Re: How to auto start bbpager in fluxbox

2012-07-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 03:36:51PM +, user1 wrote: I am using and fluxbox 1.3.2-2 and bbpager 0.4.7 (ubuntu 12.04) I have placed 'bbpager ' in '~/.fluxbox/startup' but it will not autostart bbpager starts fine manually I have several other programs which autostart fine in fluxbox ?

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:53:34PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:57:58 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: (...) So I tried to like pulse, tried to get along with it, but I'm having a really hard time

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 04:40:46AM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com wrote: Have a try with ALSA+Jack (qjackctl gui) and use vlc phonon backend for KDE4 (gstreamer backend really sucks IMHO). Phonon is currently

Re: Need suggestions on a backup issue

2012-07-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:50:53AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Debian already provides an email facility that allows cron scripts to email me with error messages. I need a way to test in Bash whether, or not, there actually is a disk mounted at /media/wdp8. What test can I code in Bash to

Re: Call for testers - perl script to connect to the Juniper VPN

2012-07-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 03:00:24PM +0200, Alex Samorukov wrote: Hello, I wrote a Perl script to connect to the Juniper VPN from Linux. It works without Java and requires perl only. I used wireshark to analyze management protocol of the juniper binary to emulate java GUI behaviour. If you

Re: Changing GTK+ theme

2012-07-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 05:58:49PM -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: I just updated my Wheezy laptop, and now all of the widgets are the ugly, square blocky ones, as well as the toolbars in various programs. When I change the GTK+ theme in gnome-tweak-tool, nothing happens. I've seen this happen

Re: multiple swap areas and RAID 1

2012-08-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 04:25:01PM +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: Hi. I'm going to configure Debian GNU/Linux with software RAID 1 and I think to put swap area on RAID 1 (/dev/mdX), but someone told me that if the computer have multiple swap partition (e.g. /dev/sda2, /dev/sdb2) with equal

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 05:45:40PM +, Camaleón wrote: I wonder what the other linux distributions are doing in this regard, what the GNOME teams (Debian and upstream) think about it and what other desktop environments can be also considered as good options to be used for the default.

Re: No-Script for backports iceweasel?

2012-08-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 02:18:06PM -0700, Steven Sciame wrote: Hello, I am using Squeeze and recently upgraded from iceweasel 3.5 to the release version from Debian Mozilla Backports.  During the process, Iceweasel informed me that the versions of Greasemonkey and No-Script that I was

Re: Wheezy and Sun-Java

2012-08-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 08:29:41PM -0300, Dr Beco wrote: Dear linuxers, According to this blog ( http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2011/08/26/sun_java6_packages_removed_from_debian_u ) from Sylvestre, responsible for maintaining sun-java*, Java did not renew it's license, and so,

Re: Testing ALSA and writing an appropriate .asoundrc

2012-08-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:42:20AM +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: Hi all! I have a little mess up with ALSA on one of my computers. The computer has two sound cards: one of them, an integrated Intel (lspci related output in [1]) and a audio device from Nvidia, for using with an HDMI

Re: Wheezy and Sun-Java

2012-08-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 08:32:01PM -0300, Dr Beco wrote: Rod and Aidan, you both commented about icedtea plugin. I'll test it on my baking next weekend. So as I understand, there is no open-jdk-plugin? One should use icedtea-plugin with open-jdk, is that so? Thanks! That is correct. On my

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 06:33:02PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Evolution does provide those options for HTML and plain text and it has got impact to plain text mails. This should become a never ending line, because I switched to preformatted. Usually this would cause lines that force the

Re: Setting up to do repetitive installs on ONE machine (cf BabelBox)

2012-08-28 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 07:26:18AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I have two objectives: 1. Define, by experimentation, optimal installation parameters to meet my idiosyncratic concept of a minimal install. 2. Determine if there are bugs in Debian Installer, the

Re: networking with virtual machine

2012-09-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:32:40PM +0200, lee wrote: Hi, since I'm not making any progress: I want to set up a VM (running testing) that can be reachable from the outside over the network. I've done that 2 years or so ago and I forgot how to do the networking setup, and network

Re: Removing deb-multimedia pkgs w/o removing everything

2012-09-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:53:46PM -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: I'd like to remove packages gotten from deb-multimedia and replace some from the Debian repos. However, removing them will also remove a bunch of libs and kde progs. E.g., apt-get remove libavcodec53 yields: 0 upgraded, 1

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 11:09:43PM +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote: trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:26:13PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 11:09:43PM +0200, lee wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:30:23 +0200, lee wrote: trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium are able to play

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:13:40PM +0100, Martin Smith wrote: A minimum refresh rate of 72Hz is recommended (same as average human heart rate) to minimize optical discomfort that you seem to be suffering. Less than that the screen will often jump about and make it difficult to see properly.

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 08:26:13PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: Thx, I looked at that and there weren't any. Meanwhile, I tried gnash and found that it doesn't work at all. Lightspark depends on pulseaudio, and I don't want to install that. Are there any alternatives --- preferably using

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-19 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 05:30:29PM +0200, lee wrote: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net writes: Looks like gecko-mediaplayer is the replacement for mozilla-mplayer. Testing it now... Let me guess: It doesn't work. I couldn't get it to work, but I may have gotten a lead. Several web articles

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

2012-09-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 02:22:11PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:49:59 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: I've used it many times to watch / download media that I couldn't access any other way. How did you do that? The above was referencing gecko-mediaplayer and

Re: Decompressing .m4a .

2012-09-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 04:14:00PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. I can not decompress .m4a files w/ mplayer2: /usr/bin/mplayer2 -nolirc -vo null -vc dummy -cache 32768 -cache-min 99 -ao pcm:waveheader:file=./1.wav ./01\ Waiting.m4a [mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 01:22:21PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net [121003 12:42]: My end goal is to search out a script that will place the contents of the 8 DVD set of Debian 6.0.5 on a hard drive in such a way that the hard disk can be accessed by

Re: Installation problem on Dell Latitude D810

2012-10-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 03:02:17PM +0200, Cesar Enrique Garcia Dabo wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Debian 6.0 on a rather old laptop Latitude D810. However it hangs when detecting network hardware using the graphical installer. On the same machine I was able to boot Fedora 17

Re: Security support for CMSes

2012-10-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 09:02:23AM -0400, Wolf Halton wrote: I am sorry to hear your site was cracked. I run Drupal on Debian as well. The fundamental flaw here is the lag time between drupal update and packaging on debian. I run drupal 7 for new sites. Installs are not the simplest things in

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:49:19AM -0400, Doug wrote: A receiver for WWVB at 60KHz that would decode the signals would be as accurate as anyone could want. That's the signal that your atomic clock receives, so the clock *should* be accurate. You might only be able to receive the signal in

Re: Mythtv problem with versions

2012-04-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 07:24:07PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a server running Squeeze. It has mythtv-backend to record all my TV programs. On my desktop I run Sid. After an update over the weekend, my Mythtv Frontend will no longer connect to my backend, complaining that This

Re: iptables service with debian

2012-04-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 01:15:52PM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org wrote: Hello, Tom H a écrit : On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org wrote: Tom H a écrit : It's best to run an iptables

Re: iptables service with debian

2012-04-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:14:36AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 01:15:52PM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org wrote: Hello, Tom H a écrit : On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Pascal Hambourg pas

Re: iptables service with debian

2012-04-30 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 04:47:30PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:25:47AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: Well, it didn't take long to find the answer on the internet. Get your firewall set up and then: iptables-save /etc/iptables/rules I tested it and it works

Re: Problem with Alsa and HDMI audio output

2012-05-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 05:27:01PM +0200, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: Hi! I have a computer with a HDMI output. If I use the default audio output (3.5 jack) it works fine, but when I try to use the HDMI one, I have some problems. I tried to configure it using the pulseaudio GUI, I can't

Re: Flashplayer on Debian Squeeze.

2012-05-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 02:36:35PM +0100, Lisi wrote: Hi, all! I have been trying to get Flashplayer going on my husband's computer. When the advice on this list and the Debian website failed (as below), i just deinstalled the lot and downloaded from the Adobe site. According to the

Re: Flashplayer on Debian Squeeze.

2012-05-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:25:05PM -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I use flashplayer-mozilla from the debian-multimedia repository. It updates with apt, so you don't need to run a command like update-flashplugin-nonfree. -Rob

Radeon HD 3470 dual monitors on Squeeze

2012-05-05 Thread Rob Owens
I've been trying to get dual monitors to work on my Squeeze system. Originally I was using both the onboard video and an additional video card. Now I have two monitors hooked up to the same video card (thanks to a cheap craigslist purchase). When I begin booting, both monitors give me a display.

Re: Radeon HD 3470 dual monitors on Squeeze

2012-05-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 08:18:18AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 09:05:35AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: I've been trying to get dual monitors to work on my Squeeze system. Originally I was using both the onboard video and an additional video card. Now I have two monitors

Re: Radeon HD 3470 dual monitors on Squeeze

2012-05-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 09:05:35AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: I've been trying to get dual monitors to work on my Squeeze system. Originally I was using both the onboard video and an additional video card. Now I have two monitors hooked up to the same video card (thanks to a cheap craigslist

Re: samba / winbind and console loggin confusion

2012-05-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 03:35:04PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Dear All, i have been using Samba for almost 6 months but now there is a problem which i realize and now looking farword to resolve it. in files /etc/pam.d/common-auth and /etc/pam.d/common-account i put this line at

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 04:14:12PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 10/05/12 15:27, Phil Dobbin wrote: Cheers, Phil... So, this message was signed. Having recently installed enigmail, to see what all the fuss is about in the other thread. I find I'm at a loss to understand how to

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 05:32:25PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 10/05/12 17:16, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2012 17:59:34 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Hello Ralf, This resulted in Valid signature, but cannot verify sender (Phil Dobbin

Re: SOLIDWORKS

2012-05-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 03:08:44PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 13 May 2012 10:44:33 +0200, Alex Padoly wrote: Which GNU package I can installed on DEBIAN WORKSTATION to work as SOLIDWORKS. There are alternatives... and a good table to check

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 03:02:02PM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/05/12 12:31, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 11 mai 12, 17:49:30, Phil Dobbin wrote: on the strength of that message, Slavko, it gave me great pleasure to import sign

Re: Mythtv problem with versions

2012-05-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:42:46AM -0400, Marty wrote: On 04/29/12 10:41, Rob Owens wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 07:24:07PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a server running Squeeze. It has mythtv-backend to record all my TV programs. On my desktop I run Sid. After an update over

Re: Radeon HD 3470 dual monitors on Squeeze

2012-05-26 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 10:23:53AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 09:05:35AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: I've been trying to get dual monitors to work on my Squeeze system. Originally I was using both the onboard video and an additional video card. Now I have two monitors

Re: Mythtv problem with versions

2012-05-26 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 02:53:17AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 02:12:57AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 07:08:53PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: Here is the thread where I asked about maintaining compatibility. I guess Christian Marillat either

Re: If you want to install stable released version

2012-05-26 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 09:26:09PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: I still do not fully understand the debian system of versioning at its relationship to the install isos. If I wanted a new system that was the stable released version, which install iso would I use? See this link:

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 03:16:19PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: Aubrey Raech aubreyra...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes I have the need to send files that are too large for email to a friend directly [...] 1. Not a proper server (http, ftp) 2. No usernames? (scp, rsync) 3. Preferably does

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 08:41:40AM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I agree with using ssh, but I'd configure it to force sftp upon login like this: I figured I'd frighten the OP if I added too much complexity. Fair enough! It's simpler to just AllowUsers

Re: Programs for direct friend-to-friend file transfer?

2012-06-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 02:31:02AM -0700, Aubrey Raech wrote: On Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:16:19 +0100 Chris Davies chris-use...@roaima.co.uk wrote: 7. Use rsync (over ssh) or sftp to copy the files. Remember to tell them to use port 10022 (or whatever you decided in #1) instead of the

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

2012-06-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:40:23PM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: That's the problem: we don't have to care about Windows security, it's not our business! That's a problem for the Windows users not for us. If you don't

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 01:48:25PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: I need more space for /tmp. I though, easy, I'll just take out the /tmp entry in /etc/fstab so that it doesn't mount anything on /tmp and uses the the space on the root partition, which has more than room enough. But then I

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 09:36:32PM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: Let's be clear what this is.  I have to get *permission* from someone else, to run a program on my own computer.  To actually use my computer to do

Re: unique install question?

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 08:24:29PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi, first, the test image of wheezy came with software speech installed, which is why I wanted it. second, it took me a year to find anyone who could create these images for me. and I cannot burn the stable squeeze cd myself, no

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 06:51:31PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: fourth, unless there is a list? somewhere of what packages are on which image, I do not want to guess from the installer, which is why I why install all I have before picking and choosing the first time out. I have heard that

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:45:13PM +0200, Randall wrote: is it possible to have all messages received by the mailinglists MTA scanned for pictures and have these automatically scaled to a default size before its being redistributed to the receivers on the mailinglist and subsequently the

Re: resize pictures received by mailserver

2012-06-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:47:52AM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:45:13PM +0200, Randall wrote: is it possible to have all messages received by the mailinglists MTA scanned for pictures and have

Re: java alternatives

2012-06-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 03:53:53PM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: I want to see the script that installs the alternatives when the sun-java6-jdk is installed. I'm not that familiar with the .deb structure, etc. I guess it's in some lifecycle script, but I don't know where those end up. The

Re: sshfs more like NFS (or vice-versa)

2012-06-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:49:33AM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: Are there any alternatives to sshfs that offer proper multi-user support ? By which I mean letting user alice@client access a remote file system as both bob@server and (by using sudo on client) root@server. I'm not sure if it

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:03:19AM +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello francis, francis picabia fpica...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 27 iun 12, 16:26:48, francis picabia wrote: I've just learned Filezilla is a

Re: Filezilla a security risk

2012-06-28 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 04:24:43PM -0300, francis picabia wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Shane Johnson s...@rasmussenequipment.com wrote: Please remember that FTP by nature is insecure.  All it would take is for someone to packet sniff the connection and they would have the

Re: TLS encrypted source for Debian iso signing keys?

2012-07-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 11:34:15AM -0700, anots...@fastmail.fm wrote: Is there any TLS encrypted source for downloading the Debian iso signing keys? Of course, from a source verified by a common root certificate. Not from the Debian CA, because there is no way to get this one from a trusted

OT: need a simple CMS / website builder

2012-07-03 Thread Rob Owens
My kids want to make their own webpages. I intend to host them on my own server and limit who has access to them. I need some recommendations. Wordpress? Drupal? This will be on a Squeeze system. I have a dyndns account to provide access to my dynamic IP address. The kids are between 6 and

Re: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder

2012-07-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 05:05:09PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: My kids want to make their own webpages. I intend to host them on my own server and limit who has access to them. I need some recommendations. Wordpress? Drupal? This will be on a Squeeze system. I have a dyndns account

Re: Small xorg?

2012-07-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 06:29:55PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: Any recommendations for a small, compact version of X (limited features OK) for an old Thinkpad 240X -- max RAM 192MB (design limit.  won't take more.   tried.), 500MHz P3, 800x600 screen--to install Squeeze on?  I'm running Etch

Re: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder

2012-07-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 05:05:09PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: My kids want to make their own webpages. I intend to host them on my own server and limit who has access to them. I need some recommendations. Wordpress? Drupal? This will be on a Squeeze system. Thanks for all the advice so far

Re: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder

2012-07-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 02:54:53PM -0700, Go Linux wrote: --- On Tue, 7/3/12, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: From: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net Subject: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 4:05 PM I need some

Re: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder

2012-07-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 01:42:35PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: On Jul 7, 2012, at 1:19 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 05:05:09PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: My kids want to make their own webpages. I intend to host them on my own server and limit who has access to them. I

Re: Iceweasel trouble, anyone else?

2012-07-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 07:20:45PM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: Hi: Debian testing, i386, KDE 4.8.4, iceweasel 13.0.1 Lately iceweasel suddenly started to blank all text on webpages of different sites. Usually restarting iceweasel helped (sort of). But now even after a restart it comes

Re: Iceweasel trouble, anyone else?

2012-07-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 02:01:08AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Rob Owens wrote: I recently had issues with iceweasel using 80% of my CPU. I tried upgrading from 3.something to 10.something in the mozilla.debian.net repos. That didn't fix it. I remembered that I had a kernel upgrade

Re: Debian repository on external USB

2012-11-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 04:32:17PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com [121106 07:03]: ... etc would be needed. and due to the problem of slow bandwidth i want to make a local/portable repository server so that i can point the repository and just use

Re: What professional PCIe audio cards do work with Linux?

2012-11-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:21:58AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:20:38 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Hi :) I already asked on some lists about my RME HDSPe AIO card. I explicitly bought this for Linux usage only in 2011, but never needed

Re: Gnome3 and Wheezy.

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:04:10PM +, GEOFF BAGLEY wrote: I have been looking forward to the update of my favourite operating system Debian from squeeze to wheezy. I thought it would be interesting to update one of my machines ( an amd64 bit ASUS), and I have just spent two days

Re: GDM3 very slow to load gnome

2012-11-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:16:32AM -0500, john wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:45:07 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: =Use another display manager ;). I still try to fix some GNOME stuff =myself, but I guess it's not worse the effort. The best thing to do IMO =is to be on

Re: Swap partition vs swap file

2012-11-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:23:42PM -0800, David Guntner wrote: Hi all, While still trying to figure out why Thunderbird isn't working so well with Dovecot, I figured I'd move onto another mystery; thought I'd seek out some opinions here. :-) When setting up Linux systems, I've always set

Re: how to encrypt/decrypt remote folder ?

2012-11-22 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 02:26:59PM +0530, J. B wrote: Dear All, I am interested to know about folder encryption technology available in Linux for remote backup purpose. Let me clarify. I do my daily backup through ssh+rsync to a remote server. It is quite fast because of rsync. On the

show open applications in Gnome Classic

2012-12-06 Thread Rob Owens
I've been evaluating Gnome 3 Classic for the past couple hours, and I still can't figure out how to display all the open applications. Anybody know? If the answer involves the Super key, could you also tell me either: 1) How to change that or 2) How to send the Super key in a Virtualbox

Re: Copy 2 partitions to .img file

2012-12-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 08:34:53PM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: If you just copy the first 4GB, which includes the partition table, and put it on a 4GB drive, you will have a bogus partitions table (I think). Maybe it will just work as long as you don't try to make new partitons. Alternately,

Re: show open applications in Gnome Classic

2012-12-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 08:19:25AM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:06:39PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I've been evaluating Gnome 3 Classic for the past couple hours, and I still can't figure out how to display all the open applications. Anybody know? lsw Thanks

Re: show open applications in Gnome Classic

2012-12-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:06:39PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I've been evaluating Gnome 3 Classic for the past couple hours, and I still can't figure out how to display all the open applications. Anybody know? Ha! I just installed the guest additions in my Virtualbox machine and now I see

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:40:03PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:35:59AM +0100, phi debian wrote: So my question, does next release of debian will be poluted with gnome3, are will we have a choice? Even a dangled gnome2 would be good for me. GNOME2 will be gone,

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-14 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 06:42:50PM +0100, phi debian wrote: The thing about gnome (I coulfd have a minimal wm otherwise) is that I depend (depended?) on having a lot of click click prog, because I am a newbee, I can resize some disc partition with gparted, I can't with parted, well I can but

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:32:20PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 12/14/2012 05:30 AM, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:40:03PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:35:59AM +0100, phi debian wrote: So my question, does next release of debian will be poluted

Re: wheezy how-to

2012-12-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 04:21:47AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: Can you recommend a good Wheezy HOWTO for users forcibly being migrated from the Gnome environment of Etch, Lenny, or Squeeze? I dread having to learn all the details of how to configure and use Wheezy once it becomes stable.

Re: Freeze accounts

2012-12-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:23:09PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 24 December 2012 20:46:31 David Guntner wrote: I think I missed part of this thread  Look at what one by one? The OP is trying to lock a large batch of students (I think 3 or 4 figures) out for the duration of the

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-27 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 05:47:57AM -0500, tsit...@linuxmail.org wrote: Hi. i am running debian 6.0.6 and i am banging my head to create a simple script that will run periodically (through cron). i do have a whole lot of wav files in opt/wavfiles and i do need: -convert them to mp3 -delete

Re: Gnome3 probe

2012-12-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:21:58AM -0500, Stephen Allen wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 07:27:47AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: phi debian wrote: Jeez, welcome lxde, adieu gnome3 !!! I installed a fresh debian in a guest as server, then apt-get install lxde. In a matter of minute I

Re: Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 01:53:01PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: This will be a problem, as you should first image the disk(s) and work from the images, not the physical disk. It is especially important for the disk throwing errors, every read attempt may worsen it's condition.

Re: mplayer2 does not play MIDI files.

2013-01-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 10:17:16AM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2013/1/4 Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com Good time of the day. $ mplayer 1.mid MPlayer2 UNKNOWN (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC

Re: Running jackd.

2013-01-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 08:14:38PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. I'm trying diver sound editors, preferably the ones that work w/ MIDI files. I hove now hardware sequencer so I use a software one - timidity. Many editors including Ardour2, Muse, Rosegarden report that

LDAP on a laptop

2013-01-06 Thread Rob Owens
I've got a laptop that connects to an LDAP server for authentication. It's currently running Ubuntu 10.04 and I'll be moving it to Wheezy once its released. I'm currently testing it out on a spare hard drive. Ubuntu is configured to cache the LDAP credentials so it can be used off the network.

Re: Running jackd.

2013-01-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 09:19:31PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: I have put Your config. files as You described. Did modify QjackCtl.conf removing line w/ /home/band/headphone_monitor.xml :o) You may also want to start qjackctl with its default settings and see how that goes. Delete

Re: Running jackd.

2013-01-06 Thread Rob Owens
Sthu, This bug report doesn't directly apply to your issue, but it does contain some useful troubleshooting steps. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646248 I thought it was particularly interesting that an HDMI-capable video card could be detected as an audio device and possibly

Re: Running jackd.

2013-01-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 09:57:49PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: For sure. Thank You, Rob, for Your time and effort! Please excuse me for quick giving up - I did not meant to give the problem so much time / effort (reboot each time I try). I understand that you're giving up for now. If you

Re: Running jackd.

2013-01-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:45:32PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Rob. Thank You, Rob, for Your time and answer, again. You wrote: I understand that you're giving up for now. If you decide to try again, you might want to try connecting to the jack server with mplayer

Re: Basic USB Automounter?

2013-01-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:14:21PM +0100, Slavko wrote: Hi, Dňa Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:42:45 -0800 (PST) Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com napísal: Thanks.  I had come across this in my research, and udisks-glue is in the Wheezy repos, but was hoping for one utility to handle all

setting device for DVD drive

2013-01-18 Thread Rob Owens
I just replaced my old DVD drive on my Squeeze system. It used to show up as /dev/dvd (which may have been a symlink to another device -- I'm not sure). The new drive shows up as /dev/dvd3 which is a symlink to /dev/sr0. How can I change it back to /dev/dvd? All my dvd-related software (vlc,

Re: setting device for DVD drive

2013-01-18 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 09:35:29PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: I just replaced my old DVD drive on my Squeeze system. It used to show up as /dev/dvd (which may have been a symlink to another device -- I'm not sure). The new drive shows up as /dev/dvd3 which is a symlink to /dev/sr0. How can I

Re: iptables and kvm

2013-01-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:55:13PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Craig. You wrote: I am running Debian Wheezy, and have installed kvm. When I list my iptables rules there are a set of default rules defined, and forwarding is set up for my virtual network. For the life

Re: Client daemon for sorting e-mail via IMAP

2013-01-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 08:53:05AM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, David Guntner wrote: So it might actually be safer to let it hand the mail off to Postfix (and let *that* handle Procmail) anyway There are a few options here: (1) Use maildrop (not to be confused

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:05:00AM -0500, Mike McGinn wrote: I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with 4G of RAM and have been a 'buntu user since release 7.04. With each release of the new OS from Kubuntu I have been less and less happy with the so called quality and I am planning a move to

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