Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2006 #1340
Am Mittwoch, den 14.06.2006, 02:56 -0500 schrieb
debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org:
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> > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2006 : Issue 1340
> >
> > Today's Topics:
> > Learn about a hard drive... [ "Redefined Horizons" <redefined.hor ]
> > Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs [ Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> ]
> > Re: OT: deleting tables from mysql u [ Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> ]
> > Re: Learn about a hard drive... [ Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> ]
> > Re: Learn about a hard drive... [ Kent West <westk@acu.edu> ]
> > Re: Learn about a hard drive... [ Ronny Aasen <list@datapart-as.no> ]
> > MPlayer Wont Work Under Sid-2.6.16-1 [ Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570@sbcglo ]
> > Re: Learn about a hard drive... [ Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> ]
> > Re: Learn about a hard drive... [ Kent West <westk@acu.edu> ]
> > Setting up email [ =?iso-8859-1?b?U/hyZW4=?= Christens ]
> > Re: System configuration profile man [ Roberto Bernetti <roberto.bernetti@ ]
> > Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks [ Brent Clark <bclark@eccotours.co.za ]
> > Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks [ Kamaraju Kusumanchi <raju.mailingli ]
> > google earth error (opengl error) [ Surachai Locharoen <surachai@pracha ]
> > Re: price of the 3 debian cds much m [ "bruno doutriaux" <harlock59@gmail. ]
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> > Von: Redefined Horizons <redefined.horizons@gmail.com>
> > An: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > Betreff: Learn about a hard drive...
> > Datum: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:16:57 -0700
> >
> > What bash command would I use to list information about the hard
> > drives installed on my computer?
> >
> > I did what I needed through GNOME's disk management, which was handy,
> > but I'd like to know the old fashioned way to do it.
> >
> > Scott Huey
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> > Von: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Betreff: Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs
> > Datum: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:18:45 -0500
> >
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> > Marc Wilson wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:07:18PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> > >> It's a shame that people still think of this as a concern: For
> > >> the vast majority of people, I'd suggest that using GTK-apps or
> > >> QT-apps in mutual exclusion is a serious case of premature
> > >> optimisation and such people are missing out on some truly
> > >> great software.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, while there are lots of GTK-based applications
> > > that don't necessarily require Gnome, or can be built to not
> > > require Gnome, the same thing cannot be said for QT-based
> > > applications. I have never found that QT has wide acceptance
> > > outside the KDE community. Exceptions are applications like
> > > scribus, but those are few and far between.
> >
> > And now
> >
> > $ ldd googleearth-bin | grep q
> > libqt-mt.so.3 => /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 (0xa6d84000)
> > libqui.so.1 => /usr/lib/libqui.so.1 (0xa6d4a000)
> >
> > It is *such* a cool app.
> >
> > - --
> > Ron Johnson, Jr.
> > Jefferson LA USA
> >
> > Is "common sense" really valid?
> > For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
> > whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
> > are mud people.
> > However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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> > Von: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> > An: debian users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > Betreff: Re: OT: deleting tables from mysql using wildcard
> > Datum: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:21:26 -0500
> >
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> > Kent West wrote:
> > > I have a lot of tables in a mysql database starting with "phpWeb"; I
> > > want to delete them. I can delete them one-by-one with a command like:
> > >
> > > drop table phpWebmod_modules;
> > >
> > > Rather than trying to delete all 20-30 similar tables, a wildcard
> > > command would be really nice hear. I've been googling for the last
> > > couple of hours, and haven't found the solution. Yes, I've tried * and %
> > > and putting the names in single-quotes, as in
> > >
> > > drop table phpWeb%
> > > drop table phpWeb*
> > > drop table 'phpWeb*'
> > > drop table 'phpWeb%'
> >
> > Are there compound statements in MySQL?
> >
> > for :x as each row of
> > select table_name
> > from syscatalog
> > where sysrelation starting with 'phpWeb'
> > do
> > drop table :x.table_name cascade;
> > end for;
> >
> >
> > - --
> > Ron Johnson, Jr.
> > Jefferson LA USA
> >
> > Is "common sense" really valid?
> > For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
> > whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
> > are mud people.
> > However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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> > Von: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> > An: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > Betreff: Re: Learn about a hard drive...
> > Datum: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:27:37 -0500
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> > Redefined Horizons wrote:
> > > What bash command would I use to list information about the hard
> > > drives installed on my computer?
> > >
> > > I did what I needed through GNOME's disk management, which was
> > > handy, but I'd like to know the old fashioned way to do it.
> >
> > Your question is a bit vague, so here are a couple of answers:
> >
> > $ df
> >
> > $ sudo /sbin/hdparm -I /dev/hda
> >
> > - --
> > Ron Johnson, Jr.
> > Jefferson LA USA
> >
> > Is "common sense" really valid?
> > For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
> > whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
> > are mud people.
> > However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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> > Von: Kent West <westk@acu.edu>
> > An: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > Betreff: Re: Learn about a hard drive...
> > Datum: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:31:51 -0500
> >
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > > Redefined Horizons wrote:
> > >
> > >> What bash command would I use to list information about the hard
> > >> drives installed on my computer?
> > >>
> > >> I did what I needed through GNOME's disk management, which was
> > >> handy, but I'd like to know the old fashioned way to do it.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Your question is a bit vague, so here are a couple of answers:
> > >
> > > $ df
> > >
> > > $ sudo /sbin/hdparm -I /dev/hda
> > >
> > also
> >
> > $ dmesg | grep hd
> >
> > $ dmesg | grep sd
> >
> > $ cfdisk /dev/hda
> >
> > etc
> >
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> > Von: Ronny Aasen <list@datapart-as.no>
> > An: Redefined Horizons <redefined.horizons@gmail.com>
> > Kopie: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > Betreff: Re: Learn about a hard drive...
> > Datum: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:33:24 +0200
> >
> > On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 22:16 -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote:
> > > What bash command would I use to list information about the hard
> > > drives installed on my computer?
> > >
> > > I did what I needed through GNOME's disk management, which was handy,
> > > but I'd like to know the old fashioned way to do it.
> >
> > Depends on what you want to know.
> > i notice you'v gotten a few other answers. but the one i use a lot is
> > cat /proc/partitions
> >
> > to learn of what partitions my system knows about withuot having to
> > check each drive by itself.
> >
> > Ronny
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> > Von: Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570@sbcglobal.net>
> > An: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>, debian-kde
> > <debian-kde@lists.debian.org>
> > Betreff: MPlayer Wont Work Under Sid-2.6.16-1-686
> > Datum: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:57:59 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> > Yahoo video player wont play with a greyed out screen
> > coming up during the last stages of loading. A greyed
> > out screen appears with teal green double cross that
> > gives the following message upon clicking it: "This
> > application contains information of the
> > type(application/x-mplayer2) that can only be viewed
> > with the appropriate plug-in." The title bar above the
> > message is "X Default Plugin" My Moxilla about
> > plug-ins show that mime type "application/x-mplayer2"
> > is enabled with suffix *. I'm sure that I'm forgetting
> > something simple as mplayer has worked before under
> > sarge and testing with woody and 2.6.8 kernels. I just
> > can't run it down. Java is enabled under mozilla
> > preferences. Would someone please help me fix this
> > issue as i'm about out of known options. Plz copy my
> > email address as I'm not subscribed. Thanks for any help
> >
> > Leonard Chatagnier
> > lenc5570@sbcglobal.net
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> > Von: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> > An: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > Betreff: Re: Learn about a hard drive...
> > Datum: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:52:24 -0500
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> > Kent West wrote:
> > > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >> Redefined Horizons wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> What bash command would I use to list information about the
> > >>> hard drives installed on my computer?
> > >>>
> > [snip]
> > > $ dmesg | grep sd
> > >
> > > $ dmesg | grep sd
> >
> > $ dmesg | grep [hs]d[a-j]
> >
> > - --
> > Ron Johnson, Jr.
> > Jefferson LA USA
> >
> > Is "common sense" really valid?
> > For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
> > whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
> > are mud people.
> > However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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> > Von: Kent West <westk@acu.edu>
> > An: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > Betreff: Re: Learn about a hard drive...
> > Datum: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 01:00:39 -0500
> >
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > Kent West wrote:
> > >
> > >> $ dmesg | grep sd
> > >>
> > >> $ dmesg | grep sd
> > >>
> > >
> > > $ dmesg | grep [hs]d[a-j]
> > >
> > >
> > Well, sure, if you want to be efficient. But that kind of thinking would
> > free up some of my time, which I'd then have to use mowing the lawn. And
> > it's HOT out there!
> >
> > You kids and your newfangled efficiencies . . . .
> >
> >
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> > Von: Søren Christensen <severino@ulvedalen.dk>
> > An: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > Betreff: Setting up email
> > Datum: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:42:50 +0200
> >
> > some weeks ago a had a fatal breakdown of my harddisk, I only managed to save
> > user-data in /home partition.
> >
> > On a new computer I'm now setting email. During installation I specified
> > smarthost, but I cannot send mail anyway.
> >
> > I recall something about entering a list of names in /etc/hosts that connects
> > local users with their mail-adress
> >
> > Mail-adresses are not the same as user-name and this machines name.
> >
> > I have been searching the archives, but didn't succeed.
> >
> > Thanks
> > severino
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> > Von: Roberto Bernetti <roberto.bernetti@poste.it>
> > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Betreff: Re: System configuration profile manager
> > Datum: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 07:47:39 +0200
> >
> > Alle 21:43, martedì 13 giugno 2006, Johannes Wiedersich ha scritto:
> > > $ apt-cache search laptop|grep net |sort
> > > ifplugd - A configuration daemon for ethernet devices
> > > ifscheme - scheme control for network interfaces
> > > laptop-net - Automatically adapt laptop ethernet
> > > laptop-netconf - network detection and configuration program for laptops
> > > laptop-net-doc - Automatically adapt laptop ethernet - documentation
> > > netapplet - User-friendly network interface control applet
> > >
> > Thank for the hint. SCPM can manage printing and video too I wonder if is
> > there anything more similar.
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> > Von: Brent Clark <bclark@eccotours.co.za>
> > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Betreff: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks
> > Datum: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:04:06 +0200
> >
> > Sorry, couldnt resist
> >
> > http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1026
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> > Von: Kamaraju Kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>
> > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Betreff: Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks
> > Datum: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 03:27:38 -0400
> >
> > On Wednesday 14 June 2006 03:04, Brent Clark wrote:
> > > Sorry, couldnt resist
> > >
> > > http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1026
> >
> > After reading this sentence in the above article
> >
> > "Once again I should have probably read the manual, but I figured I've done
> > this before."
> >
> > I think there is no need to give any importance to his review. IMHO, If
> > someone does not take time to read a manual then it is not even worth
> > considering his opinions/rant on a new release.
> >
> > raju
> >
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> > Von: Surachai Locharoen <surachai@prachakij.com>
> > An: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > Betreff: google earth error (opengl error)
> > Datum: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:43:33 +0700
> >
> > I run google earth for linux. And found the error below. I read in
> > the internet but not found suitable solution.
> >
> > Do u have any suggestion?
> > I use i915 intel chipset.
> >
> > ERROR! sizeof(I830DRIRec) does not match passed size from device
> > driver
> > libGL warning: 3D driver returned no fbconfigs.
> > libGL error: InitDriver failed
> > libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
> > display: :0 screen: 0
> > direct rendering: No
> >
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> > Kan
> >
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> > Von: bruno doutriaux <harlock59@gmail.com>
> > An: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Betreff: Re: price of the 3 debian cds much more expensive than what
> > it is told on the website
> > Datum: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:18:34 +0200
> >
> > what is the gui of debian sarge ?
> > (graphical user interface)
> >
> >
> >
> > 2006/6/13, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>:
> > [debian-www isn't really the most appropriate list for this
> > type of
> > question; adding debian-user to the Cc list. Please direct
> > replies, if
> > any, there, removing debian-www from the list]
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 11:30:52AM +0200, bruno doutriaux
> > wrote:
> > > je pense que j'aurais pu vous parler en français ?
> > n'est-ce pas ?
> > > car vous semblez avoir un nom français.
> >
> > Perhaps, but then please not on the main Debian lists. Not
> > everyone
> > speaks french here (there are some french Debian lists).
> >
> > > 2006/6/13, bruno doutriaux <harlock59@gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > >ok, thanks for the link.
> > > >i will maybe download kubuntu. what is the difference
> > between debian sarge
> > > >and ubuntu or kubuntu ?
> > > >(i know that ubuntu uses gnome and that kubuntu uses
> > kde).
> > > >what is the gui of debian sarge ? is it multi-gui ?
> > > >thanks.
> > > >bruno doutriaux
> >
> > Ubuntu and Kubuntu are not Debian; while based on Debian,
> > they really
> > are different distributions, with different goals.
> >
> > The main differences are the fact that Ubuntu (and its
> > sisters kubuntu
> > and edubuntu) have strict 6-month release cycles, while
> > Debian does not;
> > and the fact that the default Ubuntu installation has a lot
> > more choices
> > made for you already, whereas a Debian system makes less of
> > those.
> >
> > Both have their advantages and disadvantages; for example,
> > Debian will
> > "release when it's ready", meaning that the release will be
> > delayed if
> > there are too many bugs still open. While I don't expect
> > that Ubuntu
> > will ship with many bugs, they are a bit laxer in this. Of
> > course, that
> > also means that you can never tell for sure when the release
> > will
> > happen, and that our release cycles typically take longer
> > (so the
> > software in the latest release is, on average, older than
> > the one in the
> > latest Ubuntu release).
> >
> > --
> > Fun will now commence
> > -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4
> >
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