Re: [OT] English language

2011-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/04/2011 07:56 AM, Francis Southern wrote: On 4 April 2011 13:41, Nate Bargmannn...@n0nb.us wrote: * On 2011 04 Apr 03:21 -0500, Lisi wrote: On Monday 04 April 2011 01:24:03 David Jardine wrote: I just love the spelling of Advertiser. ;) Do Americans spell it with a zed? Mostly,

Re: ocfs2 / jbd / large filesystem

2011-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/04/2011 08:45 AM, Stephane Caminade wrote: Hi, I am trying to format a 40TB filesystem with mkfs.ocfs2, but I get the following message: # mkfs.ocfs2 -N 2 -T datafiles -n /dev/sdb1 mkfs.ocfs2 1.4.4 Dry run [snip] Writing lost+found: done mkfs.ocfs2 successful When attempting to mount,

Re: [OT] Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

2011-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/04/2011 09:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] here in Spain :-P. Of course the official language(s) of every country is the only one valid for legal issues and administrative tasks, that's understandable. You haven't been to the US... -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/04/2011 09:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:19:24 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/03/2011 07:18 AM, Camaleón wrote: What part of Cultural Imperialism don't you understand??? :) A Spaniard would be vaguely familiar with the concept ;-) And I'd have to say that *sadly

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/04/2011 01:46 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On 04/03/2011 12:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Any expanding civilization engages in Cultural Imperialism. W/o it, we wouldn't be here using using computers and (where it's hot) availing ourselves of air conditioning. ...what's air conditioning

Re: [OT] Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?

2011-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/04/2011 11:35 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:03:51 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/04/2011 09:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] here in Spain :-P. Of course the official language(s) of every country is the only one valid for legal issues and administrative tasks, that's

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/04/2011 09:13 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On 04/04/2011 05:27 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/04/2011 01:46 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On 04/03/2011 12:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Any expanding civilization engages in Cultural Imperialism. W/o it, we wouldn't be here using using computers

Re: system-wide bogofilter, procmail, fetchmail

2011-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/04/2011 07:43 PM, Rob Owens wrote: I'm successfully using fetchmail, procmail, and bogofilter as my user, but I'm looking to set it up system-wide and have some questions. I'm running an IMAP server with accounts for several family members. I'd like to scan for spam and file the spam in a

[Pan-users] Bug in Headers pane?

2011-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
When I go into a group, highlight some articles and then start downloading them, the unread articles' font converts from Bold to Regular style as each article is downloaded. However, if I go to a different group and then come back (or exit Pan and restart) then the articles' font no longer

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/03/2011 04:24 AM, Heddle Weaver wrote: [snip] The logical progression, in the English language and not the American dialect, is 'day' of the 'month' of the specified 'year'. dd/mm/yy. This is obvious. Only obvious if you've grown up that way. However, 3 Jan 2011 *slightly* reduces

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/03/2011 07:18 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:19:49 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-04-02, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/01/2011 07:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: --- SNIP --- Here in Spain we celebrate it on December 28th instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/03/2011 12:35 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:10, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: handwriting What's that? Something that some American schools still teach to children. -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and

Re: [OT] English language [was:Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?]

2011-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/03/2011 02:54 PM, David Jardine wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 03:08:55PM -0400, Doug wrote: This is grossly off topic, but since it's here, i _must_ answer: Thank God there is no English Academy. As a native English speaker I entirely agree, but I can understand the frustrations of

Re: [OT] English language

2011-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/03/2011 05:02 PM, David Jardine wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 03:17:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Would an anti-Brit really go to England to do his work? Frankly, why not? Where did the anti-colonialist future leaders of newly independent African and Asian countries study

Re: [OT] English language [was:Re: OpenOffice.org - how to install additional languages?]

2011-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/03/2011 04:55 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote: On 4 April 2011 06:17, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 04/03/2011 02:54 PM, David Jardine wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 03:08:55PM -0400, Doug wrote: [snip] What populist propaganda have you been reading? How do they say Disneyland

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 12:18 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 02/04/11 15:40, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/01/2011 11:17 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 02/04/11 14:57, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 20:23, Scott Ferguson [snip] Why not use the Debian standard?? day-of-week, dd month

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 12:45 AM, Doug wrote: On 04/02/2011 12:40 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: I've always thought that Unix Time is *incredibly stupid* (who the heck says Fri Apr 1 23:27:41 CDT 2011?) and *monumentally shortsighted* (did nothing happen before 01-Jan-1970?). OpenVMS does it one of the two

Re: Graphics - Radeon HD 5000 lock-ups

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 07:25 AM, C. Hurschler wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2011, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/01/2011 09:57 AM, C. Hurschler wrote: Hi, I'm looking for an inexpensive alternative, does anyone have any experience with the GeForce 8400GS? I put a fanless 8400GS in my wife/kids' PC. It's

Re: iceweasel 4 process not closing on exit

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 08:44 AM, L V Gandhi wrote: When ever I close iceweasel 4 in squeeze, process is not closing. Hence if I restart iceweasel, it says process is running, first close running process. I saw from ps -ax as follows 2111 ?Rl 1:41 /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 12:44 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] My video card has a RIVA TNT2 chipset, which is no longer supported by the proprietary nvidia driver. (The legacy 71xx driver supports it, Time to accept the reality that time has passed by the Riva TNT2. NewEgg sells an AGP8X GeForce

Fallacy of rebooting after updates (was Re: FAT: Filesystem panic)

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 03:23 PM, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: [snip] Hm, up to date Lenny with 5374942 seconds uptime? Maybe you should reboot after you do an update? Not sure how update works but if it only changes the files, and not the images of running kernel or processes... And if you do several

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 04:17 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] But it's good to know that cheap video cards are available. And monitors. Acer 17 4:3 LCD for $97 w/ free shipping. (But obviously that's 3x as expensive as the video card.) -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 06:31 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In4d96a8c3.9080...@cox.net, Ron Johnson wrote: I've always thought that Unix Time is *incredibly stupid* (who the heck says Fri Apr 1 23:27:41 CDT 2011?) and *monumentally shortsighted* (did nothing happen before 01-Jan-1970?). What makes

Re: My posts to list not echoed

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 08:11 PM, Ken Heard wrote: I have noticed that recently my posts to the list have not been echoed back to me; so I have no confirmation that a given post has been received by the list and distributed. I used to have all my posts echoed and wondered why now they are not. Is such

Re: My posts to list not echoed

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 08:37 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 04/02/2011 09:11 PM, Ken Heard wrote: I have noticed that recently my posts to the list have not been echoed back to me; so I have no confirmation that a given post has been received by the list and distributed. I used to have all my posts echoed

Re: 3D video player

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 08:49 PM, ceduard0 wrote: 2011/4/2 r-cassimr-cas...@intnet.mu: hi all, Is there any 3D video player for debian lenny or there any how to for playing 3D video Helo, see this game, flightgear[1], this is a flight simulator.

Re: My posts to list not echoed

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 10:49 PM, Ken Heard wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Maybe I misunderstood Ken's meaning of echo. Tbird/Icedove will store a copy of each sent message wherever you tell it to store them. Look in Edit-Account Settings-(account-name)-Copies Folders Yes, all messages I send

Re: wheezy downloading

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 11:02 PM, ZHAO Lina wrote: Hi, From which links I can download wheezy or sid? I don't think there's such a thing as a Sid ISO, since it's always in flux. Regarding links, are you asking where the link is, or are you asking where is the one that's closest to you? In either

Re: My posts to list not echoed

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 11:25 PM, Ken Heard wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: All messages are send to all list subscribers. So, for some reason I am not getting sent back to me as a list subscriber the posts I make to the list. As a workaround I move from sent to my Icedove debian-user folder such posts

Re: wheezy downloading

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 11:29 PM, wolf python london wrote: On 3 April 2011 12:18, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 04/02/2011 11:02 PM, ZHAO Lina wrote: [snip] BTW, do I really necessary to burn 8 DVD to install the stable version (p.s no internet connection). To *install* it? No.

Re: My posts to list not echoed

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/03/2011 12:41 AM, Ken Heard wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Hmmm. I just viewed your email source and even though your domain is heard.name, I see gmail buried in there. So, you get a vanity domain and then use {imap,smtp}.googlemail.com? You have likely fingered the problem. Yes, I have

Re: About to order motherboard Asus M4A78LT-M - any known issues?

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 01:31 AM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 31. 03. 2011 23:01:24 je Ron Johnson napisal(a): Video and the NIC worked with Sid 18 months ago on my 780G mobo. That gives me hope. I guess the final proof will be in the pudding ... ;) Yup. Note also that when installing the mobo, I

Re: mounting multipath volumes with /etc/fstab

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 02:52 AM, mikie mike wrote: Hi, I would like to mount multipath volumes with /etc/fstab. I have storage attached to my Debian server with redundant paths. There are 3 volumes and 2 possible paths to each. [snip] Finally I took a work around method and I mount it by an entry

Re: About to order motherboard Asus M4A78LT-M - any known issues?

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 03:57 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:17:05 -0500 Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Hello Ron, Over the years, I've gotten the sense that there are many more compatibility and stability issues with the (free and proprietary) ATI drivers than compared to nv

Re: About to order motherboard Asus M4A78LT-M - any known issues?

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 11:24 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On 2011-04-01 01:31:47 Klistvud wrote: the final proof will be in the pudding ... The proof *of* the pudding is in the eating. Except when the proof is actually *in* the pudding... :) Anyway, since American pudding is nothing like

Re: Meaningful names; was Re (3): dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 12:18 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: [snip] Names such as eth0 and eth0.absent still do not solve the problem of identifying external hot swappable devices. Plug in three Linksys USB adapters yielding eth3, eth4 and eth5. Which eth is which? Meaningful names work. For example

Re: Why policyd from 2007 in squeeze?

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 01:52 PM, D G Teed wrote: On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Camaleónnoela...@gmail.com wrote: Hum... there was a wishlist bug: postfix-policyd: Please package version 2.x http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561085 Maybe you can add yourself to it and ask for

Re: About to order motherboard Asus M4A78LT-M - any known issues?

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 05:11 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On 2011-04-01 13:48:06 Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/01/2011 11:24 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On 2011-04-01 01:31:47 Klistvud wrote: the final proof will be in the pudding ... The proof *of* the pudding is in the eating. Except when

Re: Graphics - Radeon HD 5000 lock-ups

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 09:57 AM, C. Hurschler wrote: Hi, I'm looking for an inexpensive alternative, does anyone have any experience with the GeForce 8400GS? I put a fanless 8400GS in my wife/kids' PC. It's cheap, handles compiz just fine and playing videos with mplayer consumes an unmeasurable

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 07:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:17:42 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Friday 01 April 2011 10:05:54 Liam O'Toole wrote: I guess it is a joke. 04/01/11 ! What does the 4th of January have to do with it?? Perhaps on an international list we should say the month

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 08:11 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 09:01:41PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 01/04/11 20:17, Lisi wrote: On Friday 01 April 2011 10:05:54 Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-04-01, Freemanhew...@gmail.com wrote: 04/01/11 ! What does the 4th of January have to do

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 02:18 PM, Freeman wrote: [snip] Well, ISO dates are the best. And *all* the cultures of the world are magnificent. No, not *all* of the cultures of the world are magnificent. In fact, there's pretty hard evidence that some of them really suck. But that's getting way

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 08:09 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On 04/01/2011 04:17 AM, Lisi wrote: On Friday 01 April 2011 10:05:54 Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-04-01, Freemanhew...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:16:37AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, right now, the Official Debian site

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 11:17 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 02/04/11 14:57, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 20:23, Scott Ferguson [snip] Why not use the Debian standard?? day-of-week, dd month hh:mm:ss + Too verbose, not sortable Cheers, Kelly Clowers So... the RFC

[Pan-users] Scoring a random set of articles?

2011-03-31 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, Is there any way to manually set the score of articles that I've highlighted? -- 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

Re: how to get 3D acceleration with an intel i7?

2011-03-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/31/2011 03:36 AM, Bruno Boettcher wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 06:28:02PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:05:13 +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: You will need to find out why the intel driver fails to load and Xorg fallbacks to vesa or fb mode, if that's what is really

Re: how to get 3D acceleration with an intel i7?

2011-03-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/31/2011 10:08 AM, Bruno Boettcher wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 01:49:14PM +, Camaleón wrote: And provided you seem to be using a recent -and customized?- kernel (Linux yoda 2.6.37-2-amd64) and also an updated Xorg server (1.9.5) upgrading any of those components does not make much

Re: About to order motherboard Asus M4A78LT-M - any known issues?

2011-03-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/31/2011 12:46 PM, shawn wilson wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Brad Rogersb...@fineby.me.uk wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:35:32 +0200 Klistvudquotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Hello Klistvud, I'm about to order a system with Asus M4A78LT-M I don't know how long that mobo has

Re: About to order motherboard Asus M4A78LT-M - any known issues?

2011-03-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/31/2011 01:50 PM, Klistvud wrote: [snip] Yep, the network card(s) issue does seem to pop up from time to time, even on this very list. Oh well, I'll do without the integrated network card for a while if that should be the case. It's the video subsystem and the proprietary drivers that

Re: About to order motherboard Asus M4A78LT-M - any known issues?

2011-03-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/31/2011 02:04 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: [snip] IDK much about the ATI drivers, other than they're closed source. I think that they cause fewer problems than the nVidia ones, though. At least, I don't recall seeing as many people asking for help installing them and getting them working as

Re: About to order motherboard Asus M4A78LT-M - any known issues?

2011-03-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/31/2011 02:52 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 31. 03. 2011 21:13:32 je Ron Johnson napisal(a): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131672 If this is actually the board you are referring to, then since it is *really* old (the AMD 760G Northbridge is older than the 780G

Re: New Printer

2011-03-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/31/2011 06:45 PM, PMA wrote: Hi List. How soon may there be a Debian driver for the recently released Epson Stylus R3000? Some time after there's a CUPS ppd? -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Feature request: CLI operation

2011-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/29/2011 03:57 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/29/2011 03:35 AM, Paul Crawford wrote: [snip] Do you have a 64-bit CPU machine (e.g. I do, but run 32-bit Linux for greater compatibility and due to only have 2GB RAM)? If so you could boot off a 64-bit live CD, set enough swap space and just

So, what's a new user to do with huge groups? (was Re: [Pan-users] Re: pan uses large amounts of memory)

2011-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/27/2011 12:42 PM, Duncan wrote: Leo List posted on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:17:52 +1100 as excerpted: I'm running 64bit Ubuntu and when I start pan, the memory usage increases regularly until it hits up to 98% if physical memory and about 50% of swap; all up about 6GB. Is there a way of

[Pan-users] pan --no-gui headers: works quite well even for newly-subscribed groups

2011-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
for g in foo bar snaggle frob; do \ time pan --no-gui headers:comp.os.${g} \ date echo -e '\n\n\n\n' \ done -- 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

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/30/2011 08:00 AM, Jason Filippou wrote: Hello list, I've been running my testing box's graphics through the NVIDIA proprietary driver, downloaded from their website. However, after recent updates, logging into my debian box is only possible through text mode, no X server is started.

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/30/2011 02:36 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 03/30/2011 08:00 AM, Jason Filippou wrote: Hello list, I've been running my testing box's graphics through the NVIDIA proprietary driver, downloaded from their website.

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/30/2011 04:28 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 03/30/2011 02:36 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 03/30/2011 08:00 AM, Jason Filippou wrote:

Re: SIGTERM received when installing Nvidia driver

2011-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/30/2011 04:49 PM, Jason Filippou wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Then it's as simple as: # apt-get -t testing install nvidia-glx Indeed it was, thanks a million. Gotta love Debian... -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Feature request: CLI operation

2011-03-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/29/2011 02:12 AM, Paul Crawford wrote: On 29/03/11 07:33, Ron Johnson wrote: snip 5 hours... $ date pan --no-gui headers:alt.binaries.dvd ; date Mon Mar 28 20:25:33 CDT 2011 terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): std::bad_alloc Aborted Tue Mar 29 01:27

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Feature request: CLI operation

2011-03-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/29/2011 03:35 AM, Paul Crawford wrote: [snip] Do you have a 64-bit CPU machine (e.g. I do, but run 32-bit Linux for greater compatibility and due to only have 2GB RAM)? If so you could boot off a 64-bit live CD, set enough swap space and just let it crunch away. That just might work!

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Feature request: CLI operation

2011-03-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/29/2011 04:23 AM, Duncan wrote: [snip] Whether it's worth the additional overhead I don't know... If you've16G of physical memory, it likely is, and almost certainly is with32G physical memory, due to the reduction in low-memory pressure, but under 16G... :) No... 8GB is enough for

[Bug 644708] Re: usb audio partially broken

2011-03-29 Thread Ron Johnson
Maverick 2.6.35-28-generic-pae My syslog is also filled with 2:1:1: endpoint lacks sample rate attribute bit, cannot set. messages, presumably by generic USB Audio speakers (that still work...) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/29/2011 08:49 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Freeman wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:52:08AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/23/2011 07:01 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: Too soon? I had thought about grabbing the one from experimental (rc2?), but decided against that for a squeeze system

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Question about Get Headers

2011-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/27/2011 02:11 PM, Duncan wrote: Ron Johnson posted on Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:36:23 -0500 as excerpted: Before I waste hours of time and bandwidth, though, I wanted to ask if Get the last N days headers: 180 *AFTER* doing a Get the last N days headers: 90 is intelligent enough to only grab

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Feature request: CLI operation

2011-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/28/2011 06:49 PM, Duncan wrote: Ron Johnson posted on Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:49:53 -0500 as excerpted: The GUI interface is great, but not so optimized for downloading the headers of big groups. So, I request a separate program pan-get-headers (which is part of the pan2 source tree

Re: broken shell script with dash

2011-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/28/2011 01:41 PM, Thilo Six wrote: Andrew McGlashan wrote the following on 28.03.2011 19:05 [snip] Why, we are not running on zx80, trs-80, apple ][, vic20 or anything like that these days; disk is cheap and a few extra MBs isn't going to hurt anything today. The WHOLE package is worth

[Pan-users] Question about Get Headers

2011-03-27 Thread Ron Johnson
Get all headers blows up on really large active groups, since the intermediary data is held in memory and at some point the process exhausts it's address space and dies with the error: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): std::bad_alloc So...the next

[Pan-users] Feature request: CLI operation

2011-03-27 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, The GUI interface is great, but not so optimized for downloading the headers of big groups. So, I request a separate program pan-get-headers (which is part of the pan2 source tree and thus gets built when you run make) that uses the already-existing pan nntp functions. It would work

Re: APT gone nuts

2011-03-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/27/2011 09:35 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 27 Mar 2011 at 12:37:51 +0100, Michael Thompson wrote: Most of them, even with my limited linux knowledge are fairly important. Why has apt started to ask to remove these packages, and how can I get apt to forget about them? Have you removed the

Re: Inkscape error

2011-03-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/27/2011 02:08 PM, Marcelo Laia wrote: [snip] inael:/home/inael# aptitude search libwpg c libwpg-0.1-1- WordPerfect graphics import/convert librar But you don't appear to have libwpg-0.1 installed (correctly). -- Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws

You touched one of my pet peeves (was Re: dpkg: syntax error)

2011-03-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/27/2011 08:35 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: An apt-get update for Squeeze gives the following error message:- dpkg: syntax error in file triggers file `/var/lib/dpkg/triggers//File' E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) The machine is a fairly standard KDE Squeeze i386 -

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/26/2011 07:18 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 26/03/11 13:13, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Most probably. A similar addon (Old Location Bar) makes FF3.x tolerable. Do you mean it puts location bar above tabs? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/old-location-bar/ Causes

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/24/2011 08:41 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 25/03/11 03:10, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/24/2011 10:21 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 24/03/11 14:52, Ron Johnson wrote: Because of the radical changes in v4.0, I *strongly* urge that you install FF 4.0 to /usr/local/bin or ~/bin, since you

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/25/2011 06:19 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 26/03/11 08:40, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/24/2011 08:41 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 25/03/11 03:10, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/24/2011 10:21 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 24/03/11 14:52, Ron Johnson wrote: Because of the radical changes

Does the sata_sil24 eSATA driver support hot swap?

2011-03-24 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, I've got a Sil3132 esata chip on my AMD 780G mobo, and it (so far) works great with a 4-drive external enclosure. It's just that I've always had the enclosure powered on and plugged in when I boot the machine. But I want to be able to power off the enclosure like with USB and FW

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/23/2011 07:01 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: Too soon? I had thought about grabbing the one from experimental (rc2?), but decided against that for a squeeze system. Because of the radical changes in v4.0, I *strongly* urge that you install FF 4.0 to /usr/local/bin or ~/bin, since you or

Re: Weird WM behavior after changing video cards

2011-03-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/22/2011 05:00 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: on 19:05 Mon 21 Mar, Ron Johnson (ron.l.john...@cox.net) wrote: Sid (up-to-date) xfce nvidia driver 260.19.44-1 After switching an old 7300 card for a GeForce 210 (both are fanless), I see that the WM has changed behavior in various odd

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/24/2011 10:21 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 24/03/11 14:52, Ron Johnson wrote: Because of the radical changes in v4.0, I *strongly* urge that you install FF 4.0 to /usr/local/bin or ~/bin, since you or your wife might (as I do) dislike the way that v4 works. Care to elaborate

Re: libXm.so.3

2011-03-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/24/2011 04:58 PM, Joe Riel wrote: Any idea where I can get a 64 bit version of libXm.so.3? My understanding is that it is part of libmotif3, but that isn't part of Debian. Maybe you could get the deb-src from Ubuntu? http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/maverick/openmotif -- Neither the

Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/21/2011 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Yet again the 32 vs 64 bit question. I have Debian systems at home running 32 bits, and my server has been running happily in 64-bit mode fopr years. Now I get to install debian for an end-user on another AMD-64 machine. 64-bit mode is tempting,

Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/21/2011 11:31 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:53:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Been using 64-bit Sid for about 2 years. 64-bit Iceweasel 3.5.17 (in Sid) works great with Flash 10.2r152, but v4.0 (b12 thru rc2 from Experimental, confirmed w/ Mozilla FF) has some

Re: starting deferred execution scheduler: atd failed

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/21/2011 06:11 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-03-21, waterloowaterloo2...@gmail.com wrote: when I boot , I find a error line : starting deferred execution scheduler: atd failed . How to do with it ? I use Debian 6 amd64 . Thanks Try starting it manually as root:

Re: What happened to debian - does stable keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/21/2011 10:15 AM, Reinhard Mantey wrote: Hello, Perhaps proprietary firmware is the cause of your software problem - strangely you failed to provide any information about the most likely cause. Well, thought about that, but that hardware is working fine for over one year with daily

Re: What happened to debian - does stable keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/21/2011 11:53 AM, Geronimo wrote: Hello, Christ Almighty... where have you been? busy inventing PEBCAK issues :) The kernel went to indeterminate drive ordering *years* ago. That's why fstab now uses UUID or LABEL to associate partitions with mount points. Hey, may be u missed

Re: What happened to debian - does stable keep having any meaning?

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/21/2011 01:08 PM, Geronimo wrote: Hello, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/21/2011 11:53 AM, Geronimo wrote: And yes of cause - I use LABEL and UUID in fstab for years ;) So you're not using UUID in grub. Ok - that's a challenge Of cause, I use UUID in grub. But if you look at grub.cfg

Re: trying to install libxml2-dev package and getting this error ??? help??

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/21/2011 02:54 PM, Joey L wrote: ate information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libxml2-dev 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 774kB of archives. After this operation, 2724kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1

Weird WM behavior after changing video cards

2011-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
Sid (up-to-date) xfce nvidia driver 260.19.44-1 After switching an old 7300 card for a GeForce 210 (both are fanless), I see that the WM has changed behavior in various odd but tolerable manners. These WM items are now white instead of following the theme: 1. Drop-down menu bg color 2.

Bug#616061: Repeatable w/ FF 4.0rc2 and IW 4.0rc2.

2011-03-20 Thread Ron Johnson
Found these warnings when running from the CLI: *** NSPlugin Viewer *** WARNING: unhandled variable 18 (unknown variable) in NPN_GetValue() *** NSPlugin Viewer *** WARNING: unhandled variable 18 (unknown variable) in NPN_GetValue() *** NSPlugin Viewer *** WARNING: unhandled variable 18

Re: Squeeze. Broken native laptop screen res 1366x768@NVIDIA after last update

2011-03-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/20/2011 04:11 PM, Mark Goldshtein wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Du, 20 mar 11, 23:05:13, Mark Goldshtein wrote: Hello, list! After last update the native laptop screen res 1366x768 is gone. 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller:

Re: sum two disks using RAID or LVM?

2011-03-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/18/2011 03:15 AM, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Hi all! A short question: I have two 500GB HDDs and I want to use their space as one. That's called striping. Should I aggregate them with software RAID, or using LVM in regard to data safety? If one of them malfunctions, is one of the two

Re: this is just a test, please ignore it!

2011-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/15/2011 02:16 AM, Jo Galara wrote: On 03/15/2011 08:15 AM, h...@lolfreak.net wrote: this is just a test, please ignore it! ... __ powered by Secure-Mail.biz - anonymous and secure e-mail accounts. okay, i ignore you, too Haven't

Bug#617337: ITP: ctk -- A set of common support code for medical imaging, surgical navigation, and related purposes

2011-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/08/2011 02:46 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterremathieu.malate...@gmail.com * Package name: ctk Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : CommonTK (https://github.com/commontk/) * URL : http://www.commontk.org *

Re: upgrade from x86 to amd64

2011-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/07/2011 03:25 AM, Morty wrote: What would it take to automate an upgrade of Debian x86 to amd64? I know there is no currently-supported way to do this. What would it take to make one? Advantages: shops with a mix of x86 and amd64 systems can have one master x86 build image that can be

Re: Monitor blinks off in the middle of mouse/kbd activity

2011-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/10/2011 10:23 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/09/2011 10:28 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 10:05:30AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I must wait 20ish minutes until it goes into sleep mode for it to respond to a kbd press or mouse

Re: problem with ati display card

2011-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
xinit?? The standard command for brining up the GUI is startx. On 03/10/2011 06:23 PM, Long Wind wrote: I install squeeze, but xserver doesn't work after I install xserver, and run xinit, it fails I find that there's no xorg.conf at /etc/X11 so I copy it from etch, it still doesn't work (it

Re: Monitor blinks off in the middle of mouse/kbd activity

2011-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/09/2011 10:28 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 10:05:30AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I must wait 20ish minutes until it goes into sleep mode for it to respond to a kbd press or mouse wiggle. There's nothing in syslog or Xorg.0.log to Attached

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/09/2011 11:55 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:10:55 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer? Do you have any URI that we can test? Yes, get form 1040 from here: http://www.irs.gov/ It's

Re: unable to install nfs-kernel-server

2011-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/09/2011 08:43 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com mailto:tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com mailto:prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/03/11 17:45, Liam

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/10/2011 12:01 AM, S D wrote: --- On Wed, 3/9/11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: PGP/GPG and TLS are *significantly* more secure than mailing your papers. You seem to forget that in the process you entrust your data to a *for-profit* corporation that will store

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