Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:45:34 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: Mmm... I suppose you already care about the num. lock switch/button is on, right? :-) Yes, sure. O.k. Let's hope this one

Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
cursor (i.e. small arrow) using these keys: I can move it downwards, upwards, in diagonal... Well, this is completely unuseful for me. This setting seems not to be set either in GNOME's settings or in GNOME's keyboard's settings. Then, where could it be (set)? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See

Re: FSCK seems angry with my filesystem

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/01/2010 04:38 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: [snip] It will complain, but will it impede its `functioning'? I will probably try with a rescue disk, effectively. What could have caused such errors if I did not mistreat my computer these days? Bug(s) in the OS or HDD

Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:27:11 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I've found what my numeric panel's keys are now affected to. Everybody knowns that these keys can also be directional keys (i.e. like

Re: Connecting the droid to a Debian workstation

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West we...@acu.edu writes: On 6/1/10 8:56 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Kent West we...@acu.edu writes: Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, To my utter astonishment, I have not found, on the Internet, an explanation on how to connect an Android

Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:22:44 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: Soft keys? I do not recall this :-? But anything regarding assistive keyboard is configured/activated within GNOME keyboard

Re: Running KDE apps under GNOME

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
Bob McGowan wrote: On 05/30/2010 04:44 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,30.May.10, 09:28:11, Merciadri Luca wrote: Xfce has an option to start Gnome and/or KDE services at startup. Maybe Gnome has something similar? I do not know. I've just

Re: Numeric panel on keyboard is no longer recognized

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:02:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: Pressing Shift + Num. Lock will solve this issue, I just found it :-P How did you find it? That solved my problem. I think

Re: Running KDE apps under GNOME

2010-06-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
Bob McGowan wrote: On 06/01/2010 11:01 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: On 05/30/2010 04:44 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,30.May.10, 09:28:11, Merciadri Luca wrote: Xfce has an option to start Gnome and/or KDE

Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

2010-05-31 Thread Merciadri Luca
John Hasler wrote: Merciadri Luca writes: But I find it special that it does not go faster. Adobe wants everybody to use its client. No. They want everybody who creates content to buy Acrobat. Giving away Acroread is just part of the marketing thereof. You're right

Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

2010-05-31 Thread Merciadri Luca
Celejar wrote: On Sat, 29 May 2010 20:47:52 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Don't know how useful it is, but I recently noticed that pdfgrep has been added to Sid: $ apt-cache show pdfgrep Package: pdfgrep ... Description: search in pdf files

Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

2010-05-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
to help in any way with this project of yours. Let me know what you think. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

2010-05-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: On 05/29/2010 02:34 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Have you tried other PDF readers? Searched for Linux-based PDF indexers? As I said in another topic, I am totally okay for free

Re: Running KDE apps under GNOME

2010-05-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Kjorling mich...@kjorling.se writes: On May 29 2010 22:53 +0200, from luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be (Merciadri Luca): I have noticed that running KDE apps under GNOME takes a lot of time once I have not launched any such apps since

Re: Running KDE apps under GNOME

2010-05-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,30.May.10, 09:28:11, Merciadri Luca wrote: Xfce has an option to start Gnome and/or KDE services at startup. Maybe Gnome has something similar? I do not know. I've just tried to find such an option by Googling, but I could not find any such option

Re: Running KDE apps under GNOME

2010-05-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
.: My surname is actually `Luca' but that does not matter. This is my fault: I misconfigured the client some years ago, and then, to be logical with my error, I kept with it. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem

Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

2010-05-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
something to look interesting to other's eyes, you try to make it as much attractive as possible. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

2010-05-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I sometimes have really long documents (4000 p) for specs., or for other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for a given word. The fact is that acroread reads ~8 pg/s, and, thus, if I do not know

Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

2010-05-30 Thread Merciadri Luca
Okay. I take account of it. Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/30/2010 10:13 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I sometimes have really long documents (4000 p) for specs., or for other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model, or for a given

Filezilla: always trust a domain's certificate

2010-05-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
machine, I am asked if I want to trust its certificate. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Love is like war, Easy to start, Hard to end, Impossible to forget

Re: Filezilla: always trust a domain's certificate

2010-05-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Okay. Thanks for your answers. I'll check this later. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Don't have too many irons in the fire. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment

Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

2010-05-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
500s ~8 minutes and a half. How can I speed it up? Why is it so sluggish? Do not tell me that it is limited by R/W access on the HDD... Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please

Re: Acroread: accelerating the search through a PDF

2010-05-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/29/2010 01:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I sometimes have really long documents (4000 p) for specs., or for Wow. How big is that? Well, there are many bigger works, such as encyclopedias! other purely technical stuff. I sometimes look for a given model

Running KDE apps under GNOME

2010-05-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
of coincidence? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Strange printing effect

2010-05-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
to make it work correctly. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Strange printing effect

2010-05-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:24:03 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Hello Merciadri, Given that I'm using the correct driver for my printer (a fact I neglected to mention), and another HP printer is suffering similar issues would indicate

Re: Strange printing effect

2010-05-26 Thread Merciadri Luca
Brad Rogers wrote: On Wed, 26 May 2010 15:33:38 +0200 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: Hello Merciadri, That is a really strange problem. Have you tried your printer on another computer? (Basic question, I know, but we sometimes forget.) Unfortunately

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be : This is not a so-rare situation, is it? I think it is. And as an ISP employee, I can tell you it's not that easy :-) Okay. I did not know it. -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: can't determine affected package

2010-05-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
? launchpad service seems little easier since it doesn't reqiure exact package ;) thanks in advance and all the best t. Are you using `exactly' (in some sense) the same config? -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility

Re: can't determine affected package

2010-05-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be: Are you using `exactly' (in some sense) the same config? -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. tadziu

`/usr/lib/libsfml-{windows | system}.so.1.deb3 is not a symbolic link' ({} means the two files)

2010-05-25 Thread Merciadri Luca
) ... ldconfig: /usr/lib/libsfml-window.so.1.deb3 is not a symbolic link ldconfig: /usr/lib/libsfml-system.so.1.deb3 is not a symbolic link [...] == Any idea? Still running stable, Lenny (5), w. k. 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem. Thanks folks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

Re: Give root password for maintence during every boot of system

2010-05-23 Thread Merciadri Luca
what is going on? Thanks, Mitchell Laks -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Give root password for maintence during every boot of system

2010-05-23 Thread Merciadri Luca
Control D? It is not a failure is fsck checking. So what is going on? Thanks, Mitchell Laks -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. It pays to pay attention

Re: Give root password for maintence during every boot of system

2010-05-23 Thread Merciadri Luca
It might be a security policy, for him, that changed without realizing it. But, for you, I don't know. I would be interested in knowing why such things happen. Anthony Campbell wrote: On 23 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi Mitchell, You might add == |su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin

Re: Accelerating directory's content's viewing: how, is directory is huge?

2010-05-19 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/18/2010 03:56 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net writes: Don't use Nautilus, or reorganize your directory structure. Okay. Then, for browsing big directories with a GUI, which GUI do you advice

Re: Accelerating directory's content's viewing: how, is directory is huge?

2010-05-19 Thread Merciadri Luca
Thanks, that did the trick! Manon Metten wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: I have many media files in some specific directory (folder, call it as you want). Loading the folder takes ~30 sec., even if I am using quite fast

Re: Accelerating directory's content's viewing: how, is directory is huge?

2010-05-19 Thread Merciadri Luca
I wanted to say that it now takes some seconds of less. I think that I'm going to use CLI, no problem. Merciadri Luca wrote: Thanks, that did the trick! Manon Metten wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be wrote: I have many

Re: Accelerating directory's content's viewing: how, is directory is huge?

2010-05-19 Thread Merciadri Luca
Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/19/2010 05:56 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: I wanted to say that it now takes some seconds of less. I think that I'm going to use CLI, no problem. I'm not sure I understand you. Do you mean that it's many seconds faster, or just a few? It is just a few seconds faster

Re: Accelerating directory's content's viewing: how, is directory is huge?

2010-05-19 Thread Merciadri Luca
Thanks! Ardison Nicolas wrote: Also you can use Midnight Commander {1} a CLI soft that i think that is fast. {1} apt-get install mc -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please

Re: Dual Monitors Twin View on Nvidia

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
to share an xorg.conf or share some advice on this. I think I'd like the monitor to be either 1280x960, 1152x864, 1024x768 and the TV to work at 1600x900 1366x768 or 1280x720. Thanks for any help! Jim -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

X11 just froze, and /var/log/syslog (dmesg)'s output seems to mean something

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: X11 just froze, and /var/log/syslog (dmesg)'s output seems to mean something

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 18 May 2010 18:08:24 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I realized that my computer (this one, Debian Lenny, w. k. 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem) was frozen. I tried escaping from the screensaver, but nothing worked

Accelerating directory's content's viewing: how, is directory is huge?

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Love is like war, Easy to start, Hard to end, Impossible to forget. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Accelerating directory's content's viewing: how, is directory is huge?

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2010 13:16:27 Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I have many media files in some specific directory (folder, call it as you want). Loading the folder takes ~30 sec., even if I am using quite fast HDDs, etc. They're all on the same partition. I have

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
for pointing this out. I didn't know it. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Server certificate has expired

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
? It annoys me, as there is no box that I could check so that it does not appear anymore. I have contacted the ML related to the server, but I do not even tell you who owns the server! Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Re: Server certificate has expired

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Ter, 18 Mai 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, I am getting some Thunderbird message for an IMAP account of mine. This message tells me that the server's certificate associated to the IMAP account has expired since ... 2007. I know, it's already far from here

Thunderbird's WebMail addon (used together with `-Hotmail' extension of it) download sometimes all the e-mails since some date, even if they have already been retrieved at another period

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hotmail e-mails with Icedove. It works pretty well after some config, but it sometimes download many e-mails which have already been retrieved. It must be a bug in WebMail's add-on. Has somebody already encountered this problem? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

Re: Server certificate has expired

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Ter, 18 Mai 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: Well, this is effectively Icedove 2.0.0.22 (20090706). How did you manage to, under Th. 3? I don't remember exactly, but I believe somewhere the was an option to accept the security exception permanently. Thanks. I just

Re: Server certificate has expired

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 05/18/2010 03:32 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Ter, 18 Mai 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: Well, this is effectively Icedove 2.0.0.22 (20090706). How did you manage to, under Th. 3? I don't remember exactly, but I believe

Re: Thunderbird's WebMail addon (used together with `-Hotmail' extension of it) download sometimes all the e-mails since some date, even if they have already been retrieved at another period

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Le 18/05/2010 21:30, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, As explained in the title, I am using Icedove 2.0.0.22 (20090706) with some add-ons, such as `WebMail'. This add-on lets it fetch your e-mails from mail servers only dealing with special protocols (not as POP

Re: ONDULEUR pour serveur GNU LINUX DEBIAN

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
French, but nobody will understand you. You'd better try a french mailinglist. franck dufau wrote: Bonjour, Auriez-vous un retour d’expérience concernant un onduleur pour un serveur DEBIAN. FACILE A INSTALLER ET FIABLE ! Connexion USB ou serie -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: Server certificate has expired

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 18 May 2010 21:53:55 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Jordan Metzmeier wrote: You are better off using the upstream tarball of thunderbird then trying to backport Icedove from squeeze/lenny. Install

Re: Accelerating directory's content's viewing: how, is directory is huge?

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: Don't use Nautilus, or reorganize your directory structure. Okay. Then, for browsing big directories with a GUI, which GUI do you advice to use? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: X11 just froze, and /var/log/syslog (dmesg)'s output seems to mean something

2010-05-18 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, 18 May 2010 20:08:02 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: Just review your /var/log/Xorg.0.log. If X crashed there must something there :-? Nothing really interesting there. Just

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
Karl Vogel wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2010 19:04:42 +0200, Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be said: M I have many text files (actually .tex files) which contain some sequence M or regexp (it depends on the files) that I would like to remove. Is M there a commandline/GUI

Launch some command and leave the console, the command still being executed

2010-05-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
.) Is it even possible? Thanks folks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Launch some command and leave the console, the command still being executed

2010-05-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
Jordan Metzmeier wrote: On 05/17/2010 11:45 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: You want something more like: `gedit disown`. The disown will detach all background jobs currently attached to the terminal session. This _might_ be specific to BASH since it is a BASH builtin. Also, you may want to look

Re: Launch some command and leave the console, the command still being executed

2010-05-17 Thread Merciadri Luca
Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 17:45 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I would like to be able to launch some command in the console, and to be able to close the terminal, the command being still evaluated, i.e. if I launch gedit (I'm under GNOME), and that I close the console

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-16 Thread Merciadri Luca
. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone whom you can't live without. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-16 Thread Merciadri Luca
income ethernet adapters. Choose would it be your desktop or router in front. Anyway, prepare to experiment a bit and try/miss/try. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact

Re: VLC will lag when reading local videos, whatever the codec

2010-05-16 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 15 May 2010 20:18:03 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: Does this happen if you play the videos with another media player (Totem, Xine, MPlayer, etc...)? Yes. Both take some time to go

Re: Is acroread blind, or ps2pdf dangerous?

2010-05-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
transitions, animated gif-like behaviour etcetera etcetera. Acrobat does so as well, but is just not convenient to use for documents you're currently texxing. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem

How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
the diferent connections. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Listen to many, speak to a few. (William Shakespeare) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
, for example)? How can I switch? -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. All that glisters is not gold. (William Shakespeare) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
ceduardo wrote: 2010/5/15 Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be Hi have tow suggestions, The first one. trickle http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle it is bandwidth shaper. The second one bonding http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,15.May.10, 16:32:05, Merciadri Luca wrote: The second one bonding http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/bonding whit this one you can plus the bandwidth. `Bonding' seems to achieve what I wanted to do. Thanks

Re: How to manage multiple Internet connections?

2010-05-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,15.May.10, 16:47:07, Merciadri Luca wrote: Bonding is not suitable for you because it works too low-level (it is layer 2), unless you have two links from the same provider, using some technology that can be bonded (like ADSL). AFAIU what you need is BGP[1

Re: VLC will lag when reading local videos, whatever the codec

2010-05-15 Thread Merciadri Luca
? - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. (Aldous Huxley) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net

Re: Is acroread blind, or ps2pdf dangerous?

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
doesn't have this ability. so if the OP is on windows, he might want to switch to another pdf reader. == -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. So close, yet so far

Re: Is acroread blind, or ps2pdf dangerous?

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
Andrei Popescu wrote: I thought that was a limitation of the OS (Windows). I don't know. Maybe. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. If it's worth doing, it's

Re: monitoring internet availability and sending sms alert?

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
an SMS to alert me to the fact. Is there something like this already in existence? smsclient, ping and bash should do the trick... Might not be too hard to implement, as explained by Ron. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP

Re: Is acroread blind, or ps2pdf dangerous?

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be : Andrei Popescu wrote: I thought that was a limitation of the OS (Windows). I don't know. Maybe. It *_IS*_ Okay. Sorry, Windows constitute bad memories for me, nothing more. And I

Re: Is acroread blind, or ps2pdf dangerous?

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Op 13-05-10 23:40, Merciadri Luca schreef: Sven Joachim wrote: Thanks for this answer. There are *many* reasons not to use pdfLaTeX. They do not enter in the scope of this mailing list, but I am pretty sure you will find them directly on the Internet. For example

Re: Is acroread blind, or ps2pdf dangerous?

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
it. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have many text files (actually .tex files) which contain some sequence or regexp (it depends on the files) that I would like to remove. Is there a commandline/GUI for doing this massive edit? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http

FileZilla won't keep preferences in memory through sessions

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
, with == $ ls filezilla.xml filters.xml layout.xml lockfile queue.xml sitemanager.xml == Weird. Thanks.attachment: Screenshot-Target file already exists.png - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- When making your choices in life, do not forget to live

Re: Is acroread blind, or ps2pdf dangerous?

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
Popescu wrote: On Fri,14.May.10, 15:32:13, Merciadri Luca wrote: I find it interesting that Acroread's behavior is different in Linux. The programmers of the Linux version seem to be aware of *nix standard practice. This is a good thing, I think. I totally agree with you. I was so

VLC will lag when reading local videos, whatever the codec

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
with Матрёшка files (.mkv). (I here test if Gnus supports cyrillic out-of-the-box.) Is it normal? Does it happen often with videos? What would it be due to? Are they corrupted? Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Luck is what happens when

Re: FileZilla won't keep preferences in memory through sessions

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, 14 May 2010 19:02:10 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: When uploading files with FileZilla through SFTP, I often overwrite files because I have modified them locally, and I want them to be updated on my

Re: FileZilla won't keep preferences in memory through sessions

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
Merciadri Luca wrote: No. Now that I have done it, it works as expected. But did I have to set this if I had already checked the box in the appearing window many times? Please add `why' between `But' and `did'. Sorry -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net writes: On Friday 14 May 2010 12:04:42 Merciadri Luca wrote: I have many text files (actually .tex files) which contain some sequence or regexp (it depends on the files) that I would like to remove

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
Bob McGowan wrote: On 05/14/2010 10:37 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 14 May 2010 12:04:42 Merciadri Luca wrote: I have many text files (actually .tex files) which contain some sequence or regexp (it depends on the files) that I would like to remove

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
Thanks for this really complete answer. I really appreciated it. Thanks for your investment in it. I learnt a lot thanks to it. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 14 May 2010 12:52:45 Merciadri Luca wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net writes: On Friday 14 May

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McClain mike.j...@nethere.com writes: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:04:42PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: I have many text files (actually .tex files) which contain some sequence or regexp (it depends on the files) that I would like to remove

Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way

2010-05-14 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob McGowan bob_mcgo...@symantec.com writes: On 05/14/2010 10:52 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net writes: ---removed on purpose--- (find $dir -type f -exec sed -i -e s/$regexp// {} \;) for all files

Is acroread blind, or ps2pdf dangerous?

2010-05-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
the old PDF. But why am I receiving no warning message from acroread? Anyway, acroread seems not to be locking the file, or, if so, ps2pdf forces the writing. Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem

Re: Is acroread blind, or ps2pdf dangerous?

2010-05-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, When compiling any .tex document using the route latex - dvips - ps2pdf, I get a PDF. Normal, but the problem is that if I the PDF is already opened (e.g. because I was reading the version of the document before having modified and compiled it) when the compilation

Re: Is acroread blind, or ps2pdf dangerous?

2010-05-13 Thread Merciadri Luca
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-05-13 17:04 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: When compiling any .tex document using the route latex - dvips - ps2pdf, I get a PDF. This is a rather clumsy way these days. Why don't you use pdflatex? Normal, but the problem is that if I the PDF

Re: OOwriter always hangs, and then quits unexpectedly when images are copied (copy/paste) from a website

2010-05-10 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: On 05/09/2010 03:49 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I just opened a new Writer 3.2.0-9+b1 document then selected the title image http://i.space.com/images/080702-voyager-01.jpg from http

Re: pdftk or related: how to make a bookmark for every inserted PDF?

2010-05-09 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: Not so basic for linux, I'm afraid. No problem. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants

Re: Hptalx is buggy once calculator is plugged and linked

2010-05-09 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, 08 May 2010 22:18:05 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: Can you see the Awaiting Server Cmd. message in calculator's display? Pointing this out is a good thing, but I had already tested

Iceweasel/FF makes the embedded videos going 4 times faster when it bugs!

2010-05-09 Thread Merciadri Luca
. But the rest of the webpage remains normal, not specially buggy, neither do the other tabs. Has somebody already experienced such problems? If so, which websites with? Special bug. Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ - -- Do not triumph before

Capture (for video) what is displayed on the screen

2010-05-09 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, How can I capture (for a video) what is displayed on my screen during a given amount of time? I do not want screenshots, but a video. I am using GNOME w. k. 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem. Thanks. - -- Merciadri Luca See http

Re: Iceweasel/FF makes the embedded videos going 4 times faster when it bugs!

2010-05-09 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 09 May 2010 17:51:20 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: When surfing on webpages, it someztimes happen that pages embed videos through flash (e.g. youtube). From time to time, my Iceweasel/FF browser happens

Re: Capture (for video) what is displayed on the screen

2010-05-09 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 09 May 2010 17:53:05 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: How can I capture (for a video) what is displayed on my screen during a given amount of time? I do not want screenshots, but a video. I am using

Re: Capture (for video) what is displayed on the screen

2010-05-09 Thread Merciadri Luca
Alexander Batischev wrote: On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 06:46:20PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Simply look at that line: As far as you have size (-s parameter) specified already, you only need to add frame rate (-r). Following command should work fine: $ ffmpeg -f x11grab -s cif -r 24

Re: Capture (for video) what is displayed on the screen

2010-05-09 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 09 May 2010 18:46:20 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: Ffmpeg (command line tool) can achieve that: http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html#SEC4 With -t you specify the time interval

Re: Iceweasel/FF makes the embedded videos going 4 times faster when it bugs!

2010-05-09 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 09 May 2010 18:37:59 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón writes: (...) Check if you already have the Adobe flash player version installed in your system. Sure, and even the non-free one, that I

Re: Capture (for video) what is displayed on the screen

2010-05-09 Thread Merciadri Luca
be used with a GTK or Qt frontend which suits very well for both KDE and GNOME users O:-) :-) Istanbul seems to be more oriented for a GNOME environment, which in your case should be a plus :-) Sure. Thanks for all, once again. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be

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