[OFF-TOPIC] Debian developer (me) seeking employment

2000-07-27 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, I am currently a master student at the Hokkaido University, Japan. My specialty is physics, but I have discovered a couple of months ago that what I really like is programming. I will finish the master course in April 2001, but as my colleagues advised my, I've already started looking for

Re: about latex and tables

1998-11-03 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, Thanks to all that answered to my question about latex and tables. The 'longtable' was the first one I've try and it worked from the beginning. I'll look over the others also to see which is best for my needs, but longtable seems to be exactly what I need. And was on my computer, installed by

Re: please help with netscape and sound

1998-11-02 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Thanks , but it is not working :( Can this be a problem of Netscape 4.5 ? Can you tell me please the hole settings: description mime type suffix for au files. Maybe I've done something dumb here also. TIA, Ionutz Thomas Lakofski wrote: set netscape to use 'play %s'

Re: Delete key changed its behavior

1998-11-02 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
? Can somebody tell me where should I look for the package that changed the default behavior ? TIA, Ionutz Thomas Lakofski wrote: On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: After installing some packages from Debain-JP, my delete and backspace keys changed their behavior under X. Now

please help with netscape and sound

1998-11-01 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, I have try different ways to make my Netscape play some .au files from the web pages. It was impossible (for me). The sound is OK and the au files play ok if I send them to the /dev/dsp. But I don't understand how to tell Netscape to do this ! Please help ! Ionutz

about latex and tables

1998-11-01 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, I have a table that is too big (too long) to fit on one page. Can LaTeX break this table by itself ? How ? I was forced to split the table in 2 parts, but I would like a more intelligent solution (my table fitted in 2 pages, so it wasn't so hard to split by hand. But what do I do when the

Delete key changed its behavior

1998-11-01 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, After installing some packages from Debain-JP, my delete and backspace keys changed their behavior under X. Now they delete the character in front of the prompt. Even Netscape behaves like this. Can somebody please tell me where should I make the changes ? TIA, Ionutz

Re: Mirrors

1998-10-29 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Stephen A. Witt wrote: My question has to do with the naming of directories in the Debian distribution. I've been mirroring 'stable' now for a while -- main/binary-all, main/binary-i386, contrib/binary-all, contrib/binary-i386, and non-free/binary-all, non-free/binary-i386. Now I decided

Re: japanese on linux

1998-10-29 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Ingo Hohmann wrote: Hi, I'd like to write some japanese texts on Linux. Figured out how to use XEmacs mule and the input methods, but printing doesn't work. May this be caused by missing printer fonts? Where can I get them? Or is there a better program around (I heard rumours about a

Re: xf86setup_3.3.2.3a-6

1998-10-28 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Jeff Noxon wrote: I managed to get things running, but not with x86setup. I had to tweak a lot of stuff by hand and I had to keep going back to find yet another X package... Where can I find this warning message ? Also related: how do I know if a ftp site is good for upgrading from ? It

Re: fs not umounted at CTL-ALT-DEL

1998-10-26 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: When Ive seen it, rebooot caused the abnorrmal shutdown, in which e2fsck was necessary, while shutdown -r now worked fine, as (i believe) the three fingered salute. I never did figure out why, I just adjusted :) My inittab has:

what is invalid ICMP error ?

1998-10-26 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, My kernel is reporting: borco-ei kernel: 133.87.240.13 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast. What and how bad is this ? TIA, Ionutz

Re: fs not umounted at CTL-ALT-DEL

1998-10-26 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Nathan O. Siemers wrote: Have you possibly added any swap files recently? A while ago I tracked a similar problem to an open swap file that shutdown was not releasing before it tried to unmount. nathan Nope, just changed the kernels. Anyhow, my system is in a shape so bad that it seems

help with Canon LaserShot A404 F

1998-10-25 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, I have a Canon Laser JEt A404 F printer and I would like to use it from unix through samba. The printer is shared on a Win95 pc. I have GS and MAGICFILTER but I do not know what filter ot use ! TIA, Ionutz

fs not umounted at CTL-ALT-DEL

1998-10-25 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, These days, when I reboot my machine, the file system is not always unmounted. The machine says that the file system is busy and cannot be unmounted and reboots. Any idea ? TIA, Ionutz PS: I don't know if this is useful, but here it is: My kernel 2.1.125. The .config file that I used is