Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network

2008-07-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/16/08 13:38, Nate Duehr wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: That computer served me very well for several years. Leading Edge D? Oh wow, that name brings back some memories... Heh. Lots of people ragged on them, but the ones we had at work were

Re: how to add ether net card in etch

2008-07-16 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 16 July 2008 14:51, Serena Cantor wrote: I have etch. Now I add a Ethernet card The card use e100 module in kernel 2.4/sarge but e100 in etch does not seem to work. Hi Serena. Is the e100 module loaded? Post the ouput of lsmod please. I know that I had some problems with the

Re: Bash: pipe once more

2008-07-16 Thread Bob McGowan
Stefan Schmidt wrote: Hello, if I pipe the output of a cd command the working directory doesn't change. , | $ cd ~/bin 21 | tee -a output.log; pwd | /home/stefan ` How come and how can I get this to work? Stefan 'cd' is a shell builtin command. In 'bash' and 'ksh', you can

Re: debian no client name??

2008-07-16 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Please reply to the list, where the conversation can be followed by more persons. (And only to the list, do not CC me, please.) Lóránd Erik escreveu: You have to add an entry to the /etc/hosts file of the Ubuntu machine which the name and IP of your Debian box, or set up a DNS

Re: regexp q.

2008-07-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 15:44:02 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Not being very versatile in regular expressions I wonder if is possible to express this: Find the number of ),( triplets in a string, provided they are not in a substring that is enclosed in single quotes, ignoring the

Create single PDF out of several other files

2008-07-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
I have a user who processes documents from other people. In Windows she would select 20+ documents (all of the same type, usually pdf, gs, or word files) and make a single PDF document out of them. She could then easily take that PDF with her and print it at the job. I believe that she was using

Resp.: drbd WAS working fine; but now fsck can't open /dev/drbd? ??

2008-07-16 Thread Lucas Mocellin
Hi Bob, I can't help you with your trouble, but I'm interested in drbd, can you post your cenario? I'll test it. Thanks, Lucas. 2008/7/16, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As a followup to my own post - I've since tried inserting drbd into /etc/modules, and /etc/initramfs- tools/modules (and updated

Re: Create single PDF out of several other files

2008-07-16 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Dotan Cohen escreveu: I have a user who processes documents from other people. In Windows she would select 20+ documents (all of the same type, usually pdf, gs, or word files) and make a single PDF document out of them. She could then easily take that PDF with her and print it at the job. I

Re: [OT] How to Analyze/Study Source Code?

2008-07-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:45:54 +0100 Sam Kuper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/16 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just wondering how you guys go about studying code? My guess is: different people use different techniques, some more formal than others. I'm looking forward with

Re: how often is etch kernel updated

2008-07-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:41:56 +0100 michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 19:44 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-16 18:22, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: michael wrote: I'm at 2.6.18-6-686 and believe I need

Re: Create single PDF out of several other files

2008-07-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:30:54 -0300 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dotan Cohen escreveu: I have a user who processes documents from other people. In Windows she would select 20+ documents (all of the same type, usually pdf, gs, or word files) and make a single PDF document

Re: Webcam setup

2008-07-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:41:32 -0400 Frank McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to test a Webcam (it's recognized by the USB system) on my Sid installation and am getting nowhere. The problem seems to be a lack of a video device. The

Re: install debian on dell poweredge 1950

2008-07-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:49:30 +0700 Surachai Locharoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am running the following set up: A dell poweredge 1950: running Debian Etch - 1x Dual Core 64-bit Intel(r) Xeon(r) 5050, 2x2MB Cache, 3.00GHz, 667MHz FSB - 2GB 533MHz (4x512MB), Single Ranked

Re: Create single PDF out of several other files

2008-07-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/7/16 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Second to pdftk. I use it all the time. e.g. pdftk p1.pdf p2.pdf p3.pdf cat output p_combined.pdf Amit Thanks, Amit. I suppose now is my chance to learn KDE service menus so that I can make this easy for her. -- Dotan Cohen

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-16 Thread Marko Randjelovic
main:~# apt-cache policy | grep -i backport 1 http://www.backports.org etch-backports/non-free Packages release o=Backports.org archive,a=etch-backports,l=Backports.org archive,c=non-free origin www.backports.org 1 http://www.backports.org etch-backports/contrib Packages

Re: Webcam setup

2008-07-16 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:02:44 -0700 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:41:32 -0400 Frank McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to test a Webcam (it's recognized by the USB system) on my Sid

Re: how to add ether net card in etch

2008-07-16 Thread Serena Cantor
Thanks! Below is output of lsmod: ... e100 32232 0 mii 5344 1 e100 ... I try ifconfig eth0, it says device not found. --- On Wed, 7/16/08, Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to add ether net card in etch To:

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-16 Thread Marko Randjelovic
It looks like apt have an idea backports.org has priority of 1 when there is no entry in preferences file. Why? Every other priorities are recognized correctly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Create single PDF out of several other files

2008-07-16 Thread Stefan Schmidt
If the files are all PDF, then pdftk can easily join them in another PDF. For Postscript, they can easily be converted to PDF and then joined. I believe there was a KDE extension that allowed some pdftk operations in an easy graphical way. But I do not remember in which package it was.

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-16 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Marko Randjelovic wrote: It looks like apt have an idea backports.org has priority of 1 when there is no entry in preferences file. Why? Every other priorities are recognized correctly. Also, there is no mention of priority=1 in /etc/apt/preferences. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [OT] How to Analyze/Study Source Code?

2008-07-16 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/7/16 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 4. doc++ - Documentation system that generates LaTeX/html. Latest upload was on dec 2002. Doxygen could also work here. It's more recent, and it does more languages than just C or C++. I frequently use it to document my own code, and for

Re: regexp q.

2008-07-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 15:44:02 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Not being very versatile in regular expressions I wonder if is possible to express this: Find the number of ),( triplets in a string, provided they are not in a substring that is enclosed in single

Re: regexp q.

2008-07-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:45:03PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: ... The insane approach (dedicated to Andrew S-W, who is a great perl aficionado): #! /usr/bin/perl -w #read file open ( FH, test.txt ); $string = FH; close ( FH ); # match and count while ( $string =~

Re: [OT] How to Analyze/Study Source Code?

2008-07-16 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:48:02 -0500 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/16 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 4. doc++ - Documentation system that generates LaTeX/html. Latest upload was on dec 2002. Doxygen could also work here. It's more recent, and it does more

Re: [Mostly Solved] Re: Blurry fonts in printed invoices

2008-07-16 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:04:45 +0200 Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 20:30:05 -0400, Celejar wrote: ... $ pdffonts PDF/A_simple_test_page_for_common_fonts.pdf name type emb sub uni object ID

Anyone know what's up with the Quantum Gis package?

2008-07-16 Thread David Jantzen
http://packages.qa.debian.org/q/qgis.html Looks like the maintainer went AWOL and it's been removed from everything but Etch. Any clues? Thanks, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: auto update headers

2008-07-16 Thread Mumia W..
On 07/16/2008 11:30 AM, Preston Boyington wrote: why is it that after a round of updates via aptitude i have to go in and install things like linux-headers afterwards? how can i tell it to automatically update them along with the kernel? i was under the impression that if i had them

need help with chroot

2008-07-16 Thread Thomas H. George
The man page and a google search gave minimum info except for the link to www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tip.en.html. Following by rote the prompts in 8.6.35.1 I think I succeeded in installing a minimal Etch installation though the prompt never changed to chroot # when I entered

Re: need help with chroot

2008-07-16 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mié, 16-07-2008 a las 21:13 -0400, Thomas H. George escribió: The man page and a google search gave minimum info except for the link to www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tip.en.html. Following by I think that document is a little out of date. The 'MAKEDEV generic' for example, is

Re: install debian on dell poweredge 1950

2008-07-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 02:05:02PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:49:30 +0700 Surachai Locharoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am running the following set up: A dell poweredge 1950: running Debian Etch - 1x Dual Core 64-bit Intel(r) Xeon(r) 5050,

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-16 Thread kumar . appaiah
On 7/16/08, Daniel Burrows wrote: plan (extra pay for more MBs). It's too expensive for me to get a better plan, and plain not worth the money for the limited needs of people here at home. I don't know how expensive is too expensive, but when I got fed up with my ISP's mail server, I

re: VGA modes for the supported resolutions

2008-07-16 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Folk, [As soon as I have a tunnel working, thread continuity will be possible.] Andrei Popescu wrote, ,[ hwinfo --framebuffer ] | 02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer | [Created at bios.450] ... hwinfo gives no output on this system. dalton:~# hwinfo --framebuffer dalton:~#

Re: Strange NFS behaviour

2008-07-16 Thread s. keeling
Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:16:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 08:13:09AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: Does your /etc/exports file on the server say the client can write? eg. /home/daniel 192.168.1.14(rw) /exports/video

Audacious won't open files specified in command line

2008-07-16 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
Hi, I'm trying to play audio files with audacious. From audacious(1): audacious [-h] [--help] [-r] [--rew] [-p] [--play] [-u] [--pause] [-s] [--stop] [-f] [--fwd] [-e] [--enqueue] [-m] [--show-main-window] [-v] [--version] [--headless] [filename]... So, running 'audacious

Re: Sound Problems (Sound is Often Gone)

2008-07-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:06:39AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sunday 13 July 2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: 2008/7/13 Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm using Kubuntu, but not the latest version, the one before it (Gutsy, I think) and KDE 3.5.8 and have been using OSS. Are you

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:27:25PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: You should contact debian-www about that. I think I recall a discussion about the children-distros page being outdated, but I guess manpower is missing again. I you would be willing to supply patches against the CVS source I'm

Don't edit posts and claim OP posted it!! (was ... Re: My first message...)

2008-07-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 05:28:38PM +0100, Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: [..] I thought you said an alpha release. That is testing. I am not a developer and I don't use testing, I use Sid. In my eight years with Debian, testing seems a ... BLAH BLAH BLAH Hey!

Re: Automating the configuration of alsa on known HW

2008-07-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:58:11PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote: Doesn't anyone know? On Friday 11 July 2008 15:39, Shachar Or wrote: Hello! In order to do this, I'll run alsaconf on the HW and copy it's results. So I'm here asking, what files does alsaconf change/create? Please don't top

Re: Audacious won't open files specified in command line

2008-07-16 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El jue, 17-07-2008 a las 00:00 -0300, Gabriel Parrondo escribió: Hi, I'm trying to play audio files with audacious. From audacious(1): audacious [-h] [--help] [-r] [--rew] [-p] [--play] [-u] [--pause] [-s] [--stop] [-f] [--fwd] [-e] [--enqueue] [-m] [--show-main-window] [-v]

Re: Don't edit posts and claim OP posted it!! (was ... Re: My first message...)

2008-07-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 03:28:22PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 05:28:38PM +0100, Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: [..] I thought you said an alpha release. That is testing. I am not a developer and I don't use testing, I use Sid. In my

Re: Strange NFS behaviour

2008-07-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:19:47AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:16:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 08:13:09AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: Does your /etc/exports file on the server say the client can write?

Re: APT Strange Behaviour (Priorities)

2008-07-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:21:59PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: main:~# apt-cache policy | grep -i backport 1 http://www.backports.org etch-backports/non-free Packages release o=Backports.org archive,a=etch-backports,l=Backports.org archive,c=non-free

Re: auto update headers

2008-07-16 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:30:31AM -0500, Preston Boyington [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: why is it that after a round of updates via aptitude i have to go in and install things like linux-headers afterwards? how can i tell it to automatically update them along with the kernel? i

Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network

2008-07-16 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh wow, that name brings back some memories... Never had one of those. My first was a clone XT at Fry's electronics - no hard drive at first, just 2 floppies (both 360K) and hercules monochrome card and 12 amber monitor. 640K

Disk Drive Message: Drive side 80-wire cable detection failed

2008-07-16 Thread David Baron
This comes early on in the bootup so missed it until now: hdd: drive side 80-wire cable detection failed, limiting max speed to UDMA33 OK, this is an older Quantum Fireball 10gig drive I found and put in. So is this message correct behavior? The 80-wire cable is there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: install debian on dell poweredge 1950

2008-07-16 Thread Surachai Locharoen
I upgrade kernel 2.6.25 from testing repository. After that the computer couldn't see network device. I found that bnx2 couldn't load firmware at booting time. So I manual load bnx2 module modprobe -r bnx2 modprobe bnx2 The network device work again.

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