Re: How to key Esperanto characters

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:40:23 + (UTC) Cousin Stanley cousinstan...@hotmail.com wrote: Doug wrote: The answer is to set up your Compose key. The following link might help to learn how to set up the Compose key

Re: How to key Esperanto characters

2011-12-12 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Check out http://askubuntu.com/questions/29731/rebind-alt-key-to-win-using-setxkbmap it might give you some hints to solve your problem. Sorry for top posting, stupid droid email won't allow interspersed reply... -- rbmj Dr Sian Mountbatten poenik...@operamail.com wrote: Robert Blair Mason

Re: Choosing a distribution (was: Just a simple query)

2011-10-27 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:58:51 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:59:38 -0400, Burhan Hanoglu wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:55:40 +0530, Linux Tyro wrote: I am beginner in Linux and

Re: PCManFM in SID

2011-10-13 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:35:37 -0400 Robert Blair Mason Jr. r...@verizon.net wrote: On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:23:20 +0530 Sridhar M.A. m...@mylug.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:46:08PM -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: PCManFM Releases: 0.9.9 - August 2011

Re: PCManFM in SID

2011-10-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:23:20 +0530 Sridhar M.A. m...@mylug.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:46:08PM -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: PCManFM Releases: 0.9.9 - August 2011 - this version works fine 0.9.8 (SID) - October 2010 - this is the version that's having

Re: LXDE Menu editing

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 10:55:52 -0600 Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. r...@verizon.net wrote: ... I don't want to provoke anyone or start a flame war, but why does the debian menu system still exist?  It had it's place

PCManFM in SID

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi list, Just a quick question - does anybody know where I can go to figure out the status of getting a new version of PCManFM? The version currently in SID is still pretty old and has some showstopper (won't start, crashes, etc. - these have been filed for some time but not fixed) bugs for

Re: PCManFM in SID

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:36:50 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:28:27 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: Hi list, Just a quick question - does anybody know where I can go to figure out the status of getting a new version of PCManFM

Re: installare debian su macair

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:15:40 +0200 Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: Ciao Alessandro, Am Montag, 10. Oktober 2011 schrieb alessandro soprana: valdagno, 10.10.2011 ho un mac air da febbraio 2011 e vorrei installare debian. Mentre su altri notebook riesco ad installarlo su

Re: LXDE Menu editing

2011-10-08 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:25:14 +0100 Richard richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:03:03 -0500 (CDT) Blair Mason r...@verizon.net wrote: Oct 8, 2011 11:52:04 AM, richard.b...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Hi, I'm trying out LXDE, much less system load, very noticeable .

Re: OFF-TOPIC: HTML to send data out a certain port

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:56:36 -1000 Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 02:32:15PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Yes, off-topic, but you folks are the brightest group with which I'm affiliated We're thinking of building a Debian-based web-server that offers up a

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:13:25 +0200 Lorenzo Sutton lsut...@libero.it wrote: On 02/10/2011 18:36, John Hasler wrote: consul tores wrote: Lisi writes: Maybe we should coin an adjective. USian perhaps? And you can be EUian. TERRAn? (finalizing the spaceship thingy sitting in the

HD Data Recovery

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hey list, A few days ago one of my parents' computers stopped booting, and they don't have any external backups, so I have to try and backup the data. BIOS POST revealed that the cause was a hard disk error. I swapped the drive in as a slave on another comp of mine and attempted to see if I could

Re: HD Data Recovery

2011-10-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:27:42 + (UTC) Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:07:23 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: A few days ago one of my parents' computers stopped booting, and they don't have any external backups I am sick and tired of hearing

Re: Curlftpfs replacement?

2011-09-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:21:11 -0400 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On 9/8/2011 11:06 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: I've googled some, but can't seem to find any active project providing FTP mounts. Currently I've installed curlftpfs, but cf wikipedia the project appears

Re: Curlftpfs replacement?

2011-09-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:52:06 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:43:06 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: (...) I do know that FTP doesn't use any encryption unless you use TLS, which the servers I'm connecting to appear to use. My primary

Curlftpfs replacement?

2011-09-08 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi list, I've googled some, but can't seem to find any active project providing FTP mounts. Currently I've installed curlftpfs, but cf wikipedia the project appears to be abandoned. Is there a new version or project that is still being developed upstream that anyone here knows about? Thanks,

Re: Ugly appearence after upgrade

2011-09-05 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:32:27 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:47:46 +, Walter Hurry wrote: On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:57:13 +, Camaleón wrote: I neither like gnome-shell in its current state (I tested GNOME 3.0 in openSUSE and did not feel good

Re: How to set mailto application

2011-09-02 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:45:49 -0400 Robert Blair Mason Jr. r...@verizon.net wrote: How can I configure chromium to open claws-mail as the mailto link handler? Right now it just opens a new chromium window to the new tab page. Nevermind, I figured it out. Apparently /usr/bin/xdg-email

How to set mailto application

2011-09-01 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi list, How can I configure chromium to open claws-mail as the mailto link handler? Right now it just opens a new chromium window to the new tab page. Thanks, -- rbmj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-29 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:18:35 -0400 shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: I don't understand what is hard about this. I mean if you don't care about security, just make sure the mount has a umask of 770 (or whatever) and make an export, reload exports, and mount it from wherever you want.

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-28 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:41:35 +0200 Christoph Groth c...@falma.de wrote: Robert Blair Mason Jr. r...@verizon.net writes: Christoph Groth c...@falma.de wrote: Will something like the following work? This works on any filesystem using standard unix permissions (such as ext*, ufs, reiserfs

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-28 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:01:05 -0400 Robert Blair Mason Jr. r...@verizon.net wrote: I understand OSX doesn't help anyone here... perhaps someone could request an implementation of this command in the mount source code? It seems simple - just check if the filesystem has noowners set and if so

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-25 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:02:57 +0200 Christoph Groth c...@falma.de wrote: Blair Mason r...@verizon.net writes: Permission schemes on removable media are not too powerful annyway, as anyone with root on any machine can change them... my $0.02. Exactly -- I wonder whether there are any

Re: [SOLVED] GLX Missing

2011-08-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
I figured out my issue. I was playing with OpenCL and it pulled in a bunch of nvidia stuff because it was selecting nvidia-libopencl1 by default. Then, when I was googling how to fix the video drivers I was blindly filtering all of the instructions through s/apt-get/aptitude/ and aptitude wasn't

Re: how to change root passwd (if forgotten)

2011-08-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:14:23 + (GMT) Francois Cerbelle franc...@cerbelle.net wrote: Le Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:10:02 +0200, Thierry Chatelet a écrit : On Wednesday 10 August 2011 17:53:26 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: if i'm not mistaken you can just go to single user mode on centos by appending

Re: how to change root passwd (if forgotten)

2011-08-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:48:02 -0600 Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.com wrote: sulogin is easy enough to bypass. * Boot Live CD * Mount / * Edit /etc/inittab * Comment out si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS * Reboot into single user mode Much easer than chroots, or any

Re: Boost sound volume?

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:01:46 -0400 Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com wrote: No, it's a well-known problem with PulseAudio. It gives max volumes much, much lower than Windows for no special reason I know of. Is it possible for me to just kill the PulseAudio server when I'm starting certain

Re: [OT] plot execution flows from C/C++ sources

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:33:46 +0100 Joao Ferreira Gmail joao.miguel.c.ferre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, [ maybe some programers out there... :) ] I recently stared working on a project for maintenance and new developments on an existing huge code base of C/C++ It's quite a

Re: Boost sound volume?

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:06:19 +0200 Tomas Kral thomas.k...@email.cz wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 16:07 +0200, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:01:46 -0400 Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com wrote: No, it's a well-known problem with PulseAudio. It gives max volumes much

GLX Missing

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hello list, I am unable to get 3d graphics on my laptop. I've tried the standard reinstall xserver-xorg, xserver-xorg-video-intel, dpkg-reconfigure, and then restart, but it hasn't worked. My video card: $ lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor

Boost sound volume?

2011-08-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi list, Is there a way to boost the system sound volume? Playing DVDs in VLC with the alsa, pulseaudio, and vlc volumes all maxed out is still about 30-40% of max volume in 'doze. I don't like pulseaudio, but for some reason skype doesn't work without it, and my family won't allow me to not

Re: ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable

2011-08-06 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:10:53 +0200 Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: On 2011-08-05 09:42:11 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: I am unable to connect to adhoc networks on debian sid using wicd. Whenever I try to connect to an adhoc network (in this case the one broadcast

ad-hoc wifi - network unreachable

2011-08-05 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi everyone, I am unable to connect to adhoc networks on debian sid using wicd. Whenever I try to connect to an adhoc network (in this case the one broadcast by barnacle on my phone, but the problem is reproducible on any adhoc network), wicd appears to go through all of the steps to connect

Re: wicd

2011-08-03 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:55:26 +0200 Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: On 2011-08-03 10:18:15 +1000, Charlie wrote: On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:45:05 -0400 Mark Grieveson dg...@torfree.net suggested this: So, I looked and found only the latch, which also had something that sort of

Re: Overwriting a 4096 byte sector harddisk drive with random data

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:47:44 +1000 yudi v yudi@gmail.com wrote: Hi I need to write random data to a partition before encrypting it. Suggested way is to use urandom: #dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda2 What is the use of operand bs in the following case? I see the above command

Re: Overwriting a 4096 byte sector harddisk drive with random data

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:36:28 +1000 yudi v yudi@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. r...@verizon.netwrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:47:44 +1000 yudi v yudi@gmail.com wrote: Hi I need to write random data to a partition before encrypting

Re: Setting up FTP server with specific username and password

2011-07-20 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:19:15 +0100 Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: On 20/07/11 13:22, Dejan Ribič wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up a FTP server, with specific username and password, because i have a router backup set up, to backup every hour now on Windows 7 I have FTP

Re: ASUS u52 builtin microphone (alsa-driver-linuxant)

2011-07-18 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:20:45 -0400 Robert Blair Mason Jr. r...@verizon.net wrote: Hello Everyone, So I've been trying to get my laptop (ASUS u52) microphone to work. First off, if anybody knows how to get the builtin microphone to work without bothering with alsa-driver-linuxant, or if I

ASUS u52 builtin microphone (alsa-driver-linuxant)

2011-07-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hello Everyone, So I've been trying to get my laptop (ASUS u52) microphone to work. First off, if anybody knows how to get the builtin microphone to work without bothering with alsa-driver-linuxant, or if I didn't know the correct google-foo to find a binary package for alsa-driver-linuxant that

Clang include paths

2011-04-17 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
I'm running a fresh install of debian-testing on an amd64 laptop. I do lots of C++ compiling, and prefer clang's error messages to g++'s cryptic gobbledygook. After installing clang, I was surprised to find that nothing compiled. Stepping back, I tried to compile hello world: $ clang++

Re: What is the most secure FTP server?

2011-03-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:20:26 -0500 shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 10, 2011 12:27 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Hello Jason, From: Jason Hsu jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:56:32 -0600 What is your favorite alternative and why? Implicit FTPS?

Re: help

2011-01-28 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:03:18 + Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 27 January 2011 02:35:08 Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: As far as chrome goes, you can easily do this by opening up a terminal (command prompt) and typing: sudo aptitude install chromium-browser The OP said

Re: help

2011-01-27 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:20:52 -0200 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br wrote: On Qui, 27 Jan 2011, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: As far as chrome goes, you can easily do this by opening up a terminal (command prompt) and typing: sudo aptitude install chromium-browser

Re: help

2011-01-26 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:41:23 -0500 Padilla Juan Leon II erosthana...@gmail.com wrote: greetings ! i just installed my debian 5.0.7 in my laptop. i just want to install 3 things in my debian OS 1 google chrome 2 skype 3 adobe flash player i read some of the text in the web but i

Re: Why is Debian not secure by default?

2011-01-23 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:04:32 +0100 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2011-01-23 07:29 +0100, Rico Secada wrote: After having brushed up on some technical aspects of security I would like to understand why Debian isn't secure be default. As we all know a lot of security breaches

Re: JACK configuration

2011-01-18 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:00:49 -0800 Bob McGowan bob_mcgo...@symantec.com wrote: On 01/16/2011 11:15 AM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: Hi all, I am attempting to record audio on my laptop. To this end, i've installed Ardour/JACK. I have *finally* managed to get ALSA to work. However

JACK configuration

2011-01-16 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hi all, I am attempting to record audio on my laptop. To this end, i've installed Ardour/JACK. I have *finally* managed to get ALSA to work. However, I now have a problem - the sound that is wired into the Mic In jack on the front of the laptop will play back (so basically my laptop is

Re: piping find to zip -- with spaces in path

2011-01-12 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:02:48 -0500 Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 01/11/2011 08:46 PM, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:53:33 -0700 Bob Proulxb...@proulx.com wrote: Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: Rob Owensrow...@ptd.net wrote: I tried

Re: Autorun installation CD

2011-01-12 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:32:12 +0200 Juha Tuuna juha.tu...@iki.fi wrote: On 11.1.2011 11:41, Kousik Maiti wrote: Hi List, I want to create a CD that can run automatically on Linux system and start installation from a .jar file. Is it possible? I googled it but don't get any proper

Re: piping find to zip -- with spaces in path

2011-01-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:50:19 -0500 Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I tried this and it successfully creates myfile.zip: find ./ -iname *.jpg -print | zip myfile -@ But it fails if there are spaces in the path or filename. How can I make it work with spaces? Thanks -Rob I think

Re: piping find to zip -- with spaces in path

2011-01-11 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:53:33 -0700 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: I tried this and it successfully creates myfile.zip: find ./ -iname *.jpg -print | zip myfile -@ But it fails if there are spaces in the path

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:21:22 -0500 Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com wrote: I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. I can do rsync -av but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to

Re: o/t ipod

2010-12-26 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:10:27 +0100 Peter Beck pe...@datentraeger.li wrote: On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 06:32 -0600, Ted Wager wrote: My son has bought me an ipodtouch for Xmas..Anyone tell me how I can transfer the music files on his ipod to mine ?..I only have Linux on my machines but can get

Re: Enquiry related to Debian Usage and Features.

2010-11-20 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:36:30 +0530 Kambesh_Support . kambeshsupp...@gmail.com wrote: Debian supports Java. I am planning to develop my software in Java and install it in embedded OS. Does Debian supports full J2SE functions? If No, then can I install my own JVM in debian. If you want

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:20:21 -0500 john j...@jabberblog.ca wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:26:52 + Michal mic...@sharescope.co.uk wrote: On 19/11/10 05:37, Dan Serban wrote: After years of running the mozilla suite (remember when you couldn't refresh a POST document in mozilla 0.6?)

Re: Making /tmp noexec

2010-11-13 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:34:36 + teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: This is more of an F-MY-I question, but if the /tem dir is a separate partition and your using a mount command in fstab, could you limit the execute capabilities via umask? I would think umask=111 would set the