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Question regarding Mutt
Hello dear list, I have a question regarding encrypting and signing an email in mutt with an (yet) unsigned public key. A colleague of mine has a new pgp-key which is only self-signed yet. I downloaded it from a key-server an tried to write an encrypted email to him. As expected mutt warned me about using an u... 19 May 2010 18:15

xorg-server failing on IBM NetVista with Intel 82815 video; was Re (6): Re^n: Grub vs. linux-image-2.6.32 conundrum
On Wed, 19 May 2010 15:32:01 -0400 (EDT), Peter Easthope wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Please post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as well. It contains only commented lines from previous experiments. Hasn't changed since the log was recorded. Should be visible here. http://carnot.path... 22 May 2010 20:22

xorg-server failing on IBM NetVista with Intel 82815 video; was Re (6): Re^n: Grub vs. linux-image-2.6.32 conundrum
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 13:32:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Powell <zlinux...(a)wowway....> Please post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as well. It contains only commented lines from previous experiments. Hasn't changed since the log was recorded. Should be visible here. http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/... 19 May 2010 16:01

dist-upgrade wants to install linux-image-2.6.32-5-686
Hi, Another apt question. I have my own kernel installed: hugo(a)debian:~/.fvwm$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image ii linux-image-2.6.33.3-hvw 1 Linux kernel binary image for version 2.6.33.3-hvw ii linux-image-2.6.33.4-hvw 1 Linux kernel binary image for version 2.6.33... 21 May 2010 21:38

~/.xsession-errors file grows way too big
Hi, I am astonished to find out that my ~/.xsession-errors grows to a humongous 640M! My wife's is nearly 400M as well. This is way way too big. I took a look, the reason and cure is very simple -- having X to trunk it each time when started (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287876) wher... 21 May 2010 11:41

Accelerating directory's content's viewing: how, is directory is huge?
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 12:51 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: <snip> I have many media files in some specific directory (folder, call it as you want). Loading the folder takes ~30 sec., even if I am using quite fast HDDs, etc. They're all on the same partition. I have disabled previewing, or th... 19 May 2010 08:14

quality_problem
with this command: steef(a)lenny:~$ mencoder /home/steef/Desktop/beast.mkv -ovc lavc vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=-700000 -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=3 -o /home/steef/Desktop/beast.avi it is possible to convert .mkv-files into .avi files. only the picture-quality is really bad in the derived .avi-file. what c... 19 May 2010 08:14

Postfix, SASL and LDAPDB
Hey guys, I want to set up SASL authentication using LDAPDB, but it seems that postfix connects to LDAP but doesn't send anything to it... I try to authenticate using 'auth plain <base64>', and I receive : 535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: authentication failure Connection to LDAP works fine at the n... 19 May 2010 08:14

Accelerating directory's content's viewing: how, is directory is huge?
I wanted to say that it now takes some seconds of less. I think that I'm going to use CLI, no problem. Merciadri Luca wrote: Thanks, that did the trick! Manon Metten wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri(a)student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: I... 19 May 2010 17:08

Diffing .po files
[Sorry for the cross-post. Please follow-up as you see fit and I'll summarize for the other list. No need to CC me as I'm subscribed to both lists] Hello, While (trying to) review changes to a large .po file with relatively few strings changed I started looking for some way to show only the changed string... 19 May 2010 07:08