Re: question about vim

2008-02-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:50:37AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:46:03AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:29:59AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > > > > I am a user of vim (learner). I have been getting caught out with the > > >

Re: Release: KNOPPIX5.1.1 for Trusted Compuintg Geeks (v1.0)

2008-02-20 Thread Kuniyasu Suzaki
>>From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Release: KNOPPIX5.1.1 for Trusted Compuintg Geeks (v1.0) >> >>On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:37:17AM +0900, Kuniyasu Suzaki wrote: >>> >>> >>From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> >>How does the system behave

Re: digital camera software

2008-02-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:51:18AM -0800, canona650 wrote: > > apt-cache search digital | grep camera > > photopc - Interface to digital still cameras > > phototk - GUI interface for digital cameras > > pencam - Download images from STV0680B-001 chip based digital cameras > > fujiplay - Interface

Re: question about vim

2008-02-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:46:03AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:29:59AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > I am a user of vim (learner). I have been getting caught out with the file > > type setting of vim, sometimes it is good an other times it is a pain in

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:04:13PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > still noticed a great difference between Sarge and Etch in terms of > dpkg, apt, and aptitude performance; it is far more sluggish with Etch my very partial experience points to the binaries (perhaps the version of the compliler a

Re: Digital Camera

2008-02-20 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/08 22:01, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:50:12AM -0800, canona650 wrote: http://www.canona560.com Canon A560 What are you, some kind of canon spambot? Great minds think alike... And so do y'all's! ;-) -- Ke

Re: Debian Etch PPC install issue

2008-02-20 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/21/08, David Shuman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi; > > I did a standard network install in a Oldworld Mac Performa 6400, install > was clean - three times -- twice with a single root partition formatted Ext3 > and once with an single root formatted ext2 partition (hda6 -- MAC HFS > Boot

Debian Etch PPC install issue

2008-02-20 Thread David Shuman
Hi; I did a standard network install in a Oldworld Mac Performa 6400, install was clean - three times -- twice with a single root partition formatted Ext3 and once with an single root formatted ext2 partition (hda6 -- MAC HFS Boot -- hda7 -- swap -- hda8 -- root - (linux partitionconfirmed in

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-20 Thread Depo Catcher
Ron Johnson wrote: What I really need is just a typewriter. I can sale you one for the right price. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/21/08, Depo Catcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Along this lines, does anyone know of a program that can quickly send out > mass emails to a bunch of different addresses? > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:02:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/20/08 18:2

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Depo Catcher
Along this lines, does anyone know of a program that can quickly send out mass emails to a bunch of different addresses? Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:02:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/08 18:26, steve wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: |

Re: Digital Camera

2008-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 22:01, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:50:12AM -0800, canona650 wrote: >> http://www.canona560.com Canon A560 >> >> > > What are you, some kind of canon spambot? Great minds think alike... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 16:24, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Hello all, > > I often have forms to fill out and some would be better not > hand-written. However, they all differ so I can't just set-up a > template. > > What I really need is just a typewriter. > > D

Re: remote xterm font

2008-02-20 Thread s. keeling
Jamin Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > Is there a way to dump my local xterm setup ? > [snip] > /etc/X11/app-defaults/xterm - you can use xrdb to dump (xrdb -query) and > merge from file (xrdb -merge) on the remote machine. Cool, thanks, didn't know that bit. -- Any

Re: dumb ifconfig_question

2008-02-20 Thread s. keeling
steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > dear compadres, > > thanks for the answers and apologies for my stupidity (just too tired) > to use the reply-knob to tell you i had already solved my own question > by remembering the ifup and ifdown commands. Oh good! :-) Been there, done that, and expect

Re: ASUS P5GC-MX mother board - Attensic network card

2008-02-20 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 21 February 2008 04:53, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I have bought ASUS P5GC-MX mother board which has inbuilt Attensic > network card. You need at least 2.6.24 kernel. It was detected by 2.6.23 or 22, I don't remember which, but it wasn't working correctly: lost of disconnections. Thierry

Re: Digital Camera

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:50:12AM -0800, canona650 wrote: > > http://www.canona560.com Canon A560 > > What are you, some kind of canon spambot? A > Robert Thompson wrote: > > > > Hello All, > >I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a USB > > to > > connect to

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:02:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/20/08 18:26, steve wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > | On 02/20/08 16:24, Andrius wrote: > > |> Ron Johnson wrote: > > |>> On 02/20/08 14:25, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > |>>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:19:24PM +, Andrius wrote

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 05:50:05AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I often have forms to fill out and some would be better not >> hand-written. However, they all differ so I can't just set-up a >> template. >> >> What I really need is just a typewriter

ASUS P5GC-MX mother board - Attensic network card

2008-02-20 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I have bought ASUS P5GC-MX mother board which has inbuilt Attensic network card. During installation of debian etch, card was not detected. Hence installed with out network only minimal system(with only last option in software selection). I have googled. But I didn't get anywhere near solution. I

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:28:01AM +, "Michael D. Norwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 2/21/08, *Zach* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >>> Hey, >>> This doesn't sound normal at all, for comparison I have: >>> (Reading database ...

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Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 18:26, steve wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > | On 02/20/08 16:24, Andrius wrote: > |> Ron Johnson wrote: > |>> On 02/20/08 14:25, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > |>>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:19:24PM +, Andrius wrote: > | what software to

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: | On 02/20/08 16:24, Andrius wrote: |> Ron Johnson wrote: |>> On 02/20/08 14:25, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: |>>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:19:24PM +, Andrius wrote: | what software to use for collecting of email addresses from

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Andrius wrote: Hi, what software to use for collecting of email addresses from particular sites? wget, grep But, perhaps, it would be easier to just ask the site admins to mail you the list of addresses? Regards, Andrius -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- At the source of every error which i

Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello all, I often have forms to fill out and some would be better not hand-written. However, they all differ so I can't just set-up a template. What I really need is just a typewriter. Does anyone know of an app that will give me an interactive session with my Epson d

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 16:24, Andrius wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/20/08 14:25, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:19:24PM +, Andrius wrote: what software to use for collecting of email addresses from particular sites? >>

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:21:55PM +, Andrius wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:19:24PM +, Andrius wrote: > >>what software to use for collecting of email addresses from particular > >>sites? > >What do you mean? > > > > There is website with over hundred emai

Re: question about vim

2008-02-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:29:59AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > > I am a user of vim (learner). I have been getting caught out with the file > type setting of vim, sometimes it is good an other times it is a pain in the > but. > > I have done some reading about setting vim options in

question about vim

2008-02-20 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am a user of vim (learner). I have been getting caught out with the file type setting of vim, sometimes it is good an other times it is a pain in the but. I have done some reading about setting vim options in files. for example I am editing a makefile and I have placed this line a

typewriter function for an impact printer?

2008-02-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I often have forms to fill out and some would be better not hand-written. However, they all differ so I can't just set-up a template. What I really need is just a typewriter. Does anyone know of an app that will give me an interactive session with my Epson dot-matrix printer? I coul

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Andrius
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 14:25, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:19:24PM +, Andrius wrote: what software to use for collecting of email addresses from particular sites? What do you mean? It appears that he wants to ge

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Andrius
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:19:24PM +, Andrius wrote: what software to use for collecting of email addresses from particular sites? What do you mean? Doug. There is website with over hundred email addresses that should be collected and written to vcards or alia

lenny: strange experiences trying to install latest weekly snapshot

2008-02-20 Thread Peter Mattern
Hi, within the last few days, I tried to install lenny (i386, snapshot February 11) on several systems yielding strange results: 1) FSC Amilo Pro V2055 (VIA VN800 / UniChrome Pro), Saturday Feb 16 Installation seems to work well. While the boot procedure, X (using vesa-driver by default) seem

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 14:25, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:19:24PM +, Andrius wrote: >> what software to use for collecting of email addresses from particular >> sites? > > What do you mean? It appears that he wants to get into the

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 20:19:24 +, Andrius wrote: > what software to use for collecting of email addresses from particular sites? I don't because I'm not a spammer. Steve -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:19:24PM +, Andrius wrote: > what software to use for collecting of email addresses from particular > sites? What do you mean? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Blacklisting modules

2008-02-20 Thread Robin
On 20/02/2008, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:49:39PM +, Robin wrote: > > I have an onboard rtl8187 wireless usb chip which I want to disable but > > which cannot be disabled from bios. I added 'blacklist rtl8187' to > > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist but th

Re: sshfs and permissions of /dev/fuse

2008-02-20 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-02-19 01:02:39 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I recently installed sshfs on this etch system using aptitude > install sshfs. I am having the same problem you listed above. > However, I can't seem to find /dev/fuse. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /dev/fuse > ls: /dev/fuse: No such file

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:47:46AM -0500, Zach wrote: > Do you know if it's expected for installing packages to take longer > the more total packages one has installed? In recent months I notice > sometimes when I install packages (sometimes one, sometimes many) the > machine will be in nearly unus

Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-20 Thread Andrius
Hi, what software to use for collecting of email addresses from particular sites? Regards, Andrius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bash crashes on tab completion of usernames (with nss-ldap)

2008-02-20 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Alex Samad wrote: Ah, that is what I missed before... tab completion of user names not directory entries yeah only on username expansion Please also check for group entries malloc: unknown:0: assertion botched free: start and end chunk sizes differ last command: ls -l

octave-forge packages don't show or load

2008-02-20 Thread Tomás Revilla
I installed both octave and octave-forge (2.9 branch) thru synaptic. Under octave: octave:1> pkg list no packages installed. octave:2> pkg load odepkg # as in the documentation error: package odepkg is not installed error: evaluating if command near line 1824, column 7 error: evaluating for comman

Re: remote xterm font

2008-02-20 Thread Jamin Davis
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Is there a way to dump my local xterm setup ? It's probably in your ~/.Xresources file or maybe /etc/X11/app-defaults/xterm - you can use xrdb to dump (xrdb -query) and merge from file (xrdb -merge) on the remote machine. Jamin -- Jamin @ Home @ Chester UK -- To UNSU

Re: building custom package

2008-02-20 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Christian wrote: Hi, I am trying to build a custom zenoss package (http://www.zenoss.com/). I made a DEBIAN directory which contains control file and pre / post scripts, and the directory /usr/local/zenoss with all the files. However when trying to install get the following error : package c

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 08:19, Owen Townend wrote: On 2/21/08, *Zach* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: [snip] My machine is a P3/700MHz. Zach Hey, This doesn't sound normal at all, for compariso

Re: remote installing without loale drive (CD, USB;Floopy)

2008-02-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
abdelkader belahcene wrote: I want to install Debian from a local server on several machines which haven't CD,s. I other word how to install without using neither CD nor floppy drive, usb , just network card. from A local site. I mean instead of reading from CD, I read from remote machine

Re: New User

2008-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 10:57, Andrius wrote: [snip] > > So, upgrade or not upgrade? Install Ubuntu 7.10. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them into big productions." Pitr Dubovitch

Re: New User

2008-02-20 Thread Andrius
Russell L. Harris wrote: * Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080219 11:56]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrius wrote: Is it really good idea to move to Lenny from Etch? If you want a stable system without constantly evolving software, stay with etch. I have been ru

Re: Mount digital camera

2008-02-20 Thread canona650
http://www.canona650.com Canon A650 http://www.canonsd950.com Canon SD950 zadig wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 11:52:42PM +0100, Samuel Bächler wrote: >>From: Samuel Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>Subject: Re: Mount digital camera >>X-Spam-Checker-Version

Re: Digital Camera

2008-02-20 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> >I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a USB > > to > > connect to the computer. Question is: How does digital cameras work with > > Debian? The Sony i have (Cybershot DSC U10) has memory-sticks so it works just like any other mass-storage usb device. -- Fica bem

Re: digital camera software

2008-02-20 Thread canona650
http://www.canona560.com Canon A560 Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:12:47AM +0200, Bayrouni wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I need nice software for my digcameraital . >> But I have'nt any idea which software is fine for accessng, reading, ... >> all enabled info and data

Re: Digital Camera

2008-02-20 Thread canona650
http://www.canona560.com Canon A560 Robert Thompson wrote: > > Hello All, >I also have a digital camera that I love. It is a Sony that uses a USB > to > connect to the computer. Question is: How does digital cameras work with > Debian? > > Thanks > Eric > > -- View this message in con

remote installing without loale drive (CD, USB;Floopy)

2008-02-20 Thread abdelkader belahcene
I want to install Debian from a local server on several machines which > haven't CD,s. > I other word how to install without using neither CD nor floppy drive, usb , just network card. from A local site. I mean instead of reading from CD, I read from remote machine using pxe or tftboot or some

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-02-20 14:47 +0100, Zach wrote: > Do you know if it's expected for installing packages to take longer > the more total packages one has installed? Yes. The reason is that for every package installation dpkg has to read the whole list of installed files from /var/lib/dpkg/info to see if a

Re: icedove

2008-02-20 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2008/2/20, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > > > > I am running icedove in Lenny. And I have a problem too with it. It > > crashes _only_ when I open mails sent by Trac [1], The Trac server > > has a private IP. This problem appeared 3 weeks ago, before that, I > > could open those ma

Re: icedove

2008-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 09:38, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > 2008/2/18, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> And while on the subject of Mozilla software, icedove has started crashing on >> me. Roughly every 10 minutes it would be if I was using icedove alone all

Re: icedove

2008-02-20 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2008/2/18, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > And while on the subject of Mozilla software, icedove has started crashing on > me. Roughly every 10 minutes it would be if I was using icedove alone all the > time. > > Where do I look for crash logs or other info? Is there an option setting for > logg

Re: Upgrade to 3.1 and next to 4.0.Two questions: security checks and disk space.

2008-02-20 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat February 16 2008 09:44:12 am alexandre suzuki wrote: > I want to upgrade to the latest Sarge r7 and then > upgrade to Debian 4.0r2 and I am not sure about > two things: > > 1) I installed apt_0.5.28.6 and aptitude_0.2.15.9-2 > (from Sarge r7) and I don´t know if they do the > security ch

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 14:47, Zach wrote: > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y > (Reading database ... << At this point it hung for 20 minutes! > > << It then proceeded: > > 316137 files and directories currently installed.) Isn't that a lot of files and directories. On my box, I have about 1

RE: unable to burn debian ISO

2008-02-20 Thread Claude Marinier
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:52:21 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 03:39:07PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: >> On Tue February 19 2008 03:04:25 pm Claude Marinier wrote: >>> I have successfully burned three ISO image files onto CD for the stable >>> SPARC distribution but cannot bur

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 08:19, Owen Townend wrote: > > > On 2/21/08, *Zach* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > [snip] > > My machine is a P3/700MHz. > > Zach > > > Hey, > This doesn't sound normal at all, for comparison I have

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 07:47, Zach wrote: > Do you know if it's expected for installing packages to take longer > the more total packages one has installed? In recent months I notice > sometimes when I install packages (sometimes one, sometimes many) the > machin

Re: apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/21/08, Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you know if it's expected for installing packages to take longer > the more total packages one has installed? In recent months I notice > sometimes when I install packages (sometimes one, sometimes many) the > machine will be in nearly unusable sta

Re: icedove continues to crash regularly

2008-02-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/20/08 05:57, Adam Hardy wrote: > Ron Johnson on 19/02/08 14:57, wrote: >> >> On 02/19/08 06:10, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] >>> >>> >>> Another bug? Or my system? >> >> Since you're the only one who seems to be having these problems, I'd >> start lo

apt is killing my machine

2008-02-20 Thread Zach
Do you know if it's expected for installing packages to take longer the more total packages one has installed? In recent months I notice sometimes when I install packages (sometimes one, sometimes many) the machine will be in nearly unusable state while it read's the package database. Such as just

Re: Modifying Keyboards for Special Characters

2008-02-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 03:52:56PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > >There are Hebrew keyboards that either place vowel signs in control/number > >positions or swap them with numbers and put the numbers in control/number. > >The Dagesh word processor used keyboards like this. Aside from charmap type

Re: Multiple SATA disks, two OSs and booting problem

2008-02-20 Thread Owen Townend
On 2/20/08, Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Owen Townend wrote: > > > > > > On 2/20/08, *Tero Mäntyvaara* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: > > > > Owen Townend wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 2/20/08, *Tero Mäntyvaara* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <

Re: icedove continues to crash regularly

2008-02-20 Thread Adam Hardy
Ron Johnson on 19/02/08 14:57, wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/08 06:10, Adam Hardy wrote: Ralph Katz on 18/02/08 20:25, wrote: On 02/18/2008 10:37 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: And while on the subject of Mozilla software, icedove has started crashing on me. Roughly eve

building custom package

2008-02-20 Thread Christian
Hi, I am trying to build a custom zenoss package (http://www.zenoss.com/). I made a DEBIAN directory which contains control file and pre / post scripts, and the directory /usr/local/zenoss with all the files. However when trying to install get the following error : package control info rmdir of `

Re: dumb ifconfig_question

2008-02-20 Thread steef
dear compadres, thanks for the answers and apologees for my stupidity (just too tired) to use the reply-knob to tell you i had already solved my own question by remembering the ifup and ifdown commands. regards, steef Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 08:23:36AM +110

Re: [OT] percorso linux

2008-02-20 Thread Christopher Bianchi
Se vuoi orientarti alla programmazione e conosci gia il C, allora: "Guida alla Programmazione in Linux" sempre di Piccardi. Lo trovi in versione cartacea su Lulu.com, al costo di 20 euro mi pare. Se vuoi rimanere in ambito amministrativo e conosci l'inglese, beh lascia stare libri e comincia a spe

Re: Forward to be avoided on a mailing list [Was: [Fwd: dumb ifconfig_question]]

2008-02-20 Thread steef
you are right, of course. was even too tired for that last night. thanks, steef Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:13:45PM +, steef wrote: [snip] Please avoid using forward (unless you are forwarding a totally new message) because it breaks the threading (no In-Reply-t

Re: Bug#465608: "education" has made my debian mentally challenged

2008-02-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Tyler MacDonald wrote: No such luck :-( A (hopefully final) fix for the problem was tested yesterday by Fabrice Lorrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> successfully. The packages versioned 0.826 just hit incoming and should be propagated to unstable soon. Sorry for the inconvience a

Postprocessing script for cups-pdf

2008-02-20 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
I have written a PostProcessing script in python for cups-pdf which pops up a notification using libnotify and gives the user the option of viewing the result. It is working fine, but if the user decides to view the file, all the other jobs to the pdf printer are held in queue till the viewing

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes

2008-02-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:58:29PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Here we go again. Someone asked this a couple of days ago. I've added some content to http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#using-devswitch Please have a look at it and correct/complete if necessary. Regards, Andrei --

Re: Cannot get PS/2 touchpad to work on old laptop

2008-02-20 Thread Bob Cox
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Cox wrote: >> I have one small problem with a Debian install on with a very old laptop >> (P266, 64MB, 800x600) which is badged as a 'Lifetec' but is really a >> Twinhead Slimnote 9TE. It has a touchpad, or 'pointin