rsync and symlinks

2007-04-19 Thread Tyler Smith
not permitted (1) rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(977) [sender=2.6.9] The file in question is not a symlink, or anything special: tyler:tylers_laptop- cd ~/analysis/aflp/ tyler:aflp- ls -l total 3704 *output snipped* -rw-r--r-- 1 tyler tyler 12682 2007-04-01 00

Re: Why emacs is still 21.4.1 in Etch?

2007-04-18 Thread Tyler Smith
website shows emacs-snapshot is only in unstable. Where did you get a testing version? Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Etch - CLARIFIED

2007-04-17 Thread Tyler Smith
. Thoughts! I have no idea what you're talking about, but you should check out man apt-cache: tyler:~- apt-cache search 'control panel' dtc-xen - A SOAP daemon and help scripts so a control panel can manage Xen VMs geomview - interactive geometry viewing program libdevel-ptkdb-perl - Perl

Re: Debian Etch - CLARIFIED

2007-04-17 Thread Tyler Smith
be handy. Thoughts! I have no idea what you're talking about, but you should check out man apt-cache: tyler:~- apt-cache search 'control panel' dtc-xen - A SOAP daemon and help scripts so a control panel can manage Xen VMs geomview - interactive geometry viewing program libdevel-ptkdb-perl - Perl

Re: I can't change monitor resolution in gnome

2007-04-17 Thread Tyler MacDonald
what you want, break out your monitor's manual and enter the sync rates, etc manually. At the end of the monitor configuration, you should get a list of video modes; check off all the ones you want to use, restart GDM, and hope for the best. :-) Cheers, Tyler Charles Blair

[SOLVED] bash prompt won't wrap properly

2007-04-16 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-04-16, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-04-15, Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I encountered the same problem and I solved it adding \]\n[\ in my PS1. my PS1: PS1=${magenta}[\[$TIME\] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[${BLUE}\]\#\[$NC\]]\w\$ hth. That's interesting. If I

bash prompt won't wrap properly

2007-04-15 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I've modified my bash prompt to display the number of minutes of battery time left. I use the following code in my .bashrc: ## alias bt=acpi | awk '{print \$5}' | awk -F : '{print \$1*60 + \$2}' # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we want color) case $TERM in xterm)

Re: bash prompt won't wrap properly

2007-04-15 Thread Tyler Smith
line, rather than overwriting the current line. So the only functional option so far is to add the \n at the end of my prompt. However, I'd rather have my prompt on the same line as the input, which doesn't seem like an unreasonable demand. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Tyler

Re: teTeX -- TeX live: When to migrate?

2007-04-15 Thread Tyler Smith
. hth, Tyler I failed to do so, and ended up reinstalling Debian (which was not a bad experience, but it took a full day for me to get all the packages installed and everything configured). RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Debian User List

2007-03-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
no mailing list specifically for people to talk about debian, or get help about debian. We should have at least another list, probably debian-help. - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

slrn crash -- froze everything

2007-03-30 Thread Tyler Smith
with Linux. Is it possible for a bug in slrn to crash my whole system? If not, any clues for chasing down the source of these mysterious problems? -- Regards, Tyler Smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: user based package manager?

2007-03-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
;), then chroot into there and set it up like a brand new debian system. Since almost any system I'm deploying stuff on, I'm root on, this method seems to work well. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any wares to calculate the world time for me?

2007-03-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I use kworldclock to see what the time now is at another place in the world. But what should I use to see what time is at another place at a future time? This seems to work: $ TZ=EST date -d 2010-12-26 16:20 PST Sun Dec 26 19:20:00 EST 2010 Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: A silly question about tar

2007-03-20 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-03-17, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-03-17, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Within that directory I issued: $ls -1 | xargs -L 1 tar -xf and ended up with a test subdirectory containing all nine files. The argument to ls, ls -1

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-20 Thread Tyler Smith
available for bo has no bearing on what's going on with Sid. Sid, by design, will continually receive updated packages. -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

2007-03-19 Thread Tyler Smith
(emacs), and the same .signature file. So the problem is something specific in the way my installation of slrn is communicating with this one newsgroup. -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-18 Thread Tyler Smith
. Note that I have no idea what you're doing, or how dpkg works, I just wanted to see if I could figure out a solution to the immediate problem with sed and awk! -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

input/output error, looks bad!

2007-03-18 Thread Tyler Smith
what I found on google this is either the beginning of the end of my harddrive, or just a trivial hiccup resulting from slrn crashing and corrupting some bit of file somewhere. -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

tar syntax and backing up

2007-03-18 Thread Tyler Smith
everything that has been modified since the last full backup, so I use: tar --newer-mtime ../mail4Mar07.tar.gz -cvzf 18Mar2007.tar.gz \ /home/tyler/bibtex/ /home/tyler/thesis/ /home/tyler/analysis/ \ /home/tyler/grassdata/ /home/tyler/Mail/ As far as I can tell from the output and tar -t

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

2007-03-18 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-03-17, Thomas Jollans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By way of serious debugging, I am using the newsgroup gate way for this message with a Tyler-style sig. -- Regards, Thomas Jollans Thanks all for your help with this. Just for the sake of completeness I will try adding an extra

Re: input/output error, looks bad!

2007-03-18 Thread Tyler Smith
00 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

2007-03-18 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-03-18, Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's really weird though Frank, is that Tyler has put a . at the end of his name, and his name now shows as Tyler Smith, but the dot isn't there. The last character he types isn't being recognised. Tyler. can you send something again

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

2007-03-18 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-03-18, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried: quote Tyler Smith\n .\n .\n /quote Here goes: -- Regards, Tyler Smith .. .. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

smartctl usage (was Re: input/output error, looks bad!)

2007-03-18 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-03-18, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-03-18, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and what this show? /usr/sbin/smartctl -a -d ata /dev/drive I decided to start with the long self test, which is running now: smartctl -t long -d ata /dev/sda Ok, I've run

Re: input/output error, looks bad!

2007-03-18 Thread Tyler Smith
to cautiously continue, with regular backups. Tomorrow may be a good day to buy an external hard drive... -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A silly question about tar

2007-03-17 Thread Tyler Smith
, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A silly question about tar

2007-03-17 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-03-17, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have, and unfortunately it doesn't work. The result is the same as the original problem with the regular * expansion: tyler:tar- find ./ -name '*.tar.gz' | xargs echo ../one.tar.gz ./three.tar.gz

Re: emacs hogs the cpu

2007-03-17 Thread Tyler Smith
, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A silly question about tar

2007-03-17 Thread Tyler Smith
1 as suggested by another poster. The argument to ls, ls -1 is not necessary. I tried your example with ls *.tar.gz | and ls -1 *.tar.gz |, and both worked when piped into xargs -L 1 or xargs -n 1, but not plain xargs. Thanks! -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

missing the last letter in my posts

2007-03-17 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, My name is Tyler Smith, as noted in my signature. I was wondering why people were often referring to me as Tyler Smit, or previously as Tyle. Then I realised that my signature was getting truncated by one letter. I'm using slrn, with my messages edited in emacs. Anyone know what's happening

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

2007-03-17 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-03-17, Thomas Jollans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (just wildly guessing) try appending a line feed to your signature for that= to=20 be removed by whatever is removing them. Ok, I've added a new line, let's see if I'm a Smith again... -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Shred Iterations

2007-03-17 Thread Tyler MacDonald
on the platter leave artifacts behind. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs21 held hostage to installing other packages

2007-03-14 Thread Tyler Smith
to examine conflicts before upgrading/installing, so you should be able to find which other package is conflicting with your libc6 library and proceed from there. HTH, -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: PayPal - Limited account access -

2007-03-12 Thread Tyler MacDonald
, Tyler

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-27 Thread Tyler MacDonald
You do realize I was being sarcastic, right? Yup. Best time to butt in. :-) - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
for distribution, I'll post the .torrent for you guys. - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-25 Thread Tyler MacDonald
, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

We need an off-topic list (was Re: REALLY OT: News Flash)

2007-02-25 Thread Tyler MacDonald
along with it (and currently increasing in velocity)! IANADD, but I would like to see something get going with this soon... what is the procedure? Does a debian developer sponsor the mailing list? Is there some sort of vote that has to happen? Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-25 Thread Tyler MacDonald
of getting and giving help with debian? debian-user's description is Help and discussion among users of Debian... obviously these two topics need to be separated so that there's a list where debian users can be *productive*. Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: We need an off-topic list (was Re: REALLY OT: News Flash)

2007-02-25 Thread Tyler MacDonald
, not pushed away by a flood of stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with debian. - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: We need an off-topic list (was Re: REALLY OT: News Flash)

2007-02-25 Thread Tyler MacDonald
time. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: News Flash

2007-02-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
to big brother. Remember that it was a canadian and a european which came up with cphack, the cyberpatrol circumventor, but the american DMCA still managed to flex its muscle to bring them down. - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-20 Thread Tyler Smith
while the analysis runs. Thanks for the informative responses, it's reassuring for those of us working in the isolation of our own homes to get a bit of feedback! -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-19 Thread Tyler Smith
-trivial concern. Any comments on my current set-up or suggestions for ways to tweak performance in any way would be most welcome! -- Regards, Tyler Smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-19 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-02-19, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a general question about processes in GNU/Linux. I'm working with PAUP, which is a command-line tool for calculating phylogenies from various data types (gene sequencies, proteins etc.). This sort of analysis routinely takes

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-19 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-02-20, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-02-19, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for reposting, but I should add that my concern stems in part from top reporting that 27% of the CPU is being used by users, and 73% by system, which conflicts

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-19 Thread Tyler Smith
while I'm waiting for paup to run. I imagine if I reconfig my startup stuff I could login without X, start running paup, then start X while I'm working, and kill X when I'm done, leaving paup undisturbed. I'll take a look at this. Thanks! -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Tyler Smith
to the techniques used in their mode-of-inquiry, but extremely conservative with everything else. Of course, compsci and related math types are a big exception. -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Memory Question

2007-02-13 Thread Tyler Smith
and install that. For me, it meant switching from the 2.6.18-3-386 to the 2.6.18-3-686 kernel. -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: Etch/testing sources

2007-02-12 Thread Tyler Smith
the freeze gets dumped into Lenny , but for those of us that are comfortable using the testing repo is there something extraordinary to be aware of now? -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: Re: Writer Processor (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian ...)]

2007-02-12 Thread Tyler Smith
again anyways. -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian dedicated server (provider)?

2007-02-07 Thread Tyler MacDonald
. They have special deals on sometimes too, so keep an eye on the last minute section of their dedicated webpage. I ended up getting a dedicated system with 300GB harddrive, 2GB ram, 3GHz CPU, and 2000GB bandwidth transfer for $105USD/month. Cheers, Tyler

Re: Debian dedicated server (provider)?

2007-02-07 Thread Tyler MacDonald
DNS records... - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

best terminal emulator for emacs -nw?

2007-02-05 Thread Tyler Smith
that allows for the use of meta keys? I'm sure this is either a very dumb or very common question, but I couldn't make google cooperate. -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-02-05 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-02-01, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:27:29 +, Tyler Smith wrote: I've been wanting to set up my R60 so that I can use my desktop monitor for a while. However, reading this thread and googling around, checking the thinkwiki, i'm not getting

highmem kernel question

2007-02-05 Thread Tyler Smith
out what I need to do though - is this accomplished with a different linux-image from aptitude, and if so, which one? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux blackbart 2.6.18-3-486 #1 Mon Dec 4 15:59:52 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Thinkpad R60, Intel Core Solo 1660 Mhz CPU -- Regards, Tyler Smit

Re: highmem kernel question

2007-02-05 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-02-05, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:32:01 GMT Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've upgraded my RAM from 512M to 1.5G, ... Google tells me that I need a kernel with highmem support. ... which one? Linux blackbart 2.6.18-3-486 #1 Mon

Re: best terminal emulator for emacs -nw?

2007-02-05 Thread Tyler Smith
Gnu_Raiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote one day while in band camp: I'm trying to get emacs setup for mutt and slrn. Is this unavoidable, or is there a terminal emulator that allows for the use of meta keys? I assume you know about gnus right? Some would

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

2007-02-01 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-01-31, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 17:09:30 +, Tyler wrote: I've been wanting to set up my R60 so that I can use my desktop monitor for a while. However, reading this thread and googling around, checking the thinkwiki, i'm not getting

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

2007-01-31 Thread Tyler
I've been wanting to set up my R60 so that I can use my desktop monitor for a while. However, reading this thread and googling around, checking the thinkwiki, i'm not getting it. I've got the right drivers installed and set up i xorg - i810 I've got tpb installed for using the thinkpad special

Free me from the pain of NFS!

2007-01-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
be using? Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reaching a machine with a dynamic IP address.

2007-01-28 Thread Tyler MacDonald
for a dynamic DNS account somewhere (shameless plug: www.yi.org). :-) - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: memory requirements

2007-01-26 Thread Tyler
Hi, This isn't strictly a debian issue, but if anyone has good advice it will be you folks! I'm working with some fairly large image files on my Thinkpad R60 with 512MB ram, running etch and fluxbox. On occassion the whole system freezes for a minute or more after I zoom in or out. When

Re: OT: memory requirements

2007-01-26 Thread Tyler
in which case ... ;). And now I'm still looking for an excuse! Maybe the GRASS images will be truly huge... Thanks, Tyler regards, Vibhav (Robo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: memory requirements

2007-01-26 Thread Tyler
Ron Johnson wrote: How much swap does your system use when processing the image? If it uses more than a few MB of swap, then you need more RAM. Otherwise, you need a faster CPU. Well, it was using much more than a few MB of swap, so perhaps I will upgrade the RAM. However, my immediate

Re: OT: memory requirements

2007-01-26 Thread Tyler
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: is the disk activity during this operation? if so you're probably doing some massive swapping, in which case, yes memory will help. Yes, the disk light is on the whole time. I've also had similar, but unreproducible problems at other times (ie. not consistent wrt

Re: OT: memory requirements

2007-01-26 Thread Tyler
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Is this sarge/Etch/sid? Etch, upgraded a few days ago Just make sure that X is configured properly. Are you using the correct driver? Are there any warnings in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? As far as I can tell everything is fine. I've got the i810 driver as required

Re: OT: memory requirements

2007-01-26 Thread Tyler
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: 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? Ok, checked it out and dma is enabled as required. ok. Now if you disable X completely, do you experience any random

Re: Doing administrative work

2007-01-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
to the end to drop yourself right into a root shell on boot. - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup strategy using rsync

2007-01-19 Thread Tyler MacDonald
machine then syncs all backups down to itself for burning/archival; we try to keep all of a machine's own backups on it's system, then update a skip.list file (used for rsync exclusions) to reflect what backups have actually been burned. Cheers, Tyler # Configuration file

can't configure emacs with aptitude/apt-get!

2007-01-18 Thread Tyler
daily work! I tried googling the error messages, but I didn't find anything that I could understand. What appears to be the pertinent output from aptitude or apt-get follows. Please help!! Thanks, Tyler E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying

Re: can't configure emacs with aptitude/apt-get!

2007-01-18 Thread Tyler
Romain Francoise wrote: Tyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cannot open load file: slime Does it help to run 'dpkg -P slime' as root? No, oddly. I ran dpkg -P slime apt-get --reinstall install emacs21 Same errors, including Cannot open load file: slime. It shouldn't even be trying

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-18 Thread Tyler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: until a few weeks ago, I was able to view the bash documentation in info format. Where has the information gone and how can I get it back ? It looks like another case of the Debian/GNU policy conflict. The acknowledgements that GNU insists remain attached

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-18 Thread Tyler
John C wrote: Debian is and has been my distribution for many years primarially because it is (was?) the most *GNU* distribution available. Have we changed? The Debian folks decided the GFDL is not a free license, so they are in the process of moving all documents with that license out

Re: can't configure emacs with aptitude/apt-get!

2007-01-18 Thread Tyler
Greg Folkert wrote: Do you have any of the files that use slime? cl-swank, slime, any Steel Bank Common Lisp packages (sbcl), any of the stump Window Manager... etc. If you do, it could be causing the issue. Thanks. I removed everything I could find that had anything to do with lisp,

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-18 Thread Tyler
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, even the open source vs Free Software thing has lost

Re: problem with emacs in testing?

2007-01-16 Thread Tyler
a problem in the repositories. Thanks, Tyler blackbart:/home/tyler# apt-get --reinstall install emacs21 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B

problem with emacs in testing?

2007-01-14 Thread Tyler
, Tyler blackbart:/var/log# aptitude Setting up emacs21 (21.4a+1-3) ... emacs-install emacs21 install/auctex: Setting up for emacs21... done. update-auctex-elisp[25526]: Further output will appear in: /tmp/update-auctex-el isp.Ng16575. install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen

Re: drivers in linux

2007-01-11 Thread Tyler MacDonald
start your learning there. :-) Cheers, Tyler Andrew Critchlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone please explain to me how drivers work in linux/debian? I am a newbie and have come over from microsoft. So my knowledge is of drivers and device manager and stuff from windows

Re: My sarge box has an IRC bot

2007-01-10 Thread Tyler MacDonald
of that. I'd still reformat etc just to be sure but it's worth looking into anyways. Also, you have to consider how they got in, if port 80 is the only port that's open... I'd do a serious security audit of any dynamic (PHP etc) content you serve from there. - Tyler

Re: Adding a new HDD - how do I move /var/lib/mysql ?

2007-01-10 Thread Tyler MacDonald
integrity. To do this: Install the hdparm package, then set up options like this in /etc/default/hdparm : harddisks=/dev/hdb hdparm_opts=-W0 Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

help!

2007-01-05 Thread J. Tyler Young
I want to get a copy of Debian, but I have a wierd computer, its a HP Pavillion Ze4430us Laptop with a mobile AMD Athlon XP2400+ Which platform will work for me!?!?!?!?! Please help! Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language Or, Practical Extraction and Report Language (per the man page) Positively Eclectic Rubbish Lister Or, Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister (per the Camel Book) I see, you don't read this

Re: debian and graphics drivers [was google earth and graphics drivers]

2006-12-08 Thread Tyler
This sounds like hardware acceleration is turned off for Google Earth, but you don't experience it as slow? Not at all. Actually, I'm pretty sure it's faster than when I use XP with the latest intel drivers on the same machine. Plus it doesn't crash, so... Anyway, first of all, make sure

google earth and graphics drivers

2006-12-07 Thread Tyler
Hi, I'm trying to use Google Earth. Every time I run it I get the following message: You are currently running Google Earth in 'OpenGL' with software emulation. In this mode, Google Earth will work but it will run very slowly. If you want to run Google Earth more quickly we suggest that you

Re: debian and graphics drivers [was google earth and graphics drivers]

2006-12-07 Thread Tyler
Ok, it looks like I've sort of figured out my problem. I was using the vesa driver instead of the i810 driver. So I changed that field in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, gave and updated the identifier appropriately(?). The modified lines in xorg.conf are: snip Section Device Identifier

Symlinking /etc/passwd?

2006-12-06 Thread Tyler MacDonald
location? Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-05 Thread Tyler MacDonald
to be backed up and we have long backup cycles -- a new level-1 backup is generated maybe once every six months. If anyone wants to check out the backup2l.conf and associated files, let me know and I'll send it to you off-list. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
-failing-while-drive-stored issue. .PAR files are popular on usenet... The par2 and parchive debian packages may be of help there. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: jre not found?

2006-11-27 Thread Tyler
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:11:09 GMT Tyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Try this instead: java -cp arlequin.jar:swingall.jar arlequin.ArlequinApp If this fails, check that the class arlequin.ArlequinApp is present in the first JAR file: jar -tf arlequin.jar | grep

Re: jre not found?

2006-11-25 Thread Tyler
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:18:02 GMT Tyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote: How are you invoking the application? Is there a launch script of some sort? If so, modify it so that occurrences of jre are replaced with java. Alternatively, you could create a symbolic

Re: Laptop choice?

2006-11-23 Thread Tyler MacDonald
to 600MHz it's dead silent and the battery lasts hours even with the wifi card attached. - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: jre not found?

2006-11-21 Thread Tyler
Liam O'Toole wrote: How are you invoking the application? Is there a launch script of some sort? If so, modify it so that occurrences of jre are replaced with java. Alternatively, you could create a symbolic link as follows (as root): ln -s /usr/bin/java /usr/local/bin/jre That might be

Re: how to detect laptop hardware/drive problems?

2006-11-16 Thread Tyler
That the slow down happens after a while suggests that its a temperature thing. I'll keep an eye on that and see... The drive reving I would guess is swapping happening re the browser needing to page memory in or out. Does it happen if you're not using X but only console? Its spin and pause

Re: emacs without documentation nonsense

2006-11-15 Thread Tyler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which devs are the ones responsible here: the Debian devs who put it there, or the upstream ones that presumably put non-free constraints on the documentatin license? Or is it all a big misunderstanding? -- hendrik Honestly, I think both sides are suffering from

how to detect laptop hardware/drive problems?

2006-11-14 Thread Tyler
Hi, I have noticed that my laptop is starting to slow down quite noticeably, although irregularly so. Basic tasks like opening xterm in fluxbox sometimes take a few seconds or more, and there's even a noticeable delay with command line stuff like ls. Not always, usually after I've been

Re: emacs without documentation nonsense

2006-11-14 Thread Tyler
I don't know that it's enough reason to go on living, but you will find those docs (in)conveniently stored in the package emacs21-common-non-dfsg, in the non-free repos. At some point I wonder if the devs will realize that they undermine their efforts to encourage users to use a dfsg-free

Debian

2006-11-09 Thread Tyler Fisher
via PuTTY, an SSH client. -- - Tyler Fisher

Re: annoying beeping speaker

2006-11-08 Thread Tyler
Tom Allison wrote: xset -b Thanks. Is there some way I can incorporate this into X? Like /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ Try putting it in /home/tom_allison/.xsession Cheers, Tyle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: emacs manual and other missing info

2006-11-03 Thread Tyler
Max Hyre wrote: Tyler, you might want to try emacs-snapshot. I've been following it (and unstable) for months now, and have had no problems Thanks, that's very interesting. Having already manually installed the manual directly from gnu.org I'm ok for now, but I will investigate

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