Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
John Hasler wrote: > Bob writes: > > Did you mean TMPDIR? > > Yes. Note that you may want to provide for cleanup. Consider tmpreaper. I like tmpreaper quite a bit. It is great for /tmp and /var/tmp. For $HOME/tmp I don't think it is needed. For $HOME/tmp just running find $HOME/tmp with some

Re: Removing hardware identifiers from an existing installation (esp. Grub2)

2012-02-21 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 21 February 2012 21:07, Tom H wrote: >> >> You can also change the hostname but you don't need to do so. > > At what point in the boot process is it assigned? I could write a script to > change it to "some_basename-some_random_ID" upon boo

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread yudi v
> Yes.  See my earlier post.  That is exactly what I do.  In each of the > accounts on my box startx is aliased to one of the commands that I > mentioned.  This starts up a new X session on the specified vt.  By > specifying the vt in the startx command I know that my session is always on > vt7, my

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Don deJuan wrote: > > I only continue this banter because I find your assumptions and responses to > be hilarious, already been forwarded around work. Please keep your witty, > brilliant responses coming as to why I was such the "dick" with this major > "tude" as

Re: [OT] how to change the first character into upper case

2012-02-21 Thread David Christensen
On 02/21/2012 07:48 AM, lina wrote: Sorry a bit off-topic, but I am stuck with how to tr (googled some ways out, still not work) NELSON ARISPE, EDUARDO ROJAS, AND HARVEY B. POLLARD into Nelson Arispe, Eduardo Rojas, and Harvey B. Pollard I'd use Perl and the Lingua::EN::Titlecase module: h

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/21/2012 06:24 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Sure, you can just tell people to RTFM. Or you can just post the patch. The patch is naturally easier and takes substantially less effort to create and post than being a dick about it on an internationally distributed mailing list. On Tue, Feb 21, 2

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/21/2012 9:15 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: > What do you think about this article on SSD and errors? > Link:http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224322/SSDs_have_a_bleak_future_researchers_say I'll tell you in 2024 at 6.5nm when we reach "the end". In the mean time, anyone using a consumer MLC

Fwd: Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Don deJuan
Since you will not keep this in the public list I will forward your emails to it. my 'tude' is less damaging to a group, than someone who resorts to attacks of such an immature nature who can not simply demonstrate they can even help themselves, now if you would have said if did this and this

Re: xfce4-power-manager necessary

2012-02-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:20:51 +0800 lina wrote: > Hi, > > Is it necessary to install the xfce4-power-manager? No. I've been running Xfce for years, and I do not have it installed. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread Seb
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:55:36 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > John Hasler wrote: >> Seb writes: > I just discovered to my horror /tmp is handled by a >> tmpfs system that > allocates by default a percentage of RAM that >> happens to be too small > for my use of /tmp. What is the Debianish >> way to av

Re: unresponsive keyboard

2012-02-21 Thread Doug
On 02/21/2012 10:28 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/21/2012 8:51 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: Running squeeze 6.04 with Gnome and all updates as of a week ago. At that time my keyboard became unresponsive. It's not a hardware problem as it works when I boot into Ubuntu on the same HD. The strangest

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/21/2012 07:31 PM, Doug wrote: On 02/21/2012 08:36 PM, Don deJuan wrote: In windows open regedit go to: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\__Control\TimeZoneInformation add a DWORD with name of "RealTimeIsUniversal" exactly as its entered there and set the value to 1. Now you can have windows t

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Don deJuan
Or behave like you and calling me childish names, or you still in high school? Fricken read what I posted 3 times oh brilliant one. And IF YOU wish to contribute a patch to MS for that or to the list then PLEASE do so. I CHOOSE NOT TO. I spoon fed you 3 times grow up and read, follow posted ins

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Doug
On 02/21/2012 08:36 PM, Don deJuan wrote: In windows open regedit go to: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\__Control\TimeZoneInformation add a DWORD with name of "RealTimeIsUniversal" exactly as its entered there and set the value to 1. Now

Re: unresponsive keyboard

2012-02-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/21/2012 8:51 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > Running squeeze 6.04 with Gnome and all updates as of a week ago. At that > time my keyboard became unresponsive. It's not a hardware problem as it > works when I boot into Ubuntu on the same HD. The strangest thing is that > sometimes I can boot into

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:48:32AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 20 feb 12, 16:29:18, Doug wrote: > > > > You need a real mechanical hard drive. The solid-state drives have > > a limited read/write cycle. > > Recent studies seem to suggest that the limited read/write cycles are > unli

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Bob writes: > Did you mean TMPDIR? Yes. Note that you may want to provide for cleanup. Consider tmpreaper. > Although not every program is coded to honor TMPDIR... File bug reports. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: [OT] how to change the first character into upper case

2012-02-21 Thread lina
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Dom wrote: > On 21/02/12 15:48, lina wrote: >> >> Sorry a bit off-topic, but I am stuck with how to tr >> (googled some ways out, still not work) >> >> NELSON ARISPE, EDUARDO ROJAS, AND HARVEY B. POLLARD >> >> into >> >> Nelson Arispe, Eduardo Rojas, and Harvey B.

unresponsive keyboard

2012-02-21 Thread Robert Holtzman
Running squeeze 6.04 with Gnome and all updates as of a week ago. At that time my keyboard became unresponsive. It's not a hardware problem as it works when I boot into Ubuntu on the same HD. The strangest thing is that sometimes I can boot into squeeze and type my login password successfully and s

Re: [OT] how to change the first character into upper case

2012-02-21 Thread lina
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 21/02/12 15:48, lina wrote: >> >> Sorry a bit off-topic, but I am stuck with how to tr >> (googled some ways out, still not work) >> >> NELSON ARISPE, EDUARDO ROJAS, AND HARVEY B. POLLARD >> >> into >> >> Nelson Arispe, Eduardo Rojas,

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Seb wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Set RAMTMP=no in the /etc/default/rcS file. > > # sed --in-place 's/RAMTMP=.*/RAMTMP=no/' /etc/default/rcS > > Thank you! With this modification, does /tmp still get cleared after > each reboot? Yes. That is controlled by TMPTIME=0 in the same /etc/default/r

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
John Hasler wrote: > Seb writes: > > I just discovered to my horror /tmp is handled by a tmpfs system that > > allocates by default a percentage of RAM that happens to be too small > > for my use of /tmp. What is the Debianish way to avoid using this > > system for /tmp so that it uses whatever is

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/21/12 09:54, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:28:44AM -0600, hvw59601 wrote: yudi v wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get gnome (default in tty7) and xfce (in tty1) to run at the sametime. I got as far as launching another x server session and xfce4 with the following command:

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Sure, you can just tell people to RTFM. Or you can just post the patch. The patch is naturally easier and takes substantially less effort to create and post than being a dick about it on an internationally distributed mailing list. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Don deJuan wrote: > > Seriousl

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread yudi v
>> The OP didn't, I think, specify that he wants two X sessions with the >> same user. Yes that is exactly right, I an trying to use two X sessions under one user. -- Kind regards, Yudi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread yudi v
> > The command that you are using is not starting the new xserver in tty1.  It > is almost certainly in tty8, the next available tty session.  The :1 is > display 1, not tty1.  I use aliases of startx such as: I first log on to tty1 and then run the command: startx startxfce4 -- :1 -- Kind reg

Re: Removing hardware identifiers from an existing installation (esp. Grub2)

2012-02-21 Thread Jason Heeris
On 21 February 2012 21:07, Tom H wrote: > Never having used Emdebian, I can only give some Debian answers and > they'll hopefully be usable. > In this case yes, mostly my particular installation is just Debian with documentation and certain other files scrubbed from the packages. > For filesys

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Seb writes: > I just discovered to my horror /tmp is handled by a tmpfs system that > allocates by default a percentage of RAM that happens to be too small > for my use of /tmp. What is the Debianish way to avoid using this > system for /tmp so that it uses whatever is available on /? Set TEMPDIR

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/21/2012 05:25 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Seems like this could be made easier by mailing the .reg file (or throwing it in a webspace someplace) with the correct key and value already set. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Don deJuan mailto:donjuans...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 02/21/2012 03:5

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread Seb
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:17:15 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Seb wrote: >> I just discovered to my horror /tmp is handled by a tmpfs system that >> allocates by default a percentage of RAM that happens to be too small >> for my use of /tmp. What is the Debianish way to avoid using this >> system for

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Seems like this could be made easier by mailing the .reg file (or throwing it in a webspace someplace) with the correct key and value already set. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Don deJuan wrote: > On 02/21/2012 03:58 PM, Doug wrote: > >> On 2/21/2012 1:00 AM, Don deJuan wrote: >> >>> On 02/20

Re: sample rate of ogg and flac files

2012-02-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 01:46:04PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On 20/02/12 01:59, Rob Owens wrote: > >I've got some flac files that are at high sample rates (96000 Hz and > >192000 Hz). My Sansa Clip+ won't play them. When I encode them to ogg > >vorbis, the Clip+ still won't play them unless I r

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Seb wrote: > I just discovered to my horror /tmp is handled by a tmpfs system that > allocates by default a percentage of RAM that happens to be too small > for my use of /tmp. What is the Debianish way to avoid using this > system for /tmp so that it uses whatever is available on /? Set RAMTMP=n

Re: [Feedback needed] Setting the right size for /tmp

2012-02-21 Thread Seb
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:44:46 +, Dom wrote: > On 28/11/11 18:07, Camaleón wrote: >> Hello, >> I'm running an updated wheezy and today faced with this little >> problematic. >> While running Midnight Commander to open (on-the-fly decompression >> for browsing the archive) the kernel source pa

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 feb 12, 22:58:03, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > It will have Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz Socket LGA1155, MSI Z68S REV > B3 motherboard, 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 256MB > PCI-Express graphics, an SSD OCZ Agility 3 120GB 2.5" SATA instead > of a hard disk drive, a Samsung DVD-R

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Owens wrote: > > > ffmpeg -i somesong.mp3 -acodec libvorbis somesong.ogg > > This command was successful on my system as well, although it produced a > very low bitrate ogg file. You can add one of these switches to the > ffmpeg command to correct this: > > -aq 5 #set the quality leve

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/21/2012 03:58 PM, Doug wrote: On 2/21/2012 1:00 AM, Don deJuan wrote: On 02/20/2012 09:51 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time It's UTC. Having the hardare clock in UTC is normal and standard. http://en.wikip

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Doug
On 2/21/2012 1:00 AM, Don deJuan wrote: On 02/20/2012 09:51 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time It's UTC. Having the hardare clock in UTC is normal and standard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Unive

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Doug
On 2/21/2012 1:26 AM, Don deJuan wrote: On 02/20/2012 09:55 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Hendrik Boom writes: I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows takes it on itself to set my clock as if th

Re: Re: ASUS EeePC 1215B - Debian Testing 12-Feb-2012 Build - Video Problem, Black Screen

2012-02-21 Thread Marc Hurst
Thanks Patrick. I don't think DebianEeePC has any specific info on the EeePC Model 1215b. They have a link to a Squeeze 2.6.39 backport that probably works; but they warn against using it; and recommend Squeeze instead. I'm still using Debian Squeeze 6.0.4. Full 1366x768 resolution displays fine

Re: how to control fan speed?

2012-02-21 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* David Roguin [120221 11:21 -0300]: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > * David Roguin [120220 13:48 -0300]: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I feel my notebook is heating up more than usual, what I do is > >> manually write those commands > >> # echo "1" > /sys/devices/platfo

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Tom H wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:15:13 -0500 Curt Howland wrote: It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay purely open-source. Well, the comments on t

Re: ISO for wheezy

2012-02-21 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Bob Proulx wrote: Sian Mountbatten wrote: Can anybody point me to a site where I can download an ISO for wheezy? First go to: http://www.debian.org/ Many thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:15:13 -0500 > Curt Howland wrote: >> >> It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work >> perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay >> purely open-source. > > That's what everyone s

A propos de Votre Annonce

2012-02-21 Thread soukaffaire
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Re: ISO for wheezy

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Can anybody point me to a site where I can download an ISO for wheezy? > > Any help appreciated. First go to: http://www.debian.org/ and then click on "CD ISO images" link in the "Getting Debian" column. That will take you here: http://www.debian.org/CD/ Select t

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:15:13 -0500 Curt Howland wrote: ... > It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work > perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay > purely open-source. That's what everyone says, but it's not as true as it might be. Squeeze is shi

ISO for wheezy

2012-02-21 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Dear All Can anybody point me to a site where I can download an ISO for wheezy? Any help appreciated. Regards -- Sian Mountbatten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://li

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Owens wrote: > You're the second person to recommend Rockbox to me this week. I guess > I'll have to try it out. The voice menus feature sounds very useful. > > I forgot to mention two other features I like about the Clip+. It is > small, and it has real buttons. I can actually operate it

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-21 Thread Jochen Spieker
Rob Owens: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:06:35AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: >> >> +1. I love my Sansa Clip+! I have installed Rockbox on it and >> always use that interface.[1] One of the best features for me is that >> I always turn on accessibility and create voice menus for all of the >> audio

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/21/2012 10:52 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 04:55:14AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moo

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/21/2012 03:42 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 21 feb 12, 04:55:14, Hendrik Boom wrote: I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows takes it on itself to set my clock as if the UCT time were

temperature

2012-02-21 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
Hello, which package to use to see the hardware temperature on AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor and GPU using Debian Squeeze, Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 I use 'sensors' (first I use 'sensors-detect' to detect it) and widgets on KDE Desktop, but there no information about CPU temperature and also

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 04:55:14AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time > > I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows > > takes it on itself to set my clock a

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:06:35AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > By the way, I've gotta say that I'm pretty happy with my Sansa Clip+. > > It was cheap and is Linux friendly. It is seen as a removable drive. > > It works well with Rhythmbox and I can use Rhythmbox to create playl

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread hvw59601
Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:28:44AM -0600, hvw59601 wrote: yudi v wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get gnome (default in tty7) and xfce (in tty1) to run at the sametime. I got as far as launching another x server session and xfce4 with the following command: startx startxfce4

Re: OT: physical dimensions of male DVI connector

2012-02-21 Thread Doug
On 2/20/2012 9:35 PM, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I need to know the outside physical dimensions of the male DVI connector to know the diameter of the hole it will pass through. Unfortunately I do not have one handy; googling far and wide failed to find such d

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2012 21 Feb 11:56 -0600, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I'm just curious, after looking at this thread (but haven't tried). > Could one not start a first X session in one tty, > then go to another (ctrol-alt-#) and login as another user and start a > different X session? Yes. I've done it with KDE 3

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 04:55:14AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time > I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows > takes it on itself to set my clock as if the UCT time were actually local > time. I

Re: New computer planned -- (cleaning old keyboard)

2012-02-21 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 02:19:36PM +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Maybe I should keep the keyboard I am using. > It's not overly clean, but I can live with it. > -- > Sian Mountbatten > Algol 68 specialist Moin mitnanner, How to clean a dirty (fatty) keyboard: ---

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:28:44AM -0600, hvw59601 wrote: > yudi v wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I am trying to get gnome (default in tty7) and xfce (in tty1) to run > >at the sametime. > >I got as far as launching another x server session and xfce4 with the > >following command: > > > >startx startxfce

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:48, Randy Kramer wrote: > On Monday 20 February 2012 10:17:46 am Allan Wind wrote: >> You did not mention monitors but high definition has brought the >> larger ones way down in price.  30" monitors (2560x1600) are >> still in a different price league but to me it is wor

Re: OT: physical dimensions of male DVI connector

2012-02-21 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 02:24:12AM -0200, Kleber Fortaleza wrote: > On Tuesday 21 February 2012 00:35:27 Ken Heard wrote: > > I need to know the outside physical dimensions of the male DVI connector > > to know the diameter of the hole it will pass through. Unfortunately I > > do not have one hand

Re: [OT] how to change the first character into upper case

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > lina wrote: > >Here is what I came up with so far: > > echo "NELSON ARISPE, EDUARDO ROJAS, AND HARVEY B. POLLARD" | sed > > 's/\([A-Z]\)\([A-Z]+\)/\1\L\2/g' > >not work. > > The "+" form for one or more characters is not supported by sed. > This works : > sed 's/\([A-Z]

Re: [OT] how to change the first character into upper case

2012-02-21 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 21/02/12 16:38, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 21/02/12 15:48, lina wrote: Sorry a bit off-topic, but I am stuck with how to tr (googled some ways out, still not work) NELSON ARISPE, EDUARDO ROJAS, AND HARVEY B. POLLARD into Nelson Arispe, Eduardo Rojas, and Harvey B. Pollard Here is what I

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Owens wrote: > By the way, I've gotta say that I'm pretty happy with my Sansa Clip+. > It was cheap and is Linux friendly. It is seen as a removable drive. > It works well with Rhythmbox and I can use Rhythmbox to create playlists > on the Clip+. Even firmware upgrades are Linux friendly. Ju

Re: debian squeeze / lynx / m.facebook.com

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Frederic Robert wrote: > Howard Eisenberger wrote: > > Frederic Robert wrote: > > > I can't use lynx to go to http://m.facebook.com. Is it a > > > compatibility problem? > > This one works here (wheezy). > > ~$ lynx -version > > Lynx Version 2.8.8dev.8 (10 Jan 2011) > > libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1

Re: [OT] how to change the first character into upper case

2012-02-21 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 21/02/12 15:48, lina wrote: Sorry a bit off-topic, but I am stuck with how to tr (googled some ways out, still not work) NELSON ARISPE, EDUARDO ROJAS, AND HARVEY B. POLLARD into Nelson Arispe, Eduardo Rojas, and Harvey B. Pollard Here is what I came up with so far: echo "NELSON ARISPE,

Re: [OT] how to change the first character into upper case

2012-02-21 Thread Dom
On 21/02/12 15:48, lina wrote: Sorry a bit off-topic, but I am stuck with how to tr (googled some ways out, still not work) NELSON ARISPE, EDUARDO ROJAS, AND HARVEY B. POLLARD into Nelson Arispe, Eduardo Rojas, and Harvey B. Pollard Here is what I came up with so far: echo "NELSON ARISPE,

[OT] how to change the first character into upper case

2012-02-21 Thread lina
Sorry a bit off-topic, but I am stuck with how to tr (googled some ways out, still not work) NELSON ARISPE, EDUARDO ROJAS, AND HARVEY B. POLLARD into Nelson Arispe, Eduardo Rojas, and Harvey B. Pollard Here is what I came up with so far: echo "NELSON ARISPE, EDUARDO ROJAS, AND HARVEY B. POLLA

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Randy Kramer
On Monday 20 February 2012 10:17:46 am Allan Wind wrote: > You did not mention monitors but high definition has brought the > larger ones way down in price. 30" monitors (2560x1600) are > still in a different price league but to me it is worth it. If > you are buying a 30" consider one with Displ

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Windows initially gets the time from the hardware clock, but it may also > > get the time from the internet (NTP protocol?). Since your hardware > > It's SNTP nowadays, I believe. Windows ha

Re: Early Bootup Udev Warnings

2012-02-21 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 21 February 2012 16:00:46 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > On Ma, 21 feb 12, 10:07:36, David Baron wrote: > > >> fgrep -ril sysf /etc/udev/* > > >> /etc/udev/permissions.rules.dpkg-bak > > >> /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud.rules > > >> /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud.rules

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time > I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows > takes it on itself to set my clock as if the UCT time were actually local > time. I have no id

Re: how to control fan speed?

2012-02-21 Thread David Roguin
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * David Roguin [120220 13:48 -0300]: > >> Hi, >> >> I feel my notebook is heating up more than usual, what I do is >> manually write those commands >> # echo "1" > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_manual >> # echo "4000" > /sys/de

xfce4-power-manager necessary

2012-02-21 Thread lina
Hi, Is it necessary to install the xfce4-power-manager? I mainly use AC. seldom use battery. Today went outside, so use the battery. install the xfce4-power-manager, xfce4-power-manager-plugins and xfce4-power-manager-data to monitor the battery remaining. My intuitions tell me the power percent

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/21/2012 3:45 AM, Julien Groselle wrote: > Hi Stan, > > First, i tell you a huge thanks ! You're welcome Julien. Sorry I didn't mention it sooner. It took me a little while to figure out exactly what your problem was, due to entering the thread so late. > The ACU software is just what i ne

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Windows initially gets the time from the hardware clock, but it may also > get the time from the internet (NTP protocol?). Since your hardware It's SNTP nowadays, I believe. Windows has never been big on timekeeping. > Of course, the registry hack s

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:35:20PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > It would have to be one of these (but I haven't tested it) > > > > ffmpeg -i somesong.mp3 -acodec vorbis somesong.ogg > > Hmm... On my Lenny machine (please don't ask) it is that one. And it > is very small and v

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread hvw59601
yudi v wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get gnome (default in tty7) and xfce (in tty1) to run at the sametime. I got as far as launching another x server session and xfce4 with the following command: startx startxfce4 -- :1 There are couple of issues I am trying to resolve: 1. when I switch back

Re: Debian SID or Wheezy/SID?

2012-02-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 19 feb 12, 15:25:48, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> > Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> > >> >> Hmm, maybe I should try to get the Release Team's current opinion on >> >> this and suggest a patch for the

Re: Removing hardware identifiers from an existing installation (esp. Grub2)

2012-02-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Jason Heeris wrote: > > A while ago I installed Emdebian (Squeeze) to a compact flash card on a > single board computer. I had not anticipated this, but now I'd like to take > that installation and replicate it on other identical flash cards on other > identical S

Re: Early Bootup Udev Warnings

2012-02-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 feb 12, 07:13:00, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > On Ma, 21 feb 12, 10:07:36, David Baron wrote: > >> > >> fgrep -ril sysf /etc/udev/* > >> /etc/udev/permissions.rules.dpkg-bak > >> /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud.rules > >> /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpm

Re: Early Bootup Udev Warnings

2012-02-21 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 21 feb 12, 10:07:36, David Baron wrote: >> >> fgrep -ril sysf /etc/udev/* >> /etc/udev/permissions.rules.dpkg-bak >> /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud.rules >> /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud.rules.dpkg-old > > Could you please run 'dpkg -S 55-hp

Re: Early Bootup Udev Warnings

2012-02-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 feb 12, 10:07:36, David Baron wrote: > > fgrep -ril sysf /etc/udev/* > /etc/udev/permissions.rules.dpkg-bak > /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud.rules > /etc/udev/rules.d/55-hpmud.rules.dpkg-old Could you please run 'dpkg -S 55-hpmud.rules' on your system? apt-file can't find that file (and I

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 feb 12, 15:33:15, yudi v wrote: > > 1. when I switch back to tty7 X server session in tty1 terminates. How > to fix this? Marc already answered this. > 2. all the start-up applications under Gnome also start in xfce, how > can I completely separate the environments. I would like to ke

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 feb 12, 04:55:14, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time > I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows > takes it on itself to set my clock as if the UCT time were actually local > time. I have no idea

Re: debian squeeze / lynx / m.facebook.com

2012-02-21 Thread Frederic Robert
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:54:27AM +, Howard Eisenberger wrote: > This one works here (wheezy). > ~$ lynx -version > Lynx Version 2.8.8dev.8 (10 Jan 2011) > libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 2.8.6, ncurses 5.7.20100313(wide) > Built on linux-gnu Jan 26 2011 07:15:23 It works with Testing bu

Re: debian squeeze / lynx / m.facebook.com

2012-02-21 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:43:38AM +, Frederic Robert wrote: > I can't use lynx to go to http://m.facebook.com. Is it a > compatibility problem? This one works here (wheezy). ~$ lynx -version Lynx Version 2.8.8dev.8 (10 Jan 2011) libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, GNUTLS 2.8.6, ncurses 5.7.201003

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 feb 12, 19:38:30, Doug wrote: > After the plug game, the k/b works fine, and I never used a numberpad > anyway--all my boards have numbers on the top row--don't all of them? Yes, but the numpad is very efficient if you have to input a lot of numbers. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic d

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-21 Thread Julien Groselle
Hi Stan, First, i tell you a huge thanks ! The ACU software is just what i need to better administrate hardware. Just one problem, the dependecies will "dirty" my server : # aptitude install lib32gcc1 Les NOUVEAUX paquets suivants vont être installés : lib32gcc1 libc6-i386{a} # dpkg -i lib32st

Re: quick and dirty backup

2012-02-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On 20/02/12 15:54, Rob Owens wrote: I'd also exclude lost+found If there's anything in there, then it could have been recovered from anywhere on the filesystem, and could be valuable. I'd include it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On 21/02/12 05:00, Kousik Maiti wrote: May be the problem is with your motherboard battery... not OS ... That only manifests itself when he boots into Windows? No, this is a well-known problem, it's Windows. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to control fan speed?

2012-02-21 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* David Roguin [120220 13:48 -0300]: > Hi, > > I feel my notebook is heating up more than usual, what I do is > manually write those commands > # echo "1" > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_manual > # echo "4000" > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/fan1_output Is your laptop an Apple one

Re: how to control fan speed?

2012-02-21 Thread Alberto Luaces
Alberto Luaces writes: > David Roguin writes: > >> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: >>> David Roguin writes: >>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: > David Roguin writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I feel my notebook is heating up more than us

Early Bootup Udev Warnings

2012-02-21 Thread David Baron
Get, very early on bootup so do not have them available later in dmesg or logs, warnings about discontinued rules syntax. This concerns ATTR and SYSF There are a number of rules files containing this ~$ fgrep -ril attr /etc/udev/* /etc/udev/permissions.rules.dpkg-bak /etc/udev/rules.d/10-vboxdrv

Re: how to control fan speed?

2012-02-21 Thread Alberto Luaces
David Roguin writes: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: >> David Roguin writes: >> >>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Alberto Luaces wrote: David Roguin writes: > Hi, > > I feel my notebook is heating up more than usual, what I do is > manually wri

Re: Simultaneous desktop environments (Gnome and xfce) in two X server sessions.

2012-02-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/20/12 21:33, yudi v wrote: Hi all, I am trying to get gnome (default in tty7) and xfce (in tty1) to run at the sametime. I got as far as launching another x server session and xfce4 with the following command: startx startxfce4 -- :1 There are couple of issues I am trying to resolve: 1.