Re: Video editing

2008-12-10 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Another thing I want to do is adding a simple text presentation at the beginning of the file Arc Roca [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Write your text say with tex, do dvipng, then convert the pngs into a short movie with gimp or something else. Then attach at the beginning

Re: Video editing

2008-12-10 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Another thing I want to do is adding a simple text presentation at the beginning of the file [...] It would be very nice to manage to do such a thing, i.e. transform an image into a movie! I didn't manage with gimp: how can I achieve this? Pedro Insua [EMAIL

Re: Video editing

2008-12-10 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Another thing I want to do is adding a simple text presentation at the beginning of the file Arc Roca [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Write your text say with tex, do dvipng, then convert the pngs into a short movie with gimp or something else. Then attach at the beginning

Re: Video editing

2008-12-09 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: I want to divide a video file into two pieces, or, more in general, cut off and select pieces of a video file. Please someone suggest a proper video editing program that does that? JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Avidemux. Thanks, this works, but the audio

Re: Video editing

2008-12-09 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: I want to divide a video file into two pieces, or, more in general, cut off and select pieces of a video file. Please someone suggest a proper video editing program that does that? Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With Kino you can import the video and edit

Re: Video editing

2008-12-09 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina a écrit : I want to divide a video file into two pieces, or, more in general, cut off and select pieces of a video file. Please someone suggest a proper video editing program that does that? thveillon.debian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lives from debian-multimedia will do

Re: Video editing

2008-12-09 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 12/08/08 07:36, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Another thing I want to do is adding a simple text presentation at the beginning of the file Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kino might. But it only handles dv files. So, there's no hope for other formats like mpeg* etc? Thanks Rodolfo

Re: Video editing

2008-12-09 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: I want to divide a video file into two pieces, or, more in general, cut off and select pieces of a video file. Please someone suggest a proper video editing program that does that? JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Avidemux. Rodolfo: Thanks, this works

Re: Video editing

2008-12-09 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 12/09/08 13:31, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I want to divide a video file into two pieces, or, more in general, cut off and select pieces of a video file. Please someone suggest a proper video editing program that does that? Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try gopchop. Thanks

Re: Video editing

2008-12-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina a écrit : Hi to all Debian users. I want to divide a video file into two pieces, or, more in general, cut off and select pieces of a video file. Please someone suggest a proper video editing program that does that? Thanks to all who replied. The file format is .vob

Video editing

2008-12-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi to all Debian users. I want to divide a video file into two pieces, or, more in general, cut off and select pieces of a video file. Please someone suggest a proper video editing program that does that? Thanks for any help Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
David Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you any the wiser? Sorry, my English is not very good. What do you mean? Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 09:30:20PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I creayed a test throwaway account: go to www.libero.it; click on Mail; insert the address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' and the password `test' then you are inside the account. I wish there exist a textual brwoser able to enter

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-21 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:55:59PM EST, Rodolfo Medina wrote: no textual browser I tried allows me to view my [EMAIL PROTECTED]' mail account, and in the w3m mailing list they said it was because w3m doesn't handle javascript. Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if you can create

Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Are there any textual web browsers handling javascript? w3m doesn't, nor does links, so it's not possible to view most webmails. Thanks for any help Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 2008-11-19 21:05 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Are there any textual web browsers handling javascript? Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that elinks does that, though I haven't tried it yet. w3m doesn't, nor does links, so it's not possible to view most webmails. What

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

2008-11-15 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 04:31:13PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to have the cvs version. Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the old one? Or maybe simply installing the cvs version will override

Installing cvs package after tar.gz package

2008-11-14 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I have auctex 11.84 installed via a tar.gz package, and want now to have the cvs version. Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to remove the old one? Or maybe simply installing the cvs version will completely override the old installation? Thanks for any reply Rodolfo -- To

How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

2008-11-14 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to have the cvs version. Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the old one? Or maybe simply installing the cvs version will override the old installation? Thanks for any reply Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

2008-11-14 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to have the cvs version. Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the old one? Or maybe simply installing the cvs version will override the old installation

Install a cvs version after a tar.gz package

2008-10-26 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I installed in my Debian Etch box AUCTeX, version 11.84, from the tar.gz tarball. Now I want to update the program with its cvs version. How can uninstall the version already installed? Or maybe I can override the old one installing straight away the cvs version? Thanks for any help Rodolfo

Can't access e-mail with w3m

2008-10-11 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I can't access my e-mail box when navigating with w3m: the following messages are appear: unable to get local issue certificate: accept? (y/n) accept unsecure SSL session: unverified: unable to get local issuer certificate . Please, how to work this out? Another question: isn't there in

How to download online videos?

2008-08-26 Thread Rodolfo Medina
...so to watch them offline? Can anybody suggest a proper tool (if any exists) for Debian? (MS-Windows users have ReaPlayer that works for that.) Thanks for any hint Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to download online videos?

2008-08-26 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 06:08:22PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: ...so to watch them offline? Can anybody suggest a proper tool (if any exists) for Debian? (MS-Windows users have ReaPlayer that works for that.) Mirco Piccin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that depends on which kind

Re: How to download online videos?

2008-08-26 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: All the videos that can be viewed online but cannot be downloaded normally. The problem arose with a particular .flv video I wanted to download from a web site. I managed to download it with MS-Windows RealPlayer, from the Windows partition I have on my hard disk. I

Re: How to download online videos?

2008-08-26 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All the videos that can be viewed online but cannot be downloaded normally. The problem arose with a particular .flv video I wanted to download from a web site. I managed to download it with MS-Windows RealPlayer, from the Windows partition I have

Re: Referring in fstab by uuid (was: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in)

2008-08-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 06:40 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: in /etc/fstab I'd refer to that drive not as /dev/sda but by it's UUID. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You need to have pmount installed, and be a member of the pmount group for this to be true, interestingly enough. I have

Re: Difference between `user' and `users' mount option (was: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in)

2008-08-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 22:27 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Another thing that is not clear to me is the difference between the `user' and `users' options of `mount' command. Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sent this yesterday, but never saw it come through. If you saw

Re: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in

2008-08-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I sent this yesterday, but never saw it come through. I'm sending it again. Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have Debian Etch. In my /etc/fstab there is the following entry: /dev/sda/mnt/sda vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 , so I normally mount my usb pendrive

User can't unmount by UUID

2008-08-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I sent this yesterday, but never saw it come through. I'm sending it again. Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have Debian Etch. In my /etc/fstab there is the following entry: /dev/sda/mnt/sda vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 , so I normally mount my usb

Re: Disk-like interface in umts modem (was: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in)

2008-08-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 08/17/2008 07:34 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: For some reason, although the umts device is mapped to /dev/ttyUSB0, /dev/sda comes to be `busy'. So, if I add in fstab another line: /dev/sdb/mnt/sdb vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 , I can mount the pendrive on /mnt/sdb

User can't unmount by uuid (was: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in)

2008-08-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have Debian Etch. In my /etc/fstab there is the following entry: /dev/sda/mnt/sda vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 , so I normally mount my usb pendrive simply with: $ mount /mnt/sda Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Re: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in

2008-08-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have Debian Etch. In my /etc/fstab there is the following entry: /dev/sda/mnt/sda vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 , so I normally mount my usb pendrive simply with: $ mount /mnt/sda . But, now that I have a usb umts modem

Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in

2008-08-16 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I have Debian Etch. In my /etc/fstab there is the following entry: /dev/sda/mnt/sda vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 , so I normally mount my usb pendrive simply with: $ mount /mnt/sda . But, now that I have a usb umts modem (Huawei e169), when it is plugged in I don't

Re: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in

2008-08-16 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 08/16/08 07:00, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I have Debian Etch. In my /etc/fstab there is the following entry: /dev/sda/mnt/sdavfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 , so I normally mount my usb pendrive simply with: $ mount /mnt/sda . But, now that I have a usb umts modem

Re: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in

2008-08-16 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my /etc/fstab there is the following entry: /dev/sda/mnt/sda vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 , so I normally mount my usb pendrive simply with: $ mount /mnt/sda . But, now that I have a usb umts modem (Huawei e169), when

Re: Debian Sid first time user

2008-08-10 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I edited sources.list as follows: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main , then connected to internet and did: # apt-get update # apt-get dist-upgrade , but still the kernel

Re: Debian Sid first time user

2008-08-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now for particular needs I want to try to use Sid with a = 2.6.25-2-686 kernel. Please can anybody indicate how to fetch and install a Debian Sid distribution and how to manage it after installation (packages and so on)? Tuesday 05 August

Upgrading necessary, but maybe not

2008-08-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
The Huawei e169 umts usb modem seems to work fine with Debian Sid, kernel 2.6.25-2-686 kernel, but not with my Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7. Now, in order to have the device working, I should upgrade my system to Sid or even maybe simply upgrade only my kernel to 2.6.25-2-686. I wonder if

Re: Upgrading necessary, but maybe not

2008-08-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 06:35:38PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: The Huawei e169 umts usb modem seems to work fine with Debian Sid, kernel 2.6.25-2-686 kernel, but not with my Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7. Now, in order to have the device working, I should upgrade my system to Sid or even

Re: Debian Sid first time user

2008-08-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: [...] Now for particular needs I want to try to use Sid with a = 2.6.25-2-686 kernel. I edited sources.list as follows: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main , then connected to internet and did

Re: Upgrading necessary, but maybe not

2008-08-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: The Huawei e169 umts usb modem seems to work fine with Debian Sid, kernel 2.6.25-2-686 kernel, but not with my Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7. Now, in order to have the device working, I should upgrade my system to Sid or even maybe simply upgrade only my kernel

Debian Sid first time user

2008-08-04 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi to all the Debian users community. I've been using Debian for a couple of years now (coming from Mandrakelinux) and have been happy with stable versions, Sarge and then Etch. Now for particular needs I want to try to use Sid with a = 2.6.25-2-686 kernel. Please can anybody indicate how to

airprime module compilation

2008-08-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
When I plug my umts usb modem, lsusb produces the following output: $ lsusb Bus 003 Device 001: ID : Bus 002 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05c6:3100 Qualcomm, Inc. CDMA Wireless Modem/Phone Bus 001 Device 001: ID : . Now, I want the device to be driven my

[solved] Re: How to fix resolv.conf?

2008-07-26 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:35:59PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: [...] I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper dns servers but the file changes automatically during the connection being filled with values different from the ones I want. Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

How to fix resolv.conf?

2008-07-24 Thread Rodolfo Medina
When connecting to internet with a certain provider, I have problems with browsing. Then I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper dns servers but the file changes automatically during the connection being filled with values different from the ones I want. Googling around I

Re: How to fix resolv.conf?

2008-07-24 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:35:59PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: When connecting to internet with a certain provider, I have problems with browsing. Then I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper dns servers but the file changes automatically during the connection being filled

Re: How to fix resolv.conf?

2008-07-24 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:35:59PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: When connecting to internet with a certain provider, I have problems with browsing. Then I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper dns servers but the file changes automatically during the connection being filled

Kernel not changed after Etch - Lenny upgrading! (was: Umts pendrive modem installation)

2008-07-23 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been following the guide at: http://www.debianclan.org/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=154Itemid=38 and I managed to make the Momodesign umts modem work under Debian Etch. Although, the connection is very slow: 15 Kb/s whereas under

Umts pendrive modem installation

2008-07-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I've been following the guide at: http://www.debianclan.org/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=154Itemid=38 and I managed to make the Momodesign umts modem work under Debian Etch. Although, the connection is very slow: 15 Kb/s whereas under MS Windows they're about 80 Kb/s. Does anyone

[solved] Re: Module compilation

2008-07-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] where I do: # make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd` , the system complains that the above path is not found: in fact no file or directory `/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build' exists. Please can anybody suggest the right procedure? Robin

How to upgrade from Etch to Lenny? (was: Umts pendrive modem installation)

2008-07-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been following the guide at: http://www.debianclan.org/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=154Itemid=38 and I managed to make the Momodesign umts modem work under Debian Etch. Although, the connection is very slow: 15 Kb/s whereas under

Module compilation

2008-07-20 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I'm following this guide: http://www.debianclan.org/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=154Itemid=38 . At the step where I do: # make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd` , the system complains that the above path is not found: in fact no file or directory `/lib/modules/`uname

[OT]: Cellular phone used as modem stops during fast downloads

2008-07-06 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Excuse the off topic. If anybody in this list uses a cellular phone to be connected in internet: the problem only occurs during fast downloads, i.e. in umts mode: when the download proceeds at a high speed, say about 40 kilobytes per second, the phone (a Nokia 6630) stops and reboots, and so the

Package requirements installation

2008-07-06 Thread Rodolfo Medina
During the installation of gnome-mplayer, at the `./configure' step it is complained the lack of the following packages: gtk+-2.0 glib-2.0 gthread-2.0 Debian Etch does not recognize those package names. Please can anybody suggest the proper names within Debian packages set, so that I can

[solved] Re: Incomplete downloads

2008-05-16 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Monday 12 May 2008 14:01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I have a slow internet connection, and with large downloads it often happens that the download sticks before it is complete. Does anyone have any experience with this problem, and is there a way to solve it? And, why does it happen? I'd

[solved] Re: How to install a font?

2008-05-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I was a Mandrake Linux user, a couple of years ago, I used to put the file `simsun.ttf' in the directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF', then add the following lines to the files `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.dir' and `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11

Incomplete downloads

2008-05-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I have a slow internet connection, and with large downloads it often happens that the download sticks before it is complete. Does anyone have any experience with this problem, and is there a way to solve it? And, why does it happen? I'd be curious to know. Thanks for any help Rodolfo -- To

How to install a font?

2008-05-11 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi. When I was a Mandrake Linux user, a couple of years ago, I used to put the file `simsun.ttf' in the directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF', then add the following lines to the files `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.dir' and `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.scale': simsun.ttf

`pr' command (was: `gedit' page margins customization)

2008-04-28 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 04/27/2008 10:07 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I want to set at my pleasure the page margins when printing a document edited with gedit, but apparently this seems not be possible. Is there anyone who has any experience with problem? Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The pr command may

Re: `pr' command

2008-04-28 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Well, it's strange: if I do: $ pr filename , the chinese characters included in the document are wonderfully shown on the terminal; but if I do: $ pr filename | lp , they are not printed. Any idea of how to work the problem out? I have Debian Etch. Mumia W

`gedit' page margins customization

2008-04-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi. I want to set at my pleasure the page margins when printing a document edited with gedit, but apparently this seems not be possible. Is there anyone who has any experience with problem? Thanks for any help Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Any `scim' users out there?

2008-04-26 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi. I use scim to input chinese characters within gedit documents, but I can't print those characters: in gedit print preview they are not displayed. Any scim user out there, who can suggest how to do what I want? I have Debian Etch. Thanks for any help Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Any `scim' users out there?

2008-04-26 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:47:33AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I use scim to input chinese characters within gedit documents, but I can't print those characters: in gedit print preview they are not displayed. Any scim user out there, who can suggest how to do what I want? I have Debian

How to establish a wireless internet connection?

2008-04-05 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi. I've never experimented a wireless connection with my Debian Etch system. Now I'm in a hotel in which a wireless connection is available. Can anybody suggest how I can make this thing work? I hope it is not too difficult. A bluetooth connection is already working in my system. Thanks for

Re: How to establish a wireless internet connection?

2008-04-05 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Saturday 05 April 2008 12:41, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I've never experimented a wireless connection with my Debian Etch system. Now I'm in a hotel in which a wireless connection is available. Can anybody suggest how I can make this thing work? I hope it is not too difficult. A bluetooth

Re: How to establish a wireless internet connection?

2008-04-05 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Saturday 05 April 2008 12:41, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I've never experimented a wireless connection with my Debian Etch system. Now I'm in a hotel in which a wireless connection is available. Can anybody suggest how I can make this thing work? I hope it is not too difficult

svn command

2008-03-31 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi to Debian users. What package should I install in my Debian Etch system to use the `svn' command? My search was not successful. Thanks for any reply Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cdda2wav default device customization

2008-03-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
To copy a .wav file from an audio CD-ROM, I do: $ cdda2wav dev=/dev/hdc -t 4 . How can manage things so to omit the device specification? Thanks Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[solved] Re: Symlink not permanent

2008-03-21 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 2008-03-19 20:29 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: # cd /dev # ls -l cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-01-14 16:34 cdrom - hdb # rm -vi cdrom rm: remove symbolic link `cdrom'? y removed `cdrom' # ln -s hdc cdrom # ls -l cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-01-14 16:42 cdrom

Symlink not permanent

2008-03-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I do: # cd /dev # ls -l cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-01-14 16:34 cdrom - hdb # rm -vi cdrom rm: remove symbolic link `cdrom'? y removed `cdrom' # ln -s hdc cdrom # ls -l cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-01-14 16:42 cdrom - hdc , but then when I reboot the symlink points

[solved] Log messages on console (was: Bothering error message when logging out X)

2008-03-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:54:26PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Every time I log out my Gnome X environment (Debian Etch), after a few seconds the following message appears: NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver . I

Re: How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-29 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to perform this search starting from the directory itself: how can I do that? I didn't manage with `find'. Thanks for any suggestion

[solved] Re: How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rodolfo Medina wrote: I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to perform this search starting from the directory itself: how can I do that? I didn't manage with `find

How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-24 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi. I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to perform this search starting from the directory itself: how can I do that? I didn't manage with `find'. Thanks for any suggestion Rodolfo e.g.: suppose that

Bothering error messages on console terminal (was: Bothering error message when logging out X)

2008-02-23 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: when I plug in my usb pendrive, the following message appears: sda: assuming drive cache: write through . How can I avoid this as well, and all undesired kernel messages? Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the kernel putting

Re: Bothering error message when logging out X

2008-02-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:54:26PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Every time I log out my Gnome X environment (Debian Etch), after a few seconds the following message appears: NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver . I

Re: Bothering error message when logging out X

2008-02-22 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:54:26PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Every time I log out my Gnome X environment (Debian Etch), after a few seconds the following message appears: NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver . I

Bothering error message when logging out X

2008-02-21 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Every time I log out my Gnome X environment (Debian Etch), after a few seconds the following message appears: NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver . I wonder what it means, and above all I wish to eliminate it! Googling around

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-20 Thread Rodolfo Medina
on Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:16:28PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Why issue a 'sync' instead of just unmounting and waiting until the thing stops flashing? On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:24:22AM -0900, Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: sync blocks, so you can tell from the

Problem with sidebar in Mozilla

2008-01-20 Thread Rodolfo Medina
With Mozilla browser, Debian Etch: View Show/Hide Sidebar . I set it to `hide' and the sidebar hides; but then when I go on navigating it appears again and again at every new web address. How can I hide it for as long as I wish? Does anybody have the same problem? Thanks for any help

[solved] Problem with sidebar in Mozilla

2008-01-20 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Jan 20, 2008 3:19 AM, Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With Mozilla browser, Debian Etch: View Show/Hide Sidebar . I set it to `hide' and the sidebar hides; but then when I go on navigating it appears again and again at every new web address. How can I hide it for as long

Volume off every time entering X (was: No volume in my Etch box!)

2008-01-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On my laptop I installed x-window-system-core and gnome-core and the volume control small icon top right on Gnome desktop looks all right. Instead, on my desktop PC the same icon is not active, and when I left-click it the following message appears

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
on Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:16:28PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Why issue a 'sync' instead of just unmounting and waiting until the thing stops flashing? On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:24:22AM -0900, Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: sync blocks, so you can tell from the

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 2008-01-18 15:32 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I do my daily backup with the following command: $ rsync -vr --delete Mail News /mnt/sda (where `sda' is the pendrive), and I've calculated that in my new Debian Etch system the process is about 10 times slower than it was in Sarge

rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I do my daily backup with the following command: $ rsync -vr --delete Mail News /mnt/sda (where `sda' is the pendrive), and I've calculated that in my new Debian Etch system the process is about 10 times slower than it was in Sarge! It is the same with both my desktop PC and my laptop. In

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do my daily backup with the following command: $ rsync -vr --delete Mail News /mnt/sda (where `sda' is the pendrive), and I've calculated that in my new Debian Etch system the process is about 10 times slower than it was in Sarge! It is the same

[solved] No volume in my Etch box!

2008-01-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On my laptop I installed x-window-system-core and gnome-core and the volume control small icon top right on Gnome desktop looks all right. Instead, on my desktop PC the same icon is not active, and when I left-click it the following message appears

Re: A problem with package dependences

2008-01-14 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 03:54:11PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I want to install the auctex package, and Etch won't do it before installing the emacs21 and related packages: emacs21 emacs21-bin-common emacs21-common emacsen-common gs-common gs-gpl gsfonts preview-latex-style . Now, my

No volume in my Etch box!

2008-01-14 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On my laptop I installed x-window-system-core and gnome-core and the volume control small icon top right on Gnome desktop looks all right. Instead, on my desktop PC the same icon is not active, and when I left-click it the following message appears:

[solved?] No volume in my Etch box!

2008-01-14 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On my laptop I installed x-window-system-core and gnome-core and the volume control small icon top right on Gnome desktop looks all right. Instead, on my desktop PC the same icon is not active, and when I left-click it the following message appears

[solved] Re: Error in `make' step

2008-01-13 Thread Rodolfo Medina
' and `make dep'. I don't know what to do now. Can anybody please help? Florian Kulzer writes: Are you running a 2.6.18-5-* Debian kernel? Did you install the appropriate linux-headers-2.6.18-5-* package? Rodolfo Medina wrote: My kernel is: 2.6.18-4-686; I installed linux-headers-2.6.18-4

A problem with package dependences

2008-01-13 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi, Debian users. I want to install the auctex package, and Etch won't do it before installing the emacs21 and related packages: emacs21 emacs21-bin-common emacs21-common emacsen-common gs-common gs-gpl gsfonts preview-latex-style . Now, my problem is that I already installed a cvs version of

Re: kernel-source package in Etch?

2008-01-10 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:14:38PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: In Sarge, in order to configure Debian for my modem, I started with: # apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.27 . Now, in Etch, what should the package be in place of that? I couldn't find it! I tried with ...2.6, ...2.6.18

Etch: emacs or emac21?

2008-01-10 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi, Debian users. In Sarge there was only the package `emacs21'. Now in Etch we have also `emacs', but the difference between the two is not clear to me. What should I install in order to use the Emacs editor, `emacs' or `emacs21'? Thanks for any reply Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Error in `make' step

2008-01-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I'm trying to install the package slmodem-2.9.11-20070813.tar.gz in my Etch system but in the `make' step I get the following error message: kernel-ver.c:9:30: error: linux/utsrelease.h: No such file or directory . Previously I had done `make mrproper', `make oldconfig' and `make dep'. I

Re: Error in `make' step

2008-01-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:59:39 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I'm trying to install the package slmodem-2.9.11-20070813.tar.gz in my Etch system but in the `make' step I get the following error message: kernel-ver.c:9:30: error: linux/utsrelease.h: No such file or directory . Previously

kernel-source package in Etch?

2007-12-31 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi to all Debian users. In Sarge, in order to configure Debian for my modem, I started with: # apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.27 . Now, in Etch, what should the package be in place of that? I couldn't find it! I tried with ...2.6, ...2.6.18,... but none was the right one. Thanks for any

Re: Conversion of file Contacts.cdb into other format

2007-12-02 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 12/01/07 18:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From my Nokia mobile phone's filesystem I fetched the file Contacts.cdb, containing the addressbook. Can anyone suggest how to convert it into a readable format, e.g. text? Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First thing to do is run: $

Conversion of file Contacts.cdb into other format

2007-12-01 Thread rodolfo . medina
From my Nokia mobile phone's filesystem I fetched the file Contacts.cdb, containing the addressbook. Can anyone suggest how to convert it into a readable format, e.g. text? Thanks Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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