Re: `Print selection' unimplemented in Iceweasel?

2010-03-31 Thread Bob Cox
appears ] Options Print Selection Only. This final option is of course greyed-out if no selection is already selected. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: System hangs while rebooting.

2010-03-26 Thread Bob Cox
, following messages appear and system hangs up after saying Restarting System: Not sure if it will help, but it might be useful to enable boot logging by editing /etc/default/bootlogd -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me

Re: Aptitude wish list item

2010-03-17 Thread Bob Cox
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 17:09:05 -0400, Wayne (linux...@gmail.com) wrote: After downloading the buggy openoffice suite for the 3rd time in the past month. I would like to propose a new feature for aptitude. How about apt-listbugs? apt-listbugs -s all list openoffice.org -- Bob Cox

Re: Bash read command: want to preload some data

2010-03-08 Thread Bob Cox
: data Enter something: So it seems it understands neither the -e nor -i options (not that it really matters and TBH it is hardly surprising as dash is supposed to be very lightweight). -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me

Bash read command: want to preload some data

2010-03-06 Thread Bob Cox
like to do the same thing using older versions of bash, even if it means messier coding. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this please? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bash read command: want to preload some data

2010-03-06 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 06:21:27 -0600, Ron Johnson (ron.l.john...@cox.net) wrote: On 2010-03-06 04:28, Bob Cox wrote: What I am trying to do is preload a bash read command with a value which can be accepted, edited or changed by the user. Some googling shows that this is dead easy

Re: eaccelerator on debian

2010-03-06 Thread Bob Cox
/319 : We are aware of the issues but can not change the license. The company that developed mmcache on which eA [eAccelerator] is based wants us to buy the mmcache code. This is out of the question. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies

Re: Bash read command: want to preload some data

2010-03-06 Thread Bob Cox
as this is just a part of a quite big bash script which I have been constantly tweaking for years. Thanks again. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: network-manager: internet access not working since update [was: Re: Help! Lost GDM-based Internet Access in Squeeze]

2009-05-15 Thread Bob Cox
), but in Gnome or the GUI level, not so. Hello, According to several reports here, update-manager is not working quite right. The better alternative would be wicd, so you might try installing that instead. s/update/network/ ;-) -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply

Re: How to remove permanently mouse driver

2009-05-15 Thread Bob Cox
but you could try uninstalling the xserver-xorg-input-mouse package. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-11 Thread Bob Cox
would be grateful. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: a bit ot: Security system and web cams

2009-05-11 Thread Bob Cox
. There is also a website at http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome I believe it will handle multiple cameras but cannot really comment on that. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com

Re: Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-08 Thread Bob Cox
or password. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to use mplayer to convert real media audio file to mp3

2009-05-07 Thread Bob Cox
44100 -ab 256 output.mp3 That works perfectly except you need to use 256000 or 256k for the bitrate. (It still works with your value but ignores it and defaults to 128k). -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-06 Thread Bob Cox
friendly ;-) Not quite sure what you mean but I agree it is not the cheapest. Currently running Debian squeeze on mine and getting a genuine 6 hours of battery life. The keyboard is excellent, the touchpad less so. Using 2.6.29 kernel for native support of the wifi chipset. -- Bob Cox. Stoke

Re: SheevaPlug

2009-05-04 Thread Bob Cox
. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: date man page

2009-05-02 Thread Bob Cox
the old --iso-8601 (-I) option is deprecated; it still works, but new applications should avoid it. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: network configuration for Eth0

2009-05-01 Thread Bob Cox
192.168.10.103 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.10.1 network 192.168.10.0 broadcast 192.168.10.255 (assuming you have a router of that IP address of course). If you *do* have network-manager installed then this could be the cause of many of your woes. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK

Re: network configuration for Eth0

2009-05-01 Thread Bob Cox
and so on. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Acer Aspire One A110 16GB Linux

2009-05-01 Thread Bob Cox
sid, this chipset is natively supported and should just work without any fiddling. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. http://bobcox.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

2009-04-27 Thread Bob Cox
? As an experiment (all on one line) echo htmlp style=font-size:12px12px test/pp style=font-size:12pt12pt test/p/html test.html and then open test.html with Iceweasel. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian

Re: Unable to use higher resolutions

2009-04-27 Thread Bob Cox
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Re: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/...

2009-04-26 Thread Bob Cox
: /lib/firmware/e100/d101m_ucode.bin firmware-linux: /lib/firmware/e100/d101s_ucode.bin firmware-linux: /lib/firmware/e100/d102e_ucode.bin HTH -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com

Re: How long will updates to Etch be available?

2009-04-26 Thread Bob Cox
mirror. For example, I use http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:52:08 -0400, Robert Menes (viewtiful.icc...@gmail.com) wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com wrote: I do this by not having xdm, gdm or kdm installed and starting X with startx when required. So how can I disable gdm

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Bob Cox
, but I forgot (I'm a little rusty and need to not be rusty). Can someone tell me how to just boot and land on the command line, bypassing X? Thanks! I do this by not having xdm, gdm or kdm installed and starting X with startx when required. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Bob Cox
, remove it from your default runlevel (who -r), or if you're using a different login manager remove the appropriate entry. aptitude install sysv-rc-conf (not sysv-rc-config) -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian

Re: How long will updates to Etch be available?

2009-04-20 Thread Bob Cox
the first Installation CD and want to use network to install other packages. Is this a bug and how can I solve this problem? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

2009-04-19 Thread Bob Cox
the touchpad does not work either. Oddly maybe and also possibly coincidence, but if not then it might be some sort of touchpad driver problem? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug

Re: redirect time to file

2009-04-17 Thread Bob Cox
hi which is equivalent to /usr/bin/time -o file echo hi -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: ethernet card, the debian way ?

2009-04-17 Thread Bob Cox
. These can often be disabled from the BIOS setup pages: look for integrated peripherals or similar. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: [Partially solved] Re: Locale errors

2009-04-13 Thread Bob Cox
problem to the one being discussed but cannot remember now. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

2009-04-13 Thread Bob Cox
(but was a bit quicker). -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

2009-04-12 Thread Bob Cox
? Thanks! ffmpeg -ab 128000 -i high_quality.mp3 lower_quality.mp3 -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: X includes missing

2009-04-05 Thread Bob Cox
://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2:0.9.4-1 0 500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org stable/main Packages As you can see I have the squeeze/testing version installed, although there does appear to be a non-beta version in sid/unstable. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-24 Thread Bob Cox
top posting message. [2] Only because I didn't have to press space a dozen or so times. As you use mutt, 'S' should skip to the end of each section of quoted text, or, if you know there is no interleaved quoting, just press the 'End' key to go right to the bottom ;-) -- Bob Cox. Stoke

Re: skype lenny amd64

2009-03-20 Thread Bob Cox
-dbg: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4.4.3.debug libqtcore4: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 libqtcore4: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4.4 libqtcore4: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4.4.3 Perhaps you have not run apt-file update for a while. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send

Re: Help! Grub is broken

2009-03-19 Thread Bob Cox
AMD64 gnome. Sid is the unstable distribution and things do break from time to time. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Domain of sender address does not resolve in mail logs

2009-03-18 Thread Bob Cox
to 136.153.14.117. Checking 136.153.14.117 shows that the reverse DNS is also correctly set up. (Your third example may have been a temporary problem as tigerairwaysnews.com does have A and MX records in place). -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send

Re: recursive grep and openoffice

2009-03-16 Thread Bob Cox
{} content.xml | grep what you want to find' \; -print Ingenious - but I think the *.odt needs to be within quotation marks for this to work, (i.e. '*.odt'). -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Cox
definitely. Not sure about Vista. Google for explore2fs. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Cox
appreciated it). Worse than useless. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Cox
on to say flash drive. ext2 is arguably better than ext3 for flash drives because of the reduced number of writes to disk. Google for explore2fs. It claims to support both ext2 and ext3. It does support both. (Because from a read-only point of view they are the same?) -- Bob Cox. Stoke

Re: Aptitude tries to replace backport kernel with older version

2009-03-11 Thread Bob Cox
highlighted above should be: Pin: release a=etch-backports -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: vim

2009-03-11 Thread Bob Cox
starting point is http://www.google.com/search?q=vim+color Please use plain text and not HTML on this list. Thank you. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Why is Firefox calling gimp instead of xpdf?

2009-03-11 Thread Bob Cox
a look at the file association settings in the control centre. Presumably there is a Gnome equivalent. For me, Firefox/Iceweasel obeys these settings; I have no entry at all for pdf in my Iceweasel preferences. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do

Re: Help! My debian sid cannot boot, A manual fsck must be performed

2009-03-10 Thread Bob Cox
:        init=/bin/sh My debian sid now break more, after I add init-/bin/sh to the kernel It may just be a typo, but init-/bin/sh is not the same as init=/bin/sh -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK

Re: iceweasel thinks it has java but websites disagree

2009-03-10 Thread Bob Cox
a lack of Java seems especially odd. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Advice about ext3, please

2009-03-09 Thread Bob Cox
be considered important. Otherwise, it probably makes sense to do as you have decided and stick with ext3. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Cyrus migration

2009-03-08 Thread Bob Cox
to my new server. After that I logged in onto cyradm and executed lm and there was no output. I know nothing about cyrus but I am guessing there is a /etc/cyrus.conf file and perhaps something in /etc/default/ ? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do

Re: anyone have /etc/gmrunrc ?

2009-03-06 Thread Bob Cox
extract the contents to a temporary directory with something like dpkg --extract gmrun_0.9.1-1_i386.deb temp_dir/ then you should, in theory, find what you want. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2

Re: MailScanner package in Lenny

2009-03-05 Thread Bob Cox
to that: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506353 Is it available in another official debian repository? http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mailscanner -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian

Re: Debian on s390

2009-03-05 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 16:33:37 -0300, João Henrique Viana (j...@engepel.com.br) wrote: Hi all, We're trying to install Debian Lenny for s390 in IBM z890 mainframe in a LPAR via CD-ROM from a HMC console. You may get more help by trying the debian-s390 mailing list. -- Bob Cox. Stoke

Re: fetch root email with Icedove?

2009-03-04 Thread Bob Cox
OP's mail configuration. Indeed. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Lowest ram system with X. Presario 5166.

2009-03-04 Thread Bob Cox
Midori, which is available in unstable and see if it is an improvement. So it can be done but a bit more RAM would no doubt make a huge difference. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http

Re: Segmentation fault when stating aptitude

2009-03-03 Thread Bob Cox
. Are you intentionally mixing etch and lenny using pinning or a APT::Default-Release setting? Just a thought. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Vim tip (was Re: Suspend/Resume issues - Custom scripts notrunning? Mouse frozen?)

2009-03-03 Thread Bob Cox
a difference between adding a few lines to .vimrc and installing a plugin comprising some 27 files totalling over 300kB ;-) [ Also, please do not top-post, please reply only to the list and do not post using HTML ] -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send

Re: Midnight commander

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Cox
here using konsole, the gnome terminal and xterm. This is with testing and kde. mc also works fine in a console session. However, I have just installed aterm and can see your problem, so it is reproducible. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do

Re: Where is PHP5 sybase_ct package ?

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Cox
/main Packages So, package php5-sybase is available for stable, testing and unstable. Is that what you are looking for? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Where is PHP5 sybase_ct package ?

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:40:33 +0100, Frank Bonnet (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: Bob Cox wrote: [snip] So, package php5-sybase is available for stable, testing and unstable. Is that what you are looking for? Well this module is not available for me Sorry. Yes, it seems that the module

Re: Adding installed packages to menu

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 15:26:33 +0900, Bret Busby (b...@busby.net) wrote: Hello. I am using Debian 4.0. How do I add installed packages to the Applications menu hierarchy? Try typing update-menus at the command line prompt and see if that helps. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol

Re: Where is PHP5 sybase_ct package ?

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 13:53:12 +0100, Frank Bonnet (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: Bob Cox wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:40:33 +0100, Frank Bonnet (f.bon...@esiee.fr) wrote: Bob Cox wrote: [snip] So, package php5-sybase is available for stable, testing and unstable. Is that what you

Re: NTPd log entries flipping between 'status change 4001' and 'status change 0001'

2009-03-01 Thread Bob Cox
modes. Google for 'ntp pll fll' for more on this. It would appear to be quite normal anyway. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: logging writes to disk (keeping disk from spinning down)

2009-02-28 Thread Bob Cox
need noflushd (no flush daemon) to do what you want. aptitude show noflushd -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: logging writes to disk (keeping disk from spinning down)

2009-02-28 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 08:21:16 +, Bob Cox (debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com) wrote: You may need noflushd (no flush daemon) to do what you want. aptitude show noflushd Which is for IDE drives and you are using SATA. Ignore that suggestion then! -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Bob Cox
, but definitely not as well written, that it seems easier to say me too. Aptitude from the command line gives so much control that, IMHO of course, it really is worth the effort to learn at least some of the less obvious search patterns and qualifiers. Just my humble user experience. Tom -- Bob Cox

Re: spam control

2009-02-27 Thread Bob Cox
to *reject* most unwanted stuff rather than accepting it and then, later, rejecting it with spamassassin. I like to think that rejecting it keeps me off the spammers' lists because it is seen as a delivery failure. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do

Re: non-dpkg owned libc6 - etch to lenny upgrade problem

2009-02-25 Thread Bob Cox
I see your response. Nor do I find either in the list archives. They are in the archives. Tzafrir did reply to you: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/02/msg02235.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/02/msg02272.html -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please

Re: gulus.usherbrooke.ca Debian repo down?

2009-02-25 Thread Bob Cox
: Reading package lists... Done Yes, it is down. Try a different Canadian mirror instead? http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca/ http://debian.mirror.iweb.ca/ http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/ all seem to be up. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do

Re: What is the relationship between debian maillist and google groups?

2009-02-24 Thread Bob Cox
is it important to you? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: 515...@bugs.debian.org

2009-02-23 Thread Bob Cox
to have passed your bug report upstream where it was considered not to be a midori problem after all. regards -- Ink Bottle Unusual name ;-) -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com

Re: Recommended TrueType fonts

2009-02-23 Thread Bob Cox
/LucidaTypewriterBoldOblique.ttf sun-java6-fonts: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lucida/LucidaTypewriterOblique.ttf sun-java6-fonts: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lucida/LucidaTypewriterRegular.ttf -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly

Re: Problems with python on etch

2009-02-22 Thread Bob Cox
one or does somebody else also see these problems? Michael Schwartzkopff. Hello Michael I wonder if we could take a look at your /etc/apt/sources.list file please? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian

Re: Problems with python on etch

2009-02-22 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:47:23 +0100, Michael Schwartzkopff (mi...@multinet.de) wrote: Bob Cox schrieb: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:44:40 +0100, Michael Schwartzkopff (mi...@multinet.de) wrote: Hi, since this morning I have problems installing any packages that are related

Re: problem with my (global) environment

2009-02-22 Thread Bob Cox
dpkg-reconfigure locales You should be able to select more than one locales. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Any info about http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/

2009-02-19 Thread Bob Cox
as it goes. However, the good news is that goodbyemicrosoft.net seems to work ok. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Upgrading to Lenny 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Cox
in two separate lenny boxen, one of which was an upgrade from etch and one a clean lenny install several months ago. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Upgrading to Lenny 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem

2009-02-16 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:13:52 +0100, Sven Joachim (svenj...@gmx.de) wrote: On 2009-02-16 10:05 +0100, Bob Cox wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:40:51 +, Tim Day (tim...@bottlenose.demon.co.uk) wrote: On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 08:57 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Alternatively

Re: Lenny?

2009-02-15 Thread Bob Cox
/status -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Lenny?

2009-02-15 Thread Bob Cox
/dpkg/status If it helps, it does look like the 2007.07.31 version for etch you are quoting is correct: http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=etchkeywords=debian-archive-keyring -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian

Re: iceweasel segfault

2009-02-06 Thread Bob Cox
, Konqueror shows this page correctly, just like IW 2. So I don't think it's Flash at fault, but something odd with IW 3. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: prevent access to a hard drive completely

2009-01-31 Thread Bob Cox
? This is an IDE hard disk. Olive PS I am not currently on Debian but I like the list (and I am sure the answer to this question should be generic) I would remove the power connector from the rear of the hard drive, but failing that, maybe you could disable it in the BIOS settings? -- Bob Cox

Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-25 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:18:00 +1300, Chris Bannister (mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz) wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:40:39AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:43:28PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:43:07PM +, Bob Cox wrote: I have

Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account

2009-01-22 Thread Bob Cox
not matter). -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account

2009-01-22 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:08:10 -0600, Nate Bargmann (n...@n0nb.us) wrote: * Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com [2009 Jan 22 02:59 -0600]: Are you sure this is an exim-specific problem? I know little about exim, using postfix for my servers which talk to the outside world

Re: C compiler cannot create executables (Ubuntu 8.04)

2009-01-22 Thread Bob Cox
databases. Is the lenny/sid version new enough? http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=lifelines -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: how to create a cache for squid

2009-01-21 Thread Bob Cox
by default without changing anything in squid.conf thanks for help bela [ Please try to lose the html part of your message. Just send in plain text only. Thank you ] Your answer is probably here: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply

Re: http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu is down

2009-01-19 Thread Bob Cox
of these are the US so you have plenty to choose from. http://www.uk.debian.org/mirror/list -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: laptop lenny + TV

2009-01-18 Thread Bob Cox
Go 6150 GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 That third one above looks like yours. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: OpenOffice Calc

2009-01-17 Thread Bob Cox
for the cell I copied. Nothing else seems to undo (even Undo) the border put around the copied cell. Press the escape key? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug

Re: Unable to upgrade NSLU2 running debian

2009-01-16 Thread Bob Cox
dates back to last May. Presumably you have not done an update/upgrade for a long time? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-01-16 Thread Bob Cox
. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-15 Thread Bob Cox
://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html HTH -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Unable to upgrade NSLU2 running debian

2009-01-15 Thread Bob Cox
not done an update/upgrade for a long time? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: kernel naming conventions?

2009-01-14 Thread Bob Cox
(the 6th sub-variant of the 2.6.18 kernel compiled for i686 machines?), but is the 2.6-686 the 1st version of the i686 kernel, or something else? apt-cache show linux-image-2.6 linux-image-2.6-686 linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 should explain things. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK

Re: Help with u tube video streaming

2009-01-12 Thread Bob Cox
is doing. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Lightweight alternative to imagemagick?

2009-01-11 Thread Bob Cox
to only 52 packages. This still seems quite a lot and includes lots of font stuff and x11-common when all I want is the 'convert' command. Does anyone know of a simpler, slimmer alternative for resizing jpegs from the command line please? -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please

Re: Who is logged into this box?

2009-01-11 Thread Bob Cox
user is sitting at the machine and logged in, so if I can catch two simultaneous login sessions (one on the physical hardware, one over ssh) then I can be sure. Thanks. Just typing w (without the quotes) should be adequate. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list

Re: Who is logged into this box?

2009-01-11 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:01:59 +, Tzafrir Cohen (tzaf...@cohens.org.il) wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 09:01:57AM +, Bob Cox wrote: Just typing w (without the quotes) should be adequate. While we're at it: w # (with the quotes) will actually do the same thing on the shell

Re: Lightweight alternative to imagemagick?

2009-01-11 Thread Bob Cox
motion (movement detecting with a webcam) and saving the resulting images. Using convert from imagemagick to reduce these images for viewing on a webpage will only add a bit more stress ;-) -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me

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