Re: Is Firefox/Iceweasel leaking?
On Fri, 07 May 2010 19:58:26 +0200 Merciadri Luca wrote: I noticed on many computers with Debian, whatever the kernel (2.6.xx, xx = 26), that, once ``too much'' tabs have been opened, Firefox/Iceweasel becomes sluggish, slower and slower, and often stalls after some time. I also noticed that, when becoming more and more sluggish, it takes more and more RAM, even when all the pages are completely loaded. Why? Am I the only person who's experiencing this? Is there an objective explanation to this? I'd had similar problem with Iceweasel on Lenny when my browser cache limit was set to a large value. But things are okay after bringing it down (to 20MB). You might want to try that. Large cache slows Iceweasel down because it uses these large databases of stored history to suggest addresses in each tab's address bar. I also had a Zotero database, which used to worsen things. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- 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/20100508180204.6d9ce...@marvin.dhcp.hri
Re: Resources for learning Linux
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:37:53 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: My favorite free on-line reference for general Linux knowledge is currently the original edition of The Linux Cookbook, by Michael Stutz. Here is the link: http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_toc.html There is a greatly expanded second edition of the book, which is more comprehensive, but it is not free. You have to pay for it. Others, I'm sure, will have other ideas. Yes, Michael Stutz book is good, both in content and style. Also, there is the Linux Documentation Project, with many learning resources: http://tldp.org/ Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- 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/20100508182429.58039...@marvin.dhcp.hri
Re: Sony voice recorder on Lenny
Hello, I decided to try Wine after failing to get my Sony voice recorder (model ICD-PX720) working on Lenny. Fortunately, the device drivers and accompanying audio decoder program (Digital Voice Editor) installed in Wine without problems. Still, although the Digital Voice Editor (DVE) works smoothly with Wine, I find that it fails to detect the voice recorder, which is connected to the system via USB. (Relevant dmesg output quoted below.) Does one need something special to access USB devices from Wine? How do I get the DVE find the voice recorder? There are some references to similar problems with devices like scanners on Wine mailing lists but with no clear solution. Will be happy if someone could help. Thanks, Girish. On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:03:04 +0530 Girish Kulkarni wrote: Is there a way to access Sony voice recorders from a Lenny system? I am using model ICD-PX720; dmesg reports this when I plug that in: [ 5732.005617] usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 [ 5732.136338] usb 5-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 5732.137559] usb 5-5: New USB device found, idVendor=054c, idProduct=0387 [ 5732.137559] usb 5-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [ 5732.137559] usb 5-5: Product: Sony IC Recorder (PX) [ 5732.137559] usb 5-5: Manufacturer: Sony Thanks. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- 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/20100321101318.4e8a8...@marvin.dhcp.hri
Re: Sony voice recorder on Lenny
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:13:57 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: Not exactly what you want to read, but here are various results from the Google search linux sony voice recorder: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=405895 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1336054 http://zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/2007-July/012093.html I know. I was hoping for something better. :-/ -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- 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/20100304162613.0cb0f...@marvin.dhcp.hri
Sony voice recorder on Lenny
Is there a way to access Sony voice recorders from a Lenny system? I am using model ICD-PX720; dmesg reports this when I plug that in: [ 5732.005617] usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 [ 5732.136338] usb 5-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 5732.137559] usb 5-5: New USB device found, idVendor=054c, idProduct=0387 [ 5732.137559] usb 5-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [ 5732.137559] usb 5-5: Product: Sony IC Recorder (PX) [ 5732.137559] usb 5-5: Manufacturer: Sony Thanks. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- 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/20100303120304.3df73...@marvin.dhcp.hri
Re: Pango: Iceweasel vs. Chrome
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:30:07 + (UTC) Liam O'Toole wrote: Basically the difference is that Chrome repects the XSETTINGS configuration but not the detailed fontconfig settings. If you are running both browsers in a GNOME session then Chrome will use XSETTINGS. Thanks for the reply. I'm quite unfamiliar with both XSETTINGS and fontconfig, and would like to translate the difference between Chrome and Iceweasel (that you point out) into improvement in Iceweasel's font-handling. Wonder if there's some documentation on this? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Tax software for Debian (Lenny)?
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 20:35:26 -0800 Mark wrote: I've done the typical Internet scrubbing and didn't find anything specific to tax software for Debian (something similar to TurboTax, for example). I found a few interesting options but nothing in the official Debian packages. Here's what I have so far as options (on-line versions), any insight into the most Linux/Debian-friendly one of these? I live in the USA and run Lenny on the machine Ill do my taxes with. GnuCash (http://www.gnucash.org/) has some Income Tax related features. Maybe useful? Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Pango: Iceweasel vs. Chrome
Hi, I decided to go ahead and try Google Chrome (4.0.249.43) on my laptop, which runs Lenny. My usual browser is Iceweasel (3.0.6). A pleasant surprise in Chrome was a much better rendering of the Devanagari script: http://athene.org.in/girish/pango.html Iceweasel leaves gaps in ligatures and places letters unevenly so that text in Hindi or Marathi, for instance, looks ugly. Both browsers use Pango to render Indic scripts. (Same font is used in the above example.) Could someone please explain why the difference then? Remarkably, the Iceweasel version that came with Etch used to render Devanagari well. Exactly like Chrome here. Since Iceweasel is my preferred browser otherwise, I wonder if there's something I can do to improve Devanagari rendering in it? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Bluetooth connection issue
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, Abhishek Amberkar wrote: Did you check your log files? /var/log/syslog /var/log/messages /var/log/daemon.log /var/log/kernel.log How about installing gnome-bluetooth? Thanks for the reply Abhishek. I found nothing in the first three log files and don't have the fourth one. But OTOH, the Bluetooth connection worked today, suddenly, out of the blue. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination
On Thu, 24 Dec 2009, Brad Rogers wrote: copied in /destination/. Using cp -i is not a good idea, as there could be something like ~5000 files which are not in /destination/, but which are in /source/. cp -n does that. Wonder if I'm missing something, but `cp -n' on Lenny gives me this: gir...@marvin:~$ cp -n -r foo /tmp cp: invalid option -- n Try `cp --help' for more information. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bluetooth connection issue
Hello, I want to access files on my mobile phone (Nokia 2323) via Bluetooth from my laptop (Dell Inspiron 640m) that runs Lenny. The Bluetooth Applet on my GNOME desktop gives me this error message: Couldn't display obex://[00:25:cf:c8:8e:b3]. Check if the service is available. This is puzzling all the more because this connection used to work in the past. Still, I did `aptitude search obex,' only to find that things related to obex seem to be in place: gir...@marvin:~$ aptitude search obex i cobex - Connector for mobile devices i A gnome-vfs-obexftp - GNOME VFS module for OBEX FTP i libobexftp-dev- object exchange file transfer library v libopenobex-dev - i A libopenobex1 - OBEX protocol library i A libopenobex1-dev - OBEX protocol library - development files i obex-data-server - D-Bus service for OBEX client and server side funct i obexfs- mount filesystem of ObexFTP capable devices i obexftp - file transfer utility for devices that use the OBEX i obexpushd - program for receiving files via Bluetooth or IRDA i openobex-apps - Applications for OpenOBEX What could be going wrong? (I know this issue has been discuss on debian-user before. Google shows many threads on other forums too. But almost all of them suggest little more than installing applications from the above list.) Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: What happened to xpdf in testing?
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Kelly Clowers wrote: It is probably gone. Poppler was forked from xpdf a long time ago, and AFAIK it is better in every way. So just use a Poppler based program, such as Okular or Evince (or evince-gtk, which has no gconf or gnome keyring support). In my experience xpdf works much faster than Evince, especially while showing PDF files with a lot of graphics. Is there a way I can use Evince better? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Klistvud wrote: My sister has an even older Dell (it must be at least 5 or 6 years) which still lasts just under an hour on the *original* battery. In the meantime, I've had at least 3 or 4 batteries in two different Compaqs die on me. She never unplugged the battery in all these years; she couldn't care less, really ... Battery life depends more on how many charge-discharge cycles it has gone through than its absolute age. But on a different note, many Dell batteries (especially older ones) have a charge gauge on them which can tell you about the battery charge and, more importantly, the battery health (whatever than means). Could someone explain how this works? Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Why CUPS?
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: This does not only apply to client applications, but also to computers configured as CUPS clients (debian's default): You only set-up and configure a printer on one server for a whole network. With a default debian installation, the clients on the network will discover the printer automatically and 'just work'. I have never used lprng so I don't know, if it has a similar feature. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is probably true for LPRng too. You just configure and run lpd (the LPRng server) on one computer of the network, alongwith the printer. The client programs of LPRng (lpr, lpq, etc.) then --- with a correct /etc/printcap configuration file --- find that the printer Just Works. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Why CUPS?
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Rogério Brito wrote: But there is some danger here: lprng is an orphaned package in Debian (which means that it currently has no one looking after it). If you want to ensure that it has a long life, please help maintaining it. Interesting. And I was going to complain about there being no Debian package for lprngtool, the LPRng GUI. ,[ NEWS.Debian.gz ] | lprng (3.8.A-2.1) unstable; urgency=low | | Programs based on the gtk library (which includes a lot of popular | programs in Debian) have lost the ability to print to lpr/lprng. | | A way to work around this problem of gtk+2.0, please use: | | + for a one-user setup, include an entry in the file .gtkrc-2.0 in | your home directory with the line: | | gtk-print-backends = file,lpr | | + for a system-wide setup, include the same line in the file | /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc | | It may happen that your setup will be broken again if GTK 3.0 doesn't | read the gtk-2.0 files or don't provide an appropriate upgrade path. | | -- Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br Mon, 18 May 2009 21:36:28 -0300 ` Thanks for pointing out. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish
Why CUPS?
After my problems with CUPS --- discussed in a previous thread http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/07/msg01157.html --- I decided to move to LPRng for print job spooling. The shift itself was easy; it didn't take more than an hour to remove CUPS, install LPRng and configure it to work. But what is interesting is that LPRng proved better for a network printer than CUPS: its lpq command does what it is supposed to by showing me the printer queue status and not merely the local queue status. lprm also works out of the box. While it possible that I wasn't using CUPS correctly (I tried!), I clearly can use LPRng with far less effort. I wonder then why Debian prefers to bundle CUPS as its default print spooler? Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: What is the recommendation for a note software with tag support.
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: In my opinion, it should be something like this. 1. Taking note in a very simple way. 2. The notes could take some tags. 3. I could browse all my notes, by date, by tag, etc. You need Emacs's Org-mode. See http://orgmode.org/. I use it for taking notes regularly -- sometimes on the fly, during a discussion of a lecture. You can tag any note with arbitrary tags and with dates. You can then browse these notes any which way you want. You can even insert links to files or WWW sites in your notes. You can quickly draw ASCII tables and diagrams in your notes. You can even do calculations! The GNU Emacs 22.2.1 that I got with Lenny had an older version of Org-mode (4.something). The current version (6.32b) is much better. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
window-specific Caps Lock?
Hi, I spend much time programming in Fortran 90 on my system, which is Lenny with GNOME. I type the code in GNU Emacs and I prefer typing Fortran 90 ALL CAPS. This usually means that I need to toggle the `Caps Lock' switch on my keyboard every time I switch from the Emacs window to the terminal (which for me is Xterm). Is there a way I can set things up so that while I'm typing Fortran 90, text will automatically be entered ALL CAPS in the Emacs buffer, but not in any other windows? Maybe by telling GNOME? Or perhaps by telling Emacs itself? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: free alternative acroread
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Andreas Goesele wrote: Is there any free pdf-reader with a similar option? Or, is there any easy way to achieve the same effect with free pdf-readers which don't have the option? The print menu in Evince lets you scale the document and watch a preview (see the Page Setup tab). And the Print Setup menu lets you specify paper size. Wouldn't this do what you want? Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: can exim reject all mail for one recipient?
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Ric Otte wrote: I believe it is bad to use procmail to reject mail, ... Why is that? -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: GUI Digital Camera Application
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, S. Fishpaste wrote: There doesn't seem to be any such beast in testing, preferrably one that works with Gnome as opposed to KDE. Thanks. I've been using F-Spot for three years now (currently using it on Lenny). I've been happy with the way it painlessly imports photos from my Nikon D40 and sorts them hierarchically date-wise. F-Spot now also lets you use GIMP to edit photos, can upload to Flickr if you want and makes it easy to tag and search the collection. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Will try installing libdvdcss later today and see if that helps me play region 5 DVDs. But another question: libdvdcss is GPL'ed; why is it not in any of the Debian repositories then? I'm also hoping to find its legal status here in India. Just for the record: libdvdcss2 helped. Thanks! -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Fetchmail and Gmail
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: flame Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to actually work together must be a dark art :) /flame What's so strange about fetchmail? I admit this is uninformed, but it seems to me like fetchmail tries to be many things, but not particularly good at anything: Your flame worked! -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote: That means if you want to play a legally bought DVD on your computer, you either have to run proprietary software (which contains a licensed descrambler) or you have to crack the CSS key using something like libdvdcss. Thanks for explaining. Although, if every DVD is CSS encrypted, I should have needed libdvdcss to play even those DVDs that are region marked ALL. That doesn't happen -- I can play all those DVDs. (Or maybe, I happened to have only unencrypted DVDs till now.) Will try installing libdvdcss later today and see if that helps me play region 5 DVDs. But another question: libdvdcss is GPL'ed; why is it not in any of the Debian repositories then? I'm also hoping to find its legal status here in India. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote: Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny? Do you have libdvdcss installed? Thanks for the replies. I don't have libdvdcss installed. But now I'm confused. I thought I shouldn't need libdvdcss if my drive's region code is set correctly, which it is now -- I have a region 5 DVD in a region 5 player. According to its authors, libdvdcss is designed for accessing DVDs like a block device without having to bother about the decryption. I don't want to do that; I just want to decrypt what I should be able to decrypt. Or am I getting things wrong here? Regionset smoothly changed the drive's region code to 5. Are you aware that you usually cannot change the drive's region code an arbitrary amount of times? At least from what I know, in Europe you can only change the region code five times after which it is unchangeable. J. Yes, thanks. I knew that. Regionset told me that I have five chances at changing the drive's region code setting, out of which I have now consumed one. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Fetchmail and Gmail
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to actually work together must be a dark art :) True! :-) -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
encrypted DVDs on Lenny
Hi, Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny? I run Lenny on a Dell Insprion 640m laptop that uses a Sony Optiarc AD-5540A DVD player. The player had its DVD region code set to 3 so I couldn't play India-only DVDs (region code 5) on it. Regionset smoothly changed the drive's region code to 5. But I still am unable to play encrypted DVDs on it. In fact, I can only play unencrypted DVDs (marked with region code ALL). With a region code 5 DVD in the drive, mplayer dvd://1 throws this and hangs: MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.2-DFSG-free (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2050 @1.60GHz (Family: 6, Model: 14, Stepping: 8) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing dvd://1. libdvdread: Invalid IFO for VMGM (VIDEO_TS.IFO). There are 2 titles on this DVD. There are 46 chapters in this DVD title. There are 1 angles in this DVD title. audio stream: 0 format: ac3 (5.1) language: en aid: 128. audio stream: 1 format: ac3 (stereo) language: en aid: 129. number of audio channels on disk: 2. subtitle ( sid ): 0 language: en number of subtitles on disk: 1 MPEG-PS file format detected. Totem and VLC fail too. The disk is probably okay because it played on someone's Windows desktop. What is going wrong? Can I trust regionset? I checked debian-user archives and looked up on Google -- regionset seems to have worked for most people. Any comments will help. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Fetchmail and Gmail
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: Slightly OT, but when you try again, use the --expunge option so that when you restart fetchmail Yes, this worked. Thanks! -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Fetchmail and Gmail
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: While downloading archived messages (around 20 thousand of them, 800 MB) from my Gmail account via POP3, Fetchmail stopped after fetching 9985 messages. It now keeps saying that there are 549 read messages on the server but clearly, there are many more. Did you check that or are you just assuming? I'm asking because from my experience gmail was *deleting* mails as soon as retrieved via POP3 (but not via IMAP). Yes, my Gmail deletes messages too, when they are retrieved via POP3 (you can make it not to). But I could use their web interface to check that I did indeed have all those unread messages. Fetchmail's option combination 'ssl nokeep expunge 20' seems to be working for me now, although honestly, I don't understand why that should be necessary. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Fetchmail and Gmail
Hello, I'm having an issue with Fetchmail and Gmail on my system (Lenny). It will help if someone could help understand what's going on. While downloading archived messages (around 20 thousand of them, 800 MB) from my Gmail account via POP3, Fetchmail stopped after fetching 9985 messages. It now keeps saying that there are 549 read messages on the server but clearly, there are many more. Gmail settings were untouched and Fetchmail is run with proto POP3 and options ssl and nokeep. I've tried toggling nokeep. What could be happening here? Any suggestions how I could correct it? I'm interested in getting all that e-mail via Fetchmail so that Procmail could sort it out nicely for me. Apologies if this is OT. I've had a discussion on the Gmail help forum (www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=62df06f1e7b8fd4c) and on #debian. I'm also aware of what the Fetchmail FAQ says about Gmail (fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-FAQ.html#I9) but would like to know if that is indeed what is hitting me here. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Musings on debian-user list
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: ... I think Mark has hit the proverbial nail-on-the-head ... Yes, with a top-posted HTML message, sent using Gmail. :-) -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Back up routines
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, AG wrote: Thanks for the many suggestions of applications and approaches. The next step for me is to take each one and do some further research and make a decision. Nobody mentioned Unison? I've been using it for backups for last two years. It is well-documented and simple. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: CUPS lpq
Thanks for the reply, Roger. On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Roger Leigh wrote: This is likely the state of the local queue, rather than the network printer itself (but you might want to check that). Right. This is just the local queue. CUPS also has a SYSV-style lpstat command in addition to lpq, which IIRC gives more verbose reporting. lpstat is more verbose, but only slightly. And more importantly, lpstat too shows only the local queue. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: CUPS lpq
Thanks for your reply, lee. On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, lee wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:46:26PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: How can I make the CUPS lpq command give more details than simply this? -- gir...@marvin:~$ lpq -P duplex2 duplex2 is ready no entries see man lpq gir...@marvin:~$ lpq -P duplex2 -l duplex2 is ready no entries Nothing much else on this in the manual. Afair that can have to do with how cups is set up. Early versions had the problem that cups would halt a printer when it detected that the printer wasn't ready --- pretty retarded because the admin (who found out the hard way that using cups had been a mistake) had to restart the printing after users called him because they couldn't print even after they refilled the paper tray. Apparently, that was changed at some time. Didn't know that history. Thanks! I'm running cups on my computer, and cups doesn't notice and doesn't care even when I turn off the printer which is connected to the LPT port. --- I would think at least three times about it before using cups in a network environment again. For what I use it now, it works fine and is easy to use ... Have you tried using lprng? That should be easy to set up since they are using it and you can copy their setup. Yes, CUPS not noticing jammed, busy or off printers is my basic problem here too. It would be interesting to know what the CUPS people have to say about this. I haven't tried LPRng. I preferred CUPS because it is Debian's default and I want to keep things simple. But maybe I'll move to LPRng at some point. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
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Hello, How can I make the CUPS lpq command give more details than simply this? -- gir...@marvin:~$ lpq -P duplex2 duplex2 is ready no entries I work on my laptop (running Lenny) plugged into my organization's network and have set up CUPS to print on a HP Laser Jet 4250dtn printer called duplex2 on this network. lpq always gives this same printer queue status even when the printer is actually not ready. Some other systems on this same network use LPRng and its lpq command is accurate, verbose and thus far better than the CUPS lpq. -- gir...@ipc41:~ lpq -P duplex2 Printer: dupl...@lpd2 'lpdfilter drv=upp method=auto color=yes' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Server: no server active Status: job 'r...@marvin+549' saved at 22:01:14.064 Rank Owner/IDClass Job Files SizeTime done r...@marvin+549 A 549 Test Page 23667 22:01:10 Is there a way to make the CUPS lpq give the correct queue status? I couldn't find much in the CUPS documentation. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
CUPS lpq
Hello, How can I make the CUPS lpq command give more details than simply this? -- gir...@marvin:~$ lpq -P duplex2 duplex2 is ready no entries I work on my laptop (running Lenny) plugged into my organization's network and have set up CUPS to print on a HP Laser Jet 4250dtn printer called duplex2 on this network. lpq always gives this same printer queue status even when the printer is actually not ready. Some other systems on this same network use LPRng and its lpq command is accurate, verbose and thus far better than the CUPS lpq. -- gir...@ipc41:~ lpq -P duplex2 Printer: dupl...@lpd2 'lpdfilter drv=upp method=auto color=yes' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Server: no server active Status: job 'r...@marvin+549' saved at 22:01:14.064 Rank Owner/IDClass Job Files SizeTime done r...@marvin+549 A 549 Test Page 23667 22:01:10 Is there a way to make the CUPS lpq give the correct queue status? I couldn't find much in the CUPS documentation. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Rhythmbox podcasts multiple desktop machines
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Bob wrote: Hi, for various reasons I have multiple desktops around the house, (my main desktop and 2 HTPCs) I don't login to all the machines as the same user and I subscribe to quite a few podcasts in Rhythmbox. What I'm trying to achieve is for the subscriptions, downloaded files and preferably things like the play count to sync up. Can anyone think of a way to do this? Thanks for any help. How about using setting up suitable music and podcast directories and then using Unison to sync these directories and ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox (which contains the playlists, etc.) across your multiple desktops? I have used this to some extent and it works. HTH, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: KDE gives users three options to compress folders: tar, zip, and rar. What are the advantages or disadvantages of each? How do I know which one to use? http://linuxgazette.net/162/lindholm.html -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: movies in a beamer (latex) presentation and linux (movie15)
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Micha Feigin wrote: I tried to use the package movie15 to include a movie in a beamer presentation (latex via lyx) which worked great under windows but doesn't work under linux. Maybe this is an issue with your PDF viewer? Have you tried appropriately recent versions of Acrobat Reader on Linux? -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: flickr sometimes doesn't load on iceweasel
On Sat, 4 Jul 2009, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: Flickr sometimes doesn't load on iceweasel, has anybody seen this ? Iceweasel hangs forever, waiting. Whenever this happens, I switch to opera and it loads there, flawlessly, always. I noticed that this started to happen about a week from now. I have already played with wiping cookies and cache, to no avail. Consistently, flickr loads on opera but trips over on iceweasel practically every time I try to access it. I'm having no problems with Flickr in Iceweasel 3.0.6 on Lenny. Your photostream loads fine too. Maybe you can post this on Flickr's help? -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: wireless interface name changes across reboots
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: This shouldn't be necessary for such a trivial issue. Sure. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Whatever happened to Unicode input (using ctr + shift)?
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, j t wrote: I think you now need to do Ctrl+Shift+u, then the Unicode number, then then the spacebar. Thanks for figuring this out! I was getting worried too! Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: wireless interface name changes across reboots
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Which package is responsible for this madness? I am guessing udev but removing udev also wants to remove the kernel (linux-image) package(s). So are there any other work arounds? Yes, this is udev. See if http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi helps you. In the worst case, a clean reinstall of Lenny cures this! Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: differences of gfortran on amd64 and i386
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I have a rather funny and annoying problem with a third-party fortran program. It is a non-free scientific program for some physical calculations. I get different output values, if I compile and run the same fortran code on amd64 or i386. While this does mean that the Fortran program is not written sufficiently carefully, the difference between i386 and amd64 could be due to x87 and SSE floating-point units. See David Monniaux's interesting article: http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0701192. also try disabling the optimizations, compile with -Wall, -fbounds-check options and see if there is any change in the final results. Also try -float-store. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: differences of gfortran on amd64 and i386
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Also try -float-store. Sorry I meant -ffloat-store. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: equivalent to mepis-network
Try iwlist(8) and iwconfig(8) maybe? They help you scan for wireless access points and configure your connection. It also integrates with the nm-applet GUI in GNOME. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Program for quoting text like in email?
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Thomas Anderson wrote: Can anyone recommend a program/shell script/editor plugin etc, that can take arbitrary text as input and quote it like email programs quote emails with a preceding character? GNU Emacs does this. In the Emacs 22.2.1 I run on Lenny, I put the '' character before first couple of lines and then fill-paragraph (M-q). Emacs than formats the paragraph width and puts the quote character before every line. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: OT Picture in Web Page Problem
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, ghe wrote: I see where somebody already corrected the scr/src oopsie. An that knows a little about HTML would have caught that for you. Bluefish on Linux or BBEdit on the Mac are a couple I use. There are billions and billions... A better one of which, of course, is GNU Emacs. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Problems with OOo3.0.1 - not retaining formats when copying
On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, AG wrote: Does anyone: (a) have similar problems with their version of OOo? or (b) have any thoughts about installing the version referenced above? No idea why you're having that problem. But just wanted to mention that it doesn't exist on OOo Write 2.4.1 on my Lenny system. All formatting is retained during copy-paste. On the other hand, maybe you can try Paste Special (Ctrl+Shift+V) instead of Paste (Ctrl+V)? See the OOo online help for details (F1). -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: squeeze grep status
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Jude DaShiell wrote: Apparently argument list too long is an operating system error. I made it happen with ed too. I can divide and conquer though by limiting argument lists with regular expressions in this case. Does `find . -name REGEXP -exec COMMAND` help? See man find. I use it whenever rm or mv return argument list too long. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Problems with vnc + gnome
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Francesco Mazzoli wrote: I'm trying to use vnc with gnome on my debian 5 server, but I've got some problems with gnome. Why didn't you try GNOME's native VNC server Vino and client Vinagre? On my Lenny system, they work out of the box. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: gnome-terminal and pango
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:54:52PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Thanks for the reply. But rxvt-unicode doesn't even render the Devanagari characters. Three other shots in the dark: mlterm xterm xiterm Thanks for replying, Tzafrir. But xterm doesn't support Devanagari ligatures (and the script is garbage without ligatures) and xiterm can render all Unicode _except_ Devanagari. mlterm is promising but the Debian package manager says: Though mlterm supports Indic complex languages such as Hindi, this Debian package is not compiled with Indic support. I guess I'll have to play with the source and see. Will do that on weekend. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: gnome-terminal and pango
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,17.May.09, 01:39:07, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Does gnome-terminal use Pango? Is there any way one could make it do so? I could only find a nine years old thread on this topic on gtk-i18n-list: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2000-October/msg00020.html And that doesn't look encouraging. I am looking for a terminal that renders Indic scripts well. TIA. Try rxvt-unicode. Thanks for the reply. But rxvt-unicode doesn't even render the Devanagari characters. (gnome-terminal does that well, my only problem is with ligatures, etc. which are necessary for this script.) rxvt-unicode documentation says: devanagari however has no special support because I couldn't (and still cannot) imagine that anybody would be ok with the extremely miserable indic rendering that rxvt-unicode currently does. Sad. (And the Indic Linux Developer's meet concluded just yesterday!) -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: gnome-terminal and pango
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,17.May.09, 01:39:07, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Does gnome-terminal use Pango? Is there any way one could make it do so? I could only find a nine years old thread on this topic on gtk-i18n-list: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2000-October/msg00020.html And that doesn't look encouraging. I am looking for a terminal that renders Indic scripts well. TIA. Try rxvt-unicode. Thanks for the reply. But rxvt-unicode doesn't even render the Devanagari characters. (gnome-terminal does that well, my only problem is with ligatures, etc. which are necessary for this script.) rxvt-unicode documentation says: devanagari however has no special support because I couldn't (and still cannot) imagine that anybody would be ok with the extremely miserable indic rendering that rxvt-unicode currently does. Sad. (And the Indic Linux Developer's meet concluded just yesterday!) -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
gnome-terminal and pango
Does gnome-terminal use Pango? Is there any way one could make it do so? I could only find a nine years old thread on this topic on gtk-i18n-list: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2000-October/msg00020.html And that doesn't look encouraging. I am looking for a terminal that renders Indic scripts well. TIA. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: presentation programs on GNU/Linux
Thanks for the replies, Sebastian and Wolodja. 2009/4/17 Sebastian Günther wrote: Slides are to support your talk, which means: put the basic facts on them. And visual aid which is anything more than a picture, won't help. Especially if you want to hand out the slides on paper... Right. And this why I prefer Beamer to OO Impress. But the fact stands that creating some kinds of slide is hard. Embedded videos and animations are an example, which help immensely in my astrophysics related presentations. 2009/4/17 Wolodja Wentland wrote: I prefer to use Impressive [1] (formerly Keyjnote) to present my slides, because it lets me highlight parts of a slide, or switch between them *while i am giving the talk* in ways i can hardly foresee when i am designing my slides. Thanks for the pointer. I'll give this a try. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
talkd won't run
Hi all, While trying to get ytalk and talkd running on my Debian Lenny systems, I find that inetd fails to start talkd. The relevant lines in /etc/inetd.conf are: talk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/in.talkd in.talkd ntalk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd in.ntalkd Where am I going wrong? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
presentation programs on GNU/Linux
Hi all, Wondering after a recent seminar about what presentation program people prefer on Linux systems. I am really looking for suggestions to improve my own presentations. I use Beamer, which provides all the typographical beauty of LaTeX. But it is primitive when it comes to visual aids -- animations are hard and there is lack of freedom in placing elements on a slide. OpenOffice Impress can hardly make text (especially mathematical text) look good without LaTeX. Don't know how good Microsoft Powerpoint is but I'm impressed with Apple Keynote. It seems to combine elegance in typography and ease of creation. Are there any projects current in Linux that aim at developing a program similar to Keynote in quality? Do you manage Keynote-quality presentations with currently available solutions on Linux? Any comments will help. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: update information is outdated?
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote: I am getting this message from the update notifier constantly in the notification area on my panel -- The update information is outdated. This may be caused by network problems. Please update manually by clicking on this icon and then selecting 'Check'. There seem to be no network problems. The message reappears after checking for upgrades with aptitude or apt-get. What is wrong? Have you run the updater tool to update the package lists? If your mirror is not down then you need to do that. Perhaps it was down when update-notifier was trying to download the latest package files to see if there were any updates? Thanks for the reply, Daniel. The message from update-notifier appears even after I run 'aptitude update'. I have repeated this exercise quite a few times and also confirmed that the mirror is up. But the pop-up persists. Interestingly, there's a bug reported in the BTS about this -- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506186 Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
interfaces changed after upgrade
Hello, I upgraded from Etch to Lenny on my laptop last month. After the upgrade I find that the network interfaces eth0 (wired ethernet) and eth1 (wifi) have now been renamed to eth1 and wlan0_rename. Plus, a new interface eth2 has been added, to which no device is attached, but which is still DHCP queried at every boot. How do I remove wlan0_rename and attach the wifi device to eth2? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
update information is outdated?
Hi, I am getting this message from the update notifier constantly in the notification area on my panel -- The update information is outdated. This may be caused by network problems. Please update manually by clicking on this icon and then selecting 'Check'. There seem to be no network problems. The message reappears after checking for upgrades with aptitude or apt-get. What is wrong? Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Unison not syncing files under ~/.kde
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:21 AM, A. F. Cano wrote: ignorenot = Path afc/.kde/share/apps/kpilot #this is a directory ignorenot = Path afc/.kde/share/apps/karm/karm.ics #individual file ignorenot = Path afc/.wine/user_files But these do not propagate. ignore = Path afc/Desktop ignore = Name .* ignore = Name *.o Which Unison version are you using? The Unison manual has the following to say about ignorenot: Note that the semantics of ignore and ignorenot is a little counter-intuitive. When detecting updates, Unison examines paths in depth-first order, starting from the roots of the replicas and working downwards. Before examining each path, it checks whether it matches ignore and does not match ignorenot; in this case it skips this path and all its descendants. This means that, if some parent of a given path matches an ignore pattern, then it will be skipped even if the path itself matches an ignorenot pattern. In particular, putting ignore = Path * in your profile and then using t ignorenot to select particular paths to be synchronized will not work. Instead, you should use the path preference to choose particular paths to synchronize. See -- http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/stable/unison-manual.html#prefs In your case apparently .kde is ignored because its path matches an ignore criterion. Then it doesn't matter even if some descendent of .kde matches a ignorenot criterion. A solution is to edit your ignore patterns to keep .kde safe. (Use regexp maybe?) HTH, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
disabling GDM beep?
Hi, I use Lenny on my Dell Inspiron 640m laptop. The beep that GDM throws with the login screen has been a source of embarrasment in classrooms many times. How do I disable it? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: disabling GDM beep?
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Daryl Styrk wrote: I use Lenny on my Dell Inspiron 640m laptop. The beep that GDM throws with the login screen has been a source of embarrasment in classrooms many times. How do I disable it? Have a look in SystemPreferencesSound Doesn't help. I disabled the system beep there (also switched off all other sounds) but GDM still beeps. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: disabling GDM beep?
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Chris Burkhardt wrote: Yes, I think that should do it. For a GUI way, run (as root) gdmsetup and see the Accessibility tab for sound options. Thanks Chris, gdmsetup did it. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: spam control
Thanks for the all the replies! I plan to use the Bogofilter to start with and see how its comparison with Gmail's performance improves with time. Thanks, Girish. On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Girish Kulkarni gir...@hri.res.in wrote: I've been managing my mail with Gmail for about three years now. The primary reason for sticking to Gmail is their spam control. I now want to try moving back to the old mail spool on my Debian box and start managing mail myself. I'm curious to know what spam control techniques people on this list currently use. How is your experience with the spam control tools already available (SpamAssassin, SpanBouncer, Bogofilter)? Which one is the most favoured? Is Gmail indeed the best option for controlling spam? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
spam control
Hi, I've been managing my mail with Gmail for about three years now. The primary reason for sticking to Gmail is their spam control. I now want to try moving back to the old mail spool on my Debian box and start managing mail myself. I'm curious to know what spam control techniques people on this list currently use. How is your experience with the spam control tools already available (SpamAssassin, SpanBouncer, Bogofilter)? Which one is the most favoured? Is Gmail indeed the best option for controlling spam? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: digital camera recomendations
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Mike McClain wrote: I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera. Just for snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations or knows where I could find which are going to work with Debian. Just something simple with USB, AA batteries and that uses a generic mem card. Nobody seems to have pointed out the Nikon D40. It is cheap, light, simple, can get you snapshots and uses an SD card that is easy to use with Debian. No AA batteries though. See: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/recommended-cameras.htm Girish. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Lenny?
Hello, Any news of Lenny yet? The Debian home page continues to say The latest stable release of Debian is 4.0. and everyone seems quiet on the lists. The only places that gave an indication that Lenny is indeed the new stable were the README file on ftp.us.debian.org and Joerg Jaspert post on his blog: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README.html http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2009/02/14/lenny-release.html What is the typical timescale in which web site update and upgrade/installation documentation come up? Can I change etch to lenny in my sources.list to upgrade? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
xpdf segfaults
Hi, I use Etch x86_64. My xpdf (3.01-9.1+etch5) was working all right until now, before it suddenly started giving a Segmentation Fault. I wonder if this has happened to anyone before. I prefer not to use Evince or Adobe Acrobat Reader -- which anyway is a problem to run on x86_64 -- but I have no clue about how to get xpdf working again. (Yes, I have tried reinstalling it.) Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: English grammar checker
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Marcelo Laia wrote: I am looking a English grammar software checker for linux. I am using Debian testing. I try google and didn't found a software for this. Do you known one? aspell _Spell_ checker: aspell _Grammar_ checker: ??? Try using 'diction'. It identifies cliched phrases and comman grammatical errors. 'style' is a related tool that measures the readability of your writing. HTH, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Debian and Zipf's law
This isn't OT hopefully, but Debian has just contributed to research in Statistics, with potential application in Economics and Physics: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008PhRvL.101u8701M Although the journal article will require subscription, the arXiv e-print of the paper can be downloaded for free. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: 64-bit Flash Player
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Cassiel wrote: There's also http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html just put libflashplayer.so into the mozilla plugins dir This doesn't work on Etch. Can you confirm? -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Java on Debian
Thanks for the replies, Jordi and Jochen. I was confused with the jargon around JRE, JDK, and J2SE. But its cleared out now and I have Java running on my Debian Etch machine! Girish. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Girish Kulkarni wrote: A couple of stupid questions for the Java experts on this list. I am interested in setting up Java on Debian but apologies if this is OT. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Java on Debian
Hello, A couple of stupid questions for the Java experts on this list. I am interested in setting up Java on Debian but apologies if this is OT. Although I frequently write computer programs as a part of my work, most of these are for number crunching. I usually write in Fortran 90 and use a suitable compiler. The only other languages I am familiar with are C, Emacs Lisp and Ruby. So some things were confusing when I started learning Java a few weeks ago. I want to set Java up on my Debian Etch i686 machine and the jargon is getting in my way. I though Java is a Java Virtual Machine + some APIs. Then ... 1. What is the Java Runtime Environment? And the Java Development Kit? 2. What is my compiler? My Virtual Machine? 3. Are there any free software implementations of Java? The funny thing is that I could get Eclipse with Java running on my machine without understanding anything at all about what I did! Any replies will help. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: 64-bit Flash Player
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Can you post your sources.list? It almost seems that the multimedia repository gets the flash-package compiled for lenny or sid, and you have etch. That would be an explanation. Thanks for replying Sjoerd. Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list on Etch: - deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ experimental main - This gives the apt-get error that I posted in my earlier message to debian-user. The fourth and fifth lines were added when I tried to install the 32-bit Flash plugin with ndiswrapper directly with apt-get. That hadn't worked too and I had to comment out those lines when apt-get said it would upgrade my whole system to sid. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: 64-bit Flash Player
Thanks for replies Daryl, Clifford, and Jim. But its probably time I give up on installing Flash. I downloaded the correct file, copied it to ~/.mozilla/plugins, deleted all other instances of the flashplugin but nothing worked. I also tried adding debian-multimedia to my sources.list but then apt-get threw this error at me: - gir...@ff15:~$ sudo apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: flashplayer-mozilla: Depends: libatk1.0-0 (= 1.20.0) but 1.12.4-3 is to be installed Depends: libc6 (= 2.7-1) but 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 is to be installed Depends: libfreetype6 (= 2.3.5) but 2.2.1-5+etch3 is to be installed Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.12.0) but 2.8.20-7 is to be installed Depends: libpango1.0-0 (= 1.20.3) but 1.14.8-5 is to be installed E: Broken packages - I wonder where I am making that stupid mistake!? Girish. On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Thanks for all your replies (and apologies for the delay in getting back from my end; I'd been away and without the Internet). I tried using FlashPlayer 10 by copying its libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib64 and symlinking it in /usr/lib64/iceweasel/plugins. Didn't work. I then tried keeping that file in various other locations like ~/.mozilla/plugins and ~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins/ but that didn't work too. Finally I also tried installing the plugin from the experimental repository. But apt then asked me to include the sid main repository in sources.list too so that it could get the correct version of ndiswrapper. Enabling sid main however made apt attempt to upgrade every piece of software in my Etch distribution! Am I doing something wrong here?! Thanks, Girish. On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Has anyone had any success in using the new 64-bit Adobe Flash player for Linux on Debian? -- http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ I tried installing it on my x86_64 Etch machine but Iceweasel doesn't seem to detect it. I followed the instructions gives on the player's download page (all it involved was copying libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla). Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: 64-bit Flash Player
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: I do think that the experimental repository of debian-multimedia is not compiled with the libraries of etch. That explains the problems. You can use the stable repository, but that of course is the 32-bits version and nspluginwrapper. So I think you either have to update your system to testing/unstable, or use a 32 bit version of flash. You're probably right. But I was expecting at least the lobflashplayer.so (v10) from Adobe's site to work! Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: 64-bit Flash Player
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Daryl Styrk wrote: What did about:plugins say about the attempt at v10? Nothing! Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: 64-bit Flash Player
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:14 AM, CaT c...@zip.com.au wrote: Adobe didn't compile it with the libs that are avail in etch. Really? That would've explained it, but apparently Daryl on this thread already has it working on his 64-bit Etch. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: 64-bit Flash Player
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Daryl Styrk wrote: Sorry if I in some way mislead with Etch.. Running Lenny here. Oh, OK. So its a dependency issue then. Thanks. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: 64-bit Flash Player
Thanks for all your replies (and apologies for the delay in getting back from my end; I'd been away and without the Internet). I tried using FlashPlayer 10 by copying its libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib64 and symlinking it in /usr/lib64/iceweasel/plugins. Didn't work. I then tried keeping that file in various other locations like ~/.mozilla/plugins and ~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins/ but that didn't work too. Finally I also tried installing the plugin from the experimental repository. But apt then asked me to include the sid main repository in sources.list too so that it could get the correct version of ndiswrapper. Enabling sid main however made apt attempt to upgrade every piece of software in my Etch distribution! Am I doing something wrong here?! Thanks, Girish. On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Girish Kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had any success in using the new 64-bit Adobe Flash player for Linux on Debian? -- http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ I tried installing it on my x86_64 Etch machine but Iceweasel doesn't seem to detect it. I followed the instructions gives on the player's download page (all it involved was copying libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla). Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
64-bit Flash Player
Has anyone had any success in using the new 64-bit Adobe Flash player for Linux on Debian? -- http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ I tried installing it on my x86_64 Etch machine but Iceweasel doesn't seem to detect it. I followed the instructions gives on the player's download page (all it involved was copying libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla). Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
octal dump
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: In my work I collect a lot of data from the serial port, spit out by other machines. od is VERY useful when I collect data from a new machine. Are there carriage returns? Are there other strange characters? After those questions are answered it's much easier to parse the data and do stuff with it. Thanks for the replies Ron, Mike and others. I guess I understand use of od now (although that du puzzle is still with me). Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
octal dump
Hello, I was trying to understand octal dumps today that can be obtained using od. But two questions cropped up: 1. When would an octal dump be useful? Surely not in perusing text files?! And when people say they use octal (or hex) dump to check and edit binary files, how do they learn to do so? 2. I understand that od shows the file offsets in decimal if I say 'od -Ad'. But I find that the offset of the last line does not match with the size of the file given by 'du -h'. Why is that? I really am puzzled after bumping into this command by chance. Any comments would help. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i8xx_tco.ko?
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Given the message you posted, it looks like it is a watchdog timer control module. If you don't have or need watchdog support, then I'd ignore the message; as long as everything works fine. Thanks for that Douglas. I didn't know about watchdogs and that confused me. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i8xx_tco.ko?
Hello, I use Debian Etch on a Dell Inspiron 640m laptop and get this message at every boot: Detecting hardware...FATAL: Error inserting i8xx_tco (/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-686/kernel/drivers/char/watchdog/ i8xx_tco.ko):No such device How do I understand what is happening? What is i8xx_tco.ko supposed to do? Is there any way I can stop getting this message? Any comments will help. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X-keyboard configuration
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Tong wrote: For example, I can't even switch virtual consoles. Ctrl-Alt-F1 gives a beep and ;5P. Shift-Fx keys don't work in my editors either. Any way I can check? Have you tried xev (1) and xmodmap (1)? xev will tell you if the keys are working well at all; xmodmap will help you correct the problem if they aren't. HTH, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System clock malfunction
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: It gets better. If your RTC is in UTC, you can remove the initscript calls for hwclock in the S runlevel, and get a marginally faster boot, too. Recent kernels know how to read a RTC in UTC and set the initial system time all by itself (although you may want to test for it first: look for this in /var/log/dmesg: setting system clock to). Yes, right. Thanks for the tip. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System clock malfunction
I installed Debian 4.0 on my laptop this Thursday. And I notice today that the system clock is running faster by 0530 hours. My BIOS shows the correct time, but Debian changes to this advanced time at every reboot. What could be going wrong? (Interestingly, I use the Indian Standard Time, which happens to be precisely GMT+0530. Does this have anything to do with the problem?) Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System clock malfunction
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: You mean the BIOS shows the correct *local* time? In case you don't run Windows on the same machine you should set it to UTC and let Debian handle the time difference. Just make sure you have the right time zone by running 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata'. Otherwise you should tell it that your clock is set to local time (via /etc/default/rcS). Oh, THAT simple?! Thanks Andrei and Michael. I do have 'UTC=yes' in /etc/default/rcS while my BIOS shows local time (IST). I don't run any other system on this laptop so decided to change the BIOS time (after reading http://bugs.debian.org/346342). Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
