Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-02-28 Thread Vincenzo Tibullo
2010/2/28 Francesco Pietra : > Do you see any mistake in my sources.list? > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze  main contrib non-free > > deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free > deb-src ht

Capturing SWF video from URL

2010-02-28 Thread Siju George
Hi, What tools can I use in debian to capture http://cdn.livestream.com/grid/LSPlayer.swf?channel=joshuageneration&clip=pla_3c2b3ec1-9317-4fdd-8d60-e7e4d080db0c&autoPlay=true to a file on disk? thanks --Siju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

how to play midi in etch

2010-02-28 Thread Long Wind
I install playmidi on etch but can't use it it complains "open /dev/sequencer: No such file ..." I try -f and -a options, neither works my sound card used to use CS4281 module now it use snd-pcm-oss I don't like timidity Please help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

RE: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-28 Thread Hadi Motamedi
> > > For the cdrom > > mount /cdrom will normally do it as well. I tried as 'mount /media/cdrom' and it got through . > > > As a matter of interest, which country are you in? > I am posting from IRAN . > > tshark -r > Thank you . I tried as 'tshark output.pcap' and it got through

Re: Why doesn't iceweasel work with iceape

2010-02-28 Thread Bret Busby
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, godo wrote: For finding some app.: 'whereis' $ whereis iceape iceape: /usr/bin/iceape /etc/iceape /usr/lib/iceape /usr/share/iceape /usr/share/man/man1/iceape.1.gz I had previously believed that it could be found when finding the Properties of an application; at pre

Re: Building kernel image packages with make-kpkg, custom dependency

2010-02-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Feb 16 2010, Cliff Flood wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 02:36:37PM -0500, Cliff Flood wrote: >> What file(s) have you tried to edit? When? > > I have attempted to add my dependency by editing the files > debian/contol and debian/C

Re: Kernel compile and install does not create initrd

2010-02-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, Jan 16 2010, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>> If this is the latest version of make-kpkg, did you >>> cp /usr/share/kernel-package/examples/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs >>> /etc/ke

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
> So, what are the advantages I see, and why don't they matter to me anymore? First off, IIUC you seem to want to use LVM, right? I'd agree with this choice: there's little reasons not to use LVM nowadays. Once you've decided to use LVM, then the rest (happily) doesn't really matter anyway, since

Re: -i386 to amd64

2010-02-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
> However, it has transpired that it wasn't that simple to change from the i686 > kernel to amd64 even though my 32 packages will work under the amd64 kernel > Apt and Dpkg for instance don't seem to know this has happened. Others have already answered the "how to move from i386 to amd64", but I'l

Re: Limited X setup

2010-02-28 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 02:24:05PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > Hello, been a while since I posted, working on setting up a partition which > will run mainly console programs, however, I was interested in setting up X > to run a few programs (or maybe the framebuffer) a quick search of the web

Re: Limited X setup

2010-02-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
putting this back on-list... On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:03:54PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > > > --- On Sat, 2/27/10, Andrew Sackville-West > wrote: [...] > > 1. just install only X (package xorg, or even manually pick > > out > > packages) without a DE. You don't even need a window > > m

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: > my 2c, with the size of HD's and the processing power we have now, I > really wonder if spending more than a second on deciding on a single > partition or not is worth it. It's theoretical reasoning. It's good for understanding. A

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thib wrote: >> You trust ext4, and so does Ubuntu. Others (including most distros, >> including Debian) do not. > > I'm sorry if I should know, but is that a clear position or the general > fear around delayed allocation? google "ext4 kde4" and the

Re: Squeeze Frozen, NOT

2010-02-28 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 08:32:31PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2010-02-22 20:22 (+0200), Brent Clark wrote: > > > Almost March. > > > > You know what they means. Cant wait for Squeeze to be frozen. > > Marc Brockschmidt from the Debian release team wrote that it's unlikely > that they will fr

Re: Open Office upgrade

2010-02-28 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 02:32:51PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Sunday 28 February 2010 13:30:11 James Allsopp wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm getting this error when I try and do an upgrade, > > > > You are upgrading from a version which might have corrupted > > service/component registry files (*.

Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-02-28 Thread thib
vi lovers and minimalists should look into apvlv for yet another GTK alternative: http://code.google.com/p/apvlv/ And since we're talking about squeeze: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/apvlv -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-02-28 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 06:40:14PM -0500, Jameson Rollins wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:30:32 +0100, Francesco Pietra > wrote: > > What about acroread in squeeze i386? The only reason here to maintain > > a computer with squeeze is to provide a needed tool to scientists. Why > > acroread acrore

Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-02-28 Thread Jameson Rollins
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:30:32 +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: > What about acroread in squeeze i386? The only reason here to maintain > a computer with squeeze is to provide a needed tool to scientists. Why > acroread acroread-mozilla acroread-plugins can't be found on > debian-multimedia i386 sque

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread thib
Clive McBarton wrote: *You may trust ext4 at this point, but I, and many others don't. xfs beats ext4 in every category, so why bother with ext4? Exactly. If any Ubuntu maintainers were on this list, we could ask them, they see some reason for it (but I don't know what it is). Are there rea

Re: No audio on Acer One

2010-02-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rodolfo Medina [100301 00:00 +0100] > Elimar Riesebieter writes: > > >> > What tells > >> > # lspci -v | grep -A 6 audio > >> > ? > > > * Rodolfo Medina [100228 23:12 +0100] > > >> Nothing. It gives no output at all. > > > Elimar Riesebieter writes: > > > # lspci -v > > ? [...] > > 00:

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread thib
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Use LILO instead of grub(2), and stick the boot loader on the MBR. The /boot partition isn't absolutely necessary, but it provides a small amount of additional safety and system compatibility from a boot perspective. What exactly can I gain from LILO in this case? I was j

Re: No audio on Acer One

2010-02-28 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Elimar Riesebieter writes: >> > What tells >> > # lspci -v | grep -A 6 audio >> > ? * Rodolfo Medina [100228 23:12 +0100] >> Nothing. It gives no output at all. Elimar Riesebieter writes: > # lspci -v > ? # lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Co

Re: No audio on Acer One

2010-02-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rodolfo Medina [100228 23:12 +0100] > Elimar Riesebieter writes: > > > What tells > > # lspci -v | grep -A 6 audio > > ? > > > Nothing. It gives no output at all. # lspci -v ? Elimar -- Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: No audio on Acer One

2010-02-28 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Elimar Riesebieter writes: > What tells > # lspci -v | grep -A 6 audio > ? Nothing. It gives no output at all. Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debia

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
thib put forth on 2/28/2010 1:13 PM: > [Not sure you've seen; I messed up, hence the second message: this > conversation went private, would you like to keep it that way?] Oh, I thought you meant to go private so I was honoring that. I'll go back on list with this. > Well, for someone who owns

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread thib
Alex Samad wrote: my 2c, with the size of HD's and the processing power we have now, I really wonder if spending more than a second on deciding on a single partition or not is worth it. Are the amount of space lost - expressed as a percentage of the disk really worth all the time being spent on

Re: find installed unavailable packages

2010-02-28 Thread Christoph Groth
ludovico van writes: >> How to list all packages which are installed but unavailable? > > maybe > $ aptitude search ~i~o Thanks a lot, that seems to do the trick. Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: No audio on Acer One

2010-02-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rodolfo Medina [100228 20:30 +0100] > * Rodolfo Medina [100228 15:12 +0100] > > > [...] > >> Both Master and Pcm are set to 100. So it seems that we don't have any > >> explanation/solution! > > > Elimar Riesebieter writes: > > > Create as root the file /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf with the >

Re: find installed unavailable packages

2010-02-28 Thread ludovico van
> Dear all, > > How to list all packages which are installed but unavailable? maybe $ aptitude search ~i~o bye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5eb33

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 07:34:03PM +0100, thib wrote: > Clive McBarton wrote: > >I find the concept very interesting in principle, although I am not sure > >I can recommend it. In some respects single file systems are more > >acceptable nowadays. In others they are not. Here are my $.02: > my 2c,

Is this something in common? Calc and system time?

2010-02-28 Thread AG
On my partner's Lenny machine, her OOo Calc seems to round numbers or otherwise corrupt the numbers in the cells. Her machine is also notorious for losing time and fixating on being in the time zone of Guernsey (not London). For example, the following numbers in her Calc add up differently th

find installed unavailable packages

2010-02-28 Thread Christoph Groth
Dear all, How to list all packages which are installed but unavailable? Is it possible to list all packages which were installed from a certain repository? Thanks Christoph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-02-28 Thread Wayne
Francesco Pietra wrote: What about acroread in squeeze i386? The only reason here to maintain a computer with squeeze is to provide a needed tool to scientists. Why acroread acroread-mozilla acroread-plugins can't be found on debian-multimedia i386 squeeze/testing? We have to run more expensive a

Re: No audio on Acer One

2010-02-28 Thread Rodolfo Medina
* Rodolfo Medina [100228 15:12 +0100] > [...] >> Both Master and Pcm are set to 100. So it seems that we don't have any >> explanation/solution! Elimar Riesebieter writes: > Create as root the file /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf with the > following contents: > > alias snd-card-0 snd_hda_intel >

Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-02-28 Thread Tyler Smith
Francesco Pietra writes: > What about acroread in squeeze i386? The only reason here to maintain > a computer with squeeze is to provide a needed tool to scientists. Why > acroread acroread-mozilla acroread-plugins can't be found on > debian-multimedia i386 squeeze/testing? We have to run more ex

Re: OpenOffice and Fluxbox, window sizing problem

2010-02-28 Thread Tyler Smith
"Wayne " writes: > Tyler Smith wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to use openoffice on Debian testing, with Fluxbox as my >> window manager. I use the styles and formatting dropdown, and the >> undocked window it provides when you click on the "more" option quite a >> lot. > > Styles & formatting in

Re: Icewm menu not working properly

2010-02-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Feb 2010, Mark Neyhart wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I have used icewm for a long time and have not had any trouble with the > > menu. Recently all the entries for browsers have stopped working on my > > HP laptop (not on my desktop). > > > > The entries are of this form: > > > > pro

Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-02-28 Thread Vincenzo Tibullo
They moved to non-free, see http://debian-multimedia.org/. -- enzotib 2010/2/28 Francesco Pietra : > What about acroread in squeeze i386? The only reason here to maintain > a computer with squeeze is to provide a needed tool to scientists. Why > acroread acroread-mozilla acroread-plugins can't b

what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-02-28 Thread Francesco Pietra
What about acroread in squeeze i386? The only reason here to maintain a computer with squeeze is to provide a needed tool to scientists. Why acroread acroread-mozilla acroread-plugins can't be found on debian-multimedia i386 squeeze/testing? We have to run more expensive and more energy demanding 6

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread thib
Clive McBarton wrote: I find the concept very interesting in principle, although I am not sure I can recommend it. In some respects single file systems are more acceptable nowadays. In others they are not. Here are my $.02: Thank you. [...] You trust ext4, and so does Ubuntu. Others (includin

Re: OpenOffice and Fluxbox, window sizing problem

2010-02-28 Thread Wayne
Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use openoffice on Debian testing, with Fluxbox as my window manager. I use the styles and formatting dropdown, and the undocked window it provides when you click on the "more" option quite a lot. Styles & formatting in what, fluxbox or OO? However, no mat

OpenOffice and Fluxbox, window sizing problem

2010-02-28 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm trying to use openoffice on Debian testing, with Fluxbox as my window manager. I use the styles and formatting dropdown, and the undocked window it provides when you click on the "more" option quite a lot. However, no matter how many times I manually resize the undocked window, or set my p

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > /var up2uext2sequential write/read, journal unnecessary I don't see the advantage of ext2 over ext3 here (or for that matter anywhere else, which may just be my ignorance). The journal may be unnecessary, but it doesn't

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I find the concept very interesting in principle, although I am not sure I can recommend it. In some respects single file systems are more acceptable nowadays. In others they are not. Here are my $.02: > * Filesystem corruption containment > > I use

Re: perl or bash question ["convert strings in a txt to html links"]

2010-02-28 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 27.2.2010 19:12, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > How can I do that in bash or perl, that I have a txt file, e.g.: > > $cat file.txt > Hi, this is the content of the txt file, that contains links like this: > http://www.somewhere.it/, and it could contain: http://somewhere.com, > etc.. > This is the seco

Re: Limited X setup

2010-02-28 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 28.2.2010 0:24, joseph lockhart wrote: > Hello, been a while since I posted, working on setting up a partition which > will run mainly console programs, however, I was interested in setting up X > to run a few programs (or maybe the framebuffer) a quick search of the web > yielded no help. An

Re: Why doesn't iceweasel work with iceape

2010-02-28 Thread godo
Bret Busby wrote: On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, godo wrote: In trying to configure iceweasel to do the same (iceweasel defaults to opening evolution, which I understand to be much the same as microsoft outlook), I open the iceweasel Edit -> Preferences -> Applications -> mailto option, and it display

Re: Best Video Capture Device for Debian?

2010-02-28 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:49:07PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 08:08 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I purchased a Canon DC410 camcorder and recorded on several mini cd's > > during a trip to Europe. Most of the mini cd's I can mount and edit the > > foo.vob files with

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread thib
Stan Hoeppner wrote: All of that talk and gyration over a workstation disk layout? You never did mention what the primary application usage is on this machine, which should be a factor in how you set it up. If you're an email warrior, what damn difference does it make, and why bother with LVM o

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Andrei Popescu put forth on 2/28/2010 8:32 AM: > On Sun,28.Feb.10, 03:20:38, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> /var up2uext2sequential write/read, journal unnecessary > > Would you mind going into details? I always thought the journal was > especially useful on partitions like /var where it is m

Re: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-28 Thread Wayne
Hadi Motamedi wrote: From: motamed...@hotmail.com To: cele...@gmail.com; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Upgrade to Lenny? Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:23:32 + Thank you very much you kind guys . At now , I have the tshark installed on my Lenny . But I want to analyze my previousl

Re: truncate until delimiter

2010-02-28 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2010-02-28 15:13 (+0100), Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > I just want to modify the names of some files, but I can't do it if > they have their full path "in their names".. Maybe basename and dirname commands could help? $ basename /foo/bar/file.txt file.txt $ dirname /foo/bar/file.txt

Re: truncate until delimiter

2010-02-28 Thread Sebastian Luksch
Vadkan Jozsef wrote: e.g.: $ ls -tr `find -type f` | grep ".txt$" | rev txt.nimdaymphp/. txt.ccuc/aborp/. txt.og/. txt.osle/. txt.kidosam/. I Want to truncate this output, until the first "/": $ ls -tr `find -type f` | grep ".txt$" | rev | THE-MAGIC-COMES-HERE You could use "cut -d/ -f1".

Re: No audio on Acer One

2010-02-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rodolfo Medina [100228 15:12 +0100] [...] > Both Master and Pcm are set to 100. So it seems that we don't have any > explanation/solution! Create as root the file /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf with the following contents: alias snd-card-0 snd_hda_intel options snd_hda_intel index=0 options snd_hd

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,28.Feb.10, 03:20:38, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > /var up2uext2sequential write/read, journal unnecessary Would you mind going into details? I always thought the journal was especially useful on partitions like /var where it is more likely that the system will be writing something rig

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-02-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,27.Feb.10, 20:16:01, Cecil Knutson wrote: > Stephen, > >I was going to suggest trying a different sound card on your existing > >system. But it's your call. > > That is a good idea. I'll look to see what I have. Am I right to > assume that the installation will have to be repeated in ord

truncate until delimiter

2010-02-28 Thread Vadkan Jozsef
e.g.: $ ls -tr `find -type f` | grep ".txt$" | rev txt.nimdaymphp/. txt.ccuc/aborp/. txt.og/. txt.osle/. txt.kidosam/. I Want to truncate this output, until the first "/": $ ls -tr `find -type f` | grep ".txt$" | rev | THE-MAGIC-COMES-HERE . aborp/. . . . How? I just want to modify the names

Re: No audio on Acer One

2010-02-28 Thread Rodolfo Medina
* Rodolfo Medina [100228 12:05 +0100] >> >> I hear no sound on my Acer One netbook when running Mplayer. All makes >> >> think of no working audio at all installed on the machine. However, my >> >> Gnome toolbar shows the small volume icon top right regularly. alsa and >> >> libasound2-dev are

Re: Open Office upgrade

2010-02-28 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 28 February 2010 13:30:11 James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I'm getting this error when I try and do an upgrade, > > You are upgrading from a version which might have corrupted > service/component registry files (*.rdb), especially > /var/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/program/services.rdb and the r

Re: No audio on Acer One

2010-02-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rodolfo Medina [100228 14:01 +0100] > * Rodolfo Medina [100228 12:05 +0100] > > >> I hear no sound on my Acer One netbook when running Mplayer. All makes > >> think of no working audio at all installed on the machine. However, my > >> Gnome toolbar shows the small volume icon top right regular

Re: No audio on Acer One

2010-02-28 Thread Rodolfo Medina
* Rodolfo Medina [100228 12:05 +0100] >> I hear no sound on my Acer One netbook when running Mplayer. All makes >> think of no working audio at all installed on the machine. However, my >> Gnome toolbar shows the small volume icon top right regularly. alsa and >> libasound2-dev are installed on

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 02/27/2010 11:18 PM, thib wrote: Hello, Usually I never ask myself whether I should organize my disks into separate filesystems or not. I just think "how?" and I go with a cool layout without thinking back - LVM lets us correct them easily anyway. I should even say that I believed a single

Re: No audio on Acer One

2010-02-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rodolfo Medina [100228 12:05 +0100] > I hear no sound on my Acer One netbook when running Mplayer. All makes think > of no working audio at all installed on the machine. However, my Gnome > toolbar > shows the small volume icon top right regularly. alsa and libasound2-dev are > installed on L

Open Office upgrade

2010-02-28 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I'm getting this error when I try and do an upgrade, You are upgrading from a version which might have corrupted service/component registry files (*.rdb), especially /var/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/program/services.rdb and the rdb files in /var/spool/openoffice/uno_packages/cache for installed ex

Re: Upgrade to Lenny?

2010-02-28 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 02/28/2010 03:00 AM, Hadi Motamedi wrote: # wireshark output.pcap 'cannot open display' Can you please let me know how can I make use of wireshark to analyze Try running wireshark as a normal user, not as root. It's not necessary. -- "Mind if I smoke?" "I don't care if you burst in

No audio on Acer One

2010-02-28 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I hear no sound on my Acer One netbook when running Mplayer. All makes think of no working audio at all installed on the machine. However, my Gnome toolbar shows the small volume icon top right regularly. alsa and libasound2-dev are installed on Lenny. Please help about this. Thanks Rodolfo

Re: Why doesn't iceweasel work with iceape

2010-02-28 Thread Bret Busby
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, godo wrote: In trying to configure iceweasel to do the same (iceweasel defaults to opening evolution, which I understand to be much the same as microsoft outlook), I open the iceweasel Edit -> Preferences -> Applications -> mailto option, and it displays the options "Use

Asus WL-167g (rt2500usb) DHCP fails

2010-02-28 Thread Sylvain Archenault
Hello, I'm trying to make my wifi dongle work on my sid box (kernel 2.6.32-trunk-686). It is correctly recognized, the WPA authentication works fine as well, but it fails getting an address from DHCP. Here is the relevant syslog output: >> Feb 28 11:36:21 ticho wpa_supplicant[2442]: Trying to ass

Re: Anyone Care to Critique my Apt Preferences? (was Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer)

2010-02-28 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:22:34PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:05:58 -0800 > Freeman wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:01:44PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > ... > > > > Osamu > > > > OMG! > > > > Osamu as in "Debian Reference Copyright 2007-2009 Osamu Aoki"? > > > > T

Re: wireless from the command line

2010-02-28 Thread Freeman
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 04:54:31PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,27.Feb.10, 09:03:48, Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:43:53PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > > There is the wicd-curses interface. I have never tried it, though. > > > > > > I have. The UI is not the bes

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
thib put forth on 2/27/2010 8:18 PM: > Hello, > > Usually I never ask myself whether I should organize my disks into > separate filesystems or not. I just think "how?" and I go with a cool > layout without thinking back - LVM lets us correct them easily anyway. > I should even say that I believe

Re: -i386 to amd64

2010-02-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Andrew Sackville-West put forth on 2/27/2010 7:53 PM: > It's been a while, but as I understand it, there is an -amd64 kernel > available in the -i686 repos, but that doesn't mean you're running in > the 64 bit architecture. That requires a number of other things to > happen, including changing to

after upgrade etch -> lenny, problem with vim syntax highlighting in bash scripts

2010-02-28 Thread Mart Frauenlob
Hello, after I upgraded from etch to lenny a few days ago (new config files have been installed for vim), I noticed that syntax highlighting for my bash scripts is not working as before. There are some things i've noticed, where of the first is worse to me. 1: If I put the following statement o