Re: Non native English speaker is checking whether a phrasing should be filed a minor bug report.

2010-12-01 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 01 December 2010 05:55:44 Paul E Condon wrote: On 20101130_183342, John Hasler wrote: Cybe R. Wizard writes: Having been taught the same rule, I also find the sentence nonsensical and for that same reason. I was also taught that rule. It looks to me as though the

Re: Non native English speaker is checking whether a phrasing should be filed a minor bug report.

2010-12-01 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 06:51:44 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: I am a native speaker of US English. I think the rules that I learned many years ago for the proper use of the word it are mostly violated by US native speakers of English. I was taught that it refers to the most recent prior noun. In

Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-12-01 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:30:38 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 01/12/10 20:13, Camaleón wrote: (...) Error log is very verbose, though: http://pastebin.com/kXpMvC5J Jerome, I am also getting all that stuff so that entries have to be normal. I will try to fix the errors as:

Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-12-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 01/12/10 21:00, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:30:38 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 01/12/10 20:13, Camaleón wrote: (...) Error log is very verbose, though: http://pastebin.com/kXpMvC5J Jerome, I am also getting all that stuff so that entries have to be normal. I will try

Re: Non native English speaker is checking whether a phrasing should be filed a minor bug report.

2010-12-01 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 01 December 2010 12:21:28 Lisi wrote: hear how come no-one has shot me?? :-( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Non native English speaker is checking whether a phrasing should be filed a minor bug report.

2010-12-01 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 11/30/2010 09:07 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:33:42 -0600 John Haslerjhas...@debian.org wrote: Cybe R. Wizard writes: Yes, it is obviously changing. These days it is preferred to use, proved, as the past participle of prove instead of, proven. The same goes for,

Re: Non native English speaker is checking whether a phrasing should be filed a minor bug report.

2010-12-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 06:51 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20101130_124754, Nuno Magalhães wrote: If the logfile is not accessible,    the messages will be kept in memory until it is. I am a native speaker of US English. I think the rules that I learned many years ago for the

Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-12-01 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:44:39 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 01/12/10 21:00, Camaleón wrote: I will try to fix the errors as: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so Wrong ELF class could be caused by the

Re: Non native English speaker is checking whether a phrasing should be filed a minor bug report.

2010-12-01 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 13:08 +, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 06:51 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: by US native speakers of English. I was taught that it refers to the most recent prior noun. ii. Takeshi parked his car in the garage after driving it around ... iii.

Re: TB for amd64?

2010-12-01 Thread Pablo Sánchez
Hugo i'm using the v 3.1.6 64bit from ubuntu's ppa site. Working fine for 2 months now . Pablo Sánchez. Hi, I switched to amd64 Sid. So I can't use the i686 version of Thunderbird. But where is the amd64 version to download? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Türkce Debian (Debian in Turkish)

2010-12-01 Thread Debian TR
Listede Debian'in Türkce cevirileri ile yetkili biri varsa mail atabilir mi? Bu konuda yardimci olmak istiyorum. Türkce mail listesi spam istilasi altinda gördügüm kadariyla. Tesekkürler, Eren PS: It's about Turkish translation of Debian documents. Since the official email list of that group is

Re: Türkce Debian (Debian in Turkish)

2010-12-01 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:40:53 +0100, Debian TR wrote: (...) It's about Turkish translation of Debian documents. Since the official email list of that group is full of spams, I wanted to see if there are people on this list that can help me, I hope it's not a problem :) I would ask in Debian

Re: OCR

2010-12-01 Thread Bernd Kloss
Am Mittwoch, 1. Dezember 2010 schrieb Anthony Campbell: On 30 Nov 2010, deloptes wrote: Debian TR wrote: Hi everyone, I am looking for a good ocr software. A quick internet search showed that there are several softwares such as OCRad, tesseract, etc.. and if I didn't get it

Re (2): Seeking advice and documentation on non-standard software RAID1 setup

2010-12-01 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Rob, Also recently my own laptop wouldn't start because of fan troubles (I had to assist with the vacuum cleaner ... Advisable to replace the fan before other components have heat damage. Repair is an option too. If the fan has ball bearings, they can be replaced. Bearing vendors can be

Re: Re: where is the gdm.conf

2010-12-01 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Thanks for answer, What I need in fact, Is where to configure gdm ou maybe other package (xdm or ...) , to increase the number of connexion to the server. Now I can just connect 15 light client ( I am not the person who configure firstly the server, I just start to do), I suspect that the

Re: where is the gdm.conf

2010-12-01 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:14:10 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Thanks for answer, What I need in fact, Is where to configure gdm ou maybe other package (xdm or ...) , to increase the number of connexion to the server. Now I can just connect 15 light client ( I am not the person who

Re: Türkce Debian (Debian in Turkish)

2010-12-01 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010, Debian TR debiantr.wordpr...@googlemail.com writes: Listede Debian'in Türkce cevirileri ile yetkili biri varsa mail atabilir mi? Bu konuda yardimci olmak istiyorum. Türkce mail listesi spam istilasi altinda gördügüm kadariyla. You might want to get in touch with Recai

Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-12-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 01/12/10 22:35, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:44:39 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 01/12/10 21:00, Camaleón wrote: I will try to fix the errors as: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64 Failed to load module:

Re: Non native English speaker is checking whether a phrasing should be filed a minor bug report.

2010-12-01 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 01 December 2010 13:08:43 Wolodja Wentland wrote: I do not think that the quoted sentence is ambiguous and would rather consider it to be a fine example of a very concise and elegant statement. +1 Thank you, Wolodja, for putting it so much more elegantly than I did. :-) Lisi

Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-12-01 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:52:11 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 01/12/10 22:35, Camaleón wrote: s...@stt008:~$ ls -l /usr | grep lib drwxr-xr-x 147 root root 43528 nov 28 15:34 lib lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 nov 14 2009 lib32 - /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3

Re: Türkce Debian (Debian in Turkish)

2010-12-01 Thread Debian TR
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 15:45 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:40:53 +0100, Debian TR wrote: (...) It's about Turkish translation of Debian documents. Since the official email list of that group is full of spams, I wanted to see if there are people on this list that can help

Re: Re: after upgrade to squeeze keyboard does no longer work with X

2010-12-01 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi, after an upgrade to squeeze I have the problem that my keyboard is no longer recognized by X (the mouse works). If I kill gdm/kdm from another machine via ssh, I get a console where the keyboard works. Xorg.0.log does not show any errors (and the keyboard is mentioned there). It does

Re: after upgrade to squeeze keyboard does no longer work with X (solved)

2010-12-01 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi, after an upgrade to squeeze I have the problem that my keyboard is no longer recognized by X (the mouse works). If I kill gdm/kdm from another machine via ssh, I get a console where the keyboard works. Xorg.0.log does not show any errors (and the keyboard is mentioned there). It does

Re: Seeking advice and documentation on non-standard software RAID1 setup

2010-12-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 01 dec 10, 12:45:39, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Last time I used this it took many hours on an 200GB file system on an 'ordinary' hard disk. ... That was my thinking. Can unison be used for the entire system (not just some files under my /home)? ... I have never done this; I use

Re: How to check that if a package is installed?

2010-12-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 30 nov 10, 16:28:12, Bob Proulx wrote: If you decide you should use dpkg directly to query for the existence of the package then it is better to use dpkg --status. Sorry but that awk piped to awk pipeline isn't particularly attractive. if ! dpkg --status tofrodos | grep -q ^Status:

Re: several debian installer questions

2010-12-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 30 nov 10, 14:53:14, Urs Thuermann wrote: I have a couple of questions concerning the debian installer (from the testing distribution): 1. When downloading the iso image which I combine with boot.img.gz to get an image for an USB stick, I have to choose the Debian release (i.e.

Re: How to check that if a package is installed?

2010-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei Popescu wrote: You don't even need the 'dpkg -l' is fine as well, if used properly ;) $ dpkg -l tofrodos No packages found matching tofrodos. However that doesn't handle packages that had been installed but are now removed but not purged leaving configuration files behind. To

[OT] Making CPU fans spin [was: Re: Seeking advice...]

2010-12-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 01 dec 10, 08:18:27, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: Advisable to replace the fan before other components have heat damage. Repair is an option too. If the fan has ball bearings, they can be replaced. Bearing vendors can be found on the Web and on eBay. If the fan has bushings, they can

Re: How to check that if a package is installed?

2010-12-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 01 dec 10, 14:29:34, Bob Proulx wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: You don't even need the Do you read minds? This should have been ... the grep, but I stopped to check the man page and then forgot to remove it ;) 'dpkg -l' is fine as well, if used properly ;) $ dpkg -l tofrodos

Re: How to check that if a package is installed?

2010-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei Popescu wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: You don't even need the Do you read minds? This should have been ... the grep, but I stopped to check the man page and then forgot to remove it ;) I wondered about that part. :-) 'dpkg -l' is fine as well, if used

Re: [OT] Making CPU fans spin [was: Re: Seeking advice...]

2010-12-01 Thread godo
This is the first thing to do as soon as I have my Debian running on the other machine ;) Is WD40 suitable for such fans? If you think lubricate the fan to get a better spin I would rather take a fine machine oil, but WD-40. I'm not sure that fine machine oil is best translation, it is a fine

Re: need help on recovering Windows partition

2010-12-01 Thread deloptes
Long Wind wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:05 PM, deloptes delop...@yahoo.com wrote: I think he has deleted the partitions and recreated them with almost same size but he has overwritten the partition table... He says I played ... with fire ;-) ... by play I just mean use I have just

Re: OCR

2010-12-01 Thread deloptes
Anthony Campbell wrote: I've found that the Debian tesseract package (tesseract-ocr-eng) works very well, with extremely few errors. ok well I forgot to mention that usually latin chars are not a problem also for g/jocr but it's not enough. yes tessaract eng works fine. agree. regards

Re: Seeking advice and documentation on non-standard software RAID1 setup

2010-12-01 Thread deloptes
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Of course it is also a question of how much time you will spend on backing up the data compared to how much time you will spend to recreate the data in case of loss. Backups can be automated, though I still don't have that much data that costs so much to invest the

Re: OCR

2010-12-01 Thread Debian TR
On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 22:55 +0100, deloptes wrote: Debian TR wrote: Hi everyone, I am looking for a good ocr software. A quick internet search showed that there are several softwares such as OCRad, tesseract, etc.. and if I didn't get it wrong, tesseract is one of the best softwares

CIFS mount (error -11) - Unable to access the Windows shares

2010-12-01 Thread Renato S . Yamane
Hi, [Please, let me in cc because I´m not subscribed on this mailing list] Since last week I can´t access the Windows shares anymore. I´m using Debian Squeeze and smb4k 0.10.7 (I already try mount it with command line, but I see the same error). The Windows server is working fine and I can

another favourite FLOSS poll

2010-12-01 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, Although I often enjoyed the process of doing the yearly polls, it was rather time-consuming, I decided to do this on a Shapado instance (http://favourite-floss.shapado.com/). Please head over there and cast your vote, while taking note of the FAQ. Changes: * It won't be a yearly poll, but

RE: hdparm - dpkg error on update

2010-12-01 Thread Mike Viau
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:37:47 -0700 b...@proulx.com wrote: That reads like a similar problem to one reported in this (old) bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558478 Has anyone else gotten this issue and did you come across a fix for this version or the dpkg

problems with grub2 and usb-keyboard

2010-12-01 Thread Geronimo
Hi, I have some trouble with grub2 and usb-keyboard. The keyboard works with BIOS and after booting with X - but grub2 does not accept any keystroke. If I wonna change the boot device selection, I have to plug in a ps2 keyboard, which is quite a bit annoying. What can I do to get grub2 accept

Re: problems with grub2 and usb-keyboard

2010-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Geronimo wrote: I have some trouble with grub2 and usb-keyboard. The keyboard works with BIOS and after booting with X - but grub2 does not accept any keystroke. If I wonna change the boot device selection, I have to plug in a ps2 keyboard, which is quite a bit annoying. What can I do

Re: gnome Microphone

2010-12-01 Thread Bob
On 12/01/2010 04:47 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:58:37 +0800, Bob wrote: Hi I'm trying to get the inbuilt mic on my USB webcam to be the default mike so it works in pidgin, empathy, sound recorder other applications. 8 snip Maybe your best chance is by editing your

Re: acroread trouble on Sqeeze

2010-12-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, On 02/12/10 03:14, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:52:11 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 01/12/10 22:35, Camaleón wrote: s...@stt008:~$ ls -l /usr | grep lib drwxr-xr-x 147 root root 43528 nov 28 15:34 lib lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 nov 14 2009 lib32 -

How to tell X to be more conservative

2010-12-01 Thread T o n g
Hi, I have a feeling that my X is too aggressive that it is killing my LCD monitor. Background: Once, I tested Linux (Slax, if you insist) on an old system. On X started (KDE to be exact), I see every pixel on the LCD monitor being blown side way, just like you see several ghost images on

Laptop producing more heat in Linux

2010-12-01 Thread Kousik Maiti
I have a Laptop with Multiple OS(M$,Debian5,Ubuntu9.04). Recently I have noticed my system produces more heat when I am using Linux OS.Is there any specific reason? Thanks in advance. -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025

Re: Laptop producing more heat in Linux

2010-12-01 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:40:13 +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: I have noticed my system produces more heat when I am using Linux OS Have you installed cpufrequtils to enable ondemand cpufreq governor by default? -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/

Re: How to tell X to be more conservative

2010-12-01 Thread Bob Proulx
T o n g wrote: console doesn't exhibit such problem, and when booted into Windows, such problem never ever happen. It is probably using a native resolution. What resolution is the native resolution of your LCD monitor? Most LCD monitors have an information button or menu selection to provide

Re: gnome Microphone

2010-12-01 Thread Bob
On 12/02/2010 01:12 PM, T o n g wrote: On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:21:41 +0800, Bob wrote: Despite my previous experiences that was actually pretty easy. . . Thanks a lot for posting back your solutions. That's what community is. That was so easy I feel inspired to have another crack at

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-12-01 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You very much for Your time and answer, Stephen: Usually, in situations like this, the limiting factor is the maximum pixel clock rate of the video card. Assuming a non-interlaced video mode is being used, the general formulae which govern trade-offs are as follows: Occasionally, the

Extremely large level 1 backups with dump

2010-12-01 Thread Peter Tenenbaum
I've been using dump to perform backups of my home Debian workstation (I run squeeze, btw). I do a weekly level 0 dump and daily level 1 dumps. For some reason the level 1 backups are almost as large as the level 0 (the level 0 is 57.9 GB and the level 1 is 51.6 GB), even though we clearly don't

Re: Non native English speaker is checking whether a phrasing should be filed a minor bug report.

2010-12-01 Thread Doug
On 12/01/2010 03:52 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 30 Nov 2010, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Yes, it is obviously changing. These days it is preferred to use, proved, as the past participle of prove instead of, proven. The same goes for, strived. To me it seems that language change is, therefore, a

Re: OCR

2010-12-01 Thread Doug
On 12/01/2010 03:57 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 30 Nov 2010, deloptes wrote: Debian TR wrote: Hi everyone, I am looking for a good ocr software. A quick internet search showed that there are several softwares such as OCRad, tesseract, etc.. and if I didn't get it wrong, tesseract is one

Re: TB for amd64?

2010-12-01 Thread Bob
On 12/01/2010 09:31 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Javier Barroso wrote: Sorry again for private mail, turning on undo send email feature in gmail labs :-) .. On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Jimmy Johnson field.engin...@gmail.com wrote: Also if you are like me and prefer the

Re: need help on recovering Windows partition

2010-12-01 Thread Long Wind
After I recreate the old partiton table with etch's fdisk I find that Windows 98 Installation CD can access lost partitions! It allows me to boot into command line and show files in dos 8.3 format Windows XP and etch still can't access them! I have done no thing wrong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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