Re: Compiling flphoto

2003-07-25 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 25 July 2003 18:13, Sridhar M.A. wrote: Hi all, I am trying to compile flphoto 1.0 and have installed libfltk1.1-dev from testing. When I run ./configure, I do not get any error messages. But when I type make, I get the following: error messages snipped Suspecting a version

Re: OT: Secure (?) way of displaying a popup window

2003-07-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 20:44, David selby wrote: Joerg Johannes wrote: Hi everybody. I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of my laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see how much time I have left until I have to shutdown or running

Re: OT: Secure (?) way of displaying a popup window

2003-07-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 19:21, Joerg Johannes wrote: Hi everybody. I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of my laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see how much time I have left until I have to shutdown or running to the nect power jack. I

Re: printer

2003-07-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 19:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a windowsxp2003---cannot get Lexmark printer to print Did you try to restart you computer? (sorry, couldn't resist...) joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: mozilla filters

2003-07-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 15:31, Craig Tinson wrote: Every time I re-install linux I manage to keep my mail (which is stored on another HD) but I always lose my filters Not an answer, but... why do you want to reinstall??? joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

OT: Secure (?) way of displaying a popup window

2003-07-22 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody. I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of my laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see how much time I have left until I have to shutdown or running to the nect power jack. I know there exists a kde applet which does this job, but I

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 06:08, MJM wrote: On Tuesday 15 July 2003 23:07, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 05:14:08PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: Please let's not start a flamewar. I won't cc you anymore since you read the lists all of the time. Better yet, don't CC unless

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 09:31, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.07.16.0919 +0200]: I tried that, but I hate vim being the default editor, setting it to xemacs caused problems in my xterm. Furthermore I use pop/smtp to get/sen my emails via

Re: how to deny CTRL-ALT-DEL

2003-07-16 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 09:44, Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: Hi, small question. How can i deny a CTRL-ALT-DEL when i am on the login screen ? This question because I have a server and some technician who had to work on another system had chosen the wrong keyboard !! So, the debian was on

Re: keystroke ctrl+s freezes terminal/console

2003-07-15 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 13:51, Rogier Wolff wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 07:33:47AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: Hey all - I have noticed that pressing ctrl+s in console or xterm suspends input... I have not figured out how to successfully get out of that situation. Is there a graceful

Re: keystroke ctrl+s freezes terminal/console

2003-07-15 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 17:08, Gary Hennigan wrote: As Roger already asked: Is there a way to disable this Ctrl-S shortcut? Ctrl+S/Ctrl+Q is actually the XON/XOFF protocol. If you've been around long enough you'll be familiar with that. It was used a lot for slow terminals and for slow

Automatic cropping ov .eps graphics

2003-07-14 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I am producing a lot of .eps figures for my master thesis using gnuplot. Most of them are great using the default size setting (landscape), but some would be better off being in a square format. If I set size square, the figure itself is OK, but the right margin enlarges the

Re: How to batch-process data files

2003-07-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Thursday 10 July 2003 16:44, David Z Maze wrote: Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought that the text and the dashed line would confuse gnuplot, but they are just ignored. Thanks, Nick, and sorry for the noise... (Anyway, it would still be interesting how to just comment out

[OT] How to batch-process data files

2003-07-10 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I have a large set of data files (200 files), which contain data in the following format (Ignore that Win95 has a y2k problem...): snip File List Date: 16.06.1903Time: 13:34 File Name: C:\WINEPR\LO-JJ-XO\lo-xo-01.spc Data Point Value[G] Intensity

Re: [OT] How to batch-process data files

2003-07-10 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Thursday 10 July 2003 11:05, Nick Hastings wrote: Gnuplot should be able to deal with this if you specify which columns to use. Exactly what command are you passing gnuplot? I just tried it and it works fine with G N U P L O T Version 3.7 patchlevel 3 plot 'filename'

Re: Very big files with tar

2003-07-04 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 04 July 2003 12:50, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Hi I'd like to do a backup to another partition using tar. Here are about 9GB data to be saved. After a while tar complaints about a to big output file (i think max size is around 2GB). Is there a way to split the output in more files?

Need a quick one-liner

2003-07-04 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I have some data files in the following format: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ... I need to sum up the second column, so the result is 32 (in this case). Any ideas? thanks, joerg -- Gib GATES keine

Re: Need a quick one-liner

2003-07-04 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 04 July 2003 14:49, Seneca wrote: On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:51:34PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: I have some data files in the following format: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 ... I need to sum up the second

Re: Cisco router simulator?

2003-07-03 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Thursday 03 July 2003 12:04, Paul Johnson wrote: I'll take a look at zebra later. Since people have also suggested buying hardware, anybody know how much Cisco 2600 units are going for? Quite a lot of money...

Re: Cisco router simulator?

2003-07-03 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Thursday 03 July 2003 12:41, Paul Johnson wrote: Of course, eBay's generally for when you want it both used and overpriced Not necessarily. I have seen SGI workstations much cheaper on ebay than sold by SGI (remanufactured) or other workstation specialists. Sometimes you can be lucky...

Re: Turn on DMA on boot

2003-07-02 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 16:02, Dan Collis Puro wrote: Hey folks, Long time linux user, recent Debian convert. I like it. I like it a lot. All my redhat servers are going the way of the dodo to be replaced by Debian, slowly but surely. Anyway: What would be the most Debian way to turn on

Re: HOWTO change a subscriber email address ?

2003-07-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Monday 30 June 2003 22:44, Courtney Thomas wrote: I need to change my email address immediately. Please advise me how to do it. unsubscribe and then subscribe using your new email. joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: How to apply no-debianized kernel patch to debianized kernel-source?

2003-06-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Sunday 29 June 2003 19:55, Kevin McKinley wrote: It sounds to me like ACPI is already present in the 2.4.21 kernel. To test this hypothesis, grep the Changelog for ACPI and acpi. At least I did not get ACPI choices on make menuconfig without patching. joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance!

Worked around (dirty...) How to apply no-debianized kernel patch to debianized kernel-source?

2003-06-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 27 June 2003 13:57, Joerg Johannes wrote: Hello everybody I (like many others in the last few days) have a problem with kernel 2.4.21. I have downloaded the kernel-source-2.4.21 deb, and want to apply the acpi patch from acpi.sf.net to it. So here we go: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src

Re: Debian source code (resent)

2003-06-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Sunday 29 June 2003 21:08, Fabio Miranda Hamburger wrote: Hi. Due to delay problem in mailing list, I resend my basic question. I would like to know Where Can I get debian source code? Using ftp.debian.org what would be the full directory to source code? ALl I can see are binaries. If

Re: Where is Eeyes?

2003-06-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Sunday 29 June 2003 21:24, Vurt wrote: Hi all, Where is Eeyes in the unsatable release? Has it been replaced? from ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt [Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:39:36 -0500] [ftpmaster: James Troup] Removed the following packages from unstable: eeyes | 1:0.3.12-7 |

Re: Install xfree and gnome

2003-06-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Monday 30 June 2003 07:08, Voicu Liviu wrote: Hi debians :-) I'm pretty new on debian so please understand me :-) I have installed the base system of STABLE ver 3. I also made the /etc/apt/sources.list file with my local mirrors. Now I try to run: #apt-get install xfree and I get not

How to apply no-debianized kernel patch to debianized kernel-source?

2003-06-29 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hello everybody I (like many others in the last few days) have a problem with kernel 2.4.21. I have downloaded the kernel-source-2.4.21 deb, and want to apply the acpi patch from acpi.sf.net to it. So here we go: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux$ zcat ../acpi-20030619-2.4.21.diff.gz | patch

Re: Activating vim color?

2003-06-28 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Thursday 26 June 2003 07:36, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: Im using vi and I switch to vim, I was wondering what r the syntax to active the color codes? Its just black n white. Im coding and I wasn hoping I can activate the colors. Have a look at the online help: :help Q_sy will jump to

Re: mpeg/mov--jpg converter

2003-06-25 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 01:43, Tim wrote: Could someone recommend any software that can create .jpg format still picture from frame of .mpeg or .mov video file? If you want a single picture: xine can make snapshots; you just have to click on this little camera-shaped icon in the GUI. The

Re: Tab-Completion in gnuplot

2003-06-24 Thread Joerg Johannes
snip Yes, the built in readline of gnuplot is bad. However, libreadline cannot be used instead because it is licensed under the GPL, whereas gnuplot has special licenses (patches only). Linking those programs together is forbidden by the GPL. Please don't file bugs telling me to use

Re: Tab-Completion in gnuplot

2003-06-24 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 14:19, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | Urghh, I hate dselect. It just scares me. # echo gnuplot hold | dpkg --set-selections Yes, I knew such an easy way existed, I was only too lazy to search the archives... Thanks, Derrick joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! --

Re: Patching a kernel.

2003-06-20 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 20 June 2003 04:40, Marino Fernandez wrote: I've trying to patch a 2.4.20 kernel with the xfs patch. I've have some commandline argumants, but I get error mesages. It would be interesting to know 1.) What commands did you use 2.) What error messages you get Then we might be able to

Tab-Completion in gnuplot

2003-06-18 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody Last week I helped a friend out with some gnuplot graphs on his SuSE machine. He asked me why I was typing in the whole filenames in gnuplot instead of using auto-completion with the Tab key. I said, because gnuplot does not support it. BUT - On SuSE it does!Back home I tried it

Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 03:01, Paul Johnson wrote: I've yet to see it do that, but if that's the case, that's IE's problem, go file a bug report with Microsoft instead of coding to thier stupidity. C:\Windows\ reportbug The command reportbug is either misspelled or could not be found. joerg

Re: Good Open Source Web Development software

2003-06-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 11 June 2003 11:18, Paul Johnson wrote: C:\Windows\ reportbug The command reportbug is either misspelled or could not be found. Try emailing them. Sorry, I should have included \begin{humor} and \end{humor} joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Newbie-Help in configuring IceWm

2003-06-05 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 15:24, SRIKANTH NS wrote: Problem 1. Since this is a low end m/c , I wanted to use only IceWm. But during installation I gave gdm as the display manager. Now login screen shows only GNome,KDE and failsafe only as the sessions. Next I made a .xinitrc file in my home

Re: Local copy of mails in IMAP folder?

2003-06-04 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 16:03, Joao Pedro Clemente wrote: Joerg Johannes wrote: I use kmail/IMAP protocol to read mails for one of my accounts. Today I recognized that I can only read the mails when I am connected to the net. I see the folder contents, but the message bodies

Re: Local copy of mails in IMAP folder?

2003-06-04 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 16:32, Dan Dofton wrote: On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 12:36:52 +0200 Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get a local copy of those mails, so that I can read them weh I'm offline, too (and archive them on a backup CD)? I use fetchmail to dump my imap

Local copy of mails in IMAP folder?

2003-06-03 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I use kmail/IMAP protocol to read mails for one of my accounts. Today I recognized that I can only read the mails when I am connected to the net. I see the folder contents, but the message bodies are not displayed. Is there a way to get a local copy of those mails, so that I can

Re: Where is gtk-config ?

2003-05-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 19:02, Wayne Topa wrote: Hamid([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi I am trying to compile mplayer but it complains about GTK. I have installed the latest gtk package from unstable. It seems that configure script of mplayer is looking for gtk-config.

Re: Where is gtk-config ?

2003-05-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 22:41, Rene Engelhard wrote: Hi, [ could you warp your lines after 72 chars? The fourth is a little bit too long; I let it as it was to show the effect ] It is set to 78, which should still be in the green area, and it is the default setting in kmail. I have set it to

Re: [OT] Radeon 7500 documentation

2003-05-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 23:29, Pigeon wrote: Hi, If anyone has any documentation defining the addresses and functions of the various registers of the Radeon 7500 - especially those concerning the setting of pixel clock frequency in text mode - I would be most grateful if you could email it to

Re: kdm vs xdm

2003-04-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Mark At the moment I boot into KDE using xdm. How do I change my setup to use kdm instead. I changed the line in /etc/X11/default-display-manager from xdm to kdm, however this then requires a startx to boot into kde. Are you sure you have installed kdm? Check with dpkg -l kdm If yes, try

Re: a newibe question?

2003-04-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 13:15, ryck wrote: after i type init 0 i nees me to push power button to close the computer byt same comp i use redhat it no need . how to solve it I assume you use a standard debian kernel. These have apm (Advanced Power Management) compiled as modules. You have to

Re: tar over ssh

2003-03-31 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Iñaki i have 2 servers, server1 and server2, and i want to make a tar of some directories in server2, but storing the tar_file in server1, as in server2 there is NOT space left. Why don't you copy the files first and tar them locally? Directories can be copied with scp -r [EMAIL

Limit a process's CPU usage?

2003-03-28 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi List I'm running [EMAIL PROTECTED] on my laptop, but the near 100% CPU usage results in my processor fan constatly being on. Is there a way on telling [EMAIL PROTECTED] to use the CPU at no more than, say 30%? I have already set it to nice 19, but this affects only the priority, so that an

Re: Limit a process's CPU usage?

2003-03-28 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Mark Best solution... stop running setiathome... it's a waste of battery power I'm sure you're right about this one ;) Possible solution... run a process that keeps the cpu occupied with doing nothing... and give that a low, but higher then seti, priority... Or: Suspend the seti process

Re: Limit a process's CPU usage?

2003-03-28 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 28 March 2003 12:52, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: A quick look gave me: limits(5) In Debian it seems to be /etc/security/limits.conf and not /etc/limits as described in limits(5) As I understand it, this will limit my whole CPU time (it is set on login). This is rather bad, as I use

Re: Limit a process's CPU usage?

2003-03-28 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 28 March 2003 13:15, Frederik Dannemare wrote: Fredag den 28. marts 2003 12:26 skrev Joerg Johannes: Hi List I'm running [EMAIL PROTECTED] on my laptop, but the near 100% CPU usage results in my processor fan constatly being on. Is there a way on telling [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How should we handle people who can not unsubscribe?

2003-03-28 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 28 March 2003 15:22, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 04:04:38AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: Oh, as for subscription address, maybe we need to tell outlook user how to read their mail header. People forgets where they subscribed from and outlook users tend to lack

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Ronin On Thursday 27 March 2003 14:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:59:59 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every so often, things will slow to a CRAWL, and then poof, go back to normal. WHAT IS THIS? How can I stop it? Whatever clever program is running in the

Re: System Slows Down

2003-03-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Thursday 27 March 2003 16:54, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:48:52PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: If you never use the locate command, consider removing the dlocate (or slocate) package. dlocate is not an implementation of locate. Oh, sorry. However, removing the slocate

Re: no audio cds

2003-03-25 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 12:59, Joe Paxton wrote: Hello: Running Debian Woody on a Dell Inspiron 2650c, I am able to read data cds (the installation cd, for example), but I am unable to read (play) audio cds. I am not trying to mount the audio cd (I realize that this is not needed), but

Re: no audio cds

2003-03-25 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 25 March 2003 14:22, Alberto Cabello Sanchez wrote: You (the user) must to have read permissions on physical device (that is, /dev/hdc). ls /cdrom will give empty anyway, but xmms will be able to load audio tracks. Easier way is to add yourself to group disk, if I can remember.

Re: Offtopic : MS Linux :) -- joke or ??

2003-03-21 Thread Joerg Johannes
Alvin Oga wrote: snip ... i woulnt be surprised if they bought out the rights to some of the walking-dead linux vendors that has ( had ) a good market share in some areas Consider us happy - they won't ba able to buy Debian. snip ... remember when there was over 100 flavors of DOS..

Error messages in TCL/TK applications

2003-03-21 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody For the last few days, I get lots of error messages when using TCL/TK based programs. Example: ding (dictionary english - german) works basically, but usually when I double-click on a word, it is used as the new search term. Now I get the following error message: Error: invalid

Re: Version 3.2 Wann?

2003-03-21 Thread Joerg Johannes
An Gregor Wann gibt es eigentlich die Version 3.2 zum download? Angekündigt war sie ja für Ende Cebit. 1.) Dies ist eine internationale Mailing-Liste. Die Sprache dafür ist englisch, weil 95% der Leute kein Deutsch sprechen. 2.) Version 3.2 von was? 3.) Wer hat wo was angekündigt? To the list

Re: No File - Save in gimp

2003-03-19 Thread Joerg Johannes
I can still save files by hitting Ctrl-S, but only over the top of the original file. I don't get prompted for a filename to save under, nor do I get a chance to save it into a different directory. This is not a bug. Gimp is intentionally context sensative. You can have multiple images open at

Rant (was Re: X Window : Newbie)

2003-03-19 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Paul Did we have a bad night? I'm not used to hear such ranting from you... Paul Johnson wrote: Bad newbie! How can you judge! You don't even know him! 1) You just asked the *SAME* question (or at least the same subject) 30 minutes ago. Do you honestly expect an answer at 4AM on a

Re: Fonts in mozilla menus -- Now they are too small!

2003-03-18 Thread Joerg Johannes
, ...). Only mozilla is misbehaving. Any other ideas apart from changing ~/.gtkrc ? thanks joerg NOTE: the screenshot mentioned below ist not accessible any more. Roman Joost wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:56:16PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: Hi list I have just started to try mozilla

Re: [Possibly OT] can't I turn off message delivery?

2003-03-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
If you mean you want to unsubscribe from the mailing-list, you should have read one single mail from the list to the end: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Should not be that hard... joerg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: KDE vs. Gnome

2003-03-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: KDE: Friendly interface. Multiple virtual desktops (which are easy to use and configure). Correct only in parts. How do you configure Ctrl-Rightarrow for Cycle through Workspaces clockwise and Ctrl-Leftarrow for counterclockwise? All I got it to is The one I previously

Re: Duplicating Woody Package?

2003-03-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hello Robert I finally got a second hard drive so I can put Linux on my wife's machine. She'd like her X setup Identicle to mine. I've installed a base Woody system, current kernel, etc. Now I need to get all the same KDE packages on her machine. Other than dpkg -l | grep kde file, copy the

HSF Linmodem compile problems

2003-03-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi List I have a Sony Vaio with internal HSF Linmodem. According to http://www.gaugusch.at/vaio/#modem I have downloaded the latest HSF driver from the website mentioned there, and followed the instructions to compile the driver form source. The make install step proceeded without errors, but

Re: Speaking of strange problems...

2003-03-05 Thread Joerg Johannes
Jeremy Cheng wrote: Also, the mouse is not properly working in X either. All I get is a black box in place of the pointer and some error messages about detecting the mouse. I am wondering if it has to do with the motherboards mouse and keyboard ps/2 ports. I am also wondering if upgrading the

Fonts in mozilla menus

2003-02-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list I have just started to try mozilla for e-mailing. The problem I have is: How do I change the font that is used in the menu bar and the message index? These are way too big (see screenshot at http://btcpxx.che.uni-bayreuth.de/CIP/biochem/bp0026/www/mozilla-font.png for better

Re: Fonts in mozilla menus

2003-02-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Roman fontset=-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 That was it. My fontset was -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-15 Looks ok now. Thanks joerg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: man -k apropos -- nothing apropiate

2003-02-26 Thread Joerg Johannes
A problem with similar symptoms is on my laptop: Anacron doesn't run because it always thinks I am on battery power (even if I'm on AC) and therefore does not run hard-disk intensive jobs such as updatedb and man-db joerg Am Mittwoch, 26. Februar 2003 00:36 schrieb Colin Watson: The man-db

mount changes permissions of directory?

2003-02-25 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi List Why does a mount change the file permissions of a directory? Example: ls -l /mnt drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 2003-01-20 18:29 d mount /mnt/d ls -l /mnt dr-x--1 root root 4096 2003-01-24 09:22 d ? /etc/fstab says: /dev/hda7 /mnt/d

Re: mount changes permissions of directory?

2003-02-25 Thread Joerg Johannes
jorg16384 1970-01-01 01:00 e This is what I would expect for the ntfs partition, too. Thanks for your info, but still seeking help joerg Am Dienstag, 25. Februar 2003 09:19 schrieb Lukas Ruf: * Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-02-25 09:15]: Why does a mount change the file

Re: mount changes permissions of directory?

2003-02-25 Thread Joerg Johannes
. Februar 2003 09:37 schrieb Colin Watson: On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:59:23AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: Why does a mount change the file permissions of a directory? Example: ls -l /mnt drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 2003-01-20 18:29 d mount /mnt/d ls -l /mnt dr-x

Re: mount changes permissions of directory?

2003-02-25 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Cameron Try: $ mount -o uid=your_uid /mnt/d and see if it sets the filesystem ownership how you want. (I didn't try this so it may not work. There could be security issues with allowing regular users to specify command line options to mount) Only root can do this... But root can change

Re: importing audio cassettes

2003-02-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Aryan When I used RedHat 7.3, there was a command line utility there for recording audio called record It was a good way for me to import my audio cassettes and mp3 or ogg them. But in Debian I can't find this utility, even in debain's archive. Is anyone aware of a deb package for this

xfig - how to do rounded corners

2003-02-12 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I tried out xfig yesterday and wanted to do arrows pointing around the corner (90 degrees). I'd like these corners to be as smooth as the rounded box corners, so I tried to split up such a rounded box and add an arrow head, but wait: The smooth corners change into hard corners as

Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody For some time I am struggling with pdflatex. Today's update of tetex resolved the major problem I had (Acroread could not process the pdf files), but now it is getting weird. If I run pdflatex on a document, the normal font is shown very fuzzy (Yes, various mails in the archives

Re: Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Sorry for the noise, it turns out that I must not use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} works now... joerg If I run pdflatex on a document, the normal font is shown very fuzzy (Yes, various mails in the archives talk about bitmap fonts, but pdflatex normally should use the vector fonts, not?), while

Re: Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Dienstag, 11. Februar 2003 12:53 schrieb Gary Turner: It is interesting to note that gv and xpdf render Type3 fonts very nicely while Acroread looks like crap.  Regardless of how they look on screen, printed docs will look fine. This is true, but I need it mainly for screen presentations...

Re: X server for windoze

2003-02-10 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Russell I have successfully tried cygwin with XFree86-4 on win2k. The cool thing is: You can start an X server on your W2k machine, then ssh to your debian box with PuTTY (with X protocol forwarding enabled), and the X programs started from the ssh console will show up in the Cygwin server.

Re: USB-Netzwerkkarte beim Anschlieen konfigurieren

2003-01-22 Thread Joerg Johannes
An Christian: Das hier ist die englische debian-user-Liste, die besten Ergebnisse erzielt man also mit enlglischen Anfragen. Nur mal so eine Idee: apt-cache show hotplug Description: Linux Hotplug Scripts This package contains the scripts necessary for hotplug Linux support, and lets you plug

Emacs21 and menu bar

2003-01-20 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list I have just installed emacs21 for being able to use the preview-latex package. I really hate this menu bar with Icons (they make me think of Word...). Can I disable this Icon menu bar, and get back to my old text-mode menu (I can turn this one on with menu-bar-mode 1, but then I have

How to make an mpeg-movie from still images?

2002-10-04 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I have a lot of imgaes (output from pymol, a molecular graphics rendering program), which I would like to join together as an mpeg movie. So far I have tried out ffmpeg (converted the images to .ppm format and used ffmpeg -i film_00%2d.ppm -s 640x480 -r 25 -an film.mpg The restult

apt-build and Athlon question

2002-09-19 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I just installed apt-build and gcc3.2 to get some packages recompiled Athlon-optimized. In the installation screen, it promts me for the processor I am going to optimize for: athlon athlon-tbird athlon-4 athlon-xp athlon-mp How do I find out which one is mine? I know I don't have

ssh problem

2002-09-09 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi List What does it mean when a ssh host tells me ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer ??? It worked until some days ago, and I did not change configuration on either machine. The host is an sgi running OpenSsh, and me (client), I'm running ssh3.4p1-2

Re: swap confusion

2002-09-09 Thread Joerg Johannes
Ah, ok. So I can just go ahead and put pri=1 for both swap partitions in /etc/fstab without running in trouble. Thank you joerg On Son, Sep 08, 2002 at 06:06:39 +0200, Guy Geens wrote: Joerg == Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joerg ahead and set the priority in /etc/fstab

Re: ssh problem

2002-09-09 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 09:40:13AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.09.09.0939 +0200]: What does it mean when a ssh host tells me ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer what's the output of host hostname to ssh

Re: Using exim efficiently on a dialup machine

2002-09-09 Thread Joerg Johannes
Anthony Campbell wrote: Or what is the favoured way for a dialup machine to send mails from within mutt? In /etc/ip-up.d/exim I have the following line: If you mean /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim, I have got that already, but only exim -qf. I'll add a second f to it. /usr/sbin/exim -qff

Re: how to create a self-made Debian LiveCD

2002-09-04 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Patrick Have a look at www.knopper.net/knoppix Knoppix is a Debian/Sid based sytem-on-a-bootable-CD. I'm not sure if you can customize what is installed, but very likely you can use it out of the box for any task you can imagine... hth joerg On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 02:49:27PM +0800, Patrick

loadlin -- loadwin

2002-06-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list This may sound strange, but is there an equivalent for loadlin, so that I can start windows from my running linux system, just like loadlin can do for starting linux from windows? The reason I'd like to have it is the following: I have an old scsi-controller which takes ages to

problem with compuserve.de name resolution

2002-06-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list I wanted to try out if compuserve it better than my other ISP (tiscali). The problem is: I get connected (using pon), but somehow the name resolution does not work. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping www.debian.org ping: unknown host www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping 198.186.203.20 PING

Re: [OT] rearranging data files

2002-06-07 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Freitag, 7. Juni 2002 01:21 schrieben Sie: Thank you, Matias, for your reply. I tried out your script, but I get the following error when using it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ ./datenumkehr.py jo-001.asc Traceback (most recent call last): File ./datenumkehr.py, line 14, in ? if

[OT] rearranging data files

2002-06-06 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list At university, we have an old spectro-photometer, that spits out its data in ASCII formatted files. The problem is, The data I get is sorted in lines rather than in columns (See examples below). Is there a progam (preferably command-line) that can do swap the rows to columns, and

Re: Mod probe: can't locate module char-major ....

2002-05-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2002 16:10 schrieb tom r: Since I don't need the rtc, I just turn it off. Edit the file /etc/modutils/arch/i386 and replace the line: alias char-major-10-135 rtc with alias char-major-10-135 off and then run update-modules. Very Nice Thanks, Tom joerg -- To

Re: Mod probe: can't locate module char-major ....

2002-05-29 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2002 12:47 schrieb Seneca: snip It can be fixed by compiling the kernel with the appropriate module. If the message mentions char-major-10-135, it's looking for rtc.o (real time clock). When a kernel compiled with rtc as a module, then booted, the error would go away.

Re: amazon search with konqueror shortcuts

2002-04-06 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Freitag, 5. April 2002 10:51 schrieb Rob Weir: On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 04:28:48PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: Hi list In opera, there is a search field, which loads amazon.com (or .de for me) with a search for the given words. I know that in konqueror in the enhanced browsing

Solved Re: amazon search with konqueror shortcuts

2002-04-06 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Samstag, 6. April 2002 16:42 schrieb Jason Chambers: snip Any idea how to get the correct search-url for all products? /snip The reason you can't see the search data in the url is because the data is probably being submitted using the POST method (which among other things allows for

My own stupidity [was: How to mount external usb drive]

2002-04-03 Thread Joerg Johannes
schrieb Joerg Johannes: Hi list I'm the proud owner of an Archos jukebox mp3 player, which is, in fact, nothing else than an external usb drive (20 gig) with buit-in mp3-decoder. I have loaded the usb modules (usbcore usb-uhci), apt-get installed usbview, libusb0, usbutils, but I cannot see

amazon search with konqueror shortcuts

2002-04-03 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list In opera, there is a search field, which loads amazon.com (or .de for me) with a search for the given words. I know that in konqueror in the enhanced browsing options, one can define such shortcuts. What I would like to do is a amazon:search-item in the address field, so that konqueror

How to mount external usb drive

2002-04-02 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list I'm the proud owner of an Archos jukebox mp3 player, which is, in fact, nothing else than an external usb drive (20 gig) with buit-in mp3-decoder. I have loaded the usb modules (usbcore usb-uhci), apt-get installed usbview, libusb0, usbutils, but I cannot see if the device is detected.

Fwd: Re: How to mount external usb drive

2002-04-02 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Dienstag, 2. April 2002 16:43 schrieben Sie: Joerg == Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joerg is detected. usbview says Can not open Joerg /proc/bus/usb/devices, which does not exist. It says Joerg furthermore verify that the usbdevfs is mounted. Joerg However, I

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