Re: epson perfection 4180 scanner

2007-11-25 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 07:06:31AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sun November 25 2007, Chris G wrote: > > Sane *always* does this to me too!  sane-find-scanner finds a scanner > > but nothing actually sees it.  I just got my Epson V700 working, what > > I had to to was a

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-25 Thread Chris G
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 11:59:53PM -0600, Sidarth Dasari wrote: > Is anybody else getting tons of spam emails from this mailing list? > None at all where I am, my host's spam filtering must be working! :-) -- Chris Green -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-25 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 03:10:06AM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > I have used Linux for 8 years. > I have not found any suitable file manager(FM). > I use twm. I don't use KDE or GNOME. so don't recommend any FM based on KDE > or GNOME > I still use command line. I will prefer GUI FM so my life can

Re: epson perfection 4180 scanner

2007-11-25 Thread Chris G
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 02:43:27PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I used to have this scanner setup in SUSE, but it doesn't seem to work in > Debian. > # sane-find-scanner > > found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0118 [EPSON Scanner]) at > libusb:007:006 > # scanimage -L > > No

Re: wiki to pdf converter

2007-11-24 Thread Chris G
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 11:24:26AM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:49:10 +0100 > Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I don't know of any for your specific markup, but you might want to take > > a look at reStructured Text, which is very similar and can be

Re: to sata or not to sata (etch dvd install)

2007-11-24 Thread Chris G
On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 02:52:52PM +0100, baldyeti wrote: > Hello, > > I haven't built a computer in over 3 years. > I seem to remember people mentioning difficulties > installing etch (or was it sarge?) from a sata dvdrom. > Is there a reason to stick to IDE(PATA) for the > cd/dvd unit or can i sa

Re: configuring ADSL via a gui

2007-11-22 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:36:27AM -0500, H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > Since I started using Debian, I have always used pppoeconf command to > set up my ADSL connection. Now I am a situation trying to convince a few > others that Linux based OS is very easy to use. So, is how do I go about > config

Re: [OT?] Replying to posts in debian-user

2007-11-18 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 12:18:46PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > > Also why do you say you'd have to use IMAP with mutt to get what you > > want? Unless you need to be able to read (using mutt) your mail from > > several different systems I don't see how it would help you. > > I do want to acc

Re: [OT?] Replying to posts in debian-user

2007-11-18 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:48:29AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Nov 18, 2007 9:12 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 03:34:27PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > > There is one tip I have for you: use a mailer that has better support > > > for mailing l

Re: 256 color

2007-11-15 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:54:18PM +0100, Emmanuel Revah wrote: > # We need to know what desktop/display manager [s]he's using don't we? > > not really, imho. > > we need to see /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > also, to try different settings one can use xrandr > OK, yes, I had my sort of Windows/doItFro

Re: 256 color

2007-11-15 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 07:54:56AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Could you please send me the information on how to change my 16 bit >color to 256 color. I have tried through my display settings but when >I restart my computer it goes right back to 16 bits. > I think you have yo

Re: 256 color

2007-11-15 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:37:51PM +0100, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > Chris G wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 07:54:56AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>Could you please send me the information on how to change my 16 bit >>>color to 2