Re: Colours in VIM-AbiWord

2008-02-05 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:59:16 -0500 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > right.. but I didn't know if there were other programs, AbiSpread... to > > > go along with it. > > > > Nope... > > > > Gnumeric is the spreadsheet that AbiWord Unix user

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 06/02/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you managed to see the letters in Dotan's signature, you probably > don't have a problem with UTF-8. Tzafir, were the letters displayed backwards? In the mutt I installed this week, I could type and read in Hebrew, but it was all left t

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:43:09PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Feb 5, 2008 8:27 PM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > email was intended to be ASCII (or something discernable as it), and > > we have MIME attachments to deal with the rest. I don't need or want > > anything more tha

Re: X & interesting problem

2008-02-05 Thread dick thompson
I am not on Debian now - right now I am on Ubuntu and that is exactly how it works for me - just tried it so see what would happen. s. keeling wrote: Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thursday 24 January 2008 12:00, Samuel Bächler wrote: Number one : I'm using Debian lenny re

Re: [OT] Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Feb 5, 2008 10:33 PM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On 02/05/08 22:27, s. keeling wrote: > > > Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> On 05/02/2008, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> On Feb 4, 5:20 pm, "Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL

Re: X & interesting problem

2008-02-05 Thread s. keeling
Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 24 January 2008 12:00, Samuel Bächler wrote: > > > Number one : I'm using Debian lenny repository. My desktop is gnome & > > > my desktop manager is gdm. When i don't X server, it means i work > > > with just console, i can switch to other con

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Feb 5, 2008 8:27 PM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > email was intended to be ASCII (or something discernable as it), and > we have MIME attachments to deal with the rest. I don't need or want > anything more than that from email. Apologies to those (the rest of > the Universe) for w

[OT] Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 02/05/08 22:27, s. keeling wrote: > > Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On 05/02/2008, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On Feb 4, 5:20 pm, "Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > > >>> > It all depends on the work habits of

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread s. keeling
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling writes: > > Mutt handles any standard form of mail box format, including > > on_some_other_server(don't much care how), aka. imap. > > Internet Message Access Protocol is a protocol, not a file format. Pedant. Thanks. -- Any technology distingui

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Feb 5, 2008 9:11 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 02/05/08 22:27, s. keeling wrote: > > > > I come from the dark ages. For me, it's important that the tools I > > use write files that anything can deal with, not just the app which > > created them. Mutt handles any standard fo

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: > Mutt handles any standard form of mail box format, including > on_some_other_server(don't much care how), aka. imap. Internet Message Access Protocol is a protocol, not a file format. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/08 22:49, s. keeling wrote: > Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Just out of curiosity: why OOo instead of AbiWord? >> I knew someone would remember the previous touching on authoring. ;) >> >> After you suggeste

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/08 22:27, s. keeling wrote: > Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 05/02/2008, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Feb 4, 5:20 pm, "Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > >>> > It all depends on the work habits of th

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-05 Thread s. keeling
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Just out of curiosity: why OOo instead of AbiWord? > > I knew someone would remember the previous touching on authoring. ;) > > After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first > glance it seemed to work nicely but af

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread s. keeling
Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:03:50AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 05/02/2008, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 4, 5:20 pm, "Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > It all depends on the work habits of the individua

Re: gibberish in log file? SOLVED

2008-02-05 Thread Zach
When I was setting up the new ISP in pppconfig I pasted from a document I had mounted from my MS Windows partition (vfat) and it must have included some of those weird control characters. I used fromdos (part of the dos2unix package) on: /etc/ppp/pap-secrets /etc/ppp/peers/sysim /etc/chatscripts/s

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread Wei Chen
On 2/5/08, Mihira Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 02/04/08 10:41, Wei Chen wrote: > > [snip] > >> Note that the G.F.W system of the government is in fact mainly based > > > > GFW? > > Great FireWall ? [OT] No

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread s. keeling
Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 05/02/2008, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 4, 5:20 pm, "Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > It all depends on the work habits of the individual user. > > > > Well, you can say that about anything, right? The OP asked w

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-05 Thread Kent West
Nate Duehr wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:58:28AM -0500, Christopher Judd wrote: PS FWIW, I doubt that it is really the high frequency fields that she is sensitive to But, there were quite a few MORE people who were actually sensitive to ultra-sonic frequenci

Re: security concerns for home work network

2008-02-05 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
ChadDavis wrote: I have a small home office network. I recently set up samba and in the process realized I'm not all that honed on security issues. My concern is this, when I set up something like filesharing, I'm just doing this for the efficiency of my two person software development compan

Re: MacBook

2008-02-05 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Feb 5, 2008, at 5:29 PM, RY wrote: I mean what type of architecture am I looking at? On Feb 5, 2008 3:17 PM, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:46 PM, RY wrote: > To Whom It May Concern, > > I wanted to know if I could install Debian on a MacBook using > Paralle

Re: MacBook

2008-02-05 Thread Bob McGowan
RY wrote: To Whom It May Concern, I wanted to know if I could install Debian on a MacBook using Parallel Desktops. If this is possible which package do I use? Hardware Overview: Model Name:MacBook Model Identifier:MacBook2,1 Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed

Re: MacBook

2008-02-05 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:46 PM, RY wrote: To Whom It May Concern, I wanted to know if I could install Debian on a MacBook using Parallel Desktops. If this is possible which package do I use? Hardware Overview: Model Name:MacBook Model Identifier:MacBook2,1 Processor Name:Inte

Re: X & interesting problem

2008-02-05 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 24 January 2008 12:00, Samuel Bächler wrote: > > Number one : I'm using Debian lenny repository. My desktop is gnome & > > my desktop manager is gdm. When i don't X server, it means i work > > with just console, i can switch to other consoles(with > > CTRL+ALT+F1...F7) But when i st

MacBook

2008-02-05 Thread RY
To Whom It May Concern, I wanted to know if I could install Debian on a MacBook using Parallel Desktops. If this is possible which package do I use? Hardware Overview: Model Name:MacBook Model Identifier:MacBook2,1 Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed:2.16 GHz

Re: low-MHz server [very! OT]

2008-02-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Doug, Just let me say that I greatly admire your dedication! I've always respected your contributions to Debian-User, and now I respect them even more that I know the extremely limiting circumstances under which you operate. Please give my best to your wife and express my sincere hope that

Re: vim + LaTeX

2008-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/08 18:11, Miles Bader wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Struggling to keep up with your typing? Slow page reformatting as >> you scroll? > > I've tried abiword many times over the years (mostly because it does > seem so muc

Re: Printer HP c7280: No Installed HP Devices Found

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:13:26 +0100, "Gerard Robin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello, > When I configured my printer HP c7280 (Photosmart all-in-one) the > command: sudo hp-toolbox got me: > > No Installed HP Devices Found > To install a device, use one of the following methods: >

Re: vim + LaTeX

2008-02-05 Thread Miles Bader
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Struggling to keep up with your typing? Slow page reformatting as > you scroll? I've tried abiword many times over the years (mostly because it does seem so much more svelte and pretty than OO), but I always seem to end up going back to ooword Usuall

Re: how can I see version changes using aptitude?

2008-02-05 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 06:59:02PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 09:36:27PM +0300, Giorgos Pallas wrote: > > Kelly Clowers wrote: > > > On 10/13/07, Giorgos Pallas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Hello to everybody! > > >> > > >> When I was using synaptic, I remember

Re: low-MHz server [OT]

2008-02-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Feb 5, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/08 13:40, David Brodbeck wrote: Powerlines are 60 Hz. He said anything under 200 MHz is OK, so that should be a non-issue. (Assuming there isn't any broadband-over-powerline system in his

Re: security concerns for home work network

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:14:37PM -0700, ChadDavis wrote: > This may a bit off topic, but I am talking about a debian base network, and > I sense that many of the people on this list have admin expertise. > > I have a small home office network. I recently set up samba and in the > process reali

Re: [OT] dialup modemspeed change

2008-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Feb 5, 2008 3:14 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Want to thank everybody for answering this, and the problem was noise on > the line and it has been fixed by Telmex *in one day*! What?! Telmex > responding to a problem in one day and fixing it? Yessir! That puts 'em lightyears

Renato Oliveira de Souza Oliveira convidou você para abrir uma conta de e-mail do Google

2008-02-05 Thread Renato Oliveira de Souza Oliveira
I wish to use Latex in environment linux. Do you know samethink about it? or Do you know can'i help me? Regards Renato. --- Renato Oliveira de Souza Oliveira convidou você para abrir uma conta grátis do Gmail. Para aceitar esse c

Re: [OT] dialup modemspeed change

2008-02-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I've changed the physical location of the Sid box and the telephone number that is being used to dial the ISP. Everything else is the same. Now the connection is at a lower speed than before: average 3000 B/s while before it was 4500 B/s. The sound of V92 dialu

Re: low-MHz server [OT]

2008-02-05 Thread Brian
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Actually, the box doesn't need X. I've got the Athlon64 for clear graphics and I have my IBM 486 for non-anti-alised viewing of e.g. pdf files. It won't run Debian anymore (won't install, and if I do the drive shell-game, it takes 2 minutes to get from login to shell pr

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-05 Thread Nate Duehr
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:58:28AM -0500, Christopher Judd wrote: PS FWIW, I doubt that it is really the high frequency fields that she is sensitive to, but without another explanation, you have to go with what works for you. FYI, UHF TV signals are in the 70 - 1000

Re: security concerns for home work network

2008-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Feb 5, 2008 1:09 PM, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080205 14:21]: > ... > > I generally don't forward any ports from my DSL router into my local > > machines. On occasion I'll open 80 to let my clients do some > > testing. > > You could place an

Re: low-MHz server [OT]

2008-02-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:31:09AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/05/08 08:35, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > I write this sitting at a Digital VT 520. > > Amber screen? No, model A6. White screen. > > Get a DECserver and then the F5(?) key lets you break to a terminal > server prompt and log i

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:58:28AM -0500, Christopher Judd wrote: > PS FWIW, I doubt that it is really the high frequency fields that > she is sensitive to, but without another explanation, you have to go > with what works for you. FYI, UHF TV signals are in the 70 - 1000 MHz > range. It woul

Re: low-MHz server [OT]

2008-02-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:40:17AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Feb 5, 2008, at 5:16 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >How does she walk across the street, under the power-lines? > > Powerlines are 60 Hz. He said anything under 200 MHz is OK, so that > should be a non-issue. (Assuming ther

Re: su doesn't work "Authentication failure"

2008-02-05 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kevin Buhr wrote the following on 01/31/2008 12:50 PM: > > From aptitude show login ==>> 1:4.0.18.1-7 <<== >> should give: >> >> 1381ae1ac77b512258657b096522bb6a /bin/su >c80fc747e24fa8bfa099cbef0bfb926f /bin/su <<== > from md5

Re: question concerning autofs, usbfs and vfat

2008-02-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Robert Cates wrote: Hi, and thanks for your help! I have not made any changes to the default configuration for autofs. The truth is, I'm not even sure I need it installed. I thought it sounded like a nice feature, but I haven't done anything with it yet. This machine is a server, so therefore

Re: low-MHz server [OT]

2008-02-05 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/08 13:40, David Brodbeck wrote: On Feb 5, 2008, at 5:16 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: How does she walk across the street, under the power-lines? Powerlines are 60 Hz. He said anything under 200 MHz is OK, so t

Re: security concerns for home work network

2008-02-05 Thread Russell L. Harris
* ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080205 14:21]: ... > I generally don't forward any ports from my DSL router into my local > machines. On occasion I'll open 80 to let my clients do some > testing. You could place an old machine on the "dmz" port of your firewall/router (you DO have a firewall,

Re: hard drive not spinning down.

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Henry
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > what kernel are you running? the power management seems to be kind of > borked in 2.6.24 and requires some hacking to get it to funciton > reasonably. > 2.6.23-9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/08 14:35, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> Struggling to keep up with your typing? Slow page reformatting as >> you scroll? > > Both. There was a detectable pause after typing. I could work around > that as I'm no speed demon

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-05 Thread Terence
On 05/02/2008, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals > > You, sir, you rock! > Take care what you say, with a name like yours! Terence -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Struggling to keep up with your typing? Slow page reformatting as > you scroll? Both. There was a detectable pause after typing. I could work around that as I'm no speed demon when it comes to typing. However scrolling was dog slow. Sometimes 2-3 seconds on a page dow

Re: Flash with Iceweasel in Lenny

2008-02-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> Only 5 servers in North America have it. Try the rest of the world, i got it to work without any problems. Well, sometimes i have to dpkg-reconfigure iceweasel 'cos otherwise it just shows everything blank, but other than that... no problems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

security concerns for home work network

2008-02-05 Thread ChadDavis
This may a bit off topic, but I am talking about a debian base network, and I sense that many of the people on this list have admin expertise. I have a small home office network. I recently set up samba and in the process realized I'm not all that honed on security issues. My concern is this, w

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/08 13:29, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> Just out of curiosity: why OOo instead of AbiWord? > > I knew someone would remember the previous touching on authoring. ;) > > After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl.

Re: low-MHz server [OT]

2008-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/08 13:40, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Feb 5, 2008, at 5:16 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> How does she walk across the street, under the power-lines? > > Powerlines are 60 Hz. He said anything under 200 MHz is OK, so that > should be a non-i

filesystem acl problem

2008-02-05 Thread koffiejunkie
Hi guys, I'm doing some thing wrong. I have my mailserver setup to deliver mail for all domains to /home/vmail//. Files and directories inside it gets created with 0600 and 0700 permissions, respectively - I don't see a way to tell postfix to do it any other way. I have a cronjob on another m

RE: question concerning autofs, usbfs and vfat

2008-02-05 Thread Robert Cates
Hi, and thanks for your help! I have not made any changes to the default configuration for autofs. The truth is, I'm not even sure I need it installed. I thought it sounded like a nice feature, but I haven't done anything with it yet. This machine is a server, so therefore no KDE or Gnome, or G

Re: security keys

2008-02-05 Thread Davide Mancusi
tom arnall ha scritto: i'm trying to get libdvdcss and thus put: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main into sources.list. but when i do apt-get update, i get: W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified be

Re: low-MHz server [OT]

2008-02-05 Thread David Brodbeck
On Feb 5, 2008, at 5:16 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: How does she walk across the street, under the power-lines? Powerlines are 60 Hz. He said anything under 200 MHz is OK, so that should be a non-issue. (Assuming there isn't any broadband-over- powerline system in his area, at least.) --

security keys

2008-02-05 Thread tom arnall
i'm trying to get libdvdcss and thus put: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main into sources.list. but when i do apt-get update, i get: W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is n

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Just out of curiosity: why OOo instead of AbiWord? I knew someone would remember the previous touching on authoring. ;) After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first glance it seemed to work nicely but after 2-3 times I noticed that it was really chu

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/08 12:43, Steve Lamb wrote: > marc wrote: >> Steve Lamb said... >> Cool, another LaTeX + vim devotee that doesn't use that combination >> simultaneously. As a matter of interest, Steve, which editor do you use >> for writing with LaTex? > >

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:43:44AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > marc wrote: > > Steve Lamb said... > > Cool, another LaTeX + vim devotee that doesn't use that combination > > simultaneously. As a matter of interest, Steve, which editor do you use > > for writing with LaTex? > > I don't. Never s

Re: List of packages in a stable i386 base install?

2008-02-05 Thread SpamHog
On Feb 5, 3:30 pm, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's wrong with just GRML? What's wrong with MS-DOS? What's wrong with AOL? :-) For starters, grml medium wasn't even out of beta last time I checked, and came with a nice big proviso. The usual other criticisms apply. Or d

Re: List of packages in a stable i386 base install?

2008-02-05 Thread SpamHog
On Feb 5, 3:30 pm, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's wrong with just GRML? What's wrong with MS-DOS? What's wrong with AOL? :-) For starters, grml medium wasn't even out of beta last time I checked, and came with a nice big proviso. The usual other criticisms apply. Or d

vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-05 Thread Steve Lamb
marc wrote: > Steve Lamb said... > Cool, another LaTeX + vim devotee that doesn't use that combination > simultaneously. As a matter of interest, Steve, which editor do you use > for writing with LaTex? I don't. Never said I used LaTeX, only that I was aware of it. I am visually oriented whe

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread marc
Steve Lamb said... > Just as while I am a vim devotee for programming Python > I most certainly would not use it for creating documents fit for > printing. Yes, I know there's LaTeX, but vim + LaTeX does not work for > me for writing Cool, another LaTeX + vim devotee that doesn't use that combina

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:00:27AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: [...] > > Also, will mutt remember that when I write > > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need the From address to be [EMAIL PROTECTED], > > and when I write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need the From address to > > be [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > No. You'

Re: dist-upgrade from sarge to etch - package dependencies issues

2008-02-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 23:32:12 +, Dimitrios Daskalakis wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 22:41:11 +, Dimitrios Daskalakis wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am trying to upgrade my distribution from sarge to > > > etch. [...] > > > The following packages have unmet depend

computer case; was Re: Accessing a TV adapter via my network

2008-02-05 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Barry, At Feb 5, 2008, at 2:26 AM you wrote, "... buying a case until I know that the whole setup works." So many computers are discarded these days; few people really need to buy a computer let alone a case. If friends haven't offered you several, there should be a steady supply on various l

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-05 Thread Chris Lale
Hello Doug. The VIA EPIA 5000AG Fanless mini ITX runs at 533Mhz. I don't know if you can find a way to underclock it. Fanless VIA Eden 533MHz Processor, Up to 1GB PC133 Ram, Onboard VGA, Serial, 4xUSB v1.1, LAN 10/100, Parallel. Does not have TV out. -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/08 11:00, Steve Lamb wrote: >> I see what you are saying. Tell me, in mutt can I have several (5-6) >> compose messages open and switch between them and the main window that >> I'm copying / pasting from? > > No. You can have several mut

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread Steve Lamb
> I see what you are saying. Tell me, in mutt can I have several (5-6) > compose messages open and switch between them and the main window that > I'm copying / pasting from? No. You can have several mutt windows open but it is CLI, no multiple windows from a single instance. > Also, will mut

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-05 Thread Christopher Judd
On Monday 04 February 2008, John Hasler wrote: > David Brodbeck writes: > > ...have you considered putting the machine in another room and placing > > only the monitor, keyboard, and mouse at your wife's workstation? > > Or put the computer in the basement and set her up with a diskless > X-termin

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-05 Thread Christopher Judd
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, John Hasler wrote: > ... > And everything at a temperature above absolute zero emits radiation at all > wavelengths. Not really. -Chris | Christopher Judd, Ph. D. [EMAIL

[SOLVED] Proper font and colour in telnet session....

2008-02-05 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yeah I know - a solution without a problem before. But this was such a pain I wanted to document it for the poor sap who hits the same wall. Problem A telnet session from an Etch (or Ubuntu Gutsy) box either doesn't display pop up window

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-05 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Halogens are incandescents. They just use a bit of chemistry to run hotter > than ordinary incandescents. Doug writes: > In the process, we've been told by EMF researchers, they also emit more > EMF than regualar non-chemical incandescents. Who are these EMF researchers? -- John Has

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/08 08:57, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 07:26:47AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/04/08 23:03, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> [snip] >>> Sure. We don't have florescents, nor even halogens. Plain ordinary >>> (soon to be d

Re: low-MHz server [OT]

2008-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/08 08:35, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] > > I write this sitting at a Digital VT 520. Amber screen? Get a DECserver and then the F5(?) key lets you break to a terminal server prompt and log into another machine. The VT lets you switch bet

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 08:06:58AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Sure. We don't have florescents, nor even halogens. Plain ordinary > > (soon to be discontinued) incandescant. > > Halogens are incandescents. They just use a bit of chemistry to run hotter > than ordinar

Re: How to set up a WLAN?

2008-02-05 Thread Angus Auld
--- Daniel Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:40:30AM -0800, Angus Auld > wrote: > > > I don't have any rt-2xxx or rt-25xx packages > > installed, so support > > must be compiled in the kernel(?). > > Those are just the modules. Can you do a lsmod | > grep rt to see

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 07:26:47AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/04/08 23:03, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] > > > > Sure. We don't have florescents, nor even halogens. Plain ordinary > > (soon to be discontinued) incandescant. Analog radio is fine (IIRC, > > intermediate frequency of 155

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:03:50AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 05/02/2008, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 4, 5:20 pm, "Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > It all depends on the work habits of the individual user. > > > > > > Well, you can say that about

Re: low-MHz server [OT]

2008-02-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 07:16:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/04/08 22:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] > > > > The problem is real. There is no placebo effect to worry about. > > > > Currently, Athlon64 box is as far from my wife as possible (70 feet). > > Based on our experience of

Re: List of packages in a stable i386 base install?

2008-02-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:46:57AM -0800, SpamHog wrote: > Now I have a fresh base install ready in a 1-GB "rescue" partition. > Once the list is ready I'll make sure all the packages are indeed > installable, then I'll try to make a metapackage pulling them all in. I only have two boxes with mo

Re: How to set up a WLAN?

2008-02-05 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Daniel Haude wrote: Hello, this message is all the more strange since I had wireless up and running with Debian once. But that system got hosed about a year ago for some reason or another, and now I've got it set up again and I'm completely stumped with the WLAN thingy. $ lsusb Bus 005 Device 0

Re: Per app GTK+ theme?\

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 04:49:55PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Since Audacious was upgraded to version 1.4.x it has been complaining > that the GTK theme engine is broken (gtk-qt engine). While I can tell > the box to never show again, if there truly is some aspect that's > broken I'd like to te

Re: Flash with Iceweasel in Lenny

2008-02-05 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Doug, dmt> try flash-plugin non-free. Thanks for the tip. Googling "site:packages.debian.org flash" finds that flashplugin-nonfree is available for sarge, etch, sid and experimental but not for lenny! dmt> ... non-free repository in your sources.list. Only 5 servers in North America have i

Printer HP c7280: No Installed HP Devices Found

2008-02-05 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, When I configured my printer HP c7280 (Photosmart all-in-one) the command: sudo hp-toolbox got me: No Installed HP Devices Found To install a device, use one of the following methods: -8< ERROR: No device found or unsupported device However wit

installing SAM/ELN using apache+tomcat on debian?

2008-02-05 Thread Michael A. Miller
I am attempting to install the SAM/ELN software from ORNL/PNNL (collaboratory.emsl.pnl.gov and sourceforge.net/projects/eln/) but I am hampered by having no experience with tomcat. Has anyone successfully run this software on a debian box with apache and tomcat? I am not able to get user authenti

Re: How to set up a WLAN?

2008-02-05 Thread Daniel Haude
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:40:30AM -0800, Angus Auld wrote: > I don't have any rt-2xxx or rt-25xx packages > installed, so support > must be compiled in the kernel(?). Those are just the modules. Can you do a lsmod | grep rt to see which one you've actually loaded? wifi-radar doesn't work eithe

Re: discovering debian ...

2008-02-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
oxy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, i just installed debian/gnome and am discovering it. > At first, few things sound strange: > where is man here? There is only a strange xman :-[ > The /usr/share/man is actually there ... > an apropos? whatis? > `xtem --help` says that `xterm -fs 14` should w

Re: How to set up a WLAN?

2008-02-05 Thread Angus Auld
--- Daniel Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > this message is all the more strange since I had > wireless up and running > with Debian once. But that system got hosed about a > year ago for some reason > or another, and now I've got it set up again and I'm > completely stumped with >

Re: How to set up a WLAN?

2008-02-05 Thread Lesley Binks
On 05/02/2008, Daniel Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > this message is all the more strange since I had wireless up and running > with Debian once. But that system got hosed about a year ago for some reason > or another, and now I've got it set up again and I'm completely stumped with

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Sure. We don't have florescents, nor even halogens. Plain ordinary > (soon to be discontinued) incandescant. Halogens are incandescents. They just use a bit of chemistry to run hotter than ordinary incandescents. Ron Johnson writes: > Visible light is 100,000GHz and i

How to set up a WLAN?

2008-02-05 Thread Daniel Haude
Hello, this message is all the more strange since I had wireless up and running with Debian once. But that system got hosed about a year ago for some reason or another, and now I've got it set up again and I'm completely stumped with the WLAN thingy. $ lsusb Bus 005 Device 003: ID 2001:3c00 D-Lin

Debian 2.6.24-1- + ck patch + vmserver + nvidia

2008-02-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I successfully recompiled the Debian 2.6.24-1 kernel with http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.24-2.diff.gz after applying the ck1 patch for that kernel version from here: http://kamikaze.waninkoko.info/patches/2.6.24/kamikaze1/broken-out/ckpatches-2.6.24.pat

Re: too many mutts

2008-02-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-02-04 22:52:02 +, Steve Kemp wrote: > Close but not as good as you could do - your script essentially > says "If mutt is running exit". A better approach would be to > use GNU Screen to allow the user to re-attach to a running mutt: > >alias mutt='screen -D -R -S mutt mutt'

Re: List of packages in a stable i386 base install?

2008-02-05 Thread SpamHog
Thank you again Douglas! I'll look at all the packages you find objectionable. Some are rarely used, of course, but my goal is to put together a rather complete but fully standard Debian stable CLI-only rescue install, mostly because I didn't find one, and I generally find such a separate on-spind

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 23:03, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] > > Sure. We don't have florescents, nor even halogens. Plain ordinary > (soon to be discontinued) incandescant. Analog radio is fine (IIRC, > intermediate frequency of 155 MHz). Visible light is

Re: low-MHz server [OT]

2008-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 22:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] > > The problem is real. There is no placebo effect to worry about. > > Currently, Athlon64 box is as far from my wife as possible (70 feet). > Based on our experience of other high-MHz or GHz device

Re: [OT] dialup modemspeed change

2008-02-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:29:53AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/03/08 08:57, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I've changed the physical location of the Sid box and the telephone number that is being used to dial the ISP. Everything else is the same. Now the connection is at a

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