LyX
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, ian wrote:
> Hi all,
> I would like to know a good TEX editor...any recommendations?
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> A standard is "Learning Perl"
> (http://www.bookpool.com/.x/h6ph9apwz1/sm/0596001320)
>
Learning Perl is really good. I got through the first seven chapters
(2nd edition) and then picked up the -Perl Cookbook- ... it makes a good
complement and has l
the new edition of UNIX POWER TOOLS.
... i mean, i assume we're talkin' computer books here, cuz otherwise it'd
probably be some kickass star atlas.
:)
-glenn becker
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Dan Hunt wrote:
> I am taking care of my big sister's farm here in western Canada
> while she is visitin
check out jde (now called jdee b/c of copyright reasons) in devel.
it's an emacs add-on, so if you don't like/use emacs ... well ...
g
On Wed, 22 Jan
2003, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? Where should
> I point my sources to in
Hi -
I'm strongly considering 'retreating' from Evolution to Mutt as an email tool,
not only because I like the zip and elegance of text-only but ... just ... well,
I miss Mutt!
I'm wondering if it is okay to simply copy the various mbox files from my
Evolution folders to my old /home//Mail d
> > Glenn:
> >
> > Are we going to purchase two computers for Kim Wallace and Jim Vanderslice?
> >
> > Steve
>
> Yes, and we're mailing them to a debian user in Canada, for some strange reason.
>
> "Glenn"
Hey! =I'm= Glenn. Am I getting charged for this?
Glenn "No-Quotes" Becker
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, james leclair
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> Hello, what server and channel should I join to talk with other debian
> users? Thanks in advance!
> James
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i've enjoyed using centericq - but i like curses-style interfaces.
On Tue, 12 Nov
2002, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:52:30PM +0100, Pontus Edvardsson wrote:
>
> > What is the best/most useful ICQ client in your opinion? I've checked out
> > gaim, licq & kicq2. Is there
Barry -
I'm in a similar situation, I guess.
I too have been hanging around Sourceforge, but in my case have hooked onto a
couple of projects, even if I feel I can't contribute what I want to contribute,
yet - in the hope that it will push me where I want to go. In my case, I'm
trying to we
David,
I don't know 'bout this package in particular, but I run a slew of unstable
packages on my Woody box and rarely experience difficulties. You can always
check the bug reports on the Debian package page.
gb
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, David
Teague wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I need the Dr. Scheme pa
if you could contrive to send him/her an 'infinite fax' (done on a paper fax
machine by taping multiple copies into a loop) i for one would be forever in
your debt.
aleph null-ly
glenn
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Mike Dresser wrote:
> Saaay, what's the point at which I become harassing if
I've used TkSeti some, and it is quite nice.
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Gary Turner wrote:
> I've been running setiathome on my winboxes and am considering adding my
> linbox to the mix. So, the question is what is the appropriate
> directory to unpack and run this little bippy? How does the graphic
OK, I've got a REALLY STUPID question here. :/
I decided recently that I wanted to try out the "Linux from Scratch"
project (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org). In order to do this particular
thang one has to create a reasonable sized partition on which to create
the installation.
Now, when =I
> It's known and being fixed, but since it was a KDE-wide problem it's
> taking a certain amount of time to fix. See the debian-kde archives for
> the (messy) history.
oh, okay - thanks. it was turning into one of those 'am i just losing my
mind?' kind o' things, bec. i hadn't turned up anything
Hi,
I've had a problem with incompatible versions of libpng both with Debian
(I'm running a mostly-Woody box) and FreeBSD ... under FreeBSD, the
problem appears in both KStars and KWord (which barely works at all).
Anyhoo, here are the relevant lines of error output from KStars under
Debian.
> And how can I install Linux and Windows on the same machine (how
> difficult is it)?
Making a dual boot Win and Linux machine isn't too hard. Depends a bit on
how much HD space you have. And it may take a bit of tinkering, so making
backups is a good idea.
I say 'isn't too hard' because I
All,
Was wondering if anyone had encountered this before. I get the following
error when trying to launch certain KDE applications (spec. kdevelop or
quanta):
quanta: relocation error: /usr/lib/libkssl.so.2: undefined symbol:
polish__7KDialog
... well, that's the quanta version. Any advice on w
I too am running testing, and have had this prob in the past and have
ignored it ... lately, some of these seem to have been resolved by
running update-menus; others ... (like, oddly vim ... a recent
development) remain.
You can edit the menu files by hand, of course, butcha hafta -find- 'em
firs
This happened to me, too. I reported some weird jumps in the % usage
reported by df, and subsequently found that this file had mushroomed at
some point (the other % were addressed by running apt-get clean).
Glenn Becker
On Sat, 6
Oct 2001, David Purton wrote:
> at some point in the last day or
I haven't been able to access it this morning. I'm in NYC.
Glenn Becker
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Also check out the "XML and Perl" (or maybe it's the other way round)
column on http://www.xml.com
Glenn Becker
On 1 Oct 2001, Jeff Zucker wrote:
> Vittorio wrote:
> >
> > I'm using perl and the DBI stuff to deal with Oracle databases on a LAN.
> >
> > Now, I need to extract data from XML docs
Oh, good. Thank you!
Is it headed for testing or unstable?
G
On Fri, 28
Sep 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:53:13AM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote:
> > I guess because I'm a bit unwell, I wanted to install the joked-up
> > version of vi (with M$ish paperclip assistant) called
I've had some dealings with the folks at http://www.qlitech.com. They
seem fairly on the ball and the prices are competitive. Haven't actually
-purchased- anything, so that's a soft recommendation, I guess!
Glenn Becker
On Mon, 24
Sep 2001, Lucho Debianero wrote:
> Im planning to buy a dell ins
Hi,
'kay, important things first: what is that there furshlugginer "HTH"? I
notice lots o' people usin' it. :)
I went onto the #debian channel on openprojects.net IRC and asked around
about the exim/fetchmail thing. Was told to add this to my .fetchmailrc file:
with mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T
have gone round, I get the following when I try to run fetchmail:
6 messages (2 seen) for burningclown at burningclown.com (18717 octets).
skipping message 1 (2375 octets) not flushed
skipping message 2 (2675 octets) not flushed
reading message 3 of 6 (4214 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to loca
Hi,
> I recall posting a few direct suggestions that I don't believe were
> responded to. These issues can be difficult to resolve. List traffic's
> also been high the past couple of days, and I've been thinning out mail
> significantly.
Yes. I succumbed to the desperation that these things so
Hi,
> The document in Polish doesn't really contain anything useful regarding your
> problem. Basically it just reiterates that packages marked
> "reinstall-required" cannot be handled by dpkg unless you use
> --force-reinstreq or whatever. Dead end there :D
Wow. Thanks for checking that out!
S
Thanks, debian-users for putting up with my half-baked squeakings. I
finally figured out what I was doing wrong, and have wiped the offending
package from my system, unto eternity.
Embarrassedly,
Glenn Becker
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In re:
> Now it's time for surgery.
> Go find the deb file and run dpkg -c aime-whatever-.deb
>
> Just destroy all the files that are listed as being part of the package
> and judisciously scrub the c>
OK, I'll try it.
BUT and I do mean BUT ... this is Kafka-esque. I don't often run into a
prob
Arrgh ... on -all- of these I get
dpkg: unknown force/refuse option 'reinstreq'
wtf? i say, wtf? ... I'm reading the same man pages that are recommending
the same things that get called 'unknown' when I try to invoke them.
G
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Okay:
> Take a shot of whiskey and type:
> dkpg --force-remove-reinstreq aime
Did this. And got this:
dpkg: need an action option
Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use dselect for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debu
> dpkg -r someprogram
>
> and let us know your results.
Here's what came back:
dpkg: error processing aime (--remove):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
aime
... essentially the same t
Hi,
> Have you tried apt-get --purge remove
Just did this. I got the following
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
aime*
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed
Hi,
As has happened sometimes in the past, I've got a package that seems to be
in "trouble," and I can't figure out what to do with it ... since it never
-really- seems to get all the way installed. I'd like to just do away with
it entirely.
The package in question is the MUD server aime. Here i
Hi, all -
I've considered joining USENIX for some time now but would be interested
in knowing what others think of the benefits of such membership(s).
... and there are -other- orgs around, too, like ACM.
Thoughts?
Glenn Becker
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Hi,
This is a long shot, I suppose, but I was wondering whether anyone had
gotten the software associated with Randall Hyde's online "Art of Assembly
Language Programming" to run under dosemu?
Maybe I don't really -need- to do that? :) I haven't gotten far enough to
know whether it's really nece
Once again this list proves a treasure trove. ::This:: is one of the
reasons working with this stuff is so much damned fun - the FREE EXCHANGE
OF INFO! Thanks all!!
-gb
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> On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Jakob B. Jensen wrote:
> There is a big DNS server (plus 12 mirrors) on the Internet which
All,
Thanks for the responses/discussions on this topic. I'm gonna secure
myself copies both of the O'Reilly TCP/IP book and the DNS/BIND book and
cross my fingers that they'll lift the fog for me.
In the meantime: I -think- I'm a trifle befuddled by my own situation,
where I have a DSL provider
> that someone who hosts burningclown.com. who are they? and how much do
> they charge you? because i am pretty sure they won't just add an A
> record subdomain, at least not at no charge.
The hosting company is WestHost: http://www.westhost.com. A great deal.
G
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Thanks all. After what was probably too long a prep period, I'm
successfully running a customized version of 2.4.8. Giant fun!
Best,
Glenn
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All,
I'm trying to compile what is essentially a custom kernel (2.4.8);
however, the only thing I'm -certain- I want to customize is module
version support ... I need this to be disabled (I'm working through the
2nd ed. of O'Reilly's "Device Drivers" book).
After prepping to assure that I'm not
Hi,
A couple of questions, subsequently ...
> your /etc/resolv.conf file would be
>
> cat << EOF > /etc/resolv.conf
> domain mydomain.com
> search mydomain.com
> nameserver 1.2.3.4 # replace with nameserver address 1
> nameserver 5.6.7.8 # replace with nameserver address 2
> nameserver 3
It does. Fantastic. Thanks.
That is, there's lots for me to look up/at and understand more fully.
This, however, is a framework ...
Cool beans!
Glenn
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Martin F Krafft
wrote:
> your hostname should really only be a single name without a dot since
> it's the *name* of your c
> I'd look around with du (du |less etc) from the root directory to see
> where these large jumps in disk usage are occuring. Wander in and take
> a look at anything that looks suspicious. Also, if you don't run
> apt-get clean it just keeps the debs for you. If you jumped to testing
> or unst
All,
I'm a bit embarrassed to be asking this question (more properly
question-series), since I've been enjoying Linux since late '98 and ya'd
think I'd know the answer to this by now ... however ...
I'm wondering about hostname(s). What is -affected- by the name one
chooses to give one's box?
T
Hi,
I'm seeing odd leaps in the Use% reported by df. The value leapt from 56%
to 59% last night, and from 59% to 62% just a few moments ago.
3% of 15gb (which is half my total space) seems like a lot o' space to
spontaneously be taken up ... I seem to recall reading at some point on
the list of
Jeez, this has popped up on the list A LOT lately ... check the
archives.
It's an apparently harmless Gnome "Easter Egg." Poor Wanda has come in
for a lot of paranoia the last month or so! :)
Glenn Becker
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Bill
Wohler wrote:
> A fish just swam across my screen. What the h
highlighting is (or was ... still is in some ways) one of the
squirrelinesses re: bluefish. syntax highlighting doesn't seem to be
exactly "as - you - type" but is updated by pressing the F5 key. on my
machine this scrolls down the current file & eventually returns you to the
spot you were at.
bl
If those are the only features you want, I'm not sure whatcha mean by
graphical ... Dreamweaver-ish?
I find a combination of Emacs and html-helper-mode does the trick quite
nicely for me. Bluefish is a good little HTML editor but has some quirks
that keep sending me back to Emacs. Of course there
Hi,
Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with someone on the #debian
IRC channel re: compiling a custom kernel. He urged me to add the
following lines to my /etc/lilo.conf file:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17
label=prev2217
... and make sure I could boot the system from this choice. It worke
Hi,
Sort of a vague-y question here ... I'm getting back down into my system
after being, uh, -laid off- on Wednesday, so I have time to play.
I'm wondering about techniques for system optimization. "df" reports that
I am at 53% usage, which seems really high to me, even given that I
recently pa
I have -no- experience with TeX but LyX seems like a neat lil' package.
Er ... revision ...looking at LyX is the only TeX experience I have ...
:)
Offered with built-in grain of salt.
Glenn
On
Thu, 26 Jul 2001, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I was reading some messages fr
All,
Still can't seem to dial out ...
> In any
> case, undo whatever -Running Linux- told you to do (simplest way is to
> purge and reinstall ppp). Then run pppconfig as root, follow instructions,
> and try to connect with pon. If you have trouble, run plog and post the
> output.
Here's the
Hi,
I'm wondering if there is a way to perform a hardware check on my internal
modem under Debian.
I first started having trouble with it when I was still running Windoze,
but suspected it was a crummy cable. Right arond the time I installed
Debian I got DSL, so didn't install any dialup capabil
All,
Up until a few days ago, I was blessed with a DSL connection. Now,
however, I have moved and it is going to take a while to get a connection
at my new place.
Therefore, I need to reconfigure my system for a regular old dialup
connection. I stupidly neglected to do this while I still had DSL
I don't know if it has been mentioned but you can also check out the
package xae, which is an emacs-based XML IDE, by the same person who
wrote jde (an emacs Java IDE).
-Glenn
On 26 Jun 2001, Ilya Martynov wrote:
>
> ER> I recommend.
> ER> apt-get install emacs20
> ER> apt-get install psgml
> E
Hello everyone,
Over the weekend I finally got FreeBSD installed and configured on my box
as a dual-boot with Debian testing.
I'm having a frustratingly-intermittent problem with LILO, however:
sometimes the "boot:" portion of the LILO message never comes up, and
tabbing doesn't bring up the two
uwm ('ultimate window manager') is very interesting. not much to look at,
but really really neat and different.
did i just type 'neat'?
glenn becker
On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Daniel Hoffman
wrote:
> The list so far:
> BlackBox
> IceWM
> fvwm2
> fvwm95
> sawfish
> XFce
> PWM
>
> Thanks for the great
Thanks to -ALL- who offered help with this problem. I successfully used a
bootdisk of GNU parted to resize my /dev/hda3 to make room for FreeBSD,
then created a /dev/hda4. I re-ran lilo as parted suggested, rebooted,
then used fdisk to change the type on /dev/hda4 to BSD/386.
It all went without
Hi,
I'm trying to resize my root Linux partition to make room for a FreeBSD
installation. Unfortunately, the partition I want to resize (/dev/hda3) is
the one where parted is installed -- when I run parted and try to resize
/dev/hda3, I get a warning telling me that the partition is in use.
Is t
All,
This is a return to an oldie I started some time ago.
Now I have FreeBSD on hand, I'd like to install it 'next to' Linux.
There's a FreeBSD + Linux HOWTO, and it answers some questions, but:
I'm exploring GNU parted for partition resizing of my 30G hard drive. I
can it seems resize my curr
Hola,
I ran the suggested /etc/lilo.conf file, ran /sbin/lilo and now all is
well. Moving on. Thanks!!
Am just not gonna worry about what I must've been doing wrong. :S
Glenn
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In re: my continued lilo problems ...
> What does "fdisk -l /dev/hda3" say?
This:
Disk /dev/hda3: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3527 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
And when I run fdisk on /dev/hda, I get the following:
C
All,
I'm still trying to find my way through my boot / lilo / lilo vs. grub
problems. Have put grub on the backburner for a moment in favor of a step
by step effort to understand what's going on.
When I attempt to install lilo on my system now, I get the following
error:
LILO, the LInux LOader,
All,
The Debian FAQ suggests the command 'apt-get source ' to download
source code for a particular package.
When I try this, apt-get advises me that I need source lines in my
sources.list file.
What would be the source line(s), say, for testing? I can't seem to find
this info anywhere.
Thx,
Hi,
> I didn't have much luck with lilo on my system either, but grub has
> worked beautifully for me. Its configuration is really simple, though
> you will have to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file yourself.
The (or A, or The Main) problem is that it -seems- there is still a chunk
of LILO, or
Hi,
This is a sort of followup to the lilo-related problems I was having some
days ago.
Adding the "linear" option to my /etc/lilo.conf didn't effect a fix: I
still got the cascade of "LI" down the screen when I tried to boot up. SO:
I uninstalled the lilo pkg, dpkg --purged it, and tried to rei
Hi,
> Postfix quoting and trim quotes, please, Glenn.
Ya, sorry. I fritzed. No excuse.
> You have to re-run 'lilo' for changes to take effect. Have you?
Sure did. I am still getting the continuously-output "LI" running down the
screen. I'm tempted to go with grub, but would *like* to know wha
I should add that I changed the first line to
boot=/dev/hda1
as soon as I posted this. But it seems to have changed nothing.
Glenn
IOn Tue, 22 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When I booted up today I got the by-now-famous "LI" hanging lilo ... I
> used my rescue disk to get into
Hi,
When I booted up today I got the by-now-famous "LI" hanging lilo ... I
used my rescue disk to get into my system. When I updated, lilo was one of
the packages that was upgraded, so I thought "ah, perhaps that'll fix it."
So I tried powering down and booting back up. This time, I got "LI"s
re
Hi,
I ran what proved to be a rather large apt-get dist-upgrade last week, and
wound up with some dependency conflicts which I don't know how to get
around/rid of. The packages downloaded did not finish installing, and when
I try to run apt-get dist-upgrade NOW what I get is the following:
Readi
Was this user's problem ever solved? I can't seem to find an answer,
either in my mail folders or in the list archive. Been a nutty week, but
I swear somebody answered this.
I, too, am having weird testing upgrade problems that sound (if I
recall) like the same thing. Thanks.
On Wed, 9 May 2001,
All,
I typed df just out of curiosity to see what my disk usage was up to and
was shocked to see that it had almost *tripled* from the last time I
checked it (just a few days ago) -- it's gone up from 11% to 27%.
I haven't downloaded *that* much new stuff! Could this be a sign someone
is making
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