Re: iceweasel doesn't open research.microsoft.com

2010-06-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
, or for relatively modern Windows: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=541658 -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc

Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-06-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
you think about this? (I'm known for my outlandish ideas, so, don't be angry if I'm wrong.) -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Don't bite the hand that feeds you

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-06-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
the Debian installer makes between the `/' as it is normally in Linux filesystems, and the `/' in the installation process, which is actually everything except what was asked to be put on other partitions. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Education

Debian Install stalls at 5% (at least for 3 hours, don't know if it suffices to designate this state as `stall')

2010-06-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
by another HDD, which gives 3 or 4 HDDs for this computer. Any idea(s)? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-06-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 06/29/2010 04:48 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: I'm not sure to understand fully your answer. I know that `guided partitioning' is what's adviced for a new user, because it's easy to configurate, but I'm here speaking about users who're not beginners, but who want

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-06-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2010 15:48:59 Merciadri Luca wrote: I'm not sure to understand fully your answer. I know that `guided partitioning' is what's adviced for a new user, because it's easy to configurate, but I'm here speaking about users who're not beginners

Re: Debian Install stalls at 5% (at least for 3 hours, don't know if it suffices to designate this state as `stall')

2010-06-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Arthur Machlas wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Hi, I'm installating Debian Lenny on an old P2 350 Mhz to make a server. SNIP tried a first Debian install, which stalled at 5%. I then re-tried, and here I am: stuck at 5

Re: Debian Install stalls at 5% (at least for 3 hours, don't know if it suffices to designate this state as `stall')

2010-06-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Mark wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be mailto:luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: I tried a first Debian install, which stalled at 5%. I then re-tried, and here I am: stuck at 5% for a long time (~3 hours). I did not mess

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-06-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Mark wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be mailto:luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: A last problem (still for me) is that the `Bootable flag' thing is not clear: you can choose to put the bootable flag on, say, /tmp/ (if you

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-06-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:02:49 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: (...) First, I always found the `mount point' expression weird in this context, because, for me, the mount point _is_ always the partition, during the installation, but this is not the problem. Mount point

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-06-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Joey Hess wrote: Merciadri Luca wrote: First, I always found the `mount point' expression weird in this context, because, for me, the mount point _is_ always the partition, during the installation, but this is not the problem. You have this common terminology exactly backwards. One

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-06-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Klistvud wrote: Dne, 29. 06. 2010 22:48:59 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a): the distinction the Debian installer makes between the `/' as it is normally in Linux filesystems, and the `/' in the installation process, which is actually everything except what was asked to be put on other partitions

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-06-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Mark wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be mailto:luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Mark wrote: Yes, but you said this wasn't for beginners in your original post so if a non-beginner can't get the Bootable Flag set up

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
Alan Chandler wrote: On 25/06/10 23:34, John Hasler wrote: Merciadri Luca writes: ...what else can you buy if you need to connect4 computers? Put 2 NICs in an old pc and install Debian. It'll outperform any consumer-grade router on the market. Buy a switch to connect all your computers

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
! -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. We tend to be perfect. That’s why when we make mistakes we are hard on ourselves. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
it is overwhelmed. I don't know why, as, now, this computer is directly connected to the router, and there is no other computer turned on this morning... -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
), the switch is going to share (in some way) the Internet connection to its other LAN ports? WAN ports are used on routers and routing b/w the WAN and LAN is taken care of with the router doing the PPPoE login and NATing the LAN. Ok. -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
H.S. wrote: On 25/06/10 06:07 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: H.S. wrote: On 06/25/10 14:44, vr wrote: Mac address is usually an issue in cable internet connections. In any case, router/modems usually have a feature called clone mac address exactly for this kind of situation

Viewing some webpage's content on the Desktop (GNOME)

2010-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Is there a way to show some webpage's content on my Desktop? (I use GNOME.) Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. There is a thin line between love

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, On Sat, June 26, 2010 5:10 pm, Merciadri Luca wrote: Well if you have a LAN port from the modem to the switch, then you connect PCs to the switch -- one of them can do a PPPoE login (not PPPoA) and only that one machine will be on the Internet. You

Re: Viewing some webpage's content on the Desktop (GNOME)

2010-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:34:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: You mean something like this? *** Fun With xwinwrap in Compiz Fusion http://www.fsckin.com/2008/04/14/fun-with-xwinwrap-in-compiz-fusion/ *** I never tested before but I guess having dynamic html content

Re: Viewing some webpage's content on the Desktop (GNOME)

2010-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
. But is there such a widget out there? If not so, I might make some script for exploiting raw data. :) -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. The word ``good'' has many meanings

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
lee wrote: On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 09:11:11AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: To figure this out, it's a good idea to simplify things first: * use static IPs on all the computers connected to the LAN and turn off the DHCP server in the router if possible * connect the switch

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
/site/support/router-database My D-Link DIR-635 is not supported by DD-WRT. But, today, everything worked fine. I'm still waiting for it to fail! -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client

Re: Why does GNOME take so much time to tell that a screensaver-introduced password is erroneous?

2010-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
. (for # example, # to disable any delay, you should add the nodelay option to pam_unix) auth optional pam_faildelay.so delay=300 Thanks for mentioning this. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- The whole dignity of man lies in the power

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
if you find a service provider which provides UUCP or ETRN for your domain. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. A candle loses nothing by lighting another

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
lee wrote: 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

Re: Viewing some webpage's content on the Desktop (GNOME)

2010-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
AG wrote: On 26/06/10 12:27, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: Then better use a widget for that tasks :-) Or if the site provides raw data, you can fetch it and make your own script. But having a complete web page embedded on the desktop is something I find it a bit overhelming

D-Link's Shareport USB Utility and openwebnet

2010-06-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
] (20005) That is, D-Link's SharePort utility apparently uses the openwebnet protocol. Do you have any idea about how it could use it? I checked the syntax, but I can't understand the link with the USB peripherals. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I

Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
the router's webpage (and the Internet, accessorily)? And let the modem be defective. Then, the router should also be defective, but there is no reason to it, as it is brand new, both are on the UPS, and always worked fine. I can't understand this problem. Any idea? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:57:40 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: (...) I suppose you are using a wifi setup with at least WPA2-PSK (or AES) so we can discard any intruder making bad things in your network :-) I am not connecting with WiFi (as stated in my previous message

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
(or whatever interface) during that time to see link is up. What about pinging your router/computer at that time? Thanks. I'll try to ping it when it fails. I'll also try ethtool. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:09:27 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Good. After reading your comments, it seems to be a problem within the router (you said that sometines you cannot reach the web interface and that is a bad signal). And as router is the glue for the rest

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
green wrote: Merciadri Luca wrote at 2010-06-25 04:57 -0500: You've probably already checked this, but is the switch connected to a LAN port on the router and the modem connected to the WAN port? If the modem were connected to a LAN port, then that puts 2 DHCP servers on one network

Wireshark: how can I give rights to interfaces without launching it as root?

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
for the interfaces, but not su rights? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:00:26 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: I am not familiar with you setup as I use all-in-one devices (ADSL bundled modem-router) and in my case, yes, sometimes the modem-router gets stuck and I have to powercycle the device

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Klistvud wrote: Dne, 25. 06. 2010 14:09:27 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a): I'd have to agree with Camaleon on that. One thing you could try before actually *replacing* the router is just disconnect it and connect directly through the switch (seeing you have one in your setup). Of course

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Arthur Machlas wrote: What's the point of the switch in your setup? All my router's ports are occupied by other RJ-45 cables, linked to other computers. So, a switch is connected to one LAN port of the router, and this computer is connected to the switch. -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
fugees style (ready or not, here I come), and then receive some firmware updates to take care of the inevitable problems that early adopters discover. Yes. But I'm with the last firmware version too. (Sorry, I should have mentioned it before.) -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
vr wrote: On 6/25/2010 5:57 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: [snip] Does your ISP claim to disallow routers or possibly charge extra for multiple PC's? Might be time to input your PC's MAC in the MAC spoofing section of your router. Might be that, but how could my ISP guess that I'm using

Re: Wireshark: how can I give rights to interfaces without launching it as root?

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Celejar wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:46:52 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: /usr/share/doc/wireshark-common/README.Debian discusses wireshark and necessary privileges. This came up a while back on the lists, and someone said that this README, while in Sid

FileZilla and auto-update of the server copy of my website

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
. Is it possible to do this? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napoleon Bonaparte) The difference between

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
vr wrote: On 6/25/2010 3:27 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: The first few characters of a MAC address are registered to a company. Sure, but are you sure that they can know the router's MAC address? -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
John Hasler wrote: Merciadri Luca writes: Their modem knows it: it's connected to your router via ethernet. Well, I had forgotten this. Thanks for pointing this out. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility

Re: Wireshark: how can I give rights to interfaces without launching it as root?

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Celejar wrote: [Please don't cc. me.] On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:29:50 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Different README; mine doesn't have that stuff, but: I. Capturing packets with Wireshark/Tshark There are two ways of installing Wireshark/Tshark

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
to the peer on ISP's side. Sad to need to go so far to enjoy something you already pay for. But, well, as I said earlier, I had never had any problems with my ISP before. Thus, except if they radically changed their policy... -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
, but what else can you buy if you need to connect 4 computers? If you want something a little bit `bigger' (hoping for `stronger' too), you need to buy some 20 or 40-port router, which is completely useless for me. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Re: FileZilla and auto-update of the server copy of my website

2010-06-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
that twice! -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Remember. If something can go wrong, it will. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Why does GNOME take so much time to tell that a screensaver-introduced password is erroneous?

2010-06-22 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karl E. Jorgensen k...@fizzback.net writes: Hi! On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 05:47:21PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:35:37 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: I use GNOME. I have noticed that if I

Re: Administrating wview on a meteorologically-dedicated computer: tips / advices?

2010-06-22 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: On 06/21/2010 04:41 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I am going to install and manage wview (see http://www.wviewweather.com/, not commercial) on an university computer for some project. I know

Re: Administrating wview on a meteorologically-dedicated computer: tips / advices?

2010-06-22 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net writes: On Monday 21 June 2010 13:41:12 Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I am going to install and manage wview (see http://www.wviewweather.com/, not commercial) on an university computer for some project. I know

Why does GNOME take so much time to tell that a screensaver-introduced password is erroneous?

2010-06-21 Thread Merciadri Luca
? I can even know if I made a typo by looking at how much time it takes! Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only

Administrating wview on a meteorologically-dedicated computer: tips / advices?

2010-06-21 Thread Merciadri Luca
computer, do you have some advices / tips for such an installation? I guess no, but who knows? If somebody has already had some nice (or not) experiences with wview, or with a meteorologically-Debian-y-dedicated computer, I would be glad to here from you. Thanks folks! -- Merciadri Luca See http

Enigmail: why couldn't I sign an HTML message?

2010-06-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Apparently, I am obliged to send a message in plain/text format for it to be signed with OpenPGP through Thunderbird's Enigmail add-on. Why? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail

Re: Enigmail: why couldn't I sign an HTML message?

2010-06-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:39:43 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Apparently, I am obliged to send a message in plain/text format for it to be signed with OpenPGP through Thunderbird's Enigmail add-on. Why? Thanks

Re: Enigmail: why couldn't I sign an HTML message?

2010-06-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- - From those to whom much is given, much is expected. (Bib. quote, Luke 12:48) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net

Re: ls -alR with wd?

2010-06-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:18:58AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:58:58PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Others already mentioned location. I'll just note that 'find' and 'ls -lR' should have comparable speeds

Re: ftp.us.debian.org really slow/nonresponsive

2010-06-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
Mark wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be mailto:luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: [snip] $ ping ftp.us.debian.org http://ftp.us.debian.org PING ftp.us.debian.org http://ftp.us.debian.org (204.152.191.39) 56(84) bytes

Re: ls -alR with wd?

2010-06-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
John wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Just remember, locate is much faster because it's reading a database. Results from find reflect the state of your system NOW, and results from locate reflect what your system was whenever

Re: ftp.us.debian.org really slow/nonresponsive

2010-06-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 10 June 2010 11:49:33 Merciadri Luca wrote: I suggest cdn.debian.net for the official archive and security.geo.debian.org for the security archive. Both are GeoIP-based to find the closest mirror to you, although cdn goes an extra step and also

Re: ftp.us.debian.org really slow/nonresponsive

2010-06-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 11 June 2010 11:52:42 Merciadri Luca wrote: Closer geographically generally means fewer intermediate routers (hops). Fewer hops generally means lower round-time times (pings). Lower pings indirectly allows larger TCP/IP windows, and thus, higher

Re: ls -alR with wd?

2010-06-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/10/2010 03:58 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: This might be useful to you. I wrote it while pining away for the OpenVMS DIR command, after seeing how incredibly useless ls -alR is. http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/pydir Thanks. I'll try it. -- Merciadri Luca See

Re: ftp.us.debian.org really slow/nonresponsive

2010-06-10 Thread Merciadri Luca
--- ftp.de.debian.org ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1005ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 40.926/46.083/51.240/5.157 ms So, yes, this looks like it is the same for everybody. But you can use another URL. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

Re: ls -alR with wd?

2010-06-10 Thread Merciadri Luca
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 10 June 2010 15:58:58 Merciadri Luca wrote: You can't. Use find correctly. If you do, it will always be faster than (ls -alR | grep $stuff). And what means `use find correctly?' Is `find . -name mystuff' so bad? -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: ls -alR with wd?

2010-06-10 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:58:58 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I find `find' very inefficient when trying to find some files. (...) I've got a one-liner saved: *** find /directory/to/find/* -type f -exec grep

ls -alR with wd?

2010-06-10 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, I find `find' very inefficient when trying to find some files. I prefer using `ls -alR | grep stuff' The problem is that the related output does not give me the directory where `stuff' is found. How can I add some row giving this? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: ls -alR with wd?

2010-06-10 Thread Merciadri Luca
Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 06/10/2010 04:58 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I find `find' very inefficient when trying to find some files. I prefer using `ls -alR | grep stuff' The problem is that the related output does not give me the directory where `stuff' is found. How can I add some

Re: ls -alR with wd?

2010-06-10 Thread Merciadri Luca
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:58:58PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Others already mentioned location. I'll just note that 'find' and 'ls -lR' should have comparable speeds. find's output should be nicer to parse. A single 'find' is normally enough to cache the relevant

Re: `No valid armored OpenPGP data block found'

2010-06-09 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:14:28 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:53:29 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: OMG! What kind of crap e-mail client are you using

`No valid armored OpenPGP data block found'

2010-06-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
that AVG is not part of OpenPGP? What can I do? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: `No valid armored OpenPGP data block found'

2010-06-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:05:02 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I am using AVG on my Android device to sign messages using my private key. AVG? May I ask what piece of code is that? :-) I thought AVG

Re: `No valid armored OpenPGP data block found'

2010-06-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:05:02 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I am using AVG on my Android device to sign messages using my private key. AVG? May I ask what piece of code is that? :-) I thought AVG

Re: `No valid armored OpenPGP data block found'

2010-06-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:59:20 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: Google has some hits on that message. Are you sending the e-mails formatted with html? If yes, try sending them with plain text

Re: `No valid armored OpenPGP data block found'

2010-06-08 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:53:29 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: OMG! What kind of crap e-mail client are you using? Outlook-droid? (just kidding) ;-) ! The default one! Named...? K-9 Mail

AVD for Android's SDK gives NullPointerException: because of no recognized XML Schema validation tool?

2010-06-07 Thread Merciadri Luca
output. So, why am I getting this XML verification error? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. All flowers are not in one garden. signature.asc Description

Re: AVD for Android's SDK gives NullPointerException: because of no recognized XML Schema validation tool?

2010-06-07 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:23:41 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I am trying to install some AVD relative to my Android's SDK (still under Debian Lenny). Well, updating info from the SDK source gives me == XML

Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

2010-06-05 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/30/2010 02:26 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Another suggestion: PDFMiner http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/ Hopefully it will soon be packaged. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584555 Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http

Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
want to wait or end the process). What can I do? I do not have memory-greedy plug-ins running. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Better late than never

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
ahead Being written repeatedly to .xsession-errors. Where is this file? Neither in ~ nor in /etc/X11. According to the output I sent some minutes ago, the other files need to be sufficiently big to slow down that much my FF. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:40:14 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I have noticed that my Iceweasel takes more and more time to close. When closing it, I hear the HDD spinning, and some operations seem to be done

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Steven wrote: On Thu, June 3, 2010 10:40, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I have noticed that my Iceweasel takes more and more time to close. When closing it, I hear the HDD spinning, and some operations seem to be done. It always close, but, even with ONE (normal webpage associated

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:06:31 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Hello Merciadri, Where is this file? Neither in ~ nor in /etc/X11. According to the Mine's in ~. IDK why you're not finding it. Unless you missed the leading point

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven wrote: On Thu, June 3, 2010 11:15, Merciadri Luca wrote: Steven wrote: This might be what you are looking for: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/07/vacuum-your-firefox-databases-for-better-performance/ Cleaning up firefox/iceweasel's

How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
, to maintain some touch, and to select filen-2, simply. (I know that, in this case, it would be better to select all the files and then deselect filen-1 and filen, but this is an example. How can I? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:23:34 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: In a directory, using the `List' mode of Nautilus, how can I select `continuously' files from one to another? (...) Click shift and select

Re: Iceweasel/FF takes too much time to close (because it frees memory)

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 11:44:10AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Thanks, Steven. What I meant by `non-negligible influence' is that I executed the whole on my sqlite files, and that the FF process then goes faster for starting closing. Yes, I'm going to put

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
, normally, the files in the related zone are selected. When you're in list mode, Nautilus lets you drag drop at the place of using area selection, if you have too many columns showing properties such as last mod date, etc. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/03/2010 05:23 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Other key chords: Shift-{Down|Up}Arrow Shift-Page{Up|Down} Shift-Ctrl-{Home|End} Yes. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/03/2010 08:12 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: OK, that's what I thought. OTOH, some GUI apps (Icedeove and Geeqie spring right to mind) are programmed to interpret any click-drag as the beginning of a drag drop. Yes, but there is habitually no interest in selecting

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:28:57 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: Click shift and select the first file, then the last, it will highlight the files in between. To add more non-contiguous files

Re: How can I select more than one file in some file list using some key('s) (combination if necessary) (Nautilus)?

2010-06-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:12:35 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/03/2010 05:45 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] Yep, using the area selection does not work in list view mode What's area

Re: Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

2010-06-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark mamar...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 01 June 2010 08:56:52 Merciadri Luca wrote: And is there some HTC Sync program

Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
? Alternatively, some programs now render what I type just as if I was in QWERTY mode, but I am in AZERTY mode (.xorg.conf and GNOME's keyboard utility tell it to me). What can I do? This is really annoying. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

FSCK seems angry with my filesystem

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
. /dev/sdc5) to check it, or not? And what do I need to specify? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. If it's worth doing, it's worth over-doing

Re: FSCK seems angry with my filesystem

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:29:27AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: e2fsck [-y] /dev/sdc5 [The optional -y answers yes to the prompts saying Fix.[y/n] e2fsck -a attempts an automatic fix of the commonest errors but is conservative and makes minimal changes

Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
able to check the µSD's card content. I am using an HTC Desire. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: FSCK seems angry with my filesystem

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk writes: On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:29:27AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, When booting my computer this morning, fsck was not happy. Here is what it said: == # cat /var/log/fsck/checkfs Log

Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:25:31 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Since I played accidently with `Hot keys' or something like that (I do not remember exactly their name, but the fact is that I pushed the `maj' key

Re: Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West we...@acu.edu writes: Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, To my utter astonishment, I have not found, on the Internet, an explanation on how to connect an Android-based device to a Debian workstation (through USB2, evidently). Do you have any

Re: Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:01:13 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: To my utter astonishment, I have not found, on the Internet, an explanation on how to connect an Android-based device to a Debian workstation (through

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