Re: Flashplayer on Debian Squeeze.

2012-05-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/05/12 23:36, Lisi wrote: Hi, all! I have been trying to get Flashplayer snipped Thanks, Lisi root@Hercules:/home/peter# update-flashplugin-nonfree --install ERROR: wget failed to download http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp10.sha512.i386.pgp.asc More

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/05/12 17:48, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I am running Debian 6. When I installed it, I had a swap partition of about 40GB set up, as is shown by gparted. But, for some strnge reason, Debian 6will not use the swap space, even though gparted shows it to be Active. I don't believe

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/05/12 00:34, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 09:48:59AM +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Stephen, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: It is my understanding that, assuming suspend/resume is supported, your swap partition should be AT LEAST as large as TWICE the

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/05/12 04:54, Bret Busby wrote: On Thu, 3 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 02/05/12 17:48, Bret Busby wrote: snip Why is this so? JSM is that you? :-) Nope :) Is he still around? No (only in spirit). His son is though - and does excellent medical documentaries

Re: Where to store Icon for xv

2012-05-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/05/12 03:25, Edward C. Jones wrote: I use up-to-date debian testing (wheezy), amd64 version, with kde. I have just compiled and installed the old image viewer xv. In stable (squeeze), there is an icon for xv that can be put on the panel. For testing (wheezy), the system could not find

Re: Where have the mailing lists gone?

2012-05-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/05/12 07:50, Dirk wrote: Hello, snipped pottymouth rant http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ No Index with mailing lists but a desert of text that NOBODY will read. tl;dr often translates to 2dumb, 2lazy. Especially in this case where the answer is in the first sentence. snipped

Re: PlayOnLinux + wine + amd64

2012-05-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/05/12 12:35, Brad Alexander wrote: Thanks guys. I got the libs installed, but now when I try to install apps (in this case, StarCraft II), it keeps telling me that winserver crashed: [POL_System_CheckFS] Message: Checking filesystem for /mnt/Installer.exe [POL_Wine] Message:

Re: PlayOnLinux + wine + amd64

2012-05-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
-bin wine-doc wine-utils But I don't have wine on a 64-bit box, or that game. On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/05/12 12:35, Brad Alexander wrote: Thanks guys. I got the libs installed, but now when I try to install apps

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/05/12 14:23, Bret Busby wrote: snipped If some utility existed that would display the source of an iso image, and the full version number of the source iso image, it would be good. # mount -o loop debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso /mnt # cat /mnt/.disk/info Debian GNU/Linux testing

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/05/12 15:16, Bret Busby wrote: snipped I have just tried (repeatedly) to access whitepages.com.au, using konqueror (one of the web browsers that I have kept allowing Javascript), and, each time that I try to use the web site, it just freezes konqueror, requiring me to use the kill

Re: Swap space not used (now screen relics).

2012-05-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/05/12 15:30, Bret Busby wrote: snipped And, Iceweasel (and it may have happened with the iceape browser; I am not sure - have not used it for a couple of weeks, now, I think) has a habit of leaving fragments of dialogue boxes on top of everything else on the desktop, hiding parts of

Re: Swap space not used (problem website)

2012-05-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/05/12 16:34, Bret Busby wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 04/05/12 15:16, Bret Busby wrote: snipped Works just as well in iceweasel 12.0.1 with NoScript fully enabled. Ditto Konqueror 4.4.5 Hmm. It does work in iceweasel 3.5.16, with Javascript disabled

Re: Screen relics

2012-05-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/05/12 17:07, Bret Busby wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 13:48:42 From: Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Swap space not used (now screen relics). Resent-Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 05:48

Re: PlayOnLinux + wine + amd64

2012-05-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/05/12 00:11, Brad Alexander wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: snipped I also just upgraded from wine-unstable 1.1.34 to 1.5.0, and the message has changed. Now I get [POL_Wine] Error: Wine seems to have crashed

Re: Screen relics

2012-05-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/05/12 02:13, Bret Busby wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 04/05/12 17:07, Bret Busby wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: snipped And, Iceweasel (and it may have happened with the iceape browser; I am not sure - have not used it for a couple

Re: LightDM in Linux Mint Debian Edition 201204

2012-05-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/05/12 12:57, Jason Hsu wrote: Has anyone been able to get LightDM to work properly in the latest release of Linux Mint Debian Edition (201204)? snipped This is Debian *not* Mint. Do we post Linux Mint for assistance when Debian breaks or we're too lazy to ask in the right place?

Re: Does anyone care about dialup?

2012-05-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/05/12 08:16, Paul Zimmerman wrote: Why is it so difficult to get dialup to work in Linux? I hadn't noticed it was difficult neither dialup as a protocol or the using your specific modem and dialup. snipped Is this a request for assistance or just a rant? Since KDE 4 is such a

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/05/12 20:43, Indulekha wrote: Hi, I'm getting this with most gog/pgp-signed mails received from this list (using mutt): [-- PGP output follows (current time: Tue 08 May 2012 05:35:27 AM CDT) --] gpgkeys: key 7356B378DEA22DE9 not found on keyserver gpg: Signature made Tue 08 May

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/05/12 23:21, Mika Suomalainen wrote: 08.05.2012 16:16, Indulekha kirjoitti: I think they've come a long way in mediactions to address paranoia these last few years... Seriously, why the devil would anyone want to spoof your email?! What are you, Black Ops? If I recall correctly, Bob

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/05/12 18:56, Jon Dowland wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:29:31PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: Bob's PGP signature is valid - yours is not You waste our time and bandwidth. In what way? I can verify Mika's signatures just fine. The signatures are valid. All his posts? Is cutting

Re: Only 3.6gb of 64gb RAM recognized by 64bit squeeze

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/05/12 19:19, Seyyed Mohtadin Hashemi wrote: Hello, Before anybody starts arguing that I don't have 64-bit, this is uname -r and uname -m: root@n03 mailto:root@n03:~# uname -r 2.6.32-3-amd64 root@n03 mailto:root@n03:~# uname -m x86_64 As the subject suggest I have a box that

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/05/12 19:39, Jon Dowland wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 07:20:15PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 09/05/12 18:56, Jon Dowland wrote: In what way? I can verify Mika's signatures just fine. The signatures are valid. All his posts? Is cutting and pasting a hobby? Do you between some

Re: Only 3.6gb of 64gb RAM recognized by 64bit squeeze

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/05/12 20:03, Seyyed Mohtadin Hashemi wrote: The motherboard is ASUS KGPED16 fitted with 2xOpteron 6200 series CPUs. For the 48gb configuration I just did what the motherboard manual suggested (i have attached the table), I have tried to shuffle the ram dimms and it works no matter

Re: Evernote message: Emailed note was not submitted

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/05/12 20:16, Mika Suomalainen wrote: 09.05.2012 12:42, no-re...@evernote.com kirjoitti: Evernote was unable to submit your note for the following reason: The storage limit for this account has been reached. [Cannot email more than 50 notes to Evernote account per day] Original

Re: does anyone care about dialup

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
Please don't break threads (reply to your own posts instead of creating new ones). Please *do* include a subject. On 10/05/12 09:51, Paul Zimmerman wrote: Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org writes: It may also be a problem with your service provider -- I had a problem (back when I still used PPP)

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/05/12 10:11, Whit Hansell wrote: Sorry for the interruption but have tried to find a linux program which will allow me to put andio files onto DVD's. I have one particular file which is just too large to fit on a CD and so wanted to put it on a DVD but haven't been able to find a way to

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/05/12 11:26, Indulekha wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:04:21AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 10/05/12 10:11, Whit Hansell wrote: Sorry for the interruption but have tried to find a linux program which will allow me to put andio files onto DVD's. I have one particular file snipped

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/05/12 11:40, Indulekha wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:35:00AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 10/05/12 11:26, Indulekha wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:04:21AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: snipped DVDA is an old(-ish) and (very) poorly supported audio format. Very few players

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/05/12 11:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 10/05/12 10:11, Whit Hansell wrote: Sorry for the interruption but have tried to find a linux program which will allow me to put andio files onto DVD's. I have one particular file which is just too large to fit on a CD and so wanted to put

Re: how to config network in squeeze

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/05/12 14:54, Long Wind wrote: in early debian distro, I set two PCs' IP (192.168.0.x) then they can ping each other now I install squeeze, with step above performed, I can't ping a PC running lenny ping says sth like destination unreachable What should I do? No reason why you

Re: data recovery tools for debian (command line)

2012-05-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/05/12 16:27, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:01 AM, J. Bakshi baksh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2012 10:49:28 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: if i mistakenly delete any partition or OS or HD corrupted. what is the best tool that i can

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/05/12 07:29, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2012, Tony van der Hoff wrote: I've learned a lot about GPG signing during the last few days. I can see there are benefits where the recipient needs to be absolutely certain that the sender is known to him. Yes. Or that

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

2012-05-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/05/12 18:06, Jon Dowland wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 11:04:21AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: To me an audio CD/DVD is a format of CD/DVD readable by CD players (music only). WAV files. Audio CDs do not use WAV format, they use an encoding specified in the red book standard

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

2012-05-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/05/12 18:40, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 06:29:29PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: Oh right - 2-channel signed 16-bit Linear PCM sampled at 44,100 Hz, as per the Red Book standard. My mistake, I was confusing it with WAV, LPCM-encoded, containing two channels of 44,100

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

2012-05-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/05/12 18:50, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 06:49:22PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: Red Book audio format *is* a WAV format - as described above. It is not. For a start the WAV header is omitted entirely. Wrong again (you're trying too hard). header from track on CDDA

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/05/12 01:48, Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Fri, 11 May 2012 16:26:30 +0100 Tony van der Hoff t...@vanderhoff.org napísal: On 11/05/12 13:23, Rob Owens wrote: Or you could manually download all the public keys that you're interested in. On this list, that equates to zero. Which is why

Re: Overcoming Debian(Linux?) paranoia - a gnome-ppp example

2012-05-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/05/12 13:39, Richard Owlett wrote: I understand that historically Linux's roots are in a *MASSIVELY* multi-user environment. *BUT* I'm a single user on an inherently physically secure single user laptop. [As an aside to an ongoing thread, my primary internet access is via a analog

Re: mounting local filesystem ..... FAILED

2012-05-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/05/12 02:18, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i am running debian 6.0.4 i am getting this error on boot mounting local filesystem failed. however things are working fine like squid is working in firewall mode etc.. even i can see the same directory structure but df-h showing some

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

2012-05-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/05/12 14:11, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 12/05/12 18:07, Jon Dowland wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:14:12AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: header from track on CDDA = RIFF���WAVEfmt What ripper did you use to extract the track? cat it's highly likely that your ripper has packed

Re: Playing Video

2012-05-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 23/05/12 13:41, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - This might not be the correct address for this problem. If it is not, please direct me appropriately. I am trying to play a video. The following code is in Index1.html: video width=320 height=240 controls=controls src=

Re: Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/05/12 02:06, Peter Easthope wrote: Two systems here with current Squeeze. One is a Compaq Armada E500; the other a generic desktop machine with a Foxconn board. Try this in each. In iceweasel, google site:skype.com create account and attempt to open the account creation page. The URI

Re: Playing Video - More questions

2012-05-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/05/12 03:32, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: At 09:43 AM 5/23/2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 23/05/12 13:41, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - This might not be the correct address for this problem. If it is not, please direct me appropriately. I am trying to play a video. The following

Re: How to get new RSA key in known_hosts file?

2012-05-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/05/12 13:24, Marc Shapiro wrote: I recently had to reinstall Squeeze on my desktop box due to hard disk issues. On reinstalling OpenSSH a new key was generated. Now, when I try to connect from my laptop I get the following message:

Re: Playing Video - More questions -- Please --- some answers -- I'm stuck

2012-05-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/05/12 15:06, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: At 09:43 AM 5/23/2012, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 23/05/12 13:41, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Dear List - snipped Hi Ethan, I can't see much difference between this post, and the one I've just responded to Kind regards -- Iceweasel/Firefox/Chrome

Re: How to get new RSA key in known_hosts file?

2012-05-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/05/12 13:47, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:24:49 -0700 Marc Shapiro marcns...@gmail.com wrote: I recently had to reinstall Squeeze on my desktop box due to hard disk issues. On reinstalling OpenSSH a new key was generated. Now, when I try to connect from my laptop I get the

Re: How to get new RSA key in known_hosts file?

2012-05-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/05/12 17:00, Markus Schönhaber wrote: snipped man ssh-keygen | -R hostname |Removes all keys belonging to hostname from a known_hosts |file. This option is useful to delete hashed hosts (see the -H option above). One can, of course, edit known_hosts manually to achieve the

Re: How to get new RSA key in known_hosts file?

2012-05-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/05/12 22:32, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012 17:37:45 +1000 Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/05/12 17:00, Markus Schönhaber wrote: snipped man ssh-keygen | -R hostname |Removes all keys belonging to hostname from a known_hosts |file

Re: Dying Iceweasel.

2012-05-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/05/12 04:11, Peter Easthope wrote: snipped peter@armada:~$ dpkg -l iceweasel | grep ice rc iceweasel 3.5.16-15 Web browser based on Firefox . snipped aptitude declines to update iceweasel claiming that the source is untrusted. @armada:~# wget -O- -q

Re: laptop battery cycling

2012-05-27 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/05/12 11:37, Robert Holtzman wrote: For the record, I'm running a Lenovo T420i with a 6 cell battery. In the past I've been told that it's bad practice to run a laptop on AC with the battery installed because it would cause reduced battery capacity. Your Li-ion battery will have a

Re: laptop battery cycling

2012-05-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 28/05/12 14:01, Doug wrote: On 05/27/2012 09:57 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 28/05/12 11:37, Robert Holtzman wrote: For the record, I'm running a Lenovo T420i with a 6 cell battery. In the past I've been told that it's bad practice to run a laptop on AC with the battery installed because

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/05/12 17:13, David Seira wrote: Hi, I'm trying to update and upgrade a debian 6 system. I've run the aptitude update command and the output is: Des:1 http://ftp.es.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg [912 B] Des:2 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en [912 B] 99%

Re: xml editor ?

2012-06-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/06/12 09:52, Frank McCormick wrote: I am trying out a window manager which uses XML (uugh!) for it's configuration file. Making changes with a text editor has almost blinded me...what is the best GUI editor which handles XML ?? Thanks XML Copy Editor (Squeeze v1.2.0.6) # apt-get

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/06/12 13:35, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2012 05 Jun 21:45 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: Again, let MS rot in its malware hell. �I don't care! I'm all right Jack Great attitude. snipped rabid rant Comments like

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/06/12 14:06, Miles Bader wrote: Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com writes: Again, let MS rot in its malware hell. I don't care! Perhaps if MS had been a bit more proactive a couple of decades ago we would not be having this discussion. MSFT issues are not for us in the

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/06/12 18:44, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 05 iun 12, 20:26:03, Slavko wrote: in our country is more and more difficult to buy computer (specially notebook) without Windows included. In one shop they are telling me, that it si not possible. If you have such an answer on paper you

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/06/12 19:23, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: ;consider also that Fedora has *not* said they won't be sharing the key They won't share their Secure Boot key in the same way that they don't share their RPM-signing

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/06/12 20:47, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/06/12 19:23, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: ;consider also that Fedora has *not* said

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/06/12 22:14, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2012 05 Jun 23:04 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: Please articulate what freedoms, exactly, you're losing through the availability of UEFI secure boot (a feature you are in no way compelled to use). Let's not blindly assume that all hardware

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-06 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/06/12 22:51, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/06/12 20:47, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/06/12 19:23, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jun 6

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 07/06/12 16:46, Miles Bader wrote: Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com writes: You can't disable the code signing requirement on ARM. ... which is a great deal more worrying. Yes. And no. I'd hate to see a situation where it was impossible to buy an ARM (or other CPU

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
Correction On 11/06/12 12:36, Scott Ferguson wrote: snipped add your own key to the UEFI... apparently that would *require you typing it in* (256 characters). I can't confirm that as I had first hand access to the W8 pad, could be a bum steer. :-( Nothing in the published specs to show

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/06/12 12:57, Karen Lewellen wrote: I agree on changing the subject line, especially since Richard also removed the on point question. As for avoiding the post containing the information I got regarding changing the boot priorities and installing squeeze instead of wheezy from the debian

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/06/12 20:01, Brian wrote: On Tue 12 Jun 2012 at 19:29:30 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: *Yes - you can install Squeeze using Wheezy*, despite what some have claimed it doesn't require downgrading from Wheezy as no Wheezy packages are ever installed (the ability is nothing new to Debian

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/06/12 04:45, Brian wrote: On Tue 12 Jun 2012 at 16:52:43 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:01:22 +0100, Brian wrote in message 20120612100122.GJ30016@desktop: The DVD is a USB device. She cannot boot from USB on the machine she wishes to install Debian to. Make and

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/06/12 04:35, Brian wrote: On Tue 12 Jun 2012 at 21:53:03 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 12/06/12 20:01, Brian wrote: Aren't the kernel and base packages ones from Testing? Only if you choose to install Testing (it's at the choose repository stage of the install) You can install

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/06/12 19:29, Brian wrote: On Wed 13 Jun 2012 at 10:57:42 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/06/12 04:35, a troll wrote: By the time the choosing a mirror stage is reached with a netinst image or the first CD the base files (Stable or Testing versions) have been installed in /target

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/06/12 01:45, Curt wrote: On 2012-06-13, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: I don't see what you do. Is this a bug in my installer? He said prior to partitioning so I assume once you get into the partitioning dialogue, the installer gives you the opportunity to choose an expert

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/06/12 02:14, Curt wrote: On 2012-06-13, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: IIRC it was Scott? who does exactly mentioned this in his kindly style :D. Options could have sub-options. - Ralf Yes, I was replying to Brian's inquiry concerning Scott's claim that one can

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/06/12 15:46, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:01:23 -0400 (EDT), Karen wrote in message pine.bsf.4.64.1206131456410.45...@server1.shellworld.net: snipped but there is only so much possible WITH this present box, Provided you have at least 128MB of RAM there's not much

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/06/12 17:24, Curt wrote: On 2012-06-14, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: Claim? Hey - if I made a claim (actually just agreed with the OPs information) what sort of specious allegation do we label the d-i and speakup developers claims? HINT: I believe

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/06/12 17:46, Curt wrote: On 2012-06-14, Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: snipped I'm snide and curmudgeonly. It could be worse. Indeed. Best try and stay sane. If you don't you'd be snide, curmudgeonly, and nuts. Which would make you some sort of a snack

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/06/12 04:04, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:27:22 +1000, Scott wrote in message 4fd7de6a.6020...@gmail.com: On 13/06/12 04:45, Brian wrote: On Tue 12 Jun 2012 at 16:52:43 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 11:01:22 +0100, Brian wrote in message

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/06/12 17:20, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 16:49 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: My primary concern would be whether the audio chipset is going to be supported Those old boards perhaps often use AC'97? Post 1997 - yes (funny that) AC is just Intel's standard (v1 - current

Re: KVM virtual machines and storage.

2012-06-14 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/06/12 18:27, Chris Davies wrote: Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: One problem, which I haven't satisfactorily solved so far, is backing up the files on the disk in that virtual machine. DeltaCopy on the Windows system and rsnapshot/rsync on the (Linux) server. Works

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/10/11 03:40, Harry Putnam wrote: Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes: If:- $ apt-get -s install kmix | grep kmix gives you:- gives you:- kmix is already the newest version. kmix set to manually installed. sudo apt-get -s install kmix |grep kmix kmix is already

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/10/11 11:49, Harry Putnam wrote: Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes: I don't know what theme you have running so I don't know the exact appearance - the icon should appear as a small speaker:- http://christian.esken.de/kmix/screenshots.html Desktop theme

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 31/10/11 14:24, Harry Putnam wrote: Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes: System Tray - to the left of Notification, which is left of the clock. Check System Tray Settings (right-click in the System Tray) In the left-hand pane select Auto-hide, in the right-hand pane

Re: Getting sound working

2011-10-31 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/11/11 00:46, Harry Putnam wrote: Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes: I'm getting pretty confused... you describe things that I just do not see here. You may not have a System Tray - or you may have it in an unusual location (or obscured). No, I don't think so

Re: Getting sound working

2011-11-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/11/11 00:54, Harry Putnam wrote: Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes: snipped Kind of... Try again, I've put an unreduced image of just the bottom and a little of the screen... full width. www.jtan.com/~reader/vu/disp.cgi Thanks (that I could see) snipped

Re: KDE package manager

2011-11-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/11/11 03:22, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Having installed Debian/GNU wheezy onto my desktop, I am now looking for some KDE applications. $ apt-cache search search_term | grep -i kde | more Will literally give you a list of matching KDE applications. You'll need to become root to install of

Re: question: building a live-dvd

2011-11-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/11/11 01:37, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi list, I want to learn, how to build a live-system of debian. I already read some manuals, but still I have a question for my specual needs. Which is the better solution for my purposes? Bootcdwrite? Live-builder? My special wishes: 1. My

Re: virtualbox just became slow

2011-11-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/11/11 23:54, Steve Kleene wrote: I've been happily running a virtualbox Windows XP machine (VM) on a Wheezy host for eight months. However, the VM just became pathologically slow. For example, if I boot the VM, call Photoshop 6, and open a small JPG, it all works but takes several

Re: Adobe flash is dead [OT]

2011-11-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/11/11 11:10, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 19:51 +, Andrew Wood wrote: Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by default? Because most GNU/Linux distributions try and provide a secure user experience. FFflash is the antidote for security. Gnash can

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/11/11 13:38, Weaver wrote: On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:10:31 -0800 Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 19:51 +, Andrew Wood wrote: Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by default? I understand the desire to have a free flash player but

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/11/11 15:46, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 09/11/11 T o n g said: Adobe flash is one of the tech-inventions that I resent the most. Now it is dead for all mobiles, and I wish it is dead on the web tomorrow. I like watching youtube videos. Silverlight is a problem for me on Linux, so

Re: Adobe flash is dead [OT]

2011-11-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 10/11/11 19:07, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 09/11/2011 19:18, T o n g wrote: Well, not exactly now but at lease Adobe flash is dead for all mobile devices: Adobe confirms Flash Player is dead for mobile devices http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/adobe-confirms-flash-player-is-dead-

Re: virtualbox just became slow

2011-11-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
, and open a small JPG, it all works but takes several minutes. During much of this time the XP Task Manager pins at 100% CPU usage, On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:22:14 +1100, Scott Ferguson replied: What process? When CPU usage gets to ~100%, the process that hogs all remaining memory is Photoshop

Re: Adobe flash is dead (now Firefox/Iceweasel/Mozilla)

2011-11-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/11/11 11:47, Bob Proulx wrote: Robert Holtzman wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: A .deb package for firefox? Where? The Debian Mozilla team makes Firefox deb packages available for Stable that tracks the current release. http://mozilla.debian.net/ Nothing about FF here or in any of the

Re: virtualbox just became slow

2011-11-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/11/11 13:07, Steve Kleene wrote: On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:37:49 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 11/11/11 00:41, Steve Kleene wrote: On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 12:54:11 + (UTC), I wrote: I've been happily running a virtualbox Windows XP machine (VM) on a Wheezy host for eight months

Re: nfs howto - are debian docs dated?

2011-11-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/11/11 23:40, Harry Putnam wrote: Dan Ritter d...@tao.merseine.nu writes: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 01:34:47PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: On one site (the one cited above) I noticed said something about having to change kernels. I'm currently running wheezy with 3.0.0-686-pae. Will that

Re: Trouble starting django project

2011-11-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/11/11 08:04, Eric Galaxy wrote: I just installed django on my system. �Following the install instructions (http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-django-on-debian-lenny-apache2-mod_python), I ran the following line: /usr/share/python-support/python-django/django/bin/django-admin.py

Re: nfs howto - are debian docs dated?

2011-11-11 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 12/11/11 11:56, Harry Putnam wrote: Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes: I've only responded to this one question just yet because I'm working from your other input to get this done... thanks. The NFS.org page is the most useful - see the HowTos That's not a lot

Re: Whats missing from Gnome3

2011-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/11 10:31, Richard wrote: snipped Now when I was using rpm based distros, there was an app called alien which allowed .deb files to be loaded in an rpm system. Is there by chance an app to allow rpms to be loaded, it can't make a worse mess than there is already without the

Re: Can we stop whining about GNOME3 please?

2011-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/11 11:13, Walter Hurry wrote: 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

Re: Can we stop whining about GNOME3 please?

2011-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/11 11:55, John Hasler wrote: Walter Hurry writes: you have three choices: You have four 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. d) Fork GNOME2 and bring

Re: [OT] can't see own post to the list

2011-11-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/11 16:14, Doug wrote: On 11/12/2011 11:48 PM, J. Bakshi wrote: Hello, I have noticed that my own post to the list has been detected as spam at the gmail. Any way to avoid this ? Thanks Probably not spam. Probably correct. It'd be the first time I've ever heard of a webmailer

Re: [OT] can't see own post to the list

2011-11-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/11/11 21:08, J. Bakshi wrote: On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:11:38 +1100 Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: [...] GMail deliberately removes your own list messages so you can't see them and know that you actually were successful in posting. This is the official response

Re: Can we stop whining about GNOME3 please?

2011-11-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/11/11 04:28, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/11/11 11:13, Walter Hurry wrote: snipped Suggestion to those that are unhappy - developers do care about users (without the silent L) - they don't have enough

Re: [OT] can't see own post to the list

2011-11-13 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 14/11/11 11:19, Dan B. wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 13/11/11 16:14, Doug wrote: ... GMail deliberately removes your own list messages so you can't see them and know that you actually were successful in posting. Well, no. Not that I have shares in Google - just a dislike for BS

Re: Sound wheezy/KDE -- testing the microphone

2011-11-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/11/11 04:04, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Hello! I am having trouble with a microphone plugged into my soundcard. According to Kmix, the Playback Devices are set to about 55%, the Capture Devices are set to 100% and both playback and capture are shown as not muted. speaker-test shows that

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