On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:24:39AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
> I second that motion! I have two of them. I wish I had more. They are
> the best keyboards ever made, in my humble opinion.
I'll third that motion. Back in the 486 days my keyboard gave out. I went
in search of one at a small
Glenn,
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Glenn Becker wrote:
I should probably admit that I haven't been booting my Debian install lately,
I've been running some other Linux distros, not to mention FreeBSD and
OpenSolaris, for quite a while. I think I've finally come to my senses
and just recently rein
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
# man dpkg
works wonders. :-) Also from the dselect man page:
I think I browsed too many man pages before I replied. The above should
read "from the dpkg man page." :-)
Kevin
http://www.RawFedDogs.net
http://www.WacoAgilit
Marcelo,
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
You might transfer this file to another computer, and install it there
with:
dpkg --clear-selections
dpkg --set-selections
and then, in order to install the packages, should I do "aptitude update"?
# man dpkg
A,
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
if you decide to investigate other minimalist WM's you might look at
xmonad. It's all keyboard controlled, tiled with a variety of
customizable tiling layouts. pretty fun(unctional).
Actually, I was using xmonad before switching to DWM. I'
Nuno,
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
The thing is i have a few requirements: i want applications that are not
desktop-dependant (i.e. Gnome or KDE) and do not rely upon Java. This
rules out a lot of text editors. For console, i use nano, for GUI i'm
using leafpad, any other sugges
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Thanks. How do you keep the same bookmarks and form prompts in two different
profiles?
Since there's always a chance I might be using someone else's PC when I'm
out and about, not to mention that I sometimes switch between two PCs
while as work an
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
Am I missing something simple?
I've also hit a recent snag with DVD+R, single layer, disks. In my case
I'm able to burn them but not mount them. I've also been wondering if I'm
missing something simple but haven't dug into the problem too far yet.
Wayne,
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Wayne Topa wrote:
I am still reading the mail on mutt though. So I have to paste your
message into icedove. ;-(
I haven't been following this discussion, so forgive me if I'm
misunderstanding. I suspect from this e-mail that you're having problems
sending e-ma
Arvind,
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Arvind Marathe wrote:
You might also try xzgv.
Out of the viewers I've tried so far I think I like xzgv the best. After
only five to ten minutes of tinkering I'm already able to navigate to the
next/previous image, zoom in and out, etc. as quickly as I can in xv
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Micha wrote:
As for image viewer, IIRC what xv is like you may like feh. These days I
use gqview though.
I browsed feh's web site and it looks like it might be something I'd like.
I'll take it for a spin when I get home later. One of the main features I
look for is plen
On Tue, 13 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For what is worth, after a good deal of trial periods I went for Ion
and scrapped everything else. Simply fantastic. Granted, I didn't just
want to optimise screen usage, but to get some efficiency back to the
way I interact with my coputer.
I'm n
Ron,
On Mon, 12 May 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
Then why use XFCE?
Because of the window managers I've tried so far XFCE seems to cooperate
the best with the way I like to do things. Some that I've tried didn't
handle new window focus the way I prefer, didn't handle keyboard shortcuts
for sw
On Mon, 12 May 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
Are there any other configuration parameters that can be tweaked in my
gtkrc (or elsewhere) to reduce/remove the extra space around the toolbar
icons and make better use of screen space?
Hit :-)
I do as much as I can via the text console. For
Chris,
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Chris Bannister wrote:
In your .bashrc put:
export GREP_COLOR=33
alias grep='grep --colour=always'
Very cool tip!! In my case, however, my .cshrc file might be a better
choice since I don't use bash, and of course the syntax is different. As
someone else pointed
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Wei Chen wrote:
The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the
recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most
famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its users,
e.g. about 50% in the last 3 years.
I'm hav
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
I think it is indeed a nice idea to change the version number. And
you're right about the way: you need to edit the changelog, adding a new
entry with the desired version number.
Okay, an updated writeup with a section on changing the version
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Would the idea be to change that to 3:20071206-0.2? If so, how/where is
that changed? The only file in the debian directory I find that
version number in
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, David Fox wrote:
Shouldn't there be a little added writeup to bump your local version -
and/or put an entry in the changelogs file? I don't think the latter
is really necessary since you're not going to upload the package, but
what about collisions?
Probably. As I said e
Ron,
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
For posterity, can you put up a web page (or list here) the changes to
the (debian-multimedia?) ffmpeg deb-src to allow it to be built with mmx
enabled?
Were you looking for something along the lines of:
http://www.RawFedDogs.net/DebianFfmpegMMX.
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, David Fox wrote:
On 3/10/08, Kevin Monceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you remove --disable-mmx does any mmx stuff build?
If I also remove -fPIC and -DPIC then yes, I get an mmx enabled version of
ffmpeg. I just got home where I could test the package I
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
After some trial and error I found that if I dropped the --disable-mmx and
the --extra-cflags configure parms and let configure pick it's own cflags I
could get the package to build successfully.
After more trial and error I discovered that i
Eduardo,
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
I've just rebuilt the package reenabling MMX, and apparently it works OK, and
much faster. I've read that you've rebuilt the package, but are you sure MMX
is enabled?
I only tried rebuilding the package to optimize for i686. I hadn't
Doug,
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
What happens if you run top? Look at things like %idle, %waiting (for
i.o), and %sys (kernel executing) and %user (your program, likely the
ffmpeg program, see the listing for that line). This may tell you where
the bottle-neck is.
To my unt
Damon,
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
I was under (it would seem falsely) that streaming from/to a tivo was
limited to windows. I can access the tivo from Linux by IP, but I get no
menu to do anything with it, just a webpage. I never looked into it as
it was not that important t
Debian Enthusiasts,
Does anyone have any suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance. To
make a long story, well, not quite so long, I recently converted my home
desktop box from ArchLinux to Debian. Back when I was running ArchLinux,
and maybe one or two distros before, I started using pyT
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Owen Heisler wrote:
Actually, this didn't fix the problem. After the system is booted,
there are three dbus processes running: two 'dbus-daemon' and one
'dbus-launch'. Killing the 'dbus-launch' process fixes the problem
(until the next reboot, of course).
I'm seeing t
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
anything deserving great honours (EG. GCC):
clip, Aubit4GL
Humm, I seem to have experienced a momentary lapse of reason. I left out
Hercules. That should have been at the top of my "great honours" list.
Kevin
http://www.RawFedDog
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
This looks like it might be fun. First of all, while I do know the
meaning of FLOSS I might choose to ignore that fact from time to time
below.
audio editor:
N/A - I haven't really gotten into audio editing.
audio player:
mpg123
cd-rip
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:20:59PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> No, what I mean is that it's obviously *better* to use a MUA that supports
> threading,
Threading is good. I'd go nutty(no, wait, I did that years ago anyway)
trying to follow high-volume e-mail lists without it. Good thre
Fellow Debian Enthusiasts,
Has anyone noticed that praecepta is misspelled in the New Maintainers'
Guide? I added the quote to my .signature file and sent out a few e-mails
before realizing it.
Kevin
http://www.RawFedDogs.net
http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org
Bruceville, TX
Si hoc legere scis ni
Andrew,
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 08:53:59AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> nudge > debian.
>
> there you go. ;-)
Thanks, I needed that.
> You sound like you are experienced enough that you might think about
> running "sid", "unstable" debian. Its does break now and then, but really
>
Hugo,
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:09:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >
> >One package I use heavily is the Hercules mainframe emulator.
>
>
>
> That's the first I heard of it:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/hercules
>
> What operating system facilities do you use wit
Fellow Debian Enthusiasts,
I'm teetering on the fence between Arch Linux and Debian Linux. So, I
thought I'd post an intro in hopes that someone will give me a gentle nudge
in the right direction. Forgive me if I ramble a bit.
I've been a Linux user for years. I started with Slackware in the
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