year's categories:
desktop OR window manager: icewm
ftp client: sitecopy
games: crafty
spreadsheet: gnumeric
text editor: vim
document-processor: LyX
any FLOSS developer deserving great honours (max 5 at most, unless you insist):
Bram Moolenaar
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to use kerning to make the spacing
look better. Footnotes are particularly easy to do. There is an active
mailing list.
I'm quite happy to use plain Latex for shorter things, including
letters, but for longer texts like books LuX makes life much easier.
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there is some more subtle effect.
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Perhaps you can answer something I've wondered about. Is it necessary to
use a filter on a DSL socket if no ordinary phone is to be plugged
is OK except that I want to use pbl, not
Berkeley. I don't understand what the above error message means. I have
installed everything specified in the dsc file.
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Following a recent upgrade in Sid my sound is no longer working -- on 2
different machines.
Saytime says:
sox formats: can't open output file `/dev/audio': Invalid argument
child process returned a non-zero
?
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card is supported, you should try with nv.
[...]
I haven't been able to use ctrl-alt-F1 for well over a year. I didn't
know about chvt; it does work as root for me. Useful.
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the Mozilla site.
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It's crashing here whenever I try to listen to something on BBC radio
using realplayer. But it does work with Firfox 3 installed directly.
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On 10 Jul 2008, Chris Bannister wrote:
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On 07 Jul 2008, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
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Haven't seen that spelling before, interesting.
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Since you
It does, it does! Thank you for pointing me to this.
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there you are!
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On 07 Jul 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 07 Jul 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
I compiled by just ./configure, make, without setting any
options. So by default gtk does not have a cups print
backend, only lpr and file (when compiled on a cups-less
system
On 07 Jul 2008, Mumia W.. wrote:
On 07/07/2008 04:12 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 07 Jul 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
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It didn't work here. I did the same thing and the appropriate stuff in
/usr/local but I still can't print. Did you do something to make FF see
On 07 Jul 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
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I installed the gtk stuff in that way and I do have the entries
you listed. But I don't seem to have the same printer entries
in about:config.
I have put
print.print_printer user_set string lpr
which
. because, in the light of the above, using it will involve me in a
fair amount of work for no clear benefit and possibly a worse output.
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file. An example printcap is in
/usr/share/doc/lprng/examples.
Try using magicfilter instead of apsfilter. Magicfilterconfig will do
everything including making /etc/printcap. I find it better and more
intuitive to use than apsfilter.
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Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 03 Jul 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
I just reinstalled version 3.0 and this time the BBC was working, so I
don't know why it was crashing
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I just reinstalled version 3.0 and this time the BBC was working, so I
don't know why it was crashing
to
hope for the best.
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On 03 Jul 2008, David Goodenough wrote:
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Well, I struggled with iceweasel 3.0 from Sid for a week but have now
given up. First, printing no longer worked (see earlier posts). I got it
to work, sort of, by using inotifywait and printing
-multimedia.org, so that's the format I choose when I
click on a BBC Radio station.
Are you using CUPS or lpr/lpd?
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regard this as a retrograde step on the part of the the
Iceweasel developers, resulting in loss of choice.
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to move
over to it on my Lenny machine too, if its stable and ready. But its
not showing up in my lists, unless im searching wrong.
Thanks!
Jen
Install iceweasel from Sid (Unstable); this will give you Firefox 3.
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On 01 Jul 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote:
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Well, I finally found the answer but it's very odd. I don't think it
should work but it does. I put the wrong root entry in
/boot/grub/menu.lst. All previous kernels have had /dev/hdb9
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I don't understand label in this context. Where is it set?
This was explained by Florian Kulzer earlier in this thread. (It was
such a good explanation I kept
but there is nothing on
/dev/hdb9 except for lost+found.
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Sorry, I hadn't read the e2label line properly. But I don't think it
would affect the issue I encountered here, which was a change in the
actual partition referred to. The label would
On 02 Jul 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 02 Jul 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:46:53AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Sorry, I hadn't read the e2label line properly. But I don't think it
would affect the issue I encountered here, which was a change
On 30 Jun 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:28:10PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Uh-oh, speaking of initrds: I forgot that in my previous message; you
should probably rebuild it if you change your fstab to labels or UUIDs.
How do you do that? I changed to UUID
On 01 Jul 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
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On 30 Jun 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:28:10PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Uh-oh, speaking of initrds: I forgot that in my previous message; you
should probably rebuild it if you change your fstab
found a Debian recommendation to modify /etc/fstab in order to
get the file systems recognized, but I'm reluctant to do so for fear of
losing the ability to boot any kernel at all.
Any ideas about this one?
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On 30 Jun 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:14:02AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I just installed linux-image-2.6.25-2 from Sid. Boot fails with a
mwwage:
target filesystem doesn't have bootarg
This is followed by:
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control
On 30 Jun 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote:
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On 30 Jun 2008, Daniel Dalton wrote:
No error messages. I do get:
aetting up linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64 (2.6.25-6) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators
On 30 Jun 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:14:02AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I just installed linux-image-2.6.25-2 from Sid. Boot fails with a
mwwage:
target filesystem doesn't have bootarg
This is followed by:
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control
On 30 Jun 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 13:45:44 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 30 Jun 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:14:02AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I just installed linux-image-2.6.25-2 from Sid. Boot fails with a
mwwage
-tools) has examples for such
wait for a filesystem event, then do something scripts.
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Thanks - that's useful. I'll use this, but it should not be necessary.
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. A principal advantage of Linux has
always been that you had a wide choice, but this restricts choice. It
seems that I must either use CUPS, which I don't want to do, or print to
file and then print that.
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problem but I have no idea where to begin looking for it. Suggestions?
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This is a retrograde development. A principal advantage of Linux has
always been that you had a wide choice, but this restricts choice. It
seems that I must either use CUPS, which I don't
On 25 Jun 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I've posted elsewhere about printing problems with Firefox 3 but this is
different.
On my Thinkpad Z61M *all* graphics browsers (Iceweasel, Opera, Epiphany)
lock up if I try to print, print preview, or use Page Setup. I have to
kill them from
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Glimpse is available for Stable but not for Testing or Unstable. I find
it very valuable, almost essential. I tried swish++ but it's much less
easy to configure. I downloaded
(ignoring a strange message about possible invalidation
of my warranty -- what warranty?) but it doesn't help. I also removed
all the referenes to print in pref.js, without effect.
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On 24 Jun 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:05:05 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Anthony Campbell wrote:
The version of iceweasel in Unstable will only print to a file; no
printers are listed. This is probably an upstream bug in iceweasel
because Google shows
incantation; I don't
know why it works but it does.
1. ifup wlan0
This never works initially; it goes on trying without
connecting. So I kill the process by killing the xterm (no other
way to do it).
2. ifdown wlan0.
3. ifup wlan0.
Very odd.
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Glimpse is available for Stable but not for Testing or Unstable. I find
it very valuable, almost essential. I tried swish++ but it's much less
easy to configure. I downloaded glimpse and compiled it without problems
in /usr/local.
Any reason why glimpse isn't there now?
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Yes, fair enough, and it's useful to know how you did it. Thanks for
posting. I just wish we had the option to use the older system with
later kernels.
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with fglrx. I'm not too
much bothered about this, although Googleearth is a bit jerky.
Wireless works with th old ipw3945 stuff but I have never managed to get
iwlwifi to do anything, so I can't use a later kernel than 2.6.23,
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On Sunday 15 June 2008 01:27:14 am Anthony Campbell wrote:
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Wireless works with th old ipw3945 stuff but I have never managed to get
iwlwifi to do anything, so I can't use a later kernel than 2.6.23,
Well, it Works For Me(tm). The procedure
prematurely for no obvious benefit. I know we are supposed to help find
the bugs, but I think I'll wait until the thing works better before
going down that route again.
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I know this must be simple but I can't see any way to tell Gimp how to
find my printer. If I try to print the only option I get is to print to
file. There does not seem to be a dialogue to set up a printer. Do I
need some other package?
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On 10 Jun 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I know this must be simple but I can't see any way to tell Gimp how to
find my printer. If I try to print the only option I get is to print to
file. There does not seem to be a dialogue to set up a printer. Do I
need some other package?
OK, found
On 10 Jun 2008, Christopher Judd wrote:
On Tuesday 10 June 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I know this must be simple but I can't see any way to tell Gimp how
to find my printer. If I try to print the only option I get is to
print to file. There does not seem to be a dialogue to set up
returned.
A bug report is probably required on some package but I don't know
which. I'm posting this in case anyone else has the same problem.
Anthony
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On 03 Jun 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I'm using Sid on a Thinkpad Z61M. I can't turn off screen blanking,
which happens after about 10 min. I don't have either KDE or Gnome; just
icewm.
I've used xset s noblank and xset -dpms and I've removed
xscreensaver; no luck. I can't see anything
On 30 May 2008, Jamie Griffin wrote:
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even when i do 'xtermset -fg green -bg black -cr blue' i get command not
found.
[snip]
You need to install xtermset explicitly -- it's a deb package.
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green -bg black -cr blue.
You could put this in .xinitrc.
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found you could
still reboot with ctrl-alt-del, even thought the screen was blank. But I
have now changed to the radeonhd driver, which works for me although it
didn't previously.
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but then other errors appeared.
Can anyone shed any light on this? Perhaps I should submit a bug report.
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On 2008-05-24 08:32 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I've been using startx to start X for as long as I've been using Linux -
about 10 years or more. Yesterday it stopped working, giving an error
message about /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc - no such option
On 24 May 2008, Michael Muster wrote:
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 07:32:22AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I've been using startx to start X for as long as I've been using Linux -
about 10 years or more. Yesterday it stopped working, giving an error
message about /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
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I am in search of a simplified approach to blog maintenance. At the
present time, I have a blog which is maintained with WordPress.
WordPress rapidly is
that you need.
It does, but I find not as well as Realplayer. The sound stream breaks
briefly and there doesn't seem to be any way to change your place
(fast-forward or backward).
Anthony
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that klogd is started with
“-c n ” where n is a log level of 5 or less; and/or
*
See the “dmesg” man page (“man dmesg”). You must add a suitable
“dmesg” command to your startup scripts or place it in
/etc/shorewall/start.
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:00:37AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
You can prevent this stuff appearing by inserting klogd -c5 to
/etc/init.d/klogd. See /www.shorewall.net/FAQ.htm.
It's better to modify /etc/default/klogd.
Looking at that, I see:
# Use
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iwl3945 a try instead.
This may be a good starting point:
http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi
HTH
Good luck! It didn't work for me on my Thinkpad Z61M. IPW3945 does
work but it's only available up to kernel 2.6.23.
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I've been using xsane email to send images for some time successfully
but now I get the message: Receiver entry not accepted. Anyone know
what this means? I can't find anything with Google.
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On 03 Apr 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I've been using xsane email to send images for some time successfully
but now I get the message: Receiver entry not accepted. Anyone know
what this means? I can't find anything with Google.
Anthony
Sorry to reply to myself, but I solved
.)
That hasn't worked here for at least a year. And now I can't even close
X with ctrl-alt-del.
Anthony
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seem to be recognized it doesn't
connect. I spent several days wrestling with it but gave up in the end
and stayed with the older kernel.
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never got that to work in spite of following all the
instructions. As a result of this improvement I cannot use a kernel
later than 2.6.23 in my laptop.
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for many general terms.
I found the same thing with practically every term I put in. I think it
is a phenomenon of search rather than specific to Debian. I doubt you
can infer anything from it without a lot more research.
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this. I'll certainly
make use of it in the future.
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Anthony Campbell wrote:
I'm looking for a way to identify the RGB hex value of a large image
I've created with Gimp. I thought I might be able to use Gimp itself but
I can't find a way. Much googling produces various Windows programs
(e.g. pixeur
/vim/vim70/macros/less.sh file.txt
I found this by doing
:h less
in a vim window. I am using Deabin Etch, vim 7.0.235
Thanks to you and Andrei for the clarifications.
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and as far as I can see there are now none such, at least in
the medium price range. The Canoscan Lide 25 is reported to work but has
bad reviews. I'm just hoping my Epson Perfection 1650 goes on working.
Apparently flatbed scanners are no longer being made - I don't know
why.
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Does any one know if it is supprted under Linux
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On 08 Feb 2008, Sven Joachim wrote:
There are now updated packages of libgif4 available which include
a transitional package for libungif4g, see
http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/giflib/news/20080207T090208Z.html.
Sven
I think that's
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On 2008-02-09 11:49 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 08 Feb 2008, Sven Joachim wrote:
Your mirror is not quite up to date. You need version 4.6.1-3 of
libgif4, where these transitional
On 09 Feb 2008, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2008-02-09 13:13 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I'm not using aptitude. I used wajig show-install libgif4.
But wajig show-install imlib11 gives this:
wajig showinstall imlib11
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
and I don't allow the broadcast of the essid.
Anthony
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but meanwhile it's a major disaster, though
fortunately only on one computer so I'm holding back on the others.
Anyone else met this one?
Anthony
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On 08 Feb 2008, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2008-02-08 10:43 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
Icewm has been deleted automatically in an upgrade of Sid yesterday.
I tried to reinstall but got:
=
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
icewm: Depends
with
iwp3945 on kernel 2.6.23. But for some strange reason, since yesterday
it no longer comes up automatically on boot; I have to do the following
as root:
modprobe -r ipw3945
modprobe ipw3945
ifdown eth3
ifup eth3
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On 08 Feb 2008, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Anthony Campbell:
Icewm has been deleted automatically in an upgrade of Sid yesterday.
No, it did not happen automatically. You should read what aptitude is
about to do before confirming that this is what you want it to do. :)
Using 'safe-upgrade
On 08 Feb 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
If you know that it warns you about proposed removals, why did you
allow it to remove IceWM?
Obviously I missed the warning.
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At least in Britain there are now no medium-priced scanners on the
market that work with Linux. I just hope my Epson Perfection 1650 goes
on working.
Anthony
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into the right format.
Incidentally, a tip for anyone who is thinking of using Lulu: you can
upload your file as postscript, which obviates all the messing about
trying to produce an acceptable pdf file. But for some reason Lulu
doesn't advertise this option.
Anthony
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On 06 Feb 2008, Miles Bader wrote:
Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why has no one in this thread mentioned Lyx? I've just used it to
produce two books for Lulu and have found it good for that purpose.
Last time I tried Lyx it crashed every 5 minutes even with fairly simple
On 03 Feb 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:03:03 +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 02 Feb 2008, Jurij Smakov wrote:
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The 2.6.24 kernel has recently hit unstable, and it contains a new
shiny iwl3945 driver which should replace the old ipw3945 one
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