Re: virtualbox error

2008-11-11 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue November 11 2008, Carl Fink wrote: Instead of just installing the debs, use the brilliant module-assistant to compile the needed modules, as explained here: http://debaday.debian.net/2007/12/05/virtualbox-a-virtual-pc-for-you/ -- that would be nice if it worked.. actually, the error

Re: virtualbox error

2008-11-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:48:40AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: when I try to install an OS, it gets to where you start the installation and I get this error: The version of the VirtualBox kernel modules and the version of VirtualBox application are not matching. You can correct this by

Unusual use of Wiimote

2008-11-11 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi all. Today i find this site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ and i feel enthusiast. I register myself to www.wiimoteproject.com and i see that it works also with linux. Does anyone have some experiment? Should i buy a wiimote for xmas? :-D Regards M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:10:25AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: BTW, what do you mean by disable UTF? Other than setting LANG=C what else have you done to tune the system? remove all the locales-related packages (remove anything I didn't specifically need: disk space is limited too).

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:57:15AM +0100, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:40:20PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Surprisingly, from a very limited test on beige G3 mac machines (the above tests were instead on a pentium mmx 200 machine), I expect that lenny should NON

Re: Unusual use of Wiimote

2008-11-11 Thread lee
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:43:26 +0100 Mirco Piccin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. Today i find this site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ and i feel enthusiast. I register myself to www.wiimoteproject.com and i see that it works also with linux. Does anyone have some

Re: usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-11 Thread Russell Gadd
Florian Kulzer wrote: snip The first thing we need to know is if the device node(s) for the USB stick are created reliably. When you have a first boot and the icon does not show up, please run ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/ | grep usb and post the output here (or let us know if there is no output).

Re: Unusual use of Wiimote

2008-11-11 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi! Today i find this site: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ and i feel enthusiast. I register myself to www.wiimoteproject.com and i see that it works also with linux. Does anyone have some experiment? Should i buy a wiimote for xmas? :-D Well, I used it with a wii, and I

Re: Unusual use of Wiimote

2008-11-11 Thread lee
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:18:59 +0100 Mirco Piccin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ Well, the interesting thing is that : For most of these projects, you don't need the Nintendo Wii console. You only need the Wii controller and a bluetooth connection Yeah,

Question about files when installing Debian

2008-11-11 Thread Camilo Masso Quiceno
Hi, I appreciate you could help me with this. I'm a windows user but after reading and hearing other people talking about the great performance you can get from your machine with GNU/Linux, I've been considering installing Debian operating system, but I still have one doubt. I'm aware that I

how to increase FAT partition size in extended partition?

2008-11-11 Thread Serena Cantor
Is there any free software for doing that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

TV has no sound in etch

2008-11-11 Thread Serena Cantor
I use snd_ens1371 module. DVD has sound when I play it. But xawtv and tvtime has no sound. Maybe I shall use some wrapper for alsa driver? Which command I should enter? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Serena Cantor
I have copy DVD to hard drive. It's at /mnt/dos4/1415 I want to convert it to save space. Do you know the command? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

(solved) Re: how to increase FAT partition size in extended partition?

2008-11-11 Thread Serena Cantor
Thanks! I find etch has gparted. I'll try it later on. --- On Tue, 11/11/08, Umarzuki Mochlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Umarzuki Mochlis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to increase FAT partition size in extended partition? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 7:02

Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-11 Thread H.S.
Hello, I am in a situation where a friend of mine wants to send tons of photos to me. Internet connection being what it is regarding stability, I am aiming to a method where the photos' transfer can be resumed if the connection breaks and is recreated. Keeping security in mind, I am thinking of

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-11 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, I'm grateful for your comments on this thread. I've learned about a few parts of the Debian system I wasn't aware of before (volatile/sloppy) and have been pleased to see a range of perspectives, including from upstream of the distro. A number of comments missed my main point, which

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-11 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:08:33 -0500 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am in a situation where a friend of mine wants to send tons of photos to me. Internet connection being what it is regarding stability, I am aiming to a method where the photos' transfer can be resumed if the

Re: Question about files when installing Debian

2008-11-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,11.Nov.08, 23:20:08, Camilo Masso Quiceno wrote: Hi, I appreciate you could help me with this. I'm a windows user but after reading and hearing other people talking about the great performance you can get from your machine with GNU/Linux, I've been considering installing Debian

Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/11/08 18:04, Serena Cantor wrote: I have copy DVD to hard drive. As an ISO file? It's at /mnt/dos4/1415 I want to convert it to save space. That's way too non-specific. How compact? Shrink image width/height? What format do you want it stored as? Do you know the command?

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/11/08 18:08, H.S. wrote: [snip] Now I wanted to know what is the best way to go about this. He is not a computer savvy and does not use Linux. Otherwise I would have just asked him to send it over rsync via ssh. Savvy or not, is he amenable to rote learning? -- Ron Johnson, Jr.

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-11 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue November 11 2008, H.S. wrote: For now what I have in mind is this: 1. Ask him to make archive volumes of the data, say 10 MB each. 2. Ask him to install the GUI scp client on his windows box. 3. Create account for him on my Debian router machine. 4. Ask him to start scp transfer of

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
H.S. wrote: Hello, I am in a situation where a friend of mine wants to send tons of photos to me. Internet connection being what it is regarding stability, I am aiming to a method where the photos' transfer can be resumed if the connection breaks and is recreated. Keeping security in mind, I

Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Serena Cantor wrote: I have copy DVD to hard drive. It's at /mnt/dos4/1415 I want to convert it to save space. Do you know the command? The mplayer/mencoder documentation has a detailed chapter on ripping a dvd. It is really worth reading before proceeding.

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-11 Thread H.S.
Rico Secada wrote: Unless there is any pressing need for you to use SSH, I would recommend It is for encryption. I have no idea what my ISP does with my data and moreover I just don't plain like idea of somebody going over our family photos. That is the main reason. Thanks. -- Please

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-11 Thread H.S.
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue November 11 2008, H.S. wrote: For now what I have in mind is this: 1. Ask him to make archive volumes of the data, say 10 MB each. 2. Ask him to install the GUI scp client on his windows box. 3. Create account for him on my Debian router machine. 4. Ask him to

Re: how to increase FAT partition size in extended partition?

2008-11-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Serena Cantor wrote: Is there any free software for doing that? Yes there is. Try gparted. It lets you do all sorts of things with your disk partitions. -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. -- Albert Einstein --

Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Serena Cantor
The page you list is too long. Isn't it just a command? Do you know? Thanks anyway! --- On Tue, 11/11/08, Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc:

Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-11 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:28:10AM -0500, Doug Mitton wrote: On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:31:16 +0100, you wrote: Hi All; I'm looking to see if anyone can confirm a change on the Walmart Photo web site. It appears it has gone Internet Explorer only as I can't get Konqueror or Mozilla on

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-11 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 02:00:28PM +0100, Michael Ott wrote: Hi! I am looking for a very slim desktop manager. No pun intended, but you can install SLiM (Simple Login Manager). I use it myself, it is visually very nice (much improved over XDM) as well as fast and lightweight. If by

Re: Talking with Yahoo Messenger

2008-11-11 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:16:49PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Martin wrote: Hello, I find out that gaim is able to use text messaging with many programs. I want to use voice messaging (use it as phone) when other person is using Yahoo Messenger on MS Windows. Is there some

Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Serena Cantor wrote: The page you list is too long. Isn't it just a command? Do you know? Indeed, it is just a command. Would you rather read the manpage? mencoder takes an input audio/video combination and transforms it to a different audio/video combination. Without telling anything about

Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Serena Cantor
If I give enough details, can you help me out? If my memory doesn't fail, there are only 2 directories in DVD, I copy them to /mnt/dos4/1415 And I can use vlc to play by just specifying directory. After conversion, I wish frame size is about 384x288. The film is 90 minute long, I wish the file

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-11 Thread H.S.
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue November 11 2008, H.S. wrote: For now what I have in mind is this: 1. Ask him to make archive volumes of the data, say 10 MB each. 2. Ask him to install the GUI scp client on his windows box. 3. Create account for him on my Debian router machine. 4. Ask him to

Re: Talking with Yahoo Messenger

2008-11-11 Thread steve
Michael Pobega wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:16:49PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Martin wrote: Hello, I find out that gaim is able to use text messaging with many programs. I want to use voice messaging (use it as phone) when other person is using Yahoo Messenger on MS Windows.

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-11 Thread Mark Allums
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 03:45:38AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: lee wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 23:29:55 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:20:51PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: If you do only have three drives, add it to the raid1

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:13:42AM +, Sam Kuper wrote: When 'stable' packages don't work, or are inadequately documented, it's a pain because the upstream developers (who are otherwise often the first port of call for help and documentation) may no longer support the version of the

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:59:03PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 02:00:28PM +0100, Michael Ott wrote: I am looking for a very slim desktop manager. What would your wife say? :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-11 Thread H.S.
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue November 11 2008, H.S. wrote: For now what I have in mind is this: 1. Ask him to make archive volumes of the data, say 10 MB each. 2. Ask him to install the GUI scp client on his windows box. 3. Create account for him on my Debian router machine. 4. Ask him to

Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/11/08 19:03, Serena Cantor wrote: If I give enough details, can you help me out? If my memory doesn't fail, there are only 2 directories in DVD, I copy them to /mnt/dos4/1415 And I can use vlc to play by just specifying directory. After conversion, I wish frame size is about 384x288.

Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Serena Cantor
Your reply is not helpful. --- On Tue, 11/11/08, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008, 10:06 PM On 11/11/08 19:03, Serena Cantor

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-11 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 07:29:10 +0530 Sridhar M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 02:00:28PM +0100, Michael Ott wrote: I am looking for a very slim desktop manager. The system looking for is a 486 166MHz with 64MB Ram. I only want to run one or two

OT: HP NetServer LPr dual P-II-450MHz, 250MB 2x9GB 2U server

2008-11-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I need some advice. I need a medium-age computer. Re my low-MHz quest, further testing suggests that if I keep the speed under 500 MHz we may be tolerable (all things being equal, and it depends on the PSU). Looking on eBay, I've found item number 46408316. Its an HP NetServer

RE: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread paul
I have copy DVD to hard drive. It's at /mnt/dos4/1415 I want to convert it to save space. Do you know the command? Encoding DVD to a file is a complex subject. The code below will do a two pass encode from your file to a 263 avi file. When done it will play the file. You can ctrl-c to

Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
Your requests for help do not contain the appropriate amount of background needed for us to answer you in anything other than generalities. So, remembering that we are not paid to answer your questions, read this and come back when you ask smart questions.

Re: OT: HP NetServer LPr dual P-II-450MHz, 250MB 2x9GB 2U server

2008-11-11 Thread Julian De Marchi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone used these servers? Any gotya's? I ran one for 2 yrs as a DNS server with 18GB SCSI. It never missed a beat! However it was a very noisy sever. - -- Cheers, Julian De Marchi - -- OpenNIC user - http://www.opennicproject.org/ |

Re: OT: HP NetServer LPr dual P-II-450MHz, 250MB 2x9GB 2U server

2008-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/11/08 21:46, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello all, I need some advice. I need a medium-age computer. Re my low-MHz quest, further testing suggests that if I keep the speed under 500 MHz we may be tolerable (all things being equal, and it depends on the PSU). Looking on eBay, I've found

Re: OT: HP NetServer LPr dual P-II-450MHz, 250MB 2x9GB 2U server

2008-11-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:29:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/11/08 21:46, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Its an HP NetServer LPr, Dual P-II 450 MHz, 256 MB ram, 2x9GB SCSI drive 2U server. Its basically $60 CDN (plus tax) and I can drive to pick it up (no shipping cost). They have 4

Re: virtualbox error-SOLVED

2008-11-11 Thread Jeff Goodman
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:50:31 -0500 Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue November 11 2008, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue November 11 2008, Mariusz Sielicki wrote: aptitude install bridge-utils virtualbox-ose-source module-assistance m-a auto-install virtualbox-ose modprobe

RE: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Serena Cantor
Thanks! What is 263 avi file? How big is output.avi after 1st pass and 2nd pass? --- On Tue, 11/11/08, paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday,

Re: numlockx works?

2008-11-11 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:30:04 +1300, Dean Sutherland wrote: However, neither numlockx on, nor numlockx off works for me. . . numlockx works here running lenny: Then I guess that it might be driver related because I've just found that this bug has the exact symptom that I'm experiencing.

Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Serena Cantor
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Are the rules above the rule of debian user list? I'm not sure. I suggest your reading others' replies to my question. Their replies are far more helpful. --- On Tue, 11/11/08, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Ron Johnson [EMAIL

Re: OT: HP NetServer LPr dual P-II-450MHz, 250MB 2x9GB 2U server

2008-11-11 Thread lee
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:46:43 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that computers keep getting quieter but I wonder what the fan noise would compare to, say a dual P-133 box? If it's anything like a LH3, expect noise like from an industrial vacuum cleaner. Even if the noise

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-11 Thread lee
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:33:11 -0500 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rico Secada wrote: Unless there is any pressing need for you to use SSH, I would recommend It is for encryption. I have no idea what my ISP does with my data and moreover I just don't plain like idea of somebody going

Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread lee
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:45:17 -0800 (PST) Serena Cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suggest your reading others' replies to my question. Their replies are far more helpful. You were specifying what size the output file should be, but you didn't specify the size of the input file yet. Thus he was

Re: postfix can't send and receive mails

2008-11-11 Thread Stephen Liu
--- lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:59:10 +0800 (CST) Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nov 11 02:41:55 xen05 postfix/smtpd[3445]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[121.34.170.57]: 554 5.7.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Relay access denied; from=[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TV has no sound in etch

2008-11-11 Thread lee
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:02:05 -0800 (PST) Serena Cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use snd_ens1371 module. DVD has sound when I play it. But xawtv and tvtime has no sound. Maybe I shall use some wrapper for alsa driver? Which command I should enter?

Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Serena Cantor
I received 2 copies of your mail. I will sign off now. Thanks! --- On Wed, 11/12/08, lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008,

Re: virtualbox error-SOLVED

2008-11-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 04:50:31PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue November 11 2008, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue November 11 2008, Mariusz Sielicki wrote: aptitude install bridge-utils virtualbox-ose-source module-assistance m-a auto-install virtualbox-ose modprobe vboxdrv I

Re: how to use mplayer to convert DVD to a file?

2008-11-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:06:50PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: I received 2 copies of your mail. I will sign off now. Thanks! [snip] What a strange person ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Is this a bug in Mplayer?

2008-11-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-11 23:58 +0100, Rico Secada wrote: I am running Debian Lenny with kernel 2.6.26-1-686. I have not experienced any problems prior. Today I wanted to watch a movie, and Mplayer crashed with a panic. Following Mplayer crashes no matter what I try to play. Should I report this as a

Re: postfix can't send and receive mails

2008-11-11 Thread lee
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:57:54 +0800 (CST) Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # grep relayhost /etc/postfix/main.cf relayhost = Ok, I guess that would mean that there are no hosts specified for which xen05 is allowed to relay mail. comment out that line 'mydestination';

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:29:10AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 02:00:28PM +0100, Michael Ott wrote: I am looking for a very slim desktop manager. The system looking for is a 486 166MHz with 64MB Ram. I only want to run one or two small

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