Re: HTML5 videos in Jessie

2014-11-02 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Proxy wrote: > Still doesn't work. I don't think this is related to Iceweasel version. > That is my guess. But I also do not know which package/version could be triggering this problem for you. Also, did you install any extensions to the iceweasel? If so, try dis

Re: find all installed packages from a specific release

2014-11-01 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I think this should do it > > aptitude search '?narrow(?installed,?archive(oldstable))' > Thanks. This is useful and solves my first question. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

Re: HTML5 videos in Jessie

2014-11-01 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Proxy wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed Jessie on one of my partitions. Most of the stuff works > just fine, but I'm having problem playing HTML5 videos on Youtube in > Iceweasel. I can't even watch webm videos from here: > http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meet

find all installed packages from a specific release

2014-11-01 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
How do I find packages installed on my machine that belong to a specific Debian release? In my case, I have the following entries in my sources.list rajulocal@hogwarts:~$ stuff.pl /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian

Re: download files from iceweasel using kdialog

2014-10-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Scott Ferguson < scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You don't say what DE libraries you use. If you have KDE you might be > able to find an alternative way (x/y again) of achieving the same > outcome (I have little knowledge of GNOME). > Is there a lo

Re: download files from iceweasel using kdialog

2014-10-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > >> When I download a file via chromium, it uses kdialog to figure out where >> the file is supposed to be stored on the disk. I find this GUI to be very >> intuitive compared to what ice

Fwd: download files from iceweasel using kdialog

2014-10-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Scott Ferguson < scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20/10/14 00:16, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > > I think you misunderstood my question. > > No, but I did split the post into two parts (hit send too early). See >

Fwd: download files from iceweasel using kdialog

2014-10-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Scott Ferguson < scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apologies - I forgot to include this this:- > > Previously I have had the *alternative* file picker thingy (I assume > that's what you meant by "kdialog") working instead of the default > iceweasel one

download files from iceweasel using kdialog

2014-10-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
When I download a file via chromium, it uses kdialog to figure out where the file is supposed to be stored on the disk. I find this GUI to be very intuitive compared to what iceweasel uses for choosing the file location. Is there any way to tell iceweasel to use kdialog to choose the file location

Re: Canon printers on wheezy (solved)

2014-10-10 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Rob Hurle wrote: > I've just upgraded to wheezy and my Canon LBP 7200Cdn stopped working. I > used Radu Cotescu's script to try to reinstall it, but that failed and > messed up apt-get, as one of his debs tries to install an outdated > package. I've cracked the p

Re: VLC & Dragon Player no longer play .wmv files

2014-09-28 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm having a problem that the VLC version in Debian/Jessie closes after > about a second when trying to play .wmv files. I don't think it's VLC's > fault entirely because Dragon Player does the same thing. > > VLC will usually start to play the

Re: example scripts used by R

2014-08-31 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sat, 23 Aug 2014, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > Does anyone know where R stores the example scripts? For eg, I am > > trying to find out the R script that runs when example(min) is run. > > > > rajulocal@hogw

example scripts used by R

2014-08-23 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Does anyone know where R stores the example scripts? For eg, I am trying to find out the R script that runs when example(min) is run. rajulocal@hogwarts:~$ R > example(min) rajulocal@hogwarts:/usr/share/R/share$ dpkg -l r-\* | grep ^ii ii r-base3.1.1-1 all GNU R statist

Re: capitalone banking website compatibility with iceweasel

2014-08-02 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > On 28/07/2014, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > > As a temporary work around, I am using chromium which works fine. > > > > Have you tried using Opera (http://www.opera.com/) as a web browser > for online

capitalone banking website compatibility with iceweasel

2014-07-27 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
The capitalone banking website (https://banking.capitalone.com/) is not working with iceweasel. It does not display the login form. The error message is "We're sorry, our system experienced an error displaying the login form." I tried installing xul-ext-useragentswitcher and used Iceweasel -> Too

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
> > I looked at mysql (http://zetcode.com/databases/mysqltutorial/), but > there > > the configuration seems to focus on having a central database that could > be > > shared across different users. This does not work for me for three > reasons: > > Are you aware of SQLite? > I am still exploring a

simple database solution without root access

2014-07-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I have some data in text format organized as follows field_1,field_2,field_3,...,field_9 val_1_1,val_1_2,val_1_3,...,val_1_9 val_2_1,val_2_2,val_2_3,...,val_2_9 ... val_100_1,val_100_2,val_100_3,...,val_100_9 I want to do database (sql) like operations on this data. For example, - I want

Re: detecting printer connected to the network

2014-06-10 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sun 08 Jun 2014 at 17:15:14 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > I thought others might benefit from my experience and provided step by > step > > instructions at > > > http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/2014/0

Re: detecting printer connected to the network

2014-06-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:28 AM, David wrote: > > Did you do any internet search before asking here? I searched "Canon Pixma > MX870 linux" and found these links: > > http://support-sg.canon-asia.com/contents/SG/EN/0100272302.html > https://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php/product/4447 >

detecting printer connected to the network

2014-06-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I have a Canon Pixma MX870 that is connected wirelessly to the router which is connected to the internet. My desktop computer, running Debian testing (Jessie), is connected to the router via ethernet cable. I tried to follow https://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting to set up the printer on the deskt

Re: images not correctly rendered in iceweasel

2014-04-16 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 06:41:42PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > FWIW, I am using iceweasel 27.0.1-1 from experimental, and the > > rendering is identical for me in chromium and iceweasel. This seems >

Re: images not correctly rendered in iceweasel

2014-03-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
> FWIW, I am using iceweasel 27.0.1-1 from experimental, and the > rendering is identical for me in chromium and iceweasel. This seems to > be an artefact in 24 though... > Thanks for the reply Kumar. That is a good data point to have. Could you please post the output of "dpkg -l iceweasel chromiu

images not correctly rendered in iceweasel

2014-03-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On some websites, Iceweasel is not rendering the images correctly. The same website works perfectly in chromium browser. For example, here is a screenshot of http://www.java.com/images/jv0h_java8.jpg in both the browsers http://imagebin.org/300474 - iceweasel http://imagebin.org/300473 - chromium

Re: change alt tab alt tilde behavior in gnome

2013-09-01 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Antti Talsta wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:57:38PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > In gnome, alt-tab moves across applications, alt-tilde moves across > > windows How do I change the alt+tab behavior such that the focus moves

change alt tab alt tilde behavior in gnome

2013-08-29 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
In gnome, alt-tab moves across applications, alt-tilde moves across windows pertaining to the same application. How do I change the alt+tab behavior such that the focus moves across all the windows, irrespective of the applications they belong to? Is there some other key combination that achieves t

Re: single tab for completions in bash

2010-09-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-09-17 17:50 +0200, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > >> say I have two files junk1, junk2. >> >> % ls >> junk1  junk2 >> >> In zsh, If I do >> % ls j >> >> it becomes >

single tab for completions in bash

2010-09-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
say I have two files junk1, junk2. % ls junk1 junk2 In zsh, If I do % ls j it becomes % ls junk another tab shows the list of completions % ls junk junk1 junk2 However in bash, it takes 3 tabs to get the list of completions $ ls j junk1 junk2 Is there any option that can be changed in b

what populates /proc/acpi/fan?

2010-03-30 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On a Dell Precision T7400 machine running Debian Lenny (stable) with 2.6.26-2-amd64 kernel, I find that /proc/acpi/fan directory is empty. Is there any package to install, module to load to populate this directory? The actual problem is like this: Initially when the machine is rebooted it is very

Re: FORTRAN implementation in Lenny

2010-02-23 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Fuentes, Adolfo wrote: > Hello Raju. > > is a link in "/etc/alternatives" to "/usr/bin/gfortran". Ok, thanks. > > When typing "gfortran -v" the options are: > > ]$ gfortran -v > Using built-in specs. > Target: i486-linux-gnu > Configured with: ../src/configure

Re: FORTRAN implementation in Lenny

2010-02-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
>    ]$ f95 -O3 -lm -march=nocona -o nbody.x nbody.f90 >    ]$ time ./nbody.x 5000 >         Energy 0: -0.169075164 >         Energy 1: -0.169059907 >         Elapsed time: 2m 31.7s > AFAIK, the GNU fortran compiler goes with the name gfortran (not f95). Please give the output of "gfortran -v"

Re: man pages for c++ functions

2010-02-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Dear Kumar > This does not answer your question, but does Debian actually have the > C++ STL documentation as man pages? From what I can see, there is only > the stl-manual package, which has all the documentation in HTML, but > no other relevant packages. Please let me know if I have missed > som

man pages for c++ functions

2010-02-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Is there a package in debian which contains the man pages for c++ functions? I have already installed libstdc++6-4.4-doc . But it does not seem to have man pages for all the functions. For example, I would like to get a man page for getline ( http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/istream/getl

OT: matched string of a regular expression

2009-03-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Consider the following file. > cat junk.txt a(i)1b a(j)1b a(ij)1b a(ji)1b a(ijk)1b a(jik)1b a(ikj)1b a(jki)1b a(kij)1b a(kji)1b In general the file is very long, might contain some other text. Now, I would like to replace all the occurrences of a(ijk)1b with a(ijk)23b a(jik)1b with a(jik)23b a(i

[Fwd: Re: xpdf blocks sounds]

2008-10-01 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Please direct replies to the mailing list. That way others will also be able to help you out. Original Message Subject:Re: xpdf blocks sounds Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 21:58:49 +0530 From: Nishita Desai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kamar

Re: Debian or Ubuntu?

2008-05-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 10 May 2008 3:22 am, Stephen D'Souza wrote: > > I definitely recommend Debian Etch for one reason. Debian makes releases > > less often than Ubuntu. That means I do not need to go and update my > > machines every 6 months when a new release of Ubuntu is made. If all the > > hardware wor

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 7:40 am, Paul Cartwright wrote: > Sidarth Dasari wrote: > > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > >> > >> > >> [1] http://www.knujon.com/ > >> [2] http://www.complainterator.com/ > >> > > > > Thanks for those links :) > > there is also > http://www.spamcop.net/ > > and thanks f

Re: Why ext3 doesn't need defragmentation ?

2007-11-17 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:46:56 +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > it appears that ext3 doesn't need a real defragmentation operation (by > 'real' I mean a specific tool that need to be run sometimes related to > disk usage). > > Is it correct ? > If so how it works ? I am not a file system

Re: browser oddities

2007-11-16 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:20:49 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > >> 2. Flash image obscuring text. >> --- >> I've recently started seeing web pages using flash, in which some flash >> image obscures text. In once case, there was a navigation bar >> overlapping the pages

Re: how to find the why linux crash if it crashed?

2007-11-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:24:59 +0800, H.H. Ding wrote: > > I have never find any log for why the linux crash. Is it reasonable? or > should I tun on some options in some config file? -BEGIN PGP Be specific and provide more details. Which distribution of Linux are you using? What software is cr

Re: problems with eps from grace

2007-11-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:48:23 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > I am using etch and grace for plotting. With the version of grace in > etch, I am having problems when I save my graphs in eps format. Other > applications doesn't recognize this eps: Latex (texlive) and oo impress > are

Re: using RSS to automate a browser

2007-11-14 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:32:50 -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I typically keep a browser window open to the main page of a particular > web site which adds news articles throughout the day; but the additions > are made at unpredictable intervals. Because of the number of news > articles posted,

Re: Determining how a binary package was configured

2007-11-14 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:44:27 -0500, Bogart Salzberg wrote: > Debian Users, > > For a package installed via aptitude or apt-get, is there a log or other > source of information describing the "./configure" command used to > configure the package prior to compilation? You can download the source a

Re: Compiling .deb from source with additional parameters?

2007-11-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:31:06 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to be able to compile a package from source (ghemical, FWIW) so > that I can add so additional parameters not normally included which will > enhance the app for my purposes. The enhancements are part of the > upstream

Re: offline news reader

2007-10-14 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
>> With Pan, it's only the stable branch (0.14.x) that does OLR. The >> development branch (currently 0.132, IIRC) won't. >> >> In any event, the dev branch isn't fully featured yet, which is >> something that Kamaraju specified, albeit indirectly. >> >> > Pan 0.132 does do offline news reading

websites incompatible with iceweasel

2007-09-14 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
When I go to www.citicards.com using iceweasel 2.0.0.6 Debian Etch, I just get a blank page. I get the same result even with -safe-mode option. Is this a bug in iceweasel? I called the citicards customer service website 1-800-347-4934 to inform them about the problem. The response is that they

printing from kpdf does not work

2007-08-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi all If I am printing from command line using lpr -P printername file.pdf then I am able to print file.pdf. However if I am printing from kpdf using File -> Print it does not work. There are no error messages either. What could be the reason? How can I debug this problem? The printer i

view the exit status from command line

2007-08-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Let's say I run a command in bash which is run via konsole. How can I view its exit status. For example, if I do $test -x debian/rules I want to know if the command exited with status zero or non-zero. Can this be done in a simple way? thank for any suggestions raju

sound does not work with Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R)

2007-08-02 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I am using unstable with all the packages uptodate. The user is in audio group. I did $sudo alsaconf Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded). Building card database... Running update-modules... * * The update-

Re: goodbye microsoft hangs at grub prompt

2007-07-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 06 July 2007 12:17 pm, you wrote: > On 06/07/07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried to install Debian from windows by going to > > http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ . After rebooting the computer and > > selecting the debian installer, I wa

goodbye microsoft hangs at grub prompt

2007-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I tried to install Debian from windows by going to http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ . After rebooting the computer and selecting the debian installer, I was placed at the grub prompt. What should I do after this? Does anyone face this problem? When I tried this approach on a different computer sometim

files in /var/tmp

2007-04-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi all Can someone throw some light on as to what does /var/tmp/fast-mech.tgz and /var/tmp/raw directories do? My system (Debian Etch) has been recently compromised and I deleted most of the suspicious files. However I am not sure about these. Is it safe to delete them or do you think some pro

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Quoting John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi quotes: > > Ip: 128.253.28.128 > > This number belongs to Cornell University. Is that where you are? > Yes. raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Quoting Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here is what I have done so far > 1) I have looked in various log files but could not find any > suspicious activity. > Turns out that I was dictionary attacked (thanks to /var/log/auth.log) via ssh port. The intruder was a

checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi all I am using Debian Etch (currently testing). Today from the abuse department of my ISP, I received the following warning (pasted in the end). My ISP has suspended my internet connection due to this. However, I am not able to track down the cause of the problem. I am wondering if anyon

Re: Re: No Mouse in X

2007-02-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
> On 2/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Your message was received at Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:33:10 +: > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: No Mouse in X > > > > This account is protected by Bluebottle. Please click on the > > following link to have your addre

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
. If you want Etch to be released any faster, please fix some bugs (or any other bugs for that matter). raju -- Kamaraju Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: >> Greg Folkert wrote: >> >>> Also, Kamaraju, I believe I sent an e-mail to your gmail account. An >>> update to your howto. >> >> For those who do not know, Greg is talking about

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
ll try to put a changelog and include your name in that. thanks raju -- Kamaraju Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
welcome! thanks raju -- Kamaraju Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using GUI

2007-02-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
UI or how to get a new install to boot > to GUI. > > > > Thanks Kelly http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/2006/05/getting-gui.html answers your question. raju -- Kamaraju Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ -- To UNSUB

Re: help with C algorythm (find unique value in an array) could you please make changes

2007-02-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 05 February 2007 16:51, you wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > [snip] > > > 2. In the worst case, your algorithm scales as O(N^2). If I am not wrong, > > you can do this in O(N log(N)) steps. If your N is large (say > 1000) > > this has a huge benefi

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 04:25, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:01:43 -0500 > > I do not understand your comment about debian wiki. Do you want me to > > put a link in the debian wiki or do you want me to put the whole > > contents there? > > The former would be nice, the later wou

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 14:43, Michael Pobega wrote: > I would hate to see a graphical installer for Debian. I think the curses > installer does just fine, a graphical installer would only bring in > people thinking that Debian is Windows. The reason for having a graphical installer is that th

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 16:35, Michael Pobega wrote: > > Using icedove at the moment, can you suggest to me a better mail client > to use for mailing list *and* personal email on the same account? (I > have Icedove/Thunderbird set to filter out all mail with > @lists.debian.org to my Debian mai

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-05 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 04 February 2007 20:45, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:10:07PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > On Sunday 04 February 2007 18:51, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:28:19PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > >

Re: Unstable and Testing stability

2007-02-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 04 February 2007 20:01, Michael Pobega wrote: > > The reason I ask, though, is because I've read in multiple places > (Including these mailing lists) that when Etch goes stable your install > will "break" if you have testing instead of etch. Is this true, or is it > just speculation? Af

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 04 February 2007 18:51, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:28:19PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > For the interested, A summary of why there is no newbie list can be found > > at > > > > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pag

Re: Unstable and Testing stability

2007-02-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 04 February 2007 18:34, Michael Pobega wrote: > > I would like to continue using testing without having to reinstall > Debian upon every release (As I've had to do with Ubuntu). Should I > change my //etc/apt/sources.list/ file to say /testing /instead of > /etch/, or should I change it

Re: Unstable and Testing stability

2007-02-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 04 February 2007 17:49, Michael Pobega wrote: > My question is just /how/ unstable is Debian Sid? Is it unstable enough > to make my laptop useless? Or do I have to worry about my files? Or is > it unstable in the sense of Ubuntu, where everything could be fixed with > just a little bit o

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 04 February 2007 16:38, Ken Heard wrote: > If the documentation editors are to > be volunteers, good ones will not be attracted to the project unless > they are given status in the organization. You raise many good points some of which are very true and some of which I do not completely

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 04 February 2007 16:11, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:18:20 + > > Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > [...] > > > So does this mean that the Debian community, while helpful to > > > newbies that know enough how to ask a question,

Re: relationship between debian's wiki and newbiedoc's wiki

2007-02-03 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 03 February 2007 22:43, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > newbiedoc has articles that probably span a wide range of audience than > > just debian users. Not all debian users would be interested in reading > > articles about other distributions; Where as wiki.debian.org caters to > > th

Re: iceweasel not being recognized by ISP website

2007-02-03 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 03 February 2007 20:58, John Hasler wrote: > I'd also suggest taking your business elsewhere as these doofuses are > evidently not capable of putting up a standards-compliant site. > -- > John Hasler I recently came across capitalone's website and some of their pages specifically req

Re: relationship between debian's wiki and newbiedoc's wiki

2007-02-03 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 03 February 2007 17:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > What is the relationship between the debian.org wiki and newbiedoc's > wiki? I notice that newbiedoc isn't referenced anywhere on debian's > website so someone (a newbie) going to debian.org doesn't find reference > to newbiedoc. I'

Re: Two Questions: SID

2007-02-03 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 03 February 2007 12:33, Figaro wrote: > (2): I notice that the SID kernel -image packages do not seem to be > getting the frequent updates that I remember was the norm a year ago or > so ago. Any ideas? Or do I need a special apt repository? > Thank you, > matthew It is probably due

Re: New server: Sarge or Etch?

2007-02-03 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 03 February 2007 04:33, Marco De Vitis wrote: > It's a production server so stability is important, although it mostly > serves as a Samba PDC and file sharing machine, mailserver only for > internal (LAN) mail, and some other minor stuff (HTTP, Jabber...). > If it is a production serv

Re: Iceweasel not displaying Yahoo mail images

2007-02-02 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 02 February 2007 12:45, Edward C. Jones wrote: > I use an AMD64 computer with up-to-date Debian unstable, 1386 port. I > use the old Yahoo email interface. > > I use Yahoo email to read messages sent from Yahoo groups. The messages > often contain thumbnail images and links. Recently Icew

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-01 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 01 February 2007 17:51, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:31:23AM -0800, Tim Wescott wrote: > > I need a new laptop, and if possible I want to get one without paying > > for Windows. > > A Macbook. It even runs Etch, so you can setup a dual boot. There is > an exc

Re: Sid upgrade: thanks Debian!

2007-01-31 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 08:09, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > need a "smart app." that says: > this you decided to get then but do you still need it? > > Hugo $debtags search 'use::checking && admin::package-management' apt-show-versions - lists available package versions with distribution deb

Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:44, Oliver Twist wrote: > In any case, with a new major release (etch - 4.0) coming out soon, I am > wondering which release to use right now... the testing release of 4.0 or > the stable release of 3.1 ? > I would say start with 3.1. If all is well, stick with it. On

Re: From unstable to Etch

2007-01-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 28 January 2007 09:21, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Hello > > I have a Debian/unstable installation which is now used by other family > members, so I want to switch it to Etch (now or when Etch becomes stable). > I do not care too much if some things would not be exactly like in the > coming

Re: Debian/NT Dual Boot?

2007-01-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:42:42 -0800 > > - resize linux partitions (cfdisk, parted, ...) For non destructively resizing partitions, I have previously used qtparted and I found that the GUI is pretty neat and intuitive. I have no qualms in

Re: OT: memory requirements

2007-01-26 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 26 January 2007 16:55, Tyler wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > > Is > > dma enabled for the hard drive? > > How do I check? what is this? > Others have told you how to check for this. If dma is not enabled on your hard drive, it can explain why the

Re: OT: memory requirements

2007-01-26 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 26 January 2007 12:26, Tyler wrote: > When the machine starts responding again I open top and find that xorg > and gv (which I'm viewing the image in) use near 100% of my CPU when I > resize the image, and xorg is using 70% of my memory. I imagine during > freezes more of the memory is b

Re: shopping for an HTML editor

2007-01-25 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 14:19, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 14:04 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > I used to use nvu. But looks like it has been removed from Debian. I do > > not want to edit any text files. So vim, emacs etc., are not what I am > &g

Re: shopping for an HTML editor

2007-01-25 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 25 January 2007 01:12, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:kamaraju%40bluebottle.com>> said: > > Sorry wrong wording on my part. When I said "it should look exactly > > as it would appear on the net", I

texmacs (Re: shopping for an HTML editor)

2007-01-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 21:39, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Personally, opening up an HTML document in vi and hacking away at it is > much easier than using a WYSIWYG editor. But then, I think that writing > a LaTeX document in vi is much easier than editing a document in word or > abiword

Re: shopping for an HTML editor

2007-01-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:36, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 02:04:31PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > I used to use nvu. But looks like it has been removed from Debian. I do > > not want to edit any text files. So vim, emacs etc., are not what I

Re: shopping for an HTML editor

2007-01-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 14:03, Glenn Becker wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a good WYSIWYG HTML editor? I require very basic > > HTML stuff like lists, tables, formatting, inserting images etc., no > > complex CSS capabilities are necessary. > > Bluefish or Quanta are nice editors, or there's

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 14:03, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > The fanatics insisted that the background should be black and the text > > white because that was the "natural" way to view a computer screen. It > > was the way that it would always remain. Of course, when I went to my > > office supply s

shopping for an HTML editor

2007-01-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Can anyone recommend a good WYSIWYG HTML editor? I require very basic HTML stuff like lists, tables, formatting, inserting images etc., no complex CSS capabilities are necessary. I used to use nvu. But looks like it has been removed from Debian. I do not want to edit any text files. So vim, ema

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 13:16, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > Andrew, > > > The thing to remember about Debian -- when a release goes "Stable" then > > it doesn't change, except for security fixes. So if you install etch, you > > will NEVER see a new version of Hercules other than security patches. > >

Re: help with C algorythm (find unique value in an array) could you please make changes

2007-01-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 22 January 2007 05:30, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:17:08PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 06:54:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > This smells like CompSci homework. > > > > > > > > I was thinking the same thing. > > I think it's our du

Re: help with C algorythm (find unique value in an array) could you please make changes

2007-01-21 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 21 January 2007 18:18, Jabka atu wrote: > Good evening to all,... > i wrote a small algorythm (in C ) to find how many uniqe value are in an > array .. > then change the size of the array to store all the unique values .. Couple of comments: 1. Your code is working fine for me. Though t

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 19 January 2007 06:32, Jon Dowland wrote: > everyone else: > > I'd be curious to know what applications are spouting crap > into it. There'd be a round of bugs filed by me on them. I'd > also wishlist xsession to round-robin that file from time to > time. almost all KDE applications lik

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-18 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 18 January 2007 14:56, Tyler wrote: > I take it as a kind of community service for newbies. Being a relatively > new arrival to GNU/Linux, I missed out on the excitement surrounding > emacs vs vi, gcc vs egcs, Xemacs vs emacs, RMS vs Debian round 1 (Debian > is not free enough). Heck, e

Re: This URL crashes Konqueror.....?

2007-01-11 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:54, M-L wrote: > Can someone enlighten me please as to why this the URL below crashes > Konqueror? > > http://www.avaaz.org/en/iraq_campaign_jan_2007/ > > Works fine on konqueror 3.5.5 installed from Debian Etch (testing) i386 repositories. No crash and the site ren

Re: exim4

2007-01-11 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 11 January 2007 11:50, Micha Feigin wrote: > You're mixing two levels of handling here. > > Exim is a mail transfers agent. It handles only the smtp protocol (and > encripted friends). It basically acts as the post office. It recieves your > envelope and delivers it to the specified mai

Re: bash_completion puts 3500 lines of code in environment

2007-01-10 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:15, Jasper wrote: > over 3000 more lines of code. Just out of curiousity, Why is that bad? How does it matter anyway? Sorry if it is obvious. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

Re: Error installing linux-sound-base on testing

2007-01-10 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 12:31, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > While installing alsa-utils which depends on linux-sound-base on a > fresh testing install: > > Setting up linux-sound-base (1.0.13-3) ... The same version exists in both testing, unstable according to http://packages.debian.org

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