Re: sandboxie like application for Debian? [Possible Threadjack]

2011-02-14 Thread Arthur Machlas
YMMV, I currently only use schroot to run the 32-bit (only) ICAClient for work. I tried to set up the same client and noticed it needed all kinds of 32bit libraries and was considering my options. Any link or sketched outline about the steps you took to do this? If you are inclined to respond,

Boot without initrd when using full-disk encryption

2011-02-14 Thread Arthur Machlas
I've built kernels without an initrd a number of times, but never before on a system with full-desk encryption. When installing Squeeze on a laptop I used the assisted setup and created a ful-disk encryption setup, that has a separate /boot partition, the rest of the disk LVM and whatever

Re: sandboxie like application for Debian? [Possible Threadjack]

2011-02-14 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Monday 14 February 2011 11:59:08 Arthur Machlas wrote: YMMV, I currently only use schroot to run the 32-bit (only) ICAClient for work. I tried to set up the same client and noticed it needed all kinds

Re: stable-updates versus volatile

2011-02-10 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 09 feb 11, 20:13:06, Arthur Machlas wrote: SNIP would set them up properly. Doesn't make sense for a clean install of Debian 6 to put invalid repositories in your sources.list If this the final version

Re: Debian way of compiling a kernel.

2011-02-10 Thread Arthur Machlas
Ughn.. think google just discarded my post instead of sending. Don't want to retype; but here's the link: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: stable-updates versus volatile

2011-02-09 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: In 20110209093337.ga13...@furie.org.uk, Tom Furie wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:20:04PM -0800, Mark wrote: Thank you, Rob.  This is very very helpful.  In step 2, you not only changed lenny to squeeze but

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread Arthur Machlas
That cd with firmware isn't obviously useful, in that, I installed via DVD 1 and when prompted to insert additional discs it was unable to read from it. If I wanted to go around my friends and family house and upgrade their computers, I'd have to basically integrate all firmwares into a custom dvd

Re: Anyone else having problems installing Squeeze Stable on AMD64?

2011-02-06 Thread Arthur Machlas
No. No problems using the AMD64 DVD1. -- 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/AANLkTi=4xg3Df8UH=y-dbumdftggvoxp9hvr6u4cu...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Hidden Wireless WPA2-PERSONAL AES-CCMP trouble

2011-02-03 Thread Arthur Machlas
Hi, Hi I am in a hidden wireless network with this settings: If you have control of this network, change it from hidden to visible. First, because it provides no security benefits, and second because the 802.11i specification amendment (which defines WPA2, discussed later) even states that a

Re: Hidden Wireless WPA2-PERSONAL AES-CCMP trouble

2011-02-03 Thread Arthur Machlas
If you have control of this network, change it from hidden to visible. First, because it provides no security benefits, and second because the 802.11i specification amendment (which defines WPA2, discussed later) even states that a computer can refuse to communicate with an access point that

Re: Re: Hidden Wireless WPA2-PERSONAL AES-CCMP trouble

2011-02-03 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Marcelo Laia marcelol...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, I don't have access to the access point to change from hidden to visible. So, or I connect to, or I don't use the net on my debian box! Any clue? No. But perhaps a troubleshooting option. I'd try two

Re: being up to date (Was: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain)

2011-01-05 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Mike Bird mgb-deb...@yosemite.net wrote: On Wed January 5 2011 13:37:59 Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: mgb-deb...@yosemite.net : The issue is that insserv throws away years of work by Debian Developers, That is not always bad. Computers have improved

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

2011-01-04 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br wrote: On Ter, 04 Jan 2011, Brian wrote: Because anyone nearby with a laptop can sniff the traffic, unlike with a regular cabled internet connection or a password protected wireless network (in which traffic in

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-31 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Mike Bird wrote: But then they abuse the Debian packaging system by requiring instead of recommending unnecessary packages so that people are forced to use their silly hacks. The new APT default is that Recommends are the

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-30 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: It's not my fault that you don't know how to debug a non-booting service nor that you don't know how insserv and sys-rc works. It's neither my fault that you don't want to help your distribution to correct the lacks you are

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-30 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Mike Bird mgb-deb...@yosemite.net wrote: On Thu December 30 2010 16:24:19 Tom H wrote: As an aside, you refer to the pre-insserv setup as Snn/Knn startup mechanism but insserv doesn't deviate from that style. insserv creates the Snn/Knn symlinks dynamically in

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-30 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Arthur Machlas arthur.mach...@gmail.com wrote: We're trying to figure out the cleanest way to stop insserv from throwing away all the Snn/Knn information that Debian Developers have created over the years.  Then we'll attempt to reset the Snn/Knn to those

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-29 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: Hi, I am not developer of insserve ... On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 01:37:48AM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: On Wed December 29 2010 00:13:04 Camaleón wrote: ... Thanks for looking into this.  I still fail to see why saving half a

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-27 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Mike Bird mgb-deb...@yosemite.net wrote: If the Apache configuration needs DNS to start, Apache silently and without logging anything fails to start in Squeeze.  This used to work correctly under the old startup mechanism in Lenny. Create a new group in

Re: Network-manager applet with multiple users

2010-12-23 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Dne, 22. 12. 2010 20:55:14 je Arthur Machlas napisal(a): It seems that whomever logs in first on the gnome-desktop, user1, user2 or user3 has exclusive control of network manager, even though I'd like all three

Re: Nautilus and/or ext4 killed three folders!

2010-12-23 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Arthur Machlas arthur.mach...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Borden Rhodes j...@bordenrhodes.com wrote: I'm not quite sure how to debug or report this one which is why I'm mentioning it here.  I was moving to a new hard drive and copying

Network-manager applet with multiple users

2010-12-22 Thread Arthur Machlas
It seems that whomever logs in first on the gnome-desktop, user1, user2 or user3 has exclusive control of network manager, even though I'd like all three to be able to control it. Is there a workaround for this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Network-manager applet with multiple users

2010-12-22 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Arthur Machlas arthur.mach...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that whomever logs in first on the gnome-desktop, user1, user2 or user3 has exclusive control of network manager, even though I'd like all three to be able to control it. Is there a workaround

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:09:14 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote: Camaleón wrote: I agree this is the most common place to set the desired variable values for the daemon and even the easiest way to turn on/off a service at boot

Re: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-08 Thread Arthur Machlas
First, apologies to Shawn. I didn't pay attention when responding. Time to have dinner I think. On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:56 PM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:35:25 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-07 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Hi A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so it doesn't run on start up. I wanted to keep NM installed (just in case) but preferred to use the old ifup network setup method. So I issued

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-07 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:51:11 -0600, Arthur Machlas wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) Before I fill a bug report (I think a service that has been manually disabled should keep its state regardless

Re: Feedback needed: How to disable services at startup... and keep them so.

2010-12-07 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Paul Lane kc9...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, A month ago, I disabled Network Manager service in my Squeeze system so it doesn't run on start up. I wanted to keep NM installed (just in case) but

Re: how can i hear my own voice with a microphone?

2010-10-26 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:27 PM, green greenfreedo...@gmail.com wrote: Jozsef Vadkan wrote at 2010-10-26 16:08 -0500: How? You shouldn't need a microphone, unless you speak very quietly. Then a mic and amplifier might be needed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32?

2010-10-21 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Andrew Reid rei...@bellatlantic.net wrote:  But I'm curious if anyone on the list knows the rationale for distributing kernels with this set to 32.  Is that just a reasonable number that's never been updated?  Or is there some complication that arises after 32

Debian Squeeze Boot-up stalls waiting for dhcp to obtain address

2010-10-15 Thread Arthur Machlas
Did a network install of Squeeze the other day, on a computer without wireless. Normally I remove everything but lo in /etc/network/interfaces, but after resume from suspend network-manager reported disabling device eth0 for reason 2, whatever that meant, and the only way to bring it back up was

Re: Debian Squeeze Boot-up stalls waiting for dhcp to obtain address

2010-10-15 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Arthur Machlas wrote: Did a network install of Squeeze the other day, on a computer without wireless. Normally I remove everything but lo in /etc/network/interfaces, but after resume from suspend network-manager

Re: Debian Ciel -- A Theme Proposal for Squeeze

2010-10-15 Thread Arthur Machlas
I'm using it now. It's nice, but somehow is hard on the eyes. It seems.. dull or dimmed. Foggy. Hard to describe. Is the gamma for wallpaper correct according to specs on wiki? Gamma: Please gamma-correct all this artwork. 0.45 (not 2.2). Could just be my lcd. In any case, nice work. It's still

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-13 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Wolodja Wentland wolodja.wentl...@ed.ac.uk wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 22:48 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: It works perfectly with eduroam and Let me elaborate on the eduroam configuration. For eduroam you choose PEAP with TKIP/MSCHAPV2    Identity:

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Arthur Machlas
For those wanting to lighten up the gnome desktop, alt+f2, gconf-editor, ctrl+f the following: low_resource (enable) workarounds (disable) animation (disable all that come up) The difference between xfce and gnome, for me is negligible, and losing a decent screensaver, gdm and powermanager not

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Paul Cartwright deb...@pcartwright.com wrote: On Wed October 13 2010, Arthur Machlas wrote: For those wanting to lighten up the gnome desktop, alt+f2, gconf-editor, ctrl+f the following: low_resource (enable) workarounds (disable) animation (disable all

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:18:12 -0500 Arthur Machlas arthur.mach...@gmail.com wrote: ... The difference between xfce and gnome, for me is negligible, and losing a decent screensaver, gdm and powermanager not worth it. Once

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Arthur Machlas
There is something to be said about stuff that puts functionality over form. XFCE is likely to be more stable and safer than anything KDE or Gnome. 1. The two are not mutually exclusive. A!!Y being a good example, which gnome wins hands down over XFCE. 2. The biggest threat to a system, IMHO,

Re: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-12 Thread Arthur Machlas
2010/10/12 Stanisław Findeisen s...@eisenbits.homelinux.net: 3. This is not the first time I am having problems with NetworkManager here on Debian, so I think I will get rid of it. The question is how to switch between available WiFi connections without NetworkManager. For instance I could

Re: Behavior of aptitude and autoremoving

2010-10-11 Thread Arthur Machlas
I'm struggling to understand the autoremoval behavior of aptitude 0.6.3. Let's say I have a virtual package A provided by A1 and AFAIK, it gets autoremoved it it was automatically installed AND if there are no other packages on the system that depend AND/OR recommend it, depending on your

Re: Postgrad research tools - any recommendations

2010-10-04 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:33 PM, James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com wrote: Instead of Word and Endnotes, use Latex and bibtex, bit of a learning curve, but much better results, James I'd recommend iceweasel with the zotero extension, and openoffice with the zotero plugin. There is

Re: Provide the default GNOME theme in gnome-core please

2010-09-29 Thread Arthur Machlas
FYI, the request has been rejected with - I don’t think it is worth splitting. - need a better rationale - WTF is that debian-user Cc? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598448 Mmm, it hasn't been rejected (at least by now). DD asks you a reason for achieve the change...

Re: What pm-utils depends

2010-09-24 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:10 AM, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:25:58 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: Huh?  AFAIK, pm-utils never depended on HAL; it used to recommend it, but it does not do this anymore. pm-utils is the new suspend and powerstate setting framework.

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Mark Goldshtein mark.goldsht...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote: ... If you have couple of minutes, would you,

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote: Lots of useful info in there Javier. Also worth mentioning, though it doesn't seem you use it, is laptop-mode-tools. I did include it in the ones I have installed, :-)  The original list had it with some words as

Re: directly install RH packages using rpm instead of alien

2010-09-22 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:16 PM, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: However, I'm wondering if it OK to install RH packages directly using rpm instead of going through alien convention. Do you have any similar experiences? Yes, one time my girlfriend put diesel into our gasoline powered

Re: gdm3 exclude certain usernames

2010-09-22 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2010 08:33:41 Scott Ferguson wrote: Which remembers me Scott, That's not fair. :-( Lisi Yes, to which I would add that even though Scott's command of the English language is far superior, or so I

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-20 Thread Arthur Machlas
The thing of it is, this doesn't sound like a Debian problem/question. And most every suggestion is given with that in mind. So if you wanted to see if it was a Debian problem, then you'd do things like try it in another VM. Of course, this isn't possible for whatever reason - doesn't matter -

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-20 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 9/20/2010 11:29 AM, Arthur Machlas wrote: The thing of it is, this doesn't sound like a Debian problem/question. And most every suggestion is given with that in mind. So if you wanted to see if it was a Debian

Re: ps - Illegal Instruction

2010-09-20 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote:  On 20/09/10 10:15, Jerry Stuckle wrote: This is a new install of Lenny on Windows 7 Virtual PC.  I basically Perhaps some of the links off this link might be useful

Re: Mainline kernel source curiosity

2010-09-20 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote: Hi. Up to date Squeeze, compiling the latest 2.6.36-rc4 kernel. Last time the problem was compiling the kernel at all, which is working just fine now thank you Debian-User. fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -curt1.0

Re: New kernel-building web page with Nvidia example

2010-09-01 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: SNIP I welcome further review and feedback, especially from those who wanted an Nvidia example.  Is this the kind of thing you were looking for?  Or did I miss the mark? Under Introduction: ...recommendation was *make*

Re: Distributed Debian Distribution Development

2010-09-01 Thread Arthur Machlas
I'm glad this was cross posted otherwise I would've missed it. Even if there are technical hurdles it's an exciting idea and I'm looking forward to reading the devel mailing list for follow-ups. The point about eating your own dog food is well made i thought, though whether there is any interest

Re: sid: Packages held back during upgrade

2010-08-30 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:57:01AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:  On 8/30/2010 1:05 AM, Joel Roth wrote: I just did an apt-get upgrade. Hundreds of packages were held back. [snip] apt-get dist-upgrade Aptitude equivilant is

Re: Stable, light-weighted, lighting-fast and actively-developed WM

2010-08-30 Thread Arthur Machlas
The reason being, on my laptop, the - Fn-F4 key suspend - lid close lid close is dealt with by the acpi-support package AFAIRemeber, gonna have to look into it myself tonight since I just switched to openbox. xfce's powermanagement is a mess. with fluxbox you don't need any keys

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-13 Thread Arthur Machlas
The latest version of my kernel building web page, revised yesterday (http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm), recommends unpacking, configuring, and compiling the kernel from its default location as a non-root user which is a member of group src.  It can be the system administrator's

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-13 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Angus Hedger demide...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:27:50 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Machlas wrote: The only issues I ran into when building headers via make-kpkg where as follows

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-13 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Angus Hedger demide...@gmail.com wrote: Hey! I don't use the -j3 switch, and I don't think that -j3 switch works like you think it does when using make-kpkg, at least, not if that's meant to utilize multiple processors when building. I'm at work right so this

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-12 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:33:12 -0400 (EDT), Bob Proulx wrote: Then log out.  At login you will be set to those additional groups. With those in place you can work as yourself in those areas.  Safer than using root since

Re: building 2.6.35

2010-08-10 Thread Arthur Machlas
If you've looked at my kernel building web page, http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm, you will see that I don't cover this.  That's because I don't use it when I build my own custom kernels.  I do use it when building a regular Debian package, but for some reason I've never bothered

Re: Evolution Backup ??

2010-08-10 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Tixy debianu...@tixy.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 15:44 -0500, John W Foster wrote: Anyone know the best way to completely back up Evolutions files mail, contacts etc. There does not seem to be a way built in. Will gladly be proven wrong. I, lost

Re: No Consoles???

2010-08-09 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Vi, 06 aug 10, 14:07:43, John W Foster wrote: Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. I really miss this ability using testing dist. I am VERY used

Re: Intel Atom N450 Kernel Config Options re: SMP

2010-07-30 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Arthur Machlas put forth on 7/29/2010 12:01 PM: Things are running nicely, but the problem I hoped to resolve hasn't been. Namely, the lowest frequency my cpu can reach is 1Ghz... instead of the 800Mhz

Re: Intel Atom N450 Kernel Config Options re: SMP

2010-07-30 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Christian Jaeger chr...@gmail.com wrote: How do you read the possible cpu frequencies? Your kernel needs cpufreq support and ondemand, powersave, etc. governors; check with cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies cat

Re: Intel Atom N450 Kernel Config Options re: SMP

2010-07-29 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Arthur Machlas put forth on 7/28/2010 11:14 PM: In make menuconfig: snip These last two are probably the reason for the unknown, especially given you're running 2.6.34 which has all the CPU models currently

Re: insserv: Starting 'something' depends on stop-bootlogd and therefore on system facility $all

2010-07-29 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:49 AM, hugo vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi i have a script in /etc/init.d/ctnscript with a symlink in /etc/rc2.d/S99ctnscript when i tried to install gpm then i got a series of errors insserv: Starting ctnscript depends on stop-bootlogd

Re: Installing Squeeze i386

2010-07-29 Thread Arthur Machlas
Experienced something similar a week or so ago with a weekly build I think it was. A DVD of squeeze. It couldn't detect hard-disks. Daily netinst worked fine. Meh, broken installers in testing isn't really news, or surprising, is it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Intel Atom N450 Kernel Config Options re: SMP

2010-07-28 Thread Arthur Machlas
Greetings, According to the spec sheet on the Atom N450 it has a single core, though it does support two threads. However, linuxinfo (replaces cpuinfo I suppose) says two unknown processors. r...@hpm210:/home/arthur/Misc/Linux/2.6.34-1# linuxinfo Linux HPm210 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Tue Jun 1

Re: Getting my init-script to run at the correct time

2010-07-15 Thread Arthur Machlas
, insserv.con should be conf. On 7/15/10, Arthur Machlas arthur.mach...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/11/10, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Thue Janus Kristensen wrote: I am having trouble getting it to run at the right place in the shutdown sequence. It used to work, but recently stopped working

Re: Getting my init-script to run at the correct time

2010-07-15 Thread Arthur Machlas
On 7/11/10, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Thue Janus Kristensen wrote: I am having trouble getting it to run at the right place in the shutdown sequence. It used to work, but recently stopped working for no apparent reason. ## Changes to init script # Required start: # Required stop:

Cannot edit categories for contacts in Evolution 2.30.2

2010-07-14 Thread Arthur Machlas
greetings, Using squeeze, with gnome and evolution 2.30.2, and trying to customize the categories list, no changes can be made to the default categories list. For example, I create a new contact, called John, then click categories. I delete every category but favorites and anniverssaries. Then I

Re: [info] grub2

2010-07-09 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: There is now an official grub2 manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html Great news! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: installing debian 5 on dell inspiron 580s

2010-07-07 Thread Arthur Machlas
I just got a new dell 580s with windows 7 and I3-530 processor. I partitioned the drive within windows and proceeded to install debian using the latest x86 net disk (I burnt the latest 150M ISO to a CD for the installation). Everythng goes fine except that it fails to detect the ethernet

Re: how to automaticaly turn off touchpad using xinput

2010-07-06 Thread Arthur Machlas
The problem is that sometimes the xinput id of the touchpad differs and having it in .xinputrc sometimes turned off the track point and sometimes even the keyboard which really hinders its usability. Is there some automatic way to do this in a secure fasion like using the name returned by

Re: First Debian Installation: totally brain-dead. Where do I go from here?

2010-07-02 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Vi, 02 iul 10, 00:49:53, Keith Mitchell wrote: I decided to build a Linux box instead of emulating Linux using VM-Ware under Windows. I heard Debian was the way to go. I have created Red-Hat and Ubuntu Linux boxes in the past with no problems. Who did you hear this from? Irrelevant, they

Signing Email Messages

2010-07-02 Thread Arthur Machlas
I just recently setup encrypted mail for my personal mail account, using icedove and enigmail. I'm curious about a general feature of signing the email. Why can't I just copy the signature portion of the email, which many people on this list attach to their posts, and paste it at the bottom of a

Re: Signing Email Messages

2010-07-02 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:52:47 -0500 Arthur Machlas arthur.mach...@gmail.com wrote: I just recently setup encrypted mail for my personal mail account, using icedove and enigmail. I'm curious about a general feature of signing

Re: iceweasel doesn't open research.microsoft.com

2010-06-29 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2010 17:30:42 Joey Hess wrote: sasha mal wrote: The bug exists, the iceweasel package maintainer is lazy and refuses to handle it. No, iceweael's maintainer has applied basic debugging logic and deduced

Re: Debian Install stalls at 5% (at least for 3 hours, don't know if it suffices to designate this state as `stall')

2010-06-29 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Hi, I'm installating Debian Lenny on an old P2 350 Mhz to make a server. SNIP tried a first Debian install, which stalled at 5%. I then re-tried, and here I am: stuck at 5% for a long time (~3 hours). I

Re: Req. Advice from Lazy Web on Configuring 1.5TB extern. HD

2010-06-28 Thread Arthur Machlas
1) ext2 to image / from my debian install. 50GB so I could have two or three snapshots Why ext2? I don't see any reason to use something less than ext3 for regular operations. Ext2 because who needs journaling? It will have three, maybe four files on it, each about 10GB. Correct me if I'm

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Arthur Machlas
What's the point of the switch in your setup? -- 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/aanlkting9j_ddfimq5ehoejn76rlaf-zg5xmf-hbp...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Arthur Machlas arthur.mach...@gmail.com wrote: What's the point of the switch in your setup? Silly me, sent before I was done pontificating. Also wanted to add that you should check your router for the latest firmware updates, most residential routers

Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems

2010-06-25 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:53:09 -0400 vr debian-u...@iotk.net wrote: On 6/25/2010 3:27 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Might be that, but how could my ISP guess that I'm using a router? The first few characters of a MAC address are

Req. Advice from Lazy Web on Configuring 1.5TB extern. HD

2010-06-23 Thread Arthur Machlas
Greetings, I just purchased a 1.5 WD sata II HD and enclosure connected via USB after an unfortunate incident involve rm -rf, something called home and a bicycle. It's purpose will be two-fold: As a back-up device for two laptops (HD sizes 500GB and 120GB), and as a central storage device for

Ordering init scripts use of CONCURRENCY

2010-06-09 Thread Arthur Machlas
First, regarding my earlier email, which I cannot reply to directly (apologies), as it has been downloaded off of gmail, I *think* I've gotten the ordering to work correctly. I changed my lsb header in the custom script (/etc/init.d/phc_vids) to: # Require-start: $acpi Then under

Re: Ordering init scripts use of CONCURRENCY

2010-06-09 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2010-06-09 16:48 +0200, Arthur Machlas wrote: Then ran: dpkg-reconfigure insserv This is a no-op in Squeeze, you want to run the insserv command so that the order of the symlinks in rc?.d is changed to reflect

Re: Ordering init scripts use of CONCURRENCY

2010-06-09 Thread Arthur Machlas
So should I just delete my CONCURRENCY addition to the /etc/defaul/rcS file and it will return to default, or should I switch it to makefile? Nevermind. I just removed the line and can see in my bootlogs that runelevel S and 2 both use makefile-syle concurrent boot Cheers, -- To

Re: debian-multimedia.org gone?

2010-06-09 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 If someone needs a work-around, a friend on IRC found that this German mirror is still up: http://debian-multimedia.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/ It's always struck me

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Alexander Batischev eual...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 11:36:18AM -0700, ABSDoug wrote: I do know I want to stick with stable Debian In my opinion, there's no need to do so. Squeeze is close to freeze, soon it will became stable. You better run

How can I change the order of init scripts?

2010-06-07 Thread Arthur Machlas
Greetings list, I have created a simple init script to apply custom vid values to my cpus via the phc_intel module, which -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: How can I change the order of init scripts?

2010-06-07 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Arthur Machlas arthur.mach...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings list, I have created a simple init script to apply custom vid values to my cpus via the phc_intel module, which Sorry about that, I just discovered there is a keyboard shortcut to send an email in gmail

Re: popping laptop speakers

2010-01-27 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Nima Azarbayjany i.adore.deb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi there, I've got an annoying problem with my laptop which is a Pavilion dv5. I have the latest kernel 2.6.32. The problem is that at reboot the speakers make a loud noise which I fear may damage hardware.

Re: console resolution

2010-01-22 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.comwrote: On 2010-01-22 at 09:00:54 -0500, Javier Barroso wrote: Seem like gfxpayload is the substitute, but now I can't find where is the doc (it doesn't appear in kernel-parameters.txt). I'm really going out on a limb when

Re: problems using wicd on WPA2 secured networks

2010-01-19 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.comwrote: On 2010-01-19, Paul Scott waterho...@ultrasw.com wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-01-19, Paul Scott waterho...@ultrasw.com wrote: Hi, Wicd is mostly not working for me on networks using WPA2 including a

Re: Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation

2010-01-19 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Mark mamar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to install the firmware for an Intel ipw2100 wifi card on a Dell Latitude D800 laptop (the driver is supported in the Lenny kernel, just not the firmware). According to this page

Sandbox, chroot, makejail and application

2010-01-19 Thread Arthur Machlas
Greetings, I want to install and run SPSS for linux. It needs to be installed by root, but run by a normal user. I want to install it such that it has no access to my system as a whole. I believe the method to achieve this is a chroot environment. From my readings so far I also need to look into

Re: Intel 2100 wireless firmware (ipw2100-1.3.fw) for Lenny installation

2010-01-19 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Mark mamar...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, and if I boot to an Ubuntu Live 9.10 CD it connects no problem. What the what?? Hi, me again. You know, the guy who said it wasn't worth the trouble. That it's better to use aptitude after the fact. Yeah... hey. Good news

Re: Organize Debian mail lists page, please, thanks :)

2010-01-19 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:37 PM, giovanni_re john...@fastmail.uspontificated: Hi - thanks for your work on the debian mailing lists. :) I include some notes here about several improvements to the debian website, regarding mailing lists. They 1) communicate more quickly the _most imortant_

Re: Strange work of eth0.

2010-01-18 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com wrote: Why I have such situation: $ sudo /sbin/ifdown eth0 SIOCDELRT: No such process $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:53:34:18 inet addr:192.168.0.125 Bcast:192.168.0.255

Re: Roman Gelfand has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-01-11 Thread Arthur Machlas
On 01/10/2010 12:15 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,05.Jan.10, 13:41:18, Mark Allums wrote: I guess your sarcasm meter is broken today. Better get it service. (The hotmail post is satire, guys.) Quote from RFC 1855, section 2.1.1 (emphasis mine): Remember that the recipient is a

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