Re: apt cache files (*.bin) corruption

2006-12-25 Thread José Alburquerque
Andy Hawkins wrote: Hi, An update to this, it appears that my cron job runs: apt-file update which is what corrupts the bin files Does this help at all? Andy Andy: I'm really no expert, just suggesting as best I know to help with what I've seen, but I really don't think that running

Re: Very ugly problem after upgrade and unistalling KDE

2006-12-24 Thread José Alburquerque
jiakomo wrote: Hello, I 'm a new debian user (unstable) (gnome 2.14.3 - kernel 2.6.18-3-amd64). I am also a victim of this bug :( There are no file associations AT ALL - if I double click a file I get "couldn't display "/path/file". I can only open files with right click -> open with other appl

Re: [half-solved] Re: Alsa needs reconfiguration after every reboot

2006-12-19 Thread José Alburquerque
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, this did the trick - installing of libesd-alsa0 instead of libesd solved the problem. Now the question is - shouldn't libesd-alsa0 be automatically installed with alsa instead of libesd? Kind regards, Vladimir. I would say; but I'm not sure that the user list

Re: [half-solved] Re: Alsa needs reconfiguration after every reboot

2006-12-19 Thread José Alburquerque
Nigel Henry wrote: Esd should not be being started at bootup, as it's a Gnome thing, but will probably be started when you login to Gnome. I can't login to Gnome on Etch for some reason. It's probably annoyed that I use KDE. Anyway I booted up Sarge, and logged into Gnome, there under "Applicat

Re: apt cache files (*.bin) corruption

2006-12-19 Thread José Alburquerque
Andy Hawkins wrote: But this apt hasn't been updated in a while I suspect. I'm still interested in why this problem has suddenly started happening. As I said, I'm still on Debian Stable, so I'm not sure if the apt from testing will 'drop in'? Andy You know, I remember starting to experienc

Re: apt cache files (*.bin) corruption

2006-12-18 Thread José Alburquerque
Andy Hawkins wrote: Hi, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Sackville-West<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: what version of apt? there was a segfault problem in -2 or -3 which is supposedly fixed in -4. version 0.6.46-3 I think it was. Apologies, should have said. This is Debia

Re: .bash_profile ignored in X

2006-12-16 Thread José Alburquerque
Russell L. Harris wrote: During configuration of another machine running Etch, I discovered that .bash_profile appears to be ignored when logging into X. Specifically, the problem is that the "~/bin" directory does not appear in the path when, in an X terminal, I execute: $ echo $PATH Howe

Re: bulk mailer

2006-12-16 Thread José Alburquerque
Russell L. Harris wrote: I need a method to email a weekly Bible study to a list of a hundred or so recipients. I found in the Debian archive a package named "libmail-bulkmail-perl". I installed the package and looked at the example files in "/usr/share/doc/libmail-bulkmail-perl", but I have bee

Re: a sound question

2006-12-15 Thread José Alburquerque
Mark Grieveson wrote: If I recall correctly, the module lines were something like: alias snd-card-0 snd-fm801 options snd-fm801 index=0 alias snd-card-1 options index=1 represents the second module for a second "soundcard" to be loaded in the kernel at the same time. Do you t

Re: Are lilo and grub compatible?

2006-12-07 Thread José Alburquerque
Mike McCarty wrote: José Alburquerque wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: José Alburquerque wrote: As far as I know, lilo and grub are mutually exclusive because both are Nope. GRUB may be installed in any Boot Record, not just the Master Boot Record. For example, on my machine, I do not have

Re: Are lilo and grub compatible?

2006-12-07 Thread José Alburquerque
Mike McCarty wrote: José Alburquerque wrote: As far as I know, lilo and grub are mutually exclusive because both are Nope. GRUB may be installed in any Boot Record, not just the Master Boot Record. For example, on my machine, I do not have GRUB on my MBR. I use Microsoft's MBR, and us

Re: Are lilo and grub compatible?

2006-12-07 Thread José Alburquerque
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an emergency boot disk -- a floppy on which lilo wrote an MBR. It works fine. I use it to dual-boot a functinoal sarge and a severely broken etch (well, actually the etch doesn't boot). The etch installer's lilo won't run. I could try running the installer ag

Re: a sound question

2006-12-06 Thread José Alburquerque
Mark Grieveson wrote: Hi everyone. I have a usb-audio-device (aka a skype phone), and a couple of speakers plugged into my regular soundcard. I can get sound out of either device separately, but not both. I feel that I should be able to use both the soundcard, and the usb-audio-device at th

Re: adding multimedia on debian etch testing

2006-12-06 Thread José Alburquerque
Shrinivasan T wrote: Friends. I got the debian etch testing 25 cds and converted them into 3 DVDs. Installed debian etch testing using those DVDs. and I wished to update all the multimedia stuff. so added the debian-multimedia.org repository. My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this. ---

Re: Problem installing packages with apt-get, aptitude and dselect

2006-12-06 Thread José Alburquerque
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: mostly I ignore anyhting marked as . Anything marked as (or other things, are there others?) I review carefully to see if it applies on my system. Often, the bugs are for different architectures or are things that aren't critical to me and I can safely ignore them. I

Re: Problem installing packages with apt-get, aptitude and dselect

2006-12-05 Thread José Alburquerque
José Alburquerque wrote: When installation pauses because of a pending bug, does that always mean that a package should not be installed? Oops I didn't realize that the man page for apt-listbugs sort of explains it. Never mind the simplistic question. :-) -- Sincerely Jose Alburqu

Re: Problem installing packages with apt-get, aptitude and dselect

2006-12-05 Thread José Alburquerque
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: check out the package apt-listbugs. It puls down critical (and maybe severe) bug reports and prompts you before installing packages. That's how I saw the segfault bug in apt and held my apt and apt-utils at the current version pending resolution. A The funny thi

Re: Problem installing packages with apt-get, aptitude and dselect

2006-12-05 Thread José Alburquerque
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: what version of apt-get? check out bug 401263. Interestingly, though the bug says it applies to 0.6.46.2, I am running that with no problems. (k7 arch). but there are a variety of possible solutions posted. you may have to use dpkg to manually install an older(or

Problem installing packages with apt-get, aptitude and dselect

2006-12-05 Thread José Alburquerque
Hi list. I'm running into a little bit of a problem with package management on my system and I was hoping someone out there might help: My problem occurs with apt-get, aptitude, dselect, synaptic or any other front-end to apt. I can manually download packages and successfully install/upgrade

Re: Java EE installation - cannot find j2se 5

2006-12-01 Thread José Alburquerque
Marko Randjelovic wrote: I installed sun-java with apt-get: sun-java5-bin - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-demo - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-doc - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-fonts - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-jdk - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-jre - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-source - 1.5.0-08-1 Then I dowloaded java_app_platform_sdk-5

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread José Alburquerque
Brian Durant wrote: OK, maybe I am posting the wrong error message? Here is what I get after I update in Synaptic: http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimedia/dists/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found It looks to me like the path is correct, however I

Re: enlarge gnome desktop dictionary window

2006-11-29 Thread José Alburquerque
Russell L. Harris wrote: Regarding Dictionary 2.14.0, the Gnome desktop dictionary applet for Etch: Clicking on the applet opens an overlapping (i.e., always-on-top) window to display the definition of a word. But the window is entirely too small, and invariably requires tedious scrolling. The

Re: bad text rendering on Acer LCD

2006-11-21 Thread José Alburquerque
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, I have an Acer 19" wide screen (AL1916W) which doesn't display text properly, even on the terminal. I run GNOME on unstable, and this problem shows in various resolutions I've tried, and the screen's own resolution of 1440x900 is not available on GNOM's menu. Attac

Re: udev

2006-11-02 Thread José Alburquerque
Seeker5528 wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:17:27 + Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I pinned udev to version 0.079.1 a while back after suffering some serious hassle with it when etch was testing. I'm still on etch - and synaptic claims that this is still the latest version a

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-31 Thread José Alburquerque
Andrei Popescu wrote: * ftp [ none I use sftp ] I think simply 'none' is more accurate, though gftp looks very promising (for sftp) - thanks to Jose Alburquerque for the tip Happy to be useful. :-) -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread José Alburquerque
David Jardine wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 03:33:23PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/06 13:37, David Jardine wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 08:07:40AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:42:00AM -0600,

Apology

2006-10-28 Thread José Alburquerque
Dear Debian List: I'd like to apologize, first to all the users of the list and then to those who tried to help me with my spam (the "dirty spam") problem such as Roberto C. Sanchez and P. Johnson. I sincerely apologize for not being understanding of their suggestions and for being not being

Re: GNOME keyboard layout view bug?

2006-10-27 Thread José Alburquerque
Otto Maddox wrote: I'm trying to configure my keyboard in GNOME 2.14.3 (Debian PowerPC testing). Selecting "Layout View" from the Keyboard Indicator applet's popup menu gives a blank window with only "Help" and "Close" buttons. No diagram of a keyboard is shown. Same sort of problem when I br

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-27 Thread José Alburquerque
Jochen Schulz wrote: José Alburquerque: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 10/26/06, José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * mathematics [ calculator ] Which is this? Can't find it in Debian... Sorry, I meant 'gcalctool'. I'

Re: libgphoto2-2 (sarge->sid)

2006-10-27 Thread José Alburquerque
Gregory Bushta wrote: Greets, I am wondering how broken Sarge would become if I allowed an unstable install of libgphoto2-2 to complete. I changed the apt sources list from stable to unstable. Then ran apt-get update. That took a while. Then I ran apt-get install libgphoto2-2. It spit out t

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-27 Thread José Alburquerque
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 10/26/06, José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * mathematics [ calculator ] Which is this? Can't find it in Debian... Sorry, I meant 'gcalctool'. I'm not sure it's a package, but it's the comm

Re: something touching my files

2006-10-26 Thread José Alburquerque
ChadDavis wrote: Thanks guys. I'm looking through the cron tasks, but it certainly doesn't happen with any monthly, daily, weekly regularity. Its been a couple months since the last time actually. If that adds any important info. On 10/26/06, *José Alburquerque* <[EM

Re: How to restrict wmv file from download help required

2006-10-26 Thread José Alburquerque
david robert wrote: Hi Guys, I have a .wmv file and i want to put this file in my clients website the main problem is he wants to play in web browser only it should not be available for download.How do i do that? I need to install streaming server for this or any other ideas from this co

Re: something touching my files

2006-10-26 Thread José Alburquerque
ChadDavis wrote: Hey, I am using CVS for some development work. It keeps track of whether a file has been modified by monitoring the timestamp. My time stamps keep getting renewed occasionally, which mucks up CVS. There are ZERO changes to the files at these times, but its annoying nonethe

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread José Alburquerque
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those who are get bored by this to please pardon me. Here goes my new l

Re: onboard audio problems with Connectland USB web cam Debian Etch

2006-10-26 Thread José Alburquerque
John Kerr Anderson wrote: Hello everyone, I have an AMD64 desktop PC running Debian Etch for amd64. The on-board uses the standard Intel ICH driver in alsa. If I try booting the computer with the Connectland USB web-cam... the built-in audio (a microphone) interferes with the onboard audio.

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-25 Thread José Alburquerque
José Alburquerque wrote: Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: BTW, I remember someone who was not interested in the Red Hat distro "because I don't like that stupid red hat". I now know that 'red hat' has more meanings and symbolism than just a red colored hat (Google for 're

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-25 Thread José Alburquerque
cothrige wrote: * Jos? Alburquerque ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] The redhat reference above, is a good example. When Marc Ewing founded his company the name was taken from a "red hat" his grandfather had given him (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_name_etymologies#R)

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-25 Thread José Alburquerque
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: BTW, I remember someone who was not interested in the Red Hat distro "because I don't like that stupid red hat". I now know that 'red hat' has more meanings and symbolism than just a red colored hat (Google for 'red hat' without the word 'linux'), and I suspect that there

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-25 Thread José Alburquerque
Jameson C. Burt wrote: THANK YOU -- nautilus-open-terminal does just what I would hope for. --Jim Burt Anytime. :-) On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 11:44:14AM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: If you install the 'nautilus-open-terminal' package, you can open up a terminal on de

Re: Dirty spam

2006-10-25 Thread José Alburquerque
Andrei Popescu wrote: José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pollywog wrote: Sorry, I did not mean to respam the spam. Now I feel as though I need to find a special chewing gum. I'm sorry to ask. Can you explain what special chewing gum means?

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-24 Thread José Alburquerque
John C wrote: One of the greatest features of linux *was* that each individuals desktop was as different as that individual. The box looked, operated, and sounded the way that user wanted it too. Now it seems that individuality is out-of-style and every useful tool/program that is not part o

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-24 Thread José Alburquerque
Jameson C. Burt wrote: I'll also accept your solution to start gnome-terminal from a command-line using alt-F2 Luckily, when done once, Gnome usually saves even that effort, since Gnome remembers the previous gnome-terminal application between boots. If you install the 'nautilus-open-t

Re: Dirty spam

2006-10-23 Thread José Alburquerque
Pollywog wrote: On Sunday 22 October 2006 15:06, Steve Lamb wrote: Not directed solely at you, Mumia, just something that I've been meaning to say for weeks now. Know what would really help? If people would stop replying to spam, quoting spam or otherwise legitimizing spam to my bayesi

Re: Etch/Cupsys/Gutenprint - failure to communicate

2006-10-23 Thread José Alburquerque
José Alburquerque wrote: Matthew Krauss wrote: Hi, On a clean new Etch install, I can't seem to see any Gutenprint printer drivers (ie. the Canon iP4000) from any Cupsys printer setup tool (ie. gnome-cups-manager, http://localhost:631). I have cupsys, cupsys-driver-gutenprint

Re: Etch/Cupsys/Gutenprint - failure to communicate

2006-10-23 Thread José Alburquerque
Matthew Krauss wrote: Hi, On a clean new Etch install, I can't seem to see any Gutenprint printer drivers (ie. the Canon iP4000) from any Cupsys printer setup tool (ie. gnome-cups-manager, http://localhost:631). I have cupsys, cupsys-driver-gutenprint, and foomatic-db-gutenprint installed.

Re: Wildcard for hidden files

2006-10-23 Thread José Alburquerque
Chris wrote: On Monday 23 October 2006 17:38, Bob McGowan wrote: Chris wrote: Hello, How can I list all hidden files or directories with ls? ls .* does not give the desired result. Id like to archive all the hidden files in my home folder. Thanks, Chris Chris, I've been

Re: exim4 outgoing address translation

2006-10-23 Thread José Alburquerque
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I currently have exim4 set up and working fine. Outgoing mail is rewritten from dtutty to [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do I get it to rewrite it to Doug Tutty and Jane Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ? Just change your user info using 'chfn' (or edit your users an

Re: help needed: after recent dist-upgrade, openoffice 2.0.4rc3-1 hangs with FUTEX_WAIT

2006-10-22 Thread José Alburquerque
José Alburquerque wrote: Michael Vishchers wrote: Hello, after I dist-upgraded my system a couple of days ago, I noticed that the new openoffice 2.0.4 hangs on opening files if called from a user whose home directory is NFS mounted. I've tried to downgrade openoffice back to 2.0.3-

Re: help needed: after recent dist-upgrade, openoffice 2.0.4rc3-1 hangs with FUTEX_WAIT

2006-10-22 Thread José Alburquerque
Michael Vishchers wrote: Hello, after I dist-upgraded my system a couple of days ago, I noticed that the new openoffice 2.0.4 hangs on opening files if called from a user whose home directory is NFS mounted. I've tried to downgrade openoffice back to 2.0.3-6 and even started an older kernel (c

Re: Dirty spam

2006-10-22 Thread José Alburquerque
Steve Lamb wrote: Mumia W.. wrote: Taking down the botnet is another way to fight the spam. It doesn't always work as planned: Not directed solely at you, Mumia, just something that I've been meaning to say for weeks now. Know what would really help? If people would stop replying

Re: Dirty spam

2006-10-20 Thread José Alburquerque
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: If you are using t-bird to get mail directly from a pop server, then I think you're stuck. But you COULD, setup fetchmail to get your mail, reconfig exim to use spamassassin and whatever else you want) and then deliver that mail to your mail locally for t-bird to pic

Re: Dirty spam

2006-10-19 Thread José Alburquerque
José Alburquerque wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Install spamassasin and train it. Go to the web archives, find the offending message(s) and click the corresponding "Report this as Spam" button on the page for the message. The list admins periodically train spamassasin on list

Re: Wine doesn't create desktop icons

2006-10-19 Thread José Alburquerque
José Alburquerque wrote: Thanks Kevin. I remember when I used wine (in my recently previous redhat days) that wine itself (on installation) created an actual icon on the desktop which could just be clicked and executed (sort of as if the program were running in windows but in fact it really

Re: Dirty spam

2006-10-19 Thread José Alburquerque
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Install spamassasin and train it. Go to the web archives, find the offending message(s) and click the corresponding "Report this as Spam" button on the page for the message. The list admins periodically train spamassasin on lists.d.o with those messages which are repo

Re: Dirty spam

2006-10-19 Thread José Alburquerque
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:18:28PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: I'm sorry to say, but the spam on the list is getting dirty. Is there anything we can do about this? Thanks. Install spamassasin and train it. Go to the web archives, find the offe

Dirty spam

2006-10-19 Thread José Alburquerque
I'm sorry to say, but the spam on the list is getting dirty. Is there anything we can do about this? Thanks. -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fixed] Re: Missing partition icons on sid gnome desktop

2006-10-19 Thread José Alburquerque
José Alburquerque wrote: Curiously, when I run the old hal-device-manager, my volumes appear by label under my scsi disks (I have two with several partitions), but when I run the new hal-device-manager, the volumes are no longer there. Would this be a feature, a bug or what in hal? Should I

Re: Wine doesn't create desktop icons

2006-10-19 Thread José Alburquerque
Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:35:29PM -0400, Jos? Alburquerque wrote: Would anyone know how I might get wine to create icons on my desktop when I install a new program? I need to install a browser plugin only available for Windows that will enable me to learn a bit of music

Wine doesn't create desktop icons

2006-10-18 Thread José Alburquerque
Would anyone know how I might get wine to create icons on my desktop when I install a new program? I need to install a browser plugin only available for Windows that will enable me to learn a bit of music theory. I'd like to be able to install Firefox for Windows and see the icon on my deskto

Missing partition icons on sid gnome desktop

2006-10-18 Thread José Alburquerque
Would anyone have any idea why the partitions on my sid gnome desktop have disappeared and never come back? I remember that they all showed up on the desktop when I logged in. Might I be missing some package? -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-16 Thread José Alburquerque
Aaron Hall wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Jos� Alburquerque wrote: Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: tcsh has the feature of printing time automatically after each command executed (time variable). it also has 'precmd' and 'postcmd' aliases that are executed (if set) before and after any com

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-15 Thread José Alburquerque
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 13.10.06 08:19, Ken Irving wrote: The -t option to script gives precise timing of output to the terminal, and could be post-processed to yield the timing you're looking for. tcsh has the feature of printing time automatically after each command execute

Re: problem playing vcd with totem

2006-10-14 Thread José Alburquerque
Basanta Shrestha wrote: #totem vcd:///dev/cdrom #totem vcd:// both works. Can anyone suggest a work-around for this? Note: /dev/cdrom has symlink to /dev/hdb. -Basanta would 'totem vcd:///cdrom' work? It could be that you're missing a link from /dev/cdrom to /cdrom. -- Sincerely Jose A

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread José Alburquerque
Scott Gifford wrote: If you're using bash, try something like this: PS1='@$SECONDS $ ' PS4='@$SECONDS: ' set -x That will show you the number of seconds since the shell started up in your prompt, and before running each command. Plain seconds are nice and easy to subtract; if you'd

Re: problem playing vcd with totem

2006-10-13 Thread José Alburquerque
Basanta Shrestha wrote: #totem vcd:///dev/cdrom #totem vcd:// both works. Can anyone suggest a work-around for this? Note: /dev/cdrom has symlink to /dev/hdb. -Basanta would 'totem vcd:///cdrom' work? It could be that you're missing a link from /dev/cdrom to /cdrom. -- Sincerely Jose

Re: Boosting AC3 volume (or converting AC3 to WAV)

2006-10-13 Thread José Alburquerque
Todd Pytel wrote: I've got some video clips (AVI's with XVid + AC3) that have very low volume levels. I would like to boost the volume, preferably doing as little transcoding as possible. I've used "normalize" in the past to serve this purpose (after demux'ing the AVI), but it only works for WAV'

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread José Alburquerque
Dave Whiteley wrote: Looking at things differently... Can you not use the unix "time" command to display the process times on completion? Dave I take it you're referring to the same command already mentioned by Roberto and others. Right? -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread José Alburquerque
José Alburquerque wrote: Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the prompt of a bash shell. Oops. Sorry about re-send. Just ignore this please. -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque -- To UNSUBS

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread José Alburquerque
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: you could try to insert the current date into your prompt (PS1) string, if you want it this way. also, looking at 'man bash', there's special variable: PROMPT_COMMAND If set, the value is executed as a command prior to issuing each primary prompt. If I

Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread José Alburquerque
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the prompt of a bash shell. Currently, I have my bash prompt set up so that it displays the current date. If I can print the date just before each command is ex

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread José Alburquerque
J.A. de Vries wrote: You could use PROMPT_COMMAND for this. I do to create a sort of statusbar in my shells (with the added help of tput). Found out about this last night using man. :-) I've copied the relevant parts of the code I wrote for that below. Just add it to your bashrc, adjust the

Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-12 Thread José Alburquerque
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the prompt of a bash shell. Currently, I have my bash prompt set up so that it displays the current date. If I can print the date just before each command is

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-12 Thread José Alburquerque
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: If it is always the same commands, then consider setting them to use the time command as an alias. For example, if you always want to know how long a dd took, then use something like `alias dd='/usr/bin/time /usr/bin/dd'`. Of course, you will need to use dd and not /us

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-12 Thread José Alburquerque
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:10:57PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the prompt of a bash shell. Currently, I have my bash p

Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-12 Thread José Alburquerque
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the prompt of a bash shell. Currently, I have my bash prompt set up so that it displays the current date. If I can print the date just before each command is ex

Re: Printing woes - Lexmark Z53

2006-10-05 Thread José Alburquerque
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HELP ME TO GET MY PRINTER WORKING http://www.linuxprinting.org/lexmark-faq.html -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Volumes no longer appear on GNOME desktop

2006-10-05 Thread José Alburquerque
Is anyone else seeing this in sid using gnome? I "downgraded" my openoffice.org packages to the ones from testing because I ran into some problems opening files. I had to install an old 'libdbus' (1.2) to be able to install 'openoffice.org-gnome' (which depends on 'openoffice.org-gtk') so I e

Re: starting X fails: out of scan range

2006-10-04 Thread José Alburquerque
libre fan wrote: libre fan wrote: Last Friday I updated Debian (lot of xorg stuff was updated) and when I rebooted I got this message on the screen: out of scan range I reconfigured several times trying to correct errors, and I compared the original Xfree config file with the present

Re: helix-player and RealPlayer

2006-10-04 Thread José Alburquerque
Daniel Baumann wrote: you mixup things. first, real player == helix player + real branding + two non-free plugins (for mp3 and real media) second, you *either* install helix player *or* real player, but not both. and the one does not need the other anyway. And aren't there packages for bot

Re: source for downloadable music?

2006-10-04 Thread José Alburquerque
Robert Epprecht wrote: What java packages are needed to make it run? Robert All the program needs is a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or a Java Development Kit (JDK) properly installed on the system. I use the sun-java5-* packages from the sid repository and all's ok here. -- Sincerely

Re: source for downloadable music?

2006-10-03 Thread José Alburquerque
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How mutch money does this cost -- Mobile Email from a Cingular Wireless Customer http://www.cingular.com Try to respond to list! :-) If you take a look at the site, you'll see they have a completely free version that allows sharing of all types of files. :-) --

Re: source for downloadable music?

2006-10-03 Thread José Alburquerque
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do i get some music I use a java application called limewire (www.limewire.com). I downloaded the rpm and converted it to a debian package using alien. -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: AVIDemux Oddity

2006-10-01 Thread José Alburquerque
Scarletdown wrote: I'm trying to remaster a set of DVDs, and AVIDemux is giving me a strange problem. After ripping the disks to my hard drive using vobcopy, I renamed the VOB files, changing their extensions to mpeg. When I bring up one of the mpegs in XINE, it looks fine, full screen. Howeve

Re: Gxine segmentation fault at playback

2006-09-27 Thread José Alburquerque
José Alburquerque wrote: Currently, I'm running sid and my gxine version is 0.5.7. When I run it from a terminal, it starts up fine. I have some media marks that I've added and when I click on any of them, gxine buffers fine, starts playing and shortly after disappears with a se

Gxine segmentation fault at playback

2006-09-27 Thread José Alburquerque
Has anyone experienced segmentation faults with gxine? I've been trying to run it since I installed testing a few months ago (I believe I had gxine 0.5.6 then). I thought that an upgrade would fix my problem, but to this date updates have not made a difference. Currently, I'm running sid and

Re: Tomcat5 and Eclipse WTP - anyone got it working?

2006-09-26 Thread José Alburquerque
Alan Chandler wrote: Has anyone here got Eclipse, with the WTP plugin working with the Debian configured tomcat5? The debian tomcat configuration seems to have been modified in some way. I can see from the changelog that some of the standard classpaths have been taken out and added later to

Re: Problems installing Netbeans...

2006-09-26 Thread José Alburquerque
Redefined Horizons wrote: I was finally able to get Netbeans runnning on Debian, but I had to use the 5.0 Linux installer, not the 5.5. I have pasted my message from the Netbeans user list below for everyone's reference. Thanks for the help guys. I really appreciate it. Scott Huey Tom, I tri

Re: Problems installing Netbeans...

2006-09-26 Thread José Alburquerque
Redefined Horizons wrote: I develop Java programs on Debian, and I thought I'd try getting Netbeans installed. (I'm currently using Eclipse.) I know there isn't a Debian package for Netbeans yet, so I thought that I would try installing directly from the .bin file provided for Linux at the Netbe

Re: starting X fails: out of scan range

2006-09-25 Thread José Alburquerque
libre fan wrote: Hello, I have a Debian Etch+Sid and Xubuntu Dapper dual-boot. Last Friday I updated Debian (lot of xorg stuff was updated) and when I rebooted I got this message on the screen: out of scan range Though X is started (I typed startx on a terminal) Wdm (my display manager)

Re: WTF is binding "Control-O" key in Gnome apps?

2006-09-25 Thread José Alburquerque
Miles Bader wrote: I dunno, I'm really confused. The only thing that's clear is that the configuration for this stuff sucks ... :-/ -Miles I'd be frustrated too. Maybe the GNOME list might have some suggestions? -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: must run alsaconf alll the time for sound to work

2006-09-24 Thread José Alburquerque
Vegard L. Rekaa wrote: I was not able to test this, since mpeg123 is no longer available trhough apt (how come?). Either way I reinstalled all crucial ALSA-packages, including the oss-emulation package. This had no effect on my problem. I think that 'mpg321' is designed to work as an 'mpg123

Re: WTF is binding "Control-O" key in Gnome apps?

2006-09-24 Thread José Alburquerque
Miles Bader wrote: {I've scoured various gnome settings files etc., though, and cannot find any reference to it... it's driving me nuts!] -Miles Miles, sorry didn't notice your thread earlier. :( On my system I use the Keyboard Indicator applet for switching between keyboards (Is this wh

Re: mplayer encounts premission problem of directfb

2006-09-23 Thread José Alburquerque
Jeff Zhang wrote: José Alburquerque wrote: Jeff Zhang wrote: thanks :) I have installed the package, but it seems that it doesn't work if just change permission of tty0. I have to find out other related devices first then to make it working. If you read the docs, it

Re: confused.

2006-09-22 Thread José Alburquerque
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:29:36PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:18:27PM +0100, David Mulcahy wrote: On Wednesday 20 September 2006 15:04, Albert Dengg wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 11:22:04PM +0100, David Mulcahy wrote:

Re: mplayer encounts premission problem of directfb

2006-09-22 Thread José Alburquerque
Jeff Zhang wrote: thanks :) I have installed the package, but it seems that it doesn't work if just change permission of tty0. I have to find out other related devices first then to make it working. If you read the docs, it says how to get the package to actually "work". Here's what /usr/sh

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread José Alburquerque
Raquel wrote: On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500 Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the s

Re: mplayer encounts premission problem of directfb

2006-09-21 Thread José Alburquerque
Jeff Zhang wrote: I can play video with mplayer -vo directfb ???.avi, but normal user can't do it and mplayer complains that permission of /dev/tty0. what's the better method to resolve it? whether it will cause security problem? As I suggested in the "Parallel port access as non root user" t

Re: Parallel port access as non root user?

2006-09-21 Thread José Alburquerque
Ed Young wrote: What I want to do is to execute the program as a normal user. How can I do this? How must I configure the system (/dev/lp0, /dev/parport0, /dev/port, /etc/group) to allow this program to access the parallel port? I want to do this to reduce the security issues related to runnin

Re: Fwd: Bash script to run OpenJUMP on Linux...

2006-09-21 Thread José Alburquerque
Redefined Horizons wrote: I've recently installed the Java 1.5 packages for Debian. I'm trying to create a simple bash script that will launch a java program. (There isn't a Debian package for this program, but I hope to create one if I can get it runnging.) I'm trying to launch the program, but

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