Re: List of current apt sources?

2012-11-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
you could apt-get netselect-apt and then run it. Not only does that package get you the current list, it also shows you which server for your local conditions is now running the fastest for you whether you're signed up to it or not.

Re: pulseaudio breaking things again

2012-11-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 20:10 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: Script started on Mon 19 Nov 2012 08:06:14 PM EST jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ ./ppr.sh type shutdown to return to linux. VLC media player 2.0.4 Twoflower (revision 2.0.3-289-g6e6100a

pulseaudio breaking things again

2012-11-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
Script started on Mon 19 Nov 2012 08:06:14 PM EST jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ ./ppr.sh type shutdown to return to linux. VLC media player 2.0.4 Twoflower (revision 2.0.3-289-g6e6100a) [0x1a95d18] inhibit interface error: Failed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: Unable to

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

2012-11-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Slackware 14.0 is available and it also has a small footprint. If you choose not to install all the bloatware no g.u.i. you can probably end up with a full command line installation except for emacs in a little under a hundred meg. If you decide to install emacs, I suggest you do it using

Re: Mailbox, Mysql or Folder.

2012-11-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Once I used a mailbox and got cured of that in a hurry when clamav cut off access to the entire content of that mailbox because at least one of the messages in that mailbox had a virus clamav had detected. That was a windows virus too. I went with nmh after that since it uses folders with

Re: Log flooding: Oct 28 11:44:21 localhost kernel: [ 3348.008429] option: option_instat_callback: error -2

2012-10-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi Folks, since some time my logs are flooded with the folowwing message: Oct 28 11:45:09 localhost kernel: [ 3395.992226] option: option_instat_callback: error -2 Oct 28 11:45:14 localhost kernel: [ 3401.009057] option:

Re: Login music in console

2012-10-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
What's wrong with arbitrarily setting mixer volume before playing the ogg file?On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Dr Beco wrote: Dear linuxers, What little program would you recommend to simple play a music like

Re: Login music in console

2012-10-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
To stack the deck just before that ogg123 command put: amixer -D hw set Master 92% unmute That makes sure the sound card will work if the sound card is able to do so.On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Dr Beco wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us wrote: ogg123, perhaps?

Re: Login music in console

2012-10-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
with a good percentage.On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jude DaShiell wrote: What's wrong with arbitrarily setting mixer volume before playing the ogg file?On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I guess it depends on personal preferences: I play classical music softly

Re: retrieving a multi-media file

2012-10-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Right, because those are actually directories. Same thing happens with lynx. After the click though in order to download anything you first have to log in. On Sat, 6 Oct 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:58:06AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Any ideas of how to

Re: Trying to install a package on a Lenny system : what url do I need on my sources.list ?

2012-10-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
http://archive.debian.org/ may be helpful. That's where I found the intfiction-installer package and installed it on wheezy and got it working. hth. --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Adobe fiend for failing to Flash --

/etc/mediaprm file question

2012-10-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is that file edited to match available equipment then setfdprm -p /dev/fd0 gets run? Everything was quote wrapped and I've never run into that format in configuration files in Linux before. --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

2012-09-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Could it be a missing swap partition is slowing down drive access? I don't know if you were connected to the internet when you did this run, but if so, you might disconnect from the internet and run fdisk -l again and compare speeds. It could be fdisk is checking for remote disks as well but

command line interface tool question

2012-09-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
What command line interface tool or tools does Linux have available to snag a graphical image of what's on the screen and save that image in a file? If you're running lynx and you come up on a website with a captcha on a form and want to snag that captcha so you can send it to a captcha

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

2012-09-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
wget isn't the right tool for that job. However its brother wput may be able to do the job. On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Gary Dale wrote: On 22/09/12 11:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 22/09/12 11:01 AM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: Greetings, I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would

Re: mysqld fails to start at boot time only

2012-09-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
Please check firewall settings and enable port 3306 if a firewall is installed on that box. If not, then discard this message as being unhelpful. --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Adobe fiend for failing to Flash -- To

Re: mysqld fails to start at boot time only

2012-09-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
Alternatively in /etc/my.cnf comment all socket= lines and uncomment skip networking line. This will mean no more external access to mysql though if you do it but is more secure for those that like it that way. --- jude

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

2012-09-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
http://dban.sf.net/ ought to help. download iso and burn to dvd or cd and read up on dban and boot dban disk and dban will clean windows real good. I think enter at the boot: prompt autostart 5 then go away and let dban do its work. A 200MB disk if I remember right took 8 hours to clean so

Re: Removing Pulseaudio with Gnome: volume control missing

2012-09-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
Isn't there a set of galsa packages to graphically control alsa?On Wed, 12 Sep 2012, Jos? Luis Segura Lucas wrote: Hi all! Recently I installed Debian on a new computer, and I want to avoid using Pulseaudio (it is problematic for me, and this is a long discussion on this and another lists

hearse crontab message

2012-09-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
Anyone know what this means? 1+ 09/12 Cron DaemonCron root@d-216-36-20-9 perl -we 'sleep rand 3600'; hearse --quiethearse: size of unsigned long is 8 rather than 4 This message doesn't come up every day but does come up a few times a week.

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

2012-09-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you tried Slackware 13.37 yet? That might work, I have an ancient Dell laptop and Slackware had no problems installing and running on that laptop. It hasn't got an especially large footprint either. --- jude

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

2012-09-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
At least on debian installers it should always be possible after language and keyboard selections have been done to drop to the main menu so that an installer can first arrange for debug logs to be saved and then do a disk integrity check before proceeding with the installation. If the disk

Re: [Conclusion] Looking for an emacs replacement

2012-09-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
I feel your pain. Have you ever tried: emacs -nw filename cr gtk is plenty freaky enough even in a g.u.i. environment, having it invade command line space through whichever proxy software is unreasonable. Two possibilities beyond emacs might be jove and mg. On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, T o n g wrote:

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:57:07PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: I just tried: modprobe snd_pcm_oss then tried echo $? and got back a 0 no other output from: modprobe snd_pcm_oss so in order to get that working I will probably have to install alsa

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Yes I have sound. rexima and aumix appear unable to locate any cards even with several different combinations of items parsed from the relevant lspci line. On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, lee wrote: Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net writes: Yes, alsamixer finds a sound card as does amix -l

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

2012-09-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
a howto got put up on the orca-list email list describing how to install a graphical user environment and have it come up talking and pulse in any of its forms is not part of how to do it, so the claim that pulse adds extra layers of complexity I have had direct experience on over here! On

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
I just tried: modprobe snd_pcm_oss then tried echo $? and got back a 0 no other output from: modprobe snd_pcm_oss so in order to get that working I will probably have to install alsa-oss. The oss drivers may be completely inappropriate for this card too.On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, lee wrote: Jude

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
those years ago so this should be interesting. Thanks much for all who have helped. I'll put a couple more commands in the file I use to customize debian on this machine. On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Jude DaShiell wrote: I just tried: modprobe snd_pcm_oss then tried echo $? and got back a 0 no other

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
: On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 08:45:42PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Is it possible to create a /dev/mixer entry for this kind of sound card that will enable rexima and/or aumix to find the sound card and control the sound card? Is the card being recognised? What are you trying to do

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
Yes, alsamixer finds a sound card as does amix -l and yes it's the only sound card installed. On Mon, 3 Sep 2012, lee wrote: Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net writes: I ran both aumix -q and rexima and neither were able to find the sound card. Is alsamixer able to find devices

nvidia CK804 sound card question

2012-09-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is it possible to create a /dev/mixer entry for this kind of sound card that will enable rexima and/or aumix to find the sound card and control the sound card? --- jude jdash...@shellworld.net Adobe fiend for failing to

pulseaudio configuration question

2012-08-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
What I ended up doing was to remove pulseaudio and pulseaudio-module-x11 from the machine in order to get things working and then used alsamixer to unmute many things. The result for now is that streaming multimedia works. My original interest in configuring pulseaudio was to enable a

Re: pulseaudio configuration question

2012-08-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Camale?n wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:16:35 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Jude, please, next time remember to reply at the bottom of the message :-) Script done on Mon 27 Aug 2012 12:11:50 AM EDT On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Camale?n wrote: On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 23:45

Re: pulseaudio configuration question

2012-08-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] root@d-216-36-20-9:~# exit exit Script done on Mon 27 Aug 2012 12:11:50 AM EDT On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Camale?n wrote: On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 23:45:12 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: By way of update, typing: pulseaudio --cleanup-shm cr pulseaudio --start

pulseaudio configuration question

2012-08-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
When I do: pulseaudio --start cr There is a short pause then the message: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave appears on the screen. Hitting enter again then typing: echo $? cr 0 is returned. I'm using speech synthesis as provided by the kernel and am in a command

Re: pulseaudio configuration question

2012-08-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
By way of update, typing: pulseaudio --cleanup-shm cr pulseaudio --start cr and got no errors from pulseaudio this time. Unfortunately though both mplayer and vlc can connect to streams neither provides any sound output yet. sound card is an nvidia CK804 and pulse appears to have control of it

Re: [OT] Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal

2012-08-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
bwbasic is available along with g77 and a few versions of forth. There's a fortran95 system that can be downloaded outside of debian that does graphics and works on windows systems too and if the person you're trying to help is engineering-bound, forth is a good language to pick up. Julian

Re: debian wheezy netinst questions

2012-07-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
This situation gets funny, so anyone reading further is warned to be sitting on the floor or you'll likely get hurt falling off of your chairs. The talking arch linux disk and instructions for installing talking archlinux had changed but even with that I managed to get archlinux to partition

http.debian.net different error message

2012-07-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
87% [Connecting to debian.cc.lehigh.edu]E: Method gave invalid 200 URI Start message Hardware eventually fails; software eventually works, no amount of band width can fix poor design Jude jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net

internet probably broken

2012-07-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free amd64 Packages 47% [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]E: Method gave invalid 200 URI Start message Every contact made with http.debian.net eventually gave the kind of message shown above today. Probaly some

repo in distress

2012-07-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
http://http.debian.net/ is apparently in distress this morning. The index files couldn't be rebuilt on my system after an aptitude update command was issued. Something about an md5 mismatch was in the error message. Hardware

Re: debian wheezy netinst questions

2012-07-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
drive since this one has some warranty left. On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Bob Proulx wrote: Jude DaShiell wrote: Why won't debian wheezy netinst recognize my Seagate Baracooda 7200 1500gb hard drive automatically? Since automatic recognition fails, which if any driver is installed that I can

the rest of the postgresql mystery

2012-07-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
Files from previous versions of postgresql are on the system and I found it impossible to remove those packages with aptitude after several attempts. For that reason I will be reinstalling debian and not reinstalling postgresql later.

debian wheezy netinst questions

2012-07-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
Why won't debian wheezy netinst recognize my Seagate Baracooda 7200 1500gb hard drive automatically? Since automatic recognition fails, which if any driver is installed that I can select and get the drive partitioned and formatted and finish a debian installation?

latest postgresql version question

2012-07-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
the steps outlined in /usr/share/doc/postgresql-common/README.Debian.gz with regard to createuser to create a database on my system only generate a message informing me that createuser couldn't connect to the database and asking me if the communication is happening locally on port 5432. I

some of postgresql mystery solved

2012-07-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
Apparently the installation of the packages failed to make any cluster so pg_lscluster had nothing to show when it was run other than its heading line. Hardware eventually fails; software eventually works, no amount of band

Re: aptitude update question

2012-07-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks much, I'll probably use the command line approach. Windows Pants: made entirely of patches on patches each with a picture of a Microsoft Vacuum Cleaner; a computer mouse, or a dollar sign. Jude jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net

Re: aptitude update question

2012-07-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Just thought of something, would: aptitude search '?new' '?uninstalled' show the new packages that aren't yet on the system? On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 12:47:33AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: One thing I read as the end result of some update operations

Re: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder

2012-07-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
orgmode works well for me. I write the files with proper org-mode syntax and then do a simple html export and put the html on the page I want. orgmode has a support list emacs-orgmode-requ...@gnu.org if you want to sign up.

Re: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder

2012-07-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
orgmode is plenty simple. There is a way to make a link, there is a way to make an anchor for where control passes, and there's a way to bold text. After that, everything else is plain text or content and the export to html takes care of the rest of the details. I forgot, there's a way to

aptitude update question

2012-07-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
One thing I read as the end result of some update operations is a certain number of new. I take it to mean new packages if I'm correct. What I'd like to know is if any utility exists that can tell me the names of the new packages. If I can get that much information, I can probably use

new kernel breaks postgresql on postgresql upgrade

2012-07-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
The transition from postgresql 8.4 to postgresql 9.1 almost worked over here except for a little matter of the linux kernel's shm value. This broke when I was involved with pg_upgradecluster and afterwards 9.1 wouldn't start. End result, all of postgresql has been removed from this machine.

Re: problems with detecting the cd in wheezy

2012-07-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
It sounds as if you got yourself a corrupted download of the iso used to install wheezy. Microsoft: It never looses its suction. Jude jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html -- To

Re: new kernel breaks postgresql on postgresql upgrade

2012-07-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
I was fortunate in that I hadn't put any data into that database system yet. The 40,000,000 value for shm is higher than the 34 million and change value that postgresql was using before and that would explain why this failure happened. However, it will be a good idea to fix the postgresql

Re: Webinar Software.

2012-06-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
citrix which is what gotomeeting uses is extremely inaccessible not only with respect to the software's ability working with assistive technology/screen readers but also it's impossible to even communicate with support without going through a captcha. I don't know what software outofsight.net

Re: Antivirus for CLI

2012-06-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
clamav probably will help along with clamav-milter to filter e-mail. Lastly, nmh installed for everybody to use because you get out of mbox format with that. If clamav finds a virus in someone's mbox file and quarrantines that whole file they just lost all of their email. However nmh puts

any ideas?

2012-06-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Script started on Sun 17 Jun 2012 08:26:58 AM EDT jude@stmarys:~$ mdir a:/ plain_io: Input/output error plain_io: Input/output error init A: could not read boot sector Cannot initialize 'A:' jude@stmarys:~$ exit exit Script done on Sun 17 Jun 2012 08:27:37 AM EDT

re: any ideas?

2012-06-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
I think the floppy in this machine is defective. The information on bsd wasn't useful in fact, as root I was prevented from changing permissions on the /dev/fd0 device. Script started on Sun 17 Jun 2012 09:45:57 AM EDT root@stmarys:~# dmesg | regrep fd0 [1.083042] Floppy drive(s):

re: any ideas?

2012-06-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
The floppy won't even refoprmat. Also, putting a never used floppy in that drive and attempting to format it fails as well. On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, keith wrote: On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 09:49 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: I think the floppy in this machine is defective. The information on bsd

Re: Floppy disk output errors (was: any ideas?)

2012-06-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Script started on Sun 17 Jun 2012 10:44:21 AM EDT jude@stmarys:~$ mformat a: -f 7020 mformat: init: set default params jude@stmarys:~$ exit exit Script done on Sun 17 Jun 2012 10:45:00 AM EDT That last line is strange since I did not erase /etc/mtools.conf and mtoolstest also reports finding

re: any ideas?

2012-06-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Yes, I checked the cables and they're in properly. I know because I have done volunteer work with smartco-inc.org since 2006 and what I do is disassemble computers for recycling. I think I will put together a system disk with a screen reader program on it and put that in the drive and boot the

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
No network problems over here either. No firewall since I have nothing listening on my system and have no problem going out to web or ssh. On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Neal Murphy wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2012 15:24:39 Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..network problems. Fix those, and try again.

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
I've been encountering these errors persistently for about the last week too. I usually do echo $? to check the error level after any aptitude operation now. I think ftp.us.debian.org has been designated a primary server and if I understand the mirrors stuff on debian.org correctly primary

Re: [OT] How to extract certain column

2012-06-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
man cut. On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, lina wrote: Hi, Sorry for off-topic, but I do need some suggestions now, Here it's # RAAADUE AA STBBCCCRE BP1 BP2 ACC N-H--OO--H-N N-H--OO--H-NTCO KAPPA DDPHA PAI PZIX-CA Y-CA Z-CA 1 174 V 0 00

Re: Application for creating educational flash on Debian? - SOLVED

2012-05-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
Also, look for an application that can provide Section 508 compliant output which will be accessible to screen readers and whatever you produce with it will sell lots better in the educational arena. On Wed, 30 May 2012, Weaver wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2012 21:13:48 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:

Re: (Mostly Solved) Re: How to get new RSA key in known_hosts file?

2012-05-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
I usually do: ssh-agent ssh-keygen -t rsa enter I don't normally key in anything for the password and keep hitting enter until ssh-keygen is done. That works for local files for me and I usually also do ssh-agent ssh--add and ssh-copy-id -i email address for remote location and enter password

Re: Fwd: Switching between modes in mutt.

2012-05-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
Probably hit q to get back into index mode.On Thu, 24 May 2012, Peter Easthope wrote: This morning I skimmed through http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-2.html#ss2.3 . Section 2.3 describes index mode and pager mode. In index mode, typing a message number opens the message in the pager.

Re: Does anyone care about dialup?

2012-05-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Not difficult at all. There is wvdial package and c-kermit packages available for that job. I was using c-kermit and mskermit back as far as 1989 though I only managed my first talking linux installation in 2000. Kermit has a book written about how to use it and my name is in that book for

Re: genisoimage and burning the iso created.

2012-04-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
There may be an iso split utility in debian I hope. If not, there is a split command line parameter in genisoimage I think but you might not like the results. On Sun, 29 Apr 2012, Sharon Kimble wrote: i have just created an iso of some of my music collection so that i can play them off the

boinccmd questions

2012-04-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
How do I clear the problem when initializing the boinc client of dir open can't open 'slots' message on initialization? I can only use the boinccmd command along with update-boinc-applinks since I don't do g.u.i. over here. Jude

Re: Working with ssh's escape character

2012-04-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
Try hitting tilde followed by period and see what happens within an ssh login shell. The tilde is the key to the left of the 1 key just shifted. On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Regid Ichira wrote: I had difficulties getting ssh(1)'s ESCAPE CHARACTERS to be recognized from within a login shell over

what happened to debian-multimedia.org?

2012-04-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
It seems to have been down for a while. Jude jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
I'm running a mix of wheezy/sid and aptitude update fails to download headers consistently tonight. Could it be a dos attack is happening against those servers?On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Stephen Allen wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 01:58:57PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: Does anyone know

Re: wget/curl cannot work on debian amd64

2012-03-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
Why not try aria2c? On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Juan Sierra Pons wrote: 2012/3/21 ??? handlerofmas...@gmail.com: Dear all: I have a problem with using wget and curl on debian amd64 when I type a command -- wget www.XXX.com, error messages will display as below:

Re: SATA SB700/SB80 io errors

2012-03-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
The nvidia sata drivers aren't working with the latest kernel either. I wrote about that earlier and was told the drivers are present but the drive isn't detected correctly by the installer. As of now, both Slackware 13.0 and archlinux do not have problems installing on my sata drive. I'll

Re: How to keep track of files installed from sources?

2012-03-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
The dance only need be done once. If before doing the dance script enter is typed and after the dance exit enter is typed. The file typescript will then have the whole dance program inside it.On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, Karl Vogel wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:53:49 +0100, Csanyi Pal

Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)

2012-03-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Randy Kramer wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2012 10:31:41 am Lisi wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2012 12:51:17 Randy Kramer wrote: The only problem is the aggravating yahoo URLs that are very long--I just checked one that is 537 characters long. So, far, with middle mouse

Re: text browsers

2012-02-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
There is a learning curve to edbrowse, but it does do javascript if the latest version is used. In that package is a setup-ebrc script that has to be run by a user not root once package installation is complete and the script needs to be in the user's directory when run. The support group

Re: wheezy updates status question

2012-02-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
headings and didn't interfere with any of those yet this continues to happen. So in preparation for the next time I try this, what is the format for that package tag? I'll write it in myself.On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Camale?n wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:15:03 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: deb http

Re: kernel bug and reportbug bug

2012-02-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
:36 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: I had a successful install of slackware 13.0 on my nVidia CK804 Serial ATA drive. Before doing so, I had a failed install of debian on that drive with debian causing much banging of the drive before throwing drive detection failed message and dropping me

kernel bug and reportbug bug

2012-02-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
I had a successful install of slackware 13.0 on my nVidia CK804 Serial ATA drive. Before doing so, I had a failed install of debian on that drive with debian causing much banging of the drive before throwing drive detection failed message and dropping me into media change dialog. Of course,

Re: wheezy updates status question

2012-02-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main Is put into the /etc/apt/sources.list file by the installation system on espeakup distribution at least so it makes sense that it would be discontinued for wheezy testing.On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Bob Proulx wrote: Jude DaShiell wrote: Has

Re: Daily built Debian Installer cd kept asking for stable dists.

2012-02-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
I've had situations where the daily builds have thrown a media change message and asked for the disk that was already being used to install the system to be put into the machine. Unfortunately, the drive door is locked and the media change dialog only respects alt-fx alt-f2 ... and ejecting

wheezy updates status question

2012-02-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
Has that part of the repository been discontinued or renamed? Jude jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

2012-02-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
Anyone heard of the unlink command?On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/15/2012 12:55 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Bilal mk: I tried to remove 5GB directory. In that directory around 3 files and directory. It will take more than 30 min to complete. There is no other cpu

Re: Netinstall cannot find wireless access points

2012-02-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
I use an amd k8 and the last two wheezy snapshots I downloaded couldn't install the needed kernel. I got media change message and the drive door wouldn't open and the disk the system was wanting was already in the drive anyway. I'm sure the developers don't need any of this input either.

Re: Netinstall cannot find wireless access points

2012-02-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
I forgot to mention, I used aria2c to do the downloads too.On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Jude DaShiell wrote: I use an amd k8 and the last two wheezy snapshots I downloaded couldn't install the needed kernel. I got media change message and the drive door wouldn't open and the disk the system

Re: Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

2012-01-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
A slight variant of this also happens in command line mode too. Random capslock activation does not happen. But once capslock is hit, all letters are written in uppercase even after capslock is pressed again to turn it off. Also, the only way to type lower case letters in this mode is to

Re: second display

2012-01-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
Study boot parameters then you get to control that feature once you put the correct boot parameters into your menu.list file.On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Pastor ALexander wrote: I am lost on the site, installing to my laptop the 42inch sharp tv screen comes up in 1024 instead of 1360 pclinuxos

possibly defective kernel

2012-01-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae. (Reading database ... 63135 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae 3.2.1-1 (using .../linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae_3.2.1-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking

Re: wget and captcha puzzle !!!

2012-01-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
1) locate and crush all cookies, 2) adjust browser settings so no cookies are allowed on your machine, 3) attempt another connection and see if the session bitches about no cookies being accepted. If yes, then you have your proof otherwise something else is happening. Personally, I'll loose

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
is being rebooted, and there is a high probability you will never make it to login without disrupting the boot process to change something. On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Sharon Kimble wrote: On 16/01/2012, Jude DaShiell jdash...@shellworld.net wrote: No point in doing that at all. If you want to see

Re: changing bootup parameters

2012-01-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
No point in doing that at all. If you want to see those messages after login as root or as sudo root do dmesg dmesg.log. Then less dmesg.log will let you view those messages one screen at a time. Also for a particular issue of interest, dmesg | grep -in search_string will show specific

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

2012-01-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
I did that once on an install and figured out what I did wrong too. This wasn't with debian though but with slackware. What I did was to allocate too little swap space in my swap partition. If you manually chose the amount of swap space you'll need to increase that amount then the problem

Re: grub-pc mdadm root (Resolved?)

2012-01-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
Should have been picked up and installation went ahead without it. Debian reminds me of those Mars Rovers, they're not supposed to be able to work but they get into a hostile environment and surprise everybody by working any way.On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: 14/01/2012

Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
can acroread and acroread-plugins work in a command line environment or is this strictly gui?On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Siard wrote: John A. Sullivan III: Form filling is not in the base package. I believe you need to install the acroread-plugins for that to work Indeed, after installing

debian-boot and usb keyboards

2012-01-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
on both squeeze and wheezy I tried them on an amd computr that got its ps/2 port broken but still has usb ports available. That does not work. I also need speakup running for the install so ended up installing slackware 13.0 which strangely has no such problems just to get access to the

Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

2012-01-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
You could use a blank keyboard with a dvorak layout pretty effectively pretty quickly if you used the speakup feature to put speech on your sound card for those typing sessions. Hit a wrong key, there's a backspace key to use. This for sighted people just enables another learning channel.On

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Dell maybe still does this. They used to a while ago.On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, doug wrote: On 12/09/2011 04:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm looking for a laptop with Linux preinstalled by vendor. I'm aware of System76 who ships with Ubuntu. Is there anyone else? I would like to do some

Re: How to access bluetooth phone?

2011-12-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Can you make the computer visible to the phone then take over the computer with the phone?On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 12/04/11 15:21, Jude DaShiell wrote: Good so far, now make your cell phone discoverable. That's in bluetooth settings somewhere then try that again

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