kmail in background?

2012-07-31 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi folks, does anybody know, why there is already an instance aka process running of kmail in the background, when kde is fresh started? 1. I am always starting kmail manually, but the process is already runnning and mails are fetched in the background. 2. I saved the kde session, without any

Question on pam_access cron configuration

2012-07-31 Thread Dominik Klein
Hi I included pam_access in common-account in order to manage access to my machines. Now, cronjobs running as www-data or nobody cannot run because there is no entry in the access.conf - and I really don't want an entry for each cronjob. My approach on fixing this was to exclude common-account f

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-31 Thread Yaro Kasear
On 07/31/2012 01:42 PM, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:30:50 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:50:25, Celejar wrote: Quite true - and completely irrelevant to my point. I don't deny that money can be made with FLOSS, just that it's pointless to try to sell copies of one'

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Glenn English
On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Fortunately for most of us there is the support group of family.They > know these things and would help me with them. I was 67 years old when it happened, and the family I have left is 1000 miles away. Fortunately, my sister flew here to take

Re: Autofs and NFS, user mapping

2012-07-31 Thread Bob Proulx
T o n g wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > T o n g wrote: > >> My Autofs auto-mounted NFS share looks like this: A pet peeve of mine is "share". Windows has "shares". Unix has "filesystems". NFS is itself a Network File System. So saying Network File System Share feels like saying a Personal PIN N

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Glenn English wrote: > > Dud'n work, guys. I fell off my bike a couple years ago and completely > > lost all my passwords. Rebuilding my servers (and laptops and iPads) was > > no fun at all. Write 'em down and put the paper in a safe-deposit box. > > If you can't remember

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread lina
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Glenn English wrote: > > On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 7/31/2012 10:51 AM, Mike McClain wrote: >> >>>If a password is any place but in your head I question its >>> security >> >> Agreed. > > Dud'n work, guys. I fell off my bike a coup

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/31/2012 7:03 PM, Glenn English wrote: > Dud'n work, guys. I fell off my bike a couple years ago and completely > lost all my passwords. Rebuilding my servers (and laptops and iPads) was > no fun at all. Write 'em down and put the paper in a safe-deposit box. If you can't remember the passw

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread lina
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/31/2012 10:51 AM, Mike McClain wrote: > >> If a password is any place but in your head I question its >> security > > Agreed. > >> Take a name and a number out of your childhood that you'll >> remember forever like your first pet

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-31 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 01:15:28 + (UTC) Mark Fletcher wrote: ... > compatibility. I have heard of people wresting their NAS out of the grasp of > the OS it comes with and installing Linux on it, presumably by mucking about > with firmware etc, but I have never attempted to do any such thing a

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-31 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:16:58 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 20 iul 12, 04:29:05, Gary Dale wrote: > > On 20/07/12 03:30 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > >On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:50:25, Celejar wrote: > > >>Quite true - and completely irrelevant to my point. I don't deny that > > >>money can be ma

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-31 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:29:05 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: ... > As for Celejar's point about selling licenses - he's wants to make money > only from direct sales. That's his problem. In every business you have > to look for ways to make money. Direct sales is just one method and its > a method that

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-31 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:30:50 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 19 iul 12, 22:50:25, Celejar wrote: > > > > Quite true - and completely irrelevant to my point. I don't deny that > > money can be made with FLOSS, just that it's pointless to try to sell > > copies of one's software if it's freel

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-31 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:39:12 +0200 gaffa wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:45:34 -0400 > Celejar wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 23:30:57 -0400 > > Gary Dale wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > Personally I think one of the biggest appeals of Debian (and of > > > Linux in general) is the commitment

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-31 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:04:44 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > On 10/07/12 11:28 PM, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:21:37 -0400 > > Gary Dale wrote: > > > >> On 10/07/12 10:52 PM, Celejar wrote: > >>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:20:05 -0400 > >>> Gary Dale wrote: > > ... > > > Having a porta

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-31 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:05:02 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 10 iul 12, 22:50:02, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:22:46 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Not quite sure I get you - if my hypothetical router (running x86 HW, > > not like my actual routers that run OpenWRT on

Icedove opens Opera from Icedove e-mail links

2012-07-31 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, Using Squeeze amd64 6.0.5 Using Icedove 10.0.3 My preferences>Attachments is empty. Preferences>advanced>Config Editor does not help when I change the string to /usr/bin/iceweasel still opens the Icedove e-mail links in Opera. network.protocol-handler.app.http;/usr/bin/iceweasel Any he

Re: slow hibernate after upgrade

2012-07-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-07-31 16:08:12 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: > After wheezy dist-upgrade desktop hibernate is twice as slow as before. I've also found that putting the by Debian/unstable laptop into sleep with Fn+F1 takes much longer than before. But this is more several dozens of seconds vs a few seconds in the

Re: Shockwave Flash

2012-07-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/07/12 10:53 PM, Fred Zinsli wrote: Hi all Been playing with this for days, but just don't have a clue about what I'm supposed to be doing or looking for to help. Attempting to install shockwave flash so I can view swf files in a web browser. It isn't working for me, but what makes i

Re: [OT] secure passwords

2012-07-31 Thread John Hasler
Bob writes: > If you have some scheme of encoding the site into the password using > some algorithm unique and secure to you then great. > I generate truly random passwords and write them down. So do I. The problem is that the _general public_ is constantly being told "Never, ever, ever write do

Squeeze 6.0.6

2012-07-31 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, Google is not my friend today. Does anyone know more or less when Squeeze 6.0.6 will be released? -- Cheers Mark -- 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.or

Re: Shockwave Flash

2012-07-31 Thread Fred Zinsli
Hi Kent No, I can't see the site mentioned, I just get a black page  (using firefox). Regards Fred   > On 7/30/12 9:53 PM, Fred Zinsli wrote: >> >> Hi all >> >> Been playing with this for days, but just don't have a clue about what >> I'm supposed to be doing or looking for to help. >

Testing lightdm not remembering session

2012-07-31 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I installed Debian Testing amd64 with the Debian desktop environment. I then installed task-xfce-desktop, including lightdm and setting lightdm as the default desktop manager. When I login to an xfce desktop, lightdm is running and gdm is not: 2012-07-31 17:01:54 root@i72600s

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Glenn English
On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/31/2012 10:51 AM, Mike McClain wrote: > >>If a password is any place but in your head I question its >> security > > Agreed. Dud'n work, guys. I fell off my bike a couple years ago and completely lost all my passwords. Rebuilding m

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Mike McClain wrote: > If a password is any place but in your head I question its > security but here's a scheme for secure passwords that are not > subject to dictionary lookups and are easy to remember. > > Take a name and a number out of your childhood that you'll > remember forever lik

Re: [OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/31/2012 10:51 AM, Mike McClain wrote: > If a password is any place but in your head I question its > security Agreed. > Take a name and a number out of your childhood that you'll > remember forever like your first pet and the first phone number > you memorized, scrambled together.

Re: CPU usage measurement

2012-07-31 Thread istimsak abdulbasir
/proc is a virtual filesystem only used by the kernel for its own archive of system information. It is not a running process or is not treated like one. Here is a link of resource monitoring commands you may like, http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/resources.htm On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:03 AM, J.Hwan Ki

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-31 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi David, Lest we get flamed for "top post"ing, I've rearranged the segments of this discussion to conform to the conventions of debian-users. Look for my reply at the bottom of this email... /-: On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:19 PM, David Harrison wrote: Hi, I thought I'd like to install Debi

Automatic debug packages for Wheezy?

2012-07-31 Thread Sascha Silbe
Hi! The lack of a debug package for libglib reminded me (yet again) of a release goal that was originally set [1] for Squeeze: Automatic building of debug packages [2]. Does anyone know what happened to that goal? There's no trace of it anymore [3], even for Wheezy [4]. Sascha [1] https://lists.

[OT] secure passwords (was Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Mike McClain
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 08:31:56PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 06:15:26PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:54:14 -0500 > > John Hasler wrote: > > > > Hello John, > > > > >Brad Rogers writes: > > >> Yeah, on a Post-It note. Stuck to the monitor.

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Michael Biebl
On 31.07.2012 21:05, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > technical arguments like its Linux only and I found some limitations > myself like its init script compabitibility does not take care of further > initscript arguments like for openvpn initscript to tell it which VPN to > start due to not supporti

Steve Glines recommends SugarSync for you

2012-07-31 Thread Steve Glines
Steve would like to give you a 5GB FREE SugarSync account. Steve uses SugarSync to backup, access, and share files from anywhere. http://miq.sugarsync.com/C320R123A.gif?pvci=06202012refb http://www.sugarsync.com/referral_terms.html?utm_source=txemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=refb";>Terms a

Re: links won't open using icedove/wheezy

2012-07-31 Thread Whit Hansell
On 07/31/2012 04:04 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 07/31/2012 12:01 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: >> >> I checked my file associations and could not find anything about this in >> that system settings setup. Hunted all over. Nothing. >> >>> 2. I changed in the .icedove//prefs.js > > ??? On my working w

Re (2): startx vs. xdm

2012-07-31 Thread peasthope
From: Chris Bannister Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 07:40:12 +1200 > ... it says .xsessionrc is read by .xsession, yet I have no .xsession file. > But from here: > root@tal:~# file /usr/bin/startx > /usr/bin/startx: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable > which points to ... > which sources: .

slow hibernate after upgrade

2012-07-31 Thread hvw59601
Hi, After wheezy dist-upgrade desktop hibernate is twice as slow as before. It is not drive related because it also happens when I move the swap space to another drive. The kernel was upgraded in this upgrade among many other things. If I stop X before hibernating the speed is as before. An

Re: .xinitrc doesn't work, .xsessionrc does! (was ... Re: startx vs. xdm)

2012-07-31 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:14:54AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> Have you tried not having your .xssesionrc at all? Does it provide >> the same result to you as with .xsessionrc? > > Yes, except for: > > ... > > IOW, it reads .xsessionr

Re: Getting nVidia to work

2012-07-31 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2012-07-31 04:43, Mark Panen wrote: > Could some please point me to step by step instruction on installing a > nVidia driver for a GTS250? http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers/ and the this http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers/#Use_DKMS as the easiest approach. HTH, ändu -

Re: links won't open using icedove/wheezy

2012-07-31 Thread Wayne Topa
On 07/31/2012 12:01 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: Gunter Thanks for the reply but I checked to see if anything you mentioned was even possible and it came out "I don't got none of that stuff." On 07/31/2012 07:17 AM, chymian wrote: Just checking to see if others are having the same problem. yes i

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 29. Juli 2012 schrieb Gary Dale: > On 29/07/12 03:21 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > On 29/07/12 02:23 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > >> Interesting. You'd think NVidia would keep their proprietary drivers > >> current with their hardware. ATI certainly does. > >> > >> I wouldn't worry about

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 29. Juli 2012 schrieb Michael P. Soulier: > On 29/07/12 11:15 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > > Any card you buy will likely work, either with the open source > > drivers or the proprietary ones. With Wheezy on the verge of > > becoming the current stable release, you shouldn't run into problems

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > But then one might argue why use integrated graphics at all. Well my > main argument is that I am really quite fond with the Intel graphics. drivers that is. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 071

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Am Montag, 30. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:55:16 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > > On 30/07/12 07:02 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > > (...) > > > > >> KMS is a wonderful feature, but I personally would rather see good > > >>

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 30. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:55:16 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > On 30/07/12 07:02 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > (...) > > >> KMS is a wonderful feature, but I personally would rather see good > >> OpenGL support than KMS, though. Nouveau's getting there, but it's >

Re: startx vs. xdm

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:52:58AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > > I use startx, and only have an .xsessionrc file. I know it is read > > because of the xterm settings. > > Resources, whether for xterm, urxvt, or similar, usually are not > configured into .xinitrc, neither .xsession (I never used

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 23:38 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 06:16:11PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Ma, 24 iul 12, 12:38:12, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > I'm confused, will Debian or will Debian not switch to systemd

Re: .xinitrc doesn't work, .xsessionrc does! (was ... Re: startx vs. xdm)

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:14:54AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > Have you tried not having your .xssesionrc at all? Does it provide > the same result to you as with .xsessionrc? Yes, except for: -8< .xsessionrc -8< /home/chrisb/background.sh & xterm -fn 10x20 -xrm "XT

Re: Something about netiquette Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > Again, I don't have knowledge about systemd and it seems to have a > advantages, e.g. compared to consolekit, but anyway, there are several > things vague to dummies like me and he already implied a borked sound > server to all major distros or the

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:16:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I can't resist, ban me from the list :D, > > (...) > > It's not a matter about banning but netiquette and politeness. > > It is very unfair to speak (criticise?) from a person that is > com

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 29. Juli 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 14:05 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > "conservatives" who don't want to transition to anything > > If I would be conservative I wouldn't use Linux for pro-audio. But > here's another nice example of insane changes Arch already made an

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 29. Juli 2012 schrieb Tom H: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:38:12 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> I'm confused, will Debian or will Debian not switch to systemd? > > > > There's more info about Systemd and its status in Debian here: > >

Re: Getting nVidia to work

2012-07-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 31 iul 12, 10:10:38, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 31 iul 12, 04:43:09, Mark Panen wrote: > > > > Could some please point me to step by step instruction on installing > > a nVidia driver for a GTS250? > > Yes: > > 1. apt-get install nvidia-glx > > (make sure you remove any traces of the

Re: mail server

2012-07-31 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:21:53 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > since we fetch the email via pop and sent via smtp the problem is i need to make backup of individual PST.

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:34:01 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 31 Jul 2012 at 10:56:09 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> > >> > Yes, I read about it. But this warning has to be new or at least I >> > don't recall GRUB legacy showing this notice when you wer

Re: Installing 3.2 kernel

2012-07-31 Thread Brian
On Mon 30 Jul 2012 at 19:43:25 +0100, Gary wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2012-07-30 18:27 +0200, Gary wrote: > > > Sven Joachim wrote: > > > On 2012-07-29 21:38 +0200, Gary wrote: > > > > > >> > Still confused why the wireless doesn't work. > > >> > > >> It's not supported by the 2.6.32 ker

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 02:05:15PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> I'd *guess* [...] there are hardly more problems with >> systemd as there are problems with sysvinit on squeeze. > > Without any o

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-31 Thread Brian
On Tue 31 Jul 2012 at 10:56:09 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > > > Yes, I read about it. But this warning has to be new or at least I don't > > recall GRUB legacy showing this notice when you were going to install > > GRUB into a partition instead the M

Re: links won't open using icedove/wheezy

2012-07-31 Thread Whit Hansell
Gunter Thanks for the reply but I checked to see if anything you mentioned was even possible and it came out "I don't got none of that stuff." On 07/31/2012 07:17 AM, chymian wrote: Just checking to see if others are having the same problem. > yes indeed. > I had 2 mailthreats about this on

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >> On 7/30/12, Tom H wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf >>> wrote: I hate pulseaudio, but I could imagine that systemd anyway could have some advantages, even

Onvif/HD/ IP...You can get More from ideal video surveillance solutions!

2012-07-31 Thread elaine
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Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On 7/30/12, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf >> wrote: >>> >>> I hate pulseaudio, but I could imagine that systemd anyway could have >>> some advantages, even if it's from a man (boy) who often takes photos >>> fro

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 16:03:12 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:50:44 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> > I'm not sure to had

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:05:15 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> >>> >>> I hope sysvinit is still available (and be the default option) for at >>> least a couple of years until systemd is being bright

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 16:09 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 14:05 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> > >> > /media/mount_point >> > >> > switched to >> > >> > /run/media/user_name/moun

Re: Autofs and NFS, user mapping

2012-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:37 PM, T o n g wrote: > > My Autofs auto-mounted NFS share looks like this: > > drwxr-xr-x 9 4294967294 4294967294 45056 2011-04-12 09:47 tmp/ > > I.e., the user id and group id are all mapped wrong. > > I have identical user ids and groups between my NFS sharing statio

Re: GNOME3/Nautilus mount requires password

2012-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:25:33 +0100, Steve Dowe wrote: > On 26/07/12 16:29, Camaleón wrote: >> First thing I would try is to create a new user and do the first login >> with gnome-shell to check from there. My wild guess is that given the >> number of Desktops installed in your system something cou

Re: gnome doesn't know monitor size under nvidia x server

2012-07-31 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-07-30 a las 11:01 -0800, Britton Kerin escribió: (resending to the list) > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) > >> > > >> > If resolution is okay, have you tried by setting the DPI to a lower > >> > value? > >> > >> I think the DPI is what I want: > >> > >> $xd

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:43:13 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 04:51:11PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> I just wanted to point a scenario where the jump to a PDF filter as the >> default backend can have its troubles and not be nor as good nor as >> simple nor as easy as the whit

Re: Shockwave Flash

2012-07-31 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:53:46 +1200, Fred Zinsli wrote: > Hi all Hi, but please, no html posts... thanks :-) > Been playing with this for days, but just don't have a clue about what > I'm supposed to be doing or looking for to help. > > Attempting to install shockwave flash so I can view swf fi

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 12:20 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: [snip] > Without any objective evidence, who knows? [snip] > Which of those is best suited to being the default? You want that daemons you need are killed, even when there should be no replacements for the daemons? IIUC this is what systemd does

Re: systemd

2012-07-31 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 02:05:15PM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > I hope sysvinit is still available (and be the default option) for at > > least a couple of years until systemd is being bright polished by the > > rest of the other friendly linux distri

Re: links won't open using icedove/wheezy

2012-07-31 Thread chymian
hi everybody, > Just checking to see if others are having the same problem. yes indeed. I had 2 mailthreats about this on the debian-user-german. 1. icedove does not open external links. it opened the browser, but did not handover the URL. I had to got to the KDE systemsettings and manually chang

RE: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-31 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, >> Gibberish implies one wouldn't be able to remember the >> password/phrase. > Which is why, as Bruce Schneir recommends, you _write it down_. Which is what I do. Whenever I need a new password I open my editor, close my eyes, randomly hit several keys on my keyboard and Bingo new random

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-31 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 07:43:13PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 04:51:11PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > I just wanted to point a scenario where the jump to a PDF filter as the > > default backend can have its troubles and not be nor as good nor as > > simple nor as easy a

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-31 Thread Keith McKenzie
>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Joel Rees wrote: >> >> From research that I had previously done, the simplest option (for me, >> being a fairly simple kind of person) appeared to be PC-BSD >> (http://www.pcbsd.org/). PC-BSD 8.x had only a KDE GUI (from memory), >> and I am, a GNOME GUI user (from memory,

Re: Installing 3.2 kernel

2012-07-31 Thread Gary
Keith McKenzie wrote: > On 30 July 2012 19:43, Gary wrote: > > I installed the packages, and then the one that that process complained was > > missing/out of date (our old friend the realtek package). Restarted. After > > selecting one of the 3.2 kernel options, the computer effectively froze,

Re: Installing 3.2 kernel

2012-07-31 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 30 July 2012 19:43, Gary wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2012-07-30 18:27 +0200, Gary wrote: [...] > > That didn't go well :( > > I installed the packages, and then the one that that process complained was > missing/out of date (our old friend the realtek package). Restarted. After > selec

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 06:15:26PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:54:14 -0500 > John Hasler wrote: > > Hello John, > > >Brad Rogers writes: > >> Yeah, on a Post-It note. Stuck to the monitor. > >That's what people do when you tell them not to write it down. _Tell_ > >them

Re: GNOME3/Nautilus mount requires password

2012-07-31 Thread Steve Dowe
On 31/07/12 09:25, Steve Dowe wrote: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Mark_internal_SATA-Ports_as_eSATA-Ports > > I have tested this and it works on Wheezy; I couldn't say if it applies > to earlier versions. Correction - I thought it worked, but that was because my password was stor

Re: GNOME3/Nautilus mount requires password

2012-07-31 Thread Steve Dowe
On 26/07/12 16:29, Camaleón wrote: > First thing I would try is to create a new user and do the first login > with gnome-shell to check from there. My wild guess is that given the > number of Desktops installed in your system something could have been > messed up. I tried this - same effect.

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-31 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 30.07.2012 um 22:19 schrieb David Harrison: I thought I'd like to install Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues on where to start is appreciated. If you want to keep OS X installed and just want to have Debian installed, a virtual installation using VirtualBox (is free for Mac also) r

strong passwords (was ... Re: is it rational to close the 139 port)

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 07:14:06AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > http://xkcd.com/936/ > > > > (I wonder how much truth there is behind this comic...) > > Don't bother wondering. Read the paper. > > http://arstechnica.com/business

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 02:09:54PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 30 iul 12, 21:33:38, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > JFTR, you don't need accelerated graphics to watch a video. > > But you may need something like VDPAU. Ohh, OK. Interesting ... -- "If you're not careful, the newspape

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 04:51:11PM +, Camaleón wrote: > I just wanted to point a scenario where the jump to a PDF filter as the > default backend can have its troubles and not be nor as good nor as > simple nor as easy as the white papers say. Companies have always showed > different needs t

Re: Getting nVidia to work

2012-07-31 Thread Alberto Luaces
Mark Panen writes: > Could some please point me to step by step instruction on installing a > nVidia driver for a GTS250? IIRC: 1. Make a backup copy of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and then remove the original file. 2. Install nvidia-glx package. 3. Stop X server, unload any older nvidia modules a

Re: Getting nVidia to work

2012-07-31 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 31 iul 12, 04:43:09, Mark Panen wrote: > > Could some please point me to step by step instruction on installing > a nVidia driver for a GTS250? Yes: 1. apt-get install nvidia-glx (make sure you remove any traces of the nvidia installer or any other attempts before that) Kind regards, A