Re: Panels in Xfce4 in Squeeze

2009-05-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,25.May.09, 17:32:21, Peter Crawford wrote: > > At Mon, 25 May 2009 20:31:18 +0300 > andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote, > > What do you mean by "yields nothing". > > Normally > Desktop menu -> Applications -> Settings -> Panel > would yield a Xfce viewer for configuring the panels. > No

Verbose CRON Logging

2009-05-25 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, I have some erronous cron jobs which result in error dumps in syslog file. # grep "Permission denied" /var/log/syslog May 23 07:07:01 alamut CRON[21520]: Permission denied May 23 08:07:01 alamut CRON[21563]: Permission denied May 23 09:07:01 alamut CRON[21620]: Permission denied May

Re: Why is there suddenly a 'Universal Access Preferences' icon in my notification area?

2009-05-25 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On Mon, 25 May 2009 19:15:39 -0400 Patrick Wiseman wrote: > And how do I get rid of it? It just showed up after a reboot after > this morning's upgrade on my amd64 testing system. (The reboot > necessitated by yet another NetworkManager system freeze.) > Accessibility options (e.g. aids for h

Re: Canot access external usb hd anymore

2009-05-25 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/5/26 Manon Metten > Hi All, > > Since I installed Lenny from scratch a while ago, I have problems accessing > my external usb hd. It is plugged in to a usb port permanently, but I only > turn > on the power if I need to access it (I use it for backup). > > As I turn on the power, it reports

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/5/26 Owen Townend > 2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > > 2009/5/26 Owen Townend > [snip] > >> > >> Not quite, the syntax is: > >> $ dd_rescue [options] infile outfile > >> '-' can be used to mean stdin/out > >> > >> Your command would be: > >> $ dd_rescue -v -l sda.log /dev/sda1 - | gzip > imag

Re: Is gnome built on top of twm?

2009-05-25 Thread Foss User
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Foss User wrote: >>Please see the following output I generated from Squeeze. >> >>$ aptitude why twm >>i   gnome                     Depends  gnome-desktop-environment (= >>1:2.24.3~2) >>i A gnome-desktop-environment Depends  gdm (>= 2.20.

Re: squeeze pkg on lenny: bug?

2009-05-25 Thread whollygoat
On Sat, 23 May 2009 16:38 -0700, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > Just installed lenny (5.0.0) from CD. For some > reason, aptitude did not get installed. Tried > to install it, but it had unmet dependencies. > > -- > # apt-get install aptitude > [snip] > The following packages ha

Re: Is gnome built on top of twm?

2009-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <3f8297b20905251348x79208dfdo70ba473b5be36...@mail.gmail.com>, Foss User wrote: >Please see the following output I generated from Squeeze. > >$ aptitude why twm >i gnome Depends gnome-desktop-environment (= > 1:2.24.3~2) i A gnome-desktop-environment Depends gdm (>= 2.20

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Owen Townend
2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > 2009/5/26 Owen Townend [snip] >> >> Not quite, the syntax is: >> $ dd_rescue [options] infile outfile >> '-' can be used to mean stdin/out >> >> Your command would be: >> $ dd_rescue -v -l sda.log /dev/sda1 - | gzip > image.gz >> [snip] > > I wonder because of the sy

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Owen Townend
2009/5/26 Owen Townend : > 2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > [snip] >> >> from what I read, sparse files is the empty blocks/spaces. I only need the >> real data to be as it were. Thanks for the tip. I'll try this one out though >> I'm wondering if logging still works by doing it like this >> $ dd_res

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/5/26 Owen Townend > 2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > [snip] > > > > from what I read, sparse files is the empty blocks/spaces. I only need > the > > real data to be as it were. Thanks for the tip. I'll try this one out > though > > I'm wondering if logging still works by doing it like this > >

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Kelly Harding
2009/5/26 Owen Townend : > 2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > [snip] >> >> from what I read, sparse files is the empty blocks/spaces. I only need the >> real data to be as it were. Thanks for the tip. I'll try this one out though >> I'm wondering if logging still works by doing it like this if you're

Re: Difference between X and Xorg commands?

2009-05-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 17:29, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 05:16:12PM EDT, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > [..] > >> Of course, once we get Kernel Mode Setting, X won't need suid at all. >> Yay! > > Can't seem to keep up.. > > Where's the doc? I don't know where official docs are (if th

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Owen Townend
2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : [snip] > > from what I read, sparse files is the empty blocks/spaces. I only need the > real data to be as it were. Thanks for the tip. I'll try this one out though > I'm wondering if logging still works by doing it like this > $ dd_rescue -v /dev/sda1 -l sda.log - | gz

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/5/26 Owen Townend > 2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > > There's a hard disk with bad sectors that I want to make a back up with > > ddrescue but the thing is, it is 1 TB and the backup location is also 1 > TB > > and that is the only one I could afford right now. How do I compress it > on > > t

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3--open formats

2009-05-25 Thread David Fox
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:49 PM, ZephyrQ wrote: > it at a friends house) or needs marching band music (a HUGE gap in Linux > support, BTW).  She has also given up trying to convince me to load XP 'just > so I can get stuff done'. I hope you're not hinting that Linux and marching band music don't

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3--open formats

2009-05-25 Thread ZephyrQ
Paul Johnson wrote: ZephyrQ wrote: I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being saddled with cell phone that won't play .ogg.

Re: make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Owen Townend
2009/5/26 Umarzuki Mochlis : > There's a hard disk with bad sectors that I want to make a back up with > ddrescue but the thing is, it is 1 TB and the backup location is also 1 TB > and that is the only one I could afford right now. How do I compress it on > the fly while making an image out of it?

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread ZephyrQ
This sounds like what I need...now I just have to dust off a few websites to remember how to write a bash script... Matthew Moore wrote: > On Monday 25 May 2009 11:55:53 am ZephyrQ wrote: >> What is the best way to do this? I would prefer a CLI option that I can >> run in the background, but I

make image of a hard disk

2009-05-25 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
There's a hard disk with bad sectors that I want to make a back up with ddrescue but the thing is, it is 1 TB and the backup location is also 1 TB and that is the only one I could afford right now. How do I compress it on the fly while making an image out of it? -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http

Canot access external usb hd anymore

2009-05-25 Thread Manon Metten
Hi All, Since I installed Lenny from scratch a while ago, I have problems accessing my external usb hd. It is plugged in to a usb port permanently, but I only turn on the power if I need to access it (I use it for backup). As I turn on the power, it reports as owned by root, but when still on Etc

RE: Panels in Xfce4 in Squeeze

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Crawford
At Mon, 25 May 2009 20:31:18 +0300 andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote, > What do you mean by "yields nothing". Normally Desktop menu -> Applications -> Settings -> Panel would yield a Xfce viewer for configuring the panels. Now this does not appear. > Try adding a new one. How? At Mon, 25 M

Re: Difference between X and Xorg commands?

2009-05-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 05:16:12PM EDT, Kelly Clowers wrote: [..] > Of course, once we get Kernel Mode Setting, X won't need suid at all. > Yay! Can't seem to keep up.. Where's the doc? CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

2009-05-25 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-05-25_02:44:42, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On May 22, 2009, at 12:52 AM, Kent West wrote: > >> Hal Vaughan wrote: >>> >>> On May 21, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >>> 2009/5/20 Hal Vaughan : > Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't > tend to >>>

Re: Is gnome built on top of twm?

2009-05-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 16:10, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Foss User wrote: >> >> Please see the following output I generated from Squeeze. >> >> $ aptitude why twm >> i   gnome                     Depends  gnome-desktop-environment (= >> 1:2.24.3~2) >> i A gnome-desktop-environment Depends  gdm (>= 2.2

Why is there suddenly a 'Universal Access Preferences' icon in my notification area?

2009-05-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
And how do I get rid of it? It just showed up after a reboot after this morning's upgrade on my amd64 testing system. (The reboot necessitated by yet another NetworkManager system freeze.) Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Is gnome built on top of twm?

2009-05-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
Claudius Hubig wrote: Foss User wrote: Please see the following output I generated from Squeeze. $ aptitude why twm i gnome Depends gnome-desktop-environment (= 1:2.24.3~2) i A gnome-desktop-environment Depends gdm (>= 2.20.9) i A gdm Depends gnom

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-25 Thread marc
Andrei Popescu said: > On Mon,25.May.09, 16:20:44, marc wrote: > >> I read a defensive post on the Kubuntu list - there is a *lot* of >> defensiveness around kde4 at the moment - that claims that kde4 is a >> rewrite and so users should adjust their expectations accordingly. >> >> It reminded me

Re: Is gnome built on top of twm?

2009-05-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
Foss User wrote: Please see the following output I generated from Squeeze. $ aptitude why twm i gnome Depends gnome-desktop-environment (= 1:2.24.3~2) i A gnome-desktop-environment Depends gdm (>= 2.20.9) i A gdm Depends gnome-session | x-session-ma

Re: grub-pc, /boot/ on raid10+lvm

2009-05-25 Thread Martin Kraus
grub-probe on raid10 finds the filesystem, so grub understands raid10. However when I put lvm over raid10, grub isn't able to find the filesystem. LVM on raid1 works. Is it a bug, or am I doing something wrong? I'm using 1.96+20090523-1 but I've tried versions from stable and testing as well. I sho

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
ZephyrQ wrote: Just for the record, I did just that (minor differences). My issue isn't finding a way...it is finding the *best* way...and I don't have time to go through a kajillion options... ...which is why I asked a list full of knowledgeable users who know a lot more than I about CLI...

Re: hanging up for the previous P2P user

2009-05-25 Thread jidanni
Claudius Hubig writes: > Did you try REJECT instead of DROP? Maybe telling all these buddies > you don't want to know them instead of just ignoring them would do > the job? Yes ( http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/355741 ), but it just made my ADSL 256/64 line more busy without makin

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-25 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Do you have network-manager installed? It's not very good with setups with mixed static/dynamic ips. If you've got network-manager, remove it and set things up manually. Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the after

Re: GTK apps over XDMCP - Anyone else find lists slow?

2009-05-25 Thread Seb James
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 21:40 +0100, Seb James wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm having trouble with GTK lists (for example a list of emails in > evolution) being very slow to scroll in Debian Lenny when using a remote > login via XDMCP. Scrolling is fine when using a local session. > > Has anyone else not

Re: slapd

2009-05-25 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 08:55 -0300, Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: > I am using a server with debian lenny slapd (OpenLDAP 2.4.11) but when > I start the process he never opens sub processes for the parent > process of slapd, a single process is created. Is there a setting for > this? In / etc /

Lenny - window manager seems to have died.

2009-05-25 Thread Paul Lewis
I have a dual core AMD64 with a fairly fresh install of Lenny, just the last couple of days I have noticed my window controls have disappeared. I have tried to reload metacity, which I think is the default window manager for Debian Lenny, but nothing happens. However if I load another wm, #icew

Re: Multiple iso in a single dvd

2009-05-25 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hi, [[CC'ing debian-cd, as they may have better suggestion than me]] On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 19:37 +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: > > Can anybody help me by giving instructions to create a bootable image > containing multiple iso. I want to create a DVD image which may > contain iso of different debia

Re: Lenny. Do I need to check the system after improper shutdown?

2009-05-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:33:31PM +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > Hello, list! > > Do I need to clean up something or check hard drive consistency after > system's hang up during recovering from Suspend-to-RAM state? An > improper system shutdown by 'power' key was forcibly applied and > during a

Re: Difference between X and Xorg commands?

2009-05-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:04, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 04:11:28AM EDT, Foss User wrote: >> I installed xserver-xorg like this: >> >> aptitude install xserver-xorg >> >> I see two commands have appeared. >> >> X from xserver-xorg >> Xorg from xserver-xorg-core >> >> What is the

Re: Samba client oddity

2009-05-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,26.May.09, 00:07:38, Roger wrote: > I have installed Freecom Storage Gateway as a NAS device on a combined > Windows/Debian network. The FSG is linux powered and runs Samba. It works > fine from the windows boxes, it's when I try to access it from Debian > (Lenny) that things start to beh

Re: Is gnome built on top of twm?

2009-05-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 13:48, Foss User wrote: > Please see the following output I generated from Squeeze. > > $ aptitude why twm > i   gnome                     Depends  gnome-desktop-environment (= > 1:2.24.3~2) > i A gnome-desktop-environment Depends  gdm (>= 2.20.9) > i A gdm                

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:55:53PM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: > I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying > eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. > > Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being > saddled with

Re: Installing xmonad?

2009-05-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:49, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:22:47AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> Java apps work fine with Awesome, and it doesn't have the kind of >> baggage that Ion does. > > Awesome doesn't work under alternative windowing systems like VNC, which > limi

Samba client oddity

2009-05-25 Thread Roger
I have installed Freecom Storage Gateway as a NAS device on a combined Windows/Debian network. The FSG is linux powered and runs Samba. It works fine from the windows boxes, it's when I try to access it from Debian (Lenny) that things start to behave oddly. When accessing files and folders on t

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 07:29:08PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > Try using the following command in the CLI: > > for i in *.ogg; do [[ ! -a "${i%ogg}mp3" ]] && oggdec "$i" -o - | lame > - --preset standard - "${i%ogg}mp3" ; done This loses all the metadata in the file. The audio stream will be

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread marc
ZephyrQ said: > I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying > eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. > > Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being > saddled with cell phone that won't play .ogg...well, you g

Is gnome built on top of twm?

2009-05-25 Thread Foss User
Please see the following output I generated from Squeeze. $ aptitude why twm i gnome Depends gnome-desktop-environment (= 1:2.24.3~2) i A gnome-desktop-environment Depends gdm (>= 2.20.9) i A gdm Depends gnome-session | x-session-manager | x-window-ma

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread ZephyrQ
Just for the record, I did just that (minor differences). My issue isn't finding a way...it is finding the *best* way...and I don't have time to go through a kajillion options... ...which is why I asked a list full of knowledgeable users who know a lot more than I about CLI... JoeHill wro

Re: Panels in Xfce4 in Squeeze

2009-05-25 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 25 May 2009 06:16:37 -0700 Peter Crawford wrote: > > The xfce4-panel package is installed but > for a few days now panels have been absent > from Xfce4 in Squeeze. No system tray. If only system tray is missing, it could happen because of a version change. Try adding it again. > D

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Harry Rickards
On 25 May 2009, at 20:19, Paul Johnson wrote: ZephyrQ wrote: I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being saddled with

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
ZephyrQ wrote: > I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying > eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. > > Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being > saddled with cell phone that won't play .ogg...well, you g

Re: Installing xmonad?

2009-05-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:22:47AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: Java apps work fine with Awesome, and it doesn't have the kind of baggage that Ion does. Awesome doesn't work under alternative windowing systems like VNC, which limits its utility for some people. As a resul

Lenny. Do I need to check the system after improper shutdown?

2009-05-25 Thread Mark Goldshtein
Hello, list! Do I need to clean up something or check hard drive consistency after system's hang up during recovering from Suspend-to-RAM state? An improper system shutdown by 'power' key was forcibly applied and during a boot process were reports about journal transactions replayed. Thanks! --

Re: hanging up for the previous P2P user

2009-05-25 Thread jidanni
> In a reasonably short period of time, every client that knew about you > will figure out that you are no longer available All I know is that "the knocks on the bathroom stall's door by the former occupant's buddies continued all through the night, despite my use of DROP in iptables." Maybe the

Re: Installing xmonad?

2009-05-25 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:22:47AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > Java apps work fine with Awesome, and it doesn't have the kind of > baggage that Ion does. Awesome doesn't work under alternative windowing systems like VNC, which limits its utility for some people. As a result, I stick with ion3.

Re: Difference between X and Xorg commands?

2009-05-25 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 04:11:28AM EDT, Foss User wrote: > I installed xserver-xorg like this: > > aptitude install xserver-xorg > > I see two commands have appeared. > > X from xserver-xorg > Xorg from xserver-xorg-core > > What is the difference between the two commands? For what it's worth:

Re: rant: return receipts

2009-05-25 Thread Daryl Styrk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 02:44:12PM -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I don't know, but I don't think return receipts are appropriate on this > list. > They're very annoying. They are pretty easy to avoid. I see your using IceDove/Thunderbird which can b

Re: SSH & iptables

2009-05-25 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:12:04PM +0200, Pawel Cholewinski wrote: > I want to filter traffic on SSH server. I want to ACCEPT only SSH > trafic on SSH server computer. Packet SSH which receive and send > should be ACCEPT. Other traffic should be DROP. Which protocol I must > use. I know that po

Re: Couldn't access keyring

2009-05-25 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 07:05:05PM +0800, linux china wrote: > My source.list just contains a simple line "deb > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main", could anyone tell what's > below problem ? ftp.debian.org has been deprecated for more than a year now, and is considered deeply broken. Pleas

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Matthew Moore
On Monday 25 May 2009 11:55:53 am ZephyrQ wrote: > What is the best way to do this? I would prefer a CLI option that I can > run in the background, but I want to save as much sound quality as I can > with the transfer... You should write a script that does the following: -) decodes the ogg files

rant: return receipts

2009-05-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
I don't know, but I don't think return receipts are appropriate on this list. They're very annoying. kthnxbye /tony -- cada vez que te busca te vas cada vez que te llamo no estás es por eso que debo decir que tú solo en mis fotos estás... http://tonytraductor.livejournal.com non compos mentis

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
ZephyrQ wrote: I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being saddled with cell phone that won't play .ogg...well, you get the

Re: Installing xmonad?

2009-05-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:45, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 05:26, Tony Baldwin wrote: >>> >>> Foss User wrote: I have a simple Debian installation with no desktop environment or xserver. I want to try xmonad. Will this be enough to insta

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-05-25 Thread Matthias Feichtinger
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:25:29AM -0700, Frank Miles wrote: I recently added a second networking card to a hardware-test PC. This elderly machine had been working reasonably well. The second networking card is for eth1, etc., and /sbin/ifconfig shows things as properly connected, with eth0 b

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Andrei Popescu wrote: > You could add > > http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide > > to the 'Links' section. Did that. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/09 18:55, ZephyrQ wrote: > I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying > eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. > > Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread JoeHill
ZephyrQ wrote: > I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying > eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. > > Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being > saddled with cell phone that won't play .ogg...well, y

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090525163904.gb5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: >> If you don't want to run any "servers" then you don't want to run Gnome >> (ORBit = CORBA server), KDE 3 (dcopserver), Xfce (notifications go via the >> DBus server) or X11 (xorg is an X11 server). > >Who says that I don't want t

mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread ZephyrQ
I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being saddled with cell phone that won't play .ogg...well, you get the picture. What

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090525163904.gb5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: >On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 03:28:50PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <20090524145214.ga16...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: >> >I >> >don't want to run an akonadi server either, whatever that is. >> Oh, then you

Re: grub-pc, /boot/ on raid10+lvm

2009-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090525092104.ge23...@finrod>, Martin Kraus wrote: >hi. is it possible to boot from lvm over md raid10 (not raid0 over raid1) >using grub-pc? I don't think so. I know grub2 has a module for understanding Linux LVM, but I didn't see some for raid10 or even raid0. >is should, but i can't get

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,25.May.09, 18:44:25, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > OK, I made a small write-up now (aimed at users like myself) about > the ‘New Input System’ in Debian. Comments welcome -- > > http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T6.3 You could add http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/InputHotplugGuide

Re: Panels in Xfce4 in Squeeze

2009-05-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,25.May.09, 06:16:37, Peter Crawford wrote: The xfce4-panel package is installed but for a few days now panels have been absent from Xfce4 in Squeeze. No system tray. Desktop menu -> Applications -> Settings -> Panel yields nothing. What do you mean by "yie

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,25.May.09, 16:20:44, marc wrote: > I read a defensive post on the Kubuntu list - there is a *lot* of > defensiveness around kde4 at the moment - that claims that kde4 is a > rewrite and so users should adjust their expectations accordingly. > > It reminded me of Joel Spolsky's article, '

Re: Panels in Xfce4 in Squeeze

2009-05-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,25.May.09, 06:16:37, Peter Crawford wrote: > > The xfce4-panel package is installed but > for a few days now panels have been absent > from Xfce4 in Squeeze. No system tray. > Desktop menu -> Applications -> Settings -> Panel > yields nothing. What do you mean by "yields nothing

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
Harry Rickards wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/09 17:48, Tony Baldwin wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Seg, 25 Mai 2009, lee wrote: [snip rant about some kde apps requiring mysql server] There seems to be too much windoze thinking entering Debian: Hide ever

Re: Difference between X and Xorg commands?

2009-05-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,25.May.09, 13:41:28, Foss User wrote: > I installed xserver-xorg like this: > > aptitude install xserver-xorg > > I see two commands have appeared. > > X from xserver-xorg > Xorg from xserver-xorg-core > > What is the difference between the two commands? If you only want to start X use

Re: Installing xmonad?

2009-05-25 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 05:26, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Foss User wrote: >> >> I have a simple Debian installation with no desktop environment or >> xserver. I want to try xmonad. Will this be enough to install xmonad? >> >> aptitude update >> aptitude install xserver-xorg xmonad >> >> ? >> >> > > Ap

How to automate a disconnecting by times gprs-stuff?

2009-05-25 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. My GPRS-modem that is in my cellar phone disconnects with such records in /var/log/messages: May 25 02:17:49 pppd[5621]: LCP terminated by peer (^...@^@^...@^@^...@^@^...@^@) May 25 02:17:49 pppd[5621]: Connect time 135.2 minutes. May 25 02:17:49 pppd[5621]: Sent 5064125 bytes, received

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/09 17:44, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > OK, I made a small write-up now (aimed at users like myself) about > the ‘New Input System’ in Debian. Comments welcome -- > > http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T6.3 > > Regards, Jan > > > Thanks

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-25 Thread marc
lee said: > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:58:34AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > >> But why do you want to use KDE at all? > > Why not? I liked some of the things it provided, but that doesn't mean I > would use or need all its features. I tried out the calendar/PIM it has > and I didn't like it: So

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
OK, I made a small write-up now (aimed at users like myself) about the ‘New Input System’ in Debian. Comments welcome -- http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T6.3 Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-25 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/09 17:48, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> On Seg, 25 Mai 2009, lee wrote: >>> [snip rant about some kde apps requiring mysql server] >>> >>> There seems to be too much windoze thinking entering Debian: Hide >>> everything

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Seg, 25 Mai 2009, lee wrote: [snip rant about some kde apps requiring mysql server] There seems to be too much windoze thinking entering Debian: Hide everything from the users, take control of their computers away from them, make things unfixable --- and the next

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-25 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Seg, 25 Mai 2009, lee wrote: [snip rant about some kde apps requiring mysql server] There seems to be too much windoze thinking entering Debian: Hide everything from the users, take control of their computers away from them, make things unfixable --- and the next step is to provide them with

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-25 Thread lee
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 03:28:50PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090524145214.ga16...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: > >On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:15:36PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> It's really a KDE problem, although the solution will probably cause > >> som

Re: SSH & iptables

2009-05-25 Thread pch0317
Thanks for answers. Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:53:58PM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -j DROP but that will not work how you expect (don't implement it remotely ) How would one implement it remotely? I

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-25 Thread lee
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:58:34AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > lee writes: > > So what have they been thinking to come up with something like that? > > Microsoft Exchange. And they are running a mysql-server on every client so that they don't need a server for it? I used to be fine with 2GB of R

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-05-25 17:02 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Jochen Schulz >> wrote: >>> Jan Willem Stumpel: Section "ServerFlags"         Option "DontZap"        "off" EndSection By

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-05-25 17:02 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Jan Willem Stumpel: >>> >>> Section "ServerFlags" >>>         Option "DontZap"        "off" >>> EndSection >>> >>> By this means I got control-alt-backspace back. Or is there also a >>> n

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Jan Willem Stumpel: >> >> Section "ServerFlags" >>         Option "DontZap"        "off" >> EndSection >> >> By this means I got control-alt-backspace back. Or is there also a >> non-xorg.conf way of getting the same thing? > > No, that's ex

Re: hanging up for the previous P2P user

2009-05-25 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/09 15:34, Michael M. Moore wrote: > On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 09:50 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: >> Tony Baldwin writes: >> >>> I'm just guessing here, but I honestly thought killing the client >>> should stop the incoming connections from se

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jan Willem Stumpel: > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "DontZap""off" > EndSection > > By this means I got control-alt-backspace back. Or is there also a > non-xorg.conf way of getting the same thing? No, that's exactly what you are supposed to do. J. -- I throw away plastics a

Re: hanging up for the previous P2P user

2009-05-25 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 09:50 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Tony Baldwin writes: > > > I'm just guessing here, but I honestly thought killing the client > > should stop the incoming connections from seeking the ip, so I'm a > > little confused, and curious about the matter, now that you've bro

Re: Panels in Xfce4 in Squeeze

2009-05-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
Peter Crawford wrote: The xfce4-panel package is installed but for a few days now panels have been absent from Xfce4 in Squeeze. No system tray. Desktop menu -> Applications -> Settings -> Panel yields nothing. Is there a simple solution? Thanks, ... Peter E. Use openb

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Steve Kemp wrote: > You can dump a skeleton xorg.conf file by running, as root: > > dexconf Yes, this gives an absolutely bare-bones xorg.conf with one "section" in it: Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" EndSection It works; and in fact, even without any x

Multiple iso in a single dvd

2009-05-25 Thread Kousik Maiti
Hi lists, Can anybody help me by giving instructions to create a bootable image containing multiple iso. I want to create a DVD image which may contain iso of different debian flavour . -- Kousik Maiti (কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025

Re: OT Looking for certain Geode LX Board

2009-05-25 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 02:05:18PM -0500, Brent Kolasinski wrote: I'm pretty sure AMD stopped manufacturing Geode CPU's a year or so ago. Wikipedia says otherwise: [1]: In 2009, comments by AMD indicated that there are no plans for any future micro architecture upgrades to the processor and t

Panels in Xfce4 in Squeeze

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Crawford
The xfce4-panel package is installed but for a few days now panels have been absent from Xfce4 in Squeeze. No system tray. Desktop menu -> Applications -> Settings -> Panel yields nothing. Is there a simple solution? Thanks, ... Peter E. __

Re: OT Looking for certain Geode LX Board

2009-05-25 Thread andmalc
On May 23, 3:10 pm, Brent Kolasinski wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Martin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm currently playing around with a pcengines board with a geode > > processor. Now it does have an IDE connector but I'd rather like SATA. > > > Some googling pointed me to:http://www

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