udev rule for my usb stick

root@cappuccino:/home/msoulier# fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 3.8 GiB, 4009754624 bytes, 7831552 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18

transparent terminals in cinnamon

Hi, I just installed Jessie with Cinnamon, and I notice that there’s no option in the terminal for a transparent background. Is there a way to enable this? Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

architecture independent packages and reprepro

Hi, Reading https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html, it says that an architecture of all specifies a platform independent package, of which I have one. But, if I put that into my apt conf/distributions, I get complaints. Error: Distribution wheezy contains an architecture

reprepro error

bear:/var/www/apt# reprepro --ask-passphrase -Vb . includedeb wheezy ~msoulier/*.deb Error: Distribution wheezy contains an architecture called 'all'. There have been errors! I haven’t changed anything in my configuration of this custom apt repository, and yet suddenly it’s not working. Can

Re: dropbox alternative

On 16/10/13 Dmitrii Kashin said: And Dropbox does? No, it prevents losing data though. It will make two copies and have you merge them. Mike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dhcpclient overwrites /etc/resolv.conf

On 16/10/13 Bonno Bloksma said: Just doing a chmod -w /etc/resolv.conf is not enough. How can I accomplish this? It's a hack, but you can use chattr to set the file to immutable. Mike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dropbox alternative

On 16/10/13 Dmitrii Kashin said: Rsync is a good alternative. Rsync doesn't merge documents edited in multiple places. I use a Git repo for that. Mike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: UI lag in 7.0 on Dell Precision T3500

On 14/09/13 Joel Rees said: This thread might be of use? https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/07/msg00755.html It's some slowness problems I had with xfce. Seems to have been due to the wrong acceleration method specified in the X11 configuration. Odd that I had no problems with

Re: UI lag in 7.0 on Dell Precision T3500

On 12/09/13 Carlo said: Hi, can you tell us the model of graphic card? And also have you installed some programs before this problem or was there just at beginning ? It persisted through use of gnome3. I'm now running KDE and the problem is gone. 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA

UI lag in 7.0 on Dell Precision T3500

Hi, I just saved my workstation at work, from the evil clutches of Windows 7. Unfortunately, in X running nouveau on the platform mentioned in the subject, the UI was painfully slow. Moving anything with the mouse resulted in lag, like trying to move the windows through mud, along with some

dbus and power management

Hi, I had an old python script for monitoring my laptop lid with dbus, and then suspending when it was closed. It doesn't work now because the dbus namespace on debian seems to have changed. dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name

java plugin

Hi, Nothing I do seems to get the java plugin working in iceweasel. I installed sun-java6-plugin, confirmed that the symlinks from the iceweasel plugins directory are there, but it doesn't appear in about:plugins. Any tips? Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: does iceweasel have java plugin?

On 04/10/12 Steve Kleene said: Using iceweasel, I am failing to connect to my university's VPN website. This was working a few years ago. There's a point when the site tries to install Jupiter Network Connect. All I get at that point now is an error: JRE not installed/Java is disabled. I

what graphics card to choose

I'm currently using an older AMD system with Debian Squeeze, using an Nvidia GeForce FX 5500. This work well on Squeeze with the nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx package and nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms, and I'm able to play Flightgear. I'm looking to buy a new system and I'd like to be able to run the

Re: what graphics card to choose

On 29/07/12 11:15 AM, Gary Dale wrote: Any card you buy will likely work, either with the open source drivers or the proprietary ones. With Wheezy on the verge of becoming the current stable release, you shouldn't run into problems with proprietary drivers not working with the latest X server.

Re: what graphics card to choose

On 29/07/12 02:23 PM, Gary Dale wrote: Interesting. You'd think NVidia would keep their proprietary drivers current with their hardware. ATI certainly does. I wouldn't worry about support though. You can always fall back to VESA modes until the drivers catch up. Unless NVidia suddenly

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

On 12/02/12 Camaleón said: Your 3D has to be enabled, otherwise you couldn't run opengl games at all. I don't think that's true. I've run these many times in the past and they've run purely on my cpu, before direct rendering was enabled. Mike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

On 12/02/12 Claudius Hubig said: Most of them will silently fall back to software rendering, what appears to be still happening to the OP. That's what always happens to me. Michael: What does your Xorg.log say and, if you have one, what is the content of the xorg.conf? I'm not sure what's

Re: glxinfo seems to be lying to me

On 12/02/12 Claudius Hubig said: Could you try without these options? That fixed the issue. I got those options from the Debian Wiki, specifically the Compiz page. Mike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

glxinfo seems to be lying to me

Hi, I set up direct rendering with my Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 using the nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx package. glxinfo is happy, compiz works, etc. But, any gl screensavers, or opengl games, are horribly slow and chewing all my CPU, suggesting that 3d accel is not working. Any pointers on solving

Re: Adobe flash is dead

On 10/11/11 Scott Ferguson said: Choices are nice :-) http://www.youtube.com/html5 (let youtube/google know *you* would prefer a choice). Nice link. I'm using Squeeze so I have FF 3.5. I could update outside of the .deb package though to something more recent. Remember when Firefox was

Re: Adobe flash is dead

On 10/11/11 Celejar said: And of course, there's always youtube-dl, cclive, etc. when they work... fetch config ...done. verify video link ...error: libquvi: server returned http/404 I get that for cclive on every url... and I don't see youtube-dl packaged for squeeze. Mike signature.asc

Re: Adobe flash is dead

On 09/11/11 Paul Johnson said: Why bother with non-free software when we're talking about a technology that's dying like BSD these days? 'cause people like it when their systems...work? Mike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Adobe flash is dead

On 09/11/11 T o n g said: Adobe flash is one of the tech-inventions that I resent the most. Now it is dead for all mobiles, and I wish it is dead on the web tomorrow. I like watching youtube videos. Silverlight is a problem for me on Linux, so I find flash to be a good thing by comparison,

cd burning in nautilus

Hi, I'm running Squeeze, looking to burn a CD/DVD with nautilus. msoulier@anton:~$ sudo apt-get install nautilus-cd-burner [sudo] password for msoulier: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package nautilus-cd-burner is not available,

stopping sound juicer from starting

Hi, When I insert a CD, sound juicer insists on starting on my gnome desktop. I'd rather use grip, and I can't find anywhere to configure which apps gnome launches when removable media is inserted. I'm running Squeeze. Suggestions? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca

Re: stopping sound juicer from starting

On 27/04/11 Tixy said: From a Nautilus window, select Edit Preferences Media Ah, thank you. Mike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: broken shell script with dash

On 28/03/11 Miles Fidelman said: of course you could just run your script under bash And I am, but why is dash claiming to be a posix shell by being /bin/sh? Mike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: broken shell script with dash

or a work-in-progress POSIX, if one exists. Hmm, ok. I'll work around it. I prefer my scripts to be portable to all unixes if possible. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot

broken shell script with dash

Hi, Is this syntax not supported by posix? cat /etc/aliases.{1,2} /etc/aliases Since I upgraded to squeeze and picked up dash this part of my script broke. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes

dell soundblaster emu10k1x not working in squeeze

to know, and it worked perfectly. Helpful suggestions appreciated, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein signature.asc

Re: how to start gnome from the command line

the startup without using gnome-specific semantics. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein signature.asc Description

Re: browsing icons in gnome

On 02/11/10 Camaleón said: Not in lenny :-? Can you browse /usr/share/icons using Nautilus and see/open the files or subfolder in there? Yes, I can. When you want to change the icon of a shorcut the showed window shell explorer is the same as Nautilus so it should not present any

browsing icons in gnome

? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: Digital signature

removing linux-base from backports

of obfuscation? Worried about devices re-ordering? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein signature.asc

Re: Send an email on . . .

perl or python scripting. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: backup system for servers

. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

is flakey hardware. Only time will tell. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: Digital

metacity opening windows a layer below

that I've selected as to always be above all others. I glanced in the gconf properties for metacity but I didn't see anything that seemed relevant. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes

Re: metacity opening windows a layer below

On 04/08/10 Camaleón said: Check that [ ] Always on top property of the window is not enabled. As I said, this is happening in interaction with windows where this property is not set. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more

failing to mount usb flash drives

,uhci_hcd Any ideas as to what would cause this? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein signature.asc

Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

with my wireless usb nic. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. --Albert Einstein signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

, and check that the other devices that DO work are also of the same type (USB 1.1 or 2.0). I will do some testing and get back to this thread. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot

Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

On 02/08/10 Michael P. Soulier said: I will do some testing and get back to this thread. Oddly, a reboot fixed the issue. The usb drives mount fine and my network is still working. Perhaps the hardware got into some odd state. If I happens again I'll do further experimentation. Thanks, Mike

Re: Debian x Redhat

out, regardless of the distro. That's not typically true of Windows. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered

Re: Debian x Redhat

, but never testing. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html pgp0.pgp

Re: Debian x Redhat

the next release cycle will be more like the last one than like this one. Good to know. Thanks. I know how hard it is, but I can't help my idealism, regardless. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate

Re: some doubts - [newbie]

On 05/03/03 Gilberto Garcia Jr. did speaketh: Hey guys... 1) How can I make some commands available to all user. (i.e.) shutdown (only root can execute this, what can I make to other user do this too?) man sudo Sorry, I don't use Java. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

On 16/02/03 Paul Johnson did speaketh: Well, that's because it also installs reccommends. Some folks prefer that. Partly, but it's also because it tries to upgrade my whole system, when all I wanted to do was install a single package. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

the developers to focus on apt. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

likely to get odd, unbelieving, cross-eyed glances than Me too's! for that. :) I'm afraid of dselect. Every time I try to use it, it insists on installing a bunch of crap that I didn't ask for. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

it. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html msg31098/pgp0.pgp

aptitude explanations

Someone mentioned that aptitude can explain, for example, why a package is being held back. Please explain. I have a package now that it being held back, and aptitude is giving me no more information than apt-get does. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key

backspace in aptitude

Seems that when I try the interactive search in aptitude, my backspace key doesn't work. Does anyone have a fix for this? It works fine in all my terminals. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

like that... I find that functionality invaluable. If it ever breaks, I might as well be on RedHat *shudder*. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn

OT: poke the penguin

http://www.dinge.co.uk/Games/poke_penguin.swf -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com

adding fonts under defoma

Hey people, When I wanted to add truetype fonts before using defoma, I simply copied the files into /usr/share/fonts/truetype, ran a couple of tools and I was done. How do I add truetypes now that I'm using defoma? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub

Re: Can't figure out CVS

www.cvshome.org explains all you need to know about CVS terminology. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful

Re: Can't figure out CVS

will provide instructions, if they permit anonymous CVS access. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http

Re: botched ext3 conversion

On 20/01/03 John Griffiths did speaketh: great, thanks. the forcefsck was recommended to me i didn't think it'd hurt. It was a good recommendation actually. The next fsck is what hides the journal permanently. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

to it, as I strive to myself. Just don't subtract. As long as I can give a fancy interface to my parents to use, but still fire up IceWM and bunch of xterms for myself, I'll be happy. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb

Re: Nautilus barfs

the window, Nautilus freaks out and dies. Any known fix? Don't use Nautilus. It's a bloated piece of crap. I suggest you raise a bug with the gnome or Ximian groups. Debian just packages the software. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08

Re: Nautilus barfs

On 13/01/03 Paul Johnson did speaketh: What do you suggest as an alternative? What are your needs? I mostly use the shell. If I need some simple file browsing, I use either Emacs dired mode, or something simple like dfs or gentoo. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG

Re: iptables and dynamic ip

in on the server from the outside, if the ip changes, will this break the connection? It should work just fine if you just use the interface names. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd

Re: Startup Messages

On 09/01/03 Daniel L. Miller did speaketh: How can I log all the messages generated during boot? The stuff that talks about the peripherals detected, driver loading, etc. man dmesg Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used

Re: Windows Telnet

, for example, and can be compiled with logging. I hate the fact that KDE/Gnome developers don't like X resources. Now I have to go to three places to customize my apps instead of one. Thanks for nothing. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK

Re: forwarding gnutella ports with iptables

see the traffic coming in, and then being forwarded on. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

see a problem with just swap and /. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html

Re: forwarding gnutella ports with iptables

to publish your IP of 208.163.68.11? I'm using that setup and it works fine. The -m option above looks redundant to me. You don't need it. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like

Re: basics about env variables

environment variables in the bash shell, even if it can be done in one line. Your syntax is not at fault here. I can't speak to the other potential causes. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd

Re: network troubles

On 25/12/02 Willem-Jan Meijer did speaketh: How do I get internet at work ? What is the output of ifconfig -a ? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort

Re: need Ph.D. for sound even with common hardware?

. Is there no OSS module for this chipset? I just load a module and go. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful

Re: DMA woes

output. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html msg19687/pgp0.pgp

Re: X-Window; mouse: core pointer

Pointer I've my mouse attached to psaux (PS2) i think. Is there a way to know where the mouse is connected through linux? If it's /dev/psaux, why do you have X looking for it at /dev/mouse? Try this. ln -s psaux /dev/mouse Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key

Re: setting up a cvs repository

. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html msg17984/pgp0.pgp

Re: mozilla 1.2 and commandline

On 05/12/02 Vincent Lefevre did speaketh: This is because you must not start a new mozilla with the same profile, to avoid its corruption. Corruption? They've never heard of file locking? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used

Re: X11 problems...

P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html msg16949/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SB Live

it myself. Either download a pre-built kernel binary (look for kernel-image packages), or better yet, build your own. The pre-built ones are all bloated so they work for everybody. You're better off building your own. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08

rebuilding available

Hey people, Is it possible to rebuild the dpkg available file? I have on one a P75 that's so big it's impossible to efficiently parse anymore. A simple dpkg -l takes minutes. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used

Re: SB Live

the last lines of dmesg to see if it was recognized, and then add yourself to the audio group. ie. adduser me audio Logout and back in, and try an audio app. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive

Re: X11 problems...

-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, and follow the prompts. Make sure you pick the right driver for your card. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide

Re: A winmodem problem

On 03/12/02 Barry Cugley did speaketh: 1. which driver should I try? and No idea. 2. how do I remove a package if I install the wrong one? man dpkg Specifically, dpkg -r packagename. Also see -P. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08

Re: X11 problems...

, but they no longer with with 2.4.19. Actually, the driver that comes with X is called nv, but the problem, I believe, is that it does not provide 3D accel. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd

Re: Voodoo Graphics

colour depth or less. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html msg16605

Re: dhclient problems

), but that didn't work. Any ideas? I have never been able to get dhclient to work for me at all. Both pump and dhcpcd work great, but dhclient has never done anything for me on any of the three computers in my home. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08

OT: Fwd: The case of the 500-mile email

-- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html ---BeginMessage--- The joys of sysadmining

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

; do convert $i `echo $i | sed s/.eps/.png/` ? Personally, I use just LaTeX, and then convert my .dvi file with dvipdfm. It does a great job, and I don't have to juggle two different graphics formats or worry about the quirks of pdfLaTeX vs. LaTeX. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL

Re: Fonts on Debian

the fonts I have just installed are really available to be used? xlsfonts | grep -i font name 2 - Do I also have to run Defoma to make it work out? How? I don't, although maybe I should. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used

Re: add a font to defoma

. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html msg14955/pgp0.pgp Description

netscape not in unstable

Hey people, Is there a reason why netscape isn't in unstable? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email

Re: OT: Politics of Java

a non-free section for? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html msg14433

Re: OT: Politics of Java

the webmaster for this site http://opag.ca, and everything there is done in Python. Zope is also well worth looking at, if you buy into the whole web services rant coming from the Java and .NET backers. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK

Re: Laptops!

, as much with any windows-specific crap in it. You should be able to run Debian on most laptops. I'm running it on my Sony VAIO with no problems, beyond the bug in the S3 chipset support of X 4.1, but I'll probably upgrade to 4.2 from unstable to fix that. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL

Re: Laptops!

from my desktop and using the laptop as an xterm. I'm told that X 4.2 will fix that, but I haven't tried it yet. I need to set up pinning so that I only get X 4.2, and not the rest of unstable. sawfish in unstable sucks at the moment. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub

Re: Drawing graphs for use in Latex

On 20/11/02 Timothy Ball did speaketh: gnuplot If you use gnuplot, set the output type to eps, and it will magickally ensure that the graph fits nicely within the width of the page without you having to specify it yourself. I used this all through University. Mike -- Michael P

Re: bind8 vs bind9

-- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com/nomime.html msg13783/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: UNIX shells - Bourne and C

. That is, unless you like no functions and all global variables, and non-deterministic behaviour. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix

Re: Evolution is slow

On 06/11/02 Setyo Nugroho did speaketh: Hi all, My evolution 1.0.5 works extremely slowly. I run it mostly under KDE 3.0.3, woody. Is it usual? No. Evolution is a pig. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

the credibility of the argument immensely with this nonsense. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful

Re: My first Linux crash

disagree. This is incorrect behavour for any OS. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to Unix HTML Email Considered Harmful: http://expita.com

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