Re: font problem - please help!

2007-08-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Zach wrote: > On 8/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi Zach, >> I had a look at your xorg.conf file that you pasted up and I'm not >> surprised you're having font problems. There's nothing in the fonts >> section of your config file. You have: >> >> >> I'd say you're defin

Re: font problem - please help!

2007-08-08 Thread Zach
On 8/8/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I read your long post at break-neck speed with 20% comprehension, so > forgive me if I got this wrong, but you claimed that you removed some of > the font paths. To me it looks like you removed all of them, or perhaps > a bug in the configuration

Re: font problem - please help!

2007-08-08 Thread Zach
On 8/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Zach, > I had a look at your xorg.conf file that you pasted up and I'm not surprised > you're having font problems. There's nothing in the fonts section of your > config file. You have: > > > I'd say you're definitely missing something

Re: set up Debian etch support English and Chinese

2007-08-08 Thread - Tong -
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:19:17 +, rocky wrote: > After log in, the error and system prompt for > aptitude are becoming unreadable. I think you need to fix this problem first, which is not Chinese related. I suspect that it is only an tip of the iceberg, 'cause unless you know Debian inside out

Booting CD with grub, no menu

2007-08-08 Thread - Tong -
Hi, I put stage2_eltorito and menu.list in boot/grub, and build the boot CD with $ mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot \ -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o grub.iso iso The CD boots ok, but there is no menu. It drops down to plain grub shell. However, if I s

Re: Substituting one font for another system-wide?

2007-08-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 23:03, Tim Hull wrote: >> >> DE? Window manager? > > > I'm using GNOME 2.18 w/ Metacity, though it shouldn't matter - I want to > change the font server aliases, not the GNOME font settings. Font server? Who needs to use xfs in 2007?

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-08 18:03:38 +0200, Manon Metten wrote: > Could you explain in short why you prefer zsh over bash? zsh is more powerful, e.g. recursive globbing, MULTIOS, more powerful parameter expansion, tied parameters... In fact, zsh is better mainly for interactive use (better completion mechanism

Re: Substituting one font for another system-wide?

2007-08-08 Thread Tim Hull
> > > DE? Window manager? I'm using GNOME 2.18 w/ Metacity, though it shouldn't matter - I want to change the font server aliases, not the GNOME font settings.

Re: Substituting one font for another system-wide?

2007-08-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 22:15, Tim Hull wrote: > Hi, > > On Debian (both Etch and Lenny), I've noticed that in many applications > where the "Arial" font is used, the system reverts to an extremely ugly > bitmap Helvetica if Arial isn't installed. However, I wou

desktop wireless card with linux kernel driver support

2007-08-08 Thread Alexandru Cardaniuc
Hi! I need a recommendation for a wireless pci or pci-x1 card with linux support built in linux kernel in lenny. I know about intel or ralink chipsets, but AFAIK their drivers are not included in linux kernel. I want to be able to use the wireless card during debian installation with the debian in

Substituting one font for another system-wide?

2007-08-08 Thread Tim Hull
Hi, On Debian (both Etch and Lenny), I've noticed that in many applications where the "Arial" font is used, the system reverts to an extremely ugly bitmap Helvetica if Arial isn't installed. However, I would like the system to substitute Bitstream Vera Sans instead. How can I do this? Tim

Re: Can't install zlib1g-dev on etch?

2007-08-08 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/08/2007 05:56 PM, Eric Adum wrote: Hi, When I try to install zlib1g-dev on etch, I get the following error: The following packages have unmet dependencies: zlib1g-dev: Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.2.3-13) but 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-3 is to be installed I've tried switching to version 3-13 with the c

Re: Defoma: How2 install type 1 fonts?

2007-08-08 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/08/2007 06:00 PM, Bill wrote: Hi folks, It's been some time now since I've used my old copy of WordPerfect 8.0 Personal Edition for Linux. I usually use the OpenOffice suite these days. However, I've been looking to install more fonts for OpenOffice and make them accessible to other

Best way to "revert" to LVM snapshot?

2007-08-08 Thread Tim Hull
Hi all, I'm using LVM for all the partitions on my main hard drive (boot partition excepted) for the ability to take "snapshots" of the partitions at a particular point in time. Anyway, while I have figured out perfectly how to take snapshots, mount them, and read/write to/from them, I have yet t

Re: why can't feh view tiff images

2007-08-08 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Lic. Orestes leal cha.jovenclub.cu> writes: > > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:48:40 +0200 > Samuel Bächler boeser.ch> wrote: > > > > I'm using feh to view most the images that I have but whenever I try > > > to open a tiff file using feh, it just shows a blank black screen. > > > Any ideas? I read up

Re: DNS problem on local network

2007-08-08 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: Jeff D on 08/08/07 00:34, wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/08/07 21:04, wrote: My server isengard runs dnsmasq to provide the dhcp clients. However it doesn't recognise any internal network domain name: isengard:~# hos

Re: DNS problem on local network

2007-08-08 Thread Adam Hardy
Jeff D on 08/08/07 00:34, wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/08/07 21:04, wrote: My server isengard runs dnsmasq to provide the dhcp clients. However it doesn't recognise any internal network domain name: isengard:~# hostname isengard isengard:~# hostname --fq

Defoma: How2 install type 1 fonts?

2007-08-08 Thread Bill
Hi folks, It's been some time now since I've used my old copy of WordPerfect 8.0 Personal Edition for Linux. I usually use the OpenOffice suite these days. However, I've been looking to install more fonts for OpenOffice and make them accessible to other programs like Gimp and Inkscape throu

Can't install zlib1g-dev on etch?

2007-08-08 Thread Eric Adum
Hi, When I try to install zlib1g-dev on etch, I get the following error: The following packages have unmet dependencies: zlib1g-dev: Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.2.3-13) but 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-3 is to be installed I've tried switching to version 3-13 with the command: apt-get -t '*3-13' install zlib1g

Re: strange keyboard behaviour

2007-08-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:50:26 +0200, debian-user wrote: > Hello, > > On my Asus L3400Tp I recently installed Etch in favor of Fedora 7, but > there seem to be some issues that did not appear in Fedora Core 6. > > For instance: > If in 'Desktop|Preferences|Keyboard\Layout Options' I add the eur

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Here is how my path is set. I use zsh. --8<---cut here---start->8--- ## What directories should we be looking for? COMMON_SYS_DIRS=(/bin /usr/bin /sbin /usr/sbin /usr/local/sbin /usr/games) case "$MY_SYS_TYPE" in hppa1.1-hp-hpux*) SYS_D

Re: How to prevent LVM disk spinup at shutdown

2007-08-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:45:04PM +0200, Malte Forkel wrote: > Nate Duehr schrieb: >> On Aug 8, 2007, at 2:54 AM, Gilles Mocellin wrote: >>> Le Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:44:16 Malte Forkel, vous avez écrit : Hi, I use a couple of LVM volumes on a MD RAID1 array for backup. These

Re: alsa in kernal 2.6.21.2-686

2007-08-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 13:54:00 -0700, dmdm wrote: > > I have run alsaconf but I find rthat the update modules common is > depreciated. > > I looked at infomod soundcore > > > fond that in /lib/modules/2.6.21-2.686/kernel/sound/sound.ko > > but under the heading > > vermagic 2.6.21-2.686 S

Re: evolution does not start

2007-08-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 13:00:00 -0700, Hugo Wau wrote: > Hello, > > I have upgraded a Notebook from SARGE to ETCH. > But the E-mail program EVOLUTION does not start > anymore. > > strace evolution > > finishes with: > --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- > > I have googled for hours -

Re: aticonfig and xorg.conf

2007-08-08 Thread Gerard Robin
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 03:46:02PM -0400, Lic. Orestes leal wrote: From: "Lic. Orestes leal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: aticonfig and xorg.conf X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-26) on murphy.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, sco

[SOLVED] Re: Firefox and Time Zones

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On 8/8/07, Andrew J. Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am suffering from a frustrating issue with Iceweasel (2.0.0.6, > Debian unstable amd64). > > I have a LiveJournal, and the post form has date and time fields on > it. These are automatically filled in with the current date and time, > using J

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 18:15:12 +0200, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On 8/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > Recently I've begun picking up (mostly by osmosis and from reading > > posts) a lot more awk, find, and regex. Those three combined with > > xargs or find -exec can get a pil

Firefox and Time Zones

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew J. Barr
I am suffering from a frustrating issue with Iceweasel (2.0.0.6, Debian unstable amd64). I have a LiveJournal, and the post form has date and time fields on it. These are automatically filled in with the current date and time, using JavaScript. Problem is, Firefox thinks the time is four hours lat

problem with mouse on ancient Compaq laptop

2007-08-08 Thread A. Lester Buck III
Hi, I have a Compaq LTE5300 laptop, circa 1998, and I am running etch on it. I've run various flavors of Debian on it off and on over the years, but I haven't used it regularly. [That wouldn't be much fun at all...] The machine has a Pentium 133 processor, 80MB (max) of RAM, and a PCMCIA netw

Re: why can't feh view tiff images

2007-08-08 Thread Orestes leal
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:13:36 -0700 David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 8, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Lic. Orestes leal wrote: > > > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:48:40 +0200 > > Samuel Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> I'm using feh to view most the images that I have but whenever I t

Re: why can't feh view tiff images

2007-08-08 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 8, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Lic. Orestes leal wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:48:40 +0200 Samuel Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using feh to view most the images that I have but whenever I try to open a tiff file using feh, it just shows a blank black screen. Any ideas? I read up on the

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I don't have a card reader, but it sounds like that may not be such a bad > thing to get, except that it is probably more hassle to eject the SD card > and reload it into a reader and run the risk of damaging it from > frequent handling. Contrary to HS I haven't found the card reader to be notic

Re: Watching youtube videos on AMD64

2007-08-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 08 Aug 2007, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Just use the 'youtubedl' python script (can be found in repos) to > download and then use 'mplayer' or something else to watch > it...simple, effective, and opensource. I already have scripts for downloading from youtube, but when a forum you

Re: why can't feh view tiff images

2007-08-08 Thread Lic. Orestes leal
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:48:40 +0200 Samuel Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using feh to view most the images that I have but whenever I try > > to open a tiff file using feh, it just shows a blank black screen. > > Any ideas? I read up on the documentation but could not find anything > >

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Manon Metten([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi Wayne, > > On 8/8/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any changes made to .bash_profile or .bashrc require a restart of that > > file. > > > > If you have at the end of the .bash_profile, the command > > . .bashrc > > > > Th

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-08 Thread H.S.
andy wrote: > > If it is no trouble for you to verify this, then that would be a useful > comparison to know. As noted earlier, I have now installed digikam and > will use that from now on to download the images from the camera. I am > just used to having the Sony auto-mounted and clicking throug

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 08:42:22PM +0200, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On 8/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think you're missing the point. Write in whatever suits you and the > > task at hand. If you're hacking on a project that has already started, > > then

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update)

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:18:04PM +0100, andy wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:46:00PM +0100, andy wrote: >> >>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, andy wrote: >> >> ... Andy is having trouble wit

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-08 Thread andy
H.S. wrote: andy wrote: OK have run digikam at the command line and manually added the camera to it and now I can view the images. So that at least is progress. It still does not answer the more basic question of why the camera is not being auto-mounted as it is on the Etch machine. Any ide

Re: aticonfig and xorg.conf

2007-08-08 Thread Lic. Orestes leal
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:42:05 +0200 Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > my box: acer aspire 51O2wlmi (amd64) > dist: Debian unstable (gnome metacity) > > aticonfig --initial : > Uninitialised file found, configuring. > Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf > Saved back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.or

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-08 Thread H.S.
andy wrote: > andy wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 08/08/07 12:51, andy wrote: >>> Hi again Yes, apparently gphoto2 *does* recognise the camera (and this is confirmed by Canon as well). However, with the Sony, I nev

Re: trying to get unicode to work in perl

2007-08-08 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 07 August 2007 23:16, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:01:04PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > I'm trying to get unicode to work in perl. When I do the 'textbook' > > example: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -e'binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); print > > chr(0x263a)' > > >

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-08 Thread andy
andy wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 12:51, andy wrote: Hi again Yes, apparently gphoto2 *does* recognise the camera (and this is confirmed by Canon as well). However, with the Sony, I never used gphoto2 and only installed it thinking that

Re: what brings up the wireless network interface

2007-08-08 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Using Debian stable (Etch), 2.6.18-4-686 kernel on Debian Dell Inspiron e1505. The wireless card (from lshw output is) The relevant stanza in /etc/network/interfaces is # allow-hotplug eth2 # auto eth2 # iface eth2 inet dhcp # wireless-essid So

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-08 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Wayne, Pretty straightforward your PS1 example. That's one bridge too far for me now, as I'm only for about one year on Debian. I simply use PS1='M> ' for user and PS1='R> ' for root :-) For me, the rest is redundant info, which only distracts me. Isn't Debian (Linux) fun! Yes, it is. That

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread andy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 12:51, andy wrote: Hi again Yes, apparently gphoto2 *does* recognise the camera (and this is confirmed by Canon as well). However, with the Sony, I never used gphoto2 and only installed it thinking that it might he

Re: what brings up the wireless network interface

2007-08-08 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Chris Lale wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Using Debian stable (Etch), 2.6.18-4-686 kernel on Debian Dell Inspiron >> e1505. The wireless card (from lshw output is) >> > [...] >> >> But I dont know how to prevent the automatic configuring of this wireless >> device. I do not want to rem

Re: apt-get: broken dependencies

2007-08-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 19:05:50 +0200, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: [...] > The word 'testing' was chosen by Debian maintainers to show what they think > Testing was and is good for them. I should prefer a name like 'desktop' to > show what I think Testing was and is good for me. Servers need stab

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 12:51, andy wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 08/08/07 12:25, andy wrote: >> >>> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >> [snip] >> # addgroup camera # adduser $USER camera Then you must log out and back in again to ma

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update)

2007-08-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 13:18, andy wrote: [snip] > > I have tried the camera on my wife's Etch machine and first time out, > the camera auto-mounted and I could access the photos!! She runs KDE. So > I logged out of Gnome and back into KDE on my Lenny machine

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Manon Metten([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi Wayne, > > On 8/8/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <> > > Executing . .bash_profile makes no difference. The new dir won't show > up in another session, only if I open a new bash window, but never in > a new session.

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-08 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Andrew, On 8/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think you're missing the point. Write in whatever suits you and the > task at hand. If you're hacking on a project that has already started, > then learn the appropriate language. If you're starting from scratch, > then lear

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-08 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Andrew, On 8/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if you haven't yet, you would be well served to read man bash. As I already said (Quote: "I first have to work my way to 'man bash' "), I surely will. It is an excellent resource, and you'll learn bash scripting at the sam

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update)

2007-08-08 Thread andy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:46:00PM +0100, andy wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, andy wrote: ... Andy is having trouble with his camera... please provide the output of tail -f /var/log/syslog

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-08 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Wayne, On 8/8/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any changes made to .bash_profile or .bashrc require a restart of that > file. > > If you have at the end of the .bash_profile, the command > . .bashrc > > Then after editing either one, you do > . .bash_profile ( which is the same as lo

Re: libc6 with support for old kernels

2007-08-08 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 17:27, Philipp Marek wrote: > Hello Nigel, > > On Dienstag, 7. August 2007 Nigel Henry wrote: > ... > > > Etch (stable) still boots the 2.4.27 kernel ok, but Lenny (testing) after > > some updates a bit back, now gives me a "kernel to old" message. > > > > anyway, lookin

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-08 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 18:35 -0500]: > Nate Bargmann wrote: >> * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]: >>> However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD. >> That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the >> impossible ones possbile. > > Th

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:46:00PM +0100, andy wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, andy wrote: >> ... Andy is having trouble with his camera... >> >> please provide the output of >> tail -f /var/log/syslog >> >> while you plug in the camera >

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Andy, I remember om my old Amiga I had a similar problem. It had something to do with the camera not complying to usb standards. I first had to format the mem card on my computer before I could access it. From then on I had no more problems. Though this ain't exactly Linux related, you might gi

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread andy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 12:25, andy wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] # addgroup camera # adduser $USER camera Then you must log out and back in again to make it "take". - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Hi Ro

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:06:25PM +0200, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Nyizsnyik, > > On 8/8/07, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Adding $HOME to /etc/profile should not work the way you want it to. > > These settings are global, consider them as "executed by root", so in > > this case

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:52:11PM +0200, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Nelson, > > On 8/8/07, Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why did you switch from Perl to Python? > > > > I found the code I wrote easier to understand. But as I said before, > > I still use Perl for some tasks. > >

Re: How to prevent LVM disk spinup at shutdown

2007-08-08 Thread Malte Forkel
Nate Duehr schrieb: On Aug 8, 2007, at 2:54 AM, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:44:16 Malte Forkel, vous avez écrit : Hi, I use a couple of LVM volumes on a MD RAID1 array for backup. These volumes are rarely accessed, so I use hdparm to switch the RAID disks into sta

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread andy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, andy wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:50:52AM -0700, Raquel wrote: I got a PowerShot A570IS soon after they came out this year. Plugging into the USB port it mounted right up. I boug

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, andy wrote: > I did mention that I was running Lenny. The kernel is 2.6.21 Foolish of me to miss it! Sorry. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Manon Metten([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > > This thread ain't over yet. Apart from using ~/bin (as Andrei Popescu > suggested) I noticed that adding 'export PATH=$HOME/scripts:$PATH' > to the end of ~/.bash_profile, the newly added dir is not available in > any new session

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 12:25, andy wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] >> >> # addgroup camera >> >> # adduser $USER camera >> >> Then you must log out and back in again to make it "take". >> >> - -- >> Ron Johnson, Jr. >> Jefferson LA USA >> >> > Hi Ron > >

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:20:51PM +0100, andy wrote: > Kumar Appaiah wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:50:52AM -0700, Raquel wrote: >> >>> I got a PowerShot A570IS soon after they came out this year. Plugging >>> into the USB port it mounted right up. I bought a SanDisk >>> card reader jus

Re: apt-get: broken dependencies

2007-08-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:05:50PM +0200, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: > The word 'testing' was chosen by Debian maintainers to show what they think > Testing was and is good for them. I should prefer a name like 'desktop' to > show what I think Testing was and is good for me. Servers need stable, b

Re: Capture of video stream..

2007-08-08 Thread Jan Schledermann
ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > I want to capture streamed video from a youtube > link. I think that it can be done using mplayer > but can't find the exact invocation.. > > Can the same trick be used to capture streamed > audio too? > > Thanks in advance. > -ishwar If you are using iceweasel you can

Re: Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 10:29:27AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > IFS=$'\t\n'; for i in `find . -iname \*m4a`; do faad... > > blah blah blah > > > and I knew it was a hack because setting $IFS just seems > > bad... possible unintended consquences, but it worked. > > it's the backtick sub-shell

Re: how to set up a wireless network?

2007-08-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-08-03 13:03:39, schrieb pinniped: > That's right, and you're also right about the power meant to be limited to > less than a "normal" 802.11 transceiver. I've mostly seen Bluetooth run as > an extra protocol on top of 802.11b/g and thus no extra gizmos and no > reduced power limit; the

Re: syslog help

2007-08-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-08-01 12:54:23, schrieb Tony Heal: > I am trying to move my postgresql (v7.4) logging out of the syslog and > into a postgres.log. I want to do this so I can > turn on logging full bore and have logrotate keep the logs to a > reasonable size. > > Here is my problem. Postgresql v7.4 will ei

Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

2007-08-08 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-07-30 12:35:08, schrieb Ron Johnson: > The closest to that which I have seen is that the larger a directory > gets, the longer it takes to open a GTK File dialog. And it just > burns up the CPU. If there's more than 12000 files, the File dialog > will "never" open. Hmmm, I know there is

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread andy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 12:07, andy wrote: Raquel wrote: [snip] Check permissions ... you're part of the "camera" group? Thanks - have just checked but there doesn't appear to be a "camera" group for me to join. I *do

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread andy
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:50:52AM -0700, Raquel wrote: I got a PowerShot A570IS soon after they came out this year. Plugging into the USB port it mounted right up. I bought a SanDisk card reader just for ease of use and it works too. The OP hasn't mentioned whet

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:50:52AM -0700, Raquel wrote: > I got a PowerShot A570IS soon after they came out this year. > Plugging into the USB port it mounted right up. I bought a SanDisk > card reader just for ease of use and it works too. The OP hasn't mentioned whether he is using Etch. Could

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/07 12:07, andy wrote: > Raquel wrote: [snip] >> >> Check permissions ... you're part of the "camera" group? >> >> > Thanks - have just checked but there doesn't appear to be a "camera" > group for me to join. I *do* have permissions to acce

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-08 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Nyizsnyik, On 8/8/07, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Adding $HOME to /etc/profile should not work the way you want it to. > These settings are global, consider them as "executed by root", so in > this case $HOME will resolve as /root, not /home/manon as you may have > expected.

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread andy
Raquel wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:39:59 +0100 andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all I have just bought a Canon Powershot A640 camera and went to download the photos off of the memory card using the USB cable. However, although a dialog box pops up telling me that a camera has been det

Re: apt-get: broken dependencies

2007-08-08 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
Florian Kulzer schrieb: On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 17:45:18 +0200, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: >> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.6-2_amd64.deb > > followed by > > apt-get install -f > > should fix this. This

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:39:59 +0100 andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I have just bought a Canon Powershot A640 camera and went to > download the photos off of the memory card using the USB cable. > However, although a dialog box pops up telling me that a camera > has been detected an

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-08 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:38:49 +0200 "Manon Metten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This thread ain't over yet. Apart from using ~/bin (as Andrei Popescu > suggested) I noticed that adding 'export PATH=$HOME/scripts:$PATH' > to the end of ~/.bash_profile, the newly added dir is not available in

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-08 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Nelson, On 8/8/07, Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why did you switch from Perl to Python? > > I found the code I wrote easier to understand. But as I said before, > I still use Perl for some tasks. OK. I forgot to mention Perl in my initial question. But if the code is easier t

Re: Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:39:59 +0100 andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I have just bought a Canon Powershot A640 camera and went to > download the photos off of the memory card using the USB cable. > However, although a dialog box pops up telling me that a camera > has been detected an

Canon Powershot A640

2007-08-08 Thread andy
Hi all I have just bought a Canon Powershot A640 camera and went to download the photos off of the memory card using the USB cable. However, although a dialog box pops up telling me that a camera has been detected and would I like to import/ignore the photos, no device is auto-mounted nor wil

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-08 Thread Manon Metten
Hi, This thread ain't over yet. Apart from using ~/bin (as Andrei Popescu suggested) I noticed that adding 'export PATH=$HOME/scripts:$PATH' to the end of ~/.bash_profile, the newly added dir is not available in any new session I open. However, when I open a new bash window, the new dir is availab

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:44:07PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 11:54:52PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > Instead of a ~/script dir I use a ~/bin dir and didn't need to change > > > anything because ~/.bash_profile already contains: > > > > I have to relat

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-08 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 8/8/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Nelson, > > On 8/8/07, Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nowadays I replaced Perl with Python, but I still use Perl from time > > to time (to write one-liners mostly). > > Why did you switch from Perl to Python? I found the cod

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 12:15:09PM -0400, Oscar Dulzaides wrote: > Hi, > I am new to debian and am trying to get certified on Linux. Know very > little about linux but everyday I find out more. > I loaded debian into my P3 Laptop and I get a message when I start the > system that the kernel will s

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-08 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Andrew, On 8/8/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But how do I add ~/scripts to that path? > > I saw nobody in the thread suggested this: > > Instead of a ~/script dir I use a ~/bin dir and didn't need to change > anything because ~/.bash_profile already contains: Thanks for t

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-08 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Andrew, On 8/8/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Recently I've begun picking up (mostly by osmosis and from reading > Florian's posts) a lot more awk, find, and regex. Those three combined > with xargs or find -exec can get a pile of work done really quickly. Thanks for t

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-08 Thread Oscar Dulzaides
Hi, I am new to debian and am trying to get certified on Linux. Know very little about linux but everyday I find out more. I loaded debian into my P3 Laptop and I get a message when I start the system that the kernel will stop pcmcia : need more tools. I already have installed pcmcia cs util etc.

Re: Opera or kde-pim

2007-08-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:50:37PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Considering that Opera seems to be faster than Iceweasel or Konqueror > AND it brings additional value with the mail and IRC client it is a > pretty strong alternative. Right now the only things keeping me back are > the licence

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-08 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Nelson, On 8/8/07, Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nowadays I replaced Perl with Python, but I still use Perl from time > to time (to write one-liners mostly). Why did you switch from Perl to Python? Learn how to use 'find'. It's very useful. > Also regular expressions. I wil

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-08 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Vincent, On 8/7/07, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not zsh (more powerful than bash) or perl? > Could you explain in short why you prefer zsh over bash? Thanks, Manon.

Re: How to prevent LVM disk spinup at shutdown

2007-08-08 Thread Nate Duehr
On Aug 8, 2007, at 2:54 AM, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le Wednesday 08 August 2007 09:44:16 Malte Forkel, vous avez écrit : Hi, I use a couple of LVM volumes on a MD RAID1 array for backup. These volumes are rarely accessed, so I use hdparm to switch the RAID disks into standby mode. I noti

Re: libc6 with support for old kernels

2007-08-08 Thread Philipp Marek
Hello Nigel, On Dienstag, 7. August 2007 Nigel Henry wrote: ... > Etch (stable) still boots the 2.4.27 kernel ok, but Lenny (testing) after > some updates a bit back, now gives me a "kernel to old" message. > > anyway, looking at synaptic on Etch, Subversion is 1.4.2dfsg1-2, libsvn-dev > is 1.4.2d

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 11:54:52PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Instead of a ~/script dir I use a ~/bin dir and didn't need to change > > anything because ~/.bash_profile already contains: > > I have to relate my latest thing. i'm heading out for a three week > trip and need to work

Re: Creating stand-alone learning stations

2007-08-08 Thread ZephyrQ
Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, ZephyrQ wrote: I'm a high school special education teacher who has been given permission to test Linux on a few laptops to use as workstations. I've installed Edubuntu on 3, and would like some d

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