Re: [Semi-OT] Automatic subscription to self-opened bug reports

2011-10-29 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:13:01 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Tom H wrote: Walter Hurry wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Auto-subscribing to Debian bugs I file [redacted the munged URL] 404 http://madduck.net/blog/2008.06.20:auto-subscribing-to-debian-bugs-i- file/ Thanks Tom for the correction

Re: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

2011-11-01 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:43:20 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: It is important that you *not* use traditional device nomenclature, such as /dev/hda1 /dev/sda1 Why? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: creaing new 3.0.4 kernel in squeeze --kernel panic

2011-11-01 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:00:54 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:46:13 -0400 (EDT), Walter Hurry wrote: On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:43:20 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: It is important that you *not* use traditional device nomenclature, such as /dev/hda1 /dev/sda1 Why

Re: Can I insall from xp partition?

2011-11-03 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:29:57 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: USB stick. He had a small one (yes, he said it was small) with only 4GB (which to me is vast) for only £15 LOL. A fiver at most. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: wheezy konqueror - cannot download Adobe Flashplayer

2011-11-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:19:27 +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:49:43 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:21:13 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Konqueror displays the following when I try to download Ubuntu APT version

Re: wheezy konqueror - cannot download Adobe Flashplayer

2011-11-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:45:14 +, Walter Hurry wrote: On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:19:27 +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:49:43 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:21:13 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Konqueror displays the following when I

Re: gnome3 now in wheezy?

2011-11-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:27:01 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: GNOME Shell is the defining technology of the GNOME 3 user experience. That's exactly the problem, and precisely why I have moved on to LXDE. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Wifi with squeeze on Lenovo X61s laptop - difficulties

2011-11-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:39:29 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Sex, 04 Nov 2011, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Problem solved by installing wheezy. Couldn't you just post this once por thread, instead of replying to each message saying the same thing? Problem solved by consigning Mountbatten

Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:18:08 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. I try to run KVM network w/o under normal user w/ the following result: /usr/bin/kvm -localtime -m 256 -no-reboot -cdrom ./debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst/debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst.iso -boot d -hda ./da -net nic

Re: KVM networking.

2011-11-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:46:46 -0600, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:18:08 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. I try to run KVM network w/o under normal user w/ the following result

Re: install glitch - re. networking

2011-11-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:43:24 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: I find myself in an odd situation: - I have a box I use as a sandbox, at home - I've installed all kinds of different distributions on it over the past couple of years - I recently installed OpenSuse with no problems, but then I

Re: install glitch - re. networking

2011-11-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:03:14 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Walter Hurry wrote: On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:43:24 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: I find myself in an odd situation: - I have a box I use as a sandbox, at home - I've installed all kinds of different distributions on it over the past

Re: Formatting external HDD

2011-11-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:38:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 18 oct 11, 17:02:39, Walter Hurry wrote: I have an external 1T USB drive, which I use to storage of AV files, plus daily (rsync) backups. It is formatted as a single partition. I use ext2 to avoid the overhead of journalling

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:56:02 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Nov 8, 2011, at 2:07 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: it seems to me to be weird having those epoches If all software developers were well behaved and they all co- operated in their versioning, it would be weird to have epochs. All versions,

Re: Permission violations

2011-11-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:37:38 +0100, Anon wrote: Hello, I'm not quite sure whom I should send this report to but recently I've noticed that I can remove files which owner is root and that have access mode set as 644 (see example below). I'm using Debian wheezy/sid with 3.0.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP

Re: emacs RMAIL -- help needed

2011-11-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:52:34 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: I have been trying to get an email client which would access my web mail. I've tried kmail -- which simply does not retrieve the mail balsa -- which asks for an SMTP address (I don't have SMTP) and I am now using emacs23. Can

Re: Gnome Control Panel Is there one?

2011-11-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:43:39 -0600, John W. Foster wrote: I have Linux Mint Ubuntu Installed So why are you asking this question on a Debian list? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: OT: Just a simple query

2011-11-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:34:59 -0500, Doug wrote: Out of curiosity I downloaded the LIVE Fedora 16. The user interface is like nothing I ever saw. If this is the future of computing, I think I'll go back to pocket calculator and typewriter! Fedora is my main distribution, though I use Debian

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:51:14 +, Andrew Wood wrote: Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by default? Interesting question. Which distributions do that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:51:14 +, Andrew Wood wrote: Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by default? Interesting question. Which distributions do that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: OT: Just a simple query

2011-11-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:12:01 -0200, Ismael Scalcon wrote: But it's still opensource, so the source code is free to download and compile. The guys at CentOS do it, they get all the source code for RHL, remove the Red Hat branding and distribute it. And the guys at Scientific Linux (Fermilab

Re: wheezy update system - how?

2011-11-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:01:01 +, Brian wrote: The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss. And there I was, thinking it was the ability to play and visualise MIDI files ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:10:31 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Why bother with non-free software when we're talking about a technology that's dying like BSD these days? Because right now, realistically it's the only game in town if one wants to watch flash content. When HTML5 comes along and I am

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:28:53 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 09 nov 11, 20:14:28, Walter Hurry wrote: On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:51:14 +, Andrew Wood wrote: Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by default? Interesting question. Which distributions do

Re: problems

2011-11-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:47:07 +, HEDDY, WILLIAM wrote: To whom it may concern, I downloaded and installed Debian on my computer last night and I rebooted the computer and now all that comes up is a white cursor on a black screen. Did I just completely kill my Windows 7 operating system?

Re: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable?

2011-11-12 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:17:01 +, Camaleón wrote: I think Fedora 15 shipped gnome-shell 3.0, the same we have right now in Debian. But again, this 3.0 release provides little to nothing customization options unless you manually go and edit the required files. Upcoming versions of the shell

Re: Debian is asking for DVD...

2011-11-12 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:14:46 -0500, Douglas Saylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Victor Nitu vic...@debian-linux.ro wrote: Please paste the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list here, as I suspect a setup removable media still hanging around in the settings. I hope you have

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-12 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:13:49 -0500, Doug wrote: I seem to recall that this Gnome3 and Unity first came from Ubuntu. Unity did. GNOME3 has no origin in Ubuntu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Can we stop whining about GNOME3 please?

2011-11-12 Thread Walter Hurry
It seems fashionable to complain about GNOME3. If you don't like it (and personally I detest it), then you have three choices: a) Wait until it improves (3,2, 3.3, 3.4)? b) Put up with it as it as it is. c) Switch to another desktop environment. There are several to choose from. GNOME2 is not

Re: Is GNOME 2 panel still in unstable?

2011-11-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:18:13 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:54:43 +, Richard wrote: Sorry printscreen doesn't function until logged in. You can use a digital still camera or your cell phone's one :-) Or xnest -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:13:42 -0300, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: Em 12-11-2011 17:57, Walter Hurry escreveu: On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:13:49 -0500, Doug wrote: I seem to recall that this Gnome3 and Unity first came from Ubuntu. Unity did. GNOME3 has no origin in Ubuntu. Yes

Re: Can we stop whining about GNOME3 please?

2011-11-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:34:36 -0500, Tom H wrote: For the latest Fedora beta, gnome-shell will run even on hardware without a native 3D driver, including virt guests. Umm, there isn't a Fedora beta at the moment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Is for this community XFCE the most common DE to replace GNOME 3?

2011-11-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:53:59 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: LXDE is even smaller and faster, but also has less features. Interesting comment. What in your opinion is missing? FWIW I am using LXDE and Openbox and have not noticed any missing functionality which cannot be remedied by editing a

Re: Can we stop whining about GNOME3 please?

2011-11-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:14:07 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:34:36 -0500, Tom H wrote: For the latest Fedora beta, gnome-shell will run even on hardware without a native 3D driver, including virt guests

Re: cut's counterpart: vcut ?!

2011-11-16 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:58:54 +, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hi all, a crazy ideia just crossed my mind ? Is there a command that allows me to glue to text files together line by line ? more or like the inverse operation of 'cut' ... a vertical cat :P # cat abc a b c # cat 123 1

Re: gnome 3 refugee: obstructive panel in xfce

2011-11-18 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:52:46 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: The screen savers are pretty, but would it be possible to have them just go blank and save power when the laptop in not plugged in? You don't need any screensavers installed. man xset. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: CUPS assuming I'm the admin instead of prompting for user/pass

2011-11-21 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:07:56 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Kent West wrote: No, on further tinkering, that doesn't seem to be quite the issue. I'm getting different Home pages at various times, and I just now realized that if I start at localhost:631, sometime I wind up at an

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #2111

2011-11-21 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:39:29 -0500, sunny...@pghmail.com wrote: Funny I can get mail from this list but I cannot unsubscribe from it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:43:54 -0500, Sam Vagni wrote: Hello everyone, I just want to go into Linux, coming from Windows XP. Just want to know if Debian is good to go with and learn then? Just to clear my doubts that head people saying about its' non-compatibility with the newest hardware

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:39:29 -0500, Sam Vagni wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: Debian is a fine distribution; but there are others too. By the way, of course people here will extol the virtues of Debian - it is a Debian mailing list after

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:03:03 +, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 24 November 2011 13:51:52 Walter Hurry wrote: As to the printer, you'll need to check the exact model, not just the brand. Samsung's splix can manage most Samsungs, just as HP's hpijs and hplip can manage most HP printers

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:57:06 -0500, Sam Vagni wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: A little vague, I'm afraid. But not to worry, there are Linux applications for most things. By the way, I'd strongly recommend (with few exceptions) sticking

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:50:31 +, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 24 November 2011 14:57:06 Sam Vagni wrote: I guess I should go (of course) with 64 since my processor supports that (this I came to know).. There is no of course. Sorry, I did not make myself clear. With a 64 bit processor,

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

2011-11-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:52:59 +, Camaleón wrote: I'm afraid the rootkit is not distribution specific. I would run a deep scan with the mentioned tool (rkhunter) to be sure. PMFJI. What is an rkhunter deep scan? I use rkhunter but am not aware of any deep scan option. Thanks. -- To

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:24:34 +, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 24 November 2011 16:15:45 Walter Hurry wrote: I see no reason for OP to avoid 64 bit Debian. Sorry - as usual I am not making myself clear. I am not suggesting that he should. I said that here would no doubt others who could

Re: Unknown HZ value! (92) Assume 100.

2011-11-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:38:05 +, Brian wrote: On Thu 24 Nov 2011 at 19:11:16 +, Walter Hurry wrote: PMFJI. What is an rkhunter deep scan? I use rkhunter but am not aware of any deep scan option. 'deep scan' mode was a planned but unimplemented addition to rkhunter's capabilities

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-25 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:47:08 +, Andrew Wood wrote: Adobes version of Flash was (when I downloaded it a month or so ago) 32 bit which will run on a 64 bit OS BUT only with a 32 bit web browser so you need to make sure you have the 32 bit version of Firefox. I made that mistake:) Wrong on

Re: Nautilus 3.2.1 and file associations

2011-11-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:22:51 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:43:15 +, Alan Chandler wrote: On 26/11/11 21:18, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, try this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/82652/file-association-to-unlisted- application It basically says that you have to append a

Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

2011-11-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:04:24 +, Cam Hutchison wrote: I have tried GNOME 3. I have tried it with fallback mode. I've now tried xfce, kde and my own hacked together xsession with gnome components. I don't like any of it. What I like is the setup I had. I had GNOME 2 set up just the way

Re: Fixing corrupt mysql table

2011-11-27 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:26:52 +1100, Robert S wrote: I recently rebooted my server and mysql didn't start - it reported password problems. I have reset the root password but there are other errors: # /etc/init.d/mysql start Starting MySQL database server: mysqld. Checking for corrupt, not

Re: .deb / dpkg for dummies

2011-11-28 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:26:36 +0100, Piotr Wydymus wrote: At first, hello everyone - I subscribed yesterday. Please don't: a) Top post b) Post HTML Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: NNTP server

2011-11-29 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:52:35 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: My ISP blocks NNTP traffic. To get round this, I propose to use my Squeze VPS, which has direct access to the Internet, to collect news articles from a few selected groups, and access these over SSH (or something like that). Can

Re: GRUB version

2011-11-30 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:40:52 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:37:33 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Is there a way to find out what version of grub is installed in the MBR of a drive? grub-install -v will tell the installed version. Anyway... IIRC, the version is printed at

Re: Re (2): Laptop with external display running X11.

2011-12-01 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:25:16 +0100, deloptes wrote: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE What's the purpose of this superfluous cat (and the pipe)? grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: a short cut on desktop on gnome3

2011-12-02 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:18:37 -0500, doug wrote: On 12/02/2011 01:28 PM, Brian Flaherty wrote: On 12/02/2011 03:03 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: *Hi, I am trying to be familiar with gnome 3, So I installing from debian testing the gnome 3, It seems good, but sometimes I am lost, for

Re: GRUB2 themes

2011-12-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:16:12 +, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 03 December 2011 22:19:54 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: IMO it is too bad that Debian does not put a nice theme together, it would look so much better at a first install. I do dislike nice themes. Surely there is Ubuntu for those that

Re: Wheezy X broken ?

2011-12-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:39:26 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-12-06 10:50 +0100, Shaun wrote: On 05/12/2011 22:25, Sven Joachim wrote: For gnome-shell you need a 3D OpenGL driver, and in wheezy the nouveau 3D drivers are not installed by default yet. This has been changed¹ in unstable

Re: Counting occurances of a word in a file.

2011-12-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:34:45 +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Yes, you are right. My suggestion doesn't work if a word appears more than once in a line since only lines which contain the word are counted. Sorry for the confusion. PMFJI. Never mind; *I'm* glad you mentioned it anyway. I have a

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:24:56 -0500, doug wrote: On 12/09/2011 04:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm looking for a laptop with Linux preinstalled by vendor. I'm aware of System76 who ships with Ubuntu. Is there anyone else? I would like to do some comparison shopping. Thank you. I think

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:01:47 -0500, doug wrote: OK, I'll bite. How do you label the partitions? I was under the impression that they would have to be called / or /home or /boot, and so on. I think you are confusing partition labels with mount points. Scroogle is your friend. -- To

Re: Sqeeze installation: manually defining partitions

2011-12-15 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:51:50 +0100, Klaus Jantzen wrote: Hi, for (each?) partition I define there is an entry for Reserved Blocks with a suggested value of 5%. Questions: 1) What are these reserved blocks for? Root. For recovery if you fill it. 2) Do I have to have them? Not

Re: what's the best media player ?

2011-12-19 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:44:16 +0800, lina wrote: Hi, which media player is your favoriate and love to recommend. I have a problem in using movie player, it's kinda of funny when open some song with it, all the process just being killed and came to login interface. (more like the

Re: FETCHMAIL AND GMAIL?

2011-12-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:26:38 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 20 dec 11, 17:51:10, Brian wrote: On Tue 20 Dec 2011 at 18:24:19 +0100, Alex Padoly wrote: How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 protocol, I can't it! How do you do to write the file .fetcmailrc. This what

Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive

2011-12-22 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:28:45 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: On 22 December 2011 17:09, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:26:04 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: I have an external usb hard drive that I use solely for storing backups which are done every three hours of my home

Re: Doubled external usb hard drives?

2011-12-25 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:22:46 +, Brian wrote: On Sun 25 Dec 2011 at 15:16:11 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: This morning my usb external hard drive started playing up by showing two instances, i.e.;- ~~~ ls -l /media total 48 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

Re: what's the nice package to open eps file

2012-01-03 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:38:54 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: It will also open with Okular - I'm not sure if that means your default .pdf viewer will open them. Just for information, Evince views them just fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: take screen shot error

2012-01-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:11:48 +0800, lina wrote: actually I have started to enjoy using scrot. Here is the script which I have bound to my 'PrtSc' key: - #!/bin/bash TIME=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%T` FILE=$HOME/Pictures/Screenshot_$TIME.png scrot -s

Re: Order of cron.daily jobs

2012-01-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:03:22 +, T o n g wrote: On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:59:27 +, Camaleón wrote: Yup, but this can be found by simply trial and error tests. trial and error can sure yield some conclusion, but whether the conclusion is good really depend on the trials. For

Re: Best remote control software

2012-01-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:33:33 +1000, yudi v wrote: Currently I am using x11vnc as the server on Debian and tightvnc viewer on Windows 7. Both machines are connected via LAN cable and are only meters apart. Debian is installed on a 12' laptop and windows 7 on a desktop with dual screens, I

Re: Vodafone Mobile Internet modem

2012-01-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:07:29 +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Hi! I am running a mix of GNewSense (which is based on Squeeze) and Squeeze on a Lemote YeeLoong netbook. To access the internet I have paid for a Vodafone Mobile Internet Contract. However the provided Huawei usb modem has

Re: Vodafone Mobile Internet modem

2012-01-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:04:15 +0200, Panayiotis wrote: What is the dongle's model? Mine is not particularly little, I think it's the Huawei E220. It's a Vodafone K3570-Z - a small white dongle that looks like a fat memory stick. Please don't top post, or reply to my email address. Reply to

Re: [OT] Ownership of words

2012-01-09 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:08:41 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: I wake up every morning with only a limited allotment of energy for arguing. I find I must save this arguing energy for issues that are worth arguing about. This one didn't make the cut. But I paid for the full half-hour. -- To

Re: POP3 in Debian

2012-01-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:38:23 +, Jon Dowland wrote: I'd strongly recommend using something *other* than fetchmail: getmail or mpop are options. What's wrong with Fetchmail? Works flawlessly for me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: hi, how to set gnome3 in fallback mode?

2012-01-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:35:04 -0500, Mike Viau wrote: html head style!-- .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Tahoma } --/style/head body class='hmmessage'div dir='ltr' gt; On Fri, 20 Jan 2012

Re: hi, how to set gnome3 in fallback mode?

2012-01-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:36:58 -0500, Mike Viau wrote: html head style!-- .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Tahoma } --/style/head body class='hmmessage'div dir='ltr' gt; gt; *Please* don't do

Re: ALSA instead of pulseaudio on new sid

2012-01-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:32:34 +0100, Raven wrote: Hi guys. I have a fairly new install of sid with the new fancy gnome3 and all the eye-candy tweaks. I don't really like it, but that's another story.. Anyway, before reinstalling sid I used to have the sound coming from ALSA..it was working

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:03:28 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: (http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/uv/) I think I could afford to be *very* nice if I had one of those ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:28:41 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 10:23:08PM +0800, lina wrote: Thanks for suggestions, Actually I got a job which contains several small jobs inside. if run the bash script, it will do those one by one and it is pretty slow, waiting ... I

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:59:58 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/4/2011 10:34 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:28:41 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 10:23:08PM +0800, lina wrote: Thanks for suggestions, Actually I got a job which contains several small jobs

Re: Recovering from MKFS

2011-08-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:59:22 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear list - I ran mkfs -L on an external usb drive, hoping to change it's name, which it did. It, of course, rewrote the inode tables, which I did not realize that it would, and I cannot find my files on the disk. Is there any

Re: Recovering from MKFS

2011-08-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:15:06 +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:59:22 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: I ran mkfs -L on an external usb drive, hoping to change it's name, which it did. It, of course, rewrote the inode tables, which I did not realize that it would, and I cannot find

Re: Some coaching on apt-get and downgrading Package gtk+-2.0

2011-08-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:33:49 -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: Eduardo, Thanks, that worked perfectly, but, how did you know that, especially so quickly? Randy Kramer On Thursday 04 August 2011 08:52:24 am Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Qui, 04 Ago 2011, Randy Kramer wrote: Yesterday, my

Re: Some coaching on apt-get and downgrading Package gtk+-2.0

2011-08-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:46:44 +, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:33:49 -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: Eduardo, Thanks, that worked perfectly, but, how did you know that, especially so quickly? Randy Kramer On Thursday 04 August 2011 08:52:24 am Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote

Re: Pidgin questions ...

2011-08-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:54:49 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I am being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century! My kids and grandkids and wife are demanding that I get messaging. I don't want to get one for every network or vendor out there and happened to run across

Re: Intrusion Statistics

2011-08-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:29:02 +, Walter Hurry wrote: More out of curiosity than paranoia, I have carried out a small geographical analysis of rejected intrusion attempts at my home router snip Sorry for the formatting, but I think it's just about legible, so I won't pollute the list

Re: IP geographical address info

2011-08-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:20:14 +, T o n g wrote: Hi, Given an IP address, how can I know which geographical area it originated from? Would that be of to the country or state level? On the other hand, given a country or state/province, can I get a list of IP addresses that belong to it?

Re: Intrusion Statistics

2011-08-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:34:42 +, Camaleón wrote: China|483 United Kingdom | 455 Russian Federation |167 Germany | 74 Spain| 68 Hey, I'm there (Spain) :-P My e-mail and web

Re: Intrusion Statistics

2011-08-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:59:51 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: 1. How are you figuring the source country? If you're looking at the ip in the handshake and comparing this to a db of ip / country, you're only looking at half of the story. If you're a bit smarter and have a list of border routers that

Re: Intrusion Statistics

2011-08-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:31:37 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: imo, meaningless Of that I have little doubt. As I said, I was just curious. By the way, my router is just a cheap home DLink unit, not anything running any special software. So I don't set the rules - just tell it as part of the normal

Re: IP geographical address info

2011-08-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:10:47 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Tong writes: Thanks for the hint, Darac. Found it's source. FYI, the geographical info can be at the state/province level. Note that, while useful, this data is not reliable. Yes, lots of gaps it seems. I've had a look at it, and my

Re: Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:56:44 +0300, David Baron wrote: This is a not-so-sporadic problem: USB mouse begins spewing errors and these grow the syslog and daemon.log files until /var is full. At this point, the filesystem journal and the mail system are crippled. One must remove these two files

Re: how to change root passwd (if forgotten)

2011-08-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:23:17 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:25 AM, abdelkader belahcene abelahc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I ve forgotten my root passwd on centos 6 (red hat based), I tried to change it as I used in debian (in debian it works perfectly) , that is:

Re: how to change root passwd (if forgotten)

2011-08-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:28:33 +0100, Dom wrote: On 11/08/11 19:46, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:23:17 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:25 AM, abdelkader belahcene abelahc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I ve forgotten my root passwd on centos 6 (red hat

Re: Hdd recipes for preseeding d-i

2011-08-11 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:34:10 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: On Thursday 11 August 2011 14:26:39 Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote: You ask for help and ask people to do additional step to help you. Shouldn't you rather subscribe to the list? My time is limited and I've chosen to subscribe to

Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

2011-08-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:39:18 +, Camaleón wrote: Google is now forcing their users to use cookies Not relevant to the original problem I know, but I use http://scroogle.org/scraper.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: [still OT?] Google cookie problem - was [Re: [OT] Google search default lang.]

2011-08-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:28:27 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: Adblock - leave the ads on the server where they belong. Unless they pay me to view their advertising they can just go and try reproduce with themselves. Just to comment on a possible alternative approach: I don't need any Firefox

Re: gconf-editor icon missing from menu? (wheezy)

2011-08-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:41:11 +, Camaleón wrote: Hello, I've just realized my wheezy has lost an icon from the menu: gconf- editor is not there anymore while the binary file is still present and can be launched as expected. Is just me or someone else has missed this icon from the

Re: sudoers tty defaults (Re: Changing Users in a script)

2011-08-15 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:12:04 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Tom H wrote: Both are set by default. Just tty_tickets is set by default. requiretty is off by default. $ man 5 sudoers tty_tickets If set, users must authenticate on a per-tty basis.

Re: sudoers tty defaults (Re: Changing Users in a script)

2011-08-16 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:33:58 -0400, Tom H wrote: sudo -L lists the full list of Defaults. I'd be very surprised if even one of these isn't set. Then prepare for a surprise. Vanilla /etc/sudoers in Squeeze: # /etc/sudoers # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # See

Re: 2TB file system

2011-08-17 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:30:07 +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:31:53 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in formating the entire disk (no

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