Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
Wayne Topa wrote:
Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
My GF has a Debian/GNOME/CUPS machine, and wishes to associate more than
one queue with it. I use Fedora/GNOME/CUPS and have no problem doing
that, but so far
On Sep 25, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:25:22PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Sid Arth wrote:
I want to have rtorrent running in the background once I turn it on
via ssh. Is there a way to keep rtorrent running even after
What is screen?
On 9/25/07, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 25, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:25:22PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Sid Arth wrote:
I want to have rtorrent running in the background once
David Brodbeck wrote:
As long as you realize it probably won't look the same to the other
person, unless they have the same Word version, the same operating
system, and the same fonts.
It will look similar enough.
It's rare that someone sends me a complicated Word file and I'm able
to
El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 18:43 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió:
Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 15:04 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió:
That's precisely it. It appears to me that the GNOME printer
manager shipped with Debian is either broken or deficient
in this area.
Mike writes:
Once again, mail to you has bounced.
??
If you read here regularly, then you would have seen the reports,
I most likely did. So what? How am I to know which of the innumerable
reports posted here you refer to?
My only point was this: She's leaving Debian because she perceives
On Monday 24 September 2007 19:03:47 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 06:40:58PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote:
On Monday 24 September 2007 15:50:58 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
I've reconfigured the file with your recommendations and restarted exim.
I'm still not
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Mark Phillips wrote:
Mike, you have to realize that support is provided by volunteers who
have lives (families, children, jobs, little league, etc.) outside of
supporting the software. There is no guarentee of any support when you
install Debian. But it
El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 19:23 -0500, Sid Arth escribió:
What is screen?
apt-cache show screen
It let's you do a lot of fancy stuff in the terminal (have multiple
windows, detach the session and reattach it, copy/paste with the
keyboard and a lot of other stuff).
It's exactly what you need.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 07:23:55PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote:
What is screen?
http://packages.debian.org/sid/screen
http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
Kumar
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Simon wrote:
Hi There,
We are trying to install debian etch onto our Inspiron 530 that has a
SATA DVD drive, but the installer cannot detect the CD drive once it
is booted. How do i move forward here?
Thanks
Simon
Something that you might want to try is to set your
s. keeling wrote:
[snip]
fwiw, I've found a really good place to ask difficult questions is in
debian-mentors.
Thanks for the pointer. If I can convince her not to wipe
Debian from the disc, I think I'll subscribe there as well.
I don't have much hopes on that point, however.
Mike
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Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Mike Bird wrote:
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:45, Mike McCarty wrote:
I'm not trying to be mean, either. I'm reporting a single event.
We're all volunteers here. You too. If you find time I guess
some of us would appreciate your posting links to
Hello,
you can launch jobs with at as well.
hth,
Jerome
Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 19:23 -0500, Sid Arth escribió:
What is screen?
apt-cache show screen
It let's you do a lot of fancy stuff in the terminal (have multiple
windows, detach the session and reattach it,
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:43:47PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
Why are you saying the version shipped with Debian is broken? Have you
tried it on other distros and it's different?
Yes.
[snip]
This is gnome, love it or leave it!
Works on
Gabriel Parrondo wrote:
El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 18:43 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió:
Works on my distro. I can't get it to work with Debian.
Cool! What distro is that? What version of gnome does it run?
Maybe it's running a newer version that didn't hit debian yet.
I'm normally not into
Wayne Topa wrote:
Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
[that he couldn's use the GUI to put multiple queues on one printer]
I don't run Gnome or KDE here I hope they accept the Cups config.
If not, someone someone that does run them, should submit a bug
report.
CUPS
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:05:53 -0700, David Brodbeck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Sep 24, 2007, at 9:39 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote:
I use XEMacs daily to produce LaTeX documents. I have frequent need
to search my archives of material I have written in the past, and I
use grep for this
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Martin Marcher wrote:
Why is it that simple statments, preceded by disclaimers
indicating that they are not complaints, get treated as
complaints?
Hello,
I'm interested in the job offer you posted on
Sarcasm is unbecoming, especially since I
Quoting Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi There,
We are trying to install debian etch onto our Inspiron 530 that has a
SATA DVD drive, but the installer cannot detect the CD drive once it
is booted. How do i move forward here?
Sounds like etch doesn't have the drivers for your sata controller.
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Hasler wrote:
I don't see that you provided any useful information.
Then it wasn't directed at you.
There are those here who have expressed a desire for Linux
to be a viable alternative to Windows for more users. It was
directed at those
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:29:45AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani
wrote:
Hey guys,
I recently installed etch on this old laptop and have no
problems with it whatsoever. I had no hardware issues or
anything. It
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On 09/25/07 19:11, David Brodbeck wrote:
[snip]
changes. About the time we hit the 650 page mark, Word started
corrupting the file and it became impossible to go through more than a
few edit/save cycles before the file became unreadable and we had
Roger B.A. Klorese [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Kent West wrote:
Like he said, he's not complaining, or asking for help, or asking for
information; he's just saying that we have room for improvement.
Well, yes, but it remains to be seen whether everyone considers this
room for improvement. A
David Brodbeck writes:
TeX is awesome for writing books and scientific papers. If you're
writing a letter to Grandma, though, OpenOffice is better suited.
Now _that_ sounds like driving a semi truck to the supermarket to pick up a
bottle of milk.
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These have (nearly) all been posted before, but some have requested
that they be reposted. If you don't like reading stuff
YET AGAIN, then just skip this message, please.
My GF installed a USB mouse, and her keyboard went away.
They work together with THE OTHER OS. IIRC (it's been
a while) using
Thanks its working perfectly
On 9/25/07, Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
you can launch jobs with at as well.
hth,
Jerome
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cothrige wrote:
After walking in from a day of my kids' soccer matches I noticed this
thread and feel I really must post a comment. I may be very late to
It seems like just one of those things, doesn't it :-)
[snip]
which posts or questions were those being talked about here. Really,
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 05:27:02PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
Good thing that what I'm writing is not at all complex. The two most
complex things are italics and indent-first-line.
[...]
Am I writing a book? Yes.
Am I writing a technical book? No!
I am writing fiction. I
Roger B.A. Klorese wrote:
Well, yes, but it remains to be seen whether everyone considers this
room for improvement. A lot of projects and products spend a lot of
time working on non-goals; the question at hand is whether adoption by
the level of user in question is or is not a goal.
I'm
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On 09/25/07 19:27, Steve Lamb wrote:
[snip]
Am I writing a book? Yes.
Am I writing a technical book? No!
I am writing fiction. I have no in-line graphics, complex font changes
for examples, silly little icons to denote special
On 9/25/07, Sid Arth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to have rtorrent running in the background once I turn it on
via ssh. Is there a way to keep rtorrent running even after I close
the session?
I like to use ctorrent,
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:55:26AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
I have some feedback about my GF who uses Debian at my suggestion.
I have no irons in the fire on this one, as I don't use Debian,
though I do administer her machine for her. So, please don't take
this as a complaint from me, as it
El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 22:57 -0400, Guillermo Garron escribió:
On 9/25/07, Sid Arth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to have rtorrent running in the background once I turn it on
via ssh. Is there a way to keep rtorrent running even after I close
the session?
I like to use ctorrent,
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:17:05PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
snip
I believe that is what the poster above was saying, and most likely you
understood him as being defensive or confrontational. I really don't
think the people here are trying to be in any
On 9/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi There,
We are trying to install debian etch onto our Inspiron 530 that has a
SATA DVD drive, but the installer cannot detect the CD drive once it
is booted. How do i move forward here?
Sounds
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On 09/25/07 21:33, Mike McCarty wrote:
These have (nearly) all been posted before, but some have requested
that they be reposted. If you don't like reading stuff
YET AGAIN, then just skip this message, please.
My GF installed a USB mouse, and
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:26:06 +0800
Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
you can launch jobs with at as well.
I don't think ncurses apps will necessarily run successfully via at; mc
doesn't, and I think I recall that rtorrent itself didn't (it isn't
currently installed).
hth,
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:10:17 -0500
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
USB keyboard? (I've always been leery of them, because of the
mutually-exclusive HID and {o,u}chi drivers.
I use a Dell USB keyboard, scavenged from an old desktop. It just
works:
usb 1-1: new full speed USB
Johannes Tax wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of
files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source
tree, I could do
cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function'
but this seems quite awkward, furthermore it doesn't help
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 09/25/07 21:33, Mike McCarty wrote:
[snip]
USB keyboard? (I've always been leery of them, because of the
mutually-exclusive HID and {o,u}chi drivers.
Oops! I somehow neglected to specify...
PS/2 style keyboard
PS/2 style mouse
Keyboard works
PS/2 style keyboard
USB
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:50:44 -0500
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
[snipped the on-topic stuff]
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and he'll
Rob Mahurin wrote:
I know you've settled on OOo, but it's worth pointing out that TeX is
a simple language if you're writing a simple document. In particular
you are already writing valid plain TeX in your email. Copy the above
(without the 's) into file.txt; change /'thinking'/ to {\it
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:21:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 09/25/07 18:44, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:29:45AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani
wrote:
Hey guys,
I recently installed etch on this old laptop and have no
[catching up on a d-u backlog]
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:23:07 -0600
Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
I think you'll find that even good wireless keyboards won't easily
penetrate more than a single wall of your home, and won't extend very
far past an exterior wall in most setups,
Steve Lamb wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
The output is PostScript
so I kept a copy of GhostView (gv) running (watching the file) and
whenever I wanted to see how things looked, just ran lout on my file to
the same output file name.
Yeahhh, no thanks. I don't like coding HTML
* Peter Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070926 00:35]:
If you write in latex you can always convert to RTF via latex2rtf, which in
my experience works excellently. If needed, it is no big deal to convert
this to word format. It is definitely worth the effort to learn latex.
This afternoon, out
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Manoj Srivastava shared this with us all:
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* Sid Arth [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-09-25
I want to have rtorrent running in the background once I turn it on
via ssh. Is there a way to keep rtorrent running even after I close
the session?
Nohup, Screen, and VNC (in increasing order of complexity). I have a small
introduction to screen at
El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 21:33 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió:
[snip of something I can't help with]
She can't associate multiple queues with a single printer,
but there is already another thread about that. There is
currently no work around, but there is hope that using the
CUPS I/F directly
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