Re: what's the difference and superior between gtk+ and gecko?

2009-03-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:04:28 +0800 Star Liu wrote: > I want to develop a cross-platform desktop software by open source > platform and develop tools. I'm also a web developer so I'm interested > in gecko, and know that gecko is also able to build desktop > applications by XUL, not only display htm

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

2009-03-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:41:38 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/28/2009 11:14 AM, green wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-02-28, 059, Bob Cox wrote: > >> 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

Re: 2.6.28 + nvidia closed source

2009-03-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:56:40 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I see 2.6.28 made it to Sid. > > Anybody use it with the nvidia closed source driver? > > Hugo > > I am using 2.6.28.5 (tux on ice source) with the nvidia binary from their website (180.29) with no problems. There are also

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:25:57 + (UTC) Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:41:10 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > Hendrik Boom: > >> > >> I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems > >> (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now >

Re: VirtualBox on lenny

2009-02-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:28:29 + Magnus Therning wrote: > Harry Putnam wrote: > > Googling about virtualbox on debian.. I see only older information. > > Looks like the wiki at http://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox > > Appear to be somewhat old too and only goes up to etch. Other stuff > > shows it

Any programming editor/ide with "intelisense" for c++ and fortran around?

2009-02-21 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying to find if there is a proper programming editor with "intelisense" like behavior (the only thing I miss about visual studio) that supports both fortran and c++, or at least c++. I mostly use emacs and this is the main feature I miss. I saw some talk around about such support for emacs b

Re: Kernel AMD 64

2009-02-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:16:48 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/20/2009 06:01 PM, Alejandro Rodriguez Luna wrote: > > > > Hi, i just installed a new server runnign Debian, my server has a > > 32-bit, presumably? > > > AMD 64 X2 processor, i'd like to know which one is the best kernel > > for th

Re: Live-Helper. Became root

2009-02-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:33:14 -0500 "Thomas H. George" wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 06:55:09PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I have forgotten how to become root on a customised usb-hdd which I > > built with the aid of lh_clean, lh_config and lh_build. The system > > boots nicely from th

Re: Live-Helper. How to become root?

2009-02-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:55:09 -0500 "Thomas H. George" wrote: > I have forgotten how to become root on a customised usb-hdd which I > built with the aid of lh_clean, lh_config and lh_build. The system > boots nicely from the usb stick and opens a gnome desktop. I can open > console displays (F1,

debian ftp server that works with windows

2009-02-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried installing ftpd and ftpd-ssl but when serving local directory through ftp to windows machine the see not only the file name but also the time, that is instead of seeing directory "Music" I'm seeing the directory "22:31 Music". Is there a better ftp daemon or some way to configure it to bett

Re: Is there a way to recover network-manager wep keys without network manager

2009-02-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:20:17 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: > I moved to wicd some time ago from network manger and I have a wep key to a > network I used to work with some time ago tucked away with network-manager > that is no longer installed. Is there a way to recover that key? &g

Is there a way to recover network-manager wep keys without network manager

2009-02-17 Thread Micha Feigin
I moved to wicd some time ago from network manger and I have a wep key to a network I used to work with some time ago tucked away with network-manager that is no longer installed. Is there a way to recover that key? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Detecting a compromised system

2009-02-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:06:29 -0500 Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Hello, > > I recently though about the least sophisticated way to introduce a > backdoor into a system if a already had a root shell. My naive > approach would be to > > a) create a setuid root shell somewhere in the fs, > > or > > b

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:33:41 +0100 Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > Hendrik Boom: > >> > >> I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems > >> (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now > >> how useful VCSs are for programming, I

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:41:36 -0600 "Stackpole, Chris" wrote: > > From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom > > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:59 PM > > Subject: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version > control > > > > I'd like a word processor compa

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:24:32 -0700 Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-02-10_10:12:00, John Hasler wrote: > > owens writes: > > > For some Engineers (particularly Electrical) that need to know how the > > > CPU functions, Assembler is essential. > > > > Programmers need to know how cpus work and so s

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:19:59 -0800 Daniel Burrows wrote: > I think one important thing is to learn more than one language. There > are a couple reasons for this, but if I had to give you just one, here > is what it would be: > From experience, after the third or so language it's easy to pick

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-09 Thread Micha Feigin
wrote: > On 02/09/2009 05:02 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:57:42PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > >> Just for the record, Fortran is very much alive and kicking. It's actually > >> a wonderful language for mathematical work an

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:19:01 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 05:00:54PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Sunday 08 February 2009 11:04:42 Martin wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 10:24:58PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > > And C standard is one

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-08 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 20:27:44 -0500 Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 15:18:16 +0200 > Micha Feigin wrote: > > ... > > > be written using these (same goes for python BTW). Take for example > > wicd-client and tomboy. Using 15mb real and 215mb shared for wicd

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 20:45:03 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Friday 06 February 2009 16:46:13 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > The fact that it was developed by MS kinda creeps be but it has been > > standardized... > > I understand the distrust of MS, but C# is actually a pretty nice langua

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:10:40 +0200 "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" wrote: > Jeff Soules wrote: > >> So start with Python or Basic (search for Gambas IDE). > > > > I hear that Python is an excellent learning language. However, I > > think that Basic might be less useful for this, simply because it's > > v

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:14:45 +0100 Javier wrote: > Abdelkader Belahcene escribiף: > > HI, > > There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, > > Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances > > use that language instead of the other. > > > > In many

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:25:31 +0100 Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > HI, > There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, > Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances > use that language instead of the other. > > In many situations we can use anyone,

Re: Printing a web page shrunk to a single page

2009-02-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:47:05 + Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > (I actually mostly want to export it to pdf so either option will work) > So why don't you? Firefox enables you to print to file, choose pdf. > I'm not sure if there's an option to flip the page to landscape, but > maybe your prdf-viewer

Printing a web page shrunk to a single page

2009-02-04 Thread Micha Feigin
I want to print a web page (a conference that I want to hang in uni) in one page. I can see it on screen as one page (landscape) but when I want to print it the right side is cut out. zooming the page doesn't seem to help as the width stays the same (cropped) and only the text is smaller. I tried

Re: prevent access to a hard drive completely

2009-02-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:33:22 +0400 Olive wrote: > Olive wrote: > > gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 08:56:57AM +0400, Olive wrote: > >>> My internal hard disk is dead: it makes a strange noise and remain in > >>> the position on indefinitely. I have installed Linux on an exte

Re: parallel programming on debian

2009-01-31 Thread Micha Feigin
fic to these aims, but they are probably what you are looking for at the moment. > 2009/1/31 Micha Feigin : > > On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:03:43 -0800 > > ow...@netptc.net wrote: > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > Original Message

Re: parallel programming on debian

2009-01-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:03:43 -0800 ow...@netptc.net wrote: > > > > > > > > Original Message > >From: ron.l.john...@cox.net > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: parallel programming on debian > >Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:08:15 -0600 > > > >>On 01/30/2009 10:01 PM, zhang zhen

Re: parallel programming on debian

2009-01-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:01:57 -0600 zhang zhengquan wrote: > Dear all debian users: > > I am taking a course on parallel programming and I wonder if anyone > has encountered the same library problem, > > the code example the instructor provides has > > #include > #include > > and obviously t

Re: installing driver with ndiswrapper

2009-01-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:12:00 +0800 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I'm trying to install my laptop wireless driver with ndiswrapper > > eden:/home/umarzuki/Desktop/Downloads# ndiswrapper -i bcmwl6.inf > installing bcmwl6 ... > eden:/home/umarzuki/Desktop/Downloads# depmod -a > eden:/home/umarzuki/Desk

color calibrating the display (in software)

2009-01-26 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm looking for a way to create a color calibration profile for my display under linux. I'm currently using a profile I created with adobe gamma under vmware and loaded with xcalib. I tried creating a new profile with lprof and everything seems good up to the point of saving it, but loading the r

git-svn and git tags

2009-01-25 Thread Micha Feigin
Is it possible to make git-svn work with git tags? I tried tagging some commits in my local repository but once I did a git-svn dcommit to upload my changes all the tags were killed (gitk doesn't show any of them anymore). Is there a way to tag commits when working with git-svn? Also how does one

Re: ext4 as default FS ?

2009-01-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:52:24 +1030 Arthur Marsh wrote: > Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote, on 2009-01-25 22:01: > > Does anybody know when (and if) will ext4 be the default installation > > filesystem of debian testing? > > Besides what the previous respondent said about the need for working > rescue disks

Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:29:56 +1030 Arthur Marsh wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote, on 2009-01-25 04:50: > > I posted this under the original thread, but since there were no > > responses I figured that most readers had already determined that they > > could not help with that problem and so did not r

xdmcp remote login, can log in to the server from one computer but not another

2009-01-22 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying to setup xdmcp login on one of my servers. This server has two network interfaces (actually 4, but two active). I'm trying to log in to X using xdmcp (enabled via gdm config) from two clients, one connected directly via gigabit ethernet and the other over 100mb network via an intermidi

nfs.statd locks up on reboot: server not responding

2009-01-22 Thread Micha Feigin
I have a system with a nfsroot file system (it mounts the remote's root read only with some local overrides) When I try to reboot the system I get the error: Stopping NFS common utilities: statdnfs: server 192.168.1.1 not responding, still trying The network is still up, and the rebooted system

hwinfo --framebuffer shows modes that are refused at boot

2009-01-22 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying to boot my machine into mode vga=873 (1680x1050 24bit native for my screen) in vesa frame buffer mode. This mode is given by hwinfo --framebuffer (0x369, translated to the vga mode). This works when conenected with dvi but in analog mode I get the message that this is an undefined mode n

using different root option in alternate kernel option in grub

2009-01-21 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying the setup my grub menu.lst to automatically setup two alternate kernel options 1. using nfsroot so it needs to have root=/dev/nfs 2. boot localy so it needs to have root=/dev/sda1 so I tried to set KOPT=ro defoptions=root=/dev/nfs altoptions=root=/dev/sda1 The regular option works grea

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:17:57 +0800 "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: ... > > > >> Looks from this thread > > > >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=790778 > > > >> that the driver may be problematic, he recommends using ndiswrapper. > > see > > > >> if > > > >> that makes iwlist work for you > >

Re: Ext4 vs Ext3, is it really stable ?

2009-01-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:22:07 +0100 Adrian Chapela wrote: > Micha Feigin escribió: > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:41:43 +0100 > > Adrian Chapela wrote: > > > > > >> Hello! > >> > >> I am doing my own tests with Ext4. It has better performance

Re: Ext4 vs Ext3, is it really stable ?

2009-01-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:41:43 +0100 Adrian Chapela wrote: > Hello! > > I am doing my own tests with Ext4. It has better performance than ext3 > FS. On some tests that I have done, I have 40 MB/s more than the same > hardware with ext3 FS. Have you seen the same ? > > My doubt is about the stab

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:43:58 +0800 "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > 2009/1/20 Umarzuki Mochlis > > > > > > > 2009/1/20 Micha Feigin > > > >> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:11:56 +0800 > >> "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > >> >

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:11:56 +0800 "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > 2009/1/20 Micha Feigin > > > On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:15:55 +0800 > > "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Looks like it's pointing in the ri

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:15:10 + Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:25:25PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > Please kindly share your favorite utility that you are using daily on > > lenny amd64/i386 so i can gain something to make my wireless > > experience better. > > I'm us

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:15:55 +0800 "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: [...] > > Looks like it's pointing in the right direction. Does it see you wireless > > when > > you open the window (under available wireless connections) > > > > If so, you need to choose your ap click that little triangle by the nam

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:06:00 +0800 "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > 2009/1/18 Micha Feigin : > > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:53:50 +0800 > > "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > > > >> sadly, wicd currently won't work with my wireless: broadcomm 4315 on >

mutual mounting of network filesystems via init scripts

2009-01-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm setting up a computational cluster in my uni lab. It is being set up to support batch execution (torque/maui) for mpi programs. The problem is that the batch system runs different processes on different machines so they thus need a shared file system for accessing the required files for the ru

read only nfs root and var

2009-01-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying to setup a server that export root over a read only nfs file system. I managed to enable local settings for each machine by mounting it's own disk and then linking some files from etc. The only problem I'm running into is var which should be partially from the head node (looks like most

profilling help

2009-01-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I am playing with some optimization options for c++. I just change all loops in the program to float and added some extra tests on the loop limits to reduce the work and while the Intel compiler drops the runtime to a third (with full optimization) gcc actually gets me triple the runtime for some r

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:53:50 +0800 "Umarzuki Mochlis" wrote: > sadly, wicd currently won't work with my wireless: broadcomm 4315 on > presario CQ40-115AU. Perhaps i need a little tweaking or something, > any idea? > One thing that needs to be done with wicd is point it at the right wireless in

Re: iceweasel doesn't render a LOT of pages correctly

2009-01-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:01:26 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/15/09 02:41, Micha Feigin wrote: > [snip] > > > > I seem to be having the same problem with both firefox and galeon. All I > > see is a short blue square with nothing in it. I also see similar behaviour >

Re: wireless gui configuration utility

2009-01-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:56:03 + "thveillon.debian" wrote: > Alejandro wrote : > > > > > > >2009/1/15 Umarzuki Mochlis mailto:umarz...@gmail.com>> > >> > >> Please kindly share your favorite utility that you are using daily on > >> lenny amd64/i386 so i can gain something to make my

Re: iceweasel doesn't render a LOT of pages correctly

2009-01-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:04:21 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/14/09 18:10, Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:32:38 -0600 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> On 01/14/09 16:16, Micha Feigin wrote: > >>> Lately, on two different machines and al

Re: iceweasel doesn't render a LOT of pages correctly

2009-01-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:32:38 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/14/09 16:16, Micha Feigin wrote: > > Lately, on two different machines and also after a clean install and > > removal of the firefox directory, firefox doesn't render pages correctly. > > What version? >

Re: iceweasel doesn't render a LOT of pages correctly

2009-01-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:18:57 + "Nuno Magalhães" wrote: > What insets? The right-side menu goes a little off-screen, other than > that seems fine (buti've only skimemd through it). > > Nuno Magalhães Just near the bottom of the page, above "For More Information" There should be Listing one

iceweasel doesn't render a LOT of pages correctly

2009-01-14 Thread Micha Feigin
Lately, on two different machines and also after a clean install and removal of the firefox directory, firefox doesn't render pages correctly. Even linux oriented pages so I guess that this is not microsoft's fault For example http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/207200659, the insets

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:22:02 +0100 Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > I have to wonder how you guys are torturing your systems that they take > > longer to boot than Vista... 2.8GHz system with 2GB of RAM, Vista takes > > almost 5 minutes to boot. Debian's at GDM beeping at me

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:50:41 -0800 (PST) Angus Auld wrote: > > > --- On Sun, 1/11/09, Celejar wrote: > > > From: Celejar > > Subject: Re: Speeding up Debian Boot > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Date: Sunday, January 11, 2009, 11:30 PM > > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:17:57 -0500 > > JoeHi

Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:58:49 +0100 Bernard wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > >[...] > > > > > > > >>Hi Micha, Hi to Everyone, > >> > >>Thanks for your help. I have not gone very far, in spite of much time > >>spent. I thought

Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-09 Thread Micha Feigin
[...] > > > Hi Micha, Hi to Everyone, > > Thanks for your help. I have not gone very far, in spite of much time > spent. I thought I ought to tell some details, especially since it might > help someone else, or, maybe, convince someone else to step in and tell > his/her own experience. > > At

Re: find -execdir + sed problem

2009-01-08 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:24:27 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-01-08 11:03 +0100, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > I'm trying to fix the file suffix on some file in my directories using sed > > and find but for some reason sed doesn't match the string in this manner,

find -execdir + sed problem

2009-01-08 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying to fix the file suffix on some file in my directories using sed and find but for some reason sed doesn't match the string in this manner, that is running find . -name "*.JPG.jpg" -execdir echo `echo '{}' | sed -e 's/\(.*\).JPG.jpg/\1.jpg/' -` \; on a directory with 2005_10_09-03_05_11.J

git-svn - pull from git repository with history to commit into svn repository

2009-01-07 Thread Micha Feigin
I am using git-svn to access a svn repository. Due to some mistake I have some code that I've made several commits to on a git tree which is not linked to the svn repository. I would like to move these changes including all the commit history into the git repository. I tried doing git-svn clone

Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:11:29 +0100 Bernard wrote: > Hi Chris, Hi to Everyone, > > Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > >>From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr] > >>Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:44 PM > >>Subject: Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations > >> > >> > >> > >>>Stackpo

Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:22:06 -0600 "Stackpole, Chris" wrote: > > From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@teaser.fr] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:44 PM > > Subject: Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations > > > > >Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > > > >>From: Bernard [mailto:bdebr...@tease

Re: Anyone got qc-usb working with kernel 2.6.28 and amd64?

2009-01-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:51:00 +0200 subscriptions wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 02:24 +0100, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I'm trying to get a Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Web (lego webcam based on > > logitec) working on my box running kernel 2.6.28 amd64 kernel. I > > managed

allowing remote xdmcp logins

2009-01-07 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried to enable remote logins into gdm on my work computer. Seems to work (set [security] DisallowTCP=false [xdmcp] Enable=true) gdm looks to be listening on port 177 and trying to do a remote login shows the system description. The problem is that when I actually try to connect all I get is th

Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:29:31 +0800 "Koh Choon Lin" wrote: > > Do you think that just any usb mouse will do the job, or have I better > > ordering a specific DELL mouse ? > > OT: I am looking for a three button mouse but I do not seems to find > one wheel-less. Anyone has an idea? > > There use

Re: Debian AMD64

2009-01-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:58:21 -0200 Samir Cury wrote: > Problems that i remember to get and some friends had too was mainly with > java and flash installation. But if you really want, everything is easy. > flash is solved now that there is a 64bit version out. java plugin is still a problem (ther

Re: Debian AMD64

2009-01-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 10:56:52 -0200 Samir Cury wrote: > I tried to use it on my desktop AMD64 a year ago, and i had some problems > with software installing, maybe it does exists but sometimes is harder to > find, in the end you gain speed, but spend more time making your system as > you want. >

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:27:44 -0800 Ken Teague wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > See, I just think you guys should stop using bad clients. ;) Kmail > > replies to the list (and only to the list) by default. (Which, actually, > > appears to be a violation on the relevant standards. :P)

Re: my new Inspiron - WAS: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-05 Thread Micha Feigin
not given any success. I have tried to > insert my WPA encryption key in /etc/network/interfaces as I have done > on my Desktop, but I had no success. A ping on 192.168.1.1 gives no > result either. I have not forgotten to switch the side button that is > supposed to switch the network ON/O

Re: Lenny: which arch for a Intel Core 2 Duo?

2009-01-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 20:17:01 +0530 L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI < > edua...@kalinowski.com.br> wrote: > > > Please reply to the list, not personally to me. > > > > Sorry. I use GMail. It doesn't use reply to it seems. I searched google to > use that re

Re: Anyone got qc-usb working with kernel 2.6.28 and amd64?

2009-01-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:53:41 +1030 Arthur Marsh wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote, on 2009-01-05 11:54: > > I'm trying to get a Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Web (lego webcam based on > > logitec) working on my box running kernel 2.6.28 amd64 kernel. I managed to > > fix compilat

opencv and v4l [was Re: Anyone got qc-usb working with kernel 2.6.28 and amd64?]

2009-01-04 Thread Micha Feigin
9 03:24:35 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: > I'm trying to get a Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Web (lego webcam based on logitec) > working on my box running kernel 2.6.28 amd64 kernel. I managed to fix > compilation errors using a patch I found on the bug tracking system plus some > extra m

Anyone got qc-usb working with kernel 2.6.28 and amd64?

2009-01-04 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying to get a Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Web (lego webcam based on logitec) working on my box running kernel 2.6.28 amd64 kernel. I managed to fix compilation errors using a patch I found on the bug tracking system plus some extra modifications. The resulting driver loads and recognizes the came

Re: Lenny: which arch for a Intel Core 2 Duo?

2009-01-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:36:27 -0600 Mark Allums wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> my new notebook is an Acer AS5930G which uses an Intel Core 2 Duo cpu. > >> > >> I should like to install the 64 bit version of Lenny. > >> > >> Which is

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:38:39 +0100 Bernard wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > >On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:05:31 +0100 > >Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > > > >>On 2009-01-04 11:28:10 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> > &

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:05:31 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2009-01-04 11:28:10 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > And BTW, the ThinkPads will waste up to 3W more in Linux than in > > Windows, so keep that in mind when you look at battery life figures. > > Is there any reason? Is th

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:43:19 -0500 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > >> As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, there > >> will be a "blue screen memory map" error after some time. FWIW, the > >> movies work fine in Linux. I searched in google for

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 20:09:01 +0800 "Koh Choon Lin" wrote: > > If it's any indication then most companies I know work with thinkpads and > > Dells. > > Dell have Inspiron and Latitude while Lenovo has Thinkpad and Lenovo > models. Would there be a difference in support? > At least thinkpad is st

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:45:39 -0500 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Mark Allums wrote: > > >> In general, I think Dell's hardware is unreliable. They work fine > >> initially. But after 1 year or so, things start to fall apart. This is if > >> you plan to use laptop intensively (say 8-10 hours a d

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:02:16 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,10.Dec.08, 18:39:18, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:45:09 Micha Feigin wrote: > > >Runner up is Dell, although the hardware seems a bit cheap when looking at > > >

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 02:27:17 -0200 "Daniel Cliff" wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> _ delete the pictures in the camera after successful file transfer (I > >> guess most people normally do that in order to take new pictures, > >> right?), > > > > mv? cut-n-paste? >

[solved] Re: grub2 and ext4

2009-01-02 Thread Micha Feigin
only will not work ;-) On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 21:29:49 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: > turns out the issue is ext4 which doesn't work with grub, but it does with > grub2. The problem is that the kernel seems to miss read the partition. > > I setup another partition to rescue my sys

grub2 and ext4

2009-01-01 Thread Micha Feigin
how I can get the kernel to recognize that it has ext4 file system so that I can dump the rescue partition (i.e make the first option work)? Thanx On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 13:22:32 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: > After the last update grub started booting into the command line (shows > grub> )

grub boots into command line (ignores menu.lst)

2009-01-01 Thread Micha Feigin
After the last update grub started booting into the command line (shows grub> ) and seems to ignore menu.lst. I managed to boot by setting kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28 boot I then tried to reinstall the kernel hoping that it would fix grub but now when I try the same method to boot I get the error I

extract date information from nef file (nikon raw)

2008-12-28 Thread Micha Feigin
is it possible with linux tools to extract the date information from a nef file? I know it's there because head file.nef shows it and ufraw has the ability to store it in the converted jpg, but I couldn't find an option to ufraw to just print it to the command line (I'm trying to sort the files to

Re: Printer in Linux?

2008-12-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:10:20 +0100 Tommy Bongaerts wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 02:26:56AM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Zach Uram wrote: > > > I got an HP Deskjet 960c printer for Christmas and would like to set > > > it up in Debian testing, but I've never setup a printer in Linux > > >

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

2008-12-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:16:00 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:49:53 -0900 > Ken Irving wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 02:16:26PM -0800, ow...@netptc.net wrote: > > > >From: fn...@uaf.edu > > > >>On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:25:07P

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

2008-12-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:49:53 -0900 Ken Irving wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 02:16:26PM -0800, ow...@netptc.net wrote: > > >From: fn...@uaf.edu > > >>On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:25:07PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > >>> Ken Irving wrote: > ... >

Re: Power saving in debian

2008-12-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:10:34 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,25.Dec.08, 09:55:32, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > for the hard disk look into laptop mode, it allows holding writing to disk > > for longer periods (cache disk writes in memory for 20-30 minutes) which > >

Re: Power saving in debian

2008-12-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:24:40 -0800 Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 00:34:34 +0100 > "Adem" wrote: > > > Hi, > > how can I use powersaving in Debian? > > I have Debian Lenny without a GUI desktop installed. > > Mostly it is accessed via ssh and svn. > > How can I configure it so

starting/stopping compositing in xfce4 from the command line

2008-12-24 Thread Micha Feigin
Is it possible to start and stop compositing under xfce4 from the command line? I trying to use screen rotation with the nvidia plugin and I found out that if compositing is enabled when rotating the screen then part of it is unusable at the rotated state (after doing xrandr -o left the I can move

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

2008-12-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:38:23 -0900 Ken Irving wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 06:28:01PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:10:46 + > > Bob Cox wrote: > > > Just a thought... what does traceroute -I www.yahoo.com (as root) give > > >

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

2008-12-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:10:46 + Bob Cox wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 23:51:02 +0200, Micha Feigin (mi...@post.tau.ac.il) > wrote: > > [...] > > > I have no idea on how to read this. It seems that regular traceroute fails > > (-n) tcp traceroute works (-n -T)

Conditional mounting from fstab

2008-12-23 Thread Micha Feigin
Is it possible to get conditional mounting from fstab? I'm trying to setup an nfs server that exports it's root as read only for nfsroot to other systems. For that to work I mount var,tmp,home etc from each machines local disk by mounting the local disk to /local and then mounting them using mount

getting pbs_mom to send files back to server

2008-12-23 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying to setup a pbs system (torque + maui). My current problem is that processes leave their input/output/error files on the host they ran on instead of copying them back to the server. Is there a way to instruct them to copy the files back to the server or do I need to setup shared home ove

Re: Making sure eth interfaces are numbered consistently

2008-12-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:36:12 + Bob Cox wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 11:26:34 -0600, Ron Johnson (ron.l.john...@cox.net) > wrote: > > > On 12/09/08 11:22, Micha Feigin wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> i have 4 network interfaces in my machine all u

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