Re: Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/24/2009 12:20 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I don't think that I have actually purchased a video card separate from the PC, or motherboard since my TRS-8- Model III died and I bought my first PC compatible. That would have been about 26 years ago. Getting a new board

Vidio card recommendation needed (was:Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny)

2009-01-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
t works and doesn't have issues like the onboard Sis chips seem to have. -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
solid card that works and doesn't have issures like the onboard Sis chips seem to have. *EVGA 8400GS Video Card (PCI-Express, 512MB)* -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 20:21:19 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: Maybe this is related: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=474504 This seems to be exactly the problem that I am having. If this problem has been around

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
so I really don't know how to proceed. -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:37:41 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Bibek Paudel wrote: I haven't seen your error messages in detail but I have seen a couple of similar problems after the etch-lenny upgrade. please see if the proper drivers are installed. i found

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
erent location now? It may well be that if I can get X to use the vesa driver, as it did before, that these problems, at least, will go away. Then I can concentrate on others, like my digital camera. Marc -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I decided that it was time to upgrade to Lenny so that I could use Firefox 3 since I have heard that might eliminate some of the lockups that I have been having. My box has a PC Chips K8 motherboard with SiS 760GX/964 Chipset and an Athlon XP 800+ CPU

gtkam not recognizing camera any more

2009-01-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
endor and product info, that I need to do to get gtkam to recognize my camera? -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: I decided that it was time to upgrade to Lenny so that I could use Firefox 3 since I have heard that might eliminate some of the lockups that I have been having. My box has a PC Chips K8 motherboard with SiS 760GX/964 Chipset and an Athlon XP 800+ CPU. This is what I

Can't start X after upgrade to Lenny

2009-01-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
current problem with wine and sane? Wine is probably not much of an issue, but without sane my scanner is not going to function. Thanks for any help. Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Character mode for telnet

2009-01-09 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:13:32PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: I know that, after I connect with telnet I can got to command mode and enter 'mode char' to get into character mode. Is there any way to have telnet start up in character mode? I am trying to contr

Character mode for telnet

2009-01-09 Thread Marc Shapiro
t to work. -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: iPod

2008-12-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
Wednesday 2008 December 24 23:29:45 Marc Shapiro wrote: On my Etch system, I still get 3 upgrades Are you sure this is for Amarok in specific? Usually, there's only one version of perl in stable at a time -- you may simply be out of date on those. and 35 new packages requi

About Release-critial bugs page

2008-12-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
f they had been found before its release? If so, why have they not been corrected? The number just keeps on going up. BTW: I'm glad to see the numbers for Lenny dropping down close to the 100 mark. Looking forward to Lenny's release. -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com --

Re: iPod

2008-12-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
lled, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 42.9MB/49.6MB of archives. After unpacking 113MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: Confusion about legality of Linux

2008-12-10 Thread marc
bed were consistent with > authority figures as I recall from my youth. But she is, above all, an educator. That trumps authority, at least it does in schools; after all, is the priority of a school to educate or to discipline? And if educators these days are scared of the new, then heaven help

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-13 Thread Marc Shapiro
chety old geezers have computers with floppy drives in them Ok, then I am a crotchety old geezer, and proud of it. Mind you, I don't remember when the last time was that I actually USED the floppy drive. But it is still there! -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Issue with URL and firefox (iceweasel)

2008-10-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
nd about half the time I get the page to load when I click on the link. The other half I get a 404. I tried it 10 times and I got a 404 just about every other time I clicked the link. To me, that sounds more like a problem at the server end and not at the client end, but I can't say f

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
in a chroot in free space on the disk. I should still have the Sarge install in currently unused partitions on my disk. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
-11 year range. Debian 1.3 Bo (June 5th, 1997) Debian 2.0 Hamm (July 24th, 1998) Same here. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nikon L18 Support

2008-08-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
use gtkam with it. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printing from GIMP (SOLVED)

2008-07-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Thomas Preud'homme wrote: The Tuesday 29 July 2008 10:35:17 Marc Shapiro, you wrote : Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 01:43:11PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I recently purchased a new printer and drivers were not available for it in Etch, which I am ru

Re: Printing from GIMP

2008-07-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 01:43:11PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I recently purchased a new printer and drivers were not available for it in Etch, which I am running. Gutenprint 5.0.2 has the necessary drivers and I compiled it from source and the printer works

Re: Printing from GIMP

2008-07-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Le lundi 28 juillet 2008, Marc Shapiro a écrit : Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Le dimanche 27 juillet 2008, Marc Shapiro a écrit : I recently purchased a new printer and drivers were not available for it in Etch, which I am running. Gutenprint

Re: Printing from GIMP

2008-07-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
Thomas Preud'homme wrote: Le dimanche 27 juillet 2008, Marc Shapiro a écrit : I recently purchased a new printer and drivers were not available for it in Etch, which I am running. Gutenprint 5.0.2 has the necessary drivers and I compiled it from source and the printer works great

Printing from GIMP

2008-07-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
nning the version of GIMP from the Debian Etch repository. How do I get Debian's GIMP to recognize the compiled from source gutenprint 5.0.2 and allow me to print directly from GIMP. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Greetings and question

2008-07-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
that I have seen from native American English speakers and INFINITELY better than my Spanish. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound Problems (Sound is Often Gone)

2008-07-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
start up arts and then other sound apps were unable to get a sound device. Possibly the auto-suspend time reduces the amount of time after a KDE app uses sound and the time that arts releases the device? Any comment from the original poster of that idea? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/6/25 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I, too, am interested in the answer, if there is one. I am thinking of using the Asus eee (read "no hard drive") for processing in a robot. It seems to me that if the robot is moving there is less likely to be

Re: Removing selected items from forms in FF

2008-06-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Mumia W.. wrote: On 06/24/2008 09:09 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there any way to remove selected items from being remembered when filling out forms? [...] Highlight the entry, then press "Delete." Thank you! That was quick and painless. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Removing selected items from forms in FF

2008-06-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
hard drive") for processing in a robot. It seems to me that if the robot is moving there is less likely to be a problem if the lid is shut, than if it is open and able to wobble about. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Debian 2.6.18-6-686

2008-06-22 Thread Marc Auslander
You might post your /etc/network/interfaces -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printing from a wireless laptop on LAN

2008-06-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sun June 8 2008, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have set the server settings on the desktop to "Share published printers connected to this system". I restarted cupsd after making this change. I have verified that the printers that I want the EEE to access are

Printing from a wireless laptop on LAN

2008-06-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
Order deny,allow Printcap /var/run/cups/printcap -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The 'Good old days (WAS:Re: Aptitude Version: 0.4.11.2-1 eat my memory after update...)

2008-06-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
or just a single floppy drive. Maybe the 'Good old days' weren't so good, after all. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mounting an smbfs as non superuser

2008-06-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
that message from mount it means either: There is no entry in /etc/fstab for that filesystem/mountpoint combo or There is an fstab entry, but it does not have the user option HTH -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Sliding OT

2008-06-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/04/08 11:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:40:20AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:13:09AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ron

Re: Sliding OT

2008-06-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/02/08 23:28, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snip] Wine is fermented from fruit. Distilled wine is brandy. Beer is fermented from grain. Distilled beer is whiskey. Corn beer? Technically, yes. Sake is fermented from

Sliding OT (was:Re: Uninstall programs installed in wine.)

2008-06-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 12:15:17AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 05:55:56AM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: How to uninstall programs installed in wine? distill it to a port? Bad Toad! Hit

Re: Uninstall programs installed in wine.

2008-06-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
believe) but is not, itself, distilled. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

2008-05-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
I think) years. The data had become so voluminous that they were unable to tabulate the data from the last survey before it was time for the next survey. Hollerith used his invention to start a company which became IBM Larry The census is taken every 10 years. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

2008-05-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
ds at the time. This was a bit later, in time -- mid 70's using Fortran IV and Fortran-G on an IBM 360. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: web browser in icedove

2008-05-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
ridged CD's, which I listen to on my way to and from work. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
have appreciated the ability to tab from one field to another, or to simply press enter after entering the answer in the only field on the form. It took me at least twice as long to get through the demo as it should have. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/08 13:06, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat May 3 2008, Marc Shapiro wrote: Sure. This is my alias for startx: alias startx='startx -- :0 vt07' My wife and daughter use: alias star

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sat May 3 2008, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have three X sessions running on my box. All started with startx. Each user has an alias for startx that uses a specified VT. It makes no difference what order the sessions are started in, ech person gets a session on the

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
n the same VT each time startx is invoked. That way I there is no confusion and my wife, daughter and I always know which terminal our session is on. We also all have different backgrounds so that we can see at a glance whose session is currently up. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude question

2008-04-30 Thread Marc Auslander
Doesn't b in the aptitude gui app take you to the next broken package? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Almost Working

2008-04-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 03:59:40PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:08:29PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: You need something like this in /etc/udev/rules.d/z60_libsane.rules # Epson DX-7400 | Epson DX-7400 SYSFS

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

2008-04-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/27/08 01:33, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] I don't think so. FF3 should severely diminish this problem, though. Still waiting for it to get out of beta. If -- and I emphasize *if* -- you are running Lenny or Sid, the

Re: Almost Working

2008-04-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 03:59:40PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Still not working as normal user. It works for root, however, without needing the node in /dev/.static/dev. I hate to reboot. I like the long uptime but we had a power outage recently, so I guess that

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

2008-04-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/27/08 00:55, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/26/08 18:13, Bob Proulx wrote: [snip] I learned about this because I didn't know it when I set

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

2008-04-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
nly, no Firefox. I can't, offhand, remember it happening with other programs, but it might have, so it might just be a Firefox thing, but Bob's post got me wondering. Can I avoid this vanishing trick of Firefox by increasing swap and turning off overcommit? If so, it would be a g

Re: Almost Working

2008-04-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:08:29PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: You need something like this in /etc/udev/rules.d/z60_libsane.rules # Epson DX-7400 | Epson DX-7400 SYSFS{idVendor}=="04b8", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0838", MODE="0664", GROUP=&

Re: Almost Working

2008-04-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 07:12:19AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I then changed its ownership to root:scanner and its permissions to 664, but I still can't run as myself, only as root. Do I need to rebout for those changes to take effect? Is there some way t

Almost Working (was:Re: Help using my new scanner)

2008-04-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Shapiro wrote: Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008 07:36:01 you wrote: Thierry Chatelet wrote: Are you in scanner group? Yes, my original post says that I

Re: Help using my new scanner

2008-04-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
d you change the device node's group? I have never done that to get a scanner recognized. Thierry PS: respond to the list, not to me in private. It helps other people on the list. Thanks The nodes owner was root:root. I want to be able to use the scanner as a normal user. -- Marc Shap

Help using my new scanner

2008-04-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
should use the epson backend and work 'good.' What am I doing wrong? It would be real nice to have a working scanner. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
didn't! Well, now you're just contradicting. No, he's not! -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: browsers have become memory hogs

2008-04-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 07:10:04AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there any way, instead of restricting a resource, to have a command executed when a setpoint for a given resource is reached? Say, when FF uses 200M of virtual memory, or over 30% of CPU, a job runs

Re: browsers have become memory hogs

2008-04-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
executed when a setpoint for a given resource is reached? Say, when FF uses 200M of virtual memory, or over 30% of CPU, a job runs which pops up a warning message. That way you know that a problem exists and can handle it BEFORE it gets to the point where the system is locking up. -- Marc Shapiro [

libsqlclient15off

2008-04-10 Thread Marc Auslander
The slim project recently ran afoul of something in the debian packages. They had been requirement libsqlclient15-dev (or 14-dev) and a user pointed out that they should only depend on the client - so they changed to libsqlclient14 (or 15). But these don't exist - rather only libsqlclient15off ex

Re: PTP camera, setting rights does not work

2008-04-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
nton's box) and I have completely logged out and back in, but the results are the same. Can anyone help Anton and me? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HP Photosmart and Epson Stylus Photo printer compatibility?

2008-03-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Can anyone verify the functioning of this printer under linux? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iceweasel (firefox) and Hummingbird Exceed

2008-03-17 Thread Marc Auslander
Thanks - but that was not the problem. One thing I notice is that when I trace the connection, iceweasel isn't opening any fonts on the X-server. Could it be doing everything with bit streams to the X-server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

iceweasel (firefox) and Hummingbird Exceed

2008-03-16 Thread Marc Auslander
I have terrible display update performance when using iceweasel with Hummingbird Exeed on a windows box as the X-server. This started with the etch version of icewasel. I assume its something to do with the X-protocol and/or the network settings, but I can't figure out how to proceed. Any ideas?

Re: can't swapon second partition after swapoff, overwrite /dev/urandom, swapon

2008-03-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
t say what error swapon would give, but it certainly sounds like a possibility in this case. Does anyone else know more about this situation? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

2008-03-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
board is tiny and takes getting used to. BUT, it only weighs 2 lbs and is about the size of a portable DVD player. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?

2008-02-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
e more than one partition on a flash drive. Amazing as in, XP can't. This seems a fairly insane design decision on the part of MS. Does Vista do this, too? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-09 Thread marc
s. keeling said... > marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Micha said... > > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:11:32 - > > > > The reason I asked is that I write books yet haven't found anything to > > > > match WinEdt, which is a Win

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-08 Thread marc
texmaker pointer. I had a look at it, but unfortunately - as did/does kile - it doesn't do realtime spell checking, and you can't add words to the dictionary; as a writing tool, those are serious omissions. I'm not wedded to winedt, btw, in fact, I think it's rather nasty in many

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-06 Thread marc
n't found anything to match WinEdt, which is a Windows editor, for handling chapters and LaTeX on Linux. In all other cases, I use vim. -- Cheers, Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-06 Thread marc
Steve Lamb said... > s. keeling wrote: > > Just curious, but what's wrong with breaking it up by chapters and > > figuring out how to merge it all together later? "lpr chap*" too much > > to remember? > > Now email that ream of paper. Scanner? --

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread marc
doesn't use that combination simultaneously. As a matter of interest, Steve, which editor do you use for writing with LaTex? -- Cheers, Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: g++ missing

2008-01-31 Thread Marc Auslander
Marc Auslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A while ago I upgraded to etch from sarge. I now discover the g++ is > missing. aptitude doesn't show the package. my sources.list points > at ... My dumb mistake. aptitude search appears to be reg exp, so searching for g++ d

g++ missing

2008-01-31 Thread Marc Auslander
A while ago I upgraded to etch from sarge. I now discover the g++ is missing. aptitude doesn't show the package. my sources.list points at deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main w

Re: unable to su to root, sudo works

2008-01-20 Thread Marc Auslander
You might look in the conf files in /etc/security and see if anything is funny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
ox to connect with DHCP, connected and turned on the router, then my computer. Everything worked perfectly. I am now using Verizon FIOS with the identical setup on my box. I didn't have to change anything since I still connect by DHCP. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSC

firefox (iceweasel) performance problem

2008-01-15 Thread Marc Auslander
After updating to etch and replacing firefox with iceweasel, I'm seeing severe display update performance problems. I normally run my debian sessions against a hummingbird exceed xserver on windows. This is where I see the problem. If I run against a vnc server on my debian box, there is no prob

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

2007-12-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Adrian Levi wrote: On 31/12/2007, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Adrian Levi wrote: On 30/12/2007, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:52:54 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Man is the best compu

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

2007-12-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
xt that he has posted. He only says that the items are things that interest him. I know that most people don't think about these things, but my wife is a librarian, so she always does, and it has gotten me into the habit of thinking about it, too. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot resolved

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
The problem is operator (that's me) stupidity. I have an overloaded find so I can say find foo and have it mean find . -name foo -print mkinitramfs uses find . | cpio to build the initrd.img I have my stuff in the path (yeh i know i know) I've wasted my time - i deserve it - and your time - yo

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
On 12/13/2007 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: the command will be something like mkinitramfs -o initrd.img-2.6.18-version-arch -k 2.6.18-version-arch be sure to move the other one aside first. and since you're using lilo, make sure you aer aware of what your symlinks are and so forth. I tried

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
I tried again - I did in fact (ignore earlier post) see the OK and clicked on it. initrd.img winds up being 89 bytes long. The output of the configure follow. The only anomoly is the comment about a missing link. There is a /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-686, but it does not contain an entry names sourc

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
Graham wrote: On 13 Dec 2007 10:38:00 -0500 Marc Auslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am running etch on a Dell with ide drives, using LILO I just used aptitude to install the latest security update to the 2.6.18 kernel, 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5 The install produced a message about th

Initial boot messages on terminal

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
Is there a boot option to have the terminal pause at each page of messages. For early boot problems, I can't see the messages that lead to the panic, because they scroll off the screen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Latest kernel security update wont boot

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
I am running etch on a Dell with ide drives, using LILO I just used aptitude to install the latest security update to the 2.6.18 kernel, 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5 The install produced a message about the fact that it was updating the running kernel and I should reboot right away - which I did. Reboo

Re: how to get debian.org to accept my yahoo.com email

2007-12-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
reply then it is evidence that Debian is not blocking Yahoo e-mail addresses, as this is being sent from a Yahoo address and I have been using it, and Debian lists, for several years. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: troubleshoot lockups

2007-11-28 Thread Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé
rl+alt+F1 and see if your computer is responding. Good luck Marc-Etienne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: removing kde

2007-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
cases, KDE packages depend on kdebase, IIRC. So, removing kdebase should remove most KDE packages. apt-get remove kdebase. HTH. Kumar Removing libartsc0 is what did it for me. That removed virtually everything that was KDE related. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Exim3 With multiple domains

2007-11-26 Thread Marc Auslander
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > > I hope you have good reasons for using exim3 otherwise upgrade to 4. > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > (Albert Einstein) Be warned - getting exim4 working can be an adventure. F

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/23/07 23:54, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snip] Dont' forget its best feature (the one that has never been used anywhere else, but should be)... Drum roll, please... View Codes Balderdash. WordStar had "

Re: command line wordperfect

2007-11-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
t formatting codes were in the file, and where they were placed. It made finding out why the formatting was not as expected so much easier. I wish OOo would implement the feature. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: 1 in 2 chance : need to issue "/etc/init.d/networking restart" after boot

2007-11-23 Thread Marc Auslander
is http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#s-asynchronous-network-start relevant? I also believe there is information in the wiki or release notes about workarounds. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: apache2: includes filter error

2007-11-23 Thread Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé
I suppose the error occurs at line 542 : AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml First make sure the mod_include module is enabled. To do that, issue the # a2enmod include command as root. Then, restart with # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Second, according to the documentation, you also need the "Inclu

Re: unsed .deb packages??

2007-11-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
With any luck, the output format of 'ls' will be left alone. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unsed .deb packages??

2007-11-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
joseph lockhart wrote: --- Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Reid wrote: On Friday 16 November 2007 22:02, David Fox wrote: On 11/16/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think OP is looking for aptit

Re: unsed .deb packages??

2007-11-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, Marc Shapiro wrote: many package .deb files exist which are not installed, or are duplicated in the archives. It then gives options for deleting them with, or without prompting. I don't know of any packaged program that does this, however. T

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