Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-27 Thread lee
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:03:29PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Older releases are maintained in the archive For 30 years or more? From what I understand, that is the plan. The archive currently goes back to the first release of Debian. It may be planned to do that, but that

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-27 Thread lee
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:10:54PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: It's something hidden from the user instead of telling them about it. That's never a good idea. Actually, according to actual HCI studies it is often better to hide things from a user instead of telling them about it.

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-27 Thread lee
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:11:38PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: You might check out the database component of KOffice 2 (still in beta, IIRC).  It is supposed to be a bit friendlier than the OO.o database component and should, by default, use an SQLite database embedded in the document.

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-27 Thread lee
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:54:31PM +0100, Muzer wrote: lee wrote: Still it wants to install the full mysql server --- and doesn't that package automatically start the server, even if it's then not used by kde? Not that I couldn't prevent that, but they could make a package that only installs

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:22:32PM -0400, H.S. wrote: I agree with Boyd in his understanding of your post. What is the use of language if you say one thing that a reasonable person would understand but meant something completely different? If a reasonable receiver does not understand the

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:19:07PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090527205036.gn5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:01:08PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: So, yes, you did say that. You just didn't use those words, which is why

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:22:57PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: lee wrote: For the second time in this thread: Is there another way to start kde than using kdm (or gdm)? Though they can be nice to have, I don't want to have to use either of them. Isn't startx or startkde supposed to do

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:42:08PM +0200, komodo wrote: On Thursday 28 of May 2009 15:00:29 lee wrote: I already mentioned about 3 or 4 times in this thread that kdm, when it tries to start, says that there is no greeting widget and that I should check the configuration. I'm merely

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:23:18PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090527205142.go5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:03:29PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Older releases are maintained in the archive For 30 years or more? From what I

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:14:03AM -0400, Brendan wrote: Where do you get a good case for $20? Shop around a bit and you'll find that useable ones start at about $250, and good ones cost more --- if you can find one at all. 250? Is this a gold case? Show me where you can buy the

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 07:40:37AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Where do you get a good case for $20? Shop around a bit and you'll find that useable ones start at about $250, and good ones cost more You should start looking for a new place to buy cases. Do you know a good place? I was lucky

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:44:12AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Where do you get a good case for $20? Shop around a bit and you'll find that useable ones start at about $250, and good ones cost more --- if you can find one at all. Buy an old computer and use that case. That's what I

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:42:57AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: If your backup/archive hardware won't connect to the new computer, then you'll need to migrate the data to new archive hardware first, then migrate the computer to new hardware. Yes, but then you might have overlooked something

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:35:01PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090527205951.gp5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:10:54PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: It's something hidden from the user instead of telling them about it. That's

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:37:33PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090527210120.gq5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:11:38PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: You might check out the database component of KOffice 2. It is supposed to be a bit

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:44:49AM -0400, H.S. wrote: Have you tried reinstalling kdm with aptitude? Or purging it and then installing it again? Purging might recreate the config files. Yes, I tried that, but it didn't change anything. It's working now, but I don't like it ... -- To

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-28 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:12:18PM +0200, komodo wrote: What about this ? http://albertech.net/2009/04/kde-how-to-fix-no-greeter-widget-plugin-load ed-error/ That fits perfectly, thanks! The symptoms are the same, and kdebase-workspace is currently not installed. I'll install it

What happened to network devices?

2009-05-28 Thread lee
Hi, what happened to network devices like /dev/eth0? cat:~# dhcp_probe -f /dev/eth0 note: starting, version 1.3.0 error: dhcp_probe: bad interface '/dev/eth0': SIOCGIFADDR: /dev/eth0: No such device note: exiting cat:~# find / -name eth0 /proc/irq/20/eth0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/eth0

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-29 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 02:21:38PM -0400, H.S. wrote: lee wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:44:49AM -0400, H.S. wrote: Have you tried reinstalling kdm with aptitude? Or purging it and then installing it again? Purging might recreate the config files. Yes, I tried that, but it didn't

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-29 Thread lee
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 06:28:46PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Can you get a reliable tape drive, incl. some tapes, that stores at least 1TB per tape, for max. $200 now? No. You can get used LTO-3 drives for about $250 on ebay. Tapes, of whatever capacity, end up costing about $50

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-05-29 Thread lee
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 01:35:47PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,29.May.09, 00:35:38, lee wrote: Hi, what happened to network devices like /dev/eth0? cat:~# dhcp_probe -f /dev/eth0 note: starting, version 1.3.0 error: dhcp_probe: bad interface '/dev/eth0': SIOCGIFADDR

How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-29 Thread lee
Hi, the subject says it all: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays? Some sites feed the data too slow to watch while it's being fed, so I want to download what's being send instead and save it to a file that I can play later when all the data

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-05-30 Thread lee
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 06:40:00PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090529225111.gf1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee wrote: Anyway, I'd like to know what happened to /dev/eth0. I've never had a Linux box where /dev/eth0 existed. That said, I'm only been using it as my main OS

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-30 Thread lee
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:24:05PM -0500, LinuxChuck wrote: May I suggest a firefox addon called Downloadhelper. I believe it is capable of saving flv (flash video) files to your drive. Just go check out https://addons.mozilla.org and you should be able to find it there. Thanks, I'll take a

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-30 Thread lee
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:43:22AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: The sites usually detect you are trying to save a copy and won't proceed. Try putting a man in the middle (WWWOFFLE). How could they detect that? They are just sending data --- or is the player responding in some way to tell

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-30 Thread lee
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 06:10:58PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: If you tweak you flashplayer not to cache content locally, just tweak it back using the setting panel from Adobe there : http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html the image

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-30 Thread lee
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 07:26:24PM +, s. keeling wrote: JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com: lee wrote: the subject says it all: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays? Try this: http://clive.sourceforge.net/ ITYM

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-30 Thread lee
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:44:38PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: lee wrote: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html the image in the upper right part of the page is a setting panel, what you set there is set locally on your computer

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-30 Thread lee
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:41:57PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: lee wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 07:26:24PM +, s. keeling wrote: JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com: lee wrote: the subject says it all: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-31 Thread lee
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:44:15AM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: lee wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 06:10:58PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: If you tweak you flashplayer not to cache content locally, just tweak it back using the setting panel from Adobe there : http

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-05-31 Thread lee
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:25:37AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-05-31 04:14 +0200, lee wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 06:10:58PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: If you tweak you flashplayer not to cache content locally, just tweak it back using the setting panel from Adobe

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-05-31 Thread lee
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:12:09PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: So what did you use instead? I have never had trouble with using eth0 or /dev/eth0 before. In the rare case that I needed to specify an interface name, I used the raw kernel name (e.g. eth0) and not a pathname.

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-06-02 Thread lee
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 12:19:59PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-06-01 02:36 +0200, lee wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:25:37AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: How about dpkg --purge flashplugin-nonfree? If you do not trust Adobe, stop using their closed-source software. I'd

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-06-02 Thread lee
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 09:49:13PM -0500, Jason Dunsmore wrote: lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de writes: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 08:25:37AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: I'd gladly do that, but how would I watch the videos then? Check out the mtube greasemonkey script for Firefox. It allows you

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-06-02 Thread lee
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 04:20:15PM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html They get a list of sites you have visited --- and

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-06-03 Thread lee
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 11:55:11PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: So what did you use instead? I have never had trouble with using eth0 or /dev/eth0 before, so I didn't check if such a file existed. A network interface is a device which I expect to be represented under /dev. Not so, at

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-06-03 Thread lee
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 09:22:29PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: James Youngman wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:30 PM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 06:40:00PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090529225111.gf1...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com, lee

Re: What happened to network devices?

2009-06-04 Thread lee
interface is a device which I expect to be represented under /dev. Not so, at least on Linux. On 03.06.09 10:51, lee wrote: Well, all devices are supposed to be available under /dev. Who told you that? I have never heard of this and I work with linux since 1997... I've read

Re: How do you get iceweasel (or another browser) to save what otherwise the flashplayer plays?

2009-06-04 Thread lee
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:58:11PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Ter, 02 Jun 2009, lee wrote: Ok, that's what they are saying. How do you know if it's true? You check the source. Oh, this is closed-source software. In this case, if you are not willing to believe what the company

segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-05 Thread lee
a segmentation fault: cat:/home/lee# /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 Segmentation fault cat:/home/lee# I'm using kernel 2.6.30 and have tried: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.36-pkg2.run NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.32-pkg2.run The 64bit part seems to work fine, i. e. I can start the X server

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-05 Thread lee
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 07:41:47PM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: cat:/home/lee# /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 Segmentation fault cat:/home/lee# the ia32-libs got seriously reworked has I understand, you can use the Sid version of nvidia's packages, and install the Debian way

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-05 Thread lee
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 12:17:53AM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: lee a wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 07:41:47PM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: cat:/home/lee# /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 Segmentation fault cat:/home/lee# the ia32-libs got seriously reworked has I

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-06 Thread lee
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:45:58AM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: I currently have 185.18.36-2 from Sid installed, my package list look like : aptitude search ~S~i~nnvidia i nvidia-glx i nvidia-glx-ia32 i nvidia-kernel-2.6.31.2-vanilla64 this is the kernel module built with

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-06 Thread lee
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:45:58AM +0200, thveillon.debian wrote: I currently have 185.18.36-2 from Sid installed, my package list look like : aptitude search ~S~i~nnvidia i nvidia-glx i nvidia-glx-ia32 i nvidia-kernel-2.6.31.2-vanilla64 this is the kernel module built with

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-06 Thread lee
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:00:52PM -0700, David Fox wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: cat:/home/lee# /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 Segmentation fault cat:/home/lee# You can't run a library directly. Oh. I thought you could --- some time

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-06 Thread lee
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:13:57PM -0700, David Fox wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:59 PM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: And nvidia-kernel-common: This package contains files shared between NVIDIA module packages. Common refers essentially to support files., You should install

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-08 Thread lee
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 08:01:47AM -0700, David Fox wrote: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:46 PM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Link where? :) I have a 9800GT. Oops, I forgot the link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-08 Thread lee
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: lee schreef: On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 08:00:52PM -0700, David Fox wrote: More to the point, since you have an amd64 system, why bother with ia32 components? I don't recall any need for ia32 for nvidia. Where do you get a 64bit

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-08 Thread lee
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 07:57:52AM -0700, David Fox wrote: I think I meant that you didn't need ia32 for nvidia. You'll of course need it for things that aren't available as 64-bit executables, or not available as source. Over here, that is a pretty short list, since I'm not into games much

Re: segmentation fault with NVIDIA 32bit part

2009-10-09 Thread lee
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:45:02AM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: My quake3 copy is running fine with the 64-bit nvidia drivers. Without having the 32bit compatibility libraries installed? I have quake4 and don't know about quake3, but all games that aren't 64bit seem to need the

dlink dwa-556

2009-12-08 Thread lee
Hi, I'm trying to connect to a wireless network with a Dlink DWA-556 card. The card is using the ath9k driver and shows up as follows with lspci: 02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) Subsystem: D-Link System Inc Device 3a70

Re: dlink dwa-556

2009-12-08 Thread lee
it's called] scan' yun:/home/lee# iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:23:08:17:73:A9 Channel:5 Frequency:2.432 GHz (Channel 5) Quality=53/70 Signal level=-57 dBm Encryption

Re: dlink dwa-556

2009-12-09 Thread lee
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 07:26:08AM +, s. keeling wrote: lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de: Hi, Hi yourself. My only purpose here is to note that some of your posts are excruciatingly long. That was only one post --- and it got pretty long, yes. This elicits flames (some pay by the byte

Re: dlink dwa-556

2009-12-09 Thread lee
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 08:38:04PM -0500, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 23:18:42 +0100 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Hm, at least wicd seems to have set the ESSID and to have found a cell. ?? This output has nothing to do with wicd. Not exactly, but it was one of the programs I

regexp: anything but |

2009-12-09 Thread lee
Hi, I'm looking for a regular expression that matches anything but the pipe sign ('|'). My intention is to use sed to delete lines from kaffeines channels.dvb that contain duplicate senders, i. e. sender names that end in '-[0-9]'. So far, it's something like sed '/^.*\|.*-[0-9]\|/d' but

how to reset scd0

2009-12-09 Thread lee
Hi, how can I reset /dev/scd0 without rebooting? This device is an SATA blueray player I was using to write something onto a DVD RW. When it turned out that writing would take a ridiculously long time (5--6 hours), I aborted the process. Now the drive seems the be in an unsable state. It takes

how to prevent gnomebaker from blocking the sound card

2009-12-09 Thread lee
Hi, when gomebaker is running, the soundcard is blocked so that other application can't use it anymore. How do I prevent gnomebaker from blocking the sound? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: regexp: anything but |

2009-12-09 Thread lee
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 06:07:34PM +, Chris Jackson wrote: To match anything except |, use: [^|] Thanks! That's nice, but the pattern '\^.*\|[^\|]-[0-9]\|' still matches all lines ... and I don't see why/how it could to that ... Hmm. Here's an example line:

Re: regexp: anything but |

2009-12-09 Thread lee
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 07:07:52PM +, Chris Jackson wrote: Note that from the shell this is in single quote marks to stop shell expansions. Doing it without those would be masochism ;) It already is: l...@yun:~/tmp/chan$ cat channels.dvb | sed '/^[^|]*|[^|]*-[0-9]|/' | wc -l sed: -e

Re: regexp: anything but |

2009-12-09 Thread lee
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 08:17:04PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: What you'd want is probably sed '/[^|]-[0-9]/d' channels.dvb which will delete all lines with a '-[0-9]' that is not directly preceded by a | l...@yun:~/tmp/chan$ cat channels.dvb | sed '/[^|]-[0-9]/d' | wc -l 1

Re: regexp: anything but |

2009-12-09 Thread lee
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 07:46:04PM +, Chris Jackson wrote: lee wrote: On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 07:07:52PM +, Chris Jackson wrote: Note that from the shell this is in single quote marks to stop shell expansions. Doing it without those would be masochism ;) It already is: l

Re: how to reset scd0

2009-12-10 Thread lee
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 02:33:35PM -0500, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 19:35:58 +0100 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Hi, how can I reset /dev/scd0 without rebooting? If your driver has been built as a module, you can try removing and reinserting it. Now even after

Re: how to reset scd0

2009-12-10 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 02:15:07PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 10. 12. 2009 12:17:33 je lee napisal(a): Now even after a shutdown and turning off the power, the drive still doesn't work. So this might be a hardware problem, and it's getting off topic --- but any ideas are welcome

Re: Networking problem

2009-12-11 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 09:22:17PM +0700, freeburn wrote: Now we want to use a machine which will be connected with the smpp server and also connected with the office network for accessing our remote content server(where our website is hosted). I have tried to use two ethernate cards. but

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-11 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:19:56PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: Would you ever buy a car -- or even a mobile phone -- where the spare/ replacement battery cost 14% of the entire car/phone retail price? Say you got the cheapest Clio or Fiesta for just under 10.000€, but would have to pay over

Re: regexp: anything but |

2009-12-11 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:21:53PM +0100, Michael Wagner wrote: * lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de 09.12.2009 start of line anything pipe anything but pipe -[-0] pipe should match above line. But why does it match Hello lee, look at the program 'txt2regex'. With it you can define a regex

Re: how to reset scd0

2009-12-11 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:56:41AM -0500, Hugh Lawson wrote: Generally, when faced with a dilemma whether an issue is hardware- or software- related, I boot up a live CD or two. Any odd Ubuntu will do. Ok, but in which way would doing this help? I haven't changed the software, and it

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-11 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:45:31PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: no need of lithium at all. What's the alternative? Have they found another resource to make batteries from? So price is what the company decides to put as price. So? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-12 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 05:41:05PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:42:49 +0100 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de dijo: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:45:31PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: no need of lithium at all. What's the alternative? Have they found another resource

VDPAU? Sound when watching DVB-S2?

2009-12-18 Thread lee
Hi, does the xine stuff used by kaffeine in Debian use VDPAU? If not, how can I make it use VDPAU? And how about the sound when watching DVD-S2 with kaffeine? I've installed the 1.0-pre2 version of kaffeine from experimental. That version finds HD channels, and I can see the movies, but there is

Re: How to tar a file while it's chaging

2009-12-18 Thread lee
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 02:47:54PM +1930, Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote: ¿There is a way to tar a file but ignore if the file is modified or may be a way to trunk the file? You could exclude it from being put into the archive at all, or exclude it but make a copy and put the copy into the

Re: VDPAU? Sound when watching DVB-S2?

2009-12-20 Thread lee
Nobody? On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 07:40:09PM +0100, lee wrote: Hi, does the xine stuff used by kaffeine in Debian use VDPAU? If not, how can I make it use VDPAU? And how about the sound when watching DVD-S2 with kaffeine? I've installed the 1.0-pre2 version of kaffeine from experimental

Re: VDPAU? Sound when watching DVB-S2?

2009-12-21 Thread lee
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:17:52AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:40, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Hi, does the xine stuff used by kaffeine in Debian use VDPAU? If not, how can I make it use VDPAU? First you have to have the nvidia driver 180.16 or newer

switching to console and zapping

2010-06-25 Thread lee
Hi, what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with Alt+Fx anymore? It's also not possible to kill the X session with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, though this feature is not turned off in the xorg.conf. I'm using fvwm-crystal as a window manager. This has been going on for a quite a

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-25 Thread lee
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 05:13:46PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:31:15 -0400 (EDT), lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with Alt+Fx anymore? You never could. You need Ctrl too. For example, switching from

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-26 Thread lee
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:29:50AM +0530, Anand Sivaram wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 05:44, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Neither switching to consoles is possible, nor terminating the X server with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. Try chvt n where n is the same as n of Fn. similary chvt 7

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-26 Thread lee
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:54:50AM +, Sascha Silbe wrote: Excerpts from lee's message of Fri Jun 25 20:31:15 + 2010: what could be the reason why I can't switch from X11 to consoles with Alt+Fx anymore? It's also not possible to kill the X session with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, though

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-26 Thread lee
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:54:50AM +, Sascha Silbe wrote: No idea why VT switching doesn't work for you. To get Ctrl+Alt+BS working again you need to change /etc/default/keyboard: XKBOPTIONS=terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp It's not working --- I quit the X session, restarted hal as pointed out

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-26 Thread lee
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 09:11:11AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: According to my pings (see last messages), the router looks like overwhelmed, and is thus completely crappy. I don't know why it happens now. I am still wondering why. To figure this out, it's a good idea to simplify things

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-26 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:54:17AM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Umm, to run a proper mail server, you wouldn't and probably shouldn't be able to use a dynamic IP. The MX record for mail must have a real A record that has a fixed IP; and that A record's IP should have a proper reverse DNS

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-26 Thread lee
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:24:55PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: receiving directly needs a MX record, which needs a static IP because of DNS caches If you use dyndns, they set the ttl to one minute. You may get what you want if you find a service provider which provides UUCP or ETRN for your

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-26 Thread lee
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:08:14PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: lee wrote: * unplug the router, plug your computer directly into the modem, set up your computer for making the connection to your ISP Everything works great, if so. That might indicate that the router is causing trouble

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-26 Thread lee
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 08:14:07PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: Le Sat 26/06/2010, lee disait On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:24:55PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: receiving directly needs a MX record, which needs a static IP because of DNS caches If you use dyndns, they set the ttl to one

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 07:32:48AM +0200, Erwan David wrote: Le Sun 27/06/2010, lee disait On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 08:14:07PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: Le Sat 26/06/2010, lee disait On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:24:55PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: receiving directly needs a MX

suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
Hi, after suspending to disk during the night and resuming, my computer froze with a black screen after running maybe three minutes. Is suspend to disk that unreliable? When suspending to disk, the default size of the image written is 512MB. What happens when there's more data that needs to be

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:13:23AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:58:09 +0200, lee wrote: after suspending to disk during the night and resuming, my computer froze with a black screen after running maybe three minutes. Is suspend to disk that unreliable

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:53:41AM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:28:36 +0200, lee wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:13:23AM +, Camaleón wrote: No, but there can be problems with some of your devices or drivers that prevent restoring from hibernation gracefully

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:21:05AM +, Camaleón wrote: You better read further info about suspend in Debian and what are your options ;-) http://wiki.debian.org/Suspend Thanks, I'm checking it out right now :) Seems that you can't just suspend as described in the kernel documentation

bunzip?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
Hi, I've got some files I compressed years back with bzip. Now bunzip2 can't decompress them, and there doesn't seem to be something like bunzip in Debian. And idea how to uncompress these files? -- 27/06/2010 04:03:46 The X server says there are 10 mouse buttons. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:59:25PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 03:36:03PM +0200, lee wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:54:50AM +, Sascha Silbe wrote: No idea why VT switching doesn't work for you. To get Ctrl+Alt+BS working again you need to change /etc

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:00:51PM +, Camaleón wrote: Every hibernation/suspend methods have their own way to make things, so the first you should do is knowing what method are you using to hibernate the machine. If you are not using GNOME, what is your DE, if any? and how do you

Re: bunzip?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:15:06PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:30:38 +0200, lee wrote: I've got some files I compressed years back with bzip. Run file myfile.bz and put here the ouput. -rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee627 Dec 23 1997 rules4writers.txt.bz l...@yun:~/Infos

Re: bunzip?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 02:01:06PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:33:55 +0200, lee wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:15:06PM +, Camaleón wrote: Run file myfile.bz and put here the ouput. -rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee627 Dec 23 1997 rules4writers.txt.bz 1997

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:43:49PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:28:06 +0200, lee wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:00:51PM +, Camaleón wrote: If you are not using GNOME, what is your DE, if any? and how do you send the machine to hibernate? Currently, I'm using

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-27 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:35:23AM -0700, John Magolske wrote: * lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de [100626 12:44]: Neither switching to consoles is possible, nor terminating the X server with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. I have DontZap in the ServerFlags section rather under ServerLayout as you show

KDE: rearranging virtual desktops

2010-06-28 Thread lee
Hi, is it possible to arrange the virtual desktops under KDE in such a way that they make a square? I want 4x4 virtual desktops, i. e. four rows with four culumns each. KDE makes only two columns with eight virtual desktops instead. -- 27/06/2010 04:03:46 The X server says there are 10 mouse

Re: Fw: Re: Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-28 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 07:17:56PM -0500, cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: -- Original Message -- From: cjns1...@gmail.com Date: Jun. 27 2010 02:26PM Subject: Re: Re: switching to console and zapping buggy video driver? try Driver vesa in device section of xorg.conf.

Re: switching to console and zapping

2010-06-28 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 03:21:58PM +0200, lee wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:59:25PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 03:36:03PM +0200, lee wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 07:54:50AM +, Sascha Silbe wrote: No idea why VT switching doesn't work for you. To get

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-28 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 04:05:57PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:28:45 +0200, lee wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:43:49PM +, Camaleón wrote: And how do you suspend to disk? By pressing a button, running a script...? You said in your first writing that (sic) after

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-06-28 Thread lee
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 09:24:28AM -0700, Mark wrote: I would never use Suspend on a desktop due to lack of battery/UPS present. As for Hibernate, it takes as long to do a fresh boot as a resume from Hibernate on my desktops so really there's not much point there. The point is saving power

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