Re: `Print selection' unimplemented in Iceweasel?

2010-03-31 Thread Bob Cox
[ Print dialogue pop-up appears ] > Options > Print Selection Only. This final option is of course greyed-out if no selection is already selected. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com

Re: System hangs while rebooting.

2010-03-26 Thread Bob Cox
he linux prompt, following messages appear and system > hangs up after saying "Restarting System": Not sure if it will help, but it might be useful to enable boot logging by editing /etc/default/bootlogd -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Bob Cox
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 17:09:05 -0400, Wayne (linux...@gmail.com) wrote: > After downloading the buggy openoffice suite for the 3rd time in the > past month. I would like to propose a new feature for aptitude. How about apt-listbugs? apt-listbugs -s all list openoffice.org -- B

Re: Bash "read" command: want to preload some data

2010-03-08 Thread Bob Cox
something:" -i "Default data" data read: 17: Illegal option -i $ read -p "Enter something:" data Enter something: So it seems it understands neither the -e nor -i options (not that it really matters and TBH it is hardly surprising as dash is supposed to be very lightwe

Re: Bash "read" command: want to preload some data

2010-03-06 Thread Bob Cox
edit the existing text when it is offered to the user and I think an upgrade to bash 4 is going to be worth a try as this is just a part of a quite big bash script which I have been constantly tweaking for years. Thanks again. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the lis

Re: eaccelerator on debian

2010-03-06 Thread Bob Cox
ccelerator.net/ticket/319 : "We are aware of the issues but can not change the license. The company that developed mmcache on which eA [eAccelerator] is based wants us to buy the mmcache code. This is out of the question." -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the

Re: Bash "read" command: want to preload some data

2010-03-06 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 06:21:27 -0600, Ron Johnson (ron.l.john...@cox.net) wrote: > On 2010-03-06 04:28, Bob Cox wrote: >> What I am trying to do is "preload" a bash read command with a value >> which can be accepted, edited or changed by the user. Some googling &

Bash "read" command: want to preload some data

2010-03-06 Thread Bob Cox
r the sake of compatibility, I would like to do the same thing using older versions of bash, even if it means messier coding. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this please? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to m

Re: How to remove permanently mouse driver

2009-05-15 Thread Bob Cox
I thought that in disabling the PS2 mouse it > would have gone anyway, but did not. Any further help is welcome ! Not sure it it would help but you could try uninstalling the xserver-xorg-input-mouse package. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do N

Re: network-manager: internet access not working since update [was: Re: Help! Lost GDM-based Internet Access in Squeeze]

2009-05-15 Thread Bob Cox
gt; level, there certainly seems to be access (for example, elinks works), > > but in Gnome or the GUI level, not so. > > Hello, > > According to several reports here, update-manager is not working quite > right. The better alternative would be wicd, so you might try install

Re: a bit ot: Security system and web cams

2009-05-11 Thread Bob Cox
d motion: 'aptitude show motion' for more information. There is also a website at http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome I believe it will handle multiple cameras but cannot really comment on that. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. D

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread Bob Cox
efit > of their experience and knowledge, that would be immense benefit and I would > be grateful. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-08 Thread Bob Cox
failed, trying to continue. fetchmail: POP3> USER test fetchmail: POP3< +OK please send PASS command fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< -ERR invalid user name or password. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies direc

Re: how to use mplayer to convert real media audio file to mp3

2009-05-07 Thread Bob Cox
tfile.ext -ar 44100 -ab 256 output.mp3 That works perfectly except you need to use 256000 or 256k for the bitrate. (It still works with your value but ignores it and defaults to 128k). -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me.

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Bob Cox
ifi. So... what would > you recommend? My NC10 is very friendly ;-) Not quite sure what you mean but I agree it is not the cheapest. Currently running Debian squeeze on mine and getting a genuine 6 hours of battery life. The keyboard is excellent, the touchpad less so. Using 2.6.29 kernel for

Re: SheevaPlug

2009-05-04 Thread Bob Cox
. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: date man page

2009-05-02 Thread Bob Cox
ls/NEWS.gz - it says "date -I is no longer supported. Instead, use date --iso-8601", but also says "the old --iso-8601 (-I) option is deprecated; it still works, but new applications should avoid it." -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only

Re: Acer Aspire One A110 16GB Linux

2009-05-01 Thread Bob Cox
n wireless chipset as my Samsung NC10. By using the 2.6.29 kernel from sid, this chipset is natively supported and should "just work" without any fiddling. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com

Re: network configuration for Eth0

2009-05-01 Thread Bob Cox
asy switching from wired to wireless and so on. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: network configuration for Eth0

2009-05-01 Thread Bob Cox
his: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.10.103 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.10.1 network 192.168.10.0 broadcast 192.168.10.255 (assuming you have a router of that IP address of course). If you *do* have network-manager installed then this could

Re: Unable to use higher resolutions

2009-04-27 Thread Bob Cox
"PreferredMode" "1024x768" > > to above section have any effect? If none of these suggestions help, then probably it is best to post your xorg log errors and warnings here and maybe someone will be able to help. Try posting the output of this command: grep -E '\(WW\

Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

2009-04-27 Thread Bob Cox
of... uhm, opinion? Is this a pixels versus points naming convention issue? As an experiment (all on one line) echo "12px test12pt test" > test.html and then open test.html with Iceweasel. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copi

Re: How long will updates to Etch be available?

2009-04-26 Thread Bob Cox
local mirror. For example, I use http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/...

2009-04-26 Thread Bob Cox
gt; available though, and I have non-free in my sources.list on that system. b...@trantor:~$ apt-file search /lib/firmware/e100/ firmware-linux: /lib/firmware/e100/d101m_ucode.bin firmware-linux: /lib/firmware/e100/d101s_ucode.bin firmware-linux: /lib/firmware/e100/d102e_ucode.bin HTH -- Bob Cox.

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Bob Cox
s you're login > manager, remove it from your default runlevel (who -r), or if you're > using a different login manager remove the appropriate entry. aptitude install sysv-rc-conf (not sysv-rc-config) -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:52:08 -0400, Robert Menes (viewtiful.icc...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Bob Cox > wrote: > > > I do this by not having xdm, gdm or kdm installed and starting X with > > "startx" when required. > > S

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Bob Cox
was a > way of doing so, but I forgot (I'm a little rusty and need to not be rusty). > > Can someone tell me how to just boot and land on the command line, > bypassing X? Thanks! I do this by not having xdm, gdm or kdm installed and starting X with "startx" when required.

Re: How long will updates to Etch be available?

2009-04-20 Thread Bob Cox
added - and see if someone can help you. > If I chnage back the state of the file hashing (#) the lines with > debian mirror, and run again 'aptitude update' I can to use aptitude > again. > > I have only the first Installation CD and want to use network to > install o

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

2009-04-19 Thread Bob Cox
pping the touchpad does > not work either. Oddly maybe and also possibly coincidence, but if not then it might be some sort of touchpad driver problem? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http:

Re: ethernet card, the debian way ?

2009-04-17 Thread Bob Cox
dered in place. These can often be disabled from the BIOS setup pages: look for "integrated peripherals" or similar. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSU

Re: redirect time to file

2009-04-17 Thread Bob Cox
ng the time built-in. Try your > re-direction with: > command time echo hi And to do the write to file, try: command time -o file echo hi which is equivalent to /usr/bin/time -o file echo hi -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

2009-04-13 Thread Bob Cox
7;lame' command is easier. I have just tried: lame testfile-320kbps.mp3 testfile-128kbps.mp3 and it worked exactly the same (but was a bit quicker). -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bo

Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

2009-04-13 Thread Bob Cox
goes, matches the output of the 'locale' command). I *think* I added that by hand to fix a similar problem to the one being discussed but cannot remember now. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

2009-04-12 Thread Bob Cox
all the command options? > Thanks! ffmpeg -ab 128000 -i high_quality.mp3 lower_quality.mp3 -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: "X includes" missing

2009-04-05 Thread Bob Cox
ble/main Packages *** 2:0.9.5~beta3-1 0 990 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2:0.9.4-1 0 500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org stable/main Packages As you can see I have the squeeze/testing version installed, although there does appea

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-24 Thread Bob Cox
seeing a silly top posting > message. > [2] Only because I didn't have to press a dozen or so times. As you use mutt, 'S' should skip to the end of each section of quoted text, or, if you know there is no interleaved quoting, just press the 'End' key to go righ

Re: skype lenny amd64

2009-03-20 Thread Bob Cox
rch libQtCore.so.4 libqt4-dbg: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4.4.3.debug libqtcore4: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 libqtcore4: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4.4 libqtcore4: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4.4.3 Perhaps you have not run apt-file update for a while. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to

Re: Help! Grub is broken

2009-03-19 Thread Bob Cox
your root partition. Perhaps you might want to > > read the manual page for fsck previous to issuing the command. It's good advice, you know. > My platform is debian sid AMD64 gnome. Sid is the unstable distribution and things do break from time to time. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Giffo

Re: "Domain of sender address does not resolve" in mail logs

2009-03-18 Thread Bob Cox
017.dpa.act.gov.au which correctly resolves to 136.153.14.117. Checking 136.153.14.117 shows that the reverse DNS is also correctly set up. (Your third example may have been a temporary problem as tigerairwaysnews.com does have A and MX records in place). -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bris

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

2009-03-16 Thread Bob Cox
> find . -name *.odt -exec sh -c 'unzip -c {} content.xml | grep "what > you want to find"' \; -print Ingenious - but I think the *.odt needs to be within quotation marks for this to work, (i.e. '*.odt'). -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Cox
line a bit prematurely in that it went on to say "flash drive". ext2 is arguably better than ext3 for flash drives because of the reduced number of writes to disk. > > Google for explore2fs. > > It claims to support both ext2 and ext3. It does support both. (Because from a

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Cox
eplied directly to the previous contributor in the thread (not the OP, who just might have appreciated it). Worse than useless. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNS

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Cox
did not know that. > Which versions of Windows can read ext2? Windows 95/98/2000/XP/NT definitely. Not sure about Vista. Google for explore2fs. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSL

Re: Why is Firefox calling gimp instead of xpdf?

2009-03-11 Thread Bob Cox
n I would take a look at the file association settings in the control centre. Presumably there is a Gnome equivalent. For me, Firefox/Iceweasel obeys these settings; I have no entry at all for pdf in my Iceweasel preferences. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only

Re: vim

2009-03-11 Thread Bob Cox
is the solution? A good starting point is http://www.google.com/search?q=vim+color Please use plain text and not HTML on this list. Thank you. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobc

Re: Aptitude tries to replace backport kernel with older version

2009-03-11 Thread Bob Cox
ading to Lenny. What is the correct way > of doing this? The line highlighted above should be: Pin: release a=etch-backports -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com

Re: iceweasel thinks it has java but websites disagree

2009-03-10 Thread Bob Cox
URL does not appear to involve any Java at all and it even opens ok in w3m, so an error regarding a lack of Java seems especially odd. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/

Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, "A manual fsck must be performed"

2009-03-10 Thread Bob Cox
gt;> > >>        init=/bin/sh > > My debian sid now break more, after I add init-/bin/sh to the kernel It may just be a typo, but "init-/bin/sh" is not the same as "init=/bin/sh"

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-09 Thread Bob Cox
for now --- One good reason for using ext2 is to help reduce the number of disk writes - which if your USB drive is a flash memory device rather than a traditional hard disk might be considered important. Otherwise, it probably makes sense to do as you have decided and stick with ext3.

Re: Cyrus migration

2009-03-08 Thread Bob Cox
ar/spool/cyrus to my > new server. After that I logged in onto cyradm and executed lm and there > was no output. I know nothing about cyrus but I am guessing there is a /etc/cyrus.conf file and perhaps something in /etc/default/ ? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please re

Re: anyone have /etc/gmrunrc ?

2009-03-06 Thread Bob Cox
ebian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gmrun/gmrun_0.9.1-1_i386.deb and manually extract the contents to a temporary directory with something like dpkg --extract gmrun_0.9.1-1_i386.deb temp_dir/ then you should, in theory, find what you want. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to

Re: Debian on s390

2009-03-05 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 16:33:37 -0300, João Henrique Viana (j...@engepel.com.br) wrote: > Hi all, > > We're trying to install Debian Lenny for s390 in IBM z890 mainframe in a LPAR > via CD-ROM from a HMC console. You may get more help by trying the debian-s390 mailing l

Re: MailScanner package in Lenny

2009-03-05 Thread Bob Cox
think this is the answer to that: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353 > Is it available in another official debian > repository? http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mailscanner -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-04 Thread Bob Cox
ggish to load, seems to work fine once it is up and running. I might try Midori, which is available in unstable and see if it is an improvement. So it can be done but a bit more RAM would no doubt make a huge difference. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only.

Re: fetch root email with Icedove?

2009-03-04 Thread Bob Cox
oint icedove to it. or even (1b) #echo b...@foo.bar.org > ~root/.forward > This is all a shot in the dark, since we don't know OP's mail > configuration. Indeed. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly

Re: Vim tip (was Re: Suspend/Resume issues - Custom scripts notrunning? Mouse frozen?)

2009-03-03 Thread Bob Cox
e is quite a difference between adding a few lines to .vimrc and installing a plugin comprising some 27 files totalling over 300kB ;-) [ Also, please do not top-post, please reply only to the list and do not post using HTML ] -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list o

Re: Segmentation fault when stating aptitude

2009-03-03 Thread Bob Cox
I notice that you are getting updates and security updates for etch but also updates for stable (lenny) with no corresponding security updates. Are you intentionally mixing etch and lenny using pinning or a "APT::Default-Release" setting? Just a thought. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, ne

Re: Where is PHP5 sybase_ct package ?

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 13:53:12 +0100, Frank Bonnet (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: > Bob Cox wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:40:33 +0100, Frank Bonnet >> (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: >> >>> Bob Cox wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>>>

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 15:26:33 +0900, Bret Busby (b...@busby.net) wrote: > Hello. > > I am using Debian 4.0. > > How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy? Try typing update-menus at the command line prompt and see if that helps. -- Bob Cox. Stok

Re: Where is PHP5 sybase_ct package ?

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:40:33 +0100, Frank Bonnet (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: > Bob Cox wrote: [snip] >> So, package php5-sybase is available for stable, testing and unstable. >> Is that what you are looking for? >> > > Well this module is not available for me Sor

Re: Where is PHP5 sybase_ct package ?

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Cox
ity.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages So, package php5-sybase is available for stable, testing and unstable. Is that what you are looking for? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobc

Re: Midnight commander

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Cox
ght Commander works perfectly here using konsole, the gnome terminal and xterm. This is with testing and kde. mc also works fine in a console session. However, I have just installed aterm and can see your problem, so it is reproducible. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the

Re: NTPd log entries flipping between 'status change 4001' and 'status change 0001'

2009-03-01 Thread Bob Cox
can > be the cause? This is ntp flipping between PLL and FLL modes. Google for 'ntp pll fll' for more on this. It would appear to be quite normal anyway. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on t

Re: logging writes to disk (keeping disk from spinning down)

2009-02-28 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 08:21:16 +, Bob Cox (debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com) wrote: > You may need noflushd (no flush daemon) to do > what you want. > > aptitude show noflushd Which is for IDE drives and you are using SATA. Ignore that suggestion then! -- Bob Cox. Stoke G

Re: logging writes to disk (keeping disk from spinning down)

2009-02-28 Thread Bob Cox
e log itself would have to be skipped). Doesn't the ext3 filesystem involve a write to disk every several seconds? You may need noflushd (no flush daemon) to do what you want. aptitude show noflushd -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send

Re: spam control

2009-02-27 Thread Bob Cox
dynamic IP and/or in various blacklists, I manage to *reject* most unwanted stuff rather than accepting it and then, later, rejecting it with spamassassin. I like to think that rejecting it keeps me off the spammers' lists because it is seen as a delivery failure. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Giffor

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Bob Cox
eally is worth the effort to learn at least some of the less obvious search patterns and qualifiers. > Just my humble user experience. > > Tom -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bob

Re: gulus.usherbrooke.ca Debian repo down?

2009-02-25 Thread Bob Cox
en_CA > Unable to connect to gulus.usherbrooke.ca http: > Reading package lists... Done Yes, it is down. Try a different Canadian mirror instead? http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca/ http://debian.mirror.iweb.ca/ http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/ all seem to be up. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near B

Re: non-dpkg owned libc6 - etch to lenny upgrade problem

2009-02-25 Thread Bob Cox
t; > > > Answer to my followup to your previous copy of that message from > > yesterday, rather than sending it again. > > I would if I could... I never saw my message posted, nor did I see your > response. Nor do I find either in the list archives. They are in the a

Re: What is the relationship between debian maillist and google groups?

2009-02-24 Thread Bob Cox
r/about is 2814. That's 5,071 over two months according to Debian and 5,060 according to Google. Why is it important to you? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To

Re: Recommended TrueType fonts

2009-02-23 Thread Bob Cox
aSansRegular.ttf sun-java6-fonts: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lucida/LucidaTypewriterBold.ttf sun-java6-fonts: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lucida/LucidaTypewriterBoldOblique.ttf sun-java6-fonts: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lucida/LucidaTypewriterOblique.ttf sun-java6-fonts: /usr/share/fon

Re: 515...@bugs.debian.org

2009-02-23 Thread Bob Cox
wer your question, the midori maintainer appears to have passed your bug report upstream where it was considered not to be a midori problem after all. > regards > -- Ink Bottle Unusual name ;-) -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send co

Re: problem with my (global) environment

2009-02-22 Thread Bob Cox
ks in advance for your help! > Robert Hi Robert. You could try dpkg-reconfigure locales You should be able to select more than one locales. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.c

Re: Problems with python on etch

2009-02-22 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:47:23 +0100, Michael Schwartzkopff (mi...@multinet.de) wrote: > Bob Cox schrieb: >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:44:40 +0100, Michael Schwartzkopff >> (mi...@multinet.de) wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> since thi

Re: Problems with python on etch

2009-02-22 Thread Bob Cox
the mail. Am I the only one or does somebody else also see these > problems? > > Michael Schwartzkopff. Hello Michael I wonder if we could take a look at your /etc/apt/sources.list file please? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send co

Re: Any info about http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/

2009-02-19 Thread Bob Cox
egistered. The OP's goodbye-microsoft.com does exist, accepts connections to port 80 but that's about as far as it goes. However, the good news is that goodbyemicrosoft.net seems to work ok. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copi

Re: Upgrading to Lenny & 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:13:52 +0100, Sven Joachim (svenj...@gmx.de) wrote: > On 2009-02-16 10:05 +0100, Bob Cox wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:40:51 +, Tim Day > > (tim...@bottlenose.demon.co.uk) wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 08:

Re: Upgrading to Lenny & 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Cox
.26. At least, that is what I see here with IDE drives in two separate lenny boxen, one of which was an upgrade from etch and one a clean lenny install several months ago. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on

Re: Lenny?

2009-02-15 Thread Bob Cox
es > > 500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages > > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status If it helps, it does look like the 2007.07.31 version for etch you are quoting is correct: http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=etch&keywords=debian-archive-keyring -- Bob

Re: Lenny?

2009-02-15 Thread Bob Cox
n.org testing/main Packages 500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org stable/main Packages 500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on

Re: iceweasel segfault

2009-02-06 Thread Bob Cox
d box with IceWeasel 3.0.6 it does NOT work properly. The mousewheel insists on scrolling the whole page and not the Ipaper window. Also, I find that on both machines, Konqueror shows this page correctly, just like IW 2. So I don't think it's Flash at fault, but something odd with IW 3.

Re: prevent access to a hard drive completely

2009-01-31 Thread Bob Cox
u could disable it in the BIOS settings? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-25 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:18:00 +1300, Chris Bannister (mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz) wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:40:39AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:43:28PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:43:07PM +0

Re: C compiler cannot create executables (Ubuntu 8.04)

2009-01-22 Thread Bob Cox
s bug was not available on the debian > databases. Is the lenny/sid version new enough? http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=lifelines -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.

Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account

2009-01-22 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:08:10 -0600, Nate Bargmann (n...@n0nb.us) wrote: > * Bob Cox [2009 Jan 22 02:59 -0600]: > > Are you sure this is an exim-specific problem? I know little about > > exim, using postfix for my servers which talk to the outside world, but > > thi

Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account

2009-01-22 Thread Bob Cox
ed rcpthosts" .. means that smtp.starfieldtech.com will not relay for you. Just because the error comes immediately after RCPT TO does not mean that n...@n0nb.us is what starfieldtech is objecting to. You have an empty MAIL FROM - is that the problem? (You also have a non-resolving EHLO, b

Re: how to create a cache for squid

2009-01-21 Thread Bob Cox
r it is done by default without changing anything in squid.conf > thanks for help > bela [ Please try to lose the html part of your message. Just send in plain text only. Thank you ] Your answer is probably here: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bris

Re: http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu is down

2009-01-19 Thread Bob Cox
se are the US so you have plenty to choose from. http://www.uk.debian.org/mirror/list -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: laptop lenny + TV

2009-01-18 Thread Bob Cox
icsDrivers which includes links to lists of supported cards. One of those links is to http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.09/README/appendix-a.html which is "Appendix A. Supported NVIDIA GPU Products" and which has these listed: GeForce 6150 GeForce 6150 LE GeForce Go

Re: OpenOffice Calc

2009-01-17 Thread Bob Cox
gt; removes the number formatting for that cell. Then I must go back and > replace the number formatting that I want for the cell I copied. > Nothing else seems to undo (even "Undo") the "border" put around the > copied cell. Press the escape key? -- Bob Cox. St

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-16 Thread Bob Cox
.com although that is only a second hand recommendation. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Unable to upgrade NSLU2 running debian

2009-01-16 Thread Bob Cox
lso wondering why a dist-upgrade rather than just an upgrade, > although I doubt if that is anything to do with your problem. > > I run etch/arm on one NSLU2 and lenny/armel on another and upgrade both > with few problems so hopefully this is fixable. > > That openssh-blacklist packag

Re: Unable to upgrade NSLU2 running debian

2009-01-15 Thread Bob Cox
. That openssh-blacklist package dates back to last May. Presumably you have not done an update/upgrade for a long time? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread Bob Cox
Read it in full here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html HTH -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: kernel naming conventions?

2009-01-14 Thread Bob Cox
uot;linux-image-2.6" and > "linux-image-2.6-686" and "linux-image-2.6.18-6-686"? I understand the > last one is a specific version of the 2.6.18 kernel (the 6th sub-variant > of the 2.6.18 kernel compiled for i686 machines?), but is the 2.6-686 > the 1st versio

Re: Help with u tube video streaming

2009-01-12 Thread Bob Cox
ered the alternative link to "watch in high quality" where such a version exists. By appending "&fmt=18" to the URL of a YouTube movie, it can be made to open initially in this higher quality mode and perhaps this is what clive is doing. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near B

Re: Lightweight alternative to imagemagick?

2009-01-11 Thread Bob Cox
s. They won't actually be doing anything and I am not short of disk space, so really it does not matter at all I suppose. The slug is kept busy running motion (movement detecting with a webcam) and saving the resulting images. Using convert from imagemagick to reduce these images for viewing

Re: Who is logged into this box?

2009-01-11 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:01:59 +, Tzafrir Cohen (tzaf...@cohens.org.il) wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 09:01:57AM +0000, Bob Cox wrote: > > > Just typing "w" (without the quotes) should be adequate. > > While we're at it: > > "w" # (wi

Re: Who is logged into this box?

2009-01-11 Thread Bob Cox
while the account's > user is sitting at the machine and logged in, so if I can catch two > simultaneous login sessions (one on the physical hardware, one over > ssh) then I can be sure. Thanks. Just typing "w" (without the quotes) should be adequate. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford,

Lightweight alternative to imagemagick?

2009-01-11 Thread Bob Cox
her than imagemagick brings it down to "only" 52 packages. This still seems quite a lot and includes lots of font stuff and x11-common when all I want is the 'convert' command. Does anyone know of a simpler, slimmer alternative for resizing jpegs from the command line please? --

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