Re: keeping an obsolete package (libx264-78) removes its automatically installed status

2009-12-13 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Celejar. On 12/13/2009 11:59 PM, Celejar wrote: > The package 'libx264-78' is installed on my (Sid) system: This package provides the x264 video encoder/decoder (an implementation of the part 10 of the MPEG 4 standard, also known as H.264). This video standard is the same that is used by Blu

Re: spam+virus filtering

2009-12-13 Thread Tudod Ki
I think that these howtos filter only incoming emails [antispam&antivirus] is it true? :O Thank You! --- On Sun, 12/13/09, Tudod Ki wrote: From: Tudod Ki Subject: spam+virus filtering To: "Debian User" Date: Sunday, December 13, 2009, 10:49 PM howtos like these: http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/

Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-13 Thread Marc Shapiro
Celejar wrote: On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:56:28 -0600 Mark Allums wrote: ... It has triple-channel memory, and I have 12 GB. This is about 10 GB more than Debian needs, unless you are doing a lot of virtual server 11.5 GB, at least ;) I used to (as recently as about a year ago) run with 512

Re: Upgrade alsa-utils in Lenny?

2009-12-13 Thread Mark
>On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Andrei Popescu >wrote: > >I see that alsa-utils is not in backports. Your best bet would probably >be to try to install the squeeze package. I'm at the point where it might be better just to install Squeeze, and since the machine is new with newer hardware Squeez

Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-13 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:50:10 -0800 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 17:40, Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:56:28 -0600 > > Mark Allums wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> It has triple-channel memory, and I have 12 GB.  This is about 10 GB > >> more than Debian needs, unless you

Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-13 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 17:40, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:56:28 -0600 > Mark Allums wrote: > > ... > >> It has triple-channel memory, and I have 12 GB.  This is about 10 GB >> more than Debian needs, unless you are doing a lot of virtual server > > 11.5 GB, at least ;)  I used to (as

keeping an obsolete package (libx264-78) removes its automatically installed status

2009-12-13 Thread Celejar
Hi, The package 'libx264-78' is installed on my (Sid) system: ~# aptitude why libx264-78 i gnome-mplayer Depends mplayer (>= 1.0~) | mplayer-nogui (>= 1.0~) i A mplayer Depends libx264-78 (>= 1:0.svn20091101) Aptitude shows it in the 'Obsolete and Locally Created Packages' section. When

Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-13 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:56:28 -0600 Mark Allums wrote: ... > It has triple-channel memory, and I have 12 GB. This is about 10 GB > more than Debian needs, unless you are doing a lot of virtual server 11.5 GB, at least ;) I used to (as recently as about a year ago) run with 512 MB, quite happ

Re: AAC audio encoding through faac in Squeeze

2009-12-13 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Jason. On 12/13/2009 10:24 AM, Jason Filippou wrote: > ja...@debian:~$ sudo aptitude show faac (...) > ja...@debian:~$ soundconverter & > [1] 3807 > ja...@debian:~$ SoundConverter 1.4.4 > using Gstreamer version: 0.10.25, Python binding version: 0.10.17 > using gio > 'faac' element not f

Re: Upgrade alsa-utils in Lenny?

2009-12-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,13.Dec.09, 14:02:29, Mark wrote: > My girlfriend's Dell MIni 10v netbook works fine with Lenny except for no > sound. A lot of research on my end has resulted in determining that the > reason Ubuntu 9x has sound is because it uses alsa-utils 1.0.21 whereas > Lenny uses 1.0.16-2. Are you s

Re: email server

2009-12-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun December 13 2009, Joe wrote: > In addition to the blacklist, I reject about twenty countries on HELO > and PTR strings, a few really offensive ISPs by name (mostly German, > oddly), and make an attempt to identify and reject 'generic' PTRs. Along > with the Debian default of requiring comple

Re: email server

2009-12-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun December 13 2009, Joe wrote: > Had you, as a human, tried the suggested address, it would have reached > me. I accept mail to it and abuse unconditionally, as required by RFC. not sure I understand what you are saying here.. > > More likely is that nearly all spam is now NDR spam, which s

Re: email server

2009-12-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun December 13 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I've received spam to my inbox from all the ranges below.  Liquid Web > has 8 ranges assigned by ARIN, and I've received spam from four of them. >  I don't f*ck around when it comes to spam coming from no-name web > hosting companies.  I usually smtp

Re: email server

2009-12-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Paul Cartwright put forth on 12/13/2009 4:03 PM: > How do you know they are full of spammers? I've received spam to my inbox from all the ranges below. Liquid Web has 8 ranges assigned by ARIN, and I've received spam from four of them. I don't f*ck around when it comes to spam coming from no-na

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 10:57:24PM +0100, David Kubicek wrote: >>> Thanks, all, for helping me. Sorry for wasting your time. >> >> FYI: >> http://git.gnome.org/cgit/glib/commit/?id=2321e5aed07154761223bb124770beba56700e41 >> > > New development, I see. :) > > You know, struct tm doesn't need to be

Re: spam+virus filtering

2009-12-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
If you are planning to do spam+antivirus filtering, let me suggest you Amavisd-new to act as a "glue" for all the added services. Postfix calls Amavisd-new and Amavisd-new calls both, SA and ClamAV and then reinjects the mail into Postfix. http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/spamfilter200

Re: Screen highlight

2009-12-13 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
David Kubicek wrote: Your safest bet is using the ACPI /proc interface: # cat /proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD/brightness levels: 0 6 13 20 26 33 40 46 53 60 66 73 80 86 93 100 current: 46 # echo 100 > /proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD/brightness I don't have this part "video/VID/LCD/brightness". Here is my

Re: Anybody tried installing squeeze on a PowerPC Mac recently?

2009-12-13 Thread Clark Martin
Rick Thomas wrote: Installing squeeze on a G4 PowerMac from the "sid d-i" daily "Businesscard" CD. All seemed nominal during the install. But after the reboot, the login screen did not appear. I was left sitting at a text console. In fact, it appears that gdm and nearly all of the gnome-de

Re: spam+virus filtering

2009-12-13 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:49:42 -0800, Tudod Ki wrote: > howtos like these: > http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/25/add-antivirus-to-postfix-with-clamav/ > http://www.debianadmin.com/how-to-filter-spam-with-spamassassin-and- postfix-in-debian.html > Will give me spam/virus filtering for INBOUND or OUTBOUN

Re: email server

2009-12-13 Thread Joe
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sun December 13 2009, Joe wrote: You can split the task of testing if you have the use of an external Internet connection, possibly over ssh: you can connect to your own server by IP address or by name using telnet. Apologies for the source of this, but it's what I freq

spam+virus filtering

2009-12-13 Thread Tudod Ki
howtos like these: http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/25/add-antivirus-to-postfix-with-clamav/ http://www.debianadmin.com/how-to-filter-spam-with-spamassassin-and-postfix-in-debian.html Will give me spam/virus filtering for INBOUND or OUTBOUND mails? Or Both? sorry for the question :D But I have to know

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread David Kubicek
On 12/13/2009 10:54 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 10:14:11PM +0100, David Kubicek wrote: If/when you find a solution, send it here for other people who might google for the same issue, but I from your description it's a libc bug. Here's the solution: http://lists.debian.org

Re: email server

2009-12-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun December 13 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Eeeww, you're in a bad neighborhood Paul: good old US of A :) oh, you mean my mail server? sorry about that! How do you know they are full of spammers? I moved from my old domain hosting people last year ( 2 years?) because there was an issue of AT&T

Upgrade alsa-utils in Lenny?

2009-12-13 Thread Mark
My girlfriend's Dell MIni 10v netbook works fine with Lenny except for no sound. A lot of research on my end has resulted in determining that the reason Ubuntu 9x has sound is because it uses alsa-utils 1.0.21 whereas Lenny uses 1.0.16-2. Any way I can upgrade just the alsa-utils part of Lenny wi

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread David Kubicek
On 12/13/2009 09:53 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 02:47:38PM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote: OK, there's a bug in your program: #include #include int main(void) { char *iso_date = "2009-12-11T2:50:00"; struct tm tm; /*<- NOT INITIALIZED! */ time_t time;

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 10:14:11PM +0100, David Kubicek wrote: > If/when you find a solution, send it here for other people who might > google for the same issue, but I from your description it's a libc bug. Here's the solution: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/12/msg00797.html http://l

Questions regarding hardware for a Free Software (especially Debian)

2009-12-13 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, All. I would like to purchase a new system to replace my current Desktop. Unfortunately, it seems that getting some new hardware is not as easy, due to a multitude of unavailable drivers for Free Operating systems or differences regarding the role of the systems. It seems that most sites whe

Re: apt pinning question

2009-12-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,12.Dec.09, 22:09:59, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 09:49:22AM +1100, Gordon Wrigley wrote: > > Another way to look at this would be to ask... > > > > Given two available versions of a package where the higher version has > > the lower priority, how do I get apt to automatically

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread David Kubicek
On 12/13/2009 08:47 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 08:16:21PM +0100, David Kubicek wrote: OK, where do I move next? :-) Especially given that these things don't happen in a fresh sid chroot, I am really wondering what unearthly configuration option could be causing this. OK,

Re: VLC cannot support the traditional music keys

2009-12-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lorenzo Beretta writes: >> The only key which works here, with your shortcuts, is the `p'. (It >> actually goes to the next track, but it produces a result, though not >> the expected one.) No problem, don't worry. > Same here - with the default key

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 02:47:38PM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > OK, there's a bug in your program: > > #include > #include > > int main(void) { > char *iso_date = "2009-12-11T2:50:00"; > struct tm tm; /* <- NOT INITIALIZED! */ > time_t time; > > strptime(iso_date, "%FT

Re: email server

2009-12-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Eeeww, you're in a bad neighborhood Paul: Dec 13 14:35:52 greer postfix/smtpd[16900]: connect from liquid1.wznoc.com[72.52.240.41] Dec 13 14:35:52 greer postfix/smtpd[16900]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from liquid1.wznoc.com[72.52.240.41]: 554 5.7.1 : Client host rejected: Access denied; from= to= prot

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 01:47:08PM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > If that doesn't help, try posix-in-loop test from single-user mode. Make > > sure no other processes are running. > > I've checked, and the same thing happens. > > > I'm not aware of any configuration which could cause this (exc

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 02:16:57PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Kumar writes: > > The strange thing is, in gdb, it always gives me > > 1260521400. Consistently. > > Pointer bug. I am unsure where to look for the pointer. I'll try, though. Thanks. Kumar -- "Never make any mistaeks." (Anonymous,

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread John Hasler
Kumar writes: > The strange thing is, in gdb, it always gives me > 1260521400. Consistently. Pointer bug. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: email server

2009-12-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun December 13 2009, Joe wrote: > You can split the task of testing if you have the use of an external > Internet connection, possibly over ssh: you can connect to your own > server by IP address or by name using telnet. Apologies for the source > of this, but it's what I frequently quote to pe

Re: email server

2009-12-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Paul Cartwright put forth on 12/13/2009 6:42 AM: > so I have a DynDNS domain, that I have pointed to my router, and I want to > make a mail server for that, to test with, get it setup, then I can move my > REAL domain to it... All I want is a simple setup, 2-3 users, just to test > incoming ( a

Anybody tried installing squeeze on a PowerPC Mac recently?

2009-12-13 Thread Rick Thomas
Installing squeeze on a G4 PowerMac from the "sid d-i" daily "Businesscard" CD. All seemed nominal during the install. But after the reboot, the login screen did not appear. I was left sitting at a text console. In fact, it appears that gdm and nearly all of the gnome-desktop-environment t

Re: email server

2009-12-13 Thread Joe
Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2009-12-13, Paul Cartwright wrote: so I have a DynDNS domain, that I have pointed to my router, and I want to make a mail server for that, to test with, get it setup, then I can move my REAL domain to it... All I want is a simple setup, 2-3 users, just to test incoming

Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark Allums put forth on 12/13/2009 8:16 AM: > On 12/13/2009 7:00 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >>> Stan Hoeppner : >>> If you want to stick with AMD, I recommend the following: >>> >>> AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition Callisto 3.1GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache >>> 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 80W Dual-

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Merciadri Luca [Sun, Dec 13 2009, 07:48:59PM]: > pata_marvell4256 0 I think you have some third-party IDE controller on the mainboard (with a Marvell chip) which has a faulty driver. The problem is not uncommon, i.e. if the the driver author only tested with "even" block

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 08:16:21PM +0100, David Kubicek wrote: >> OK, where do I move next? :-) Especially given that these things don't >> happen in a fresh sid chroot, I am really wondering what unearthly >> configuration option could be causing this. > > OK, this is now officially insane. I have

Re: email server

2009-12-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun December 13 2009, Liam O'Toole wrote: > I don't know if it's the simplest or easiest, but the default email server, > exim4, should be pretty easy to set up as you describe. After installation > run 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' to be presented with a configuration > wizard. yeah, after g

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread David Kubicek
On 12/13/2009 07:50 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 07:39:31PM +0100, David Kubicek wrote: # export TZ=Europe/Prague # for i in `seq 1 20`; do ./posix; date; done 1260496200 Sun Dec 13 19:04:24 CET 2009 ... (Note: 2600 vs. 6200): [ku...@bluemoon ~] for i in `seq 1 10`;do TZ=Eu

Re: Udev ATTR instead of SYSFS

2009-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Dave Witbrodt wrote: David Baron wrote: Getting a lot of warnings about this on recent udev upgrades. I tried substituting in some of the rules files but might have caused problems. Fact is that this was tested with the recent broken udev and problems were (also?) from

Re: Java Runtime Enviroment missing

2009-12-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2009-12-13, Nick Douma wrote: > > On 13-12-2009 14:55, pch0317 wrote: >> Hi >> In Iceveasel, page bar apperar that ''Additional plugins are required to >> display all the media on this page''. I have to install Java Runtime >> Enviroment. Which open-source packet I have to install to run page >

Re: email server

2009-12-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2009-12-13, Paul Cartwright wrote: > so I have a DynDNS domain, that I have pointed to my router, and I want to > make a mail server for that, to test with, get it setup, then I can move my > REAL domain to it... All I want is a simple setup, 2-3 users, just to test > incoming ( and outgoin

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Kubicek writes: > Reboot and send us outputs of these, I'd better see it all: > > cat /proc/cmdline root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet > cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3320620AS

Re: iceweasel 3.0.6 to 3.5.5

2009-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:52:22AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Is there a need to create a special profile for this upgrade or can I just do the upgrade and keep the same profile? The same profile works fine. Thanks Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 07:39:31PM +0100, David Kubicek wrote: > The POSIX variant result would be important - it would tell us it's not > Glib related. There would be less stuff to check with just libc/tzdata. Right. > BUT, I made a typo in posix.c, which *could* in effect randomize the > "z

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread David Kubicek
On 12/13/2009 06:47 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: When we're sure relevant libraries are OK, we can explore other possibilities if the issue persists. I doubt it will after this action, unless, of course, you have some very peculiar configuration I cannot imagine somewhere. :) Once I reinstall the a

mbrola on debian 86_x64 (amd64)

2009-12-13 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
hi, does somebody got it working? thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: iceweasel 3.0.6 to 3.5.5

2009-12-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:52:22AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a need to create a special profile for this upgrade or can I > just do the upgrade and keep the same profile? The same profile works fine. Kumar -- Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolav

iceweasel 3.0.6 to 3.5.5

2009-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Is there a need to create a special profile for this upgrade or can I just do the upgrade and keep the same profile? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-13 Thread David Kubicek
On 12/13/2009 05:41 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Then I suggest testing a closed-source alternative similar to what you may know from Windows experience: Nero Linux 4, http://www.nerolinux.de/. This way you can exclude kernel issues as potential problem. I do not often use Windows, but I wanted to

Re: Udev ATTR instead of SYSFS

2009-12-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dave Witbrodt wrote: David Baron wrote: Getting a lot of warnings about this on recent udev upgrades. I tried substituting in some of the rules files but might have caused problems. Fact is that this was tested with the recent broken udev and problems were (also?) from udev itself. Should AT

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 06:14:41PM +0100, David Kubicek wrote: > It may be your glib, but you didn't say if this also happens when using > just POSIX API (basic libc). If it's affected too, your system is borked > on a lower level. What you report is impossible unless there is a > serious bug

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread David Kubicek
On 12/13/2009 04:51 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 04:25:22PM +0100, Torben Keil wrote: I have a weird time-zone related issue on my machine. [...] A user on my workplace reported me similar problem with the time-zone in SuSE 11.1. I just had the current NVIDIA-driver install

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduard Bloch writes: > #include Funny. I really enjoyed it. :-) > Relax. No problem. I am relax (at least appearing like). > Then I suggest testing a closed-source alternative similar to > what you may know from Windows experience: Nero Linux 4, >

gcc/++-3.X in lenny

2009-12-13 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Hi, there, is there a sufficient reason why it's not in lenny. I tried to compile but neither 4.3 nor 4.2 would compile 3.3 I finally downloaded pre-compiled version from etch in debs and installed them. I then could compile my old program What's the best way to go for the future? regards -

Configuration problem of two NIC

2009-12-13 Thread Arif tuhin
I have two NIC. one is connected to a private network. and ip of that network is determined by dhcp. another NIC is connected to another network. for that network, ip is specifically assigned by the network administrator of that network. eth0 is connected to that dedicated line and eth1 is connec

Re: VLC cannot support the traditional music keys

2009-12-13 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Merciadri Luca ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lorenzo Beretta writes: I'm on testing (which has vlc 1.03), but from what I remember old vlc versions used to look something like this: CTRL| ALT| KEY| ACTION --

compiled tsocks not working, how to debug

2009-12-13 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I've installed tsocks from package repository and is working fine. Except I had to resolve domain name on the remote end, which is not satisfied. Reading tsocks man page I realized I had to compile tsocks on my own with configuration options --enable-socksdns and --disable-hostnames in ord

How to compiling Boost 1.41 into .deb packages?

2009-12-13 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, Because I want (actually need) the Boost package 1.41 I must compile it myself as there is no Boost 1.41 (yet) in Debian testing (or sid). I really want to use Debian packages for better maintenance of my (installed) software, but I cannot get the software compiled into deb packages. I asked

Re: AAC audio encoding through faac in Squeeze

2009-12-13 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Forgot to said that I have libfaad2 and libfaac0. I don't have faac. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-13 Thread David Kubicek
On 12/13/2009 03:58 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Nelson writes: Can the drive /read/ CDs and DVDs in Windows? In Linux? If not, certainly try the next suggestion. Try fiddling with the cables to the drive. Replug them. Move the data cable a

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 04:25:22PM +0100, Torben Keil wrote: > > I have a weird time-zone related issue on my machine. [...] > > A user on my workplace reported me similar problem with the time-zone in > SuSE 11.1. I just had the current NVIDIA-driver installed (190.X) and after > a quater hour th

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-13 Thread Torben Keil
Hi Kumar, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian user, > > I have a weird time-zone related issue on my machine. [...] A user on my workplace reported me similar problem with the time-zone in SuSE 11.1. I just had the current NVIDIA-driver installed (190.X) and after a quater hour the user reported

Re: AAC audio encoding through faac in Squeeze

2009-12-13 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Jason Filippou wrote: Hello list, Having added debian -multimedia to my /etc/apt/sources.list I experimented to see whether I had native support for most audio codecs and encoders. Running the popular audio format conversion program 'soundconverter' I realized I wasn't able to encode into AAC

Re: Screen highlight

2009-12-13 Thread David Kubicek
-- David Kubíček System Specialist T-Systems Czech Republic a.s. Sirotkova 1242 Mladá Boleslav, 29301 Phone: (+420) 739 242 055 On 12/13/2009 04:24 PM, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: pch0317 wrote: Hi List I have new notebook Hewlett-Packard Compaq 615 VC289EA. I have installed Debian testing o

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Merciadri Luca [Sun, Dec 13 2009, 03:58:37PM]: > I thought that I had specified it before, but, according to your > message, I did not explain this in an explicit way. > > Under Windows (XP), I am able to read, and write, on any CD or DVD > medium, whatever the writer. I am thus fully

Re: Screen highlight

2009-12-13 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
pch0317 wrote: Hi List I have new notebook Hewlett-Packard Compaq 615 VC289EA. I have installed Debian testing on it. The problem is that function keys don't work and I can't decrease highlight of my screen. Is there any method to software decrease level of screen highlight? Thanks Hi. if yo

Re: VLC cannot support the traditional music keys

2009-12-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lorenzo Beretta writes: > I'm on testing (which has vlc 1.03), but from what I remember old vlc > versions used to look something like this: > > CTRL| ALT| KEY| ACTION > ---

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Nelson writes: > Can the drive /read/ CDs and DVDs in Windows? In Linux? If not, > certainly try the next suggestion. > > Try fiddling with the cables to the drive. Replug them. Move the data > cable around in the computer case. I thought

Re: Re: apt pinning question

2009-12-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 03:57:27PM +1100, Gordon Wrigley wrote: > >> Another way to look at this would be to ask... > >> > >> Given two available versions of a package where the higher version has > >> the lower priority, how do I get apt to automatically install the > >> lower priority one when th

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-13 Thread Mark Allums
>> What's the alternative? Have they found another resource to make >> batteries from? I read some blurbs and articles about work with zinc-air. Apparently, some of the problems with zinc-air have been solved. Zinc-air is known to have an energy density about twice that of lithium, but is sti

Re: Java Runtime Enviroment missing

2009-12-13 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13-12-2009 14:55, pch0317 wrote: > Hi > In Iceveasel, page bar apperar that ''Additional plugins are required to > display all the media on this page''. I have to install Java Runtime > Enviroment. Which open-source packet I have to install to run p

Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-13 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/13/2009 7:00 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Stan Hoeppner : If you want to stick with AMD, I recommend the following: AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition Callisto 3.1GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 80W Dual-Core Processor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N

Re: Screen highlight

2009-12-13 Thread Pedro Insua
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:28:38AM +, pch0317 wrote: > Hi List > > I have new notebook Hewlett-Packard Compaq 615 VC289EA. I have installed > Debian testing on it. > The problem is that function keys don't work and I can't decrease > highlight of my screen. > Is there any method to software de

Java Runtime Enviroment missing

2009-12-13 Thread pch0317
Hi In Iceveasel, page bar apperar that ''Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page''. I have to install Java Runtime Enviroment. Which open-source packet I have to install to run page entirely. I have installed Debian testing amd64. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-13 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
lee wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:45:31PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> >> no need of lithium at all. > > What's the alternative? Have they found another resource to make > batteries from? I wanted to say, that they have decided to go for battery production, so that you and me have to p

Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-13 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Stan Hoeppner : > If you want to stick with AMD, I recommend the following: > > AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition Callisto 3.1GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache > 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 80W Dual-Core Processor > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103680 > > ASUS M4A785T-M/CSM > htt

email server

2009-12-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
so I have a DynDNS domain, that I have pointed to my router, and I want to make a mail server for that, to test with, get it setup, then I can move my REAL domain to it... All I want is a simple setup, 2-3 users, just to test incoming ( and outgoing) emails to a dnydns domain. What is the simpl

AAC audio encoding through faac in Squeeze

2009-12-13 Thread Jason Filippou
Hello list, Having added debian -multimedia to my /etc/apt/sources.list I experimented to see whether I had native support for most audio codecs and encoders. Running the popular audio format conversion program 'soundconverter' I realized I wasn't able to encode into AAC format, even though I had

Re: postfix + spamassassin howto search

2009-12-13 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:53:33 -0800, Tudod Ki wrote: > Does someone has a good howto regarding $subject? :) Thank you!! Debianadmin use to have very good how-to's: How to filter spam with Spamassassin and Postfix in Debian http://www.debianadmin.com/how-to-filter-spam-with-spamassassin-and-postfi

postfix + spamassassin howto search

2009-12-13 Thread Tudod Ki
Does someone has a good howto regarding $subject? :) Thank you!!

Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-13 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:32:12 +, amka wrote: > I am going to buy a new computer and wonder what is the best for 64bits. > AMD or Intel ? Both are a great option for 64 bits :-) > Could someone give me please an advice ? > > > I have actualy an AMD Opteron and the idea is, for the moment, t

Screen highlight

2009-12-13 Thread pch0317
Hi List I have new notebook Hewlett-Packard Compaq 615 VC289EA. I have installed Debian testing on it. The problem is that function keys don't work and I can't decrease highlight of my screen. Is there any method to software decrease level of screen highlight? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t