Re: X server starts on the wrong console (was: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?)

2010-04-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 17:35 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > and it will work. Then, in theory, restarting the X server again > (such as with /etc/init.d/gdm restart) should cause the X server > to restart on vt 7. This used to work, but the last time I tried > it I ended up with two X servers, on

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

2010-04-19 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 20:34 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Alan Ianson writes: > > All the stuff at debian-multimedia can't be included in debian for > > various reasons, mostly freedom I think, so you won't find it in > > debian at all. It's made for debian but

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

2010-04-19 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 00:00 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2010-04-19 16:19, Clive McBarton wrote: > > [snip] > >> > >> How come there is no link anywhere on debian.org pointing to > >> debian-multimedia.org? Anything to

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

2010-04-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 11:01 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 06:10 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > > > > I have confirmed one of the Smart Upgrades contained in debian-multimedia > > > on > > > Lenny does in fact cause this Fatal Error. I rei

Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

2010-04-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 22:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:25:11 -0400 (EDT), Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > I've noticed the same things. I've stuck with epiphany because it worked > > so well for so long but there are times recently when I nee

Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

2010-04-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 13:17 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > I am continuing to suffer the on-going de-volution of the once-decent > epiphany browser under Debian Squeeze. First they broke file > downloading. They still haven't fixed that. I'll bet it's been > six months or more. > > Now I can't

Re: [SOLVED] Debian-multimedia breaks mplayer .mov playback on Lenny?

2010-04-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 06:10 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote: > > I have confirmed one of the Smart Upgrades contained in debian-multimedia on > > Lenny does in fact cause this Fatal Error. I reinstalled Lenny on the same > > machine tonight, without adding debian-multimedia to /etc/apt/sources.list,

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 05:56 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Hello, all. We've installed acroread 8.1.7-0.1 from debian-multimedia. > It is not seeing any of the printers on our cups print server. It just > shows the custom lpr printer. How do we get it to see our printers like > all the oth

Re: php and sqlite

2010-04-14 Thread Alan Chandler
Alan Chandler wrote: I seem to be stuck (slightly) with converting an some postgres and mysql based php web applications to sqlite. There seems to be two possible interfaces to the database SQLite3 and PDO I have discovered that SQLite3 seems to set the busy timeout to 0 - meaning that if

php and sqlite

2010-04-10 Thread Alan Chandler
nor but it would be nice to know if I could solve the issue. (I would also be interested to know if the PDO::beginTransaction and the equivalent PDO::commit and PDO:rollBack do anything different that just including a query with the sql commands in them). -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerf

Re: git

2010-03-19 Thread Alan Chandler
http if you have firewall constraints. It also has a native protocol that uses port 9418 -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Instability in Iceweasel

2010-03-05 Thread Alan Chandler
in that I am slowly downgrading from unstable to squeeze. Its quite possible that is the cause, but I thought I would ask here first. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Recent update to Tomcat has killed it

2010-02-18 Thread Alan Chandler
) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248) ... 7 more It seems to imply a crucial piece of tomcat (the SystemLogHandler) has gone missing. Anyone know what this means and how to fix it -- Alan

Re: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 dependency on Squeeze

2010-01-21 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 10:45 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I have recently downloaded a binary file which depends on > libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 , > an old version of ibstdc++-libc6 : I can run it on an old computer, but I > would like > to run it on my amd64 Squeeze box ( which ha

Re: Help needed to find why mouse not working

2010-01-19 Thread Alan Chandler
Klistvud wrote: Dne, 18. 01. 2010 19:39:01 je Alan Chandler napisal(a): I would like to initially prove that when I move my hand on the touchpad it is sending information to the computer. How can I see that something is being sent (which devices should be the mouse?) By running xev from a

Help needed to find why mouse not working

2010-01-18 Thread Alan Chandler
computer. How can I see that something is being sent (which devices should be the mouse?) Once I know that there is info being received at the computer, I then need to find out how to get X to recognise it. Can some of you here lead me through this process please. -- Alan Chandler http

Re: owner permissions

2010-01-18 Thread Alan Hutchinson
orian Kulzer < florian.kulzer+deb...@icfo.es > wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:32:00 -0800, Alan Hutchinson wrote: > > Hi I am using Debian-lenny beta 2 ,and I don't no how to get "owner > > permissions" so that I can download ndiswrapper and install it,I have >

Re: OOo 3 dependency hell in Lenny backports

2010-01-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 06:00 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Thu January 14 2010, Zhan wrote: > > For me, I have set backports with the highest priorities, so anything at > > backports.org with a higher version number will be automatically installed. > > I've never used backports. What packages

phppgadmin - default encoding for new databases

2010-01-13 Thread Alan Chandler
like it to default to UTF8, but can't find out where this is specified. Is this settable in phppgadmin, or is it a postgresql option? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Squeeze vs. Lenny update frequency?

2010-01-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 15:05 -0800, Mark wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Stable release only have security updates. > >Testing has much more updates. > > Probably a dumb question, but...if a person uses Squeeze for pretty > much nothing but web browsing wi

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 20:52 -0800, Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 03:30:32AM +, s. keeling wrote: > > I'm new to testing. I've been running stable on primary box and (eg.) > > sid on sandbox for years. This is testing is on my sandbox for the > > first time. I just installed both s

Re: Gnome apps in KDE

2010-01-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 18:55 +0330, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me why Gnome applications look so ugly in KDE and if > something can be done about it to make them look as in their native > Gnome environment?! ;) I don't use kde anymore so I'm going from memory.. As someone el

Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 17:02 +0100, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone > (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs > and expectations, but, for various reasons, I wish to also have > something

Re: Exim4 redirect question

2009-12-28 Thread Alan Chandler
unseen deliver a-differentu...@gmail.com save "$home/Maildir/.MailtoAuser/" finish endif Also if you want to apply other rules - don't include the finish. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Tomcat error I don't understand

2009-12-26 Thread Alan Chandler
6 and permissions of 644. Can someone tell me what this error really means -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: LAME for Lenny

2009-12-24 Thread Alan Ianson
On 24/12/09 11:19:12 AM, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > On my older Sarge system, I used 'lame' to encode wav files to mp3. > However I can't find 'lame' for Lenny. Could someone tell me where to > find the appropriate package ? Add debian-multimedia to your /etc/apt/sources.list. More in

Re: Using LightScribe on Debian?

2009-12-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On 23/12/09 12:28:34 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Hi all, > > my new drive comes with LightScribe support. > > >From what I can tell, there are little to none FLOSS solutions. > LaCiE > seems to offer a closed source solution that supposedly runs on > Linux, but I am loath to try it for the sim

Re: gaim and pidgin connection problem

2009-12-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 15:16 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Kun Niu wrote: > I don't have such a problem. Can you get some kind of hint > from the output of the pidgin debug output window? > > > > > > The error message i

Re: torrents for testing

2009-12-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:27 +0100, Jean-François Pirlet wrote: > > I'm curious... are there any torrents out there for testing/squeeze? > > Hello. > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ for weekly builds. > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/ for > dai

Re: Tomcat is only listening with ip6 and not ip4

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Chandler
was listening on the ipv4 ports so didn't think this was the issue. But when I changed the net.ipv6.bindv6only to 0 my application magically worked again. My thoughts are that there is some interaction with libcommons-dbcp-java, so I think there might be a problem there. -- Alan C

Re: Tomcat is only listening with ip6 and not ip4

2009-12-20 Thread Alan Chandler
Alan Chandler wrote: I have just upgraded my server from lenny to unstable and I now find a tomcat application server backed has stopped working (front end on another machine has the jk_mod installed and links through using ajp on port 8009). Using netstat --listening on the tomcat machine I

Tomcat is only listening with ip6 and not ip4

2009-12-20 Thread Alan Chandler
can I fix this so that tomcat listens using ip4 and not ip6? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Strange Wireless Network Degredation Problem

2009-12-15 Thread Alan Chandler
Alan Chandler wrote: I have a strange wireless networking problem at home. The scenario is that I have a Debian Lenny server which I have wanted to move, so have added an Edimax EW-7128G wireless card. I have removed the reference to eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces (and removed the cable

Re: email server-static IP

2009-12-14 Thread Alan Chandler
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon December 14 2009, Alan Chandler wrote: Normally when you get a domain name, you should get the facility to edit the name servers zone file for the domain. You then point the MX records where you like - just point it/them at this same static ip. I've h

Re: email server-static IP

2009-12-14 Thread Alan Chandler
hen wait for it to propagate round the internet) mail for me generally just queues and gets sent when I appear back. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: email server

2009-12-14 Thread Alan Chandler
xim4-config (or manually edit the update-exim4.conf.conf and then run update-exim4.conf) dc_smarthost='smtp.myisp.com' The above line shows how I define where the mail goes out to. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Strange Wireless Network Degredation Problem

2009-12-14 Thread Alan Chandler
are balanced. (ie its not seeing these extra incoming pings at the iptables level) I am not sure where to go next Anyone have and ideas? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: increasing screen resolution, nvidia xconf.org

2009-12-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri December 4 2009 08:07:42 pm Tomislav Butkovic wrote: > Hello, > > I have been for the last few months trying to figure out how to increase > the screen resolution on my Dell Inspiron 5150 running Debian Lenny with a > GeForce FX Go5200 64mb. > > The maximum screen resolution is currently 102

Re: New to Debian

2009-12-04 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-12-03, deb...@toursbymexico.com wrote: > > 2) How can I install KDE? Currently it is running with Gnome... I've just > download all 5 DVDs plus the updates one... the gnome (un)install shows > most KDE applications to install, but not the full window manager... and, > once installed, is it

Re: CUPS Printing problems

2009-12-03 Thread Alan Chandler
something wrong with the .ppd file. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

CUPS Printing problems

2009-12-02 Thread Alan Chandler
nyone tell from this what is wrong - the log against the job just says "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf failed" (I note in my older version of cups on lenny this filter didn't exist) -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: migrate to new system disk

2009-12-01 Thread Alan Ianson
> 2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never "manually" installed a boot > loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb > installer. The last time I did that was with Woody, like 4 years ago. > How do I manually install LILO to the boot sector of the new disk? I'm > sure it's

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
> Of course, NFS is not really an option if your source machine (or > destination) is running Windows. [In that case, there's always > Samba! ;-) I have seen nfs for windows lately, although I haven't tried it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Reading kword documents

2009-11-27 Thread Alan Chandler
kword to read the file and convert to .odt format. There has to be an easier way. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How to change sound volume in gnome-shell?

2009-11-27 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 14:33 +0800, Mr. Wang Long wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 14:19, Mr. Wang Long wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:18, Alan Ianson wrote: > >> My gnome 2.28 testing/unstable has a sound icon in the tray as always. > >> Is that what you mean?

Re: How to change sound volume in gnome-shell?

2009-11-26 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 10:12 +0800, Mr. Wang Long wrote: > Hi, > > In gnome 2.28 I used to change sound volume by the mixer_applet, which > won't run in gnome-shell environment. In gnome-shell I have to launch > kmix manually, which shows up in the system tray. But what is the > "normal" way to con

Re: 64 bit flash for iceape?

2009-11-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 09:42 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I downloaded the alpha 64 bit libflashplayer.so and put it in > /usr/lib/iceape/plugins but on restarting iceape it is not installed. > > In that directory there is also libnullplugin.so which, when I start > iceape and check about:plugi

Re: Nautilus messed up in testing

2009-11-20 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri November 20 2009 06:03:18 pm John Jason Jordan wrote: > This morning I did a fresh install of testing amd64 to a new hard drive > in an effort to move to Debian from Ubuntu. This is actually my second > time around; the first time was a month ago. Unfortunately I managed to > mess up my wind

Re: SD Card not being seen

2009-11-19 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 16 Nov 2009, Alan Chandler wrote: > I am running Debian Sid, and have a USB multicard reader installed in > my PC. I know the card reader is seen, lsusb lists it > > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Hi-Speed 21-in-1 > Flash Card Reader/Writer (In

SD Card not being seen

2009-11-16 Thread Alan Chandler
(such as /dev/sd[cdef]1) to indicated the card is seen. Am I missing something, like a modprobe that is needed? or is it likely that the hardware doesn't work (I have never used it before, despite being several years old). -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBS

Re: Connecting a video camera

2009-11-13 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-11-12, Michael Peek wrote: > Hi debian gurus, > > I'm trying to figure out if I can download the video from a video camera > onto my linux box. It's a Sony DCR-H52, tape-based, and firewire only. > > When I plug it in, I see the following in the log files: > > kernel: [89405.861315]: iee

Re: git: pushing a branch to a remote git repository

2009-11-01 Thread Alan Chandler
hat might not be what you want, as all the branches you are playing with will get pushed as well). [remote "public"] url = ssh://wol/home/alan/git/mbchat.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/public/* push = master:master push = mb:melindasbackups

Re: [OT] Facebook-like blogging software

2009-10-28 Thread Alan Chandler
r created, but it does the rest. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Wondering about doing something strange with networking

2009-10-27 Thread Alan Chandler
as an aside, there seems to be a varierty of usb to ethernet connectors, at a variety of different prices. Some seem to be so cheep that they can be little more than a usb connector and rj45 connector. Do they all work with standard debian? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org

Re: Wondering about doing something strange with networking

2009-10-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 27 Oct 2009, Nick Lidakis wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 07:58:18AM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I am contemplating the possibilities with the plug computer, as an > > always on, router/firewall/web server for my house. > > Are you referring to the Sheeva

Re: Wondering about doing something strange with networking

2009-10-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 27 Oct 2009, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 07:58:18AM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: ... > > > > What I am less certain about is how I can cater for Wireless > > clients coming in over the WAP, who do really need dhcp allocated > > addresses. My

Wondering about doing something strange with networking

2009-10-27 Thread Alan Chandler
addresses. My guess is that they would be requesting leases via some broadcasting mechanism, and that there is no way for the ethernet switch to prevent them going to the cable modem (and thence to my isp) and the dhcp server at my isp responding. Is what I am trying to consider impossible?

Re: virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-13 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 13 Oct 2009, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Monday 12 Oct 2009, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Yes it was that bug. I downgraded to 72 and it now works. > > Unfortunately this version seems to not allow me to dynamically > > connect a usb device (at least the e

Re: virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-13 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 12 Oct 2009, Alan Chandler wrote: > Yes it was that bug. I downgraded to 72 and it now works. > Unfortunately this version seems to not allow me to dynamically > connect a usb device (at least the error message says the hypervisor > does not support the hostdev xml that

Re: virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 11 Oct 2009, Matthew Moore wrote: > On Sunday October 11 2009 6:50:25 am Alan Chandler wrote: > > I am not sure where to go next. I can roll back the image to pre > > sp2 upgrade (I took a copy just prior to doing the upgrade) and > > that works fine, but as so

virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-11 Thread Alan Chandler
Winxp upgrade). Any one with experience of this (I am new to it all this weekend) have any pointers of what to try next -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Redirect internet connection to wireless router (was: Sharing ppp [...])

2009-10-06 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-10-02, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: > Hi all! > > I tried hard a few days ago to share a ppp internet connection through > the wlan interface on my laptop. I just found out that this is not > possible because my hardware can't do AP. > > So, I was wondering if I get a standard wireless rout

Re: Latest SID update has removed the close buttons

2009-09-27 Thread Alan Chandler
Jochen Schulz wrote: Alan Chandler: In the latest SID update, it appears that all the close buttons from my windows have disappeared (along with the minimize and maximize button). I am using standard Gnome, so I assume its the metacity window manager doing this Is metacity running at all

Latest SID update has removed the close buttons

2009-09-27 Thread Alan Chandler
that I can do to fix it? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-08-24, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> >> Thanks for confirming the md5sum and the suggestion. It also fails boot >> to level 1. I used rescue to turn on /etc/default/bootlogd but nothing >> gets logged to /var/log so I guess it doesn't get that far. I would >> have liked to know where it fai

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-08-22, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Friday 21 August 2009 18:11:27 Alan Greenberger wrote: >> I have a system with Lenny installed from the KDE installer CD. It was >> working fine for half a year. Powering it on after being off for two >> weeks, it starts to load

help for kernel panic

2009-08-21 Thread Alan Greenberger
I have a system with Lenny installed from the KDE installer CD. It was working fine for half a year. Powering it on after being off for two weeks, it starts to load Lenny then dies with: Failed to execute /init can't open auto Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Call Trace befo

Re: Problems with making hardlink-based backups

2009-08-14 Thread Alan Chandler
nged. rsync -aHqz --delete --backup --backup-dir =$ARCH/snap/freeswitch/ $MACH::freeswitch/ /bak/freeswitch/ -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to generate random negative numbers

2009-08-12 Thread Alan Chandler
Soren Orel wrote: I know I could generate numbers like: 0; 1; 2 with: $[ ( $RANDOM % 3 ) + 0 ] But how could I generate numbers like: 0; 1; 2; -1; -2; etc? So negative+positive numbers too + zero thank you $[ ($RANDOM % 5 ) -2 ] ? (I have no idea if I have the bash syntax right) -- Alan

Asterisk, ZTdummy issues

2009-08-06 Thread Alan Chandler
x27;m stuck - where do I go next -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-15 Thread Alan Greenberger
> So, I don't know if you (or anyone else here) has any further thoughts/ > suggestions. Google searches are now beginning to either throw back Have you run a mixer and made sure the volume is up and nothing is muted? What happens if you run aplay something.wav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-14 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-07-13, Cousin Stanley wrote: > Thanks for this advice regarding the KsCD configuration > as I'm now happily listening to Mozart from an old CD > > Previously, KsCD would list the CD tracks and go through > the motions of playing, but no sound I discovered that setting

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-13 Thread Alan Greenberger
> unable to read any CD in the SATA drive. KSCD has become hug and ugly > and also doesn't play the CD although can recognise the tracks. > Try: kscd / Extras / Configure KsCD / Use direct digital playback presumably: alsa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: system taking ages to resolve dns

2009-07-06 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-07-05, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > I just reinstalled debian this week. It has not solved my issue of > resolving dns taking a long time. Basically the issue is: If I want to > .. REMOVED > problem? Only occuring on my debian system, windows vista on the same > system works fine, and no one e

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-28 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2009-06-28, Zachary Uram wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium > (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not. > I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please tell me exactly what I must do > to shrink the Vista install by 50% and

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-23 Thread Alan Chandler
Alan Chandler wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:01:52AM +0800, ronggui wong wrote: I have other files and directories in the home directory, and I just want to backup all the config files, most of them are hidden files and directories. Now I use tar and manually exclude

Re: Where is file manage preference set

2009-06-20 Thread Alan Chandler
Alan Chandler wrote: I have a gnome desktop, but haven't always (meaning there are probably dot directories with configuration hanging around in my home directory). I just installed Digikam, and presume it must have brought in Dolphin as a dependency, because now when I select "P

Re: Where is file manage preference set

2009-06-20 Thread Alan Chandler
Frank Lin PIAT wrote: On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 12:26 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a gnome desktop, but haven't always (meaning there are probably dot directories with configuration hanging around in my home directory). I just installed Digikam, and presume it must have brought in Do

Where is file manage preference set

2009-06-20 Thread Alan Chandler
I have a gnome desktop, but haven't always (meaning there are probably dot directories with configuration hanging around in my home directory). I just installed Digikam, and presume it must have brought in Dolphin as a dependency, because now when I select "Places/Home Folder" from my panel, D

Re: Gimp and unstable

2009-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,14.Jun.09, 11:53:26, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: The libwebkit-1.0-1 package is still available in testing: So, enabling testing in your sources.list should allow installation of gimp without affecting other packages (since you are already running Sid). Adeoda

Gimp and unstable

2009-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
Gimp is currently uninstallable in unstable because it has a dependancy on libwebkit 1.0-1 and (as far as I can work out) it has changed its name to libwebkit 1.0-2. I submitted a bug about this, but a bug number was never assigned, although there is a bug (528012) which does refer to this.

Telinit question

2009-05-23 Thread Alan Greenberger
I have a question about telinit use. For a long time, I occasionally have done "telinit 1" before doing a backup. However, I noticed in the man page that it says: On a Debian system, entering runlevel 1 causes all processes to be killed except for kernel threads and the script that does

Chooser failing

2009-05-15 Thread Alan Greenberger
For years I have had two linux machines (inside firewall) using the X chooser so that I could log in either to self or other machine. This has worked with kdm or xdm. Now I am failing to get this to work with Debian Lenny on both machines (last worked with Sarge). It allows login to self, but ch

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

2009-04-11 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 11 April 2009, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:28:35AM +0100, Alan Chandler (a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk) wrote:> > I am currently planning my next upgrades - my desktop machine has > > run out of disk space, my server is getting old and has also

Re: WinBlow$ Home Server equivalent

2009-04-11 Thread Alan Chandler
e other add replace that too. The only step I am not sure of is how to grow into the new spare space (but I am sure I read an article somewhere on the internet about it). -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: new KDE (4.2) in Unstable, how's your experience?

2009-04-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 09 April 2009, Paul Scott wrote: > I still haven't figured out how to get KDM going again. It is > running but fails on not finding moreblue-orbit. I have to start xdm > to get the GUI up. > Install desktop-base -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamil

How to get aptitude to ignore broken dependency

2009-04-08 Thread Alan Chandler
using dpkg --force depends Now, aptitude says it can't resolve broken dependencies and wont install anything. How can I get around this and force aptitude to ignore this broken dependency -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: No Sound after Experiment with KDE4

2009-04-02 Thread Alan Chandler
previous reply about using alsamixer must somehow set this up. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: No Sound after Experiment with KDE4

2009-04-02 Thread Alan Chandler
e been kde4 issues, or not, I don't quite remember. I solved it eventually by playing with alsamixer and switching everything on and off and tweaking all the volume controls with it. I think (my memory is very fuzzy) that the problem was related to a volume control somewhere. -- Alan

Re: Why no Skype packages?

2009-03-31 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 31 Mar 2009, Alan Chandler wrote: > There used to be a service called Freeworlddialup which you could > connect to other people in the world, but last year it went over to a > paying service. Since I've never used it, it didn't matter. > As others have commente

Re: Why no Skype packages?

2009-03-31 Thread Alan Chandler
oftphone) whilst I am away on busuness and by daughter (who has a linksys PAP2T which talks SIP and allows a standard Analogue Phone to be connected to it) and lives away from our home, to phone in and talk to my wife. There used to be a service called Freeworlddialup which you could connect to

Malformatted Desktop File

2009-03-29 Thread Alan Chandler
In KDE, whenever I try and start gimp to edit a graphics file I get the following error message Service '/home/alan/.local/share/applications/gimp-usercustom.desktop' is malformatted. The referred to file has the following in it [Desktop Entry] Categories=Graphics;2DGraphics;Rast

Re: thunderbird and evolution

2009-03-29 Thread Alan Chandler
t. > > > > $ grep .muttrc imap > > Oops, I jumped Ron before reading until the end of his message ... and isn't it grep imap .muttrc anyway -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Version of Gnome

2009-03-28 Thread Alan Chandler
far behind in Debian -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How does host lookup work

2009-03-24 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 24 Mar 2009, Alex Samad wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 06:40:41PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > > I still do not understand [NOTFOUND=return]. > > > > My reading of the manual is that it stops a failed lookup moving on > > to the subsequent entri

Re: How does host lookup work

2009-03-24 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 23 Mar 2009, Alex Samad wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:28:27PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I am extremely confused about host lookup works now that avahi > > daemon has been added into the equation. > > > > my /etc/nsswitch.conf file has th

How does host lookup work

2009-03-23 Thread Alan Chandler
(I can allocate the IP address based on the mac address of the laptop thereby ensuring it always has the same one) But without understanding the basics, I can't really proceed to plan. Can someone explain. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-05 Thread Alan Hutchinson
Hi people I am trying to install DEBIAN LENNY beta 2 on a system that has the promise chip for raid 0,and i keep on getting "boot failure" what would be the cause of this and also I would like to know how to format my drives that has the debian lenny O/S on it,and try and make a clean start,thank

Re: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On February 4, 2009 11:06:31 am Stackpole, Chris wrote: > The reaction I was going for is not the one I was wanting. That tells me > that I wrote my response improperly. I apologize; my fault. > > More to the subject, let me try to explain my view. Please feel free to > comment. RTFM has been goin

Re: Web page development tools in Lenny?

2009-01-31 Thread Alan Ianson
On January 31, 2009 02:33:21 pm A. F. Cano wrote: > Hello, > > I recently installed Lenny from scratch on a new HD. It's time to maintain > some basic web pages, so I went looking for mozilla composer (that I used > before) and found that mozilla is gone from Lenny. Tried to find a > "composer" f

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