Re: how to remove GUI

s thing). I like my installs to be absolutely minimal at first (they will inevitably grow with time). That being said, the system where I am typing this right now has its filesystem timestamp indicating that it was created in 2011... Regards, Rogério Brito.

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

that your system *supports* SSE2, which is not the intended outcome... :-( Regards, Rogério Brito.

Looking for suggestions of a "modern" desktop that runs Debian

egrated card with the CPU is perfectly ok with me (and, actually, preferred if that would make the final cost of the computer lower). Any recommendations are more than welcome, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFC http://cynic.cc/

Re: A DVDtoMKV package.

to install packages from there, since the new debian releases will have full-fledged multimedia codecs, like MP3 (lame), MP4 ASP (xvid), and MP4 AVC (x264). And this is tightly and neatly integrated with other Debian packages like gstreamer, mplayer, mplayer2, libav/ffmpeg, audacity and so on. Regar

Compiling samba (almost) minimally for a NAS

g profiles, printing support etc. Is there anybody that has attempted to create such a smaller package? If yes, which options did you disable? And which build-dependencies did you strip from the package to get it as small as possible? Thanks in advance for any help, -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{

Re: Experiences on using zram with ARM?

Hi. 2011/7/14 Rogério Brito : > As many ARM systems (and other embedded architectures) happen to be > memory-starved, I thought about playing with zram (the new name of > "zramswap") on some of my systems, but I found out that not all platforms > have zram enabled in the s

Re: Problems with Debian PowerPC

h part of gnome is not installable? Have you tried seeing the subpackages which gnome uses (if you're going for the full-blown metapackage---I always stay away from that for philosophical reasons, as I want a "different" gnome from what one gets by default). Regards, Rogério Brito.

Re: keeping an obsolete package (libx264-78) removes its automatically installed status

get those from Christian Marillat's repository---well, actually, you can grab the "unstable" version of his packages, most of the time). Hope this helps, -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algor

Re: AAC audio encoding through faac in Squeeze

lication, not > that I mind, just saying). Just ignore that GNOME vs. KDE issue that people tell you about. Oh, and BTW, AAC is evil. If you can, just use Vorbis instead. Regards, Rogério Brito (Member of the LAME/MP3 team of developers). -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com}

Questions regarding hardware for a Free Software (especially Debian)

of the options that are available at the manufacturer's sites don't seem to target users like myself: Asus P7P55D-E Premium, Maximus III Formula, Maximus III GENE, MSI 790GX-G65 etc, etc. Is there anybody that could shed some light with recommendations? Thank you very much, Rogério B

Re: Why CUPS?

your home directory with the line: | | gtk-print-backends = "file,lpr" | | + for a system-wide setup, include the same line in the file | /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc | | It may happen that your setup will be broken again if GTK 3.0 doesn't | read the gtk-2.0 files or don'

Re: About getting videos from youtube

Hi, Celejar. On Dec 08 2009, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:08:33 -0200 Rogério Brito wrote: > > I am the maintainer of the youtube-dl package and, unfortunately, > > due to a decision of the release team, it won't migrate to the > > testing distribution (and,

About getting videos from youtube

sed it and informed me of potential problems that they may run across. The package is at: http://packages.debian.org/sid/youtube-dl and any feedback is warmly appreciated. Regards, Rogério Brito. P.S.: Please, keep me in CC'ies, as I am not subscribed to -user. -- Rogério Brito : rbr

Feedback requested on the package magicfilter

mall systems, especially those running lpr or lprng. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org

Feedback needed: New version of rtorrent uploaded to unstable

eport bugs against rtorrent. Your feedback is very much appreciated, as we are working to get you a solid release. Thanks, Rogério Brito. P.S.: Please, keep the CC'ies, as I'm not subscribed to debian-users and I don't know about the other developers also. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: On VHS capture hardware/software that works with Debian

Dear Tim, On Mar 02 2009, Tim Beauregard wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > Therefore, I would like to know the experiences of people from the > > Debian community regarding both software and hardware for this very > > task. I would like to record what I have in analog

Re: On VHS capture hardware/software that works with Debian

Hi, Rainer. On Mar 02 2009, Rainer Kluge wrote: > Rogério Brito schrieb: > > > > I have a friend of mine that has an old ATI Rage 128 card (if I am not > > mistaken) with line in. Would it be possible to make it work under > > Linux? > > Should work without pro

On VHS capture hardware/software that works with Debian

d get my friend's card (I don't have too many tapes), if I should get a computer hardware card or if I should get one of those devices like the DVT USB thing. Since I'm currently not subscribed to the list, I would kindly appreciate if you could Cc me. Thanks in advance fo

Please, testers of hfsprogs are needed

erio Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Looking for help with maintainance of a package

st nowadays (besides -devel-announce), I would appreciate CC's. Regards, Rogério Brito. [*] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4919975 -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projec

Re: Any suggestions on good CLI newsreaders?

wing the opinions of others. Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?

Hi, Kevin. On Aug 01 2007, Kevin Mark wrote: > I subscribe to debian-devel-changes. Is that not useful? Yes, that is good, but not exactly a solution to what I had in mind. Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp

Re: [Semi-solved] Re: Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?

Hi, Tong. On Aug 03 2007, - Tong - wrote: > I've tried to find such thing everywhere but all failed. Please share > the url that you found. Here is the url: http://www.spasche.net/mozilla/ Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 102

Re: [Semi-solved] Re: Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?

graphical tools, but that I can work my way with the command line without doing too many damages. :-) Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito P

Re: searching for graphical torrent client

Hi, Wayne. On Jul 30 2007, Wayne Topa wrote: > Rogério Brito([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Can anybody tell me if rtorrent has Distributed Hashtables (DHT), UPnP, > > and peer exchange? If it has those features, I would have no need for > > other clients

Re: Any suggestions on good CLI newsreaders?

This is indeed a very good recommendation and I think that privoxy is way better than using something like an extension to Firefox, as it is browser agnostic. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusi

[Semi-solved] Re: Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?

Hi, Andrew. On Aug 01 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:55:58PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > So, in light of this would anybody know how to force Firefox (etc) to > > open the files instead of trying to launch, say, less for such files? > >

Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?

the web browsers that the .changes files content is text/pgp, instead of text/plain. So, in light of this would anybody know how to force Firefox (etc) to open the files instead of trying to launch, say, less for such files? Any help here would be quite welcome. Thanks, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério

Re: Disabling Print Screen key

ed problem... Now, this is funny. I'm using similar things here (but in a different architecture, powerpc), but again, without a DE (and, in particular, KDE). Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbri

Re: searching for graphical torrent client

peer exchange, which seems to be an extension of Azureus to the bittorrent protocol. Can anybody tell me if rtorrent has Distributed Hashtables (DHT), UPnP, and peer exchange? If it has those features, I would have no need for other clients. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PR

Re: searching for graphical torrent client

On Jul 28 2007, Michael M. wrote: > Between aptitude, mc, rtorrent, cplay, and one or two others, I'm > developing a real fondness for ncurses apps. Then, you might want to check "Music on Console" (moc). It is a really impressive program. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- R

Bug#433168: ITP: hfsprogs -- mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems (fwd)

of-the-box). Summarizing, if you are interested in what is written below, please let me know and I will try to shape the package as well as I can. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. P.S.: Please, keep the Cc:, as I'm currently not following the PowerPC mailing list nor Debian User. I may subs

Re: EAC vs. CDPARANOIA

soon and it may, perhaps, increase in quality: I plan on merging fixes and good ideas from Christian Marillat, from Mike (from Rarewares) and from debian-mentors. Any other ideas are welcome. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Home

Off-Topic: Re: how to find GCD and LCM in C ?

ND* ab = gcd(a,b) lcm(a,b), you can find the lcm(a,b) quite easily. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorith

Re: minimal kde system for amarok?

ine (the same thing with Java), but I'd be interested to know others' opinions. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat

Intel network adapter (was: Re: which driver provide support for Intel 82557/8/9 network adapter)

, since you have one of these cards, do you happen to have a multithreading CPU? I'm looking for some way of enabling multithreading on a dual core CPU. Any help is quite appreciated (I already sent a message to the list, but it seems that this got unnoticed). Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogéri

How to enable/use Hyperthreading?

that the system has hyperthreading enabled after I booted it with the acpi=ht kernel option. I would love to know if anybody could help me with this. Thanks in advance for any help, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms pac

Working with xfig (was: Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file)

y work with inkscape in the future (I've heard that it is a very good vector drawing program), but the fact that it doesn't export the drawings in the .fig format makes it less attractive to me. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~r

Re: Delete Win 2K partition on Debian dual boot to re-use space.

recommend it. Regards, Rogério Brito. [*] http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Badly formed dpkg-status entry.

ch distribution are you using? The newer distributions (testing, unstable) have newer versions of vrms which are slightly more robust (and have additional features). Hope this helps in any way, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of

Making Firefox use certain fonts for printing (was: Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?)

ing in smaller files (yes, I know that this is not recommended---even Adobe recommends embedding the fonts, or, at least, a subset of them, into the document). Thanks for any hint, Rogério Brito. P.S.: Other programs that still use the older engine of Mozilla (like nvu) generate Postscript file

Policy Routing (was: Re: rsync, ssh, scp: How to send via eth1 or higher ?)

uting (if you have it enabled in your kernel) and, say, route all traffic that is ssh to a given interface. This is a really nice feature of the kernel and little known. For manipulating the routes, you will need the package iproute. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROT

RFC: Well supported scanners under Linux?

would give me the best "bang for the buck". Thanks in advance for any advice, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algor

On emacs-snapshot-gtk (was: Re: emacs21-bin-common package broken)

snapshot-gtk, which uses the GTK+ 2 widgets, which is simply nice to have without "dissonance" with other applications. The emacs-snapshot packages are frequently upgraded and the maintainer does an outstanding job. Highly recommended. Regards, Rogério Brito. P.S.: My system is ru

Re: Wireless Network Cards

ogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Torrent client for CL

8.5), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Anyway, it is highly recommended, IMVHO. Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algo

Re: Please explain quote and trim...

ome.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ Disclaimer: I have never used it, since I use Mutt mainly. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: h

Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

hat I am not demanding that the packages be compiled this way. Just asking for some discussion and enlightenment. Thanks for any comments, Rogério Brito. [1] If I have many tabs opened in Firefox 1.5 and I control-scroll the mouse to resize the text, Firefox 1.5 operates burning a lot of CPU

Re: Older Mozilla not supported anymore

Hi, continuing with the subject, On 04/26/06 12:15, Rogério Brito wrote: > Anyway, I am not able to perform everything with Firefox 1.5 that I > could with Firefox 1.0 (I'm using testing). Happily, today a security update for Mozilla was announced by the project. And, I am, right no

Taking care when going the closed-source route (was: Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN)

when deciding to go the closed-source route. It's nice to have Free Software boot into my computers to use *recent* software, with all the security updates (and functionality updates too). Oh, and regarding games, I don't care for them. Regards, Rogério Brito. P.S.: Despite my comme

Older Mozilla not supported anymore (was: Re: Sunset Announcement for Fx/Tb 1.0.x and Mozilla Suite 1.7.x -- what does it mean to sarge?)

he support for the version you use is dropped. Backporting fixes will be an herculean task, indeed. Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://fresh

Multiple ubuntu-based distributions (was: Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN)

machine, but I am surely waiting for xubuntu to get slightly more polished... Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorith

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

d, would not have to exist. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Supported Video Cards under Free Software (was: Re: Best Video Card)

nce I don't need 3D and my trusty, old Matrox card is keeping up with my necessities. But I'm frequently asked (by friends) to recommend hardware that would run Linux well and, well, the topic of video cards is where I get most undecided... Thanks for any experiences shared, Rogéri

Re: Supported Video Cards under Free Software (was: Re: Best Video Card)

having poor support under Free Operating Systems), I'd go with the former. Oh, and before anybody jumps quickly into conclusions, I do prefer off-board video. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.

Supported Video Cards under Free Software (was: Re: Best Video Card)

projects) is indeed a nice thing that is able to guide my buying decisions (and even what I recommend to the Universities where I work, so that I can actually teach the use of Free Tools for students). Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~

About initng and speeding up boot (was: Re: init script editor)

) > Homepage: http://initng.thinktux.net I had already thought about using initng, but my conservative side kept me from installing it. Could you or other users of it give us some feedback about how it works currently in a Debian system? I'm quite interested to know. Thanks, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito

Re: Best Video Card

gt; do they really have that much to lose by doing so? Thanks for raising the point, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algori

Re: External hard drive woes

system onto CDs. Ok, so this doesn't help you. Do you get backtraces on your system? Are they logged? -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/pro

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

hese are just *some* of a long list of reasons to check your disks with some regularity. And being on the safe side is, of course, not a bad idea. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorith

Reconfiguring packages (was: Re: How do I restart the ez-ipupdate wizard?)

. Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: System hangs at boot

ch about them being up. Of course, this is a dirty solution. Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -

Re: System hangs at boot

y advice, maybe you > could avoid it...) I lost the initial postings, but using ndiswrapper is an evil thing... -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/pro

On Open Source Support of hardware (was: Re: Best Linux Laptop)

developers harder. Regards, -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: On rtorrent

On Feb 25 2006, Michael M. wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > >That's strange. I've been using a plain/vanilla etch system here (in > >fact, I always track testing) and I *do* have rtorrent available > >here. > > Well I'll check again. Perhaps it is avai

Re: On rtorrent

On Feb 24 2006, Mark Grieveson wrote: > On Feb 24 2006, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Well, you may be surprised with the steep learning curve for > > rtorrent (and its interface), but it is definitely worth learning, > > because of the non-interpreted nature of the program and

On rtorrent (was: Re: Using bittorrent for large downloads)

non-interpreted nature of the program and the fact that it consumes *far* less resources than similar programs written in Python or Java. Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de

Re: package error after debfoster

a simpler "touch /usr/bin/update-menus.real" as root would work better than using --force-* for dpkg. This way, you can still use higher level tools than dpkg. I've been using this for some broken packages that I've made in the past and it "works for me" (the

Using bittorrent for large downloads (was: Re: DVD ISO files)

ients that I cited above (sometimes by two orders of magnitude). And it is a nice motivation for using the "screen" program (also packaged for Debian), just for the detach feature that it offers. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/

Re: xmms in sid

e (of course, grip is also a quite nice application, especially when coupled with Lame). I'm just curious to know what others are using. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.

Re: Supported Hardware - Monitor

ion. You will take some few days to learn what programs you need and what programs you don't. Hope this helps, Rogério. P.S.: Please, avoid sending messages in HTML format for this mailing list. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms pac

Re: 10 second startup for emacs on system with 1GB ram Athlon64 3200. postgresql shared memory issues. vi ok immediate

ossibly have anything like ecb, semantic, eieio, speedbar-*, cedet-* installed in your machine? If you don't have any use for them, I'd suggest you to uninstall those packages. Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of

Re: recover ext3 deletion

Indeed. I've saved my life once in a quite stressful period just because I had taken the time to religiously make backups. I'd recommend using mondo for creating backups (if you are running on ia32---AFAIK, it doesn't support other architectures right now). Hope this helps, Rogério

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge)

d video in formats that I can easily convert to DVDs or (S)VCDs. Together with mjpegtools, this combo is quite nice. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. P.S.: If you can get away without using the non-free w32codecs, then it would be better. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.us

Re: Question

oftware in Debian, but none of them > limit the price he can charge. And, to Katipo, this is exactly one of the freedoms that Free Software is about. No strings attached (or almost none). Regards, -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of

Re: Using Free JVM implementations

sts in the Cc: field of this message, to raise awareness about this problem. Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algo

Re: Using Free JVM implementations

other Free JVMs has improved a lot in the latest years---some non-trivial code is able to run under the Free JVMs now, but, of course, they are not perfect. > I just don't have time to test another package, I'm in the process of > releasing about 50,000 lines of my own code G

Re: sharing a bibliography

) your text (or a large portion of it) into any other format that suits you better. Just my 2 cents, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.n

Using LaTeX and references (was: Re: sharing a bibliography)

, you can also try to use preview-latex with AUCTeX. Of course, everything is already packaged in the Debian repository. > Latex is a huge learning investment, but if you write a lot, or are > planning on writing something very large, like a dissertation, I think > it's worth it. I

Using Free JVM implementations (was: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2005 #3025)

please let the maintainers (or upstream) know about that. They will surely appreciate to know which programs don't already work with their implementation. (Or if it is just a matter of having a few more classes implemented in GNU Classpath). Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMA

Keeping your system clean (was: Re: Suggestions for vrms package?)

le that doesn't belong to a package. Of course, assuming how a standard system is laid on disk, filtering just the binary/executable files would be a job of grep'ping with a simple regular expression. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Home

Re: OT: Leet-speak WAS:[Help with Linux selection please?]

ot of non-native English speakers. If l33t-speak is allowed, why not other *proper* natural languages? And then the mess is created... Regards from someone whose primary language isn't English, Rogério. P.S.: Can't you see how strong my accent is? :-) -- Rogério Brito : [EMAI

Re: [debian-vrms] Re: Suggestions for vrms package?

n your system, right? Just so you can track our improvements, please see [1] for more information. Thank you very much for your feedback, Rogério. [1] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/v/vrms/vrms_1.11/changelog -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~

Re: [debian-vrms] Re: Suggestions for vrms package?

r enthusiasm for the using free > software wherever possible. I guess I'm suffering from a lack of > imagination :) Thank you very much. I am also open to any criticism, if it is constructive. And imaginative suggestions are also quite welcome. :-) Thank you very much, Rogério. -- Ro

Suggestions for vrms package?

and also sufficient) that we can drop most of the use of non-free packages. In the pursuit of this task, I think that vrms is an important assessment tool, so that the user knows how much non-free software his system has installed and which Free Software alternatives exist. Thank you ver

Re: Querying packages about installed files

nsistent interface. Recommended. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: *nix cert

some course---again, such courses are done right, since much of Computer Science deals with problems that are simple to state, yet utterly hard to solve). And a graduate degree is even more mind-opening, I can assure you. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://ww

Re: Hints on keeping the system clean

On Dec 04 2005, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:45:13AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > If you know of any other hints to save space, please, let me know. > > localepurge - Automagically remove unnecessary locale data Thank you very much for this hint. It is no

Re: Off Site Backup: Removable hard-drive racks or external USB hard-drives?

er used LVM, though. I'm only using this external disk as a way of backup/exchange of data among filesystems. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshme

Re: mplayer and mp3s

On Nov 24 2005, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 12:44:54AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > But I would like to give you all a recommendation: try to use a > > music player called moc (which stands for Music on Console). > > Thanks for the wonderful suggestion

Re: Debian 1.3.1 (Bo) ISO files

g the "golden" copies of history that you have with you. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/

Re: Debian 1.3.1 (Bo) ISO files

On Nov 25 2005, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 12:44:50AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > I would think that something like jigdo or a torrent would be more > > helpful for the community, of course. > > Jigdo is only relevant if the archive is still a

Re: Debian 1.3.1 (Bo) ISO files

nt. Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

On checking the security of a system (was: Re: debian and the malware problem)

revious e-mail, you can also try to use tiger as a very good package for checking security. Just run it and it will spend, say, 15 minutes on your system trying to find things that could be a problem from a security point of view. All is neatly commented in a log file. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito

Re: dvd authoring question

or dvdauthor, but I have never used this frontend myself as I prefer doing almost everything without a graphic interface. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on f

Re: Stock Sarge segfaults, and later crashes!

ds, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: mplayer and mp3s

to the daemon playing your music, if you change your mind. It is highly recommended, if only by the very, very broad range of music file formats supported out-of-the-box (without you having to go hunting for plugins and such). Really recommended. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito :

Re: make an updates CD?

On Nov 22 2005, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: > "Make a CD which apt-cdrom will accept" is the part I still haven't > found. The package you want is called apt-move and it is *quite* neat for exactly this purpose. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EM

Re: dual boot on mac osx and 2wire internet support

On Nov 20 2005, George Cantwell wrote: > is it possible 2 have 2 boot drives 1 runing mac osx and one debian? I think that yaboot is able to do that without any problems, but I may be wrong here. OTOH, you can always drop into OpenFirmware and boot from there. Hope this helps, Rogério Br

Re: replacement for gcdmaster

-related tools that are not available in Debian by adding the following line to your sources.list file: deb http://www.rarewares.org/debian/packages/unstable ./ Don't be scared by the "unstable" part there: many of the packages have dependencies in sarge (stable). > Any suggest

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