abcde cddb lookup has stopped working?

2008-07-18 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, i use abcde to rip cd's to ogg and flac. in the past it's worked great but i have a bunch of new cd's to burn and for some reason, abcde has stopped contacting the cddb servers. I get this error: Executing customizable pre-read function... done. Getting CD track info... Querying the

concatenate flac files? convert to mp4?

2007-07-15 Thread Matt Price
hi, im in hte middle of a long trip with my kids and have filled my ipod with all kinds of things, including over a thousand mp3's from ripped-down harry potter cd's. unfortunately my ipod doesn't know that these files are 'audiobook' file, and so when i put the ipod on shuffle, about one in 5

Re: concatenate flac files? convert to mp4?

2007-07-15 Thread Matt Price
On 7/15/07, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, im in hte middle of a long trip with my kids and have filled my ipod with all kinds of things, including over a thousand mp3's from ripped-down harry potter cd's. unfortunately my ipod doesn't know that these files are 'audiobook' file

tell ipod a recording is an 'audiobook'?

2007-07-05 Thread Matt Price
from amarok that's great, otherwise i can use whatever music player is required. thanks very much, as always! matt -- Matt Price History Dept University of Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: gps and linux?]

2007-06-02 Thread Matt Price
On 6/1/07, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: hi, i'm about to take off on a long road trip through the us and am planning the technological elements. I'm looking for advice on purchasing a gps unit. If possible, i'd love to get

gps and linux?

2007-06-01 Thread Matt Price
hi, i'm about to take off on a long road trip through the us and am planning the technological elements. I'm looking for advice on purchasing a gps unit. If possible, i'd love to get something that ran Free software, or was at least intercompatible with my debian ubuntu based machines. we

Re: Dell Latitude D820

2007-04-12 Thread Matt Price
On 4/12/07, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Anybody Successfully runing any Debian ( based ) Distribution with Xorg on a Dell Latitude D820 http://reviews.cnet.com/Dell_Latitude_D820/4507-3121_7-31792100.html Etch? i've been running ubuntu feisty on this machine for some time,

make-kpkg makes HUGE kernel packages??

2007-03-06 Thread Matt Price
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Re: [TLUG]: running windows via kvm module -- any experiences?

2007-01-31 Thread Matt Price
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 18:24 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:06:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: My girlfriend is buying a new computer a month or two from now and I'm hoping to convince her to let me install ubuntu feisty on it, and set up a windows VM using the new

Re: How to make work dual monitors with Debian etch on an IBM x60s ThinkPad?

2007-01-31 Thread Matt Price
just hoping that someone posts these xorg.conf's for the record; I for one may well buy one of these machiens soon and would like to know how to do both things. m On 1/31/07, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 14:36:18 +0900, Dietrich Bollmann wrote: Hi, I am

running windows via kvm module -- any experiences?

2007-01-30 Thread Matt Price
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Re: bridging eth1 to eth0

2007-01-02 Thread Matt Price
On 12/31/06, Kevin Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You got it half right. Turning on ip_forward on the server is only one piece. The other piece is to set the client's default gateway to point to your server, which is 192.168.0.1. You can set this via DHCP options, since you have a DHCP

Re: bridging eth1 to eth0

2006-12-30 Thread Matt Price
On 12/29/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 04:42:49PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: From: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: TLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bridge eth1 to eth0? Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:51:31 -0500 hi, for stupid

bridging eth1 to eth0

2006-12-29 Thread Matt Price
From: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: TLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:bridge eth1 to eth0? Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:51:31 -0500 hi, for stupid reasons I need to install via netboot on a compaq tablet (hoping this will work, it's my last shot!). I have an ubuntu desktop

minimal kde system for amarok?

2006-12-01 Thread Matt Price
Hi, I am building a linux stereo for xmas. Basically I'm making it out of an old ibm thinkpad and an iPod w/ rockbox. I want to install a fairly minimal set of packages as I really don't want the machine to feel sluggish -- it should act like a smart stereo component, not a slow-bu-versatile

debian kernel git tree?

2006-11-29 Thread Matt Price
Hi, I'm wondering whether there's a git tree somewhere for the debian kernel? thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make-kpkg fails with compatibility errors

2006-11-28 Thread Matt Price
On 11/27/06, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: On a mixed sid/ubuntu-edgy system !!! /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm line 655. dh_gencontrol: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/share/perl5/Debian

make-kpkg fails with compatibility errors

2006-11-27 Thread Matt Price
Hi, On a mixed sid/ubuntu-edgy system I am having errors building the ubuntu kernels from source. The kernel compile seems to go fine but there are issues with make-kpkg and dh_* along these lines: $ sudo make-kpkg --append-to-version=-suspend2 --initrd kernel-image

ripping several hundred cds?

2006-11-26 Thread Matt Price
of these that I'd like to have as little user interaction as possible -- just shove in the cd, have it automatically rip to a specifed location, then eject and on to the next one. has anyone done anything of this kind before? any suggestions? thanks, matt -- Matt Price History Dept University of Toronto

umount /proc/bus/usb/ modprobe -r usbcore??

2006-11-18 Thread Matt Price
Hi I run a mostly-ubuntu system on my dell latitude d820, but pull a few packages from Sid compile my kernels from debian sources which I patch with the suspend2 patches, because suspending to ram and to disk are both unreliable with the ubuntu kernels. In recent weeks something has happened

Re: debian planet rss feed on firefox?

2006-10-31 Thread Matt Price
On 10/28/06, Benj. Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Joey Hess date=Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:46:31PM -0400 Matt Price wrote: can I file a bug somewhere against planet debian? anyone know? I've CC'd mako, its maintainer. The underlying software package, FWIW, is planet. The bug

rescue distro on 128 meg usb key?

2006-10-31 Thread Matt Price
hi, my dad is bringing me an old toshiba tablet (don't have the model number) that seems to be having serious trouble, possibly a disk failure. I will probably install a linux distro on it eventually, but will have to figure out what makes the most sense for this kind of machine (limited speed

Re: debian planet rss feed on firefox?

2006-10-27 Thread Matt Price
On 10/27/06, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: item titleDavid Welton: Passing information to Rails droppables from draggables/title guidurn:uuid:73683519-cc21-4c2e-90b2-5bf2955fc359/guid linkhttp://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2006/10/25/passing

debian planet rss feed on firefox?

2006-10-25 Thread Matt Price
hi, I'm having a little trouble with the rss feed from planet debian. using firefox 2.0's native live bookmark features, I can generate a bookmark which fetches the titles of articles from planet debian. but when I try to click on them. I often get messages like the following: Firefox doesn't

routing only certain traffic through vpn?

2006-10-19 Thread Matt Price
hi, i'm wondering whether it's possible to route only certain internet traffic through a vpn, or to exclude certain ip addresses/ranges from the vpn. my situation is as follows: I work mostly from home and rely on the university's vpn to be able to access online journals. ths works fine., but

Re: routing only certain traffic through vpn?

2006-10-19 Thread Matt Price
On 10/19/06, Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:03:20 -0400 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i'm wondering whether it's possible to route only certain internet traffic through a vpn, or to exclude certain ip

Re: switching xorg.conf configurations?

2006-10-11 Thread Matt Price
On 10/8/06, Avinash Sultanpur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 12:37:34PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: ah. I hadn't realized this needed to go in my startup scripts -- I'd read about it on a suspend2 mailing list and included it in my hibernate script, but I don't actually know

Re: switching xorg.conf configurations?

2006-10-06 Thread Matt Price
On 10/6/06, Avinash Sultanpur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Matt, On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:34:06AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: I occasionally need to use the native acceleration of the nonfree nvidia x driver, but my laptop will neither suspend nor hibernate when they're loaded. I'd like

switching xorg.conf configurations?

2006-10-05 Thread Matt Price
Hi, I occasionally need to use the native acceleration of the nonfree nvidia x driver, but my laptop will neither suspend nor hibernate when they're loaded. I'd like to set up a situation where I can log in to my main x session most of the time, but optionally log in to an x server running with

bind my hibernate key to some command?

2006-10-04 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, running a debian 2.6.18 kernel on a mostly-ubuntu edgy system, I'd like to find a way to bind the hibernate key on my laptop to some function. the laptop is a dell latitude d820 as far as I can tell the keypress is not being intercepted by acpi. acpi_listen records when the StandBy key

Re: 2.6.18 and ipw3945

2006-09-28 Thread Matt Price
On 9/28/06, Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: anyway i've run into a little trouble with my kernel. the ubuntu kernel ships with the ipw3945 wireless driver installed. the debian sources, however, don't, and the suspend2 patches don't want to apply against the ubuntu

2.6.18 and ipw3945

2006-09-27 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, i'm running ubuntu edgy with a self-compiled 2.6.18 kernel on my dell latitude d820. I did the kernel compile because the standard kernel suspend wasn't working for me; suspend2 usually works great on this machine but is having a little trouble at the moment... anyway i've run into

Re: hibernate desktop?

2006-09-12 Thread Matt Price
On 9/12/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Anybody done this successfully? Details? H the suspend capabilities of the linux kernel are improving, but not foolproof. if your BIOS supports ACPI susp-to-memory or susp-to-disk you vcan mess around with the files in /etc/acpi.

windows in xen on intel core-duo?

2006-06-13 Thread matt . price
Hi folks, I've just bought a new dell latitude d820, which is lovely. It came with windows pre-installed, and I thught that this time (since I have a huge hard drive) I might leave it installed in a shrunken-down partition. What I'm wondering is whether I can get windows to run from inside

monitoring network uptime

2006-06-09 Thread Matt Price
, so I'd get a graph of all these variables over time as the main output. Or ifthere's a tool that does some part of this without me having to do all kinds of programming work, that would be even better -- since I am a LOUSY programmer. THanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt

help with corrupted lvm/RAID disk

2006-06-07 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, I had a wierd hard crash with amarok running on the first reboot I had a dpkg error when installing/reinstalling some stuff. On the next reboot gdm wouldn't start, ando n the third I couldn't log in even at the console. I've tracked down my Ubuntu Dapper LiveCD and am trying

help! /usr/lib/ corrupted on XFS! [was: help with corrupted lvm/RAID disk]

2006-06-07 Thread Matt Price
On 6/7/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- My main system is in an LVM Volume Group called Anarres-64-main, with two partitions: root: the root system home: /home forgot to mention that /dev/mapper/Anarres--64--main-root is an XFS file system. sorry about the red herrings

[OT-ish] diagnosing serial port functionality?

2006-05-26 Thread Matt Price
/tty/S1+), but again, no data comes through when I attach the palm pilot press hotsync. thanks for any advice you got! matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

gpilot pilot-link messed up after hardware/software upgrade?

2006-05-25 Thread Matt Price
diagnose these issues further! the evolution/palm combination has been crucial for me. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Mail getting through?

2006-05-25 Thread Matt Price
sorry, just testing my account -- the last 3 messages I sent to the list don't seem to have made it all the way! matt

PDA serial/USB cable busted after hardware/software upgrade?

2006-05-24 Thread Matt Price
. In any case I'd love some advice on howto diagnose these issues further! the evolution/palm combination has been crucial for me. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek

PDA serial/USB cable busted after hardware/software upgrade?

2006-05-24 Thread Matt Price
. In any case I'd love some advice on howto diagnose these issues further! the evolution/palm combination has been crucial for me. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek

PDA serial/USB cable busted after hardware/software upgrade?

2006-05-24 Thread Matt Price
hi debian, I was until recently running debian sid on a middle-aged amd k7 system; after the motherboard fried, I upgraded to a very fast new system (amd X2 3800+, A8N-SLI motherboard and installed ubuntu Dapper and debian etch on a new disk. The old system is still around on an old disk, but

[Getting OT: hardware sensors] Re: sensors, alarms, crashes!

2006-05-04 Thread Matt Price
On 5/3/06, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, as discussedi nan earlier thread (sorry don'th ave it handy!) I'm having trouble with hard freezes on my system. I've installed sensord and lm-sensors and find that, even when my system appears to be working fine

Re: sensors, alarms, crashes!

2006-05-04 Thread Matt Price
On 5/4/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: May 3 16:55:16 anarres sensord: Sensor alarm: Chip it87-isa-0290: fan2: 0 RPM (min = 3013 RPM, div = 8) [ALARM] Fan2 is the CPU fan in most instances. Does it turn? Did it ever turn? H the CPU fan is turning, and I

Re: [Getting OT: hardware sensors] Re: sensors, alarms, crashes!

2006-05-04 Thread Matt Price
On 5/4/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I do have 3 drives plugged in to this system, and 768 Megs of RAM, but on the other hand it's a 400W power source. Unfortunately the mirror test doesn't work that well for me since I don't know what to look for! -- but I'd be surprisedi f

Re: tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:49:13PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, I'm having a problem with hard crashes on my box (sid, not quite up to date). They seem to happen in a variety of circumstances -- the computer locks hard in an X

Re: tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
On 5/3/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks andrew. these hardware monitors -- are they things like xseonsors and mbmon? I've just apt-get installed those and will try them out. other suggestions still welcome! er, having

Re: daylight savings error on reboot

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
Apologies for a late reply. On 4/28/06, Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe my system clock is set to UTC, and I don't have any other OS operating on the system. If your system clock is set to UTC it should never be changed for daylight

Re: tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:22:48AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: er, having a little trouble here -- xsensors comes up blank! not sure if that means I'm missing the requisite kernel drivers. any way to tell what I need? You probably

dvd-9 -- dvd-5 backup with divx/ without wine

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
interface in any case, once it's finished ripping the files don't appear to have been transcoded and I can't tell what precisely I'm meant to do next. anyway, I would really appreciate any hints folks have or links to useful howtos. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt

transcode erros [WAS: Re: dvd-9 -- dvd-5 backup with divx/ without wine]

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
Hi Andrew, On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:14:15PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: I've had good success with dvdrip, though I use it slightly differently. I'm ripping my dvd's and saving them as .avi's on my file server for easier watching in myth

sensors, alarms, crashes!

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
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tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-02 Thread Matt Price
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Re: daylight savings error on reboot

2006-04-28 Thread Matt Price
Hi Folks, On 4/27/06, Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having a wierd phebomenon. Every time I reboot, the clock gets set back an additional hour, as though my ocmputer were adjusting for daylight savings time again. I've noticed

daylight savings error on reboot

2006-04-27 Thread Matt Price
funciton. Now I notice that it happens on normal reboot as well. Any ideas how to diagnose fix this problem? Thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

gstreamer, esd, arts, and other black magic

2006-03-03 Thread Matt Price
these programs, I still don't understand them very well and wondered whether someone might clarify the relations among them the prospects for using gstreamer in the way I've just described. Thanks as always, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User

lost mysql root password

2006-03-03 Thread Matt Price
*not* a cracker, I'm just a little incompetent. APpreciate any help you might give. Thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lost mysql root password

2006-03-03 Thread Matt Price
Thanks everyone for your help, see below for more: On 3/3/06, anoop aryal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 03 March 2006 09:49 am, Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, a while ago I switched over to mysql-5.0, then forgot about it entirely. Now I'm back to configuring some programs that use

Re: lost mysql root password

2006-03-03 Thread Matt Price
do: select hex(User) from user where User LIKE 'root%'; that should give you the hex values of the characters that are there. have all four. I guess there must be some white space in the username somewhere. Is there an easy way to identify the precise value of a mysql field (e.g.

Re: cvs for media files?

2006-03-01 Thread Matt Price
On 2/28/06, Michael Schurter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: However, the most important tool that AFAIK is missing, is a audio/video differencing tool - like diff for video. Without an AV diff tool you cannot resolve conflicts if two people change the same revision of a video

cvs for media files?

2006-02-27 Thread Matt Price
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networked music player that plays local AND remote files

2006-02-25 Thread Matt Price
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Re: long term problem with firefox cpu usage ocntinues

2006-02-19 Thread Matt Price
On 2/18/06, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 04:42:52PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: so it would bereally niceto know what exactly makes firefox behave this way. Hi Matt, you should google about firefox issue because as of late I saw an article where they exmplained

long term problem with firefox cpu usage ocntinues

2006-02-18 Thread Matt Price
in tht time. So firefox is still eating cycles, eventhough the windows are all gone. so it would bereally niceto know what exactly makes firefox behave this way. Thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek

Re: switching / to lvm

2006-02-03 Thread Matt Price
On 1/26/06, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Kirchner wrote: On 1/26/06, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can play with things as you like, but I wouldn't do it. I had problems with LVM and got rid of it. Over on Fedora, I've only seen one say I'm glad I used LVM, but

kded crash while running amarok in xfce

2006-02-02 Thread Matt Price
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switching / to lvm

2006-01-26 Thread Matt Price
. Haven't found an obvious candidate. Appreciate the help as always. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]

2006-01-23 Thread Matt Price
On 1/22/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/22/06, Linas Zvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try running MAKEDEV, it should give all the missing devices the old fashioned way. If that does not work, mknod /dev/hda b 3 0. tried this with no success -- /dev/hda10 still doesn't get

Re: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]

2006-01-23 Thread Matt Price
On 1/23/06, Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: I'm not sure how to proceed. my old kernel, 2.6.10, runs fine, but udev still blocks my dist-upgrade. I would try building a new 2.6.15 kernel based on my 2.6.10config, but the system is so badly screwed up right now

Re: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]

2006-01-23 Thread Matt Price
On 1/23/06, Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: I'm not sure how to proceed. my old kernel, 2.6.10, runs fine, but udev still blocks my dist-upgrade. I would try building a new 2.6.15 kernel based on my 2.6.10config, but the system is so badly screwed up right now

Re: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]

2006-01-23 Thread Matt Price
On 1/23/06, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (23/01/06 07:34), Matt Price wrote: To: debian users debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian users debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org From: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed

system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Matt Price
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Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade

2006-01-22 Thread Matt Price
cross posting this to deb-powerpc, b/c I think this may be a ppc-specific problem On 1/22/06, Linas Zvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or temporarily disable udev, or something, so that I can create the /dev/hda

OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Matt Price
windows except at web kiosks things). so, any suggestions? thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Matt Price
On 1/20/06, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: hi folks, I've set up a little internal web server on our home network. On my debian boxes I just added a line like: 192.168.2.111 ourhome to /etc/hosts to facilitate browsing. But my wife has a windows xp laptop

Re: setting proper resolution on my lcd

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Price
On 1/19/06, Ken Wahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:42:33PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, just got a brnad new dell 1905fp, which mostly works great. Having trouble getting it to display at its native 1280x1024, though. Instead I seem to have it at 1162x1054

quickly add jfs support to kernel?

2006-01-18 Thread Matt Price
--of-tree modules, so it's a real pain to compile the whole thing again. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

setting proper resolution on my lcd

2006-01-18 Thread Matt Price
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OOo crashes, fails to restore!!

2005-12-12 Thread Matt Price
work. partly myself to blame. but partly something is broken in ooo! have to sign off before I start crying. matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: OOo crashes, fails to restore!!

2005-12-12 Thread Matt Price
On 12/12/05, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: sorry for the exclamation points. Just lost a crucial day's work -- in fact this is breakdown-inducing stuff -- failed to save regularly, and OOo crashed without warning. Went to restore, and instead of restoring

sort amarok playlists on multiple fields?

2005-12-11 Thread Matt Price
really like to be able to do that. thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: dvd recording, dvdcss, etc.

2005-12-06 Thread Matt Price
On 12/5/05, Gnu-Raiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11:23, Mon 05 Dec 05, Matt Price wrote: Hi there, I have made a copy of a dvd which is encrypted with libdvdcss. I'm pretty sure the copy (which is for research purposes) is legal under Canadian law, so please let's not get into that. I

dvd recording, dvdcss, etc.

2005-12-05 Thread Matt Price
option a possible source of error? this is the first dvd I've burned so I don't have much experience with this stuff. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: stereo component from laptop?

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Price
welcome them... Matt -Original Message- From: Matt Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 November 2005 20:10 To: debian users; debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: stereo component from laptop? On 11/30/05, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, as a result

merging Openoffice docs in unison

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Price
, and where most of my synchronization comfusion comes from. Has anyone tried anything of this kind? Any hints? thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

stereo component from laptop?

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Price
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Re: stereo component from laptop?

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Price
On 11/30/05, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, as a result of various events, I have an extra laptop and no cd player, so I would like to convert the laptop into a stereo component. It's an HP Omnibook 4100, PII MMX 266, with 96 megs RAM, a pretty big hard drive (30 megs

spam howto

2005-11-17 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, Looking for a simple spam-control howto. I have tried setting up bogofilter spamassassin in the past I've always run into trouble; the process sometimes seems incredibly complex. Any help out there? Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian

post-hibernation tasks

2005-11-16 Thread Matt Price
wondering if anyone has ideas how to do such a thing. thanks much, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: pcmcia + acpi + suspend2 seems impossible...

2005-11-15 Thread Matt Price
On 11/15/05, Eric van der Paardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Martin Hauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 2:20 AM To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: pcmcia + acpi + suspend2 seems impossible... -snip- So far I

kernel upgrade, no console

2005-11-11 Thread Matt Price
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kernel-compile-troubleshooting -- help with a howto

2005-11-11 Thread Matt Price
think this is just superstition, though. -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

unregister_netdevice

2005-11-11 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, with a new 2.6.14 kernel, I am getting this message: unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 5 repeated ad nauseum in dmesg after ejecting my pcmcia nic (xircom something or other, rebranded by IBM). not only can I not reload the card, I am unable to

bash, read, and tab completion

2005-11-09 Thread Matt Price
don't notice any hints in this direction in the ABS, but probably I'm just missing them. Guiadance appreciated! thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot

Re: php5

2005-11-09 Thread Matt Price
On 11/9/05, Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:33:08PM +0100, Wiki wrote: Is website actualized alaways when new stable is public? Could you rephrase that please? I don't understand. this presumably means, is the website updated ('actual' in most european

Re: OpenOffice.org Help File??

2005-11-09 Thread Matt Price
On 11/9/05, Paul Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Grieveson wrote: All of which seem to be for OpenOffice.org 1.1 and will break my OOo 2.0 installation. Paul Scott A quick search of the Debian unstable packages revealed this help package: Package

Re: Suspend to disk

2005-11-08 Thread Matt Price
On 11/8/05, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Antonio Paiva wrote: Hi all. I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how? Thanks,

pcmcia/cardbus issue after 2.6.14 kernel upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Matt Price
to be enabled. ANy hints as to what I might have done wrong here? Or what the next debugging step would be? thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot

Re: pcmcia/cardbus issue after 2.6.14 kernel upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Matt Price
On 11/7/05, mikepolniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10:06 Mon 07 Nov , Matt Price wrote: hi folks, just about every possible pcmcia option seems to be enabled. ANy hints as to what I might have done wrong here? Or what the next debugging step would

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