Re: Cirrus Logic video rivers for X11

1998-01-07 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, David Phillips wrote: I'm looking for CL Video drivers for X11 that will drive 1024x768, anybody got 'em or know their whereabouts? I think it is in xserver-svga Regards. Johann -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dosemu lredir problem

1998-01-12 Thread Johann Spies
I think it is better than MSDOS 6.2 that I have, but in some other aspects it is not as stable. I think MSDOS's memory management is better. Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel

Re: smail / fetchmail and ppp problems

1998-01-14 Thread Johann Spies
with the Debian 1.3.1 CD and do not have the same problem. I have tried several times to get exim going, but did not succeed. I have read somewhere that there maybe a problem using fetchmail and exim together. Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan

Cnews would not configure on installation

1998-01-14 Thread Johann Spies
. I then tried inn and suck, but the configuration of inn is so complicated to me that after a few hours I gave it up. Are there any other options available? Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika

Re: large drives with linux / LBA

1998-01-16 Thread Johann Spies
on an old DX2-66 motherboard which also would not read the LBA and in the DOS environment I had to overcome the problem with software. However, Linux did not have any problem identifying the 1.6GB Western Digital. Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL

Re: FTape

1998-01-16 Thread Johann Spies
. It should be at ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/tapes/ I do not know whether the debian version is up-to-date. Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310

lynx -show_cursor

1998-01-20 Thread Johann Spies
in my .bash_aliases. But why did the changes to the config-files not work? Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

How to kill a process which refuses to be killed

1998-01-26 Thread Johann Spies
Trace: [00130a84] [00131425] [00140015] [0012b42f] [0012b695] [0012b6ba] [00109f32] [0010a865] Code: 64 c6 00 00 4b 75 f6 5b 5e c3 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 83 ec 0c Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201

mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-26 Thread Johann Spies
not? Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: mount: only root can do that??

1998-01-27 Thread Johann Spies
before. mount /floppy works fine. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Dates, postgresql and pygresql

1998-01-27 Thread Johann Spies
if that will solve the problem, but it made no difference. Can somebody help, please? Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Dates and postgresql / pygresql

1998-01-28 Thread Johann Spies
', '','ACKERMAN','','O','M','B','','','06/17/1997','08/19/1997') Traceback (innermost last): File stdin, line 81, in ? File stdin, line 73, in skryf_data ValueError: WARN:Bad date external representation Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Dates, postgresql and pygresql

1998-01-28 Thread Johann Spies
to study some more documentation to do this. Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: Dates, postgresql and pygresql

1998-01-28 Thread Johann Spies
Thank you for everyone who responded to my message. The problem was an empty date field. I had to change the empty date fields to something like '01/01/0001'. Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid

Re: www.lsl.com and debian

1998-02-03 Thread Johann Spies
PROTECTED] Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Help with a postgreSQL-query

1998-02-04 Thread Johann Spies
= connect() wys = bidlys(cnx) Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Lyx, StarOffice, word [was Re: Win95 and Linux:

1998-02-05 Thread Johann Spies
to read the FAQ, it ends after a few pages with the remark: The remainder of the document is Incomplete. I was wandering whether anyone could use Lyx for anything serious. Are there proper documentation somewhere? Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL

Re: Problem with python

1998-02-09 Thread Johann Spies
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

How do I use slrn?

1998-02-12 Thread Johann Spies
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: How do I use slrn?

1998-02-13 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo John, On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, you wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 06:31:41PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: When I run slrn --spool, I get a screen with one row: -- U 20 comp.os.linux.announce OK. Try pressing S for subscribe with the comp.os.linux.announce line highlighted

Re: How do I use slrn? (fwd)

1998-02-13 Thread Johann Spies
-xr-x 10 root root 1024 Feb 3 04:54 comp drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Feb 2 10:19 news Thanks for your trouble. It least I can read it now although it is as root. Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19

Starting postmaster (postgresql) at boot time

1998-03-08 Thread Johann Spies
. Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail

Re: Starting postmaster (postgresql) at boot time

1998-03-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Johann Spies wrote: : How do I get the postgresql (6.3) postmaster to start running from the : start. ...does not work on my debian machine: : putting it in the inittab-file or putting the postgres.init script in : /etc

Re: Starting postmaster (postgresql) at boot time

1998-03-09 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, I am sorry for my previous message. I found the mistake: absence of the data directory. The problem is solved. Thank you for the help. Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South

Help with Bibtex

1997-09-12 Thread Johann Spies
: File `babelbst.tex' not found. --- TeX said --- --- There is no `babelbst.tex' file on my system. How can I solve this problem? Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19

Help with Bibtex

1997-09-14 Thread Johann Spies
`babelbst.tex' not found. --- TeX said --- --- There is no `babelbst.tex' file on my system. How can I solve this problem? Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg

Greek and Hebrew in Latex

1997-09-20 Thread Johann Spies
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

dvips and dvilj: missing fonts

1997-09-22 Thread Johann Spies
. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

dos2unix, recode and dbview

1997-09-30 Thread Johann Spies
the difference? What does the error message mean? Does it refer toe dbview or to the recoding process? Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Iomega Ditto Tape drive on parallel port?

1997-10-01 Thread Johann Spies
drive so I cannot consider an internal tape drive. I would appreciate some advice. Thank you. Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

re: umount:/cdrom: device is busy.

1997-10-04 Thread Johann Spies
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

What is the compose key?

1997-10-06 Thread Johann Spies
and in X? Where can I read on how to define the compose key? Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Linking two computers through parallel port?

1997-10-09 Thread Johann Spies
. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

ftape denies tob permission

1997-10-24 Thread Johann Spies
. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

dosemu and Wordperfect 5.1

1997-10-25 Thread Johann Spies
Is there anybody who could get Wordperfect 5.1 working on Dosemu? I would like to know how they did it. Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310

Re: dosemu and Wordperfect 5.1

1997-10-27 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Johann Spies wrote: Is there anybody who could get Wordperfect 5.1 working on Dosemu? I would like to know how they did it. I have used both WP5.1 and 6.0 with dosemu (many versions over the past three years

Backup?!

1997-10-28 Thread Johann Spies
. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Wordperfect 5.1

1997-10-28 Thread Johann Spies
5.1 and 6.1 for DOS without problems. Printing works great for me. I have tried MSDOS 6.21 and Opendos3.8 (I think) and both had the same problems. Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South

How do I set LOCALE?

1997-11-02 Thread Johann Spies
not find something about it in Linux in a Nutshell or the Linux System Administrator's Guide. Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Are there any efficient backup programs for Linux?

1997-11-05 Thread Johann Spies
and outdated (for version 1.3 while it is version 5.+) and when I try to run it, it always gives a segmentation fault. Is there any hope to get an efficient backup program? Johann. --- Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel

Setting volume size for dump

1997-11-06 Thread Johann Spies
. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Removing a mailbox lock on pine

1997-11-06 Thread Johann Spies
will be appreciated. Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

Re: Removing a mailbox lock on pine

1997-11-07 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Johann Spies wrote: I do not know what caused it and how to rectify it. When I run pine (which normally did not give any problems) suddenly this afternoon there was a message Can't open mailbox lock: Access readonly

patgen

1997-11-17 Thread Johann Spies
. How do I use patgen? Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Configuring Pine

1997-11-20 Thread Johann Spies
If you look at the header of this message, you will see that where the other messages shows the sender of the message, this one shows To: Debian-poslys .. How do I change that? I am using Pine and smail. Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL

Re: Configuring Pine

1997-11-20 Thread Johann Spies
on my side. Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble

Re: Configuring Pine

1997-11-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Johann Spies wrote: If you look at the header of this message, you will see that where the other messages shows the sender of the message, this one shows To: Debian-poslys

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread Johann Spies
with rsync. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit Stellenbosch. Ye lust, and have not: ye

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread Johann Spies
://www.screenage.de/blog/2007/12/30/using-netcat-and-tar-for-network-file-transfer/ http://g33kinfo.com/info/archives/1713 http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/11/06/netcat-a-couple-of-useful-examples/ Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager

Re: xml editor ?

2012-08-14 Thread Johann Spies
is the best GUI editor which handles XML ?? I use emacs with nxml-mode which is quite useful. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research

Re: Virtualbox 4.1

2012-10-01 Thread Johann Spies
plugdev:x:46:user Google for 'virtual box debian usb' and you will find helpful pointers. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-08 Thread Johann Spies
in this list: pg: Signature made Di 08 Mei 2012 13:20:21 SAST using DSA key ID D58ADB39 16118146 0|gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found even though I have keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net in my .gnupg/gpg.conf. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies

Re: gpg/pgp noise

2012-05-08 Thread Johann Spies
://github.com/Mkaysi/shell-things/blob/master/gnupg/gpg.conf . Thanks. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology

Re: Only 3.6gb of 64gb RAM recognized by 64bit squeeze

2012-05-09 Thread Johann Spies
. I don't have 48Gb ram but only 4Gb and can use about 3.3Gb of it. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science

Re: How to merge files

2012-05-10 Thread Johann Spies
to decide on a per-line basis. Also take a look at the tool 'comm' which can isolate unique lines or common lines in both files. Check out 'man comm'. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie

Re: data recovery tools for debian (command line)

2012-05-10 Thread Johann Spies
data can be recovered for evidence. Inter alia: http://www2.opensourceforensics.org/tools/unix Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-15 Thread Johann Spies
. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit Stellenbosch. Let not your heart be troubled: ye

update-alternatives

2012-05-15 Thread Johann Spies
-chrome to provide /usr/bin/x-www-browser (x-www-browser) in auto mode So what does the --auto option do otherwise than showing me what I have already seen in the --config screen? Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager

Re: [OT] revolver postgresql issue

2012-05-15 Thread Johann Spies
postgresql setup. Normally it will listen on port 5432. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology

Re: [OT] revolver postgresql issue

2012-05-15 Thread Johann Spies
# (change requires restart) Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit

Re: update-alternatives

2012-05-16 Thread Johann Spies
) to understand it correctly although I am an experienced Debian user and was system administrator for 10 years. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre

Re: how to practice.

2012-05-21 Thread Johann Spies
://www.google.com ... :) Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit Stellenbosch. Jesus said unto

Re: update-alternatives

2012-05-21 Thread Johann Spies
...) but you can't alter the priorities from here. More info: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives Thanks. That clears up some misunderstandings on my side. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir

Re: musicplayer A-B repeat

2012-06-21 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:39:20PM +0200, Camaleón wrote: Wikipedia has a small list of music players with that capability: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_player_software#Extended_features That article is outdated. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies

Re: Iceweasel trouble, anyone else?

2012-07-12 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 08:48:18PM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: this is how it looks like: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14995214/FF-13.0.1_going_blank.png Just a guess: Are you sure it is not a plugin like NoScript or Adblock that is blocking some javascript? Regards Johann -- Johann Spies

Re: Guide / Tools

2012-11-21 Thread Johann Spies
On 21 November 2012 04:59, Crypticmofo crypticmofo2...@gmail.com wrote: What i really want are real life uses everyday ie.. do you use a lot of dpkg commands do you use a lot of apt or aptitude commands everday It depends on what you do with your computer. In my case: mutt emacs ncdu df

Re: Kobo or Kindle

2012-11-29 Thread Johann Spies
Previously I used my Nokia N900 to read ebooks but since I bought my Kindle Touch I was enjoying my reading a lot more. With Calibre I have no problems converting epubs to mobi format and sometimes I even have success converting pdf's to mobi format. Communication with the Kindle from Debian has

Re: Kobo or Kindle

2012-11-30 Thread Johann Spies
On 29 November 2012 10:13, David Williams da...@acuron.us wrote: Kindle just mounts like a USB Jump drive right? Yes, but I hardly ever use directly from the commandline as a usb-device. I use Calibre to manage the files on my Kindle and it works like a dream. Regards Johann -- Because

Re: Kobo or Kindle

2012-11-30 Thread Johann Spies
On 29 November 2012 15:36, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: Dear fellows, I have a Kobo and I like it pretty well. One issue I do have is that browsing through a large collection of books is a real pain. You can sort by

Re: LibreOffice Base and light-weighted SQL DB

2011-11-08 Thread Johann Spies
spreadsheets I stopped using the 'base' part. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit

mutt and maildir++ format

2011-11-09 Thread Johann Spies
this is not working at all. I do not get any indication where the new mail is. Are there any mutt-boffins on this list that can help me with a solution? Regards Johann. -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie

Gnome3 and external screen

2011-11-10 Thread Johann Spies
Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit Stellenbosch. But thanks be to God, which giveth us

Re: mutt and maildir++ format

2011-11-10 Thread Johann Spies
) do ln -sv $i $(echo `basename $i` | sed -e 's/^\.//') done and then my old setup in Mutt works. I suppose I will have to run that script from time to time as the new mailboxes get added. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder

Re: Gnome3 and external screen

2011-11-13 Thread Johann Spies
of working with gnome3 and am now using XFCE4. Thanks for your reply. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science

Re: GUI for mic testing ?

2011-11-15 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 07:50:21AM +0200, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, Any small GUI tool for mic testing ? audacity (but it is not small). gnome-sound-recorder Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir

XFCE-volman

2011-11-21 Thread Johann Spies
One of the differences between gnome and xfce4 for me was that xfce4 would not automatically mount a usb-storage device when inserted. Today I found out that that behaviour can be configured by using thunar-volman -c Maybe this is useful for someone. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-22 Thread Johann Spies
-- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit Stellenbosch. The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon

Gnome3 update

2011-11-24 Thread Johann Spies
time corrected that. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit Stellenbosch. Jesus saith

Re: what does the s stand for

2011-12-01 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 01:05:02PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: and what does the s here stands for? ..read output of 'info chmod'. That was not very helpful to get the answer. Try 'man chmod'. It has a good explanation in the 5th paragraph under 'Description'. Regards Johann -- Johann

Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt.

2011-12-05 Thread Johann Spies
-- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit Stellenbosch. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations

cifs problem with kernel 3.1

2012-01-16 Thread Johann Spies
with 3.1.0-1-amd64 I get 'permission denied'. Any idea why? Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit

Re: cifs problem with kernel 3.1

2012-01-17 Thread Johann Spies
with the noserverino option to silence this message. To me it seems like a bug somewhere. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science

Re: hi, how to get more software from debian repo?

2012-01-18 Thread Johann Spies
that will allow you to build Debian packages. After answering a few questions, dh_make will then provide a set of templates that, after some small editing, will allow you to create a Debian package. -- Regards Johann -- Johann Spies

Re: What´s wrong with fetchmail? (Re: POP3 in Debian)

2012-01-24 Thread Johann Spies
Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit Stellenbosch. Look not every man on his own things

Re: Music software

2012-01-24 Thread Johann Spies
along. Tried audacity (1.3.12), but it lowers the pitch of the notes when I slow the music down. I have done this with audacity without lowering the pitch. It can be done. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager

Re: Python

2012-01-31 Thread Johann Spies
yourself a favour and look at http://killer-web-development.com and http://www.web2py.com. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-10 Thread Johann Spies
over openSuse. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit Stellenbosch. If ye abide in me

Re: which is the best alterative package for kbibtex

2011-08-10 Thread Johann Spies
while in Auctex-mode. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit Stellenbosch. If ye abide

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

2011-08-11 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 03:58:54PM +0200, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:49:17 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 05:26:47PM +0200, Camaleón wrote: And Well Debian wins over all the Distros :) Nice! But openSUSE is far better than Ubtuntu in almost any

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

2011-08-30 Thread Johann Spies
If it's the only package to be removed:- # apt-get --purge remove portmap Check your port:- $ netstat -an | grep 111 Or 'netstat -plant' ... Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor

Re: Rsync fails on copying large file

2011-08-30 Thread Johann Spies
that folder have enough space for a 60Gb file? If you do not specify it, it will use /tmp and I have in the past sometimes experienced problems because /tmp did not have enough space for a very large file. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder

Eclipse-pydev: how?

2011-08-31 Thread Johann Spies
/lib/eclipse/plugins were not successful. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit

Re: Eclipse-pydev: how?

2011-09-01 Thread Johann Spies
documentation if the installation of the Debian eclipse-pydev package is not enough to get eclipse to work with this plugin. I could not figure it out how to work with the Debian stuff in this regard. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder

Re: sound stopped and now working. what happened?

2011-09-19 Thread Johann Spies
those processes - usually the ones where pulseaudio is involved - restores my sound. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation

Re: Gimp problem

2011-09-20 Thread Johann Spies
a good technical insight in what is going on with the product and what have been done before. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research

Re: Convert a pdf to text

2011-09-22 Thread Johann Spies
6.22.txt Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit Stellenbosch. Therefore when thou

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-03 Thread Johann Spies
of emails as efficiently as mutt (combined with .procmail, maildir and maildir-utils). If you are not used to text-based mail clients it might take some time to get used to, but the learning is worth while. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder

Re: docbook2html error

2011-10-18 Thread Johann Spies
in /usr/local/... If you cannot find it, try 'rgrep -l \/user\/local\/share\/sgml .' in your home directory. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre

Re: Dual monitor setup

2011-10-26 Thread Johann Spies
. Is Debian using nouveau, how to check what driver is being used? You can check /var/log/Xorg.0.log •  Xorg -configure It should not be necessary. Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor

Fetchmail certificate problem

2011-10-28 Thread Johann Spies
this problem? Regards Johann -- Johann SpiesTelefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit Stellenbosch. If a man abide

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