Flash in 64-bit environment

2011-07-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
as to what to do, please? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e1dcac9.5050

Re: Restarting network

2011-07-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
interface, I'd be quite safe in ignoring the warning. Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Restarting network

2011-07-07 Thread Tony van der Hoff
deprecated. What should I use instead?? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: SSD partition alignment considerations

2011-05-31 Thread Tony van der Hoff
you any references? -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4de4a73b.3020

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-10 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 09/05/11 15:56, Lisi wrote: On Monday 09 May 2011 10:57:55 Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 09/05/11 10:48, Daniel Linux wrote: What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an answer

Re: Disk Space Issues

2011-05-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 09/05/11 10:48, Daniel Linux wrote: What you would do after you found a full filesystem? It is just a general question that was asked in my class of operating systems and nobody had an answer. This is the only full solution: sudo rm -rf / -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
, and Ubuntu just worked. I've stuck with it through several dist-upgrades, and have never encountered a problem. Similarly, I've gone from etch via Lenny to Squeeze without problem. They're both pretty good; but from what I hear, ubuntu might be going the wrong way... -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t

Re: How to install FedoraUbuntu with encrypted VG's on one disk?

2011-04-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
passwords of their own distro) can use 1 pc? (so that they cannot see each others files..) Thanks.. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: You touched one of my pet peeves (was Re: dpkg: syntax error)

2011-03-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
double-u = 9 syllables. dub-dub-dub is becoming quite popular in my circles. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
. That, in itself, justifies it's existence. But, hey, YMMV ... -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 24/03/11 14:52, Ron Johnson wrote: Because of the radical changes in v4.0, I *strongly* urge that you install FF 4.0 to /usr/local/bin or ~/bin, since you or your wife might (as I do) dislike the way that v4 works. Care to elaborate on what you dislike about it? -- Tony van der Hoff

Re: Has anyone installed squeeze on an HP Pavillion ?

2011-03-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
it was wireless. I gave up, and tried Ubuntu, which installed without problem. Still running Lenny on my desktop and server, though. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Sticking with Lenny

2011-02-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free What happens in this case? Presumably updates will be taken from the new stable repository? Should I be specifying lenny instead of stable, or am I already too late to do that? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t

Re: Sticking with Lenny

2011-02-08 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 08/02/11 11:59, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:27:55AM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free ... What happens in this case? Presumably updates will be taken from the new stable repository? Correct. Should

Re: What no Quanta in Squeeze!?

2011-01-25 Thread Tony van der Hoff
3.5.10, which appears to work fine. It would be a shame if Squeeze can't catch up, but there's your alternative distro... -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [OT] trouble with .gitignore patterns

2011-01-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 16/01/11 16:02, Andrei Popescu wrote: $ echo '!dir/' .gitignore Why is 'dir' still ignored? Um, doesn't that mean Don't ignore 'dir/', but ignore everything in it? have you tried 'dir/*'? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England

Re: unattended upgrades

2011-01-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 04/01/11 15:58, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:54:37 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Can anyone explain why this happens? Should I upgrade phpmyadmin manually? Maybe you can run the script with a --debug flag (unattended-upgrades --debug) to get additional information :-? Yes

Re: unattended upgrades

2011-01-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 04/01/11 17:23, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:30:46 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 04/01/11 15:58, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:54:37 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Can anyone explain why this happens? Should I upgrade phpmyadmin manually? Maybe you can run

Re: Debian 5 installation

2011-01-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
|quisquilloso: 1. fussy 2. touchy 3. pernickety 4. petty 5. cantankerous 6. squeamish 7. persnickety 8. pettifogging 9. spiky I'd go with touchy. I just wish my Spanish was as good as your English! -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England

unattended upgrades

2011-01-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
why this happens? Should I upgrade phpmyadmin manually? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: using wodim

2010-04-07 Thread Tony van der Hoff
-tao speed=0 dev=/dev/scd0 -data /home/user/image.iso and im getting this error wodim: trying to use a high speed medium on low writter ¿? What can i do ¿? THANKS Oh, oh. Cue Schilling! -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: perl or bash question [convert strings in a txt to html links]

2010-02-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
, what have you tried so far, wit what results? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: OT: Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
. An annual gentle suck around the fans, and any area which has accumulated dust, using a domestic vacuum cleaner with a plastic nozzle has always been adequate, as well as cheap and safe. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 12/02/10 04:20, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Tony van der Hoff put forth on 2/11/2010 11:53 AM: Thanks for your help, everyone. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
. You're both very generous, but I wouldn't have thought an apology is necessary. My understanding of the accepted protocol has always been: You ask on the list; you get a reply on the list. How much effort is it to subscribe, or to go to the archives? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t

Re: Where is Bash Prompt Set??

2010-02-11 Thread Tony van der Hoff
\]' would return it back to black after the prompt - which it does, and I can live with that, but ideally, I'd like to save away the present colour, and restore it. Can anyone suggest how to do that? PS - where are these escape sequences documented, please? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t

Re: OOo 3 dependency hell in Lenny backports

2010-01-14 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Zhan wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org wrote: snip So, what am I doing wrong/how do I get OOo 3 installed? I am quoting from Backports.org instructions, try if it works for you. [begin_quote] 3. All backports

OOo 3 dependency hell in Lenny backports

2010-01-13 Thread Tony van der Hoff
packages breaks dependencies at some stage. I've even tried uninstalling OOo 2 completely, then installing the pacports one, but it just results in OOo 2 being reinstalled. So, what am I doing wrong/how do I get OOo 3 installed? Cheers -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org

X fails after upgrade

2009-11-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, Running testing on my laptop, which I haven't upgraded for a while. Today I set a massive upgrade in motion, which eventually completed. Rebooting, I now find that X won't start; the Xorg.0.log contains error messages to the effect that freetype and ati modules are missing. Then No drivers

X fails after upgrade

2009-11-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
. Then No drivers available, Fatal server error: no screens found. Can anyone suggest where to go from here, please? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

BIND 9 messages

2009-11-21 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, I'm running Lenny with Bind 9 on my server; all working fine, except that whenever I connect a new client, I get the syslog message: tony-lx named[4179]: client 192.168.1.12#56479: updating zone 'magpieway.net/IN': update unsuccessful: TONY-XP.magpieway.net/CNAME: 'rrset does not exist'

Logrotate error in lenny

2009-05-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
do I fix it / should follow the instruction to raise a bug? Any pointers gratefully received. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Logrotate error in lenny

2009-05-29 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, Running Lenny, I'm getting an error in my daily cron log: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/mysql.log /var/log/mysql/mysql.log /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited

switch between Gnome and KDE

2009-05-18 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, Running testing, I've just done an update via synaptic, the first time for several months. I now find my desktop manager has switched from KDE to Gnome, which starts up with various errors. How can I switch back to KDE, please, and how do I disable Gnome permanently? -- Tony van der

Re: prob hp colorado 5 GB on lenny - /dev/ht0 read only file system !!!

2008-04-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
, otherwise ide-tape gets preference). It's a mess... HTH -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude update BADSIG Error (getting silly now)

2008-03-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
... Downloaded 6125463 bytes in 8.20 seconds Download speed: 729.45 kB/sec Benchmarking HTTP... Downloaded 6125463 bytes in 7.68 seconds Download speed: 779.34 kB/sec Segmentation fault Bummer! -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [OT]: how to troubleshoot an optical drive in Linux

2008-03-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
out to be dirty contacts in the drive connector. Try removing the drive, and re-installing it. ISTR Dell's web site has instructions somewhere on how to do it. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] ATX-PSU and amperage on connectors...

2008-03-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
not know I in Europe... I am counting in mm² http://www.reuk.co.uk/AWG-to-Square-mm-Wire-Size-Converter.htm -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-02-28 Thread Tony van der Hoff
in the stock kernel) overcomes the problem. I've raised a new bug report (467291), but no response yet. Whilst I like Debian, I'm surprised that the maintainers can let this situation prevail. But I guess it's a kernel bug, not specific to Debian. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: famd strikes again

2008-02-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/famd -T 0 the other user USER_ owned the famd process.. but when I restarted it, root owns it. Yep, I've had to restart fam several times this week. I'll raise a bug report. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England

Re: initrd

2008-02-27 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 27 Feb at 11:34 George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, I've just built a 2.6.18-6-686 kernel, using the etch configure as the base, and following the instructions in the kernel source README. Do I additionally need to make

Re: GRUB 2 error

2008-02-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
those rescue methods, I use Knoppix and chroot into the particular partition. Movib=g further off-topic, I've never understood why people use GRUB. LILO seems so much lighter weight to achieve the same effect. Can anybody enlighten me? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

initrd

2008-02-26 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, I've just built a 2.6.18-6-686 kernel, using the etch configure as the base, and following the instructions in the kernel source README. Do I additionally need to make an initrd for it to boot? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
to suck eggs, but the standard sig-sep is dash-dash-space-newline, so unless you're so proud of your sig that you want it quoted back to you... Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Signatures (was Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?)

2008-02-24 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 24 Feb at 14:43 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 02/24/08 07:03, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 23 Feb at 18:10 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA (Women are) like

ide-tape crashes

2008-02-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
bytes] After this the server simply dies, and needs a hard reset to reboot. Running amverify on a tape containing just a single image works fine. Has anyone come across this problem before, or has anyone any suggestions as to how to isolate the problem. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto

Re: famd

2008-02-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
for days, and in particular, leaving a number of Iceweasel windows open. Last night I shut everything down (but didn't log off), and famd was happily asleep this morning. Keeping it under review... Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
since the one I sent was not opened by their computer. And these people have a job! [snip] But would you want to work for such a company? -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-22 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 22 Feb at 10:32 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 02/22/08 03:06, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 22 Feb at 5:08 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chuck Rhode wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:39

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Tony van der Hoff
doing there? [snip] -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: right click and resize selected images in Konqueror

2008-02-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
) libqt3-mt (2 3:3.3.6) libstdc++6 (2 4.1.1-12) quanta (5 4:3.5.5-1) Provides: 4:3.5.7-2~bpo40+1 - 4:3.5.5-1 - Reverse Provides: -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Canon LIDE-90 scanner

2008-02-12 Thread Tony van der Hoff
, so that I can justify buying one of those nice HP C6200 units... -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Iceweasel problems - where to report them?

2008-02-06 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 6 Feb at 16:55 Dennis G. Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greetings; I have several serious problems with Iceweasel. What are your problems? [snip] -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

/var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
) it. Any advice, please? Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
a treat! What is the object of the archive, though? Thanks very much to all who replied. Cheers, Tony -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Tony van der Hoff
, Tony. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Buckinghamshire, England -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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