Re: Debian gnome printing to pdf

2012-02-05 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 21:13:32 -0500 "Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.org" suggested this: >> I have now started to use google-chrome. After disabling the chrome >> print viewer, the same print options are offered with the exception >> of .ps files. Can you just change the file extension to output.

Re: Sleep

2012-02-05 Thread Stayvoid
> Under Trinity desktop, I use the kde3 applet kpowersave. I'm looking for a small standalone daemon. Because I want to be able to use it without DE at all. > I've learned to do it by myself! This is nice. But the main goal was to find a way to do it automatically. Cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Sleep

2012-02-05 Thread Stayvoid
> This usually has to be configured in whatever power manager you're > using. What DE are you using? I haven't configured Xorg yet. And I'm looking for a universal solution. It shouldn't depend on DE. I want to be able to use it from the shell. Cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Scan Emails for Scan

2012-02-05 Thread Bijoy Lobo
Hello Folks, I am currently setting up a UTM box. Given a situation where my company has an internal email server, what will i need to scan all the emails for spam and malware for outgoing and incoming mails? The UTM will be my gateway device. -- Thanks and Regards Bijoy Lobo

Re: egrep oddity

2012-02-05 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday 05 February 2012 19:55:48 Bob Proulx wrote: > Neal Murphy wrote: > > For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not > > doing what it should. > > You don't like it and I don't like it but the powers that be have > decided that within a locale, within libc, character col

Re: egrep oddity

2012-02-05 Thread Joel Roth
Thanks for this illuminating response to what I thought might have been mere user naivete. On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 05:55:48PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Neal Murphy wrote: > > For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not > > doing what it should. > > You don't like it and I d

Re: Sleep

2012-02-05 Thread keitho
> On 6 February 2012 11:03, Stayvoid wrote: >>> Closing the lid and go suspend is an option, maye you have to enable >>> that. >> Where? >> >> Cheers. > > This usually has to be configured in whatever power manager you're > using. What DE are you using? > How to do this without a DE...? I'm usi

Re: [OT] how to take care of hand

2012-02-05 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 10:07:21AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > The technical name of the problem is "plantar fasciitis"; the > podiatrist said that it was the most common ailment which he treats. Massage therapy can be used to treat plantar fasciitis, as well as the OP's hand pain. Of cou

Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze

2012-02-05 Thread Rob Hurle
On 6 February 2012 12:41, Ashton Fagg wrote: > On 6 February 2012 11:31, Rob Hurle wrote: >> I definitely don't have Wheezy or Sid repos enabled.  My sources.list is: >> >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free >> deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main cont

Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze

2012-02-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 11:18:32AM +1000, Ashton Fagg wrote: > On 3 February 2012 12:32, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > I have backports enabled, and my iceweasel was updated to 10.0 > > yesterday when I did a standard safe-upgrade. > > > > Perhaps this is a function of adding > > deb http://mozilla.debi

Re: Debian gnome printing to pdf

2012-02-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 05:20:23PM -0800, tony mollica wrote: > To begin, I have exhausted my searching ability to not find this > cryptic information. > > When printing from Firefox, the printing dialog gives choices of > printers and 'print to file', > with 'print to file' having options of .pd

Re: [OT] how to take care of hand -> dvorak

2012-02-05 Thread lina
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Arnt Karlsen [120205 23:54]: >> On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 16:37:47 +, Russell wrote in message >> <20120204163747.GC2339@cromwell.tmiaf>: >> >> > >From the Gnome desktop, use the system -> preferences -> keyboard -> >> > layouts menu to se

Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze

2012-02-05 Thread Ashton Fagg
On 6 February 2012 11:31, Rob Hurle wrote: > I definitely don't have Wheezy or Sid repos enabled.  My sources.list is: > > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib non-free > deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/

Re: [OT] how to take care of hand -> dvorak

2012-02-05 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Arnt Karlsen [120205 23:54]: > On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 16:37:47 +, Russell wrote in message > <20120204163747.GC2339@cromwell.tmiaf>: > > > >From the Gnome desktop, use the system -> preferences -> keyboard -> > > layouts menu to select "USA Dvorak" (a regrettable compromise) or "USA > > Classi

Re: Netinstall cannot find wireless access points

2012-02-05 Thread Brian
On Sun 05 Feb 2012 at 21:09:26 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:12:26 +, Brian wrote: > > > Your proposal fits the remit of debian-...@lists.debian.org. > > Agree. > > But first we should know if it's a supported feature and that's why I > suggested asking first to devels a

Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze

2012-02-05 Thread Rob Hurle
On 6 February 2012 12:18, Ashton Fagg wrote: > On 3 February 2012 12:32, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> I have backports enabled, and my iceweasel was updated to 10.0 >> yesterday when I did a standard safe-upgrade. >> >> Perhaps this is a function of adding >> deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-back

Re: Sleep

2012-02-05 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 06/02/2012 02:01, Stayvoid wrote: BTW, there is another program called "hibernate." Which one is the best? Under Trinity desktop, I use the kde3 applet kpowersave. I can configure it to do custom things. Sometimes, and on some machines, hibernating or suspending to ram fails when triggered

Debian gnome printing to pdf

2012-02-05 Thread tony mollica
To begin, I have exhausted my searching ability to not find this cryptic information. When printing from Firefox, the printing dialog gives choices of printers and 'print to file', with 'print to file' having options of .pdf or .ps, a filename box and a location box. I can change the default

Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze

2012-02-05 Thread Ashton Fagg
On 3 February 2012 12:32, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I have backports enabled, and my iceweasel was updated to 10.0 > yesterday when I did a standard safe-upgrade. > > Perhaps this is a function of adding > deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-release > to your /etc/apt/sources.li

Re: Sleep

2012-02-05 Thread Ashton Fagg
On 6 February 2012 11:03, Stayvoid wrote: >> Closing the lid and go suspend is an option, maye you have to enable that. > Where? > > Cheers. This usually has to be configured in whatever power manager you're using. What DE are you using? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

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Re: Sleep

2012-02-05 Thread Stayvoid
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Re: Sleep

2012-02-05 Thread Stayvoid
>$ tasksel --task-packages laptop I've installed "pm-utils." (I was testing these commands in prompt because I haven't configured X yet.) "pm-suspend" worked. The LED was blinking. But when I had left suspend the screen was very bright. How to tweak the screen settings? I'm not sure about "pm

Re: egrep oddity

2012-02-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Neal Murphy wrote: > For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not > doing what it should. You don't like it and I don't like it but the powers that be have decided that within a locale, within libc, character collation sequences will be dictionary ordering where case is folded

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-02-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/5/2012 2:33 PM, Camaleón wrote: > It's okay, Stan. I don't know why most of the replies in this list end > this way with you. Not all do. Some do. And the reason is that I'm a stickler for technical correctness, I guess, and I don't like seeing misinformation spread across the web. Yes,

Re: egrep oddity

2012-02-05 Thread Tomas Volka
On Ne 05-02-12 | 23:04, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-02-05 22:31 +0100, Tomas Volka wrote: > > > On Ne 05-02-12 | 16:03, Neal Murphy wrote: > >> For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not doing > >> what it > >> should. > >> > >> I have Squeese installed and up-to-date. I

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-02-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/5/2012 7:34 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> You have a fundamental misunderstanding induced EMI/RFI. The source of >> the interference must be relatively close, physically, to the cable, in >> order for the cable to pick up sufficient noise to interfere with >> signals. A

Re: Debian VPS

2012-02-05 Thread Ashton Fagg
On 4 February 2012 17:43, Mark Charles wrote: > Can anyone recommend any good VPS companies that allow you to install > Debian or who have Debian preinstalled? > > > Thanks in advance I've been using Evorack [1] for over a year now and they've been nothing but brilliant. Very little down time an

Re: Debian VPS

2012-02-05 Thread Pablo Sánchez
Mark, don't use their vps's, only hosting , but their service has been robust, so far. They list several distros, but they're keen on installing other ones : https://support.hawkhost.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=75&nav=0,14 They run openvz and are US based . I pic

Re: Squeeze: problem after installation on laptop

2012-02-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 06 feb 12, 00:04:39, Stanislav Gudkov wrote: > Hi > > I've installed Debian Squeeze on my Acer Aspire 5536G and discovered > some functions doesn't work correctly. What Desktop Environment? > Here's a list of non-working things: > 1. Fn + arrow Up (to make sound louder) > 2. Fn + arrow D

Re: egrep oddity

2012-02-05 Thread Jeff Goodman
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:03:45 -0500 Neal Murphy wrote: > For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not > doing what it should. > > I have Squeese installed and up-to-date. In an xterm running bash or > on a console running bash or dash, this command: > ls -C1 | egrep "^[A-Z]"

Squeeze: problem after installation on laptop

2012-02-05 Thread Stanislav Gudkov
Hi I've installed Debian Squeeze on my Acer Aspire 5536G and discovered some functions doesn't work correctly. Here's a list of non-working things: 1. Fn + arrow Up (to make sound louder) 2. Fn + arrow Down (to make sound quieter) 3. Fn + F8 (mute) * now I can only change sound level in alsamixe

Re: egrep oddity

2012-02-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-02-05 22:31 +0100, Tomas Volka wrote: > On Ne 05-02-12 | 16:03, Neal Murphy wrote: >> For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not doing what >> it >> should. >> >> I have Squeese installed and up-to-date. In an xterm running bash or on a >> console running bash or

Re: egrep oddity

2012-02-05 Thread Tomas Volka
On Ne 05-02-12 | 16:03, Neal Murphy wrote: > For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not doing what > it > should. > > I have Squeese installed and up-to-date. In an xterm running bash or on a > console running bash or dash, this command: > ls -C1 | egrep "^[A-Z]" > retur

Re: egrep oddity

2012-02-05 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 04:03:45PM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not doing what > it > should. > > I have Squeese installed and up-to-date. In an xterm running bash or on a > console running bash or dash, this command: > ls -C1 | egre

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Scot writes: > Even "facts" are built on belief. For certain values of "belief". -- John Hasler -- 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/87mx8xezmx@thumpe

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Stan writes: > True, single mode vs multi mode. But you still need > qualified/experienced installers with the proper tools to do the > terminations. As far as I know most use cables cut to length and terminated at the factory for in-building runs (though it is certainly possible to do it in the

Re: Netinstall cannot find wireless access points

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:12:26 +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 05 Feb 2012 at 11:13:01 +, Camaleón wrote: >> If this is an option, it should be >> properly documented :-) > > Your proposal fits the remit of debian-...@lists.debian.org. Agree. But first we shoul

egrep oddity

2012-02-05 Thread Neal Murphy
For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not doing what it should. I have Squeese installed and up-to-date. In an xterm running bash or on a console running bash or dash, this command: ls -C1 | egrep "^[A-Z]" returns all lines except those beginning with 'a'. Even the follo

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 06/02/12 03:06, Curt wrote: > On 2012-02-05, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> While it may be good business advice isn't it hypocrisy to sell a >> product you don't believe in? >> > > Who believes in products? > > Most buyers (I can't account for the "motivations" of all "minorities"). Do you bu

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-02-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/4/2012 7:22 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Fiber is another different thing. We do also have it installed since the >> last summer (4 FTTH lines, a 16-fibers cable) but working with the fiber >> can be only done by certified installers and the required tools are very >> expensi

Re: Python

2012-02-05 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Sylvain wrote: > On 01. 02. 12 07:42, Johann Spies wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:24:17PM +0200, cletusjenkins wrote: >> >>> Hello, I am interested to learn how to program in Python. What debian >>> packages >>> would I need to start coding some basic cgi i

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:39:39 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 2/4/2012 12:25 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:36:04 -0600, John Hasler wrote: >> >>> Stan Hoeppner writes: In the US, in the case of environments such as manufacturing floors etc with horrific EMI levels, fiber

Re: Netinstall cannot find wireless access points

2012-02-05 Thread Brian
On Sun 05 Feb 2012 at 11:13:01 +, Camaleón wrote: > And users thank their kindness, but if we are not aware about the > possibility of using other than WEP for wireless installs we can't ever > try or test or debug or report. I'm usually not inclined to argue against the obvious. :) >

Re: Debian menu in the KDE launcher

2012-02-05 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:29:55 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > >> When I invoke the editor for the launcher menu, the Debian sub-menu is >> missing. > > What Debian release (or KDE version)? siduction distribution (based on sid/unstable) KDE version 4.7.2 and version 0.8 for km

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-02-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/4/2012 12:25 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:36:04 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > >> Stan Hoeppner writes: >>> In the US, in the case of environments such as manufacturing floors etc >>> with horrific EMI levels, fiber is used instead of UTP CAT5/6. With EFI >>> levels that high, ev

Re: lenovo s205 installation problems

2012-02-05 Thread doug
On 02/05/2012 02:35 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Russell L. Harris [120205 02:12]: * Russell L. Harris [120205 01:30]: Just now it occurred to me that perhaps the BIOS mode during partitioning may be causing the failure to boot. Accordingly, I now am doing an installation in which I allow

Re: [OT] how to take care of hand -> dvorak

2012-02-05 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 16:37:47 +, Russell wrote in message <20120204163747.GC2339@cromwell.tmiaf>: > * lina [120204 16:12]: > > > > How do I start the dvorak? > > sorry I just started finishing reading the wikipage about dvorak. > > > >From the Gnome desktop, use the system -> preferences ->

Re: How do I get mdiff to produce usable output?

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:37:41 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:49:48 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Mmm... I would start by having a deep look at the manual, it seems very >> complete and detailed: >> >> A word difference finder (and others) >> http://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/ma

Re: How do I get mdiff to produce usable output?

2012-02-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:49:48 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:12:41 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> Accordinng to the man mdiff page, just executing >> >> mdiff abitree wptree >> >> should give me some kind of list of similarities and differences >> between the files abitree and

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Weaver
> On Du, 05 feb 12, 12:30:05, Robert Brockway wrote: >> >> One of the best pieces of business advice I ever received was this: >> >> "Don't sell what you like. Sell what people will buy". > > While it may be good business advice isn't it hypocrisy to sell a > product you don't believe in? The di

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 12:25:58PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 04 feb 12, 18:26:25, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > [big snip] > > Hi Nick, > > Some issues to be aware of (in no particular order) that I encountered > while trying to help my brother with his business: > > FLOSS is not cost fr

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:44:32 -0800, owens wrote: (...) > Are we in an "apples and oranges" debate here? Camaleon continues to > refer to FTTH for her examples which by nature are controlled by the > PTTs or Telecommunications providers, while Stan and others use > intra-data center and intra-LAN

Re: transmission

2012-02-05 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 02:52:20PM +0100, Tomas Volka wrote: > On So 04-02-12 | 17:02, cletusjenkins wrote: > > > Is there any problems in general with bittorrent lately? I tried to > > launch transmission yesterday and this evening and had issues. I see no > > traffic up or down, and when it st

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-02-05 Thread owens
- Original Message - From: Camaleón To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 2/5/2012 11:04:50 AM Subject: Re: My network speed is only 10MB On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:50:48 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 2/4/2012 10:03 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> You never know what kind of com

Re: How do I get mdiff to produce usable output?

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:12:41 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Accordinng to the man mdiff page, just executing > > mdiff abitree wptree > > should give me some kind of list of similarities and differences between > the files abitree and wptree, much as > > diff abitree wptree > > does. But instea

Re: installing Debian from CD

2012-02-05 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 05 February 2012 15:31:59 Russel Mulla wrote: > hello, > how does one complie the installation boot CD? You don't. You download the .iso and burn it to CD or DVD. You need to burn the image to CD or DVD, not copy the files. ($CD burner should have a menu entry for this.) > and what

Re: installing Debian from CD

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:31:59 -0500, Russel Mulla wrote: > how does one complie the installation boot CD? and what -which files > would I use of the 8 dvds? You usually only need the first of the medias (either the first CD or DVD). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Debian menu in the KDE launcher

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:29:55 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > When I invoke the editor for the launcher menu, the Debian sub-menu is > missing. What Debian release (or KDE version)? In Wheezy with gnome3 and gnome-shell Debian menu is also missing although I didn't notice because I never used

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-05, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > While it may be good business advice isn't it hypocrisy to sell a > product you don't believe in? > Who believes in products? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: System locks

2012-02-05 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 02/04/2012 10:35 PM, lina wrote: > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Gilbert Sullivan > wrote: >> Hi, Lina. >> >> Xfce occasionally corrupts its settings for an individual user. I and >> others have found that this is more likely to happen immediately after >> applying updates, of which there

Re: accounting software

2012-02-05 Thread John Hasler
green writes: > gnucash is a nice double-entry accounting system, suitable I suppose > for any small business (and more). So is ledgerSMB. It is aimed specifically at small business. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Miles Fidelman writes: > Induced currents in poorly wired power-line grounding probably effect > you more if you're using shielded cable connected to that same > grounding. You should not ground the shield at both ends. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

installing Debian from CD

2012-02-05 Thread Russel Mulla
hello, how does one complie the installation boot CD? and what -which files would I use of the 8 dvds?

Re: the disappear of taskbar ( was: system locks, was was: something weird)

2012-02-05 Thread Dougie Nisbet
On 05/02/2012 02:43, Walter Hurry wrote: On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:11:16 +0800, lina wrote: How could set the taskbar back, for everything. I used to have the taskbar at the top. Do you *ever* manage to do *anything* without a major disaster? If you think losing the task bar is a 'major disast

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 05 February 2012 13:02:35 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > OP oughta focus on intended audience first, then he'll know which means to > use. +1 I think that the intended (or hoped for) clientele is very significant; as also is the type of business: repeat or new every time. We have a local sma

Re: accounting software

2012-02-05 Thread Til Schubbe
* On 05.02. green muttered: > Andrei Popescu wrote at 2012-02-05 04:25 -0600: > > - I am not familiar with US > > accounting, but as far as I know the only software that might be > > useful for you (besides Open/Libreoffice) is OpenERP. > > gnucash is a nice double-entry accounting system,

How do I get mdiff to produce usable output?

2012-02-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
Accordinng to the man mdiff page, just executing mdiff abitree wptree should give me some kind of list of similarities and differences between the files abitree and wptree, much as diff abitree wptree does. But instead I get nothing. Why don't I just use diff, you ask? Because when I go in

Re: Debian VPS

2012-02-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:34, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:43:35 +1100, Mark Charles wrote: > >> Can anyone recommend any good VPS companies that allow you to install >> Debian or who have Debian preinstalled? > > Can't comment on any but you have a list here: > > http://wiki.debian.or

Debian menu in the KDE launcher

2012-02-05 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Hello All! When I invoke the editor for the launcher menu, the Debian sub-menu is missing. Furthermore, if I add an entry for one of my own programs, although the menu editor appears to insert it into the place I want it in, after saving the file and exiting, I find that the entry is not in the me

Re: lenovo s205 installation problems

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:12:10 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: (...) > I now am searching with Google to resolve several issues, primarily: > > (1) The Debian installer defaults to the 2.6-amd64 kernel, but offers > 2.6-686 and 2.6-486. I plan to run mostly XEmacs and TeXLive, but also > IceWease

Re: transmission

2012-02-05 Thread Tomas Volka
On So 04-02-12 | 17:02, cletusjenkins wrote: > Is there any problems in general with bittorrent lately? I tried to > launch transmission yesterday and this evening and had issues. I see no > traffic up or down, and when it starts up all my torrents are paused, > even the ones I'm just seeding.

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Andrei writes: > While it may be good business advice isn't it hypocrisy to sell a > product you don't believe in? It isn't hypocrisy to assume that other people know better than you do what is best for them. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: accounting software

2012-02-05 Thread green
Andrei Popescu wrote at 2012-02-05 04:25 -0600: > - I am not familiar with US > accounting, but as far as I know the only software that might be > useful for you (besides Open/Libreoffice) is OpenERP. gnucash is a nice double-entry accounting system, suitable I suppose for any small busines

RE: Broken System After Update[Solved]

2012-02-05 Thread Ogya Chief
Hi There, I found a solution by Michael Tokarev which addressed BusyBox bug# 646284. It required updating BusyBox and running update-initramfs in a chroot environment. Thank you all for your suggestions. Regards, Ogya

[OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 05 feb 12, 12:30:05, Robert Brockway wrote: One of the best pieces of business advice I ever received was this: "Don't sell what you like. Sell what people will buy". While it may be good business advice isn't it hypocrisy to sell a product

Re: the disappear of taskbar ( was: system locks, was was: something weird)

2012-02-05 Thread John Hasler
lina writes: > It's so hard to let me think of "give up". Don't take him seriously. He's just had a bad day or something. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: htt

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-02-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
Stan Hoeppner wrote: You have a fundamental misunderstanding induced EMI/RFI. The source of the interference must be relatively close, physically, to the cable, in order for the cable to pick up sufficient noise to interfere with signals. A power plant, or even a Tesla coil, in the building nex

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:02:35 +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:27, Camaleón wrote: >> And what's make you think open source projects cannot ask for money? I >> see nothing wrong there. I prefer a company or a project is transparent >> enough to say, "hey, we need $$$ to put

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:27, Camaleón wrote: > And what's make you think open source projects cannot ask for money? I > see nothing wrong there. I prefer a company or a project is transparent > enough to say, "hey, we need $$$ to put this working" and ask for it. Diaspora started as a free-for-a

Re: Sleep

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:54:31 +0300, Stayvoid wrote: > I'm using gNewSense. > (I know that gNewSense has it's own mailing list. But there aren't many > Mac users.) It's okay but note that gNewSense and Debian can differ in some cases. > Is there a way to check that my laptop (MacBookPro6,2) is a

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:13:58 +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:20, Camaleón wrote: >> Identi.ca and DIASPORA*, the >> open counterparts for Internet socializing. > > Don't know about identi.ca, but disaspora started asking for money even > before lauch, did they get to act

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:20, Camaleón wrote: > Identi.ca and DIASPORA*, the > open counterparts for Internet socializing. Don't know about identi.ca, but disaspora started asking for money even before lauch, did they get to actually leave beta-stage? People who care about their privacy might mo

Re: Debian VPS

2012-02-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 04/02/12 11:44, Mark Charles wrote: On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:43:35 +1100, Mark Charles wrote: Can anyone recommend any good VPS companies that allow you to install Debian or who have Debian preinstalled? Can't comment on any but you have a list here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianHosting Gr

RE: Broken System After Update

2012-02-05 Thread Ogya Chief
From: carlo.bore...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 02:09:18 -0300 Subject: Re: Broken System After Update To: debian-user@lists.debian.org [...] Yes, I have /usr and /var on separate partitions and both were required to be mounted before the command worked. I tried your alternative solutio

Re: Virtual packages

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:11:00 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: > On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> El 2012-02-04 a las 19:31 +0300, Stayvoid escribió: >> >> (resending to the list) >> >>> > Install the required package? :-? >>> There is no such package in the tree. It may be connected

Re: Several errors on the start up

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:03:19 +0300, Stayvoid wrote: >> I wonder if nuvó supports that card. > It's supported: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNames#NV50 Then you can safely report it though I guess they will tell you to try with an updated version of the driver. >> 1/ Disable KMS (appe

[OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:26:25 -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote: > I hope this isn't too off topic for this list but smart people lurk > about these parts. It is a bit off-topic, indeed :-) > In a nutshell, my wife and I starting a small business in a family > oriented neighborhood. We're serving coffee,

Re: Netinstall cannot find wireless access points

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:05:00 +, Brian wrote: > On Sat 04 Feb 2012 at 19:43:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:15:04 +, Brian wrote: >> >> > Get netcfg from http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/netcfg. Open. It is >> > in the Debian directory. >> >> But how a person who i

Re: My network speed is only 10MB

2012-02-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:50:48 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 2/4/2012 10:03 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> You never know what kind of company is going to be installed next to >> your garden, right? So one day you open the door and find a power plant >> is your brand-new neighbor. At the time you

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 04 feb 12, 18:26:25, Nick Lidakis wrote: [big snip] Hi Nick, Some issues to be aware of (in no particular order) that I encountered while trying to help my brother with his business: FLOSS is not cost free. You may not need to pay for the licenses, but do you have the spare time to inv

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 05 feb 12, 12:30:05, Robert Brockway wrote: > > One of the best pieces of business advice I ever received was this: > > "Don't sell what you like. Sell what people will buy". While it may be good business advice isn't it hypocrisy to sell a product you don't believe in? Kind regards, A

Re: the disappear of taskbar ( was: system locks, was was: something weird)

2012-02-05 Thread lina
On Sunday 05,February,2012 04:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 15:24 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 05/02/12 15:08, lina wrote: On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: Whoa! Back up. I did *not* write *any* of those things. :D Lina, that was really misera

Re: Regression when I try to get connected to a network server

2012-02-05 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 04 February 2012 22:59:32 Jochen Spieker wrote: > The OP meant "upgrade". I don't know what the OP's native language is > (probably French), but when translating German to English, "actual" is a > false friend for "aktuell" ("current" in English). Thanks, Jochen. That's a great relief

Re: the disappear of taskbar ( was: system locks, was was: something weird)

2012-02-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 15:24 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 05/02/12 15:08, lina wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Scott Ferguson > > wrote: > > Whoa! Back up. > > I did *not* write *any* of those things. :D Lina, that was really miserable "quoting". Btw. I guess a lot of people do