Re: Debian Policy questions

2011-07-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-11 04:43 +0200, William Hopkins wrote: > If you're curious, the issue I've been having is regarding package > dependencies. Some packages seem to have extraneous dependencies outside of > what is strictly required (package build tools will tell you what is strictly > required). Packages

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

2011-07-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
A last PS ;). If you do office work and browse the Internet you might not need a 64 core CPU ;), so you could safe money to buy a new burner and you you also will safe money in the future, because you reduce the CPU's consumption. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

2011-07-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Perhaps you one day will switch from an integrated graphics to a graphics card, since your needs might change. Care about slots for the future, don't waste time with thinking about an IDE connector, the industry has dropped IDE and they are going to drop PCI too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

2011-07-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > > I agree with the other posters - buy a new burner. +1 > > > > > Tiger has an IDE 2-port card for $14.95. That's cheaper than buying > > a couple of DVD burners, if you have them already. How many of the old PCI slots the new mobo has got? If it should have enough old PCI slots, will such

Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/10/2011 8:31 PM, lee wrote: > Stan Hoeppner writes: > >> On 7/10/2011 7:26 AM, lee wrote: >>> Stan Hoeppner writes: >>> On 7/9/2011 12:00 PM, lee wrote: Just checking for the existence of rDNS is no longer sufficiently effective against bot spam from infected residential

Re: Debian Policy questions

2011-07-10 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/10/11 at 10:53pm, shawn wilson wrote: > how about 'apt-cache policy ' Er, I think this shows your current settings for version preference/pinning. I was referring to policy in terms of the debian maintainer policy, uploader policy, etc. -- Liam signature.asc Description: Digital signatur

Re: nouvea bug - how do I figure out if testing has the right patch ?

2011-07-10 Thread briand
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:08:36 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-07-10 20:37 +0200, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > Without even looking it up, I'm positive it does. The "8378443" in the > long Debian package version is the abbreviated SHA1 of the latest > upstream commit, and if you look cl

Re: Debian Policy questions

2011-07-10 Thread shawn wilson
heh, sorry didn't read your full email :) maybe you're looking for this: cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Install-Recommends "0"; APT::Install-Suggests "0"; On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 22:53, shawn wilson wrote: > how about 'apt-cache policy ' > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 22:43, William Hopkins wrote: >>

Re: Debian Policy questions

2011-07-10 Thread shawn wilson
how about 'apt-cache policy ' On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 22:43, William Hopkins wrote: > Listers, looking for a little community input: > > What is the best way to get answers on Debian policy questions? I have had > some > issues I'd like to get a policy answer on or possibly provide input (aka, m

Debian Policy questions

2011-07-10 Thread William Hopkins
Listers, looking for a little community input: What is the best way to get answers on Debian policy questions? I have had some issues I'd like to get a policy answer on or possibly provide input (aka, my $0.02) for. If you're curious, the issue I've been having is regarding package dependencies.

Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-10 Thread lee
Stan Hoeppner writes: > On 7/10/2011 7:26 AM, lee wrote: >> Stan Hoeppner writes: >> >>> On 7/9/2011 12:00 PM, lee wrote: >>> >>> Just checking for the existence of rDNS is no longer sufficiently >>> effective against bot spam from infected residential hosts. This is >>> because many/most? ISP

grub2 help needed

2011-07-10 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I'm fairly new to GRUB2, thus need help to understand it better. I've created a new partition on my HD and installed Ubuntu Natty on it. I wanted the Squeeze GRUB to be in charge and installed Natty GRUB to its own root. I intended then to make Squeeze GRUB to find the new OS and add it to its

ASUS u52 builtin microphone (alsa-driver-linuxant)

2011-07-10 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
Hello Everyone, So I've been trying to get my laptop (ASUS u52) microphone to work. First off, if anybody knows how to get the builtin microphone to work without bothering with alsa-driver-linuxant, or if I didn't know the correct google-foo to find a binary package for alsa-driver-linuxant that w

Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/10/2011 7:26 AM, lee wrote: > Stan Hoeppner writes: > >> On 7/9/2011 12:00 PM, lee wrote: >> >>> The rDNS check is very useful because it keeps out tons of SPAM without >>> occupying too many resources. It also seems to be common practise. Do >>> you have a better suggestion? >> >> Just ch

Re: What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-10 Thread green
Brad Alexander wrote at 2011-07-09 17:26 -0600: > Have you looked at the Maemo distribution? It came out for the Nokia Nseries > tablets (n770/800/810/900), and is Debian-based. I have (briefly) started > looking at whether this supports tablets. Since it was designed for > (smaller) tablets, hopef

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-10 Thread Erwan David
On 10/07/11 20:34, Randy Kramer wrote: > >> Also, ipv6 firewalling is very annoying on the gateway (due to the >> icmpv6 filtering which must be done right). When possible, get a >> script that does most of it right for you (or check RFC 4890). > > Sounds like good advice. > > Randy Kramer >

Re: VNC server

2011-07-10 Thread Engi Zoltán
On 2011.07.10. 18:54, Bob Proulx wrote: Engi Zoltán wrote: I start the vnc server on Debian linux. How did you start it? Please tell us the exact command that you used. The command is next "vncserver :3 -geometry 800x600" I tried connect to server but only get gray screen. Also show us your

Re: nouvea bug - how do I figure out if testing has the right patch ?

2011-07-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-10 20:37 +0200, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > I'm experiencing VT switching flakiness with the debian stable nouveau driver. > > ii xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345 > > The symptom is that trying to switch a VT between x-sessions running on

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

2011-07-10 Thread Doug
On 07/10/2011 03:33 PM, shawn wilson wrote: On Jul 10, 2011 3:07 PM, "mark" > wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for components for a new PC to install debian on. I've > been looking at motherboards (MSI & Gigabyte) and it seems that the > IDE interface no longer exists.

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

2011-07-10 Thread mark
On Sunday 10 July 2011 3:14:20 pm Dejan Ribič wrote: > You can still get an IDE interface on some motherboards, although > it is becoming more and more difficult. Is there any particular > reason for wanting/needing IDE? > Just to save not getting a new SATA burner. Oh well, that is the way to g

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

2011-07-10 Thread shawn wilson
On Jul 10, 2011 3:07 PM, "mark" wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for components for a new PC to install debian on. I've > been looking at motherboards (MSI & Gigabyte) and it seems that the > IDE interface no longer exists. Is no more IDE interface the new > direction for PCs so that I will have t

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

2011-07-10 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 10 July 2011 20:09:06 mark wrote: >  Is no more IDE interface the new > direction for PCs so that I will have to buy a SATA burner? Or an IDE card? http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dcomputers&field-keywords=IDE+card&x=14&y=19 Though a SATA brner might well be c

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

2011-07-10 Thread Dejan Ribič
On 10. 07. 2011 21:09, mark wrote: Hi, I'm looking for components for a new PC to install debian on. I've been looking at motherboards (MSI& Gigabyte) and it seems that the IDE interface no longer exists. Is no more IDE interface the new direction for PCs so that I will have to buy a SATA bur

Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

2011-07-10 Thread mark
Hi, I'm looking for components for a new PC to install debian on. I've been looking at motherboards (MSI & Gigabyte) and it seems that the IDE interface no longer exists. Is no more IDE interface the new direction for PCs so that I will have to buy a SATA burner? Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUB

nouvea bug - how do I figure out if testing has the right patch ?

2011-07-10 Thread briand
Hi, I'm experiencing VT switching flakiness with the debian stable nouveau driver. ii xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345 The symptom is that trying to switch a VT between x-sessions running on different displays, i.e. :0 (VT-7) and :1 (VT-8) kills keyb

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-10 Thread Randy Kramer
On Sunday 10 July 2011 09:48:46 am Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jul 2011, Randy Kramer wrote: > > When I switch to IPv6, will I lose the ability to keep my computers > > behind a NAT gateway? > > Yes, for the address translation. Unless you hack something with > mobile-ipv6, or

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-10 Thread shawn wilson
On Jul 10, 2011 12:37 PM, "Stephan Seitz" wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 06:29:19PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: >> >> Interesting. I have a network printer which I, quite naturally, plug >> into my NAT/router so it's in my private 192.168.0. network with my >> desktop and laptop computers. I'm

Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off

2011-07-10 Thread shawn wilson
On Jul 10, 2011 12:57 PM, "Camaleón" wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:00:31 -0400, jiang lei wrote: > > >i can not start xserver after my laptop(lenovo T61) was forced to > >turn > > off while running in multi-head configuration. The laptop runs Debian > > Squeeze and i use a LCD as secon

Re: Rather frightenng dmesg errors

2011-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
David Baron wrote: > I have been getting a log of these. Depends on ambient and CPU load, i.e. > ... > 5292.082495] CPU1: Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled > ... > What to do about this besides wait for an end to global warming :-) At one time my computer started to produce

Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off

2011-07-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:00:31 -0400, jiang lei wrote: >i can not start xserver after my laptop(lenovo T61) was forced to >turn > off while running in multi-head configuration. The laptop runs Debian > Squeeze and i use a LCD as secondary monitor in the office, it always > works perfectly. Y

Re: VNC server

2011-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Engi Zoltán wrote: > I start the vnc server on Debian linux. How did you start it? Please tell us the exact command that you used. > I tried connect to server but only get gray screen. Also show us your ~/.vnc/xstartup file. If you are only getting a grey screen then perhaps you have not start

Re: ntfs-3g does not mount any more

2011-07-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:21:55 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: >> (...) >> >> > --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- umount("/mnt", MNT_DETACH) >> > = 0 >> >> It mounts and then umounts the share? >:-? >> >> I would try by reinstalling ntfs-3g packages... >> > > It seems to be a pa

Re: hearse configuration question

2011-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Jude DaShiell wrote: > I installed hearse on debian squeeze and got it configured using package > defaults. When I run hearse from the command line to upload bones files > though hearse errors out being unable to open /var/games/nethack. I'd > like to have hearse actually work on this system i

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 06:29:19PM +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: Interesting. I have a network printer which I, quite naturally, plug into my NAT/router so it's in my private 192.168.0. network with my desktop and laptop computers. I'm not sure if the printer even supports IPv6 but for now let's as

Re: nautilus file browser "by name"

2011-07-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Francesco Pietra wrote: > Nautilus file browser uses its concept of ordering files by name. > While the gnome2 terminal does that correctly, the file browser mixes > up files, which, for computational chemistry, in the presence of many > composite names, is not what it should. This is almost certa

Rather frightenng dmesg errors

2011-07-10 Thread David Baron
I have been getting a log of these. Depends on ambient and CPU load, i.e. killing boinc number-crunchers reduces the occurance, but it happens also when the ambient is not as high as it is now. I am running the most recent 2.6.39- PAE 32-bit kernel from Sid on a P4 that looks like two cores which

Re: Can not startx anymore after the laptop was forced to turn off

2011-07-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
--- > > how can i fix the issue, any idea? thanks in advance. I suggest, not to use the noveau driver. Maybe you should try to use the nvidia-drivers, which are offered in packages. For easy installation, you should use the nvidia-kernel-dkms and nvidia-glx package. Make

Re: Apt says it's okay to remove chromium, but I use it

2011-07-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Baron wrote: On Sunday 08 Tamuz 5771 13:30:07 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: `apt-get install chromium` will mark it as manually installed. On squeeze: chromium - transitional dummy package for chromium-bsu On wheezy onwards, I take it, chromium points to the browser

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-10 Thread shawn wilson
On Jul 10, 2011 11:36 AM, "Teemu Likonen" wrote: > > * 2011-07-10T10:48:46-03:00 * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Sat, 09 Jul 2011, Randy Kramer wrote: > >> It's probably not the best thing, but I depend on the NAT gateway for > >> a lot of my security--with IPv6, will I still be able

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-10 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2011-07-10T13:57:47+02:00 * Stephan Seitz wrote: > Well, with IPv4 you have NAT, simply because you mostly don’t get more > than one IPv4 address from your provider. > > With IPv6 your provider should give you a network (at least /64 > meaning you have 2^64 - 1 hosts), because there is no NAT su

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-10 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2011-07-10T10:48:46-03:00 * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jul 2011, Randy Kramer wrote: >> It's probably not the best thing, but I depend on the NAT gateway for >> a lot of my security--with IPv6, will I still be able to do that? > > Please use a proper firewall, instead. A gen

Re: What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-10 Thread Aniruddha
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote: > I'm running Debian stable on an Archos tablet (you should be able to > find many howtos). > Installation wasn't that hard but not without any extra configurations. > > Getting android 3.x on this thing seems less easy. > Their do exis

Re: ntfs-3g does not mount any more

2011-07-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> (...) > > > --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) --- > > umount("/mnt", MNT_DETACH) = 0 > > It mounts and then umounts the share? >:-? > > I would try by reinstalling ntfs-3g packages... > > Greetings, It seems to be a package problem, as well. I purged and reinstalled the packa

Re: ntfs-3g does not mount any more

2011-07-10 Thread Camaleón
El 10/07/11 16:43, Hans-J. Ullrich escribió: Am Sonntag, 10. Juli 2011 schrieb Camaleón: (...) How about making it more verbose? ntfs-3g -o debug /dev/sda2 /mnt Nope, doing so is getting no output again. Nothing? Wow... look: root@debian:~# ntfs-3g -o debug /dev/sdb1 /mnt FUSE library v

Re: ntfs-3g does not mount any more

2011-07-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 10. Juli 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:04:05 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 10. Juli 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > (...) > > >> How are you mounting the volume? And how about your syslog file? This > > >> is what I get: > (...) > > > I am using the same sy

Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-10 Thread Joe
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:47:19 +0200 lee wrote: > So there isn't any check on what's given in the [E]HELO statement with > this. Now I've spent about tow hours trying to figure out how to > check if the $sender_helo_name is resolveable and didn't get anywhere > other than finding out that it coul

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 09 Jul 2011, Randy Kramer wrote: > When I switch to IPv6, will I lose the ability to keep my computers > behind a NAT gateway? Yes, for the address translation. Unless you hack something with mobile-ipv6, or use filtering application level gateways (which are a far superior solution anyw

Re: ntfs-3g does not mount any more

2011-07-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:04:05 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Am Sonntag, 10. Juli 2011 schrieb Camaleón: (...) >> How are you mounting the volume? And how about your syslog file? This >> is what I get: (...) > I am using the same syntax as always: ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /mnt > > and doing this at

Re: ntfs-3g does not mount any more

2011-07-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 10. Juli 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > El 10/07/11 14:45, Hans-J. Ullrich escribió: > >> In wheezy I can mount them just fine: > >> > >> root@debian:~# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt > >> > >> root@debian:~# mount | grep sdb1 > >> /dev/sdb1 on /mnt type fuseblk > >> (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow

VNC server

2011-07-10 Thread Engi Zoltán
I start the vnc server on Debian linux. I tried connect to server but only get gray screen. It seems to be there is problem with "x-term". Here is log file: Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.1 - built Mar 10 2010 21:46:06 Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd. See http://www.realvnc.com for information on V

Re: gnome-mplayer does not play videos in the correct aspect ratio

2011-07-10 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-07-10 a las 09:13 -0400, Eden escribió: (resending to the list) > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > > On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:32:09 -0400, Eden wrote: > > > > > When I try to watch a video it does not cover the entire screen. > > > Sometimes it is a small box playing i

Re: ntfs-3g does not mount any more

2011-07-10 Thread Camaleón
El 10/07/11 14:45, Hans-J. Ullrich escribió: In wheezy I can mount them just fine: root@debian:~# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt root@debian:~# mount | grep sdb1 /dev/sdb1 on /mnt type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) Running wheezy here, too. But got no success. I am us

Re: ntfs-3g does not mount any more

2011-07-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> In wheezy I can mount them just fine: > > root@debian:~# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt > > root@debian:~# mount | grep sdb1 > /dev/sdb1 on /mnt type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096) > > Greetings, Running wheezy here, too. But got no success. I am using the latest package

Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-10 Thread lee
Stan Hoeppner writes: > On 7/9/2011 12:00 PM, lee wrote: > >> The rDNS check is very useful because it keeps out tons of SPAM without >> occupying too many resources. It also seems to be common practise. Do >> you have a better suggestion? > > Just checking for the existence of rDNS is no longe

Re: hearse configuration question

2011-07-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 07:19:44 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Camale?n wrote: > >> On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:02:17 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: >> >> > I installed hearse on debian squeeze and got it configured using >> > package defaults. When I run hearse from the command line

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 07:11:06 -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: > Thanks to all who responded! I'll probably respond to several of those > posts because I didn't mention the other thing I get from NAT--that is, > I need only one address from my ISP, and I'm pretty sure my doesn't know > how many computer

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 07:14:59AM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: The other feature I get from my NAT gateway (as I mention in another post) is the ability to run multiple computers on one IP address from my ISP, and without the ISP (easily, at least), knowing how many computers I'm running. Well,

Complex IPv6 setup (was: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?)

2011-07-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 09:47:59PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Liam writes: The remote side will know your actual IP address... One of the 2^64 at your disposal. Well, if you found the owner via whois (e.g. if you are using Sixxs tunnel), it doesn’t matter if you change your IPs. Then again

Re: nautilus file browser "by name"

2011-07-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2011-07-10 at 13:12 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Forwarded Message > > > From: Francesco Pietra > > > To: debian-users > > > Subject: nautilus file browser "by name" > > > Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:43:01 +0200 > > > > That should be corrected, or information given w

Re: nautilus file browser "by name"

2011-07-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > Forwarded Message > > From: Francesco Pietra > > To: debian-users > > Subject: nautilus file browser "by name" > > Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:43:01 +0200 > > That should be corrected, or information given which alternative file > > browser could be used to get the alphabeti

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-10 Thread Randy Kramer
William, Thanks for the reply! A followup below: On Saturday 09 July 2011 10:22:01 pm William Hopkins wrote: > On 07/09/11 at 05:14pm, Randy Kramer wrote: > > I just saw another question about IPv4 and NAT and IPv6, and that > > prompts this question: > > > > When I switch to IPv6, will I lose t

Re: hearse configuration question

2011-07-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
I read man hearse, and maybe missed something in it.On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Camale?n wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:02:17 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > I installed hearse on debian squeeze and got it configured using package > > defaults. When I run hearse from the command line to upload bone

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-10 Thread Randy Kramer
Arno, Thanks for the reply! A followup below: On Saturday 09 July 2011 08:34:43 pm Arno Schuring wrote: > Randy Kramer (rhkra...@gmail.com on 2011-07-09 17:14 -0400): > > I just saw another question about IPv4 and NAT and IPv6, and that > > prompts this question: > > > > When I switch to IPv6, w

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-10 Thread Randy Kramer
Stephan, Thanks for the reply! A followup below: On Saturday 09 July 2011 05:27:37 pm Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 05:14:21PM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: > >It's probably not the best thing, but I depend on the NAT gateway > > for a lot of my security--with IPv6, will I still be

Re: Apt says it's okay to remove chromium, but I use it

2011-07-10 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 08 Tamuz 5771 13:30:07 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > `apt-get install chromium` will mark it as manually installed. > > On squeeze: chromium - transitional dummy package for chromium-bsu > > On wheezy onwards, I take it, chromium points to the browser chromium

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-10 Thread Randy Kramer
Thanks to all who responded! I'll probably respond to several of those posts because I didn't mention the other thing I get from NAT--that is, I need only one address from my ISP, and I'm pretty sure my doesn't know how many computers I have behind my NAT gateway. I guess I'd assume that if s

Re: Apt says it's okay to remove chromium, but I use it

2011-07-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:10:32 -0400, John Mollman wrote: (...) > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: > chromium-inspector chromium libxss1 > Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, > 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Re: hearse configuration question

2011-07-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:02:17 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I installed hearse on debian squeeze and got it configured using package > defaults. When I run hearse from the command line to upload bones files > though hearse errors out being unable to open /var/games/nethack. I'd > like to have hea

Re: ntfs-3g does not mount any more

2011-07-10 Thread Camaleón
El 10/07/11 10:15, Hans-J. Ullrich escribió: I discovered, that ntfs-3g can not mount ntfs filesystems any more (running as root). Strangely no error messages are shown. Can someone confirm this behaviour? (...) In wheezy I can mount them just fine: root@debian:~# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1

Re: gnome-mplayer does not play videos in the correct aspect ratio

2011-07-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:32:09 -0400, Eden wrote: > When I try to watch a video it does not cover the entire screen. > Sometimes it is a small box playing in the center when it is full screen > other times there are large chunks of black space on both sides of the > monitor. When I try to watch a vi

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 17:14:21 -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: > I just saw another question about IPv4 and NAT and IPv6, and that > prompts this question: > > When I switch to IPv6, will I lose the ability to keep my computers > behind a NAT gateway? Not necessarily. There are some drafts for NAT66 (I

hearse configuration question

2011-07-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
I installed hearse on debian squeeze and got it configured using package defaults. When I run hearse from the command line to upload bones files though hearse errors out being unable to open /var/games/nethack. I'd like to have hearse actually work on this system if possible, and probably nee

Re: nautilus file browser "by name"

2011-07-10 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 08:43:01 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Nautilus file browser uses its concept of ordering files by name. While > the gnome2 terminal does that correctly, the file browser mixes up > files, which, for computational chemistry, in the presence of many > composite names, is not

More info and help available

2011-07-10 Thread Jenny
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Re: ntfs-3g does not mount any more

2011-07-10 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2011/7/10 Hans-J. Ullrich > Hi all, > > I discovered, that ntfs-3g can not mount ntfs filesystems any more (running > as > root). Strangely no error messages are shown. Can someone confirm this > behaviour? > > I checked the buglist, and the only one similar to this bug might be > > http://bugs.d

ntfs-3g does not mount any more

2011-07-10 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, I discovered, that ntfs-3g can not mount ntfs filesystems any more (running as root). Strangely no error messages are shown. Can someone confirm this behaviour? I checked the buglist, and the only one similar to this bug might be http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=63099

nautilus file browser "by name"

2011-07-10 Thread Francesco Pietra
Nautilus file browser uses its concept of ordering files by name. While the gnome2 terminal does that correctly, the file browser mixes up files, which, for computational chemistry, in the presence of many composite names, is not what it should. For example, min-01_02.coor par_ara.inp FE-OXY_c