Decrypting old HP200lx / HP100lx / HPLX palmtop memo files [and package search]

2024-04-14 Thread Samuel Wales
[I am not subscribed to this mailing list. Is it OK to ask if you can include me on any replies or must I subscribe?] I want to decrypt my old HPLX memo [ASCII] files. I am pretty sure I remember the short password. There might have been packages that are designed for decrypting those files, or

is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-21 Thread Samuel Henrique
On Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 14:45 Philipp Ewald wrote: > Trying to create multiple files with content. It takes more time to create > the playbook then creating this file by hand (this damn syntax acomplicates > everything more) > Then formatting is destroyed or need more time on creating the playbook.

nocache nice ionice -c3 ... chrt? for rsync.

2022-08-28 Thread Samuel Wales
i seem to get sluggish interactive x pointer etc. on rare occasions with rsync. i use nocache nice ionice -c3. i am wondering why chrt exists also, and what teh best set of options is for this kind of purpose. -- The Kafka Pandemic A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: htt

must i consider zfs or lvm for smr large drive?

2022-08-19 Thread Samuel Wales
apologies for the subject header being kind of an opinion poll rather than a question. but it is meant as a question. until now, i have avoided lvm and zfs determinedly. i have always been completely satisfied to copy some big partition rather than deal with the complexity of those. i don't wa

Re: simple talking clock / reminder for when monitor is off and it is dark

2022-03-22 Thread Samuel Wales
th no problem so great. On 3/22/22, Will Mengarini wrote: > * Samuel Wales [22-03/20=Su 23:03 -0700]: >> [...] i want debian to tell me the time at certain times. > > Nobody has yet mentioned the festival package, which is a full > text-to-speech system. Once you have that installed

simple talking clock / reminder for when monitor is off and it is dark

2022-03-20 Thread Samuel Wales
i have to have all lights and monitors off at night. but i have to know the time so i can take medicine. i use slock and turn off monitor with ddccontrol. this might turn off mouse and keyboard; i wouild have to check. i want debian to tell me the time at certain times. for example tonight i h

Re: Problem Installing Debian

2020-06-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
rom the live CD. Accessibility is not supported in that case yet. Please use an installation CD, not a live CD, and type 's' when the boot menu beeps, to get into a speech-enabled installation process. Samuel

[apt-pinning] always install given package and its deps from unstable

2020-01-15 Thread Samuel Henrique
at case, I don't remember what priority I was setting though. -- Samuel Henrique

Re: zenmap as root, starts on one and not the other system

2019-01-03 Thread Samuel Henrique
Hello, I believe you are experiencing this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880601 You can try to run gnome with xorg (instead of wayland) as a workaround. -- Samuel Henrique

Re: compiz: Migrating to compiz-reloaded?

2018-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello Didier, Didier Spaier, le jeu. 20 déc. 2018 10:21:01 +0100, a ecrit: > FYT, I attach the shortcuts that will be set by default in Slint. Well, I'd say this should be synchronized upstream, so all distributions can benefit from it. Samuel

Re: compiz: Migrating to compiz-reloaded?

2018-12-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 22 nov. 2018 19:08:37 +0100, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 30 août 2018 17:26:27 +0200, a ecrit: > > The launchpad upstream for compiz has switched to light maintenance mode > > and will not make further development since Ubuntu has s

Re: compiz: Migrating to compiz-reloaded?

2018-11-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 30 août 2018 17:26:27 +0200, a ecrit: > The launchpad upstream for compiz has switched to light maintenance mode > and will not make further development since Ubuntu has stopped using it. > > How do people feel about switching to compiz-reloaded

Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed?

2018-11-15 Thread Samuel Henrique
y likely will end up with a system who does not start any DE and is greeted but the terminal. -- Samuel Henrique

Bug#907640: compiz: Migrating to compiz-reloaded?

2018-08-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
maintained) version, some recent features are not there. Perhaps people can check, by installing packages from tuxfamily, that everything they need is there? Samuel

Re: Installing package *NOT* in repository

2018-08-13 Thread Samuel Henrique
out, dpkg knows nothing about apt and its repositories, it can't install any dependency. That's why i recommend using apt to install .deb files. -- Samuel Henrique

Re: Installing package *NOT* in repository

2018-08-13 Thread Samuel Henrique
be a way to use Debian tools. > It would be nice if this was documented on the apt manpage, i have a strong feeling that it's just a matter of opening a bug report asking for it, or even better, sending a patch to the maintainers. Whatever suits you better. Regards, -- Samuel Henrique

Re: New su behavior in util-linux 2.32

2018-08-11 Thread Samuel Henrique
ee the NEWS file, we should assume that at the least they will continue to try using "su" and fallback to "su -" when something goes wrong, without ever looking for the reasons (and that is what is actually happening with Brazilian users right now). -- Samuel Henrique

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

2018-01-02 Thread Samuel
could you add a support for wiko I have a wiko lenny 4 plus   signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

RE: pleasant news

2016-12-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, I've just read the latest news and I was pleasantly surprised, please read it here <http://pol.robimlaw.com/dedf> Looking forward, Samuel Thibault From: personal [mailto:perso...@carus-verlag.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 4:13 PM To: phil...@sadleder.de Subject:

Re: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 510 on GNOME

2016-10-30 Thread Samuel Bächler
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > Samuel Bächler composed on 2016-10-29 21:56 (UTC+0200): > > I have got a graphics adapter that is somehow integrated on the >> motherboard. [1] On this hardware I can use KDE but no GNOME. When >> installing GNOME I get

Re: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 510 on GNOME

2016-10-30 Thread Samuel Bächler
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > Samuel Bächler composed on 2016-10-29 21:56 (UTC+0200): > > I have got a graphics adapter that is somehow integrated on the >> motherboard. [1] On this hardware I can use KDE but no GNOME. When >> installing GNOME I get

Intel Corporation HD Graphics 510

2016-10-29 Thread Samuel Bächler
Dear All I have got a graphics adapter that is somehow integrated on the motherboard. [1] On this hardware I can use KDE but no GNOME. When installing GNOME I get the error message 'Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a system admini

Intel Corporation HD Graphics 510 on GNOME

2016-10-29 Thread Samuel Bächler
Dear All I have got a graphics adapter that is somehow integrated on the motherboard. [1] On this hardware I can use KDE but no GNOME. When installing GNOME I get the error message 'Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a system admini

eeepc 1015pn: no audio cards detected

2014-11-19 Thread Samuel Bernardo
17445 21 > --- > > evdev 17445 25 Since I didn't know what could be the package that can be the source of the problem I ask you what would be the right one to mention in reportbug. Best regards, Samuel signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Fwd: php install

2013-01-03 Thread Samuel Morgan
PM Subject: Re: php install To: Samuel Morgan Cc: ad...@db.debian.org ]] Samuel Morgan > Please tell why php5 does not work under apache2 (with engine on) > using this index file: You've reached the people responsible for Debian's account infrastructure. You probably want to e

C Compiler

2012-11-13 Thread Samuel Morgan
Hi- I as sent to you to answer this question: " > Where do I get a C Compiler built for DEBIAN Squeeze so I can build other > packages? The page(s) GNU > sends me too either are no longer in service or charge fees. Can you help? Those kinds of questions are better asked on debian-user@lists.de

Where is CC and why do my downloads not find it?

2012-10-31 Thread Samuel Morgan
Hi- I recently installed DEBIAN Linux on my 386 PC and then tried to install an Apache web server, as I have on Mac and Windows, binary and it asked for a C compiler. Where do I get, if I really need, a CC binary pre-built? Seems a bit like the chicken and the egg. Can you help? Thanks.

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Brian, le Wed 19 Sep 2012 12:43:43 +0100, a écrit : > On Wed 19 Sep 2012 at 12:27:57 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Brian, le Wed 19 Sep 2012 10:41:12 +0100, a écrit : > > > > > > Yes, planning ahead is required if you want to stay in X. For a spur of > &g

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Brian, le Wed 19 Sep 2012 10:41:12 +0100, a écrit : > On Wed 19 Sep 2012 at 11:23:10 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Brian, le Wed 19 Sep 2012 10:15:44 +0100, a écrit : > > > > > > Boot into a live sytem. Start a browser. Start d-i. ALT-TAB between the > >

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

2012-09-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
T-TAB between the > two. Or CTRL-ALT-Fx for a virtual terminal. > The feature you requested exists. Surely the bug could now be closed? So you need to know in advance that you'll need a browser. If you don't remember starting one, you're stuck in d-i. That's not really a g

"Unable to connect" wrong IP address in OpenMPI of Squeeze

2010-12-07 Thread (Samuel) Byeongjun Park
ile = /etc/openmpi/openmpi-default-hostfile in the /etc/openmpi/openmpi-mca-params.conf Is there anybody have an answer for these? Sam Park. -- Innovation for the Future Radiation Oncology ( <http://rophys.meds.case.edu/> http://rophys.meds.case.edu) (Samuel) Byeo

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
n. IIUC grub2 is limited to > >> being installed in the MBR. > > Due to the differing sizes, yes. > > Why does the size make any difference? Because the availabnle well-known areas have limited size. > At least for the Lilo-like technique, size is not an issue. Yes, but

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
nd the Grub mailing lists. I suppose it will be heard. > > Does either grub2 or syslinux allow for single-key booting? It is available in the experimental branch of grub2. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Thu 27 May 2010 01:32:17 +0200, a écrit : > On Thursday 27 May 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Because the question is "where?". The lilo approach is "inside the > > filesystem", which can break. The grub approach is "right after MBR",

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
ectors on specified partitions? Because the question is "where?". The lilo approach is "inside the filesystem", which can break. The grub approach is "right after MBR", which needs room there. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: extlinux (was: Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2"))

2010-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
what you mean here. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100526085116.gw5...@const.bordeaux.inria.fr

repeated ATA errors debian lenny

2010-04-16 Thread samuel
this issue? Thank you in advance!! Samuel

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-18 Thread Samuel Bächler
I need to convert an HTML document to PDF from the CLI. Currently, I am using a Firefox extension to do this: http://torisugari.googlepages.com/commandlineprint2 However, this has many drawbacks and I would like to remove the dependency on Firefox. These are other solutions that I have looked int

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-18 Thread Samuel Bächler
I missed the beginning of the thread, but why not html2ps? And then ps2pdf... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

[OT] imap-server for short message services?

2009-05-10 Thread Samuel Bächler
Dear All Does anyone know if there exists a kind of imap-server for sms' (the one you can send and receive on your mobile phone)? If this kind of server exists one can receive, write and delete sms' from your mobile phone but also using a computer. Cheers Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Hardware Firewall Suggestions

2009-04-28 Thread Samuel Bächler
Dear All I have 2 Computers behind a Firewall (currently D-Link DFL-200). Consider one of them having IP-address 192.168.1.10 and the other having 192.168.1.11. On both computers there is a ftp-server running. I want connect to the first by `foous...@192.168.1.10:21', to the second by `foous..

Re: livecd accessibility

2009-04-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
or the liveCD, see the thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2008/09/msg00013.html Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-08 Thread Samuel Bächler
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] There are a limited number of place where a piece of software can leak info: 1. to /tmp:Its encrypted 2. to /var/tmp:Its encrypted 3. to somewhere on ~/ I have /home encrypted 4. left in swapits encr

Re: Adding a user

2009-04-08 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hi Frank Frank McCormick wrote: Running Squeeze - tried to add a user today using the graphical front end under Gksudo ...everything except properties was grayed out. I have implemented root on this machine - so I modified GDM to allow root logons...same result. What am I missing here? Wh

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-07 Thread Samuel Bächler
Thanks a lot to everyone! Just as a short description: I installed easypg. In the console environment I type `emacs keys.pgp'. This starts emacs and prompts for passphrase of `keys.pgp'. After entering the passphrase you can edit your file with the passwords. When you are finished with altering t

Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-06 Thread Samuel Bächler
Thanks for the inputs so far. On Axels input I modified the script: #!/bin/sh gpg keys.gpg > /dev/null emacs keys rm keys.gpg gpg -r "user-ID" -e keys srm keys # *secure*rm keys srm keys~# *secure*rm keys~ Drawback: During the time one works on the list `keys' it is readable at `/path/to/keys'.

Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

2009-04-05 Thread Samuel Bächler
Dear Everyone I store logins and passwords of some dozen of Web-Services in an encrypted file. I used to use kgpg to read and update this file. Some weeks ago I found on debian-security [1] the following script: #!/bin/sh gpg keys.gpg > /dev/null emacs keys rm keys.gpg gpg -r "user-ID" -e keys

Issues with Egroupware and Lenny

2009-01-16 Thread Samuel Torton
? Bad settings from me ? The problem with all my issues, is that logs are not very verbose. Thank you very much for your answers. Regards, Samuel Torton

Re: TV tuner card

2008-11-04 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hi Allan Allan Xavier Aguilar Castillo wrote: Hello, there! My question is this: how can I install my tv tuner card. Is the ATV-TUNER-FV model of Advantek Networks [1]. Thank you! It looks like that people of this list think you should start at "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" [1]. C

Re: X-Window on HP ProLiant ML110

2008-11-04 Thread Samuel Bächler
Zaki Akhmad wrote: I am installing Debian AMD64 testing on my HP Proliant ML110. I try to run x-window on this machine. I've installed kde. But then the GUI won't show up. Samuel Bächler wrote: What do you mean by "GUI (General User Interface) won't show up"? On

Re: X-Window on HP ProLiant ML110

2008-11-04 Thread Samuel Bächler
Zaki Akhmad wrote: I am installing Debian AMD64 testing on my HP Proliant ML110. I try to run x-window on this machine. I've installed kde. But then the GUI won't show up. What do you mean by "GUI (General User Interface) won't show up"? I've done this # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg But it

Re: Mounting an old external USB drive

2008-11-04 Thread Samuel Bächler
S D wrote: Am trying to mount an old BusLink USB drive but can't determine what device the USB drive is connected to, that is, the device that I'd pass to the mount command. I tried "fdisk -l" but it only appears to show my other internal HDs. Here is one (though unsexy) way to do it: (1)

Re: Test thunderbird

2008-10-30 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hi Jesus Jesus arteche wrote: I'd like to test how good thunderbird is with a huge amount of mails...Someone knows how can i test this...my idea is send a small files (10-mb) frequently to test this...but i dont know how to do this...someone has anyidea? Here is one way to do it: 1. Setup a m

Re: latex/maketextfm problem

2008-10-23 Thread Samuel Bächler
Peter Robinson wrote: kpathsea: Running mktextfm hv /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map typeface abbreviation v for hv. /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/map/fontname/special.map? mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:

Re: How can I clean the cache of debtorrent?

2008-10-19 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hi Simon I just saw that there is a debtorrent-specific mailing-list. I never used debtorrent before Simon Pepping @ Home wrote: How can I clean the cache of debtorrent? I did this by find, also cleaning empty directories, but that was too aggressive, and brought debtorrent in a non-startable s

Re: Problems in Debian Lenny XFCE I386 Weekly 20080922

2008-10-19 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hi Masatran Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote: I recently installed Debian Lenny XFCE I386 Weekly 20080922 alongside Debian Etch. I use Sawfish with XFCE panel, Thunar, etc. I have these problems: Do not put all your questions in one email. Moreover your mail looks like you did not try hard enoug

Re: ALSA not working properly

2008-10-19 Thread Samuel Bächler
[snip at lot], :-)] Moving on to option 2, simply upgrade the alsa driver. Many patches have been added to the alsa driver since 1.0.12rc1, particularly with reference to the snd-hda-intel module, so go to the link below, and download alsa driver 1.0.17, which is the current stable version.

Compiling alsa-driver-1.0.17 for Debian etch

2008-10-19 Thread Samuel Bächler
Dear All *This email just sums up what I did to compile the alsa-driver-1.0.17 with the hope that it might be useful to someone else.* (1) to (6) is information provided by Nigel Henry (see 'Alsa not working properly' on debian-user@lists.debian.org). I am using etch (see system information

Re: ALSA not working properly

2008-10-18 Thread Samuel Bächler
Nigel, Thanks. Hi Sam. If the above doesn't change anything on your T60 for the sounds, there are a couple of options I can suggest, both of which I've tried, and work. Not on a T60 admittadly, but on an Asus M2N-X Plus mobo, with hda intel Azalia soundcard. Especially the second approach

Re: ALSA not working properly

2008-10-16 Thread Samuel Bächler
Nigel, Florian, thank you so far for the hints. Nigel Henry wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2008 16:41, Samuel Bächler wrote: > Dear All > > I have an etch installed on a lenovo T60. Most of the times simply > clicking on a mp3-file in konqueror [1] will start playing that > spe

ALSA not working properly

2008-10-15 Thread Samuel Bächler
Dear All I have an etch installed on a lenovo T60. Most of the times simply clicking on a mp3-file in konqueror [1] will start playing that specific file. But, sometimes it does not. There are three sound-bottoms on my keyboard: mute, volume-up and volume-down. In my opinion the sound problem

Re: Can't start X-Server as normal user

2008-07-26 Thread Samuel Bächler
> # startx ...works $ startx ...does not In > /home/sam/.xsession-errors I can see Xsession: X session started > for sam at Fre Jul 25 09:07:21 CEST 2008 open: Permission denied Now, I saw somewhere on the web[1] that chmod 1777 /tmp might solve the problem. I remember that I was not able to wr

Re: Debian on Lenovo Thinkcentre 6078

2008-05-29 Thread Samuel Ribas
Ok, I made an alternative solution, building another install image from bussinesscard.iso, avaliable as busscard-intell82566DM2.iso at http://www.transbrasilvirtual.org/debian/busscard-intell82566DM2.iso, today at 23:55 (-3). Thanks all! Samuel. 2008/5/27 cody chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [OT] FOSS Marketplace

2008-05-20 Thread Samuel Bächler
You mean guru.com? Thanks for the input Steve. Guru.com is interesting to see if it works and how it works. But of course I would like to see it implemented in a FOSS way. s. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [OT] FOSS Marketplace

2008-05-20 Thread Samuel Bächler
The idea which came to my mind some time ago was to establish a marketplace where "geeks" meet "normal" users. You invented the mailing list? That' s not what I meant. By the term "normal" user I am thinking of someone who sees some advantages of using a computer but does not want to m

Re: problems installing openoffice.org in etch

2008-05-19 Thread Samuel Bächler
Here it is, no error messages: Now, what lead to the solution? s. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems installing openoffice.org in etch

2008-05-19 Thread Samuel Bächler
>> Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done >> The following packages are BROKEN: libhsqldb-java >> openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core >> openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-impress >> openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-math >> openoffice.org

Re: problems installing openoffice.org in etch

2008-05-19 Thread Samuel Bächler
Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: libhsqldb-java openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-writer pytho

[OT] FOSS Marketplace

2008-05-19 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hi everyone I am using debian etch for everyday task since 2005. As more as I learn about computer I realize that one can do all the things on e can do with the other proprietary systems. The only drawback of FOSS is that it is sometimes harder to configure. The idea which came to my mind some ti

Kept back packages

2008-02-06 Thread Samuel Bächler
Dear All I did # aptitude update # aptitude upgrade [...snip...] The following packages have been kept back: ipw3945-modules-2.6-686 linux-image-2.6-686 [...snip...] Shall I do a # aptitude dist-upgrade to install the packages mentioned above? Regards Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Configuring Wireless Dlink

2008-01-30 Thread Samuel Bächler
debian:~# iwconfig sit0 essid Corporation Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : SET failed on device sit0 ; Invalid argument. ... debian:~# iwconfig sit0 key Corporation Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : invalid argument "chave" Make sure that sit0 really is the na

Re: X & interesting problem

2008-01-24 Thread Samuel Bächler
Number one : I'm using Debian lenny repository. My desktop is gnome & my desktop manager is gdm. When i don't X server, it means i work with just console, i can switch to other consoles(with CTRL+ALT+F1...F7) But when i start gdm it means my X is up, i can't switch to other consoles. By def

Re: Slow Name Resolution - I guess

2008-01-24 Thread Samuel Bächler
and you can check the file /etc/resolv.conf and try to add more DNS servers. For example, the ones from OpenDNS [1]: 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220 Thanks, Sergio that helped! S. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Slow Name Resolution - I guess

2008-01-23 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hoi Everyone Consider I want to see www.foo.bar: I open my browser and type www.foo.bar. Now, my problem begins: Iceweasel says "Looking up www.foo.bar..." In recent days this "Looking up" process began to take quite a lot of time (more than 15 seconds). Now, I suppose that something is going wro

Re: Jpeg to pdf filter?

2007-12-20 Thread Samuel Bächler
Is there such a utility that can convert a scaned image (saved in jpeg) to a pdf format? As far as I know sam2p [1] is one of the best for that kind of jobs. s. [1] http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/sam2p -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

2007-12-02 Thread Samuel Bächler
Is the vfat module loaded? You might want to check the filesystem type with "file -s /dev/sdb1". Also are you able to access the files on any other system? If the data on the usb drive is not important, then try formatting it. "mkdosfs /dev/sdb1" will create a fat16 filesystem while mke2fs wi

Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

2007-12-02 Thread Samuel Bächler
Thanks for your many inputs so far! Are you sure /dev/sda1 is your usb stick and not your primary hard disk? Do a tail -f /var/log/syslog and then plugin your memory stick. That will give you some info as to what the actual device is. Your are right, Raj, sda* is my harddisk. Shame on me..

Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

2007-12-01 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hi Everyone Does anyone know what is going wrong on my system or what I am doing wrong or else? To mount a memory stick I do: # mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb ... # ls /mnt/usb boot bootmgr MFGSTAT preboot recovery SCRREC.VER swwork System Volume Information tvtos windows So, I can't see wha

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-29 Thread Samuel Bächler
Ctan.org recommends http://ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/ as a document to start with. Cheers Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dell PowerEdge 2950 server with PERC 5/i RAID controller

2007-11-08 Thread Samuel Krieg
.uta.fi/~pauli.borodulin/dellomsa/omsa44.html Thank's Maarten! -- Samuel Krieg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dell PowerEdge 2950 server with PERC 5/i RAID controller

2007-11-07 Thread Samuel Krieg
7;m still using Sarge (kmuto.jp kernel) on my Poweredge boxes. Do you know if this repository will work on Sarge? Thank you. -- Samuel Krieg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DHCP and domain name

2007-08-21 Thread Samuel Bächler
1) When I start the system, my IP address is 192.168.0.72. If I make a renew of ip address with dhclient, my IP address change 192.168.0.20. If I change again, my IP address stay at 192.168.0.20. Is that possible that at the startup of the computer, the network component just assign a choosen IP

Re: nslookup from behing router/modem

2007-08-16 Thread Samuel Bächler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ less /etc/resolv.conf search nameserver 158.152.1.58 nameserver 158.152.1.42 In Switzerland I would say "the dog is buried here" (how to say in English?): I entered your nameserver in my resolv.conf and it did not work. For now try to use my configuration: search foo.ch nam

touchpad not working in HP 500

2007-08-12 Thread Rahul Samuel
Please help...i have been trying to install debian 4 on my laptop, a HP 500, but the touchpad is not working at all. I am fairly new to the linux domain and do not know how to get it working, plese let me know in easy steps if there is a way to get the pointer working. i even installed the kernel 2

Help - touchpad not working

2007-08-11 Thread Rahul Samuel
Hey I have been trying to install linux in my HP 500 laptop but all have failed. I last installed the Debian 4 and this also doesnt work. Please help. Everything goes fine, but when the GUI comes up my touch pad doesnt work at all. After installation also the touchpad is probably not even detecte

Re: Boot troubles

2007-08-11 Thread Samuel Bächler
I installed Windows XP, it setted it's own code in MBR. I wasn't confused, I just inserted first DVD of Debian GNU/Linux Sarge in DVD-ROM, but then I understood... The kernels on DVD doesn't support my reiserfs filesystem! In my opinion this point is confusing. Did you install XP when debian wa

Re: why can't feh view tiff images

2007-08-08 Thread Samuel Bächler
I'm using feh to view most the images that I have but whenever I try to open a tiff file using feh, it just shows a blank black screen. Any ideas? I read up on the documentation but could not find anything saying that tiff is not supported. I do not know feh. I am using gwenview which works fin

Re: [OT] Recommended Router Hardware

2007-08-06 Thread Samuel Bächler
Well - it isn't that old. It is a Compaq Desktop EN, Pentium III with about > > 500MB RAM. But there is only one Ethernet-Connection which - I guess - can > > be solved by using a Hub or Switch, isn't it? > > no. to use a desktop machine as a router, you need two network > connections: one for

Re: [OT] Recommended Router Hardware

2007-08-06 Thread Samuel Bächler
> I want to improve my home network. I have got a Laptop and an old > desktop machine. I want to use the old desktop for server services such > as web- and mail-sever. > I am connected to the ISP using a cable modem. > > Question A: > Can someone recommend a router with the following propertie

[OT] Recommended Router Hardware

2007-08-06 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hi Everyone I want to improve my home network. I have got a Laptop and an old desktop machine. I want to use the old desktop for server services such as web- and mail-sever. I am connected to the ISP using a cable modem. Question A: Can someone recommend a router with the following properties

Re: Installing problems: Debian 4.0r0, on LiteON DVD-RW LH-20A1p

2007-07-21 Thread Samuel Bächler
The drive is a ATAPI CDROM LiteOn DVD LH-20A1p Search the Net to see if anybody else had the same problem using the divices above. In my opinion a nice way to search is: (1) google.com (2) KEYWORD site:lists.debian.org Happy hacking Cheers Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: kile

2007-07-04 Thread Samuel Bächler
In testing, kile has been removed. It appears that texlive is undergoing a reorganization. As a result, kile's dependencies are at odds with the new organization. When will kile be returned to the distribution? I started using eclipse with a LaTeX-plugin (or whatever you call it). It works

Re: Printers won't run

2007-06-03 Thread Samuel Bächler
The first printer is a windows printer, HP Deskjet 6540, IP connected, and all of my windows computers can send to it just fine. Just not my Debian Etch. I have never done such a thing before. Assuming that you are using CUPS go to localhost:631/help/ get yourself a cup of coffee and start re

Re: Making Deb Packages

2007-05-31 Thread Samuel Bächler
How do I get started making my own debian package files from source. I need to use non-debian source, ie. a spanking new ffmpeg source from svn. Go to "http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-creatingdebs"; and press the link at "6.15 How do I create Debian packages myself?". Th

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hi Rocky I'm thinking of learning Perl Programming. Can any of you help me get started on how to programming Perl in Debian? In my opinion you should go through *Leaning Perl* by O'Reilly. I quite liked it. I am sure you will find it somewhere in the web. To install perl do *apt-get install

Re: GUI and USB question

2006-12-30 Thread Samuel Bächler
Hi Keath Unfortunatly I can not help on every topic you mentioned. 1st question is, how do I start the GUI (KDE, Gnome, whatever) that I assume is bundled with the distro? Well, as far as I know you have to install these things first. Type *dpkg -l kde-core* or generally *dpkg -l package* t

Re: Mount digital camera

2006-11-18 Thread Samuel Bächler
A quick google of 'Sony DSC-W30 linux' showed that mounting might only work since kernel 2.6.16, ie. from debian etch or a sarge kernel from backports.org Trrhaa, I installed a etch version of debian which uses 2.6.17. Now I can do a 'mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera' and everything works fine.

Re: Mount digital camera

2006-11-14 Thread Samuel Bächler
A quick google of 'Sony DSC-W30 linux' showed that mounting might only work since kernel 2.6.16, ie. from debian etch or a sarge kernel from backports.org That is what I am going to do next. Cheers Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Mount digital camera

2006-11-13 Thread Samuel Bächler
Thanks for your inputs, :). One can copy all the pictures on a camera using 'gphoto2' with 'gphoto2 -P' over PTP. But as far as I know gphoto can not copy any movies. I am running a debian sarge using the 2.6.8-2-386 kernel. I have got a Sony DSC-W30. Its Device ID is 054cx0010. Here some infor

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Samuel Bächler
A. First of all you should not call yourself anonymous, tell us your real name. I would like to know whether all these CDs have binary files or are these also include CDs with sources and documentation. If so, which ones of them? As far as I know they include documentation and source code -

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