Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-28 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
One advantage of the HP Eprint printers (most new inkjet models, don't know about lasers) is you can send print jobs via either HP's Eprint service via email or through Google's Cloud Print from Gmail or Google Docs under Chrome, or from Android. No driver install needed because the job is

Re: How do You return Your system to some exact state?

2011-08-03 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. ... What I would do is to copy whole the system, then delete the current and copy it back in archive mode of cp, reinstall/update grub as necessary... I understand Fedora is

Re: broken python-turbogears dependency list?

2011-02-20 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Jason Rennie jren...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I just moved a system using turbogears to Debian v6.  I found that simply importing turbogears from python (2.6) yielded import errors which could be fixed by installing the following packages: snip The Debian

Re: Mobo with fan controls

2004-01-31 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:46:19PM +, M.Kirchhoff wrote: [snip] 2. Get quiet hard drives, like the Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 line. I'm hearing people say that the Barracuda 7200's aren't the legends of quietness that previous models were. Instead, the Samsung Spinpoint line is said to the

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-01 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 09:09:01AM -0400, Celejar wrote: Why not use Gmail (or something similar) for ML traffic? Free (as in beer), close to 3 GB of storage, free POP access. The real question is why Debian doesn't run a modern, user-friendly, mailing list manager like Mailman, as does the

Re: Etch: how to make own xen domU kernel ?

2007-04-03 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 11:08:38PM +0200, Predrag Gavrilovic wrote: Same thing is on my to-do list. I've managed to find this link: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=382699 There's also a workaround that should make it possible to patch debian kernel for xen using

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-05 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:10:56AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: s. keeling wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If the list is getting RTFM questions, it also means that the manuals are just not good enough to be understood. So probably trying to improve the Or people aren't

Re: mixing syanptic and aptitude

2007-04-05 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:42:50PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:20:12 -0400 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like synaptic's GUI much better than aptitude's ncurses interface. If I want to see all the packages whose names start with vim, In synaptic all I

Re: Etch: how to make own xen domU kernel ?

2007-04-06 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Thanks for the resonse, Predrag On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:01:01AM +0200, Predrag Gavrilovic wrote: To be more precise, link http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=382699 shows how to manually patch official debian kernel source with official debian xen patches. One solution would

VMWare install can't find header files

2007-04-16 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
I'm installing VMWare player and have got to the stage where the installer wants to build a module. The prompt shows the following: What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] Following other posts I've installed the

Re: python program installs/upgrades

2006-12-14 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
(and unfortunately seems there's no movement now to upgrade). http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html --- Andrew Malcolmson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Message for maintainer of SeriosWiki

2006-12-21 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/views/aix/libraryview.jsp?search_by=speaking+UNIX+Part Thanks very much for providing this wiki! --- Andrew Malcolmson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help buying Economic Printer

2007-07-09 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 05:36:09PM -, ispmarin wrote: Hello all at Debian User. I am looking for a printer with very low per page cost (catridges, tonners etc) and not very expensive to buy. I dont care if it is laser or deskjet. Performance is not a issue (it can be slow), and the

Re: Read-only root (/) except /et

2008-04-13 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Responding to the OP's original question (sorry, no longer have the message), Voyage Linux is a Debian derivation for use on flash storage which by default sets the root filesystem to read-only. A few exceptions such as /var are mounted under tempfs and so run in memory. The idea is to minimize

Howto: change IceDove UI font size

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
/Pane_and_menu_fonts If other people have had this problem, reply and I'll add this tip to the Debian Wiki and file a bug report. --- Andrew Malcolmson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

XForward mplayer

2007-12-17 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
I want to xforward mplayer, but when I run it from my remote ssh session, it runs in its console mode. Is there any way to force it to run as a GUI application so it will appear in my local X session? I don't see this in the MPlayer docs. --- Andrew Malcolmson

Re: XForward mplayer

2007-12-17 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:00:10 -0500 (EST), Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: I want to xforward mplayer, but when I run it from my remote ssh session, it runs in its console mode. Is there any way to force it to run as a GUI application

Re: VMWare player: why no package?

2008-01-01 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
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Re: Printer HP c7280: No Installed HP Devices Found

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
ERROR: No device found or unsupported device The device is not registered with hplip. Try deleting the printer in CUPS and re-adding it with 'hp-setup' --- Andrew Malcolmson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

x-window-system-dev for installing X-Window includes?

2003-11-27 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
to be for installing a complete X window development environment and really overkill for this. Is there a more specific package for X includes? --- Andrew Malcolmson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good Debian-based distro

2003-08-14 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Luc Lefebvre wrote: I agree, Koppix does a great job of hardware detection and system configuration. This is one thing that tends to scare off linux neophites. Getting this *right* is very important IMHO, and Knoppix is a big step in the right direction in that respect. The second one is

Sid CD fails as apt source

2003-09-03 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
I'm trying to use a sid iso image as a apt source. I've successfully mounted it and added a file entry to sources.list as: deb file:/mnt/iso/debian sid main When I run apt-get update, apt reports it can't find Packages.gz: Failed to fetch

Re: Sid CD fails as apt source

2003-09-03 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
John Stevenson wrote: I'm trying to use a sid iso image as a apt source. I've successfully mounted it and added a file entry to sources.list as: deb file:/mnt/iso/debian sid main The correct way to add an Official Debian CD to the apt sources.list file is to use the command: apt-cdrom add

Re: Sid CD fails as apt source

2003-09-03 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Greg Madden wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 03 September 2003 04:36 pm, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: John Stevenson wrote: I'm trying to use a sid iso image as a apt source. I've successfully mounted it and added a file entry to sources.list as: deb file:/mnt/iso

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-16 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:12:08 +1300, Edward Murrell wrote: The first thing I'd look at doing is moving the default webpage to a [ Edward's advice on partitioning the web server} I also have a server with 6 SCSI drives and a hardware RAID controller. It will be a web server initially but

Re: autoloading modules

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 00:18:48 +0100, Rieker Flaik wrote: [snip] When I boot up my new 2.6.0 Kernel-system, I configured it this way that the lp module is automatically loaded by default. My modules.conf looks like this: [snip] The 2.6 kernel uses a new module management system under which

Re: switching user in X without logging out previous user

2004-01-08 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On 2004-01-08, John M Flinchbaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're using Gnome 2.4, there's a New Login item in System Tools under the Application menu item. This will create a new X11 session=20 on a different virtual terminal, complete with (x|k|g)dm. I uses gdm as my graphical login and

Re: impressed with etch

2006-07-03 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
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Any way to comment on bugs?

2006-07-09 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Can anyone other than a package maintainer add comments to bug reports? Can I somehow 'vote' for a fix for a neglected bug? Thanks --- Andrew Malcolmson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please suggest a video capture software

2006-07-21 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
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Re: laserjet 1020+usb

2009-06-15 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 09:21:55AM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: I did what you said. No luck either :-( i installed hplip: [snip] The only 'required' missing dependency is this one: hp-check[5256]: info: :Checking for dependency: DBus - Message bus system... error: NOT FOUND! This is a

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

2009-07-12 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Wackojackowackojack...@ntlworld.com wrote: You need to edit /etc/default/cpufrequtils and read the comments. Actually /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils The locatation of this file appears to be changed from an earlier version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: connecting grub's uuids

2009-07-12 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Paul Scottpsl...@ultrasw.com wrote: Debian sid. Through some update grub is now using uuid's.  What else do I change so grub will boot automatically?  fstab? Or where is this change documentated?  I haven't found the right Google keywords yet. This

Re: root's offsite mail

2009-01-09 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
root wrote: How can I get 'root' out of the 'From:' line of root's offsite mail? I've scanned the docs for exim4, mutt and mailx on this Debian etch(mostly) system but nothing found so far. I know I can send mail as another user but would rather find a solution that doesn't necessitate

Re: HPLIP(install Qt4 libs) and I ended up with awful fonts-colors in browser.How to revert?

2009-01-09 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Luis Maceira wrote: The fonts in Opera are awful(size and font),the only thing I did,was install HPLIP for printing(which installed Qt4 libs) and the fonts I had in Opera9.63 (compiled dinamically with Qt3) were arbitrarily changed, the fonts I had were O.K. for me.I have not experimented with

Re: root's offsite mail

2009-01-09 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: As aparant from the headers, he's running exim and the mail was not sent with mutt (the mailer has not set any user-agent header. I suspect the simpler 'mail' was used). Yeah, I meant to type that I didn't know about exim but you could do this with Postfix as indicated.

Re: Retrieving a bios updater from ibm.com

2009-01-17 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Peter Crawford wrote: From: ch...@mretc.net Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:35:54 -0700 wget ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/mobiles/spsdks45.exe Yes, direct FTP works in milliseconds. Thanks, ... p. crawford Peter, how will you run it? Do you have a Windows dual-boot on this

Re: Setting up TAP interface at boot?

2009-01-18 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Jesse Sheidlower wrote: Where's the right place to set up a TAP interface at boot time? When my system's up, I usually run tunctl -t tap0 as root, but I'd like this to be created automatically. I do have an entry in /etc/network/interfaces to configure this: auto tap0 iface tap0 inet static

Re: Loopmount install other OS in Debian Lenny

2009-01-18 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Last time I tried using Lubi inside Debian Lenny amd64 with Ubuntu 8.10 iso, it won't work. I got a few errors and it won't find the boot partition. Sorry, can't help you with Lubi (looks cool, though). However, there are lots of other ways to create a bootable image

Re: OT: Need Printer Reset Command

2009-01-30 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: Occasionally something in a .ps document fails to translate (gs?) into a printable document and my printers then spit out hundreds of pages each containing one line of jibberish. It does no good to clear the print

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-08 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Kevin ke...@cybercolloids.net wrote: ... Python is object oriented and as such is useful if you specifically want to learn nice, clean object oriented language. However its not a good start if you want to then move to another language. Why would that be? --

Re: mount foo.img problem

2009-02-13 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Aneurin Price wrote: You could try a slightly more heavy-handed approach: for ((i=0 ; $i 1 ; i=$i + 1)) ; do mount -o loop,offset=$(($i * 512)) debxo-awesome.ext3.img /media/sdloop break done Or let kpartx do it all for you:

Re: Happy lenny, everyone!

2009-02-15 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: I know most Debian users think that only testing is suitable for this desktop use, but my family members use stable for all their needs, so the lenny release has me very happy that I can now give them an upgrade to their experience. Happy lenny release, everyone!

Re: suspend to ram

2009-03-01 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Celejar wrote: I'm trying to get s2ram to work on my Acer Aspire 3690. The machine is in the whitelist: Take a look at the HAL Quirks site: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/index.html It has helped me get suspend resume working on several laptops. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Scanner Needs Root Access?

2009-03-01 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Thierry Chatelet wrote: [snip] lp does not need to be in scanner group. I know it does not help, but... Did you try to log out and back in since you put yourself in scanner group? or to avoid needing to log out and back in, run newgrp [groupname] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Old PHP on new Debian

2009-03-07 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Stephan g...@wickedclips.net wrote: Install the version of Debian you'd like (Lenny I assume, unless you're looking for unstable or volatile versions) then aptitude remove php5 then install the version of php you want. Pet wrote: Hi all, I'd like to

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
: http://delicious.com/andmalc/screen Use the ServerAliveInterval=30 setting in ~/.ssh/config as suggested earlier to keep your ssh sessions alive. --- Andrew Malcolmson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printer in Linux?

2008-12-27 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:10:26 -0500 (EST), Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.com http://imap.cc/mail/?MLS=MR-**21997*3;SMR-MI=21997;MSS=%21MR-**21997*;SMR-PT=3;Ust=04248b67%21e39841aa;SMB-CF=198026;SMR-FM=1;UDm=524;MSignal=MC-FN*U-1*jpiszcz%40lucidpixels.com said: On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Zach

Re: chroot a few apps

2010-01-10 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 10:26:47AM +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: Hi. What kind of chroot should I use, if I want to make a more secured desktop, running e.g.: Take a look at schroot. This utility lets a regular user to run chrooted programs commands (including graphical progams) from

Re: Synchronize two computers

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 14:08 +0100, Marc Olive wrote: El Thursday 21 January 2010 13:34:32 Aioanei Rares va escriure: I'd keep it simple : ssh + rsync. Even simpler: use Unison Another vote here for Unison when changes can occur on either copy, as the OP is doing. If only one end changes,

Re: Kernel modification environment

2010-01-28 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Praseen Preman praseen.pre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I currently have Ubuntu 8.04 LTS-Hardy running on my machine. I am learning about linux device drivers and hence I have to compile and run the kernel after modifications, also I have to

Re: LVM snapshots are not backups (was: Re: Virtualization - what do You recommend?)

2010-02-04 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
I believe the point of the LVM Snapshot is to make an unchanging version of your LV that can be backed up without risk of changes occurring to the volume during the backup process. You still have to do the actual backup as usual. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Fwd: Scanners

2010-02-04 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
My HP All-in-One scans fine using HPLIP. If you buy a new one from the store, you may have to download the latest HPLIP version to support it. The HPLIP website has a nice wizard that shows you if the distro version is new enough or if you need the download. Don't get the units that have

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-02-04 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Geoff Reidy geoff.re...@gmail.com wrote: I had a similar issue but with a 2 card, 3 monitor setup. Applying the patch as per this thread: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1306609postcount=19 against the 190.53 driver has fixed it for me. I had

Re: Where does One Disable dhclient?

2010-02-04 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote:      The syslog fills up with Setting eth0 to 1 addresses. Setting eth0 to 2 addresses and so on up to 5 addresses until it goes back to 1 address and the whole process starts over. Sounds like udev is renaming

Re: grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-05 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Lev Lvovsky lis...@sonous.com wrote: Hello, [snip. This works fine once the kernel is booted (it redirects output to my serial port).  I am not able to see the boot menu with this new configuration however - it appears on the video portion of the screen, and

Re: grub2 + serial redirect

2010-02-06 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Lev Lvovsky lis...@sonous.com wrote:[snip] Thanks, I'll give this a shot tonight, if it works, I'm assuming that this is an upstream patch to the update-grub script? Sorry for wasting your time. I've retested my original setup both over a serial cable to a

Re: openvz

2010-02-14 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
While it's good to hear that OpenVZ will probably be in Squeeze after all, you could also check out a similar project Linux Containers (lxc) with support in kernels 2.6.29. http://delicious.com/andmalc/lxc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Trouble upgrading in a chroot -- no /dev

2010-02-14 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: [snip] Now I presume this is because /dev is absent from the chroot and it's trying to use /dev/fd/0 -- the device that acts like stdin.  What do I do to set things up so that I have a valid /dev?  The /dev outside the

Re: Basic Statistical Tool

2010-02-15 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Here's yet another approach using SciPy and matplotlib for plotting: http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/LinearRegression Probably doesn't meet your 'Basic' requirement, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: schroot and automount

2010-02-15 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:15 AM, arenev...@fdn.fr wrote: Here is my schroot.conf [ia32] description=Debian testing 32bits directory=/srv/chroot/ia32 users=arno root-groups=root root-users=arno run-exec-scripts=true You've omitted the 'type=' setting which causes the type to default to

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-05 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Martin Kraus lists...@wujiman.net wrote: Hi. I have been wondering what is the difference between qemu and qemu-kvm packages for kvm virtualization. Manual page in qemu packages shows, that it should be able to work with kvm. Uncle google is silent about this.

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-05 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Oops, correction: where my last post stated: ... If your processor couldn't run kvm, you would install that and run qemu ... I meant: ... If your processor couldn't run kvm, you would install and run qemu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Problem with printer HP Deskjet 1120

2010-03-14 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr wrote: Hi to Everyone, My printer has been running under Debian Linux for years, without problem, except this : I have not found how to align the heads when replacing ink cartridges. You are supposed to do this each time you install

Re: Resume broke after upgrading Squeeze in my T61

2010-03-14 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Did you ever figure this out? My T61 has between 2 and 4 weeks ago stopped restoring from hibernation but instead does a normal reboot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Setting up HP J4580 on Debian?

2010-03-17 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Michael Yang michael@gmail.com wrote: I used different ways to install drivers: 1. downloaded hplip all-in-one tar ball  from HP's website 2. install hplip from debian's repository 3. install hpoj, xsane from debian's repository replacing hplip Maybe the

Re: Resume broke after upgrading Squeeze in my T61

2010-03-17 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Perttu Muurimäki perttu.muurim...@elisanet.fi wrote: [snip] I'm really not certain that this would have worked without today's dist-upgrade (which updated devicekit-power, libdevkit-power-gobject1, libupower-glib1, upower, acpi-support-base and acpi-support) :|

Re: Running Debian Lenny from ramdisk

2010-03-19 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Take a look at Voyage Linux which is based on Debian Live and is intended for low power/space systems. It runs in read-only mode with certain dynamic folders running in RAM disks, but can be switched to read-write mode to make system changes: http://linux.voyage.hk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Hplip

2008-05-05 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
helps. No one on their forum could solve this. Anyone had any luck with these utilities? Try running: hp-makeuri /dev/parport0 This will provide the correct URI but if it reports no device found, maybe there's a connection problem. --- Andrew Malcolmson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Most current printer support

2009-03-27 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
FYI re adding hp printers and All-in-Ones: Add the printer using the Gnome add printer wizard or by running the 'hp-setup'. Either will auto-detect network printers, select a ppd, and add the queue. The add printer wizard in the CUPS web interface is way more work. If you're adding an

Re: Apple OS X printing [solved] and zeroconf'ing problems

2009-03-30 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Ross Boylan rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org wrote: ... Do you mean the icon labelled Default Browser?  I had selected it; nothing showed up.  I hunted around for other preferences and found there is a Directory Access configuration.  It already shows Bonjour

Re: Most current printer support

2009-03-30 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Josh Kelley josh...@gmail.com wrote: ... Thanks. I'm already familiar with hp-setup, I'm just concerned with making sure that hp-setup (or printconf, or the add printer wizard, or whatever) can detect as wide a range of printers as possible. Josh Kelley OK,

Re: Apple OS X printing [solved] and zeroconf'ing problems

2009-04-02 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Ross Boylan wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 19:50 -0400, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Ross Boylan rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org wrote: ... It sees the services. Ross Maybe your router is blocking the service. Sorry - can't think of anything else

Re: Strange printing problem in iceweasel -pelase help.

2009-05-14 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Ramasubramanian Ramesh rram...@ti.com wrote: Can you please tell me why this might be happening and what experiments I can do to further investigate? I tried googling and got nowhere. Take a look at the Ubuntu wiki page on debugging printing issues:

Grub stage1 not found then Error 2 on reboot

2009-05-17 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
I had a working Lenny install which I somehow hosed while experimenting with Grub. On boot, the message displays 'Grub loading stage 1.5' then 'Error 2'. I did the following to try to fix the problem: 1) I reboot from a GRML rescue CD and attempt to repair grub with grub-install #mount

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

2009-05-17 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: I need to convert an HTML document to PDF from the CLI. Currently, I ... Any other ideas? Is there a konqueror- or KDE way to do this? Am I missing something obvious? Thanks! If you don't mind a hands-on approach,

Re: Grub stage1 not found then Error 2 on reboot

2009-05-19 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Thorny thorntreeh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 17 May 2009 14:25:20 +, Andrew Malcolmson posted: I had a working Lenny install which I somehow hosed while experimenting with Grub.  On boot, the message displays 'Grub loading stage 1.5' then 'Error 2

Re: Strange printing problem(s)

2009-06-06 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Wayne Topa-4 wrote: Has anyone got a clue as to where I should look? Perhaps: sudo aptitude purge cups #check for any cups packages left and purge them if any are found sudo aptitude search cups~i #Search your user's home folder for any remaining cups settings sudo aptitude clean

Re: laserjet 1020+usb

2009-06-12 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:19:27AM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: Hi! I have a problem with hp laserjet 1020 in usb port. ... The problem is the usb port in linux. (kernels 2.6.18, 2.6.26 and 2.6.29) Any ideas? need some firmware? how to install? Run hp-check -t This will run an hplip and

Re: laserjet 1020+usb

2009-06-12 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 04:54:50PM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: here is the hp-check -t output: As you can see, the report found several missing dependencies and although the printer is detected over USB, there's no CUPS queue for it. I suspect you installed HPLIP from source. If so, cd

Re: `Print selection' unimplemented in Iceweasel?

2010-04-06 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Thanks for all your messages. What I regret is simply that, once you click on `Print,' there is no `Selection' checkbox. Thanks all. There's an existing upstream bug report for this here:

Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

2010-04-19 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:59:29 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-04-17 21:32, Stephen Powell wrote: Why did they switch from gecko to webkit anyway?  It was working so well. I still use it in Lenny.  But not in

Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

2010-04-20 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:01:41 -0400 (EDT), Andrew Malcolmson wrote: Couldn't say why they switched, but I find pages in Epiphany 2.29 in Squeeze look vivid compared with the Gecko version. I have switched back

Re: Epiphany browser continues to get worse and worse

2010-04-21 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Kevin Ross ke...@familyross.net wrote: [snip] Well, I could be hallucinating, but FYI I tested this by comparing the two Epiphany versions side by side.  Version 2.29 was running in a Sid chroot (schroot -p).  The new version looked brighter and a wee bit

Re: Suspend to Disk + blacklisted module = still trouble

2010-04-24 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
This site has great resources on fixing suspend problems: http://hal.freedesktop.org/quirk/quirk-suspend-index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: [Semi-OT] Accessing gmail from Python

2010-05-08 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Does anyone have an example of how to do this?  Google hasn't helped, specifically at telling me what the keyfile and certfile should be. Google

Re: [Semi-OT] Accessing gmail from Python

2010-05-08 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Follow-up to my message above: Sorry, I take it all back. Looks like Gmail is the one and only Google service that you can't access through the GData API. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: How to Find a Printer Driver?

2010-05-11 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Looking at the whole thread above, it looks like the hplip diagnostic tools aren't being used. 1) Run hp-probe. Does it find the printer? If not, this is a networking issue. Eter the printer's IP address in a browser window. If the printer can be found this way, the router is blocking ports

Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-22 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Steve Fishpaste marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: ... If Debian isn't going to keep up with the current trunk; then there really is no point in packaging it here. As it stands I'm not going to go backwards a full version, so I have reverted to the PPA builds.

Printing

2009-09-17 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Giancarlo Pegoraro genkipegor...@gmail.com wrote: Il giorno mer, 16/09/2009 alle 18.38 +0200, pch0317 ha scritto: Hello I have problem with HP PSC 1310 series printer. I use debian testing, and hpijs packet. me too :-) The problem is that when I print

Re: Blank CDs Not Being Detected

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Ed eno...@monm.edu wrote:     I went to try and burn a CD this morning (the latest ubuntu ;) ) ... Make sure your user account is a member of the 'cdrom' group. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?

2009-12-15 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Aptitude is well worth taking the time to get to know, both in command line and in full-screen mode. For the User Manual, install aptitude-doc-en. The html manual will then be in /usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Posting to Debian lists without getting mail

2004-08-14 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
I often want to ask a question on a non-public Debian list but I don't follow the list actively so I don't really want to continually get the lists' mail. Mailman lets you turn on or off mail delivery but Debian's SmartList doesn't. What can I do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debootstrap umount bug - workarounds?

2004-07-03 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Is debootstrap completely unusuable pending a fix for bug #253387 (multiple umount errors after packages retreived) or does anyone know of a workaround for this? --- Andrew Malcolmson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: debootstrap umount bug - workarounds?

2004-07-03 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On 2004-07-03, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The umount errors are harmless warning messages (bug #253468). Whatever bug dannf ran into, it's not prevented debootstrap from working fine in general in the month since he filed it, and it's probably not whatever problem you're running into.

Re: A list administation query

2005-01-02 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Carl Fink wrote: Mailman has this as an option (settable by each user individually). I also subscribe several of my e-mail addresses to the lists as NOMAIL so I can send mail to the list from any mailbox without worrying about it being rejected. Any reason why Debian doesn't use Mailman? Seems

Re: Is there any Open Source Community of Scientists?

2005-01-03 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Nayyar Ahmed wrote: Hello All: It want to have knowledge about some Open Source Community that is involued in developing applications and tools to supports various fields of science like Physics, Bio, Chemistry etc. The Python programming language is widely used in science and engineering:

Komodo IDE C library incompatibility

2004-05-11 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
-2.3.2-3_i386. Two questions: What Debian package provides this libc version (I don't understand the difference of the version numbering for 'libc' 'libc6)? How can I prevent installation of an earlier libc from conflicting with the current one? --- Andrew Malcolmson

Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-10-30 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
I'm trying to use the GSM data connection of my Nokia N95-3 as a modem for my Squeeze laptop over USB. The Ubuntu wiki indicates that my Nokia is compatible with USB tethering but a patch to hal rules is required (As per a bug report filed in 2008 but still open.): The wiki page:

Re: Trying to use a Nokia N95 as a modem over USB

2010-10-30 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Thanks guys: adding the redirection and using '-d' to point to the location of the file to be patched did it. However, through much Googling I'm learning that since HAL is now deprecated in favor of udev, the rules format in fdi files must be converted to the new udev format as explained at the

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