OT: script to remove linked directories containing specific files

2012-05-17 Thread Brian Flaherty
Good evening, I have moved away from iTunes back to organizing my own music. The main music directory contains several kinds of files: ogg, mp3, flac, aiff. I want to create a subdirectory that only contains links (I assume soft.) to the directories containing only ogg and mp3 files. For exampl

Re: creating /dev/dsp in a standard way

2012-05-17 Thread Dan Hitt
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > ok, so i was much too quick on the draw in posting this problem. > > There's a sound faq for debian >   http://wiki.debian.org/SoundFAQ > which advises installing the package oss_compat. > > I did >   sudo apt-get install oss_compat Ack!!! that

Re: creating /dev/dsp in a standard way

2012-05-17 Thread Dan Hitt
ok, so i was much too quick on the draw in posting this problem. There's a sound faq for debian http://wiki.debian.org/SoundFAQ which advises installing the package oss_compat. I did sudo apt-get install oss_compat and it created /dev/dsp, and snd and gnusound now make a sound. Sorry for t

creating /dev/dsp in a standard way

2012-05-17 Thread Dan Hitt
I'm trying out different sound editors on debian 6.0.4 ("squeeze"). Some of them work fine right out of the box (mhwaveedit and kwave) and some won't play sound (gnusound and snd). (So no matter what, i know that hardware shouldn't be an issue since i can play sound from some software without any

Re: Script request for files truncating with genisoimage

2012-05-17 Thread Sharon Kimble
With help from the program creator I've succeeded in using datapacker, and now know that directory mentioned above will need three DVD's. The correct command is ;- datapacker -b ~/Music/irish_celtic_music_collection_version_2/%03d -s 4000m -a hardlink ~/Music/irish_celtic_music_collection_version_

Re: OT: language (was: Re: something about rm)

2012-05-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/05/12 05:25 PM, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 17 May 2012 20:52:36 Kelly Clowers wrote: Unlike those (and similar invented things), "they" doesn't sound horrible and ridiculously artificial. To many of us, it does. It grates badly. I have no problem at all with (s)he, I also contend that "it'

Re: OT: language (was: Re: something about rm)

2012-05-17 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 17 May 2012 22:52:36 Kelly Clowers wrote: > I have no data for this, but I would be willing to bet that singular > they is in more widespread use in American English than any of > the invented words. Probably also more common than "it" for > unknown-but-present gender. Possibly! Don't

Re: OT: language (was: Re: something about rm)

2012-05-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Thursday 17 May 2012 20:52:36 Kelly Clowers wrote: >> Unlike those (and similar invented things), "they" doesn't sound >> horrible and ridiculously artificial. > > To many of us, it does.  It grates badly.  I have no problem at all with > (s)he, I

Re: OT: language (was: Re: something about rm)

2012-05-17 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 17 May 2012 20:52:36 Kelly Clowers wrote: > Unlike those (and similar invented things), "they" doesn't sound > horrible and ridiculously artificial. To many of us, it does. It grates badly. I have no problem at all with (s)he, I also contend that "it's she" is perfectly acceptable a

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-05-17 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, Mar 28 2012, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Hmm... I guess I'm going to have to test it in a minimal environment > where I'm reasonably sure there can't be some "clever" daemon > interfering while trying to do something useful. Hi, Did you find the solution? And if yes, what was it? --

Re: OT: language (was: Re: something about rm)

2012-05-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:07 AM, keith wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2012 17:33:45 +0100 > Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> It would be much better to originate a new word, such as "heshe", or >> "shehe", and "hisher", instead of overloading an existing plural. Unlike those (and similar invented things)

Re: OT: language (was: Re: something about rm)

2012-05-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 05:33:45PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > It would be much better to originate a new word, such as "heshe", or > "shehe", and "hisher", instead of overloading an existing plural. Egan proposed/used 've', 'ver', 'vim' etc. in the book "Diaspora". I was never clear what ru

Re: 6.0.5 ia64 network card question

2012-05-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/17/2012 8:59 AM, Bill Mclain wrote: > Actually I meant ia64, but I got it working. Thanks for all the help! Into which/whose Itanium server did you install this Best Buy NIC? Seems strange to install such an el cheapo NIC into an $8-$10K (minimum) server. -- Stan > Bill McLain > Windows E

Re: OT: language (was: Re: something about rm)

2012-05-17 Thread keith
On Thu, 17 May 2012 17:33:45 +0100 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > It would be much better to originate a new word, such as "heshe", or > "shehe", and "hisher", instead of overloading an existing plural. One does normally use 's/he'. :) -- keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Wheezy: Err http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main Translation-en 404 Not Found [IP: 128.61.240.89 80]

2012-05-17 Thread T Elcor
Hi, Started to have problems safe-upgrading wheezy several day ago. Any ideas? Thanks # aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy InRelease Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates InReleas

Re: rsync

2012-05-17 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 03/03/2012 06:24 πμ, lina wrote: > On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:54 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> lina wrote: >>> Is it wrong when use >>> >>> rsync -azvu source destination >>> >>> sent 16 bytes received 43 bytes 5.13 bytes/sec >>> total size is 1507939808 speedup is 25558301.83 >>> >>> Destination $

Re: something about rm

2012-05-17 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 17/05/2012 04:05 μμ, Gary Dale wrote: > On 17/05/12 03:48 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >> On 17/05/2012 06:20 πμ, Gary Dale wrote: >>> On 16/05/12 08:50 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:48:56PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 16/05/12 12:49 PM, lina wrote: >> Hi,

Re: OT: language (was: Re: something about rm)

2012-05-17 Thread rjc
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 05:33:45PM BST, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 17/05/12 17:23, rjc wrote: > > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 04:59:40PM BST, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > >>> On 17/05/12 03:48 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > On 17/05/2

Re: OT: language (was: Re: something about rm)

2012-05-17 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 17/05/12 17:23, rjc wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 04:59:40PM BST, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Gary Dale wrote: >>> On 17/05/12 03:48 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: On 17/05/2012 06:20 πμ, Gary Dale wrote: > > I suspect that file recovery is hi

Re: something about rm

2012-05-17 Thread rjc
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 01:50:12AM BST, Tony Baldwin wrote: > I was kind of thinking the same thing...rm to umount a remote dir? > But, shouldn't it be > fusermount -u > ?? fusermount is, as the name suggests, for (un)mounting FUSE filesystems. > This is what I use if mounting remote dirs with s

Re: OT: language (was: Re: something about rm)

2012-05-17 Thread rjc
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 04:59:40PM BST, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > > On 17/05/12 03:48 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > >> > >> On 17/05/2012 06:20 πμ, Gary Dale wrote: > >>> > >>> I suspect that file recovery is his current priority. > >>> > >>> >

OT: language (was: Re: something about rm)

2012-05-17 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 17/05/12 03:48 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >> >> On 17/05/2012 06:20 πμ, Gary Dale wrote: >>> >>> I suspect that file recovery is his current priority. >>> >>> >> It's a "she". :-) >> > "It's"? Shouldn't that be "He's a she"?  ;) These d

Re: chroot or virtual machine

2012-05-17 Thread Chris Davies
Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:15:26AM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: >> However, what I cannot see is what configuration I need to do [...] >> What else do I need to do? I assumed I needed to create /home/chroot/test, >> so I did that. But now what? > I think you probably need to a

Re: OT: More about GPG signing

2012-05-17 Thread Mika Suomalainen
13.05.2012 14:31, Andrei POPESCU kirjoitti: > On Vi, 11 mai 12, 17:49:30, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> >> & on the strength of that message, Slavko, it gave me great pleasure to >> import & sign your key :-) > > Don't sign other keys unless you have met the owner in person. > > Kind regards, > Andrei B

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-17 Thread Mika Suomalainen
13.05.2012 10:26, Andrei POPESCU kirjoitti: > @Mika: > At least in my experience Mailman is NOT breaking GPG/MIME. I know of at > least 4 different Mailman installations (including > lists.alioth.debian.org) that work fine. At least it doesn't work on gnupg-user nor enigmail nor lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Spam complaints

2012-05-17 Thread Noof
On 17/05/12 09:51, Clive Standbridge wrote: > To anyone who is bothered by spam on the list and is unsure what to do, > please: > > DON'T reply to the spam. > > DON'T quote the spam. > > DO Read how to report the spam at > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#ads in particular, find the > offendi

Re: something about rm

2012-05-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/05/12 03:48 AM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: On 17/05/2012 06:20 πμ, Gary Dale wrote: On 16/05/12 08:50 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:48:56PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 16/05/12 12:49 PM, lina wrote: Hi, Today I made some mistake, I mount the remote server my home

Re: Spam filter -please !

2012-05-17 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 17 May 2012 12:03:40 Tom Rausner wrote: > I wanted you to see how it looked like, uncut. The problem is that that confuses the spam filter. Never quote or reply to a spam email. But none of us was born knowing that! ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Spam filter -please !

2012-05-17 Thread Tom Rausner
Hi tor, 17 05 2012 kl. 10:54 +0100, skrev Darac Marjal: > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:45:25AM +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: > >Hi Administrators of this list > > Actually, you've reached the users of the list. As mentioned at > http://lists.debian.org, the maintainers are contactable at > listarchi

Re: chroot or virtual machine

2012-05-17 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:15:26AM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/schroot.pdf > > However, what I cannot see is what configuration I need to do to make > it work. I've uncommented (and tweaked slightly) what looks like the > most basic configu

Re: Spam filter -please !

2012-05-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:45:25AM +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: >Hi Administrators of this list Actually, you've reached the users of the list. As mentioned at http://lists.debian.org, the maintainers are contactable at listarchi...@debian.org. > >Don't you think this list needs a spam filt

Re: chroot or virtual machine

2012-05-17 Thread Chris Davies
Roger Leigh wrote: > http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/schroot.pdf As a curious party (i.e. not the original poster) I've taken a look at this and installed it. Thank you Roger for the pointer. However, what I cannot see is what configuration I need to do to make it work. I've uncommented (and tw

Spam complaints

2012-05-17 Thread Clive Standbridge
To anyone who is bothered by spam on the list and is unsure what to do, please: DON'T reply to the spam. DON'T quote the spam. DO Read how to report the spam at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#ads in particular, find the offending message in the archive at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user

Re: Spam filter -please !

2012-05-17 Thread rjc
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:45:25AM BST, Tom Rausner wrote: > Hi Administrators of this list > > Don't you think this list needs a spam filter upgrade ? > > Look what the pig draged in (I had to send it as HTML 'cause the spam > was HTML); http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/05/msg01666.htm

Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 May 2012, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..ok, what sort of networking do you run? Just connected via cables with static links. > > ..ok, they may both be alive, despite the zero response. > No blinkenlight trio? (CapLock+NumLock+ScrollLock LED's) > Nothing visible when that happens. > > up

Re: something about rm

2012-05-17 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 17/05/2012 06:20 πμ, Gary Dale wrote: > On 16/05/12 08:50 PM, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:48:56PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: >>> On 16/05/12 12:49 PM, lina wrote: Hi, Today I made some mistake, I mount the remote server my home directory into local lap

Spam filter -please !

2012-05-17 Thread Tom Rausner
Hi Administrators of this list Don't you think this list needs a spam filter upgrade ? Look what the pig draged in (I had to send it as HTML 'cause the spam was HTML); Si vous ne visualisez pas ce message, cliquez-ici EASYPREDICT