Re: how to identify the package containing a file?

2009-09-12 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > 2009/9/12 Robert P. J. Day : >> >>  dumb question but how do i identify the package that contributed a >> specific file to my installation?  on my fedora system, i'd ask: >> >>  $ rpm -qf > > on debian > $ dpkg -S Or install apt-file an

Re: Websites which insist upon Adobe Acrobat

2009-09-02 Thread Michael Marsh
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Charles wrote: > I have run across several websites lately which insist they cannot > download PDF files to you because you don't have Adobe Acrobat > installed. > I had a look in /usr/bin and there are symlinks named Acrobat, > Acroread, Adobe Reader, and Adobe Read

Re: Mailing-list conventions (was: what's the difference and superior between gtk+ and gecko?)

2009-03-04 Thread Michael Marsh
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote: > On 2009-03-04 13:31 (+0100), Thierry Chatelet wrote: >> PS: Don't CC people unless they say it specificaly, as we are on the >> mailing list. > > For your information, there are _lots_ of mailing lists where "reply to > all" is the norm. So be

Re: Why do xorg developers hate gamers and use that stupid mouse acceleration to anger them?

2009-02-18 Thread Michael Marsh
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Dirk wrote: > I have to run "xset m 0 0" everytime i start a game that uses mouse and in > between... >From what the xset manpage says, I don't think this means what you think it means. You may be confusing xorg with an invalid setting. Try "xset m 1 1" or "xset

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread Michael Marsh
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM, mitch wrote: > Thanks. That was one of the tips I did find, the parentlock. > > Removed it before killing all and Iceweasel will still not start. What about after killing? Did iceweasel re-create the lock files? -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mm

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread Michael Marsh
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, mitch wrote: > Using Iceweasel 3.0.5-1, or was using, and yesterday the message below > started. > > "Iceweasel is already running, but is not responding. To open a new > window, you must first close the existing Iceweasel process, or restart > your system." > > Go

Re: ssh-agent without graphical display manager? how?

2009-01-04 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm in the process of converting from nfs to sshfs on my home-grown > file-server/backup-server computer. This computer does not run Xwindows > or any other graphical manager. I control it mostly by logging into it > using ssh. But when I lo

Re: [OT]I just got a phish call!!!

2008-12-20 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Mark Allums wrote: > In the US, get on the Do Not Call List. http://www.donotcall.gov/ > > Might help a little. People prepared to commit fraud don't particularly care about the Do Not Call List. If you can't get their phone number or company name (they hang

Re: Weird Symbol in Home Directory

2008-11-30 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TW wrote: >>-rw--- 1 user user0 2008-11-30 11:32 > >>[snip] > > So it's a normal file, with a size of zero bytes, with an odd name. > (Assuming "ls" has not been compromised.) > > Some miscreant ap

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-19 Thread Michael Marsh
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, for what it's worth .. I don't have access to your mail account or > an account on "libero.it" .. but I just verified that I can _access_ my > gmail accounts with elinks. [snip] > I'm pretty sure I had to apply some pat

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'Re: Q: List Policy': >>and certainly >>not gmail. > > I found it in my gmail settings: Settings -> Accounts Tab -> Reply-to > Address (Opti

Re: website saver for linux?

2008-08-31 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Philip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a tool which spiders a site, and downloads every page in > the domain that it finds linked from a particular url and linked urls > in the domain, creating a local site that can be manipulated offline as > static

Re: How to download online videos?

2008-08-26 Thread Michael Marsh
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you mean with `watch or at least buffer'? You have to watch it, don't > you? Not necessarily. With YouTube, you'll see two shades of red filling the time bar. The light red is the buffering status, and the dark

Re: How to download online videos?

2008-08-26 Thread Michael Marsh
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Mirco Piccin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, firefox/iceweasel has a lot of plugins that handle .flv (and > also other extension) video download. > I.e. : > Fast Video Download > Magic's video Downloader > and so on... > > And that's the better way. Yes and no.

Re: How to download online videos?

2008-08-26 Thread Michael Marsh
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All the videos that can be viewed online but cannot be downloaded normally. > The problem arose with a particular .flv video I wanted to download from a web > site. I managed to download it with MS-Windows RealPlayer, fro

Re: if I were a newbie how would I get sound?

2008-08-01 Thread Michael Marsh
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Ruven Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know what did the trick, so I'm going to try a more gradual approach > on another minimal Debian install and try to see what modules must be > present, etc. to get things working. You might try something like start

Re: [OT perhaps] Any way to restore Iceweasel 2 behavior in the Navigation bar?

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Marsh
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe because of this but mostly because of several other irritations, > the latest of which was with .pdf files causing occasional segfaults, I > purged Iceweasel 3 and replaced it with Iceweasel 2.0.0.16 (and my, > fortunately,

Re: bandwidth tool

2008-07-05 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a tool to measure network traffic? I am using ifstat but its > reporting wrong statistics. I am trying to get something similar to > > eth0 , 16Mb/sec > eth1, 10Mb/sec > > etc.. > > I need something simple :-) "bing" is

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread Michael Marsh
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:21 PM, tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran both the k3b verification and the Xubuntu integrity check on each > of the first 6 failed burns, and since they all failed both tests I > assumed the k3b test was enough to indicate a disk was bad. But > apparently not. Now I

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread Michael Marsh
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:41 PM, tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried downloading on three different machines. I just now tried > to burn the LinuxMint CD, which failed with the same error. Have you tried running isovfy (from genisoimages) on the isos? Other things that come to mind ar

Re: Is our video support going backwards?

2008-05-18 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Nicolas George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le decadi 30 floréal, an CCXVI, Michael Marsh a écrit : >> According to apt-file, libfaac.so.0 is in the package libfaac0, and >> libfaac.a and libfaac.so are in libfaac-dev (this is in sid). > &g

Re: Is our video support going backwards?

2008-05-18 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an ipod nano, and some months ago I was able to use ffmpeg to > convert video to mp4 with an aac audio stream. I can still do it on my > Etch system, but with my unstable system, I can't find the necessary > libfaa

Re: sandisk mp3 player mount

2008-05-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:21 AM, seeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how can i mount a sandisk mp3 player in debian lenny? I don't know what version of usbmount is in lenny, but the version in sid doesn't recognize vfat filesystems. You can change that by modifying the "FILESYSTEMS" variable in /

Re: reportbug problem

2008-05-16 Thread Michael Marsh
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to file a bug via reportbug yesterday, and it was not > sent. Instead, the mail message was saved as a file in /var/tmp. > I've successfully sent bug reports through reportbug in the past, > so what could be th

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Michael Marsh
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:50 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I mentioned earlier, the issue is how do I count items read in one line, > or before the next EOL? Counting total items is not a problem. > > Perhaps a different way to say this is, how do I detect if I have reached > an EOL whi

Re: Did the syntax for a samba /etc/fstab entry change?

2008-04-05 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Tom Epperly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes My Pictures is shared. I tried a couple of other things. > > # mount -t cifs //brightlywoven /mnt/PictureArchive > Mounting the DFS root for a particular server not implemented yet > > No ip address specified and host

Re: Did the syntax for a samba /etc/fstab entry change?

2008-04-05 Thread Michael Marsh
[CC'ing to d-u for any samba experts out there] On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Tom Epperly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mm> smbfs has been deprecated in favor of cifs. Depending on your mm> provider, you may be able to replace "smbfs" with "cifs" and have mm> everything work. If, like me, you hav

Re: Did the syntax for a samba /etc/fstab entry change?

2008-04-03 Thread Michael Marsh
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Tom Epperly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the following line in my /etc/fstab: > > //windmach/My\040Pictures /mnt/PictureArchive smbfs > noauto,user,username=Userone,rw,uid=uone,gid=uone 0 3 ... > I run Debian unstable. I've checked the man pages and README

Re: dpkg error

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Marsh
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: > > If you've gotten to that point, presumably you have partially updated > > packages that depend on those (such as evince). What worked for me > > was to do

Re: dpkg error

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Marsh
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is one dpkg failed to recover from; just the relevant lines of the > script file follow: > Selecting previously deselected package libdjvulibre21. > Unpacking libdjvulibre21 (from .../libdjvulibre21_3.5.20-5_i386.de

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Marsh
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - From comparing the results on 'windows' and 'linux' of that site, it > would appear that only about three times as many people prefer the first > to the latter [3]. > [3] > http://www.google.com/trends?q=debia

Re: How to set thunderbird to work with localmail

2008-03-23 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Max Hyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: > > Unfortunately, > > state-of-the-art biff technology seems to elude the TB team, and > > they've determined that automatically finding new messages is a >

Re: How to set thunderbird to work with localmail

2008-03-22 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How should i set Thunderbird to work with local mail : > for instance Kmail know's how to access /var/mail/username and get > messages from there. > > I tried to search an option inside thunderbird (icedove) but didn't >

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

2008-03-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I the only one on this list who can see that people who think > that expensive wines and energy drinks are "better" than cheap wines > and energy drinks just might also think that expensive operating > systems are bett

Re: What's wrong with Open Office?

2008-03-10 Thread Michael Marsh
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:30 AM, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > today after upgrade i realize that I cannot install open office on my > debian anymore. Any idea how to overcome that? The version of OpenOffice.org in sid is uninstallable on most platforms. openoffice.org-common was b

Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-02-28 Thread Michael Marsh
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Doug MacFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4. I'm going to run VMware Workstation or Server - I use Dragon Naturally > Speaking to do speech to text conversion of meetings that I record on my > Olympus > pocket recorder. Unless you have a better idea . . .

Re: DSL speed

2008-02-27 Thread Michael Marsh
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The speed test at dslreports.com is showing my download speed as 625 > Kb/s. This seems a lot less than the 768 Kb/s I'm supposed to have. My > latency to their test server in NY was 50ms. Is there anything I can > do to to incre

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-24 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's say I have two directories dir1, dir2 each with 1000 files. > Of these 1000 files in each directory, there are 50 files named file1.txt, > file2.txt ... file50.txt. The rest of the files do not follow any pa

Re: Signatures (was Re: typewriter function for an impact printer?)

2008-02-24 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it is a side-effect of signing, because when I look at Reply > emails that I have *not* signed, they do *not* have the added "^- ". > > So, I'd take one of these emails and show it to the Gemini > developers. Who

Re: How to sort files in a directory?

2008-02-24 Thread Michael Marsh
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to sort all files with, say, .txt extension that are in the directory > `/path/to/dir' and all its subdirectories, and I want to perform this search > starting from the directory itself: how can I do that? > >

Re: exim4 configuration in sid

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On Feb 17, 2008 2:09 PM, Andrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about /etc/hostname? Is it identical to that in Exim4 config file? /etc/hostname is "debian", while /etc/mailname is "localhost.localdomain". I think I fixed it, though. I copied over my old /etc/hosts, which had, among other thi

Re: exim4 configuration in sid

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On Feb 17, 2008 1:41 PM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:31:55AM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > > > 1) There's nothing in /var/mail (I've configured exim4 to use the > > traditional /var/mail mbox spools). > > AFA

Re: exim4 configuration in sid

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On Feb 17, 2008 1:20 PM, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:27:19 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > > Yes, I know. I've run that several times, to no benefit. I've > > diff'ed my current /etc/exim4 against my last backup (a

Re: exim4 configuration in sid

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On Feb 17, 2008 12:14 PM, Andrius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I've recently had to re-install, due to a drive failure, and as usual > > the hardest thing to configure properly is exim4. Even with the exact > > s

exim4 configuration in sid

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Marsh
Hi all. I've recently had to re-install, due to a drive failure, and as usual the hardest thing to configure properly is exim4. Even with the exact same configuration as my previous setup (I've been doing full backups of /etc), I can't get it to work. I'm seeing two problems currently: 1) There

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-12 Thread Michael Marsh
On Feb 12, 2008 8:49 AM, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm struggling to find software to edit a PDF file. Firstly, I'm wary of > using a graphics editor to do the job and pdfedit [1] seems to reject > many of the PDF files I've just tried because they are "linearised" > according to the bug

Re: smbmount issues (related to CIFS?)

2008-01-31 Thread Michael Marsh
On Jan 31, 2008 12:14 AM, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the machine having the 2.6.22 kernel, I can not. Here's the error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ smbmount //faculty/web netShares/web/ > Password: > mount error 2 = No such file or directory > Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

2008-01-18 Thread Michael Marsh
On Jan 17, 2008 11:19 PM, Rich Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For months, using gmail as the SMTP relay has worked. Recently, > however, it has been failing. A review of /var/log/exim4/mainlog > suggests that the email is no longer allowed to be sent directly to > gmail mail servers. Have you

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Michael Marsh
On Jan 14, 2008 11:21 AM, Ebanutiy Ebanatik Ebanatovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for offtopic but I'm wondering if the cause of avoiding of top > posting is in something technical (e.g. to help forum software to > create weekly digests correctly) or is it a question of etiquette? The 510

Re: Archiuves for debian-user missing?

2008-01-08 Thread Michael Marsh
On Jan 8, 2008 7:21 AM, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08 Jan 2008, Chris Howie wrote: > >[1]http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ > >Seems fine to me. > > I can see it like that, but if I go to the Debian website and then > follow links to the Debian mailing lists, I get t

Re: Adjusting volume, and system beep

2007-12-20 Thread Michael Marsh
On Dec 20, 2007 11:34 AM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But if i turn the computer buttons down to something where the system beep > is "normal", i cant hear the speaker volume even at 100%. Assuming it's really the system (X) beep, not something in Gnome, you might try "xset

Re: mail I keep getting

2007-12-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On Dec 17, 2007 10:16 AM, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I Used to have a webserver, with zope's Squishdot. But I haven't had > this for a while. I've purged zope, and, any file that was left, I > manually got rid of. So, is there a way to stop these error messages? Did zope leave

Re: How to send a function when the laptop Lid is closed ?(acpi)

2007-12-09 Thread Michael Marsh
This probably should have gone to debian-laptop, rather than debian-user. However... On Dec 9, 2007 6:36 AM, Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i tried creating the next file in /etc/acpi/event : > /etc/acpi/events# cat ./lid > event=button[/]lid > action=touch /tmp/lidfilename I have the fo

Re: Anyone using Debian on notebook?

2007-12-09 Thread Michael Marsh
On Dec 9, 2007 1:27 AM, js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I'm thinking that I also switch my notebook's OS to Debian. > Before starting this switch, I like to hear some comments from > people who's using Debian on their notebook. > Is there any annoyance? You might want to subscribe to the debian

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-26 Thread Michael Marsh
On Nov 27, 2007 1:37 AM, Sarunas Burdulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'pdflatex ' will produce latexfile.pdf. > > Alternatively, use dvips (dvi->postscript) and then ps2pdf. One advantage of using pdflatex, rather than dvips+ps2pdf or dvipdf, is that you can add \usepackage{hyperref} to your prea

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On Nov 25, 2007 7:04 PM, Sidarth Dasari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Usually gmail filters it out pretty well, but I think perhaps it white > listed the debian-user address. I hope it can catch the right stuff > without blocking the real questions. I had that problem yesterday. Today's much bette

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On Nov 25, 2007 4:12 PM, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've > no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite > package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages > are both missing),

Re: (Continued)Re: really crazy: firefox become unusable

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On Nov 25, 2007 2:37 PM, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find the cause. It's ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp. It's a Chinese fonts package. > After removing and > purging it, the firefox is OK. > > Could anyone explain it? I have used the fonts package for a long time. It > has been OK, but why

Re: problem compiling C++

2007-11-21 Thread Michael Marsh
On Nov 21, 2007 10:44 AM, Lowell Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just recently installed Debian 4.0r1. It is my first experience with > Debian or GNU/Linux. I've been building and running C programs just fine > with gcc. However, I'm unable to compile C++ programs. The command g++ > returns "

Re: how to generate a graphical call graph

2007-11-13 Thread Michael Marsh
On Nov 13, 2007 4:08 PM, cs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking for a tool that would generate a graphical call graph (aka > SGI's old Speedshop tools) but couldn't find anything appropriate in > 'etch'. ie for a given Fortran code that has numerous subroutines I > wish to know what calls w

Re: weird samba error [SOLVED]

2007-11-02 Thread Michael Marsh
On 11/2/07, Anonomouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspect that your ISP is verizon. I started having this very problem > around the same time that you made your initial post. Anyway, I have > identified part of the problem and have begun to work on a resolution. Why yes, it is. > This appea

Re: Query about Iceape, Iceweasel

2007-10-17 Thread Michael Marsh
On 10/17/07, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Kelly Clowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Note to self: time to bug google about that again. > > About what? Gmail did the right thing, given the information available. > The peculiar constraints of this mailing list are just that; gmail

Re: weird samba error

2007-10-14 Thread Michael Marsh
On 10/14/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 01:14:41PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > > //Iomega-XX/NetHDD /mnt/storagesmbfs noauto,password="" 0 > > 0 > > > > This morning, it failed.

weird samba error

2007-10-14 Thread Michael Marsh
Hi all. Running sid, 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP, i686, updated daily. The following worked for me last week as part of my anacron-launched backup: [/etc/fstab] //Iomega-XX/NetHDD /mnt/storagesmbfs noauto,password="" 0 0 This morning, it failed. When I try to mount /mnt/storage, I g

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges")

2007-09-27 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/27/07, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started using Linux with FC2 (or FC3 maybe) and was just thrilled with it > (with Linux, really). Then I got annoyed with FC's bleeding edge software and > also decided that I shouldn't have to reinstall every 6 months in order to > stay > c

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/25/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:38:29 -0400 > "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For me, it's a matter of all clients sucking. Gmail gives me the > > google search algorithm over my mailbox, google

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/25/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're able to run client software (i.e. you're on your own system, > not on some possibly locked down public one), why not just use your > favorite proper email client? For me, it's a matter of all clients sucking. Gmail gives me the google sea

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/24/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 03:48:37PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: > > I was wondering how to reply to a message but in a way so everybody in > > the list gets it, but without starting a whole new thread. > As far as I know (I don't use the web interfa

Re: scripting question

2007-09-21 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/21/07, Michael Martinell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a simple script that counts up the number of spam messages each day > and prints the total number into a text field. This is fine as far as it > goes, however I would like to also include the date and the number of > non-spam messag

Re: Makefile question??

2007-09-10 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/10/07, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CC = gcc > SRCS = a.c b1.c c1.c > OBJS = $(addsuffix .o, $(basename $(SRCS) .c)) > > target: $(OBJS) > $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJS) -o target > > somehow make does not like the line that sets up OBJS > says that no rules to make target fo

Re: inserting line breals

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/5/07, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: > > The following one-liner should do it (it works for me): > > > > perl -pe '$_ .= "\n"' > > > > You could also do the following: > > > > perl -pi.bak -e &

Re: inserting line breals

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/5/07, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've found a perl script on the 'Net that does a very good job of > recursively searching a directory of sub-directories and files. I pipe > the output to the 'mail' program and email it to myself. However it > would help the readability of the text

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-31 Thread Michael Marsh
On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/31/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Presumably, you have something like .kde, .kderc, or Desktop in your > > home directory. Does grep find anything about LD_LIBRARY_PATH in any > > of those?

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-31 Thread Michael Marsh
On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Michael, thanks for taking the time out for this issue... > > On 8/31/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No I am not sourcing any othe

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-31 Thread Michael Marsh
On 8/31/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No I am not sourcing any other file... I can provide the two files here if > necessary.. That might be worthwhile. > > set -x > Ok, I did that. The outcome is the following: > When I login remotely (thru ssh) or on a VT, I see the variables from

Re: how to provide extra library paths?

2007-08-29 Thread Michael Marsh
On 8/29/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the following lines in .bash_profile (bash is my default shell): > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/usr/lib:$HOME/usr/local/lib > export LD_LIBRARYPATH="Nonsense" # just a stub > When I log into this machine from a VT or remotely (ssh) I have

Re: use of $$ versus $ in makefile and bash

2007-08-29 Thread Michael Marsh
On 8/29/07, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am puzzled concerning the use of the symbols "$" and "$$" in a > makefile. I do not understand why "$$" is required in some instances, > and "$" in other instances. "$" is a special character to make, so in cases where you need make to

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-07 Thread Michael Marsh
On 8/7/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wish I'd discovers Linux some ten years ago. I have literally hundreds of > AmigaDOS and ARexx scripts - some of them very powerful - that don't > even come close to converting to bash (or maybe python). Now I feel I've > to re-invent the wheel

Re: ntpdate[5498]: no server suitable for synchronization found

2007-06-16 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/16/07, anup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to setup NTP client inside my network using public time server. I used " ntpdate -ud 3.asia.pool.ntp.org " it gives the following error messaage.. [...] 16 Jun 15:20:26 ntpdate[5498]: no server suitable for synchronization found Please h

Re: Icedove

2007-06-03 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/3/07, Lorenzo Bettini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: >> me too, but another problem is that it does not open the browser when >> clicking on an url :-( > > Works for me... really? Are you using gnome? I'm using KDE... Ditto for me, using FVWM. See bug #425790, which is pr

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/31/07, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2007 06:39:39 -0400, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Given one particular invariant section that always appears in FSF/GNU > GFDL'ed documentation, my preferred analogy is, "You

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/31/07, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Marsh wrote: > Given one particular invariant section that always appears in FSF/GNU > GFDL'ed documentation, my preferred analogy is, "You can't skip the > commercials." Except that in this case, the

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/30/07, Max Hyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: _But_, please put anger aside a moment and examine the GFDL with unbiased eyes. If a document has an invariant section, then you have a file a) with a lump of lead inside that has to be dragged around with the document, foreve

Re: regexp for "anything except the combination .} "

2007-05-27 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/27/07, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to write a regular expression which searches for the following string: \footnote{x.} where is any character, including newline. I wish to capture the entire string in a match variable. Thus far, I have written:

Re: moderation [was: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user]

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/22/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I thought that our OT discussion was fairly polite. Vigorously argued, but fairly civil. Certainly the people complaining weren't flamed. I haven't been following the longer threads, so I really couldn't say. The code of conduct could certain

Re: moderation [was: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user]

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/22/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's why I suggest a writen code of conduct / policy that covers OT and other issues, that is then self-regulated by the users of the list. You mean like http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct ? Granted, it doesn't cover O

Re: I don't understand the new aptitude

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/22/07, Dan H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can't get my head around the (as of etch) newfangled aptitude dependency handling procedure. As an example, I'm trying to install texlive. As soon as I hit '+', I see this cryptic message in the bottom line: [1(1)/...] Suggest 2 installs, 4 keeps w:

Re: thank you Debian Kernel Team!

2007-05-20 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/20/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Marsh wrote: > Maybe now someone on the kernel team will fix linux-image-2.6-686, and > seemingly all of the other kernel image metapackages (bugs 422182 and > 424861, at a minimum -- neither has received any indic

Re: thank you Debian Kernel Team!

2007-05-20 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/20/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Linux-source-2.6.21 is out in Sid. Good job! Maybe now someone on the kernel team will fix linux-image-2.6-686, and seemingly all of the other kernel image metapackages (bugs 422182 and 424861, at a minimum -- neither has received any indic

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-08 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/8/07, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Marsh wrote: > RIAA crap aside, it's true that CDs are easy to steal and easy to > sell. A good friend's apartment was burgled a number of years ago, > and pretty much all that was stolen was his CD col

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-08 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/8/07, Jostein Elvaker Haande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm left speechless, honestly... http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070507-record-shops-used-cds-ihre-papieren-bitte.html RIAA crap aside, it's true that CDs are easy to steal and easy to sell. A good friend's apartment was burgl

Re: TeTex to TeXLive

2007-05-07 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/7/07, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 07 May 2007 14:53:18 -0400 Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So recently, occasionally when upgrading (I use Lenny) I've > had to remove some TeX component or other because it now > won't depend on TeTeX. So I suppose that that m

Re: ams.sty not found after updating to texlive

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/29/07, Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am running a debian sid system on a Dell dimension 8300 PC (2.6.18-3-686 #1 SMP) and am having some problems getting latex working after I updated some packages to day. I removed the tetex packages and installed texlive (initially includi

Re: GCC compiler

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/29/07, Cédric Lucantis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Le dimanche 29 avril 2007 04:56, Micha Feigin a écrit: > On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:20:08 -0300 > "Iuri Sampaio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $(BIN): $(OBJS) > > > > $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $(BIN) $(OBJS) $(LIBS) > > Not really an answe

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support - now getting rid of ads

2007-04-13 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/13/07, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A. F. Cano wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:49:01PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> ... >> Oh wait, did Flash do that? >> >> I have to say I find the web a much better place without it. Much of >> the annoying advertising disappears if yo

Re: teTeX --> TeX live: When to migrate?

2007-04-11 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/11/07, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know, sooner or later I will have to migrate from my present teTeX to TeX live (currently running etch). Both are available for etch. I'm a happy user of teTeX, not missing any features and just wondering of when is the best time to m

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-03-30 Thread Michael Marsh
On 3/30/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My comments concerned whole grain bread, not Windows :). In that case, it's an economy of scale. Most people want white bread, so bread companies buy a lot more white flour than whole grain. That's a steadier income stream for millers selling whit

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-03-29 Thread Michael Marsh
On 3/29/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 03/29/07 11:37, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 3/29/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> IOW, sure they could try to sell add space on the Linux desktop, but >> who would buy it? Oracle? Veritas? > &g

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-03-29 Thread Michael Marsh
On 3/29/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IOW, sure they could try to sell add space on the Linux desktop, but who would buy it? Oracle? Veritas? Google? Expedia? ScottTrade? None of those is OS-specific, and all would benefit from quick links on the desktop. If the same-or-highe

Re: Blog clients and the new Blogger Atom API

2007-03-29 Thread Michael Marsh
On 3/29/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:16:04 -0400 "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, *any* Internet-based service that stores data for users > should provide a mechanism for those users to export their data.

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