Re: Does the vfat partition need defrag under Gnu/Linux ?

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Muzer wrote: Yeah. It's annoying that Linux can't defrag FAT natively (or most filesystems for that matter, the notable exception being ext4). I've been using linux fs on workstations and servers for many years and never missed the 'defrag' feature. From what I recall from the old windows

Re: Lenny printing competition -- still open?

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Miguel Obliviemo wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In pine.lnx.4.64.0905271942380.12...@calypso.view.net.au, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: I just noticed the Print to Win or Print 2 Win promotion in the HOWTO directory

Re: Icewasel - IPv6

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
rimaya wrote: echo blacklist ipv6 /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist/ -- reboot Why reboot? Is 'modprobe -r ipv6' not sufficient? Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Lenny printing competition -- still open?

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Miguel Obliviemo wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In pine.lnx.4.64.0905271942380.12...@calypso.view.net.au, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: I just noticed the Print to Win or Print 2 Win promotion in the HOWTO directory Just a joke, I suppose

Re: Lenny printing competition -- still open?

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
I just noticed the Print to Win or Print 2 Win promotion in the HOWTO directory Just a joke, I suppose ;-) Not quite. The language promotes another operating system. NB: If you don't like the wording of the document and/or would like to improve it's contents, please go ahead and do so!

Re: Backports for Lenny ?

2009-05-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
S. Fishpaste wrote: Is too soon from the release to expect some Backports for Lenny ? I'm not in a particular rush, just wondering There are some backports available, like Openoffice 3.0 and samba 3.3.4. There will be others as well, just check it out. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Harry Rickards wrote: Someone definitely needs to make a rtfm.com version, that redirects you to the appropriate manual page. :D Try that for a start http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=man+rtfml=1 8-) Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
rand...@songshu.org wrote: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=man+rtfml=1 love that one, but there seems to be another program already for this http://manpages.songshu.org/manpages/lenny/en/man1/rtfm.1fun.html In fact both are the same 'program'. You could install that man page with 'aptitude

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
rand...@songshu.org wrote: most new users don't now the existence of the automatically installed man pages. admittedly i also find it more readable in a browser. Konqueror will display the local man pages when you enter man:rtfm in the location bar (provided you have funny-manpages

Re: Hello!! I'm New

2009-05-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Bipin Babu wrote: b. this mailing list follows 'bottom posting' and does not appreciate 'top posting' Trimming [1], ie. cutting of unneeded content in replies is also generally prefered. As is inline replying [2]. Use common sense to make it as simple as possible to others to read your post.

Re: Lenny printing competition -- still open?

2009-05-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In pine.lnx.4.64.0905271942380.12...@calypso.view.net.au, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: I just noticed the Print to Win or Print 2 Win promotion in the HOWTO directory I have no idea what you are talking about and couldn't find a reference to a similarly named

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Barclay, Daniel wrote: Muzer wrote: KDE can convert manpages to HTML on-the-fly (just browse to man:/manpage[(number)] (where the denotes a required argument, [] an optional argument) Which part of KDE is that? (What is KDE's file/etc. browser?) konqueror Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: ps merge problem

2009-05-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
adel azadehfar wrote: hi when i use of gswin32.exe gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile=ali3.ps -f ali1.ps ali2.ps don't working .can do u help me ? Just go to http://goodbye-microsoft.com/, install debian and you will get a free and more powerful OS and maybe even some

differences of gfortran on amd64 and i386

2009-05-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Hello list, I have a rather funny and annoying problem with a third-party fortran program. It is a non-free scientific program for some physical calculations. I get different output values, if I compile and run the same fortran code on amd64 or i386. In fact, depending on the input file it exits

Re: How to hide arrow cursor of the mouse

2009-05-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Hallo Eric! User Debian wrote: I would like to know how I can disable the arrow cursor of the mouse so that at bootup, it is automatically disabled. However, the arrow cursor must stay active BUT should be hidden... I don't know if this is possible, no mouse cursor and mouse cursor at the

Re: Lenny. Wrong displaying of symbols.

2009-05-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mark Goldshtein wrote: I thought we live in Unicode world. In mswin environment same videos or same web pages with these characters look right. Maybe something wrong with default fonts in Debian Lenny? If you really think that there are some fonts required for a given application (web browser,

Re: Iceweasel Lenny

2009-05-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Michael Casey wrote: Firefox is at 3.0.10 Iceweasel is at 3.0.6 [stable] Sorry for asking, but doesn't it makes a security hole, having a non up-to-date Iceweasel? It seems my iceweasel is up-to-date (version was compiled with all security fixes announced on 09 May 2009 [1]: Iceweasel 3.0.6

Re: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

2009-05-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Patrick Wiseman wrote: The reason I asked is that network-manager has been freezing my system and the maintainer, who believes it's a kernel problem, asked me to test it against the latest kernel. But I really don't want to get ahead of, or out of sync with, where testing is. This normally

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Christopher Judd wrote: My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his system, and run ubuntu or debian. The only thing holding him back at this time is itunes. Sorry not directly related to your question, but anyway: I have never used itunes, but I use amarok on my

Re: different locale based on directory

2009-05-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,04.May.09, 19:46:39, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Hallo list! I have a funny tex-file (sty and tex) that requires the deprecated latin1 encoding. (It was originally developed for lusers of another OS). My system is lenny and utf-8. Is there a way to configure my

Re: Which word list file is used by aspell?

2009-05-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Foss User wrote: I am using Debian Squeeze (Testing). Can someone please help me in finding out which word list file is used by 'aspell' command to match words? Which word list do you have installed? Hint: look at the output of aptitude search aspell and note which are installed (i in first

different locale based on directory

2009-05-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Hallo list! I have a funny tex-file (sty and tex) that requires the deprecated latin1 encoding. (It was originally developed for lusers of another OS). My system is lenny and utf-8. Is there a way to configure my editor [1] to use the latin1 encoding for certain files or directories and utf-8

Re: best usb sound card with debian support?

2009-04-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: A few years ago I got an terratec phase 26 usb card. I need a second usb sound card for a second computer and hear that there are better devices available. Some of those suggested as 'better' alternatives are the M-box mini and E-MU 0202 USB. Google makes me doubt

Re: Acrobat reader

2009-04-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Frank McCormick wrote: Including me. I am still wondering what these websites are looking for. They tell you you don't have Adobe even before Firefox has a chance to give you a prompt We don't have a chance to investigate this without an url to test... Cheers, Johannes -- To

Re: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8)

2009-04-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8) $ man cruft cruft - Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained files) Mainly I'm talking about those unexplained files. Even just # cruft -d / will probably produce tons of output on any

Re: Acrobat reader

2009-04-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Florian Kulzer wrote: There are websites that check for the presence of the acroread plugin before they even give you the chance to download a PDF. This is usually a misguided attempt at being user friendly: Someone assumes that the visitors cannot handle PDFs without the plugin and that they

[SOLVED!] Re: openoffice font problems

2009-04-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:27:50 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: For some documents that were apparently prepared with a proprietary application for users of a proprietary OS, some characters (mainly greek letters in mathematics) are not correctly displayed

Re: Samba

2009-04-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
[Please don't top post and trim the reply! Thanks.] [I am cc'ing you. Sorry, if that is in error.] Lynn Kilroy wrote: [snip] Debugging/Accounting # This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine # that connects log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m [snip] Logfile is

Re: Samba

2009-04-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In blu148-w4544c5de5804a1cc7520cece...@phx.gbl, Lynn Kilroy wrote: You need to create a space hog file in your root directory called -rf. Then unlink it. # dd if=/dev/zero of=/-rf. bs=4k count=4m I guess you meant 4M (captial M). ;-) But G would be even

Re: Samba

2009-04-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
[please keep your replies to the list, so that others might help as well.] Lynn Kilroy wrote: Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:16:27 +0200 In my initial e-mail, the one asking about setting up a linux file server, I said explicitly that I wanted the sharing to be mutual between a Windows PC and

openoffice font problems

2009-04-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
For some documents that were apparently prepared with a proprietary application for users of a proprietary OS, some characters (mainly greek letters in mathematics) are not correctly displayed in openoffice.org. I tried both lenny's and backport's 3.0. Are there some free or non-free font

Re: openoffice font problems

2009-04-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: For some documents that were apparently prepared with a proprietary application for users of a proprietary OS, some characters (mainly greek letters in mathematics) are not correctly displayed in openoffice.org. I tried both lenny's and backport's 3.0. FWIW

Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Norbert Zeh wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:02:08PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all

Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Try $ pdftk your-funny.pdf burst output testfix.pdf Sorry: please first try $ pdftk your-funny.pdf output trytofix.pdf The burst option is to split it in single pages, in case there is only one problematic page. Then one should also use a placeholder

Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

2009-04-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Jeff Chimene wrote: In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, and the permissions are the same. The only difference is the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are

Re: where to download sid?

2009-04-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 04:30:52PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Then *after* you are comfortable with Debian, you might find that you want newer upstream versions of one or more packages. If that happens, you can migrate the whole system to Squeeze or Sid

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

2009-04-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,11.Apr.09, 13:47:08, James Youngman wrote: (2) It would be useful to have a historic backup capability too (e.g. the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last week, last month and a year ago), at least for filesystems like /home. etckeeper. Admittedly, it was

Re: USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-07 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Dotan Cohen wrote: By the way, you may want to write to Belkin and ask them if the card will work with Linux. They will never write works with Linux on the box if nobody is asking for it. +1 ;-D Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

best usb sound card with debian support?

2009-04-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
A few years ago I got an terratec phase 26 usb card. I need a second usb sound card for a second computer and hear that there are better devices available. Some of those suggested as 'better' alternatives are the M-box mini and E-MU 0202 USB. Google makes me doubt that those are supported by alsa

Re: USB stick two devices into one

2009-04-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Rob Gom wrote: Hi Debian Users, I own an USB 2 GB stick. Unfortunately it is reported to system as two separate devices: [ 3151.418037] usb-storage: device found at 2 [ 3151.418041] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning [ 3156.416261] usb-storage: device scan complete [

Re: USB stick two devices into one

2009-04-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Rob Gom wrote: Is it possible to convert stick to be single device? I don't need second one... And two windows about new device connected can be a bit irritating... [cut] Once the stick is attached, could you send us the output of 'fdisk -l'? I'm just guessing, but maybe it is possible to

Re: bank web page problem in iceweasel/iceape

2009-04-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
H.S. wrote: Also, he also had the bank's website whitelisted in noscript. He has also tried it in Iceweasel with noscript and adblock addons disabled (in Iceape, I don't think one can disable a plugin by choice), but the same problem persists. Not sure what really is going on here. Me

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: In the meantime it has proven to be a lot of hassle with no (or very little) benefit and - at least in my country - the vast majority is in favour of abolishing this enslaving of millions of biorythms. s/biorhythm/circadian rhythm/ Johannes

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-03-29 11:49, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] A few weeks ago, my Lenny system switched over from displaying time in MST (Mountain Standard Time) to MDT (Mountain Daylight Time). It did this, I believe, because the switch-over is mandated in the official locale coding

Re: pdf - jpg

2009-03-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Miles Fidelman wrote: Rick Pasotto wrote: What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? screen capture? Would work, but not necessarily the best way. I'd suggest 'convert' or gimp. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: default kernel of 5.0 distribution

2009-03-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Angelin Lalev wrote: How do I get (easy) the version of the kernel. It seems that the difference between both versions is not shown in uname -a Because they do have the same version. There are just some security fixes backported to that version. To see which _package_ version is installed on

Re: Technical Inquiry

2009-03-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Robert Holtzman wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Jeffrey Cao wrote: Boot into single user mode, and you are the root. Then, you can change root password. Says he, carefully snipping the admonition in the post he quoted about top posting. Priceless. I don't actually think that he snipped it

Re: How to setup a PPPoE Server?

2009-03-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello, For my network (there will be over 4000 customers) I need PPPoE authentification. The customer database is a PostgreSQL. Does someone know how to setup such network? Uncle Google seems to offer some advice on 'pppoe server authentification'. First

Re: How to setup a PPPoE Server?

2009-03-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Michelle Konzack wrote: Hmmm, now I have searched again the Debian Packages and it seems, the Roaring Penguin PPPoE server software is not in Debian... Do you know why? No. FWIW, on my system: 20:20:44-johan...@e13-v21:~$ man -k pppoe [...] pppoe-server (8) - user-space PPPoE server

Re: stitching a filesystem

2009-03-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mag Gam wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 07:22:13PM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: Is it possible to combine 2 filesystems so they would appear as one? For example, you have 2 volumes: /vol0 (500GB) /vol1 (500GB) I was

Re: Rescue Linux partition

2009-03-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
randall wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: its one of the spare times i actually found the ubuntu live-desktop cd useful since it provides firefox with google while doing the rescue Debian's live cd (gnome or kde) also feature iceweasel aka firefox [1], no /need/ to use ubuntu. Cheers

Re: Rescue Linux partition

2009-03-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mirco Piccin wrote: HI, Is there a bootable utility that can be installed on a CD and rescue or back up the data in the Linux ext2 partitions on my HDD and write them to a CD using the CD writer on my system. I think that any Linux live cd

Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In jwvwsap9oo1.fsf-monnier+gmane.linux.debian.u...@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier wrote: What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is available? You lose it all (pretty much). For that reason, it's not recommended, unless you have backups elsewhere.

Re: Print to PDF with lpr

2009-03-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Dotan Cohen wrote: But I just discovered this OOo extension which allows the user to save the document as PDF with the ODF file embedded for editing: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport This is, in my opinion, the perfect document format. The only thing missing

Re: Consolechars Question

2009-03-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Thomas H. George wrote: What font am I using? Is there a way of displaying the available English fonts? What is an 'English font'? Do you mean ascii or Latin? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Moving to LVM

2009-03-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
André Berger wrote: What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is available? You are out of luck and loose access to any of your data. You didn't expect something else, did you? Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Lenovo laptop - Type Control D to Continue

2009-03-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Jimmy Johnson wrote: Thorny wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:47:13 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hey Guy's I have Lenovo laptop, new Lenny install and I'm having to type control+d to continue boot, I looked at dmesg and I can't make what the problem is, so I post and maybe

Re: Hello sir

2009-03-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Victor Padro wrote: Direct link, DVD version: AMD64(if your laptop has more than 3GB of RAM): http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0/amd64/iso-dvd/ i386(if your laptop has less than 3GB of RAM): http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.0/i386/iso-dvd/ I would suggest using the i386,

Re: Hello sir

2009-03-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 2009/3/14 Santhosh R santhoshbioi...@gmail.com Try Debian 6/testing/squeeze. you only need CD 1 for basic desktop installation. http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ Well, if debian 5 'lenny' does not work, you could try that. However, I would strongly encourage new users

Re: How do I Install your Linux operating system.

2009-03-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Please keep the discussion on list, so that others looking for help will be able to benefit as well. caleb rodgers wrote: this really doesn't really help me very well like immediately what can I do exactly and dual boot to windows vista. step by step in great detail man. Please help. What is

Re: Würmchen...

2009-03-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
steef wrote: what is the point of these worms-exhibition on an linux-mailing list? Just a misdirection. It had been a long day. Sorry for the noise. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: How do I Install your Linux operating system.

2009-03-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
caleb rodgers wrote: Hey how do I Install your Linux operating system on my computer I can only access my database drive and I want to dual boot with Windows Vista. http://www.debian.org/ has two important links for you: The download site: http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/#stable The

Re: need to get a id/account for debian bugzilla

2009-03-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Shirish S Pargaonkar wrote: I need to get a id/account so I can update existing debian bugzilla bugs. I am not able to find out how to obtain one. Your help is appreciated. I've never heard of 'debian bugzilla'. For what do you need such an account? Read http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

Re: scanner stop working after update

2009-03-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rainer Kluge wrote: 1) dpkg --force-conflicts -i iscan_2.17.0-3_i386.deb 2) dpkg -i iscan-plugin-gt-_2.1.0-2_i386.deb # depends on scanner type 3) manually delete the iscan and iscan-plugin entries in /var/lib/dpkg/status FWIW, I did:

Würmchen...

2009-03-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Grüße, Johannes -- Dr. Johannes Wiedersich Technische Universitaet Muenchen Physikdepartment E13 Tel.: +49 89 289 12449 James-Franck-Str. 1FAX: +49 89 289 12473 85747 Garching http://www.e13.ph.tum.de

Re: What's the easiest way to obtain a debian kernel which contains snd-cs46xx module?

2009-03-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
j t wrote: I've just done a fresh install of Lenny on my Thinkpad T21, which (according to lshw) contains a Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator (pci id 1013:6003). When you google Cirrus Logic CS 4614, one of the first hits is

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch. Try 2

2009-03-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Hodgins wrote: I reinstalled (a minimal) Etch last night. It was successful. Is there any particular reason, why you don't just 'aptitude upgrade' etc. from etch to lenny? Cheers, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9

Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.

2009-03-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Monnier wrote: How about doing an upgrade instead? Still, I'd like to know why the Etch installer is successful and the Lenny installer isn't. Should I still be using this machine down the road (and I'd like to keep it going as long as the

Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment results)

2009-03-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Lisi Reisz wrote: I have not tested the theory, but I have always understood that keys are particularly vulnerable. To physical damage if pulled out prematurely, not just damage to the filesystem. Why so? Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: why /sys cannot be copied?

2009-03-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Star Liu wrote: and i fount that the /sys in the broken system is a shell file, but the /sys in the new system is a folder, so i tried to copy the sys folder from new system to broken system, by cp /sys /root/OldRoot/sys, but it says many files in the new sys folder cannot be read! why? how

Re: Advice about ext3, please (An experiment results)

2009-03-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 11 March 2009 17:43:33 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: I have not tested the theory, but I have always understood that keys are particularly vulnerable. To physical damage if pulled out prematurely, not just damage to the filesystem. Why so

Re: add epson EPL-6200L driver

2009-03-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: Hi, my printer is epson EPL-6200L, I install the last Mepis 6. (debian-based distro); I have just epl-6100 , epl-6100PS, epl-7100. But no one ran. In fact when I tried to print, the pages sent spool, but no thing is printed, I concluded that the diver is not

Re: Iceape Blocking Images

2009-03-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Thomas H. George wrote: Suddenly Iceape has started blocking images replacing them with a top row of black diamonds containing question marks. The images are not just popup ads. For example, if I click on Help/About Plugins I get a page which is blank except for a row of the black diamonds

Re: Mailing-list conventions

2009-03-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Teemu Likonen wrote: On 2009-03-04 13:31 (+0100), Thierry Chatelet wrote: PS: Don't CC people unless they say it specificaly, as we are on the mailing list. For your information, there are _lots_ of mailing lists where reply to all is the norm. So being on a mailing list is not the reason

Re: fetch root email with Icedove?

2009-03-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Virgo Pärna wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:09:29 +, David Jardine da...@jardine.de wrote: Do you really want to do that? It's normal to have mail for root diverted to an ordinary user account. Run: The problem could be, that Icedove (at least in Lenny) doesn't have Movemail

Re: To All Web Hosting Providers

2009-03-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raleigh Guevarra wrote: To All Web Hosting Providers, To all posters to debian lists: If you want to get some replies to your questions, you should start a new thread. Hiding your question within a rather boaring thread on mailing list etiquette is

Re: sed :(

2009-03-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
josep wrote: why isn't it working? :( sed -i s/#send host-name andare.fugue.com;/send host-name $(cat /etc/hostname)/g /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf your quotes don't match. (There are probably other issues as well.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: how to ask for aptitude improvement wrt unsigned package

2009-03-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 02 March 2009 12:05:20 marca...@gmail.com wrote: I am using a repository that doesn't sign its package. I know and trust it. That's not exactly what the signatures are about. They are mainly about

Re: How to automount USB disks at boot-up?

2009-03-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Arthur Marsh wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote, on 2009-03-02 01:25: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:56:12PM +0100, Robert Latest wrote: Hello people, the subject says it all. It didn't work for me in KDE 3.5.10 (running Debian unstable here). I might have the wrong packages installed. Or the 'wrong'

Re: mythtv on debian 5.0 (etch)

2009-03-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Angelin Lalev wrote: 1. Which one of the unofficial mythtv packages should I choose (and how to insure that it won't compromise my system)? I have not tried mythtv myself, but I've never had a bad experience with that site: $ apt-cache policy mythtv mythtv: Installed: (none) Candidate:

Re: What package would I file this Install bug against ?

2009-03-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
mhep...@gmail wrote: So what package would I file the bug report against ? I mean it wasn't technically a failure of grub, since grub never got installed, but why didn't grub get installed during setup ? Would this get submitted to the d-i team ? Or just 'reportbug installation-report' [1]:

Re: Installing testing from latest netinst iso

2009-03-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Frank McCormick wrote: I just spent a couple of hours trying to unsuccessfully install Squeeze from the netinstall iso. I guess these builds are put up for DL with no or little testing. My build came from the 28th and the two suffer the same problem. Guess I'll wait a month or so before

Re: netbook for debian

2009-03-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Peter Robinson wrote: I am thinking of buying a netbook and would like to ask for opinions about good options for use with debian (preferably, alternatively Ubuntu). At the moment, I have been looking at Samsung NC10-anyNet KA06DE 10,2 Zoll WSVGA Netbook and Asus Eee PC 1000H 10 Zoll WSVGA

Re: Linux desktop without mouse acceleration. Is it possible?

2009-02-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Barclay, Daniel wrote: You're mixing up the Internet with the World Wide Web. I was merely trying to point out that the debian user mailing list doesn't try to embrace everything possible on internet. It is just a small subset of it and there are things happening on the internet that we (or at

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jimmy Johnson wrote: I have three 64bit systems here and all running Mepis 8.0 64bit, things like flash and YouTube are preconfigured and will work straight out of the box. Here's a link to the Mepis 8.0 User's Manual:

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Aioanei Rares wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 02/25/2009 01:58 PM, Dean Chester wrote: [snip] OK will try with some live CDs. Next question 32-bit or 64-bit has a C2D processor? On a laptop, I see no advantage to running a 64-bit

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Jimmy Johnson wrote: Why do you flame me, maybe you think it's better to recommend Sidux or Ubuntu? G I didn't intend to flame you, I am sorry if I sounded like that. If you don't want a flame, please stop yours as well. I just gave my opinion, you gave yours. I don't understand why you take

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jimmy Johnson wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/25/2009 01:58 PM, Dean Chester wrote: [snip] OK will try with some live CDs. Next question 32-bit or 64-bit has a C2D processor? On a laptop, I see no advantage to running a 64-bit system. Ron

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Aioanei Rares wrote: While I agree with the newbie part, I find that I want to get the most out of my hardware, so I use 64-bit. What applications or usage scenarios get more out of your hardware as with 32bit / 64bit kernel? How much better are those on amd64? Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: No soft-links for scp?

2009-02-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Dotan Cohen wrote: What I need is the file directory tree of a remote system, browsable locally even when that system is offline. I thought that had been answered already [1]. Alternatively, create the symlinked copy while the remote fs is mounted. When the remote system is up you could use it

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jimmy Johnson wrote: I imagine the arguments where similar when operating systems moved from 16 bit to 32 bit. ;) I have never heard of 16 bit userland and a 32 bit kernel, though. In the present case in a sense you can have the best of both worlds

Re: No soft-links for scp?

2009-02-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [redirecting to list] Dotan Cohen wrote: I thought that had been answered already [1]. This is a continuation of that conversation. At that time, I was only able to test cp's behaviour locally because I was not actually on the network. The cp

Re: Linux desktop without mouse acceleration. Is it possible?

2009-02-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Dirk wrote: If you have a problem with trolling... well... let me welcome you to the internet. Well, then please go to the internet. We are not the internet, we are debian-user, a mailing list that just happens to be mirrored to the internet. Cheers, Johannes [cc'ing you, because you seemed

Re: Resolving dependencies?

2009-02-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: I'm using apt pinning with my lenny amd64 - Package: * Pin: release a=lenny Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=squeeze Pin-Priority: 650 Package: * Pin: release a=sid Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-02-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Well, a fun time (one week), sweating it up to make my ATI and Wifi work in Lenny AMD64 but nothing. With old fedora wifi works from the live cd and ATI with the update. No need even to try it with my dell or my Aspireone. So byebye Debian. FWIW, my ati works

Re: Protecting files in linux

2009-02-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Delgado wrote: Hi, i would like to protect files like passwords and websites of Firefox (iceweasel), and this cannot be done encripting the files. Why not? So, i need some program for protect the files and, at the same time be using them.

Re: On battery power, so skipping file system check when in AC power

2009-02-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Virgo Pärna wrote: Does anyone else also receives On battery power, so skipping file system check warning, when starting up a laptop with AC power connected? Especially in Lenny. fine on Thinkpad T60p. johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: Besides, wouldn't changing size_t would break binary compatibility when moving data files from an older machine to a newer machine? FWIW, I copy data files between my amd64 system and my x86_64 or i386 on a daily basis without

Re: Cloning methods

2009-02-08 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Nagy Daniel wrote: What's the best method for cloning a partition? [searching for an open-source software alternateive for it :P] partimage is for 'cloning' of most types of partitions. For linux partitions (ext3), however I prefer 'rsync -a', since it copies files and is more efficient IMHO.

Re: 24 bit usb sound on lenny

2009-02-08 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Thanks for your reply, Joel! Joel Roth wrote: On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 03:54:41PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Hallo all! On switching my usb sound card to 24bit audio, all applications using the card will crash/segfault: $ aplay led_zeppelin-houses_of_the_holy-a.wav Playing WAVE

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