Re: Need to reboot Debian frequently

2008-04-05 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:18:50 -0500 Mark Allums [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff D wrote: While not having used asterisk myself, I would suggest not running firefox on a machine that is some what critical of uptime. Firefox itself will eat up huge amounts of memory. I would also suggest not

[OT] sqlite-amalgamation

2008-04-03 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey everyone, I am currently evaluating the use of sqlite3 to store application data from a python application that I am writing. I am using Debian Etch so some of the packages are out of date and thus I decided to compile them from source. Python 2.5.2 was fairly straightforward to compile

Re: [OT] sqlite-amalgamation

2008-04-03 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:16:57 +0530 sabarish balagopal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just downloaded the source tarball, un-tar'ed and unzipped, did a ./configure make. That left me with a sqlite3 executable. I didn't had slightest of problem doing this. So if you can elaborate what exactly you

Re: Suggest one tool to collect favorite web pages?

2008-04-01 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:44:16 -0400 Michael Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys: Is there any good tools you can recommend to save the web pages? When I find some pages that I'm interested in, or some good articles, I would like to save it (the content, not the link url) on my system, so

Re: Installing a Lenny package to an Etch machine

2008-04-01 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:02:07 -0400 Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon March 31 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: First I would try to install it with 'dpkg -i'. Another option would be to set 'APT::Default-Release stable;' in /etc/apt/apt.conf, add a source for lenny and try to

Mounting Windows Samba shares without using smbfs

2008-03-29 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
As smbfs is no longer maintained, what is the proper way to mount samba shares in linux? Most of the user guides out there rely on 'mount -t smbfs ' to mount windows shares. I heard there is a mount -t cifs? But that doesn't seem to work in etch box that I have. In the meantime, I am

Re: exim4 hanging on startup [SOLVED]

2008-03-28 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:16:09 +0100 Jörg-Volker Peetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same problem discussed on linux.debian.user.laptop: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2008/03/msg00062.html -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. I ran 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' and chose the dial on demand

Re: debian sdcc + pic16f877a help

2008-03-27 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:15:47 +0800 jeffry s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there anyone here who work on pic16f877a. i am using debian sid. and doing c programming for pic16f877a. but i am new and don't have any idea how to start. anyone can help me or point me a good sdcc+pic tutorial out

exim4 hanging on startup

2008-03-27 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey everyone, I was finally allowed to set up debian etch on my desktop system at work. I was thinking of keeping windows xp for dual boot...but I asked myself why? And now its debian only :) Anyways...on this desktop etch exim4 takes around a minute to load at startup. I am not sure why

Re: wireframe tool?

2008-03-26 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:18:42 +0100 e s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone know a wireframe tool for prototyping interfaces, or applications? Any other you use? (other than WireFrame on sourceforge) thanks, -e Wireshark maybe? Previously known as ethereal. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:34:04 -0500 Jonathan Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GNOME and KDE are the ones that I have. But, is there one out there that looks like XP. I am going to install Debian on my mothers computer and she is running...slowly...XP. Every other comment out of my mom,

Re: Migrating from Python 2.4 to Python 2.5 in Etch

2008-03-11 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:19:32 -0800 Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amit T Uttamchandani wrote: Hey Everyone, Some of the libraries I need to use are only available for python 2.5. I installed it in Etch and everything works fine. I understand that Etch installs python 2.4 by

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-11 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:12:09 + Nuno Magalhães [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, enjoy your breakfast. I have a 20GB partiiton with an OS that i seldom ever use. When i do, it's to play games. My board's an Asus M2NPV-VM which has an onboard nVidia GeForce 6150. The thing is i'm gonna

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-07 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:15:23 +0100 Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Amit... Am 2008-03-02 13:50:52, schrieb Amit Uttamchandani: Hey guys, Grmpf! -- I am not a guy... Sorry bout that ;) I was given a 18GB (yes GB) compressed zip file by a family member, containing

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Since you don't tell us which DE you use, it is only save to presume that you use the console. Thus: $ unzip -v stupidly_large_zip_file.txt $ view stupidly_large_zip_file.txt Ok finally was able to try this...I sshd onto the Mac with OS X leopard and used the unzip command. Here is the

Liberation Fonts on Debian Etch

2008-03-04 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, When I installed Etch for the first time, I installed msttcorefonts. I recently heard of the liberation fonts provided by red hat that is supposed to be of much better quality than msttcorefonts and is provided in an open license. My question is, how do I go about installing this and

[OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I was given a 18GB (yes GB) compressed zip file by a family member, containing all kinds of photos and videos. The problem now is they cannot unzip it (using Mac OS X Leopard). The unzip tool always exits with an error. Now, I haven't received the zip file yet...still downloading it

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Since you don't tell us which DE you use, it is only save to presume that you use the console. Thus: Yes, you are right...I primarily use the console for almost all file operations. I will try the command you gave below. $ unzip -v stupidly_large_zip_file.txt $ view

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:03:26 -0600 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/08 15:50, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey guys, I was given a 18GB (yes GB) compressed zip file by a family member, containing all kinds of photos and videos

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 20:19:59 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:03:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: If you happen to be using GNOME (God's own DE), then file-roller will do just fine. Simply fire up Nautilus and click on the zip file. But Dotan is

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 06:41:29 +0100 NN_il_Confusionario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:43:36PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:50:52PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: And also, is there a tool to browse zip files...like how midnight commander

Re: Network latency. Sarge vs Etch.

2008-02-29 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hi there, I am not too familiar with the problem you are having but I will make a suggestion. Take a look at what kind of network card you have and google around or check the kernelnewbies website to check if the driver for that network card has been updated in the more recent kernels. Then

Latest WebKit with Debian Etch

2008-02-28 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey Guys, Any of you have any luck compiling any of the latest nightly builds of webkit (more specifically webkitgtk)? Whenever I try to compile, I get some sort of error during the make procedure. I was curious to know if any of you had any luck compiling it. The reason for this:

[OT] Sun Solaris 10 Manual. Is it done in LaTeX?

2008-02-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I had to set up solaris 10 on an old sun workstation that we have. I gotta admit this is quite an impressive release (in terms of technology, ease of installation, etc.) Anyways that aside. I had to read up on the Solaris 10 install guide from Sun and wow it is beautifully and

Re: [OT] Sun Solaris 10 Manual. Is it done in LaTeX?

2008-02-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
It doesn't look like it is: $ pdfinfo 820-0176.pdf Title: Subject: Keywords: Author: Creator:XPP Producer: Acrobat Distiller Server 6.0.1 (Sparc Solaris, Built: 2003-11-03) CreationDate: Mon Jul 2 06:56:53 2007 ModDate:Mon

Re: debian 4.0 on ppc

2008-02-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hi there, I am sorry I haven't replied. Anyways it looks like its a CD related problem. Did you burn it to a CDRW? What software did you use to burn it? I am using an older PowerBook G4 500MHz and I did not have to do anything special or copy any files to the root HD. I simply burned the etch

Re: sshfs and permissions of /dev/fuse

2008-02-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Do you have fuse-utils installed? /dev/fuse is meant to be created with ownership root:fuse, so the fuse group has to exist on your system. If I remember correctly, this group is created by the post-installation script of fuse-utils. You can check if your system has the fuse group: $

Re: sshfs and permissions of /dev/fuse

2008-02-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
The 2.6.18 images have fuse.ko included. However, we should make sure that your experiment with module-assistant has not left behind an additional - possibly broken - fuse module. Run find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -name fuse.ko and verify that it only lists one file:

Re: Matlab on Debian

2008-02-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:56:45 -0500 Michael Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: I want to install the matlab package on debian, do you know any repositories I can use? Thanks. M. Hi there, I took a course that required MATLAB. For almost all of the homework assignments, octave did

Re: Creating aliases/shorcuts for programs in linux [SOLVED]

2008-02-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
If you are going the fluxbox route, why not just configure keys, like, e.g., Ctrl-Alt-f starts Firefox, etc? If you want icons on a lightweight window manager, I think idesk is what people use. I personally just configure key commands. http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php/Howto_idesk Thanks

Re: sshfs and permissions of /dev/fuse [SOLVED]

2008-02-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:52:15 +0100 Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't worry about this, the fuse initscript does not exist in Etch. (I forgot to check that before I sent my previous message. I run Sid.) Can you use sshfs after you modprobe the fuse module? If so then you can

Creating aliases/shorcuts for programs in linux

2008-02-22 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, Recently moved from Mac OS X to Debian Etch and I was curios as to how to create aliases/shortcuts to programs. I wanted to set up Debian etch for my parents and in their home folder there is going to be a folder called apps. In there will be all the aliases/shortcuts for programs

Re: wireless card not configure

2008-02-22 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:49:18 +0530 pasupathy murugan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debian etch netgear wg311 wifi not configure , pl help me Hi there, Sorry to hear that you are having problems. But you probably need to provide more details otherwise it is almost impossible for us to help.

Re: sshfs and permissions of /dev/fuse

2008-02-21 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:42:18 +0100 Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-02-19 01:02:39 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I recently installed sshfs on this etch system using aptitude install sshfs. I am having the same problem you listed above. However, I can't seem to find /dev

Re: sshfs and permissions of /dev/fuse

2008-02-19 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:37:09 +0100 Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed fuse with module-assistant auto-install fuse. Then, after loading the fuse module, I've tried sshfs, but I get the following error: fuse: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied Here /dev/fuse

Re: gdm session chooser list

2008-02-12 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
However, after trying to understand these configs, my annoyance of the duplicates is now much less than my annoyance at trying to eliminate them. Is it just me, or does gdm seem a bit over the top when it comes to configuration? I never really took a liking to Gnomealways found config

Re: lm_sensors does not support my board with w83627ehf

2008-02-12 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:00:24 -0500 Patrick Zaloum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually that's precicely what I just did, i'm running 2.6.22-3 from backports now, but so far i'm not any better for trying. Now when i run sensors i get the following error: w83627dhg-i2c-9191-290 ERROR: Can't

Re: gdm session chooser list

2008-02-10 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:55:13 -0800 (PST) Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to ask whether someone could direct me to the config file that manages the gdm chooser list at login. I seem to have duplicate entries since I installed IceWM and Fluxbox. Previous I had been running

Re: Etch-and-a-half? When?

2008-02-09 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 23:07:06 -0500 Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:29:11PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey guys, Here's a quote from the LCA: State of Debian article on lwn.net: The Etch-and-a-half release will be happening soon. This is a version

Etch-and-a-half? When?

2008-02-07 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, Here's a quote from the LCA: State of Debian article on lwn.net: The Etch-and-a-half release will be happening soon. This is a version of Etch which offers a 2.6.24 kernel - needed to make Etch work on newer hardware. The original 2.6.18 kernel will remain an option for Etch users.

Re: Colours in VIM-AbiWord

2008-02-05 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:59:16 -0500 Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: right.. but I didn't know if there were other programs, AbiSpread... to go along with it. Nope... Gnumeric is the spreadsheet that AbiWord Unix users typically

Re: Installing Debian on iMac (Rev. C)

2008-02-03 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 01:09:53 -0600 Ben Leighton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible of me to instal Debian on an iMac (Rev. C)? Yes it is. I have successfully installed Debian on an iMac Rev B machine. Since it is a NewWorld machine you can directly download the debian cd and boot from

Re: Will using kernel 2.6.24 make my laptop faster?

2008-01-31 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Actually one more thing, any benefits to doing this? Besides the geek satisfaction that all of us get from compiling a new kernel. I think self-compiling kernels is generally overrated. I'd suggest trying pre-packaged kernels from sid first. Pre-packaged kernels from sid. Will they work

Re: local copy of wikipedia

2008-01-31 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:44:43 + (UTC) Angie NegrónRolón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ivan Glushkov glushkov at mail.desy.de writes: Hi, I want to have wikipedia locally on my debian laptop. Which way of installing wikipedia would take the least disk space? What software I need

Unstable wireless connection in Etch

2008-01-31 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I have Etch running like a charm here. But recently I've been experiencing some unstable wireless connection on this laptop. Here are a few notes of the issue: * Connection suddenly is lost and goes to 0/92 (according to sudo iwconfig) * Started occurring randomly during the past

Automated Testing using FLOSS Tools

2008-01-31 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hi there, I am planning to propose to the management folks at work a Debian Workstation that will be used to automate testing of the network devices that we produce. I have done extensive research on testing tools. And I have come up with two main choices. 1. DejaGNU *

Re: problem with wireless encryption

2008-01-30 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
The problem with WPA is the vendors sometimes implement it in their own way. That is why there a lot incompatibility issues with it. Why not just use WEP? I am sure it offers a good enough level of encryption for your needs. Sorry I am not of much more help. Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Will using kernel 2.6.24 make my laptop faster?

2008-01-30 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I apologize for the fairly primitive question. But I have been fairly curious as to the advantages of compiling the most recent kernels. As I understand, the new kernel has a new scheduler (CFS). Haven't seen much benchmarks but the early ones I have seen showed some fairly decent

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I am surprised no one mentione PPC hardware. There are old PowerMac towers that come with a huge room inside to install hard drives and etc. As I remember correctly, I am pretty sure there was a model with two processors in them (Motorola 604s or 603s). That would be a much better choice than

[OT] Persistent Vim Folding

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, Been using Vim/GVim a lot recently and I am loving it! I recently started using the folding feature. I created a bunch of folds but when I quit GVim and restart it..all the folds are gone! Is there anyway to store the folds, so the next time I launch the same document, it stays?

FLOSS VOIP Client Software

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hello fellow debian users, I am trying to look for a decent FLOSS VOIP software that allows me to communicate to Windows/Mac users. Skype is out of the question since it does not even support Debian PPC (which I have). I have heard of Ekiga. How is that? Does that work with Windows/Mac users

Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and powerful FLOSS password manager similar to Keychain on Mac OS X. I preferably would want a CLI tool...so I could remote login using SSH and look at some passwords that I have forgotten. Any ideas? Thanks, Amit

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:15:04 + Steve Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use pwsafe, it is cli-based, but with the ability to paste logins/passwords into X11 applications too. Steve Thanks for the reply. It looks like a nice little app. But it hasn't been updated since 2005. Do you

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:22:35 -0500 Neil Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://technocrat.watson-wilson.ca/blosxom/computer/encrypted-storage.html That's actually quite interesting. Storing the file in RAM. Now how to create a ramdisk is debian. There doesn't seem to be /dev/ram. I did a

Re: debian 4.0 on ppc

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:43:51 +0800 Mark Quitoriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, im having a hard time installing debian 4.0 in ppc. im following this documentation[1] for booting the CD/DVD. I also tried first the normal process booting the CD by pressing C on boot-up but didn't work so i

Re: how to change /media/disk to /media/usbdisk

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:56:35 -0500 Bernard Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I use Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon with Gnome. When I insert a USB stick it is automatically mounted on /media/disk. I need to have it mounted as /media/usbdisk. How can I change this behavior? As far as I know

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:37:37 -0500 Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri January 25 2008, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and powerful FLOSS password manager similar to Keychain on Mac OS X. I preferably would want

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:53:54 -0500 Chris Howie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 4:41 AM, Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and powerful FLOSS password manager similar to Keychain on Mac OS X

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:45:19 + Steve Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri Jan 25, 2008 at 07:28:29 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: It looks like a nice little app. But it hasn't been updated since 2005. Do you think this is a big issue? Not really. It isn't missing features

Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:01:31 -0500 Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, A little while back I was trying to fix a system that was producing a continuous tone after being unused for a while, then logging in. Now it's running

Re: APM or ACPI on a PowerPC Laptop?

2008-01-07 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:13:29 +0100 Michel Dänzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 23:23 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I am confused as to what power management technology I should be using. When I installed debian etch on this powerpc Apple PowerBook, apm was used

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:04:10 +0100 pol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to re-use a physically crashed disk. My guess is that its surface has been damaged. I would like to re-install debian (or kubuntu). How is it possible to reformat the disk, without using the damaged area? Thank

APM or ACPI on a PowerPC Laptop?

2008-01-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I am confused as to what power management technology I should be using. When I installed debian etch on this powerpc Apple PowerBook, apm was used as default. Things are working great here and I have no complaints. However, I understand there is also ACPI, which is newer. Are there

Re: xpdf warnings??

2008-01-04 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 15:52:46 -0500 (EST) ISHWAR RATTAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: System is Debian derivative with xpdf-3.02-1.3 It seems to work but i see multiple lines with error: Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph ... Any help will be appreciated. -ishwar This is not a

How to create an image of HD?

2007-12-28 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I am planning to buy a new hard drive for my laptop and replace the existing one. However, I love my setup right now and wouldn't want to change it. I know there are some FLOSS tools that can be used to image/clone hard drives. Any suggestions? Anybody have any experiences with this?

Re: How to create an image of HD?

2007-12-28 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Thanks for all the suggestions. I will experiment with tar and dd. And post back on the results. Thanks again, Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: closest to eagle

2007-12-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:30:10 +0100 abdelkader belahcene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am looking for the closest free software to eagle ( electonic Printed circuit board design tool). thanks a lot best regards bela Check out the gEDA package. It includes an PCB board design tool if

Re: Anyone using Debian on notebook?

2007-12-12 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 00:56:10 +0900 js [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think debian works well on my ppc mac (iBook). I would buy thinkpad or something. Really? I am running Debian Etch on a PowerBook G4 and have no problems at all. In fact, I really did not have to hack around or

Replacing HD with Flash IDE drive

2007-12-11 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I have an old PowerBook G4 500MHz running beautifully with debian. Everything is perfect except for the noisy hard drive in this machine. It is unbearable when trying to work in the library or someplace quite (sounds like when you're sitting in a plane, on a seat right next to the

Re: Ping works but not internet

2007-12-11 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:01:24 +0100 Axel Minck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I recently installed Debian on my computer (2.6.18 kernel). After some time to configure the wireless internet access, I can: - Ping addresses - Go to Google homepage

Re: windows won't boot anymore after installation of debian

2007-11-28 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:24:33 +0200 Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, A friend of mine tried to resize his windows partition using partition magic and then proceeded to install fedora (don't know the version but with kernel 2.6.5) which complained about some problem and after the

Re: debian 3.1 - how make it to support 2G memory

2007-11-26 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:25:47 -0800 (PST) ann kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I want to increase the memory from 1G to 2G debian 3.1 - how make it to support 2G memory thank you I think you would have to recompile the kernel and change the config to support larger memory. --

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:59:53 -0600 Sidarth Dasari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anybody else getting tons of spam emails from this mailing list? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah getting lots of it. Man

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hi there, I would recommend a small nifty utility called rubber. It is simply a front end for the most common latex compile commands. Thus, if you want to compile your latex file into pdf simply run rubber --pdf filename.tex It takes care of everything. It is available in the debian

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:03:15 -0500 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:53:00PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hi there, I would recommend a small nifty utility called rubber. It is simply a front end

wiki to pdf converter

2007-11-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I take notes in class and use the wiki markup system. Thus, a section of the notes would look like the following: == Timers === * Timer0 - 8-bit timer/counter with 8-bit prescaler * Timer1 - 16-bit timer/counter with prescaler can be incremented during SLEEP via external

Re: wiki to pdf converter

2007-11-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:49:10 +0100 Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know of any for your specific markup, but you might want to take a look at reStructured Text, which is very similar and can be converted to a lot of different formats. I took a look at it and it might be the

Re: wiki to pdf converter

2007-11-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:29:37 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you use wiki markup if you're not writing to a wiki? That's what LaTex is for. You have a plain-text file with wiki markup. You want stuff bolded. Plain text doesn't have 'bold'. You'll need to turn it

Re: wiki to pdf converter

2007-11-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
If you have a wiki-viewer, then cups-pdf might be what you want. Yes that could be possible. The above markup is used in moinmoin but I am thinking its standard in all wikis. Do you know of any X based wiki viewer app. Thanks, Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: CLI Addressbook

2007-11-22 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I always used postgresql and just did standard SQL queries, until I wrote a python front-end. Good way to learn SQL? Before that, I just used a plain-text file. Each record is a paragraph, separated by blank lines. Use standard / to search in less or vim. I suppose the best tool

Re: CLI Addressbook

2007-11-22 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
openldap? It maybe work for you but it seems too advance.. Thanks for the response. Yeah I thought about that. But you are right, it might be too complex for a small job here. Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: CLI Addressbook

2007-11-22 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:07:24 +0530 Sridhar M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 04:07:48PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I was looking for a nice CLI address book. Something not too advance but contains the basic contact information, searchable, etc. I

Re: CLI Addressbook

2007-11-22 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:02:56 -0500 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're definitely looking for abook. If you plan on using abook alongside Mutt you may want to add this to your ~/.muttrc: # Use abook with Mutt set query_command=abook --mutt-query '%s' macro pager A |'abook

Re: CLI Addressbook

2007-11-22 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:24:22 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:14:13AM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I always used postgresql and just did standard SQL queries, until I wrote a python front-end. Good way to learn SQL? Before

Re: CLI Addressbook

2007-11-22 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:42:24 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:14:51PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:24:22 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:14:13AM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote

Re: Laptop Firewalling

2007-11-21 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hi all, Being on the road a lot with my trusted lappy, I'd like to get suggestions on the best solution for an iptables based firewall that needs to be easily reconfigurable for wireless, ethernet cable, and ppp. I should be able to apply rules on the fly using tools such as wireshark to

Re: Laptop Firewalling

2007-11-21 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I use firestarter as well on my etch laptop. One problem I have is that I have to manually reconfigure firestarter to switch from cable (eth0) to wireless (eth2). How did you solve this problem? If you just configure it once, say for eth0, it will simply ignore all the traffic on eth2

Re: 3-D graphing software for Linux?

2007-11-21 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
0In an advanced Calculus course, we are dealing with functions with 2 (and more) variables. Is there any 3-D graphing software for Linux available? Something like Kalgebra, but with a bit more functions such as multiple functions graphed at the same time, asymptote min max and other

Re: 3-D graphing software for Linux?

2007-11-21 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Thanks, Amit. I've played with it for just a few seconds but I've got to run... The graph seems to appear and disappear within a nanosecond. When I have more time I'll google the situation. Dotan Cohen That is expected. To avoid that you have to run gnuplot in persist mode... meaning

CLI Addressbook

2007-11-21 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I was looking for a nice CLI address book. Something not too advance but contains the basic contact information, searchable, etc. I want to be able to ssh into my server and just access this application from the commandline and read all my contacts. Any ideas? Thanks, Amit --

Re: Debian Etch on OLPC Laptop

2007-11-20 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Maybe consider buying the EeePc laptop and make a donation to the XO fund? This way you get a more standard laptop that supports linux and help the XO fund? But I'm sure someone will work on XO/Linux, so maybe ask on an XO list? -K ps. I'm testing Sugar on my Ubuntu PC, it runs in a second

Debian Etch on OLPC Laptop

2007-11-19 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, The OLPC laptop can now be purchased in the U.S. and Canada for $399 (you are actually buying two laptops and one goes to a child in a developing country). Anyways I was considering this but I am not a big fan of the Sugar interface. I wanted to simply remove everything, install

Re: Advice on automated text processing script

2007-11-09 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Yes there is a package for python that will access a serial port. No I haven't tried it. Thanks I will try and search for it. You you need to both script and interact? I'm not sure what you mean by scrpt. Do you just want to log whatever comes in on the serial port? I guess

Re: Advice on automated text processing script

2007-11-09 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:17:22 +0200 Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:47:54PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: 1. Should I use a software like cutecom and script it? Did you look at screen? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you

Re: reading fdf files

2007-11-09 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I understand that fdf files are dynamic pdf files that appear to need proprietary software from Abode to read them. Is there any open source applications that can convert as fdf file to a pdf? I haven't heard of fdf files but I would suggest you try to download and install/compile the

Advice on automated text processing script

2007-11-08 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I thought of no better place than to ask the experts here at deb-users list. ;) Anyways, I wanted to write a script that takes a snapshot of the current screen on the serial console. - i.e. I have a device connected through an RS-232 interface and I want to save the output into a

Re: how can I trust the driver

2007-11-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
I found the commands. From the OpenBSD afterboot man page: Check the running system You can use ps(1), netstat(1), and fstat(1) to check on running process- es, network connections, and opened files, respectively. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: how can I trust the driver

2007-11-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:36:22 -0800 (PST) Serena Cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I download the driver from sourceforge. The site promise nothing. You are fair in being paranoid about the drivers or for any other software for that matter. That is the advantage of Free Software as it allows for

Re: How to mount solaris from linux

2007-11-03 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 07:55:43 +0100 abdelkader belahcene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I ve just install the indiana in-preview version of opensolaris (Nov 1st). The installation was done correctly, in a primary partition declared as Solaris bf ( with linux and windows OS in same disk). ( my

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-10-27 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:01:02 -0700 Jeff Grossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just reading the forums at forums.debian.org and came across a thread about apt-get and aptitude. I just installed Debian this week after moving over from Gentoo. I have only been using the apt-get method

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