Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-03-01 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 10:04 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > >what exactly is wrong with xpdf? I use it routinely, authoring > > and refereeing. I find it light and fast. evince works too, though I > > find xp

Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-03-01 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 09:08 +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Unfortunately, for dealing with most editors of scientific journals, > and for personal use of the scientific literature, either as author or > referee, neither the readers you mention, nor any one other I know > except acroread, are eno

Re: Incorrect version of xserver-xorg in unstable

2006-08-23 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 11:15 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Drew Parsons wrote: > > >An upload of xserver-xorg 1:1.1.1-3 was incorrectly made to unstable > >today. The intended target was experimental. The correct current > >version for unstable is 1:1.0.2-9. > >

Incorrect version of xserver-xorg in unstable

2006-08-22 Thread Drew Parsons
bian-devel to further evolve our processes to help reduce the likelihood of this mistake being made again in the future. X11R7.1 is nearly ready for unstable in its own right and should have arrived within the fortnight. Drew Parsons on behalf of the X Strike Force signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: web page -> ps problems

2003-12-23 Thread Drew Parsons
I've had the problem with gv not being able to read Xprint's postscript output (i.e. when printing to file from mozilla). I've filed a bug against the gv package, but the maintainer (nor the Xprint author) could not reproduce the problem. Help is welcome! And needed! Debian bug #167330 (http://bu

Re: killing dead cdrecord processes

2001-07-24 Thread Drew Parsons
Joost Kooij wrote: >> The state is "D", which means uninterruptible: the processes do not >> respond to kill -9. > >They will, once they can be interrupted again. Is that realistic? Will the process actually drop back to an interruptible state? How long would be a reasonable amount of time to ex

killing dead cdrecord processes

2001-07-22 Thread Drew Parsons
I've been trying to burn a CD using gcombust. For some reason the burn got stuck halfway through (the output of cdrecord, which gcombust calls, said that all of a sudden one of the SCSI commands couldn't be understood. It's a HP USB CDWriter using the usb-storage module, which uses a series of

Re: visudo not vi?

2001-03-13 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 03:12:34PM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > -> > Here is what I got: > -> > > -> > > > -> > > -> > File read and write ^X I ^X^W Left, down, up, right ^B ^N ^P Shouldn't that be "up up down down..." ;) Drew -- PGP public key available at htt

Re: SCSI Cd-rom device name?

1999-07-21 Thread Drew Parsons
t is still appropriate to mount it via /dev/scd0 I hope that helps :) Drew Parsons Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique Universite de Nancy I, B.P. 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex, France Fax: +33-(0)3 83 91 25 30 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

preparing for first installation - which User's Guide?

1999-07-15 Thread Drew Parsons
n on my laptop, a Toshiba Satellite Pro 490CDT. I prefer unix to Windows, I've done a bit of assistant administration of a unix machine, so I'm hoping the Debian installation will go smoothly enough. So, I looking forward to hearing anyone's opinion concerning the User Guides. Drew