Debian

A question about services
Hello list I have some questions about the use of some of the services that are & can be initiated at start up. I see these listed via the Administration menu option, using GNOME on an up-to-date testing Debian system. 1. The following describes my current requirements: This machine is a single user deskt... 30 May 2010 13:15

ISO date format (was: ls has stopped using the ISO date format)
On Sun, 30 May 2010 13:01:25 +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: * 2010-05-30 10:44 (+0100), Nuno Magalhães wrote: +1 for ISO as default Is there a way to push things into changing back? Use TIME_STYLE=long-iso or contact the GNU coreutils upstream. It seems not working for Midnight Commander, b... 30 May 2010 08:56

Blockage on Internet maps - is a firewall intervening? Was: Re: PART DIAGNOSED: Re: Trying to install Google Earth on Lenny. How on earth??????
Hi, But Firehol is complaining when I boot up that some config file or other that it uses is not yet configured. I don't have time to read the message properly as it flashes past, but it is marked as an error during the booting process. Can you maybe find that message in /var/log/syslog or somewhere... 31 May 2010 19:41

ls has stopped using the ISO date format
Hi all, Recently, I noticed that the date format in the output from "ls -l" has changed in squeeze. Before, it used the ISO standard (2010-05-29 20:00) but now it's started printing "May 29 20:00" or "May 29 2009" if it's not the current year. My locale, which hasn't changed in years, is en_US.UTF-8. If I run ... 8 Jun 2010 12:34

Update GRUB to GRUB2 / Lenny to Squeeze
I upgraded a box from "Lenny" to "Squeeze", but the update of GRUB to GRUB2 failed. The box is running a pair of IDE hard drives with three partitions each. Each partition on each drive is a RAID1 mirror of the same partition on the other drive. The first partitions on both drives are members of /dev/m... 9 Jun 2010 04:16

virtual box permissions ?
What's the correct way to set-up virtual box so that a user can use it ? I found lot's of issues surrounding the use vboxusers group, but under sid it seems to be very broken. The udev file which is supposed to set things up does not seem to exist in the package and the group is does not exist. Yes, I know I... 26 Jun 2010 01:10

Kernel not counting trasmitted data
Hi all. At the office, we have a debian server to take care of routing & transparent proxy'ing. I recently installed vnstat to monitor the bandwidth usage (turns out some of the employees spent their day downloading with uTorrent, but that's another story..) and for the last week or so I noticed that some of the ... 29 May 2010 17:56

Running KDE apps under GNOME
Hi, I have noticed that running KDE apps under GNOME takes a lot of time once I have not launched any such apps since the beginning of the session. I do not use a lot of KDE apps, but I prefer e.g. Kile to TexMaker. Is that a crime? Is it engineered to be well-supported, or is it simply a matter of coincidence? ... 1 Jun 2010 17:30

Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF
Hi, I sometimes have really long documents (>4000 p) for specs., or for other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I do not know that my keyword is simply at the last page of the document, it takes 500s ~8 minutes ... 5 Jun 2010 14:42

Making use of volume control keys
Hi list, I've just gotten a new laptop (Dell Latitude E4200), and it has some keys for adjusting the volume, which I'd like to configure to work with Debian. I'm using the awesome window manager. They keys already get usefully recognized, as evidenced by the following xev output: KeyPress event, serial 2... 29 May 2010 14:38