Re: wine: Problem running some programs

2008-05-01 Thread pedxing
> Paul Johnson wrote the following on 04/29/2008 02:33 PM: > > I sure would like to see a Pagemaker equivalent that is > as good as OpenOffice is to Word/xcel/etc. and GIMP is > to PhotoShop. Both OO and GIMP are the superior > packages for my money. Have you looked at Scribus?

Re: Trouble with grub on usb thumb drive :(

2008-03-12 Thread pedxing
Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.22-3-686 root(hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet initrd /initrd.img savedefault YMMV, HAND, etc. -pedxing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: powerline ethernet

2008-01-16 Thread pedxing
so it doesn't leave the house. Performance is fine, just like a 100Mbps hub. They work fine for me, but as always, YMMV -pedxing

Re: Perl realted..?

2008-01-11 Thread pedxing
e "my $last;" *inside* the while().  That last print > line won't have a clue what $last is. > my $last; my $bar; while( <> ){ $last="foo"; $bar=different_scope($_); } print $bar; print $last; sub different_scope{ my $last=$_[0]; return $last; } Actually, this is a better example, because it will actually work #;-). But the point is that scope doesn't change in a loop, but it does in a subroutine. -pedxing

Re: Perl realted..?

2008-01-11 Thread pedxing
subroutine, then the two $last variables will be independant due to separate scopes: my $last="foo"; $bar=scan_loop(); print $bar; print $last; sub scan_loop{ my $last; while( <> ){ $last=$_; return $last; } } This will print out the last line and then "foo" because there are two $last values, the one in the original scope and the one in the subroutine scope. -pedxing

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-13 Thread pedxing
sympathize with the OP, it's nice to get to the part of the man page you want, then just dump out of less and have the relevant bit still on the screen. A way to do this without opening a second xterm is to run screen in your terminal session. Then it is even easier to flip back and forth, copy&#

Re: Problem upgrading to libc6 2.5-9 amd64

2007-07-24 Thread pedxing
On Jul 19, 5:20 pm, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 15:33:48 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:39:41 -, pedxing wrote: > > > On Jun 7, 9:50 am, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2

Re: Problem upgrading to libc6 2.5-9 amd64

2007-07-19 Thread pedxing
orce anything. But I also don't want to sit here without any updates. Removing gtk-qt-engine isn't really an option because of all of the dependencies. Is my system hosed? If so how? I don't see anyone else having this problem, but I can't believe I have to re-install because I have always been good about only using aptitude to do regular updates (ie., no pinning, no funny business forcing packages, etc.). What have I done wrong, and how can I get back to normal? -pedxing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem upgrading to libc6 2.5-9 amd64

2007-06-06 Thread pedxing
I ran into this problem when trying to do my weekly aptitude upgrade on an AMD64 system running Lenny: Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 (using .../archives/ libc6_2.5-9_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.5-9_amd64.deb (-

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread pedxing
On May 22, 7:40 am, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I fail to understand is what difference does it make if text is > above or below a sig delimiter? Either it is offensive or it is not. I > and others have been blasted for supposedly offensive remarks. However, > if you re

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-22 Thread pedxing
On May 18, 12:30 pm, pedxing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 17, 11:00 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:55:18PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > On 05/15/07 20:37, H.S. wrote: > > > &g

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-18 Thread pedxing
On May 17, 11:00 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:55:18PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:01:57PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 05/15/07 20:37, H.S. wrote: > > > > pedxing wrote: >

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-17 Thread pedxing
On May 17, 8:50 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:52:15PM -0700, pedxing wrote: > > > > I would like > > > > to configure things so that, for instance, when I (ok, actually my > > > > wife) use konqueror

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-17 Thread pedxing
On May 17, 2:10 pm, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to > gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the "-- ". > > > (Web gmail is *not* a proper MUA.) > > Do they support threads yet? Reply-to-list? Thre

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-17 Thread pedxing
On May 16, 10:30 am, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 05/16/07 03:15, Atis wrote: > > > [snip] > >> Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the "-- ". > > >> (Web gmail is *not* a proper MUA.) > > > If you miss it, why don't you request for it. > > I don't use gmail, so don't have any s

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-16 Thread pedxing
On May 16, 9:40 am, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/15/07 23:55, Paul E Condon wrote: > [snip] > > > the fs. But I suppose that in this modern world everything is > > disposable, including memory sticks. > > They are, in a way: Amaz

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-15 Thread pedxing
On May 16, 2:30 am, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/15/07 15:52, pedxing wrote: > > >>> I would like to configure things so that, for instance, when > >>> I (ok, actually my wife) use k

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-15 Thread pedxing
On May 16, 2:30 am, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/15/07 15:52, pedxing wrote: > > >>> I would like to configure things so that, for instance, when > >>> I (ok, actually my wife) use k

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-15 Thread pedxing
> > I would like > > to configure things so that, for instance, when I (ok, actually my > > wife) use konqueror to copy songs to my mp3 player, when the copy > > dialog says 100%, I can immediately unmount the device without > > having to wait for a delayed write. > > I have looked at the mount ma

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-15 Thread pedxing
On May 15, 7:40 pm, Daniel Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pedxing wrote: > > To be safe, I issue a sync command from a terminal and wait for it > > (up to 15 minutes!) to complete before unmounting the drive. > > Running sync before umount isn't necessary becau

Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-15 Thread pedxing
Lenny AMD64. When I write to a USB device (stick or mp3 player), I notice that the writes appear to happen quickly, but actually take a long time to complete. I assume there is some form of caching going on. To be safe, I issue a sync command from a terminal and wait for it (up to 15 minutes!) t