Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

2016-11-28 Thread Dave Thayer
tests>. p.d.o has a pretty good search function, this should point you in the right direction: <https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=memtest> hth dt -- Dave Thayer / Denver, Colorado USA / d...@thayer-boyle.com Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right ther

Re: Recommendation: Backup system

2016-10-10 Thread Dave Thayer
ed. > It remains a concern for me, but regardless the tool has worked very well. > It looks like rdiff-backup has a new maintainer as of February 2016, sol1. See <http://rdiff-backup.org/>. There may be some progress forthcoming after all. dt -- Dave Thayer / Denver, Colorado USA / d...@tha

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread Dave Thayer
not sure why this was in there in the first place, but a google search suggests it was some sort of kludge to get an ancient version of virtualbox to behave. hth dt -- Dave Thayer / Denver, Colorado USA / d...@thayer-boyle.com Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

2014-04-22 Thread Dave Thayer
. It will let your script send messages to the system logs, and you can pipe command output into it for use in the log entry. For example, if I type: date | logger I get: Apr 22 20:13:47 hedorah dave: Tue Apr 22 20:13:47 MDT 2014 in /var/log/syslog. hth dt -- Dave Thayer / Denver

Re: HOWTO: Exporting index in PDF file

2013-05-23 Thread Dave Thayer
as the PDF's bookmarks. According to this http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17065 discussion, pdftk should do the trick. You will need the version from experimental (1.45) in able to update the bookmarks, but the version in stable should let you export them. hth dt -- Dave Thayer

Re: MUA Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Dave Thayer
access, they enable IMAP access on the free accounts. I'm guessing that's for mobile device support. Icedove knows the right thing to do, or look up the instructions on the Yahoo! help pages. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Dave Thayer
://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_%28Thunderbird%29 dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books

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

2013-01-22 Thread Dave Thayer
://dabodev.com/. Written in python by some ex-foxpro devs with data-oriented RAD in mind. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read

Re: Instalation and kernel headers

2012-05-12 Thread Dave Thayer
you have to set up a 64-bit chroot. There's information on the VB wiki here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Setup_Jail. It's kind of a PITA, but it works. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room

Re: Failed to open VDPAU backend for mplayer2.

2012-03-20 Thread Dave Thayer
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Re: Are there any current label printers that works with Linux/amd64?

2012-03-18 Thread Dave Thayer
page I suspect these same steps would be needed installing in an i386 system anyway as the ln mkdir changes reflect locations in newer systems and the --force all is required, erm, normally. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado

Re: nvidia driver strangeness

2011-09-15 Thread Dave Thayer
or xeyes(!). I suspect that this is related to http://bugs.debian.org/641195, which suggests rolling back xserver-xorg-core rather than the nvidia stuff. I haven't had time to try this, in spite of the fact that my productivity is being killed by not having xeyes working... HTH dt -- Dave

Re: can't umount automounted drives

2011-02-02 Thread Dave Thayer
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Re: converting jpg to pdf without imagemagick

2010-10-10 Thread Dave Thayer
into a single file. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Re: udev auto mount usb disk

2010-10-09 Thread Dave Thayer
is not going to fire until after the drive is pulled. This seems like you would be risking a corrupted filesystem by umounting an already removed drive. I prefer to use a combination of udev rules and automount to handle removable media, since I generally avoid using desktop managers. dt -- Dave Thayer

Re: UTC or localtime

2010-07-14 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:00:03PM +, T o n g wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:32:09 -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: The camera is the same. Something get changed on Debian side? How can I fix it? (photos are from mounted SD card via SD card reader). You could be getting bit by Bug #577597

Re: Photo time are wrong

2010-07-13 Thread Dave Thayer
rockboxed ipod shows files with timestamps off by the time difference between localtime and UTC, as if the tz=UTC option was selected in mount, and when I apply the work-around in the bug report things are straightened out. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like

Re: Automounting problems.

2010-05-12 Thread Dave Thayer
to a cluttered /var/autofs/usb directory, however, unless you do some udev-based scripting to manage things on the fly. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you

Re: handling removable media without gnome-volume-manager

2010-03-31 Thread Dave Thayer
of a retro-grouch, so these things don't do me a whole lot of good. -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read

Re: handling removable media without gnome-volume-manager

2010-03-29 Thread Dave Thayer
spurious device names during plugging, so there's a delayed test of the mountpoint, and if it's bogus autofs will remove it. This script contains more than its fair share of crockery, and could use improvement, but it works for me. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book

Re: handling removable media without gnome-volume-manager

2010-03-28 Thread Dave Thayer
/rsnapshot_backup/. When unplugged, the map and mount directory is removed. My script still has some rough edges, It contains a fair amount of crockery to deal with devices which generate multiple add events, such as my ipod. It's fairly short so I'll attach a copy to this posting. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-04 Thread Dave Thayer
/4823-93A9 mount /mnt/usb8gig (all on one line, with terminating newline) HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read

Re: What is the recommendation for a note software with tag support.

2009-10-27 Thread Dave Thayer
working inside a web browser, a TiddlyWiki can do all of this and a lot more. http://tiddlywiki.com/ HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't

Re: what happened to courier?

2009-09-14 Thread Dave Thayer
by this CUPS bug: http://bugs.debian.org/519265. Simplest solution for me is to use a2ps for my plaintext printing needs. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you

Re: font enlargement on file

2009-07-27 Thread Dave Thayer
://www.rightbrain.com/pages/books.html HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack

Re: looking for a debian compatible usb audio interface

2009-06-24 Thread Dave Thayer
versions of your LPs or find a cheap used CD you're better off ripping the CD than spending a lot of time in Audacity trying to get a clean LP rip. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking

Re: Graphics 1920x1440, monitor 1680x1050, nv 1280x1024.

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Thayer
is going to look fuzzy, even if you use the monitor's built-in stretching. 3) Use xvidtune -show to get the current modeline that the nvidia driver has so kindly figured out for you. 4) With this modeline in hand, edit your xorg.conf to set up the nv driver as a fallback. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer

Re: Retrieving the signal while plugging a USB key

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Thayer
they are plugged in. Since it has some fairly long lines, I am attaching it rather than including the text in-line. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which

Re: Graphics 1920x1440, monitor 1680x1050, nv 1280x1024.

2009-05-05 Thread Dave Thayer
any additional resolutions by adding custom modelines to your xorg.conf file. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read

Re: hdv camcorder (hv20) to dvd

2009-05-05 Thread Dave Thayer
. I stuck with kdenlive for the editing and then, since I have mythtv installed already, used mytharchive for a quick and dirty DVD. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer

Re: Graphics 1920x1440, monitor 1680x1050, nv 1280x1024.

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Thayer
to an analog VGA cable might help things [2]. [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3654 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469224 HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking

Re: Re: Hideous font when printing text file

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Thayer
/dviware/psprint/unix/text.ps HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack Handey

Re: possible printer replacements

2009-04-20 Thread Dave Thayer
these models all work mostly under linux. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-02-03 Thread Dave Thayer
accessory to it--powered or not--thereafter? One nice bonus about having a powered hub is that it can be used to recharge gadgets such as cellphones and mp3 players without having to leave your computer on. -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA

Re: dialing modem as normal user

2009-01-25 Thread Dave Thayer
connections I'm not sure how long ago dip disappeared from Debian, the manpage is dated 1995. Cheers, dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I

Re: OT Internet Radio Reception Program

2008-12-15 Thread Dave Thayer
shoutcast gives several other candidates. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack

Re: OT: Label printer

2008-12-10 Thread Dave Thayer
page for this model at http://solutions.brother.com/bsc_ph/os/linux/linux_ql500550.html I bought mine refurbed about a year ago for about USD$30, and I see that here in the States buy.com has them new for $35 shipped. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like

Re: Strange problem with copy paste.

2008-08-20 Thread Dave Thayer
possibly go wrong?) You get redirected to a fake malware scan site which, big surprise, indicates that you need to download and install Antivirus 2009 which is a fairly well known mallware. Cheers, dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA

Re: hard drive problem

2008-08-06 Thread Dave Thayer
article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Technology_Attachment#Drive_size_limitations There's a good chance that you will have to spring for a new controller. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room

Re: How do I get my Wintv PR USB2 card to work under Debian

2008-05-11 Thread Dave Thayer
myth setup. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-16 Thread Dave Thayer
similar to Borland's Turbo C and Pascal family. It has many features including the ability to start many compilers, linkers and debuggers from a menu-based interface or using keystrokes. [...] Debian has a package for damn near anything! dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good

Re: Flash

2008-04-13 Thread Dave Thayer
. Carefully follow the setup directions on that page so that you won't get bugged with a lot of authentification warnings. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Dave Thayer
a theoretical possibility that someone could come up with a exploit which would work for mutt. I'm not losing any sleep worrying... dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you

Re: vertical scroll on my touchpad not working

2008-03-03 Thread Dave Thayer
InputDevice USB Mouse CorePointer EndSection HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-28 Thread Dave Thayer
a firewall that requires authentication). Portableapps http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable has OOo which, although intended to be run from a USB stick, works just fine when unpacked to a local directory. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's

Re: How to keep a locally compiled *.deb up to date?

2007-12-21 Thread Dave Thayer
are doing it on your higher powered workstation and then copying over the deb. You wouldn't want or need an entire kernel tree on your target machine in this case. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room

Re: Tuning access to the internet

2007-12-18 Thread Dave Thayer
plugin), you can use an HTTP proxy for that. I think Squid can do what you need, but I haven't used it myself. Squid + SquidGuard appears to be able to do this http://www.squidguard.org/Doc/extended.html#times HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver

Re: Syncable finance app?

2007-12-04 Thread Dave Thayer
://freecoins.sourceforge.net. It has a export module to create CSV and QIF. I have tried it but not used it very much because I'm not really organized enough to use such a program. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right

Re: Download Opera brower package

2007-12-02 Thread Dave Thayer
and install it with dpkg -i for example. You can use apt-get or aptitude if you follow the instructions at http://deb.opera.com/. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

2007-12-01 Thread Dave Thayer
$autofs_pid_file) || /etc/init.d/autofs reload ---CUT HERE--- This is still very much a work in progress, so anybody with comments or suggestions (keep it clean!) please feel free to chime in. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-27 Thread Dave Thayer
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Re: Where, Doom3 For Linux Download

2007-09-10 Thread Dave Thayer
appreciated, Have a look at the official DOOM III GNU/Linux FAQ http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/ It contains the link you're looking for as well as a bittorrent tracker link. Of course, you'll want to read the other information there too... dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read

Re: USB question

2007-08-26 Thread Dave Thayer
scanner I'm running sid with kernel 2.6.18-2-k7. FWIW, I've found the 6200c's USB performance to be somewhat flaky; sometimes I have to power-cycle the scanner to avoid getting error messages from scanimage. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver

Re: Beautyfuls OpenGL ScreenSavers

2007-07-19 Thread Dave Thayer
about using OpenGL drivers, electricsheep is a gorgeous screensaver. It doesn't need OpenGL because it uses frames rendered by machines all over the internet. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-19 Thread Dave Thayer
/details.asp?invtid=BLK-MP3-1GBcat=MP3 Disclaimer: I have no experience with this particular unit, but i have purchased other cheap players at geeks.com in the past which were OK. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-09 Thread Dave Thayer
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Re: Readable Bash Primer

2007-03-14 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:15:29PM +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: David Baron writes: Anything on line. The man is unreadable. http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ This is also packaged in Debian for your disconnected convenience: apt-get install abs-guide dt -- Dave Thayer

Re: No keyboard in gdm-greeter on reboot

2007-02-06 Thread Dave Thayer
] section of gdm.conf. Mind you, this was a long time ago, but it's worth looking into. dt [1] http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.laptop/msg/c92a24076c69749f -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room

Re: What UPS to buy

2007-02-04 Thread Dave Thayer
the job and is extremely flexable. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack Handey Deep

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Dave Thayer
loosing maildirs as well. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Re: How to Play Two Audio streams to two different outputs?

2006-12-11 Thread Dave Thayer
seperately for the audio sources? You might be able to get by with some mixer software trickery to run L R independently. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you

Re: Debian, GIS || GPS

2006-10-10 Thread Dave Thayer
. The maps are autoselected for best resolution depending of your position. All Garmin GPS reveiver with a serial output should be usable, also other GPS receiver which supports NMEA protocol. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA

Re: a good Video cut scale program?

2006-09-13 Thread Dave Thayer
. [...] Should be just what you need. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack Handey

Re: Palm sync issues

2006-05-22 Thread Dave Thayer
the keyring database in jpilot somehow. I ended up moving .jpilot/Keys-Gtkr.pdb out of the way and letting jpilot download a fresh copy from the palm. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking

Re: how to pick fresh fruit.

2006-03-29 Thread Dave Thayer
$ sudo apt-get install melon HTH -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack Handey Deep

Re: Bash, cat and EOF problem

2006-03-01 Thread Dave Thayer
string (EOF). See http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html#INDENTEDLS HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read

Re: unable to upgrade past kernel2.6.7 with SATA RAID

2006-02-24 Thread Dave Thayer
for /dev/hd*, 6) Rebooted and crossed fingers. I am probably leaving some critical stuff out here, but hopefully this will get you going in the right direction. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room

Re: wireless card

2006-02-23 Thread Dave Thayer
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Re: xscreensaver's questions ?

2006-02-21 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:02:36AM +0100, Cedric BRINER wrote: the reason to this, is that sysadmin can unlock screensavers of users. An ugly, brute-force method to do this would be to log into a VC or ssh in and (as root) kill the xscreensaver process. dt -- Dave Thayer

Re: Configuring pcmcia cards at boot-up

2006-02-12 Thread Dave Thayer
run. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Re: converting CHM files

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Thayer
extracting them These tools seem to be fairly crude, but you may be able to do somethng useful with them. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I

Re: converting CHM files

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:07:08PM -0400, Michael Spang wrote: aptitude install xchm FWIW, gnochm also looks pretty nice, but the OP needs something text-based which probably would rule these out. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA

Re: non-free internet radio?

2005-09-04 Thread Dave Thayer
it a shot without too much hassle. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack Handey Deep

Re: your mail [non-root shutdown]

2005-08-30 Thread Dave Thayer
the power button. Acpid will do a clean shutdown and power-off on most modern machines, not just laptops. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like

Re: OT: document scanning into pdf/ps file?

2005-08-30 Thread Dave Thayer
to concatinate single page TIFFs (from sane or xsane) into a single multi-page tiff, and then convert it into a PDF. It should be a fairly simple task to write a script to handle this. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right

Re: mass user property changes

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Thayer
] will set the appropriate locks to prevent file corruption dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good

Re: monitor PC2000 F17 69T technical informations?

2005-08-21 Thread Dave Thayer
/eas/reports/GenericSearch.cfm HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack Handey Deep

Re: OpenOffice on Debian Cut/Paste problems

2005-01-09 Thread Dave Thayer
on this: #284480 and #288708. I ended up downloading the 1.4 linux binaries from openoffice.org and installing them in /opt as a temporary measure until these bugs are closed. dt -- Dave Thayer | Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being Denver, Colorado USA | run by smart people who

Re: login into a particular directory using ssh

2004-12-06 Thread Dave Thayer
stuff SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0 You probably could wrap your cd command with a conditional testing for one of these. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: data-entry GUIs python

2004-12-02 Thread Dave Thayer
promising. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to mount a windows 'share' under linux

2004-11-29 Thread Dave Thayer
of the recent smbfs exploit it was mentioned that smbfs has been depreciated in favor of cifs, although cifs may still be a bit rough around the edges. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Secure Password Storage

2004-10-14 Thread Dave Thayer
and the contents of your palm would be backed up to their HDs. This is probably not something that you want to do casually on machines you ocassionally use. If you can pull off the usb-linux trick this could be avoided. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence

Re: lm-sensors watching daemon?

2004-10-12 Thread Dave Thayer
threshold values): Gkrellm can monitor sensors and run commands when thresholds are crossed. The gotcha here is that it is not a background daemon, it has to be running in somebody's X session. This may make it unsuitable for your needs. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying

Re: Linux gamers with Matrox cards, speak up please!

2004-10-06 Thread Dave Thayer
which does have 3D drivers, the performance is nothing to write home about. I get a max of about 403 FPS on glxgears on an AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+. Tuxracer is playable -- barely. Matrox is known for their high quality 2D, but for gaming you probably want to look elsewhere. HTH dt -- Dave

Re: Linux gamers with Matrox cards, speak up please!

2004-10-06 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:02:53AM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 00:33:54 -0600, Dave Thayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:03:35AM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 19:30:38 -0700, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: devfs - udev, user mounting etc

2004-09-16 Thread Dave Thayer
in /etc/default/ to 2 seconds from 300, this may be a bit too short but it hasn't caused problems yet. I don't use KDE or Gnome, so for a visual indication of mounts I setup the gkrellm file system krell for each of these mountpoints with the 'show if mounted' checkbox ticked. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer

Re: Browser Based E-Mail

2004-09-15 Thread Dave Thayer
(sid) works fine for me. Perhaps you have a corrupted cookie or some other local setting. -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Dave Thayer] Re: devfs - udev, user mounting etc

2004-09-15 Thread Dave Thayer
rules by snooping around /sys using lynx, but the udevruler program looks a lot easier. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Emailing myself pictures to a Maildir; how to extract with script?

2004-09-12 Thread Dave Thayer
, done no research yet, but hoping someone can grunt a one word answer). The munpack utility (part of the mpack package) will do this. It also works as a pipe, so you can call it directly from your procmail recipe. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver

Re: devfs - udev, user mounting etc

2004-09-07 Thread Dave Thayer
USB2.0 (P4a),NAME=%k, symlink=jukebox BUS=usb, SYSFS{product}=C2Z,D520Z,C220Z, NAME=%k, symlink=camera BUS=usb, SYSFS{product}=Palm Handheld, NAME=%k, symlink=pilot I use autofs to mount these, but the symlinks should work with fstab just as well. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Dave Thayer
, google will reveal all. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sine wave .cdr file?

2004-08-17 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:31:09PM -, John Conover wrote: I need to make a .cdr file of a sine wave at various frequencies. Sox should be able to do the trick. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots

Re: Re: udev isn't creating links for my cdrom and dvd-rom devices

2004-07-27 Thread Dave Thayer
thing that bit me was some leftover lines in /etc/lilo.conf from 2.4.x kernels like ``append = hdc=ide-scsi ignore=hdc..''. This was causing udev to not generate /dev/hdc*, let alone the symlinks. -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots

Re: udev isn't creating links for my cdrom and dvd-rom devices

2004-07-25 Thread Dave Thayer
drives and it didn't create any links for them. The script /etc/udev/cdsymlinks.sh addresses this issue. Just copy the usage example into whatever rules file you use for local configuration (I use /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules). HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying

Re: how to edit a pdf file in linux

2004-07-21 Thread Dave Thayer
like to know can this be done in Linux? (Frankly speaking I dont want to boot windows for just adding comments to a pdf file ;) ) I've successfully run an older version (v3.1 iirc) of Acrobat Exchange under wine. I little bit glitchy but it gets the job done. dt -- Dave Thayer

Re: 2.6.7 questions

2004-07-14 Thread Dave Thayer
of what is on /dev/sda1 this time. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: udev question

2004-07-08 Thread Dave Thayer
be good to go. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: edit pdf's

2004-05-13 Thread Dave Thayer
can write a script that does all the work in one step (containing all the inner steps). The imagemagick package contains 'convert' which can take pdf as input perform various transformations including cropping. This might be a little easier than pdf2ps+gimp dt -- Dave Thayer

Re: nForce lockups back

2004-04-23 Thread Dave Thayer
and not the video chipset, the forcedeth and sk98lin kernel modules now support the built-in ethernet interfaces, so you don't really need the nVidia propriatory drivers. If you have nVidia video and want 3D, you still need the nVidia drivers AFAIK, and I can't help you as I have a matrox card. HTH dt -- Dave

Re: lost mouse functionality in 2.6.x kernel upgrade

2004-04-15 Thread Dave Thayer
): device=/dev/input/mice responsiveness= repeat_type=msc type=imps2 append=-3 sample_rate= HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

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