Re: fetchmailing with procmail for mutt

2005-09-03 Thread Preben Randhol
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 04:51:10PM +0900, BUYO-BUYO-IGOR wrote: > am switching from osx to demudi > on osx was running fetchmail with procmail > to prepare files for mutt > so tried the same setups but when doing > > fetchmail -av -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" Why do you do it so difficult? In Lin

Re: What CD's need be download

2005-08-30 Thread Preben Randhol
Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/08/2005 (08:49) : > On Tuesday, 30.08.2005 at 12:25 +0400, ? ?? wrote: > > > I'm new in Linux and Debian. What CD's need be downloaded. Now I have > > limited time high-speed internet connection and want to download ISOs. > > I know - CDs rang

Re: DVD burning with 2.6.13

2005-08-30 Thread Preben Randhol
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:37:41PM +0200, Dirk wrote: > Hello everyone, > Since kernel 2.6.9 writing CD's and DVD's suck. The best I can achieve > with 2.6.13 is single-speed dvd-recording. I would switch back to 2.6.8 > but reiser4 is only available since 2.6.9...(i don't care about the > "blablab

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-27 Thread Preben Randhol
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:16:27PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > "Only" that range of bit-rates? Why would you want anything outside > that range? 222kbps is *way* more than you need for decent quality and > a low end of 96kbps is starting to sound poor, I guess. What were you > expecting? Beca

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-27 Thread Preben Randhol
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:16:27PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > "Only" that range of bit-rates? Why would you want anything outside > that range? 222kbps is *way* more than you need for decent quality and > a low end of 96kbps is starting to sound poor, I guess. What were you > expecting? Beca

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-26 Thread Preben Randhol
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 07:28:40PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Stephen Tait: > > At 14:33 26/08/2005, Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann wrote: > >> > >> Anybody have a player that has at least 20GB of storage that plays oggs? > >> My rio karma crapped out and they just gave me my money back, now I

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-25 Thread Preben Randhol
Steven Pasternak: > Hi! Does anybody know if there is such thing as a portable OGG player? > (like iPod,MuVO,etc. NOT software) If you look for a flash player then this player is supporting Ogg better than Irivers flash-players: http://www.jensofsweden.com/MP120.asp?base=2 Page is unfortuna

How to set LC_NUMERIC so applications use it?

2005-08-24 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi I set in bashrc that LC_NUMRIC=C so I don't have to write numbers like: 1,323 but 1.323 This is ok if I start gnumeric, gimp or similar programs from an xterm. The problem is that if I start the same applications from a menu (either from gnome or form my home made desktop which uses fbpanel).

Re: Firefox middle click broken on stable?

2005-08-23 Thread Preben Randhol
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:53:22PM -0400, Chris Bozic wrote: > All, > > After doing some security updates today, I noticed that my middle > click in firefox is not working properly. It will no longer open all > links in a new tab. Instead, it works for some but not others. Is > there a way I c

Re: [HELP] Machine "sleeps" so cron-jobs and shutdown don't work.

2004-03-07 Thread Preben Randhol
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/03/2004 (13:38) : > > To my knowledge, you have to have the machine awake since crontab is > running against an internal clock. Once ACPI/APM put it to sleep, > nothing in the kernel code will wake it up. Only BIOS or LAN settings > will do that. >

[HELP] Machine "sleeps" so cron-jobs and shutdown don't work.

2004-03-06 Thread Preben Randhol
ine "sleep"? When it comes to power-saving I expect that shutdown and cron still works... Any hints much appreciated! Thanks in advance Preben Randhol -- Rox-Filer; *the* file manager => http://rox.sf.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Problems with printing postcript files created by dvips in testing

2003-09-18 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi I installed Debian on a new computer. I upgraded to testing and I have some unstable packages like epiphany-browser mozilla ++ My problem is that when I make postscript files of my latex files using dvips the printer won't print them. I have to run ps2ps on them to make them print. The old ps

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-02 Thread Preben Randhol
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/10/2002 (07:10) : > Because it's a cheap P3-700 that we can put into a cluster for > evolutionary computation. Are you sure it isn't for devolutionary gaming ;-) I find this hard to believe. Preben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: mass installation on XBox

2002-10-02 Thread Preben Randhol
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/10/2002 (13:03) : > > Do you already have the 100 Xboxen? Those $199 Wal-Mart specials > > look pretty interesting, but that's still $20,000 for 100 of them... > > If the university pays, I'll happily oblige. If people have other > suggestions (PS

Re: Making an audio CD from mp3 and wav files

2002-09-27 Thread Preben Randhol
Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/09/2002 (00:37) : > I'm having trouble finding a converter to make wav files from my ogg > and mp3 files. Can someone point me at an encoder? Get gnometoaster the it is only drag-n-drop http://gnometoaster.rulez.org/ -

Re: msttcorefonts self-installing exe availability

2002-09-22 Thread Preben Randhol
ave it by any chance and would be kind > > enough to send me a copy? Or may be indicate where I > > can get it from? > > microsoft has changed the license. it cannot be downloaded for free > anymore. i don't have it either since i never needed it anyway. It is a

Re: Connecting urlview & Mozilla, via w3m ?

2002-09-22 Thread Preben Randhol
Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 22/09/2002 (09:59) : > On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 03:50:00PM +0200 or thereabouts, Preben Randhol wrote: > > Thanks. How does one express the option ... checking > /usr/bin/X11 showed no mozilla or netscape. > The other option - /hom

Re: [OT] punctuation (was Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla)

2002-09-22 Thread Preben Randhol
Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 22/09/2002 (10:01) : > It pains me that you used that harsh language to describe my comment. Sorry it wasn't my intention. > just caught up in the excitement of the moment! :-) Those are /bin/sh > syntax, which I prefer better than anything that depends u

Re: Spawning at Login

2002-09-22 Thread Preben Randhol
and doing another dist-upgrade. I have been warned against > mixing stable and unstable - would that concievably be a problem > here ? Do change unstable to stabel but do a reinstall of stable not a dist-upgrade (as it would be a disty-downgrade). Otherwise you will get into a lot of problem

Re: [OT] punctuation (was Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla)

2002-09-21 Thread Preben Randhol
erent flags so you need to make versions for the different flavours. -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", Isaac Asimov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] punctuation (was Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla)

2002-09-21 Thread Preben Randhol
Michael Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 21/09/2002 (15:53) : > * Preben Randhol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-21 15:42:17]: > > Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 21/09/2002 (11:25) : > > > pointing to. If I remember co

Re: Connecting urlview & Mozilla, via w3m ?

2002-09-21 Thread Preben Randhol
of connecting 'urlview' to Mozilla, perhaps via > w3m ? check: /etc/urlview/url_handler.sh -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", Isaac Asimov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Spawning at Login

2002-09-21 Thread Preben Randhol
Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 21/09/2002 (13:30) : > On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 10:49:02AM +0200 or thereabouts, Preben Randhol wrote: > > Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 20/09/2002 (09:57) : > > > > > > I deleted the top panel for great

Re: [OT] punctuation (was Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla)

2002-09-21 Thread Preben Randhol
is should also work in tcsh as long as bash is installed ? > > Although it also puzzels me why people use mozilla when galeon has a > > much better interface. > > I can't stand galeon's interface: it feels too clunky and doesn't > respond to me in the way I want.

Re: [OT] punctuation (was Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla)

2002-09-21 Thread Preben Randhol
Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 21/09/2002 (11:25) : > In Mozilla I could prevent websites to change the status-bar > message. I am not sure if this does what I think it does. But a big > annoyance is scrolling text that prevents seeing where a link is > pointing to. If I remember cor

Re: [OT] punctuation (was Re: Configuring w3m for Mozilla)

2002-09-21 Thread Preben Randhol
like: #!/bin/sh BROWSER=`which mozilla` Although it also puzzels me why people use mozilla when galeon has a much better interface. -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", Isaac Asimov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Spawning at Login

2002-09-21 Thread Preben Randhol
o session' ... etc ? Did you keep the bottom panel? If you have the default setup then isn't this bigger? Anyway just run gnomecc from a xterm. -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", Isaac Asimo

Re: Spawning at Login

2002-09-19 Thread Preben Randhol
cally store changes to session and press OK. Now close all programs but don't log-out. Then start the programs you want to have started every time you login. Go to Settings and session and choose Save current session. Now logout and then login again and see if this helps. -- Preben Randhol -

Re: Just a tip for you zip100 users

2002-09-19 Thread Preben Randhol
debian package doesn't work? Preben -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", Isaac Asimov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

idebus override or not?

2002-09-17 Thread Preben Randhol
When I boot my office machine it says: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PI

Slow internal 250 ZIP

2002-09-13 Thread Preben Randhol
the imm driver, but this doesn't work. I then made the ide-scsi module and this seems to work. My question is though is this the right module to use? Thanks in advance. -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ ._. Debian 3.0 |"Don't think about dominati

Setting up apache only for localhost?

2002-05-21 Thread Preben Randhol
How can I setup apache only for localhost to access? I would like to use some tools like cvsweb etc, but I don't want others to be able to access my apache server. Can this be done? Thanks in advance. Preben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

New Debian distribution concept?

2002-05-07 Thread Preben Randhol
I remember I read after potato was released as stable that Debian would start a new concept for the building of the distibution. I haven't heard much after that. Does anybody know if there are any plans / discussions about this? I am asking because if the number of packages in Debian keeps increasi

Replacement for xitalk?

2002-05-02 Thread Preben Randhol
Does anybody know a non-setuid program like xitalk? Preben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-cache again!

2002-04-29 Thread Preben Randhol
"Satelle, StevenX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 29/04/2002 (12:37) : > Ok I'll give you an example (this happened over the weekend). I'm installing > a package using dselect. It comes up with a dependency list, I click ok > then go to install. I then realise that the deps I clicked ok to are > bas

Re: How was the slink --> potato switch? How will be potato --> woody? When?

2002-04-26 Thread Preben Randhol
"Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" wrote on 26/04/2002 (16:57) : > Hello Again: > > Apology for my poor english. Let me try again to express my > concerns: > > I believe that most packages will be upgraded when stable > is changed from potato to woody. I guess that that process > will be relatively slowe

Re: apt-cache again!

2002-04-26 Thread Preben Randhol
"Satelle, StevenX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 26/04/2002 (11:13) : > Ok, I'll try to explain this better. Where does dselect store its listing of > tasks. If you tell it to download 20 packages from the web and it downloads > and installs 18 of them. The next time you say install it will include

Re: How was the slink --> potato switch? How will be potato --> woody? When?

2002-04-26 Thread Preben Randhol
"Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" wrote on 26/04/2002 (07:53) : > Hello: > > I have just tested this following: > - get a packet copy using "dpkg --get-selections" > - put it to a new installed system using "dpkg --set-selections" > - after installing potato, I changed the sources.list dist to woody > -

Sound problems with flash and galoen

2002-04-21 Thread Preben Randhol
The sound worked before with Galeon and flash, but now after a upgrade the sound comes like it is played at the wrong speed or something. It stead of say beeep is sounds like beoop beoop beoop (like a wavy sound hard to explain). Does anybody know what it might be? Thanks in advance Prebe

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-31 Thread Preben Randhol
:-) Now I really really which I could understand why I get bad sound on my laptop when using esd (and of course that there is a solution. -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.» -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread Preben Randhol
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/03/2002 (18:40) : > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 06:07:38PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > | But realplayer doesn't work with esd > > It does. I use it all the time to listen to the radio via the xmms > plugin. Huh? what do you mean

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread Preben Randhol
ster made by > Creative Labs. They have some of the best support. Who cares if it's > only 16bit and uses an ISA slot? It sounds good to me on my poor > quality speakers :-)) :-) -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.» -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread Preben Randhol
> Yes. > > The other alternative is to try ALSA. I've heard (but haven't tried > it myself as OSS+esd is sufficient for me at the moment) that it > allows simultaneous access to /dev/dsp. How? But it doesn't help as you don't have realplayer nor flas-plugin that suppo

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread Preben Randhol
christophe barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/03/2002 (18:05) : > On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 09:45:17AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > We really really need a good sound deamon that every app speaks to in > > stead of directly to /dev/dsp. :-( > > But mozilla uses e

Re: Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-30 Thread Preben Randhol
need a good sound deamon that every app speaks to in stead of directly to /dev/dsp. :-( -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.» -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Junkbusting flash ads?

2002-03-27 Thread Preben Randhol
Does anybody know how to junkbust these annoying Flash ads? Thanks in advance -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.» -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Abiword hangs. Have somebody else experienced this?

2002-03-20 Thread Preben Randhol
stable > release, or use something else, like staroffice or openoffice. --link Both the testing and the unstable packages have this problem. -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Abiword hangs. Have somebody else experienced this?

2002-03-19 Thread Preben Randhol
ybody might have found a workaround? Thanks in advance for any hints. -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: noise when using esd

2002-03-18 Thread Preben Randhol
ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 16/03/2002 (15:43) : > On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:56:07PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: > > To be honest I don't know what esd and artsd are but it sounds like you > could be experiencing a feedback problem. Check the placement of your >

noise when using esd

2002-03-16 Thread Preben Randhol
anybody know why this happens and is there a way I can fix this? I'm going to setup for a third machine where the soundcard is via8233. thanks in advance. -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: Games on Linux?

2002-02-09 Thread Preben Randhol
:-) What's wrong with IF games :-) ? ftp://www.gmd.de/if-archive/games/ apt-get install xzip -- Preben Randhol --- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-30 Thread Preben Randhol
far > too long figuring if the letter spacing was right. Well does running up and down to the laboratory during that hour count? *sigh* -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-30 Thread Preben Randhol
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/01/2002 (11:14) : > Preben Randhol writes: > > Which means that free software cannot be trusted and will not be of > > industry quality. > > After all, nobody in "industry" would put a flight simulator in a > s

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-30 Thread Preben Randhol
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/01/2002 (11:13) : > > Oh c'mon. There's a reason for the fish. If you see the fish, it simply > means that "You're spending too much time with your computer. Prolonged > exposure to this GNU/Linux box has been known to cause hallucinations, > acute insominia, ca

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-29 Thread Preben Randhol
tion, including posting to news groups or web > pages, is strictly prohibited without the express prior consent of Capital > Monitor Pty Ltd. How can I do this ? -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-29 Thread Preben Randhol
ery time there is a new version out there. -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-29 Thread Preben Randhol
ement and you cannot manage to become this unless Gnome desktops are installed at workplaces. -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-29 Thread Preben Randhol
upstream maintainers. > Of course, if you aren't a programmer, you could always remove > wanda from the panel... I don't have Wanda in the panel. What do you mean? -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-29 Thread Preben Randhol
it out if you care enough > > you're not free to decide the developers priorities for them > > only for yourself. I'm not the maintainer so I sent a bug report. -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-29 Thread Preben Randhol
. > > the free world will always be different from the command economies of > closed software So your point is that since it is free code it should not be taken seriously? What is the point of free software if it should just be a joking matter? -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-28 Thread Preben Randhol
then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge.[1] [1] Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy (original radio play) -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-28 Thread Preben Randhol
pe the developers had better things to spend time on than this. -- Preben Randhol «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-28 Thread Preben Randhol
Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28/01/2002 (12:59) : > This is a rare Easter Egg in the GNOME panel. Ok. > There is one more if you want to hunt for it... Not a huge fan of easter eggs, I consider it bloat. Preben -- Preben Randhol --- http://www.pvv.

Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-28 Thread Preben Randhol
nda, but didn't find anything. Thanks. -- Preben Randhol --- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Wanda swam across my desktop ??

2002-01-28 Thread Preben Randhol
Suddenly wanda from the fish applet (but without the background) swam accross my Gnome desktop today. I use sawfish as WM. Do anybody know if there is a program that has implemented this as a "fun" things? It isn't so fun when you don't know what is doing it. Have anybody else experienced this? P

Re: WindowMaker is ugly!!

2002-01-17 Thread Preben Randhol
darrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 17/01/2002 (10:04) : > here is some pix of my desktop nori, btw, wmaker is cool and > pretty damn hard to beat, i have tried many desktops, gimp 1.2 runs real You mean you have tried several windowmanagers. Have you tried sawfish? Preben -- () Join the wo

Re: letöltés

2002-01-16 Thread Preben Randhol
Kovács János <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 16/01/2002 (12:37) : > T. cím! > > Azzal a kérdéssel fordulok önökhöz,hogy meg tudakoljam,hogy a debian potato > 2.2r5 verzióját miként is tudom letölteni az Ftp címükr?l? > Ugyanis az a problmám,hogy igazán pontosan nem tudom,hogy mit is kell > letölte

Problems with apt-get offline

2002-01-15 Thread Preben Randhol
I know this is a topic that has been up several times, but I haven't found an answer for my question. I have followed the offline document that comes with apt-get, but I still get into problems. I do a on the computer connected to the net: export APT_CONFIG="/opt/disc/apt.conf" apt-get update ap

I get ^M in the mail headers.

2002-01-10 Thread Preben Randhol
Suddenly yesterday (I think it was) I get the mail headers with a trailing ^M. like this: Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:04:27 +0100^M From: Somebody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>^M To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Something wrong with the list?^M This seems to mess up my procmail filter. Is it fetchm

Re: OT: Type safety (was: Language War (Re: "C" Manual))

2002-01-02 Thread Preben Randhol
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/01/2002 (18:48) : > > To say that any compiler, for any language, can guarantee that your > program will do that you INTEND it to do is nonsense. I never said that. Of course not. I don't understand why you get so angry about it? > > I didn't mean to

Re: OT: Type safety (was: Language War (Re: "C" Manual))

2002-01-02 Thread Preben Randhol
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/01/2002 (18:12) : > Preben Randhol wrote: > > > After switching from C/C++ to Ada 95 I found again the joy in > > programming. The main reason is that as soon as a program compiles and > > can be quite certain t

Re: OT: Type safety (was: Language War (Re: "C" Manual))

2002-01-02 Thread Preben Randhol
Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/01/2002 (19:04) : > > No, type-safety is important. Type-safety makes several guarantees, but > the most important for our purposes is the following: > > If an expression E has (static) type T, then the result of > evaluating E is *always* on

Getting tv out to work

2001-12-23 Thread Preben Randhol
glad. Thanks in advance Preben -- Preben Randhol --- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: Evolution and spellchecking?

2001-12-19 Thread Preben Randhol
Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19/12/2001 (11:49) : > On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 10:29, Preben Randhol wrote: > > Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19/12/2001 (11:24) : > > > Gnome-spell is used if it is installed. I believe that a package is > > &

Re: Evolution and spellchecking?

2001-12-19 Thread Preben Randhol
Ross Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19/12/2001 (11:24) : > Gnome-spell is used if it is installed. I believe that a package is > being worked on for that, but there are issues to be resolved. Does this use aspell/ispell? > I did see an unofficial package of gnome-spell at one point, though

Evolution and spellchecking?

2001-12-18 Thread Preben Randhol
Hi Is it possible to spell check e-mails in Evolution? The version I have is 1.0.2 and the Spellcheck document menu item is always insensitive. Thanks in advance. Preben -- () Join the worldwide campaign to protect fundamental human rights. '||} {||'

How to get junkbuster to junk flash ads?

2001-12-16 Thread Preben Randhol
I have problems getting junkbuster to remove flash ads without the flash plugin being called in mozilla/galeon first. Do anybody have a generic way to get rid of the annoying flash commercials so that galeon won't ask me to install the flash plugin all the time. Thanks in advance Preben -- ()

Crude Mozilla and /dev/dsp workaround.

2001-12-16 Thread Preben Randhol
I made a workaround for the the problem with mozilla and and a /dev/dsp in use. I change the /usr/bin/galeon to: #!/bin/sh #If you start galeon with DISPLAY=:0 and then start it again with DISPLAY=:0.0 #then new galeon instance doesn't find the other one, even though :0 and :0.0 #refer to the sam

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

2001-12-09 Thread Preben Randhol
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/12/2001 (11:08) : > > I am using the 2.4.16 kernel and my screensaver locked up the machine > yesterday, but it recovered without a reboot and I ran "xrefresh" to fix > it. xrefresh? I cannot do that as i cannot even login. > I have seen this problem b

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-09 Thread Preben Randhol
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/12/2001 (11:05) : > You may or may not've noticed or care, but there's an (alpha, I believe) > version of winamp for Linux. Haven't tried it so I have no idea if it's > any good. Winamp and XMMS are very equal. I would choose XMMS over winamp though. -- ()

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-09 Thread Preben Randhol
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/12/2001 (11:08) : > My point: XMMS is about as user-unfriendly/friendly as Gnome. Come on, Not true. > XMMS is just as bad/good as that Windows favorite WinAmp. What good does that do? I'm not out to get XMMS, I'm trying to find an alternative. I see that g

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

2001-12-08 Thread Preben Randhol
Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/12/2001 (07:56) : > I have been using 2.4.16 since it came out and hadn't had a single problem. > On the other hand xscreensaver and xlock has always been trouble. A crashed GL > application sometimes will leave your video card in such a mess th

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

2001-12-08 Thread Preben Randhol
ow and I'll remove GL screensaver and use a normal. Thanks. Preben -- Preben Randhol --- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: 2.4.16 kernel crashed

2001-12-08 Thread Preben Randhol
nd like the explanation about new DRI and GL hogging all system resources is very plausable. Preben -- Preben Randhol --- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-08 Thread Preben Randhol
and then you > can query it (using simple dialogs, IMO it's usable by beginners) to > play music... IIRC grip (ripper) puts the ripper tracks into digital > DJ's db. I'll check that out. Preben -- Preben Randhol --- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-08 Thread Preben Randhol
nyway, you can try loading an XMMS skin. The Debian package, I think I would have to make a skin. Preben -- Preben Randhol --- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-08 Thread Preben Randhol
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/12/2001 (07:56) : > Have they ever used WinAMP? Most people I know (who have/use > computers) use winamp (well, most of them have windows) and don't have > trouble with it. Winamp on Linux? No, they don't use Windows at all. Preben -- () Join the worldwi

Re: Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-07 Thread Preben Randhol
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/12/2001 (21:31) : > > xmms seems pretty user friendly to me... if you really want something > else, though, you might check out linuxberg's listing: Yes for a power user, but not for newbies. One point is that XMMS uses a completely different layout than normal

2.4.16 kernel crashed

2001-12-07 Thread Preben Randhol
After compiling and installing 2.4.16 things seemed to work nice until i looked at the computer again a bit later and saw that my screensaver had stopped (I had the GL text screesaver on). I tried to login but no dialog box noting. Then I tried to ssh, but this didn't work either so I had to hit re

Re: XMMS kills Gnome activity!

2001-12-07 Thread Preben Randhol
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/12/2001 (19:06) : > Hi, I'm having a problem with XMMS. I am using the version that comes with > Debian 2.2.19pre17 ISO image 1. Whenever I am playing a song, I can't open > windows, popup menus, etc. until I click STOP or the song ends. Once it ends, > it performs

XMMS and Alsa????

2001-12-07 Thread Preben Randhol
I'm totally confused with xmms and alsa. I found: xmms-aalsa - Another ALSA Output plugin for XMMS ^^^ But I cannot find the original anywhere, besides this plugin crashes xmms. I'm trying to use Alsa for playing with xmms and leave oss for galeon. Preben -- Preb

Something more user friendly than XMMS?

2001-12-07 Thread Preben Randhol
userfriendlyness. I looked at freeamp, but it is unstable and crashes so sth else would be nice. Thanks in advance. Preben -- Preben Randhol --- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- «For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»

Kernel 2.4.14 and Alsa 0.9.10beta

2001-12-07 Thread Preben Randhol
I compiled the 2.4.14 kernel yesterday. I then compiled the alsa driver 0.9.10beta for my card like I have done before. It installed and I get no error messages. I used alsamixer to unmute all channels and set their leves to around 97%. But I don't get any sound. Not even when I play a CD with tcd.

Re: good book

2001-12-04 Thread Preben Randhol
Mirek Dobsicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/12/2001 (19:04) : > Hi, > I'm about to buy the book Professional Linux Programming -- by Neil > Matthew and Richard Stones. Which programming language do you want to use? -- Preben Randhol --- http://

Re: outlook for linux and unix

2001-12-04 Thread Preben Randhol
"DE SMAELE Kim (BMB)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/12/2001 (13:21) : > It looks like outlook with the same functionality Does it work with viruses like outlook too ;-)) -- Preben Randhol --- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- «For me, Ada95 p

Re: Any usable sound records for Linux?

2001-12-03 Thread Preben Randhol
Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/12/2001 (11:38) : > > rec file.wav Thanks!! Works and it doesn't crash either X nor my alsa driver. I have found out that if a sound player crashes with a segfault then my kernel modules lock up and I cannot remove them with rmmod so I have to reboot. :-

Any usable sound records for Linux?

2001-12-02 Thread Preben Randhol
I need a simple sound recorder to record sound (voice) from a mic to wav or some other format I can convert. I tried grecord, but this crashes X so I have to turn my machine on/off. Audacity doesn't work and krecord crashes. I see there are many editors Glame etc..., but what I need is a simple p

dsproxy (was Re: XMMS and Galeon (with Flash) at the same time?)

2001-12-02 Thread Preben Randhol
Damon Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/12/2001 (13:55) : > Quoth Preben Randhol, > > My little sister is complaining that Galeon doesn't work. I found the > > problem to be that she is playing music with XMMS and entering pages > > that uses flash animation

Re: XMMS and Galeon (with Flash) at the same time?

2001-11-30 Thread Preben Randhol
Paolo Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/11/2001 (15:46) : > > Preben Randhol wrote: > > >My little sister is complaining that Galeon doesn't work. I found the > >problem to be that she is playing music with XMMS and entering pages > >that uses fla

XMMS and Galeon (with Flash) at the same time?

2001-11-30 Thread Preben Randhol
My little sister is complaining that Galeon doesn't work. I found the problem to be that she is playing music with XMMS and entering pages that uses flash animation, galeon will hang because flash won't accept that it cannot get /dev/dsp. I was wondering if somebody has some kind of trick so that

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