Re: Linux TV tuner

2012-04-10 Thread Dom
On 11/04/12 07:09, Alan Chandler wrote: On 10/04/12 22:24, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 10 April 2012 21:50:44 Sian Mountbatten wrote: I have decided to get a USB TV tuner so that I can use it with my sid(uction) box. I am in the UK. Will I need a TV licence? I think so. But I also believe that you

Re: TV with Linux

2012-04-10 Thread Alan Chandler
On 11/04/12 06:04, Dom wrote: I have been using MythTV from the debian-multimedia repository for about 6 years now, (they have xbmc pre-compiled too), on an old PC with four PCI digital TV tuner cards in. MythTV can record multiple (adjacent) channels on each card - I've got mine set to a max

Re: Linux TV tuner

2012-04-10 Thread Alan Chandler
On 10/04/12 22:24, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 10 April 2012 21:50:44 Sian Mountbatten wrote: I have decided to get a USB TV tuner so that I can use it with my sid(uction) box. I am in the UK. Will I need a TV licence? I think so. But I also believe that you can get round it by watching iPlayer etc

Re: skype?

2012-04-10 Thread Alan Chandler
On 09/04/12 12:08, Brian wrote: On Mon 09 Apr 2012 at 10:09:59 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 09/04/12 08:22, Scott Ferguson wrote: SIP will currently work with the Skype network - if being able to communicate is your only requirement. This is interesting. Do you mean I could install SIP

Re: remote mysql is too slow

2012-04-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Jumping back in (late) in this thread... > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > # free -m > > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > > Mem: 7986 7913 73 0224 6133 > > > -/+ buffers/cache: 1554

Re: Unstable: Gimp requires dbus and gconf2 now? fail.

2012-04-10 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 02:58, Dirk wrote: > Hello, > > can we please stay clear of all cancers Havoc Pennington has done? That seems unnecessarily rude. > HAL was shit and got replaced. It was better than what came before it . > dbus and gconf2 are just as shit and will be replaced too. Gcon

Re: OT: Need help compiling C files

2012-04-10 Thread T Elcor
--- On Tue, 4/10/12, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I don't know how one would get over this. It is possible > that you are > caught in the midst of a transition, but I am not sure. > > Should you just want the stdio.h header, maybe getting > libc6-dev > should do. You could try installing just that. T

Re: skype?

2012-04-10 Thread Doug
On 04/11/2012 12:15 AM, daniel jimenez wrote: It is shameful that, so many years after the digital revolution, proprietary formats such as those championed by microsoft are *mandated* by the industry, educational institutions and (in mexico at least) government departments. In fact, I recently

Re: remote mysql is too slow

2012-04-10 Thread J. Bakshi
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:24:47 +0100 "Karl E. Jorgensen" wrote: > > > > > > # free -m > > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > > Mem: 7986 7913 73 0224 6133 > > > -/+ buffers/cache: 1554 6431 > >

Re: TV with Linux

2012-04-10 Thread Dom
On 10/04/12 23:41, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Hi All The subject is pretty confusing. I've ordered a Hauppauge DVD-T Nova-T USB stick and I've downloaded a 7zip file with all the firmware files required. I've been able to check that the firmware for the Nova-T is now installed in /lib/firmware. Wha

Re: OT: Need help compiling C files

2012-04-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 09:45:14PM -0700, T Elcor wrote: > I'm on Wheezy, installing build-essential appears to be a bit problematic: > > # aptitude install make gcc build-essential > The following NEW packages will be installed: > build-essential bzip2{a} dpkg-dev{a} g++{a} g++-4.6{a} libc-dev

Re: OT: Need help compiling C files

2012-04-10 Thread T Elcor
--- On Tue, 4/10/12, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > It works for me. > > Please try sudo apt-get install build-essential and then try > again; the > headers might not be present. I'm on Wheezy, installing build-essential appears to be a bit problematic: # aptitude install make gcc build-essential The

Re: skype?

2012-04-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/04/12 11:04, Christian wrote: > On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:03:28 -0500, Scott Ferguson > wrote: > >> >> Note also that Skype is encrypted, but Skype has a history of handing >> out the private key. > > The term "handing out" makes me curious. Who exactly are they handing it > out to? Law e

Re: OT: Need help compiling C files

2012-04-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 09:10:56PM -0700, T Elcor wrote: > Any ideas why I'm getting these errors while trying to compile F3 flash > memory test program? The source is at: > http://oss.digirati.com.br/f3/ > > Tried adding "-I /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/include" option, without > quotes

Re: skype?

2012-04-10 Thread daniel jimenez
It is shameful that, so many years after the digital revolution, proprietary formats such as those championed by microsoft are *mandated* by the industry, educational institutions and (in mexico at least) government departments. In fact, I recently had problems with my yearly tax declaration due to

OT: Need help compiling C files

2012-04-10 Thread T Elcor
Hi, Any ideas why I'm getting these errors while trying to compile F3 flash memory test program? The source is at: http://oss.digirati.com.br/f3/ Tried adding "-I /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/include" option, without quotes, but that didn't help. I'm not a C/C++ developer at all. Thanks

Re: What files to backup

2012-04-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Brad Alexander wrote: > Mat Enders wrote: > > Is there anything else that should be included. I find /var/backups to contain very useful information such as the names and versions of all packages that are installed which is useful to a recovery. Here is a minimum list for me. /etc /home /u

Re: rtl8188ce in Debian Sid

2012-04-10 Thread wolf python london
On 11 April 2012 09:17, Mat Enders wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:06 PM, wolf python london > wrote: >> On 11 April 2012 00:31, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:19:28 +0800, wolf python london wrote: >>> Hey  everyone there,> http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x My laptopn

Re: debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

2012-04-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Andre Majorel wrote: > One of the releases I'm debmirror-ing (Lenny) has disappeared > from the mirror I'm mirroring off. Before I remove that release > from the debmirror command line, I'd like to save those packages > somewhere. I am in exactly the same situation. I have some special cases that

Re: ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-10 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 21:42 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 21:10 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Martin T wrote: > > > > It's a well known fact that even most(with exceptions

Re: rtl8188ce in Debian Sid

2012-04-10 Thread Mat Enders
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:06 PM, wolf python london wrote: > On 11 April 2012 00:31, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:19:28 +0800, wolf python london wrote: >> >>> Hey  everyone there,> http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x >>> >>> My laptopn ships with a realtek 8188ce chipset.But It often dis

Re: What files to backup

2012-04-10 Thread Brad Alexander
What I do for my mysql boxes is that I wrote a script to do a mysqldump, since I don't think that restoring /var/lib/mysql will work cleanly. You can then do a pre-command to dump the db before the backup: $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd} = '$sshPath -q -x $host sudo /usr/local/sbin/dbdump'; --b On Tue, A

Re: rtl8188ce in Debian Sid

2012-04-10 Thread wolf python london
On 11 April 2012 00:31, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:19:28 +0800, wolf python london wrote: > >> Hey  everyone there,> http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x >> >> My laptopn ships with a realtek 8188ce chipset.But It often disconnects >> from my  wireless router. I'm not sure whether it's the

Re: skype?

2012-04-10 Thread Christian
On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:03:28 -0500, Scott Ferguson wrote: I am concerned with the "big brother" privacy, Then, sadly, Ekiga is *not* the answer for your needs as it doesn't support encryption. (one of the reasons it's not a fit for my needs). Kphone, Jitsi, Mumble, QuteCom, Linphone,

Re: skype?

2012-04-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/04/12 02:39, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Scott Ferguson [120410 > 15:48]: >> On 10/04/12 04:24, Russell L. Harris wrote: >>> I am concerned with the "big brother" privacy, > ... >> Note also that Skype is encrypted, but Skype has a history of >> handing out the private key. > > Which preci

Re: ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 21:10 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Martin T wrote: > > > It's a well known fact that even most(with exceptions like ASR1K) of > > > the high-end Cisco or Juniper routers handle ICMP traffi

Re: What files to backup

2012-04-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:07:50 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > I have three standard Debian Squeeze systems and am setting up Backuppc > to backup to an extra hard drive I have on one of the systems. I plan on > backing up the following directories: > /etc /home /var/www (An Apache server resides o

Re: What files to backup

2012-04-10 Thread Mat Enders
If you have mysql installed then also /var/lib/mysql Sorry about the top post but BlackBerry only does top posting Mat Enders from my BlackBerry® -Original Message- From: Gary Roach Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:07:50 To: Subject: What files to backup I have three standard Debian Squeeze

What files to backup

2012-04-10 Thread Gary Roach
I have three standard Debian Squeeze systems and am setting up Backuppc to backup to an extra hard drive I have on one of the systems. I plan on backing up the following directories: /etc /home /var/www (An Apache server resides on one of the systems) Is there anything else that sho

Re: ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/04/12 02:07, Martin T wrote: > It's a well known fact that even most(with exceptions like ASR1K) of > the high-end Cisco or Juniper routers handle ICMP traffic in routing > engines not in ASIC's Debian is software - so I can be relied on to never use ASICs ;-p > How prioritized is ICMP ha

Re: Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem (CLOSED)

2012-04-10 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: El 2012-04-08 a las 20:26 -0700, Gary Roach escribió: (resending to the list) On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serv

Re: ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-10 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 21:10 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Martin T wrote: > > It's a well known fact that even most(with exceptions like ASR1K) of > > the high-end Cisco or Juniper routers handle ICMP traffic in routing > > engines not in ASIC's which means that t

Re: ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Martin T wrote: > It's a well known fact that even most(with exceptions like ASR1K) of > the high-end Cisco or Juniper routers handle ICMP traffic in routing > engines not in ASIC's which means that they share the CPU time with > other processes. How prioritized is ICMP handlin

Re: TV with Linux

2012-04-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:41:57PM +0100, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Hi All > > The subject is pretty confusing. I've ordered a Hauppauge DVD-T > Nova-T USB stick and I've downloaded a 7zip file with all the > firmware files required. I've been able to check that the firmware > for the Nova-T is no

Re: help about wine

2012-04-10 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:57:52AM -0400, Yaritza Gomez Villa wrote: > Hi, > I'm having problem installing Office 2007 under Wine on Debian (64 bits) > when I click the install button I get an endless list of errors in the > terminal, > 7-Zip 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 20

TV with Linux

2012-04-10 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Hi All The subject is pretty confusing. I've ordered a Hauppauge DVD-T Nova-T USB stick and I've downloaded a 7zip file with all the firmware files required. I've been able to check that the firmware for the Nova-T is now installed in /lib/firmware. What now? Ok, eventually the TV tuner will

Re: Linux TV tuner

2012-04-10 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 10/04/12 22:40, Steven Jan Springl wrote: On Tuesday 10 Apr 2012 21:50:44 Sian Mountbatten wrote: I have decided to get a USB TV tuner so that I can use it with my sid(uction) box. I am in the UK. Will I need a TV licence? Sian See: http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topic

Re: Linux TV tuner

2012-04-10 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 10/04/12 22:30, Lisi wrote: On Tuesday 10 April 2012 21:50:44 Sian Mountbatten wrote: I have decided to get a USB TV tuner so that I can use it with my sid(uction) box. I am in the UK. Will I need a TV licence? I think so. But I also believe that you can get round it by watching iPlayer et

Re: Networking borked on new squeeze install [SOLVED]

2012-04-10 Thread Mat Enders
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 10/04/12 12:38, Mat Enders wrote: >> Here is a stumper.  I just completed a brand new installation of >> Debian, during installation it could not reach the repositories so >> only a base installation was completed. >> >> I am logged direc

Re: Linux TV tuner

2012-04-10 Thread Steven Jan Springl
On Tuesday 10 Apr 2012 21:50:44 Sian Mountbatten wrote: > I have decided to get a USB TV tuner so that I can use it with my > sid(uction) box. I am in the UK. Will I need a TV licence? Sian See: http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/understanding-your- tv-licence-top3/ Stev

Re: Linux TV tuner

2012-04-10 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 10 April 2012 21:50:44 Sian Mountbatten wrote: > I have decided to get a USB TV tuner so that I can use it with my > sid(uction) box. I am in the UK. Will I need a TV licence? I think so. But I also believe that you can get round it by watching iPlayer etc. over the internet. IANL of

Linux TV tuner

2012-04-10 Thread Sian Mountbatten
I have decided to get a USB TV tuner so that I can use it with my sid(uction) box. I am in the UK. Will I need a TV licence? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.deb

debmirror: saving old release before clean-up

2012-04-10 Thread Andre Majorel
One of the releases I'm debmirror-ing (Lenny) has disappeared from the mirror I'm mirroring off. Before I remove that release from the debmirror command line, I'd like to save those packages somewhere. First thought is to generate a list of file names from dists/lenny/*/binary-i386/Packages.gz and

Re: nepomuk, tracker - why such CPU and memory hungry beasts are installed automatically?

2012-04-10 Thread David Baron
It is time that KDE (and Gnome) background services ran nicely niced out of the way but this is still, after all this time, not the case. I have long disabled Nepomuk and use Recoll instead. Indexing daemon (option) runs niced and one does not know it is running. It simply works. I have a runne

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-10 Thread Brian
On Tue 10 Apr 2012 at 09:07:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > That led me to assume that the "business card" image would just go ahead > and download the rest of the "netinst" image. How much control does user > have over what it downloads? Total control. You lever the power of Free Software. M

Re: Unstable: Gimp requires dbus and gconf2 now? fail.

2012-04-10 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:58:17 +, Dirk wrote: (...) > I am sick and tired of having to see his bullshit daemons... :( All of the above sounded a bit rude >:-/ > Luckily I am using unstable can warn everyone who cares about this > shitstorm. Can you point to that hard requirement? Just curiou

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-10 Thread Curt Howland
Joey Hess wrote: > No, the businesscard image has never contained the Debian > base system; it has always required a network connection to > download and install Debian. Please go find a Woody Business Card image and try it. Business Card images since Woody all refuse to continue unless they can

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-10 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Jon, Jon Dowland wrote: > You don't have to install every package that is in the netinst image. Indeed > if you do a basic install (including the 'standard system' task, which > defaults > to selected) you don't get GCC, for example, despite it being on the CD. Of course not, but Richard

Re: skype?

2012-04-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Scott Ferguson [120410 15:48]: > On 10/04/12 04:24, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > I am concerned with the "big brother" privacy, ... > Note also that Skype is encrypted, but Skype has a history of handing > out the private key. Which precisely is my concern. The greater the diversity of tran

Re: rtl8188ce in Debian Sid

2012-04-10 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:19:28 +0800, wolf python london wrote: > Hey everyone there,> http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x > > My laptopn ships with a realtek 8188ce chipset.But It often disconnects > from my wireless router. I'm not sure whether it's the problem of > hardware(chipset) or the driver a

Re: help about wine

2012-04-10 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, aL wrote: > On 10/04/12 16:57, Yaritza Gomez Villa wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm having problem installing Office 2007 under Wine on Debian (64 bits) >> when I click the install button I get an endless list of errors in the >> terminal, >> *7-Zip 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 03:10:07PM +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > The business card CD images contain even fewer packages, but you > should consider that compilers and headers are often important parts > of a system (for example, if you want to compile non-free drivers). > Additionally, many people

ICMP handling in Linux

2012-04-10 Thread Martin T
It's a well known fact that even most(with exceptions like ASR1K) of the high-end Cisco or Juniper routers handle ICMP traffic in routing engines not in ASIC's which means that they share the CPU time with other processes. How prioritized is ICMP handling in modern Linux 2.6 and newer kernels? Is i

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-10 Thread Joey Hess
Curt Howland wrote: > It used to be that the Business-card and Net-install images would do a > base install without a network connection No, the businesscard image has never contained the Debian base system; it has always required a network connection to download and install Debian. > "Expert" mo

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-10 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:52:15 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 03:49:08PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> What problem could I have? Everybody can have their opinion and express >> it. I do also have mine and thus encourage you to avoid reading my >> posts given that you seem to find t

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 03:49:08PM +, Camaleón wrote: > What problem could I have? Everybody can have their opinion and express > it. I do also have mine and thus encourage you to avoid reading my posts > given that you seem to find them offensive. I don't, and never said that, but I can see

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-10 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:22:05 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 03:14:49PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> If you're so worried, apply for a newbie-sitter job. > > What exactly is that? It was a pun meaning "a person who cares about newbies". >> Still, you failed to reply what was "m

Re: help about wine

2012-04-10 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 10/04/12 16:57, Yaritza Gomez Villa wrote: Hi, I'm having problem installing Office 2007 under Wine on Debian (64 bits) when I click the install button I get an endless list of errors in the terminal, *7-Zip 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-05-30 p7zip Version 9.04 (locale=en

help about wine

2012-04-10 Thread Yaritza Gomez Villa
Hi, I'm having problem installing Office 2007 under Wine on Debian (64 bits) when I click the install button I get an endless list of errors in the terminal, 7-Zip 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-05-30 p7zip Version 9.04 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs)

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 03:14:49PM +, Camaleón wrote: > If you're so worried, apply for a newbie-sitter job. What exactly is that? > Still, you failed to reply what was "misleading". Sigh. Indeed, I haven't taken the time to go back and pick out the ones that caught my attention in particula

What ISO file to download (was: Need some help!)

2012-04-10 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:27:43 +0100, Ιάσονας Παπαδόπουλος wrote: (next time better choose a more descriptive subject to catch people's attention... and no html, please ;-) ) > I am a bit confused here. When i go download the full debian DVD for my > USB thumb (8 GB) it sends me to this website (

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-10 Thread Curt Howland
Please forgive the direct reply, I get the Debian-User list digest, and any reply I make will "break the thread" anyway. Like you, I enjoy a "minimalist" install, at least at first. Let me give you my experiences with the various Debian install styles. It used to be that the Business-card and Net

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-10 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:53:19 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 02:43:51PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> > If you don't know, please refrain from guessing! >> >> Refrain yourself from reading :-/ > > I'm not at significant risk of being (unintentionally) misled by you: > newbies are

Re: nepomuk, tracker - why such CPU and memory hungry beasts are installed automatically?

2012-04-10 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:17:44 +0200, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: > A few months ago, my 4-core Dell Vostro 3750 running debian/testing > started to be awfully slow. I discovered, that this is caused by > "nepomuk-services" in KDE and spent some time to disable them for all > users (as there was no opti

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 02:43:51PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > If you don't know, please refrain from guessing! > > Refrain yourself from reading :-/ I'm not at significant risk of being (unintentionally) misled by you: newbies are. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-10 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:00:44 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On 09/04/12 17:54, Camaleón wrote: >> Look at "man gpg", there must be also an option here for verifiying the >> signature. > > On the one hand, I think the energy and enthusiasm to which you bring to > helping people on -user is admirable.

Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-10 Thread Nick White
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 01:25:27PM +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Thank you! I didn't see your post until after I ordered a Pocketbook. :( Darn it - debian-user is hard to keep on top of; sorry I didn't answer sooner. > Right now, I plan to install an ssh server and busybox on my new devi

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-10 Thread Christian Dysthe
On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:30:29 -0500, Bob Proulx wrote: No one gains anything from it. Why does anyone do any of the bad things that they do? But that doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. People do spoof messages. It is a fact. If I am good for nothing else in this life then at least I can b

Re: nepomuk, tracker - why such CPU and memory hungry beasts are installed automatically?

2012-04-10 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 05:17, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: > Hi, > > A few months ago, my 4-core Dell Vostro 3750 running debian/testing started > to be awfully slow. I discovered, that this is caused by "nepomuk-services" > in KDE and spent some time to disable them for all users (as there was no > o

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-10 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Richard, Richard Owlett wrote: > That led me to assume that the "business card" image would > just go ahead and download the rest of the "netinst" image. I think it downloads less, but I cannot guarantee that. > How much control does user have over what it downloads? You can abort the

rtl8188ce in Debian Sid

2012-04-10 Thread wolf python london
Hey everyone there,> http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x My laptopn ships with a realtek 8188ce chipset.But It often disconnects from my wireless router. I'm not sure whether it's the problem of hardware(chipset) or the driver and firmware in Debian Sid. I did reference this page** http://wiki.debian

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-10 Thread Richard Owlett
Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Richard, Richard Owlett wrote: I've browsed through debian-6.0.4-i386-netinst.list. It appears to contains files of unlikely interest to me (C compiler and header files, firewire, traceroute, etc). The business card CD images contain even fewer packages, but you s

Re: When will Debian 7.0 with Linux Kernel 3.x be Released?

2012-04-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 05:29:47PM +0800, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote: > I am not putting pressure on Debian to change. Sorry... I do not feel pressure from your postings. Debian practically release new system every 6 hours :-) See "Life with eternal upgrades": http://www.debian.org/d

Re: netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-10 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Richard, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've browsed through debian-6.0.4-i386-netinst.list. It > appears to contains files of unlikely interest to me (C > compiler and header files, firewire, traceroute, etc). The business card CD images contain even fewer packages, but you should consider tha

netinst CD image - too big, vaguely specified?

2012-04-10 Thread Richard Owlett
http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#netinst says in part: "This single CD contains *just the minimal amount* of software to start the installation and fetch the remaining packages over the Internet." [emphasis *added*] I've browsed through debian-6.0.4-i386-netinst.list. It appears to contains file

Re: nepomuk, tracker - why such CPU and memory hungry beasts are installed automatically?

2012-04-10 Thread Wojtek Zabolotny
On 10.04.2012 14:17, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote: Hi, A few months ago, my 4-core Dell Vostro 3750 running debian/testing started to be awfully slow. I discovered, that this is caused by "nepomuk-services" in KDE and spent some time to disable them for all users (as there was no option to disable it

nepomuk, tracker - why such CPU and memory hungry beasts are installed automatically?

2012-04-10 Thread Wojtek Zabolotny
Hi, A few months ago, my 4-core Dell Vostro 3750 running debian/testing started to be awfully slow. I discovered, that this is caused by "nepomuk-services" in KDE and spent some time to disable them for all users (as there was no option to disable it globally and deinstallation was also not poss

Re: remote mysql is too slow

2012-04-10 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Jumping back in (late) in this thread... On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 19:51 +0100, Bob Proulx wrote: > J. Bakshi wrote: > > Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > J. Bakshi wrote: > > > > I have been provided a muscular linux server to use as a Mysql server > > > > in our organization. The server is located jus

Re: Unstable: Gimp requires dbus and gconf2 now? fail.

2012-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On 10/04/12 10:58, Dirk wrote: > dbus and gconf2 are just as shit and will be replaced too. Last I heard dbus was going strong - even looking at offloading work to the kernel (harnessing existing kernel messaging systems e.g. netlink) to improve performance. I grudgingly use GIMP but wish I didn'

Unstable: Gimp requires dbus and gconf2 now? fail.

2012-04-10 Thread Dirk
Hello, can we please stay clear of all cancers Havoc Pennington has done? HAL was shit and got replaced. dbus and gconf2 are just as shit and will be replaced too. ...if necessary with gentoo. I am sick and tired of having to see his bullshit daemons... :( Luckily I am using unstable can w

Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-10 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
Hi Nick! Thank you! I didn't see your post until after I ordered a Pocketbook. :( I've seen the OpenInkpot project, but I decided against it, reasoning it was still in very early development and didn't support many devices. Right now, I plan to install an ssh server and busybox on my new device,

Re: Re: Re: Bonded network: "No route to host" between slaves

2012-04-10 Thread Seyyed Mohtadin Hashemi
> > Seyyed Mohtadin Hashemi wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Is there some reason that you are choosing not to use a switch that > > > you haven't told us about? > > > > I have no reason other than I'm trying different network configurations to > > learn how to do different things. I already have

Re: Need some help!

2012-04-10 Thread keith
Ιάσονας Παπαδόπουλος wrote: I am a bit confused here. When i go download the full debian DVD for my USB thumb (8 GB) it sends me to this website ( http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.4/i386/bt-dvd/ ) which has 8 iso files. does that mean that i have to install them in a row (like the game

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On 09/04/12 17:54, Camaleón wrote: > Look at "man gpg", there must be also an option here for verifiying the > signature. On the one hand, I think the energy and enthusiasm to which you bring to helping people on -user is admirable. On the other, sometimes your replies are information-free, or e

Re: [OT] Manually verifying PGP/MIME signature with GPG

2012-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On 09/04/12 17:48, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > To verify PGP/MIME > vs inline is the same if you were using the GPG or PGP command to verify > a clearsigned file or not. With PGP/MIME you'd have to save the original > email which would in a multi-part MIME email be an attachment itself, > just the fir

Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-10 Thread Nick White
Hi Panayiotis, I too like the idea of e-readers, without spying, adverts, and other freedom impeding 'features.' The Kobo and the Bookeen (recommended earlier in this thread) both look like they use the linux kernel and busybox, so offer source for those, but are otherwise quite proprietary. I ca

Re: Need some help!

2012-04-10 Thread Mika Suomalainen
On 10.04.2012 10:27, Ιάσονας Παπαδόπουλος wrote: > I am a bit confused here. When i go download the full debian DVD for my > USB thumb (8 GB) it sends me to this website ( > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.4/i386/bt-dvd/ ) which has 8 iso > files. does that mean that i have to install them