Rick Welykochy wrote:
Luke Kendall wrote:
Does anyone know whether it's available for Linux? I haven't been able
to find it via synaptic, rpmfind, apt-cache search, or google searches.
The best I can find are the man pages.
I also see that it's included in the developer tools for MacOS X
Rick Welykochy wrote:
Luke Kendall wrote:
Rick Welykochy wrote:
Any relation to perror() ?
http://www.penguin-soft.com/penguin/man/3/perror.html?manpath=/man/man3/perror.3.inc
No, none whatsoever. :-) perror() is a system call for use in
programs. error is an executable for use from
In Berkeley unix 4.0, many years ago, Robert Henry wrote a useful
utility for developers called error, which could be used to insert the
body of error messages into the source files, to make it easier to find
and fix the errors.
Does anyone know whether it's available for Linux? I haven't been
I think it was because of the Unix wars that Unix never succeeded in
producing
a single unified print driver environment. Printing was one area where
Windows
did it better.
So this very good news
(http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9747520848.html) was
arguably achieved because of Linux.
And
Just thought this might interest some people.
luke
Original Message
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:23:27 -0400
From: Robert L Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Printing-summit] ANNOUNCE: Gutenprint 5.0.1 Release
Gutenprint 5.0.1 is a stable release of
David Bowskill wrote:
Dear Slug,
[snip]
A question - does there exist an open source pdf editor/writer for
Linux - which can open and edit existing pdf files ?
I am presently using Xandros for my every day activities and
such a editor/writer would be useful. Searches of various sites have
I've been trying to get backups to dvd working on a new computer (Ubuntu
6.something), and I can't mount the DVDs I write (not on the new computer or
the old one).
I have dvd+rw-tools Version: 6.1-2ubuntu1 and I'd like to try version 4.7,
since I know that works (on an older computer).
But I
On 2007-03-24 18:05:27 +1100 Luke Kendall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been trying to get backups to dvd working on a new
computer (Ubuntu
6.something), and I can't mount the DVDs I write (not on the
new computer or
the old one).
I have dvd+rw-tools Version: 6.1-2ubuntu1 and I'd like
I like to have /home on a separate partition to the root filesystem, so
that if I want to upgrade the distro then I can pretty much replace the
whole root filesystem. (I usually make a new / and install to that,
and change over when all is looking good.)
But I just realised that unless you make
On 22 Jan, Robert Collins wrote:
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 20:22 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 21 Jan, luke wrote:
Any advice would be most welcome.
Dont do 'apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' - for two reasons:
Firstly, a failed update is not something you want to upgrade from,
Yesterday I did an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade on my Ubuntu 6
system. Apparently it fiddled with the kernel (I had 2.6.15-26-386
installed and it I think installed 2.6.15-26-686.)
I noticed today that it suggested a reboot. I had a look at
/boot/grub/menu.lst which had been modified
Did you know you could use Google to look at trends? E.g.
Ubuntu *apparently* overtook MacOS/X over a year ago:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+osxctab=0geo=alldate=all
luke
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I guess I'm sending this because altjhough I've sorted the problem out,
I'm such a novice when it comes to mail delivery systems that I don't
fully understand what went on, so if anyone cares to enlighten me, the
info would be very welcome!
After a bit of a struggle, I got my wife's Linux machine
I'm halfway through setting up the root partition (and /home) to be
raid1 mirrors (thanks to help from Jeff Waugh and Jamie Wilkinson).
I've booted up from my old installation on /dev/hda6 to set up the real
/dev/hda7,/dev/sda7 to be /dev/md0 for /, and /dev/hda8,/dev/sda8 to be
/dev/md2 for
This relates to my attempt to move from my now too-long-in-the-tooth RH
7.2 system to something new. I picked Ubuntu and installed it without
much trouble, highly impressed by how well it auto-detected and
configured the network, sound, and graphics (to a point).
It's basically just to sketch
On 19 Jul, Ken Caldwell wrote:
No, as I mentioned in an off list post, the bit of code in the MBR will
contain a jump instruction which will jump into one of the /boot/grub
directories where the stage 2 boot loader code will take over. The
relevant menu.lst is the one in that directory.
On 19 Jul, Carlo Sogono wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) How will grub work out where to find menu.lst? How will it 'know'
to use the updated /dev/hda7/boot/grub/menu.lst rather than the out
of date /dev/hda6/boot/grub/menu.lst version?
GRUB calls this its root device and
On 19 Jul, Tony Lissner wrote:
The easiest way to set where grub looks for the stage* images might be
to just re-install grub from the new partition.
try unmounting /dev/hda6 and commenting it out in fstab, then from the
new partition do:
# sudo grub-install /dev/hda
# sudo
AFAIK, no Linux distro is considered quite safe to upgrade from one
release to the next (e.g. from SuSE 9.2 to SuSE 10.0, or FC 4 to FC 5).
Wise people still routinely advise Install the new system on a spare
partition, and switch over when it's properly installed and configured.
The problem
If I run top and hit M to get a listing sorted by memory usage, I see
that 98% of memory is used up, as follows:
20% buffers
20% cached
23% non 0.0% processes
1% free
Where is the missing 36%?
Ah! I think to myself I have 52 processes other processes using
This is probably a dumb question ...
I'm looking for a small, quiet, Linux-based music appliance.
The ideal would be a small fanless PC with CD drive and hard drive,
little 2-line LCD screen and remote, with stereo audio outputs
to load CDs in that then get converted into MP3s on an internal hard
On 10 Oct, Jon Teh wrote:
Waa waa waa.
[Insert raised eyebrow]
People would be more likely to be willing to lend assistance to you,
if it wasn't for all the bitching and complaining about supposed
problems in a tool you have used for the first time, and have made some
errors
On 10 Oct, Grant Parnell wrote:
Interesting approach. In short I think you'll find GRUB more flexible in
the long run because you can fixup your mistakes at boot time thanks to
the command shell. However I have a lilo solution for you too.
I think you're right, once I become adept at grub.
. When I fix the aspell script at home, I'll
post that if anyone's interested.
luke
#!/bin/sh
#
# Make ispell work a bit more like spell.
#
# Author: Luke Kendall
#
for arg
do
case x$arg in
x-b) # British spelling
SPARGS=$SPARGS -d english
;;
x-i
On 12 Feb, Grant Parnell wrote:
You might have some short term luck with upgrading to RH7.2 but basically
you've screwed it up. It's possibly recoverable but the effort to do so is
going to be more than starting afresh.
Yep. I spent 3 hours trying to repair it, and failing, yet it
Re: [SLUG] How to install about 150 rpms?
On 11 Feb, Tom Massey replied to:
Well, I feel like taking a gamble and seeing whether this breaks my
entire system or not, so I'll try it
Um, that may not be a great idea. This assumes that the packages you
have in your temporary
On 14 Jan, Peter Allworth wrote:
Based on their walk-through strategy, I can see a need for a Linux
screensaver that looks just like the default NT screensaver or login
screen! :)
Ah, so Linux becomes like the French Resistance, hiding itself from the
Microsoft scouts looking for
On 2 Nov, Jon Biddell wrote:
I've had this problem when trying to dual-boot a WinME system (word of warning -
DON'T DO IT ! It involves swearing, blood and LOTSA agro !!).
In fact, the Linux partitions that Partition Magic (at least up to 5.0) create
are non-comparable with
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