Re: How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500

Marc Shapiro wrote: José Alburquerque wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there a utility to check ink levels on HP Deskjet series printers? I looked through the djtools manpage, and, while there is some interesting stuff

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

On Monday 14 August 2006 04:55 pm, Joe Indigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My second question is about the dealer I am leaning towards: > > SW Technology at http://www.swt.com Can anyone provide feedback > > about them? I have purchased a tower and a laptop from them, both with sarge installed

Re: Version numbers?

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 01:26, John Hasler wrote: > David J. Bush writes: > > But it seems Debian has its own numbering system. For example the Testing > > "kde" package is labeled (5:47) > > The Debian "kde" package is not an upstream package. It is a metapackage, > which exists only to pull in

Re: RAID10 on Debian (or RAID0 on top of RAID1) - possible?

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > I wanted to install a Debian system on RAID-10, on 4 disks. > Unfortunately, it seems that Debian installer only supports RAID0, RAID1 > and RAID5. > > As RAID-10 is technically RAID-0 on top of RAID-1s, I tried such a > scenario: > > -R0- > |

Re: Mount HD using disk labels via udev

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:23:36 +0200, T wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:42:29 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > On 13.08.06 17:35, T wrote: > >> Can anyone give me a quick and generic recipe to mount HDs/USBpens by > >> their labels? > >> > >> I've read many Udev articles but haven't f

Re: chown

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 12:15:54AM -0200, Gilberto Martins wrote: >I have a user called "teste" >I want the user called "teste" to be the owner of this directory >That means "aluno" cannot do this. Can someone explain me why he can't ? Only the root user can change the ownership of a f

Re: Problem on first boot

Well, after just reinstalling etch it seems as though just changing ati to vesa got it to start X.  Is there an easy way to get fglrx working?  Cause I can definitely tell a performance lag with the vesa drivers.  I did a search for a deb in google and this came up, http://packages.qa.debian.org/f

Re: Clamav scans or removes virus ??

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 08:34:00 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 09 August 2006 07:11, Alejandro wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a Debian Sarge mail server with clamav antivirus, but I > > suspect it only scan for virus and don't remove them. > > Only scans. Generally i

Re: which locale

On 8/14/06, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Wei Hu. > Actually I have no filename problems when I mount NTFS/VFAT > partitions. But I can NOT properly display some .torrent files which I > downloaded from the Internet. It may use non-utf8 codes such as > gb18030 or gb2812 code.

Re: Mount HD using disk labels via udev

T wrote: Hi Can anyone give me a quick and generic recipe to mount HDs/USBpens by their labels? I've read many Udev articles but haven't figure that out yet. thanks I know that partitions can have labels. For ext2/ext3 partitions you can set/see partition labels using 'e2label' (man e

Re: Problem on first boot

Eric O wrote: > After installing debian etch, the first boot doesn't start up X11. It > comes up with an error saying there are no screens. I have an ATi > X1600 Pro which does work in Ubuntu and other distros. I would like to > use debian over ubuntu, but as of right now I have no choice. I was >

Re: Problem on first boot

I believe it is Xorg 7.  The version synaptic is saying is 7.0.0-0ubuntu45Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:> On Monday 14 August 2006 21:24, Eric O wrote:> > After installing debian etch, the first boot doesn't start up X11. It comes > > up with an error saying there are no screens. I have an ATi X1600 Pr

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

On Monday 14 August 2006 19:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 08:10:48PM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Seth Goodman wrote: > > >desire to learn, and some are here to teach as well. I'm also saying > > >that most non-technical computer users are not capab

Re: how to upload skins into e1000 ?

Jabka Atu wrote: Hello,... im using moto4lin to accses my moto e1000 phone. i wish to upload some skins into it but i don't understand how : i have created a directory in /a/mobile/skins/skinname and uploaded it there . but i can't c this skin when i enter the theme change on my phone . I

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

Seth Goodman wrote: ... Microsoft's present marketing-blurb overtures in the direction of free/open source scream that they are aware of it also. Even that will quieten down, when the effluent from the quagmire of their own creation fills their mouths, as they go under for the final time. Nothi

Re: how to reconstruct a deleted /boot partition

H.S. wrote: > This is not debian specific, but I foresee that I might need to do > this in my Debian Etch one of these days. > > I use a common /boot for dual booting between Debian Etch and FC4. > Recently I re-installed Debian Etch and overwrote everything in /boot. > If I want to boot into FC4

Re: Problem on first boot

On Monday 14 August 2006 21:24, Eric O wrote: > After installing debian etch, the first boot doesn't start up X11. It comes > up with an error saying there are no screens. I have an ATi X1600 Pro which > does work in Ubuntu and other distros. I would like to use debian over > ubuntu, but as of righ

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

On Monday 14 August 2006 11:04, Seth Goodman wrote: > On Monday, August 14, 2006 6:20 AM -0500, George Borisov wrote: > > Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > > > I just get a little upset when people want to mold Debian into > > > something like a Windows clone. If you want that, try a > > > Debian-deriv

Re: new (kind of) USB printer, debian etch

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:33:48 -0700 "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've added another printer in the past (a Canon BJC-250) which has > worked for quite a while on various flavors of Linux, including > presently on Debian Etch. I use the parallel interface on that prniter > OK. (Althou

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 08:10:48PM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Seth Goodman wrote: > > >desire to learn, and some are here to teach as well. I'm also saying > >that most non-technical computer users are not capable of learning > >Debian, as it exists today. While som

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

On Monday 14 August 2006 17:10, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Seth Goodman wrote: > > desire to learn, and some are here to teach as well. I'm also saying > > that most non-technical computer users are not capable of learning > > Debian, as it exists today. While some may disagree,

chown

Hi.My question is really very simple, I believe.I have a user called "teste"[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ id testeuid=1001(teste) gid=1001(teste) grupos=1001(teste)I am user "aluno" and as so, I create a directory in my own $HOME [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mkdir trash[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -ld trashdrwxr-xr-x 2

Re: Is the xserver-xorg configuration system broken?

Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm stymied about my inability to properly (re) configure my Xorg X > server; I've googled and found people with similar problems, but no > systematic solution or explanation. I figure I'll ask here before > filing a bug report. # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xo

Problem on first boot

After installing debian etch, the first boot doesn't start up X11. It comes up with an error saying there are no screens. I have an ATi X1600 Pro which does work in Ubuntu and other distros. I would like to use debian over ubuntu, but as of right now I have no choice. I was playing around with

Re: How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500

José Alburquerque wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there a utility to check ink levels on HP Deskjet series printers? I looked through the djtools manpage, and, while there is some interesting stuff there, I do not see t

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

Seth Goodman wrote: On Monday, August 14, 2006 6:23 PM -0500, Katipo wrote: When I started out, all I had to master were the intracacies of apt-get. That's because you had the aptitude and desire to learn. But wait. I thought he had the apt-get. *ducks* -- K

Virus détecté dans le message. Refusé.

Un virus a ete trouve dans le message envoye par: debian-user@lists.debian.org a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] le: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:37:05 +0800 dont l'objet est: El pefz cp Informations trouvees sur le virus: Scenarios/Incoming/Content Scanner Sophos: Threa

Re: How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there a utility to check ink levels on HP Deskjet series printers? I looked through the djtools manpage, and, while there is some interesting stuff there, I do not see this. It seems that djtools

Re: Version numbers?

David J. Bush writes: > But it seems Debian has its own numbering system. For example the Testing > "kde" package is labeled (5:47) The Debian "kde" package is not an upstream package. It is a metapackage, which exists only to pull in a set of KDE packages by depending on them. Here is the descri

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 01:20 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 13:04:45 -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > > Does that represent the Debian position? I'd very much like to know. > > If so, I'll continue to use it in server applications and stop > > recommending it to friends who are

RE: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Seth Goodman wrote: desire to learn, and some are here to teach as well. I'm also saying that most non-technical computer users are not capable of learning Debian, as it exists today. While some may disagree, I consider that a problem. Your words of wisdom have been no

RE: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

On Monday, August 14, 2006 6:23 PM -0500, Katipo wrote: > Seth Goodman wrote: > > > You are the sysadmin for these two Windows-type users, which is > > the only environment in which they can realistically use Debian. > > Take away the sysadmin or Linux mentor and the chances of them > > being able

Re: Version numbers? (WAS Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions)

> How can I find out what version number KDE would call this > Debian "kde" package? OR, how could I find out what version > number Debian would call KDE 3.5.4? > > I suspect the same situation exists with other packages, so I'm > hoping for a general procedure I can follow, not simply the > answ

Re: how can i run flv videos ? (metacafe)

José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I too have mplayer installed from same mirror. When I got the > video_output error, I simply changed my video options to use a video > output device that made mplayer happy. (I did it by running mplayer off > the menu in GNOME and using the mpla

Version numbers? (WAS Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions)

Leonid Grinberg told me: | Stable gets old very quickly, but is, like its name implies, | very stable. This led me to wonder, just how far out of date are the Debian packages? For example, I would like to work using KDE. On the KDE website at http://kde.org/ it says that KDE 3.5.4 is the latest

RE: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

On Monday, August 14, 2006 5:48 PM -0500, Katipo wrote: > Seth Goodman wrote: > > If that were true, the vast majority of us, who used to be Windows > users, wouldn't be here. Right. I use Windows for most of my work projects, and before that, I used Unix for many years. I'm not a casual comput

Is the xserver-xorg configuration system broken?

Hi, I'm stymied about my inability to properly (re) configure my Xorg X server; I've googled and found people with similar problems, but no systematic solution or explanation. I figure I'll ask here before filing a bug report. I run a system which is mostly Sid, and recently upgraded a bunch of

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

Seth Goodman wrote: You are the sysadmin for these two Windows-type users, which is the only environment in which they can realistically use Debian. Take away the sysadmin or Linux mentor and the chances of them being able to configure a system that is as useful to them as their Windows boxes a

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 04:47:35PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > It's already been mentioned, but putting your own system together is by > far cheaper and more satisfactory. That makes the value judgement that one's time is valueless and that one likes farting around with hardware. I used to

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 13:04:45 -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > On Monday, August 14, 2006 6:20 AM -0500, George Borisov wrote: > > > Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > > > > > > I just get a little upset when people want to mold Debian into > > > something like a Windows clone. If you want that, try a >

Re: Debian target audience ( was Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards)

Kent West wrote: George Borisov wrote: I can not speak about other people And yet, as I read your comments, I almost thought it was me speaking. I use Debian because it is an operating system I can _trust_ and it is 100% free as in speech and beer (to me, the speech bit is actual

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

Seth Goodman wrote: On Monday, August 14, 2006 6:20 AM -0500, George Borisov wrote: Anthony M Simonelli wrote: I just get a little upset when people want to mold Debian into something like a Windows clone. If you want that, try a Debian-derivative such as Linspire or Xandros.

Re: How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500 (was: Re: Using udev as-is and device URI)

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > José Alburquerque wrote: > > >Hi. :-) I have an Epson Stylus C82 (also connected via USB). On my > >etch system, the escputil command above works exactly as you have it > >without any problems: > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ escputil

Re: The New Virtualizer on the Block (corrected package name)

David Baron wrote: Now we have four. 1. Vmware: Proprietary. I installed their free version and could not complete bootup afterwards. Booted up knoppix and removed the vmware. Problem was with those ip numbers. I installed this and the previous beta's and have no problems running anything.

Re: where can i find non-free repsotries for debian ?

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:21:09PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: > Hello... > > many gr8 progs aren't relased on the debian tree (even that the source > code is relased). > so many times i need to recomile packages from source (and it takes > sometime hours). > > im searching for Non-free /unoficial

How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500 (was: Re: Using udev as-is and device URI)

José Alburquerque wrote: Hi. :-) I have an Epson Stylus C82 (also connected via USB). On my etch system, the escputil command above works exactly as you have it without any problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ escputil --ink-level --new --raw-device /dev/usb/lp0 Escputil version 5.0.0-rc3, Copyrig

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

David J Bush wrote: I can't afford it now, but in a couple months maybe, probably after 4.0 comes out, I may buy a system with Debian pre-installed. But I have a nice soundcard I want to keep from my old system, the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. There is a very helpful page about my card at http://tin

Re: how to reconstruct a deleted /boot partition

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 05:34:56PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > This is not debian specific, but I foresee that I might need to do this > in my Debian Etch one of these days. > > I use a common /boot for dual booting between Debian Etch and FC4. > Recently I re-installed Debian Etch and ove

how to reconstruct a deleted /boot partition

Hello, This is not debian specific, but I foresee that I might need to do this in my Debian Etch one of these days. I use a common /boot for dual booting between Debian Etch and FC4. Recently I re-installed Debian Etch and overwrote everything in /boot. If I want to boot into FC4 now, how do I g

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

On Monday 14 August 2006 20:19, David J Bush wrote: [snip] > My first question is, will Debian 4.0 come with soundcore > compiled, or will I need to recompile? It would seem so. I'm presently running testing Etch which will become 4.0 when when the next stable release comes out. Modinfo on a stoc

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

My first question is, will Debian 4.0 come with soundcore compiled, or will I need to recompile? I run Debian Etch. Although it is the testing distribution now, it will be the next stable, version 4.0. $ /sbin/modinfo soundcore filename: /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-686/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko

Re: Pre-installed Debian: two questions

On Monday 14 August 2006 20:19, David J Bush wrote: > I can't afford it now, but in a couple months maybe, probably > after 4.0 comes out, I may buy a system with Debian pre-installed. Assuming you have a network connection, then it doesn't matter what version of Debian is installed, it almost co

Re: Managing the physical re-arrangement of my disks (boot sector question and lvm question)

On Monday 14 August 2006 08:49, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1) > > Before finally removing it, I would like to set up the disk that is > > currently in /dev/hdc with a boot sector and filesystem, such that when > > re-install it as /dev/hda it just boots

Pre-installed Debian: two questions

I can't afford it now, but in a couple months maybe, probably after 4.0 comes out, I may buy a system with Debian pre-installed. But I have a nice soundcard I want to keep from my old system, the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. There is a very helpful page about my card at http://tinyurl.com/znro7 Quoting

Re: apt-get gives MD5Sum mismatch

Thanks for the tip. I had already googled and come across the suggestions that the problem could be due to not syncing with the mirror and that a change of the mirror in sources.list to ftp2.de.debian.org would help. I did this and it is workig like a charm. Sebastian On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 04:

Re: apt-get gives MD5Sum mismatch

Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Hi: I am trying to update my unstable on one of my linux machines and it gives Failes to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz MD5Sum mismatch same for Packages.gz in non-free/binary-i386 W: Could'nt stat sourc

Re: VNC

On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 03:47:38PM -0400, Chuck Payne wrote: > I only been using debian a short time, and I am wanting to know what would it > take set up X so that it running VNC or a VNC like program. When I start kde > on my SuSE box, it running with out me doing anything. If you're running kd

Re: how can i run flv videos ? (metacafe)

Jabka Atu wrote: i have installed mplayer from : http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid/main Packages debian:/home/mha13/Desktop# apt-cache policy mplayer mplayer: Installed: 1:1.0-pre8-0.1 Candidate: 1:1.0-pre8-0.1 Version table: *** 1:1.0-pre8-0.1 0 500 http://www.debian-multimedia.o

apt-get gives MD5Sum mismatch

Hi: I am trying to update my unstable on one of my linux machines and it gives Failes to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz MD5Sum mismatch same for Packages.gz in non-free/binary-i386 W: Could'nt stat source package list http: //htt

logrotate zombie

I am have trouble running logrotate on debian testing. Every morning when cron daily runs, logrotate becomes defunct. Here is the "ps" output: root 24125 22098 0 06:25 ?00:00:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON root 24126 24125 0 06:25 ?00:00:00 /bin/sh -c test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ru

Re: Using udev as-is and device URI

T wrote: Hi I know that udev has the advantage that allowing people to write their own rules for mounting the devices. But can I just use the udev as-is? Does udev fully backward compatible with traditional /dev directory? I have a Epson Stylus CX1500, which has been working fine. I used to ch

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

I'm guessing that there really isn't one POV within the debian community about debians place in the linux world or as a replacement for windows. I am an ambulatory linux user. I can debug perl, but I don't write in it yet, because I can still get away with awk and sed. I use the command line alot (

RE: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

On Monday, August 14, 2006 6:20 AM -0500, George Borisov wrote: > Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > > > > I just get a little upset when people want to mold Debian into > > something like a Windows clone. If you want that, try a > > Debian-derivative such as Linspire or Xandros. > > Spot on, dude. Do

RE: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

On Monday, August 14, 2006 11:52 AM -0500, Albert Dengg wrote: > On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:07:43AM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > > On Friday, August 11, 2006 10:39 PM -0500, Anthony M Simonelli > > wrote: > > <...> > > > You can get books that help. In fact, the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 > > > Bible

Re: Apache2 Manhattan Virtual Classroom

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:53:54AM -0400, Cary Pembleton wrote: > Simo, > Yep I had added the line /home-images > In the statement. I guess I got a bit carried away there. I had /home-images "home/manhat/manhat-3.1.0/images"> and I should have just had > > So, I restarted Apache2, this started f

Hello Dearest

Hello Dear, How are you doing today together with your business and family? Hope fine. I'm very happy contacting you, I feel quite safe dealing with you in this important issue that I will detail you later as we communicate. Well, as you can see internet has been abused, but it's still remains

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:31:02AM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: > > lapse:~> dpkg -l xpr\* | grep '^[[:lower:]]' > > #[318] > > un xprint (no description available) > > Weird: > > Package: firefox > Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, de

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:07:43AM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > On Friday, August 11, 2006 10:39 PM -0500, Anthony M Simonelli wrote: > > > > > > That's a reasonable goal, even a good goal, if you are > > > > > willing to remain a small, exclusive clu

RE: Need Help With Installing X11 and KDE

Since you have Knoppix, you can boot the system in Knoppix and if the hardware works in Knoppix, save the configurations from knoppix that work to hard disk in debian system or edit the debian configuration files while booted into Knoppix. --- On Sun 08/13, J F < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Fro

Re: external hard-disk enclosure advice?

On 2006-08-06 @ 09:27:48 (week 31) Miles Bader wrote: > Hi, I'm looking for advice on buying a new hard-drive / external > hard-drive enclosure: [snip] Hi Miles, I recently bought such a beast for backup purposes. I choose an Icy Box IB-360-BL. This is an external closure for 3.5" IDE/SATA disk

Re: Mount HD using disk labels via udev

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:42:29 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 13.08.06 17:35, T wrote: >> Can anyone give me a quick and generic recipe to mount HDs/USBpens by >> their labels? >> >> I've read many Udev articles but haven't figure that out yet. > > if you have 2.6 kernel, udev installed

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

martin f krafft wrote: > lapse:~> dpkg -l xpr\* | grep '^[[:lower:]]' > #[318] > un xprint (no description available) Weird: Package: firefox Depends: fontconfig, psmisc, debianutils (>= 1.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libcairo2 (>=

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

also sprach Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.14.1543 +0100]: > This is not fair -- to use W-word on poor Firefox. No, IMHO reasons are > slightly more complicated than that. They use for printing on non-Windows, > non-Mac (I am not sure about that) platforms Xprint >

Re: Clamav scans or removes virus ??

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, George Borisov wrote: > > Sadly, the Debian package is not kept up to date - the latest Debian > > package is 4.51.5-1, which is well behind the latest stable version of > > 4.55.10-3. It can of course be compiled from source. > > We have been using it for many months now (a

Re: apache2 - authentication in digest mode

Hello! > From: Simo Kauppi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: apache2 - authentication in digest mode > > I haven't used myself and I might not understand your > configuration (i.e. you probably have a good reason to use it :), but > if those directories are re

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

martin f krafft wrote: > Run 'strings' on the PS it generates and you'll see that it prints > images rather than text. I am not surprised, Firefox comes to us > from Windows. They don't know how to deal with text over there. This is not fair -- to use W-word on poor Firefox. No, IMHO reasons are s

Re: how can i run flv videos ? (metacafe)

Jabka Atu wrote: > im trying to run flv video ( debian unstable). ffplay from ffmpeg package Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23 Marion St. #3, (617) 876-1259, ICQ 132822213 The American Repub

Re: Debian target audience

Debian (stable) may be among the best OS's in the world in terms of documentation and reliability. Over the past few months, I've been learning Debian Sarge, and I am switching from a major RPM based distribution to Debian and will do so over the coming weeks. Good (excellent?) things about Debia

RE: Apache2 Manhattan Virtual Classroom

Simo, Yep I had added the line /home-images In the statement. I guess I got a bit carried away there. I had and I should have just had So, I restarted Apache2, this started fine, navigated to http://franklin.pctechhelp.net/manhat-bin/doorstep and no page could be displayed. Error 404 the URL man

Re: Disappearing /dev/input/mice with kernel 2.6.16

2006/8/7, Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: it maybe that you steel running the old kernel ? . if not just load hid psmouse uhci it should work Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > I installed linux-image 2.6.486 version 2.6.16+0.2 and after this the > /dev/input/mice device disappeared. I have an USB mouse.

Re: Clamav scans or removes virus ??

Jim Holland wrote: > > Sadly, the Debian package is not kept up to date - the latest Debian > package is 4.51.5-1, which is well behind the latest stable version of > 4.55.10-3. It can of course be compiled from source. We have been using it for many months now (as you can see in the headers) an

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:44:41PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > These don't: > - print from oowriter, then ps2pdf; However, the current oowriter will export PDF directly. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews

Clamav/MailScanner (was Re: Clamav scans or removes virus ??)

On 14.08.06 12:23, Jim Holland wrote: > If you want to scan your mail then Clamav works very well in conjunction > with MailScanner (see http://www.mailscanner.info/): [deleted] > Sadly, the Debian package is not kept up to date - the latest Debian > package is 4.51.5-1, which is well behind the l

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

Thibaut Paumard wrote: > However, in these two tests, the text is copy-and-pastable, as text. So > the problem is not that the PDF is drawn as images. Actually, in the > scribus PDF, I can search a few smaller substrings (like "xt" in my > sample text "test text"). The problem is that original PDF

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

Le lundi 14 août 2006 à 13:38 +0100, George Borisov a écrit : > George Borisov wrote: > > Thibaut Paumard wrote: > >> Fortunately, this statement is as false as can be. Under GNU/Linux, the > >> easy way of creating a PDF from whatever is to print to PS and then run > >> ps2pdf on the output. The r

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach George Borisov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.14.1338 +0100]: >> Just tried to print some text from Firefox to PS and then use ps2pdf. >> >> The resulting file is _not_ searchable (xpdf and evince,) and at >> 28K is more than twice the size of the same text bei

Re: Debian target audience ( was Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards)

George Borisov wrote: > I can not speak about other people And yet, as I read your comments, I almost thought it was me speaking. > I use Debian because it is an operating system I can > _trust_ and it is 100% free as in speech and beer (to me, the > speech bit is actually more important.) Ditto

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

also sprach CJ van den Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.14.1250 +0100]: > IE6 should work fine under wine. You might want to try out WineTools [1] if > you need help getting a basic wine setup running. Of course, as always with > wine, YMMV. Mh, Acrobat+wine on Linux I could deal with. Knowing of

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Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

George Borisov wrote: > Thibaut Paumard wrote: >> Fortunately, this statement is as false as can be. Under GNU/Linux, the >> easy way of creating a PDF from whatever is to print to PS and then run >> ps2pdf on the output. The resulting PDF is of good quality, searchable, >> and often smaller than t

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:53:44 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Hanspeter Kunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.13.2218 +0100]: > > have a look at > > > > http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/ > > > > sounds promising. never tried it though. > > This looks pretty interest

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

CJ van den Berg wrote: On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 02:19:56PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: I tried wine, and since Acrobat requires IE 5.5, it failed. I don't have XOver Office and I won't shell out money for it without knowing it'll work 100%. IE6 should work fine under wine. You might want to

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Debian target audience ( was Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards)

> On Tuesday, August 08, 2006 6:43 PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> I thought the niche Debian was trying to fill was rock solid >> stability and reliability in a 100% free software format. If I'm >> confused, let me know. Add "support for multiple architectures" and I will agree with you 100%

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > Fortunately, this statement is as false as can be. Under GNU/Linux, the > easy way of creating a PDF from whatever is to print to PS and then run > ps2pdf on the output. The resulting PDF is of good quality, searchable, > and often smaller than the input PS. Using LaTeX,

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Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 02:19:56PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I tried wine, and since Acrobat requires IE 5.5, it failed. I don't > have XOver Office and I won't shell out money for it without knowing > it'll work 100%. IE6 should work fine under wine. You might want to try out WineTools [1]

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

Le lundi 14 août 2006 à 11:56 +0100, George Borisov a écrit : > martin f krafft wrote: > > > > skencil (which was sketch) does not seem to import either. pstoedit, > > well, what should I say, it kinda works, except my 120 kb 20 page > > test paper is now a 24 Mb file and no longer searchable with

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