Re: avoid debian net installerto fetch security and volatile

2009-08-30 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
08/31/2009 07:40 AM, Paul E Condon: Netinstall coupled to a d-i preseeding file can do the trick. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apb.html.en Where to force to use my mirrors? Although I change http.us.debian.org to my hostname, it goes to security and volatile yet... I have done se

Re: wi-fi security?

2009-08-30 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:27:24 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: ... > If the wireless network uses WPA, you might be safe. There are some fairly > sophisticated attacks against WPA personal, that don't require much > resources besides time. So, treat those networks has if they have no > s

Re: Performance of encrypted filesystem

2009-08-30 Thread Celejar
[Catching up on a d-u backlog:] On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:03:25 +0300 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Teemu Likonen wrote: > > On 2009-08-12 09:38 (+0300), Teemu Likonen wrote: > > > > > >> Do you (or anybody) have numbers or educated guesses on how much it > >> slows down the disk operation or how it w

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 08:07:24PM EDT, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > ...and vi *is* the 1TE. > > I wrote" > > Which is why those of us who want something more than a mere editor use > > Emacs. > > Ron Johnson writes: > > That's what Linux is for... > > Linux is just a kernel. Yo

Re: avoid debian net installerto fetch security and volatile

2009-08-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-08-29_18:06:46, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > 08/29/2009 05:04 PM, Jes?s M. Navarro: >> Netinstall coupled to a d-i preseeding file can do the trick. >> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apb.html.en > > Reading the documentation: > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/

any ccmalloc users?

2009-08-30 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, I maintain ccmalloc for Debian and I'd like to know if anyone cares about this package. If not, I will have it removed from the archive since it's been dead upstream for 6.5 years and the upstream web page has vanished. Please email me directly if you are using it. If you are using it becau

Re: Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread JoeHill
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-30 20:58 +0200, JoeHill wrote: > > > Sven Joachim wrote: > >> > >> Remove the gnome metapackage. Make sure to mark everything it depends > >> on and which you want to keep as "manually installed". > > > > Do you mean in Synaptic? I can't see any way to do

Re: first post (a question)

2009-08-30 Thread Charles Kroeger
>Tonight I took a look at Debian's explanation of networking and > liked the way it was presented. I also liked what I read about Debian's > approach in general. You've come to the right place. If you get the Debian Testing Installer iso: (50-60 MB) http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.1/i3

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:11:28 -0600 ghe wrote: > > On Aug 30, 2009, at 6:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 2009-08-30 19:07, John Hasler wrote: > >> Ron Johnson writes: > >>> ...and vi *is* the 1TE. > >> I wrote" > >>> Which is why those of us who want something more than a mere > >>> editor

RE: Laptop getting so warm : (

2009-08-30 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Tim Tebbit > Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 9:01 PM > > Hashimoto wrote: > > Hi, look what I got here: > > > > hashim...@debian-lap:~$ acpitool -t > > Thermal info : > > hashim...@debian-lap:~$ > > > > Hashimoto, > Please refrain f

Re: Laptop getting so warm : (

2009-08-30 Thread Tim Tebbit
Hashimoto wrote: > Hi, look what I got here: > > hashim...@debian-lap:~$ acpitool -t > Thermal info : > hashim...@debian-lap:~$ > Hashimoto, Please refrain from top posting. It makes the conversation difficult to follow. I haven't even looked but I'd bet my Toshiba you use gmail.

Re: Laptop getting so warm : (

2009-08-30 Thread Hashimoto
I have nothing into this directory. debian-lap:~# ls /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/ debian-lap:~# On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 14:37 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 01:31:20PM EDT, Hashimoto wrote: > > > Hi guys, I'm back ; ) > > No problem.. I hung your picture on my wall and treasure

Re: Laptop getting so warm : (

2009-08-30 Thread Hashimoto
Yes, I do. It's a nvida geforce 7150m, and I'm using the latest driver from nvidia. On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 21:47 +, marc wrote: > Hashimoto wrote: > > > Hi guys, I'm back ; ) > > > > But with the same problem : ( > > > > My laptop is getting near to 70C easily running firefox or a virtual >

Re: Laptop getting so warm : (

2009-08-30 Thread Hashimoto
Hi, look what I got here: hashim...@debian-lap:~$ acpitool -t Thermal info : hashim...@debian-lap:~$ On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 22:15 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello > > On 8/29/09, Hashimoto wrote: > > > > Hi guys, I'm back ; ) > > > > But with the same problem : ( > > > > My laptop

Re: first post (a question)

2009-08-30 Thread Tim Tebbit
Buz Davis wrote: > I don't want to repeat my > mistake with Fedora (I need to purchase install media, having nothing > with which to write cds or dvds). Will the latest version of Debian run > on a K6 ? If I get a live disk, will that allow me to install over the > Internet ? > > Would appreciat

First server with hot swappable capabilities...

2009-08-30 Thread Ruben Varela
Yesterday I was configuring a PowerEdge T300 that, if I remember correctly, has a PERC 6/i controller. It allowed me to build with 4 250GB Sata drives, a Raid 5 array. The server allows me to hot swap the drives. I installed Lenny and configured everything how I wanted. I was wondering, in case

RE: first post (a question)

2009-08-30 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Buz Davis [mailto:buzda...@earthlink.net] > Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 5:53 PM > > [snip] > > When I looked at the release notes for the latest version, however, I > saw nothing referencing AMD K6 processors. I don't want to repeat my > mistake with Fedora (I need to purchase instal

Re: OpenVPN and Juniper

2009-08-30 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thanks for your replies. Finally I decided to play with the binary installed by juniper when you connect to the Juniper network of my organization. As the installation allows regular users to modify with root privileges system configuration file, clearly some work have to be done. Jerome Tzafri

first post (a question)

2009-08-30 Thread Buz Davis
I have recently had an issue trying to install Fedora 8 on an AMD K6 box. I have for years run some version of Red Hat on fairly old hardware, and it seems that my choice of Fedora 8 as a replacement for Red Hat 9 was unlucky in that the original spin of 8 didn't support AMD. Tonight I took a

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread ghe
On Aug 30, 2009, at 6:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-30 19:07, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson writes: ...and vi *is* the 1TE. I wrote" Which is why those of us who want something more than a mere editor use Emacs. Ron Johnson writes: That's what Linux is for... Linux is just a ker

RE: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-30 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Alex Samad [mailto:a...@samad.com.au] > Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 5:58 PM > > so the next question, does it support a shared DB - ie multiple media > centres using the same db I've never tried it. But some Googling suggests that it is possible. -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-30 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 05:53:11PM -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: > > From: Alex Samad [mailto:a...@samad.com.au] > > Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 5:45 PM > > > > quick question, I have been using plexxapp - fork of xbmcosx > > the one key > > feature I love it the tv series view, it keeps track of t

RE: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-30 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: Alex Samad [mailto:a...@samad.com.au] > Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 5:45 PM > > quick question, I have been using plexxapp - fork of xbmcosx > the one key > feature I love it the tv series view, it keeps track of the show you > have watched and the one you haven't - same with videos as

Re: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-30 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 04:47:07PM -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: [snip] > That's it. It's installed. Play around with it. Change the video settings > to start fullscreen, and to Sync to Vblank. Add your movie directory, and > let it download movie posters and descriptions from TheMovieDB.org. >

Re: Trouble installing, getting deb file corruption errors

2009-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-30 18:03, David Steinhauer wrote: I'm trying to install lenny (5.02, i386), and keep getting the following error: Warning: file:///cdrom/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.7-18_i386.deb was corrupt If I tell it to continue anyway, one library after another gets the same error. I checked t

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-30 19:07, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson writes: ...and vi *is* the 1TE. I wrote" Which is why those of us who want something more than a mere editor use Emacs. Ron Johnson writes: That's what Linux is for... Linux is just a kernel. You don't have an OS until you install Emac

Re: Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread JoeHill
John Hasler wrote: > JoeHill writes: > > Can someone please tell me how I can permanently, and with great > > malice, annihilate Network Manager once and for all? > > "apt-get remove --purge network-manager". Let it remove the gnome > metapackage. It's already done its job. That worked, tha

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > ...and vi *is* the 1TE. I wrote" > Which is why those of us who want something more than a mere editor use > Emacs. Ron Johnson writes: > That's what Linux is for... Linux is just a kernel. You don't have an OS until you install Emacs. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Trouble installing, getting deb file corruption errors

2009-08-30 Thread David Steinhauer
I'm trying to install lenny (5.02, i386), and keep getting the following error: Warning: file:///cdrom/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.7-18_i386.deb was corrupt If I tell it to continue anyway, one library after another gets the same error. I checked the MD5 on the CDROM, and it was good. I burne

Re: Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread Michael Biebl
Stefan Monnier wrote: > I'm not fond of wicd (I think its UI is pretty clunky), but at least > it's not as fundamentally flawed as NM (which didn't seem to understand > that Gnome is designed for POSIX systems which are by nature multi-user; Can you explain what exactly you mean by that and why NM

Re: Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread Michael Biebl
JoeHill wrote: > This is going to drive me nuts. > > I've removed Network Manager in the past because it causes no end of trouble, > especially because it never seems to think I'm connected to the Internet, so > everything starts in 'offline' mode. Assuming you are using testing/unstable: I gues

Re: Wireless stopped working after kernel upgrade

2009-08-30 Thread Autumn Lansing
Thanks, Stefan! I checked the file, which states that it is "generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules program, probably run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file," and there is a line for the madwifi ath_pci driver that sets the wireless card to ath0. In addition, there's a line for

Re: megaHAL

2009-08-30 Thread Charles Kroeger
> why just not installing it and giving it a try - it's very simple. > I've tried it. It's a chat/conversation engine. OK >I've written a thesis about dialogue systems, Is this online somewhere? >but megaHAL is not what someone would expect. You mean megahal is sort of incomplete not develop

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-30 16:43, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson writes: ...and vi *is* the 1TE. Which is why those of us who want something more than a mere editor use Emacs. That's what Linux is for... -- Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

RE: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-30 Thread Kevin Ross
> From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Stefan Monnier > Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 12:18 PM > > > If it's the latter, check out XBMC. > > I'll take a look, thanks. > Seems like hell to install, tho :-( Installing is pretty easy. You can actually add their PPA repository to you

Re: Tbird Reply To List (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-08-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: Ken Heard wrote: Am I doing something wrong? Overthinking it? I just downloaded, went to TBird, Tools -> Addons -> Install and chose the file from my download directory. That's exactly what I did, but it d

Re: Tbird Reply To List (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-08-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Brad Rogers wrote: If T'Bird is anything like Claws-Mail, the appearance of a second, empty, To: field is only an aesthetic inconvenience. It's there to allow you to send to multiple recipients, (B)Cc:, etc. In fact, the CM editor always comes up with two To: fields

Re: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-30 Thread Chris Jones
[..] > > If it's the latter, check out XBMC. > > I'll take a look, thanks. > Seems like hell to install, tho :-( I appear to have deleted the original message. I installed "freevo" from the lenny repository about two months ago. Takes about an hour to configure - just copy the sample config fi

Re: Installation: How do I bypass partitioning?

2009-08-30 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/8/30 Jason Hsu : > I have a laptop with Windows XP already installed one one partition and Puppy > Linux already installed on another partition. > > I have additional partitions.  How do I install Debian on another partition?   > The installer insists that I write the partitions before I inst

Re: Installation: How do I bypass partitioning?

2009-08-30 Thread Cousin Stanley
> I have a laptop with Windows XP already installed one one partition > and Puppy Linux already installed on another partition. > > I have additional partitions. How do I install Debian on another partition? > Jason You might try using expert as a boot option for the Debia

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > ...and vi *is* the 1TE. Which is why those of us who want something more than a mere editor use Emacs. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Post to this list delayed over 15 hours

2009-08-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
John Magolske writes: >* John Magolske [090830 11:25]: >> My last post to this list took over 15 hours to get through, looks >> like the issue has to do with greylisting. I seem to recall having >> this problem a while back where after a few posts the response time >> improved...will see how lon

Re: megaHAL

2009-08-30 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Charles Kroeger wrote: > Does anyone here use this conversation simulator and if so are the > conversations interesting? I'm tired of talking to humans, listening to > their drivil. Can this package simulate a human conversation, is megaHAL > like Julie the AmTrak automated assistant? why just

Re: change keymap to other language

2009-08-30 Thread Roberto De Oliveira
2009/8/31 Eugene Apolinary : > How can I change the default keyboard language under Debian Lenny? > > in the console With install-keymap > and under GNOME too For X environment, see /etc/X11/xorg.conf (XkbLayout) -- Saludos, Roberto De Oliveira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Gosh you would think that I said micro-kernels are a waste of time or that >> vi is the one true editor. > But... MKs *are* a waste of time, Fair enough. > and vi *is* the 1TE. Woa there!! Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> > It's clearly a packaging bug. > Not necessarily, gnome is just a metapackage pulling in a set other > packages. Whether it should really bring in network-manager-gnome is > debatable, of course; but you are free to remove the metapackage and use > your own collection. This answer is a cop-ou

Re: Laptop getting so warm : (

2009-08-30 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On 8/29/09, Hashimoto wrote: > > Hi guys, I'm back ; ) > > But with the same problem : ( > > My laptop is getting near to 70C easily running firefox or a virtual machine > in VirtualBox. > Did you play with cpufreq-info and cpufreq-set? I often put the --max to some intermidiary value w

Re: Laptop getting so warm : (

2009-08-30 Thread John Haggerty
well besides being in spanish it looks better than just the random sand filled mat that I had. Well that would be helpful if I didn't have a severe boot problems with windows not likeing a file that's missing :( On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Hashimoto wrote: > Hi guys, I'm back ; ) > > But

Re: Laptop getting so warm : (

2009-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-29 15:14, frank thyes wrote: [snip] Maybe it sounds like a joke, but it isnt. I have two cats.. the fucking hairs are everywhere. After i have plumbed my vacuum cleaner to clean Shave the cats? (No, really!) -- Obsession with "preserving cultural heritage" is a racist impediment t

Re: Installation: How do I bypass partitioning?

2009-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-29 22:09, Jason Hsu wrote: I have a laptop with Windows XP already installed one one partition and Puppy Linux already installed on another partition. I have additional partitions. How do I install Debian on another partition? The installer insists that I write the partitions befor

Re: Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-30 21:30 +0200, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I've removed Network Manager in the past because it causes no end of >> trouble, especially because it never seems to think I'm connected to >> the Internet, so everything starts in 'offline' mode. > >> Major Gnome update today, and sure enough,

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-30 09:24, Jason C. Wells wrote: Gosh you would think that I said micro-kernels are a waste of time or that vi is the one true editor. But... MKs *are* a waste of time, and vi *is* the 1TE. -- Obsession with "preserving cultural heritage" is a racist impediment to moral, physical and

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-30 07:14, Neal Hogan wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-29 23:34, Neal Hogan wrote: I forget when we made this agreement :) Well before you started using the internet on a regular basis. Well, it must have been against my will. In High School Ci

Re: Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I've removed Network Manager in the past because it causes no end of > trouble, especially because it never seems to think I'm connected to > the Internet, so everything starts in 'offline' mode. > Major Gnome update today, and sure enough, Network Manager is > installed again. This time howeve

Re: Wireless stopped working after kernel upgrade

2009-08-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> As udev insists on renaming wlan0 to ath0, I haven't had to rename the The default udev rules try to remember the name used for network interfaces (they're stored in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules which is automatically filled by some other file I can't find right now). So maybe that

Re: Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
JoeHill ha scritto: This is going to drive me nuts. I've removed Network Manager in the past because it causes no end of trouble, especially because it never seems to think I'm connected to the Internet, so everything starts in 'offline' mode. Major Gnome update today, and sure enough, Network

Re: change keymap to other language

2009-08-30 Thread Paul Chany
Eugene Apolinary writes: > How can I change the default keyboard language under Debian Lenny? > > in the console Load the keymap for your language? > and under GNOME too Use GNOME Control Center? -- Regards, Paul Chany http://csanyi-pal.info -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread John Hasler
JoeHill writes: > Can someone please tell me how I can permanently, and with great > malice, annihilate Network Manager once and for all? "apt-get remove --purge network-manager". Let it remove the gnome metapackage. It's already done its job. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> As the subject says, I'm looking for a media center application. >> I've tried Elisa (aka Moovida) but couldn't believe how sluggish it is >> (without hardware 3D is absolutely unusable, and even with hardware 3D >> on a Macbook Pro, it feels sluggish). >> So, I'm looking for something much more

Re: Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-30 20:58 +0200, JoeHill wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> Remove the gnome metapackage. Make sure to mark everything it depends >> on and which you want to keep as "manually installed". > > Do you mean in Synaptic? I can't see any way to do what you suggest... I don't know anything

Re: Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread JoeHill
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-30 20:47 +0200, JoeHill wrote: > > > This is going to drive me nuts. > > > > I've removed Network Manager in the past because it causes no end of > > trouble, especially because it never seems to think I'm connected to the > > Internet, so everything starts in 'o

Re: Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-08-30 20:47 +0200, JoeHill wrote: > This is going to drive me nuts. > > I've removed Network Manager in the past because it causes no end of trouble, > especially because it never seems to think I'm connected to the Internet, so > everything starts in 'offline' mode. > > Major Gnome update

Network Manager cannot be removed

2009-08-30 Thread JoeHill
This is going to drive me nuts. I've removed Network Manager in the past because it causes no end of trouble, especially because it never seems to think I'm connected to the Internet, so everything starts in 'offline' mode. Major Gnome update today, and sure enough, Network Manager is installed

Re: Post to this list delayed over 15 hours

2009-08-30 Thread John Magolske
* John Magolske [090830 11:25]: > My last post to this list took over 15 hours to get through, looks > like the issue has to do with greylisting. I seem to recall having > this problem a while back where after a few posts the response time > improved...will see how long it takes for this message t

Post to this list delayed over 15 hours

2009-08-30 Thread John Magolske
My last post to this list took over 15 hours to get through, looks like the issue has to do with greylisting. I seem to recall having this problem a while back where after a few posts the response time improved...will see how long it takes for this message to get through. Below is an excerpt from

change keymap to other language

2009-08-30 Thread Eugene Apolinary
How can I change the default keyboard language under Debian Lenny? in the console and under GNOME too Thank you! Best regards

adobe flash plugin, missing dependencies

2009-08-30 Thread Peter Mueller
Hi Debian fellows, is it possible that you can add two more dependencies to synaptic to make the Adobe flash plugin from the debian (non free) repo proper running? (tested with Lenny x386 32 Bits) libnspr4-dev libnss3-dev background: tested with manual install of the Adobe flash player file th

Re: nfs permission problem

2009-08-30 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hello Frank, >> I was working with nfs for years, but I have not the slightest idea what >> the problem is here... > > I know this :) Yes, NFS sometimes seems to cause stange problems ... > Just a thought... has the group wir the same gid on the server? Yes, gid is 1008 on both computers. I thi

Re: Tbird Reply To List (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-08-30 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: >> Am I doing something wrong? > > Overthinking it? I just downloaded, went to TBird, Tools -> Addons -> > Install and chose the file from my download directory. That's exactly what I did, but it did not inst

Re: Wireless stopped working after kernel upgrade

2009-08-30 Thread Autumn Lansing
I now have wireless up and working again, though I'm not quite sure how I did it. I was frustrated dealing with the Atheros card, so a few minutes ago I switched it for an Airlink N card, but that was unsuccessful, as the firmware wouldn't load using either the ra2860sta kernel module or ndiswrapp

Re: Tbird Reply To List (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-08-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Ken Heard wrote: > Am I doing something wrong? Overthinking it? I just downloaded, went to TBird, Tools -> Addons -> Install and chose the file from my download directory. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dream I do.

Re: Laptop getting so warm : (

2009-08-30 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Maybe it sounds like a joke, but it isnt. I have two cats.. the fucking hairs are everywhere. After i have plumbed my vacuum cleaner to clean the fan slot. The hairs are gone and my dell latitude gets enough air to cool down :) Regards Frank Did you try to put piece of pantyhose outside the f

Installation: How do I bypass partitioning?

2009-08-30 Thread Jason Hsu
I have a laptop with Windows XP already installed one one partition and Puppy Linux already installed on another partition. I have additional partitions. How do I install Debian on another partition? The installer insists that I write the partitions before I install Debian. Is there a way to

Re: Is there an indexing tool in linux that can help quickly search the contents of all my files?

2009-08-30 Thread John Magolske
* Peng Yu [090829 17:27]: > In linux, I know the command 'locate' which search all the > filenames. But I am wondering if there is a tool that can search > file contents. > > I know that the combination of 'find' and 'grep' can search the > contents, but it is slow. Can somebody let me know if the

Unable to switch to tty after killing X (sysRq+k)

2009-08-30 Thread Jabka Atu
Hello , I noticed that i can't switch to tty after X dies (or go up). If i kill X and i get the session (after the restart) when ever i try to go to tty1-6 i get a blank screen. If logd in to tty7 (X) and switched to tty1-6 when i try to go back to tty7 i got a blank screen. I believe that it i

Re: OpenVPN and Juniper

2009-08-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 04:07:09PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Jerome BENOIT: > > Let say that on Max OS X, I can connect by using the PPtP protocol: > > should it work ? > > Should what work? Connecting with OpenVPN obviously doesn't work since > it doesn't use PPtP. But you can use ppp for th

Unable to switch to tty after killing X (sysRq+k) (Xorg 7.4+4)

2009-08-30 Thread Jabka Atu
Hello , I noticed that i can't switch to tty after X dies (or go up). If i kill X and i get the session (after the restart) when ever i try to go to tty1-6 i get a blank screen. If logd in to tty7 (X) and switched to tty1-6 when i try to go back to tty7 i got a blank screen. no vga to kernel in

Re: Tbird Reply To List (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-08-30 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: >> What is needed to get it to work? I have Lenny and Icedove 2.0.0.22 >> (20090726). I downloaded from http://alumnit.ca replytolist-0.3.0.xpi; >> put it in directory /usr/lib/icedove/extensions; change

Re: avoid debian net installerto fetch security and volatile

2009-08-30 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Rakotomandimby_ On Saturday 29 August 2009 17:06:46 Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > 08/29/2009 05:04 PM, Jesús M. Navarro: > > Netinstall coupled to a d-i preseeding file can do the trick. > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apb.html.en > [...] > Where to force to use my mirrors?

Re: Tbird Reply To List (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-08-30 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Ken Heard wrote: > What is needed to get it to work? I have Lenny and Icedove 2.0.0.22 > (20090726). I downloaded from http://alumnit.ca replytolist-0.3.0.xpi; > put it in directory /usr/lib/icedove/extensions; changed owner:group to > root:root; and changed permissions to -rwxr-xr-x; and told Ic

Re: Tbird Reply To List (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-08-30 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > ... You know, every time this topic came up you would mention > replytolist and I would point out it never worked for me. I think we've had > that exchange publicly at least 2-3 times and privately at least once. Except >

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Jason C. Wells
Gosh you would think that I said micro-kernels are a waste of time or that vi is the one true editor. Cheers, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Looking for a media center application

2009-08-30 Thread Klaus Wolf
Hi, perhaps mythtv will apply to your suggestion. I dont know were in Canada to find. It is part of the debian-multimedia-project. Best regards and a nice day. klaus Am Samstag, den 29.08.2009, 18:06 -0400 schrieb Stefan Monnier: > As the subject says, I'm looking for a media center application

Re: Reason #14749 to hate gmail (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-08-30 Thread JoeHill
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > [Yikes! I just sent this to the poster instead of the list, because > gmail defaults that way. Oh, the irony (at my own expense)!] > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Rakotomandimby > Mihamina wrote: > > 08/30/2009 07:28 AM, Neal Hogan: > >> > >> As with all subject

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread JoeHill
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > We keepers of the in-line posting flame are a shrinking minority, > > now dominant only on Very Geeky lists. > > > > I have to agree. It's sad, but it's true. > > But this is not only Gmail's fault. Long before it existed The Proper > W

KDE Bluetooth does not find device

2009-08-30 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
When I run kbluetooth (KDE Bluetooth Server), it says "No Bluetooth adaptor". However, command-line tools work: $ hcitool dev Devices: hci000:0A:3A:5E:1E:4B $ hcitool scan Scanning ... 00:25:D0:67:64:42 E3 ... and so on. My user is in the netdev and bluetooth group

Re: Reason #14749 to hate gmail (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-08-30 Thread Patrick Wiseman
[Yikes! I just sent this to the poster instead of the list, because gmail defaults that way. Oh, the irony (at my own expense)!] On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > 08/30/2009 07:28 AM, Neal Hogan: >> >> As with all subject changing threads, stuff gets confusing . .

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-29 23:34, Neal Hogan wrote: I forget when we made this agreement :) >>> >>> Well before you started using the internet on a regular basis. >> >> Well, it must have been against my will. > > In High School Civics class, that

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Ron Johnson wrote: > We keepers of the in-line posting flame are a shrinking minority, > now dominant only on Very Geeky lists. > I have to agree. It's sad, but it's true. But this is not only Gmail's fault. Long before it existed The Proper Way of replying was dying. Outlook and Hotmail (whi

Re: Tbird Reply To List (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-08-30 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Brad Rogers wrote: > If T'Bird is anything like Claws-Mail, the appearance of a second, > empty, To: field is only an aesthetic inconvenience. It's there to > allow you to send to multiple recipients, (B)Cc:, etc. In fact, the CM > editor always comes up with two To: fields for this very reason.

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Chris Jones wrote: > You're in mutt, you hit "r" for reply to poster instead of "L" for reply > to list and this annoying "Reply-To: list" causes the "To:" header that > is automatically created to point to the list instead of the poster's > private address. Oh, doesn't even need to be in mutt

Re: megaHAL

2009-08-30 Thread Laurent Fousse
Hello, * Charles Kroeger [Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 01:57:14PM -0400]: > Does anyone here use this conversation simulator and if so are the > conversations interesting? I'm tired of talking to humans, listening to > their drivil. Can this package simulate a human conversation, is megaHAL > like Julie

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 06:24:55AM EDT, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Chris Jones writes: [..] > >Thanks for the idea. > > >I will take a look at my .procmailrc and see how I can conversely > >eliminate these noxious Reply-to headers before they cause further > >damage. > > I feed all my mailing

Re: Is there an indexing tool in linux that can help quickly search the contents of all my files?

2009-08-30 Thread josé Santos
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 03:18:51AM +0100, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:20:49 -0500 > Peng Yu wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On windows machines, there is "google desktop" which searchs the files > > contents. Mac has "spotlight" which also search the file contents in a > > mac machine. > >

oss-compatibility package warning

2009-08-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
I had squeeze mostly working well except no mixer was detected by alsamixer when I ran it. I have one of the Intel sound cards so maybe that's why. I made the huge mistake of trying to install the aumix package and one of its dependencies is the oss-compatibility package. The oss-compatibilit

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Chris Jones writes: >On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 06:53:41PM EDT, ghe wrote: >> >> :0Hfhw >> * ^Return-Path: >> | $FORMAIL -i "Reply-To: " >Thanks for the idea. >I will take a look at my .procmailrc and see how I can conversely >eliminate these noxious Reply-to headers before they cause further >da

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-30 04:03, Andrei Popescu wrote: [snip] As Windows is not the cause for people using their computers logged in as administrators. It's just that they (Windows and Gmail) make it quite hard to do it the right way and many people just choose the easy way. Many (most?) apps (including

Re: Tbird Reply To List (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-08-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:32:41 -0700 Marc Shapiro wrote: Hello Marc, > additional blank "To:" line is added. Is there a setting to avoid > this additional "To:" line? If T'Bird is anything like Claws-Mail, the appearance of a second, empty, To: field is only an aesthetic inconvenience. It's the

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,29.Aug.09, 23:14:54, Neal Hogan wrote: > > Standards are the reason we're all here. Standards are the reason we use > > things > > like Debian. Standards are the reason that Debian works. > > It does . . . no disagreement here. But, to expect users to use the > standards that are not clea

Re: Is there an indexing tool in linux that can help quickly search the contents of all my files?

2009-08-30 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 30 August 2009 07:07:11 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > On windows machines, there is "google desktop" which searchs the files > > contents. Mac has "spotlight" which also search the file contents in a > > mac machine. > > > > In linux, I know the command 'locate'

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