Re: Can't play any youtube videos

[Coolness]

I am still in etch. But, I'll take a shot.

If you upgraded from lenny, and flash was working, perchance you had the
mozilla-flashplayer (I think) pkg instead of the flashplayer-nonfree (I
think)? Because flashplayer-nonfree is broken in lenny. If memory serves,
flashplayer-nonfree will not install if mozilla-flashplayer is present. So
to get the sid pkg now you may have to remove mozilla-flashplayer, then
install flashplayer-nonfree. 

Guessing here.


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> On Sunday 11 May 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 08:54:06AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
>> > Something seems to have happened overnight and now both firefox
>> > (which could play them before) and konqueror (which has always been
>> > a bit dodgy) can't play youtube videos.
>>
>> Did anything change on your machine?
> 
> An update (debian unstable) - but I don't recall any packages associated 
> with video/flash in the update.
> 
> Nothing else
> 
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Re: apt pinning confusion

[Alex Samad]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:59:19PM +1000, Jaime Tarrant wrote:
> Alex Samad wrote:
>> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:08:38AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

[snip]

>>>
>>> Package: *
>>> Pin: release o=Debian, a=experimental
>>> Pin-Priority: 550
>>
>> your numbers seem very high my preferences is
>> package: *  
>>   pin: 
>> release a=unstable  
>>   
>> Pin-Priority: 100   
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>   package: *
>> 
>> pin: release 
>> a=experimental  
>>  Pin-Priority: 50   
>> 
>>

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> The number range -1 thru 1000+ is perfectly acceptable. Excerpt from:
>
> # man 5 apt_preferences
>
> P > 1000
> causes  an  instance  to be installed even if this constitutes a  
> downgrade of the package
>
> 990 < P <=1000
> causes an instance to be installed even if it does not come from
> the target release, unless the installed instance is more recent
>
> 500 < P <=990
> causes an instance to be installed unless there is  an  instance
> available  belonging to the target release or the installed version is  
> more recent
>
> 100 < P <=500
> causes an instance to be installed unless there is  an  instance
> available  belonging to some other distribution or the installed
> version is more recent
>
> 0 <= P <=100
> causes an instance to be installed only if there is no installed
> instance of the package
>
> P < 0  prevents the instance from being installed
>
> -
>
> Hope that helps.
yeah new about that, my meaning was more along the lines of if you are
trying to follow testing then the number he picked might be a bit high
550 for experimental ?
>
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Re: How do I get my Wintv PR USB2 card to work under Debian

[Dave Thayer]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:25:04PM -0400, Norberto Feliberty wrote:

> 
> Hi, I have a PVR USB2 tv card by Hauppauge and would like to know how
> do I enable this device in Debain. I am trying to wath tv with my
> card using vlc but when I try to open the tv card to watch tv, I get
> a message saying Unable to open 'pvr://' How to I check the kernel to
> see if it is enabled in the kernel. Thanks.

The mythtv wiki has a writeup about this device at: 


This would make a good starting point even if you don't intend to
install a full-blown myth setup.

HTH

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Re: apt pinning confusion

[Jaime Tarrant]

Alex Samad wrote:

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:08:38AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:

Historically, I've always used APT::Default-Release to keep my system
sane with multiple repositories, but recently reinstalled a system
because it was getting very crufty. I'm trying to prevent a similar
recurrence, so I now have:

$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Default-Release "testing";
APT::Cache-Limit "25165824";

$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian, a=testing
Pin-Priority: 800

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian, a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian, a=stable
Pin-Priority: 600

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian, a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 550


your numbers seem very high my preferences is
package: *
pin: release a=unstable   
Pin-Priority: 100 
  
  
package: *
pin: release a=experimental   
Pin-Priority: 50  




I also have some additional sources (e.g. security.debian.org) which I'm
assuming are handled properly by the apt defaults. My question is, have
I set things up properly to do what I'm expecting? 


I'm particularly unclear on whether installing something out of unstable
starts tracking that package out of unstable, or whether it simply adds
the package until an equal or higher version is available in testing.

Lastly, is pinning even really necessary here? How does that help me
over simply setting the default release? In practice, I haven't really
seen a difference yet.

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The number range -1 thru 1000+ is perfectly acceptable. Excerpt from:

# man 5 apt_preferences

P > 1000
causes  an  instance  to be installed even if this constitutes a 
downgrade of the package


990 < P <=1000
causes an instance to be installed even if it does not come from
the target release, unless the installed instance is more recent

500 < P <=990
causes an instance to be installed unless there is  an  instance
available  belonging to the target release or the installed version is 
more recent


100 < P <=500
causes an instance to be installed unless there is  an  instance
available  belonging to some other distribution or the installed
version is more recent

0 <= P <=100
causes an instance to be installed only if there is no installed
instance of the package

P < 0  prevents the instance from being installed

-

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Jaime


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Re: Realtek ALC662 microphone on Etch?

[Kevin Mark]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 09:15:06PM +0200, Kum Gabor wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> I've got an Asus M2N-MX motherboard, and sound works well with 2.8.22 kernel 
> from backports. Only I've got one problem: microphone doesn't want to work 
> for me.
> If my information is good, ASUS EEPC has similar sound chip too. Does anybody 
> use this with Etch?
> 
> Regards,
If it uses the same card, you can read what is on wiki.debian.org.
search for 'eeepc' and you should find the Debian EEEPC pages.
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Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [TAG] 2-cent Tip: Poisoning the spammers]

[Sam Leon]

Chris Bannister wrote:

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User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)
From: Ben Okopnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 13:03:36 -0400
To: The Answer Gang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [TAG] 2-cent Tip: Poisoning the spammers

I saw a web page the other day, talking about a cute idea: since the
spammers are always trawling the Net for links and email addresses, why
not give them some nice ones? For a certain value of "nice", that is...

However, when I looked at the implementation of this idea, the author
had put a "badgeware" restriction on using it - not something I could
see doing - so I wrote a version of it from scratch, with a few
refinements. Take a look:

http://okopnik.com/cgi-bin/poison.cgi

A randomly-generated page, with lots of links and addresses - with the
links all pointing back to the script itself (somewhat obscured, so they
don't look exactly the same) so the spammers can harvest even more of
these addresses. Mmm, yummy!

The addresses are made up of a random string "at" a domain made up of
several random words joined together with a random TLD. There is some
tiny chance of it matching a real address, but the probability is pretty
low.

If you want to download this gadget, it's available at
http://okopnik.com/misc/poison.cgi.txt (and, once the next issue of LG
comes out, at 'http://linuxgazette.net/151/misc/lg/poison.cgi.txt'.) I
suggest renaming it to something else :), and linking to it - the link
doesn't have to be visible [1] - from a few of your real webpages. If
enough people started doing this, life would become a lot more pleasant.
Well, not for spammers, but that's the whole point...
 


[1] ' ' at the end of a page should
be invisible but still serve the purpose.





Haha, done!

Sam


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Re: /usr busy after aptitude operations?

[Alex Samad]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 08:53:06PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:03:26AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 07:36:34PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > 
> > > When you mount the filesystem, are all the standard options active or
> > > do you mount it noatime?  I don't know if it matters.
> > 
> > I'm mounting it with relatime. Mount says:
> > 
> > /usr type xfs (rw,relatime,barrier,logbufs=8)
> > 
[snip]

seeing as the original question was about running apt (aptitude), why
not set up an alias for apt or aptitude like so

TMP=/var/tmp aptitude

or find some other sutable location which has exec or rw access'

I realise this doesn't help with remounting /usr or /... as rw
> 
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Re: Clearing SWAP

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 11/05/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  The drive for individual happiness instead of
>  societal happiness is one of the key differences between Canadian
>  culture, as a whole, and American culture, as a whole.

That bunch of commie, tree-hugging, bilingual, polycultural, liberal,
flower power, hippies from Montréal were the ones who first introduced
me to Debian, so there may be something to what you say. Matter of
fact, when I left free software-friendly Mtl and went to other parts
of the world, I was surprised to see that not everyone embraced free
software as much as the Montrealers. I had my innocence taken from me
by the rest of the world. Tragically.

I do think that this whole "whatever is profitable is moral" mentality
to be strongly USian, but certainly not unique to them. It seems
common amongst other conquering, colonialist, warring nations.

Let's not talk about the common mentality of my native Mexico, where
we're like crabs in a bucket. Ever seen a bunch of crabs trying to get
out of a bucket, stepping over everyone else, the ones on top being
dragged by the ones on the bottom, and none of them getting out? Yeah,
let's not talk about that. :-)

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xkb problem after the last lenny update

[Alexandru Cardaniuc]

Hi All!

After the last lenny update, everytime I restart end enter gnome a
window pops up:



Error activating XKB configuration.

It can happen under various circumstances:

- a bug in libxklavier library

- a bug in X server (xkbcomp, xmodmap utilities)

- X server with incompatible libxkbfile implementation

X server version data:
The X.Org Foundation
10400090

If you report this situation as a bug, please include:

- The result of xprop -root | grep XKB

- The result of gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd



Is that a known bug? How do I get rid of this message?

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Re: VNC / Vino / tightVNC question

[Jeff]

Asuka Langley wrote:

Good day / Guten tag / Konnichiwa / Siema / Hola ..and so on..

Long: Sorry for asking a lot of things, but I have a problem again. I 
tried EVERY VNC server/client what were in the repo. So. My friend 
started a vnc server, thats okay. I tried to join, and it says 
'connection closed' (I google-d it, it said its because the Viewer is 
v3, the server is v4)...nevermind, I tried to use then the 'VINO' 
inbuilt VNC viewer. (what is just calls the vncviewer again). So.. 
please tell me. How can we get a WORKING VNC connection between TWO 
Debian Lenny? ... Or at least..how to 'start' the vino VNC?..Or 
something like that? In default it just have 2 protocoll, what we were 
tried, but both of em failed. After the VNC install, a VNC protocoll was 
avaliable, I tried it, but thats what calls the other app...what is 
hopeless..


Short: How can I connect 2 Debian Lenny PC with VNC? (Join to the server 
from mine).. both of them is 32bit, not amd64..ah..and ..the two Lenny 
have Gnome.


ps.: Sorry for the long explanation .. I hope you can understand the 
meaning of the mail..


Asuka


Just install vnc4server on the server(s) and xvnc4viewer on the 
client(s).  When you try to connect, monitor /var/log/syslog to watch 
for rejected or dropped packets and, if any are encountered, adjust 
firewall accordingly.


jeff


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Re: /usr busy after aptitude operations?

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:03:26AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 07:36:34PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> 
> > When you mount the filesystem, are all the standard options active or
> > do you mount it noatime?  I don't know if it matters.
> 
> I'm mounting it with relatime. Mount says:
> 
> /usr type xfs (rw,relatime,barrier,logbufs=8)
> 
> I'm not sure why that should matter, though.
> 
> > What happens if you do the remounting pre/post manually instead?
> 
> $ sudo mount -o remount,ro /usr
> mount: /usr is busy
> 
> Since I can't do it manually, I'm not surprised it can't be done by apt,
> but some of the questions people are asking make me wonder if it's an
> interaction between XFS and apt, or if it's a problem with ext3 as well.
> I have no way to test it; maybe someone else can chime in on that.
> 
> > I used to have /usr and /boot mounted ro routinely in Sarge with no
> > problem.
> 
> Me, too, which is why this is annoying me tremendously.

I just su - , and ran:

# mount -o,ro,remount /usr

then ran

# mount

and saw that /usr was mounted ro, then ran

# mount -o,rw,remount /usr

and had it remounted rw, no problem.

Doug.


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Re: Clearing SWAP

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:31:48AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old
> virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a
> banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiener".
 

Why does your crystal ball work as a mirror?

:)

Doug.


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Re: Clearing SWAP

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:27:32AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/11/08 06:57, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:04:33AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On 05/10/08 10:07, Chris Bannister wrote:
> >>> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:37:40PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>  I'm sure there are those *cough*Paul Johnson*cough* who'd love to do
>  just that, most of us know that profit makes the world go 'round.
>  The rest vote Green...
> >>> That's not what the science books say.
> >> Don't be dense.
> > 
> > You have mangled the phrase "money makes the world go round" to suit
> > yourself. Confusing revenue with profit is not to be encouraged. 
> 
> I don't think that you and I are going to agree about this.
> 
> >>> Greed will be our downfall.
> >> Greed is ingrained into all humans.  Getting rid of it is as
> >> impossible as preventing the earth from spinning.
> > 
> > No, its not "ingrained" in *all* humans, that's a blatant generalisation
> > which is plain wrong. 
> 
> Well, ok, you're correct.  "All" is too big of a word.  "Most",
> then.  And a good number of those who think they aren't, could
> easily become greedy with a little influence.

I think its a cultural thing.  Perhaps you mean that greed is ingrained
in most Americans.  The drive for individual happiness instead of
societal happiness is one of the key differences between Canadian
culture, as a whole, and American culture, as a whole.  Perhaps you find
a difference east/west within the USA; there is in Canada.  Eastern
Canada has more in common (including relatives) with Eastern US than
with Western Canada.  Alberta is more akin to Texas and the Gulph States
than any other Canadian province.  B.C, is more related to the West
Coast States than to the Maritimes even though they are both on the
ocean.

Is green ingrained in all of those cultures?  No.  In Canada, it is most
ingrained in Alberta culture and least in Newfoundland's culture.
(excluding the areas of Canada north of 60 which are a world apart.  95%
of Canadians live within 200 miles of the US boarder).  Also excuding
Toronto since its a world unto itself as well with Canada's richest and
poorest citizens.

Doug.


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Re: Blue movies - literally!

[Raj Kiran Grandhi]

Ron Johnson wrote:

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On 05/11/08 19:48, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:

andy wrote:

I am attempting to play a video file, but the image is just varying
shades of blue. I had this once before and logged out and back in,
which cleared it temporarily. However, now it has come back again.
This is despite the mediaplayer I am using - kaffeine or mplayer or
vlc. What do I look for to even debug it?

Thanks

A


It could be a hardware issue. Try changing the video output driver to a
software based one (`-vo x11 -zoom' in mplayer should do) and see if it
helps.


Or blow the dust out of the computer case.


Wow! How could you see my computer from there? :-)



Alternatively, you can try playing from a newly created user account to
check if it has anything to do with your configuration setup.




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Re: VNC / Vino / tightVNC question

[Raj Kiran Grandhi]

Asuka Langley wrote:

Good day / Guten tag / Konnichiwa / Siema / Hola ..and so on..

Long: Sorry for asking a lot of things, but I have a problem again. I 
tried EVERY VNC server/client what were in the repo. So. My friend 
started a vnc server, thats okay. I tried to join, and it says 
'connection closed' (I google-d it, it said its because the Viewer is 
v3, the server is v4)...nevermind, I tried to use then the 'VINO' 
inbuilt VNC viewer. (what is just calls the vncviewer again). So.. 
please tell me. How can we get a WORKING VNC connection between TWO 
Debian Lenny? ... Or at least..how to 'start' the vino VNC?..Or 
something like that? In default it just have 2 protocoll, what we were 
tried, but both of em failed. After the VNC install, a VNC protocoll was 
avaliable, I tried it, but thats what calls the other app...what is 
hopeless..


Short: How can I connect 2 Debian Lenny PC with VNC? (Join to the server 
from mine).. both of them is 32bit, not amd64..ah..and ..the two Lenny 
have Gnome.


ps.: Sorry for the long explanation .. I hope you can understand the 
meaning of the mail..


Asuka


I am assuming that you want to access the physical display of the 
server. Use can use the builtin vino server (assuming you are using 
gnome). You can configure it by running `vino-preferences'. You should 
"Allow other users to view your desktop" for the vino-server to start.


Then, install the xvnc4viewer package on the client to connect to the 
server.


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problem occurs after upgrading to lenny

[Pete Kay]

Hi,

I tried to upgrade to Lenny because Lenny has the latest Lua 5.3 version,
but after I did the upgrade, not only Lua 5.3 is not installed, but apt-get
starting to pop up errors every time I use it:

ser:/home/anne# apt-get install lua50
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
lua50 is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libpci2 libgail17 libgcj7-0 type-handling libsoup2.2-8 libwnck18
  libpoppler0c2 libdirectfb-0.9-25 libeel2-2.14 libiw28 libgucharmap4
  libmyspell3c2 libsnmp9 mkisofs libavahi-core4
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ...
Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of at:
 at depends on mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is not
configured yet.
dpkg: error processing at (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4:
 exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy |
exim4-daemon-custom; however:
  Package exim4-daemon-light is not configured yet.
  Package exim4-daemon-heavy is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-custom is not installed.
dpkg: error processing exim4 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bsd-mailx:
 bsd-mailx depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package exim4 is not configured yet.
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is not
configured yet.
dpkg: error processing bsd-mailx (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mailx:
 mailx depends on bsd-mailx; however:
  Package bsd-mailx is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mailx (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 exim4-daemon-light
 at
 exim4
 bsd-mailx
 mailx
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ser:/home/anne#


What is wrong?  How can I fix this?

Thanks
Pete

Re: Blue movies - literally!

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On 05/11/08 19:48, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> andy wrote:
>> I am attempting to play a video file, but the image is just varying
>> shades of blue. I had this once before and logged out and back in,
>> which cleared it temporarily. However, now it has come back again.
>> This is despite the mediaplayer I am using - kaffeine or mplayer or
>> vlc. What do I look for to even debug it?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> A
>>
> 
> It could be a hardware issue. Try changing the video output driver to a
> software based one (`-vo x11 -zoom' in mplayer should do) and see if it
> helps.

Or blow the dust out of the computer case.

> Alternatively, you can try playing from a newly created user account to
> check if it has anything to do with your configuration setup.
> 


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Re: Blue movies - literally!

[Raj Kiran Grandhi]

andy wrote:
I am attempting to play a video file, but the image is just varying 
shades of blue. I had this once before and logged out and back in, which 
cleared it temporarily. However, now it has come back again. This is 
despite the mediaplayer I am using - kaffeine or mplayer or vlc. What do 
I look for to even debug it?


Thanks

A



It could be a hardware issue. Try changing the video output driver to a 
software based one (`-vo x11 -zoom' in mplayer should do) and see if it 
helps.


Alternatively, you can try playing from a newly created user account to 
check if it has anything to do with your configuration setup.


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Re: mailman install trouble

[al davis]

On Thursday 08 May 2008, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> >     * From: al davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >When I do "sudo apt-get install mailman" .. it gets as far
> > as the language selection, and then loops.
> >ideas?
>
> [naive idea] try changing the debconf interface: for example,
> from dialog to text or whatever

That got it to install.   I changed it from editor to readline.

Although it installed, it still didn't work without lots of 
fiddling.  The README files told about some of it, but still, I 
had to change some permissions in ways other than what was 
documented.  I did enough fiddling that I am not sure what I 
did and what was really necessary.

I don't know why to took so much fiddling.  Maybe there is too 
much cruft on the machine.  Maybe I missed something.  Maybe I 
messed up something a while back, and fiddled to work around 
it.


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Realtek ALC662 microphone on Etch?

[Kum Gabor]

Hi All!

I've got an Asus M2N-MX motherboard, and sound works well with 2.8.22 kernel 
from backports. Only I've got one problem: microphone doesn't want to work 
for me.
If my information is good, ASUS EEPC has similar sound chip too. Does anybody 
use this with Etch?

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Re: ALSA dumping to term

[i'll teach you to turn away.]

Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FK> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 04:55:21 +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
>>   hi guys. i just upgraded to kernel 2.6.25 & am now seeing a ton of 
>> garbage from ALSA dumping to my terminal & syslog. whenever i play an mp3 
>> ALSA sound/isa/cs423x/cs4231_lib.c:190: codec out - reg 0x10 = 0x80
>> ALSA sound/isa/cs423x/cs4231_lib.c:190: codec out - reg 0xe = 0xc
FK> Did you enable CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_DETECT?

hah, i sure did. damn. is there a way to disable it when loading a 
module or is my only choice to recompile? thanks.

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Re: /usr busy after aptitude operations?

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> The filesystem has to be written to after the inodes are freed, i.e.
> the offending process that kept them open has exited.  You would end
> up with inodes that have a link count of 0, i.e. lost space on the
> device, if the system would not do that.

Turns out you're right on the money:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/11/threads.html#00212
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html

so I decided to go with this:

Dpkg::Pre-Invoke {
"/bin/mount -o remount,rw /usr"; 
"/bin/mount -o remount,rw /boot";
"/bin/mount -o remount,exec /tmp"; 
};
Dpkg::Post-Invoke {
"/bin/mount -o remount,ro /usr || echo 'Warning: /usr is busy: try 
killing X'";
"/bin/mount -o remount,ro /boot";
"/bin/mount -o remount,noexec /tmp"; 
};

At least now it attempts to remount ro, and gives a sensible error if it
can't without causing apt to stop processing.

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Re: apt pinning confusion

[Alex Samad]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:08:38AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> Historically, I've always used APT::Default-Release to keep my system
> sane with multiple repositories, but recently reinstalled a system
> because it was getting very crufty. I'm trying to prevent a similar
> recurrence, so I now have:
> 
> $ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
> APT::Default-Release "testing";
> APT::Cache-Limit "25165824";
> 
> $ cat /etc/apt/preferences
> Package: *
> Pin: release o=Debian, a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 800
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release o=Debian, a=unstable
> Pin-Priority: 700
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release o=Debian, a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 600
> 
> Package: *
> Pin: release o=Debian, a=experimental
> Pin-Priority: 550

your numbers seem very high my preferences is
package: *  
  
pin: release a=unstable 
  
Pin-Priority: 100   
  

  

  
package: *  
  
pin: release a=experimental 
  
Pin-Priority: 50
  


> 
> I also have some additional sources (e.g. security.debian.org) which I'm
> assuming are handled properly by the apt defaults. My question is, have
> I set things up properly to do what I'm expecting? 
> 
> I'm particularly unclear on whether installing something out of unstable
> starts tracking that package out of unstable, or whether it simply adds
> the package until an equal or higher version is available in testing.
> 
> Lastly, is pinning even really necessary here? How does that help me
> over simply setting the default release? In practice, I haven't really
> seen a difference yet.
> 
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Re: cropped fonts

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On 05/11/08 10:31, Micha wrote:
> I have an issue with my friends laptop that I'm trying to set up with debian
> (unstable). For some reason the fonts are cropped from the top. I tried
> removing font hinting and it greatly improved things but hasn't solved it
> completely. Changing dpi doesn't seem to help (at most it changes which 
> letters
> are cropped). removing antialiasing for fonts does solve the problem but they
> look terrible.
> 
> The machine is a dell vosotro 1400 with intel graphics gm965 with the intel
> driver on a 14.1 inch screen and 1280x800 resolution.

I see that occasionally.  Usually in Iceweasel & Icedove.  Scrolling
up and back down "fixes" the problem.

This might not be what you are referring to, though.

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cropped fonts

[Micha]

I have an issue with my friends laptop that I'm trying to set up with debian
(unstable). For some reason the fonts are cropped from the top. I tried
removing font hinting and it greatly improved things but hasn't solved it
completely. Changing dpi doesn't seem to help (at most it changes which letters
are cropped). removing antialiasing for fonts does solve the problem but they
look terrible.

The machine is a dell vosotro 1400 with intel graphics gm965 with the intel
driver on a 14.1 inch screen and 1280x800 resolution.

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Re: How to install a font?

[Sjoerd Hiemstra]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> When I was a Mandrake Linux user, a couple of years ago, I used to
> put the file `simsun.ttf' in the directory
> `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF', then add the following lines to the
> files `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.dir' and
> `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.scale':
>
>simsun.ttf -misc-SimSun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-ascii-0
 
>
> , and this way the font was ready to be used on my system.  Now, on
> my Debian Etch box the directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF' does
> not exist.  Please can anybody suggest how the above procedure is to
> be adapted with Debian Etch?

This is obsolete. Thanks to fontconfig, installing a font has become a
lot simpler.
Just put simsun.ttf into /usr/local/share/fonts (system wide) or
~/.fonts (for a user), that's all.


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Re: How to install a font?

[Nicolas George]

Le tridi 23 floréal, an CCXVI, Rodolfo Medina a écrit :
> When I was a Mandrake Linux user, a couple of years ago, I used to put the
> file `simsun.ttf' in the directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF'

This directory is in the realm of the package manager: adding a file in it
directly was not a good idea.

> Please can anybody suggest how the above procedure is to be adapted with
> Debian Etch?

For which applications do you want that font available? If all "modern"
applications are enough, it is probably sufficient to put the file somewhere
in /usr/local/share/fonts/ (which is not in the realm of the package
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VNC / Vino / tightVNC question

[Asuka Langley]

Good day / Guten tag / Konnichiwa / Siema / Hola ..and so on..

Long: Sorry for asking a lot of things, but I have a problem again. I tried
EVERY VNC server/client what were in the repo. So. My friend started a vnc
server, thats okay. I tried to join, and it says 'connection closed' (I
google-d it, it said its because the Viewer is v3, the server is
v4)...nevermind, I tried to use then the 'VINO' inbuilt VNC viewer. (what is
just calls the vncviewer again). So.. please tell me. How can we get a
WORKING VNC connection between TWO Debian Lenny? ... Or at least..how to
'start' the vino VNC?..Or something like that? In default it just have 2
protocoll, what we were tried, but both of em failed. After the VNC install,
a VNC protocoll was avaliable, I tried it, but thats what calls the other
app...what is hopeless..

Short: How can I connect 2 Debian Lenny PC with VNC? (Join to the server
from mine).. both of them is 32bit, not amd64..ah..and ..the two Lenny have
Gnome.

ps.: Sorry for the long explanation .. I hope you can understand the meaning
of the mail..

Asuka

How to install a font?

[Rodolfo Medina]

Hi.

When I was a Mandrake Linux user, a couple of years ago, I used to put the
file `simsun.ttf' in the directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF', then add
the following lines to the files `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.dir' and
`/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.scale':
   
   simsun.ttf -misc-SimSun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-ascii-0
   simsun.ttf -misc-SimSun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0
   simsun.ttf -misc-SimSun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gbk-0
   simsun.ttf -misc-SimSun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-ibm-cp850
   simsun.ttf -misc-SimSun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso10646-1
   simsun.ttf -misc-SimSun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-1
   simsun.ttf -misc-SimSun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso8859-15
   simsun.ttf -misc-SimSun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-koi8-r
   simsun.ttf -misc-SimSun-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5.eten-0

, and this way the font was ready to be used on my system.  Now, on my Debian
Etch box the directory `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF' does not exist.  Please
can anybody suggest how the above procedure is to be adapted with Debian Etch?

Thanks for any help
Rodolfo


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Re: decoding ape_audiofiles

[mond]

On May 11, 7:50 am, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi list is there a (debian) way to decode .apefiles into .flac or .wav
> under etch? just to decode some fine jazz-music by tommy flanagan.
>
> imo i need the mac-library, but this software seems to be unfree
> i know of shntool, lame etc.
>
> regards,
>
> steef
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http://www.debian-multimedia.org
has mac library I think. Try it out.


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Re: decoding ape_audiofiles

[steef]

Nicolas George wrote:

Le tridi 23 floréal, an CCXVI, steef a écrit :
  
hi list is there a (debian) way to decode .apefiles into .flac or .wav 
under etch? just to decode some fine jazz-music by tommy flanagan.


imo i need the mac-library, but this software seems to be unfree
i know of shntool, lame etc.



There is a Free monkeyaudio (= .ape) decoder in libavcodec/ffmpeg. I was
about to says that it was twice slower than the proprietary official
decoder, but I just re-did a benchmark and found exactly the same decoding
time, so either my memory was wrong or its performance has increased.

This decoder was merged in libavcodec last September; current Debian version
of libavcodec dates back to last March: you will have ti build your own.
Which is advisable anyway, since the Debian version lacks a lot of encoders.

Regards,

  

thanks nicolas,

i 'll do just that.

regards,

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Re: decoding ape_audiofiles

[Nicolas George]

Le tridi 23 floréal, an CCXVI, steef a écrit :
> hi list is there a (debian) way to decode .apefiles into .flac or .wav 
> under etch? just to decode some fine jazz-music by tommy flanagan.
>
> imo i need the mac-library, but this software seems to be unfree
> i know of shntool, lame etc.

There is a Free monkeyaudio (= .ape) decoder in libavcodec/ffmpeg. I was
about to says that it was twice slower than the proprietary official
decoder, but I just re-did a benchmark and found exactly the same decoding
time, so either my memory was wrong or its performance has increased.

This decoder was merged in libavcodec last September; current Debian version
of libavcodec dates back to last March: you will have ti build your own.
Which is advisable anyway, since the Debian version lacks a lot of encoders.

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Blue movies - literally!

[andy]

I am attempting to play a video file, but the image is just varying 
shades of blue. I had this once before and logged out and back in, which 
cleared it temporarily. However, now it has come back again. This is 
despite the mediaplayer I am using - kaffeine or mplayer or vlc. What do 
I look for to even debug it?


Thanks

A

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Re: hostname question

[Paul Johnson]

On Sunday 11 May 2008 12:02:12 am Pete Kay wrote:

> I am currently having 3 servers in the lan which is using dynamic IP
> addresses.  Each time the router is rebooted, I have to reconfigure all the
> db ips and server ips.
>
> Therefore, I want to assign host name to each machine such as "db" , "ser"
> etc, so that I don't use 192.168.x.x in my configure anymore.
>
> Is this something that can be done?  Could someone please give me some
> pointer on how to do it?

You should be able to configure static host assignments in DHCP with your 
router, though you might have to change firmware entirely.
http://www.dd-wrt.com/

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apt pinning confusion

[Todd A. Jacobs]

Historically, I've always used APT::Default-Release to keep my system
sane with multiple repositories, but recently reinstalled a system
because it was getting very crufty. I'm trying to prevent a similar
recurrence, so I now have:

$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Default-Release "testing";
APT::Cache-Limit "25165824";

$ cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian, a=testing
Pin-Priority: 800

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian, a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian, a=stable
Pin-Priority: 600

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian, a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 550

I also have some additional sources (e.g. security.debian.org) which I'm
assuming are handled properly by the apt defaults. My question is, have
I set things up properly to do what I'm expecting? 

I'm particularly unclear on whether installing something out of unstable
starts tracking that package out of unstable, or whether it simply adds
the package until an equal or higher version is available in testing.

Lastly, is pinning even really necessary here? How does that help me
over simply setting the default release? In practice, I haven't really
seen a difference yet.

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Re: /usr busy after aptitude operations?

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 07:36:34PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

> When you mount the filesystem, are all the standard options active or
> do you mount it noatime?  I don't know if it matters.

I'm mounting it with relatime. Mount says:

/usr type xfs (rw,relatime,barrier,logbufs=8)

I'm not sure why that should matter, though.

> What happens if you do the remounting pre/post manually instead?

$ sudo mount -o remount,ro /usr
mount: /usr is busy

Since I can't do it manually, I'm not surprised it can't be done by apt,
but some of the questions people are asking make me wonder if it's an
interaction between XFS and apt, or if it's a problem with ext3 as well.
I have no way to test it; maybe someone else can chime in on that.

> I used to have /usr and /boot mounted ro routinely in Sarge with no
> problem.

Me, too, which is why this is annoying me tremendously.

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Re: GRUB device numbers/names, use of device.map (Re: migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA drive)

[Paul Csanyi]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Am 2008-05-10 um 07:01 schrieb Paul Csanyi:
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>
>>> By the way, if you have a floppy drive, you can install GRUB on a
>>> floppy too, then you have a GRUB emergency disk which lets you
>>> perform operation such as those you described (in the GRUB shell)
>>> (for cases of drive failure etc.).
>>>
>>> -Moritz
>>
>> That shall I to do, or maybe there is an alternative option, say to
>> install GRUB on the USB stick as emergency disk?

Now, when I have finally installed GRUB on the sda so I can to boot
with it the Debian Etch that is on the sdb, I can use Debian Etch
Netinstall CD in rescue mode.

I run a shall in the rescue mode on the root partition of the Debian
Etch system (on the sdb). There I chroot target/ , mount /usr/ and run
grub:

grub> root (hd1,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit

> Another tip is to type something like "root (" + tab, it will give
> you all of possible devices, then complete the name of one device
> and use tab again, GRUB should then tell you which file system is on
> that disk which might so help you.

The tip that you wrote down abowe is helpful.

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Re: Debian-User To UseNet Reliability?

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On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 07:50:43 -0400, Doug Mitton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 

> And, no, so far I am not subscribed either.  This thread is a good test  
> and it appears as long as I remember to use a valid (though disposable)  
> "From" address it works.

But something is not quite right, as my mail client (mutt) is marking
all of your follow-ups to this thread with an asterisk character
because your follow-up messages do not include the appropriate
'In-Reply-To' and/or 'References' headers.  

The threading is working but based solely on the subject line.

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Re: vmware questions

[Carl Fink]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 06:39:53PM +0200, Chris wrote:
> On Saturday 10 May 2008, Carl Fink wrote:

> Having used both: how would you rate VMware vs. VirtualBox for running the 
> occasional Windows program in a Guest system?  I've been using VMware Player 
> for quite a while now an been quite impressed with it.

VMWare was (for me) somewhat easier to set up, because of Converter.  They
both work well. (I have them on different computers.)  I like the VirtualBox
interface better, and it seems to perform better when a Windows application
is doing heavy I/O, but that might be an artifact of running it on a
somewhat faster computer. VBox handles full-screen better.

As I posted here, I couldn't make booting off the Windows DVD work propertly
in VirtualBox. 

In practice they're very similar programs and either is more than adequate.

Note: theoretically Converter images can work with VirtualBox, but it did
not actually work correctly in my one trial.
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Re: gst-launch-0.10 can not play dts wav

[mond]

On May 11, 6:00 am, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:11:49 -0700, mond wrote:
> > Hi, I have some dts wav files. I try to play them with rhythmbox or
> > some other player. But none of them can play it properly.
>
> > I have gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad/good/ugly/ffmpeg installed. But, gst-
> > launch-0.10 playbin uri="file:///home/mond/sample.wav"  only gives
> > noise.
>
> > So, it seems that gstreamer does not decode dts. But, it should
> > support dts decoding according some other source.
>
> > Now, what should I do to make it work?
>
> Have you tried "gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad" or "ogmrip"? (Both
> these packages are available for Sid from debian-multimedia.)
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Yes. Actually, I installed really-bad and full-ffmpeg. But no lucky.
Mplayer can play dts wav properly with libdca. I just want gstreamer
to do the same thing, so banshee can play the music.


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Re: Clearing SWAP

[Ron Johnson]

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On 05/11/08 08:29, Curt Howland wrote:
>> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:37:40PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> The BSD License allowed the Unix Wars to take place.
> 
> Taco Bell won the Franchise Wars.

I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old
virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a
banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiener".

> Which certainly clears out _my_ swap space, I'll tell you.

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Re: Clearing SWAP

[Ron Johnson]

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On 05/11/08 06:57, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:04:33AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 05/10/08 10:07, Chris Bannister wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:37:40PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
 I'm sure there are those *cough*Paul Johnson*cough* who'd love to do
 just that, most of us know that profit makes the world go 'round.
 The rest vote Green...
>>> That's not what the science books say.
>> Don't be dense.
> 
> You have mangled the phrase "money makes the world go round" to suit
> yourself. Confusing revenue with profit is not to be encouraged. 

I don't think that you and I are going to agree about this.

>>> Greed will be our downfall.
>> Greed is ingrained into all humans.  Getting rid of it is as
>> impossible as preventing the earth from spinning.
> 
> No, its not "ingrained" in *all* humans, that's a blatant generalisation
> which is plain wrong. 

Well, ok, you're correct.  "All" is too big of a word.  "Most",
then.  And a good number of those who think they aren't, could
easily become greedy with a little influence.

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Re: vmware questions

[Chris]

On Saturday 10 May 2008, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:13:58PM +0100, John O Laoi wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >  However, I now need to use an application, as part of a course I am
> > doing,
> >
> > which only runs on Windows.
> >
> >
> >  So, I've decided to put vmware on etch and run XP from that.
>
> Exactly what I did (except on Lenny).
>
> [snip]
>
> >  However, I think that it might be better if I proceed by
> >
> > (1) creating a vmware image of my existing XP, (as it has all of the
> > drivers etc. for my hardware.)
>
> Your hardware is not relevant.  VMWare fakes up different hardware for
> guests.  This will mean that you'll have to activate Windows again.
>
> [snip]
>
> >anybody got any links on how to achieve (1) above
>
> http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/
>
> Converter is dead easy.  Just ignore the program's insistence that you boot
> off a separate CD-ROM and go ahead and install it.
>
> >2.
> >
> >What vmware software should I install? I see that there is
> >vmware-desktop, wmware-player, vmware-server etc. and I'm confused.
> > Any good links on how to install this?
>
> VMWare Workstation.
>
> >3.
> >
> >How will I get that vmware to open the XP image ? is it just a matter
> > of File|Open?
>
> On my box I used "vmplayer WinXPHome/WinXPHome.vmx"
>
> >4.
> >
> >I see that there is no debian package for vmware. Will installing it
> >interfere with aptitude?
>
> No, it won't.  It isn't packaged because it isn't Free Software, but the
> installer works fine under Lenny, at least.
>
> It works great for me.  I've also got VirtualBox going on another computer,
> and that also works and DOES have a Debian package, if you prefer.
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Having used both: how would you rate VMware vs. VirtualBox for running the 
occasional Windows program in a Guest system?  I've been using VMware Player 
for quite a while now an been quite impressed with it.

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Re: Clearing SWAP

[Ron Johnson]

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On 05/11/08 08:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:15:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 05/10/08 17:28, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:42:11PM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
 On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:43:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> [snip]
> And a workstation running OpenVMS was considered so unhackable at
> DEFCON9 that it wasn't allowed back the next year.
 and VMS, unlike unix, since the beginning was planned with solid
 security in mind. In the times where classification into A,B,C,D
 security made sense, there were VMS B-certified machines (the maximum
 level, except for the lack of a formal mathemetical proof of that level
 of security). And Digital never had to hide the code from the eyes of
 the world, so that everybody could know the quality of the code (any
 reference to proprietary software widely used today, and which is not of
 the same level of quality as VMS, is purely wanted).
>>> I'll have to look at OpenVMS.  Is it still maintained?
>> Sure.  HP still makes lots of money off of it.
>>
>>>  Will it run on
>>> my old 486?
>> Well, no.  But you might find a VAXstation of similar power on Ebay.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> I had a look at the wikipedia article for OpenVMS.  It seems that the
> Open is a misnomer.

It uses open, published, standard protocols and APIs.  Thus, by a
very reasonable definition, it is "open".

And the source code is available, too, but I'm not sure if you have
to be a VMS licensee.

> Is anybody working on an OpenOpenVMS?

http://www.systella.fr/~bertrand/FreeVMS/indexGB.html

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Re: Clearing SWAP

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> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:37:40PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > The BSD License allowed the Unix Wars to take place.

Taco Bell won the Franchise Wars.



Which certainly clears out _my_ swap space, I'll tell you.




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Re: hostname question

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 03:02:12PM +0800, Pete Kay wrote:
> I am currently having 3 servers in the lan which is using dynamic IP
> addresses.  Each time the router is rebooted, I have to reconfigure all the
> db ips and server ips.
> 
> Therefore, I want to assign host name to each machine such as "db" , "ser"
> etc, so that I don't use 192.168.x.x in my configure anymore.
> 
> Is this something that can be done?  Could someone please give me some
> pointer on how to do it?

The difficulty is that you would need to keep updating the DNS server
with the hostname/IP mapping every time the router is rebooted.  

If its a rare event and you want just one config file to change, then
pick one of your boxes as the DNS server and install dnsmasq.  Then put
the hostname/IP mappings in that boxe's /etc/hosts file.  Have all the
other boxes use this box as their DNS server.

Alternatively, instead of as you have now (I think):

router/DHCPserver
|
__
||   |
box1   box2box3


You could do either use one of your boxes as a router (if it has the
capacity) or add a third box of your own which you control between the
router and the network.  But then what would be the point of the
commercial router?  What does this router do other than dhcp and a
switch?

I've never owned a commercial router.

Doug.


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Re: Strange msgs in syslog

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 08:02:09PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> I have just noticed that syslog on my firewall contains 
> hundreds if not thousands of messages like this.
> 
> Do they indicate an error of some kind?
> 
> If not, how do I turn them off?
> 
> kernel: BANDWIDTH_IN:IN=eth1 OUT= 
> MAC=00:10:b5:bf:2f:3c:00:0c:f1:a2:cf:0e:08:00 
> SRC=192.168.1.1 DST=192.168.10.1 LEN=61 TOS=0x00 
> PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=48305 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=43182 DPT=53 
> LEN=41

Lets break this down.  Your firewall (whatever software you use only
configures the kernel iptables which then does the logging) is logging
these because there's a rule to log packets like this.

This packet came from 192.168.1.1 and went to 192.168.10.1

This suggests that this is to and from one of your own boxes since
192.168 is a local IP set.

The protocol is UDP and the destination port is 53.  /etc/services shows
that UDP/53 is a DNS server.

Do you have a DNS server running on box 192.168.10.1?  Do you have
192.168.1.1 configured to send DNS requests to 192.168.10.1?

If the network is working, it suggests that you have your firewall
configured to pass these packets but to log them.  Given that anything
you do that uses a hostname or domain name will generate a DNS request,
I can imaging that your logs would fill up with this.

If this seems like the correct scenario, you only have to fix your
firewall's rules.

Doug.


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Re: fsck.ext3 -yv /dev/sda1 on 1 terabyte partition

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:37:37PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> On 19:19 Sat 10 May , Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 06:58:02PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> > > On 07:24 Fri 09 May , NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> > > > > * From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > >Does anyone know how much memory fsck needs to check a large 
> > > > >filesystem?
> 
> I had only 1G ram, but the raid was a 1T hardware raid.
> 
> > 
> > I don't suppose you know how much memory it used?  If your / fs isn't 1
> > TB, and you have 24 hrs to spend, you could check just that 1 TB
> > filesysem with top (or something) running and see.
> 
> I did peak once via ssh while I was running fsck.ext3 (at that
> time which was close to hour 20 ). As I recall I thought I would see
> large numbers in the %cpu and %mem columns. I dont remember
> exactly what I saw, but it was something like 10% cpu  and 10% mem
> but I can't swear. It certainly was not hogging more. I perhaps should
> have done something with nice to make it more agressive...

Nice wouldn't have helped; it was probably waiting on IO.

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Re: Clearing SWAP

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 09:15:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/10/08 17:28, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:42:11PM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:43:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> [snip]
> > 
> >>> And a workstation running OpenVMS was considered so unhackable at
> >>> DEFCON9 that it wasn't allowed back the next year.
> >> and VMS, unlike unix, since the beginning was planned with solid
> >> security in mind. In the times where classification into A,B,C,D
> >> security made sense, there were VMS B-certified machines (the maximum
> >> level, except for the lack of a formal mathemetical proof of that level
> >> of security). And Digital never had to hide the code from the eyes of
> >> the world, so that everybody could know the quality of the code (any
> >> reference to proprietary software widely used today, and which is not of
> >> the same level of quality as VMS, is purely wanted).
> > 
> > I'll have to look at OpenVMS.  Is it still maintained?
> 
> Sure.  HP still makes lots of money off of it.
> 
> >  Will it run on
> > my old 486?
> 
> Well, no.  But you might find a VAXstation of similar power on Ebay.

Thanks,

I had a look at the wikipedia article for OpenVMS.  It seems that the
Open is a misnomer.

Is anybody working on an OpenOpenVMS?

:)

Doug.


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Re: Can't play any youtube videos

[Alan Chandler]

On Sunday 11 May 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 08:54:06AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > Something seems to have happened overnight and now both firefox
> > (which could play them before) and konqueror (which has always been
> > a bit dodgy) can't play youtube videos.
>
> Did anything change on your machine?

An update (debian unstable) - but I don't recall any packages associated 
with video/flash in the update.

Nothing else


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Re: Can't play any youtube videos

[Robin]

2008/5/11 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 08:54:06AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > Something seems to have happened overnight and now both firefox (which
> > could play them before) and konqueror (which has always been a bit
> > dodgy) can't play youtube videos.
>
> Did anything change on your machine?
>
> Regards,
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Any Add-ons updated?

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decoding ape_audiofiles

[steef]

hi list is there a (debian) way to decode .apefiles into .flac or .wav 
under etch? just to decode some fine jazz-music by tommy flanagan.


imo i need the mac-library, but this software seems to be unfree
i know of shntool, lame etc.

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Re: problems compiling recent kernels from kernel-archive.buildserver.net

[Arthur Marsh]

Arthur Marsh wrote, on 2008-05-10 10:39:
Hi I recently reported bug #480436 against kernel-package as I've had 
trouble compiling recent kernels (2.6.25-2) from 
kernel-archive.buildserver.net on Debian unstable on a  Pentium II. The 
last successful build I had was on 5 May from source 
2.6.25-2~snapshot.11251.

..
It appears that the setting of the variable saved_version in

/usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/misc/config.mk

is now broken for recent kernel source packages from 
kernel-archive.buildserver.net as is the target image setting when xen 
is enabled.


By setting saved_version explicitly above and disabling xen in make 
menuconfig, I was able to successfully build and boot the newer kernels.


Arthur.


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Re: Debian-User To UseNet Reliability?

[Doug Mitton]

On Sat, 10 May 2008 17:50:05 +0200, you wrote:


Doug Mitton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


 address on UseNet ... and you have to have a real one to get into this
 mailing list.


You don't have to be subscribed to post.  I'm not.


I didn't mean to suggest "subscription" was necessary ... BUT (it 
appears) your "From" email address has to be valid.  My default UseNet 
config is a "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]".  I tried posting a couple 
of times using that and the post never showed up.  When I modified my 
"From" and took out the ".x" I was able to post just fine.


And, no, so far I am not subscribed either.  This thread is a good test 
and it appears as long as I remember to use a valid (though disposable) 
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Re: ALSA dumping to term

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 04:55:21 +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote:
>   hi guys. i just upgraded to kernel 2.6.25 & am now seeing a ton of 
> garbage from ALSA dumping to my terminal & syslog. whenever i play an mp3 
> from commandline or even switch songs within mocp, i get a lot of this 
> sort of thing:
> 
> ALSA sound/isa/cs423x/cs4231_lib.c:190: codec out - reg 0x10 = 0x80
> ALSA sound/isa/cs423x/cs4231_lib.c:190: codec out - reg 0xf = 0xeb
> ALSA sound/isa/cs423x/cs4231_lib.c:190: codec out - reg 0xe = 0xc
> ALSA sound/isa/cs423x/cs4231_lib.c:190: codec out - reg 0xf = 0xeb
> ALSA sound/isa/cs423x/cs4231_lib.c:190: codec out - reg 0xe = 0xc
> ALSA sound/isa/cs423x/cs4231_lib.c:190: codec out - reg 0x9 = 0x9
> ALSA sound/isa/cs423x/cs4231_lib.c:190: codec out - reg 0x9 = 0x8
> 
>   seems to be normal output, not errors, but then there's no reason 
> it should be dumping to term OR to syslog. anyone else experiencing this 
> &/or know how to shush it? thanks.

Did you enable CONFIG_SND_DEBUG_DETECT?

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Re: Clearing SWAP

[Chris Bannister]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:04:33AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/10/08 10:07, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:37:40PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> I'm sure there are those *cough*Paul Johnson*cough* who'd love to do
> >> just that, most of us know that profit makes the world go 'round.
> >> The rest vote Green...
> > 
> > That's not what the science books say.
> 
> Don't be dense.

You have mangled the phrase "money makes the world go round" to suit
yourself. Confusing revenue with profit is not to be encouraged. 

> > Greed will be our downfall.
> 
> Greed is ingrained into all humans.  Getting rid of it is as
> impossible as preventing the earth from spinning.

No, its not "ingrained" in *all* humans, that's a blatant generalisation
which is plain wrong. 

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Re: How to set QTDIR environment variable

[Nigel Henry]

On Friday 09 May 2008 00:42, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Nigel Henry wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 May 2008 22:08, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

> >> Normally you set QTDIR to where Qt is.
> >>
> >> So incase of qt3:
> >>
> >> set QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3
> >>
> >> Hugo
> >
> > Thanks for the help Hugo. I Ran ./configure as:
> > ./configure QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3
> >
> > This got me a bit further, but now ./configure is complaining again. This
> > time with the following output.
> >
> > checking whether we want to build PDFedit gui... yes
> > configure: QMAKESPEC environment variable is not set
> >   - default will be used.
> > checking for QT qmake... configure: error: unable to find qmake for QT3
> >
> > I may have to give up on this. I got pdfedit working on an archlinux
> > install, but when editing a .pdf, it was hitting the redline (99% cpu) ,
> > which is why I wanted to try pdfedit on some other distros. I've also got
> > Lenny available on the same drive. I'll have a look to see if pdfedit is
> > available there.
>
> Don't give up.
> You just need qmake:
>
> apt-get install qt3-dev-tools
>
> "Qt3 development tools
>
> This package contains all tools that are necessary to build programs
> that are written using Qt3. These are: qmake, uic and moc. For Qt3
> development, you most likely want to install this package. "
>
> Hugo

Hi Hugo. Sorry for the delay in replying. It's been a real bundle of fun 
installing this package.

Installing qt3-dev-tools got ./configure to run to completion. Make ran for 
ages then stopped, complaining about missing headers (qimage.h, and 
qpixmap.h), so I had a look in synaptic, and found libqt3-headers, and 
installed the package, then looked in /usr/include, and yes, the qt3 dir was 
there, containing all the headers. Run make again. Still complaining about 
the same headers as before.

Back in synaptic I had a look at the rest of the qt3 libs. Libqt3-mt-dev 
looked a likely candidate, so read the description for it. Aha! It said if 
you have compile problems try installing libqt3-compat-headers, which I did, 
along with libqt3-mt-dev, just in case that was also needed. Ran make again, 
and it ran for a bit (no complaints about header files), but then stopped 
again, which by now I'm expecting it to.

Now what's the problem. This is a good one. Make has cd'd to 
pdfedit-0.4.1/src/qsa dir, and needs to run ./configure again as there is a 
configure2 directory there, and trying to run ./configure again, complains 
that QTDIR path is not set, which is obvious, as I ran ./configure as:
./configure QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3, which was a one shot thing.

I usually read the README, and INSTALL files for packages I'm going to build, 
but for some unknown reason hadn't done so for pdfedit. Next step, read the 
README, as I'm really stuck now. Not many lines down it says set the 
environment variable QTDIR as:
export QTDIR=/usr/share/qt3, so from within the pdfedit-0.4.1 dir I do just 
that, then just for fun run ./configure, which now doesn't complain about 
QTDIR.

So far so good, so lets give make another go, which promptly picks up where it 
left off, with no complaints, and runs ./configure again for configure2. Make 
appears to be happy now, and is compiling away like a mad thing, but it's 
going on for ages, so I cycle down to town to pick up a few beers.

How long make was running for I don't know, but I was out for about an hour, 
and when I got back it had run to completion. Su to root, make install, job 
done, as long as the program works, which it does.

Of course the whole object of building it from source on Etch, was because of 
the seeming problem with pdfedit that I saw with the version I'd installed on 
Archlinux, which was from their repo's. Annoyingly the same problem exists, 
if it is a problem, when adding text to a pdf form, on Etch (same machine 
1.3Ghz).

The problem, for what it's worth, is that I have a form that requires 14 
entries. The first bit of text entered causes CPU to hit 99%, but only for a 
few seconds before the text shows up on the form, the next bit of text 
entered takes longer before it shows up on the form, and subsequent text 
entries take longer and longer, with the last one (which was only the 
number"8") taking 2mins 20secs, before the "8" was added to the form.

I think this is a case, where it would have been quicker to get the IBM 
golfball out of storage, type out the form, and put it back into storage.

Anyway, as usual I've learned a bit more. Using cups-pdf to save the HTML form 
as a .pdf. The "fun" building an app that uses qt for the GUI, and using 
pdfedit (as slow as it is) to fill in the form. Last thing is to write down 
the packages needed to build qt based apps, not forgetting the command to set 
the environment variable QTDIR.

Sorry if this has rambled on a bit.

Thanks for your help.

Nigel.



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GRUB device numbers/names, use of device.map (Re: migrating Debian GNU/Linux Etch to second SATA drive)

[hh . eu]

Am 2008-05-10 um 07:01 schrieb Paul Csanyi:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


By the way, if you have a floppy drive, you can install GRUB on a
floppy too, then you have a GRUB emergency disk which lets you
perform operation such as those you described (in the GRUB shell)
(for cases of drive failure etc.).

-Moritz


That shall I to do, or maybe there is an alternative option, say to
install GRUB on the USB stick as emergency disk?


I haven't done that, but it should also work.

Make sure you test if you can actually boot from your USB stick or  
not because

not all machines can boot from USB devices. E.g., I have a computer that
should be able to do it according to the manual and all the settings  
in the
BIOS, but after hours of trying I still couldn't get it to work, it's  
a buggy
BIOS. Also, if it works on one of your machines, it may not work on  
another or

computer of a friend who you are trying to help.

If you are frequently using the USB stick, you might occasionally  
format it,

erase it etc., so be careful not to destroy your GRUB install on it.

Then, I guess, you have to be careful with the GRUB drive numbers  
(hd0, ...)
when you use the USB stick. E.g., depending on whether or not the USB  
stick is
plugegd in or possibly even which controller it is plugged into, the  
numbers
of all drives may be different. Depending on the BIOS, the USB stick  
might be
considered a floppy drive, so it might be fd1 instead of hd1, for  
example. So
you should be very careful when you try to reinstall GRUB, to ensure  
you are

not (for example) overwriting the MBR on a Windows disk.

Generally, GRUB uses some sort of *guessing* to assign the drive  
numbers, so

one always has to be careful.[1]

(All of the above of course also applies to the case where you use a  
floppy.

But then you will at least usually know that fd0 is your regular floppy
drive.)

The GRUB shell offers the "find" command. You can use it to find a  
certain
file you know exists on a particular drive, which will help you find  
out which

device number GRUB uses for that disk.

Another tip is to type something like "root (" + tab, it will give  
you a list
of possible devices, then complete the name of one device and use tab  
again,
GRUB should then tell you which file system is on that disk which  
might also

help you.

Then there is a file named /boot/grub/device.map where one can define  
which
device should have which number, but the use of this file is quite  
confusing
and poorly documented, and it took me many tries to understand. (The  
GRUB
manual and all sorts of search results couldn't help me clearly.)  
Summary:


(1) If GRUB is started from within Debian:
* If started with the command "grub", the file device.map is ignored.  
GRUB

  assigns device names (hd0 etc.) based on *guesses* it makes.[1]
* If started with the command "grub --device-map=device.map" and the  
file

  device.map exists, the file device.map is parsed.
* If started with the command "grub --device-map=device.map" and the  
file
  device.map does not exist, GRUB *guesses* the device names [1] and  
stores

  the result of the guessing in the file device.map.

(2) If GRUB is started directly from the BIOS (GRUB shell):
* The file device.map is ignored, the device names are derived from  
GRUB's

  guessing.[1]

Note that (2) is also the situation you have when you boot your system
normally. In other words: Making changes to device.map does not  
influence
device numbers actually used by GRUB when booting. (That's why I  
don't use

that file, I personally find no use for it.)

-Moritz

[1] This guessing can, of course, never be really consistent and  
leads to all
sorts of confusing situations, e.g. different device numbers  
depending on

whether GRUB is started from the BIOS of from within Debian or different
numbers after changing cables in the computer. It is one of the  
fundamental
logical flaws in the design of GRUB and one of the reasons GRUB 0.97  
is not
developed further. (Development effort goes to GRUB 2, currently at  
version
1.9something, which has been in the works for years and is still not  
ready for

release and is not documented yet, so for most people is not a viable
alternative.)


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Re: gst-launch-0.10 can not play dts wav

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:11:49 -0700, mond wrote:
> Hi, I have some dts wav files. I try to play them with rhythmbox or
> some other player. But none of them can play it properly.
> 
> I have gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad/good/ugly/ffmpeg installed. But, gst-
> launch-0.10 playbin uri="file:///home/mond/sample.wav"  only gives
> noise.
> 
> So, it seems that gstreamer does not decode dts. But, it should
> support dts decoding according some other source.
> 
> Now, what should I do to make it work?

Have you tried "gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad" or "ogmrip"? (Both
these packages are available for Sid from debian-multimedia.)

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Re: Proftpd and Debian

[Sven Hoexter]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 02:12:22AM -0700, sadsjon wrote:
> >
> > Well Francesco doesn't advertise a VCS within the package so that's the
> > only thing you can grab ATM. You maybe would like to join #proftpd on
> > freenode and ask him yourself (User frankie) or write him a mail.
> 
> sorry Sven, I am not sure which of these is abbreviation for a
> sentence or has another meaning. Can you just clarify what VCS and ATM
> are, I can probably google and find freenode - something else I have
> not heard of.

ATM = At The Moment
VCS = Version Control System (e.g. CVS, SVN, GIT ...)
freenode = http://freenode.net/


> However, I have always tried to avoid contacting developers directly
> as they must get bombarded and as a developer myself, I know what that
> must be like.

Asking a question on IRC[1] or writing a short mail is nothing bad
as long as you keep it short and don't ask the same question every day.

Cheers,
Sven

[1] Internet Relay Chat, that's what the freenode stuff is about.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [TAG] 2-cent Tip: Poisoning the spammers]

[Chris Bannister]

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From: Ben Okopnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 13:03:36 -0400
To: The Answer Gang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [TAG] 2-cent Tip: Poisoning the spammers

I saw a web page the other day, talking about a cute idea: since the
spammers are always trawling the Net for links and email addresses, why
not give them some nice ones? For a certain value of "nice", that is...

However, when I looked at the implementation of this idea, the author
had put a "badgeware" restriction on using it - not something I could
see doing - so I wrote a version of it from scratch, with a few
refinements. Take a look:

http://okopnik.com/cgi-bin/poison.cgi

A randomly-generated page, with lots of links and addresses - with the
links all pointing back to the script itself (somewhat obscured, so they
don't look exactly the same) so the spammers can harvest even more of
these addresses. Mmm, yummy!

The addresses are made up of a random string "at" a domain made up of
several random words joined together with a random TLD. There is some
tiny chance of it matching a real address, but the probability is pretty
low.

If you want to download this gadget, it's available at
http://okopnik.com/misc/poison.cgi.txt (and, once the next issue of LG
comes out, at 'http://linuxgazette.net/151/misc/lg/poison.cgi.txt'.) I
suggest renaming it to something else :), and linking to it - the link
doesn't have to be visible [1] - from a few of your real webpages. If
enough people started doing this, life would become a lot more pleasant.
Well, not for spammers, but that's the whole point...
 

[1] ' ' at the end of a page should
be invisible but still serve the purpose.


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Re: Proftpd and Debian

[sadsjon]

>
> Well Francesco doesn't advertise a VCS within the package so that's the
> only thing you can grab ATM. You maybe would like to join #proftpd on
> freenode and ask him yourself (User frankie) or write him a mail.

sorry Sven, I am not sure which of these is abbreviation for a
sentence or has another meaning. Can you just clarify what VCS and ATM
are, I can probably google and find freenode - something else I have
not heard of.

However, I have always tried to avoid contacting developers directly
as they must get bombarded and as a developer myself, I know what that
must be like.

jON


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Re: Proftpd and Debian

[sadsjon]

>
>   Alternatively pay somebody nice to package it for you ;)
>

I'm keen to get my hand dirty (ish) Steve, so I will give it a go.

Its the debian/rules info I was after I think.

cheers,

jON


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Re: Can't play any youtube videos

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 08:54:06AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> Something seems to have happened overnight and now both firefox (which 
> could play them before) and konqueror (which has always been a bit 
> dodgy) can't play youtube videos.
 
Did anything change on your machine?

Regards,
Andrei
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RMAIL in Emacs. Dealing with a sequence of messages.

[Don Saklad]

For RMAIL in Emacs how do you take a sequence of messages, for example
messages 1 through 50 and put them in a separate file?...


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Can't play any youtube videos

[Alan Chandler]

Something seems to have happened overnight and now both firefox (which 
could play them before) and konqueror (which has always been a bit 
dodgy) can't play youtube videos.

Am I unique?

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Re: hostname question

[Sharninder]

On 11-May-08, at 12:32 PM, "Pete Kay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi,

I am currently having 3 servers in the lan which is using dynamic IP  
addresses.  Each time the router is rebooted, I have to reconfigure  
all the db ips and server ips.


Therefore, I want to assign host name to each machine such as "db" ,  
"ser" etc, so that I don't use 192.168.x.x in my configure anymore.




Why not assign ip addresses based on the mac adresses of the  
individual machines. Since you don't have a big LAN addressing via / 
etc/hosts should work fine for you and you don't need to learn  
complicated DNS stuff.



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Re: hostname question

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 03:02:12PM +0800, Pete Kay wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently having 3 servers in the lan which is using dynamic IP
> addresses.  Each time the router is rebooted, I have to reconfigure all the
> db ips and server ips.
> 
> Therefore, I want to assign host name to each machine such as "db" , "ser"
> etc, so that I don't use 192.168.x.x in my configure anymore.
> 
> Is this something that can be done?  Could someone please give me some
> pointer on how to do it?

Some routers have the possibility to assign fixed IPs, but I guess you 
already checked this.

It might also work without DHCP, did you try just putting a static 
config in the respective /etc/network/interfaces? Also, if the router 
has some kind of DNS caching it might be possible that it can also 
resolve the names of your local machines.

Regards,
Andrei
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[Pete Kay]

Hi,

I am currently having 3 servers in the lan which is using dynamic IP
addresses.  Each time the router is rebooted, I have to reconfigure all the
db ips and server ips.

Therefore, I want to assign host name to each machine such as "db" , "ser"
etc, so that I don't use 192.168.x.x in my configure anymore.

Is this something that can be done?  Could someone please give me some
pointer on how to do it?

Thanks,
Pete