RE: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 00:24 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: SNIP I have Win 7 home premium. I will find out what tools for partitioning/backup came with it and decide on my next course of action. Windows comes with a resizer: right click on my computer manage diskmanager. The next step

Re:Re: iceweasel sometimes shows untitled when enter url

2010-10-13 Thread yuanwei xu
Camaleón, Thanks for your reply.Today the problem became much worse: none website can be connected in iceweasel,all turn out to be (Untitled). So i tried to install chromium through aptitude,and it works normally.This mail is wrote on it. It seems it's a good idea to have another browser as a

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Mark
2010/10/12 Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr For backing up the whole disk before starting with dangerous operations I suggest Clonezilla (the open-source equivalent of Ghost). It use it regularly and hasn't betrayed me. As for the rest procedures, I also suggest you resize the windows

Re: Printer paused, /usr/lib/cups/backend/dnssd failed

2010-10-13 Thread Tyler Smith
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Sorry, I should have mentioned I also found that with Google, and tried restarting avahi-daemon without success. How did you setup the printer? Try by using a socket:// or ipp:// URI and the IP address of the printer/machine instead using its name to

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: On 12 October 2010 10:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: CPU: Vortex86 SoC (800MHz) - I *think* this is pretty much a 486, I could be wrong Yikes.  You really need to track this one

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:43:19 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 13 October 2010 12:39:59 Camaleón wrote: I don't think Dotan is that type of guy. I know him (well, I know his posts) from openSUSE mailing list and thanks to him (besides other users) and his bugzilla reports, KDE 4 is now

Re: iceweasel sometimes shows untitled when enter url

2010-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 15:48:46 yuanwei xu wrote: Camaleón, Thanks for your reply.Today the problem became much worse: none website can be connected in iceweasel,all turn out to be (Untitled). So i tried to install chromium through aptitude,and it works normally.This mail is wrote

Re: iceweasel sometimes shows untitled when enter url

2010-10-13 Thread Frank
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:37:28 +0100 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 13 October 2010 15:48:46 yuanwei xu wrote: Camaleón, Thanks for your reply.Today the problem became much worse: none website can be connected in iceweasel,all

Re: iceweasel sometimes shows untitled when enter url

2010-10-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed October 13 2010, Lisi wrote: I am running Lenny.  I have tried previously and have just tried again.   aptitude show chromium comes up with a game not a browser?? What is the name of the browser in Lenny?  Or is it simply not there? paulandcilla:/etc/cron.daily# aptitude show

Re: lazarus fpc - absent

2010-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 11:38:37 Johan Scheepers wrote: On 10/10/2010 16:21, Lisi wrote: Johan seems to want a lot of more up-to-date stuff. Would he not be better to use Squeeze in the first place? After all, it is over two tears since Lenny was frozen. Then he wouldn'y have to

Re: iceweasel sometimes shows untitled when enter url

2010-10-13 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 13 Out 2010, Lisi wrote: What is the name of the browser in Lenny? Or is it simply not there? chromium-browser -- Micro Credo: Never trust a computer bigger than you can lift. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: iceweasel sometimes shows untitled when enter url

2010-10-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:48:46 +0800, yuanwei xu wrote: Camaleón, Thanks for your reply.Today the problem became much worse: none website can be connected in iceweasel,all turn out to be (Untitled). So i tried to install chromium through aptitude,and it works normally.This mail is

Re:Nouveau

2010-10-13 Thread David Baron
As Sven points out, there is no current support for 3D in Nuvó driver (there is, but is very experimental and probably highly unstable¹). Should you want to play with 3D programs/applications, just install nvidia driver. ¹ http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/GalliumHowto

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 17:34:13 Camaleón wrote: so some users (I think Dotan was one of them) tried to animate people to help to solve the problems they were experiencing instead of just ranting. Yes, that is correct and is useful, provided that it is kept in moderation. And it is

icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
Debian testing, Xfce - with icedove, iceweasel, and chromium-browser installed. I decided to set chromium-browser as the default Web browser. In all other applications if I click on a Web link, the page loads in chromium-browser. If I click on a Web link within icedove, iceweasel is

Re: Nouveau

2010-10-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-13 19:12 +0200, David Baron wrote: As Sven points out, there is no current support for 3D in Nuvó driver (there is, but is very experimental and probably highly unstable¹). Should you want to play with 3D programs/applications, just install nvidia driver. ¹

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Joe
On 13/10/10 16:52, Mark wrote: As a side note, if it came with a big hard drive, from my experience I suggest a 30-40 GB Windows 7 partition (yes it needs that much these days), That might be conservative. My Win7 is seven months old, and occupies 24GB (no data in that). I didn't make a note

Re: Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-13 Thread Loris Boillet
$ aptitude -F %?p --disable-columns search \~i\!\~W E: Can't search for On both Lenny and Kubuntu 10.10 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: configure problem

2010-10-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 926556ef12693342860cc687dc13545c9a5...@sinprd0103mb044.apcprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com, #ZHAO LINA# wrote: During the installation of one package, after configuration, it showed me like this $ ./configure Setting compiler to /usr/bin/gfortran I installed the gfortran on Debian already, are

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:18:12 -0500 Arthur Machlas arthur.mach...@gmail.com wrote: ... The difference between xfce and gnome, for me is negligible, and losing a decent screensaver, gdm and powermanager not worth it. Once Never really used Gnome or its screensaver - what does it do that

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:43:50 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: (...) Would anyone know how I can make icedove and iceweasel recognize my choice of a default browser? Not exactly a serious problem, but it kind of irks me! Have you tried by setting in Icedove about:config the variables... -

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:18:12 -0500 Arthur Machlas arthur.mach...@gmail.com wrote: ... The difference between xfce and gnome, for me is negligible, and losing a decent screensaver, gdm and powermanager not worth it. Once

Re: Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-13 Thread Loris Boillet
Chance Platt wrote: deborphan --all-packages Thanks that definitely answer my need, especially called this way: deborphan --all-packages | sort -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:57:43 -0500 Arthur Machlas arthur.mach...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:18:12 -0500 Arthur Machlas arthur.mach...@gmail.com wrote: ... The difference between xfce and gnome, for me is

Re: Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-13 Thread Loris Boillet
aptitude search '~i!~M' aptitude search '?installed?not(?automatic)' I guess this lists the one not automatically installed, but that's something quite different With dpkg such a list can be generated with for x in $(dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1) do [ -z $(grep -E Depends.* $x(

RE: WiFi: nm-applet, nm-editor, replace NetworkManager

2010-10-13 Thread Mike Viau
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:04:37 +0200 sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl wrote: A question about Wicid. * ability to connect to (and maintain profiles for) both wired and wireless networks; So does this mean that wicid can _not_ control/setup network bridges (e.g: with brctl)? Not sure. Try the

Re: List of installed packages without their dependencies

2010-10-13 Thread green
Loris Boillet wrote at 2010-10-13 12:16 -0600: $ aptitude -F %?p --disable-columns search \~i\!\~W E: Can't search for Oops. Try M instead of W. This is shorthand for ?installed!?automatic as in another post. $ aptitude -F %?p --disable-columns search \~i\!\~M signature.asc Description:

OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Hi, I am planning to buy a notebook, laptop or tablet for my daughter who is at university. So the main use will be internet research, and writing of her theses (in litterature, so no big.deal as far as sketches, drawings...). The contract from alwaysinnovating, respecting the gpl even on the

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Mark
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: On 13/10/10 16:52, Mark wrote: As a side note, if it came with a big hard drive, from my experience I suggest a 30-40 GB Windows 7 partition (yes it needs that much these days), That might be conservative. My Win7 is seven

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-13 Thread B. Alexander
I don't have one, but it is one of my top choices for a netbook. I remember when they came out. There was a guy on the talk.maemo.org forums that got one, and he said it was a good machine. The earlier version had some construction issues, they kinda felt cheesy, but I assume they worked these

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-13 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:40:02 +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: I am planning to buy a notebook, laptop or tablet for my daughter who is at university. So the main use will be internet research, and writing of her theses (in litterature, so no big.deal as far as sketches, drawings...). (...)

Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-13 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 19:51:21 Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:43:50 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: (...) Would anyone know how I can make icedove and iceweasel recognize my choice of a default browser? Not exactly a serious problem, but it kind of irks me! Have you tried

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-13 Thread B. Alexander
...or possibly a larger monitor and keyboard if mobility is an issue. I was issued a Macbook, and tried humping that monster around for a week. Gave up and it sat at home. Traded it in for a Lenovo thinkpad. Of course, I generally use my N900 for the stuff that I would need a laptop for at work.

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/13/2010 04:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] If mobility is not a requirement, I would go for a good and generous screen laptop (15 or 16). For someone who needs writing a lot, it is very convenient. And remember that wide screens chop off a lot of the vertical height that writers need, so

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Re: icedove and iceweasel not recognizing chromium-browser as default browser

2010-10-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/13/2010 06:16 PM, Lisi wrote: On Wednesday 13 October 2010 19:51:21 Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:43:50 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: (...) Would anyone know how I can make icedove and iceweasel recognize my choice of a default browser? Not exactly a serious problem, but it

Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-13 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm running x.org 7.5 on Debian Testing, on a ThinkPad T400 laptop. For some reason, it detects the internal display as 96 DPI, when it's actually 107 DPI. What's the best way to let x.org know the internal display's actual DPI? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Preston Boyington preston.li...@gmail.com wrote: Ogya Chief wrote: At this stage there is no data to backup. If there is any other thing I can backup, please let me know. Since most newer computers don't come with a Restore disc, I would suggest burning the

Re: Changing DPI in X.org

2010-10-13 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: I'm running x.org 7.5 on Debian Testing, on a ThinkPad T400 laptop.  For some reason, it detects the internal display as 96 DPI, when it's actually 107 DPI.  What's the best way to let x.org know the internal display's

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-13 Thread owens
Original Message From: stor...@gmail.com To: noela...@gmail.com Subject: Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:26:38 -0400 ...or possibly a larger monitor and keyboard if mobility is an issue. I was issued a Macbook, and tried humping

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 13 October 2010 06:35, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: Disabling support for ipv6 can actually be done via a kernel parameter, so recompiling to remove ipv6 support should not be needed. Use the kernel parameter ipv6.disable=1. Yep, disabling IPv6 stops the crash! So where

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/13/2010 9:25 AM, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 00:24 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: I have Win 7 home premium. I will find out what tools for partitioning/backup came with it and decide on my next course of action. Windows comes with a resizer: right click on my computer

Re: OT: advice on Notebook, smartbook from alwaysinnovating

2010-10-13 Thread Thierry Chatelet
I would check with her department at the University. Most (including the one I teach at) have a recommended list of computer capabilities and some also recommended vendors. You must be careful, unfortunately, because some programs use specific software packages that only run under one O/S

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/13/2010 6:43 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Preston Boyington preston.li...@gmail.com wrote: Ogya Chief wrote: At this stage there is no data to backup. If there is any other thing I can backup, please let me know. Since most newer computers don't come with a

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/13/2010 08:58 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: So where should I report it, debian kernel bug tracker or upstream bug tracker? I figured the former, since it's not a bleeding edge kernel I'm running, but maybe I'm wrong. Cheers, Jason I would

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Mark
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: On 10/13/2010 6:43 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Preston Boyington preston.li...@gmail.com wrote: Ogya Chief wrote: At this stage there is no data to backup. If there is any other thing I can

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Celejar wrote: Interesting, thanks. The look I don't really care about, and switching users isn't relevant for me, since I'm the only user of the system. The xscreensaver author has a low opinion of gnome-screensaver:

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: On 10/13/2010 6:43 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Preston Boyington preston.li...@gmail.com  wrote: Ogya Chief wrote: At this stage there is no data to backup. If there is any other thing I can backup,

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread consul tores
2010/10/12 Ogya Chief ogyach...@hotmail.com: Hi All, I have just bought a pc with Windows 7 pre-installed and I want to partition and install debian on the drive. If I use the debian installer's partitioner, what precautions do I have to take in order not to damage the Windows partition?

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 14 October 2010 09:34, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: I would first check to see if the problem still occurs in .35 from the experimental repos. I believe it is much easier for them to provide a fix when it can be backported from a newer upstream. Interesting, no crash with

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:33:09 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Celejar wrote: Interesting, thanks. The look I don't really care about, and switching users isn't relevant for me, since I'm the only user of the system. The xscreensaver author has

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Arthur Machlas
There is something to be said about stuff that puts functionality over form. XFCE is likely to be more stable and safer than anything KDE or Gnome. 1. The two are not mutually exclusive. A!!Y being a good example, which gnome wins hands down over XFCE. 2. The biggest threat to a system, IMHO,

Re: [SOLVED!] Communicating with USB Modem

2010-10-13 Thread Hal Vaughan
Comments and some info at the bottom, so it makes sense when you read it. (Hey, there's NO way I'm going to top post on this list!) On Oct 9, 2010, at 3:21 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a Debian Lenny system and I've plugged in a USB 56K modem. (I know that's as outdated as a Model T, but

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/13/2010 8:31 PM, Mark wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com Don't all boxes ship with a utility to create restore DVDs from the restore partition?! Often, they do, yes. Typically, it allows exactly one copy to be created, so, ensure

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/13/2010 8:45 PM, consul tores wrote: And, yes, it is possible to create windows 7 recovery DVDs, many times as you wanted. This isn't universally true. Maybe some manufacturers enforce it and some don't. HP does, or has, restricted it to one copy. I never understood why making

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: On 10/13/2010 8:45 PM, consul tores wrote: And, yes, it is possible to create windows 7 recovery DVDs, many times as you wanted. This isn't universally true. Maybe some manufacturers enforce it and some don't. HP does, or

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/13/2010 09:57 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: On 14 October 2010 09:34, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: I would first check to see if the problem still occurs in .35 from the experimental repos. I believe it is much easier for them to

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 14 October 2010 11:52, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: Please do as .32 is what will ship in the next stable. Bug filed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600155 My real solution to all of this was to disable IPv6 altogether. Thanks everyone for the help :) (Also,

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/14/2010 12:32 AM, Jason Heeris wrote: On 14 October 2010 11:52, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: Please do as .32 is what will ship in the next stable. Bug filed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=600155 My

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Heeris
On 14 October 2010 12:52, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: Anytime and subscribed :). That may even be an RC as full ipv6 was a release goal of squeeze. Also, if it really was corrupting your filesystem, I would think that would be a critical RC. That's harder to assert, I think. My

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
On 14/10/2010 04:43 πμ, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: On 10/13/2010 6:43 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Preston Boyington preston.li...@gmail.com wrote: Ogya Chief wrote: At this stage there is

Re: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Tom H
2010/10/14 Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr: On 14/10/2010 04:43 πμ, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: On 10/13/2010 6:43 PM, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Preston Boyington preston.li...@gmail.com  wrote: Ogya Chief wrote: At

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