Re: Debian safe-upgrade to 6.0.2 - don't run within X session

2011-06-27 Thread David Hugh McComb
Thank you, Donald, for posting your tip about upgrading in a virtual terminal. It worked. Kind regards, Hugh McComb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

RE: cursor jumps

2011-04-16 Thread Hugh SH
say 'debian disable touchpad' to Google, click on the first result:http://www.debuntu.org/2006/06/25/70-how-to-disabling-your-touchpad-while-typing You will get the instruction:open a terminal type $synclient TouchpadOff=1to disable it while typing.Later if you want to restore it, type$synclient

Re: how to reset scd0

2009-12-11 Thread Hugh Lawson
pect software, because of functionality under diff. software. If the problem recurs, suspect hardware. Hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Another Firefox and sound problem

2009-10-01 Thread Hugh Lawson
to a good primer on PA, something that explains how to set it up in Lenny? Hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-30 Thread Hugh Lawson
Marc Shapiro writes: > Since, in my case, it is almost alway Firefox that has caused the > problem, I run the following script. Thanks, Marc. I copied that, and it runs. Thanks even more for taking the trouble to explain. Hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Hugh Lawson
Marc Shapiro writes: > My system occasionally loses sound. In my case, it is invariably a > runaway firefox process that was trying to play flash and something > went wrong. I find the offending process (this is normally an extra > process, separate from any currently active firefox process) an

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Hugh Lawson
Neal Hogan writes: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Hugh Lawson wrote: >> Yesterday, after running some .avi files with mplayer, my system lost >> sound. Rebooting brought the sound back. > After you lose > sound, what do you see when you run 'alsamixer -V

how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Hugh Lawson
files with mplayer, my system lost sound. Rebooting brought the sound back. How could I have restarted sound without rebooting? Hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

grub2, update-grub, /etc/grub.d

2009-09-26 Thread Hugh Lawson
he next 'update-grub'? The scripts in /etc/grub.d are over my head. I also have successfully edited /etc/grub.d/40_custom to produce home-made custom stanzas for /boot/grub/grub.cfg. Thanks, Hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: My Alt keys don't work!

2009-09-23 Thread Hugh Lawson
ur keyboard options from using Gnome-->System-->Preferences-->Keyboard. You would be doing manually what the Gnome*Keyboard does semi-automatically. Hope this helps. Hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Solved Re: usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread Hugh Lawson
Jack Schneider writes: Hugh wrote: >> I'm looking for a program like 'dd' that can copy image files to >> a USB floppy drive. Jack wrote: > Did you you look @ clonezilla-live ?? Hugh again: Thanks Jack, but as it turned out 'dd' did the job. My earl

Re: usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread Hugh Lawson
ckily, my error produced no harm. Hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread Hugh Lawson
Teemu Likonen writes: > On 2009-08-20 09:08 (-0400), Hugh Lawson wrote: > >> I'm looking for a program like 'dd' that can copy image files to a USB >> floppy drive. > > Why doesn't "dd" work? Did you try? > Thanks Teemu, I tried once

usb floppy, image files

2009-08-20 Thread Hugh Lawson
Hello Debian Users, I'm looking for a program like 'dd' that can copy image files to a USB floppy drive. I've done some googling without success. Hugh Lawson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

udf and dvd-ram

2009-08-14 Thread Hugh Lawson
et, USB flash drives work fine; and multisession recording by growisofs or k3b makes saving backups to dvd fairly easy. Hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: I'm at my wit's end (was:Re: Help with Flash)

2009-05-18 Thread Hugh Lawson
la/plugins/libflashplayer.so Note that "You must have i386 libcurl installed or the plugin will fail." source: http://macromedia.mplug.org/ -- Hugh Lawson hlaw...@triad.rr.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-09 Thread Hugh Lawson
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2009-05-08 14:28 +0200, Hugh Lawson wrote: >> My newly installed squeeze has problems with DNS. Specificially, Emacs >> gnus and evolution cannot reliably find their respective servers. Sven wrote: > This seems to be a libc6 problem, see

Re: Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-08 Thread Hugh Lawson
Bob Cox writes: [ snip ] Hugh wrote: >> My newly installed squeeze has problems with DNS. Specificially, Emacs >> gnus and evolution cannot reliably find their respective servers. Bob asks: > What do you see if you run fetchmail directly from the command line with &

Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-08 Thread Hugh Lawson
ce. Reinstalling squeeze with a later netinst cd--makes no difference. -- Hugh Lawson hlaw...@triad.rr.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: squeeze, dns, fetchmail error

2009-05-06 Thread Hugh Lawson
Bhasker C V writes: > On Wed, 6 May 2009, Hugh Lawson wrote: > > fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of pop-server.triad.rr.com > > (pop-server.triad.rr.com): Name or service not known > > fetchmail: Query status=11 (DNS) Bhasker C V: > Is all the D

squeeze, dns, fetchmail error

2009-05-06 Thread Hugh Lawson
ot;hlawson" password "PASSWD" sslproto ssl23 Something very similar happens with emacs gnus in relation to its news server. This is a squeeze trial install. My regular Debian is lenny, and it works fine. For some reason, squeeze puts the ethernet interface on eth0, while

udftools aptitude upgrade error

2009-01-05 Thread Hugh Lawson
e encountered while processing: udftools Then I did 'dpkg-reconfigure udftools', which returned this error: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: udftools is broken or not fully installed -- Hugh Lawson hlaw...@triad.rr.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: cedilla on a us_intl keyboard

2008-09-24 Thread Hugh Lawson
ave a regular US keyboard with no dead keys, but using menu as the Multi_key, I can produce most of the accented characters, including the c cedilla. This works because the compose-key settings (Multi_key) are regulate in X by /usr/share/X11/locale/iso8859-15/Compose And the "compose:menu" setting in /etc/X11/xorg.conf designates the Multi_key, which is the compose key in X. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: zotero on debian?

2008-08-26 Thread Hugh Lawson
the Library of Congress is. So when I'm typing in zotero notes, I keep the LC web site open, and get my publication data there. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LCD display - laptop

2008-04-01 Thread Hugh Lawson
it over until you understand it. I have done this many times. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mounting Windows Samba shares without using smbfs

2008-03-31 Thread Hugh Lawson
Arthur Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hugh Lawson wrote, on 31/03/08 00:06: > > Arthur Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> The smbfs package, which depends on samba-common includes the > >> mount.cifs binary: > > [ snip ] > > &

Re: Mounting Windows Samba shares without using smbfs

2008-03-30 Thread Hugh Lawson
,iocharset=ut > f8 0 0 On my very small home network, the Windows computer gets its IP address from a router by dhcp. How to get this IP for the remote Linux /etc/fstab file? Can this be automated? -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes--Solved

2008-03-25 Thread Hugh Lawson
Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hugh Lawson wrote: > > > Since posting, I've done some more work. > > nvidia-glx-legacy has been purged; now I have nvidia-glx. Wacko wrote: > You are mixing the two methods of installing the the nvidia module. > 1.

Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-25 Thread Hugh Lawson
module installed by NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.01-pkg1.run -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-25 Thread Hugh Lawson
"Owen Townend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hugh wrote: > > The init file /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx-legacy was causing the X crashes, > > by fiddling with needed links and file locations in the libraries. I > > fixed this by the following: Owen wrote: > Are

etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes

2008-03-24 Thread Hugh Lawson
er, as installed by NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.01-pkg1.run -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sendmail configuration

2008-03-19 Thread Hugh Lawson
ntrol-C. Then you can start over again. For some documentation, see: /usr/share/doc/exim4-config and http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/networking/exim.html and then edit /etc/exim4/email-addresses -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: OT: laser printer: HL-5250DN or another one?

2007-10-23 Thread Hugh Lawson
s for it. It seems to require a lot of power at the beginning of a print job; it dims the lights a little. Before I used a top-loading HP Laserjet 5L. This printer, although it had some problems with loading, had a somewhat more solid feel than the Brother. I'm satisfied with the Brot

Re: Conducting an install via ssh

2007-10-06 Thread hugh
Douglas A. Tutty writes: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 06:58:13PM +0100, Hugh wrote: I wanted to use debian-installer's network-console. Is there no way to use a USB-Serial converter as the console? I hadn't thought to try that, I assumed extra modules would be needed and it'

Conducting an install via ssh

2007-10-04 Thread Hugh
boot.cat is? - I cant find boot.cat in the ppc iso. Thanks for taking the time to read this and for any assistance. Hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DVD-RW data disk, growisofs, multisession

2007-09-15 Thread Hugh Lawson
Given: a dvd-rw disk, containing data, formatted with sequential formatting Issue: growisofs -M doesn't work. But: If I format the dvd-rw disk as restricted-overwrite, then growisofs -M works as expected. Question: Is this normal? I can't find any documentation on this issue.

Re: Problems wi th AtherosĀ® 802 .11b/g wireless -LAN in Debian Etch

2007-06-04 Thread Hugh Lawson
fi > directions and the situation is the same. Can anyone give me a tip to > solve that? Here are the instructions I used to install madwifi module. I used the Installation (with module-assistant) http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian/MadWifi It worked perfectly and easily.

Re: Linksys wireless nic

2007-06-02 Thread Hugh Lawson
a full kernel recompile would have been. module-assistant is a debian package. Once installed, its executables take care of the grunt work of compiling the module and making it properly usable by the kernel. I had no idea this could be this easy. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSC

Re: CLI tools for checking out CDROM drive

2007-05-27 Thread Hugh Lawson
that get played every day. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wireless adapter recommendation

2007-05-27 Thread Hugh Lawson
# m-a a-i rt2500-source > > 2. install the driver: > # modprobe rt2500 I had the same experience with a TD-Link WN510G. I'd never used module-assistant before, but it worked as smoothly as can be. The card uses the madwifi module for which there is an iformative web page

my experiences trying to install Etch

2007-04-19 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
I was trying to install the Debian for the first time and ran into several issues. I would send this to installlation-reports but I seem to need a running Debian system for that. Can anybody suggests how I should proceed? (5) is a fairly serious block. Context: Me: long-time Linux user. This

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-24 Thread Hugh Lawson
ce definitions from FILE instead of from /etc/net- work/interfaces. If this means what it seems to mean, you can write a different file for each of your configurations, and start ifup with the i option. ifup is part of the package (in stable) ifupdown. See also man ifdown. -- Hug

Re: wma player for firefox

2007-03-08 Thread Hugh Lawson
1F41B907 | apt-key add - Thanks for the help. The problem I have now is that there is evidently no package containing apt-key in the stable distribution. Maybe this doesn't work in stable. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wma player for firefox

2007-03-08 Thread Hugh Lawson
ions on how to do this, from the absolute beginning, with a stable Debian. I don't know enought to understand these directions: http://www.debian-multimedia.org/faq.html -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-20 Thread Hugh Lawson
e same directory (regardless what ever) within your HOME, such as: -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Hugh Lawson
ning under dosemu, to print a one-line file. I've played with both the debian package and a binary package which is the one I have now. I've never tried any games. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-13 Thread Hugh Lawson
Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks to everyone who's taken the time to respond. It's helped a > lot. I'd still like some more help though if you can spare it. =) Hear! Hear! This has been really informative. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-01 Thread Hugh Lawson
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This thread got me to wondering about my own floppies, which I have > not checked in some time. I tried to access several floppies, all > unsuccessfully. I OTOH just mounted successfully some floppies that were made about fifteen years

Simple aptitude/apt question

2006-01-25 Thread Hugh Crissman
How do I exclude a package when doing a upgrade. Say Postfix for example. I want to update all the packages on my system but I don't want to update Postfix. How would I do that? HCrissman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: [Fwd: Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie]

2005-11-13 Thread Hugh Lawson
steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i used 10 years ago wp5.1. never found a better Get dosemu working, find your old wp5.1 install floppies, and you can use wp5.1 under Linux. See: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/linux.html -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-12 Thread Hugh Lawson
Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my > > ~/.Xresources file: > > XTerm*Background: black > > XTerm*Foreground: white > >

mouse driver doesn't detect my scroll wheel

2005-09-23 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Hi I have a laptop with a trackpoint and a PS/2 port for external mice. When I plug in a 3 button mouse to the PS/2 port, it works fine, but the scroll wheel doesn't do anything. This seems to be a driver problem rather than an X problem, as "cat /dev/input/mice" doesn't show any output when I mov

Re: debian testing console euro and accented characters Solved

2005-09-13 Thread Hugh Lawson
Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hugh Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > # make bash deal properly with 8-bit characters > > bind "set output-meta on" > > bind "set input-meta on" > > bind "set convert-meta off&q

Re: reinstall lilo after windows

2005-09-11 Thread Hugh Lawson
asiest). Be sure to test before installing Windows. or, get tomsrtbt to rerun lilo. http://www.toms.net/rb/ or, get grub and make yourself a grub boot floppy. This takes a little study. -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

openoffice file recovery?

2005-08-30 Thread David Hugh-Jones
hi all I just exited Gnome and logged back in. Seems openoffice didn't exit gracefully, because when I logged in it started up and asked me if I wanted to recover the file I had been working on; I said yes but it just hung. Now I discover that it also failed to save the file (I'm sure I pressed ct

Re: two basic "new to Debian" questions: network config & RMS

2005-06-30 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Depends what kind of networking you want to do. If you are just connecting to a LAN with a DHCP server running, then just run "/etc/init.d/networking start" as root and see if it works. If you want a static IP address and name servers, the easiest way is probably to use the Gnome network tools - av

Re: unsubscribe

2005-06-08 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Your rhyming skills leave us in awe, but will Leethom find what he's looking for? On 08/06/05, Matthew Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can leave but first you must read, this email has the information > you need. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

xset under gnome?

2005-05-16 Thread David Hugh-Jones
The maximum mouse acceleration that you can set from within Gnome's preference dialog is a little slow for me, so I like to set it manually with "xset". Can anyone suggest what would be the canonical way to do this every time I login to X, without Gnome overriding it? cheers David

Re: clock speed trouble

2005-05-16 Thread David Hugh-Jones
rnel - should I recompile, bearing in mind this is an old Portegee 7020CT with a Pentium II 366? cheers Dave On 13/05/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Hugh-Jones wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have an old Toshiba laptop (c 1999) which uses apm ra

clock speed trouble

2005-05-13 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Hi I have an old Toshiba laptop (c 1999) which uses apm rather than the modern acpi. Whenever I boot up on battery power, the cpu speed is incorrectly detected as 48.175 MHz. This makes the system clock run way too fast, which means my time gets wrong, and also makes the computer harder to use in

Re: webcrawl to cache dynamic pages

2005-05-09 Thread David Hugh-Jones
If you end up wanting to do something more complicated, you could look into WWW::Mechanize: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?WWW%3A%3AMechanize David On 09/05/05, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 09:48:07AM +0200, Nacho wrote: > > > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:27:4

Re: clock speed too fast when power plugged in

2004-11-15 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Hi Richard Have you tried booting up unplugged and seeing if that solves it? That is the best workaround I have at the moment... David On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:14:48 +1300, Richard Hector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:28:17AM +0000, David Hugh-Jones wrote: >

clock speed too fast when power plugged in

2004-11-11 Thread David Hugh-Jones
I can do to make my clock run normal? Thanks very much David Hugh-Jones -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

USB printer problem

2004-09-16 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Hi I have a problem using my printer. It's a canon S100. I am using CUPS and Debian Sarge (same problem with kernels 2.6.7, 2.6.8 and 2.4.27). When I try and print a test page (from the admin interface at localhost:631) I get either the message "Printer fault" or the message "USB port busy; will r

Re: Harassment

2003-08-14 Thread Hugh Saunders
ve sent this off-list but didnt wanna mess with CR] -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Hugh Saunders
, regardless of an unstable security source, > my boxen would be better off as totally, wholly un-stable? erm, not quite sure what your on about, but my understanding is that unstable doesnt need a security source as updated packages will go straight to the unstable tree of the repository. --

Re: apt and changelogs

2003-08-04 Thread Hugh Saunders
ured to do this automatically during upgrades using apt. -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Easy/Fast way to view a package's debian/changelog

2003-08-04 Thread Hugh Saunders
nue? [Y/n] n >Abort. erm, why not just run unstable?? mixed stable/testing/unstable looks like a mess to me and probably doesnt help with getting security fixes for stuff either. my 2p ;-) -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-04 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:32:53PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > *I* don't get any spam. im guessing you dont get much ham either... -- hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Understanding LILO (was: Using dd to copy a disk)

2003-07-29 Thread Hugh Saunders
; sectors? I assume it's not read while booting. correct. -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: new-bie problem

2003-07-29 Thread Hugh Saunders
s. sorry cant help with an emulation of the actual mode you were talking about. -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: I'm a Bastard Operator... From Hell.

2003-07-29 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:32:20AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > And, if so, why do you want to "screw with him"? he's already said hes a bofh ;-) -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Getting man pages in color

2003-07-29 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:44:23AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > How do I get man pages to show in color? > used to have it on mandrake at one of the workplaces but never figured > out how to enable it under debian. i quite like most and pinfo for displaying man pages/info doc in colour.

Re: new-bie problem

2003-07-29 Thread Hugh Saunders
cant think of any more ideas for "intereactive mode". -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: resolv.conf

2003-07-29 Thread Hugh Saunders
gateway is an xp box :-( so my /etc/resolv.conf looks like: search mshome.net nameserver 192.168.0.1 hope you get it sorted, -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Netgear 54Mbps Wireless PC Card (32-bit Cardbus WG511) Driver

2003-07-11 Thread Hugh Saunders
e for any 55Mbps card. i dont know if this project is supporting the chipset the above card uses, but its a good sign that support is coming :) http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/ -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: bash: get file modification time query

2003-07-10 Thread Hugh Saunders
esn't. $filename or ${filename} is substituted for the contents of environment variable 'filename'. -- hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Games thru SSH

2003-07-10 Thread Hugh Saunders
system. Then I thought maybe I > could use dosemu; as people say doom runs in it, but I've had no luck; > it seems to halt before completely loading. do you actually wanna play aalib quake? or connect to a quake server through an ssh tunnel? -- hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Debian references

2003-07-09 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:56:34PM +0200, Schulze Thomas wrote: > Where i can find the Debain references? in the fine packaging system :) apt-cache search debian reference -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: test program

2003-07-09 Thread Hugh Saunders
hope thats helpful, sorry isnt specifically what you asked for, -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Umbrello

2003-07-09 Thread Hugh Saunders
cause my card is unsupported :( [ S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR]] -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Switch full screen progs?

2003-07-07 Thread Hugh Saunders
be good for you. -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What directories can be shared between multiple distributions on the same machine??

2003-07-07 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 07:47:45PM +0800, Zhao YouBing wrote: > So many distributions, it seems that the life will be easier if they can > unite into one, > anyway, there is only one breed of kernel. /me humms something about Debian GNU/hurd.. ;) -- hugh pgp0.pgp Descrip

Re: Automount

2003-07-01 Thread Hugh Saunders
er of some kind. apt-cache search automount. have i been trolled? -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bash question

2003-07-01 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:28:32AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > ITYM 'for file in *'... > ISTR earlier versions... flip man! i needed two references to `dict` to read your email. Guess i should learn some acronyms! -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: simple bash loop problem ...

2003-06-30 Thread Hugh Saunders
]:~$ cat ./bashtest #!/bin/bash i=0 while [ $i -lt 9 ] do echo f00 i=$((++i)) done [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./bashtest f00 f00 f00 f00 f00 f00 f00 f00 f00 hope that helps -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: test - please ignore

2003-06-29 Thread Hugh Saunders
wont -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sid Release Number?? [Re: Very odd behavior with XVideo output]

2003-06-27 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:23:32AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "Sid" isnt 3.1 [or 3.0r1 possibly?] woody? didnt think sid had a release number. sorry cant help with xv probs. -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: screenshot of mplayer-movie?

2003-06-25 Thread Hugh Saunders
on a (mostly) testing system. everything works > fine, except i can't make screenshots to brag with... mplayer -vo help i guess you want -vo x11 if -vo xv messes up screen shots [which i guess it does seeming as it overlays] -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'

2003-06-25 Thread Hugh Saunders
> libncurses5-dev > > I've had the same trouble, as all newbies, it seems, and have made it my > single most important task in life not to forget *that*. ;-) i dont think anyones gonna ask that round here for a while... If only that were true, the prob with FAQs is -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'

2003-06-25 Thread Hugh Saunders
in dselect, nor on debian's > FTP site. > If it's not the ncurses-devel package that is missing, what could it be? libncurses5-dev - Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Going Unstable

2003-06-25 Thread Hugh Saunders
Unstable is unstable cause the distrubtion is unstable there maybe unmet dependencies etc. Theoretically the quality of software once you have an installed system shouldnt be any less. for example, try installing festival in unstable at the mo ;o) -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to shutup syslog

2003-06-25 Thread Hugh Saunders
to the logging of kernel messages. -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How many users?

2003-06-25 Thread Hugh Saunders
or their friends =o) -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to count actual users?

2003-06-24 Thread Hugh Saunders
ats/ you can say number of users >= 31880 unless people subscribe to debian-announce twice. not sure how you would calculate the actual number of unique subscribed addresses unless you were a listmaster. -- hugh pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: GRUB problem

2003-06-24 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:21:20PM +1200, cr wrote: > On Tuesday 24 June 2003 01:27, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 12:52:01AM +1200, cr wrote: > > > I'm still booting off floppy and trying to get GRUB sorted. > > > > erm, not quite sure whats

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-23 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:21:52PM +0100, iain d broadfoot wrote: > * Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:31:46PM +0100, iain d broadfoot wrote: > > > * Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > i agree, now i dont like o

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-23 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:31:46PM +0100, iain d broadfoot wrote: > * Hugh Saunders ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > i agree, now i dont like oranges, so should i hate nazis?? > > > > oh look, a mention of the nazis, i declare this thread dead :p > > you do know that doe

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-23 Thread Hugh Saunders
n't copy and modify" attitude. Should I hate homosexuals because > > I am heterosexual? > > Er, geez, talk about a flawed analogy. i agree, now i dont like oranges, so should i hate nazis?? oh look, a mention of the nazis, i declare this thread dead :p [sorry if they have been

Re: xrdb

2003-06-23 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:33:42PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:29:09AM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:20:46AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > thanks, i had ~/.Xresources, renaming it Xdefaults got it read by > > default,

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