Re: OT: HPLJ4, PCL, specifically tray selection
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: I've also since discovered the ifhp package, which appears to be designed to do pretty much what I'm asking for here, though there's rather little guidance provided on how it's supposed to be used. Printing in general's always been more or less a mystery to me. Printing is in $STATE, I mess with configurations, and eventually printer is in ( $STATE - 1 )**2. ...I did get sufficiently frustrated with the printcap(5) manpage that I FWIW, it might be interesting to check out CUPS (has an lpr emulator). It works well with my LJ4V, although I didn't try the manual feed yet. The PPDs coming with CUPS might also give information about what codes to send. Cheers, Colin
Re: Weather checking program
Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was wondering if anyone knew of a program that would check the weather, and display a map w/ cold front's, rain, etc. I use the gnomecam_applet and connect to any site that has such information (I like www.wunderground.com's satellite pics and the humidity radar). HTH, Colin
Re: thumb suggestion
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to build an html page with photos. I'd like to make thumbnails and link them to the actual pix in another file. What will do this under potato? I installed http://fredrik.rambris.com/gfxindex/. Very cool. Cheers, Colin
Re: xcdroast replacement?
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [gtoaster] Doesn't do anything when I do it. I do get a log full of : kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. I don't know why it wants to access the CD writer yet. Hmm, works fine for me. Still, even if you don't use gtoaster now, would you care to report this? Andreas is very responsive. Cheers, Colin -- YYURYYUBICURYY4ME.
Re: HOWTO: HTML cross reference of C code
Viktor Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking for a tool that creates HTMLified cross reference of C code. Particulary, if I have a e.g. a prototype for an open function LXR has been mentioned. There is also Global (http://www.tamacom.com/unix/) which seems pretty powerful (I like the fact that it suppoert emacs too). There is a regular Debian package. Cheers, Colin -- YYURYYUBICURYY4ME.
Re: xcdroast replacement?
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hall Stevenson wrote: I tried gtoaster but I have to admit I don't understand its user interface a bit. It is somewhat odd... what are you trying to do ?? I've used for a little while now and seem to understand it. I'm trying to select a directory to make an ISO image of it, and then burn it to CD. I browse to the directory I want, but then I don't know what to do. Seems silly. You drag whatever you want to burn to the file area in the lower part of gtoaster (in the first tab with the folder symbol). Gotcha: once you have done that, closed gtoaster and want to burn the same thing again, you need to drag the Gnometoaster-Filesystem from the Internal Structures in the upper part to the lower area with the middle tab. Otherwise it will respond with | GnomeToaster Recording Terminal | Recording 0 bytes to CD | No recordable Tracks found All a matter of if all else fails, read the manual :-) I like gtoaster very much. Cheers, Colin -- YYURYYUBICURYY4ME.
Re: Sound Blaser Live
* Mars Moon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So is a Sound Blaser Live driver available to the Linux users?? One option is a current ALSA: http://www.alsa-project.org Or OSS: go to http://opensource.creative.com, grab a snapshot there and follow the instructions in the docs/README* file. The only thing to do different is the `make' part: use make INCLUDE=/usr/include/ so that it can find your kernel headers (you will need to have that package installed). HTH, Colin -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09.15
Re: [*]about download program
* maths [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there any good download software (something like net vampire) for linux? Don't know what net vampire is, but take a look at Pavuk (.deb in potato), http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk/. -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09.15
Re: xemacs problem
* Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I change the options in xemacs ( 21 latest ) to enable multiple windows, and I try to compile or move to errors in the compilation, I get the folowing error message: wrong type argument : windowp, nil I'd do a M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t RET invoke the error and post the resulting backtrace to comp.emacs.xemacs. Also mention the output of M-x emacs-version HTH, colin -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09.15
Re: C++ question
* Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The code was originally written by someone else, and I had to modify it. It uses a whole bunch of libraries written in C. And I am too lazy to port it to C++. So I had to use both gcc and g++. But it is just a pain to keep the memory allocation consistent(new/delete, malloc/free). A bit OT, but you may want to subscribe to one or both of these mailing lists: http://mail.i-docs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuxcpprogramming http://mail.i-docs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxcprogramming -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09.15
Re: [OFF-TOPIC] shell scripting
* David Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could someone point me in a good direction to start learning some shell scripting? I can do the extreme basic stuff, but I'd like to learn a lot O'Reilly's Debian book has a chapter about bash. Here is the online version: http://www.ora.com/catalog/debian/chapter/ HTH, Colin -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09.15
Re: Eterm keys
* Fam Engelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: with those pseudo-transparent eterm backgrounds. I found it impossible to use the 'home' and 'end' keys in an Eterm, while they do work in an xterm... Why? Can I enable them in any way? This is from the Enlightenment list (Michael Jennings replying): | - Home, End keys not working | This one can be solved (thanx to gilbertt on #e) by defining LINUX_KEYS in | feature.h | Is there a option to pass to configure to enable this? | | You're right, I should have made one. 0.9.1 will have one. | | I tried to come up with a good way to auto-detect this; there simply | isn't one. As a general rule, those who use $TERM linux will need | to #define LINUX_KEYS in src/feature.h. I elected to stop making this | the default since Eterm is not a linux console emulator but a | vt100/102 emulator. -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09.15
Re: Stumble near the finish line?
* dkphoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this Slink (Debian 2.1)? If yes, teTeX has a date problem in the original release. If you care about TeX, you should get the package from the 2.1r5 release (somewhere on www.debian.org) and install that afterward. Thanks. Would that have caused the failure I had? As far as I know it was a problem with format files, so it is rather likely that this is/was your problem, yes.
Re: DVD
* Rafa Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way to see DVD's on my Debian box? Take a look at www.linuxdvd.org. -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09.15
Re: Stumble near the finish line?
* dkphoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: fmtutil : 'tex -ini-progname=latex latex.ini' failed. Is this Slink (Debian 2.1)? If yes, teTeX has a date problem in the original release. If you care about TeX, you should get the package from the 2.1r5 release (somewhere on www.debian.org) and install that afterward. -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09.15
Re: Video capture file is huge
* Cyrus Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I captured a video sequence from my television card using xawtv and it created an avi file that was 140M big and it only went for a few seconds and its resolution was not that big. Can I possibly compress this to a more managable size? Later, yes, but MPEG2 encoding in software is too slow for realtime. I played a while ago with: bttvgrab -w 640 -o pmm-good -g logfile -Q -d d The pmm format may be even more uncompressed than avi. Convert to MPEG (needs mpeg2encode, AFAIK) bttvconvert -w 640 -o mpeg-1 -l 142 -s output.pmm -d d -Q -c log The bttvgrab homepage possibly has more info: http://moes.pmnet.uni-oldenburg.de/bttvgrab/ HTH, Colin -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09.15
Re: Debian Attire and etc...
* TKWJ3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Someone had sent a email out about a link to a site selling Debian shirts or something to that effect. Well i deleted the email and www.copyleft.org (or .com?) -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09.15
Re: MSMail client scientific plotting/fitting program
* Guilherme Soares Zahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, do anyone know of a good Linux replacement for Windows' Microcal Origin? I'd need a program that can create scientific graphics/plots (no need for 3D plots), do both linear and nonlinear I'd take a look at sal.kachinatech.com (or whereever that was, Scientific Applications for Linux). A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hey... Brazil is not *THAT* far... But well... let's say I see some coincidences between our president and Darth Vader... Both said something like forget all I've said before I was what I now am... ;-) Wasn't that Zaphod Beeblebrox? :-) -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09.15
Re: Groups and what not.
* Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you don't feel like editing /etc/group (since if you screw something up it could be Bad), you can use adduser, like so: adduser larry stooges ...and don't forget to log out and in again.
Re: I've got sound!
* David J Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess. I think I have the alsa driver installed as well. Only problem thus far is kmod won't load the module; I've got to insmod au8830.o myself. You just have to add it to /etc/modules. Options go to /etc/modutils/modconf.
Re: sgml-tools, LinuxDoc, and customization
* J Horacio MG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: README.Debian file for sgml-tools says that version 1 is orphaned upstream. I take that to mean that I might not get help from the upstream authors. Not sure, but I think that even the sgmltools2 is orphaned by now. Indeed. Because of lack of a maintainer. Anyway my problem is this: I am writing a HOWTO in LinuxDoc format. I would like to be able to (locally) customize the HTML output and add custom nav links to the top and bottom of each page. Is it possible to do this with SGML Tools v1? If so, what do I edit and change? I've seen this done with DocBook, not LinuxDoc. Anyway, since the LDP is also adopting DocBook, you might consider it. In any case, there's a sgml tools list, which is still alive, though not much traffic on it. To subscribe send a message to: (Funny how often I'm reusing this little text in the last time:) Stephane Bortzmeyer has a document about using SGML on a Debian system, but this includes general information about SGML/XML/docbook as well: http://www.debian.org/%7Ebortz/SGML-HOWTO/ I also have a file called docbook-intro.sgml lying around, it says it can be found at: http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/ Two other links that belong into that proximity: http://home.sol.no/~vigu/dtds.html http://users.ox.ac.uk/%7Erahtz/passivetex HTH, Colin -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09.15
Re: ppp hangup question
* Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Colin Marquardt said: Hmm. Do you maybe have knocking on the line enabled? (Sorry, don't know the proper word for it. It's just that you can hear that someone tries to call you if you already have a connection.) That might disturb it. You mean call waiting? I used to get bumped offline by incoming calls, but Ah, yes, apparently :-) the error correction on modern modems has gotten good enough that they recover from the call waiting beeps... I still have some hangups as well as the original poster, so maybe it doesn't always succeed. And maybe the beeps are different in different countries. There are a number of (apparently) standalone devices that have recently come on the market which will detect incoming calls and let you put a dialup link on hold for a certain amount of time. They look like they should just plug right into the phone line without needing to talk to the computer, which would make them OS-independent. Have you looked at any of those? No. Don't know whether they are even available in Germany. But I doubt they would work well with standard timeouts in the apps... -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09.15
Re: stable innd is segfaulting
* Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[pid 17274] read(9, [EMAIL PROTECTED]..., 64) = 64
[pid 17274] write(17, 335\r\n, 5) = 5
[pid 17274] select(18, [4 11 13 17], [], NULL, {300, 0}) = 1 (in [17], left
{299, 98})
[pid 17274] gettimeofday({947982516, 627961}, NULL) = 0
[pid 17274] read(17, Path: news4.giganews.com!nntp2.g..., 4095) = 1019
[pid 17274] --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
This post is really from someone *not having a clue*, but...
I notice that the `read(...' line above looks like a Message-ID. I
don't know the RFC for the format, but AFAIR, I have never seen one
with a Dollar-sign in it. So *maybe* that is wrong: a forbidden (or
incorrectly handled) Message-ID.
Cheers,
Colin
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Re: ppp hangup question
* Jocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like my modem connection to hang up as soon as I get an incomming phonecall. Hmm. Do you maybe have knocking on the line enabled? (Sorry, don't know the proper word for it. It's just that you can hear that someone tries to call you if you already have a connection.) That might disturb it. -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 09.15
Re: Text conversion utils (dos2unix)
* Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which package do text conversion utilities come with? I'm looking for dos2unix primarily. For me: ashwork: ~ $ alias dos2unix alias dos2unix='recode ibmpc:lat1' ashwork: ~ $ dpkg -S recode [...] recode: /usr/bin/recode [...] HTH, Colin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: TeX question
* Vincent Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: there's a file that comes with emacs called viperCard.tex (in /usr/share/emacs/../etc/). it's a reference card for emacs viper-mode. i want to turn this into a pdf so i can get hard copy and stick it on my wall. i can get hard copy (and stick it on a wall :) myself, the problem is turning it into a pdf. i have tried 'tex viperCard.tex; dvipdf viperCard.dvi', but the resultant pdf file has portrait pages, whereas i need them to be landscape. there is Try pdftex with the command line pdftex \pdfpagewidth=297mm \pdfpageheight=210mm \input viperCard.tex or change the page dimensions in /usr/lib/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg. There should be a similar option for dvipdfm. But it looks to me as if this file *is* portrait. With weird look on A4 paper. HTH, Colin
Forcing exim to use a smarthost even for my machine
Hi,
I finally have gotten myself a domain name, and now I'm using it in
/etc/hosts and everywhere (my machine is called ashwork).
I have two users here on this machine whose mail adresses are
{colin|[EMAIL PROTECTED] I also have two other users who are
*not* on this machine but have the same domain part as e-mail
address.
I'm using a plain slink, so my MTA is exim. Now, when sending a mail
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (who is not a user on this machine), I get
a bounce which says:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
unknown local-part dana in domain marquardt-home.de
Exim should be forced to use my smarthost for this address.
How would I solve this problem? Surely it is rather easy, but
networking is not my strong side... And the exim doc is too huge to
help.
TIA,
Colin
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| Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not!
| by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM
| I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into
| my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
[Stefan Gybas stefan@gybas.com] Possible solution to Netscape crashing problem (was Re: Release-critical Bugreport for January 7, 2000)
Hi, with Stefan's permission I'm forwarding this mail from debian-devel. Please be gentle and include useful information in case you want to send a report to him. ---BeginMessage--- Jules Bean wrote: That's right. IIRC, doogie said that actually it was some complex interaction with some code in xlib, and it wasn't technically a bug in netscape. I did some investigation on this subject and I think I have now found a solution for this problem: The libc6 version of Netscape crashes when you close one of its windows or try to quit the program since the X libs were compiled using egcs/gcc 2.95. A call trace from the core file shows that the problem seems to be inside libXt so I recompiled libXt from XFree 3.3.5 using gcc 2.7.2 and have had no Netcspae crashes so far. There is a patch in the Debian xfree86-1 sources (011_egcs-netscape.diff) that builds some files inside libX11 and libXt without optimization but this does not solve the problem so Branden has already removed this patch from the latest version (3.3.5zZa-1). Further investigation showed that only building two files (Callback.o and Destroy.o) in libXt with gcc272 instead of gcc semms to cure the problem. I have put a libXt built this way at http://pandora.debian.org/~sgybas/ together with a signature made with my Debian key. Anybody seeing crashes with the libc6 version of Netscape, please test this library and send me feedback. I'm using Communicator 4.71 (which used to be available from ftp://lvftp.netscape.com/pub/blind/communicator/ english/4.71M2-19991213/) and which was built using glibc 2.1.2 so this might have added extra stability. Attached to this message is a patch for xfree86-1 which should IMHO be added to the Debian package (together with a build dependency on gcc272 on i386) if this version proves stable. I have not found any problems with other X applications so far. BTW, I don't think all this is caused by a bug in gcc 2.95 since the same crash happens when you use gcc 2.7.2 without optimization. I guess this is something like an allignment problem of some data structures as the motif library used inside Netscape was compiled using gcc-2.7.2 -O2. -- Stefan Gybasdiff -ruN xc.o/lib/Xt/Imakefile xc/lib/Xt/Imakefile 011_egcs-motif.diff --- xc.o/lib/Xt/Imakefile Fri Nov 6 14:54:31 1998 +++ xc/lib/Xt/Imakefile Sun Jan 9 15:25:50 2000 @@ -150,6 +150,11 @@ Vendor.c \ sharedlib.c +#ifdef i386Architecture +XCOMM horrible kludge to work around egcs problem that makes Motif applications (like Netscape) crash - some parts of libXt must be compiled with gcc-2.7.2 -O2 for them to work +Callback.o Destroy.o: CC=gcc272 +#endif + OBJS = \ $(MISCOBJS) \ ActionHook.o \ ---End Message--- -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?
* Francois Deppierraz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, the last field should be one only for the root partition. Any other partitions you want fscked on boot should have a 2 there instead. Partitions that should never be fscked should have a 0. Why does the last field depends on the partition type ? Man fstab say nothing about that. It does: The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) pro gram to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The root filesystem should be speci fied with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive will be Notice the order? I guess it's because if the root (which holds /sbin) is corrupted, then fsck could screw the other partitions if fsck itself is screwed.
Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate
* Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *- On 6 Jan, Shao Zhang wrote about Re: modem RX rate is considerable slower than RX rate What does not make sense is that, the TX rate is so much slower than RX rate. I have the same problems. Try playing around with your mtu and mru settings. I get better upload times with a mtu/mru of 552 as compared to the default 1500. The TX speeds are still not great though. If you Also note that the TX direction can *never* be more that 33.6K, only RX makes use of the V.90 features. However if, like Shao says, the modem connects with only 33.6K, that should be not his problem. Can it be that compression is only enabled for RX and not TX? Not that it would make sense but... Cheers, Colin
Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink
Hi, * Jens Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to build several potato packages for my slink machine. This failed, because some debhelper scripts were not available. After installing the potato version of debhelper, it failed again, this time because some command (it might have been chown) did not support some command line option. [...] 1) dependencies of debhelper in potato are wrong I think not. You need to differentiate between build dependencies (which are not yet implemented in Debians packaging system) and install dependencies. 2) (some/all) potato sources are build with potato debhelper Yes, of course. Why not? Potato sources seem to be useless for slink installations. Some may be useless, e.g. sources that explicitly require glibc-2.1 or gcc-2.95. Does anybody know how to deal with this? There is only a package-to-package solution, IMO. If building new packages for `old' versions were that easy, we would have more new/updated packages for slink. Thought out 'til the end, eventually the differentiation between stable and unstable would fade away... Cheers, Colin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink
* Jens Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Compilation worked fine. The only problem was that the package building process did not work. I could have installed the programs by hand, but I would have to bypass the package control system and would get problems when the real packages eventually come out. Ah, okay, I misunderstood you then. It should be possible to build packages for local installations from potato. If it is not possible to do this, many of the advantages of providing source packages and not merely sources would go away. You would be stuck with I agree that it would be nice, but if a package depends on things like debconf, things become complicated (debconf may even be installable in slink, but the dependencies/conflicts were too much for me). If it is possible, yes, but if the pain is too much, then not. If, however, an installation would only fail because of a simple thing like an unsupported chmod switch then that would warrant a bug report IMO.
Re: Y2K problem with slrn?
Sounds good, but it won't install. Seems that debhelper has to be
upgraded as well and 'that' seems to require the perl upgrade.
Depbelper fails with
DH_VERSION=10 perl -MTest::Harness -e 'runtests grep { ! /CVS/ }
[...]
I had this problem as well, but the answer I got from the -devel-List
was embarassingly obvious: none of the dependencies of debhelper require
newer stuff than included with Slink, so you can just take the .deb file
as is, without the need to build it yourself.
The `build' dependencies is obviously there, but it doesn't matter
when taking the built debhelper. Got lm_sensors from Potato running
nicely with it.
Cheers,
Colin
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| Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not!
| by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM
| I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into
| my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: E commerce stuff for linux?
* aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i want to know what people reccomend for an e commerce package for linux(free or not) something thats stable, secure, and runs on debian 2.1 :) Freshmeat has this to say: --- - --- -- - --- -- - - - -- - subject: MiniVend 4.0 alpha3 added by: Frank Tegtmeyer on Dec 02nd 1999, 03:17 license: GPL category: Web/Online Shopping homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/908223822/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/908223822/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/908223822/ description: MiniVend is the most powerful free shopping cart system available today. Its features and power rival the costliest commercial systems. MiniVend supports just about every need for a leading edge shopping site. Online credit processing with CyberCash[tm], Authorize.Net, and PaymentNet. security with SSL and PGP, powerful database connectivity with SQL and DBI/DBD, internationalization, and much more. There is now a web-based administration tool, dubbed MiniMate. changes: The alpha directory is at http://www.minivend.com/alpha/, the download location for the alpha version is http://www.minivend.com/alpha/minivend-4.0alpha3.tar.gz, and the changes you may see at http://www.minivend.com/alpha/WHATSNEW. urgency: low | http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/02/944122656.html --- - --- -- - --- -- - - - -- - Of course, it also has a stable version. Cheers, Colin
Re: R/W cdroms
* Christopher Judd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm shopping for a computer for my work, and I need to know what support is available for re-writable CD-ROMs is. Can someone clue me in on that? Check out the CD Writing and CD-ROM HOWTOs. Re-writable CD-ROMS These URLs should help: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdb.html should work OK. I use a Phillips CDD 3610 here, but so far I haven't written any re-writable CD-RW's with it with it, only CD-R's. I use cdrecord and xcdroast for writing CD's. UDF isn't really there yet, so you only can erase whole sessions at once. Otherwise, there is no difference between CD-Rs and CD-RWs. -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: streaming audio? (Re: wav - conversion utility)
* Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [gogo] You use the -b switch to specify the minimum bitrate, or the VBR code might get too agressive during easy portions of the WAV file. Where did you find that info? I use -v -b 112 as suggested in the docs, works well here. Hmm, the docs. [*ls. grep. less. Hmm.*] Do you mean readme_e.txt? They mention that there, but don't explain the reason. Anyway, thanks very much for the info! Colin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: porn, ads, custom filters for HTTP
* Paolo Pedaletti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The internet server I'm setting up for a school needs a filter for porn, ads en maybe some custom sites. I'm useing squid at the moment... I use at home junkfilter with wwwoffle. Do you mean junkbuster? That certainly can do the job. And wwwoffle is also cool for us dial-uppers. Colin
Re: streaming audio? (Re: wav - conversion utility)
* Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The fastest LAME-spinoff I know is a href=http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shigeo/soft/gogo2/; GOGO /a, that is optimized by using 3DNow, MMX and ISSE assembler. About 4 times faster than LAME at the same quality. Why does it say I should combine the -v option (which enables variable bitrate) with the -b option (which sets contant bitrate)? Seems contradictory to me... Or is this the average bitrate? In any case, with this option, XMMS' bitrate meter doesn't change anymore while reporting it as VBR in the file info. Colin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: More details: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?
* Alan Eugene Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the main problems I have with acroread is that fonts are not displaying correctly. That's the best I can make of it---two words are overlaid on each other; a whole line may only be an inch or two wide, but in letters 14 or 18 points high. How are these files created (File| Document Info| General, Creator field)? What does File| Document Info| Fonts say? -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: [OT] Re:
* Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 09:06:02AM +, Paul Keenan wrote: Jason Winters wrote: does anyone know why packages would install right, then when I try to run them nothing happens? Could you be any more vague ? i could! Why does it not work? Better yet: Help! (as sent to the Linux C Programming List today) -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
PPP CHAP problem
: 02 06 00 2d 0f 01 83 06 00 00 00 00 rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x40 addr 10.0.60.1] sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x40 addr 10.0.60.1] IPCP: timeout sending Config-Requests sent [LCP TermReq id=0x3 No network protocols running] rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x41 addr 10.0.60.1] rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x3] Connection terminated. Connect time 0.6 minutes. -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?
Hi, * Ron Hale-Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It won't include EPS files, and lays out some files in a broken way Have you already tried epstopdf? completely unlike LaTeX proper. That never happened to me, and I have not heard from anyone seeing this. It just uses TeX inside... Hmmm. OK, I did this and I'm still getting ugly fonts in my PDF file via ps2pdf. But I noticed that if I use, say, utopia.sty, I still get ugly fonts, and Utopia only comes as a PS Type 1 font, doesn't it? Yes, but it could have been converted using gsftopk or something. Could I be mistaken about what is causing the ugly fonts? Is it something other than a Type 1 problem? pdfLaTeX produces lovely fonts, so I know pretty versions of the CM fonts can be included with a PDF file. For an example of what I mean by ugly fonts, see http://www.ludism.org/rpg/osprey_ugly.pdf. This was produced using the suggested fix above. Uses Type 3 fonts, as can be seen in File| Document Info| Fonts. Did dvips tell about some .pfb or .pfa fonts? Can you send it's output (just the first few lines)? Try maybe a mktexlsr (both as root *as well* as user). Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?
* Ron Hale-Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 08:05 PM 12/6/99 +0100, Colin Marquardt wrote:
* Eric G Miller egm2@jps.net writes:
If you don't need them to be CMR fonts (which I don't think Acrobat can
display well), try '\usepackage{times}'. That'll give you Postscript 1
fonts. Since AcroReader only understands 11 fonts, *only* Times Roman,
Helvetica, Courier [New?], and Zapf Dingbats will render well on the
display (though bitmap fonts print fine in my experience). The only
That assumes one is going the ps2pdf route (which uses gs).
Hopefully, gs 6.0 will remove that limitation, but that is not
entirely clear. (Just to state that this is not a limitation of the
PDF format...) pdftex (and, AFAIK, dvipdfm) work fine with
non-standard fonts.
Ah. I missed part of this conversation. So if I use Slink gs then I am
doomed to lousy PDF files with anything but Times and friends? Now I
understand.
Argh, I missed my own statement in the post I just sent. Going to bed
now :-)
--
Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?
* Jesse Jacobsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ah, yes. I've been using ae with pdflatex. I don't remember if that
was a part of Slink's teTeX either. Pdflatex makes a pdf directly
Yes, in tetex-extra.
Images also must be included a bit
differently.
Not at all! :-)
I hope everyone here uses the graphics package, and *not* obsolete
packages like epsfig or shudder epsf!
In current LaTeX releases (Slink's tetex is enough), the
graphics.cfg file has enough intelligence to know whether you are
compiling with latex or pdflatex, and gives the correct options to
\usepackage{graphicx}.
All you have to do is to give the figure name without file extension
(but you would have done this already if you had read the
/usr/doc/texmf/latex/graphics/epslatex.ps.gz doc).
The graphics backend driver now knows with what you are TeXing the
document, so it can go out and look for the file with an admissible
extension: for pdftex, it's .png, .pdf, .jpg and .mps (MetaPost),
whereas for dvips, its .eps, .ps, .eps.gz, .ps.gz and .eps.Z (found
out from the /usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/*.def files).
If you are not satisfied with the priorities in which it chooses
files with identical basename (e.g. figure.pdf over figure.png),
use the \DeclareGraphicsExtension command (page 18 in epslatex.ps).
Another font-related tweak I use is
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, but I don't know that it would make a
difference for this issue.
Using ae sets up virtual fonts for CM that are encoded in T1 (note
that this has absolutely nothing to do with Type 1 fonts!). That is,
using \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} would normally choose the Metafont EC
fonts, for which there are no PS Type 1 equivalents available. ae
now maps the *CM* Type 1 fonts to have T1 encoding.
If you are only setting 7bit ASCII texts, T1 encoding gives no real
benefit, but for us others it allows proper hyphenation in words
with umlauts and such.
(Your extra \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} does nothing here, as ae already
sets this internally).
Fighting against epsf,
Colin
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Re: Short description for the issues discussed by each mailing list?
* Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: description about the purpose of each mailing list and the issues that are discussed on it? www.debian.org has a one-line despcription in the Mailing-List section.
Re: kpathsea/metafont/docbook and fonts
* Aaron Van Couwenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was recently trying to render a pdf from docbook, but the farthest I got was TeX. Upon calling jadetex on jade's output, metafont dumped a bunch of complaints about missing files. Well, I cannot answer your question exactly, but to get *good* PDF, you shouldn't be using pk(=bitmap) fonts anyway, so Metafont shouldn't happen to be called anywhere. Some questions: * How do you want to produce the PDF? * Can you post the header (the preamble) of the resulting TeX file? * What is the exact error message (plus the lines before it)? Maybe it can't just be corrected with a package (or if it can, the fix might not lead to the best PDF). In that case, the experts in comp.text.tex can probably help you better. Cheers, Colin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?
* Eric G Miller egm2@jps.net writes:
If you don't need them to be CMR fonts (which I don't think Acrobat can
display well), try '\usepackage{times}'. That'll give you Postscript 1
fonts. Since AcroReader only understands 11 fonts, *only* Times Roman,
Helvetica, Courier [New?], and Zapf Dingbats will render well on the
display (though bitmap fonts print fine in my experience). The only
That assumes one is going the ps2pdf route (which uses gs).
Hopefully, gs 6.0 will remove that limitation, but that is not
entirely clear. (Just to state that this is not a limitation of the
PDF format...) pdftex (and, AFAIK, dvipdfm) work fine with
non-standard fonts.
Another zero $ solution is VTeX from Micropress, which is free
(beer sense) for Linux. It has a PS interpreter built in and can
thus embed EPS figures natively (as opposed to pdflatex, where
one needs epstopdf, which in turn uses gs, with the mentioned
drawbacks for fonts in figures).
caveat I'm aware of with using Postscript 1 fonts, as opposed to the
default CMR fonts is scaling for math equations might produce funky
results. I don't do much for equations, so don't know.
Times math fonts can be faked with the mathptm package, but it is
really only a fake. There is a silimar solution for Palatino, which
I'd choose in favour of Times (which has this M$ Word appeal).
Cheers,
Colin
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Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?
Hi, * Ron Hale-Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've discovered that the Slink pdflatex doesn't do everything I'd like it What are the features you are missing? I have all the Blue Sky fonts, and pdflatex uses them, but LaTeX still uses the ugly Type 3 CM fonts. Everything I have read about this problem suggests that I need to make a trivial change to psfonts.map to get this to work, but I don't seem to have a psfonts.map file. Is my installation broken, or is this standard for Debian? ashwork:~$ dpkg -S psfonts.map tetex-base: /etc/texmf/dvips/psfonts.map tetex-base: /usr/lib/texmf/dvips/base/psfonts.map However, the thing that makes it work for *me* are the following lines in /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ps: | % Uncomment the following two lines to use Postscript Type1 fonts instead of | % bitmap fonts for computer modern co. | p +bsr.map | % p +bakomaextra.map % real bakoma instead of interpolated bsr | p +bsr-missing-interpolated.map % this one *or* the previous one. Not both! | p +hoekwater.map Here, /etc/texmf/dvips/bsr.map has the magic lines: cmb10 CMB10 cmb10.pfb cmbsy10 CMBSY10 cmbsy10.pfb [...] HTH, Colin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: PDF wont work with Potato and Acrobat... Anyone?
* Alan Eugene Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anyone using TeX/LaTeX to produce PDF? Can the PDF be understood Yes. You can use pdf(la)tex which produces PDF directly (http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/), and dvipdfm, which uses the normal DVI output (http://odo.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/). Another free route goes through DVI--PS--PDF with dvips and ps2pdf (from the Ghostscript distribution). The non-free route is using Distiller on the PS (Distiller is not available for Linux). All of these approaches have certain (minor) drawbacks (but they may well not be relevant to you). by commonly available PDF readers? I run TeXLive, up to date, so My Yup. (Aside from a few bugs in the readers. Even Adobe doesn't always conform to its own spec). You'll probably get better advise on e.g. comp.text.tex if you have specific problems. HTH, Colin
Re: OT: Network map solutions
* Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking for a way to create rather nice-looking network topology maps. I figure a solution will involve an easy-to-use object-oriented drawing program with a library of network objects (routers, switches, links, clouds, etc.) that is also extensible, so I can add my own ob- jects. I'm thinking of something Visio-like, but given the quality of open-source software I've worked with in the past, I'm certain I can find something even better. Right. Sit down. Are you sitting? Yes? Now visit http://www.marko.net/cheops/. HTH, Colin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: Why is /dev/console linked to /dev/tty0?
* Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 7 1999 /dev/console - tty0 Then there is a bug in Eterm. Or you are trying to let multiple programs catch the output of /dev/console - TIOCCONS (the mechanism that provides console output cloning to ptys) can only redirect to ONE pty at the time. Wonderful! That was it: I ran xconsole already as I tried to start Eterm --console. There is nothing to fix. The link from /dev/console to /dev/tty0 is standard in all distributions. Only with 2.2.x kernels did /dev/console get its own major/minor device, c 5 1. Using that with 2.0.x kernels won't work at all. Okay, I lied when I said that I have a plain slink system: I compiled 2.2.x kernels myself, and not using a Debian package for this. Shame on me :-) Would the Debian kernel package have removed that link and created that device? Should/could I do this myself? Thanks, Colin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: ipchains
* Sven Esbjerg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 11:54:39AM -0500, Rick Knebel wrote: In RedHat I put my ipchain rules in rc.local so they start up at bootime. Where in debian can I put these. The correct place for bootscripts in Debian is /etc/rcS.d . Normally you would put the actual script in /etc/init.d and a symlink to it from /etc/rcS.d . ...and these symlinks can be set up with /usr/sbin/update-rc.d (mentioning this before you do this by hand). -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: Mgetty not connecting at 56 Kbs
* aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: livingston portmaster kicks some serious ass .. ascend max 4000 isnt so bad either. i use both. Weren´t there reports with Ascend not supporting vj and BSD compression and users having problems with that? ... Co not an expert lin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: Slrnpull error
* David J Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For some reason, when I try to run slrn --spool, I get this error message: slrn fatal error: slrn: pid 1549 is locking the newsrc file. For this reason, I guess, nothing shows up in the spooled slrn window. What can I do to fix this? What process is this? Type ps j1549 If that process isn´t running anymore, it died without having time to remove that lock, and you can remove the lock file by hand (somewhere in /var/lock/, usually a file with this process ID in it). If the process is running, it´s maybe a daemon. Tell us. HTH, Colin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: upgrading from corel linux to potato
* David G Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another possible reason: Slink is too old! (As far as I know, it doesn't support my video card well or at all - it's a TNT2) For such reasons, Corel has a current XFree86, AFAIK.
Re: recommend mp3 encoder
* Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking for the highest compression quality possible. I don't care about speed (nor about interface) at all. Is there anything compareable to Fraunhoffer encoder under win32 for Linux? LAME is said to be the best-quality free encoder. http://www.sulaco.org/mp3 I'll be encoding wavs into 256 KBps mp3's. Why not using variable bitrate? The LAME people still consider VBR beta, but it has worked fine with me. -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: X-Windows keyboard control
* Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I personally don't know of any keyboard for an Intel based computer that has a Meta key - do they exist? The keyboards for NCD terminals have PS/2 connectors and I´ve found on the Net that someone has it working on a normal PC. They have actual Meta keys. This keyboard is quite nice, the Sun Type5 layout (plus some unlabeled keys over the cursor keys). Unfortunately, it costs over DEM 200,-. And before anyone screams out: I know that the normal Sun keyboard connectors *look* like PS/2 ones, but *are not* (and have a totally different protocol[1]). This NCD keyboard is a real PS/2. Cheers, Colin Footnotes: [1] But I´ve found a little PCB with a Motorola controller that converts it into a protocol suitable for a PC. Pretty weird. :-)
Re: 14.4kbps PPP link?
* Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sometimes pinging the remote host seems to provoke the data transfer to start again (or is this coincidence?) I have seen this as well, with the 14.4k of my parents (Doze´95). At my parents, I had multiple Netscape connections open, and all of them would stall. Then, Stopping transfer and reloading it would make all connections react again. I have not pinged or anything, but maybe any new request tells the remote host you are alive. It seems that the remote host thinks that since you are accept things so slowly, it just pauses for a while. I seem to remember I was using different locations back then with the 14.4k, and all of them became respondent again after a reload request on *one* location. So it could have been a host on the route that was shared by my connections that was stalling transfer, i.e. one close to me, *if* I remember correctly. [...] Good point. However, I am worried I would have the same problems with a faster modem, too. With 56k all goes well for me. But then, it´s Debian this time. If it doesn´t go well, I´m usually thinking that my provider´s machines just have short-term problems. Colin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: diff caches stuff in memory?
Hi, * David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Colin Marquardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): apparently diff caches stuff in memory. I'm not sure what you mean by made a new clean version. (I'm sure you know that -N means any empty files that were cleaned away will have no effect on diff's output.) Okay, I haven´t been too understandable. Now I cannot reproduce it, but the explanation what I did follows nevertheless. Say, I want to do a diff against a directory that comes in a tarball (xmms-0.9.5.1.tar.gz actually). I edit some files in a copy of that directory (xmms-0.9.5.1_patch), then I diff against the original directory (xmms-0.9.5.1, clean_dir in my previous example). I then realize that was I thought was the original wasn´t really the directory as contained in the tarball because I did some modifications there too. Now, to get a clean original directory (xmms-0.9.5.1) I simply untar the tarball again (after deleting the fake original directory), which gives me the same directory name as before (xmms-0.9.5.1). Okay? The original directory is now *really* original, i.e. *different* from the former original (which was called xmms-0.9.5.1 as well), so I should get also get a different diff output. Now my second diff doesn´t recognize that the original directory has changed, it creates the same diff output as before. I didn't know diff bothered about timestamps, and I doubt kernel caching uses them either. (Of course, programs like tar and zip do.) Okay, after some experiments I see that after untarring the original directory anew, the timestamp on that directory is not the current timestamp, but the timestamp at tar file creation. (tar xvzf xmms-0.9.5.1.tar.gz) So, were I examining evidence, I'd be interested to know how you cleaned clean_dir, and I'd want to see a log showing diff getting the wrong answers (i.e. the diff output and two cats of affected files). The test case I just set up worked! I don´t know what was different... Maybe the error really was between keyboard and chair, and I´ve now gotten the brown paper bag award :-( I don´t know. Thanks for taking the time to answer, Colin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
diff caches stuff in memory?
Hi, apparently diff caches stuff in memory. I noticed that when I wanted to make a patch with diff -urN clean_dir patched_dir my_patch The patch came out fine, but then I realized that clean_dir wasn´t really clean, so I made a new clean version *with the same* directory name. The second time I ran diff it went really fast. Too fast: it didn´t examine the files in clean_dir at all, it just used the data from the previous run which it had cached, so my patch was the same as before (wrong). How can I get diff to forget what it saw? The manpage doesn´t tell me. (I didn´t think about `touch'ing the directory then, but I untarred clean_dir from a tarball, so it should have gotten a newer time stamp). TIA, Colin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: Problems with PostScript fonts in tetex in debian slink
* Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[310] [111] [211] [311] [411] [13]/usr/bin/makempx: Command failed: dvitomp
mpxerr.dvi manfig.mpx
DVItoMP warning: Checksum mismatch for psyr
DVItoMP warning: Checksum mismatch for ptmri8r
DVItoMP warning: Checksum mismatch for ptmr8r
DVItoMP warning: Checksum mismatch for ptmr8r
These are just warnings, as with dvips. Normal.
manfig.mp
manfig.mpx
! Unable to make mpx file.
l.219 picture llab; llab = btex
\llap{$x={}$}0 etex;
19 output files written: manfig.0 .. manfig.411
Transcript written on manfig.log.
This is most probably a different thing, unrelated to the checksum
stuff, but... Have you tried this code with the normal CM fonts, not
using Times? Times has not math fonts as CM has, so that might be
the problem (if you are really using Times=ptm* at this point).
I´d ask again in comp.text.tex to find the experts. Post the relevant
bits of your code, a prepared, small example would be best.
Cheers,
Colin
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Re: emacs and word processing
* Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: M-x ispell-change-dictionary from emacs or xemacs does not work. (X)emacs reports: no match. Maybe you need to add your dictionary to ispell-dictionary-alist (not sure what the right way to do this is, though) It should also help to set the variable debug-on-error to something non-nil to get a backtrace: M-x set-variable RET debug-on-error RET t Another way might be to set your dictionary to default with /usr/sbin/update-ispell-dictionary. HTH, Colin PS: Your Message-ID is invalid. -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: Getting apt-get to explain things
* peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I get apt-get to explain *why* it wants to remove a package? man 5 apt.conf | Debug Options |Most of the options in the debug section are not interest |ing to the normal user, however Debug::pkgProblemResolver |shows interesting output about the decisions dist-upgrade |makes. Debug::NoLocking disables file locking so apt can -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: emacs and word processing
* Philip Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Recently, I started using XEmacs to edit LaTeX files. The LaTeX mode Does the modeline say LaTeX-Mode, or just latex-mode? If the latter, add the following to your ~/.emacs: ;;*=== ;;* Initialise aucTeX (require 'tex-site) and discover AucTeX. (1) ...actually not an emacs issue, but anyway: spell checking with ispell under emacs works (sort of), but ispell doesn't recognize 8-bit characters. Same problem with running ispell from the command line, German user? M-x customize-variable RET ispell-local-dictionary RET then give deutsch8 as dictionary. If that doesn´t do enough, use M-x customize-variable RET ispell-extra-args RET with the options -C -t -T latin1 -d deutsch (+man ispell). Or, just for latex-mode: (add-hook 'latex-mode-hook (function (lambda () (setq ispell-extra-args '(-t -C -x -S)) ))) (It might be necessary to duplicate this for LaTeX-mode-hook (case matters!). (2) Emacs' flyspell-mode has support for English, but I need spell checking for English, German, and French. Is this a built-in facility or is it accomplished by ispell as well? And how do I get additional ispell issue. Set the correct dictionary. That may also be of help: ;; Note: consider setting the variable ispell-parser to 'tex to ;; avoid TeX command checking (use (setq ispell-parser 'tex)') ;; _before_ entering flyspell. (setq ispell-parser 'tex) (3) What about spell checking with multilingual texts, e.g. a German text with quotes in English, French, and Latin? Do I have to do this paragraph by paragraph? Yes, I fear. You might be able to hack something that examines the \selectlanguage commands, but that would be quite complicated (at least for me). (4) I turned on auto-fill-mode and filladapt-mode. Frankly, I have no idea what that really means, but while typing new text word-wrapping works the way I want it now. I guess auto-fill is what I was looking for in the first place, what does fill-adapt do, anyway? ;) (Don't See how I qouted you above? With filladapt I could word-wrap (Emacs language: fill) this text, and still keep the signs in place. Like that: (4) I turned on auto-fill-mode and filladapt-mode. Frankly, I have no idea what that really means, but while typing new text word-wrapping works the way I want it now. I guess auto-fill is what I was looking for in the first place, what does fill-adapt do, anyway? ;) (Don't (Your case is a complicated one, as it wants to have your (4) like the way it looks now :-) (5) Is there some documentation on the X resources used by XEmacs for Joe XEmacs user? The sample Emacs.ad and .xdefaults files are not very Try editres. -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
Re: ppp + ip-up.d + fetchmail + multiple polls
* Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *- On 6 Nov, Colin Marquardt wrote about ppp + ip-up.d + fetchmail + multiple polls Now, when I go online and this script is run automatically, fetchmail only queries the first of my four accounts! (I can observe this because I´m sending the fetcmail output to /dev/console). The scripts in ip-up.d are run as root. Thus the fetchmail script you have would be using /root/.fetchmailrc and not your .fetchmailrc. Would there happen to be a .fetchmailrc in /root that contains the first isp as is in your .fetchmailrc? The way around this is to use Indeed, there was. I alredy suspected another .fetchmailrc, but I was mislead by locate not bringing up the one in /root/ (of course it didn´t :-). Thanks for your help, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting GNOME to start from Enlightenment
* SGaerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Patrick Kirk wrote: /dev/dsp: Permission denied Anyone seen it before? Help please. Patrick I added the user (myself) to the systemgroup 'audio'. I think it's not the best idea but it works... ;-) That´s exactly what the audio group is for, so you did it right :-) -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printers..
* David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: driver. Someone needs to write a GPL'ed ghostscript windows printer driver(maybe it already exists?). I'm interested in this too, as I have a linux box serving an HP 895 to an NT box as well as other linuxes. I actually use the HP 895 driver, but I had to trick NT into install it. What I did was to Not GPL of course, but Adobe has a generic PS printer driver for NT on their pages. It is reported to produce clean PS, which is rather seldom :-). Searching through Deja in comp.text.tex should bring up the URL rather quickly (it´s some version 5.x). I don´t know if this also available for 95/98. HTH, Colin -- | Re: Kernel size is 666K! I kid you not! | by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 26, @08:50AM | I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and had 666 burned into | my forehead! I shit you not![Kernel 2.2.0 is announced on /.]
ppp + ip-up.d + fetchmail + multiple polls
Hi, the subject shows that I have no clue where to look :-) My problem is this: my ~/.fetchmailrc specifies four different accounts to poll mail from. When I´m running fetchmail by hand, all four accounts are polled, like it should. I have a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that looks like this: | #!/bin/sh -e | ## This script is run when the ppp link goes up. | | echo Fetchmail starting... /dev/console | | fetchmail -vvv -a 2 /dev/console | | echo Fetchmail ready. /dev/console Now, when I go online and this script is run automatically, fetchmail only queries the first of my four accounts! (I can observe this because I´m sending the fetcmail output to /dev/console). Has anyone an idea why this is? My system is a plain slink in this part, fetchmail is version 4.6.4. TIA, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding a style to TeX
* Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
a couple of directories in /usr/local/lib/texmf and put in the required
files (apacite.bst and apacite.sty). The tetex doc said to run `texhash'
to update the ls-R file, which I did (as root).
When I try and run latex on my paper, I get the following error:
! Undefined control sequence.
l.111 \citeA
{easteal-93}. Yet while technically accurate, such a
definition
You can use
kpsewhich file
to see where a certain file is taken from (or not, if it´s not found
:-)
Maybe your problem is that you should put the files a little bit deeper
in the texmf tree, e.g. at /usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex/apacite.
HTH,
Colin
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Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: enlightenment themes
* Justin Hagemeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the unstable distribution of debian and enlightenment 16.1 does not seem to want to display backgrounds when I introduce new themes. Does anyone know what the problem is? Checked the Background overrides theme box in Desktop background settings? HTH, Colin PS: Please limit your line length to about 72 chars. -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debhelper for slink
* XRDLAB [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried compiling the latest version of debhelper (from potato) under slink and could not succeed. Is there anything that I should upgrade As it is only a Perl script, you can just use the package. before I can do that? AFAIK, it needs a newer Perl than is available for slink *to compile*. To *work*, the oldish slink-Perl is sufficient. (And yes, I already asked the same question :-) HTH (if not, we need the error messages), Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good News Reader?
* Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I tried S O m, and it inserts all messages into the
one rfc822 sub-part, with a short description at the top.
I don't think this is valid rfc822, which AFAIK:
[...]
Does Gnus support Maildir format? Not that I could see, but
perhaps I was looking at an out-of-date version.
Hmm, sorry, two questions for the Gnus newsgroup or someone else.
Usually, Lars and the other Gnus gurus know their RFCs very well, so
I´m a bit surprised. Maybe my method isn´t the right one...
Hopefully these features will soon be added to PGnus...
Then hurry, a release is maybe not too far away (not days, rather
weeks; just like Debian now :-).
Oh..., BTW..., is there anyway to save a list of messages to *a* mbox
file? I tried marking messages with '#', and the pushing C-o, but Gnus
asked me for each message what file I wanted to save it to...
Hmm. At least, it *appends*, and doesn´t overwrite. I guess that
would need a (user-)function.
Apart from these problems, PGnus seems to be very good. I might even try
to free up enough disk space on this computer, so I can install it ;-)
Another question: When does Gnus delete messages that have expired?
Obviously, it can't delete them if you not currently running PGnus, but
does it do it when it first loads? When you enter and/or leave a group?
Or when? I tried to find this in the documentation, but couldn't.
(remove-hook 'gnus-summary-prepare-exit-hook
'gnus-summary-expire-articles)
That belongs to the setting below and seems to suggest that having
it on the hook function for exiting the summary is the default.
;;* Do the expiry every time I've been idle for more than 30 minutes
;;*
(gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-group-expire-all-groups 30 30)
You can of course hook gnus-summary-expire-articles to any other
hook. To see what hooks are there:
C-h a gnus.*hook
I´d call that a wealth ;-)
As a warning, that sentence from the manual:
| If you use adaptive scoring (@pxref{Adaptive Scoring}) and
| auto-expiring, you'll have problems. Auto-expiring and adaptive scoring
| don't really mix very well.
I´m using total-expire.
HTH,
Colin
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Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good News Reader?
Hi, * Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...Gnus...] unfortunately not MIME-PGP, only clearsigning. Also no automated key-fetching for GPG. But that shouldn´t be too far away. Do you mean MIME-PGP support should be coming, too? I hope so very much. Emacs is very big (about 27Mb according to apt, if I remember correctly). Well, isn´t already one running, anyways? :-) Gnus can do expiry without a gateway (different for each mailgroup if you want), so the dislike-points are moot. This is one feature I have seen but not yet tested. I noted with the latest version of PGnus (0.97?) if I pushed 'g' to get any new articles from the group list, then the E flag for all articles that I manually marked for expiry were forgotten (is this a bug?) Hmm, not sure. I use a different style: I tick messages I want to keep, and the rest is automatically expired after the time I want (this is for mail, of course). However, I doubt that such a bug could go unnoticed, so it is probably a feature. (Really, no joke.) I would ask on the Ding mailing list (the list dedicated to the Gnus versions in development, see www.gnus.org), *never* ask on the regular Gnus newsgroup about development versions. up URLs to tutorials tomorrow or next week. Yes please. http://www.socha.net/Gnus/ ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-dortmund.de/pub/src/emacs/tutorials/tutorials_toc.html (has a Gnus section) (There seem to be more tutorials in German than in English :-) Please could you explain how you use auto-scoring? I have a vague impression of the theory behind how it works, would be interested in knowing how to use it in practise. I don´t do anything specific: enable it [(setq gnus-use-adaptive-scoring t) in your .gnus] , then let it work. It makes notes about the authors you are reading and the subjects. (This usually work best if you also *skip* messages). You can influence the scoring with some options (an example from my .gnus): ;;* SCORE ;;* ;;* Scoring away stuff I find boring (defvar gnus-default-adaptive-score-alist '((gnus-unread-mark) (gnus-ticked-mark (from 4)) (gnus-dormant-mark (from 5)) ;(gnus-del-mark (from -4) (subject -1)) (gnus-read-mark (from 2) (subject 1)) (gnus-expirable-mark (from -1) (subject -1)) (gnus-killed-mark (from -1) (subject -3)) (gnus-kill-file-mark) (gnus-ancient-mark) (gnus-low-score-mark) ;(gnus-catchup-mark (subject -4)); (from -1)) ) ) Adaptive scoring somehow just works for me. Try it two weeks, and it knows stuff about you your psychiatrist didn´t find out ;-) On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 04:02:01AM +, Manoj Srivastava wrote: [...] authors that I dislike slhowly slip below my radar. I like being able to build the score on articles based on several rules, apart from the adaptive learning. How do you do this? How do you tell Gnus that you dislike a particular author and/or topic? If you suddenly realize a subject or author is very cool, then press I a s p on that message, and it lets you specify a regexp on the From-line. I s s p is the same for Subject. Etc. Cheers, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xemacs20 and default font
* Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to set up a default font under xemacs20. I've changed the default font to my tastes with the Options menu, but even after using the same menu's Save Options option, my font doesn't come back after relaunching xemacs. Please type `C-h F' (C-h F is the abbreviation for holding down the Ctrl-key while pressing h, then release the key and type an F (case *does* matter)). Now read Q3.0.7. HTH, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Data Aquisition Cards?
* Ingo Reimann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 10:40:37PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: A shot in the dark. What are people using with temperature sensors, oxygen probes, etc., on linux systems? Where can I find an IEEE488 card, cheap? [...] I have heard of a group in Berlin that do measurements under linux with some GPIB-Board that do not cost 1000$+1000$ for LabView... Search the web for the Linux Lab Project, that is it. There is also Scientific Applications for Linux (SAL for short). -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good News Reader?
Hi, * Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Things I dislike about gnus: - last 10 times I tried running it, it always crashed on startup, without giving any indication of a problem. xemacs completely died (no response from anything) and I had to kill it. There have been problems with the news server (ie currupted overview files), so perhaps it caused my local files to become currupted (not sure). This isn´t really Gnus´ fault, I think. It works fine here. - can't get PGP support to work. Haven't even tried GPG. Use mailcrypt. The newest version (3.5.5, http://cag-www.lcs.mit.edu/mailcrypt/) supports GPG, but unfortunately not MIME-PGP, only clearsigning. Also no automated key-fetching for GPG. But that shouldn´t be too far away. - requires xemacs, and xemacs is huge and slow (I don't have enough Not really true :-) AFAIR, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen himself uses FSF Emacs. - not really sure about MIME support. I read somewhere that it was limited to processing mail with metamail (which I didn't like about trn and slrn), but the admit the documentation could be wrong. The current stable version needs external support. Metamail for processing gotten and TM (Tools for MIME) for creating MIME stuff. It works just fine for me, though (but then, I don´t use it much). However, thare is a new version not too far away (it is already packaged, but not ready for the faint of the heart yet). This so-called pGnus has native, excellent MIME support. - requires memorizing complicated sequence of keystrokes. But has a menu. And (X)Emacs can teach you commands: | `teach-extended-commands-p' (Customizable user variable) | | *If true, then `execute' will teach you keybindings. | Any time you execute a command with execute which has a | shorter keybinding, you will be shown the alternate binding before the | command executes. - can't forward mail as MIME attachments (not that I have seen anyway). Use TM, and do S O m (calls the function gnus-uu-digest-mail-forward; see, it also can make digests of mails :-) - can't reply to multiple messages at the same time. Thanks you! I just discovered a new function! :-) (And that was with intuition: once you get the knack of it...) Process-mark the articles you want to reply to (with the # keey in the Summary buffer), then use r, f, R or F (reply or wide reply, uppercase means quote original message). - don't know how to find all child articles for a given parent. Hmm, sorry, I don´t know about this. I have seen another package for xemacs, mews. Anyone tried it??? No. Not strictly related, but: Things I like about mail -- news gateways: - automated expiry of articles. Things I dislike about mail -- news gateways: - some I use have been configured for one way operation only. - I can't get cross posts to work. - removes To: header. Hence, when replying to a message, I am not always sure who received the original. Gnus can do expiry without a gateway (different for each mailgroup if you want), so the dislike-points are moot. Have I already said I really like Gnus? :-) If you want, I can dig up URLs to tutorials tomorrow or next week. HTH, Colin PS. ...and we haven´t even talked about the *really* cool features of Gnus... like auto-scoring (learns what you want to read and what not (by artificial stupidity, to quote the manual) and scores accordingly). -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvips -d 2400 How??? default printer does not support 2400dpi
* esoR ocsirF [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but I can't find anything on how to get dvips to generate 2400dpi output. I believe the fault lies with the default printer selection but when I changed config.ps (for texmf?) it complains about mismatched mode ljfour and 2400 even though I specified that it should use a 2400dpi printer that I found in modes.mf , supre to be exact. Anyclues would be Some random quotes that might help... Dvips has its own configuration files: a file `config.ps' for sitewide defaults, and a file `config.PRINTER' for each printer (output device). Since these are site-specific, `make install' does not create them; you must create them yourself. (from the info file) The simplest way to create a new configuration file is to copy and modify the file `dvipsk/contrib/config.proto'[...] (from the info file) (This file isn´t on my system, but they give the contents in the info page.) P s Load config.$s (from dvips --help) Well, I´d guess you aren´t giving the new printer mode correctly. Also consider asking on comp.text.tex. Cheers, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can I list just the directories, executables?
* Todd Suess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If your shell is the bash (as I suppose), just press the TAB key twice. You´ll get a big list of executables in your path. (You can see what your path is by typing echo $PATH (without the quotes). Interestingly enough, I hit tab twice as suggested on my system and bash segfaulted and locked up my system. ;) Perhaps we found a bug. Really interesting. Is this reproducible? If yes, it´s worth a bug report. Could you start a new bash with strace and/or gdb and make it crash? (Not that *I* could debug it...) And you say it locked up your system: does Ctrl-Alt-Del still work? If not, does Alt-SysRq work (see ./Documentation/sysrq.txt in your kernel source; requires a 2.2.x kernel)? -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can I list just the directories, executables?
* Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *- On 19 Oct, Colin Marquardt wrote about Re: can I list just the directories, executables? * jh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just directories? See? The option -d is it. I don't think this is what is wanted. -d just keeps ls from listing the conents of the directory when you specify the directory name on the command line. Okay, I may have gotten him wrong. I just remembered how annoyed I was back then, when a ls -l dirname didn´t give the permissions I wanted to see, but listed all the stuff below. find . -type d -maxdepth 1 | xargs ls -d I think he just wants to recognize directories better, rather than using this in a script or such. As was already said, ls -F helps, but the --color option is maybe nicer. I defined an alias like that: alias ls='ls --color=tty' Also, is there a command that will list executable files. I just got debian installed from floppy so there is not too much on my system. The only fairly interesting program that I have discovered is ae (I think it stands Again find can help here: find . -type f -perm +1 I´d say that he is just looking for things he can try out with his freshly installed system. If you know part (some_chars) of an application name, try locate some_chars | grep bin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: netscape 4.7 and download
* Jean-Yves BARBIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded (especially from ftp) in the netscape cache? (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them) Okay, I think I got you wrong in my other mail, and John´s advise is probably the right way to go, but maybe this FM entry from today is useful nevertheless: | subject: nscache 0.1pl1 | added by: Stevo Ondrejicka on Oct 19th 1999, 19:24 | license: GPL | category: X11/Utilities | | homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/939744157/ | download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/939744157/ | changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/939744157/ | | description: | nscache is a simple program to browse the Netscape cache directory with | a GTK UI. It shows the contents of the browser cache in a three level | hierarchy of files: protocols, servers and documents. nscache permits | you to files to the cache, remove files or gather various information | about specific files. | | changes: | Fixed segfault on systems without gtkrc files, new german and italian | message catalogs, and added posibility to protect cache files using | file permisions. | | urgency: | medium | | | http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/10/19/940375490.html -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: netscape 4.7 and download
* Jean-Yves BARBIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wonder if somebody has found how to recover files downloaded (especially from ftp) in the netscape cache? (these files which are printed to the screen while dowload them) Sounds like you want to install wwwoffle (World Wide Web Offline Explorer). If you don´t, the newest version of pavuk (http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk/) can use files from the Netscape cache (I haven´t tried this, I just read it in the changelog). HTH, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: SIOCADDRT
* Charles Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The way we solved the SIOCADDRT problem (in potato) was to just comment out the route add lines. Apparently they are not needed. Although why they were needed in slink and not potato I don't know. --^^^-^^-- --kernel 2.0.xkernel 2.2.x -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can I list just the directories, executables?
* jh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I would like to know if there is a command that will list just directories? Do a man ls There, press / (for searching in the manual). Type -d (the text to search). Type n twice (for next occurence of the searchtext). See? The option -d is it. Also, is there a command that will list executable files. I just got debian installed from floppy so there is not too much on my system. The only fairly interesting program that I have discovered is ae (I think it stands for anthony's editor) I have not figured out how to use it, it's pretty arcane. If your shell is the bash (as I suppose), just press the TAB key twice. You´ll get a big list of executables in your path. (You can see what your path is by typing echo $PATH (without the quotes). HTH, Colin PS: And get a book on Linux. www.oreilly.com should have a pointer to the free version of their latest Debian book. -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Blaster Live Value...
* Erich Newell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any news yet of support for the Sound Blaster live under Linux? http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ ( I actually have a value but I'm certain the chipset is the same ) Yup. P.S. Can someone point me to a complete hardware compatability list? Does one exist? There is one (well, who can say any list is complete?) at http://www.suse.de (you can switch to English somewhere, and you´ll have to do some browsing there). Doing:Community Applications edge, you're taking up too For: City of Mesa much space Hey, I once had a pen-pal from Mesa. John Franks, do you hear me? :-) -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: MS Security not centralized at all
* Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Forwarded message from WNT Mag Security UPDATE [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [...] ** WINDOWS NT MAGAZINE SECURITY UPDATE The weekly Windows NT security update newsletter http://www.winntmag.com/update/ ** [snip] 1. FROM THE EDITOR == Hello everyone, I'm getting weary of looking in a dozen or more locations for the patches I need to keep my Windows NT systems up to date. As you know, Microsoft locates patches in various directories on its FTP site and in various locations on its Web sites. As an example of the [...] And I quote from http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/news/msnw/LinuxMyths.asp: | Linux system administrators must spend huge amounts of time | understanding the latest Linux bugs and determining what to do | about them. This is made complex due to the fact that there isn't | a central location for security issues to be reported and | fixed. In contrast Microsoft provides a single security repository | for notification and fixes of security related issues. | Configuring Linux security requires an administrator to be an | expert in the intricacies of the operating system and how | components interact. Misconfigure any part of the operating system | and the system could be vulnerable to attack. Windows NT security | is easy to set up and administer with tools such as the Security | Configuration Editor. See? This weekly Windows NT security update newsletter can only be a hoax. Microsoft *themselves* are telling you. We have never been at war with competitors. -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Modem's and video cards for linux
* Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, should there be any problem with sound cards, if so, how do I recognise one that will work. Almost all will - try to avoid the Sound Blaster Live, and you should be OK. Almost all will -- I think that is said a bit too much. Avoid the latest stuff, e.g. Aureal chipsets, Solo-1, Yamaha... If there is support at all, it is though the shareware drivers from www.opensound.com. www.alsa-project.org has a blacklist. At www.suse.de there is an extensive compatibility list for all kinds of hardware (you have to browse around a bit to find it). HTH, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I'm a BEGINNER
* Andrei Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I heck the web-site with LINUX OS ? Send me information abaout that .. Oh please..Linux does not crack computers. People do. You can crack a site with Windows, if you know how to. You actually don't need to know how. uhm, I think he meant to write check. The transitions heck -- hack -- crack are farther away (especially the last one) I´d say... -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: download HTML Installation manual
[quoting fixed] * shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to download the whole Installation Manual for i386 in HTML format: http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install Perhaps with a shell script that uses wget ? #! /bin/sh wget http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install/ch-partitioning.en.html wget http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install/ch-post-install.en.html Easier even: wget -r http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/install/ -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xemacs: c-set-offset
* Aaron Van Couwenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found c-set-offset, in answer to my own previous question. Now, my question is this: I can M-x c-set-offset ret key ret value, but how can I put these into my .emacs? (setq c-set-offset 3) *but*: the easiest and nowadays prefered solution would be to play with M-x customize RET c RET and see what options are there. HTH, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect/apt/cdrom
* John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to configure /etc/apt/sources.list to use a 2CD 'Official' Debian 2.1 set and seem unable to get the right formulation. All the examples given relate to ftp and http. I want to use apt in dselect to adjust the original installation (for some reason not all slink packages on the second CD show up when I run dselect). You haven´t put in the +second* CD *first*? Well, at any rate, you might want to get a new apt for slink at http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt . Then just run `apt-cdrom add' (after reading the docs, of course :-). -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slow system clock?
* Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 23 Sep, 1999 à 10:38:18AM +, Jason Christensen wrote: Would anyone be able to speculate as to why my system (kernel) clock is slow? I know that my hardware (CMOS) clock is maintaining a time that does not drift more than a CMOS clock normally does, but my kernel clock will lose approximately 4 hours in every 9. Could you post your /etc/adjtime and the result of adjtimex -p ? And verify if GMT= in /etc/default/rcS. Can it be that your BIOS set the system in sleep mode during that 9 hours? I have a wrong time whenever that happens (and Laurent is right in a sense that adjtime then thinks your clock is slow and tries to correct this). I heard the solution to this problem is mentioned in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Battery-Powered.gz, but I haven´t read up on that topic yet. HTH, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ip-up.d
* John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having a problem using /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ to start fetchmail when I use pon to connect. there is a script in there that wil start fetchmail for me as desired via command line. yet fetchmail still won't start on it's own when I connect to my ISP. Post the name of the script, the permissions, and the script itself. ---^^ I suspect John thinks about the following sentence in the manpage of run-parts, so check that: Filenames should consist entirely of upper and lower case letters, digits, under scores, and hyphens. You could also try run-parts --report /etc/ppp/ip-up maybe that gives a clue. HTH, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: soundcard config and lspci etc
* John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am trying to configure sound on Debian 2.1. Although a newbie have done so successfully with SuSE and anticipated no great problem. However, using /sbin/pnpdump -c /etc/isapnp.conf gives quote lspci not found, so PCI resource conflict not checked unquote. According to 'man pnpdump' lspci is an external program using popen - I don't understand what is involved here and I can find no further info on lspci (even in O'Reilly's ashwork:~$ dpkg -S lspci pciutils: /usr/man/man8/lspci.8.gz pciutils: /sbin/lspci So just install the pciutils package. Cheers, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Linux: CD] How to make ???
* Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh yes, I like to make preselect the deselect for the packages so new users should choose 'Complete installation' and thats all. [...] And then, I have the 4-CD-Set of Debian 2.1 Slink and the girls in my group are gone confused with all the packages. I think 'cheapbytes' will be the same as my 4 CD's Then maybe make them call a script that basically does `dpkg --set-selections my_selections' and `dpkg --install' or something. You can get the list for --set-selections by installing the packages on a `master' system and then call `dpkg --get-selections my_selections' This way you can use the stock Debian CD´s. If you find a nice package later, just tell them to `dpkg --install xxx'. Using the original CD´s also has the advantage that others (who would be unfamiliar with your hand-made CD) can help. Cheers, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug in XEmacs-20.4 ?
* Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just noticed sth odd with XEmacs-20.4 on slink. Occasionally, things freeze up in XEmacs. It doesn't matter what I am doing. Everything freezes. However, if I hit Ctrl+G, its normal. Any keystrokes that I might have made while it was frozen seem to get processed cuz after hitting Ctrl+G. You can see what XEmacs is doing by setting the variable debug-on-quit to t. It will then give you a backtrace once you press C-g. HTH, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A GnuPG package for stable?
* Bruce Z Lysik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BZL == Bruce Z Lysik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BZL Anyone planning on updating the stable package, or should I BZL go about trying to make one myself? Apologies for replying to my own post. I should've poked around a bit more, first. I've contacted the author, and further queries will be directed to debian-devel, instead of here. Thanks! Oh, I don´t feel your message was placed wrongly here. A few days ago, I wanted the same, and made a package myself. For this, I refered to two older posts on this list (snipped): | From: Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: tailing rotating log files | Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | The source packages come in .tar.gz, .diff and .dsc.(no diff if it is a | native Debian program) | | The easiest way is to get the apt v 0.3.11 from | http://www.debian.org/~jgg and add the following to your | /etc/apt/sources.list: | | deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free | | Then cd to some directory like /usr/local/src and issue the following | | apt-get update | apt-get --compile source textutils (instead of textutils, you would of course write gnupg) The apt v 0.3.11 is for slink at this location. Unfortunately, apt-get failed for me at the update stage (yet unresolved, maybe my proxy), but you should have no problem, I guess. If you prefer doing it by hand (or have problems with the above), read this post: | From: Gregory T. Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [Q] How to compile a deb source pacjage | Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | 1) Download the source components into the directory of your choice. | There should be either two or three files: *.orig.tar.gz, *.dsc, and | *.diff.gz (not present if it's a native Debian package). | | 2) Enter the command dpkg-source -x packagename.dsc. This will | unpack the source into the packagename directory, which will be | created. | | 3) Go into the unpacked source directory, and issue the command | debian/rules build. | | 4) Issue the command fakeroot debian/rules binary. | Assuming that you | have all of the necessary development packages installed, your | debfile will be created in the parent directory. HTH, Colin PS: I see you are using (p)gnus: how would you conveniently make detached signatures with GnuPG? Mailcrypt v3.5.4 (which already supports GnuPG) doesn´t handle this, only clearsigned ones :-( I don´t want to switch my MUA! -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] cdrom speed adjustment
I know someone who has a windows program that limits the speed of his cdrom drive. Is there a way to do this in linux? Although it is a Long ago on Freshmeat: | subject: cdrom_speed 1alpha | added by: R.G. on Jun 08th 1999, 11:42 | license: GPL | category: Console/Utilities | | download: http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/roland/cdrom_speed.c | | description: | cdrom_speed allows you to change (read: decrease) your CDROM | drive speed. It is especially suitable for playing mp3's from your | CD-ROM. | | changes: | First alpha release. | | | http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/06/08/928856555.html HTH, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiplexing /dev/dsp
* Hwei Sheng TEOH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, I installed the ESound daemon, but I can't get my MP3 player (amp) to use esd -- it insists on going to /dev/dsp directly. I tried the esddsp script but it still doesn't work. Any clues? XMMS (www.xmms.org) works with esd if it is available at compile time. -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GoZilla for Linux
* Manuel Arenaz Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone knows I there is an ftp client for Linux Debian with, more or less, the same functionality as GoZilla for Windows? Pavuk is a really cool program for that and works with both the command line and X (with GTK). Unfortunately, not many people know about it. http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk/ -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-get: Error reading from server
Hi, I just got apt 0.3.11 for i386 compiled on Aug 12 1999 00:53:49 for slink, and tried to use the cool new build from source capability. The relevant line in /etc/apt/sources.list is deb-src http://www.debian.org/debian unstable main But I just get | # apt-get update | Get:1 http://www.debian.org unstable/main Sources [284kB] | Err http://www.debian.org unstable/main Sources | Error reading from server - read (104 Die Verbindung wurde vom Kommunikationspartner zurückgesetzt) | Ign http://www.debian.org unstable/main Release | Reading Package Lists... Done | Building Dependency Tree... Done | E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. (in english, error 104 is connection reset by peer, AFAIR) apt is happily downloading the package list until 99% before. The following is then a direct result of the error above: | # apt-get --compile source gnupg | Reading Package Lists... Done | Building Dependency Tree... Done | E: Could not open file /var/state/apt/lists/www.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_source_Sources - open (2 Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden) (error 2 translates to file or directory not found) When using a line like deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main, gzip get an unexpected EOF at stdin, and apt tells me that my disk may be full (it isn´t, 45 MB free) or the permissions are wrong at the directory (sorry, don´t have the verbatim messages now). About the permissions: | $ ls -ld /var/state/apt/lists/ | drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 5120 Sep 20 18:14 /var/state/apt/lists/ It can write the lock file etc. here, so I think this is correct too. I have no /etc/apt/apt.conf file; $http_proxy and $ftp_proxy are pointing to localhost:8080, where wwwoffle is sitting. I really have no clue where to debug next, and the experiments are getting expensive with German phone rates. TIA, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
