Re: ID3 tags
On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 11:48 +1200, Douglas Royds wrote: How are the tags being stored in these mp3s? What can I read and manipulate them with (preferably a batch tool, ie. command-line)? I've heard of something called apetag that may be responsible/helpful? --Slosh
Re: unsubscribing
On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 15:52 +1200, Reg wrote: David Kirk wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried to unsubscribe from the list and a message came back unsubscibe command not recognised how do I unsubscribe then Check your spelling. It should be unsubscribe. I have tried it several times and it keeps comming back with Error in the command: *UNSUBSCRIBE LINUX-USERS* Unrecognized command verb: *UNSUBSCRIBE Use the HELP command to get a list of legal MAILSERV commands. Are you including the stars when you send it? I don't think you should be... --Josh
Re: Making a samba share appear to be local
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 09:51 +1200, Kerry Mayes wrote: I am trying to make a samba directory appear to be on the local system and am sure it must be simple but can't figure out the proper keywords to google! I have a large volume of music stored on a server made available to the local machine via samba. The music player I am using (Exaile) only seems to be able to see local drives. I'd like to fool it into thinking the music is on a local drive so that I can add it to Exaile's collection. You could mount it to a drive perhaps? sudo mount -tsmbfs server IP//share folder name/ destination At least IIRC that's the right syntax. We use something similar when we have parties at our flat for various networked PC's around the place using either samba or nfs and it works until someone kicks out a chord. :) --Slosh
Re: Installfest - maybe on Software Freedom Day
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 13:06 +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote: Although I may be able to talk the relevant people into hosting the Installfest at the Varsity, I think we should also explore any other possible venues. Additional to this. I spoke to the Dictator[1] of KAOS[2] about the possibility of KAOS hiring the room for CLUG to use it as the install fest, a sort of joint venture thing, as long as the UCSA is fine with it, and I don't see why not. The pros I can see is that, well, ~free (I think) room, and we can probably volunteer some people to help out. KAOS has a higher than usual number of people of a geek bend. Many who use Linux, and/or are aware of it/used it in the past. I think the biggest con is that KAOS has a certain, undeserved imho, reputation and by having them involved you run the risk of turning away punters who may otherwise be interested. At any rate I thought I'd say the offer is there. --Josh [1] Person who runs the club, meant humorously. [2] A club at uni I'm involved in, www.kaos.org.nz
Re: Installfest - maybe on Software Freedom Day
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 13:06 +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote: It may be still at the Uni' but the Shelley Common Room of the UCSA is one venue that always struck me as a great possible venue. It is not , however, owned by the University, To get it for as close to no-cost as possible we will need some current students to make the application from a registered club (in this case maqybe the local chapter of the ACM?) as it is owned by the Student's Association. (I know we have at least one on the list) A friend and I (not on the list) were recently talking about starting a Linux group at uni. We could investigate more if necessary. I understand affiliated clubs get free room bookings at the UCSA. Alternatively I can think of some other avenues to go down. I'll get back to you. --Slosh
Re: GNOME admin tool bug
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:42 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote: If it looked ugly and boring, it was xterm :-) It was xterm. :) I don't know what's in gnome-admin-tools, The entries in Desktop-Administration that are experiencing the error are: Disks Networking Services Shared Folders Time and Date Users and Groups the others all work fine. The dialogue box telling you that your password is incorrect may actually be a false diagnosis, when in fact what's happened is that gksu (or the invoked command) has kicked an unexpected error, but when it gets presented to the user someone has assumed that it will be because of the most common case, an incorrect pasword. When you run from the command line, you get the above Authentication Rejected message instead of the incorrect password box, is that right? In a manner of speaking. I get authentication complaint first, than the other. --Slosh
Re: GNOME system tool bug (Was: Re: GNOME admin tool bug)
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 11:43 +1200, Rik Tindall wrote: Josh, which GNOME is it please? 2.14.3 apparently. HappyEvilSlosh wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:42 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo gnome-admin-tools Password: sudo: gnome-admin-tools: command not found Uhh it's a collection of tools rather than a tool itself I believe. Argh! It's gnome-system-tools, my bad. From apt-cache show: The GNOME System Tools are a fully integrated set of tools aimed to make easy the job that means the computer administration on an UNIX or Linux system. They're thought to help from the new Linux or UNIX user to the system administrators. . Its main advantages are: * Full integration with the new GNOME Control Center. * An user-friendly interface to carry out the main administration tasks. * The use of a common user interface in every system. * A common structure that makes easy the development of new system tools. Nowadays there are tools for managing: - Users and groups - Date and time - Network configuration - Bootloaders - Runlevels Tag: admin::configuring, interface::x11, role::program, scope::application, suite::gnome, uitoolkit::gtk, use::configuring, x11::application yet this platform has never failed (roll on, Feisty / next Debian?): I think every package update for sid is the next sid. ;) --Slosh
GNOME admin tool bug
Greetings all, I just had some weird behaviour from the applications included in gnome-admin-tools in debian. When trying to access them it will tell me --- The entered password is invalid Check that you typed it correctly and that you haven't activated the caps lock key --- Needless to say this wasn't the problem, also it gives me the same error if I am already logged in as root, both in session and in the terminal. I tried reinstalling gnome-admin-tools and gksu, but since gksu works fine elsewhere I'm tempted to thing this isn't the problem, but it didn't fix the problem. Googling revealed a few others had come across the same problem, but the things suggested (the things I tried above) didn't work. Any other suggestion? --Slosh
Re: GNOME admin tool bug
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 11:50 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote: On 10/04/07, HappyEvilSlosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just had some weird behaviour from the applications included in gnome-admin-tools in debian. Have you checked the menu item properties and confirmed that they are actually using gksu or gksudo? And then tried to replicate the menu item command from a shell? They are all using gksu and yes, same result. Output is: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksu network-admin (network-admin:20177): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ --- I don't believe the warning to be related however, as it does not come up when logged in as root. --- amancha:~# gksu network-admin amancha:~# --- but still tells me the password is wrong. --Slosh
Re: GNOME admin tool bug
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 13:15 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote: On 10/04/07, HappyEvilSlosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (network-admin:20177): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I wonder if that is a gksu message or not ... try gksu xterm or gksu id and see what happens. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksu xterm Warning: Tried to connect to session manager, Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksu id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1002(admin) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ --- xterm did open up logged in as root ok though, both asked for password and accepted fine. amancha:~# gksu network-admin amancha:~# --- but still tells me the password is wrong. That's asking for root's password as you were already root ... and probably root doesn't have one :-) Ah, I do have a root password... --Slosh
Re: GNOME admin tool bug
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 14:12 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote: On 10/04/07, HappyEvilSlosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksu xterm Warning: Tried to connect to session manager, Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksu id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1002(admin) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ OK, so it's not a problem with gnome-admin-tools, How did you get that? I thought id was provided on most systems and gnome-admin-tools provided a front end to it? Or at least something along those lines. it's a problem with gksu not correctly setting up the environment for an X connection; Except it work fine with things like synaptic. Indeed anything not included in the aforementioned package. xterm did open up logged in as root ok though, both asked for password and accepted fine. The fact that xterm eventually opened suggests that the error message isn't actually fatal though. Odd. I'm reasonably sure the error showed up when it was working. I suspect it is just a GUI thing that's unrelated to the current problem. What OS/version? debian unstable on 2.6.18-4-686 (yeah I know I know: unstable)
Re: Reg Help Grep....
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 21:08 +1300, Don Gould wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] shared]# grep 'span id=lblValuationNumber' cHTML span id=lblValuationNumber22115 36400 B/span/td [EMAIL PROTECTED] shared]# Except I only wanted 22115 36400 B (without the quotes). From what I understand grep will return an entire line when it matches a pattern. You may need to use sed or something similar to refine results. --Slosh
Re: Reg Help Grep....
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 21:31 +1300, Don Gould wrote: See: http://www.regular-expressions.info/examples.html According to this I should be able to use regular expressions in grep. I just don't quite understand what I'm doing wrong. I was rather referring to the fact that any RE you use that matches whatever you're looking for will return the whole line, not just the number. But I may be wrong. --Slosh
Re: [OT] Perl Question
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 21:07 +1300, Dale DuRose wrote: The program your executing form perl do you need its output? Yes, I'm currently thinking I may limit the output and thus sidestep this problem. --Slosh
[OT] Perl Question
Greetings all. I know there are some Perl users somewhere so I currently have a CGI script that executes a program that may never finish running. What I would like is a way of killing it after it has run for a certain amount of time. Does anyone know of a way I can do this? --Slosh
Re: Can't install totem-xine-firefox-plugin from NZ Ubuntu archive
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 21:35 +1300, Andrew Packer wrote: I've tried several times today to install (using Synaptic) totem-xine-firefox-plugin (version 1.4.3-0ubuntu1) and keep hitting the same roadblock: W: Failed to fetch http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/t/totem/totem-xine-firefox-plugin_1.4.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb Could not connect to nz.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (202.7.6.9). - connect (111 Connection refused) Any suggestions? I've found it tends to clear itself up after a few days if you can be patient. --Slosh
Re: Linux vs Windows - what we are up against
On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 09:23 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote: He said his wife had to have Excel. I kept suggesting that all he had to lose was an hour of time to give Linux a try but he was too dumb to even try it. It may not be a level of dumbness, the person I recently mentioned as getting onto Linux I had to advocate Linux to for _ages_, and realistically I think they probably wouldn't have switched if they thought WGA wasn't going to work. Sometimes it's simply a matter of the devil you know. I feel like dobbing him in but I am not sure how to go about it. Dude, unless he did something insulting when you were suggesting Linux I'm sure you don't need that level of bad karma! --Josh
Re: Portable mp3 player
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 22:31 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:13:40 +1200 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ripping MP3s from CD - kAudioCreator - rips to mp3, ogg, flac. Easy... ditto abcde (A Better CD Encoder) nice, command line, no hassle. In the past I've used grip and either lame or bladeenc to get it to mp3. --Slosh
Re: Updated List
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 20:23 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote: U... should this mean anything to me...? --Josh
nvidia... again!
Greetings all. Recently after swapping kernels the nvidia drivers started not working on me. I've had problems with them before but a sites sage advice of adding --x-module-path=/usr/lib/xorg/modules (iirc) to the official nvidia installer fixed that. Not so lucky this time. The output from starting X ends with (EE) NVIDIA(0): The requested configuration of display devices is not (EE) NVIDIA(0): supported in the hardware. Fatal server error: AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 *** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not *** be the reason for the server aborting. Backtrace: 0: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x89) [0x80b6849] 1: [0xe420] 2: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(AbortServer+0x23) [0x81a5603] 3: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(FatalError+0x67) [0x81a5b17] 4: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(InitOutput+0x840) [0x80a0250] 5: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(main+0x276) [0x806e3c6] 6: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd0) [0xa7d82eb0] 7: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xad) [0x806d911] FatalError re-entered, aborting Caught signal 11. Server aborting As mentioned I'm using the official installer, version 1.0-8762. Additionally I'm running xorg 7.0.0 on debian unstable. --Slosh
totem/mplayer/etc problem
What should I make of the following output from totem? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop$ totem BESEECH-Innerlane_480x270.wmv totem: relocation error: /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.1/xineplug_ao_out_alsa.so: symbol snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate_near, version ALSA_0.9.0rc4 not defined in file libasound.so.2 with link time reference A similar error comes from mplayer. --Slosh
Re: totem/mplayer/etc problem
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 11:31 +1200, HappyEvilSlosh wrote: What should I make of the following output from totem? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop$ totem BESEECH-Innerlane_480x270.wmv totem: relocation error: /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.1/xineplug_ao_out_alsa.so: symbol snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate_near, version ALSA_0.9.0rc4 not defined in file libasound.so.2 with link time reference A similar error comes from mplayer. --Slosh Apologies for replying to myself. I found the problem. Apparently it's not uncommon, details here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369045 --Slosh
RE: Computer Locking up
Thanks to Carl, Nick and Volker for the advice. Now an update. I swapped the hard drive with another PC which had a fully functioning install, after which the Hard drive worked fine. I swapped the cables in the PC with ones I knew worked. However I'm unable to run any additional tests as I'm now lucky if the computer boots past whatever the part of booting that allows you into BIOS is called, let alone completing an operating system start up (this goes for LiveCD's as well). --Slosh
Re: Which Distro...
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 22:18 +1200, Nate Walker wrote: Also, what DC++, torrent and sharazaa clients would I want/need? I use valknut for DC++ (there is also one called dcgui but I didn't like it very much), azureus for bit torrent and although I'm not aware of a Linux native client for sharazaa in the past I've never had any serious issues getting KaZaA working under WINE, even though I wouldn't necessarily advocate it. --Slosh
Re: X-Server question
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 20:14 +1200, Neil Stockbridge wrote: Rather than buy anything I grabbed one of the junk PC's I've acquired and set it up with enough for it to connect to X. I was wondering if does this mean the junk PC has the X libraries installed along with some X clients and that you run applications by shelling into the junk PC from the everyday PC then exporting $DISPLAY to your everyday PC before running X applications, which then run on the junk PC even though their windows appear on the everyday PC? Ah nope sorry. I start up the junk PC and on that run either X -query 192.168.0.whatever or X -broadcast depending on how lucky I'm feeling. there is a way to use the local CDROM rather than the one on my everyday PC? Also is there a way to run synaptic locally as well? assuming you're doing the above, any X applications (including synaptic) that run on the junk PC will -only- see the CDROM installed in the junk PC. when synaptic is run on the junk PC, it will -only- manage packages on the junk PC even though it's user interface appears on the screen of the everyday PC. What you thought I was doing may be worth looking into! Thanks. :) sorry if i've missed the point. That's ok you've given me some new (possibly better) ideas. --Slosh
Re: X-Server question
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 22:37 +1300, Andrew Errington wrote: snip What you thought I was doing may be worth looking into! Thanks. :) sorry if i've missed the point. That's ok you've given me some new (possibly better) ideas. If I'm following your tangent properly perhaps I can suggest VNC (unless *I've* missed the point). I apologise if you are already familiar with VNC and discounted it. Whatever you're thinking, fill us all in when it's done. Andy Since there is some confusion I'll clarify a little more. I'm logging into the junk PC and starting X -broadcast. Now what I _get_ when I do that is access to the devices on my desktop within the X session, what I'd _like_ is to get access to the devices on the junk PC. --Slosh
X-Server question
I have 2 PC's both running Debian unstable. One is my desktop PC where I do my normal everyday stuff (and where xserver-xorg is run from), however it didn't have enough room for me to plug in my CD writer. Rather than buy anything I grabbed one of the junk PC's I've acquired and set it up with enough for it to connect to X. I was wondering if there is a way to use the local CDROM rather than the one on my everyday PC? Also is there a way to run synaptic locally as well? --Slosh
Re: OT: bittorrent on clear??
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 12:58 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: 537 seeds, 3919 peers. I'm now using port 1720 encrypted, which tests open, and have also udated to Az 2.4.0.2. Dead in the water. Last thing to try is rebooting the firewall. Steve I had the same symptoms a while ago, in the end I tracked it down to the SSL (maybe) library not working properly. In any case I changed my java binary from the gij one to the sun one and it fixed it right up. May be something worth looking into. --Slosh
[OT] Godwin's Law Was: Re: Outlook style stationary image for background on emails
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 18:04 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On 3/19/06, Ken McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's spelled STATIONERY. Standing still is stationary. Of course it matters, just as it matters how you spell the unmount command. just as it matters that email is a text medium. thread over. if anyone is in doubt i will refer to hitler/nazis and godwin's law will take over... I've often been caught out on this by some overly pedantic friends. Apparently Godwin's law says that as time goes on the probability of someone/thing being compared to Hitler/Nazis approaches one. Sadly it doesn't make any reference to ending the thread. --Slosh
Re: Dubious securuty?
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 19:04 +1300, jd wrote: Thank you for taking the time out to answer a paranoid novices question. I would still would like to change distributions. Could anyone give me recommendations and possibly sell me a distribution. Your average distribution is down-loadable from the respective websites. For a novice I strongly suggest Ubuntu (or Kubuntu depending upon your preference of GNOME vs KDE). --Slosh
mount misbehaving
Hey all. So I recently rearranged my room and prior to that I had /dev/hdb1 mounted at /mnt/hdb1 in a debian partition. Post rearranging when I try it I now get amancha:/mnt# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1/ mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /mnt/hdb1/ busy I've checked in my ubuntu partition and it doesn't seem to be a hardware fault, since it works fine there. Any suggestions? --Slosh
Re: mount misbehaving
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 09:31 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:54:34 +1300 HappyEvilSlosh wrote: Hey all. So I recently rearranged my room and prior to that I had /dev/hdb1 mounted at /mnt/hdb1 in a debian partition. Post rearranging when I try it I now get amancha:/mnt# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1/ mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /mnt/hdb1/ busy I've checked in my ubuntu partition and it doesn't seem to be a hardware fault, since it works fine there. Any suggestions? yes, i suggest reading the message, /dev/hdb1 is already mounted. use mount on its own to check I wouldn't have messaged if it was already mounted... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/hda1 on /windows type vfat (rw) tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755) --Slosh
Re: mount misbehaving
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 09:39 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: Technically, you shouldn't use the terminating '/'... mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 is better. However, here's a few questions: Does 'df' show an entry for /mnt/hdb1 Nope, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -hT FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 ext39.9G 6.9G 2.5G 74% / tmpfstmpfs253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 vfat 10G 2.3G 7.8G 23% /windows tmpfstmpfs253M 140K 252M 1% /dev Is there a directory /mnt/hdb1? Yes. Does 'lsof | grep hdb1' give any output ( if you haven't got lsof installed, then I recommend you get it! ). Nope (as in no output rather than not installed). Is there an entry in /etc/fstab for /dev/hdb1? Used to be, I commented it out when I realised it wasn't loading. It was /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 ext3defaults,users 0 2 can you fsck /dev/hdb1? amancha:~# fsck /dev/hdb1 fsck 1.39-WIP (31-Dec-2005) e2fsck 1.39-WIP (31-Dec-2005) common: clean, 10811/24428544 files, 17491485/48839600 blocks I assume that's a yes? Truth be told I haven't used fsck all that often. --Slosh
Re: mount misbehaving
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:13 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: Hmmm... I was hoping lsof would show a session sitting on /mnt/hdb1. umount -f /dev/hdb1 may help, but I'd have expected it to be listed under a df output, even if with an IO error. amancha:/mnt# umount -f /dev/hdb1 umount2: Invalid argument umount: /dev/hdb1: not mounted can you make a new directory, and mount /dev/hdb1 there instead - or even better, rmdir /mnt/hdb1 ; mkdir /mnt/hdb1 and remount? Same error. If so, there's a problem with /mnt/hdb1, if not, it's a problem with /dev/hdb1! Try fdisk /dev/hdb The important thing is that /dev/hdb1 comes up as type 83, linux. amancha:/mnt# fdisk /dev/hdb The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 24321. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 24321 195358401 83 Linux Command (m for help): q --Slosh
Re: mount misbehaving
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:16 +1300, Daniel Grant wrote: On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 09:39 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: Technically, you shouldn't use the terminating '/'... mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 is better. However, here's a few questions: Does 'df' show an entry for /mnt/hdb1 Nope, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -hT FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 ext39.9G 6.9G 2.5G 74% / tmpfstmpfs253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 vfat 10G 2.3G 7.8G 23% /windows tmpfstmpfs253M 140K 252M 1% /dev What is the output of these: grep hdb1 /etc/mtab Nothing, grep hdb1 /proc/mounts And nothing. I belive mount checks mtab, which could possibly get out of sync... How does mtab fit into the picture with fstab, et al.? Regards Daniel
Re: mount misbehaving
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:31 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:13:04 +1300 (NZDT) fdisk -l /dev/hdb (or in Steve's sata case fdisk -l /dev/sda) will give a print out of what you are after I believe. amancha:/mnt# fdisk -l /dev/hdb Disk /dev/hdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 24321 195358401 83 Linux Hate to say it, but have you tried rebooting? If there is something out of sync (see Daniel's message) then this may fix it. Yeah I have, I rebooted to check if it was still working under ubuntu. --Slosh
Re: mount misbehaving
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 11:29 +1300, John Blance wrote: Strange, my version of mount allows me to mount the same partition multiple times - hence the 'already mounted' error seems odd. Have you tried: - create new mount point Tried in more than one place, no luck. - mount /dev/hdb1 to new mount point READ ONLY [perhaps using -v for more info and maybe even -i to test if mount helper is duff] - if above actually works, remount rw i.e. with mount -o remount rw mountpoint Nope. Is there a difference in the mount version [or mount helpers] between the two systems? Try replacing the mount and mount helpers with fresh ones? I've tried apt-get install --reinstall mount, is that sufficient or is there something more I should try? The package versions: debian mount_2.12r-6_i386.deb ubuntu mount_2.12p-6ubuntu5_i386.deb Is it worth pointing out that the ubuntu partition mounts without difficulty into debian? (NB both are ext3). --Slosh
Fixed: mount misbehaving
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:41 +1300, John Blance wrote: Some people on the gentoo forums are having problems with EVMS grabbing partitions - they have suggested disabling evms and rebooting. Just a follow up message. The evms was indeed the problem. I just ran apt-get remove --purge evms* and rebooted and it worked fine (A whole bunch of warnings which I hadn't registered that occurred during boo up also disappeared). So thanks to all. --Slosh
X server
When starting xserver-xorg to run a thin client in debian all I have to do is run the command /etc/init.d/xserver-xorg start what's the equivalent in ubuntu? I don't see that entry in init.d. --Slosh
Re: Floppy and fstab
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 21:22 +1300, Andrew M. Packer wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 17:36 +1300, HappyEvilSlosh wrote: Odd, that. I'm using ubuntu (5.04 - Hoary) and the relevant line in my /etc/fstab reads /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 autorw,user,noauto 0 0 Have just established the ribbon cable was in upside down... I didn't even know you could do that. :S --Slosh
Floppy and fstab
Hi all and Merry Christmas Onto business, I'm making a computer for a friend and am almost done, just one more thing is giving me grief. They want a floppy drive in it. Now ideally I'd like it to automount (I don't know if that's possible) but I'm unsure what I should be looking at putting in /etc/fstab. Also iirc isn't the command along the lines of mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy? As I have tried this and, despite the entry appearing in dev, am told that the special device /dev/fd0 doesn't exist. I'm using ubuntu btw. --Slosh
RE: Latex help requested.
I can't tell you whether these will work, these are just things I would try.
Firstly what about the enumerate environment inside a table environment? If
that doesn't work try with \begin{tabular}{p{.5\pagewidth}|p{.5\pagewidth}}
as the beginning tabular environment.
The other thing I would try is
\begin{twocolumns} %or whatever the environment is called
\begin{enumerate}
\item 1...
\item 2...
...
\item 38...
\end{enumerate}
\end{twocolumns}
However that won't give you the line down the center... if it works.
--Slosh
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 14 December 2005 12:23 p.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Latex help requested.
Greets to the list,
I want to achieve a result which looks a like this.
1. First clause which might well be | 20. Another column of clauses.
more than on of these short | 21. Another clause. Note that I
lines. | do not want the clauses to be
2. Second clause which similarly| in a table because they should
could well be several of these | be free flowing in the columns.
short lines. It would be nice if | 22. More words here.
these were justified.| .
.| .etc. etc.
.| .
19. Last clause in column. Fitted in | 38. The last clause on the page.
nicely to the size of the page. |
The vertical line separating the columns is not absolutely essential, but
it would be nice.
A GUI solution is out of the question simply because there are
approximately 31,000 clauses to typeset, so please do not suggest
anything which has any of the words 'office', 'processor' or 'word' in its
name, but I am open to [x|sg]ml suggested solutions
I have tried \tabular inside \multicols but it doesn't want to work. I
would be very grateful if some LaTeXpert could advise on the \magic
\incantations to use?
I have a rather old edition of the Latex Companion to hand, but have not
found any useful suggestions therein.
I am a complete neophyte with LaTeX, please bear with me.
Many thanks.
--
CS
update notifier
Yesterday I installed ubuntu to give it a try. On the whole I'm very impressed. However in blindly copying my /home directory from debian I lost the update notifier thing and I can't see it as an option when I try to add stuff to the panel. How do I get it back? --Slosh
apt dump
I'm trying to find a way to get apt-get to give me a list of all installed packages. apt-cache dump isn't quite what I want as it prints out dependencies as well. --Slosh
Re: apt dump
On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 11:15 +1300, HappyEvilSlosh wrote: I'm trying to find a way to get apt-get to give me a list of all installed packages. apt-cache dump isn't quite what I want as it prints out dependencies as well. And it prints out everything in the cache rather than only what's installed. --Slosh
Re: apt dump
On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 11:20 +1300, Hadley Rich wrote: On Saturday 15 October 2005 11:15, HappyEvilSlosh wrote: I'm trying to find a way to get apt-get to give me a list of all installed packages. apt-cache dump isn't quite what I want as it prints out dependencies as well. Have a look at apt-show-versions I find it handy. hads Great, thanks!
Gnome Screen Resolution
prelims: Debian unstable, kernel 2.6.8-2-686-smp, xorg. problem: When I log out of gnome it doesn't keep my screen resolution, it keeps reverting back to 1280x960 (even when I check the 'save settings' box). I have seen this discussed somewhere online but being last thing I'm a Friday I'm getting quite frustrated trying to find it again. Does anyone know how to fix it? Ideally I want to run 1600x1200 but I'll settle for the one less than that. --Slosh
Re: Gnome Screen Resolution
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 21:25 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:59, HappyEvilSlosh wrote: Ideally I want to run 1600x1200 but I'll settle for the one less than that. Make sure you have a section like this in the xorg.conf file SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1600x1200 EndSubSection The 24 is the colour depth. If necessary, change it to what it ought to be. If your Linux distributor is up to snuff, there will hopefully be an example file in the same directory, i.e. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.exampleRead it for the details. Section Screen Identifier Default Screen Device Generic Video Card Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth16 SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1600x1200 EndSubSection EndSection Is I believe the relevant entry, no love tho. :S Is it worth me posting my xorg.conf file? --Slosh
Re: sound
On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 16:06 +1200, Matthew Whiting wrote: I've put getting my modem setup in the too hard basket for a little while. The other thing I can't get working so far is sound. I may get a sound card one day but for now according to lspci my setup is: :00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definiti on Audio Controller (rev 03) If I try opening Volume Control I'm told No volume control elements and/or devices found. Did a bit of a search on google and the Ubuntu wiki and a suggestion is to install Alsa. It seems I already have the alsa-base package installed so not sure if that's all that I need or not? As for the next step now? Any suggestions appreciated. Cheers Matthew Have you tried alsaconf? It's a fantastic little program, should come with alsa. --Slosh
Re: Upgrade to Xorg
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 10:14 +1200, John Carter wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, HappyEvilSlosh wrote: I am running debian unstable and recently I tried upgrading to xorg. It seemed to install fine but when I tried running it So my dear brave soul, have you stepped back from the Bleeding Edge, or have for got it all work? I found out that it doesn't play nicely with nvidia's drivers to I'm currently using the vesa ones until this changes. Don't have time for games at the moment so it doesn't really matter. If so, what did it do for you? (ie. What portion of your life improved?) To be honest... Can't say I've noticed a significant difference. Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist. So which are you? Monster or Evil Scientist? A little bit of column A and a little bit of column B :) --Slosh
Upgrade to Xorg
Hey all, hopefully noone else has posted this since I haven't been watching closely. I am running debian unstable and recently I tried upgrading to xorg. It seemed to install fine but when I tried running it I got as below and the beginnings of X flash up each time the BIOS line showed: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. Anybody else had a similar experience or even better a solution? --Slosh -- Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.
[OT] Re: Spare gmail invite?
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 07:19 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: He is sending via outlook, and it is the sending software that (initially) sets, or doesn't set, the reply to. Actually I lost outlook when I lost windows. I'm using Evolution :)
Ooops
Note: I'm not sure this made it to the list and it strikes me a handy thing for archives. So here goes. On 6/7/05, Craig FALCONER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you get it sorted? You have to upgrade the nvidia driver every time the kernel changes. Likewise with madwifi and all the other big not-kernel packages :-\ Yes I did, after a few tribulations. I knew about the recompiling of nvidia but had ruled that out since when starting x it would show the nvidia splash screen, also it didn't work with the vesa drivers. I found via some googling that you apparently have to have hotplug installed, so I did and it runs fine now. Thanks :) --Slosh Warning: GMail in use, please check to address before sending when replying.
Re: Ooops
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 18:48 +1200, Richard Tindall wrote: HappyEvilSlosh wrote: Warning: GMail in use, please check to address before sending when replying. How'd you manage it Slosh? - Your gmail reply-to has not imposed. Great! Believe me when I say I have _no_ idea whatsoever. Or hang on... Should that warning still hold if I'm using a client rather than the web page? *starts to feel daft* --Slosh
Re: query about cfdisk
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 20:02 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 19:52 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:07, Rob Wood wrote: Greetings, Can cfdisk be used to re-size partitions containing data? I know Partition Magic can do it but I find that PM always fails eventually, starting with odd quirks happening at some stage, leading to more serious problems further down the line. If cfdisk can do it, how reliable do you think it is in the long term? I have had quite a bit of success with QTParted even with ntfs partitions - but I think it is dangerous with reiser partitions - what do you think Nick and Howard? I don't know what it was called, but the Yoper CD came with a non destructive partitioner you could use when you booted the CD and you could watch things as they happened. In fact it's the sole reason I have held onto the CD. --Slosh
Re: Firefox - E-mail links
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 20:33 +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: Not too impressed there. Stuff that bleeding edge shouldn't even get out into any kind of public domain. I think that you will find that that is how Open Source works. Development versions of software is put out into use by developers to work on it and perfect it (in fact it is never really *not* out in public). The terms Open Source or Free Software by definition mean that *anybody* can work on it. If you are downloading a beta or dev version of any Open Source project then you have to be prepared for almost anything. If you want reliable Open Source software only get the released or stable versions. Although it is worth saying I have been runing unstable debian for a while and I could count the number of things that haven't worked off the bat using one hand, in unary. --Slosh
Re: No ethernet access
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 17:35 +1300, Douglas Royds wrote: $ ping 202.37.97.11 connect: Network is unreachable I have the ethernet plugged into my PCMCIA adaptor (which has worked before, under a different distro). I don't know where to start trouble-shooting. Suggestions? modprobe ethernet type thingee... /etc/init.d/networking restart I've found in debian that it doesn't seem to persist (even if running update-modules) past reboot. Of course I haven't actually checked if that is the error message I received so feel free to ignore this message :) --Slosh
Re: Noteworthy like program.
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 19:46 +1300, Andrew M. Packer wrote: Googling ' NoteWorthy Composer wine' yields http://www.vpmag.com/nwc/helpful.html which contains a subheading Using NWC on Linux regarding running NWC on Linux using Wine. Ah, I'd come across the readme posted but not that article, thanks. --Slosh
Re: Noteworthy like program.
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 10:01 +1300, Derek Smithies wrote: Hi, And there is another issue. reliability life expectancy of the pentium 2. So you do all this upgrade work on the computer in question, maybe even buy some memory. Then the diskdrive (or something equally important) dies.. So how much longer will the computer live? It seems a bit pointless to fight the old hardware and install a new OS when it will die of natural causes pretty soon. Have you looked inside the computer - how thick is the dust? I would guess not that great as it was recently put together for her by someone else (I think he's on this list actually) on a shoestring budget. --Slosh
Noteworthy like program.
I have a friend whose having issues with her PC and would is quite keen on swapping to linux. Her current system is a pentium 2 something with 3 gigs space and about 64M ram (or at least that's what I remember being told). All she users her PC for is internet, e-mail, and documents, and noteworthy and keeping that in mind I was thinking maybe DamnSmall Linux along with firefox,thunderbird, OpenOffice and xpdf or Acrobat Reader, but that's not the problem, the real problem has been noteworthy. I had a quick look online and came across two programs jazz++ and muse but neither said (as far as I could find) whether or not they could read noteworthy's (.nwc) file format. Does anyone here know if they can or of an alternative if they can't? It unfortunately needs to be noteworthy as she is swapping the files with someone else who apparently doesn't want to change. --Slosh
Re: Low-level cmd under Python
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 09:51 +1300, Brad Beveridge wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: Java lacks pointer arithmetic. -- C.S. Or pointers for that matter. I understand that it's more you can't see them rather than they aren't there, hence the pointer exceptions java sometimes throws. --Slosh
swapping column layouts in LaTeX
Greetings all. Basically I want to be able to swap from a one column environment to a two column environment without LaTeX starting a new page. Does anyone know/remember how to do this? --Slosh
Re: swapping column layouts in LaTeX
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 11:39, HappyEvilSlosh wrote:
Greetings all.
Basically I want to be able to swap from a one column environment to a
two column environment without LaTeX starting a new page. Does anyone
know/remember how to do this?
--Slosh
Ah, I gave up to quickly, for completness
\usepackage{multicol}
...
\begin{multicol}{columns}[preface][skip]
--Slosh
Modem on Debian 3.0r3
Well I'm battling my way through a Debian install but have recently encountered a problem that I can't seem to find an answer for. I have an HCF modem and installed the appropriate package and am using kppp to connect (it's what I know). As far as I can tell all the settings are right and whatsmore are the same as the ones in this distrobution (Yoper) but when I try to connect I get the error Nov 25 09:39:17 slosh-pc pppd[1182]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself Nov 25 09:39:17 slosh-pc pppd[1182]: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. Nov 25 09:39:17 slosh-pc pppd[1182]: (None of the available passwords would letit use an IP address.) Now since it works elsewhere I'm assuming I'm missing a package somewhere, Can anyone help? --Slosh If you ever want to learn all about linux, install it! T after a Gentoo install
Re: Modem on Debian 3.0r3
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 10:34, Andrew Errington wrote: pppd has an option to force the other end (ie in this case the ISP) to authenticate itself to you, in the same way that you authenticate yourself to the isp (obviously not needed in this case). i suspect this option is on somehow in debian's setup. man pppd If I am right, then the noauth option needs to be given to pppd. in kppp configure|accounts, click on account|edit|customise pppd arguments. I had a similar problem. The solution I tried that seemed to work was I had to remove 'auth' from /etc/ppp/options Andy Thanks, that one worked a charm, am now e-mailing from debian :) Thanks to all those who helped. --Slosh
Re: Modem on Debian 3.0r3
HappyEvilSlosh wrote: Well I'm battling my way through a Debian install but have recently encountered a problem that I can't seem to find an answer for. I have an HCF modem and installed the appropriate package and am using kppp to connect (it's what I know). As far as I can tell all the settings are right and whatsmore are the same as the ones in this distrobution (Yoper) but when I try to connect I get the error Nov 25 09:39:17 slosh-pc pppd[1182]: The remote system is required to authenticate itself Nov 25 09:39:17 slosh-pc pppd[1182]: but I couldn't find any suitable secret (password) for it to use to do so. Nov 25 09:39:17 slosh-pc pppd[1182]: (None of the available passwords would letit use an IP address.) Now since it works elsewhere I'm assuming I'm missing a package somewhere, Can anyone help? --Slosh If you ever want to learn all about linux, install it! T after a Gentoo install I should probably addd that the following is printed out to the terminal: Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
Sound woes
Greetings all. Here's my problem. I have two sound cards, a VIA something or other and an emu10k1. Now I want sound to go out the emu10k1 card. And have set KDE accordingly, the system sounds all work. But mplayer, mpg321, kaffeine, xine, all play out VIA. I'm assuming there's something I missed but I'm buggered if I know what it was. The worse things is it did go to emu10k1 but (and as far as I can tell without me changing anything) it now simply all to the VIA. I'm not sure what sort of information you need so just let me know and I'll post back :) --Slosh
