will eventually move from Ubuntu to Debian. I don't want to start a flamewar, but I don't why Debian is superior to Ubuntu for a home user. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
You mean GNUS? I love Emacs, but I eventually gave up on Gnus. I just couldn't grok it. I'm on Sylpheed now. Haven't tried Claws. I don't use any calendar. On 3/19/07, John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew K Poer writes: are there others? Emacs. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Can't boot linux with GRUB

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
After many starts and stops and restarts I got Deb installed via the web. GRUB was installed, did a shutdown/restart and I can't boot to Deb/linux. It spews out all sorts of messages too fast for me to read them and then locks the system. Be more clear. The message appear before or after the

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
And I'm a GNU Purist, besides my wireless drivers (Which are in contrib) I have no non-free packages installed on my system. Ubuntu doesn't offer any differentiations between non-free packages and free packages in their repositories, which upset me when I run my weekly vrms to find that the

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I think that non-free software go to restricted and to multiverse, while main and universe are pure. I believe main and restricted are enabled by default, and that is why you ended up with unrar. Humm, thinking again, Ubuntu keeps restricted to a bare minimum, and unrar would certainly go to

Re: web browser choices

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/19/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/07 18:20, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: [snip] By the way, you can use Swiftfox. It is an optimized build of Firefox with machine-specific optimizations, aggressive optimization

Re: web browser choices

2007-03-23 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I'm sure you can do it without recompiling, through some 'mknod' kind of magic. Can't help you there, though. If you need help compiling your own kernel, I can give you some hints. But nowadays, with things like udev, it its perfectly possible that the device will be created simply by loading

How to share the apt cache

2006-06-15 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Hi. We use Debian on a number of machines, and, to avoid downloading the same packages multiple times, we download debian cd images (which are kept updated with jigdo) to a server and set sources.list to point (only) to this images. But this has obvious problems. What is the correct way to share