Re: FOSS tool to do general stats from text indata

2023-06-24 Thread Cousin Stanley
On 2023-06-23 13:30, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Is there a CLI and FOSS tool that creates stats from text > indata - e.g., > >$ txt2stats path/to/indata/*.txt > > I mean a general tool, but with options to tweak the report > included, of course. > > To produce neat stats, maybe even figures, and

Re: Bash invocation, was Re: 60-serial.rules, broken

2023-06-10 Thread Cousin Stanley
Cousin Stanley wrote >> >> $ source .xsessionrc >> On 2023-06-10 10:10, gene heskett wrote: > A neat trick, thanks. You're welcome. > I've reached that age where I can't remember what, > if anything I had for breakfast most mornings. I'm on

Re: Bash invocation, was Re: 60-serial.rules, broken

2023-06-10 Thread Cousin Stanley
>> Cousin Stanley wrote >> I sometimes update the .xsessionrc file for various reasons and then source it to activate the changes without logging out or restarting On 2023-06-10 00:20, David Wright wrote: > Two problems here: > > Other

Re: Bash invocation, was Re: 60-serial.rules, broken

2023-06-09 Thread Cousin Stanley
On 2023-06-09 13:00, gene heskett wrote: >> Did you log out and back in, or did you simply start >> a new XFCE4 terminal within an existing session? >> >> The .xsessionrc file is only read >> during X session startup, not when running >> various applications like terminal emulators. >> >> >>>

Re: ASCII formatting for plain text email

2023-02-03 Thread Cousin Stanley
> Pierre Willaime posted > > > For example I am looking for a convenient way to > "draw" some ASCII boxes such as > > # > ## some title here ## > # I have a python program that does this $ python3 msgbox.py Skunk Bucket from Nan

Re: packages built with golang

2022-03-16 Thread Cousin Stanley
On 3/15/22 19:20, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: apt-cache stats Thought it might prove of interest for others, too, with respect to seeing real numbers about the amazing volume of packages all interacting together under Debian's hood. Thanks I was not aware of this apt-cache option

Re: packages built with golang

2022-03-15 Thread Cousin Stanley
Cousin Stanley wrote : >> What I don't understand is the necessity >> to transmit a string of 3933 bytes >> for 87 golang packages for example >> when a link to the same would suffice >> for those that actually require it. Dan Ritter wrote : > The package m

Re: packages built with golang

2022-03-15 Thread Cousin Stanley
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > No, it seems you haven't understood. > I assure you that I do understand the need for access to the Built-Using list. What I don't understand is the necessity to transmit a string of 3933 bytes for 87 golang packages for example when a link to the

Re: packages built with golang

2022-03-14 Thread Cousin Stanley
David Wright wrote: > How about: > > $ apt-cache show hugo | grep -v '^Built-Using:' > > which you could wrap into a function. > I don't mind the Built-Using list at all for reasonable sized lists and I wouldn't care to remove it altogether. I can use your suggestion to remove it

Re: packages built with golang

2022-03-14 Thread Cousin Stanley
Dan Ritter wrote: > > Not having Built-Using is just like not having dependencies. Thanks for the explanation. I can understand the need for the Built-Using list for the developers that need it. In cases such as that for the l o n g list returned for golang built packages

Re: packages built with golang

2022-03-14 Thread Cousin Stanley
Andy Smith wrote: > > So this information is needed for the developers and packagers, > but I suppose you could argue that it is information overload > for the casual user of "apt show". It seems to be information overload for me pesonally. Perhaps a link to the relevant golang list

packages built with golang

2022-03-14 Thread Cousin Stanley
Reading this newsgroup earlier today someone mentioned the hugo package for static site generation. I was curious about the package so I tried $ apt-cache show hugo The usual package information was returned along with, in my opinion, an unsightly mess entailing a

Re: Linphone contacts.

2020-09-21 Thread Cousin Stanley
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > In Debian 10, linphone contacts are likely > stored in ~/.linphone-friends.db. > > Documentation that I've found doesn't explain. > > Can some other application extract the contacts as plain text? > > SQlite? I don't have linphone installed but sqlite is

Re: Create 3D text?

2020-09-11 Thread Cousin Stanley
Carl Fink wrote: > Can anyone suggest a Debian repo-installable program > to create 3D text ? > You might try gimp $ apt show gimp Google-ize ... gimp 3d text There will be a learning curve but 3d text variations seem virtually endless -- Stanley C.

Re: Workstation configuration

2020-07-20 Thread Cousin Stanley
lina wrote: > Previously I have asked for the comments about one workstation, > here is a alternative option, that would nice to get your input > about this workstation which is for parallel computation purposes > solely, in terms of cooling and speed, debian compatibility > and anything

Re: How can I force a particular startup hdmi mode on Raspian/Buster?

2019-07-30 Thread Cousin Stanley
Gary Dale wrote: > Unfortunately none of those options are 1080i. > > I've tried all of the 1920x1080 > and they all end up being progressive scan. > Running raspbian here on a rpi3b+ currently using a 22in LG hdmi monitor. screen resolution is 1920x1080 @ 96dpi The raspi-config

Re: How can I force a particular startup hdmi mode on Raspian/Buster?

2019-07-30 Thread Cousin Stanley
Gary Dale wrote: > > Raspian uses a /boot/config.txt file to control video modes > but this is failing in my case. > > It refuses to output 1080i unless I set that mode > from the command line. > > However, when I do that, I lose the ability to adjust the overscan > that the config.txt

Re: buildd and buildbot

2019-05-18 Thread Cousin Stanley
Gene Heskett wrote: >> https://forum.pine64.org/forumdisplay.php > > Their object is to sell the board, support is very thin to zip. > > BTDT, sorry I bought 2 of them. > I only have a single rock64 board that I've used just for testing to see what they're all about and it's curently

Re: buildd and buildbot

2019-05-18 Thread Cousin Stanley
Gene Heskett wrote: > I have now duplicated this same set of downloads and installs > on the rock64 > If you haven't already, you might consider a query concerning the particular package and the tools you are working with at the pine64/roc64 forum

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread Cousin Stanley
David Wright wrote: > I would not expect to find the characters > /dev/disk/by-label/ anywhere in the partition. > > That string belongs to the linux system, not to the card. > > That's what I meant by "actually belongs to the filesystems". OK, that's clear and I understand. >> I'm not

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread Cousin Stanley
Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 01:49:42PM -0700, Cousin Stanley wrote: >>David Wright wrote: >>> All that stuff in /dev/disk/ is just an ephemeral >>> bunch of convenient symbolic links, presumably conjured >>> up by udev

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread Cousin Stanley
David Wright wrote: > I prefer to populate fstab with canonical information > that actually belongs to the filesystems that are to be mounted. I don't understand what you're saying here. Does a disk label not belong to a filesystem that is to be mounted ? > A filesystem that has a

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread Cousin Stanley
Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 07:11:36AM -0700, Cousin Stanley wrote: >>Stephen P. Molnar wrote: >> >>> >>> and my fstab is: >>> >>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information. >>> >> >> I've

Re: User rw Permissions on New Hard Drive

2019-03-07 Thread Cousin Stanley
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > and my fstab is: > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > I've found that labeling my disk partitions and using /dev/disk/by-label/xyzzy lines in the /etc/fstab file seems to be much easier for my own small brain to comprehend.

Re: startup prob

2018-10-31 Thread Cousin Stanley
Glenn English wrote: > > Anyone know the incantation to make the s word start ssh > You might try $ sudo raspi-config select interface ssh I don't remember if a reboot is required -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix,

sqlite database

2018-07-01 Thread Cousin Stanley
As an alternative to client-server database managers, such as mysql, mariadb, postgresql, etc. , the sqlite embedded database manager is very useful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLite sqlite - wikipedia https://sqlite.org sqlite - home page

Re: A recomended guide to vim - was {Re: Does bash have a tool ?}

2018-03-09 Thread Cousin Stanley
Richard Owlett wrote: > > For example, GVIM launches with an unreadably small font. > > I have found the instructions to do ":set guifont=*". > > However I wish to set things appropriately in ~/.vimrc . > > I ended up in a sample script to insert. > > However I

Re: Need an fft hystogram of a cameras output

2017-12-19 Thread Cousin Stanley
Gene Heskett wrote: > Do we have such a critter that can analyze the output of a v4l2 camera, > and give an amplitude at bandwidth histogram? > The python numpy module provides a variety of fft functions

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-24 Thread Cousin Stanley
Emanuel Berg wrote: >> Is there a piece of software that works >> like gnuplot or pic/troff were you feed >> the program a script with instructions and data >> and then the program generates the drawing? >> You might look at the Graphics Layout Engine available under debian stretch

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-23 Thread Cousin Stanley
Emanuel Berg wrote: > Librecad seems good and I got it working > instantly on a Debian box. > > Only how do I draw a box and then change the > properties to specific side lengths? > You might find useful information at the LibreCAD site http://librecad.org/cms/home.html

Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors

2017-09-27 Thread Cousin Stanley
Gene Heskett wrote: > > Do we have a disk partitioner that does understand a physical sector size > of any power of 2 ? > > gparted is out as this machine does not yet have an x server installed, > so I need a commandline tool. > Gene You might try the cfdisk

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

2017-06-25 Thread Cousin Stanley
Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I do wish apt show made it easier to tell > if a package is installed > $ apt policy some-pkg-name which evolved from $ apt-cache policy pkg-name will display installation status of some-pkg-name -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix,

Re: RANT: Virtual filesystems are getting out of control

2016-05-19 Thread Cousin Stanley
Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > alias drives="mount | grep '^/'" Another alternative alias drives='df -h -T -x tmpfs -x devtmpfs' sk@d3s 02:44 PM ~ $ drives FilesystemType Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 ext4 31G 6.9G 23G 24% /

Re: missing bits of graphicsmagick-dev in Jessie?

2015-11-23 Thread Cousin Stanley
> > but now with Jessie basics underlying > their ./configure process reports : > > checking for WriteImage in -lGraphicsMagick... no > ... with consequent inability to draw raster maps. > The common factor is the Debian system basis. > > I hope this points to a useful course of

Re: multiple versions of python

2015-01-04 Thread Cousin Stanley
1] Can I have multiple versions of python simultaneously? yes Using Debian Wheezy I have 3 python versions installed # ls -1 /usr/lib | grep python | grep -v lib python python2.6 python2.7 python3 python3.2 python is python2.7 python3 is

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-13 Thread Cousin Stanley
# convert source -crop widthxheight+wo+ho target Ah, gotcha. No problem. In the specific case of cropping, it's pretty simple; other tasks, maybe the balance would be tipped the other way. In any case, it's only because of familiarity; I'll reach for the hammer I know rather than the

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-12 Thread Cousin Stanley
for fn in *.png; do mv $fn $fn.bak; convert -crop whatever $fn.bak $fn; done But that's assuming you know how to use 'convert -crop' to do what you want, which I don't. # convert source -crop geometry target # # geometry : width x height + w_offset + h_offset # # width x height

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-12 Thread Cousin Stanley
convert -crop whatever $fn.bak $fn But that's assuming you know how to use 'convert -crop' to do what you want, which I don't. This is the part of your post that I was attempting to address and hopefully, clarify the use of the geometry argument to -crop since you stated

Re: Bash Scripting Question

2013-11-03 Thread Cousin Stanley
The script I am trying to write executes a program that requires a keyboard response. A varaible can be set to a keyboard response using a read prompt read -e -p What do you need ? xVariable echo $xVariable -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona

Re: What's the easiest and/or simplest part of Linux Kernel?

2013-08-28 Thread Cousin Stanley
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Assembler always is optimized code. Not always :-) One can also write stinky code in assembler. Like any programming language, some programmers are better at it than others -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona -- To

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-07-20 Thread Cousin Stanley
Albretch Mueller wrote: I need to know the pixel coordinates of the a rectangle on my screen and the easiest way I could think of getting that info is by positioning the the mouse at those two different places, in which case I would be physically constrained of doing it at the same

kde menu missing back arrow widget

2012-05-23 Thread Cousin Stanley
Debian GNU/Linux testing (wheezy) kernel 3.2.0-2-686-pae KDE 4.7.4 Opening the kde menus from the K application launcher is missing the back arrow widget under wheezy on this machine It was present and functional but at some point vanished Now if I enter a

Re: How to key Esperanto characters

2011-12-12 Thread Cousin Stanley
Doug wrote: The answer is to set up your Compose key. The following link might help to learn how to set up the Compose key http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: pyPdf with python3?

2011-09-26 Thread Cousin Stanley
Davide Anchisi wrote: how can I have pyPdf working with python3? Just a guess that pyPdf might not currently be compatible with python3 You might try the comp.lang.python newsgroup for a more definitive answer -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-23 Thread Cousin Stanley
Liam O'Toole wrote: I think something is broken in the terminal emulator. You are able to launch gnome-terminal itself (presumably from the menu or the Alt-F2 dialog), Yes gnome-terminal menu // Alt-F2 lxterminal desktop icon // Alt-F2 xterm

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-22 Thread Cousin Stanley
Liam O'Toole wrote gdm should create .Xauthority for you, without the need to manually do the xauth stuff. That's what I thought too after reading the xauth man page Normally xauth is not used to create the authority file entry in the first place; the program

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-19 Thread Cousin Stanley
Liam O'Toole wrote: That strongly suggests that the problem lies within the sid guest. How do you start X there? Usually one would use startx or a display manager, launch a terminal within the session, and launch programs from the terminal at will. I'm using gnome 2.30.2 and login

Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-18 Thread Cousin Stanley
Cousin Stanley wrote : Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12 debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do anything X related from a terminal Liam O'Toole replied : Are you running applications entirely within

vbox sid invalid mcookie

2011-07-17 Thread Cousin Stanley
Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12 debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do anything X related from a terminal I think it started after updating xorg in the sid guest, but I don't know that for sure

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2011-07-08 Thread Cousin Stanley
Kent West wrote: I want to write a basic little Morse Code key program to put into the newsletter of the local amateur radio (ham) club. It'd be nice if it were cross-platform A few debian possibles $ apt-cache search morse code Python-based programs are good

Re: get file from other repo--how?

2010-09-14 Thread Cousin Stanley
Using Dolphin to see what's available, but don't find cfdisk, From a terminal command-line you might try whatis cfdisk whereis cfdisk -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Creating DVD and CDs

2010-09-12 Thread Cousin Stanley
After finally figuring out how to back up my e-mail files I now need to go about putting them onto a CD. To make a *CD* one first needs to create an ISO file The CD/DVD buring programs brasero or k3b can be used to burn a data CD/DVD directly without first creating

Re: No icons, help.

2010-09-08 Thread Cousin Stanley
I ordered and received the Debian LXDE version, and am presently running the LIVE version, just to get a feel for things. How does one put icons on the desktop ??? The following works for me using LXDE under Debian Squeeze Left-Click| the LXDE start button

Re: [Semi-OT] Accessing gmail from Python

2010-05-06 Thread Cousin Stanley
Does anyone have an example of how to do this? You might start by python import smtplib import email help( smtplib ) help( email ) The newsgroup comp.lang.python can be very helpful especially if you've done a bit of prior research into

Re: question about fstab in squeeze and uuid

2010-03-12 Thread Cousin Stanley
I personally don't like the use of UUIDS by the installer and I change them back to their traditional names. I'm also not a uuid fan and find that using disk labels in /etc/fstab a la /dev/disk/by-label as an alternative has worked well for me -- Stanley C.

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-16 Thread Cousin Stanley
Subject: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:05:45 +1100 (EST) the kernel image listed above was added to my system (testing on an ibm thinkpad) during a recent dist-upgrade. it runs through all the regular boot messages but then refuses to bring up the log-in screen. the

Re: Network concerns and configuration draft 4

2009-09-07 Thread Cousin Stanley
OTOH dyndns.org and others provide a way to tell the outside world what your current IP is. These services are free for personal use. I do most of what you are doing. Paul Are you using qwest dsl ? Yes. Paul Thanks for the acknowledgement I may try

Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-09-06 Thread Cousin Stanley
As for speeding up the bootprocess: # aptitude install dash # dpkg-reconfigure dash # let it take over the /bin/sh link # aptitude install insserv # dpkg-reconfigure insserv # echo CONCURRENCY=shell /etc/default/rcS Andrei After applying the method you outlined above along

Re: Installation: How do I bypass partitioning?

2009-08-30 Thread Cousin Stanley
I have a laptop with Windows XP already installed one one partition and Puppy Linux already installed on another partition. I have additional partitions. How do I install Debian on another partition? Jason You might try using expert as a boot option for the Debian

Re: how to migrate request-tracker database from sqlite3 to mysql

2009-08-19 Thread Cousin Stanley
hi. I'm trying to migrate request-tracker3.6 database from sqlite to mysql on lenny. Is there a way to export data from sqlite so they can be imported into mysql for request-tracker3.6? martin One way might be to export from sqlite as .csv files and then import into

Re: Network concerns and configuration draft 4

2009-07-31 Thread Cousin Stanley
John Haggerty wrote: I would ask would a static ip really be able to allow the machines to reach the outer network? Why not? As long as the outer fixed IP is routable which it would be. OTOH dyndns.org and others provide a way to tell the outside world what your current IP

Re: Network concerns and configuration draft 4

2009-07-30 Thread Cousin Stanley
I run off of a qwest dsl setup that is feeding 4 computers I would ask would a static ip really be able to allow the machines to reach the outer network ? John In all honesty, I don't know as I haven't tried outside connections through my qwest dsl with a static ip

Re: Network concerns and configuration draft 4

2009-07-27 Thread Cousin Stanley
Ok so here is the issue I have a desire to run my own linux server as an rt box and to do wiki web serving plus email. I run off of a qwest dsl setup that is feeding 4 computers that are all getting internet 6. I am looking for the best option for the money I like cheap and

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

2009-07-13 Thread Cousin Stanley
Try: kscd / Extras / Configure KsCD / Use direct digital playback presumably: alsa Alan Thanks for this advice regarding the KsCD configuration as I'm now happily listening to Mozart from an old CD Previously, KsCD would list the CD tracks

Re: google cal issues, questions re: epiphany, iceweasel, iceowl

2009-06-06 Thread Cousin Stanley
So, why doesn't aptitude install epiphany give me the epiphany web browser? You might try apt-cache show epiphany-browser -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: module named cairo, python-gtk

2009-04-18 Thread Cousin Stanley
util.gtk_init() File /usr/share/quodlibet/util/__init__.py, line 44, in gtk_init import gtk File /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py, line 48, in module from gtk import _gtk ImportError: No module named cairo Mark You might try

Re: Widescreen resolution ignored in xwindows/gdm

2009-04-14 Thread Cousin Stanley
I have an Acer X233H widescreen monitor and cannot get any of the 16:9 aspect resolutions up in gdm. I am using the latest 32-bit Etch binaries on a Pentium D system w/1GB RAM and an Intel 945 G/GZ on-board video controller. I have a Samsung widescreen lcd monitor with native

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-13 Thread Cousin Stanley
Is there a light-weight browser that does not have a huge list of dependencies? I had been using dillo for things like reading html documentation and other light-weight tasks, but then I upgraded to Lenny. Dillo is not available in Lenny. It is still in Etch and in Sid, but not Lenny.

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-13 Thread Cousin Stanley
$ apt-cache policy dillo dillo: Installed: 0.8.6-3 Candidate: 0.8.6-3 Version table: *** 0.8.6-3 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Which indicates that dillo is *not* in Lenny. I don't recall doing anything special to install dillo from any other source, but my lack of

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-07 Thread Cousin Stanley
Ditto. I'm sure it's a fine program, but I, too, get lost with the ncurses interface of aptitude Add a ditto onto to the ditto regarding my own inability to cope with the ncurses interface to aptitude To me it seems cumbersome and somewhat cryptic -- Stanley C. Kitching

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-25 Thread Cousin Stanley
I can't live without find and grep and xargs and ... well, a lot of good grep will do me in a world full of Word documents.. ;-) Haven't tried Windows Grep myself, but it might at least be worth a look http://www.wingrep.com/ -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being

Re: how to use ted?

2007-12-12 Thread Cousin Stanley
I installed ted on Sid and expected to be able to edit a new rtf doc. No such luck, it just sits and stares at me. Anybody able to edit a new doc with ted? Hugo I tried the ted rtf editor under Debian Etch and had no problems creating new documents -- Stanley C.

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-09-03 Thread Cousin Stanley
Yes, that´s right but if you have to perform many operations maybe the echo + bc form is quite faster Felix If I had to perform many computations and found that the speed of Python was too slow, I would probably code in C or Fortran instead -- Stanley C. Kitching

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-09-02 Thread Cousin Stanley
The number of hours per year that you used in your calculation seems a bit high hours_per_day = 24 days_per_year = 366 hours_per_year = hours_per_day * days_per_year print '\n ' , hours_per_year 8784 Just out of idle interest, what

Debian__ASUS_P5VD2-MX

2007-09-02 Thread Cousin Stanley
Greetings I'm looking for a low cost system and found the following which runs a 3 GHz Intel Celeron on an ASUS motherboard which seems to me to be of decent value at $214 US http://www.acnt.com/config.asp?config_id=LGAVALUE From a bit of Google-izing I got more than

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-09-02 Thread Cousin Stanley
That's still a little bit high, actually: ~$ echo 24 * 365.25 | bc 8766.00 but I only did this to illustrate the more compact use of some system tools, in this case 'echo', 'bc' and a pipe. :) G.W. Python can also be used in a handy and compact form $ python -c x = 24 *

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-09-01 Thread Cousin Stanley
My previous server used 100 Watts on average. If left on 24/7, that's 61,320 hours a year, or 6,132,000 Watt-hours or 6,132 kWh. Adam The number of hours per year that you used in your calculation seems a bit high hours_per_day = 24 days_per_year = 366

Sarge_2.4.27-3__kernel_panic

2007-08-31 Thread Cousin Stanley
Greetings A few days ago I moved a hdd with a Sarge installation that had run for a little over 3 years in an old Compaq box to another old HP box because the power supply in the Compaq died and the HP power supply wouldn't fit the Compaq :-) The Compaq box had a Cyrix

Re: GNome Help: Opens 40 windows!

2007-07-16 Thread Cousin Stanley
I am using A dell Laptop with the latest kernel iamge (2.6.21) in testing. When I try ti click on help (or press F1) about 40 windows open up in succession ? Is this a bug or is there something wrong with my installation ? Sebastian The respective vapor pressures of

Re: Help buying Economic Printer

2007-07-12 Thread Cousin Stanley
Isn't it the Texans that love 40C weather and say Oh, but its a _dry_ heat ? Doug That's the mantra of the cactus-leagers :-) I am a Texan transplanted to Arizona a little over 25 years ago -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona == Posted via

Re: FileSystem Question

2007-07-01 Thread Cousin Stanley
I was (and I suppose still am) a huge fan of subversion. I loved RCS, hated CVS, and found subversion to be a God-send I started using git about 3 weeks ago William Under Debian Etch I see the following packages listed git-arch git-core git-cvs

Re: /usr/lib/python2.3 in lenny

2007-06-14 Thread Cousin Stanley
Hi, recentley my dist-upgrade told me that the directory /usr/lib/python2.3 could not be removed because it was not empty... I actually only have pyhton2.4 and python2.5 packages installed. My question is: is it safe to remove that directory manually? Miguel I manually

Sarge_Display_Problem

2007-01-05 Thread Cousin Stanley
Greetings I'm running a dinosaur age vintage 1999 Compaq box using an up-to-date Debian Sarge OS that was first installed in July 2004 and has been running fine since Video adapter is on-board [SiS] 530/620 PCI/AGP VGA and default screen resolution is 1024x768 on a

Re: Python2.4.4-1 examples usage?

2007-01-04 Thread Cousin Stanley
I just updated to python2.4, it also installed a python-examples package. How does one use this package? Import into python interpreter does not work.. ishwar You might try # cd /usr/share/doc/python2.4/examples/Demo There are several sub-dirs there that contain

Sarge kernel 2.6.8-1 net connect problem

2004-12-26 Thread Cousin Stanley
I can post these if needed, but I don't know if they would matter or not Any clues or advice about what else to look at or try would be greatly appreciated Happy holidays -- Cousin Stanley Human Being Phoenix, Arizona -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Kernel 2.4

2004-11-21 Thread Cousin Stanley
have problems | All the logs are in /var/log, | so looking there for your 2.6 sessions' problems | may be instructive. Thanks for the info | Good luck! Thanks Can always use a few extra spots of that -- Cousin Stanley Human Being Phoenix, Arizona -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Kernel 2.4

2004-11-20 Thread Cousin Stanley
reading the Haloween paper yesterday, I tried the Knoppix 3.4 CD with the 2.6 kernel again last night, and net connectivity problems remain Are these types of connectivity problems commonly fixable via simple config changes or changing/re-compiling NIC drivers -- Cousin

Re: Kernel 2.4

2004-11-20 Thread Cousin Stanley
'RTL-8100B/8139D ... If I had a clue as to which configs/logs to check, I could take another look for problems with Knoppix 3.4 and kernel 2.6.6 I posted about this problem on the Knoppix forum a few months back, but didn't get any replies -- Cousin Stanley Human Being

Re: Please help: Sarge+KDE terribly slow!?

2004-11-14 Thread Cousin Stanley
know whether or not these start-up times are in the same ball-park as others using similar hardware -- Cousin Stanley Human Being Phoenix, Arizona -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing from net with floppy disks - system don´t recognize my hard disk

2004-10-06 Thread Cousin Stanley
to continue Sorry for not being able to explain it better, but I didn't understand what was really happening, and only found out by trial-and-error that it worked for me -- Cousin Stanley Human Being Phoenix, Arizona -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: CAN'T SUBSCRIBE

2004-09-12 Thread Cousin Stanley
http://lists.bofh.it/listinfo/linux-gate Although this works very well for me and I seem to remember a discussion here about it a while back, I don't understand the connection/relation of this gateway to the Debian mailing lists -- Cousin Stanley Human

Re: Moving_Installed_Files

2004-09-03 Thread Cousin Stanley
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 06:59:11PM +, Cousin Stanley wrote: Greetings If I move installed files from their original apt-get install target locations, is there a a simple way to redirect the package managers to cope with these path changes for future updates/upgrades

Moving_Installed_Files

2004-09-02 Thread Cousin Stanley
, e.g., all of the python/qt demos still work, but I'm wondering how to deal with future updates/upgrades -- Cousin Stanley Human Being Phoenix, Arizona -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moving_Installed_Files

2004-09-02 Thread Cousin Stanley
On 2004-09-02, Stefan O'Rear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 06:59:11PM +, Cousin Stanley wrote: If I move installed files from their original apt-get install target locations, is there a a simple way to redirect the package managers to cope with these path

Re: debian-installer: partman, limited; base-install failed, grave error?

2004-07-30 Thread Cousin Stanley
for the CD-ROM and there seems to be a bit of confusion about whether or not the install is going to be from CD, but it is workable and eventually leads to a clean install -- Cousin Stanley Human Being Phoenix, Arizona

Debian MD5 Digests

2004-07-27 Thread Cousin Stanley
* %s ' % ( rec_num , this_path ) else : print '%4d %s' % ( rec_num , this_path ) else : print '%4d * Not Found * %s' % ( rec_num , this_path ) file_in.close() -- Cousin Stanley Human Being Phoenix, Arizona

Sarge_Install : Partition_Concern

2004-07-21 Thread Cousin Stanley
be a problem with the Sarge install either, but dual booting using a boot manager would be cool-er Since I've only done one other pure Debian install, I can't remember if there is an option to skip the boot loader installation -- Cousin Stanley Human Being Phoenix, Arizona