On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 07:43:42AM -0500, Tim Kelley wrote:
> On Friday 10 September 2004 14:40, Alvin Oga wrote:
>
>
>
> > if you want network performance... you have to spend a day tuning it
> > and testing it and changing the tcp/ip parameters and hope your nic
> > can also keep up ( most all
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 07:46:32PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> I have googled, and I have searched the sourceforge archives; but, I do
> not see a solution to my problem. Please, can you help me?
>
> I have a three (3) CD SHN distribution. Other people have successfully
> burned all three
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:30:34AM -0400, Sebastian Luque wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your help so far narrowing this down. Here is a more complete
> description of what I did in TeX-live's installation script ( omitted
> for brevity):
> [...]
> TeX-live added the symlinks in the directories sp
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 12:42:51PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> I use fluxbox (0.9.9-1) and start most processes with a key
> combination through fluxkeys. This works fine, but I am noticing
> a peculiarity: processes started that way end up being
> defunct/zombie processes for a while:
> [...]
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 02:35:40PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:49:10 -0400
> Dougpol1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > HI Folks,
> > I am using Debian 3.0r2 Woody on a dual boot system along with
> > windows. I am am new to Linux but have managed to partitioned and
> > in
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 02:04:36PM +0200, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> I was wondering if Linux can be considered Unix?
For me the term "Unix" can mean three different things. First there
was the "origi
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:59:40AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> Am Di, den 20.07.2004 schrieb Matthias Czapla um 3:28:
>
> > Additionally I would suggest avoiding *any* product made by that
> > company. They actively try to reduce compatibility and are great
> &g
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 01:47:18AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 07:01:14AM -0500, Steve Vejcik wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> > Would anyone have any experience with installing (and perhaps
> >using) Debian on a SONY Desktop? I'm eyeballing one of their
> >RS600 seri
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 09:42:15PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Matthias Czapla wrote:
>
> > [newer lyx on woody]
>
> first, look at backports.org and then apt-get.org
Well, the package from backports.org installed without problems and
seems to work like a charm. Thanks
Hi!
I'd like to know if somebody has already had experience with installing
LyX 1.3.4 from testing onto a Woody system. Woody has only version 1.1.6
and I've to proof read documents written by someone else with 1.3.3
on Windowz and while I can *read* them (ignoring errors about unknown
commands wh
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 09:32:42PM -0400, Randy W. Sims wrote:
> Matthias Czapla wrote:
> >On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:48:32PM -0400, Randy W. Sims wrote:
> >
> >>How do I turn off or customize the time out for the "screen saver" that
> >>blanks the scre
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:48:32PM -0400, Randy W. Sims wrote:
> How do I turn off or customize the time out for the "screen saver" that
> blanks the screen? I thought it might be part of the power management
> features, but couldn't find any docs. Note: this is the blanking that
> occurs both a
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:33:02AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> Which raises the question - what if the expansion contains double quote
> chars? Perhaps using double-backslash (or quad??) would do the trick?
You mean like this?:
$ FOO='foo "more foo" bar'
$ echo "$FOO"
foo "more foo" bar
This
On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 01:20:13PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
> It would be sensible if logging in via a display manager included
> the same shell login initialization that logging in on a virtual
> console performed. (Or via telnet, rlogin, ssh, etc.)
I agree, that would be most sensible.
> > Now
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:25:52PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:45:26PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:05:32AM -0400, David Turetsky wrote:
> > > > i have a file like;
> > > >
> > > > #
> &g
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:05:32AM -0400, David Turetsky wrote:
> > i have a file like;
> >
> > #
> > one
> > 123
> >
> > and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of
> > each line which is not started with a # . how can i do
> > it with vi or ed, so far, i 've tried;
> >
> > :%s/^[a-z]:[0
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:18:55PM +0200, Sturla Holm Hansen wrote:
> Since I'm kinda new at this I just have to ask what's wrong with a
> for-loop..
> To slow?
Depends on what you do in the loop's body.
> I have no idea, but I use something like this to recurse down a tree and
> do something wit
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:54:59AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> >BTW, what are all those files in your home directory? I have only
> >about 14000 and thought that this is the biggest mess ever ;)
>
> Oh, stuff. source of debs, built and otherwise. CVS checkouts of stuff.
> Documents. Photos (s
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:05:54AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> I don't use -exec on find any more because it's slow. When you pipe the
> names into xargs as I do, then spaces cause the problem I described.
Well, until now I didnt even know about xargs' purpose, thanks for the
pointer.
> Fo
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 02:21:52AM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> > The problem is that fragments of file names separated by spaces are
> > indistinguishable from filenames separated by spaces.
>
> This is only true when the command line is being split into words, e.g.
>
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:14:30AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> >>>find ~ -type f -exec cat {} \;
> >>
> >>This fails because
> >>cat doesn't check anything - it just copies all files to stdout
> >>It doesn't handle files whose names contain spaces
> >
> >Hu? I used cat solely for the purpose o
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 06:07:26AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Matthias Czapla wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 02:31:10PM -0700, j smith wrote:
> >>Thank you!
> >>
> >>Windows has folder names that include space,
> >>Example:"Program Files&q
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 06:06:26AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> >
> >find ~ -type f -exec cat {} \;
> >
> >
> This fails because
> cat doesn't check anything - it just copies all files to stdout
> It doesn't handle files whose names contain spaces
Hu? I used cat solely for the purpose of show
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 02:31:10PM -0700, j smith wrote:
> Thank you!
>
> Windows has folder names that include space,
> Example:"Program Files"
>
> Will that cause trouble for your solution?
If the command after the -exec is a "real" program and not a shell
script or something else that interpr
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:09:18AM -0700, j smith wrote:
> md5sum checks one file a time. i want a script that
> recursively check files in a directory.Thanks!
>
> PS: the script's application: in DOS 6, there is
> antivirus program called "msav" that check if
> executables are changed or infected
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:06:09PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Matthias Czapla (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> > Stupid me! I'm an idiot!!! I am sooo dumb...
> >
> > I was running startx with "nohup startx & exit" and nohup increases
> > the
Stupid me! I'm an idiot!!! I am sooo dumb...
I was running startx with "nohup startx & exit" and nohup increases the
priority of the command by five!
Regards
Matthias
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:46:34PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote:
> Matthias Czapla wrote:
> > I just noticed that lots of my process run at nice level 5. When I login
> > at the VC the nice level is 0 as it should and all console programs
> > inherit this nice value as they shou
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 10:49:58PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> > I just noticed that lots of my process run at nice level 5. When I
> > login at the VC the nice level is 0 as it should and all console
> > programs inherit this nice value as they should. But when I startx
> > everything from the
Hi!
I just noticed that lots of my process run at nice level 5. When I login
at the VC the nice level is 0 as it should and all console programs
inherit this nice value as they should. But when I startx everything
from thereon and including the shell that is executing the startx
script has a nice
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:15:49PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> Proftpd only has one config file, and it doesn't seem complicated. However,
> it seems I only have anonymous ftp service. This is interesting because all
> of the anonymous section of the conf file is commented out by default. What
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:54:43AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 01:39:55PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> > I know screen. My point is that I consider having to remember what
> > I read an advantage because it forces me to actually *learn* instead
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 09:31:07AM -0500, David wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:21:46PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:53:24PM -0500, David wrote:
> > > Actually, I'm not so concerned about making the backups as just having
> > >
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 10:41:00AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:09:58PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> > Because of this and because it feels so UNIX-ish I mostly work at a
> > serial terminal. Now when you read a man page, for some system call
>
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 01:36:15AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Matthias Czapla wrote:
> > Right. I dont think he was talking about execution time. I also think
> > that typing a single key to perform an action is much faster than having
> > to move the mouse to an icon, click
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:53:55PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> >Because of this and because it feels so UNIX-ish I mostly work at a
> >serial terminal. Now when you read a man page, for some system call
> >for example, I *have* to remember it because you cannot have the man
> >page and text editor v
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:53:24PM -0500, David wrote:
> Actually, I'm not so concerned about making the backups as just having
> something that I can boot up and then remove the CD.
My backup strategy is similar to yours. I regularly create tars of
my file systems and put them on CD-RW. I dont ha
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 01:12:07PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> I agree with and do a most of what you and others say. The *only* place
> I think T-bird is more efficient is for my case of a large number of
> mail folders with three levels of structure visible simultaneously on
> the screen. Aft
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:05:11PM +0200, László 'GCS' Böszörményi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a command line based program, which can grep the email
> address/domain from the 'From:' field of a mail message; and based on the
> invokation it can write the address into separate files like
>
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:05:36PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> Matthias Czapla wrote:
> >On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:22:07AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> >>>I tell mutt to show me a few index lines at the top of the pager
> >>>window.
> >>
> >>Th
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:22:07AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> >I tell mutt to show me a few index lines at the top of the pager
> >window.
>
> That gets the right two T-bird panes. I can sort the headers by any
> column with a click and reorganize the indexes.
In the index view of mutt hit 'o'
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:08:52AM -0400, richard lyons wrote:
> On Friday 11 June 2004 08:58, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> [...]
> > I think if you're not willing to learn LaTeX or troff commands you
> > don't have many options besides OpenOffice.org. I personally like
&g
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:53:19AM -0700, David Haughton wrote:
> > Incoming from Cheryl Homiak:
> > > I agree that it's irritating to get duplicate messages.
> > However, it's
> > > often not that the person deliberately did a cc. At least
> > in Pine, I
> > > often
> >
> > The usual reply to
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 08:03:00AM -0400, richard lyons wrote:
> Do folk here have recommendations about how to do wordprocessing? I
> am looking for solutions that allow well formatted technical
> documents, with the possibility of using well-designed templates in a
> modern typographic style.
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 07:38:50AM +0100, Stelios Asmargianakis wrote:
> Finally the problem was on the .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 file that autogenerates
> the .gtkrc file.
>
> The solution was to adjust the correct settings to .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
> like:
>
> style "user-font"
> {
> font="-microsoft-ver
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:42:25AM +0200, J. Preiss wrote:
> I could start a new one, but I dont like to make the same work twice. And the
> feeling to say: hello, I am new, and I write for you all a nice config tool,
> it will be great... this is... (could someone translate unglaubwuerdig,
> pl
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 06:50:46PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> >Do you have any good reason for running [xkg]dm at all? You don't
> >need it to run X. Disable it, then login to X with "nohup startx &
> >exit".
>
> Instead of "nohup startx & exit", why not just "startx"? Looking at the
> man and in
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 12:18:04AM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> Is there a little script that can be cron-d to check if the internet
> connection (pptp -> ppp0) is up and if not, reconnect?
I have the following in /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/reconnect:
(
sleep 5
while ! ifconfig | grep ppp0 >/dev/null 2>&
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 05:42:19PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
> Quick question for anyone who has done this already. I have a DVD
> which I would like to copy to my laptop for easy viewing, but the DVD
> has multiple Titles. Mencoder seems to only be able to do one "title"
> at a time, as oppose
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 04:58:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > mpg123 -s $i | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c 1 - \
> > -t wav -r 8000 -w -c 1 "`echo $i | sed -e 's/mp3$/wav/'`"
>
> Quoted correctly:
>
> "`echo "$i" | sed -e 's/mp3$/wav/'`"
>
> A much simpler version of that if you know that $i
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:02:00AM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> I'm trying to automate this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> for i in *; do
> if test -f $i; then
>
> fi
> done
>
> which works, but gives me: filename.mp3.wav - anyway to end up with
> filename.wav?
Yes:
mpg123 -s $i | sox -t raw
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 04:43:48AM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> I need to convert a mess of mp3 files into PCM 8000 kHz, 16 Bit, Mono wav
> format. I tried using mpg123 and sox :
>
> mpg123 -b 1 -s test.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 8000 -s -w -c 2 - test.wav
>
> w/o success. The resulting wav file is
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:14:12AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Ok, please forget _why_ I ask. The question remains - are the release
> > codenames equivalent to "stable"/"testing" in sources.list? I dont
>
> You can safely use the codenames.
Ok, thank you!
> > And Greg, please think of machin
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 06:22:04PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:54, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> > Can I safely use "woody" or "sarge" instead of stable and testing for
> > the distribution specifier in /etc/apt/sources.list or can this
Hi!
Can I safely use "woody" or "sarge" instead of stable and testing for
the distribution specifier in /etc/apt/sources.list or can this cause
trouble? Im afraid of an unwanted upgrade to a new distribution when
testing suddenly becomes stable.
Regards
Matthias
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:40:31AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:08:26AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > At Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:08:51 +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:39:39AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote:
> > >
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:08:26AM +0800, csj wrote:
> At Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:08:51 +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:39:39AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote:
> > > Hi, I would like to run all of the files in some directories
> > > through sed, in orde
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:39:39AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to run all of the files in some directories through sed, in
> order to edit the files. I can do it for individual files by typing:
> cat filename|sed command>filename
> But that requires me to run that command for eac
Hi!
I just want to say... ARRRGHHH!
Gruß
lal
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> Jamin W.Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (on Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:43:57 -0500)
>
> > Have you tried xpdf? Is there something particular to AR
> > that you need that isn't provided by xpdf?
I think xpdf cant show the table of contents like AR does in the left column
"Bookmarks". And whats
Seneca wrote:
> files are located in /usr/share/info. (you can get a list of files in
> packages with the form at the bottom of
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages)
or with dpkg -L if the package is installed, for example
dpkg -L gcc-2.95-doc
Gruß
lal
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> Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
> sb: dsp reset failed.
> Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
> sb: dsp reset failed.
> Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
> sb: dsp reset failed.
This is probably the driver for old Soundblasters.
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