Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 01:31:28PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/5/6 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת > > > > I am running an UTF-8 locale and the above still like gibberish. > > > > Thank you, that is actually very important inform

Re: more ash/dash/bash questions

2008-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:29:44PM -0300, Otavio Exel wrote: > some years ago I remember reading here that pointing /bin/sh to dash or > ash would break a lot of important scripts in Debian; $ ls -la `which sh` lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-05-07 09:20 /bin/sh -> dash I had it like this for so

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >Cameron Hutchison wrote: >> When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany >> or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle >> button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This only happens for me >> with Debian. On my sys

AM2+ motherboard with support for ECC RAM for media player / server

2008-05-06 Thread Bob
Bob wrote: Unbuffered / Registered obviously. Bad form Bla Bla Bla but just to update the list, the abit A-S78H also supports Un-buffered ECC RAM, it doesn't have FireWire though http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php?pMODEL_NAME=A-S78H&fMTYPE=Socket%20AM2 This

Re: ircii question

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > s. keeling wrote: >> Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> What package or packages need to be installed so when I connect to >>> an irc server I don't get the message Ident is disabled? >>> >> >> pidentd >> >> >>

Re: Installing a new kernel

2008-05-06 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/06/2008 06:41 AM, James Allsopp wrote: [...] but when I try: apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.686 it always says most recent version installed. Does this mean that there isn't a post 2.6.21 kernel image available in Lenny or Sid? I've also tried download the kernel source and doing it ma

Re: Can't resolve ftp.us.debian.org

2008-05-06 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:46:23PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 5/6/08, NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > strace -f -o /tmp/apt-get.log apt-get update > http://wa9als.com/apt-get.log In this strace I am not able to see any _obvious_ cause for your error (such as strang

Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

2008-05-06 Thread H.S.
Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Manu Hack wrote the following on 05/06/2008 01:11 PM: Sorry, I tried both suggestions and I don't see any changes of differences in anything. Dennis Could you list the steps and actions you tried? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Emilio Perea wrote: > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:46:33AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: >> for the record, it's VERY broken in Vista. >> >> running "edit" in cmd or powershell, gives, >> >> |=== >> |16 bit MS-DS Subsytem

Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

2008-05-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Manu Hack wrote the following on 05/06/2008 01:11 PM: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Greetings; Search as I may I can not find how to do this. I am running gnome and a hi-res screen. My cursor and mouse poin

Re: boot

2008-05-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Diego A. Podestá wrote: Buenas Antes que nada aclaro que soy novato. Y antes que nada, siento que la lista es solo ingles. [...] Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% r

Re: Debian Installer Hangs on MacBook

2008-05-06 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: ... I downloaded the 4.0.r3.13 netinstaller ISO and burned it to CD, and then booted from it. ... the boot process hangs fairly early in the process Jerome BENOIT wrote: you may want to visit the mactel site: www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page and more specific ones: w

boot

2008-05-06 Thread Diego A . Podestá
Buenas Antes que nada aclaro que soy novato. Acabo de instalar en una particion del disco, el sistema Debian. El problema que tengo es que al tener instalado el xp, en el boot no aparece la opciòn de elegir el sistema operativo y directamente se inicia con xp. He ingresado en todos los foros qu

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri May 2 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> If they float and are not ducks ... nor made of wood, then they must be >>> ... ? >> Positively buoyant non-wooden non-ducks. Or witches. > > hey, wait, **I** can float! especially in

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Cameron Hutchison wrote: When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This only happens for me with Debian. On my systems with Ubuntu, google maps works

Re: more ash/dash/bash questions

2008-05-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Otavio Exel wrote: Hello List, I've been writing shell scripts to be run as root lately; I'm not aware of any security-risk involving bash but I'd much more rather run those scripts with ash or dash instead of bash; What sort of security risks do you have in mind other than human error? Parti

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

2008-05-06 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ivan, My response probable did not make any sense. I went and dug up a blog entry I made and reposted it. I covers the subject of how to make a /boot on a software raid one. It does not cover the install, but rather how to convert to a raid1 once you are up and running and how to install g

Re: Issue with VMware (2)

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Mitton wrote: > (Sorry, repost due to error.) > > On Mon, 05 May 2008 20:10:14 +0200, you wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> So I installed VMware server, had to use the any-any update for I use the >> 2.6.24 kernel and >> when I try to run it, it says

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> The problem isn't the manpage author, it's your setup. >> >> Specifically, you're using a locale that sports UTF-8 encoding, but > > wrong. Lang=C. I don't have any locales installed. This is regular > stock VT (no fonts, etc). Well, let's

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 06/05/2008, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > APRACK FORTRAN library needs the input data in a 2D array (the arrays need > to be arranged in column-major format). But, to answer your query, I don't > *have* to read it in an array, I could read it in a list and then copy it to > an array before

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 03:13:44 Mark Allums wrote: > Cameron Hutchison wrote: > > When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany > > or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle > > button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This only happens

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Allums wrote: > Cameron Hutchison wrote: >> When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany >> or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle >> button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This onl

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
Cameron Hutchison wrote: When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This only happens for me with Debian. On my systems with Ubuntu, google maps works

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Rich Healey wrote: > >> Cameron Hutchison wrote: >>> When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany >>> or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle >>> button in the map s

Re: Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-06 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 01:34:07 Ken Heard wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > >> LVM VG SOL, LV var - 3.2 gB Linux Device Mapper > >>#1 3.2 gB > >> SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 250.1 gB ATA WDC WD2500AAJS.0 > >>#1 primary 82.2 mB B F

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Rich Healey wrote: >Cameron Hutchison wrote: >> When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany >> or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle >> button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This only happens for me >> with Debian. On my systems

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 05:47:36PM -0500, Kevin Buhr wrote: > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > What gets me is when a man page is written in english and "'" gets > > translated as "?", as in can?t or "'" is a square white blob (on a > > regular VT). Why couldn't whoever wrote

Re: Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:34:07PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > > Its too soon to finish. You have marked for creating the LVs, and have > > labled them, but you still much choose each one (move curser, hit enter) > > and select "use as" and select a filesystem type, a filesystem lable, a > > mount

more ash/dash/bash questions

2008-05-06 Thread Otavio Exel
Hello List, I've been writing shell scripts to be run as root lately; I'm not aware of any security-risk involving bash but I'd much more rather run those scripts with ash or dash instead of bash; some years ago I remember reading here that pointing /bin/sh to dash or ash would break a lot of imp

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Interesting, I have: > LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8 > and in /etc/console-tools/config > SCREEN_FONT=lat0-sun16 > With that setup, Dotan Cohen's line looks like solid black squares > separated by dashes. You mean this is happening on the Linux consol

Re: C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file [OT] [OOT] (off-off-topic)

2008-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
Mark Allums wrote: > Rich Healey wrote: > > Mark Allums wrote: > >> 1. You might want to learn PERL or Python or Ruby, and do it there. > > FWIW, this is very easy to do in Python. > > PSFWIW: Satan uses Ruby. > > :) > > I thought that Beelzebub used IronPython. > I mean, given the connection

Re: C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file [OT] [OOT] (off-off-topic)

2008-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
Rich Healey wrote: > Mark Allums wrote: >> 1. You might want to learn PERL or Python or Ruby, and do it there. > FWIW, this is very easy to do in Python. > PSFWIW: Satan uses Ruby. :) I thought that Beelzebub used IronPython. -- Mark Allums -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

printing from KDE apps messed up

2008-05-06 Thread H.S.
Hello, On Debian Testing if I print a PS file to Samsung 2070n laser printer from a KDE application, the fonts and resolution and paper size seem to be messed up. However, that same file prints okay from gv. Any idea where I should look to fix the KDE printing issue? In KDE, I used: ii kvie

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Hutchison wrote: > When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany > or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle > button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This only happens for me > with

Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Cameron Hutchison
When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This only happens for me with Debian. On my systems with Ubuntu, google maps works as expected. Does anyone k

Re: C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Allums wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> In a C++ program I am reading a data file for later processing and >> computations. While reading that data file, I want to keep track of >> data items (doubles) read. >> >> The data file is just a text

Re: Cannot partition a hard drive with the Etch installer

2008-05-06 Thread Ken Heard
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 04:59:07PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: >> LVM VG SOL, LV var - 3.2 gB Linux Device Mapper >> #1 3.2 gB >> SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 250.1 gB ATA WDC WD2500AAJS.0 >> #1 primary 82.2 mB B F ext3 /boot >> #2 primary 250.0 gB K lvm >> >> Undo

Re: sound?

2008-05-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue May 6 2008, Bob McGowan wrote: > Since some of your programs produce sound and some don't, it could be a > configuration problem with them.  Perhaps they are pointing to something > that doesn't exist? that is a possibility.. though why they would have changed is another issue... > > Other

Re: sound?

2008-05-06 Thread Bob McGowan
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue May 6 2008, Bob McGowan wrote: I have narrowed it down some. realplayer and xmms DO play sound, Banshee, amarok, and movieplayer do NOT play sound. when I click on an AVI, totem starts, but locks up. vlc doesn't work either. Do the /dev/dsp* dev files exist? Are

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What gets me is when a man page is written in english and "'" gets > translated as "?", as in can?t or "'" is a square white blob (on a > regular VT). Why couldn't whoever wrote it in english have used the > standard english "'" glyph instead of a

Re: Debian Installer Hangs on MacBook

2008-05-06 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Kent, you may want to visit the mactel site: www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page and more specific ones: wiki.debian.org/MacBook www.odi.ch/prog/macbookpro/index.php help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook#head-e4a1f2cde8ad66bc01c97bfdadc85996ad80f688 hth, Jerome Kent West wrote: So I reconf

Last block device in striped LV or soft RAID0 would have longer await?

2008-05-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hello, As I am trying some configurations for storage solution. I found out that, the last block device (normally, by alphabet) in striped LV or soft RAID 0 will have longer await. Especially in high concurrency IO. The same time, its avgrq-sz is more than others, but rrqm/s, wrqm/s, r/s and

Debian Installer Hangs on MacBook

2008-05-06 Thread Kent West
So I reconfigured my new MacBook (MacBook4.1, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM) to dual-boot between OS/X and Ubuntu (keep reading; this isn't about Ubuntu) using rEfit. I chose Ubuntu because it was easy, and I just wanted to get a feel for how well Linux would run on the MacBook. It worked

iostat -x 2 only prints out 0!

2008-05-06 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hello, Recently, I am monitoring a storage for high concurrency IO, to tune it. While I am using iostat to see the speed per second, and await value. I found out that sometime, when the machine is working, iostat just gives out all 0 values for a few times, then return normal, or never

stty settings

2008-05-06 Thread Casey Deccio
I would like to pipe raw straight data through a terminal without any special characters, null character conversion, carriage return/newline conversion, or echo. 'stty raw' and 'stty sane' seem to approach this, but not exactly. Before I start guessing more with all the individual options in 'ma

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 06/05/2008, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yup, that fscanf method looks interesting. I used that only when I program in C, but it might be judicious to use it in C++ in this situation. It's not. Streams are better and keep you away from nasty errors and seg

Re: Most inexpensive debian friendly laserjet printer? total cost of ownership including laserink?

2008-05-06 Thread Nate Duehr
Mitchell Laks wrote: I tend to print out a lot of documentation on the software for projects that I work on. Therefore I go through alot of laserjet cartidges on my postscript compatible hp laserjet 1200 printer. I haven't "done the math" but have been happy with my Samsung laser printer. I

Re: hard drive problems

2008-05-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:17:23AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 06:08:47PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:33:19PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > >

Re: Issue with VMware (2)

2008-05-06 Thread Doug Mitton
(Sorry, repost due to error.) On Mon, 05 May 2008 20:10:14 +0200, you wrote: >Hey all, > >So I installed VMware server, had to use the any-any update for I use the >2.6.24 kernel and >when I try to run it, it says that same message as before running the >vmware-conifig.pl tool. > >I also tried VM

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread H.S.
Mark Allums wrote: (And is also an example of something that is wrong with the C++ standard library, when you need the c_str() member of string so often to get any real useful work done. Kind of defeats the purpose of having string in the first place.) Yes, that c_str() is a nuisance many t

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread H.S.
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 06/05/2008, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: homebrewed subpar methods instead of standard C++. If you're going to be reading doubles one by one, and you want to store those doubles and know how many you have, I see little reason to not use an std::list From the

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/06/08 13:25, H.S. wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> Is this a binary file or a text file? > > hmm. Text. I made it clear in the original post. Sorry. It just seems (to an old C programmer) that this is pretty simple problem, unless there's som

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
James Allsopp wrote: hi, Try something like this, just add some pointers; scan is just a simple object and l is a class vector. HTH jim int nearest::readdata(std::string s, std::vector & l) { //read in scuba core list std::ifstream input(s.c_str()); std::string temp, pos, x ,y;

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/06/08 13:48, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:32:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/04/08 00:49, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> [snip] In this configuration, X does *not* start on boot. The wife and daughter must log in

sound devices

2008-05-06 Thread PETER EASTHOPE
Folk, One of my Debian Lenny machines has on-board Intel sound and an Altec Lansing USB headset. Skype lists these devices. Intel 82801BA-ICH2 (hw:I82801BAICH2,0) Intel 82801BA-ICH2 (plughw:I82801BAICH2,0) Intel 82801BA-ICH2 (hw:I82801BAICH2,1) Intel 82801BA-ICH2 (plughw:I82801BAICH2,1) C-

Re: sound?

2008-05-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue May 6 2008, Bob McGowan wrote: > > I have narrowed it down some. realplayer and xmms DO play sound, Banshee, > > amarok, and  movieplayer do NOT play sound. when I click on an AVI, totem > > starts, but locks up. vlc doesn't work either. > > Do the /dev/dsp* dev files exist?  Are you using A

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

2008-05-06 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ivan Glushkov wrote: Hi, I installed Debian on top of LVM and software RAID1 following this: http://dev.jerryweb.org/raid/ Everything is fine except that I cannot boot the Debian afterwards ("Insert boot disk" message from the bios). I used /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd. First problem is that I do no

Re: annoying setkeycode messages

2008-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 02:07:51PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: [...] > How can I make this message go away so when I bump one of these keys > isn't triggered, or assign something useful to one of these useless keys at > the minute that just print the message above? Maybe 'man setkeycodes' can

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 06/05/2008, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have visited that, it is full of people who want to discuss only the > standard. The standard is nice. The standard is great. I love the standard. It can do everything, and when it can't, then you use Boost who does the rest. Wrapping other

Re: sound?

2008-05-06 Thread Bob McGowan
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Sun May 4 2008, Paul Cartwright wrote: I have no idea what happened, but I seem to be missing sound. I am running Debian Etch. I just installed xfce windows manager, but I have another login that uses KDE. under KDE the volume control is missing, and I have no sound. wh

Debian + LVM + RAID1

2008-05-06 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi, I installed Debian on top of LVM and software RAID1 following this: http://dev.jerryweb.org/raid/ Everything is fine except that I cannot boot the Debian afterwards ("Insert boot disk" message from the bios). I used /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd. First problem is that I do not know which hdd I shou

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread James Allsopp
hi, Try something like this, just add some pointers; scan is just a simple object and l is a class vector. HTH jim int nearest::readdata(std::string s, std::vector & l) { //read in scuba core list std::ifstream input(s.c_str()); std::string temp, pos, x ,y; char * t; std::c

Re: swap help please

2008-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 03:42:09PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Anyway removing uswsusp did the trick. > Since I used purge to remove it a reinstall of it went great. The guy on > that forum just removed it and not purged it, so that is why his reinstall > didn't work. > Its all fixed now, than

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, H.S. wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 May 2008, H.S. wrote: > >> Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> Is this a binary file or a text file? > >> > >> hmm. Text. I made it clear in the original post. > > > > Ron has trouble keeping up with things like that. It's so hot > >

Re: ircii question

2008-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 03:40:42PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > Indeed that can be a problem. I have pidentd disabled, but I can use IRC > because I've opened port 113 (auth/ident) in my firewall. If the port is > closed but accessible, most IRC servers will allow the connection. This is the defau

Re: libsc7_2.3.1-3_amd64.deb problems

2008-05-06 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:33:54AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > I have tried with synaptic. > > (1) marking libsc8 (which was installed) for removal and unmarking > libsc7_2.3.1-3_amd64.deb (which was not installed), a dist-upgrade is carried > out, ending in the same error: > > E: /var/cac

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread H.S.
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Tuesday 06 May 2008, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Is this a binary file or a text file? hmm. Text. I made it clear in the original post. Ron has trouble keeping up with things like that. It's so hot where he lives his brain is often overheated with the lest bit of m

Re: libsc7_2.3.1-3_amd64.deb problems

2008-05-06 Thread Francesco Pietra
I have tried with synaptic. (1) marking libsc8 (which was installed) for removal and unmarking libsc7_2.3.1-3_amd64.deb (which was not installed), a dist-upgrade is carried out, ending in the same error: E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libsc7_2.3.1-3_amd64.deb trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libSCstat

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:32:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/04/08 00:49, Marc Shapiro wrote: > [snip] > >> > >> In this configuration, X does *not* start on boot. The wife and > >> daughter must log in at the Scary Black Screen Of Doom. > >> > > That is correct. We boot to the console

Re: Bugs in latest upgrade for Debian etch

2008-05-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 16:01:42 +0100, Lesley Binks wrote: > Hi > > I just did an 'apt-get upgrade -s' and found these updates were required > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > The following packages will be upgraded: > cpio libperl5.8 linux-image-2.6.18-6-4

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, H.S. wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Is this a binary file or a text file? > > hmm. Text. I made it clear in the original post. Ron has trouble keeping up with things like that. It's so hot where he lives his brain is often overheated with the lest bit of mental effort.

Re: C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread H.S.
Mark Allums wrote: Not directly helpful, but some suggestions: 1. You might want to learn PERL or Python or Ruby, and do it there. hmm .. not sure how this will pan out in the long run, but for now, I am trying to keep it all within one program. 2. If it has to be C++, learn enough PERL t

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: Is this a binary file or a text file? hmm. Text. I made it clear in the original post. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/06/08 12:50, H.S. wrote: > > Robert Baron wrote: > >> What is so terrible about counting the items as they come in? > > > > As I mentioned earlier, the issue is how do I count items read in > > one line, or before the next EOL? Counting total items

Re: C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, H.S. wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 05/06/08 11:42, H.S. wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> In a C++ program I am reading a data file for later processing and > >> computations. While reading that data file, I want to k

Re: Fw: Errors on upgrading from etch to lenny

2008-05-06 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
> * From: Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed. search this in google and see the results in the debian bug tracking system invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed - Google Search http://www.google.com/search?q=invoke-rc.d%3A

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread H.S.
Michael Marsh wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:50 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As I mentioned earlier, the issue is how do I count items read in one line, or before the next EOL? Counting total items is not a problem. Perhaps a different way to say this is, how do I detect if I have rea

Re: C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Mark Allums
H.S. wrote: Hello, In a C++ program I am reading a data file for later processing and computations. While reading that data file, I want to keep track of data items (doubles) read. The data file is just a text file with N lines with C doubles in each line (N and C are known a priori). For n

Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

2008-05-06 Thread Manu Hack
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings; > > Search as I may I can not find how to do this. > > I am running gnome and a hi-res screen. My cursor and mouse pointer are > too small to see easily on the screen. How do I make them bigger? > sudo apt-get

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/06/08 12:50, H.S. wrote: > Robert Baron wrote: > >> >> What is so terrible about counting the items as they come in? > > > As I mentioned earlier, the issue is how do I count items read in one > line, or before the next EOL? Counting total ite

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Michael Marsh
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:50 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I mentioned earlier, the issue is how do I count items read in one line, > or before the next EOL? Counting total items is not a problem. > > Perhaps a different way to say this is, how do I detect if I have reached > an EOL whi

Re: Fw: Errors on upgrading from etch to lenny

2008-05-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 06:58:42 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Hi: > The full error message is: [...] > Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ... > Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments > invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed. > dpkg: error proces

Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

2008-05-06 Thread H.S.
Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; Search as I may I can not find how to do this. I am running gnome and a hi-res screen. My cursor and mouse pointer are too small to see easily on the screen. How do I make them bigger? Many TIA! Dennis On debian Lenny: {~}$> apt-cache search cursors big

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread H.S.
Robert Baron wrote: What is so terrible about counting the items as they come in? As I mentioned earlier, the issue is how do I count items read in one line, or before the next EOL? Counting total items is not a problem. Perhaps a different way to say this is, how do I detect if I have r

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Robert Baron
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:14 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > > > On 06/05/2008, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > In a C++ program I am reading a data file for later processing and > > > computations. While reading that data file, I want to keep track

Re: can't send a bugreport in emacs

2008-05-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:51:02PM -0700, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 2008-05-01 21:45 +0200, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > > > >> Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >>> On 2008-05-01 06:34 +0200, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: > Do I

How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

2008-05-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; Search as I may I can not find how to do this. I am running gnome and a hi-res screen. My cursor and mouse pointer are too small to see easily on the screen. How do I make them bigger? Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread H.S.
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 06/05/2008, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In a C++ program I am reading a data file for later processing and computations. While reading that data file, I want to keep track of data items (doubles) read. Use std::list and other standard data structures. I

Re: exim4 config for Lenny?

2008-05-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue May 6 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476987 > > > > looks like it is a bug.. > > This has been fixed in Sid. > > Your options right now: > > 1) Wait for the current Sid version to come to Lenny. This will happen >    three days from now, unle

Re: C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 06/05/2008, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a C++ program I am reading a data file for later processing and > computations. While reading that data file, I want to keep track of data > items (doubles) read. Use std::list and other standard data structures. It's C++. Don't use C arrays, ug

Re: C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Robert Baron
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/06/08 11:42, H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > > > In a C++ program I am reading a data file for later processing and > > computations. While reading that data file, I want

Re: C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/06/08 11:42, H.S. wrote: Hello, In a C++ program I am reading a data file for later processing and computations. While reading that data file, I want to keep track of data items (doubles) read. The data file is just a text

Re: C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/06/08 11:42, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > In a C++ program I am reading a data file for later processing and > computations. While reading that data file, I want to keep track of data > items (doubles) read. > > The data file is just a text file wi

Re: exim4 config for Lenny?

2008-05-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:52:49 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: [...] > # apt-get install apt-listbugs > .. > Setting up apt-listbugs (0.0.88) ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > exim4-daemon-light > exim4 > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > # dpkg --conf

Re: Re: Re: Can't resolve ftp.us.debian.org

2008-05-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 5/6/08, NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:11:46PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > strace -f -o /tmp/apt-get.log apt-get update > > Any other ideas? - John > > yes, post (or, better, make it avilable on a web server) the file > /tmp/apt-get.log whe

C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread H.S.
Hello, In a C++ program I am reading a data file for later processing and computations. While reading that data file, I want to keep track of data items (doubles) read. The data file is just a text file with N lines with C doubles in each line (N and C are known a priori). For now, I just re

Re: Illegal locales?

2008-05-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:26:40PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I noticed that my locale definitions are not defined in the available > system locales: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_US.

Re: apt-get wants to uninstatll grub

2008-05-06 Thread Tom Brown
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 22:45 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tom Brown wrote: > > I did an 'apt-get update/upgrade' from sarge to etch. Everything went > > fine. > > Did you 'apt-get upgrade'? Or did you 'apt-get dist-upgrade'? That > is a very important distinction. If you only did an 'upgrade' then

Re: exim4 config for Lenny?

2008-05-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue May 6 2008, Chris Bannister wrote: > > and when it was over: > >  exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy | > > exim4-daemon-custom; however: > >   Package exim4-daemon-light is not configured yet. > >   Package exim4-daemon-heavy is not installed. > >   Package exim4-daemon

Re: exim4 config for Lenny?

2008-05-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue May 6 2008, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > >invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed. > >    Linkname: invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed - Google > Search URL: > http://www.google.com/search?q=invoke-rc.d%3A+initscript+exim4%2C+action+%2 >2start%22+failed&num=100

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