broken system after srm -r -d /tmp/.* (user login and several services not working)

2008-07-02 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I've broken my debian/unstable system by executing as root the command # srm -r -d /tmp/.* I aborted the command after something between 20 and 40 seconds, but since then, my system behaves strange: If I try to login as normal user on the console, I get the error Unable to cd to

Debian 4.0r3 cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system.

2008-07-02 Thread zhaohscas
Hi all, I use the Debian 4.0r3 and have 4Gb ram, the cpu is pentium D 3.00 Ghz. I have installed the kernel 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem but the system cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system still. Who can give me some hints? Sincerely yours,

Re: broken system after srm -r -d /tmp/.* (user login and several services not working)

2008-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/02/08 04:33, Jonas Meurer wrote: Hello, I've broken my debian/unstable system by executing as root the command # srm -r -d /tmp/.* I aborted the command after something between 20 and 40 seconds, but since then, my system behaves

Re: Debian 4.0r3 cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system.

2008-07-02 Thread Star Liu
2008/7/2 zhaohscas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I use the Debian 4.0r3 and have 4Gb ram, the cpu is pentium D 3.00 Ghz. I have installed the kernel 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem but the system cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system still. Who can give me some hints? Maybe you can try

Re: broken system after srm -r -d /tmp/.* (user login and several services not working)

2008-07-02 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 02/07/2008 Ron Johnson wrote: No flames, but thanks! for the informative post. A reboot cleanly clears out /tmp, so ISTM that the way to accomplish your ultimate goal is to run sfill soon after boot. Yes, you're correct. ;-) Thanks for the suggestion, will use that next time. Should have

Re: broken system after srm -r -d /tmp/.* (user login and several services not working)

2008-07-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-02 11:33 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: I've broken my debian/unstable system by executing as root the command # srm -r -d /tmp/.* Ouch. That seems a good command to run before you sell your hard disk. ;-) I aborted the command after something between 20 and 40 seconds, but since

Re: broken system after srm -r -d /tmp/.* (user login and several services not working)

2008-07-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-02 12:33 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: In the meanwhile, I had a new idea: Maybe srm doesn't remove the overwritten files before quitting when it is aborted. That way, some file on my system could still exist, but in a truncated way: half of the file is still the orignal, the other

Re: Debian 4.0r3 cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system.

2008-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/02/08 05:15, zhaohscas wrote: Hi all, I use the Debian 4.0r3 and have 4Gb ram, the cpu is pentium D 3.00 Ghz. I have installed the kernel 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem but the system cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system still. Who

Re: broken system after srm -r -d /tmp/.* (user login and several services not working)

2008-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/02/08 05:45, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-07-02 11:33 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: I've broken my debian/unstable system by executing as root the command # srm -r -d /tmp/.* Ouch. That seems a good command to run before you sell your hard

Re: Debian 4.0r3 cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system.

2008-07-02 Thread Star Liu
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/02/08 05:15, zhaohscas wrote: Hi all, I use the Debian 4.0r3 and have 4Gb ram, the cpu is pentium D 3.00 Ghz. I have installed the kernel 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem but the

Re: broken system after srm -r -d /tmp/.* (user login and several services not working)

2008-07-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-02 13:00 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/02/08 05:45, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-07-02 11:33 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: I've broken my debian/unstable system by executing as root the command # srm -r -d /tmp/.* Ouch. That seems a good command to run before you sell your hard

Re: Debian 4.0r3 cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system.

2008-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/02/08 06:06, Star Liu wrote: On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/02/08 05:15, zhaohscas wrote: Hi all, I use the Debian 4.0r3 and have 4Gb ram, the cpu is pentium D 3.00 Ghz. I have installed the

Re: debug boot script

2008-07-02 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mié, 02-07-2008 a las 16:43 +0800, ray escribió: I want to debug an init cript in /etc/rcS.d That script outputs some messages using echo, so the messages should be printed to the stdout. I guess the redirect mechanism provided by shell is supposed to work in order to grab these messages

Input not supported.

2008-07-02 Thread zhaohscas
Hi all, I use the Debian 4.0r3 with the following display divices: Dispaly card: The ATI Radeon X1050 Liquid Crystal Display: ACER, AL1511. When the gdm start, it will give the following info: *Input not supported*, The above error info would be flickered for some seconds, and then the

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 05:37:23AM +, Paul Johnson wrote: [DNS servers] You need a minimum of two if you're expecting to delegate your own zone. One will NOT get 'er done. A friend and I mirror each others' servers. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog

Re: driver loaded automatically

2008-07-02 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mié, 02-07-2008 a las 16:57 +0800, ray escribió: Yes, the discover package. Now I see the discover package can be removed from my system and maybe can make my system boot up a little more quick. I would like to know the details of the kernel's own detection mechanism. Do you know where can

Re: Re: Debian 4.0r3 cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system.

2008-07-02 Thread zhaohscas
I use the Debian 4.0r3 and have 4Gb ram, the cpu is pentium D 3.00 Ghz. I have installed the kernel 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem but the system cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system still. Who can give me some hints? How much *does* it recognize? The cat /proc/meminfo will give the

Re: Increase of un-usable PDF usage.

2008-07-02 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Mike Mestnik wrote: Over the past few mouths I've received more unusable PDFs then I've ever received usable PDFs. ... snip I have asked senders to choose a better format, but they keep coming. Many sites that have PDFs as part of there content do not seam to be having this problem it's when

Re: Re: Debian 4.0r3 cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system.

2008-07-02 Thread zhaohscas
On 07/02/08 05:15, zhaohscas wrote: Hi all, I use the Debian 4.0r3 and have 4Gb ram, the cpu is pentium D 3.00 Ghz. I have installed the kernel 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem but the system cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system still. Who can give me some hints? How much *does* it

Re: Debian 4.0r3 cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system.

2008-07-02 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 02 July 2008 14:28:46 zhaohscas wrote: On 07/02/08 05:15, zhaohscas wrote: Hi all, I use the Debian 4.0r3 and have 4Gb ram, the cpu is pentium D 3.00 Ghz. I have installed the kernel 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem but the system cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system

Re: Re: Debian 4.0r3 cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system.

2008-07-02 Thread zhaohscas
Also, soon after a boot: $ dmesg | less See following: Linux version 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:21:07 UTC 2008 BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

Re: debug boot script

2008-07-02 Thread ray
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Gabriel Parrondo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El mié, 02-07-2008 a las 16:43 +0800, ray escribió: I want to debug an init cript in /etc/rcS.d That script outputs some messages using echo, so the messages should be printed to the stdout. I guess the redirect

Re: driver loaded automatically

2008-07-02 Thread ray
I have checked the udev. But I thought udev is responsible for creating the device files after the modules have been loaded. Am I wrong? On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Gabriel Parrondo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El mié, 02-07-2008 a las 16:57 +0800, ray escribió: Yes, the discover package. Now

Re: Recording TV with Debian

2008-07-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:48:10AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today however I wanted to record some old video recordings from my Sony M8 video recorder, and I got my hands on a Pinnacle video card. Now installing tvtime and watching the tapes is very easy and it works perfectly, but

Re: dial up support

2008-07-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:30:45AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: I just realised I have dial up all around Australia, so want to take advantage of this. So, my laptop has a win modem in side it. So can anyone tell me a brand and model to look for on ebay, so I can get a cheap 56 k modem that

Re: 答复 : Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:09:18AM +0300, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Not really. See #201842 and #479620. Unfortunately Daniel Burrows still didn't comment on them. Maybe he will show up here? The main reason I haven't touched those bugs is that there are many more

Re: shutdown and reboot scripts

2008-07-02 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, Can someone tell me what script I can edit so when my box shuts down or reboots all my mounted devices get pumounted? (I use pmount to mount everything) So, how can I pumount all devices on /media? So basically I have 2 questions: 1. What script can I place commands in

Re: 答复: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 14:01 +0800, Magicloud wrote: I don't think so. Obviously, if the network is broken, it absolutely does not mean that there is NO packages, just aptitude can not know. That's by far the most round logic I've heard tonight. What on earth are you

Re: 答复: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:19 +1000, CaT wrote: I believe that would be the point the original poster was getting at. If aptitude is really doing that then it is in the wrong. I understood it, but given that this is how apt has always worked and is documented to work,

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/02/08 08:39, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:09:18AM +0300, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Not really. See #201842 and #479620. Unfortunately Daniel Burrows still didn't comment on them. Maybe he will

Re: 答复 : Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 06:39:26AM -0700, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I put the apt-get and aptitude code up side-by-side and I can only see one difference in the conditions they use to determine whether to clean the lists. I don't see why this would matter (surely

Re: 答复: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-02 15:39 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: A secondary reason is that I can't figure out what's going on, because whenever I try taking my network down and running an update, my package lists are still around afterwards. Hm, just a few hours ago I tried that experiment and aptitude

Re: 答复: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-02 16:40 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 06:39:26AM -0700, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I put the apt-get and aptitude code up side-by-side and I can only see one difference in the conditions they use to determine whether to clean the

Re: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-01 18:16, Stackpole, Chris wrote: * I don't know the details about it, I just saw the posting about a week ago and thought huh that's interesting and went on my way. Sorry for not keeping the link. I will look for it again and if I find

Re: dial up support

2008-07-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:30:45AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: I just realised I have dial up all around Australia, so want to take advantage of this. So, my laptop has a win modem in side it. So can anyone tell me a brand and model to look for on ebay, so I can get a

Re: Recording TV with Debian

2008-07-02 Thread j t
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:48:10 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are you using to capture video? Disclaimer: I know nothing about Pinnacle video cards (I have an Adaptec avc2010 pci card which works perfectly under linux). Surely if

Some interconnectivity

2008-07-02 Thread David Baron
At my job, I have an XP machine. At home, Debian. I allowed protocols in the firewall from my local machine to DMZ at put the work server on that. I set up dovecot, IMAP server. Outlook uses this just fine. I installed a windows putty, ssh's just fine. FTP works just fine. I installed a nice

Re: Recording TV with Debian

2008-07-02 Thread Dale
2008/7/2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:48:10 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so I figured out how to capture using mencoder, but the quality is really bad. What are you using to capture video? Hi. I have been using GNU/Linux for about ten years and I have always been

Re: Re: Debian 4.0r3 cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system.

2008-07-02 Thread j t
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:45 PM, zhaohscas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, soon after a boot: $ dmesg | less My guess: Intel chipset limitation? (know to affect certain 915nn and 945nn chipsets) See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us (and yes, I already know that you're not using an MS

Re: driver loaded automatically

2008-07-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 03:39:38PM +0800, ray wrote: I found the driver of my wireless network card is loaded right after the system boots up. I checked the /etc/modules and not found that driver. I had thought that driver is loaded automatically by discover, so I disabled the

Re: debug boot script

2008-07-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:43:58PM +0800, ray wrote: I want to debug an init cript in /etc/rcS.d That script outputs some messages using echo, so the messages should be printed to the stdout. I guess the redirect mechanism provided by shell is supposed to work in order to grab these messages

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-02 Thread John Hasler
Carl Fink writes: I prefer to host my own DNS on my own server... Resolvers contact nameservers by IP number (how else?). If your IP is dynamic how will anyone know the IP number of your nameserver? Does anyone know of a similar agent that pairs with a daemon I can run on my DNS server, to

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-02 Thread John Hasler
Carl Fink writes: A friend and I mirror each others' servers. I suppose it might work if each of you is primary for the other guy and secondary for yourself and you set the TTLs low. Some large organizations ignore short TTLs, though. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: ethernet configuration

2008-07-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:43:58 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 06:04:17PM -0300, André Timpanaro wrote: I've found the /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules file: # This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules # program, probably run

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-07-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-06-28 19:32:32, schrieb Paul Johnson: On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 08:59 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: What are the most recent laptops that run Linux *and* have a working analog (RJ-11) modem installed? By searching for a laptop with a real modem, before even taking Linux into

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-07-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-06-29 15:12:11, schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: However good those USB-serial adapters are, I have never found one that could speak all speeds properly, which can be VERY annoying on the field. MCT U232 - Works up to 460.800 BpS. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:49:40AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Carl Fink writes: I prefer to host my own DNS on my own server... Resolvers contact nameservers by IP number (how else?). If your IP is dynamic how will anyone know the IP number of your nameserver? I have a server,

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-02 Thread John Hasler
Carl Fink writes: The server has a fixed address. Then I guess I don't understand your question. Why can't you just run a nameserver on that host and be happy? The laptop moves from network to network, as you might expect. Install dhis-server on the server and dhis-client on the laptop (and

Re: Some interconnectivity

2008-07-02 Thread elijah r.
I cannot forward X from the putty. Maybe I need a bidirection enable in the firewall to do that. This might not be what you're looking for, but I believe that x11vnc with the -localhost argument would still let you do a VNC session over SSH. -- http://elijahr.blogspot.com/ -- To

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 12:01 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Carl Fink writes: A friend and I mirror each others' servers. I suppose it might work if each of you is primary for the other guy and secondary for yourself and you set the TTLs low. Some large organizations ignore short TTLs, though.

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 17:53 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-06-28 19:32:32, schrieb Paul Johnson: On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 08:59 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: What are the most recent laptops that run Linux *and* have a working analog (RJ-11) modem installed? By searching for

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Thank you for trimming unnecessary quotes. On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 09:31 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/02/08 08:39, Daniel Burrows wrote: The main reason I haven't touched those bugs is that there are many more important things to work on. This behavior might be annoying when it hits

Re: 答复: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:03 -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:19 +1000, CaT wrote: I believe that would be the point the original poster was getting at. If aptitude is really doing that then it is in the wrong. I understood it, but given that

Re: Some interconnectivity

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 13:34 -0500, elijah r. wrote: I cannot forward X from the putty. Maybe I need a bidirection enable in the firewall to do that. This might not be what you're looking for, but I believe that x11vnc with the -localhost argument would still let you do a VNC session over

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 01:19:19PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Carl Fink writes: The server has a fixed address. Then I guess I don't understand your question. Why can't you just run a nameserver on that host and be happy? I do. That's what I said. The laptop moves from network to

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:04:18PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 12:01 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Carl Fink writes: A friend and I mirror each others' servers. I suppose it might work if each of you is primary for the other guy and secondary for yourself and you set

Enable SSI on Debian for Apache 1.3

2008-07-02 Thread T o n g
Hi, I'm having problem enabling SSI on Debian for Apache 1.3. I know Apache 1.3 is no longer included in Debian, but Apache 2 gives me more trouble configuring. Long story short, I've done some searches and been following this 2 articles: Apache server-side includes on Debian

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread H.S.
Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:03 -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:19 +1000, CaT wrote: I believe that would be the point the original poster was getting at. If aptitude is really doing that then it is in the wrong. I understood it,

Help interpreting nmap scan on localhost running Lenny.Strange port?

2008-07-02 Thread Luis Maceira
I recently installed Lenny(testing) and I have very few software installed,yet. I did a nmap scan which showed this: Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): Not shown: 1710 closed ports PORT STATE SERVICE  VERSION 25/tcp   open  smtp Exim smtpd 4.69 111/tcp  open  rpcbind 113/tcp 

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-07-02 Thread John Devereux
Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I am using electic and geda but those programs are crap and you can not design real PCBs for it. Even my 18 years old MS-DOS software works better. So, my requirements are: 1) PCB-Layouts up to Extended ATX and 18x11 2) Only ARM and

Re: terminal resize doesn't propagate to an application

2008-07-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:29:36PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 01 Jul 2008, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:20:14PM +0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 01 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: IIRC, there's a (Debian-specific?) bug in ncurses

Re: Help interpreting nmap scan on localhost running Lenny.Strange port?

2008-07-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 01:27:19PM -0700, Luis Maceira wrote: I recently installed Lenny(testing) and I have very few software installed,yet. I did a nmap scan which showed this: [snip] the fingerprint above appears that the port 832/tcp is related to privoxy however when I kill

Re: Help interpreting nmap scan on localhost running Lenny.Strange port?

2008-07-02 Thread Lee Glidewell
On Wednesday 02 July 2008 01:27:19 pm Luis Maceira wrote: I recently installed Lenny(testing) and I have very few software installed,yet. I did a nmap scan which showed this: Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1): Not shown: 1710 closed ports PORT STATE SERVICE  VERSION 25/tcp  

Re: Recording TV with Debian

2008-07-02 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 02:04:29 +0930 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Dale, and others. Dale I also tried using mencoder, but the result was very poor quality. After some testing I managed to get a very clean and good quality recording using transcode instead. 2008/7/2 [EMAIL

Re: Recording TV with Debian

2008-07-02 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mié, 02-07-2008 a las 04:38 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:48:10 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so I figured out how to capture using mencoder, but the quality is really bad. What are you using to capture video? Well, the quality pretty much depends on

Re: Recording TV with Debian

2008-07-02 Thread coolzone
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:19:12 -0300 Gabriel Parrondo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El mié, 02-07-2008 a las 04:38 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Well, the quality pretty much depends on the parameters you're using with mencoder. I would ask for the command you were trying, but I see you

Re: Any idea why chroot temporarily cannot find name for group ID 0?

2008-07-02 Thread David Barrett
Wow, great observation: doing a ls of /etc/group and /etc/passwd fixes it. How incredibly strange: [EMAIL PROTECTED] svn]# chroot staging/db id: cannot find name for group ID 0 id: cannot find name for group ID 1 id: cannot find name for group ID 2 id: cannot find name for group ID 3 id:

Re: Any idea why chroot temporarily cannot find name for group ID 0?

2008-07-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 05:38:50PM -0700, David Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Wow, great observation: doing a ls of /etc/group and /etc/passwd fixes it. How incredibly strange: I'd go for jawdroppingly bizarre myself. The only other thing I can think of is that maybe

Re: 答复 : Stunned by aptitude.

2008-07-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 05:35:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 2008-07-02 16:40 +0200, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 06:39:26AM -0700, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I put the apt-get and aptitude code up side-by-side

Re: Some interconnectivity

2008-07-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 07:13:38PM +0300, David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I installed a nice free fold syncer goodsync to sync some active work folders with copies on the Linux using FTP. Works fine with one interesting caveat: I has filed marked at modified on the linux

Re: Recording TV with Debian

2008-07-02 Thread cothrige
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:19:12 -0300 With mencode I used the following command (using PAL in my country): mencoder tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:input=1:norm=pal:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0: freq=775.25:adevice=/dev/dsp1:forceaudio:audiorate=32000 buffersize=64

memory question (hardware)

2008-07-02 Thread Mag Gam
I am curious... When memory is manufactured why does a stick of 4GB memory cost 2.5 times of 2GB memory? Is the manufacturing process that much different to justify the cost?

Re: memory question (hardware)

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 01:08 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: When memory is manufactured why does a stick of 4GB memory cost 2.5 times of 2GB memory? Is the manufacturing process that much different to justify the cost? Smaller die size means higher price. You're squeezing twice as many circuits into

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