Re: Qual distro recomendam para computador antigo ?

2008-10-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
ideia. Experimenta o XFCE ou fluxbox. Também tens outras distros, é só procurar. As mais conhecidas são Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Knoppix, Coyote Linux... e muitas outras feitas para correr em CDs ou pendrives (mas instaláveis em disco). -- Nuno Magalhães

Re: Linux em PDA / Palmtop

2009-02-13 Thread Nuno Magalhães
E que tal usar o google? O openmoko corre uma versão modificada de linux, pode ser um bom ponto de partida. Nuno Magalhães LU#484677 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-portuguese-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Ocultando versao do apache e do PHP

2009-02-16 Thread Nuno Magalhães
http://pt.php.net/manual/en/security.hiding.php Nuno Magalhães LU#484677 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-portuguese-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: wanted: Debian Cloud hosting provider suggestions

2012-10-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, Not sure if a VPS qualifies as cloud hosting, whatever that is, but i was happy with linode (then i found another provider in my country), good service, reasonable prices,nice management stuff, etc HTH, Nuno -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: newbie question on port forwarding(and ssh, netcat)

2012-10-10 Thread Nuno Magalhães
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html A bit of searching the net on port-forwarding oughta give you the answer. You probably forgot to forward port 22 on the router to whichever ip adress your DEBIAN has. Search around for stuff on your router/ISP combo as they're almost always

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-20 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:01 AM, David Sastre Medina d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: I know nagios is pretty standard, but what most people is not telling is most its developers fleed. You should check Icinga instead.

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

2012-06-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
A combination of find and rm will probably do. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: And remember Debian has not a time-based schedule for their releases That's awkward, i was under the impression there was a change some years back so that the stable branch would change to a 6 months release schedule. Did that

Re: minimal HTTP server recommends

2012-07-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:10 AM, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: please recommend another minimal HTTP server nginx, preferably compiled from source HTH; Nuno -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: how many users is enough?

2012-12-01 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Morel Bérenger berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: And the subject was the number of users needed to keep a distro alive ;) One. Of course it would take ages for a release. :) The power of GNU/Linux distros (and other *nixes) lies - IMHO obviously - in the

Re: Xen vs. KVM on Debian squeeze

2012-12-11 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Chris Davies chris-use...@roaima.co.uk wrote: P. J. McDermott p...@nac.net wrote: I'd like to set up virtualization on a home server with a Debian GNU/Linux squeeze amd64 host and squeeze and wheezy amd64 guests. I'd recommend KVM and libvirt/VMM.

Re: [OT] Language(No programming language ) question

2013-01-26 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Thore th...@datensumpf.de wrote: In the list description this is an international list -- english. Isn't there a spanish list? Search, you'll find it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Installing Debian (currently squeeze) on Toshiba Satellite L750-170

2013-01-27 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, Not really an expert, but... On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Chris Evans chrish...@psyctc.org wrote: 1) General one: What is the approved way to sort out what hardware is in a machine and get that information onto the Debian HCL and to work out what works on it and what doesn't? I'd

Re: Debian is a translation.

2013-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:40 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: you will run localepurge. Yup, that plus whichever locales you want usually does the trick, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

[ ERR] Reading package lists - E: Encountered a section with no Package: header

2011-11-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, I've been having these errors: [ ERR] Reading package lists E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.nfsi.pt_debian_dists_squeeze_main_binary-amd64_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. E:

Re: only console login after latest sid upgrade

2012-01-31 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 20:36, Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil.deb...@gmx.net wrote: Is anyone else experiencing this? How about checking X's log? Or kdm's? -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-26 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 06:07, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: I'd recommend LVM: +1, did that for a 1TB (931GiB) Seagte, you'll end up with a /dev/mapper/volumeGrouName-partitionName1 /dev/mapper/volumeGrouName-partitionName2 If you RTFM around it's fairily straightforward.

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
2011/9/29 mforestier mforest...@free.fr: Bonjour a toutes et tous! C'est mon premier message sur cette liste! Hopefully it's also the last in french; there's another list for that: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/ As for laptops, i favour Toshiba (just bought one but keeping Windows

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 06:22, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: (That's the American placement of the comma before the close-quote; the Brits do it opposite.) I could never understand that, seems like wrong nesting/closing of html tags to me. Even though i started with the UK version i

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 17:36, John Hasler jhas...@debian.org wrote: Maybe we should coin an adjective.  USian perhaps? Usonian is not unheard of, thanks to Frank Lloyd Wright and James Duff Law. Btw, has comedian always been so? No matter how much i search, i can't find comediants! -- Nuno

Re: Backup System

2012-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 09:33, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On 03/02/12 05:36, David Christensen wrote: $ apt-cache search backup | less HTH, It's hardly likely to.  I don't know why you bothered to suggest it. 'Cos the OP shows no evidence of having done the slightest bit of

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, It is kinda off-topic (i'd OT it), and being picky it's GNU/Linux Debian, not GNU/Debian Linux. Being extra picky i'd ask where is Manhattan, :) There's no inherent incompatibility between FOSS software and social media, that i know of. Your only concern could be the browser but Firefox has

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:20, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Identi.ca and DIASPORA*, the open counterparts for Internet socializing. Don't know about identi.ca, but disaspora started asking for money even before lauch, did they get to actually leave beta-stage? People who care about their

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:27, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: And what's make you think open source projects cannot ask for money? I see nothing wrong there. I prefer a company or a project is transparent enough to say, hey, we need $$$ to put this working and ask for it. Diaspora started

Re: [OT] gmail archive button missing from label

2012-02-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:18, J. Bakshi baksh...@gmail.com wrote: Is it not possible to archive messages from label view ? OT indeed. Isn't there a debian-misc or something? If you're in the label view and the message is also in the inbox, select it and go to the More menu, Archive will be one

Re: aptitude/apt-get update downloads needless translations

2012-02-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
There's localoepurge, it cleans unneeded locales after an install, but i'm not sure it affects an update. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Difference between php memcache packages

2012-02-10 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, Maybe i'm missing something obvious, but what's the difference between php5-memcached and php5-memcache (in stable)? They both seem to be APIs to connect to memcached servers through PHP. TIA, Nuno -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

2011-05-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 18:14, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: For Debian I still need to set up a xorg.conf, hopefully it will keep in good shape ;). I suspect many issues regarding to the way X is handled today. It's usually automagically generated, unless it borks, in

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
If their excuse was lack of standards' compliance maybe it'd kinda make sense. If. There's something called graceful degradation and it does force people to buy newer hardware. How green of Google Inc. Reminds me to start migrating away from their products and start treating them as Microsoft's.

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
What did you try? And where are those ip adresses connected to? The router? Individual servers? A single link? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
2011/6/7 Christian Simo csim...@gmail.com: iface eth1 inet static    address 41.134.19.90    netmask 255.255.255.248    broadcast 41.134.19.95    gateway 10.0.0.2 the above IP addresses are set up on one of my computer on my LAN Isn't this a node in a LAN, with a public IP address? You

Re: psi instead of Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, Not an expert, but skype uses its own proprietary protocol, i think (plus SIP to initiate), so i think you'd need a skype transport on your jabber server. Again, not an expert. Try converting your friends to open protocols instead ;) [not an easy task, i know] HTH, Nuno -- Mars 2 Stay!

Re: psi instead of Skype

2011-06-13 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:19, Philipp Überbacher hollun...@lavabit.com wrote: I doubt the situation will get better with skype in the hands of ms. There was a thread about that recently. AFAIK it'll just get integrated into MSN-Live or whatever it's called. My 2¢ Nuno -- Mars 2 Stay! But a

Re: psi instead of Skype

2011-06-13 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 15:24, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: low land-line/mobile rates my SIP provider has How's the sound quality? Any big known SIP providers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: psi instead of Skype [OT]

2011-06-14 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 04:34, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: [...]and ISPs start rolling out VOIP products of their own. [...] Will ISPs start blocking VoIP ports? *evil grin* with the telcos. I heard of one that is basically a wireless PSTN equivalent - no line

Re: Not authorized to mount flash drive with normal account

2011-06-19 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 16:00, Patrick Wiseman pwise...@gmail.com wrote: Downgrade to consolekit 0.4.1-4, reboot, and the problem should go away. I just did an aptitude safe-upgrade on my Sid after pinning consolekit to 0.4.1-4 and now i can mount as a normal user again. HTH and thanks,

Borked FastCGI after [SECURITY] [DSA 2266-1] php5 security update

2011-06-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, I have a stable server with these packages: ii php5-cgi 5.3.3-7+squeeze3 server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary) ii php5-common5.3.3-7+squeeze3 Common files for packages built from the php5 source ii php5-gd

Re: Squeeze - Virtualbox - No Installable Kernel

2011-07-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 04:59, scottmac...@hush.com wrote: During the install of an Ubuntu 8.04 server virtual machine I got the following error: Why are you asking in a Debian list about an Ubuntu package? Ask in the Ubuntu forums, they'll know how it's packaged. I use Sid, i haven't had

Re: OT: Camaleón

2011-07-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 17:33, Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: And I thought chauvinism was dead. Surely you jest. I'd call it statistics though, but i'm not trying to impress. end participation in silly thread / -- Mars 2 Stay! http://xkcd.com/801/ /etc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Looking for an alternative to mysql

2011-07-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 17:57, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: Is postgresql more reliable then mysql Yes, without a shadow of doubt. Why? I must say i had a big trouble upgrading mysql last time i ran aptitude safe-upgrade; it just wouldn't upgrade since it couldn't shutdown the

Re: How to tell X to use a specific video driver

2011-07-13 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 21:01, Tech Geek techgeek12...@gmail.com wrote: So how do I tell X to load the ati driver? Explicitly specify it in xorg.conf file? Currently, I there is no such file in /etc/X11 directory. There isn't one 'cos X nowadays automagically detect everything - when it does.

Virtually installing a virtual package?

2011-07-16 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi folks, Keeping it short, i want to install zabbix-frontend-php, which depends on apache; or httpd. I installed nginx from source (and used checkinstall a while back i think so) it's listed in the installed packages but it didn't provide httpd. I can't install httpd because it's a virtual

[SOLVED] Re: Virtually installing a virtual package?

2011-07-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi There has to be a switch for that or maybe a better way to achieve it without needing to lie the whole apt database about apache real status :-? That was my first guess, but there was nothing (i could find) in the manpage. Besides, the whole point of a package manager is to *prevent* you from

Re: Does Debian 6.0.2.1 for amd64 work properly ?

2011-07-19 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 18:04, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: It appears than any dvd writing program that relies on 64 bit mencoder will produce bad sound.  People have many bad things to say about the code inside mencoder and they say it is a lost cause, nobody trying too hard

Re: solicitud de ayuda

2011-07-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hola, On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 20:58, Gustavo Martinez gmarti...@fi.unju.edu.ar wrote: como solucionar el problema. Disculpen mi ingles es limitado. saludos Puedes intentar http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/ Pardoname mi castellano ;-) -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

Re: VirtualBox 4 fails building kernel module (the same with nvidia module)

2011-01-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, You're not gonna get much help using non-free software on a tarnished kernel. That said, when i have problems with VBox i just purge everything, dkms included, make sure the drivers are actually deleted, then reinstall, with dkms. Usually does the trick. HTH, Nuno -- Mars 2 Stay!

Re: can I install Linux to this phone?

2011-01-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, I have no idea, but try using search engines. That and maybe OpenMoko's Debian. HTH, Nuno -- Mars 2 Stay! http://xkcd.com/801/ /etc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: About Asterisk, 'best' practices, suggestions, etc.

2011-01-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 13:57, Roman Khomasuridze khomasuri...@gmail.com wrote: wouldn't it be better to use Debian packages of Asterisk instead of compiling? I'd say it depends: if the Debian package has everything you want, cool, use it; if not, compile it. Or both, you can use

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-16 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 03:21, Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote: On a related topic, could you please tell me which of the current ThinkPads have the same basic (awesome) feature-set which the old favourites (T61, T42 etc.) had? I am genuinely unaware, and wanted to know if all

Problems setting the audio for shoutcast client.

2008-02-15 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I don't wanna broadcast my music, i wanna listen to someone else's. I've tried a http://somewhere.com/whatever.pls into xmms, mp3blaster and even xmms2/esperanza (worthess install) to no avail. I can get the stream with icecream, but i can't redirect it. Using icecream -stdout

Re: Digital Camera

2008-02-20 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a USB to connect to the computer. Question is: How does digital cameras work with Debian? The Sony i have (Cybershot DSC U10) has memory-sticks so it works just like any other mass-storage usb device. -- Fica bem,

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied Er... have you by any chance tried checking out the permissions for that file? It'll be executed by the user, not root. Try 766. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I love the cream swirling into the coffee graphic that was a bootsplash at some point. Don't know if it's still around, but it sure captures my image of debian. If it doesn't even remotely hint of Java i'll vote for that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-11 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, enjoy your breakfast. I have a 20GB partiiton with an OS that i seldom ever use. When i do, it's to play games. My board's an Asus M2NPV-VM which has an onboard nVidia GeForce 6150. The thing is i'm gonna repartition and reformat the system, so i'm considering getting rid of that OS

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-12 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Thanks for all of your suggestions. Elsewhere i've read that, having a regular dualboot, one could acess XP through Linux and have XP believe it was running the system instead of actually running within a window. Whatever means this is, it does use the dlls of the fat/ntfs partition. It has the

DVD life-cycle

2008-03-13 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings and salutations. I enjoy purchasing DVDs from official vendors and store them in neat cases on a shelf, embellishing it with chromatic variety of what Hollywood has to offer. It gives me a warm comfy feeling knowing these simple-looking disks are protected aggainst vandals and pirates

Re: Screen resolution amd64 and NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE

2008-03-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I just installed Debian etch 40r3 on an AMD64 PC. However, screen resolution is set to 640x480. So is mine and i'm using 1024x768, how far does your monitor go? Did 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' work? -- Fica bem, porta-te mal. Be well, misbehave. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: how to upgrade to a 64-bit mobo?

2008-04-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
1. install the ASUS M2N-SLI into a new box and keep the old box. If by that you mean having 2 computers instead of one... Sure, why not? You can still mount your /home through the network. Try debian-amd64 list as well. HTH -- Fica bem, porta-te mal. Be well, misbehave. -- To

Re: Changing packages

2007-12-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
But why not just do a base install and choose the packages you want with aptitude? A base isntall isn't so basic, it does install lost of stuff you don't need. But, beats nothing, that's what i usually do. However, if you want to personalize an installation (and learn something) i'd recomend

keyboard remapping

2007-12-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings. I'm running Debian unstable on AMD64. I have X and (for the time being), GNOME. My locales are en_US.UTF-8, although i'd rather they were pt_PT.UTF-8 by default. My keyboard map is portuguese, it has deadkeys. In particular, the ^ key. If i press ^ and e, i'll get ê. I'd like to do the

keyboard remapping (repost)

2007-12-23 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings. I'm running Debian unstable on AMD64. My keyboard map is portuguese, it has deadkeys. In particular, the ^ key. If i press ^ and e, i'll get ê. I'd like to do the same with 6 other letters and there are 3 ways. - The correct one, where ^+letter would result in that same letter with ^

3G usb modems

2007-12-23 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I'm going to buy a laptop and sign up with a cellphone operator for 3G internet access. Most of their equipment are USB modems, are these easily configurable? For net in general, what are the best tools to monitor and measure traffic? -- Fica bem, porta-te mal. Be well, misbehave. -- To

Re: Java JDK install hangs.

2008-01-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
You can also use apt-get instead. apt-get remove --purge sun-java5-jdk apt-get install sun-java5-jdk [although the newer one is 6, if you need the class Console] You won't have to confirm anything, apt will do it for you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Java swing gui designer???

2008-01-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I've been using Netbeans and it works well both in Debian unstable and XP Pro, on an amd64 machine. Just make sure your JDKs are the same... -- Fica bem, porta-te mal. Be well, misbehave. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Goodbye

2008-01-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Ok, goodbye! Don't forget to write. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

C++ SQL interface

2008-01-09 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, i'm developing a small academic project and need to link to an Oracle database using C++ I'm kinda lost as far as google and oracle.com go, i asusme i oughta implement some Class, i just can't find it. The code is supposed to work in any platform and we're compiling it with both g++ and

Re: removing gnome

2008-01-20 Thread Nuno Magalhães
apt-get remove package deletes the program but leaves config files, apt-get remove --purge package deletes everything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

formatting ext3 vs fat32 while copying files

2008-01-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greets. I recently copied a bunch of files from a fat32 flash to my ext3 (~/Desktop). Some of them are cyrilics and became .mp3 or similar. I can copy then within the ext3 but if i try to copy them to another fat32 i get a bunch of errors, mostly invalid parameters. Also when trying to

Alsa - no sound: I need to repeatedly run alsaconf every time I reboot computer

2008-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I'm having the same problem. My soundcard is an nVidia onboard an Asus M2NPV-VM. Here's the same output: lspci -nn |egrep -i 's(ou)?nd|audio|media' 00:10.1 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio [10de:026c] (rev a2) __ lsmod | grep snd snd_hda_intel

Re: Flash with Iceweasel in Lenny

2008-02-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Only 5 servers in North America have it. Try the rest of the world, i got it to work without any problems. Well, sometimes i have to dpkg-reconfigure iceweasel 'cos otherwise it just shows everything blank, but other than that... no problems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [OT] Looking for a Debian based Linux distro

2008-07-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
-distros -- Nuno Magalhães

Re: Loss of Flash Player capabilities in IW3.0

2008-07-19 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I've noticed with both Iceweasel 2 and 3 that sometimes i lose flash. I have flashplayer-nonfree and the only solution i found so far is to close all Iceweasel instances and run dpkg-reconfigure iceweasel. -- Nuno Magalhães

Re: Motherboard for desktops with preinstalled Debian

2008-07-21 Thread Nuno Magalhães
, AM2 socket, 512KB cache). I did need to disable apic when booting the Debian installer, something like linux noapic nolapic, otherwise it would freeze somewhere along the boot process. HTH -- Nuno Magalhães

Skype64 or SIP alternative?

2008-07-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
will not find any package. Any suggestions? -- Nuno Magalhães

paraport DMA timeout...

2008-07-26 Thread Nuno Magalhães
... any ideas? -- Nuno Magalhães

Re: what's the best IDE for C programming in Debian?

2008-07-31 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I'd go with Chris: small stuff, use some text editor and gcc; medium projects, a text editor with syntax highlight and gcc; large projects.. Er... well either Eclipse or Netbeans, although i'm kind of allergic to java-based stuff. Emacs and vi(m) suck!! Eheh :) -- Nuno Magalhães

Re: Keyboard : setup AltGr+e to produce é

2008-08-13 Thread Nuno Magalhães
: keysyms are, however, more cross-keyboard than keycodes, so try using those. HTH -- Nuno Magalhães

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
15 years even! :) Any parties happening in your area? I attended one last saturday in Aveiro, Portugal. Will there be a program to calculate the amount of alcohol in home-made beer in the Debian repositories in it becomes of age? ;) -- Nuno Magalhães

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
«(Java, Flash, etc. are not yet released in 64-bit compatible versions)» Huh? I'm using Java (Eclipse) and flash (mozilla) on 2.6.18-6-amd64... -- Nuno Magalhães

Re: Increasing screen resolution

2008-08-23 Thread Nuno Magalhães
In the snipped section above commenting out vert and horz refresh lines and adding a modeline for resolution should work. And what's the least painful way of producing such a modeline for a given monitor? My 22 is still not running at full res. TIA -- Nuno Magalhães

[OT] moving out to a new /home

2008-09-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
the home router. Alternatively i could find a way to adapt the 3.5 160GB SATA to the laptop but i think that's unlikely. The laptop only has USB 1.0. Are there any big hard drive limitations or is creating a small /boot partition at the start of the disk enough? Any other suggestions? TIA -- Nuno

[OT] moving out to a new /home

2008-09-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
the home router. Alternatively i could find a way to adapt the 3.5 160GB SATA to the laptop but i think that's unlikely. The laptop only has USB 1.0. Are there any big hard drive limitations or is creating a small /boot partition at the start of the disk enough? Any other suggestions? TIA -- Nuno

Re: [OT] moving out to a new /home

2008-09-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Why are you trying to move your home to a remote location while you can upgrade your internal disk? Because the laptop is more silent and both are in my room. Plus, i could access my /home through other pcs in the network (currently 2) - granted, i could to that right now as well. Besides, i

Re: transitivity of login

2008-09-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Is your DNS set up correctly? ssh will feeeze for about a minute while trying to resolve DNS, there's an option to disable it in sshd.conf i guess. -- Nuno Magalhães

[OT] eyeOS

2008-10-10 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, Does anyone have any experience installing/configuring/using eyeOS in the unstable branch? Any input will be apreciated, i intend to use it with nginx (or another lightweight httpd) if feasable. TIA -- Nuno Magalhães

Java/Flash/video-codec packages in Debian Lenny AMD64

2008-10-13 Thread Nuno Magalhães
For flash, i recomend flashplugin-nonfree, works like a charm for me. -- Nuno Magalhães PS: sorry Eugene :)

Re: Lenny hangs on Activating Swap

2009-07-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Does it hang on it and stops booting? I'm asking 'cos i had issues with swap a while ago, there was a message during boot, in red, that would say failed to activate swap or similar, but the boot process continued. Turns out i had a bunch of programs in /usr/sbin with no permissions at all,

Re: boot failure mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device

2009-07-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Nothing has worked, any further ideas are welcome. I had this issue after upgrading from 2.6.29-1-amd64 to 2.6.29-2-amd64, all i did was reboot using the -1-. Upgraded again and now i'm using 2.6.30-1-amd64 since the previous is also failing. If it's the same problem it's not HD-related. HTH

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

2009-07-11 Thread Nuno Magalhães
The server/client thing seems to make sense, running X sessions remotely seems the best bet. Did you have a look at eyeos? I guess it's a similar approach, with a different DM, so to speak. [1] http://eyeos.org/ -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ ascii-rubanda kampajno -

Simple phpform outgoing mail (exim newbie)?

2009-07-12 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings. I have a few virtual hosts (websites), most have domains, others not yet. I don't need a full-fledged M?A, the very few hosts that actually need mail i handle through googleApps. What i do need is for some sites to send php form-data by mail. So it's just to send occasional mail. I've

Re: Simple phpform outgoing mail (exim newbie)?

2009-07-12 Thread Nuno Magalhães
As a partial answer to self: If your host name is not configured in the world wide DNS, you need to set the System mail name to an existing domain name, or your messages will be rejected by most systes on the Internet due to sender verification. from [1] I was expecting this, guess i'll have to

Re: U3 and other firmware USB thumbdrives

2009-07-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
The only usb key I have encountered with U3 on it was a sandisk. Every other kind I have is just a plain simple USB key.  So I would say most are simply USB keys.  If they have U3 or similar they tend to advertise it as if it was an amazing and useful feature. Same here for my usb keys. The

Re: U3 and other firmware USB thumbdrives

2009-07-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Useful links for getting rid of U3... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3 http://www.u3.com/uninstall/final.aspx The second is a 404. Turns out my mp3 player is not U3, it's mounted as a normal vfat. It just happens to have model #YP-U3ZB and acts as regular mass storage, not like what's

[OT] minimum gzip compression

2009-07-31 Thread Nuno Magalhães
all files are text files. TIA, Nuno Magalhães -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

2009-08-09 Thread Nuno Magalhães
BIOS http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Can't upgrade: Couldn't configure pre-depend libc6-i386...

2009-08-10 Thread Nuno Magalhães
SIP client) and i've comented that line out of sources.list. TIA, Nuno Magalhães -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Can't upgrade: Couldn't configure pre-depend libc6-i386...

2009-08-12 Thread Nuno Magalhães
(I'm using amd64 unstable, current kernel 2.6.30-1-amd64) I assume this is a 32bit package which i'll (pobably) only need if i want to compile stuff for i386, right? I have these: dpkg -l |grep libc6 ii libc6 2.9-18 ii libc6-dev 2.9-18 ii libc6-dev-i386 2.9-18 ii libc6-i386 2.9-18 and i

Re: Can't upgrade: Couldn't configure pre-depend libc6-i386...

2009-08-14 Thread Nuno Magalhães
In the mean time apt-get install libc6-i386 (which is basically an upgrade) solved the problem. The other issues are non-mission-critical. -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Switching from Arch to Debian Sid.

2009-08-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
. And there's a debian-amd64 mailling list as well. ;-) HTH Nuno Magalhães -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

2009-08-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, This is the second apt-get dist-upgrade that i've done recently and the second time i get this issue. After the upgrade, many important commands lose permissions (i.e. chmod 000), which has caused me weird boots and sometimes nagging the lists with incorrect problems - like why isn't swap

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