Re: phantom icon

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:12:49 -0400, John Lindsay wrote:

> I plugged my wife's sony ereader into my debian (lenny) machine USB
> socket primarily to charge it up properly. I was very surprised when it
> came up with the 'do you want to run the program' and actually mounted
> the volume. I was able to look at the files but didn't do anything else.
> I did forget to unmount the reader prior to removing it so now I have a
> phantom icon called reader on my desktop. I cannot delete it.I cannot
> move it to trash as it says I need to unmount it but catch 22 --  Short
> of rebooting how can I get rid of the icon?

What does "mount" command say? Can you right-click on the icon and 
perform any action (unmount/eject/safely remove)? Anythig in dmesg?

I would try to force unmounting or "ejecting" the device.

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Re: Checking a block device

[GNUbie]

Hello all,

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
 wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 August 2010 19:11:28 GNUbie wrote:
>> How can I check if a block device (partition) has one or any of the
>> following characteristics:
>>
>> [1] raw
>>
>> [2] has content
>>
>> [3] formatted
>>
>> but without actually mounting it?
>
> I'd use "file" as a first pass.  After that, perhaps some custom script.

Thank you for all your response. I finally used the tool "testdisk" in
my script.

Regards,

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Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[Jimmy Johnson]

John A. Sullivan III wrote:

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 14:41 +0100, Lisi wrote:

On Wednesday 04 August 2010 14:34:00 Lisi wrote:

On Wednesday 04 August 2010 11:02:52 Jimmy Johnson wrote:

Trinity KDE 3.5.11 [snip] User

How are you getting on with it?  Does it have full functionality in Ubuntu?

I am watching with interest.  I am hoping that, by the time that I have to
abandom Lenny, Trinity will have a deb. that I can use in Squeeze.
I see that .debs for Debian are well on the way, but have been held up by the 
massive blowout at Pearson Computing. :-(




Indeed - I am experimenting with Trinity on Lenny as a Debian repository
and full replacement for KDE3.  It is mostly working well.  Kontact is
largely fixed and 95% working with Zimbra.  There are a few glitches
that I suspect will be quickly remedied as soon as Pearson Computing's
build farm comes back on line but I think we will have a Debian KDE3
option relatively soon - John



Thanks John, the last time I looked I didn't see a port for Debian, I'm 
off to find the repos, if you have a link please post it. :-)

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Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[Jimmy Johnson]

Lisi wrote:

On Wednesday 04 August 2010 11:02:52 Jimmy Johnson wrote:

Trinity KDE 3.5.11 [snip] User


How are you getting on with it?  Does it have full functionality in Ubuntu?

I am watching with interest.  I am hoping that, by the time that I have to 
abandom Lenny, Trinity will have a deb. that I can use in Squeeze.



I hope Guo don't mind us hijacking his tread? :-P

I've been running it about 3 months now and it's the best kde3 out 
there, both Mepis and Lenny have transparent panel problems that have 
been fixed trinity, I did have couple icon problems on the 
quicklauncher, reloading the icons in the menu fixed that problem, a 
little background, as a Linux tester I was at the kde4 lunch/party in 
Santa Clara and have been running kde4 since and personally I think it's 
a pain in the ass, I run dual display and I never know where a new 
window will pop up and if I resize a window and grab it and move it the 
window will jump to maximized, I then have resize it and right click on 
the application in the tray and choose move to put the window where I 
want it, kde4 is just an irritating desktop manager to use, nothing 
seems irritating about trinity kde3, plus I'm running it on 8.04 LTS, 
just seems to be a rock solid system, I too wish trinity was ported for 
Debian, I've been a Debian user for over eight years, but anything 
Debian is better than something else.


I also have installs of Fedora, Mandriva and Suse, plus some other 
systems, I like to see what the other guy is doing, as a matter of fact 
if someone afraid of Linux but wanted to give it a try, there's an XP 
clone that looks just like windows called "Ylmf_OS_3.0" it looks and 
feels like windows with the best configured Gnome desktop I've ever 
seen, it's also a ubuntu clone.


Anyways, yes, Trinity is a good thing. :-)
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Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

[Wayne Topa]

On 08/04/2010 02:13 PM, Gary Roach wrote:

Hi;
I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of
information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc. Examples are
notes on harware, sources for stuff, notes on possible projects, book
that I might want to buy in the future and on and on. This has generated
numerous scraps of paper and sticky notes with the result that chaos
reigns. I recently tried knotes which helped a lot but didn't cover
tasks. I have now switched to Kontact. This takes care of scheduling
things, projects and short term notes. I still am not sure what to do
about those notes that could be around for a long time like maybe a note
on the "proton boron fusion reaction energy" . I may never use it but
would like to be able to find the information if need be. I guess I need
a repository for disparate information (how's that for fuzzy). I hope
this makes some sense.

Any suggestions.


I use the zim package to keep notes on many subjects.  I have never had 
a problem with it and like it a lot.


HTH

Wayne


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Re: When is best time to upgrade lenny to squeeze

[Jordan Metzmeier]

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On 08/04/2010 08:31 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
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> What do you do if you had access to just one machine (say your personal
> laptop) and don't have the luxury of running multiple machines (one for
> testing and one for production etc.,)? Sometimes, it is better/practical to
> jump the wagon little bit ahead of time and do some testing, before
> settling down with the stable version for the next 2-3 years.

I think in that case, you should leave the testing up to the people who
do. There is a wide variety of virtualization software now that can be
used for this kind of testing.

Virtualbox for example can run entirely off software, without the need
for virtualization support in the CPU (although much slower).

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Re: When is best time to upgrade lenny to squeeze

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

Jordan Metzmeier wrote:

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> On 08/03/2010 08:57 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
>> 
>> I always start upgrading well before the new release is made. I start by
>> upgrading the packages that I use most of the time (ex:- iceweasel, vim,
>> konsole, knode etc.,). That way if there is a problem I can report the
>> bugs and have them fixed before the release is actually made.
>> 
>> YMMV
>> raju
> 
> While this is beneficial to Debian, it is often not beneficial to the
> user (except for indirectly, since what benefits Debian, benefits the
> user). It would be best if this is done in a testing environment,
> outside of the actual production machine.
> 

What do you do if you had access to just one machine (say your personal
laptop) and don't have the luxury of running multiple machines (one for
testing and one for production etc.,)? Sometimes, it is better/practical to
jump the wagon little bit ahead of time and do some testing, before
settling down with the stable version for the next 2-3 years.

If you are administering a system that is used by multiple users, then of
course, it makes sense to wait until a new stable version is officially
released.

hth
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Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

Gary Roach wrote:

> Hi;
> I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of
> information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc. Examples are
> notes on harware, sources for stuff, notes on possible projects, book
> that I might want to buy in the future and on and on. This has generated
> numerous scraps of paper and sticky notes with the result that chaos
> reigns. I recently tried knotes which helped a lot but didn't cover
> tasks. I have now switched to Kontact. This takes care of scheduling
> things, projects and short term notes. I still am not sure what to do
> about those notes that could be around for a long time like maybe  a
> note on the "proton boron fusion reaction energy" . I may never use it
> but would like to be able to find the information if need be. I guess I
> need a repository for disparate information (how's that for fuzzy). I
> hope this makes some sense.
> 
> Any suggestions.
> 
> Gary R

I usually have a directory where I keep all the relevant "note" files. If
the information falls into a specific category (ex:- calendar based events,
todo stuff, where you stopped reading a particular book :-) etc.,) I'll
have a separate file.

If the information is a random tidbit (ex:- "Capital of Libya is Tripoli"
and for some weird reason you want to note that down :-)), I just use a
plain text file to jot it down. I normally have some conventions (ex: tags,
delimiters, content separators) within that file, so that I can write a
script to extract all the relevant information as and when needed (ex:-
give me all the tidbits related to Fortran language, all the research
papers written by a particular author). I guess you can use some database
query language if it becomes unmanageable... but I never had to go that
far.

It takes some time to set up this kind of stuff and come up with conventions
that work for your case. But I honestly believe that all you need is a good
editor like vim, grep and sometimes find. I am saying this after having
tried some GUI applications, applications where the information is stored
in a non-greppable format. YMMV.

hth
raju

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phantom icon

[John Lindsay]

I plugged my wife's sony ereader into my debian (lenny) machine USB 
socket primarily to charge it up properly. I was very surprised when it 
came up with the 'do you want to run the program' and actually mounted 
the volume. I was able to look at the files but didn't do anything else. 
I did forget to unmount the reader prior to removing it so now I have a 
phantom icon called reader on my desktop. I cannot delete it.I cannot 
move it to trash as it says I need to unmount it but catch 22 --  Short 
of rebooting how can I get rid of the icon?


John


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Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[Lisi]

On Wednesday 04 August 2010 20:55:07 John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> Regarding how to help - that would be a good question to ask Tim Pearson
> (http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/).  

I already have - he hasn't so far contacted me.

> I'm sure he could use any 
> financial help no matter how small to pay for the extensive damage they
> sustained. 

Again, I already have previously - and would have done immediately earlier 
this evening, but I need to research how to use the link he provided.  I 
shall do so as soon as I have sent this.

> I'm also pretty certain they can use help testing the Debian 
> repository to work out any quirks in the port from Ubuntu. 

The question is whether I could do enough to be helpful - I am not very 
knowledgeable/skillful.  But I am certainly willing.

> And, of 
> course, keep spreading the word - John

That I do too!  Whenever and wherever I can.

Lisi



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Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:34:06 +1000, pierre poulos wrote:

> Using Iceweasel, Google Chrome and Lynx I cannot access http;//
> www.debian.org or any of the mirrors without using an external web
> proxy. My isp says they can access fine on their own machines. My wife's
> computer running Firefox on WinXP sp3 on the same connection also works
> fine. I have had to change my apt sources list as it was unable to
> access the
> security updates. What's wrong with my machine. I am running lenny
> current.

Does it happen with any site or just some?

Is not the first time I've seen an ISP having troubles for accessing 
specific websites/servers/network routes which can be only reached using 
an external proxy or another connection (i.e., by dial-up session with 
another ISP).

Give them a prudential time lapse and check later if the error still 
persists.

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Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

[Gilbert Sullivan]

On 08/04/2010 04:06 PM, Carl Johnson wrote:

Gary Roach  writes:


Hi;
I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of
information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc. Examples
are notes on harware, sources for stuff, notes on possible projects,
book that I might want to buy in the future and on and on. This has
generated numerous scraps of paper and sticky notes with the result
that chaos reigns. I recently tried knotes which helped a lot but
didn't cover tasks. I have now switched to Kontact. This takes care of
scheduling things, projects and short term notes. I still am not sure
what to do about those notes that could be around for a long time like
maybe  a note on the "proton boron fusion reaction energy" . I may
never use it but would like to be able to find the information if need
be. I guess I need a repository for disparate information (how's that
for fuzzy). I hope this makes some sense.


There is something called kjots in kde, but I prefer the zim program.
Zim is called a personal wiki and allows any number of pages with
pretty much any type of text or links on each.  It also has searches,
a calendar, and todo items.  It doesn't have any type of appointments
or automated reminders.  Kjots seems more limited, but that might be
my lack of experience with it.  Both have debian packages.



I consider Zim to be a standout application among many favorites used 
over a 30 year history of personal computing. I use it -- in conjunction 
with Iceowl for appointments / reminders -- as an ad hoc project manager 
which works surpassingly well for the type of disparate projects and 
tasks I have to manage. Though it's still a little rough around the 
edges, and you can tell that it's still fairly early in its development, 
it supports equations (latex), GNU R plots, screenshots (scrot), 
spell-checking (gtkspell), and version control (bzr). And it's a hoot to 
use. It's actively developed, with a well-motivated primary developer 
who responds quickly and helpfully to bug reports. (They use launchpad.) 
For me it's just about a perfect combination of ease of use and 
versatility for a work load that simply won't accommodate the use of a 
more standard type of project management tool. I don't believe that I've 
ever had to bother to use its manual.


Come to think of it, I ought to delve into the documentation. Who knows 
what I might be missing?


Good luck in finding the right tool(s) for yourself. I know a lot about 
"fuzzy" minds and vaguely defined tasks. It's what I do for a living!


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Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

[Robert Holtzman]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 11:13:35AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
> Hi;
> I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of
> information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc. Examples
> are notes on harware, sources for stuff, notes on possible projects,

I use Tomboy for this very purpose.

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Re: metacity opening windows a layer below

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:38:15 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> On 04/08/10 Camaleón said:
> 
>> Check that "[ ] Always on top" property of the window is not enabled.
> 
> As I said, this is happening in interaction with windows where this
> property is not set.

Ah, okay, I missed that information.

Can you reproduce that effect with a new and fresh created user? Maybe 
your user profile got messed somehow.

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Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:13:35 -0700, Gary Roach wrote:

> I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of
> information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc. Examples are
> notes on harware, sources for stuff, notes on possible projects, book
> that I might want to buy in the future and on and on. This has generated
> numerous scraps of paper and sticky notes with the result that chaos
> reigns. I recently tried knotes which helped a lot but didn't cover
> tasks. I have now switched to Kontact. This takes care of scheduling
> things, projects and short term notes. I still am not sure what to do
> about those notes that could be around for a long time like maybe  a
> note on the "proton boron fusion reaction energy" . I may never use it
> but would like to be able to find the information if need be. I guess I
> need a repository for disparate information (how's that for fuzzy). I
> hope this makes some sense.
> 
> Any suggestions.

Kontact seems to be a good choice as it handles e-mail, tasks, simple 
notes, to-do list and calendar cites. And is easy to manage. 

I would add a desktop search tool for searching inside all that 
information but on todays KDE4 SC framework I'm not sure what exact tool 
to recommend. It seems Akonadi+strigi+nepomuk is able to make that job 
but I'm unaware of its current status :-?

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Re: metacity opening windows a layer below

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 04/08/10 Camaleón said:

> Check that "[ ] Always on top" property of the window is not enabled.

As I said, this is happening in interaction with windows where this property
is not set.

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Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

[Carl Johnson]

Gary Roach  writes:

> Hi;
> I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of
> information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc. Examples
> are notes on harware, sources for stuff, notes on possible projects,
> book that I might want to buy in the future and on and on. This has
> generated numerous scraps of paper and sticky notes with the result
> that chaos reigns. I recently tried knotes which helped a lot but
> didn't cover tasks. I have now switched to Kontact. This takes care of
> scheduling things, projects and short term notes. I still am not sure
> what to do about those notes that could be around for a long time like
> maybe  a note on the "proton boron fusion reaction energy" . I may
> never use it but would like to be able to find the information if need
> be. I guess I need a repository for disparate information (how's that
> for fuzzy). I hope this makes some sense.

There is something called kjots in kde, but I prefer the zim program.
Zim is called a personal wiki and allows any number of pages with
pretty much any type of text or links on each.  It also has searches,
a calendar, and todo items.  It doesn't have any type of appointments
or automated reminders.  Kjots seems more limited, but that might be
my lack of experience with it.  Both have debian packages.

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Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 20:02 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 August 2010 18:47:04 John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 14:41 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 04 August 2010 14:34:00 Lisi wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 04 August 2010 11:02:52 Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> > > > > Trinity KDE 3.5.11 [snip] User
> > > >
> > > > How are you getting on with it?  Does it have full functionality in
> > > > Ubuntu?
> > > >
> > > > I am watching with interest.  I am hoping that, by the time that I have
> > > > to abandon Lenny, Trinity will have a deb. that I can use in Squeeze.
> > >
> > > I see that .debs for Debian are well on the way, but have been held up by
> > > the massive blowout at Pearson Computing. :-(
> > >
> > > Lisi
> >
> > Indeed - I am experimenting with Trinity on Lenny as a Debian repository
> > and full replacement for KDE3.  It is mostly working well.  Kontact is
> > largely fixed and 95% working with Zimbra.  There are a few glitches
> > that I suspect will be quickly remedied as soon as Pearson Computing's
> > build farm comes back on line but I think we will have a Debian KDE3
> > option relatively soon - John
> 
> Am I allowed to say yippee? \o/ \o/  :-))
> 
> I wish I could be of some use in this.  As it is, all I can do is cheer on 
> those of you who are doing the work!
> 
> If I am wrong, and there _is_ something I could do, please say. :-)
> 
> Lisi
> 
> 
You certainly can :-))

Regarding how to help - that would be a good question to ask Tim Pearson
(http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/).  I'm sure he could use any
financial help no matter how small to pay for the extensive damage they
sustained.  I'm also pretty certain they can use help testing the Debian
repository to work out any quirks in the port from Ubuntu.  And, of
course, keep spreading the word - John

PS - if anyone know why beagle would provoke a d-buss not accessible
error (cannot run with parameter --icon when session dbus is not
available), that would help as it is one of the small remaining items on
the punch list - John


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Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

[Tyler MacDonald]

Gary Roach  wrote:
> of scheduling things, projects and short term notes. I still am not
> sure what to do about those notes that could be around for a long
> time like maybe  a note on the "proton boron fusion reaction energy"
> . I may never use it but would like to be able to find the
> information if need be. I guess I need a repository for disparate
> information (how's that for fuzzy). I hope this makes some sense.

Gary,

  For this sort of stuff, I used to run my own (private, locked-down)
MediaWiki installation. This had the advantage of allowing me to reference
my notes wherever I was. I let it lapse a little over a year ago and have
just been using text files in a folder, but I plan to move back to MediaWiki
soon.

  I was also doing my calendaring, etc through MediaWiki (there's a nifty
calendar widget for it), although now that I've got an android smartphone
I'm just using Google Calendar for that stuff.

  Cheers,
Tyler


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Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

[Gary Roach]

Hi;
I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of 
information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc. Examples are 
notes on harware, sources for stuff, notes on possible projects, book 
that I might want to buy in the future and on and on. This has generated 
numerous scraps of paper and sticky notes with the result that chaos 
reigns. I recently tried knotes which helped a lot but didn't cover 
tasks. I have now switched to Kontact. This takes care of scheduling 
things, projects and short term notes. I still am not sure what to do 
about those notes that could be around for a long time like maybe  a 
note on the "proton boron fusion reaction energy" . I may never use it 
but would like to be able to find the information if need be. I guess I 
need a repository for disparate information (how's that for fuzzy). I 
hope this makes some sense.


Any suggestions.

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Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[Lisi]

On Wednesday 04 August 2010 18:47:04 John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 14:41 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 August 2010 14:34:00 Lisi wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 04 August 2010 11:02:52 Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> > > > Trinity KDE 3.5.11 [snip] User
> > >
> > > How are you getting on with it?  Does it have full functionality in
> > > Ubuntu?
> > >
> > > I am watching with interest.  I am hoping that, by the time that I have
> > > to abandon Lenny, Trinity will have a deb. that I can use in Squeeze.
> >
> > I see that .debs for Debian are well on the way, but have been held up by
> > the massive blowout at Pearson Computing. :-(
> >
> > Lisi
>
> Indeed - I am experimenting with Trinity on Lenny as a Debian repository
> and full replacement for KDE3.  It is mostly working well.  Kontact is
> largely fixed and 95% working with Zimbra.  There are a few glitches
> that I suspect will be quickly remedied as soon as Pearson Computing's
> build farm comes back on line but I think we will have a Debian KDE3
> option relatively soon - John

Am I allowed to say yippee? \o/ \o/  :-))

I wish I could be of some use in this.  As it is, all I can do is cheer on 
those of you who are doing the work!

If I am wrong, and there _is_ something I could do, please say. :-)

Lisi


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Re: Anti virus and Firewall

[Nuno Magalhães]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 18:43, Brian  wrote:
> Besides, I know my system.

Famous last words... ;)

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Re: No Sound Through Video Capture Card

[Thomas Amm]

Am 08/02/2010 01:25 AM, schrieb Scarletdown:
> I'm building a Linux system specifically for video capture in prep for
> yet another video games review site I want to attempt. She is running
> Debian Sid with Enlightenment as her desktop.
> 
> I am having a helluva time trying to get things working properly.
> First of all, I just installed my old PCTV (bt878 based) TV tuner that
> used to work fine for me years ago. On this, I am getting video fine,
> but not getting any sound through the card I tried connecting the
> speakers directly to the card's line out and also tried running a
> patch cable from line out to the sound card's line in and then
> connecting the speakers to the sound card.  Both configurations
> resulted in no sound at all.
> 
> Additionally, XAWTV for some reason is not saving my settings when I
> exit.  Why would that be?  Also, captured video when played back
> through vlc as well as when played online, is tearing pretty bad
> (looks okay when played on the old TV though).  It is also running a
> little too fast.  I recorded at 24fps, thinking that was the NTSC
> standard for video.  Was that an incorrect guess?  Here is a clip,
> captured from a Wii game  showing the tearing and slightly too fast
> playback (don't laugh, this is being done for the amusement of my
> young neices and nephews next time I go visit them.  :p
> 

Having done exactly what you are describing with A/V output from VJing
machines using a BT878 myself, I'd suppose you:

- just forget XAWTV for capturing
- get mencoder, ffmpeg and probably some H264 stuff like GPAC for web
streaming (debian-multimedia has all you need, unless you build your own
mplayer)
- get mencoder-doc and read the man page - especially the last few lines
with examples about recording from TV input (I don't know your TV norm
or your input signal, so I can't give you advice for specific options)
- use your audio card's line in for audio capturing. There's quite good
advice, how to do that in mplayers man page
- capture in raw or lossless mjpeg format and PCM audio to be able to
encode as H264 or ogg/ogm later for web streaming (HTML5/Flowplayer)
without recompression artefacts

Unfortunately I don't have one of my well-probed scripts at hand right
now, but basically I did some experimenting with input size and cropping
of the captured video to find a format that suited best (beware of
interleaved input signals), captured to MJPEG/PCM and recoded to H264
for web streaming with flowplayer.
There might be some hassle finding the right settings for your audio
hardware to record from line-in. I found alsamixer to be the best tool here,

just my 2 cents,

Tom


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Re: Anti virus and Firewall

[Brian]

On Wed 04 Aug 2010 at 10:09:17 -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:

> Because a rootkit can't remain hidden and inject itself back into the  
> binary after a "security update" right?

Correct. It wouldn't be there in the first place and I don't plan on
having my root acoount compromised. Besides, I know my system.

  I mean it's never happened  
> before, that's why Tripwire doesn't exist...Or because apt does trigger  
> checks and validates once after the install and then once more a few  
> minutes later to trigger integrity violations? Or because doing a  
> security update on grub will remove a rootkit in your system that will  
> just inject itself back into the boot? All this is just figments of our  
> imagination and it's impossible for any of this to happen because all  
> you have to do is apt-get upgrade and you'll be legit.

You're speaking hypothetically. When rootkits with these capabilities
exist neither chkrootkit nor rkhunter will detect them. By the time
they get round to it my updates will have brought in the fixes, just
as they did when Lion, which chkrootkit spuriously claims to defend
me against, was about.


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Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 14:41 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 August 2010 14:34:00 Lisi wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 August 2010 11:02:52 Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> > > Trinity KDE 3.5.11 [snip] User
> >
> > How are you getting on with it?  Does it have full functionality in Ubuntu?
> >
> > I am watching with interest.  I am hoping that, by the time that I have to
> > abandom Lenny, Trinity will have a deb. that I can use in Squeeze.
> 
> I see that .debs for Debian are well on the way, but have been held up by the 
> massive blowout at Pearson Computing. :-(
> 
> Lisi
> 
> 
Indeed - I am experimenting with Trinity on Lenny as a Debian repository
and full replacement for KDE3.  It is mostly working well.  Kontact is
largely fixed and 95% working with Zimbra.  There are a few glitches
that I suspect will be quickly remedied as soon as Pearson Computing's
build farm comes back on line but I think we will have a Debian KDE3
option relatively soon - John


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Re: Universally Change PS1 For All New Users

[Bob Proulx]

Carlos Mennens wrote:
> How can I force Debian to use a custom colored PS1 I have defined
> under /root/.bashrc for all new users I create with 'useradd' or
> 'adduser'? Is there somewhere I can modify this like in /etc/profile?
> Can someone just let me know what the correct process would be for Debian.

The useradd (and the higher level friendlier adduser) commands use
/etc/skel/ for the templates.  Files there are copied to the home
directory of the newly created user.

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Re: metacity opening windows a layer below

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:32:41 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> Using Lenny with the standard Gnome desktop UI. I've noticed that many
> of the windows that I open end up being opened in a layer below existing
> windows. 

(...)

Check that "[ ] Always on top" property of the window is not enabled.

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Universally Change PS1 For All New Users

[Carlos Mennens]

How can I force Debian to use a custom colored PS1 I have defined
under /root/.bashrc for all new users I create with 'useradd' or
'adduser'? Is there somewhere I can modify this like in /etc/profile?
Can someone just let me know what the correct process would be for Debian.

Thank you for any assistance!


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metacity opening windows a layer below

[Michael P. Soulier]

Hi,

Using Lenny with the standard Gnome desktop UI. I've noticed that many of the
windows that I open end up being opened in a layer below existing windows. It
is not predictable, but sometimes metacity just decides to put the new window
at a layer below existing windows, and not just windows that I've selected as
to always be above all others.

I glanced in the gconf properties for metacity but I didn't see anything that
seemed relevant. Any suggestions?

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Re: Anti virus and Firewall

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 8/4/2010 9:24 AM, Brian wrote:

On Wed 04 Aug 2010 at 10:53:42 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote:


 chkrootkit - rootkit detector
 rkhunter - rootkit, backdoor, sniffer and exploit scanner


If ckkrootkit really did detect worms like Lupper, Lion
and Adore (as opposed to the false positives both programs
appear fond of generating) the user should take a close
look at the Debian release he is using.

My problem with software like this is that it gives the
impression of providing security over and above what the
normal updating procedure provides.





Because a rootkit can't remain hidden and inject itself back into the 
binary after a "security update" right? I mean it's never happened 
before, that's why Tripwire doesn't exist...Or because apt does trigger 
checks and validates once after the install and then once more a few 
minutes later to trigger integrity violations? Or because doing a 
security update on grub will remove a rootkit in your system that will 
just inject itself back into the boot? All this is just figments of our 
imagination and it's impossible for any of this to happen because all 
you have to do is apt-get upgrade and you'll be legit.



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Re: Tiny Console Fonts

[Brian]

On Wed 04 Aug 2010 at 15:30:36 +0100, Brian wrote:

> You could try the console-setup command (as root).

This is misleading. It's 'dpkg-reconfigure console-setup' as
Sven Joachim says.


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Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy

[Bob Proulx]

Jochen Schulz wrote:
> And what is the exact error message Iceweasel shows? I am asking because
> I suspect you may have a global proxy configured somewhere and the
> message would indicate that. You can also try
> 
> $ env | grep -i proxy
> 
> to see whether that is the case. Can you ping www.debian.org? Have you
> tried editing your sources.list to use ftp:// instead of http://?

And additionally the following might show something interesting too.

  # find /etc/apt -type f -exec grep -i proxy {} +

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Re: Tiny Console Fonts

[Brian]

On Wed 04 Aug 2010 at 09:57:12 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:

> Is there a way change the console font size without changing the X
> windows resolution?

You could try the console-setup command (as root).


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Re: Anti virus and Firewall

[Brian]

On Wed 04 Aug 2010 at 10:53:42 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote:

> chkrootkit - rootkit detector
> rkhunter - rootkit, backdoor, sniffer and exploit scanner

If ckkrootkit really did detect worms like Lupper, Lion
and Adore (as opposed to the false positives both programs
appear fond of generating) the user should take a close
look at the Debian release he is using.

My problem with software like this is that it gives the
impression of providing security over and above what the
normal updating procedure provides.
 


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Re: Tiny Console Fonts

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-08-04 15:57 +0200, Thomas H. George wrote:

> After installing linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 the console fonts are so
> small I must use reading glasses to make them out.  I have experimented
> with the consolechars -H 16 -d  command but this just makes the characters
> brighter.
>
> I assume the problem may be the setting of the monitor resolution.

This is now done by the kernel for both Nvidia and Radeon cards, yes.
It uses the native resolution of your display which gives you a sharp
picture but also a small font by default.

> The
> monitor is 23" LCD monitor capable of 1920x1080 resolution.  Indeed, the
> small font is very sharp when viewed with my reading glasses but I wish
> it was twice as large so I would not have to bother with the glases.

This should be easy to fix, fortunately.

> On the other hand, the font sizes and resolution in X windows is fine as
> it is.
>
> Is there a way change the console font size without changing the X
> windows resolution?

Make sure you have the console-setup and kbd packages installed and use

# dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

to choose a console font that suits your taste; it will be set up on
each boot.  You can also use the setfont utility to change the font
temporarily.  Fonts are in the /usr/share/consolefonts directory.

Sven


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Tiny Console Fonts

[Thomas H. George]

After installing linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 the console fonts are so
small I must use reading glasses to make them out.  I have experimented
with the consolechars -H 16 -d  command but this just makes the characters
brighter.

I assume the problem may be the setting of the monitor resolution.  The
monitor is 23" LCD monitor capable of 1920x1080 resolution.  Indeed, the
small font is very sharp when viewed with my reading glasses but I wish
it was twice as large so I would not have to bother with the glases.

On the other hand, the font sizes and resolution in X windows is fine as
it is.

Is there a way change the console font size without changing the X
windows resolution?

Tom


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Re: Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[Lisi]

On Wednesday 04 August 2010 14:34:00 Lisi wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 August 2010 11:02:52 Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> > Trinity KDE 3.5.11 [snip] User
>
> How are you getting on with it?  Does it have full functionality in Ubuntu?
>
> I am watching with interest.  I am hoping that, by the time that I have to
> abandom Lenny, Trinity will have a deb. that I can use in Squeeze.

I see that .debs for Debian are well on the way, but have been held up by the 
massive blowout at Pearson Computing. :-(

Lisi


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Trinity KDE 3.5.11 was Re: How to use two displaies

[Lisi]

On Wednesday 04 August 2010 11:02:52 Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> Trinity KDE 3.5.11 [snip] User

How are you getting on with it?  Does it have full functionality in Ubuntu?

I am watching with interest.  I am hoping that, by the time that I have to 
abandom Lenny, Trinity will have a deb. that I can use in Squeeze.

Lisi



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Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy

[Jochen Schulz]

pierre poulos:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Jochen Schulz  wrote:
>> pierre poulos:
>>> 
>>> Using Iceweasel, Google Chrome and Lynx I cannot access http;//
>>> www.debian.org or any of the mirrors without using an external web
>>> proxy.
>> 
>> What error message do you get?
>
> It just sits on connecting then times out (sorry about the typo)

And what is the exact error message Iceweasel shows? I am asking because
I suspect you may have a global proxy configured somewhere and the
message would indicate that. You can also try

$ env | grep -i proxy

to see whether that is the case. Can you ping www.debian.org? Have you
tried editing your sources.list to use ftp:// instead of http://?

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Re: How to use two displaies

[Brian]

On Wed 04 Aug 2010 at 17:52:48 +0800, Guo Jiahua wrote:

> I have a laptop, with a VGA interface.
> I connected a extra display to my laptop, but it shows nothing,
> the state of it is "NO SIGNAL".
> I wander how to config to use the two displaies, one of my
> laptop, one extra.

If "fn" key + F key works for you, well and good. If not please
post the output of the command 'xrandr' with the extra display
connected. After a reboot is probably best.


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Re: How to use two displaies

[Mirco Piccin]

Hi

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:

> Guo Jiahua wrote:
>
>> I have a laptop, with a VGA interface.
>> I connected a extra display to my laptop, but it shows nothing, the state
>> of it is "NO SIGNAL".
>> I wander how to config to use the two displaies, one of my laptop, one
>> extra.
>>
>
>
> On a laptop the display is normally controlled by the "function key" on the
> laptop or "fn" key + F key "that will have a monitor image on the F key".
>


...or you can use the xrandr utility, that allows more flexibility.
There's also a gui : grandr.

Regards
M

Re: NUMLOCKX Debian KDE4

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:57:45 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:

> Camaleón wrote:

(...)

>> So maybe a KDE bug/problem? :-?
> 
> 
> I read those bugs and their problem seems to be with KDE and numlock,
> while my problem is with numlockx and the latest kernel, it may also
> have to do with kde, not sure as it works as expected when I remove
> numlockx, kde turns numlock on after login, numlockx turns numlock on
> before login and that is what I want.
> 
> It is turning numlock on but the status light is off while numlock is on
> and the light is on when numlock is off, so the status light is not
> working as expected and this seems to have happened since installing the
> latest kernel.

Dunno why are you thinking this is a kernel issue.

- Does the num lock works as expected on tty? 
- Does creating a new user and login in a KDE session works?

> Should be a workaround to just change the status of the light!?! 

"numlockx" should not be needed anymore in KDE as kdm has an option to 
handle that from "kdmrc" config file :-?

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Re: How to use two displaies

[Jimmy Johnson]

Guo Jiahua wrote:

I have a laptop, with a VGA interface.
I connected a extra display to my laptop, but it shows nothing, the state of it is 
"NO SIGNAL".
I wander how to config to use the two displaies, one of my laptop, one extra.



On a laptop the display is normally controlled by the "function key" on 
the laptop or "fn" key + F key "that will have a monitor image on the F 
key".

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Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy

[pierre poulos]

It just sits on connecting then times out (sorry about the typo)

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Jochen Schulz  wrote:

> pierre poulos:
> >
> > Using Iceweasel, Google Chrome and Lynx I cannot access http;//
>
> I guess you meant to write "http://"; instead of "http;//".
>
> > www.debian.org or any of the mirrors without using an external web
> proxy.
>
> What error message do you get?
>
> J.
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How to use two displaies

[Guo Jiahua]

I have a laptop, with a VGA interface.
I connected a extra display to my laptop, but it shows nothing, the state of it 
is "NO SIGNAL".
I wander how to config to use the two displaies, one of my laptop, one extra.

THX


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Re: NUMLOCKX Debian KDE4

[Jimmy Johnson]

Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Here's the problem, in unstable and testing numlock on, light not on, 
numlock off, light on ?!?


I've tried it by removing numlockx and it's config files and numlock 
works as expected (OK), but numlock is not on at boot and I won't it on 
at boot, checking the box to turn numlock on, will not turn it on at login.


I don't have the problem with kde3/Lenny.

How can I get the light to work proper (light on/numlock on) at boot 
without removing numlockx?


A little more info: both testing and unstable are currently using the 
same kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 and I think the problem came with the kernel.



This 12 year old bug 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482592 describes the 
problem, but they think the problem is with a new xorg and I think the 
problem is with the new kernel and it also seems numlockx is a orphaned 
package. :-(


Anyways the problem can be reproduced, I have the problem on two testing 
systems and one unstable system, both are using the same version 
numlockx and the same kernel.

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Re: Can only access Debian website through proxy

[Jochen Schulz]

pierre poulos:
>
> Using Iceweasel, Google Chrome and Lynx I cannot access http;//

I guess you meant to write "http://"; instead of "http;//".

> www.debian.org or any of the mirrors without using an external web proxy.

What error message do you get?

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Re: Anti virus and Firewall

[Michal]

On 03/08/10 22:43, Tingez Unknown wrote:

Hi all Debian people,

Firstly i am very new to Debian so please excuse me for my lack of 
understanding. I have recently got a Dedicated server box for my 
gaming Clan and have had Debian 5 64bit installed on it. Now as we 
will eventually be using the server for our web site for forums, 
Emails, sending and receiving files and all other aspects web site 
related, fast redirect downloading system for game server maps, mods 
etc., ftp, Big brother bot game server software and game servers of 
varying games.


I am looking for any suggestions regarding Anti virus and firewall 
software that is suitable with your Debian 5 64bit operating system. 
Wanting to add as much security as possible to our server to reduce 
any problems we may encounter. I would like any suggestions as to the 
best software that can be used either paid for or freeware if you 
would be so kind.




Kind Regards

Martin 
Will your server be able to take that load? I used to run a game hosting 
company and made it a rule that game servers hosted game rooms, the web 
server dealt with the websites and the teamspeak/vent servers and our 
redirect servers where dotted around America and we used a sort of basic 
geo-ip type redirection. We had lots of customers so our needs are 
different from yours, but I just want you to make sure your 1 server can 
take that load. We, and other friends we had the industry, made it a 
rule that web/voice never went on game servers. However your milage will 
vary of course.


Firewalling can be easy with iptables and so forth, on windows boxes we 
used IPSEC and all that stuff is very similar and easy to use/manage.


AV...well, unless you will have people uploading files as and wish they 
please you will probably not need this and I've seen many many friends 
run this sort of operation with no problems. It all depends on what, if 
any, files will be uploaded and by who

Can only access Debian website through proxy

[pierre poulos]

Using Iceweasel, Google Chrome and Lynx I cannot access http;//
www.debian.org or any of the mirrors without using an external web proxy. My
isp says they can access fine on their own machines. My wife's
computer running Firefox on WinXP sp3 on the same connection also works
fine. I have had to change my apt sources list as it was unable to access
the
security updates. What's wrong with my machine.
I am running lenny current.

Re: NUMLOCKX Debian KDE4

[Jimmy Johnson]

Camaleón wrote:

On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:53:31 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:


Here's the problem, in unstable and testing numlock on, light not on,
numlock off, light on ?!?

I've tried it by removing numlockx and it's config files and numlock
works as expected (OK), but numlock is not on at boot and I won't it on
at boot, checking the box to turn numlock on, will not turn it on at
login.

I don't have the problem with kde3/Lenny.

How can I get the light to work proper (light on/numlock on) at boot
without removing numlockx?

A little more info: both testing and unstable are currently using the
same kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64 and I think the problem came with the kernel.


There are some reports in both, Debian BTS and KDE. Check if any of these 
apply in your case:


***
/usr/bin/kde4: NumLock led behaves inversely if num lock is turned on 
kde4 startup

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533831

Bug 183308 -  Numlock Light Indicator Shuts Off After Activation within 
KDE 4.2 and Subsequent Log out or Reboot  
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183308

***

So maybe a KDE bug/problem? :-?



I read those bugs and their problem seems to be with KDE and numlock, 
while my problem is with numlockx and the latest kernel, it may also 
have to do with kde, not sure as it works as expected when I remove 
numlockx, kde turns numlock on after login, numlockx turns numlock on 
before login and that is what I want.


It is turning numlock on but the status light is off while numlock is on 
and the light is on when numlock is off, so the status light is not 
working as expected and this seems to have happened since installing the 
latest kernel.


Should be a workaround to just change the status of the light!?!
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Re: Anti virus and Firewall

[Wolodja Wentland]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 22:43 +0100, Tingez Unknown wrote:
> Firstly i am very new to Debian so please excuse me for my lack of
> understanding. 

Welcome to Debian :)

> I am looking for any suggestions regarding Anti virus and firewall software
> that is suitable with your Debian 5 64bit operating system. Wanting to add as
> much security as possible to our server to reduce any problems we may
> encounter. I would like any suggestions as to the best software that can be
> used either paid for or freeware if you would be so kind.

It has already been noted in this thread that anti-virus software is not
necessarily needed as most viruses target Windows, but you might want to
take a look at software that scans for rootkits [1].

I would also encourage you to familiarise yourself with Debian by
reading the Debian reference [2] (also available as Debian package
"debian-reference-LANG") and the "Securing Debian Manual" [3].

Have Fun

Wolodja

[1] Examples:

chkrootkit - rootkit detector
rkhunter - rootkit, backdoor, sniffer and exploit scanner

[2] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/
[3] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/

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Re: KDE proxy settings

[Camaleón]

On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:47:00 +0430, Nima Azarbayjany wrote:

> I have a recent Squeeze install on my laptop with only Gnome desktop and
> a few KDE software such as Amarok.  I have installed the systemsettings
> package but it does not provide any options to set network proxy
> settings.  What additional packages should be installed to provide that
> module for the control center of KDE?  I tried kdenetwork (if I remember
> the package name correctly) which seemed to be the most relevant thing
> to me but it did not help.

Not sure if this will work but... have you tried to launch Amarok by 
passing before the proxy settings? :-?

Something like: 

***
http_proxy="your_proxy_settings_here" amarok
***

Also, take a look into this article:

***
Configure Proxy for Amarok on GNOME 
http://www.lucidtips.com/2009/02/07/configure-proxy-for-amarok-on-gnome/
***

Greetings,

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