Re: Resources for learning Linux

2010-05-08 Thread Girish Kulkarni
tion Project, with many learning resources: http://tldp.org/ Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org A

Re: Is Firefox/Iceweasel leaking?

2010-05-08 Thread Girish Kulkarni
also had a Zotero database, which used to worsen things. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: Sony voice recorder on Lenny

2010-03-20 Thread Girish Kulkarni
erences to similar problems with devices like scanners on Wine mailing lists but with no clear solution. Will be happy if someone could help. Thanks, Girish. On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:03:04 +0530 Girish Kulkarni wrote: > Is there a way to access Sony voice recorders from a Lenny system? I > am

Re: Sony voice recorder on Lenny

2010-03-04 Thread Girish Kulkarni
=1336054 > http://zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/2007-July/012093.html I know. I was hoping for something better. :-/ -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Sony voice recorder on Lenny

2010-03-02 Thread Girish Kulkarni
5-5: New USB device found, idVendor=054c, idProduct=0387 [ 5732.137559] usb 5-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [ 5732.137559] usb 5-5: Product: Sony IC Recorder (PX) [ 5732.137559] usb 5-5: Manufacturer: Sony Thanks. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http

Re: Tax software for Debian (Lenny)?

2010-02-05 Thread Girish Kulkarni
ckages. Here's what I have so far as options > (on-line versions), any insight into the most Linux/Debian-friendly > one of these? I live in the USA and run Lenny on the machine I"ll > do my taxes with. GnuCash (http://www.gnucash.org/) has some Income Tax related features. Mayb

Re: Pango: Iceweasel vs. Chrome

2010-02-05 Thread Girish Kulkarni
r the reply. I'm quite unfamiliar with both XSETTINGS and fontconfig, and would like to translate the difference between Chrome and Iceweasel (that you point out) into improvement in Iceweasel's font-handling. Wonder if there's some documentation on this? Thanks, Girish. -- Gi

Pango: Iceweasel vs. Chrome

2010-02-03 Thread Girish Kulkarni
render Devanagari well. Exactly like Chrome here. Since Iceweasel is my preferred browser otherwise, I wonder if there's something I can do to improve Devanagari rendering in it? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Bluetooth connection issue

2009-12-27 Thread Girish Kulkarni
ourth one. But OTOH, the Bluetooth connection worked today, suddenly, out of the blue. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Bluetooth connection issue

2009-12-24 Thread Girish Kulkarni
above list.) Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Copying only files that are not into the destination

2009-12-24 Thread Girish Kulkarni
es me this: gir...@marvin:~$ cp -n -r foo /tmp cp: invalid option -- n Try `cp --help' for more information. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: What happened to xpdf in testing?

2009-12-19 Thread Girish Kulkarni
works much faster than Evince, especially while showing PDF files with a lot of graphics. Is there a way I can use Evince better? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-11 Thread Girish Kulkarni
t the battery charge and, more importantly, the "battery health" (whatever than means). Could someone explain how this works? Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: Why CUPS?

2009-12-08 Thread Girish Kulkarni
may happen that your setup will be broken again if GTK 3.0 doesn't | read the gtk-2.0 files or don't provide an appropriate upgrade path. | | -- Rogério Brito Mon, 18 May 2009 21:36:28 -0300 ` Thanks for pointing out. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish

Re: Why CUPS?

2009-12-08 Thread Girish Kulkarni
he network, alongwith the printer. The client programs of LPRng (lpr, lpq, etc.) then --- with a correct /etc/printcap configuration file --- find that the printer Just Works. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Why CUPS?

2009-12-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
y (I tried!), I clearly can use LPRng with far less effort. I wonder then why Debian prefers to bundle CUPS as its default print spooler? Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

window-specific Caps Lock?

2009-10-28 Thread Girish Kulkarni
o the terminal (which for me is Xterm). Is there a way I can set things up so that while I'm typing Fortran 90, text will automatically be entered ALL CAPS in the Emacs buffer, but not in any other windows? Maybe by telling GNOME? Or perhaps by telling Emacs itself? Thanks, Girish. -- Giris

Re: What is the recommendation for a note software with tag support.

2009-10-28 Thread Girish Kulkarni
s and diagrams in your notes. You can even do calculations! The GNU Emacs 22.2.1 that I got with Lenny had an older version of Org-mode (4.something). The current version (6.32b) is much better. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: free alternative acroread

2009-10-02 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Setup tab). And the Print Setup menu lets you specify paper size. Wouldn't this do what you want? Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: can exim reject all mail for one recipient?

2009-09-30 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Ric Otte wrote: I believe it is bad to use procmail to reject mail, ... Why is that? -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: GUI Digital Camera Application

2009-08-27 Thread Girish Kulkarni
imports photos from my Nikon D40 and sorts them hierarchically date-wise. F-Spot now also lets you use GIMP to edit photos, can upload to Flickr if you want and makes it easy to tag and search the collection. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny

2009-08-22 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Will try installing libdvdcss later today and see if that helps me play region 5 DVDs. But another question: libdvdcss is GPL'ed; why is it not in any of the Debian repositories then? I'm also hoping to find its legal status here in India.

Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny

2009-08-21 Thread Girish Kulkarni
ps me play region 5 DVDs. But another question: libdvdcss is GPL'ed; why is it not in any of the Debian repositories then? I'm also hoping to find its legal status here in India. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-20 Thread Girish Kulkarni
t not particularly good at anything: Your worked! -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny

2009-08-20 Thread Girish Kulkarni
ode five times after which it is unchangeable. J. Yes, thanks. I knew that. Regionset told me that I have five chances at changing the drive's region code setting, out of which I have now consumed one. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCR

encrypted DVDs on Lenny

2009-08-19 Thread Girish Kulkarni
on someone's Windows desktop. What is going wrong? Can I trust regionset? I checked debian-user archives and looked up on Google -- regionset seems to have worked for most people. Any comments will help. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNS

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-19 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to actually work together must be a dark art :) True! :-) -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-17 Thread Girish Kulkarni
r web interface to check that I did indeed have all those unread messages. Fetchmail's option combination 'ssl nokeep expunge 20' seems to be working for me now, although honestly, I don't understand why that should be necessary. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Alla

Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-17 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: Slightly OT, but when you try again, use the --expunge option so that when you restart fetchmail Yes, this worked. Thanks! -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-08-13 Thread Girish Kulkarni
7;m also aware of what the Fetchmail FAQ says about Gmail (fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-FAQ.html#I9) but would like to know if that is indeed what is hitting me here. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-29 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: ... I think Mark has hit the proverbial nail-on-the-head ... Yes, with a top-posted HTML message, sent using Gmail. :-) -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-27 Thread Girish Kulkarni
d and simple. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: CUPS lpq

2009-07-20 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Thanks for your reply, lee. On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, lee wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:46:26PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: How can I make the CUPS lpq command give more details than simply this? -- gir...@marvin:~$ lpq -P duplex2 duplex2 is ready no entries see man lpq gir

Re: CUPS lpq

2009-07-20 Thread Girish Kulkarni
, which IIRC gives more verbose reporting. lpstat is more verbose, but only slightly. And more importantly, lpstat too shows only the local queue. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

CUPS lpq

2009-07-18 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Test Page 23667 22:01:10 Is there a way to make the CUPS lpq give the correct queue status? I couldn't find much in the CUPS documentation. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Unidentified subject!

2009-07-18 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Test Page 23667 22:01:10 Is there a way to make the CUPS lpq give the correct queue status? I couldn't find much in the CUPS documentation. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Rhythmbox podcasts multiple desktop machines

2009-07-17 Thread Girish Kulkarni
lists, etc.) across your multiple desktops? I have used this to some extent and it works. HTH, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

2009-07-12 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: KDE gives users three options to compress folders: tar, zip, and rar. What are the advantages or disadvantages of each? How do I know which one to use? http://linuxgazette.net/162/lindholm.html -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in

Re: movies in a beamer (latex) presentation and linux (movie15)

2009-07-08 Thread Girish Kulkarni
ns of Acrobat Reader on Linux? -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: flickr sometimes doesn't load on iceweasel

2009-07-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
post this on Flickr's help? -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: wireless interface name changes across reboots

2009-06-20 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: This shouldn't be necessary for such a trivial issue. Sure. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: wireless interface name changes across reboots

2009-06-18 Thread Girish Kulkarni
. In the worst case, a clean reinstall of Lenny cures this! Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Whatever happened to Unicode input (using + )?

2009-06-18 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, j t wrote: "I think you now need to do Ctrl+Shift+u, then the Unicode number, then then the spacebar." Thanks for figuring this out! I was getting worried too! Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: differences of gfortran on amd64 and i386

2009-06-14 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Also try -float-store. Sorry I meant -ffloat-store. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: differences of gfortran on amd64 and i386

2009-06-14 Thread Girish Kulkarni
g the optimizations, compile with -Wall, -fbounds-check options and see if there is any change in the final results. Also try -float-store. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: equivalent to mepis-network

2009-06-13 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Try iwlist(8) and iwconfig(8) maybe? They help you scan for wireless access points and configure your connection. It also integrates with the nm-applet GUI in GNOME. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Program for quoting text like in email?

2009-06-09 Thread Girish Kulkarni
ny, I put the '>' character before first couple of lines and then fill-paragraph (M-q). Emacs than formats the paragraph width and puts the quote character before every line. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Problems with OOo3.0.1 - not retaining formats when copying

2009-06-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
n my Lenny system. All formatting is retained during copy-paste. On the other hand, maybe you can try "Paste Special" (Ctrl+Shift+V) instead of Paste (Ctrl+V)? See the OOo online help for details (F1). -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: OT Picture in Web Page Problem

2009-06-06 Thread Girish Kulkarni
GNU Emacs. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: squeeze grep status

2009-06-06 Thread Girish Kulkarni
find. I use it whenever rm or mv return argument list too long. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Problems with vnc + gnome

2009-06-02 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Francesco Mazzoli wrote: I'm trying to use vnc with gnome on my debian 5 server, but I've got some problems with gnome. Why didn't you try GNOME's native VNC server Vino and client Vinagre? On my Lenny system, they work out of the box. Girish.

Re: gnome-terminal and pango

2009-05-20 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:54:52PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Thanks for the reply. But rxvt-unicode doesn't even render the Devanagari characters. Three other shots in the dark: mlterm xterm xiterm Thanks for replying, Tzafrir. But

Re: gnome-terminal and pango

2009-05-18 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,17.May.09, 01:39:07, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Does gnome-terminal use Pango? Is there any way one could make it do so? I could only find a nine years old thread on this topic on gtk-i18n-list: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2000

Re: gnome-terminal and pango

2009-05-18 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,17.May.09, 01:39:07, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Does gnome-terminal use Pango? Is there any way one could make it do so? I could only find a nine years old thread on this topic on gtk-i18n-list: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-i18n-list/2000

gnome-terminal and pango

2009-05-16 Thread Girish Kulkarni
that renders Indic scripts well. TIA. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

talkd won't run

2009-04-18 Thread Girish Kulkarni
I going wrong? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: presentation programs on GNU/Linux

2009-04-18 Thread Girish Kulkarni
ive [1] (formerly Keyjnote) to present my > slides, because it lets me highlight parts of a slide, or switch > between them *while i am giving the talk* in ways i can hardly > foresee when i am designing my slides. Thanks for the pointer. I'll give this a try. Girish. -- Girish Kul

presentation programs on GNU/Linux

2009-04-16 Thread Girish Kulkarni
legance in typography and ease of creation. Are there any projects current in Linux that aim at developing a program similar to Keynote in quality? Do you manage Keynote-quality presentations with currently available solutions on Linux? Any comments will help. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni -

interfaces changed after upgrade

2009-03-17 Thread Girish Kulkarni
DHCP queried at every boot. How do I remove wlan0_rename and attach the wifi device to eth2? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: update information is outdated?

2009-03-17 Thread Girish Kulkarni
after I run 'aptitude update'. I have repeated this exercise quite a few times and also confirmed that the mirror is up. But the pop-up persists. Interestingly, there's a bug reported in the BTS about this -- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506186 Girish. --

update information is outdated?

2009-03-12 Thread Girish Kulkarni
m to be no network problems. The message reappears after "checking" for upgrades with aptitude or apt-get. What is wrong? Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: disabling GDM beep?

2009-03-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > Yes, I think that should do it. For a GUI way, run (as root) > gdmsetup and see the "Accessibility" tab for sound options. Thanks Chris, gdmsetup did it. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50w

Re: disabling GDM beep?

2009-03-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
ces>Sound Doesn't help. I disabled the system beep there (also switched off all other sounds) but GDM still beeps. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

disabling GDM beep?

2009-03-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Hi, I use Lenny on my Dell Inspiron 640m laptop. The beep that GDM throws with the login screen has been a source of embarrasment in classrooms many times. How do I disable it? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Unison not syncing files under ~/.kde

2009-03-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
ome descendent of .kde matches a ignorenot criterion. A solution is to edit your ignore patterns to keep .kde safe. (Use regexp maybe?) HTH, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: spam control

2009-03-01 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Thanks for the all the replies! I plan to use the Bogofilter to start with and see how its comparison with Gmail's performance improves with time. Thanks, Girish. On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > I've been managing my mail with Gmail for about three ye

spam control

2009-02-27 Thread Girish Kulkarni
people on this list currently use. How is your experience with the spam control tools already available (SpamAssassin, SpanBouncer, Bogofilter)? Which one is the most favoured? Is Gmail indeed the best option for controlling spam? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - htt

Re: digital camera recomendations

2009-02-18 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Mike McClain wrote: > I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera. Just for > snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations or > knows where I could find which are going to work with Debian. > Just something simple with USB, AA batteries and tha

Lenny?

2009-02-14 Thread Girish Kulkarni
st to upgrade? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

xpdf segfaults

2009-01-22 Thread Girish Kulkarni
have no clue about how to get xpdf working again. (Yes, I have tried reinstalling it.) Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: English grammar checker

2009-01-14 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Do >>> you known one? >> aspell > > _Spell_ checker: aspell > _Grammar_ checker: ??? Try using 'diction'. It identifies cliched phrases and comman grammatical errors. 'style' is a related tool that measures the readability of your writing. HTH, Girish.

Debian and Zipf's law

2009-01-06 Thread Girish Kulkarni
d for free. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-28 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Cassiel wrote: > There's also http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html > just put libflashplayer.so into the mozilla plugins dir This doesn't work on Etch. Can you confirm? -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50w

Re: Java on Debian

2008-12-20 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Thanks for the replies, Jordi and Jochen. I was confused with the jargon around JRE, JDK, and J2SE. But its cleared out now and I have Java running on my Debian Etch machine! Girish. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > A couple of stupid questions for the Java experts

Java on Debian

2008-12-17 Thread Girish Kulkarni
erstanding anything at all about what I did! Any replies will help. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-15 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Daryl Styrk wrote: > Sorry if I in some way mislead with Etch.. Running Lenny here. Oh, OK. So its a dependency issue then. Thanks. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-15 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:14 AM, CaT wrote: > Adobe didn't compile it with the libs that are avail in etch. Really? That would've explained it, but apparently Daryl on this thread already has it working on his 64-bit Etch. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India -

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-15 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Daryl Styrk wrote: > What did about:plugins say about the attempt at v10? Nothing! Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-15 Thread Girish Kulkarni
luginwrapper. So I think you either have to update your system to > testing/unstable, or use a 32 bit version of flash. You're probably right. But I was expecting at least the lobflashplayer.so (v10) from Adobe's site to work! Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India -

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-15 Thread Girish Kulkarni
7;t worked too and I had to comment out those lines when apt-get said it would upgrade my whole system to sid. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-15 Thread Girish Kulkarni
!? Girish. On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > Thanks for all your replies (and apologies for the delay in getting > back from my end; I'd been away and without the Internet). I tried > using FlashPlayer 10 by copying its libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib64 >

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

2008-12-09 Thread Girish Kulkarni
get the correct version of ndiswrapper. Enabling sid main however made apt attempt to upgrade every piece of software in my Etch distribution! Am I doing something wrong here?! Thanks, Girish. On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Girish Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone had

64-bit Flash Player

2008-11-22 Thread Girish Kulkarni
nload page (all it involved was copying libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla). Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

octal dump

2008-11-22 Thread Girish Kulkarni
uestions are answered it's much easier > to parse the data and do stuff with it. Thanks for the replies Ron, Mike and others. I guess I understand use of od now (although that du puzzle is still with me). Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To U

octal dump

2008-11-17 Thread Girish Kulkarni
comments would help. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: i8xx_tco.ko?

2008-10-22 Thread Girish Kulkarni
glas. I didn't know about watchdogs and that confused me. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

i8xx_tco.ko?

2008-10-20 Thread Girish Kulkarni
i8xx_tco.ko supposed to do? Is there any way I can stop getting this message? Any comments will help. Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X-keyboard configuration

2008-10-09 Thread Girish Kulkarni
if the keys are working well at all; xmodmap will help you correct the problem if they aren't. HTH, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System clock malfunction

2008-09-08 Thread Girish Kulkarni
system time > all by itself (although you may want to test for it first: look for this in > /var/log/dmesg: "setting system clock to"). Yes, right. Thanks for the tip. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: System clock malfunction

2008-09-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
ystem on this laptop so decided to change the BIOS time (after reading http://bugs.debian.org/346342). Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

System clock malfunction

2008-09-07 Thread Girish Kulkarni
happens to be precisely GMT+0530. Does this have anything to do with the problem?) Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]