On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:30:47AM EST, Anand Sivaram wrote:
Correct, it is wireshark now. Somehow I still remember that with the
name ethereal :)
In ‘lenny’ at least, there's still a dummy ‘ethereal’ package.. That's
how I found the new name.. couldn't remember it. Anyway, I mentioned it
in
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 06:06:34AM EST, Camaleón wrote:
[..]
For small images (netiso) I do not tend to verify the checksum
I just did one.. takes about five seconds to generate the checksum.
And since the checksum is going to end up very different even for a lost
bit or so.. you can tell at
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:27:50PM EST, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
I have a new usb hard drive of the specs in the subject line. On
plugging it in it shows on the desktop, but on clicking it nothing
happens. Anybody have experience getting this to work on debian
(squeeze)?
I bought
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 09:00:43AM EST, Anand Sivaram wrote:
Tcpdump and Ethereal are very similar in terms of capture filters.
They both use libpcap.
I believe they call it ‘wireshark’ these days..
cj
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On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 06:48:47AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Ma, 01 mar 11, 19:59:25, Chris Jones wrote:
That shouldn't be a problem, the list is setup as close as
possible[1] to debian-user: posting open, no reply-to munging,
etc. so all you would need to do to move a discussion
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:56:14AM EST, Jason Hsu wrote:
[..]
Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu..
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1604
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 04:10:01AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Lu, 28 feb 11, 22:47:17, Chris Jones wrote:
So what do I do..? recommend we continue our heated discussion on
the OT mailing list..? too bad.. she's not subscribed to D-OT .. and
given the circumstances and our disagreement
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:34:04AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote:
[Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user]
[For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439]
Hi,
Being the stubborn person that I am, I want
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 03:46:27PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/23/2011 01:50 PM, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:34:05 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/23/2011 11:16 AM, Camaleón wrote:
Shouldn't D-M maintainers post here about any problem on the repos
or widespread a bit more what
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:15:08AM EST, Csanyi Pal wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to setup in .Xdefaults for xterm to use TrueType Fonts so I
don't must use every time the 'control' key and pointer button three to
set this up in the VT Fonts menu.
I want also to setup the geometry for xterm and
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:47:27AM EST, Mike McClain wrote:
[..]
After a day spent reading several articles on X and xterm I finally
came to the realization that the use of bind you pointed out earlier
in this thread would do what I wanted. Using ^v to see what the key
combinations were
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:35:54AM EST, Clive Standbridge wrote:
Realizing this is dependent on computer specs, just curious what
some of the people on this list have experienced for how much time
it took to do the Lenny to Squeeze upgrade, (assuming a fully
up-to-date Lenny system).
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:12:02PM EST, Brad Alexander wrote:
[..]
Honestly, I saw the writing on the wall when Elom was named CEO of
Nokia.
It's ‘Elop’.. easy mnemonics:. rhymes with cop, flop, mop, slop, etc.
cj
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:33:13AM EST, Chris Jones wrote:
[..]
He probably wants:
$ xrdb -load ~/.Xresources
That should have been..
$ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
%-)
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:39:39PM EST, Mike McClain wrote:
[..]
That said the complexities of 'nix is a broad subject and though
I've been a user for many years there is still so much I don't
know that it's easy to get overwhelmed. Rob's shortcut for instance:
uxterm -fn
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:10:11PM EST, Celejar wrote:
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 15:09:23 -0700
[..]
Good to know, thanks - I've heard that before. The keyboard is the one
thing about which I'm really dissatisfied with my Acer Aspire, although
that's not Linux specific.
Not sure which particular
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 02:55:05PM EST, Csanyi Pal wrote:
Hi,
on my Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze system
in the textual - command line environment - console I can hear beep when
hit on keyboard Down at the and of command history,
but in the grapchical environment - X Window - in a rxvt (urxvt)
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 04:52:54AM EST, Clive Standbridge wrote:
Every time I launch X I open a couple of xterm windows but have to
Ctrl Middle click in the window to set the VT font to large before
it's usable to my old eyes. I'd like to automate that but have never
figured out how.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:33:45AM EST, Csanyi Pal wrote:
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com writes:
[..]
Does it beep in other terminals under X.. xterm, gnome-terminal..?
If I run the 'beep' command in any terminal emulator (xterm, urxvt,
gnome-terminal, terminal.app)
that's not what I
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:58:51PM EST, Mike McClain wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:31:01AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
I call xterm from a hotkey like this:
uxterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Rob your answer is way over my head. If I have any hotkeys in
X I don't
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:04:51AM EST, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Please don't top-post. Instead, trim the quotes and write your reply
below or in-between.
Radhakrishna Bhat:
Not sure, but I think you need to be running 'gpm' daemon for middle
button paste to work.
Gpm is only needed for
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:16:43PM EST, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:52:09 -0500
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:
$ bind '\C-t: xterm^M'
.. and press Ctrl-T you start a new xterm - try it.
Notes:
1. to enter the ^M in the above bind command, you need
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:38:36PM EST, Erin Brinkley wrote:
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 03:19:38PM EST, Erin Brinkley wrote:
[..]
I guess that leaves three loose ends to this whole adventure:
(1) Is it recommended to try adding /usr/share
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 08:46:40PM EST, George Shuklin wrote:
Good day.
I'm trying to understand difference between Buffers and Page Cache in
Linux, but found almost no documentation.
Where ‘in Linux’..? What exactly are you looking at..?
As far as I understand buffers and Page Cache
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:39:07PM EST, George Shuklin wrote:
I have started my post from sentence 'almost no documentation'.
Ok, I repeat my question in most simple form:
cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:8197852 kB
MemFree: 89764 kB
Buffers: 16436 kB
Cached:
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 03:19:38PM EST, Erin Brinkley wrote:
[..]
I guess that leaves three loose ends to this whole adventure:
(1) Is it recommended to try adding /usr/share/texmf and
/usr/share/texmf-texlive fonts to fontconfig?
Did you check the /etc/conf.d and /etc/conf.avail
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:03:04PM EST, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
Appears that I need to make a .Xresources file before
TightVNC will work. Can anyone recommend instructions
or examples for the task? The transcript from the
TightVNC follows.
Thanks, ... Peter E.
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:40:30AM EST, Erin Brinkley wrote:
[..]
$ locate lmtypewriter
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/truetype/hoekwater/lm/lmtypewriter10-regular.ttf
$ emacs -fn LMTypewriter-10
Font `LMTypewriter-10' is not defined
$
This used to work just fine!
That's odd.. I would've
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 01:28:53PM EST, Bob Proulx wrote:
Chris Jones wrote:
That's odd.. the vnc4server script on ‘lenny’ from the vnc4server
package tests the existence of the file:
[ -r ~/.Xresources ] xrdb -merge ...
The vncserver uses the alternatives. It could be one
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 01:34:36PM EST, Erin Brinkley wrote:
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:
This is a shoot in the dark, but maybe you are experiencing some of the
side effects this FAQ is pointing out :-?
Seems like a good idea. I checked it. Now in /etc/fonts/local.conf
there is no
I did the following to set up a Xen dom0:
1. squeeze AMD64 install on a new partition
2. apt-get install the Xen packages (cf. Xen/debian wiki)
3. tweak the grub2 environment and install it to the MBR
4. boot the Xen dom0 kernel
Now, the odd thing is that while doing steps [2-3] above, I'm
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:32:05PM EST, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
[..]
They do?
It's not configured by default or populated in /etc/skel. I doubt
most users would go about adding one themselves.
Trust the little beggars..
Yes, _if_ you're going to specify custom xrdb resources, that's the
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 02:11:41PM EST, Erin Brinkley wrote:
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:
That's odd.. I would've thought the ‘-fn’ flag would not support .ttf
fonts. I don't use emacs, but other X programs such as XTerm, xfd, etc.
use the ‘-fa’ flag when using the ‘typeface
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 08:13:37PM EST, Joey Hess wrote:
[..]
There is no need to use any expert install option with squeeze. Simply
follow the instructions it presents:
Maybe the next incarnation of the installer should do away once and for
all with this ‘expert’ misnomer.
Although it may
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:28:19PM EST, Tarek Soliman wrote:
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:03:43PM -0800, Arthur Barlow wrote:
Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using testing for years with
very little problems.
You should know that every time a release happens, both testing and
unstable
I burn my backups to regular single-layer DVD's once in a while. DVD+RW
is what I use, but now it looks like I'm flirting with their limit in
terms of capacity..
In the long run, this probably means that I need to review my backup
policies, maybe separating /home from the rest of the system, but
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:27:57AM EST, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
On 02/02/2011 11:07 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
I burn my backups to regular single-layer DVD's once in a while. DVD+RW
is what I use, but now it looks like I'm flirting with their limit in
terms of capacity..
[..]
My comments
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:18:06AM EST, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:07:11 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
(...)
Do some of you people still use DVD's as an external medium for
backups..?
I prefer to store data in hard disks, but DVD-RAM (DL) could be worth
a try in the event I'd
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 11:18:06AM EST, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:07:11 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
(...)
Do some of you people still use DVD's as an external medium for
backups..?
I prefer to store data in hard disks, but DVD-RAM (DL) could be worth
a try in the event I'd
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 02:10:53PM EST, Curt Howland wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
=
I prefer to store data in hard disks, but DVD-RAM (DL) could be
worth
a try in the event I'd look for an optical backup solution.
Thanks, will check whether my drive
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 02:27:50PM EST, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:44:43 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
Doesn't say anything about double-layer.. or are they dual-sided?
Hum, OSTA calls them double-sided ;-P
http://www.osta.org/technology/dvdqa/dvdqa6.htm
Looks like I suspected
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 05:35:51PM EST, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
On 02/02/2011 01:10 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
(...)
One trick I use is copy my back-up file (encrypted) to my cell
phone's micro-SD.. In the event disaster struck, I would either be
out of the house with my cell phone, or grab
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:59:21PM EST, T o n g wrote:
Hi,
Anywhere I can read more about /etc/X11/Xsession.d?
I want to use it to start an app when X starts, synergyc to be exact,
following the steps from
http://tacticalcoder.com/blog/2009/05/using-synergy-software-kvm-with-osx-
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:13:29AM EST, Camaleón wrote:
[..]
# xrandr --output VBOX0 --mode 1280x60_60.00
[..]
1/ How can it that xrandr settings are remembered for all the users
session?
2/ What is the involved file/tweak command to revert any change and reset
its settings?
You
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 04:21:35PM EST, Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:09:22 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
[..]
You could try brute force to narrow it down a bit:
# touch /tmp/xxx
# xrandr ...
# find / -type f -newer /tmp/xxx /tmp/filelist
# rm /tmp/xxx
You may want
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 04:14:43AM EST, S Mathias wrote:
my /tmp is too small [when i want to use convert]. how can i set
imagemagick, to use an other tmp folder, what has enough space?
thank you!
Try (untested):
MAGICK_TMPDIR=./mytmpdir convert ..
If you need this on a permanent basis,
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 05:54:10PM EST, Celejar wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:04:23 -0500
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 03:23:49PM EST, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:10:07 -0800
Peter Tenenbaum peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com wrote:
I
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 03:23:49PM EST, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:10:07 -0800
Peter Tenenbaum peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com wrote:
I recently had to add wifi to my squeeze / gnome desktop. Based on some
reviews I bought a Netgear WG111 USB wifi adapter, and I found that when I
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:12:35AM EST, Camaleón wrote:
[..]
Okay, just remember Squeeze uses a different set of driver (nouveau) than
lenny (nv), it is possible that you don't need to tewak anything there.
Thanks, I'll remember this thread when I'm ready to switch to squeeze.
cj
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On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 06:58:54AM EST, Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:03:19 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:37:11PM EST, Camaleón wrote:
[..]
Some comments on the log...
***
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
(II) Module glx
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 07:26:08AM EST, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-01-15 12:58 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
[..]
It seems loading the GLX module using some part of the nvidia closed
drivers... how is that possible? :-?
Because the nvidia-glx package is installed, even though Chris does
not
I'm in the last stages of migrating my (mostly legacy) stuff to a newer
laptop and cannot get mplayer to work as well as I had hoped on debian
lenny.
On my previous system with an old ATI Mach64, I specified the XVideo
output driver and was getting pretty decent results.
On the new system, with
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:11:33AM EST, Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:24:32 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
[..]
Is this telling me is that the XVideo extension on the new machine
is not enabled?
You can check it:
stt008:~# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep XVideo
(II) Loading
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 09:20:37AM EST, Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 14. 01. 2011 09:24:32 je Chris Jones napisal(a):
[..]
On the new system, with a fairly current nvidia video card, and the
default ‘nv’ free driver, only the sound appears to work when I stream
TV news channels or play .flv videos
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:06:51AM EST, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2011-01-14 09:24 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
I'm in the last stages of migrating my (mostly legacy) stuff to a newer
laptop and cannot get mplayer to work as well as I had hoped on debian
lenny.
On my previous system
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:37:11PM EST, Camaleón wrote:
[..]
Maybe it's time for you attach/upload the whole /var/log/Xorg.0.log
file :-)
Hey.. why not..
http://pastebin.com/38DZcW7D
Enjoy¹..!
cj
¹ this is the log on ‘lenny’
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:15:28PM EST, Robert Latest wrote:
[..]
What now? I'm stumped.
Works here out of the box on Debian stable.
Since I do not run dwm, I did the following:
$ /bin/su -
# apt-get install dwm
# adduser dwm # password .. enter .. enter
# cd
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:39:53AM EST, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Tue, 04 Jan 2011, Doug wrote:
There's a better way. It uses a subset of Unicode and the compose
key. On a normal PC keyboard, you have to make a compose key out
You must be joking. That will work well only if
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 01:08:27PM EST, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
[..]
When I issue 'acpitool -s' from konsole on X, the system does not shut
down right and does not resume but boots with the 4 disks messed up.
But sad to say it only works
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:01:03AM EST, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Lisi wrote:
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:15:43 Camaleón wrote:
[..]
They know that the computer needs electricity and that the car needs petrol.
I doubt that most people know more than that.
Well, I would hope they also know
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 10:57:22AM EST, David A. Bandel wrote:
Folks,
I've googled this with no helpful results (several unhelpful results
regarding dpkg-reconfigure console-data though).
I want to get back to the old behavior I had where my i386/pc/qwerty
keyboards had dead keys for
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 06:01:58AM EST, Roger Leigh wrote:
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:13:39AM +, Phil Requirements wrote:
On 2011-01-02 14:23:55 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
Some characters are not displayed correctly on my monitor. The command
consolechars -d used to correct this
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 02:42:19PM EST, Roger Leigh wrote:
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 08:48:21AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
[..]
Also, take a look at ‘unicode_start’.
Note that if the locale set in /etc/default/locale (or
/etc/environment on older systems) has a UTF-8 charmap (as reported
On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 02:18:40PM EST, bri...@aracnet.com wrote:
Hi,
Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the
system.
[..]
$ xset dpms force suspend # ..?
cj
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On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 08:33:28PM EST, John Jason Jordan wrote:
[..]
It will be a long time before I install an nVidia proprietary driver
again.
When I installed ‘lenny’ on this new laptop, the ‘nv’ driver was the
default. At some point I figured I'd watch some TV news, and I noticed
that
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:58:42AM EST, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Johan Kullstam put forth on 12/29/2010 11:25 PM:
Good for you. My gripe is that one can no longer choose. It's
shortscreen or nothing.
I had an old thinkpad t42 with a 14 1440x1050 and it rocked. It
weighed only 4.5 lbs
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 03:48:52AM EST, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 23:15, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:
Ubuntu is now heavily invested in Pulse Audio so what you learn in
Debian won't necessarily apply there. You might want to convince your
friend to use Debian
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 03:35:01PM EST, Russell L. Harris wrote:
Chris Jones wrote:
Maybe I should send it back use the compatiblity lists to try
and get something that's supported out of the box.
Consider a Lexicon Alpha (US$60) or Lexicon Omega (US$180). See
broadcast suppliers
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 03:26:12PM EST, deloptes wrote:
Chris Jones wrote:
input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Device [HOLTEK AudioHub Speaker] on
usb-:00:07.2-1.4.4 usb 1-1.4.4: New USB device found,
idVendor=046d, idProduct=0a0e usb 1-1.4.4: New USB device
strings: Mfr=1, Product=2
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 08:46:38PM EST, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Chris Jones put forth on 12/27/2010 7:00 PM:
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:57:31AM EST, Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:30:57 -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote:
[..]
When it comes to LCD/TFT, you have to pay attention
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 01:46:13PM EST, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Ubuntu is now heavily invested in Pulse Audio so what you learn in
Debian won't necessarily apply there. You might want to convince your
friend to use Debian instead.
Hm. I may end up doing that..
What's the deal with Pulse Audio..
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:57:31AM EST, Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:30:57 -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote:
[..]
When it comes to LCD/TFT, you have to pay attention to native
resolution.
I agree. And the highest you can get.
Look, 17 displays tend to use the same resolution (dots
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:30:33AM EST, John Hasler wrote:
[..]
I have not seen a movie in more than twenty years and probably never
will see one again.
I find the entire entertainment industry and everyone associated with
it faintly disgusting, and, in any case, like popular music, movies
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:59:17AM EST, Celejar wrote:
[..]
If we can establish that this was the problem (that it must be
built-in, and not built as a module), is this a bug? I suppose that I
should at least update the Wiki to warn about this.
Not sure if it's relevant, but this vaguely
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 03:30:38PM EST, Celejar wrote:
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:03:34 -0500
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:59:17AM EST, Celejar wrote:
[..]
Not sure if it's relevant, but this vaguely reminds me of having had to
add my old ATI mach64's
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:32:42AM EST, Jude DaShiell wrote:
I tried taking a friend's machine from lenny to squeeze and it turned
into a disaster. As a consequence of the attempt his entire package
update and repair systems are broken. apt-get -f install can't fix
anything and dpkg
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 06:35:35AM EST, Joel Roth wrote:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:56:08AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
Is there any way I could use a custom stylesheet to make my web browser
rearrange text in two or more columns so I don't get my eyes crossed
when I'm reading?
Come
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 03:29:19AM EST, deloptes wrote:
Chris Jones wrote:
[..]
I wanted to know if it is a webcam or something else
Well, no.. they're sort of a longish thing with 2 or more speakers that
you connect to audio sources with weak output, such as subnotebooks or
netbooks, etc
Is there any way I could use a custom stylesheet to make my web browser
rearrange text in two or more columns so I don't get my eyes crossed
when I'm reading?
Come to think of it, a web browser with vertical vim-style vertical
splits, where you could display the contents of 2-3 tabs side by side
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:27:55PM EST, Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:56:08 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
Is there any way I could use a custom stylesheet to make my web browser
rearrange text in two or more columns so I don't get my eyes crossed
when I'm reading?
Come to think
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 04:22:16PM EST, Camaleón wrote:
[..]
You can use some custimozations (bigger text, no background images nor
underline links) but changing the whole site default layout for each
site on-the-fly is not something that can be 100% automated ;-(
This web page is only a
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 07:17:41AM EST, Lisi wrote:
My google foo seems to have deserted me completely. Could someone take
pity? :-(
Is it possible for a directory to have lower permissions than the files it
contains? And could those who have permissions for the files, but not the
I am trying to set up a USB sound bar on someone else's laptop running
ubuntu 10.10 with a gnome desktop.
Since it did not work out of the box, I thought I'd first enhance my
non-existent skills in this area by first practicising on my machine
with debian ‘lenny’ and no DE environment.
I
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 12:15:33PM EST, deloptes wrote:
Chris Jones wrote:
I am trying to set up a USB sound bar on someone else's laptop running
ubuntu 10.10 with a gnome desktop.
what is this sound bar? something to eat :-)?
No, a place where they charge the patrons for listening
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 03:50:08AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Ma, 23 nov 10, 23:52:50, Chris Jones wrote:
After syncing via an apt-get update and running an apt-get upgrade, I am
seeing some unfamiliar messages¹ when I try to install new packages:
Do you mean these?
Yes, forgot to add
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:25:20PM EST, Bob Proulx wrote:
Chris Jones wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Free Software has *never* been about cost. It is about the
freedoms to use, study, and modify the software.
How would one ‘use, study, and modify the software’ if one could
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:25:20PM EST, Bob Proulx wrote:
Chris Jones wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Free Software has *never* been about cost. It is about the
freedoms to use, study, and modify the software.
How would one ‘use, study, and modify the software’ if one could
After syncing via an apt-get update and running an apt-get upgrade, I am
seeing some unfamiliar messages when I try to install new packages:
# apt-get install fuse-utils fusedav fuseext2 fusefat fuseiso fuseiso9660
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:25:00PM EDT, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
[..]
Free Software has *never* been about cost. It is about the freedoms
to use, study, and modify the software.
How would one ‘use, study, and modify the software’ if one could not
afford it in the first place?
During
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 02:52:00PM EDT, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
Allow me to ask a stupid question.
Permission granted.
You see, when that happens, whatever that was on the screen goes away.
Nor was most of what was on the screen at that point stored in dmesg or
in any /var/log/* file, not
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:09:17AM EST, John Hasler wrote:
Chris Jones writes:
What seems to be happening is that I am a rather 'energetic' typist,
and those keyboards were never designed to cope with intensive
typing in the first place.
Then you need an IBM Model M. You won't wear
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:55:27AM EST, Andrew Euell wrote:
That thing is a tank, but don't forget your earplugs.
Another thing that probably wouldn't work for me.
Please trim.. please don't top post..
CJ
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On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 01:12:24AM EST, Kent West wrote:
Chris Jones wrote:
...at this point I'm concerned the connector might be
reaching the end of its useful life, and that means the next step would
be replacing the motherboard.
Or just solder in a new connector
Yes, more cost
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:28:17AM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:24:19AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
[...]
have you tried running an old one through the dishwasher? works for
the old model m's and many other keyboards...
Yes, I've heard that before, but I have
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:45:22AM EST, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Not that I can confirm my USB stick 'portable debian' would work on a
wide range of systems. For a number of reasons I was not able to pursue
this much further than what is described in my notes, one of them being
that I did not
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:36:23AM EST, Stefan Monnier wrote:
[..]
- getting your BIOS find your kernel:
- some machines can't boot from USB at all.
- others can, but with some restrictions (typically Apple hardware,
so I end up having to setup my flash key with grub-efi-32,
All sound advice and thanks to all for your comments.
Come to think of it, I should have mentioned that I only routinely use
air on the laptop's keyboard, a flimsy model that vaguely tries to
impersonate the real thing, with enough space between the key caps to
let stuff like bread crumbs, hairs,
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 06:32:13AM EST, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 17:12:54 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
[..]
What I vaguely had in mind is that you select a given string or
paragraph, and you have an option called Properties maybe, that
tells you everything about said
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:44:59AM EST, Germana Oliveira wrote:
Well, no, what i really want is a portable Debian, so i can, for
example, build a web app and show it everywhere without need a web
server and just have my own configuration and run it every where
Is this what you are talking
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:27:39AM EST, Germana Oliveira wrote:
I have problems with that:
The attachment only contains personal notes and is not to be taken as a
formal HowTo or anything of that type. It was meant to answer your
question: 'is it possible' and hopefully provide general
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