[Bug 92599] Re: Incorrect (low/stuttering) refresh rate with NVIDIA driver

2011-10-07 Thread Ron Johnson
Daniel, no luck with smooth windows after disabling Detect Refresh Rate. In fact, they became jerky again. Also, it turns out that disabling Bailer didn't work well either. What does seem to work is disabling all Window Management options except Move Window and Resize Window. Lastly, as another

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 92599] Re: Incorrect (low/stuttering) refresh rate with NVIDIA driver

2011-10-06 Thread Ron Johnson
Since #760814 is deemed a duplicate, I've bounced overhere. Just installed 11.04 w/ Classic (i.e., GNOME 2.32). GeForce 210 and binary driver 270.41.06-0ubuntu1. Window movement was stunningly jerky. Went into CCSM and disabled Bailer. Now, window movement is acceptable, but glxgers is still

[Bug 92599] Re: Incorrect (low/stuttering) refresh rate with NVIDIA driver

2011-10-06 Thread Ron Johnson
Since #760814 is deemed a duplicate, I've bounced overhere. Just installed 11.04 w/ Classic (i.e., GNOME 2.32). GeForce 210 and binary driver 270.41.06-0ubuntu1. Window movement was stunningly jerky. Went into CCSM and disabled Bailer. Now, window movement is acceptable, but glxgers is still

Re: [Pan-users] Can't PAN downloading a huge group of large Unuseable Windows EXE archives

2011-10-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/02/2011 09:04 PM, jimmcken...@earthlink.net wrote: I selected a group of possibly RAR exe archives in a usenet group. ARK says they are ALL Window$/DO$ executable archives. Ubuntu says they Why would you want to do that? Anyway, those are usually virus-laden. are archives but can't

Re: [Pan-users] Stupid question

2011-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/23/2011 06:01 PM, Evan Morris wrote: I've found 0.135 at http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/releases/0.135/source/, but I have no idea of how to install it. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04. Anyone having a slow afternoon and want to craft an explanation for the truly clueless? Use the git

Re: [Pan-users] Stupid question

2011-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/23/2011 07:04 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/23/2011 06:01 PM, Evan Morris wrote: I've found 0.135 at http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/releases/0.135/source/, but I have no idea of how to install it. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04. Anyone having a slow afternoon and want to craft an explanation

Re: [Pan-users] Stupid question

2011-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson
$ apt-cache policy git git: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:1.7.1-1.1ubuntu0.1~ppa1~lucid1 Version table: 1:1.7.1-1.1ubuntu0.1~ppa1~lucid1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lucid-bleed/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages Hmmm. Looks like you need to install the licid-bleed ppa.

[Pan-users] REQ: verbose option when running GUI-less

2011-09-16 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, $ pan --no-gui -o . -nzb foo.nzb This is silent, and though that may be the Unix Way, I hate it because, well, it's silent. Can you add a -v/--verbose option to indicate which files have been downloaded? Thanks -- Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification

[Pan-users] [Semi-OT] git question (was Re: Handy new feature...)

2011-09-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/14/2011 12:01 PM, Heinrich Mueller wrote: [snip] Done for now. Needs a little cleanup but works. Please provide feedback. It seems pretty inefficient to re-grab the whole tree every time I want to build pan. $ rm -rf pan2 git clone git://github.com/judgefudge/pan2 What's the

Re: [Pan-users] GMail and HTML

2011-09-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/15/2011 12:56 PM, Travis wrote: I use GMail and my messages are not in HTML. And we are certainly glad. Anyway, next time you send an email like this, describe what you did to disable html. Otherwise, it's just nyah-nyah bragging. -- Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear

Re: [Pan-users] GMail and HTML

2011-09-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/15/2011 01:16 PM, Travis wrote: -Original Message- From: Duncan Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 11:09 AM To: pan-users@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [Pan-users] GMail and HTML Travis posted on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:56:15 -0700 as excerpted: I use GMail and my messages are not in

Re: [Pan-users] Newbie question about unviewable posts

2011-09-15 Thread Ron Johnson
Unless you are wedded to the web interface, you could install Thunderbird and use it with gmail's IMAP interface. On 09/15/2011 08:46 PM, Graham Lawrence wrote: Many thanks, David Shochat, for the tip about Edit Subject. Just shows how selective one's vision can be. I never use Cc or Bcc so

Re: [Pan-users] Configure failure of 0.135

2011-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/14/2011 12:52 AM, Duncan wrote: Ron Johnson posted on Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:26:50 -0500 as excerpted: [snip] That suggests a distro-related dependency, likely a library pulled in as an indirect dependency by some random *.la file, but never actually linked against by pan

Re: [Pan-users] Does Get All Headers ...

2011-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/14/2011 05:15 AM, Heinrich Mueller wrote: Am 14.09.2011 05:41, schrieb Ron Johnson: On 09/13/2011 10:18 PM, Jim Henderson wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:00:19 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: blindly get all headers whether or not they're already in the groups cache, or does it check first

[Pan-users] Handy new feature...

2011-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson
In the Task Window, if you hover/leave the mouse pointer over an individual task, details of the task pop up in a yellow info window. Thanks to whoever did that! -- Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification ___ Pan-users mailing list

Re: [Pan-users] Handy new feature...

2011-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/14/2011 07:35 AM, Heinrich Müller wrote: Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:43:34 -0500 Von: Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net An: pan-users@nongnu.org Betreff: [Pan-users] Handy new feature... In the Task Window, if you hover/leave the mouse pointer over

Re: [Pan-users] Handy new feature...

2011-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/14/2011 12:01 PM, Heinrich Mueller wrote: [snip] Done for now. Needs a little cleanup but works. Please provide feedback. The in-memory loading of headers is still a brick wall of unusability. Will get back soon, though, regarding the download dir updates. -- Supporting World Peace

Re: [Pan-users] Does Get All Headers ...

2011-09-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/13/2011 10:18 PM, Jim Henderson wrote: On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:00:19 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: blindly get all headers whether or not they're already in the groups cache, or does it check first to see whether the header has been downloaded? It gets all headers. There's no easy way

[Pan-users] HNKSA (was Re: Policy discussion: GNKSA)

2011-07-03 Thread Ron Johnson
After reading your email, I've come to the conclusion that Windows Live Mail wins the Horrible Net Keeping Seal of Approval for the abominable way that it quotes in reply messages. (Yes, I top-posted, bit since I'm changing topic, that's OK.) On 07/03/2011 01:35 PM, Travis wrote:

Bug#627340: enigmail: does not work with icedove 3.1.10

2011-06-29 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi! The last entry in Bug #617759 says that the reproducibility may depend on the speed of the system: The problem may not be triggered on slow machines. Ah, ok, that was probably the detail I missed in the that entry ;-) Interesting! I wouldn't say your machine isn't fast - however I

[Pan-users] [OT] Awful Bar (was Re: New Feature - Uploading binaries)

2011-06-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/27/2011 07:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: [snip] I'm so sick of the places.sqlite dance that I've gone back to using Firefox 2. (Well, that and the awesome bar, which is evil. But that's a rant for another day.) There's an Add-on for that...

Re: [Pan-users] New Feature - Uploading binaries

2011-06-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/25/2011 08:29 AM, Heinrich Mueller wrote: On 05/31/11 18:20, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/31/2011 08:08 AM, Heinrich Mueller wrote: [snip] Do you guys have any feature requests for me to get my brainchild going ? We always appreciate new features. Now, if you want to earn my eternal non

Re: is there a tarsnap pkg avaialble for debian

2011-06-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/23/2011 01:09 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: [snip] Is there a source for a `tarsnap' pkg (http://www.tarsnap.com/index.html) that is accessible with `aptitude'? https://www.tarsnap.com/download.html [quote]At the present time, pre-built binaries are not available for Tarsnap — it must

Re: Almost everyday a new issue: this time Amarok

2011-06-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/21/2011 02:26 PM, he who wrote: [snip] Speaking of multiple music directories, do you know of a way to set which directory Amarok imports music files too? It just uses the first (and main) directory I selected but I may need to change that. What if I've already got an organized scheme

Bug#627340: enigmail: does not work with icedove 3.1.10

2011-06-21 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi Willi thanks a lot for your response. I'm not sure about how to proceed right now. I've read the bugreport you've posted me and I'm not sure what I should take out of it. Should I repost there? Regarding your recommendation of using snapshots in a chroot environment: The system I'm using is

Re: Almost everyday a new issue: this time Amarok

2011-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2011 07:35 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: [snip] Unfortunately Aqualung has only a small subset of Amarok 2s capabilities. And I've yet to find anything that matches Amarok - it easily handles my 260GB music collection (53k+ songs (5130 albums) as well as lyric files, photos, music videos,

Re: Almost everyday a new issue: this time Amarok

2011-06-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/19/2011 01:22 PM, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 19 June 2011 19:01:07 AG wrote: Did that and the Amrok app still crashes. Is this Anarok 2.x. I have heard complaints about it before. I am still sitting pretty on Amarok 1.4.5, which is more than adequate for my (admittedly undemanding) needs.

Re: message threading; was Re (3): QCAD Pro in Squeeze

2011-06-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/19/2011 06:15 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From a private message; From: C P Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:30:55 -0400 Would you please fix your mail client so you stop breaking the list threading? Usually I manage to set In-reply-to to the Message-id of the message being replied to.

Re: broadcom [WOOT]

2011-06-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/14/2011 03:14 AM, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: LMAO. This thread is made of win. Except that you top-posted ONE LINE over 60 and converted the email from text to html. Bad Cal. Very, very Bad Cal. On 14 Jun 2011 04:22, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com

Re: HELP: Number of CPU cores is not right

2011-06-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/18/2011 05:21 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:49:41 +0200, Armin Kneip wrote: The computer OS running has 48-core CPU, but the OS now only can recognize 32-core of CPU. The kernel version is 2.6.26-2-amd64. The current Debian kernel supports only 32 cpu's. Set CONFIG_NR_CPUS

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.99999999999999

2011-06-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/17/2011 09:06 AM, Duncan wrote: [snip] FWIW, it shouldn't require them for that. It'd either be a hard dependency, pulled in when pan is installed, or not required, as pan's decoding is built-in. (I haven't looked in awhile, but IIRC it includes its own slightly modified copy of IDR

Re: [Pan-users] Top-posting (was Re: compile error on Natty Ubuntu)

2011-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/15/2011 05:00 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: On 06/15/2011 02:00 PM, Duncan wrote: It's worth noting that such a huge block isn't considered useful or polite either, in most contexts, the general rule of thumb being that if one can't see some reply somewhere in a reasonable sized window at all times

Bug#627340: enigmail: does not work with icedove 3.1.10

2011-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi all I think I have the same Issue or a similar one as has been described in here - probably also since about the same time. I'm running a testing system on amd64, current icedove gives me /usr/lib/icedove/icedove-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/icedove/components/libimgicon.so: undefined

Re: [Pan-users] compile error on Natty Ubuntu

2011-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
What gcc version are you using in Natty? On 06/14/2011 08:02 AM, Bob Kowalski wrote: I'm getting the following error when I try to compile Pan .135: CXX adaptable-set-test.o adaptable-set-test.cc: In function ‘int main()’: adaptable-set-test.cc:322:1: internal compiler error: Segmentation

[Pan-users] Top-posting (was Re: compile error on Natty Ubuntu)

2011-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/14/2011 09:51 AM, Duncan wrote: Ron Johnson posted on Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:56:40 -0500 as excerpted: What gcc version are you using in Natty? On 06/14/2011 08:02 AM, Bob Kowalski wrote: I'm getting the following error when I try to compile Pan .135: [snip] Grrr! Upside down posting

Re: news/mail client and the text borders

2011-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/12/2011 09:28 PM, Davide Baldini wrote: What software do you use for mail/news? I see all your messages are proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in pages of 80 columns, while I have to push return each line. If i forget, lines gets splitted in my window but then when i send it out i

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/11/2011 04:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [snip] I don't like to insert a CD either :). I can't tell if you're telling a joke or being eccentric. -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

Re: Plug in with FIREFOX

2011-06-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/10/2011 12:47 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:17:40AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 15:12 -0400, Michael Checca wrote: Squeeze autoinstalls gnash which seems to work perfectly. Is there a reason to install flashplugin-nonfree and icedtea6-plugin?

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 06:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:21:23 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/08/2011 06:32 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] I use alcohol to clean the ball and internal rollers. But I'm afraid laser based mice get also dirty (bottom surface has also to be cleaned for fast

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 12:16 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: [snip] Pass - I'm thinking about changing email clients, just as soon as I can figure out how to keep all my email, and, what's causing the encoding problem. It's definite not Icedove per se, since Camaleón's name has always rendered correctly

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 12:38 PM, AG wrote: Hi all Having just rebooted after an uptime of 7 days, I have logged into my Gnome DE to find that all of my settings for the desktop have been borked and the desktop is close to unfunctional. These are some of the issues: 1. Windows manager is unknown and no

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 01:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [snip] (gedit:7637): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to rename '/root/.recently-used.xbel': No such file or directory GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common Why in ${DEITY}'s name are you logged in as root?? -- Neither the

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 01:26 PM, AG wrote: [snip] This is a complete nonsense - why are config files being over-written by a safe-update ? Sorry - don't mean to rant, but this is a complete waste of time when I have work to do! It doesn't. But your existing session might have scribbled over

Re: Gnome desktop settings borked on testing after reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/09/2011 02:52 PM, AG wrote: On 09/06/11 20:03, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/09/2011 01:26 PM, AG wrote: [snip] This is a complete nonsense - why are config files being over-written by a safe-update ? Sorry - don't mean to rant, but this is a complete waste of time when I have work to do

Re: Native Oberon; was Re: Re (4): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/08/2011 11:25 AM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: * From: Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net * Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:37:25 -0500 By the way, Native Oberon the Niklaus Wirth OS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Oberon; And it runs Firefox? -- Neither the wisest constitution

Re: Re (2): Native Oberon

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/08/2011 12:02 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:38:28 -0500 And it runs Firefox? Reference the last topic in this message. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg00521.html The best it can do is FF on another

Re: [OT] Native Oberon

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/08/2011 02:41 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 14:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: ETHNO can easily be installed from a diskette in an evening. I experienced having a disk notcher at hand is very comfortable http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/foto/cip/mix_disk_notcher_01.jpg Bah

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/08/2011 06:16 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:28:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/07/2011 01:40 PM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] I still see some disadvantages for laser or BlueTrack based mice: 1/ They do not work on crystal or clear surfaces I can't remember the last time

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/08/2011 06:32 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] I use alcohol to clean the ball and internal rollers. But I'm afraid laser based mice get also dirty (bottom surface has also to be cleaned for fast sliding). Once a year. Maybe. But as I said on my previous post to Ron, I

Re: is this hard disk failure?

2011-06-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 08:02 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: [snip] - install SMART utilities and run smartctl -A /dev/your drive -- the first line is usually the raw read error rate -- if the value (last entry on the line) is anything except 0, that's the sign that your drive is failing, if it's in the

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) when using a PS/2 mouse with stable or testing the mouse wheel very seldom does work, usually it doesn't. For Ubuntu Maverick and Natty it's the same. Did you choose 3-button emulation? -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 09:48 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [snip] How should I break mouse wheel support, when I break ALSA? I try to get Not at the same time, but with *different* fiddling. -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose

Re: Missing device nodes

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 04:00 AM, titantopp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, I'm running Debian Wheezy (testing) on the latest kernel (2.6.38-2-686) as my file server. This server has a RAID 5 array composed of 4 SATA hard disks connected to the motherboard controller. mdadm complains that it is unable to

Re: Missing device nodes

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
So it's md that can't find them? On 06/07/2011 09:52 AM, titantopp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm actually not too concerned about the missing partitions, as I do know that they exist - fdisk shows the partition table, and partprobe will make the partitions show up in /dev again. I'm thinking

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 12:37 PM, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2011 14:23:19 Camaleón wrote: I'm using a PS/2 mouse with Debian and works very well. +1 Moreover, it has a ball not a light. I dread the day it dies!! You *like* ball mice? -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws

Re: [OT] Mice

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 01:40 PM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] I still see some disadvantages for laser or BlueTrack based mice: 1/ They do not work on crystal or clear surfaces I can't remember the last time I put my mouse on a clear (glass?) surface. But if I did, then I'd use a mousepad.

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 01:27 PM, William Hopkins wrote: On 06/07/11 at 01:00pm, Paul Johnson wrote: If you have one of these new-ish Dell laptops, maybe we can help each other. The newer kernel appears to be necessary to use either the wireless ( Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 ) or the

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/07/2011 06:00 PM, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2011 18:41:19 Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/07/2011 12:37 PM, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 07 June 2011 14:23:19 Camaleón wrote: I'm using a PS/2 mouse with Debian and works very well. +1 Moreover, it has a ball not a light. I dread the day

Re: [Pan-users] PAR File Support ??

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 10:29 AM, Thomas Fricke wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 22:34 +, Lacrocivious Acrophosist wrote: I am unconvinced that par2 handling should ever be part of Pan internally. Make a tool, make it do a thing and do it well. Make the Swiss Army Knife the exception, not the rule ;-)

Re: security-warning

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 11:12 AM, Klaus Wolf wrote: Dear guys, her is again a warning of the german Ministry for Security Internet: We do appreciate you thinking of us, but this isn't a security list. -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a

Re: hard drive configuration

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 11:23 AM, prad wrote: in the past we've had two partitions: / /data into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any data copying to

Re: Re (4): Capability of Iceweasel to open a local file.

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 04:12 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Camaleonnoela...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:34:24 + (UTC) Can you give a concrete example of your goal? In your home directory, make a file named Category2.html containing any valid html text. The example you gave in

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) when using a PS/2 mouse with stable or testing the mouse wheel very seldom does work, usually it doesn't. For Ubuntu Maverick and Natty it's the same. [snip] Since you didn't tell us what kind of PS/2 mouse, how in Eris' name are we supposed

Re: How to use ALSA from the kernel?

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi :) after removing all ALSA packages, excepted of libasound2, ALSA is broken. I kept libasound2, because it's a dependency for audio apps. If needed I could replace it by a dummy package. Right now I build kernel 2.6.39.1 to replace my kernel

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 07:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 18:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Since you didn't tell us what kind of PS/2 mouse, how in Eris' name are we supposed to help you? Trekker Wheel Mouse 2.0A Is that a MS two-button

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/06/2011 08:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 20:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/06/2011 07:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 18:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/06/2011 06:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Since you didn't tell us what kind of PS/2 mouse, how

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/05/2011 07:59 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 04 iun 11, 22:56:19, Ron Johnson wrote: (I'd suggest that you give static IP addresses to your desktop machines and use the /etc/hosts file -- yes, even Windows has one -- to give your machines permanent symbolic names. Makes things easier

[Bug 792911] [NEW] Implementation botch. Video pad for file VTS_01_0.BUP is -2

2011-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
Public bug reported: $ lsb_release -rd Description:Ubuntu 10.10 Release:10.10 genisoimage 1.1.10-1ubuntu3 The DVD directory works flawlessly in VLC, with menus acting as they should. mplayer -dvd-device $N dvdnav:// plays it but starts in a submenu (though it allows me to migrate

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 01:10 AM, Doug wrote: On 06/04/2011 01:55 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/04/2011 12:48 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] No, I don't have a network up. As I said, I really don't know anything about networks. What I want is not only file sharing, but the ability to use the Win 7 machine

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 01:31 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] I opened the suggested url, and read the following intro: *Reader Prerequisites*: To get the most from this article, understand the following concepts before reading: basic unix command line tools, text editors, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, netmask, gateway I'm

Re: Gnome/KDE program launches hang when Internet disconnected - Lenny

2011-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 08:34 AM, Jack Dodds wrote: Thanks to those who commented. I tried/etc/init.d/networking stop . When this is done, programs launch without delay. Of course, this makes it impossible for any program to access the Internet so it's not a solution! However, taking gedit as

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 02:52 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 06/03/2011 07:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] And admittely, in such programs (like Getmail or Fetchmail) it is very useful to have the keep option while configuring the

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 06:21 PM, Doug wrote: On 06/04/2011 02:53 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/04/2011 01:31 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] I opened the suggested url, and read the following intro: *Reader Prerequisites*: To get the most from this article, understand the following concepts before reading: basic

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/02/2011 07:31 PM, John Hasler wrote: Arno Schuring writes: I find DDG (http://duckduckgo.com/Duck_Duck_Go) satisfies my needs perfectly. Requires Javascript. Google doesn't. I've been using ever since Google decided to start showing site thumbnails on mouseover events. I've never

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2011 07:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] And admittely, in such programs (like Getmail or Fetchmail) it is very useful to have the keep option while configuring the application so you don't delete e-mails unless you are sure they're well routed locally and messages reach their inboxes.

Re: What kernel for AMD Sempron system?

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2011 07:11 AM, Thomas Milne wrote: Hello all, I just assembled a system with an M2V motherboard and Sempron processor, with Nvidia graphics card. I installed Debian Squeeze, then upgraded to unstable. Installed nvidia-glx, nvidia dkms, a new kernel and headers. The kernel that was

Re: FAIL: where is snes9x?

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2011 05:53 PM, Dirk wrote: LOL, after 15 years snes9x has a GUI and the first thing that happens: debian removes it from the distro... so much fail... it impossible to grasp such a huge amount of fail... There's this amazing new tool called the Search Engine. Type in a few words

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2011 11:43 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: [snip] NFS is by far simpler to use in pure Linux environment, Samba is for Windows networks. NFS has no passwords, just install it with apt-get, and declare /etc/exports in the server, and mount the shares in the clients /etc/fstab. That's

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 12:48 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] No, I don't have a network up. As I said, I really don't know anything about networks. What I want is not only file sharing, but the ability to use the Win 7 machine as a print server. (Linux is not fit to be a print server since it takes forever to

Re: [Pan-users] PAR File Support ??

2011-06-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/02/2011 05:39 PM, Keith Richie wrote: [snip] I use this simple shell script, and associate par2 files with it. Within ${GUI_FILE_MANAGER}? #!/bin/sh xterm -hold -e par2repair $1 You would need par2cmdline -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the

Re: [Pan-users] PAR File Support ??

2011-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/2011 01:06 PM, Michael, W1RC wrote: I am a new PAN user but not unfamiliar with Usenet and downloading binaries. I think Pan is an outstanding app and am looking forward to totally migrating from my present news reader in the near future. I would very much appreciate knowing if Pan has

Re: [Pan-users] PAR File Support ??

2011-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/2011 05:34 PM, Lacrocivious Acrophosist wrote: Michael, W1RCsubs@... writes: I am a new PAN user but not unfamiliar with Usenet and downloading binaries. I think Pan is an outstanding app and am looking forward to totally migrating from my present news reader in the near future. I

Re: converting apple quicktime to mpeg

2011-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/01/2011 01:25 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 31 May 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: The mplayer.log file displayed as a couple of dozen garbled bytes. The log has 66 text lines, followed by the garbled bytes written while mplayer is reading the input file, but you can display the whole

Re: [Pan-users] New Feature - Uploading binaries

2011-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/2011 08:08 AM, Heinrich Mueller wrote: [snip] Do you guys have any feature requests for me to get my brainchild going ? We always appreciate new features. Now, if you want to earn my eternal non-marital devotion: store in-progress header downloads on disk instead on in-memory, so

Re: converting apple quicktime to mpeg

2011-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/2011 04:03 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, I tried several methods to convert a .mov file to .mpg, but none really works, and google didn't help me in that case. ffmpeg seemed to me the best choice, but I get: Invalid data found when processing input We need the exact command and all

Re: debian on NVIDIA(R) CUDA

2011-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/2011 12:12 AM, William Hopkins wrote: On 05/31/11 at 10:18am, surreal wrote: hi there.. has anyone tried using debian on NVIDIA® CUDA platform? Forgive my ignorance, but I thought CUDA was a distributed computing toolset? That is, 'using debian on' is sort've meaningless. You

Re: converting apple quicktime to mpeg

2011-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/2011 04:57 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 31 May 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: We need the exact command and all the output. (OK to attach as a text file.) Here it is. Actually, I called ffmpeg with some options, but the ouput is exactly the same. Try this: ffmpeg -loglevel

Re: converting apple quicktime to mpeg

2011-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/2011 01:37 PM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 31 May 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: Try this: ffmpeg -loglevel verbose -i file.mov mplayer -identify file.mov the ffmpeg output is the same as before, even with -loglevel debug -v 10 I attach, in addition to mplayer.log, the outputs

Re: LVM + USB drive

2011-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2011 02:56 AM, Itay wrote: [snip] # ) # Before unplugging $ umount /mnt/point/of/lvm $ lvchange -an /dev/myVG $ vgexport -a # After plugging-in $ vgimport -a $ lvchange -ay /dev/myVG $ mount [options] /mnt/point/of/lvm # (Question: vgexport/import is needed if volume groups are

Re: Scratchy sound when encoding mkv to DVD with mencoder

2011-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/2011 03:36 AM, François TOURDE wrote: Le 15124ième jour après Epoch, William Hopkins écrivait: I don't want to discourage you from posting to debian-user, as someone there may have a solution for you (although I regrettably do not). But may I recommend the mplayer-user ML? Hi. I

Re: Scratchy sound when encoding mkv to DVD with mencoder

2011-05-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/29/2011 04:21 PM, François TOURDE wrote: Hi, I've a problem trying to convert a mkv video into a DVD suitable for a home DVD player: I use stable/testing, with debian-multimedia repositories for mplayer and mencoder, and when I try to encode the mkv, I've a scratchy sound, and only the

Re: multi-boot mess: have I destroyed Windows 7 ?

2011-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/2011 05:10 PM, Charles Blair wrote: [snip] We can only pray that you have... grin -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749 -- To

Re: Viewing YouTube in slow motion?

2011-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2011 12:34 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 05/24/11 07:26, Mihira Fernando wrote: On 05/24/2011 07:55 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there any software out there to allow me to download, or capture the stream of a YouTube video and then play it back at a slower pace. There are some videos of

Re: How to rip double discs albums?

2011-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
Another strong vote for abcde. Lets you rip to a multitude of formats and naming styles, is multi-processing, so transcodes song #1 while ripping song #2 and lets you edit the cddb file before processing starts. On 05/24/2011 12:23 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: And if you are comfortable on

Re: USR 5633 Robotics Modem in Debian

2011-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2011 06:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 20:43:14 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/25/2011 08:17 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 07:41:38 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Camaleón writes: How can a modem be both serial (rs-232) and internal By having a UART on the card

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2011 12:04 PM, Mark Grieveson wrote: [snip] Others here have argued that it's not necessary to worry about viruses and stuff when using Linux, but I still like to do it to feel a bit safer (admittedly, if I were to deactivate the root account and set up some sort of sudo thingy, as

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2011 02:02 PM, Brian wrote: [snip] Broadly I agree with your sentiments. Now all that remains is to convince the other 100,000,000+ who run everything as root to adopt the same atitude. Antivirus software is for after the event. Failure has already taken place. Obligatory xkcd

Re: Gnome start menu on ubuntu

2011-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/23/2011 11:11 PM, shawn wilson wrote: [snip] i went with ubuntu instead of debian because of the ui extension things they add. ie, plug in an iphone and a message pops up asking if a rythombox iirc package can be installed to help manage the music - stuff like that. i don't think this

Re: Viewing YouTube in slow motion?

2011-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/24/2011 09:26 AM, Mihira Fernando wrote: On 05/24/2011 07:55 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there any software out there to allow me to download, or capture the stream of a YouTube video and then play it back at a slower pace. There are some videos of karate katas that I would really like to

Re: USR 5633 Robotics Modem in Debian

2011-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/25/2011 08:17 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 07:41:38 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Camaleón writes: How can a modem be both serial (rs-232) and internal By having a UART on the card and appearing to the computer as a serial port. I have several of these in my junkbox (all ISA,

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