Re: How to hide Apache server info and headers?

2011-09-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Harshad Joshi wrote: > How to change Apache server header showing OS name and other details in > Debian? Why? Showing the flag of Debian should show that you are running a modern and secure operating system. Turning it off certainly has no security implications. In any case, to answer your ques

How to hide Apache server info and headers?

2011-09-30 Thread Harshad Joshi
How to change Apache server header showing OS name and other details in Debian? -- Harshad Joshi

Re: wrestling with xrandr

2011-09-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/10/11 07:54, Harry Putnam wrote: > My objective is to have a panning desktop. That is, a size that is > larger than my monitor by a fair bit. > > After tinkering exessively, I'm no nearer to having that panning > desktop than before, although I've created some interesting setups and > ve

Re: Virtual resolution for desktop

2011-09-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 01/10/11 05:38, Harry Putnam wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >>> Is there some way to get a `Virtual' resolution using whatever >>> techniques are now employed to generate our desktops? >> >> Yes, I would try to set it with xrandr: >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 > > some (

Re: freeing up iceweasel .sqlite file size (was: Re: regards the /)

2011-09-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 08:42:48PM +0200, Steven wrote: > I have written a small script (3 lines) to keep track of that: > for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do ls -lh $f ; done > time for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f 'VACUUM;'; > done > for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sql

Re: Todays Nasty little problem: Defeat the BIOS

2011-09-30 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Friday 30 September 2011 19:39:46 ow...@netptc.net wrote: > - Original Message - > From: Harry Putnam > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: 9/30/2011 9:29:48 PM > Subject: Re: Todays Nasty little problem: Defeat the BIOS > > Terence writes: > > On 30 September 2011 21:27, Harry Pu

Re: Todays Nasty little problem: Defeat the BIOS

2011-09-30 Thread owens
- Original Message - From: Harry Putnam To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 9/30/2011 9:29:48 PM Subject: Re: Todays Nasty little problem: Defeat the BIOS Terence writes: > On 30 September 2011 21:27, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Just reporting back. After pulling the card bl

Re: Virtual resolution for desktop

2011-09-30 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 Sep 2011 at 14:38:44 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm not getting heads or tails from the web page... can you take an > educated guess what might work to give me a fair bit of panning room? Could be a bug, y'know. It's been known to happen: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?i

Re: Updated Kernel-building Web Page Available

2011-09-30 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 09/30/2011 07:32 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:01:47 -0400 (EDT), Gilbert Sullivan wrote: I'm looking forward to working through a couple of build scenarios using that page as a guide. Your efforts at this and on this list are much appreciated. Thanks, Gilbert. I updat

Re: Todays Nasty little problem: Defeat the BIOS

2011-09-30 Thread Terence
> If cleaning is as important as you say, its good to know it. > In one of your excellent country's sayings: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"! It's just one other thing to consider when a possibly physical problem rocks up. One thing you can be sure of : Your Mileage May Vary! Yours aye. Saki

Re: Todays Nasty little problem: Defeat the BIOS

2011-09-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Terence writes: > Thank you, Harry, > > Cleaning never does any harm, providing it's done properly! > > As you say, you may never know for sure, but cleaning contacts often > does, in my experience, solve a number of problems. > > I noted the fact that card previously worked, but without the DVI

Re: Todays Nasty little problem: Defeat the BIOS

2011-09-30 Thread Terence
Thank you, Harry, Cleaning never does any harm, providing it's done properly! As you say, you may never know for sure, but cleaning contacts often does, in my experience, solve a number of problems. I noted the fact that card previously worked, but without the DVI output. Perhaps the problem(s)

wrestling with xrandr

2011-09-30 Thread Harry Putnam
I've spent a couple of fun hours trying to understand how xrandr works. How to come up with a command that will do what I want done. Its quite a complex tool and there are volumes written about how to use it. Even some examples in the manpage. However... I have not understood very much of it.

Re: openjdk-7-jre and Iceweasel

2011-09-30 Thread Lisi
On Friday 30 September 2011 08:46:48 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 30/09/11 01:54, Lisi wrote: > > I am trying, without success, to run: > > > > http://media.pearsoncmg.com/aw/aw_kurose_network_2/applets/dns/dns.html > > > > The problem is the applet. The Java I have on my Lenny system is too > > ol

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-30 Thread Lisi
On Friday 30 September 2011 20:47:56 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2011 schrieb Lisi: > > On Thursday 29 September 2011 10:05:49 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > > some say nice things about > > > Thinkpads, others say they're not built as they used to be. > > > > Those 2 statem

Re: OT: ASUSTek O.C. Profile Utility B334

2011-09-30 Thread Lisi
On Friday 30 September 2011 21:33:56 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I'm looking for the easiest way, to restore the Phoenix BIOS settings of > my ASUS M2A-VM2 HDMI mobo. I've always done it slowly and methodically by hand. :-( Incidentally, CMOS batteries are usually so cheap and easy to change that if i

SOLVED: was Re: openjdk-7-jre and Iceweasel

2011-09-30 Thread Lisi
On Friday 30 September 2011 12:00:23 Walter Hurry wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:28:32 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Thursday 29 September 2011 17:03:55 Dejan Ribič wrote: > >> Dne 29.9.2011 17:54, piše Lisi: > >> > I am trying, without success, to run: > >> > > >> > http://media.pearsoncmg.com/aw/aw_

Re: Todays Nasty little problem: Defeat the BIOS

2011-09-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Terence writes: > On 30 September 2011 21:27, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Just reporting back.  After pulling the card blowing everything out >> and reinstalling the card, I got video back.  Not only that but a DVI >> outlet on that card that hasn't worked for a good while, began working >> too. >

Re: openjdk-7-jre and Iceweasel

2011-09-30 Thread Lisi
On Friday 30 September 2011 09:30:35 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > At the moment, the icedtea-plugin package has a little problem (see its > bugs #642734 and #642598). A workaround is to modify the file > /etc/java-6-openjdk/security/java.policy : > > In this file replace: > -- > grant codeBase "f

OT: ASUSTek O.C. Profile Utility B334

2011-09-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Sorry :) this request isn't Debian related. The clock of my Debian's PC become slow, when the PC is shut down, so I guess I need to replace the battery. I don't get any battery warning, so I'm not sure. I'm looking for the easiest way, to restore the Phoenix BIOS settings of my ASUS M2A-VM2 HDMI

Re: Todays Nasty little problem: Defeat the BIOS

2011-09-30 Thread Terence
On 30 September 2011 21:27, Harry Putnam wrote: > Just reporting back.  After pulling the card blowing everything out > and reinstalling the card, I got video back.  Not only that but a DVI > outlet on that card that hasn't worked for a good while, began working > too. Can you give us more detai

Re: Todays Nasty little problem: Defeat the BIOS

2011-09-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Camaleón writes: >> I've got a nasty little problem here this morning... My debian box will >> not show anything on the monitor. I fear the graphics card has gone >> south... I have one side off the box so removed the card and reinserted >> hoping it might fix things.. of course it did not. > >

Re: Anyone using xmonad + vim on sid?

2011-09-30 Thread Sirius
I can reproduce this with another (tiling) windowmanager: Debian Sid (upgraded today) with wmii. It works as long as I keep the window on the screen where I started gvim. When I move it to my second screen it freezes, resulting in the error you quoted on the terminal. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-30 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2011 schrieb Lisi: > On Thursday 29 September 2011 10:05:49 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > some say nice things about > > Thinkpads, others say they're not built as they used to be. > > Those 2 statements are not necessarily contradictory. Thinkpads may > still be good, wh

Re: Virtual resolution for desktop

2011-09-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Camaleón writes: >> Is there some way to get a `Virtual' resolution using whatever >> techniques are now employed to generate our desktops? > > Yes, I would try to set it with xrandr: > > http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 some (alot) of that is pretty confusing to me. It seems to

Re: freeing up iceweasel .sqlite file size (was: Re: regards the /)

2011-09-30 Thread Steven
On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 06:03 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > [Sorry for the late post, but thought this might be useful.] > [...] > > Have a look in your .mozilla/firefox/*default/ directory and you will > notice some big *.sqlite files. They need to be "vacuumed" to free up > space. > > Instal

Re: KDE does not log out or shut down.

2011-09-30 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: Excuse me for long reply. >Gee.. desktops are becoming more and more complex by every hour :-) Yes, and moves some to look for another option... >> Well. I can not start kde - for startkde fails to start - stating >> that $DISPLAY variable is not se

Re: intermitant keyboard problem

2011-09-30 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 02:29:40PM +, Camale�n wrote: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:05:42 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > I've been experiencing an intermittent problem with no keyboard > > response. > > When you experience the problem: > > - Is the num. lock light still working (can you tog

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-30 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > 2011/9/29 Nuno Magalhães : > > As for laptops, i favour Toshiba (just bought one but keeping Windows > > for the moment) and Asus. > > You should really keep windows on your toshiba for the moment. I had > to return mine after 6

Re: More about ATI

2011-09-30 Thread lina
On Sep 30, 2011, at 20:58, co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu wrote: > Hello > > For more than 15 days I am engaged in my ATI to work properly but I have > not accomplished anything, but I'll not lost hope of making it work, of H, it does not work, I can't work. > course always with the help of the li

freeing up iceweasel .sqlite file size (was: Re: regards the /)

2011-09-30 Thread Chris Bannister
[Sorry for the late post, but thought this might be useful.] On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 04:24:10PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:45:00 +0800, lina wrote: > >> 356M./.mozilla/firefox > >> 356M./.mozilla (..) > But I would carefully watch your "/.local/share/Trash" and your

Re: Virtual resolution for desktop

2011-09-30 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:55:13 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: (...) > With that in xorg.conf... I'd have a desktop of that size but when I > try to use the xorg.conf on this brand new install of debian wheezy it > just gums up the works... and can't get to X at all. > > Is there some way to get a

Re: More about ATI

2011-09-30 Thread lina
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:58 PM, wrote: > Hello > > For more than 15 days I am engaged in my ATI to work properly but I have > not accomplished anything, but I'll not lost hope of making it work, of > course always with the help of the lists and San Google. > > I have Debian squeeze > > my Card >

Re: intermitant keyboard problem

2011-09-30 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:05:42 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > I've been experiencing an intermittent problem with no keyboard > response. When you experience the problem: - Is the num. lock light still working (can you toggle on/off)? - Does attaching an additional USB keyboard resume the syste

Dell MD3600F

2011-09-30 Thread Atıf CEYLAN
Hi all, I have a new dell md3600f ( 2 controller ) fiber channel storage, two qlogic 2560 single port HBAs and two brocade 300 switches. FC cables are redundant connected between switches and storage controllers. I have installed multipath-tools and configured my multipath.conf file. I couldn

Re: Todays Nasty little problem: Defeat the BIOS

2011-09-30 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:00:05 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Equipment: Older P4 3.00Ghz running wheezy. > > I've got a nasty little problem here this morning... My debian box will > not show anything on the monitor. I fear the graphics card has gone > south... I have one side off the box so remov

Re: Todays Nasty little problem: Defeat the BIOS

2011-09-30 Thread Terence
Hi, Harry, First, do you hear the boot bleeps from your pc speaker, and checked the diagnostics from that? That would certainly help. Then allowing that I have no knowledge/expertise in by-passing the BIOS (I'm not sure it can even be done), but my "First Aid Response) would be to remove the hard

Re: Virtual resolution for desktop

2011-09-30 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 Sep 2011 at 07:52:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Scott Ferguson writes: > > > *Just an example - DO NOT use on your monitor/screen* eg:- > > xrandr --output LVDS --panning 2048x1536 > > Whats with the Do NOT part? Harmful in some way? Scott is possibly pointing out that your maximi

More about ATI

2011-09-30 Thread cosme
Hello For more than 15 days I am engaged in my ATI to work properly but I have not accomplished anything, but I'll not lost hope of making it work, of course always with the help of the lists and San Google. I have Debian squeeze my Card lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: AT

Todays Nasty little problem: Defeat the BIOS

2011-09-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Equipment: Older P4 3.00Ghz running wheezy. I've got a nasty little problem here this morning... My debian box will not show anything on the monitor. I fear the graphics card has gone south... I have one side off the box so removed the card and reinserted hoping it might fix things.. of course i

Re: Virtual resolution for desktop

2011-09-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Scott Ferguson writes: >> Is there some way to get a `Virtual' resolution using whatever >> techniques are now employed to generate our desktops? >> >> >> > > Yes > > xrandr --panning > > *Just an example - DO NOT use on your monitor/screen* eg:- > xrandr --output LVDS --panning 2048x1536 Wha

Re: xserver-xorg-core and fglrx-driver

2011-09-30 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > When I update this morning (wheezy one but with sid fglrx-driver), the > xserver-xorg-core was updated. > > my fglrx-driver was removed, > > when I tried to install, it's reported: > > fglrx-driver depends on xorg-video-abi-10 or -8 or -6. which are not > avaiable. > > then I checked pac

Re: Kompozer plugins

2011-09-30 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:51:00 -0500, John Foster wrote: > On 9/29/2011 1:01 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> I can't see the relation between firefox plugins and kompozer's unless >> you mean .xpi files are opened with firefox instead komposer... is that >> what happens? >> >> > When I click on the update f

Re: openjdk-7-jre and Iceweasel

2011-09-30 Thread Lisi
On Friday 30 September 2011 12:00:23 Walter Hurry wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:28:32 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Thursday 29 September 2011 17:03:55 Dejan Ribič wrote: > >> Dne 29.9.2011 17:54, piše Lisi: > >> > I am trying, without success, to run: > >> > > >> > http://media.pearsoncmg.com/aw/aw_

Re: Updated Kernel-building Web Page Available

2011-09-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:01:47 -0400 (EDT), Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > > I'm looking forward to working through a couple of build scenarios > using that page as a guide. Your efforts at this and on this list > are much appreciated. Thanks, Gilbert. I updated the page again today to fix some typos

Re: a quick question: how to add comments for several lines at the same time

2011-09-30 Thread Jochen Spieker
lina: > > When I use vim (how can I add comments for several lines at the same time, > not one by one) > add # There's probably a more efficient way to do this, but I always go to the start of the first/last line, press Ctrl-v (enters visual block mode), mark the lines I want to comment, then pre

Re: openjdk-7-jre and Iceweasel

2011-09-30 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:28:32 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 29 September 2011 17:03:55 Dejan Ribič wrote: >> Dne 29.9.2011 17:54, piše Lisi: >> > I am trying, without success, to run: >> > >> > http://media.pearsoncmg.com/aw/aw_kurose_network_2/applets/dns/ dns.html >> > >> > The problem is the

Re: openjdk-7-jre and Iceweasel

2011-09-30 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 09/30/2011 02:28 AM, Lisi wrote: ... Thank you to all three of you. I finally manged to install icedtea-plugin from Sid, but now things are even worse! Before, I got a box with a message that I needed to install java. Now I just have a box-shaped light grey area with nothing else visible. :

Re: Wireshark detritus

2011-09-30 Thread Clive Standbridge
> Hi! > > I am wanting to install the Wireshark tarball, preparatory to which I > ran > aptitude purge to clear the deb out, together with its config files. > I then > ran locate to find any files left so that I could remove them > manually. I > got this: > > Tux:/home/lisi# locate wireshar

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-30 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
2011/9/29 Nuno Magalhães : > 2011/9/29 mforestier : >> Bonjour a toutes et tous! >> C'est mon premier message sur cette liste! > > Hopefully it's also the last in french; there's another list for that: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/ > > As for laptops, i favour Toshiba (just bought o

Re: openjdk-7-jre and Iceweasel

2011-09-30 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
At the moment, the icedtea-plugin package has a little problem (see its bugs #642734 and #642598). A workaround is to modify the file /etc/java-6-openjdk/security/java.policy : In this file replace: -- grant codeBase "file:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/ext/*" { permission java.secu

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Sep 2011, Camaleón wrote: [snip] > My preferred brands for laptops are Toshiba and HP (the ones I have tested) > and also have good references from Lenovo's (though not directly tried). > Having used both Thinkpads and HP, I'd never again choose a laptop that only had a touchpad. I find

Re: openjdk-7-jre and Iceweasel

2011-09-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/09/11 01:54, Lisi wrote: > I am trying, without success, to run: > > http://media.pearsoncmg.com/aw/aw_kurose_network_2/applets/dns/dns.html > > The problem is the applet. The Java I have on my Lenny system is too old. > Hardly surprising. So I switched to Wheezy. Still not OK. I ch

Re: To create partitions from the 0-sector (was Partitions recovering on empty HDD)

2011-09-30 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/09/11 16:24, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > > How I can create first partition starting w/ 0-sector and not w/ 2048? I don't believe it's possible. Assuming that you don't want to boot from that device (0x7C00 will be copied from another block device) then where are you going

Re: xserver-xorg-core and fglrx-driver

2011-09-30 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
30/09/2011 05:33, lina wrote: > Hi, > > When I update this morning (wheezy one but with sid fglrx-driver), the > xserver-xorg-core was updated. > > my fglrx-driver was removed, > > when I tried to install, it's reported: > > fglrx-driver depends on xorg-video-abi-10 or -8 or -6. which are not >