Re: weird characters not quite fixed (was: Re: weird characters FIXED)

2005-08-28 Thread Timothy Musson
Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:07:21PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > For one thing, the Mutt arrow problem happens to me too, > > > starting when I made UTF-8 English the default characterset. > > > I don't know how to fix it. [...] > I am trying to run a pure UTF-8 system. [

weird characters not quite fixed (was: Re: weird characters FIXED)

2005-08-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 03:16:12AM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:07:21PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:28:26PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > Hi, > > > My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), some of > > > the charact

Re: weird characters FIXED

2005-08-27 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:07:21PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:28:26PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > Hi, > > My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), some of > > the characters in programs don't display right. > > This doesn't sound like an ov

Re: weird characters

2005-08-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-08-18 12:17:04 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:07:21PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > For one thing, the Mutt arrow problem happens to me too, > > starting when I made UTF-8 English the default characterset. > That is, the messed up arrow occur when I'm running on th

Re: weird characters

2005-08-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:07:21PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:28:26PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > Hi, > > My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), some of > > the characters in programs don't display right. > > This doesn't sound like an ov

Re: weird characters

2005-08-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:28:26PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi, > My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), some of > the characters in programs don't display right. This doesn't sound like an overheating problem to me. For one thing, the Mutt arrow problem happens to

cheap -- Re: weird characters

2005-08-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Heh, yeah, *should*. But it's a cheap, sorry MB with a cheap, sorry bios, > so it doesn't. you can also do what the bios should have been doing by using lmsensors and check the cpu temp and dead fans with lmsensors you can check the disk temp with h

Re: weird characters

2005-08-17 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:35:01PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > Ok, the problem is, I have a processor that runs hot, and I have as many > > fans as possible in the system (including putting an 80mm case fan on the > > CPU with an adapter), and it sti

Re: weird characters

2005-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Ok, the problem is, I have a processor that runs hot, and I have as many > fans as possible in the system (including putting an 80mm case fan on the > CPU with an adapter), and it still tends to overheat. It will not shut form the rest of the stuff bel

Re: weird characters

2005-08-17 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:26:14PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > Hi, > > My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), > > what overheated ?? Ok, the problem is, I have a processor that runs hot, and I have as many fans as poss

Re: weird characters

2005-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi, > My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), what overheated ?? the power supply ?? - your fans should be working on the ps - if its blowing too much hot air... throw your ps away the cpu ??? over heated and

weird characters

2005-08-17 Thread Vikki Roemer
Hi, My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), some of the characters in programs don't display right. The worst ones are the arrows in threads in Mutt aren't arrows anymore, they're accented a's and boxes; and in all windowmanagers the program names in the titlebars and th

Re: weird characters

2000-01-14 Thread Jan Ludewig
On Sat, Jan 15, 2000 at 12:02:41AM +0800, Robert Marlow wrote: > and afterwards all the characters on the screen became unreadable like it [...] > after this happens the virtual terminal is unuseable until a reboot. commands > still execute correctly, it's just unreadable. is there any way to get a

Re: weird characters

2000-01-14 Thread 2
Wooh!!! thanks heaps => from da Bobstopper Snip are you sure that file is ascii text and not a binary file? if i for example run: cat /bin/ls my terminal gets totally screwed and unreadable but still works (hey encrypted terminal

Re: weird characters

2000-01-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On 15/1/2000 Robert Marlow (2) wrote: this is something that's been bugging me for a long time so i hope someone can help me out. today i did a $ tail /var/yp/bobturf/passwd.byname and afterwards all the characters on the screen became unreadable like it had changed to some other kinda term typ

weird characters

2000-01-14 Thread 2
this is something that's been bugging me for a long time so i hope someone can help me out. today i did a $ tail /var/yp/bobturf/passwd.byname and afterwards all the characters on the screen became unreadable like it had changed to some other kinda term type or something. this happens a fair bit