Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/19/2011 05:31 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Feb 2011 at 14:32:38 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: The FX5200 is 8 years old, and even then was labeled Entry Level. I seriously doubt that nouveau will ever support it. . . . . . Eh? Realiity is stacked against you. Rock solid here. Yeah, my

Re: nouveau: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

2011-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/19/2011 05:32 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 03:28:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:10:34PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: There's not much hope if you intend to stay with Squeeze. If you're not brave enough to blindly upgrade your kernel and the whole X

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2011 07:26 AM, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: On Jueves 17 Febrero 2011 22:18:25 Ron Johnson escribió: On 02/17/2011 08:58 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: [snip] Should it be locked down like Fort Knox? There's a heck of a lot of middle ground between Fort Knox and Hippy Commune. We

Re: What should we do with iceweasel/xulrunner/libmozjs?

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2011 05:42 AM, Axel Beckert wrote: Hi, Mike Hommey wrote: - Push 3.6 to unstable and the last 4.0 betas/rc to experimental. Push 4.0 to unstable when it's out. That would be my favourite. I use Conkeror (which is a XULRunner application and hence depends on xulrunner) with 3.6

Re: question about storage

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2011 10:36 PM, Jim Green wrote: Hello! I have a laptop with 120G harddrive, 2x320G external harddrive, I don't have a desktop. Now I am doing something serious storing some huge historical data to mysql database and want to have some better storage solution(I hate the two external

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2011 09:58 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:16:16 -0600 Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Hello Ron, Yes, I use nvidia, and no I won't use nouveau. Entirely your prerogative of course, but might I ask why? Performance. -- The normal condition of mankind is

Re: question about storage

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
be a better solution for me? On 02/18/2011 08:50 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Option 3: Multi-drive external USB enclosure. Gives you the capacity of a NAS at 1/3 the cost. I prefer the responsiveness of data drives inside the machine using the data, especially with hardware-based RAID. Sure

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/18/2011 05:23 PM, Francis Southern wrote: On 18 February 2011 16:39, shawn wilsonag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: Snip as some have mentioned in this thread, even some of the Thinkpads are sold with cheaper keyboards and other hardware. but, if you read some reviews, spend a little (~$1k

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2011 04:51 PM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500 shawn wilsonag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: ... whatever you get as long as the hardware isn't too strange. strange might be a gsm modem, fingerprint reader, dual mode graphics, no name 802.11 card - stuff like that. Not

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2011 10:55 AM, Martin Owens wrote: On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 15:24 +, Roger Leigh wrote: Yes, but like everything there is a tradeoff. A totally secure system is an unusable system. Having to instruct every user how to relax the permissions to allow others to access their files, or

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2011 08:58 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: [snip] Should it be locked down like Fort Knox? There's a heck of a lot of middle ground between Fort Knox and Hippy Commune. Should it be generally usable, and easy for users to see each other's stuff? Only with the owner's permission.

Re: Default Homedir Permissions

2011-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2011 09:24 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: [snip] Yes, but like everything there is a tradeoff. A totally secure system is an unusable system. Why the black and white? What happened to grey? Having to instruct every user how to relax the permissions to allow others

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED

2011-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2011 02:36 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:02:46 +0100 Csanyi Palcsanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Csanyi, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net writes: Sadly, I don't get the beep, even though pulseaudio-utils is not installed. (But libpulse-mainloop-glib0 and libpulse0

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED

2011-02-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/17/2011 08:44 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:20:25 -0600 Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Hello Ron, Exactly... (And yes, I do have module pcspkr loaded.) Same here. Maybe Joe's suggestion of using nouveau rather than nvidia would help. Assuming you use the

Re: Trying to Switch from Ubuntu to Debian

2011-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2011 01:58 AM, Noah Duffy wrote: [snip] Well, I got one problem solved. Got the nVidia drivers installed with no problem at all! Using the nvidia-glx appropriate to your card? :) Excellent... My next experiment will have to be with

Re: I want beep in urxvt terminal - SOLVED

2011-02-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/16/2011 02:08 PM, Csanyi Pal wrote: Csanyi Palcsanyi...@gmail.com writes: Joe Rieljr...@maplesoft.com writes: I started a similar thread about two weeks ago. Finally resolved it by switching from the nvidia driver to the nouveau driver. Why that made a difference is beyond me, but

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

2011-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/14/2011 10:39 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: [snip] The fact that naive Python programs work (honouring LC_CTYPE as they should) unless you pipe their output to something is clearly a bug. The fact that it's a specification bug doesn't mean it's not a bug. It doesn't seem to work for me. $

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

2011-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/14/2011 04:26 PM, The Fungi wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:57:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: It doesn't seem to work for me. [...] $ LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 python -c 'print u\u00a3' Traceback (most recent call last): File string, line 1, inmodule UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

2011-02-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/11/2011 07:36 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: [snip] UTF-16 is never, ever useful. It is a sad trap for win32 and Java developers, due to a bad engineering decision suggested, as I was told, by [snip] No, there is only one encoding left, as long as you don't have to talk to Windows. Never

Bug#587204: Doesn't Play Audio in PPS/PPT Slides

2011-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/07/2011 01:27 PM, Eric Lavarde wrote: Package: openoffice.org-impress Version: 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2 Severity: normal Hello, I just wanted to confirm that I have the same problem on my squeeze system with all fun presentations sent around on the web, whereas the same kind of presentations

Bug#587204: Doesn't Play Audio in PPS/PPT Slides

2011-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/07/2011 01:27 PM, Eric Lavarde wrote: Package: openoffice.org-impress Version: 1:3.2.1-11+squeeze2 Severity: normal Hello, I just wanted to confirm that I have the same problem on my squeeze system with all fun presentations sent around on the web, whereas the same kind of presentations

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

2011-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/08/2011 01:02 PM, Andreas Goesele wrote: [snip] Somebody recommended libreoffice to me: I installed it, and it works fine. If I don't find a solution for openoffice (any suggestion?) I might switch. LibreOffice is nothing more than the renamed OOo v3.3. -- The normal condition of

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

2011-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/07/2011 10:55 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-02-07 17:45 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote: On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkomhvw59...@care2.com wrote: Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver packages. Wait a bit? It's a dependency thing, not

Re: which is at fault? iceweasel or drupal?

2011-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/31/2011 12:36 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.b...@iguanasuicide.net [110131 04:12]: In20110130220014.ga2...@rlharris.org, Russell L. Harris wrote: Occasionally while browsing with iceweasel, the machine slows to a crawl and the processor usage (as displayed by

Re: [Pan-users] Re: New version of pan ?

2011-01-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/17/2011 02:17 AM, Robert Marshall wrote: On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Duncan wrote: Maurice Batey posted on Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:12:16 + as excerpted: On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:53:48 +, Brad Rogers wrote: Email. Possibly. Well, since the VirtualBox newsgroup changed to a mailing

Re: Couldn't find the DDC routing table

2011-01-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/10/2011 11:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:11:57 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Has anyone experienced this error message when using an nvidia 8400GS GPU? Nope... but Google finds some hits: http://www.google.com/search?q=couldn%27t+find+ddc+routing+tablehl=entbo=1complete

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 663463] Re: Blank screen on boot unless nouveau was disabled.

2011-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
Nvidia apparently made some bad chips... http://www.nvidiasettlement.com/affectedmodels.html http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1013947/why-nvidia-duff-chips-shoddy-engineering Even if your Dell isn't on the Official List, it might still have the affected GPU. I solved the problem by

[Bug 663463] Re: Blank screen on boot unless nouveau was disabled.

2011-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
Nvidia apparently made some bad chips... http://www.nvidiasettlement.com/affectedmodels.html http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1013947/why-nvidia-duff-chips-shoddy-engineering Even if your Dell isn't on the Official List, it might still have the affected GPU. I solved the problem by

Couldn't find the DDC routing table

2011-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, Has anyone experienced this error message when using an nvidia 8400GS GPU? This is a fresh Sid install in new machine, and after 2 days I'm starting to think that this might be a bad part. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1028703/all-nvidia-g84-g86s-bad Thanks, Ron -- Seek

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 663463] Re: Blank screen on boot unless nouveau was disabled.

2011-01-08 Thread Ron Johnson
Changing the GRUB boot param to nosplash (thanks, #147623 !!) just pushed the problem back to when after I'd logged in. :( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in ubuntu.

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 663463] Re: Blank screen on boot unless nouveau was disabled.

2011-01-08 Thread Ron Johnson
Adding nosplash nouveau.modeset=0 has me logged in without any errors, but at 800x600 instead of 1280x1024. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663463 Title:

[Bug 663463] Re: Blank screen on boot unless nouveau was disabled.

2011-01-08 Thread Ron Johnson
Changing the GRUB boot param to nosplash (thanks, #147623 !!) just pushed the problem back to when after I'd logged in. :( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663463 Title: Blank screen

[Bug 663463] Re: Blank screen on boot unless nouveau was disabled.

2011-01-08 Thread Ron Johnson
Adding nosplash nouveau.modeset=0 has me logged in without any errors, but at 800x600 instead of 1280x1024. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663463 Title: Blank screen on boot unless

Bug#608202: ITP: fuse-emulator-utils -- ZX Spectrum emulator library - Utilities

2010-12-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/28/2010 11:04 AM, Alberto Garcia wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garciaagar...@igalia.com * Package name: fuse-emulator-utils Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Philip Kendallphilip-f...@shadowmagic.org.uk * URL :

Bug#608202: ITP: fuse-emulator-utils -- ZX Spectrum emulator library - Utilities

2010-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/28/2010 11:04 AM, Alberto Garcia wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alberto Garciaagar...@igalia.com * Package name: fuse-emulator-utils Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Philip Kendallphilip-f...@shadowmagic.org.uk * URL :

Bug#606750: ITP: liblognorm -- Log normalizing library

2010-12-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/13/2010 01:50 PM, Pierre Chifflier wrote: On 12/12/2010 06:23 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/11/2010 07:41 AM, Pierre Chifflier wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Chifflierpol...@debian.org * Package name: liblognorm Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author

Bug#606750: ITP: liblognorm -- Log normalizing library

2010-12-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/13/2010 01:50 PM, Pierre Chifflier wrote: On 12/12/2010 06:23 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/11/2010 07:41 AM, Pierre Chifflier wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Chifflierpol...@debian.org * Package name: liblognorm Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author

Bug#606750: ITP: liblognorm -- Log normalizing library

2010-12-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/11/2010 07:41 AM, Pierre Chifflier wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Chifflierpol...@debian.org * Package name: liblognorm Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Rainer Gerhardsrgerha...@hq.adiscon.com * URL :

Bug#606750: ITP: liblognorm -- Log normalizing library

2010-12-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/11/2010 07:41 AM, Pierre Chifflier wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Chifflierpol...@debian.org * Package name: liblognorm Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Rainer Gerhardsrgerha...@hq.adiscon.com * URL :

Re: [Semi-OT] Cropping a letterbox MPEG-2 file is easy enough...

2010-12-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/11/2010 05:01 AM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 11. 12. 2010 05:03:55 je Ron Johnson napisal(a): (Yes, Handbrake makes the job trivial, but no, I don't want to transcode the file, just crop and save. Disk is cheap and I want to retain DVD quality.) Are you positive that's possible? Wouldn't

Re: [Semi-OT] Cropping a letterbox MPEG-2 file is easy enough...

2010-12-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/11/2010 02:31 AM, Phil Requirements wrote: On 2010-12-10 22:03:55 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: But how do I save the output? After reading the mplayer and ffmpeg man page and Googling, these are the three methods I tried, but none of them work. $ mplayer foo.mpeg -vf crop=720:352:0:64

[Semi-OT] Cropping a letterbox MPEG-2 file is easy enough...

2010-12-10 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, But how do I save the output? After reading the mplayer and ffmpeg man page and Googling, these are the three methods I tried, but none of them work. $ mplayer foo.mpeg -vf crop=720:352:0:64 \ -dumpstream -dumpfile bar.mpeg $ mplayer foo.mpeg -vf crop=720:352:0:64 -o bar.mpeg $

Re: Sound from a java applet running in iceweasel

2010-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/07/2010 12:43 AM, Karl Schmidt wrote: [snip] Here is a java sound test - can anyone get this to work via iceweasel/squeeze on amd64? Where is the Java sound test? -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#605914: ITP: librecad -- 2D CAD program (qt4 port of QCad)

2010-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 11:29 AM, Scott Howard wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Howardshoward...@gmail.com * Package name: librecad Version : 1.0.0beta4 (won't propagate to testing until it's out of beta) Upstream Author : Ries van Twiskr...@vantwisk.nl * URL

Bug#605914: ITP: librecad -- 2D CAD program (qt4 port of QCad)

2010-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/04/2010 12:13 PM, Scott Howard wrote: On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Why the lib? -- Seek truth from facts. Hmm, it's libreCAD (as in free CAD). :) I can't find policy saying it can't be named libre*, but I also can't find any package

Bug#605914: ITP: librecad -- 2D CAD program (qt4 port of QCad)

2010-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 11:29 AM, Scott Howard wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Scott Howardshoward...@gmail.com * Package name: librecad Version : 1.0.0beta4 (won't propagate to testing until it's out of beta) Upstream Author : Ries van Twiskr...@vantwisk.nl * URL

Bug#605914: ITP: librecad -- 2D CAD program (qt4 port of QCad)

2010-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/04/2010 12:13 PM, Scott Howard wrote: On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Why the lib? -- Seek truth from facts. Hmm, it's libreCAD (as in free CAD). :) I can't find policy saying it can't be named libre*, but I also can't find any package

Re: ATI proprietary drivers installation failures

2010-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/29/2010 04:06 AM, dage...@free.fr wrote: - brian m. carlsonsand...@crustytoothpaste.net a écrit : Is your installation i386 with a 64-bit kernel, or is it amd64? Right. In fact ,it is i386 with 64-bit kernel. What it sounds like to me is that you're using a 64-bit kernel on

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/21/2010 08:02 PM, Celejar wrote: [snip] My policy, for stability and privacy, is to run two instances of FF. Using this? $ iceweasel -no-remote -P secondprofilename -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Chromium addons (was Re: Frustration made me do it.)

2010-11-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/18/2010 11:37 PM, Dan Serban wrote: [snip] I now have chromium and claws at my beck and call. Man.. are they ever fast. So, how effective are ABP and Flashblock? I read once that the Chrome ABP doesn't actually *block* ads from loading but simply prevents them from being displayed.

[OT] Software politics (was Re: [Pan-users] Re: Questions about the next release)

2010-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/13/2010 11:08 AM, Duncan wrote: Steve Davies posted on Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:40:07 + as excerpted: I particularly like the Servantware references... FWIW, I've been thinking, on and off, that I need to figure out some reasonable way to explain that such references are a reflection of

Re: [OT] Software politics (was Re: [Pan-users] Re: Questions about the next release)

2010-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/13/2010 06:31 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/13/2010 11:08 AM, Duncan wrote: Steve Davies posted on Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:40:07 + as excerpted: I particularly like the Servantware references... FWIW, I've been thinking, on and off, that I need to figure out

Re: map '-' to '_' and '_' to '-'

2010-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/12/2010 02:38 PM, Mitchell Laks wrote: On 03:02 Fri 12 Nov , Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: While working on my Debian box (which btw is a mix of Lenny and Squeeze), I find that I type the underscore character ('_') more often than the dash character ('-'). It could be file names,

Re: VLC unable to open MRL

2010-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/07/2010 06:36 AM, Matthias Andersson wrote: Hi! I have installed debian and activated the debian-multimedia.org repository. I've installed the gstreamer packages ugly, bad, very bad. I then installed vlc but now when I try to play a .m3p or .avi file in vlc is always gives the error

Re: An experiment about file timestamp

2010-11-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/04/2010 10:23 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Chris Jacksonc.jack...@shadowcat.co.uk writes: File timestamps are (or at least should be) stored in UTC. It's the display of them that's affected. But I did the following experiment: on a computer with system time set to UTC, I created a file

Re: Locales/sort bug

2010-11-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/04/2010 02:29 PM, Rob Gom wrote: Hi all, do you think it's a bug in either libc or coreutils (sort)? $ cat test.csv aph3,APP, aph3_devel,TXT, aph3,MiB, $ LC_ALL=C sort test.csv # expected aph3,APP, aph3,MiB, aph3_devel,TXT, $ LC_ALL=pl_PL sort test.csv # why is that? aph3,APP,

Re: [Partially solved] Re: OpenOffice and the GTK file dialog box

2010-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/02/2010 08:04 PM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 14:46:01 + (UTC) Camaleónnoela...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:18:03 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 09:16:32 -0400 Celejarcele...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 09:31:59 + (UTC) Liam O'Toole

Re: [Partially solved] Re: OpenOffice and the GTK file dialog box

2010-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/03/2010 06:33 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2010-11-03, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 11/02/2010 08:04 PM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 14:46:01 + (UTC) Camaleónnoela...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if already mentioned in this thread, but IIRC that option is only

Re: minimum number of days between password change

2010-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/03/2010 10:41 AM, Robert Brockway wrote: [snip] Personally I don't think much of keeping a record of old password hashes but for a different reason: they are easily circumvented by the user changing their password several times until they can reuse the old one again. Then, instead of

Re: minimum number of days between password change

2010-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/02/2010 03:26 PM, lee wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 06:29:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/01/2010 04:45 PM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Ron: On Monday 01 November 2010 18:49:01 Ron Johnson wrote: [...] If someone learns my password on day 2, they have full access to my account

Re: minimum number of days between password change

2010-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/02/2010 09:58 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 11/2/2010 9:40 PM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, lee: On Tuesday 02 November 2010 21:26:54 lee wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 06:29:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] The way to do it is to have a record in your password db of the hashes

Re: OpenOffice and the GTK file dialog box

2010-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/01/2010 12:55 AM, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:46:11 -0700 Alan Iansonalian...@shaw.ca wrote: ... Tools - options - openoffice.org - general - use openoffice.org dialogue boxes That's my best guess.. :) Great! Now someone just explain to me why that option doesn't

Re: Attaching vs. pastebin for big outputs [was: Re: Installation Size Different - bug ?]

2010-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/01/2010 07:58 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Lu, 01 nov 10, 12:33:17, Camaleón wrote: It could be a Pan/Gmane issue: I see text attachments and images as part of the e-mail message (embedded) not as separate code. In fact, Pan does not even allow sending attachments :-( Ah, I understand

Re: minimum number of days between password change

2010-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/01/2010 11:28 AM, Lukas Baxa wrote: Hi, I created an account guest to test password aging. The aging info of this account is following: chage -l guest Last password change: Nov 01, 2010 Password expires: Jan

Re: minimum number of days between password change

2010-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/01/2010 04:45 PM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Ron: On Monday 01 November 2010 18:49:01 Ron Johnson wrote: [...] If someone learns my password on day 2, they have full access to my account for 74 days, or I must beg for SysAdmin help? Minimum number of days isn't a very bright idea

Re: Suggestion for buying/repairing print

2010-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/31/2010 05:34 AM, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2010 12:13:15 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medinarodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: However, I have now another problem: after cleaning the heads, the print quality remains bad. They told me it may depend on the heads dried or maybe

Re: hostname of remote computer

2010-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/31/2010 02:16 PM, Seb wrote: On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:10:00 +0100, Klistvudquotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: [...] Any name you come up with will work, if hard-coded into your /etc/hosts. Of course, it won't be canonical ... Thanks, so what would make it canonical? Don't get hung up on

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/30/2010 10:34 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat October 30 2010, Camaleón wrote: You can please all the people all the time by allowing the user to be able to be free of using the best e-mail format for every situation. And so it does Thunderbird/Icedove but not Kmail :-( yes, I didn't

Re: [OT] KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/31/2010 08:14 AM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 31. 10. 2010 12:02:39 je Camaleón napisal(a): On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:49:24 +, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 31 October 2010 10:32:24 Camaleón wrote: I don't see how a lack (meaning, inability of choice) can be a good feature ;-( I don't think you

Re: [OT] KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/31/2010 08:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] Come on, we cannot be so hypocrite. In no way html is a bad thing per se, it is an standard, it has it uses and people need that feature. 2400 people need that feature. In business, people *constantly* use html mail in Outlook/Exchange and it's

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/30/2010 05:25 PM, Lisi wrote: [snip] I have finally understood that the rest of you want HTML functionality. I have always thought that KMail's lack of friendliness to HTML is one of its strengths. Options, Lisi, *options*. You can configure Thunderbird to (as I do) ignore html and

Re: [OT] Re: Toner refill

2010-10-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/29/2010 06:24 AM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 29. 10. 2010 12:29:03 je Camaleón napisal(a): Here in Spain, MS is reaching agreements with schools and public institutions in order to provide almost at free of cost (just a symbolic fee) their products (Windows, MS Office...). And the agreement

Re: how to tell what packages are unused on a debian server?

2010-10-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/29/2010 08:17 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: [snip] Another good way to find unused packages is 'popcon-largest-unused' from the popularity-contest package. Thanks! -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: [OT] Re: Toner refill

2010-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/28/2010 01:57 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Camaleón put forth on 10/27/2010 1:05 PM: There are also compatible toner cartridges at lower prices, which I would also avoid :-) There is no reason to avoid these Camaleón. They work just fine. The only difference is that ZERO of the profit

Re: [OT] Re: Toner refill

2010-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/28/2010 03:22 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 10/28/2010 2:14 AM: On 10/28/2010 01:57 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Camaleón put forth on 10/27/2010 1:05 PM: There are also compatible toner cartridges at lower prices, which I would also avoid :-) There is no reason

Re: [OT] Re: Toner refill

2010-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/28/2010 05:48 PM, Doug wrote: [snip] Some years ago, I had a color ink-jet printer from Epson. When it ran dry, I refilled the ink reservoirs from one of the cheapie refill suppliers. The ink clogged up the ink-jets, and since they were inaccessible, I had to throw the printer away. It

JFTA? (was Re: Upgrade to Squeeze failed)

2010-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/26/2010 02:42 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Lu, 25 oct 10, 22:56:03, lrhorer wrote: It might be related to modesetting, which can be disabled by kernel parameters. OK, which parameters. A syntax example would help. JFTA, as far as I know it depends on your hardware, of which you told

Re: Need help choose processor amd64 hardware for running 8-10 debian squeeze guests on a squeeze KVM host

2010-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/26/2010 03:20 AM, Siju George wrote: Hi, I am seeking to purchase an amd64 machines for running guest vms under KVM. There will be 8-10 guests with the following software and services running. guest 1 - nginx and apache, nginx as reverse proxy to apache. guest 2 - varnish cache guest 3 -

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/26/2010 06:10 AM, B. Alexander wrote: Hi all, I figured I would ask for a sanity check here. I'm looking to replace my internal mail server. Right now, I'm running Zimbra 5.0.x, but I have always run on the low end of the hardware requirements, and now, the box I am running on (2.4 GHz

Re: Need help choose processor amd64 hardware for running 8-10 debian squeeze guests on a squeeze KVM host

2010-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/26/2010 07:34 AM, Siju George wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Since you're running master and slave on the same machine, I'm going to guess that this is a development or test box. It is is for a development setup to make sure the

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

2010-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/26/2010 04:08 PM, Jozsef Vadkan wrote: How? The same way you speak into headphones. -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: basic ping diff with windows ping

2010-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/24/2010 02:30 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: Camaleón on 24/10/10 19:50, wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:40:28 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: I asked this before in a thread but the thread just sort of skirting around it - basically what is the ping option to get the last hop to show up doing ping on

Re: basic ping diff with windows ping

2010-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/24/2010 03:54 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: Camaleón on 24/10/10 21:21, wrote: On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:30:51 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: Camaleón on 24/10/10 19:50, wrote: The magic is done when using -I flag. Try: traceroute -I mktgw1.ibllc.com I played around with -I and -T and didn't get

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/23/2010 06:44 AM, lee wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:15:52AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 22 oct 10, 01:25:28, lee wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 04:34:49PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/21/2010 03:48 PM, lee wrote: On a side note: Someone once asked me why the text

Weirdness in ls colorization

2010-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
Here's a window-shot of some auto-colored files. Note how one directory's flacs are colored green and the other directory's flacs are cyan(?). http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/flac_files.png My system is a relatively up-to-date Sid, and I've not fiddled with the colors. $ alias dir

Re: Weirdness in ls colorization

2010-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/23/2010 11:52 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: Here's a window-shot of some auto-colored files. Note how one directory's flacs are colored green and the other directory's flacs are cyan(?). http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/flac_files.png My system is a relatively up-to-date Sid, and I've

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/23/2010 04:17 AM, Scarletdown wrote: I'm having some problems with videos I have made from an external USB capture device. One Linux machine I am testing on fails to play the music from the videos. Instead, I get a bunch of high pitched static. The captures were done on a Windows

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/23/2010 02:09 PM, Scarletdown wrote: On 10/23/10, Scarletdownscarletd...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/23/10, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Are the two Debian boxes the same? I.e., both up-to-date {Stable|Testing|Sid} with the same libraries installed? Hardwarewise, they are

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/23/2010 06:22 PM, Scarletdown wrote: On 10/23/10, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Do you have http://www.debian-multimedia.org in your sources.list? It's there. Yes Do you have libfaad2 installed on the static-playing machine? libfaad2 is on both systems. (2.7-4)

Re: Captured Video Not Producing Sound on Some Systems

2010-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/23/2010 09:24 PM, Scarletdown wrote: Firstly, I want to take a moment to thank both of you people who offered advice for your attempts to help. Embarrassingly, it appears that we were all following the wrong trail in our troubleshooting after all. We all make mistakes like that. --

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

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 12:53 AM, Arthur Machlas wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Andrew Reidrei...@bellatlantic.net wrote: But I'm curious if anyone on the list knows the rationale for distributing kernels with this set to 32. Is that just a reasonable number that's never been updated? Or is

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 09:44 AM, lee wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:24:46PM +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: lee wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:39:22PM +0200, Andreas Weber wrote: On 2010-10-21 22:48, lee wrote: On a side note: Someone once asked me why the text is moving up when you move the

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

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 10:34 AM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: Original Message From: ron.l.john...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian stock kernel config -- CONFIG_NR_CPUS=32? Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:00:45 -0500 Correct. The amount of effort needed for cross-CPU

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 06:47 AM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, postid: On Thursday 21 October 2010 23:49:03 post id wrote: I've set up a minimal system on one of my machines and used no login manager Of course you do. If you weren't using one, you wouldn't be able to log into the system. -- I login

Re: Stopping sound preview

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 05:43 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/22/2010 11:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:21:47 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: I am running latest Squeeze Gnome (2.30), it previews music files when you hover the mouse cursor over the file icon. While sorting out assorted mp3s on

Re: Firefox

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 06:35 PM, Mark wrote: whenever I open up firefox it crashes. I can't figure out why That's not much detail for us to assist you. Did you try running it from an terminal window? -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

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

2010-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/2010 07:08 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: On Friday 22 October 2010 03:22:02 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-10-22 03:15 +0200, Andrew Reid wrote: I recently deployed some new many-core servers at work, with 48 cores each (4x 12 core AMD 6174s), and ran into an issue where the stock Debian

Re: mail-only user accounts

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 02:35 AM, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: What are the best practices for restricting user accounts to e-mail + passwd only? Is allowing SSH access and setting user shell to passwd the way to go? If the machine will just be an email server, I'd look into virtual accounts.

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 07:01 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed October 20 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: If you can get LDAP fully functional (no mean feat for a hobbyist) on your desktop then *maybe* KMail and Kontact on your laptop can see the data on your main machine. I don't use kmail on my laptop, I

Re: XFS and Power Failures [Was: Linux filesystems]

2010-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/21/2010 10:27 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [snip] BTW, a kill -9 ... the application is allowed to do it's own cleanup; Are you sure? SIGKILL is the unignorable die *now*. Or are you confusing it with kill -TERM, which *does* allow cleanup? -- Seek truth from facts. -- To

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