Re: unstable: problems installing GNOME

2007-09-24 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/24/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 07:41:19PM +0100, michael wrote: ... The following packages have unmet dependencies. libwnck18: Depends: libwnck-common ( 2.19) but 2.20.0-1 is to be installed E: Broken packages 19:38:03 ~$ exit

Re: Etch + USB Modem -- Supported?

2007-09-24 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/24/07, Ted Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i need to get another (dial-up) modem for my linux box. does the most up to date version of Etch support USB modems 'out of the box?' (ie- without a lot of heavy configuring, like kernel recompiling.) and if so, which USB modems are

Re: Etch + USB Modem -- Supported?

2007-09-24 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/24/07, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/24/07 14:27, Andrew J. Barr wrote: [snip] not have Linux drivers at all. Generally hardware-based modems are several orders of magnitude more expensive than

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-21 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/21/07, Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/21/07, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is selinux in Debian at all? Have any users asked for it? I don't know, but if it wasn't in Debian, I would ask for it. I don't get why people seem to think SELinux is a bad thing. I

Re: Compiz and window decorations

2007-09-20 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/20/07, Francisco M Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I've just finished installing Debian etch, and until I installed compiz the only problem I had was the crappy font rendering in Iceweasel (which was already solved by disabling its using pango). You should disable use of

Re: Linux Printer Sharing

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/15/07, ArcticFox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I've done that but my mac can't seem to find the printer. I've got a message asking me for the 'Device URI' and I have no idea what it's looking for. In recent releases of CUPS, you can navigate to localhost:631 using the web browser on the

Re: Gnome Update Manager's Smart Update

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/15/07, Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Smart update button in the update manager often comes back to me with a solution that involes removing software that I use every day, in fact software that I usually have open when the update manager is open (such as pidgin and

Re: Gnome Update Manager's Smart Update

2007-09-15 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/15/07, Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew J. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that really such a smart idea? Why is the update manager suggesting that's a smart idea? It will cripple my ability to work! Is it really that smart of the update manager to suggest

Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

2007-09-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/4/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proper usage of grammar in your native language is a sign of intelligence. We value intelligence. We also value common courtesy and humility, or at least we should. Don't be a jerk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: can't play Flash anymore

2007-09-03 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 9/3/07, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does it work in firefox? and have you tried the below or using automatix? Automatix has a bad reputation among distribution developers. I don't know the full story but I suspect it's a lot like the way the Wine developers despised WineTools. Users,

Re: Iceweasel not a fully supported browser for Gmail?

2007-08-21 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/21/07, Bipin Babu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/21/07, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/8/21, Bernard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, It seems now that gmail does not consider Iceweasel as a fully supported browser? Does someone know something about it and how

Re: Iceweasel not a fully supported browser for Gmail?

2007-08-21 Thread Andrew J. Barr
on this list. Even if it was, most people don't RTFM before e-mailing the list, so my favored solution is simply to change the user agent string back to Firefox/2.0.0.6 but that may not be possible for any number of reasons. IMHO it's just more trouble than it's worth. Bipin Babu On 8/21/07, Andrew J

Re: dumb question about mozilla plugin directory location....

2007-08-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/13/07, Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Debianists, I downloaded flashplayer9. I downloaded it to my home directory /home/mikef/ I then did tar -zxf on it and it nicely made a little directory with flashplayer in it in my /home/mikef directory.. Is there any

Re: dumb question about mozilla plugin directory location....

2007-08-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/13/07, Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tried that. I am using amd64 Etch by the way. Ah, important detail. You need to read up on nspluginwrapper, and you'll need to do manual installation because the amd64 flashplugin package appeared post-etch. You may be able to

Firefox and Time Zones

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
I am suffering from a frustrating issue with Iceweasel (2.0.0.6, Debian unstable amd64). I have a LiveJournal, and the post form has date and time fields on it. These are automatically filled in with the current date and time, using JavaScript. Problem is, Firefox thinks the time is four hours

[SOLVED] Re: Firefox and Time Zones

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/8/07, Andrew J. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am suffering from a frustrating issue with Iceweasel (2.0.0.6, Debian unstable amd64). I have a LiveJournal, and the post form has date and time fields on it. These are automatically filled in with the current date and time, using

Re: Watching youtube videos on AMD64

2007-08-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/7/07, Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having just upgraded my system from i386 to AMD64 I find I am unable to watch youtube vidoes anymore. I generally use Konqueror, but Ideweasel doesn't work either. I thought all I had to do was install nspluginswrapper (as well as libflash)

Re: Public PC

2007-08-05 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/5/07, Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope to make the PC reasonably idiot proof (the box will be kept separate from the users) - the keyboard and display will be accessible. The goal is to keep users from inadvertently trashing the machine, but to provide usability. Sabayon

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/4/07, Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Core2 Duo on which I am running a 686 kernel (from Debian unstable). It has 1GB of memory I am wondering two things a) What are the pros and cons in switching to 64 bit mode? - Is it faster? Yes. Unlike true 64-bit

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/4/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/04/07 12:53, Andrew J. Barr wrote: a) What are the pros and cons in switching to 64 bit mode? - Is it faster? Yes. Unlike true 64-bit architectures like PowerPC, there is a penalty for executing 32 bit code on amd64/em64t

Re: Seeing files shared from an Apple computer

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/4/07, Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I enabled Personal File Sharing on an iMac on my LAN, but can't seem to see the files from KDE. I have a pretty full installation of KDE (testing), including kdnssd, and I have avahi and friends installed (but dbus is not enabled).

Re: odd xorg-video-intel problem

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/4/07, Takehiko Abe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ package: xserver-xorg-video-intel version 2:2.1.0-2 ] Since I updated xserver-xorg-video-intel, my LCD started to complain that it is in a non-preset mode, that is, the monitor displayed a message Nonpreset Mode for 5 seconds when X started.

Re: scanner problem

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/5/07, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Cannon Lide 20 scanner does not work on Etch. It only works if i start it as root. Is there an easy way to fix this? Thanks Jeff You need to add yourself to the 'scanner' group. As root, run: gpasswd -a username scanner username being your

Re: converting file system

2007-08-03 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/3/07, Jeronimo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:35:09PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: So I doubt it. How you proceed depends on what mount point we're talking about. Hopefully, its not /. Anything else you can 'fix' by doing a backup, going

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/31/07, Matthew K Poer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, you seem to be really singing the praises of chroot. I have a spare 10gig partition on my hard drive. I originally considered simply dual-booting Etch and Lenny, or Etch and Feisty, or something similar. Perhaps instead I will make it a

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew J. Barr
hmmm... very interesting but it makes my toes curl to think of installing IE... What I really need to do it duplicate my windows qemu image and upgrade IE in one of the two images. That makes me happier, having that segregation... No need for VM image duplication. That wastes disk space, and

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/31/07, Matthew K Poer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My understanding of chroot is extremely limited, right now. I have searched around, but can anyone point me to anything specific that they know to be a good tutorial/explanation or how chroot works and what its capabilities are? chroot is a

Re: IM on a home debian network

2007-07-31 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/28/07, Jesus Arocho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a home network with 5 boxes, one of which is a server. I run a combination of Ubuntu and Debian desktops and Debian on the server. Is there a program available that will provide instant messaging within the network? Pidgin as well as

Using HAL from Python?

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew J. Barr
I am writing a small GTK+ StatusIcon application that manages internal touchpads and external mice on laptops. I would like to interface with HAL to detect when a USB mouse in plugged in--is anyone aware of Python HAL bindings or are we just supposed to use python-dbus to talk to HAL? -- Andrew

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/30/07, Stef Daniels VK5HSX [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I am aware that Iceweasel uses the same engine as Firefox for the operation, however, there seems to be problems with using Iceweasel on sites like Ebay. When you are creating an item to sell and you get to the

Re: Apt-get errors with dynamic NMAP out space

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/30/07, Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apt-get errors out as show below when trying the read the package lists. How do I get out of it. E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occurred while processing libsdl1.2debian-all (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-07-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/29/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm on slow dialup. Downloads of iso's take days. Yet, I still want to be able to browse the internet. I would like to set up something like trickle that will run something but limit its bandwidth so that it lower's its priority. I

Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat....

2007-07-28 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/28/07, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 07/28/07 13:46, Michael Fothergill wrote: I was wrong. As Jesus said in the Bible O, ye of little faith. I Yeshua didn't speak English. But that's a way different topic. You spelt $DEITY wrong. I

Re: why do iceweasel et al have more frequent security issues?

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/26/07, Mathias Brodala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Douglas. Douglas Allan Tutty, 26.07.2007 18:23: It seems that the mozilla-derived browsers have security issues requiring updates far more frequently than other browsers like Konqueror or links2. Aside from the fact that one software

Re: Problems with Krusader - crashes

2007-07-23 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/23/07, Jostein Elvaker Haande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ krusader krusader: ldap-nss.c:1374: do_init: Assertion `cfg-ldc_uris[__session.ls_current_uri] != ((void *)0)' failed. KCrash: Application 'krusader' crashing... I can't find any apparent reason for «Krusader» to

Re: [OT] Samsung-provided linux drivers could be dangerous

2007-07-17 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 7/17/07, Anson Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Samsung_Linux_printer_driver_modifies_the_permissions_of_many_executables I was going to recommend a Samsung Laser printer (like my ML-2250) on the Economic Printer thread, but now maybe not. I remember seeing a

Re: [OT] google desktop on Debian

2007-07-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
is this better/different than Beagle or any of the other open-source data indexing projects out there? raju -- Andrew J. Barr We matter more than pounds and pence Your economic theory makes no sense... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-07-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 00:59 -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I noticed that on her machine, QEMU does not eat lots of CPU, while on my machine, it eats the machine. I've copied the exact raw image disc from her machine to mine, but QEMU eats my

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Matthew K Poer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps, if you enabled non-free software on her computer, kqemu is installed? it is a processor accelerator for qemu, but it is not DFSG-compliant, so it is in the non-free repo. kqemu is free software as of a few months ago. -- Andrew J. Barr Woke

Re: Sound card not working

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
and get sound output through a stereo hooked up to your desktop box. :) Best yet it has support for emulating ESD, right down to it's API and wire protocol. A -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
, if memory serves me, IBM created SQL in the '60s. Mike -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound card not working

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:29:39PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to say that since alsa started shipping with dmix by default, it all works *much* better. But its still confusing

Re: Sound card not working

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Andrew J. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:29:39PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to say that since alsa started shipping with dmix by default, it all

Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
of the picture and allows for near-native performance of x86-on-x86 (32 or 64 bit) situations. It turns kqemu into less of an emulator and more of a virtualizer, if that makes any sense to you. -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am

Re: MP3 to AMR

2007-06-22 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Kum Gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All! I tried to find the way how to convert MP3 (or WAV) files to AMR (for mobile phone), but I can't. Can somebody help me? (I use Etch) Do you have the debian-multimedia.org repository installed? Regards, Gabor -- Andrew J. Barr Woke

Re: MP3 to AMR

2007-06-22 Thread Andrew J. Barr
of 8000 Hz (-ar 8000), and one of a certain list of bitrates (-ab 7400 (omit that parameter and read the error message to get the list)). If you need to tune additional parameters, read the documentation: $ man ffmpeg HTH, Andrew Special thanks! :-D G. -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my

Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you mean resize2fs? I could not find e2resize anywhere. Yes, sorry. -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Knetfiter crash, knetfilter se rompe

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew J. Barr
backtrace that way. Kudos for including the backtrace in the first place, though, that is just what you need to get help in the event of a program crash. -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am...

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew J. Barr
issue with 1GB of RAM. Another thing to try is using a -highmem kernel. Hope this helps. [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/294020 [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.21.5 -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly

Re: Knetfiter crash, knetfilter se rompe

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew J. Barr
backtrace that way. Kudos for including the backtrace in the first place, though, that is just what you need to get help in the event of a program crash. -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am...

Re: how to find the specs of a monitor

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew J. Barr
that there are command line tools for this. Google should help you, now that you have an acronym to search on. :P If it matters, the laptop as such runs Etch (stable). Any ideas? thanks raju -- Andrew J. Barr Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am

Thinkpad 755CX

2007-06-17 Thread Andrew J. Barr
spend enough money on my other machines as it is. So in other words, I'd like to work with what I have, if at all possible. * I have a LapLink parallel cable suitable for PLIP...I _think_...if I didn't give it away...I'd rather not go rooting in the attic for that if at all possible. -- Andrew J

Re: Grateful for the floppy install!

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
or PCMCIA/CF card are the only boot options for this machine. This thing has like the first edition of Windows 95 on it. O_o - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [OT] change user when executing some script

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
on an OpenSolaris kernel, this is most certainly the wrong list for you to get help from. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGcAzVhuM

Re: trouble playing WMA

2007-06-12 Thread Andrew J. Barr
main Ok. the package is w32codecs You should be able to play most WMAs with open source codecs... A - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: problems with totem

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
to use standard X11 output (e.g. no hardware acceleration) or use 'mplayer -vo x11 file name' to test. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU

Re: problems with totem

2007-06-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
can change the output in ~/.gnome2/totem_config for the xine-lib version, or using the GNOME control center application for the Gstreamer version. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP

Re: sound cards, real time kernels and 64studio.......

2007-06-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
*-source packages and module-assistant. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGaaKUhuM+Z62a52oRAqUEAJ0VLRfCiwS0TcgRERr

Re: GLX with ATI X1550 under Ubuntu Fiesty 64bit

2007-06-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
drivers here. -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) The plural of anecdote is not evidence. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I want to install lenny from scratch

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:10:15 +0530 arijit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sorry for the email-problem. I just hit 'reply' in evolution and sent it. Now I've become more cautious. Use 'Reply to all'. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2

Re: Netscape Navigator 9.01b

2007-06-06 Thread Andrew J. Barr
of Firefox? - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) The plural of anecdote is not evidence. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGZvx1huM+Z62a52oRArlpAJ0XUpFwHVDkMc1XTOhal2Q/YRUX3wCg5ZWH RQ5dmdur50Ux4SVgMu7cdxE

Re: Macromedia Flash Video

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
to play .swf files or .flv files using the Macromedia plugin? A standalone Linux player exists, it's on Adobe Labs' site somewhere. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) The plural of anecdote is not evidence. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
there was a kernel module called lt_hotswap, although I think that's now superseded by thinkpad_acpi and/or generic ACPI bay support. How to do with debian ? Any idea ? With USB or Firewire enclosures. Piece of cake. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
have an additional media bay that has IDE connections. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) The plural of anecdote is not evidence. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGZDy5huM

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:51:42 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/04/07 11:24, Andrew J. Barr wrote: Any drive, any laptop. I think ACPI supports IDE hotswap. Interesting. I don't plan on getting any arrows in my back, though

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
this $4,000 top-of-the-line laptop was so freaking SLOW. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) The plural of anecdote is not evidence. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGZJKIhuM+Z62a52oRAip5AJ9VV

Re: hotplugging ide harddrive

2007-06-04 Thread Andrew J. Barr
and does has a partition it will be mounted, or you can go to disk management and have it mount manually. But i can't see ide drive detected while on linux, even there is no log on syslog. Please use reply to all when replying to mailing list messages... - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail

Re: Macromedia Flash Video

2007-06-03 Thread Andrew J. Barr
, Andrew [0] http://packages.debian.org/youtube-dl Thank you in advance, Gustavo - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) The plural of anecdote is not evidence. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-02 Thread Andrew J. Barr
and NetBSD the 10-year-old Thinkpad 755. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) The plural of anecdote is not evidence. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGYazfhuM+Z62a52oRAme7AJ9e9JdFc9uwGof96JSaNNoGfGqhOQCeK6kv

Re: gps and linux?

2007-06-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
is standard. Any Linux GPS tool can parse it. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) The plural of anecdote is not evidence. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGYG8ahuM+Z62a52oRAnE9AKCqUOZdWSLPApDEQYoHkNR

Slightly faster h.264 decoder

2007-06-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
a bit of a speed boost? I've already turned off PulseAudio, window compositing, and shut down apps taking CPU time (like Azureus). Thanks in advance. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) The plural of anecdote is not evidence. -BEGIN PGP

Re: Linksys wireless nic

2007-06-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
, Randy - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) The plural of anecdote is not evidence. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGYKJyhuM+Z62a52oRAl09AKCV5Ih1YEyWiNQcliO6iWkJ9TKA5ACgvjBQ lPwCqH5dOOI6VtI86an99EA= =k9pk

Re: OT: symlinks question

2007-05-31 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 31 May 2007 21:01:44 +0200 Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a single command to change the target of a symlink? Try using the -f switch on ln. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc

Re: powersave error.

2007-05-30 Thread Andrew J. Barr
is for gnome-power-manager, perhaps it is different for powersaved/kpowersave. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 30 May 2007 01:30:36 +0530 Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATI Radeon This isn't enough information. Are you using the free driver (radeon) or the non-free, unsupported binary blob (fglrx)? - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1

Re: [OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
? There isn't any and no. Gamers seem more susceptible than most to that old saw about a fool and his money... /me wanders off muttering about them dern whippersnappers A - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer

Re: powersave error.

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
? Try the following command as root: # gpasswd -a insert your user name here powerdev Then log out and log back in. I don't get any options in kpowersave button in the tray. I have klaptop also running. Whether both are complementary or replacements. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws

Re: Yahoo chat client for Debian

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
measures that ultimately ensures continued IM noninteroperability? There is also Gajim for the GTK+-inclined among you. I don't know what the status of voice support there is, however... - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan

Re: X locks up/freezes the system when switching to console and back

2007-05-28 Thread Andrew J. Barr
to tty consoles even for a minute and then back to X ... btw, just had to do that just now too. Any help appriciated. Regards, Deboo [0] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7916 - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald

Re: bcm43xx issues an error message every minute

2007-05-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
in advance, G. Heinrich - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGWIMYhuM

Re: connecting HP Pavilion zv5260 to a tv

2007-05-25 Thread Andrew J. Barr
BTW, I am running Etch. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGV5tGhuM

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew J. Barr
bully machine that created the situation in the first place. Regards, -Roberto - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Ronald Reagan: America's answer to Inspector Clouseau -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: sane question

2007-05-13 Thread Andrew J. Barr
scanner support. [0] http://www.sane-project.org/ - -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGR7xchuM

Re: program to rip just audio from avseq.DAT files on VCDs

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
have extensive documentation. ;-) thankyou so much :-) Kind Regards Siju -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
to the movie Dogma, which is one of every disaffected former Catholic's favorite movies, if for no other reason than George Carlin is a cardinal. -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. -- Sinclair

Re: How to make X listen on port 6000?

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew J. Barr
settings. For GNOME, this is in /etc/gdm. Cheers Arne -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
handle different kinds of wav files like ALSA's aplay command can. Doug. -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
there's an attachment. -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. -- Sinclair Lewis, 1935 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew J. Barr
to get what you want. You might need the repository from www.debian-multimedia.org, espeically if you want to deal in patent-encumbered algorithms. Regards, Deboo -- Andrew J. Barr (614) 581-3537 (Verizon Wireless) When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying

Re: Fixed fonts in Debian

2007-05-06 Thread Andrew J. Barr
but there are others. There's also gsfonts-x11 that allows X to use the fonts supplied with gs (ghostscript, a postscript renderer). Doug. -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 x86_64) Debian/1.5.0.10dfsg.1-3 Why must I fail

Re: extract progressive frames from dv file

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew J. Barr
. There are deinterlacing techniques, but they reduce the quality and resolution of the image somewhat, depending on the technique used. Mplayer can do this, consult the documentation. -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 x86_64) Debian/1.5.0.10dfsg.1-3 Why must

Re: General questions...

2007-04-30 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: 2) Ubuntu had a little graphical app that loaded upon double clicking DEB files, it let you install them - what is this app? :D gdebi -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 x86_64) Debian/1.5.0.10dfsg.1-3

Re: PRISM 2/2.5/3 wifi driver for Debian?

2007-04-29 Thread Andrew J. Barr
Debian have a PRISM driver? Last I heard linux-wlan-ng was the place to go for Intersil USB Wifi support in Linux. - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; en-US; X11; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 i686) Debian/1.5.0.10dfsg.1-3 Why must I fail at every attempt at masonry? -- Homer Simpson

Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew J. Barr
with Iceweasel in the user agent all together (a good idea, IMHO), just open about:config and change the general.useragent.extra.firefox preference to Firefox/2.0.0.3. Sad to say it, but a lot of web sites (especially this web 2.0 crap) will work better that way. Many TIA, Dennis - -- Andrew J

Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew J. Barr
for one thing, and one thing only: changing your kernel. Even then, you can use kexec() to reboot without running the firmware again. - -- Andrew J. Barr Linux on PowerPC: http://www.penguinppc.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http

Re: Lean lenny on USB stick

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew J. Barr
by the installation of hplip, at least as a part of the default GNOME install. Not only is this of no use to me (I have a PS/PCL HP printer on a CUPS server) it takes up disk space /and/ memory--there are daemons started at boot time. Andrew Thanks, /KS - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible

Re: Error message: `This page contains information of a type...'

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
: aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree If you are on another architecture, the packages mozilla-plugin-gnash or swfdec-mozilla are your only options. Thanks for any help, Rodolfo - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 x86_64) Debian

Re: [OT] Favoured Firewall

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
designed to configure the kernel-level IPtables stuff. For a desktop system, I prefer Firestarter. For a server or headless system I use Shorewall, mostly because it's easily administered via Webmin. - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7

Re: Kernel upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Claughton wrote: Ah, makes sense. I've never used LILO, only Grub. You didn't miss anything, trust me. - -- Andrew J. Barr Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 (compatible; Icedove 1.5; X11; en-US; Linux 2.6.21-rc7 ppc) (Debian/1.5.0.10dfsg.1) Why must I

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/26/07 18:40, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:45:46AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/26/07 09:44, John L Fjellstad wrote: Systems talk about types. Huh? Systems == types? Then what are types of

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