Re: Garmin GPS on USB port

On 30/08/2007, Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, here is what I got from syslog: > > Aug 29 21:53:15 zherc kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 3 > Aug 29 21:53:28 zherc kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using > uhci_hcd and address 4 > Aug 29 21:53:28 zherc kernel: usb 1-2: con

Re: Garmin GPS on USB port

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:16:14PM -0400, Bernard wrote: > Hello group, > > I try to communicate with my GPS via a USB port but without success. I used > to do it with a serial connection without problem. Eventually, I will have > to plug my GPS on a laptop with USB port only so I have to find a

Better iptables firewall

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Currently I'm using iptables as my main firewall, and I'm having no trouble with it whatsoever. But lately (Since college has started) I've been connecting to a lot more networks, with more peers connected. I'm worried about somebody breaking through t

Re: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 kernel

Wayne Topa wrote: Paul Scott([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Laptop with AMD K6 running Debian sid xterm works w/ stock 2.6.17-2-486 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 attempting to start xterm gives: xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys I

Re: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 kernel

Wayne Topa wrote: Paul Scott([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Laptop with AMD K6 running Debian sid xterm works w/ stock 2.6.17-2-486 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 attempting to start xterm gives: xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys I

Re: software suspend and system cloning

2007-08-29_20:50:49-0400 Ron Peterson : > I was cloning a software raid system to a hardware raid system (Dell > 2650 to 2850). I took out the mdadm startup scripts, but apparently > software suspend was somehow trying to restore some kind of state > information about the system that was no longe

Re: Garmin GPS on USB port

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:16:14PM -0400, Bernard wrote: I try to communicate with my GPS via a USB port but without success. I used to do it with a serial connection without problem. Eventually, I will have to plug my GPS on a laptop with USB port only so I have to

Re: Garmin GPS on USB port

On 8/29/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:16:14PM -0400, Bernard wrote: > > > > I try to communicate with my GPS via a USB port but without success. I > used > > to do it with a serial connection without problem. Eventually, I will > have > > to plug m

Re: Ping my modem........

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 23:31, Ron Johnson shared this with us all: >--} Thanks Ron, >--} > >--} > I am still learning to use it. >--} >--} Either I'm a Unix wizard, or it's really pathetically simple to use. >--} >--}   $ mtr www.cox.net >--} >--}   $ mtr -r www.cox.net >--} >--}   $ mtr -n ww

Re: Garmin GPS on USB port

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:16:14PM -0400, Bernard wrote: > > I try to communicate with my GPS via a USB port but without success. I used > to do it with a serial connection without problem. Eventually, I will have > to plug my GPS on a laptop with USB port only so I have to find a solution. > Ac

Garmin GPS on USB port

Hello group, I try to communicate with my GPS via a USB port but without success. I used to do it with a serial connection without problem. Eventually, I will have to plug my GPS on a laptop with USB port only so I have to find a solution. According to a few things read on the web I have to load

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

On 8/29/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the following lines in .bash_profile (bash is my default shell): > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/usr/lib:$HOME/usr/local/lib > export LD_LIBRARYPATH="Nonsense" # just a stub > When I log into this machine from a VT or remotely (ssh) I have

exim lost my smarthost port number

Hi, I use exim on Sid to forward my outgoing mail to Gmail's smtp server as a smarthost. I had exim configured to forward to 'smtp.google.gom::587', and the setup had been working fine for a while. Today I noticed that mail wasn't getting through, and I saw that exim had somehow 'forgotten' the

Etch and Linuxant drivers

Hi, has anyone successfully installed the Linuxant drivers on an Etch machine, using the official Debian Linux kernel packages? They don't seem to work on my machine, and Linuxant support suggested to download a more recent kernel source and build it, but it's something that I'd prefer to avoid

Re: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 kernel

Paul Scott([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Laptop with AMD K6 running Debian sid > > xterm works w/ stock 2.6.17-2-486 > > with stock 2.6.22-1-486 attempting to start xterm gives: > > xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory > Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys > > I have up

Re: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 kernel

Paul Scott([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Laptop with AMD K6 running Debian sid > > xterm works w/ stock 2.6.17-2-486 > > with stock 2.6.22-1-486 attempting to start xterm gives: > > xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory > Reason: get_pty: not enough ptys > > I have up

how to provide extra library paths?

Hi, Firstly, this is not a Debian specific question, but hopefully the solution should be universal. I have a machine (running RedHat EL4) on which I do not have administrative access, just a normal user access. I have extracted some rpm binaries in my home directory. I want the following paths to

Re: ssh-agent (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 20:09:03 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 12:27:32AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > [...] > > Method 2: > > - > > > > You can set up mutt's sendmail command to use a short script which > > invokes ssh to run sendmail on myvm directly. This requi

Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 23:19, Joey Hess wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > It obviously didn't work, and appears that > > if a script is in /etc/init.d, and there are no links to it in the > > runlevel directories, the script is run anyway. > > I think that avahi may be started by /etc/network/if

Re: NetworkManager help, esp. after suspend

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 18:19 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > I'm a relatively new Debian user, running an up-to-date Etch on > a ThinkPad T60. Welcome. I am running Debian on a T60 as well and am very pleased with it so far. I guess you know http://thinkwiki.org ? It is a great source for t

Re: xterm won't start

Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-08-27 23:06:53 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > >> I should have made it clear that I am using a (the latest package) >> stock 2.6.22 (486) kernel. It would seem that I must have made some >> kind of install mistake to lead to: >> >> xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such f

Re: Loadlin under Config.sys -- AAAAGH!

Thank you for the tips, I shall give it a whirl and see what happens. I shall let you know. BTW: There is no floppy capability, not even USB floppy capability since the BIOS was cripled to prevent booting from any external devices, including a network boot. http://www.danasoft.com/sig/sam_8599

NetworkManager help, esp. after suspend

I'm a relatively new Debian user, running an up-to-date Etch on a ThinkPad T60. I'm having some trouble getting the NetworkManager app to work the way it seems it should. In particular, after a suspend it takes some time (a few minutes) to acknowledge that there are network interfaces present, an

Re: nvidia-glx under Debian 4.0r1

[ Please don't top-post. It is much easier for others to start participating in an ongoing discussion if everybody posts in-line responses and trims the older messages where possible. ] On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 18:42:54 +0200, Bart wrote: > /etc/apt/sources.list > > # > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/

Re: Editing a text file with sed

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:33:54PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > On Wednesday 29 August 2007 17:36:38 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:17:46PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > > > > > This is a test > > > file, what I am > > > trying to do is get the lines to join. > > > > > > It isn't a

Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 22:52, Sven Joachim wrote: > Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Before closing this post, and I've still got tail -f /var/log/messages > > running. I keep getting every 20 mins "debian -- MARK --" . What's that > > all about? > > It's only the syslogd who tells

Re: docBook or latex

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:06:25PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-08-27 20:35:36 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > After trying every converter I could find, I discovered HeVeA. HeVeA > > takes LaTeX files and produces beautiful HTML, with much less hassle > > than any of the other solu

Re: konsole + system bell

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:48:41PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > >Unfortunatly for you, the computer that I'm directly attached to me is > >on the floor below (monitor, keyboard, and mouse cables run through the > >floor) so I can only hear the beep if the room is qui

Re: capture real audio stream

Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > I'm trying the link you provided with the command > > mplayer > "rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio2/fridaymusic.ra?BBC-UID=a426cbda207670378b86528c714caba3684a2b4fc040b101329203b36444a5b5&SSO2-UID='" > > -vo null -vc null -ao pcm:file=/mnt/appo/musica/webber.wav > > and it

Re: capture real audio stream

Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > well that somehow makes me feel better, 'cause I was starting to feel > stupid since I wasn't able to find no such links ;-) > If you go to the home page for BBC radio 2 and click on Listen at the top right, you will see the "Listen using stand-alone

Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

Nigel Henry wrote: > It obviously didn't work, and appears that > if a script is in /etc/init.d, and there are no links to it in the runlevel > directories, the script is run anyway. I think that avahi may be started by /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon, when a network interface is brought up. I

Re: Migrate debian services to a new debian system

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Okay, so I want to make the asrock my server...it is quieter and uses > less power. I don't have a lot of time for trouble shooting etc. so I > want to plan this out so it mostly works on the first shot. My > strategy is to setup each services one at a time...then transfer

Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Before closing this post, and I've still got tail -f /var/log/messages > running. I keep getting every 20 mins "debian -- MARK --" . What's that all > about? It's only the syslogd who tells you that it is alive and kickin', see syslogd(8). Sven --

Re: WYSIWYG editor

David Baron wrote: Actually WYSIWYG is VERY BAD for web page creation. People can resize their windows etc - and then what? All your WYSIWYG has gone to waste. In addition your WYSIWYG is probably not even rendering the same as your favorite browsers. As annoying as it may be at the start, the

Re: WYSIWYG editor

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:17:45 +0200 "Manon Metten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 8/28/07, Loeghmon T. Nejad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do you recommend as a good, practical WYSIWYG editor for creating > > simple web pages, with mostly text, some graphics and pdf, for > > debian

Mailman problems during upgrade sarge->etch

Hi, i am doing an upgrade of one of our servers from sarge to etch. It ran quite smoothly, just mailman gives me a headache. It is the last package which needs to get upgraded and i am stuck with the following error right now: --- snip --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc# aptitude dist-upgrade Reading

Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 03:27, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:50:14PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Any comments, suggestions, and including "go and get a life", welcome. > > > > This is no big deal, but would be nice to resolve this problem. > > So its a script in /etc/ne

dom0 doesn't boot

I dont know what I've done wrong to install xen in etch. Thats my confic. --- title Xen 3.0.3-1-i386 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-5-xen-686 root(hd0,0) kernel /xen-3.0.3-1-i386.gz module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-xen-686 root=/dev/md1 ro xencons=off console=t

Re: WYSIWYG editor

Mark Grieveson wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:13:12 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you recommend as a good, practical WYSIWYG editor for creating simple web pages, with mostly text, some graphics and pdf, for debian Lenny please? Thanks. -- Regards, Iceape Composer is

Re: docBook or latex

On 2007-08-28 13:28:34 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Docbook also seems to have been designed by masochists it's so > horribly verbose that I can't imagine how people put up with maintaining > documents written using it. It's as if the creators got so carried away > adding features that they com

Re: docBook or latex

On 2007-08-27 20:35:36 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > After trying every converter I could find, I discovered HeVeA. HeVeA > takes LaTeX files and produces beautiful HTML, with much less hassle > than any of the other solutions which I found. HeVeA handles LaTeX > documents with complex format

Re: xterm won't start

On 2007-08-27 23:06:53 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > I should have made it clear that I am using a (the latest package) > stock 2.6.22 (486) kernel. It would seem that I must have made some > kind of install mistake to lead to: > > xterm: Error 32, errno 2: No such file or directory > Reason: get_pty:

Re: Debian Etch on MacBook

Hi! > This seems like a great idea until you need to read one of those > three-inch mini-CDs. ;) ..or a credit card CD !! :-P I agree with David: > I like eraserhead mice better than touchpads also i don't like touchpad too much, i prefer erasehead. > OS X is really, really nice, but it sounds l

Re: Debian Etch on MacBook

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Aug 29, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: >> You can simply plug a USB tree-buttons mouse on the Mac and you'll be >> fine. Works like a charm. > > Oh, I realize that. But in portable use, where you're using

Re: icedove, KDE and pdf attachments

Hi Giorgos, On 8/29/07, Giorgos Pallas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which brings me to my last question: I don't have a ~/.icedove nor a > ~/.thunderbird directory... Where does it store my profile? ~/.mozilla-thunderbird. Manon.

Re: Debian Etch on MacBook

On Aug 29, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: You can simply plug a USB tree-buttons mouse on the Mac and you'll be fine. Works like a charm. Oh, I realize that. But in portable use, where you're using the built-in touchpad, you're stuck with only one button. IBM is to be com

Re: I just installed OpenNTP. Now what?

Hi there, On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > So just installed OpenNTP on a shiny new etch system. The daemon is started > during startup but now what? How do I know that my clock is being > synchronized? Look at the messages in /var/log/daemon.log > I checked the config and there

Re: WYSIWYG editor

Hi, On 8/28/07, Loeghmon T. Nejad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What do you recommend as a good, practical WYSIWYG editor for creating > simple web pages, with mostly text, some graphics and pdf, for debian Lenny > please? Thanks. You could use Quanta +. Pressing 2 will load the page you just edi

Re: konsole + system bell

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:42:55AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Aha! I do 'echo -e "\a"' in konsole and get nothing! Beeps in VT. And lsmod shows pcspkr loaded. Now what? It's gxset. Shows the same as xset q. Beep me up Scotty does not

Migrate debian services to a new debian system

I started using debian(my first and only linux distro) about 2.5 years ago. With lots of reading and posting etc. I was able to set up two system: a server and a workstation. They are totally stable and over the last year I haven't had to anything but aptitude updates(well some experimenting on t

Re: konsole + system bell

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:42:55AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Aha! I do 'echo -e "\a"' in konsole and get nothing! Beeps in VT. And lsmod shows pcspkr loaded. Now what? Do you have any other x-terminal-emulator installed? I tried in xfce-terminal and it doesn't

Re: Debian Etch on MacBook

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Aug 29, 2007, at 2:53 AM, Mirco Piccin wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> you want to visit >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook >> >> >> >> Of course, i've already visit that web site (also ot

Re: (solved) Re: new drive = new install?

* David A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-08-29 > > > What is common practice when migrating a system from one drive to > > > another. Should I reinstall from scratch or partition the new drive > > > and "copy everything" from the old one? > > > > Reinstallation is not necessary. There are plenty of HOWT

Need help with glib installation

Hi, I installed glib 2.14 because i need gtk 2.10 or better to install the newest gimp on etch. The installation of the glib package went smoothly. I followed exactly the installation instructions. But when i try to configure gtk 2.11 I get the

Re: Editing a text file with sed

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:33:54PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > I appreciate the answer, I didn't even know about the fmt command until now. > It does seem to work in the example, but not on the real file(s) that I am > working with. Something makes me think that these files have some very > stran

Re: Editing a text file with sed

On 08/29/2007 08:17 AM, Joe Hart wrote: I am having trouble using sed to edit text files, heres a good example of what I am looking for: This is a test file, what I am trying to do is get the lines to join. It isn't a complicated thing, but I also want to keep the paragraphs separate. I try

Re: Editing a text file with sed

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 17:01:20 Adam W wrote: > Single quotes go around the whole sed script unless you are using a > separate sed script file. > try sed 's/\n//' 1.txt > 2.txt > > - Adam > > On 8/29/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 15:17:46 +0200

Re: nvidia-glx under Debian 4.0r1

/etc/apt/sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070819-11:33]/ etch contrib main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-3 20070819-11:33]/ etch contrib main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official i3

Re: Editing a text file with sed

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 17:36:38 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:17:46PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > > > This is a test > > file, what I am > > trying to do is get the lines to join. > > > > It isn't a complicated thing, > > but I also want to keep the paragraphs > > separate.

Re: Shut down or leave on?

On Aug 29, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Dan H wrote: 88 watts it used to be. A modern desktop PC will consume several hundred watts of power, which is as much as it takes to make a room "quite hot" -- do you think you could get your room hot by leaving the lights on? It might be worthwile to measure

Re: Debian Etch on MacBook

On Aug 29, 2007, at 2:53 AM, Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi! you want to visit http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook Of course, i've already visit that web site (also others.. :-))... But, really my question was more complicated, over the installation ... ... what shall you do, if you could choose betwe

Re: capture real audio stream

cothrige wrote: Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm trying with this one http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/events_andrewlloydwebber.shtml and can't find such links, not even with Page Info (as suggested by Joachim); could it be they changed something in their site? Well, nei

Re: Shut down or leave on?

On 8/29/07, Dan H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:01:01 +0300 > Atis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A long time ago i measured that my PC is using 0.4A on normal > > operation and 0.6A while CD-ROM spinning (on 220V AC). So, this > > means > > - 0.4*220 = 88 Watts. This is appro

Re: konsole + system bell

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:42:55AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Aha! I do 'echo -e "\a"' > in konsole and get nothing! Beeps in VT. > > And lsmod shows pcspkr loaded. > > Now what? Do you have any other x-terminal-emulator installed? I tried in xfce-terminal and it doesn't beep. Perhaps

icedove, KDE and pdf attachments

One very annoying thing that happens with icedove (1.5.0.12) on Debian Lenny, is that when I get an email with a pdf attachment, I double click on the attachment and I get the well known window which says: You have chosen to open mplahmplah.pdf which is a: BIN file from imap:// What should

Re: Editing a text file with sed

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:17:46PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > This is a test > file, what I am > trying to do is get the lines to join. > > It isn't a complicated thing, > but I also want to keep the paragraphs > separate. > [snip] > But ideally I'd like to just have a script to do it, but canno

Re: konsole + system bell

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:34:56PM +0900, Takehiko Abe wrote: Do you get a bell in a text console? IIRC, there is no longer a beep module in the kernel. I do. The module is pcspkr.ko. Must have been something in Sarge. You're right, I've got a beep again with echo

Re: Shut down or leave on?

On 8/28/07, Richard Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > In the past I have always shut my Debian system down over night etc for 3 > reasons: > > 1) I put backups on my 80GB external HD which I usually leave shut down even > when I boot the rest of the system. It's about the same age as my

Re: use of $$ versus $ in makefile and bash

On 8/29/07, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am puzzled concerning the use of the symbols "$" and "$$" in a > makefile. I do not understand why "$$" is required in some instances, > and "$" in other instances. "$" is a special character to make, so in cases where you need make to

Re: Shut down or leave on?

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:18:54 -0400 "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The amount > electricity usage from present day devices is minimal I know your sentence continues along a different line, but let me just interject here that computers have never consumed as much energy as they do today. Tr

Re: evince unable to open pdf

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:43:25PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:09:09 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:03:07AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 14:23:27 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > > > Evince itself ope

Re: Shut down or leave on?

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:45:51 -0700 Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Specifically, as I understand it, thermal shock to minuscule > electronic components during power-on. There is no thermal shock on power-on. What is most likely to fail is the PSU (happened to me once). --D. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Editing a text file with sed

This command erases all line breaks sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n/ /;ta' -e 'P;D' although you have to adapt it to not delete paragraphs. Using regex, the line would then become something like sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/\n[^\n]/ /;ta' -e 'P;D' Good luck. Sjoerd Joe Hart schreef: > I am having trouble using sed

Re: Editing a text file with sed

Single quotes go around the whole sed script unless you are using a separate sed script file. try sed 's/\n//' 1.txt > 2.txt - Adam On 8/29/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 15:17:46 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > > > I am having trouble using sed to edit t

Re: Shut down or leave on?

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:01:01 +0300 Atis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A long time ago i measured that my PC is using 0.4A on normal > operation and 0.6A while CD-ROM spinning (on 220V AC). So, this > means > - 0.4*220 = 88 Watts. This is approximately like regular light bulb > (not very economic).

Re: konsole + system bell

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:34:56PM +0900, Takehiko Abe wrote: > >Do you get a bell in a text console? IIRC, there is no longer a beep > >module in the kernel. > > I do. The module is pcspkr.ko. Must have been something in Sarge. You're right, I've got a beep again with echo -e "\a" Doug.

Re: evince unable to open pdf

On 08/29/2007 07:09 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Thanks Florian. I have everything except gnome-libs-data (since it brings in all the rest of gnome including gnome-bin). If I have to install the whole GNOME DTE just to use Evince, I chalk it up to typical Gnome stupidity and scrapt the whole th

Re: Editing a text file with sed

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 15:17:46 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > I am having trouble using sed to edit text files, heres a good example of > what > I am looking for: > > > This is a test > file, what I am > trying to do is get the lines to join. > > It isn't a complicated thing, > but I also want

make or preprocessor error - ddrescue-1.5

For the recovery I am trying to do the direct disc accrss ability of ddrescue-1.[4|5] is recomended. I have the same problems when I try 1.4. The stable / testing / unstabe only have ddrescue-1.2x. So, I got ddrescue-1.5 from GNU. Thanks. I extract the archive and cd to the directory. $ ./config

Re: linux on ipod nano?

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:29:00PM +0100, koffiejunkie wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > >My nano is vfat. It mounts just fine. It is unmounting that is the > >problem. > > I missed the beginning of the thread, so forgive me if my reply isn't > much help. Supposing your ipod comes up as /dev/s

Re: capture real audio stream

Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm trying with this one > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/events_andrewlloydwebber.shtml > > and can't find such links, not even with Page Info (as suggested by > Joachim); could it be they changed something in their site? Well, neither cou

Re: Editing a text file with sed

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 15:48:50 Victor Munoz wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:17:46PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > I am having trouble using sed to edit text files, heres a good example of > > what I am looking for: > > > > > > This is a test > > file, what I am > > trying to do is get the l

Re: Copy ./ to subdirectory.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:16:50PM +0100, James Preece wrote: > > cp: cannot copy a directory, `./', into itself, `backup' > > Is there a way to have cp ignore the newly created directory? Something like: > > cp -r ./ backup --ignore=backup > You could try using tar. Something like tar --exc

Re: MSI nVidia NX7600GT-T2D256E

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 18:18 +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > If I use "nv" driver, the X Window is much slower. Having switched to "nv" from "nvidia" myself recently (see other messages in thread) I have to say I really can't notice any significant difference between them. Of course if you're running 3

Re: Copy ./ to subdirectory.

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 05:16, James Preece wrote: > This is probably a simple question but I can't find the answer > anywhere and my friend Google won't search for ./ and 'copy' brings up > all sorts. > > Basically, I've got a folder containing various files for a website > (for simplicity let

Re: USB Hard Drive problems

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:40:17 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/28/07 22:15, Celejar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently purchased a factory recertified Fantom Drives 120 GB USB > > drive. I have just begun to use it, and I'm e

Re: i686 Port

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 04:06:10PM +0100, Richard Thompson wrote: > I was wondering why debian doesn't have a port of packages optimised for > i686, I realise they have support for i386, which obviously incudes > everything from an intel 386 to the latest and greatest intel and amd > processors (ru

Re: evince unable to open pdf

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:09:09 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:03:07AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 14:23:27 +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > Evince itself opens OK, but when I open the file dialog with its default > > > filter of "A

Re: Editing a text file with sed

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 03:17:46PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > I am having trouble using sed to edit text files, heres a good example of > what > I am looking for: > > > This is a test > file, what I am > trying to do is get the lines to join. > > It isn't a complicated thing, > but I also wan

Re: konsole + system bell

Do you get a bell in a text console? IIRC, there is no longer a beep module in the kernel. I do. The module is pcspkr.ko. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fstab and removable usb drives

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:35:16 +0200 Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For removable media take a look at package pmount. Thanks. I do use pmount. > Regards, > Jörg-Volker. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple

dpkg wont install kbuild (failed to write to pipe in copy)

Sony VGNFE21M 2.6.18-4-686 Etch I am tryinng to get my wireless card to work. I need to install some kernal headers which have the dependency of Kbuild. When I try installing kbuild I get the following error: cpc3-seve3-0-0-cust864:~# cd /root/Desktop cpc3-seve3-0-0-cust864:~/Desktop# dpkg -i

Re: Ping my modem........

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/29/07 06:37, Charlie wrote: > On Wednesday 29 August 2007 18:41, Ron Johnson shared this with us all: > > >> --} > This has been solved, Thank you. >> --} > >> --} > Jeff had twigged that I didn't have "echo" enabled in my firewall, and >> that

Re: Debian Etch on MacBook

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 08:28:41PM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Note that MacBooks are amd64 computers: some application (multi-media) > are not yet well supported: to crunch number it is Ok. Anyhow, you can > make your box a 32bit box. > The only thing that's not supported in amd64 is propriata

Re: Copy ./ to subdirectory.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:16:50PM +0100, James Preece wrote: > Basically, I've got a folder containing various files for a website > (for simplicity lets say it's this): > > /mydirectory/index.html /mydirectory/images/image.gif > > I want to make a backup so in the /mydirectory/ folder I do: >

Re: Copy ./ to subdirectory.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:16:50PM +0100, James Preece wrote: > This is probably a simple question but I can't find the answer > anywhere and my friend Google won't search for ./ and 'copy' brings up > all sorts. > > Basically, I've got a folder containing various files for a website > (for simpli

Editing a text file with sed

I am having trouble using sed to edit text files, heres a good example of what I am looking for: This is a test file, what I am trying to do is get the lines to join. It isn't a complicated thing, but I also want to keep the paragraphs separate. I try this command: sed s/\n// / 1.txt > 2.tx

Re: konsole + system bell

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 07:12:10AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Running up to date Sid. > > I run fvwm as window manager but have konsole installed. > > And since ages the system bell does *not* bell. > > Do you people's konsole system bell bell? > Do you get a bell in a text console? I

Re: Debian Etch on MacBook

Hi ! I am sorry for my misunderstanding. I run Lenny on a (Black) MacBook (with a (White) Mighty Mouse). It is almost fine: as the hardware is very new, it is not so well surpported: this is a very common issue which is not specific to Mac Laptops. So some part are still a little tricky to insta

Re: linux on ipod nano?

Richard Lyons wrote: My nano is vfat. It mounts just fine. It is unmounting that is the problem. I missed the beginning of the thread, so forgive me if my reply isn't much help. Supposing your ipod comes up as /dev/sda1, what does lsof /dev/sda1 tell you? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

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