Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux

2011-12-23 Thread David Christensen
On 12/23/2011 07:57 AM, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote: I noted your comments on Python, and while I haven't any experience with the 2 -> 3 transition, I am inclined to prefer it. In fact, almost all my work is now in that language. You can see some examples at my page (below) in the SOFT

No sound on AC'97 Audio Controller

2011-12-23 Thread Kyle Schwarz
I'm having issues getting the sound to work on a laptop that has a AC'97 Audio Controller. The laptop is a Compaq Presario 2720US. I'm not sure what is causing this issue, but I could really use some help to resolve it. I've attached the output from the ALSA Information Script v 0.4.60. For some

Re: Is there any helper module to boost cgi performance ?

2011-12-23 Thread J. Bakshi
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:38:33 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > J. Bakshi wrote: > > But I need to continue with cgi as svn is based on web interface and > > also viewvc is there too. > > Note that viewvc can also be integrated using mod-python too. It > doesn't require CGI. > > > Regarding performance

That time of the year

2011-12-23 Thread Gerald
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy new year to all Debian users. Gerald -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201112241144.48099.gcsgcatl...@bigpond.com

Re: keyboard shortcuts file

2011-12-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:28:37PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 22 dec 11, 13:10:36, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > Running Squeeze. > > > > The default shortcut to open a terminal was Shift+c. This has been no > > problem until today when typing a document, every time I tried to type a > > c

NOT solved - ownership of external usb h/d

2011-12-23 Thread Sharon Kimble
Tonight at midnight my backup of my home directory failed, and on investigation why it couldn't make a directory i found that i didn’t have the right permissions. On further checking I found that the ownership had reverted to root:root, so I rebooted. When everything had come back online I checked

Re: No cdrom device

2011-12-23 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Friday, December 23, 2011 7:32:22 PM Vincent Lefevre wrote: >Yes, /dev/scd0 disappeared after a recent upgrade (after 2011-11-17). Why do I still get error msgs referring to scd0?? > Running lshw *as root* says which /dev files can be used. > In my case: > >*-cdrom >

Re: HP Touchpad Tablet Question

2011-12-23 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:46:02AM +1000, Ashton Fagg wrote: > On 23/12/11 09:38, Thomas H. George wrote: > >I just bought an HP Touchpad Tablet. Can it be converted to be a Debian > >computer or must I make best use of the HP operating system. > > Well, if this is the right piece of equipment I'v

Re: Linux based forum software

2011-12-23 Thread Miles Fidelman
T o n g wrote: Hi, Do you know any Linux based forum software that is good? The word "forum" is the worst to search, I've managed to find http://www.simplemachines.org/, but was wondering of your opinion on it and what else are good. It's been a while, but I had good luck with Phorum (www.ph

Re: Linux based forum software

2011-12-23 Thread Brian
On Fri 23 Dec 2011 at 23:00:43 +, T o n g wrote: > Do you know any Linux based forum software that is good? > > The word "forum" is the worst to search, I've managed to find > http://www.simplemachines.org/, but was wondering of your opinion on it > and what else are good. You will have to

Re: No cdrom device

2011-12-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-12-23 18:30:25 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 12/23/2011 03:38 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: > >On 12/23/2011 12:18 PM, Ed Jabbour wrote: > >>CDROM tray will not respond to "eject": > >> > >>[Fri Dec 23] edj:~$ eject > >>eject: tried to use `/media/cdrom0' as device name but

Re: Find which package has installed some file under /etc

2011-12-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-12-22 16:30:57 +0100, Tom H wrote: > You can check whether a file in "/etc/default/" is sourced by a file > in "/etc/init.d/". It's impossible to do this reliably (e.g. recursively), and the /etc/default/ file may be sourced by another script. For instance, /etc/default/cryptdisks is not

Re: Linux based forum software

2011-12-23 Thread Alexey Eromenko
PHPbb forum is the best, by far. It has colored backgrounds of alternate colors, which makes reading posts a light on my eyes plus very easy navigation. (I have low vision, but see PHPbb perfectly). Also has built-in admin panel and search bar for users. Admin control panel (ACP) takes time to get

Re: Linux based forum software

2011-12-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 6:00 PM, T o n g wrote: Hi, > > Do you know any Linux based forum software that is good? > > The word "forum" is the worst to search, I've managed to find > http://www.simplemachines.org/, but was wondering of your opinion on it > and what else are good. > SimpleMachines

Re: No cdrom device

2011-12-23 Thread Wayne Topa
On 12/23/2011 03:38 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 12/23/2011 12:18 PM, Ed Jabbour wrote: CDROM tray will not respond to "eject": [Fri Dec 23] edj:~$ eject eject: tried to use `/media/cdrom0' as device name but it is no block device eject: tried to use `/dev/scd0' as device na

Re: Is there any helper module to boost cgi performance ?

2011-12-23 Thread Bob Proulx
J. Bakshi wrote: > But I need to continue with cgi as svn is based on web interface and > also viewvc is there too. Note that viewvc can also be integrated using mod-python too. It doesn't require CGI. > Regarding performance... my bad... a simple php sites takes 30 sec > to come up and after th

Re: No cdrom device

2011-12-23 Thread Wayne Topa
On 12/23/2011 12:18 PM, Ed Jabbour wrote: CDROM tray will not respond to "eject": [Fri Dec 23] edj:~$ eject eject: tried to use `/media/cdrom0' as device name but it is no block device eject: tried to use `/dev/scd0' as device name but it is no block device eject: unable

Re: pergunta sob; senha

2011-12-23 Thread Kleber Fortaleza
On Friday 23 December 2011 13:55:53 Fernando sampaio wrote: > OI, SOU FERNANDO SAMPAIO > > GANHEI UM CD COM O LINUX, DEBIAN 5.0 > > COLOQUEI A SENHA, O NOME DO USUÁRIO, QUANDO DIGITO O NOME TUDO BEM. > MAIS A SENHA NÃO CONSIGO > > AJUDA AI MEU AMIGO ! > OBRIGADO ! olá rapaz primeiramente, a lín

Re: No cdrom device

2011-12-23 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 05:18:47PM GMT, Ed Jabbour wrote: > CDROM tray will not respond to "eject": > > [Fri Dec 23] edj:~$ eject > eject: tried to use `/media/cdrom0' as device name but it is no block device > eject: tried to use `/dev/scd0' as device name but it is no blo

No cdrom device

2011-12-23 Thread Ed Jabbour
CDROM tray will not respond to "eject": [Fri Dec 23] edj:~$ eject eject: tried to use `/media/cdrom0' as device name but it is no block device eject: tried to use `/dev/scd0' as device name but it is no block device eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'

Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on Linux

2011-12-23 Thread Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph.
David: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 02:14:44PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > Someone wrote: > >I am like you and wrote most of my C++ during the > >early years of the language. I used the AT&T Cfront version 1.2 > >compiler for years. Always on Unix machines and never on Windows. > > > >I have be

Re: lxde "customize look and feel"

2011-12-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
On 12/21/2011 12:41 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:29:12AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I installed lxde in a VM running Debian Wheezy under vmplayer, to see what it is like. Preferences -> Customize Look and Feel does nothing. Is that supposed to

pergunta sob; senha

2011-12-23 Thread Fernando sampaio
OI, SOU FERNANDO SAMPAIO GANHEI UM CD COM O LINUX, DEBIAN 5.0 COLOQUEI A SENHA, O NOME DO USUÁRIO, QUANDO DIGITO O NOME TUDO BEM. MAIS A SENHA NÃO CONSIGO AJUDA AI MEU AMIGO ! OBRIGADO ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:33:12PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Sangoma has only the S518 card which is an old outdated ADSL card which > support only 8 Mbit RAW downstream and 762 kbit RAW upstream. They had an S519 but apparently stopped making it. The S518 is very much outdated and requir

Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive

2011-12-23 Thread Curt
On 2011-12-23, Curt wrote: > On 2011-12-22, Walter Hurry wrote: >>> Very succinctly put, except the hard drive is automatically mounted by >>> Gnome, thats the only mistake you made. >> >> It wouldn't be if it were in fstab. >> > It sure does in my case. Are you saying that the gnome automo

Gnome 3 update makes PDFs open in inkscape

2011-12-23 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello all, I recently pulled in the updates that brought Gnome 3. Now, anytime I try to open a PDF in iceweasel, they are opened with inkscape instead of evince. There's a bug filed on this problem (#613752), but it includes no workaround. gnome-control-center lets me specify preferred applicat

Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive

2011-12-23 Thread Curt
On 2011-12-22, Walter Hurry wrote: >>> >> Very succinctly put, except the hard drive is automatically mounted by >> Gnome, thats the only mistake you made. > > It wouldn't be if it were in fstab. > It sure does in my case. Are you saying that the gnome automounting thingy looks in /etc/fstab? I

Re: xfce4 how to escape the full-screen mode

2011-12-23 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Hi, On 23/12/11 14:29, lina wrote: Hi, I don't know how to escape/exit the full-screen mode. In gnome the esc used to work, but now in xfce4 I don't know how to make it work. I tried (definitely blindly) any possible keys I could think of. I think the default should be + F11 to toggle fullsc

Re: xfce4 how to escape the full-screen mode

2011-12-23 Thread lina
Alt + space not so perfect though. Thanks On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:29 PM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know how to escape/exit the full-screen mode. > > In gnome the esc used to work, but now in xfce4 I don't know how to > make it work. > > I tried (definitely blindly) any possible keys I cou

xfce4 how to escape the full-screen mode

2011-12-23 Thread lina
Hi, I don't know how to escape/exit the full-screen mode. In gnome the esc used to work, but now in xfce4 I don't know how to make it work. I tried (definitely blindly) any possible keys I could think of. Thanks ahead for suggestions, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: X Window: Setting up mouse scroll for OOo Calc to one raw

2011-12-23 Thread Csanyi Pal
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:34:25 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:05:53 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: >>> I'm running Debian GNU/Linux SID and my X Window uses Window Maker as a window manager. I'm using OpenOffice.org C

Re: which is the best command to use

2011-12-23 Thread Chris Davies
lina wrote: > Thanks cool. a derived question, > for a.txt: > 1 a > 2 a > 3 a > for b.txt > 1 b > 2 b > 3 b > what if I only interested the 2 filed. > namely > a b > a b > a b Are the 1, 2, 3 relevant? So if you had this, what would you expect as your output - a.txt 1 a 2 b 3 c b.txt 1 d 2

Re: Icedove Tab Bar - Ugly

2011-12-23 Thread Paul Saunders
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:18:11 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:29:52 +1000, Ashton Fagg wrote: > > > Minor annoyance (more cosmetic than anything) with Icedove. I've > > made the observation that the tab bar is very out of place. The > > surrounds are grey, but the tab is whit

Re: intel i5, system config question

2011-12-23 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 04:56:34PM +1000, yudi v wrote: > > > > > > I'm just curious why you don't have just "go with squeeze" as an option. > > Why do you need to change the kernel that comes with it? > > > > > > Intel HD3000 video chip works fine with only kernels over 3.0.1. At least > this is

adapted uck to debian

2011-12-23 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I want to customize the iso live mint based on debian I tried remastersys, then simple-cdd, I found both complicated failed to generate the expected iso. But the uck ( ubuntu customize kit) is very simple to use, unfortunately it is done just for ubuntu, I want if it exits somethi

Re: which is the best command to use

2011-12-23 Thread André Berger
* lina (2011-12-23): [...] > File_a.txt > a > a > a > > File_b.txt > b > b > b > > I wish to get a file_ab.txt as > a b > a b > a b apt-get install coreutils paste File_a.txt File_b.txt -André -- L'art d'ennuyer est de tout dire. [Voltaire] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: which is the best command to use

2011-12-23 Thread lina
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Roman Khomasuridze wrote: > You can use paste, and/or join. for you particular example > paste -d ' ' a.txt b.txt > ab.txt > will work Thanks cool. a derived question, for a.txt: 1 a 2 a 3 a for b.txt 1 b 2 b 3 b what if I only interested the 2 filed. namely a

Re: which is the best command to use

2011-12-23 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
You can use paste, and/or join. for you particular example paste -d ' ' a.txt b.txt > ab.txt will work Regards -- Roman On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: > > > > well, I have two files: > > > > File_a.txt > > a > > a > > a > > > > File_b.txt > > b > > b > > b > > > > I wis

RE: which is the best command to use

2011-12-23 Thread Arno Schuring
> > well, I have two files: > > File_a.txt > a > a > a > > File_b.txt > b > b > b > > I wish to get a file_ab.txt as > a b > a b > a b > man 1 paste Regards,Arno