Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
ave had no problems with Brother HL-5250DN and HL-5350DN using the driver from the Brother site: Brother-HL-5350DN-Postscript-Brother.ppd on both. AC -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Flash update

2016-04-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
Flash. If you go to the BBC IPlayer web page it says you can access the programs using HTML5. You just have to install a cookie to do this. It's still in beta but it works for me, at least with recent versions of Firefox and Chromium. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Differences Between ThinkPad Models

2015-12-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
picture, were rock > solid. Maybe if I cxould find a used T60.. There are good refurbished T60s available on Ebay in Britain. I bought up several of these - almost indistinguishable from new. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
have an easily accessible TTY to diagnose the problem. I'm sure I'm not alone in this. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Okay, that's too much now!

2015-09-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Sep 2015, John Hasler wrote: > Erik Lauritsen writes: > > Freedom of choice my ass! > > You are free to choose FreeBSD. > -- Or OpenBSD, which for my money is a better bet for the Desktop. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: OT: linguistic mis-usages (was Re: Remove subject)

2015-05-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 May 2015, The Wanderer wrote: On 05/15/2015 at 07:35 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:16:17AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Since we're well off-topic already, I can't resist citing a rather similar and increasingly prevalent negative usage that makes

Re: Remove subject

2015-05-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
negative usage that makes no sense. I quite often read the phrase: the importance of this cannot be underestimated. It should, of course, be OVER-estimated, or alternatively must not be under-estimated. I think the two usages have become superimposed, as it were. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell http

Re: Is this a hacking attempt?

2015-01-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
Flash? Obviously flash game sites still need it but surely almost all of the web has moved away from it at this point? http://tv1.yle.fi/ BBC iPlayer, unfortunately. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Re: Iceweasel Latest update stealing bandwidth uselessly -OT

2014-12-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Re: the developers have spoken

2014-11-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
on my blog for anyone interested. -- Anthony Campbell http://www.acampbell.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: How to enable larger mouse pointers under X

2014-11-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Re: printing

2014-08-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Re: Crypt data on the fly

2014-06-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
www.tarsnap.com. It's specifically for Unix systems - on Windows only via Cygwin. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian 5 -- data is plural.

2014-05-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
speakers, is to use bacteria as singular. If we are going to anglicise the word, which I think is a defensible view, we should make the plural to be bacteriums. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https

Screen resolution [was: Re: Building computer]

2013-10-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
on my desktop with a CRT monitor, I use 1280x1024 instead of 1600x1200. There is no obvious degradation of quality, at least to my worsening eyes. On my laptop this doesn't work well because you get distortion at any resolution other than the native. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk

Re: Choosing among Desktop Enviroments and/or Windows Managers

2013-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
. Altbough they are called tiling, I use spectrwm fullscreen most of the time, and I think quite a few people do this. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell

Re: Choosing among Desktop Enviroments and/or Windows Managers

2013-09-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
this: # switch to icewm xinit /home/ac/.xxinitrc -- :1 where ,xxinitrc is a modified version of .xinitrc to run icewm (in this case). I can then switch back and forth between spectrwm and icewm with Ctrl-Alt-Fx. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
tried the pxlmono driver and that is working well. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: TEST

2013-08-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
through. Something is fishy, I was able to reply to several other threads to several people and lists. Received. Perhaps your e-mail provider is having issues? -- A reply to a thread I sent a couple of days ago didn't arrive. Let's see if this one does. -- Anthony Campbell

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
if you had a glimmer of memory about how you went about tracking it down... you would have said so eh? If you have a removeable video card it might be worth taking it out and putting it back. I've solved strange display problems like that a couple of times in the past. -- Anthony Campbell

Epson Perfection V330

2013-07-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
of these iscan packages but although they seem to install OK the scanner is not recognised. Has anyone got this working? I'd be willing to uprade to Sid if necessary but I'm not sure that would be the answer. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http

Re: Epson Perfection V330 -SOLVED

2013-07-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Jul 2013, Anthony Campbell wrote: I had my Epson Perfection V330 working well on Debian Sid but I had to reinstall the system. I now have Squeeze running. I downloaded drivers from the Epson site: iscan_2.29.1-5~usb0.1.ltdl3_i386.deb iscan_2.29.1-5~usb0.1.ltdl7_i386.deb iscan

Re: Epson Perfection V330 -SOLVED

2013-07-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Jul 2013, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 06 July 2013 14:00:35 Anthony Campbell wrote: Thanks to someone on the Sane mailing list Which one? I could find only sane-devel, sane-standard, sane-announce and sane-commit. The IRC channel does say that it offers help, so is that what

Re: kernel not upgraded to wheezy

2013-07-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
on Google, mainly ubuntu users,with a similar problem but no obvious solution. I purged grub2 and reinstalled, but the same error appeared. That was why I reverted to legacy grub, which at least allowed grub-mkconfig to work but still the new kernel did not appear at boot. -- Anthony Campbell

Re: kernel not upgraded to wheezy

2013-07-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Jul 2013, Anthony Campbell wrote: For some reason a recent upgrade of grub2 led to a failed configure. I found other people on Google, mainly ubuntu users,with a similar problem but no obvious solution. I purged grub2 and reinstalled, but the same error appeared. That was why I

Re: kernel not upgraded to wheezy

2013-07-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
of update-grub don't fix this. I reverted to grub-legacy because of configuration problems with grub2 but that didn't allow the new kernel to appear either. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

2013-06-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Jun 2013, John Hasler wrote: Anthony Campbell writes: If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common. Obviously I'm not goint to remove all

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

2013-06-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
I don't think that was the case. But oddly, the removal message has suddenly disappeared, after I had looked at a couple of packages using wajig show foo. It looks as if something had got slightly out of kilter on my system, though I don't know what it was. AC -- Anthony Campbell

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

2013-06-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
, that's right; requests to install any package produced a warning that all these packages would be removed. But the problem has gone away now. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

2013-06-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Jun 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common. That does not make sense. Probably your package

Sid wants to remove lots of packages

2013-06-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
this behaviour? AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Why can ubuntu dist upgrade dist from within an X session?

2013-05-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
is meant? Celejar I've been upgrading from within X on Debian for years and never had any problems. But I don't do this remotely, I start X from startx, and I don't use any desktop environment. Perhaps that's why. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http

Re: recommend a laser printer

2013-05-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
. Cartridges don't last long, but otherwise it's a great printer for its cost. I've had a Brother HL5240 for a couple of years. It's been good but I don't know what it would cost in the USA. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http

Re: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.

2013-05-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 May 2013, Mauro wrote: Maybe install package amd64-microcode ? I do have it installed. That is just the point - the module is there but it doesn't load. The kernel says it can't find it. Kerne 3.2 has no problem. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http

Re: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.

2013-05-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
control) does not load. I've removed this kernel from both machines. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Thanks to All

2013-05-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
challenge; as for morality, I think FreeBSD, like Debian, scores pretty well for that. AC`kkk -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412

Re: Thanks to All

2013-05-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 May 2013, staticsafe wrote: On 5/1/2013 3:27, Anthony Campbell wrote: If you need any help, feel free to subscribe to freebsd-questions[0]. [0] - http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions Yes, thanks - already done that. I'm enjoying my exploration of FreeBSD

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Apr 2013, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 07:57:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. [snip] Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Re: a problem with CUPS

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
to configure and always works. AC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51769a45.9010...@gmail.com -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
for. deborphan -a Regards, /Lars Or 'wajig snapshot':. Generates a list of package=version for all installed packages AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
, Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
. After some experimenting, it seems that there is something in my .muttrc that is causing this, since if I don't use the configuration file the codes disappear. I shall have to look into this. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk

Re: root password

2013-04-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
need to reset root's password. Make sure your keyboard is sending what you think it is. I was once caught out when an upgrade changed my keyboard from UK to US without my moticing, and my password used keys that had been changed. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http

Re: Tiling window manager based desktop environment (was: Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE)

2013-04-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
. Amyway, I'd say that both these are very good tiling WMs, and it's a matter of personal taste which you prefer. Of course, tiling WMs in general are an acquired taste and they are not for everyone. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http

Re: Tiling window manager based desktop environment (was: Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE)

2013-04-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
old). -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412

Re: Tiling window manager based desktop environment (was: Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE)

2013-04-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
have no frame at all in fullscreen when you turn off the status bar. An absolutely minimal screen. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com

Re: VPN Connections

2013-03-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
://www.acampbell.org.uk/linux/vpn.html. This is for a pptp server; I don't know if that is what you are trying to do, but in any case it may be adaptable to what you need. Regards, Amthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http

Re: More than one window manager

2013-02-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
. I do this because I like tiling WMs but they don't do very well with programs that open a lot of windows, such as xsane or gimp; a stacking WM is better for these. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http

Re: Xmonad usage.

2013-01-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
. A stacking WM is better for these. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
installed and you have been warned about the problem. This is what I do too. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view

Re: OT: Captchas?

2012-12-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
test. Experience suggests that either computers can pass it and/or humans fail. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view

Re: OT: Captchas?

2012-12-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
literally hundreds of spam piostings, so I don't know how useful the things are anyway. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com

Re: about xfce and window managers

2012-11-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Nov 2012, John L. Cunningham wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 04:09:07PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: Xmonad is good but for configuration you have to delve into Haskell, In my experience, it's not that bad. Mostly because someone has probably already done what you want it to do

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2012-11-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
a Brother and a Samsung, both of which work very well. I'm sure CUPS would work with both but I prefer lprng + magicfilter. The driver from the Brother site used to work for me but for some reason it stopped; however, the ljet4 driver provided with magicfilter is fine. AC -- Anthony Campbell

Re: about xfce and window managers

2012-11-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: restart problems monitor or GPU

2012-11-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
of times in the past. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

java enable in Iceweasel (Sid)?

2012-07-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
I also installed icedtea-6-plugin but it doesn't seem to produce anything useful, similar to sunjavaplugin.so, which I used to have previously. Do I perhapd need a different version of java altogether? Can anyone point me towards a solution? AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http

Re: java enable in Iceweasel (Sid)?

2012-07-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Jul 2012, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:55:22 +0100 Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: Hello Anthony, Following a suggestion on google I also installed icedtea-6-plugin but it doesn't seem to produce anything useful, similar to sunjavaplugin.so, which I used

Re: java enable in Iceweasel (Sid)? -SOLVED

2012-07-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
OK, I found it - embarrassingly, java was disabled in Preferences! Working OK now - apologies for troubling the list. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com

Re: java enable in Iceweasel (Sid)? -SOLVED

2012-07-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Jul 2012, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:07:20 +0100 Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote: Hello Anthony, OK, I found it - embarrassingly, java was disabled in Preferences! You've found the problem, that's what counts. Posting the solution to the list

Re: firewall

2012-07-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Jul 2012, Brad Alexander wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:19 +0800, lina wrote: Hi, I don't know which firewall (http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls) I should choose. Thanks ahead for recommendation,

Re: why ABIWORD?

2012-07-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Re: Stand up for your freedom to install free software

2012-06-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
key. I have just tried again by entering name and e-mail address and Enter, and this was successful. HTH Terence Pressing Enter didn't work but the Save button did work today, so perhaps they've fixed it. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http

Re: Stand up for your freedom to install free software

2012-06-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Jun 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot/statement Trying to sign up on this produces an error message for me. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http

Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
it may be the same as a bug reported for xserver-common, which may well be right. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
originally reported it as a bug in i3 but it is not confined to that wm.) Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
. Is this something peculiar in my setup or can other people running Sid reproduce it? It happens with several different window managers (i3, dwm, icewm); I don't know about desktop managers. It does not happen in Squeeze. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using

Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 May 2012, Jochen Spieker wrote: Anthony Campbell: I am running Sid on two computers, one with Nouveau, the other with Radeon. In both, if I kill the process corresponding to X *from within X*, either the machine freezes completely (Radeon) or shuts down completely (Nouveau

Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
/20120516143642.06840...@celsius.lan -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: OT - New Google algorithm

2012-05-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Apr 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:04:57 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: For the last 3 weeks there has been a roughly 70 per cent drop in the number of hits on my web pages (although one of these pages in contrast, has seen a steep increase). Googling finds

OT - New Google algorithm

2012-04-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
methbods of inflating their hit rate. (I don't do this.) Has anyone else noticed anything similar? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
downloaded this and installed it with dpkg but the error still comes up. I also tried downloading and installing the latest version of libc-bin, mentioned in the error line, but that had depnendency problems. Any ideas what to try next? AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid - SOLVED

2012-04-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Apr 2012, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:50:26 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: For the last few days apt-get upgrades in Sid always fail with this message: E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in SmartConfigure for libc-bin:i386

Re: iceweasel drawing problems

2012-04-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
this on my laptop (radeon mobility X1400) but not my desktop (nvidia). But it's also something to do with the window manager: it happens with i3 but not with icewm. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my

Re: iceweasel drawing problems

2012-04-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

2012-03-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
previously without problems now no longer worked. However, the ljet4 driver in macicfilter is fine. I have posted full details of how I got the printer working on my blog: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php; see the entry for 16 Feb for details. AC -- Anthony Campbell

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

2012-03-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Mar 2012, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2012 03 Mar 05:38 -0600, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have posted full details of how I got the printer working on my blog: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php; see the entry for 16 Feb for details. I did find your blog a few days ago

Re: Bad news for Epson Perfection v330 - SOLVED

2012-02-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Feb 2012, Steven Rosenberg wrote: On 02/15/2012 02:29 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 15 Feb 2012, Anthony Campbell wrote: Sorry to follow up to myself but I found a solution. The missing dependency was libltdl3, which is no longer available. But after more googling I found

Bad news for Epson Perfection v330

2012-02-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
. This scanner is therefore now useless to me. Don't buy it. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Bad news for Epson Perfection v330 - SOLVED

2012-02-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Feb 2012, Anthony Campbell wrote: I bought one of these in December and it worked well with the driver from Avasys. A couple of days my HDD crashed. After reinstalling on a new one I find that the drivers for this scanner are now being provided by Epson and they are not installable

Re: lpr command not found

2012-02-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
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Re: What´s wrong with fetchmail? (Re: POP3 in Debian)

2012-01-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
server with fetchmail. I switched to getmail4 and it worked instantly. I can't remember the details now but I've always used getmail4 since them. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - using Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - book reviews, articles, blog, and printed

Re: What´s wrong with fetchmail? (Re: POP3 in Debian)

2012-01-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Jan 2012, Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:15:33PM +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote: It's fine if it works for you, but some years ago I had problems authenticting myself to a mail server with fetchmail. I switched to getmail4 and it worked instantly. I can't remember

Re: Keyboard layout detection

2012-01-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
-acpi-scripts. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - using Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - book reviews, articles, blog, and printed books and ebooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

2012-01-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
in my favourite editor, Vim) but I'm trying it out as BackSpace now. I find I often hit Return instead of the normal BackSpace so this may be worth while. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - using Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - book reviews, articles

Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

2012-01-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
That site is down at present. My question: is it really worth the trouble of learning a new way of typing, if you are already a moderately competent touch typist on the QWERTY keyboard? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - using Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk

Can I remove gnome-keyring?

2011-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
There is currently a bug in gnome-keyring which keeps throwing up an error message about no socket to connec to. I don't know why I have this package, given that I don't use gnome (or any other desktop manager). Will anything dreadful happen if I remove it? -- Anthony Campbell

Re: Can I remove gnome-keyring?

2011-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:53:09 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: There is currently a bug in gnome-keyring which keeps throwing up an error message about no socket to connec to. I don't know why I have this package, given that I don't use gnome (or any other

Re: Canonscan Lide 110 - anyone used this?

2011-11-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
Perfection 1650 either, but that never worried me. How have you found the performance of scanner itself? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
a window manager and no desktop. But I suppose that, coming from Windows, you might feel lost without one. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Canonscan Lide 110 - anyone used this?

2011-11-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
. So it _ought_ to work, but I have come across posts in other lists (ubuntu) where people report failure. So I have got cold feet about it and am wondering if I ought to return it unopened. Hence my question: has anyone used this model successfully (or not)? AC -- Anthony Campbell

Re: Choosing a distribution (was: Just a simple query)

2011-10-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
I dislike Windows (version 3.0!) so Linux was less of a culture shock than it would otherwise have been. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Re: VPN linux client

2011-10-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Iceweasel segfault on Sid

2011-10-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
it. Anyone else seeing this? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Iceweasel segfault on Sid

2011-10-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
Thanks to both for replies. Yes, following a further upgrade it's now working again. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
it almost impossible to avoid hitting the thing accidentally,. with unexpected results. The little joystick on the Thinkpads is a decisive advantage. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http

Anyone using xmonad + vim on sid?

2011-09-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
and xmonad mailing lists but no result; at least one person says he cannot reproduce the error. I've reported it as a Debian bug but so far have only had a routine acknowledgement. If there is anyone else using this setup, could they please see if they can reproduce it? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell

Re: Anyone using xmonad + vim on sid?

2011-09-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Sep 2011, Jochen Spieker wrote: Anthony Campbell: If there is anyone else using this setup, could they please see if they can reproduce it? I can only say that I don't have any problems running (g)vim while using awesome. That's interesting: I just tried awesome and I couldn't

Re: a quick Q: how did you handle files from windows

2011-09-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
etc.) -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

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