Re: a cautionary tale w/ successful recovery

2009-11-04 Thread Jason Spiro
Paul E Condon mesanetworks.net> writes: > My suggestion is: > > # aptitude -F "%p %M" search '~i' |tr -s ' '|sed 's/ A$/+M/' > package-list > > followed by (without change except for fixing the missing "k" > > # aptitude install $(cat package-list) > > I haven't actually tested this. It is j

Re: Is there an interactive Linux tutorial?

2006-10-17 Thread Jason Spiro
On 2006-10-17, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like a great idea! Thanks for the compliment. If anyone is interested in helping out, please reply here or email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and let me know you're interested in helping. Cheers, Jason -- The church is near but the ro

Is there an interactive Linux tutorial?

2006-10-17 Thread Jason Spiro
nk it might get shipped with Debian? Do you think they might put in a little plug for it for people who type newbie commands like "help" or the DOS commands "del" or "ren" in the Bash shell? Regards, Jason Spiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- The church is near but t

Re: Debian Love

2006-10-17 Thread Jason Spiro
On 2006-09-22, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Travis Crook wrote: >> Ditto! Debian just works! I've tried a couple of other distros, and >> they don't "just work". > > Before we all get too syrupy here, I've posted a problem here > which never got addressed, and had another user cont

Re: sid-shipped-eclipse crashed on startup

2006-10-13 Thread Jason Spiro
On 2006-10-12, amateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:50:47AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:26:58 +0800 >> amateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I just upgraded my sid, and installed a fresh new eclipse. >> > But it gives a fatal error when I s

Re: help with mailscanner and mailwatch and unstale packages

2006-10-13 Thread Jason Spiro
On 2006-10-04, Jon Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to know if there is a debian list that has unstable packages. > Seems the one I've found do not work when trying to get the latest > version (unstable) of mailscanner_4.51.5-1 > I do not understand. What does "a debian list that has uns

Re: Download failure of ISO-DVD

2006-10-09 Thread Jason Spiro
Le 08-10-2006, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > On 10/08/2006 04:23 AM, . wrote: >> The download of the debian-31r2-i386-binary-1.iso crashes at 91% >> downloading by http. I tried it two times with differents downloaders. >> With jigdo was not possible, I tried but it crashes always wit

Re: Bug#391290: apache should automatically detect extra periods/commas at the end of URLs and fix

2006-10-09 Thread Jason Spiro
2006/10/7, Stefan Fritsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 06 October 2006 00:32, Jason Spiro wrote: > > This can be done with mod_speling or with something like > > > > RewriteRule ^(.*)[,.]$ $1 [R] > > > > though the latter will prevent you from reques

Re: debian projects for young users

2006-10-09 Thread Jason Spiro
Le 05-10-2006, roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > i am building up a project of education for young linux users aged > 11-15 and i am currently looking for something similar since this is > my first experience > > hopefully we'll use some young oriented distro, esp if debian based > > if you

Re: Bug#391290: apache should automatically detect extra periods/commas at the end of URLs and fix

2006-10-05 Thread Jason Spiro
2006/10/5, Stefan Fritsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 05 October 2006 22:15, Jason Spiro wrote: > Many people type in URLs with extra periods or commas. For example, > a user may type: > http://www.jspiro.com/wiki. > when they actually meant to type: >

Re: source code editor

2006-07-13 Thread Jason Spiro
itor for X Window, consider evim (which is included with vim) or, better yet, cream instead; they are customized versions of vim which lack a command mode. These work similarly to Windows Notepad. But if you want the full power of vim, I recommend you use regular vim. I'd be curious to hear

Re: Word file

2006-06-22 Thread Jason Spiro
On 2006-06-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, > > derzeit bin ich nicht im Büro. Ab dem 19. Juni bin ich wieder für Sie da. > Most people on here cannot speak German. Perhaps try debian-user-german@ lists.debian.org instead. Re

Re: Skype alternatives (was: sound proble for KsCD/Skype/xmms in Debian Sid)

2006-06-22 Thread Jason Spiro
On 2006-06-22, LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is your problem with Skype? It works behind a firewall, and you can > configure Skype to use different ports... It is closed source. Also, I often experience the bug the OP mentioned, but I cannot fix it. Cheers, Jason -- When you open Window

Skype alternatives (was: sound proble for KsCD/Skype/xmms in Debian Sid)

2006-06-21 Thread Jason Spiro
ype, phone the userid: echo123 It is the automated Skype microphone test service. > > Yet I do not have any dsp-1. The ls /dev/ds* give me the following > information > > ## > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /dev/ds* > /dev/dsp > ## I wonder about this too