Ken Heard wrote:> ...
> Some people however do use the word "medias". On the other hand does
> anyone use the word datas? If not, it is logical to conclude that
> they give word "data" a plural meaning.
Wrong--what is logical to conclude is that they consider "data" what
another poster called a
Where are the instructions for what to do after installing the cups-pdf
package, to have the virtual to-PDF printer appear (e.g. in "lpstat -a"
output) and be able to print to PDF?
The files /usr/share/doc/cups-pdf/... don't seem to have any such
instructions.
(I tried using the CUPS administrat
lee wrote:
"Dan B." writes:
lee wrote:
Hi,
with the pcspkr module installed, shouldn't I hear the beep through the
sound card that otherwise would be played by a little loudspeaker
connected to the mainboard?
pcspkr might be the wrong module. You might want snd-pcsp in
lee wrote:
Hi,
with the pcspkr module installed, shouldn't I hear the beep through the
sound card that otherwise would be played by a little loudspeaker
connected to the mainboard?
pcspkr might be the wrong module. You might want snd-pcsp instead.
Daniel
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lee wrote:
...
... You can still run emacs fine on the
console or in a terminal as you could 15--20 years ago, and you can use
the GUI frames if you like, even all at the same time --- or compile a
version that doesn't have X-support at all.
FYI: There's an "emacs23-nox" (no X11 dependency) pac
Roger Leigh wrote:
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 07:32:48PM -0400, Dan B. wrote:
...
Which common programs (e.g., getty, xterm/etc., sed/grep?) do something
different based on the charset portion of the local setting?
All of them, in short.
When you run a terminal emulator such as xterm, it will
In a locale setting such as en_US.UTF-8 (e.g., LANG=en_US.UTF-8),
what exactly does the charset/character encoding part (UTF-8) affect?
Which common programs (e.g., getty, xterm/etc., sed/grep?) do something
different based on the charset portion of the local setting?
Thanks,
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The manual page for stty says that the input setting "iutf8" controls
whether to "assume [that] input characters are UTF-8 encoded."
What does setting actually do?
(I understand UTF-8 and its mapping between byte sequences and characters.
What I don't know is where character decoding and encodin
What's the right layer to reconfigure so that Alt functions as Meta in bash
command line editing?
Right now, when I try to type Alt-f to execute bash's Meta-f line-editing
function (Forward Word), bash instead inserts a non-ASCII character (the
a-e ligature). That happens in bash in xterm and in
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Jo, 28 iun 12, 21:41:23, Dan B. wrote:
When I run "grub-install /dev/sdb1", it says:
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: unable to identify a filesystem in hd1,gpt1;
safety check can't be performed.
and does not install GRUB2. (It's still the same
When I run "grub-install /dev/sdb1", it says:
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: unable to identify a filesystem in hd1,gpt1;
safety check can't be performed.
and does not install GRUB2. (It's still the same if I use the syntax
("grub-install (hd1,gpt1)".)
This is on a disk tht has a GPT partiti
Curt wrote:
On 2012-06-05, Dan B. wrote:
What the heck did hwinfo do to my machine?
Thanks to some suggestions that somehow caused me to check basic floppy
access, I discovered that the problem was ... (get ready for a big
letdown) ... a loose floppy cable.
So you're saying when you
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Dan B. wrote:
Thanks to some suggestions that somehow caused me to check basic floppy
access, I discovered that the problem was ... (get ready for a big
letdown) ... a loose floppy cable.
It really is amazing how many things end up being hardware problems ;-)
And I
I wrote:
After I ran hwinfo (to detect a modem), my machine runs very slowly at
the beginning of booting.
(GRUB takes about 8 seconds between displaying [the] "Welcome to GRUB!"
text and the "error: fd0 read error." text, and another 25 seconds for
the screen to go blank on the way to displaying
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Dan B. wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:05:13 -0400, Dan B. wrote:
After I ran hwinfo (to detect a modem), my machine runs very slowly at
the beginning of booting.
(GRUB takes about 8 seconds between displaying the the "Welcome to
GRUB!" te
Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:15:01 -0400, Dan B. wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:05:13 -0400, Dan B. wrote:
After I ran hwinfo (to detect a modem), my machine runs very slowly at
the beginning of booting.
(GRUB takes about 8 seconds between displaying the the
Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:05:13 -0400, Dan B. wrote:
After I ran hwinfo (to detect a modem), my machine runs very slowly at
the beginning of booting.
(GRUB takes about 8 seconds between displaying the the "Welcome to
GRUB!" text and the "error:
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Dan B. wrote:
After I ran hwinfo (to detect a modem), my machine runs very slowly at
the beginning of booting.
(GRUB takes about 8 seconds between displaying the the "Welcome to GRUB!"
text and the "error: fd0 read error." text, and another 25 seconds
Kent West wrote:
On 06/03/2012 11:05 PM, Dan B. wrote:
After I ran hwinfo (to detect a modem), my machine runs very slowly at
the beginning of booting.
(GRUB takes about 8 seconds between displaying the the "Welcome to GRUB!"
text and the "error: fd0 read error." text, ...
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 6/3/2012 11:05 PM, Dan B. wrote:
After I ran hwinfo (to detect a modem), my machine runs very slowly at
the beginning of booting.
You did something else also. The hwinfo manpage says nothing about
running at boot, so I assume it has nothing to do with this.
Something
After I ran hwinfo (to detect a modem), my machine runs very slowly at
the beginning of booting.
(GRUB takes about 8 seconds between displaying the the "Welcome to GRUB!"
text and the "error: fd0 read error." text, and another 25 seconds for
the screen to go blank on the way to displaying the men
In Squeeze, in virtual consoles, I can't copy and paste between gpm
and emacs (emacs-nox) as I could in Sarge.
Trying to select and paste with the mouse in virtual consoles seems to
show that emacs now recognizes virtual console mouse events and hooks
them into its usual copy/paste mechanism.
(
Where does GRUB2 store its pointer information about which block
device holds the filesystem containing /boot/grub (specifically,
when using GPT partitioning)?
Can that information be displayed (e.g., to see it before and after
trying to change it, to confirm the change and which devices it's
poi
Tony van der Hoff wrote:
...>>
I think he meant what he said. There is a nasty usage developing in
English (in the UK, at least) for "their" singular, to denote "he or
she". I have resisted it so far.
Actually, it's not just developing (recently developed)--apparently
it first appeared decades
Jochen Spieker wrote:
Dan B.:
No. Losing the display order setting is probably the _worst-case_
scenario
The OP showed us an obvious case of file system corruption. He is lucky
if he only lost this index file and no other files. He is *very* lucky
if an fsck can repair the damage and nothing
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Wed, 02 May 2012 15:39:05 -0400, Dan wrote in message
...
..if Inbox.msf is your email,...
That looks like a Mozilla SeaMonkey or Thunderbird mail _index_ file.
If it is, it can be deleted and SeaMonkey/Thunderbird will re-create
it (from the corresponding mail data file
Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 02 May 2012 15:28:33 -0400, Dan B. wrote:
...
I guess now I need to figure out where I might like to see things in the
"new" order vs. where I still want to see things in LC_COLLATE=C order.)
Is that "that new"? The above output is from my Lenny
Arnt Karlsen wrote:
On Wed, 2 May 2012 07:04:55 +0200, Jochen wrote in message
<20120502050455.ga25...@well-adjusted.de>:
Dennis Wicks:
Greetings;
I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list;
-? ? ?? ?? Inbox.msf
I can't do anything wit
Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 01 May 2012 15:10:23 -0400, Dan B. wrote:
...
On a fresh Squeeze installation, ls seems to ignore leading "."
characters (it no longer lists all "hidden" files adjacent to each
other) and to ignore capitalization differences.
(...)
Can you
Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2012-05-01 21:10 +0200, Dan B. wrote:
What controls the order that the ls command uses for sorting names?
The locale or more specifically, the LC_COLLATE setting. See locale(7).
> ...
.. LC_COLLATE=C for many years.
Thanks.
Daniel
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Wayne Topa wrote:
On 05/01/2012 03:10 PM, Dan B. wrote:
What controls the order that the ls command uses for sorting names?
...
...
Well man ls says
" List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default).
Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --so
What controls the order that the ls command uses for sorting names?
On a fresh Squeeze installation, ls seems to ignore leading "."
characters (it no longer lists all "hidden" files adjacent to each
other) and to ignore capitalization differences.
It used to sort in standard/traditional Unix or
I wrote:
...
FILES_LIST=( "${FILES_LIST[@]}" "${NEW_FILE}" )
You can also write:
FILE_LIST[${#FILE_LIST[@]}]="${NEW_FILE}"
Daniel
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Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote:
When dealing with paths in bash i usually employ two things:
One is declaring arrays like this:
FILES_LIST=( )
And everytime I want to append to the array I go like this:
FILES_LIST=( ${FILES_LIST[@]} ${NEW_FILE} )
Obviously I will have problems if th
What is it about gdm3 that undoes (or otherwise ignores) swapping of
Control and Caps Lock keys configured via /etc/default/keyboard?
I have XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:swapcaps" in /etc/default/keyboard. That works
(the Control and Caps Lock keys are swapped) for virtual consoles and for
X11 displays sta
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
The resolution can be changed with KMS activated, e.g., with xrandr when X is
running.
Further reading:
http://linux.koolsolutions.com/2009/11/02/howto-enabling-kernel-mode-setting-kms-in-debian-linux-kernel/
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Radeon
Can it be changed befor
When KMS (kernel modesetting) is used, can the video mode (resolution)
be changed after booting, or is it set only once, at boot time (or
maybe at module-load time)?
Thanks,
Daniel
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I wrote:
I found why Gnome seemed to behave inconsistently regarding following
Control-key settings in XKBOPTIONS in /etc/default/keyboard:
GDM and the rest of Gnome work differently.
...
Agh! It's even worse than that. Even within just gdm, the behavior
is inconsistent:
In gdm, when the l
I found why Gnome seemed to behave inconsistently regarding following
Control-key settings in XKBOPTIONS in /etc/default/keyboard:
GDM and the rest of Gnome work differently.
In GDM, my Control key _is_ swapped as intended. (Apparently, GDM starts
X without overriding keyboard settings, which
I'm getting some inconsistent behavior.
When I boot one installation of Squeeze on my machine, the kernel
sets a high-resolution console video mode (240x67).
However, when I boot either of two other installations of Squeeze on
the same machine, I get just the initial low console resolution (80x2
Sian Mountbatten wrote:
Doug writes:
On 11/09/2011 03:33 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Jo, 03 nov 11, 10:59:43, Ken Heard wrote:
Sian Mountbatten wrote, in part:
Is there a KDE package manager available?
For the various things that get installed for Gnome, KDE, etc.,
which are specific to
J. Bakshi wrote:
Dear list,
I have run "update-flashplugin-nonfree --install" and it downloads the latest
plugin
at /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
after uncompromising it I get
..
Once something has been compromised by the taint of being commercial
Brian wrote:
On Mon 14 Nov 2011 at 21:48:05 -0500, Dan B. wrote:
When I boot with my monitor connected (through a KVM), I end up with
high-resolution virtual consoles (67 rows by 240 columns).
However, when I boot with the KVM switched away, then since the
kernel/etc. can't auto-dete
What command shows the virtual console video mode (specifically,
the information needed to set it to that mode if it's in a different
mode)?
When I boot with my monitor connected (through a KVM), I end up with
high-resolution virtual consoles (67 rows by 240 columns).
However, when I boot with
Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 14/11/11 11:19, Dan B. wrote:
Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 13/11/11 16:14, Doug wrote:
...
GMail deliberately removes your own list messages so
you can't see them and know that you actually were successful in
posting.
Well, no.
Not that I have shares in Google -
Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 13/11/11 16:14, Doug wrote:
...
GMail deliberately removes your own list messages so
you can't see them and know that you actually were successful in
posting.
Well, no.
Not that I have shares in Google - just a dislike for BS and trolls.
The gmail default setting
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Vi, 11 nov 11, 17:23:16, Dan B. wrote:
Something _really_ screwy seems to be going on here.
I think Gnome is overriding the keyboard settings.
Did you read the part about its setting the keyboard settings in
its X server differently depending on whether an unrelated
I. wrote:
Dan B. wrote:
Raf Czlonka wrote:
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 12:50:57AM GMT, Bob Proulx wrote:
Dan B. wrote:
I tried swapping the left Control key and Caps Lock key by modifying
the XKBOPTIONS value in /etc/default/keyboard, ...
...
XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:swapcaps"
...>
Dan B. wrote:
Raf Czlonka wrote:
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 12:50:57AM GMT, Bob Proulx wrote:
Dan B. wrote:
I tried swapping the left Control key and Caps Lock key by modifying
the XKBOPTIONS value in /etc/default/keyboard, per instructions that
said it would take effect for both the virtual
Raf Czlonka wrote:
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 12:50:57AM GMT, Bob Proulx wrote:
Dan B. wrote:
I tried swapping the left Control key and Caps Lock key by modifying
the XKBOPTIONS value in /etc/default/keyboard, per instructions that
said it would take effect for both the virtual consoles and X
J. Bakshi wrote:
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:34:57 +0100
Jochen Spieker wrote:
... You need to either run "bash -x
I wrote:
I'm having a really weird problem: the Samba server accepts a _wrong_
password instead of the expected password.
...
Never mind. I finally figured out that Samba was checking some Samba
layer of passwords instead of the regular Linux password layer.
Daniel
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I tried swapping the left Control key and Caps Lock key by modifying
the XKBOPTIONS value in /etc/default/keyboard, per instructions that
said it would take effect for both the virtual consoles and X.
However, it works only for the virtual consoles, and not for X (neither
when started by GDM nor
Does anyone recall whether Samba had problems with truncating passwords,
or possibly with mixing up user IDs and/or passwords between the serving
side and the "clienting" side (mounting other machines' shares)?
I'm having a really weird problem: the Samba server accepts a _wrong_
password instea
Sthu Deus wrote:
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón:
It is provided to allow mistakes in the version numbers of older
versions of a package, and also a package's previous version numbering
schemes, to be left behind.
What does this mean? From other posts in the thread it is still no
Tom H wrote:
...
NM's only controversial because there are people who oppose change not
matter why it might be. ...
So are you lumping people who oppose having things break out from under
them, such as, say, someone installing a new release and finding that
standard Unix(?)/Linux networking com
Bob Proulx wrote:
Tom H wrote:
Dan B. wrote:
...
How does one take an interface down on squeeze?
The expected tool on a GNOME system would be by using the
NetworkManager GUI with the mouse or as Tom writes, 'nmcli' from the
command line. Something like this:
# nmcli conn dow
On a new installation of squeeze, ifdown no longer works as it used
to (on my old Debian system).
When ifconfig lists an interface "eth0", neither "ifdown eth0" nor
"ifdown eth" takes the interface down. The attempts yield:
"ifdown: interface eth0 not configured" and
"ifdown: interface eth n
Camaleón wrote:
...
... let me add that "any" system upgrade is capable of breaking thinks.
For those who want/need a smooth upgrade I would recommend to install the
new release in parallel with the old release, that is, leaving lenny at
the same state and perform a new install of Squeeze in a
Bob Proulx wrote:
Dan B. wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
So as you can see whitespace isn't safe to use in URLs. This is
basically the same as for Unix filenames.
They're not quite the same:
Not quite the same is basically the same here. :-)
Okay. They're not the same.
Bob Proulx wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
...
So as you can see whitespace isn't safe to use in URLs. This is
basically the same as for Unix filenames.
They're not quite the same:
In URIs, it's not that whitespace "isn't safe to use"; it's simply
that whitespace is not allowed, period. (Yes, en
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