On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 05:42:18PM +0100, Christian Jaeger wrote:
[...]
After running my laptop for a bit over 2 months, I've started getting, for
example when running urxvt from another terminal:
Maximum number of clients reachedurxvt: can't open display :0.0, aborting.
[...]
xlsclients|wc
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 02:21:33PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:49:36 -0400 (EDT), François Patte wrote:
[...]
3- Is it possible to install a package without its dependencies with
apt-get? I wanted to install auctex but apt-get wants to install a lot
of TeX
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:28:18PM +0100, Brian wrote:
On Wed 15 Jun 2011 at 07:46:08 -0700, Adrian Rocha wrote:
It may not be possible if the connection quality is too low. What does
'iwpriv scan' say when you are in the middle?
Hi Brian,
iwpriv scan? maybe you mean 'iwlist
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 05:34:34PM -0700, Adrian Rocha wrote:
Hi people, I work with my laptop and use a wireless conection in an
enterprise network. When I go to other floor, the wireless access
point change automatically. I can see this change using the command
iwconfig. Is there any way to
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 04:58:14PM +0100, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
Hi folks.
I downloaded some new levels for the arcade game supertux. I tried
supertux -d .
on the directory where I had downloaded the levels but presumably I
used the option incorrectly because the programme exited
Hi list,
they may be beter served on a git list, but I'm starting here anyway.
I've got a bare git repo on my server and I push and pull through
http. This works fine, but now I'm trying to run some hooks for
various reasons.
I've done chmod +x on hooks/post-update and hooks/post-receive in
Ah nevermind, sorry for the noise list.
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/140453
hooks not supported over http until version 1.6.6... I'm on stable, so
1.5.6 or so.
A
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 07:59:06PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Hi list,
they may
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 04:30:56AM -0400, ABS Doug wrote:
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Huang, Tao deb...@huangtao.me wrote:
so the torrents render you wireless disconnected.
if your wifi adapter driver supports auto-reconnecting, everything
should be solved. but i have no idea on
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:50:17AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sb, 19 iun 10, 12:13:11, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:06:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-06-19 21:01 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[...]
I'm interested inthe results, and how
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:51:56PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Lu, 14 iun 10, 09:52:32, Ron Johnson wrote:
A section from today's issue of the Debian Project News:
Debian Community Poll
-
[...]
12 : http://tinyurl.com/3y33ska
The poll is closed now.
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:06:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-06-19 21:01 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:51:56PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Lu, 14 iun 10, 09:52:32, Ron Johnson wrote:
A section from today's issue of the Debian Project News
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:18:27PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
ABS Doug writes:
I had a Vic-20, but that was 1980 I think. Tape cassette, hooked to
TV... I'm feeling old.
I had a homebrew system built around a Zilog Z80-MCB in the late
seventies. Tape storage (I never did get the
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:03:52AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:18:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/16/2010 06:09 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Ron Johnson put forth on 6/15/2010 1:50 PM:
On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote
fixing the quoting...
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:08:17PM +0100, James Allsopp wrote:
On 17 June 2010 18:03, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote:
A dist-upgrade resulted in a problem:
The display resolution is stuck at 640x480 and the X window is moved to
F9.
My system is
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:35:00PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
On 17/06/10 01:22 PM, Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:53:49 +0100, James Allsopp wrote:
When I'm testing things with X I l want to be able to log via SSH and
restart X, how can I do that in a console? I'm using Gnome.
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:59:46AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/15/2010 09:48 AM, Lisi wrote:
Thanks for this. I was originally responding to Andrew's saying:
quote
There are many many ways to make take backups beyond having a disk big
enough to hold the data.
/quote
I can think of
is now happy with my SMTP settings.
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 01:25:56 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
There are many many ways to make take backups beyond having a disk big
enough to hold the data.
Would you feel inclined to elaborate? I'm trying to solve this problem for
my
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 03:56:51PM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote:
On Tuesday, June 15, 2010 10:25:56 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:27:32AM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote:
Hi Boyd,
At what point and how do I insert -P in the lvm system?
man lvchange
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:50:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[snip]
an USB enclosure and use it for backups. Having ~700GB of data with the
most critical ~400GB backed up is definitely preferable than no
Geez, I remember when I couldn't
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 02:59:09PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/15/2010 02:17 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:50:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[snip]
an USB enclosure and use it for backups. Having ~700GB
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:31:41AM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote:
Many thanks to all that responded to try to solve this LVM problem.
I could not recover any data from the crashed system. I could not find any
method of mounting drive 2 or 3 as individual drives and the system would
not
(On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 04:10:22PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
On Monday 14 June 2010 16:01:57 Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:52:32 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
A section from today's issue of the Debian Project News:
Debian Community Poll
-
(...)
12 :
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:27:32AM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote:
Hi Boyd,
At what point and how do I insert -P in the lvm system?
man lvchange
Many thanks to all respondents, and NO I did not have a backup, no drive big
enough to hold all data.
um... really? I've heard all sorts of
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 12:24:37PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 12:00:02 Mark Allums wrote:
On 6/8/2010 11:02 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 10:46:03 Mark Allums wrote:
I was/am a computer guy (back in the day), but I have been
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:04:24PM -0500, Nathan Martin wrote:
Help!
After the setup process for Lenny, the system reboots to start the new
installation but the GUI does not come up. The screen remains blank. I
checked the option for Desktop in the set up process. Everything seems to
go
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 05:39:52PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
SJ == Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes:
SJ Yes, actually you can do it at build time by using the configure option
SJ --program-transform-name. Say you want grub to be named grub2 to
SJ distinguish it from grub-legacy,
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 08:52:39AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
In /etc/grub.d/00_header we see
transform=s,x,x,
grub_prefix=`echo /boot/grub | sed ${transform}`
locale_dir=`echo /boot/grub/locale | sed ${transform}`
Isn't that sed line one big no-op?
looks like it to me.
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 04:05:58PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
SPAM deb...@list
lol
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On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:15:49AM +0200, Nick Douma wrote:
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 03:05:15AM -0400, JobsCentral wrote:
Sorry you need a HTML email client to view this message.
[...snip spammy stuff]
Lol, this is precisely why I use mutt to read my mail :P.
Please don't actually quote the
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 06:30:58PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
This may, at first glance, appear to be an exercise into insanity, but it is
a rather important little project to me.
I have this old Toshiba Satellite laptop (P-120, 6GB had drive, and a
whoppong 24MB RAM) that is currently
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 04:10:04AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Han Huynh put forth on 3/21/2010 10:20 PM:
I think someone broke into my hotmail account and sending some type of
e-mails out. Please ignore all e-mails from my hotmail account.
My yahoo account if fine. If you don't
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 01:34:09PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to
Debian Lenny plus selected backports (e.g., OpenOffice, IceWeasel).
Since donig so, GnuCash (2.2.6-2) seg faults every time we try to open
an account.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 10:39 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 01:34:09PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
Hello, all. We are in the process of switching from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to
Debian Lenny
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 08:16:32PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 18:11 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 12:00 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:06:28PM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
On Mon, 2010-03-15
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 01:11:14PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
[...]
OK, we learn a lot from the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.
Your Integrated graphics card is
(--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 5333:8d04:1462:3908 S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8
KM266/KL266] rev 0, Mem @ 0xe100/524288,
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:07:16AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
[...]
The problem is, at home, on our debian box, she runs
Kmail. When she clicks on the inbox it takes forever to bring in all the
messages, and if she clicks on another folder NOT in her inbox, next time she
goes back, it
putting this back on-list...
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:03:54PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Andrew Sackville-West and...@farwestbilliards.com
wrote:
[...]
1. just install only X (package xorg, or even manually pick
out
packages) without a DE. You don't even
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 05:44:46PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote:
[...]
Before moving an image of the old [i686] partition to the new computer I
installed the amd64 kernel. I completed the install by using gparted from a
rescue disk to merge the larger new partition with the old smaller one from
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 02:24:05PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
Hello, been a while since I posted,
Hi Joe!
working on setting up a partition which will run mainly console
programs, however, I was interested in setting up X to run a few
programs (or maybe the framebuffer) a quick search of
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 07:47:05AM -0800, ow...@netptc.net wrote:
[... snipped 115!! lines of unnecessary quoting ...]
Can you please let me know how to modify it to have ethereal
installed on my Lenny ?
Ethereal is now called Wireshark
Larry
Please learn to trim your replies at least
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 05:11:07AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote:
[... snip nice explanation of why this won't work...]
So I dis-assembled the code and I was lucky to find the related
subroutine . It is short in length but I cannot decode it to find the
logic in behind . So I need to find a
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:00:52AM -0500, Bryce wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:24:19AM -0500, Chris Jones
wrote:
[...]
I have changed that laptop's keyboard 4-5 times already,
and since replacements only cost about $20.00 + SH.. a
cost-effective
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:24:19AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
[...]
I have changed that laptop's keyboard 4-5 times already, and since
replacements only cost about $20.00 + SH.. a cost-effective solution is
to swap in a new keyboard when the current one stops working to my
satisfaction,
[...]
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 11:05:55AM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 20:35:26 -0800 Mark wrote:
I've done the typical Internet scrubbing and didn't find anything
specific to tax software for Debian (something similar to TurboTax,
for example). I found a few interesting
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:04:54PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
[...]
After a couple of reboots, and after running wicd-client from the actual
machine instead of over ssh, the machine did not lock up; it did see the
various ACUWireless networks, but when I tried clicking on the first
one, it
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 12:44:45AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Celejar wrote:
This is the networking subsystem attempting to configure the wireless
interface.
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:18:f8:29:b5:96
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
On 2010-01-17 at 17:27:52 -0500, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
My latest apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade wants to install
[...] *all* the xserver-xorg-video-* packages,
you should probably be using aptitude, but regardless, you have
installed, at some point, xserver-xorg-video-all, which
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 02:35:47PM +, James Allsopp wrote:
Hi,
I'm using gnome but want to remove all traces of mono from my system, I've a
clean install of Squeeze.
Can I,
apt-get purge mono-2.0-gac mono-gac mono-runtime tomboy
No offence, if you want to use it fine, but I'd like
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:13:56AM +0100, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
[...]
Is it possible to let the iPod appear consistently at /media/ipod so
that I can use it with GtkPod, which expects it to be at that mount
point (or any other consistent mount point I guess)? If so, how does one
do that
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:58:48AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I have a desktop computer with onboard VGA and option to add a
discrete video card. It has plenty of spare USB ports for mice and
keyboards.
Does Debian support using this computer for _two_ workstations, each
with their own user
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:28:50PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
With all due respect, if you aren't prepared to deal with
occaisional breakage, then you should be running testing.
s/should/should not/
indeed. thanks...
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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:43:53AM +, Liviu Andronic wrote:
Dear all
How would I roll back system upgrades?
As I understnad it, generally speaking you don't. You *can* if you use
dpkg directly and still have the .deb files from the previous version
of a package lying around
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:27:04PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
[...]
How might I kill and restart Xorg from a (remote) console?
sudo /etc/init.d/[kgx]dm restart
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On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:48:22PM +0100, Amar Cosic wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Roy roys1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Is anyone from you guys using Msn protocol, and unable to bring it up?
It has been two/tree days now, unable to use Pidgin or Centerim, and so
is a
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 08:30:40PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
Good day.
How can I realise the subject? Say, I have SSH daemon, in Debian it
starts with root privileges from /usr/sbin/sshd.
I'm not sure you *can* realize what you want.
When connection is established (a user has
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:54:01PM +0100, roberto wrote:
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Tony Nelson
tonynel...@georgeanelson.com wrote:
From your reply it is not clear, to me anyway, if you do have the
console-tools package installed. The showkeys program is in that
package. If you
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:41:35AM +0100, Nick Douma wrote:
On 7-12-2009 1:15, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:08:11PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:56:06AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
[..]
This sounds like an ipv4/ipv6 issue
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote:
On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[... snip resolution to dns delays...]
How did you go about checking this? I use OpenDNS as dns servers and no
other firewall than what comes with Debian by default.
I just
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:13:46PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:14:18 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West and...@farwestbilliards.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote:
On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[... snip resolution
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 09:01:51AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 20:38:53 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West and...@farwestbilliards.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 07:44:42PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
...
II) Try a DNS cacher (dnsmasq)
this is a bandaid solution, imo
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 02:15:55PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:58:12 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West and...@farwestbilliards.com wrote:
...
meanwhile, some tests using
time wget http://www.google.com
...
real 0m0.279s
user 0m0.000s
sys
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 07:37:23PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote:
I tried the same test with wget'ing Google, these are the results:
$ wget google.com
[...]
These results seem just as consistent as those from Andrew.
3 connections = 15 sec
2 connections = 10 sec
1 connection = 5 sec
wow.
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:37:44AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:07:34, Celejar wrote:
/me sets up a bookmark with
url=http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=%s and
keyword=db
Hey! It works! Thanks!
Great stuff, but I did it like this
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:56:06AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:39:59, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
there are clearly some differences. the lenny machine is making a
? request (whatever that means) while the squeeze machine is
making both a A? and
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:08:11PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:56:06AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:39:59, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
there are clearly some differences. the lenny machine is making a
? request (whatever
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:41:00PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote:
Since I full-upgraded my Debian installation from lenny to squeeze, I
have been experiencing slow connections buildup. This is especially
evident when I ssh to another server, while on other workstations
(debian lenny and windows) the
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:59:03AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package and
[...]
This is what happens when I try to dist-upgrade now:
squeeze:/home/frank# aptitude dist-upgrade
[...]
The following packages will be upgraded:
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 07:44:42PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:06:49 +0100
Nick Douma n.do...@nekoconeko.nl wrote:
...
To further elaborate, when I send a message in Thunderbird, I notice
that the sending message dialogue spends most of its time in the
Looking up
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 02:17:05PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:51:03 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West and...@farwestbilliards.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:59:03AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
I am having problems fixing the adobe-flashplugin package
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:45:37PM -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote:
RAID0 is a truly silly misnomer. But many people use it because it
gives them one large and fast HD on Windows, OS X, and Linux. If
that is what Mathieu wants to do in spite of the lack of
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:07:45PM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:34:33 -0800, Tech Geek wrote,
The source of your NIC driver should be in all kernel sources for each of
the kernel that is installed on your system. Does that help?
Yes. Thanks.
pc:/usr/src#
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 06:25:40PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:09 PM, S Scharf ss11...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Mathieu Malaterre
mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
For the first time I am trying to install debian on a system with
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:59:21AM +, David Goodenough wrote:
On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote:
2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never manually installed a boot
loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb
installer. The last time I did that
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:17:36PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
at the moment 'grub-pc' is broken in sid. When you have a separate /boot
partition, the package generates a wrong '/boot/grub/grub.cfg'. Look at
the BTS for bug #558042. There is also the workaround for the problem.
Hth Michael
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:22:57PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
I currently have a 40GB IDE boot disk in a Lenny server. I boot with
LILO, but not INITRD. I have the following partitions:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda146234865
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:14:58AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
2009/11/29 Andrew Sackville-West and...@farwestbilliards.com:
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:22:15AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
will get the ones that start with capital alphas. if you want initial
caps *only* then:
grep ^[A-Z
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:32:59AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In 880dece00911280713n6193b8das6970e8a071fc2...@mail.gmail.com, Dotan Cohen
wrote:
Is there a way to grep the output of strings in order to only show
lines that contain words found in the aspell dictionary? Thanks in
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 12:00:33AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
ISTM that because the output of strings is not discrete list of
potential words, but is instead a long list of concatenated
characters, this problem is really rather daunting. The output should
probably be first broken up into
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:22:15AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
will get the ones that start with capital alphas. if you want initial
caps *only* then:
grep ^[A-Z][a-z]*$
would match those.
Thanks. I meant that caps could only be at the beginning of a word,
not in the middle.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:13:14PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
[... huge snip of history of metacity gnome panel faiilng to start
... ]
Tony suggested polluting my new user alter ego with the gnome
configuration files from my regular self. I started by just
renaming .gconf, .gnome2 and
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 07:02:40AM -0800, Brian Denheyer wrote:
This is using gnome (and the gnome wm, which is called ?):
switch user
you get the login prompt
login
now I get the xscreensaver prompt
I check the screensaver prefs and not only is the lock screen option
NOT checked,
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:31:14AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
[...]
That day arrived a few days ago. I decided start over from scratch. I
used the netinst CD and reinstalled completely, reformatting the new
disk. Until yesterday afternoon I spent my time installing and
configuring as I
I see you've made progress elsewhere in this thread, so just a couple
of points below...
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:36:42PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:30:08 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West and...@farwestbilliards.com dijo:
[...]
I'm wondering if you're somehow
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:09:55PM +0200, Jari Fredriksson wrote:
[..]
It boots, finds the hard disk, and loads stuff. Last stuff it prints on
screen is usual boot stuff, and in addition to that Arno's Firewall
output. I think that is normally printed to screen console. All logging
should
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 01:25:57PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Fresh install of Lenny, minimal (unselected everything in Tasksel during
the install, then aptitude install'd xorg and icewm).
The minimal /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (not included here, but available)
did not allow xorg to detect both
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:23:34PM -0500, Zachary Uram wrote:
Running Debian lenny. I installed the Catalyst driver (from
manufacturer) for my ATI Radeon
HD 4550 card and it seems to be working, but I noticed something weird.
Now when I move a window it no longer shows the window static as it
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:07:21PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
Hi,
Following is the results of a poll that has been running for over a
week, one which questions readers of debian-user to list their
favourite FLOSS - Free (Libre) or Open Source Software.
[...]
sidenote:
this year
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 09:10:58PM -0800, Mark wrote:
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:09:42PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
I'm very unfamiliar w/ the PPC architecture, but a friend has a laptop
he'd like me to install a Linux distro onto. Debian offers a powerpc
version on the downloads page. Can I
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:31:47PM -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
I noticed that as well. Kinda sad. Any thoughts as to why?
my .02 is that the list doesn't seem to have quite the breadth of
traffic it has had before. But that's a cursory observation at best
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:13:05PM -0500, Tony Nelson wrote:
On 09-11-11 17:15:06, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:32:32PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote:
Hi,
I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen
resolution was automatically set
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:32:32PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote:
Hi,
I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen
resolution was automatically set to 1024x768.
This resolution seems to be the highest available based on the
output of 'xrandr'.
The native screen resolution
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:42:14AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
[snip recap of troubles..]
Because I have not yet been able to figure out how to make metacity and
gnome-panel start automatically on booting as they are supposed to,
plus the additional issues recently discovered, I have
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 12:32:01PM +1300, C.T.F. Jansen wrote:
Greetings,
What does the daemon ksuspend_usb do ?
[...]
I *think* it monitors usb and suspends the usb subsystem when it's not
being used. This is a powersaving feature. But that is really only a
guess based on the name of
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 03:56:48PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites If something
doesn't fit in any of the categories, put it under misc utilities.
Please don't add what you haven't really used. You can include more
than one entrant per
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 04:23:37PM -0500, vr wrote:
I have a fresh install of Debian Lenny 503 amd64 via a netinst CDROM. I've
only installed a couple of packages like openbox because I want to run as
lean a desktop I can to try out virtualbox-3.0.
I figured openbox would be enough to handle
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:53:07PM +0100, roberto wrote:
hello,
i try to install geogebra using its .bin.sh script and i get the
following message:
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...
No Java
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 11:16:55AM +, AG wrote:
[...]
I'm thinking that the way forward would be via the GRUB prompt I was
able to get off of an old floppy, but to do so would mean being able
to by-pass LILO and boot into the first partition on the HD (/), and
then go into LILO.conf and
Hi all, mildly off-topic, perhaps.
Due to a cascading series of errors on my part yesterday, I managed to
not only wipe over my partition table, but also overwrite enough data
in the actual disk to prevent reasonable recovery of the partitions
with such tools as gpart.
I could recover /boot,
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:20:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 02:57:49PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Hi all, mildly off-topic, perhaps.
Due to a cascading series of errors on my part yesterday, I managed to
not only wipe over my partition table, but also
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:08:00PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote:
On Sunday 01 November 2009 17:57:49 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
So here is the real success part of the story: my backups worked! I
had weekly backups of /etc and daily backups of /home. Since I'd not
done any work
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