linking to scripts

2004-11-12 Thread Silvan Villiger
ply writing e.g. script1 as it is possible with all the programs in linux? And how would I do that if this would be a good solution? Or is my partitioning into /scripts and /data a bad idea at all? How would you partitioning the files then? Thank you for helping me! Greetings... Silvan -- T

Re: Scripting

2004-11-07 Thread Silvan
Thank you very much! Everything works fine now :-). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Scripting

2004-11-06 Thread Silvan Villiger
l which started the script? I'm sorry if this are newbie-questions, but... I am a newbie :-). And I really have red a lot of guides, but there are so many informations out there... Greetings... Silvan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: Memory Management in Linux

2004-11-05 Thread Silvan Villiger
Thank you for this fast answer. Let's forget the thing with the memory-leak for a moment. I'm more interested in understanding the memory management. Does anyone knows a guide which introduces me into the meaning of the expressions I mentioned in my first post? Greetings... Si

Memory Management in Linux

2004-11-05 Thread Silvan Villiger
to it, so you can expect me to understand these things, but nothing more. My goal is to write a script to monitor the memory-usage of a program and to detect memory-leaks using the ps-command. How would you detect memory leaks with it? Greetings... Silvan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

no joy with external USR modem

2004-10-22 Thread Silvan
ok at? I've dealt with modem problems before, but never anything quite like this. I'm stumped. I need to figure out what I need to throw on a CD before I drive back over there. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; register

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine (conclusion)

2004-10-08 Thread Silvan
Best I can do without one of us spending money we don't have. I'm brk3 too. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net

Re: "apt-get dist-upgrade" Question:

2004-10-08 Thread Silvan
f all kinds of things. (If you do this a few times, and then get cable later, you will be absolutely disgusted at how fast it is. These 500 MB upgrades take about an hour, including answering all the questions and actually installing everything.) -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EM

Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

2004-10-06 Thread Silvan
lutely despise it, but now I grok it pretty well. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: OpenOffice 1.1 spelling checker broken?

2004-09-30 Thread Silvan
one reason I have put off upgrading is because there are outstanding bugs with OpenOffice, and it's a mission-critical app for me. Anyway, I'm just saying broken packages are definitely not out of the question here. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux

Re: Can only print one document

2004-09-28 Thread Silvan
solution to this was to cook up a script to restart hotplug then CUPS. That almost always gets it going again. Sorry if this was a completely worthless suggestion. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://w

Re: weird constant hissing sound coming from one speaker

2004-09-26 Thread Silvan
the same way every time, and I have found a way to live with this mysterious KDE flummy that keeps screwing everything up. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http:

Re: partition second hard drive

2004-09-26 Thread Silvan
p1 Looks like it should be no problem to cfdisk /dev/hdb and go from there. Are you sure you tried that? (ie not hdb1 or whatever) Unless you have a corrupt partition table or some other weird going on. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified

Re: Needs help with Kernel upgrade

2004-09-26 Thread Silvan
th those set_drive_speed_status errors. If kernel 2.4.x works, I'd say this might be kernel bugs or kernel incompatibility with your hardware. I'd recommend that you go back to the old kernel. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified G

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-26 Thread Silvan
und in kbattleship is not worth all the hassle of trying to get that stupid thing to coexist with the rest of the world.) That's what I know is possible with this VIA thing. Anything else you get out of it is between you and your computer. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMA

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

2004-09-25 Thread Silvan
y resource hogging KDE goodness anyway. I really like KDE, and I didn't want to change the way I did things just because it was a slow box. I lived with the speed, which sucked, rather than try to find some lightweight alternative. I'm just that much of a KDE fanboy I guess. --

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-23 Thread Silvan
e good version back and alsactl restore 0 There's probably a more elegant way than this using ~/.somedotfile or some such. I'd probably figure it out if I had to deal with this problem more often. This works though. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lin

Re: sharing a printer with windows

2004-09-23 Thread Silvan
;probably" and "this might work" and "try doing it like this" thrown in.) -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.ne

Re: BIG mail box...

2004-09-23 Thread Silvan
> Ps - there is abount 4000 mails in the box... OK, I'll bite, since you already have a real answer anyway. I'd say I have a BIG mail box, and you only have an itty bitty one. It's 223 MB and I count around 11,400 messages. Do I win? -- Michael McIntyre Silvan

Re: Intel 82845 Video?

2004-09-22 Thread Silvan
Driver "i810" VideoRam8192 EndSection -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- T

Re: VIA sound problem

2004-09-21 Thread Silvan
one of those VIA things in it, and it works fine. Are you running aRts or esD or some other sound server? That would be my first suspect. Some kind of sharing problem. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux use

Re: uname problem??

2004-09-19 Thread Silvan
I still won't run ext3 to this day. Anyway, I guess it doesn't matter anymore. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tuto

Re: Keyboard occasionally nonresponsive on bootup with Debian Sid

2004-09-19 Thread Silvan
he GNOME equivalent. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Build Kernel Error

2004-09-19 Thread Silvan
ave an example handy, it might actually be the same error) and it terminates with exit status 1, but the resulting packages have always worked just fine. I'm sure I'm missing something, but whatever it is doesn't seem to be critical. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <

Re: minimal installation questions

2004-09-19 Thread Silvan
don't have a compiler after all. There's a gcc-3.3-base package that's deeply entrenched: box2:~# apt-get remove gcc-3.3-base [snippy] You are about to do something potentially harmful To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' Whee. I guess I need that, huh?

Re: Noteedit

2004-09-18 Thread Silvan
On Saturday 18 September 2004 08:46 am, Silvan wrote: > On Saturday 18 September 2004 06:39 am, Roy Pluschke wrote: > > To those that are interested I noticed that noteedit has found some > > people to take over the project see > > http://developer.berlios.de/projects/note

Re: Noteedit

2004-09-18 Thread Silvan
e it in future > releases. I can't see why they wouldn't anyway, really. They still package the ancient predecessor to the modern Rosegarden, and that code line has been abandoned for seven years. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certi

Re: Streaming audio

2004-09-17 Thread Silvan
Player or MP3, write them a nasty letter and save yourself hours of futile effort. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/

Re: Differences between binary images and compiled kernels

2004-09-17 Thread Silvan
On Thursday 16 September 2004 08:41 am, Eric Dickner wrote: > --- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not enough information. > > Thanks for you time! I didn't want to get too > specific in case there was a general and simple answer > to this situation (get

Re: Getting Started with Debian 3.0

2004-09-15 Thread Silvan
ody because it was probably still considered experimental when Woody released. It stopped being "experimental" a long time ago, but Woody is very, very old. ext2 to ext3 and back is about as safe as filesystem conversion gets though. I wouldn't worry about any ill effects. -

Re: Differences between binary images and compiled kernels

2004-09-15 Thread Silvan
-2.6.7-1-k7-smp kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386 kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686-smp kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7-smp Try the easy thing first unless you're dealing with really bitchy hardware. If that is indeed the case, then how 'bout telling us what th

Re: DHCP Question

2004-09-15 Thread Silvan
hwaddress ether 01:23:45:67:89:AB > > where the last field comes from "/sbin/ifconfig -a". Hrm. I'll look into that. My ugly kludge works, but it's, well, an ugly kludge. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified

Re: Getting Started with Debian 3.0

2004-09-15 Thread Silvan
re you are now. You can get there from where you are, surely, but is it worth it? For my time, it wouldn't be by a long shot. For that matter, Sarge hasn't even released yet, and it's already too old for my taste. I've put some boxes back on Sid. -- Michael McIntyre

Re: DHCP Question

2004-09-15 Thread Silvan
o echo "Configuring eth1 and connecting to LAN..." echo "Inserting module for sis900 NIC..." modprobe sis900 echo "Running ifup eth1..." ifup eth1 -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user

print to remote printer on LAN?

2004-09-12 Thread Silvan
n without breaking it.) Thanks. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Soundcard Support???

2004-09-11 Thread Silvan
orgive me. Thanks for anything you have to share. For the curious, I have a (very unofficial) deb of KAMix (binary renamed kqamix to avoid conflicts with the unofficial kamix (different app) packages I've seen; built against Sid) here (Q/KAMix comes from SuSE originally, I think. I needs

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2004-09-11 Thread Silvan
piano. :) OK, OK, that was definitely uncalled for and a completely ludicrous waste of my time. I really must get my butt in gear now. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Ru

Re: cheap network card supported by linux

2004-09-11 Thread Silvan
#x27;t actually care. I'm just trying to put off doing something more constructive by wasting time here on this list just a little longer, and this thread got my attention. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux

Re: Can't play midi

2004-09-11 Thread Silvan
read this list lately, but I have managed to wade through my inbox almost every day. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/

Re: hotplug PS2 keyboard

2004-09-02 Thread Silvan
th these systems can have keyboards. This is a test, right? The PS/1 actually came out after the PS/2. What did I win? -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://

Re: Unmount Question

2004-09-02 Thread Silvan
. Just a guess, really. I've noticed KDE has problems with ioslaves of various flavors getting stuck like this. Usually no real harm comes of it, but it can be annoying. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux use

Re: knoppix vs standard debian?

2004-09-02 Thread Silvan
it after all. One thing about Debian (and Linux more generally) is that we have tools out the wazoo to do things that Windows users have to pay a lot of money for. They're not always the most intuitive or easy to use tools, but they're bristling with useful gadgets. -- Michael McInt

Re: interview with joey hess

2004-09-02 Thread Silvan
. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: HTML editor. What to use?

2004-09-02 Thread Silvan
n do all that in vim too ;) Don't call emacs or vim the > best, it's a matter of taste! :p Pure nonsense. Vim is the best. It is unquestionably a matter of taste. Vim users have it. Emacs users clearly do not. Simple. :) -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Anyone getting debian forged headers in Email?

2004-09-02 Thread Silvan
too. All the usual offenders. Pills and porn. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: HTML editor. What to use?

2004-08-30 Thread Silvan
s on your needs. All the bases are covered, no matter what. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: graphics GNU C

2004-08-30 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 29 August 2004 10:46 pm, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > C is graphics-agnostic, and there are many graphics libraries you can > Qt: 3 Like Athena, but different style (used by KDE) Well QT is about as C++ as C++ gets. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[E

Re: International Characters from a US Keyboard?

2004-08-27 Thread Silvan
s worth the time to learn if you do anything more than the most trivial little bit of some other language. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/

Re: Combining images?

2004-08-22 Thread Silvan
like the original poster did, being unable to figure out something as basic as pasting two images together. Today, I'm hardly a GIMP guru, but I can make that thing hum along pretty well. It's a really awesome program once you grok it. Getting there is hard if you've ever used a

Re: Help straightening out disk partitions.

2004-08-22 Thread Silvan
ing a new one from scratch. I pulled it off by the hair on my chinny chin chin, but I don't remember enough about the process to write you a recipe book. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 ht

Re: anti-freeze

2004-08-22 Thread Silvan
the axe. There's just not much you can do if the problem leaves no evidence in any of the logs. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.

Re: Confusing sound issues (ALSA, jackd, etc.)

2004-08-15 Thread Silvan
at I *do* know after months wrestling with this most wretched of subjects.) I've just committed a new round of changes to document my latest success with the AGNULA kernel. That version won't get rsynced out to the web server until tomorrow sometime, so here's the URL to the PDF v

bad shutdown

2004-08-03 Thread Silvan
flummy and trying to remember not to try to use the damn CD-ROM until I get it replaced, I mean.) -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforg

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-03 Thread Silvan
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 11:31 am, Juha Siltala wrote: > On 2004-08-03, Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't really care. I'm not getting graded on how good my HTML looks. > > That's right! Screw them markup police! :) Exactly. > I have rescu

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-03 Thread Silvan
e one of those paper flipper flummies built into it. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-03 Thread Silvan
o. :) It's a far cry from human-readable though. Ever looked at one? It's compressed XML, but there are five hundred trillion tags in the simplest file. It's more than vim can handle, and there's not much you can do to hand-edit that enormous mess. -- Michael McIntyre --

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-03 Thread Silvan
er the impressive stream of permission denied messages. Until it iterated into /home. Oops. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutor

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-02 Thread Silvan
On Monday 02 August 2004 10:32 pm, Zaq Rizer wrote: > Silvan wrote: > >Anyone know where I can buy a bigger hard disk for my brain? This one is > >getting bad sectors, I think. > > I got one: > How about running Debian for TWO YEARS without knowing about apt-get clean? &

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-01 Thread Silvan
th all the formatting every time I change something. You were definitely right about this, even if I'm still being obstinate enough to continue using an inferior markup language machine-generated with an inferior pseudo wysiwyg editor. :) -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[

Re: ALSA setup problem

2004-08-01 Thread Silvan
: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-686/alsa/snd-vxp440.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.25-1-686/alsa/snd-vxpocket.o But I'm running a snd-emu10k1, so this doesn't affect me. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic,

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-01 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 01 August 2004 12:56 pm, Silvan wrote: Another stupid luser trick. Don't do a package install that restarts CUPS while you're in the middle of printing a 200-page double-sided document, and you're halfway through the second side. Yerk. I can't believe I di

I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-01 Thread Silvan
lowable stuff contained somewhere off /. Anyone know where I can buy a bigger hard disk for my brain? This one is getting bad sectors, I think. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/P

Re: `who` output keeps showing logins that have really logged out.

2004-08-01 Thread Silvan
- login records utmp-conv (8)- convert UTMP files utmpname (3) - access utmp file entries sessreg (1x) - manage utmp/wtmp entries for non-init clients -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Lin

Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

2004-07-31 Thread Silvan
On Saturday 31 July 2004 08:59 pm, csj wrote: > On 31. July 2004 at 11:49AM -0400, > Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > You only need a rescue CD if you screw something up. (Which > > I've certainly done, yes, so keep that CD in your back poc

Re: script/app to compile statistics about disk usage?

2004-07-31 Thread Silvan
looks like a keeper. Thanks. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: script/app to compile statistics about disk usage? >one line

2004-07-31 Thread Silvan
On Saturday 31 July 2004 01:48 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: > (most is a better less. you can use less if you don't want to install > most.) Cool! Me likey. Wish I'd found most sooner. :) -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified G

Re: What are the dangers of using packages from both stable and testing?

2004-07-31 Thread Silvan
l that combines a kitchen sink with a microwave oven and a motorcycle, and all it takes to get it is to force everyone to upgrade libflummy to the latest CVS version. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 ht

Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

2004-07-31 Thread Silvan
his: http://www.storm.ca/~yan/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help From Brasil

2004-07-31 Thread Silvan
a new hard drive immediately and rescue as much data as I could from the old one before its time is up. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden

Re: script/app to compile statistics about disk usage?

2004-07-30 Thread Silvan
are pretty reasonable (and I did purge the package cache, yes) so I guess it's time to get off my duff and figure out what's eating what and turn it down or turn it off. Thanks everyone. I guess I'll cook something up then. Probably just a script because I'm feeling way t

script/app to compile statistics about disk usage?

2004-07-29 Thread Silvan
nd report statistics of this nature would be worth doing in a pretty way? This almost seems worthy of becoming a hack add-on to KDiskFree or something. (Yeah, like I have time for any more projects.) -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and

Re: how can other users use X?

2004-07-28 Thread Silvan
. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/

Re: system installation

2004-07-28 Thread Silvan
thing you had on Woody in one shot. Something about --get-selections I'm sure it's in the archives. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourcefo

Re: syncing pda + phone on linux?

2004-07-25 Thread Silvan
e walking, and there are a LOT of spiders out there this time of year. Spiny orb weavers. Ghastly things to find hanging off your nose, even though they're harmless. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #2436

Re: syncing pda + phone on linux?

2004-07-25 Thread Silvan
sy managing information to have time to watch one anyway. :) I'm not poking fun at all, for the record. I just feel slightly out of touch. I really do live in a bubble. Straight home from work, and I stay home until it's time to go to work again. My car sat in the same spot for nine da

Re: syncing pda + phone on linux?

2004-07-25 Thread Silvan
izing a mobile phone with a computer? Kinda makes me glad to be a hermit, I think. :) -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-24 Thread Silvan
se the county can always raise property taxes again to pay for it all if those copies of Windows get too expensive. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ -- To UN

Re: Distributing platform independant software (Was Is Linux Unix?)

2004-07-24 Thread Silvan
I'm not giving a lengthy answer. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-24 Thread Silvan
rce commercial software anyway. If it's not free, I don't want it. Luckily, I have no compelling, practical need to force me to move away from that position. Unfortunately, many do, and Linux isn't much good to them. It's very difficult to change the way people think. --

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Silvan
rt clenching their colons and dread ever touching a > computer. If people want to know why so many people say, "I tried > Linux, but it sucked, so I put Windows back on," they should look no > farther than RPM. You made beer spew out my nose. I haven't laughed this hard

Re: Is Linux Unix?

2004-07-23 Thread Silvan
s to it was a new version of Red Hat every four years. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building 2.6.x kernel

2004-07-23 Thread Silvan
requires an initrd or some config tweaking to boot. Since twiddling everything necessary to get up and going without an initrd can be time-consuming, I opted to just make-kpkg --initrd yadda yadda and go that route. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic

Re: What's this mounted temporary drectory? /tmp/autoKVio9R

2004-07-23 Thread Silvan
n /tmp/$YOUR_USER-kde/ -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fedora Trademark guidelines. Don't use Fedora.

2004-07-23 Thread Silvan
y. :) -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-22 Thread Silvan
haps other things. If something went wrong, you can cp -f /etc/lilo.conf.saveass /etc/lilo.conf /sbin/lilo -v to get back to where you started. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geoc

Re: problems using JACK

2004-07-21 Thread Silvan
s becoming ALSA-aware, or through some other magic. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/

Re: Don't buy Sony (was: Re: sony vaio desktop)

2004-07-21 Thread Silvan
> I can hardly believe that this was by accident since everything they > do just shows so obviously what they aim at - ripping you off very > thoroughly. You'd think they'd have learned something from betamax by now. :) -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [OT] Err, how do I turn off screen blanking

2004-07-18 Thread Silvan
DE, so that suggestion might not get you anywhere at all. The blanking that occurs on the consoles (but not xterms) can be turned of with setterm -blank 0 -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 ht

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Silvan
ly* destroy the platters. Cutting a hard drive in half with a bandsaw is fun, but it sounds like these guys might be able to recover something from it even at that. I guess you'd have to melt it down. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and cer

Re: Listing Files - Permissions in Octal?

2004-07-18 Thread Silvan
On Sunday 18 July 2004 05:23 pm, John Summerfield wrote: > >->ls -O /tmp/foo* > > 640 -rw-r-----1 silvan silvan 6606 Jun 20 03:22 /tmp/foo.ps > > > >Maybe I'll finally let it die. I'm really tired of keeping up with it, > > and the idea j

Re: Listing Files - Permissions in Octal?

2004-07-18 Thread Silvan
together: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] n6tadam]$ stat -c '%a %A %G %U %N' * > 644 -rw-r--r-- n6tadam n6tadam `trymr' > 644 -rw-r--r-- n6tadam n6tadam `trytrytry.wav' Interesting. If somebody had shown me that a long time ago, I wouldn't be having to keep up with my for

Re: Help with Router

2004-07-18 Thread Silvan
lind. I can't find any way to do it. All I can do is look at the DHCP table and see what it assigned to what. > Q: Why would a router slow down a connection? I have no idea. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; regis

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-18 Thread Silvan
So the original person who pointed out how much the layout matters had a very valid point. (Programming, or even working from a command line must be tedious for a lot of the world. cd [shift-7] usr [shift-7] local [shift-7] a [AltGr º][space] name [AltGr º][space] with [AltGr º][space] spa

Re: Help with Router

2004-07-18 Thread Silvan
's not the answer you need though. I hope someone can help you. Maybe try a new thread, since Samba doesn't have much of anything to do with the router; beyond the vagaries of having a potentially variable IP on the boxes anyway. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan &l

Re: how to run a single X program?

2004-07-17 Thread Silvan
han that. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-16 Thread Silvan
> There's also the important point that this does something somewhat > different:-) > 2>1 :) ->find ~ -name 1 /home/silvan/1 /home/silvan/data/swf/1 /home/silvan/pixmaps/1 -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; reg

Re: problems using JACK

2004-07-16 Thread Silvan
tly. If there are any easy, simple answers out there, google is doing a good job of keeping them from me, as well. There's amazing work being done, but you really still have to be a Linux audio insider to understand most of the discussion. Latency scheduling capabilities blmphf realtime bl

Re: Color Distortion in KDE

2004-07-16 Thread Silvan
it showed up on that box too. So it's not chipset-related, it doesn't look like. I wonder what's broken? libsomeflummy, doubtless. -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.c

Re: [Silvan] Re: Console font change on startup - breaks laptop

2004-07-16 Thread Silvan
d as "rc" and I'm not sure what to make of that. Broken packages with an uninstall script that didn't? Does that symlink actually point to anything? I'd try to dpkg --purge it anyway. > Silvan> On a whim, if you're running gpm, try getting rid of it

Re: [Silvan] Re: Console font change on startup - breaks laptop

2004-07-15 Thread Silvan
ng rid of it first. I'm not sure why I suspect gpm, but if you are... -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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