Re: Latex guide

2001-05-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Dale Morris wrote: > I'm trying to find a file called local-guide.tex or > something similar Don't know if this really helps: $ locate tex/ | grep guide | egrep "ps|dvi" /usr/share/doc/texmf/amstex/amsguide.dvi.gz /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/base/cfgguide.dvi.gz /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/base/c

Cannot print at all (Canon S400 + CUPS)

2001-10-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
This is the first time ever that I have difficulty printing on Linux. Weird. Bootup reports: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2] parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation. parport_probe: succeeded parport0: Printer, Canon S400 lp0: usi

Re: Cannot print at all (Canon S400 + CUPS)

2001-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
dman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 11:26:48PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > | > | This is the first time ever that I have difficulty printing on > | Linux. Weird. > | > | Bootup reports: > | parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2] > | parpo

gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5 package built with stp support? It might make my Canon S400 print... Peter

Re: gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Eric G. Miller" wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:57:50 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > er.net> wrote: > > > > > The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5 > > package built with stp support? > > It's in

Re: gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:57:50 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > tt > > er.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5 > > >

Re: gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-16 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > I wrote: > > > "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:57:50 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ro > > tt > > > er.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > The gs

Re: gs 6.5 package anywhere?

2001-10-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Ari Pollak wrote: > The newest gs 6 packages are at http://incoming.debian.org. hopefully > they should be in unstable tomorrow. > > > > The gs package is terribly outdated. Anyone know of a gs 6.5 > > > package built with stp support? Yes, and it has stp support! I finally got my Canon S400

Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!

2001-10-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > anyone can tell me what the fuck is that dexconf crap and how do I > > > get rid of it? I mean, really, which genius came up with the idea > > > that I need to regenerate a perfectly working config file every time > > > I update $PACKAGE? > > > now please watch yo

Re: Debian S-L-O-W Upgrading

2001-10-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Paul M Foster wrote: > I just know I'm gonna get flamed for this, but... > > I love Debian, I truly do. Upgrades/updates are seamless. No crappy > proprietary admin tools, just bare metal and vi for configs. Lots of > little programs you don't get on other distros. Rock solid. > > But... it's l

Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Karsten M. Self, > > I'd recommend a tool such as Win4Lin over either of the prior > > suggestions. >> > The win4lin site does not seem to have released any patches or modules > for any kernels newer than 2.4.5 (I think). They released them a few weeks ago. I'm run

Re: Which mail client to switch? (was) Re: exim: how to modify the "Sender:" header

2001-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" wrote: > Craig Dickson wrote: > > > although Sylpheed (http://sylpheed.good-day.net) was fast > > developing into perhaps the best of the bunch. > > The interface looks nice > ( http://sylpheed.good-day.net/sylpheed-01.png ) > Too bad, it isn't in .deb yet. $ apt-ca

[OT] Any Canadian ADSL Telus users?

2001-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I'm pondering broadband at home, and I'm looking at cable (www.cogeco.com) and ADSL (quebec.telus.com). High-speed internet via cable is easy to connect to on Linux (I did a few times on videotron) but I wonder about ADSL. I hear the modem are connected via USB and you need to setup PPPoE. Does

Re: OT: WinLinux

2001-09-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Eric Richardson wrote: > Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > Damon Muller wrote: > > > > > Quoth Karsten M. Self, > > > > I'd recommend a tool such as Win4Lin over either of the prior > > > > suggestions. > > >> >

Re: fetchmail

2001-09-11 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 08:29:48AM -0500, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > I had a similar problem and could not work out a resolution, so > I deleted > > the daemon reference in my .fetchmailrc and used a crontab to run it. > It's > > not the be

Re: general ups experience

2001-09-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Adam McDaniel wrote: > Im curious on what experience you all have with smart/dumb ups's under linux. I've only ever used serial UPSes made by Cyberpower in dumb mode. A few years back they made a 1500VA model that sold for about $100. I got two of them! One of them keeps my [PIII + 3 internal

Re: APCUPSD doesn't shutdown machine

2001-09-13 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Greg Wiley" wrote: > I don't use apcupsd but in order to get the machine to respond > to poweroff, I must append "apm=on" to the kernel params on > startup. The kernel turns off power management by default even > though it is compiled in. He said the machine doesn't shut down, not that it does

Re: how to mail an attachment from a script

2001-09-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
dman wrote: > I need to set up a script to be run by crontab. This script needs to > mail a (html) file as an attachment. How can I do this? I use `nail' to do this. Peter

[OT] USB Micro Solutions Backpack Hard Drive support?

2001-09-20 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Anyone know if the Micro Solutions (30 GB) Backpack Hard Drive can be used under Linux? It has parallel port and USB connections, but I'd rather use USB for speed (if the parallel transfers are as slow as a parallel Zip drive!). I know that the parallel mode is supported in the kernel (see pari

What process started/owns another process?

2001-09-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I have a lot of these processes on my system: $ ps aux [cut] root 2717 0.0 0.0 00 ?Z11:43 0:00 [sh ] root 2718 0.0 0.0 00 ?Z11:44 0:00 [sh ] root 2722 0.0 0.0 00 ?Z11:45 0:00 [sh ] root 2726 0.0 0.0

[OT] ide-scsi (used as a module) broken in 2.4.10

2001-09-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Someone was asking about 2.4.10 recently. Here's what I stumbled on. Just a warning that when using ide-scsi as a module in 2.4.10, the file /proc/partitions is broken (it cats forever on my system). Perhaps this wouldn't be important except that I use win4lin and it's boot-up script greps this

Re: HELP: UDMA/100 woes and trouble.

2001-09-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i'm having a HECK of a time trying to get UDMA/100 transfer speeds on my > system. > hdparm -t reports 35 MB/s. this is nowhere near the 100MB/s that i'm > expecting to get. Why are you expecting 100MB/s? That's the bus maximum bandwidth. It doesn't mean you can phy

Re: Beam Internet

2001-10-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Adam McDaniel wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 05:55:54PM +0100, Hereward Cooper wrote: > I wouldn't get this satelite deal though, here in Canada there is a similar > service starting thats about CAD$150 / month, (~£60/US$100) ofcourse you > already need a digital cable terminal and be signed up

DHCP networking problems after upgrade to woody

2001-10-02 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I got my ADSL line last night, ran '/etc/init.d/networking start' and proceeded to download 240MB in 28 minutes (!), and upgraded my Progeny to woody (I didn't change the kernel, running 2.2.18). Now the ADSL network won't work anymore. Running either pump or dhclient now gives me the same IP: e

Re: DHCP networking problems after upgrade to woody

2001-10-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > > I got my ADSL line last night, ran '/etc/init.d/networking start' > > and proceeded to download 240MB in 28 minutes (!), and upgraded > > my Progeny to woody (I didn't change the kernel, running 2.2.18). > > > > Now the ADSL network won't work anymore. > > Running either pump or dh

Re: DHCP networking problems after upgrade to woody

2001-10-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > > I got my ADSL line last night, ran '/etc/init.d/networking start' > > > > and proceeded to download 240MB in 28 minutes (!), and upgraded > > > > my Progeny to woody (I didn't change the kernel, running 2.2.18). > > Ah, this is the part I missed ... I didn't reali

Re: DHCP networking problems after upgrade to woody

2001-10-03 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > It's a Eicon Diva 2430. I found this on it: > > http://www.eicon.com/pubs/diva_2430/index.htm > > with lots of links for explanations and help. > > It says the modem has the IP 192.168.1.1 and that it can be > configured by pointing a web browser at that address. Can't wait > to

Re: debbugs-el not working

2002-01-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> When I do > M-x debian-bug, > then enter j2re1.3, normal and "test" > (or anything else, doesn't matter), > I get > Signaling: (void-function mail-header-end) > > Any clue someone? Yeah. It needs to load sendmail.el. M-x load-library [RET] sendmail [RET] Sorry about that. Peter

Re: Emacs HTML modes

2002-01-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>"Michael" == Michael P Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Michael> Normally the font-lock faces are set during > Michael> initialization of emacs, either from default values or from > Michael> the user's ~/.emacs file (like in my case).

Re: MIME Decoding command-line tool?

2002-01-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Elizabeth Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been receiving MIME encoded messages in the mail from > someone. These are base64 encoded and I'm having trouble extracting > them. Is there a good command-line tool for doing this? 'munpack' from the mpack package. Peter

Re: Warning: binary attachment

2001-05-04 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Osamu Aoki wrote: > !!! Warning !!! > > This "a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> person send a binary to Debian ML using > MS-outlook as client-ware with my name in CC. > > I am nothing to do with his e-mail. :-) I actually complained to him for > his previous binary posting by private mail! > > I do

Re: Diagrams with Dia: Help!

2001-05-06 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Andrzej Swedrzynski wrote: > I use dia on regular basis on two Potato computers and never had > any problems (except making it display and print iso-8859-2 let­ > ters, but that's another case; anyone knows solution?). I've never used dia, so this probably of no use to you... If you don't

Re: [users] Re: vim tip-o-rama

2001-05-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
MaD dUCK wrote: > well then... let me through this last one out: > > (E)ight (M)egabytes (A)nd (C)onstantly (S)wapping Yeah. That was a problem when we had 16MB of RAM on typical machines. With 512MB of RAM, I don't care so much anymore!

Re: Disk mirroring

2001-05-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
badoual loic wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:22:56PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > Martin Würtele wrote: > > > to copy a filesystem to another you can use cpio: > > > this will copy you entire rootpartition to /mnt: > > > find / -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt > > > > It would be great if the copying is do

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > Mozilla I'm getting through the standard Debian packages. It hasn't changed version since stable. Is that okay? No need for anything newer? http://galeon.sourceforge.net/download.html says we need the mozilla devel package from http://www.debian.jp.or/~kitame/mozill

Re: Disk mirroring

2001-05-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > badoual loic wrote: > > > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:22:56PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > > It would be great if the copying is done incrementally (copy the newer > > > files only). > > > > cpbk is good for that > > Looks like an interesting package, but this bug worries me: > > http:

Re: Disk mirroring

2001-05-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > I wrote: > > > badoual loic wrote: > > > > > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:22:56PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > > > It would be great if the copying is done incrementally (copy the newer > > > > files only). > > > > > > cpbk is good for that > > > > Looks like an interesting package, but

Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)

2001-05-15 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Forrest English wrote: > have you tried skipstone? it's basicaly like galeon, without all the > garbage. Debian package search results Release Quality Package (size) testing100%skipstone 0.7-1 (995.5k) unstable100%skipstone 0.7-2 (167.7k) Strange that 0.7-

What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

2001-05-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Hi, I've been using a combination of magicfilter and lpr (and now lprng), for a long time to print to inkjet printers. Today I tried a new HP photosmart P1000 printer at work and searched for the best way to make it work. Using magicfilter from testing/unstable, I pick the dj550c filter but it a

Re: What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

2001-05-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > I've been using a combination of magicfilter and lpr (and now > lprng), for a long time to print to inkjet printers. Today I > tried a new HP photosmart P1000 printer at work and searched for > the best way to make it work. > > Using magicfilter from testing/unstable, I pick the dj55

Re: What's the current best printing arrangement? (HP P1000)

2001-05-18 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:27:23PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Now I know what to do! (But it wasn't obvious!) > > Agreed. The cups postinstall should point you to localhost:631 to find docs. Time to file a wishlist severity bug report.

Re: graphics resizing with convert

2001-05-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Hans wrote: > Could someone please tell me the syntax for resizing a bunch of JPEG files > with convert? I tried various things like 'convert -geometry 50x50 *.jpg' > but it won't fly. Thanks, --Hans Convert does only one filename at a time. You'll have to do the loop with the shell, e.g. in tcs

Postfix upgrade frustration

2001-05-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Tracking woody upgraded postfix today, and its postinst went right into reconfiguration (asking me what kind of email site I was running, etc) and broke my setup. I can't seem to tweak it correctly. I send email directly but retrieve through a POP server (I'm behind a firewall so incoming connec

Re: Postfix upgrade frustration

2001-05-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > Tracking woody upgraded postfix today, and its postinst went > right into reconfiguration (asking me what kind of email site I > was running, etc) and broke my setup. > > I can't seem to tweak it correctly. > > I send email directly but retrieve through a POP server (I'm > behind a

Adding a kernel entry for grub (analogy to running lilo step?)

2001-05-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
As a longtime LILO user, I'm a bit perplexed faced with the large amount of docs concerning grub. When I compiled a new kernel and wanted LILO to know about it, I'd edit /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo again to update the boot sector. Since grub knows about filesystems, do I need to do a similar upd

Re: Adding a kernel entry for grub (analogy to running lilo step?)

2001-05-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
D-Man wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:22:10AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > | > | As a longtime LILO user, I'm a bit perplexed faced with the large > | amount of docs concerning grub. When I compiled a new kernel and > > You found a large amount of docs? L

Emacs browse-url.el and galeon or skipstone browsers?

2001-05-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
There is currently a proliferation of Mozilla-based browsers (e.g. galeon and skipstone) which I'd like to switch to, but I won't without being able to use Emacs' browse-url. It's just too convenient. I have tried to use them with browse-url with the following results: skipstone: (setq brow

Re: Emacs browse-url.el and galeon or skipstone browsers?

2001-05-29 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Dave Carrigan wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > galeon: > > > >(setq browse-url-netscape-program "galeon") > > > > clicking on a URL brings up a new browser each time, not > > recycling the initia

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-05-31 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Petr [Dingo] Dvorak" wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > JJ> ? IIRC > JJ> ? AFAIK > JJ> ? IMHO > > IIRC - If I Recall Correctly > AFAIK - As Far As I Know > IMHO - In My Humble Opinion > > you can use www.acronymfinder.com to find out the rest .. :) Alternatively, install

/etc/network/interfaces not strictly correct?

2001-06-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I rebooted woody after an uptime of 48 days to find my network setup incomplete: $ ping www.debian.org PING www.debian.org (198.186.203.20): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Network is unreachable ping: wrote www.debian.org 64 chars, ret=-1 Here's my /etc/network/interfaces file: auto lo iface lo in

Re: /etc/network/interfaces not strictly correct?

2001-06-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I wrote: > I rebooted woody after an uptime of 48 days to find my network > setup incomplete: > > $ ping www.debian.org > PING www.debian.org (198.186.203.20): 56 data bytes > ping: sendto: Network is unreachable > ping: wrote www.debian.org 64 chars, ret=-1 > > Here's my /etc/network/interface

Re: /etc/network/interfaces not strictly correct?

2001-06-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Kevin Ross" wrote: > > I rebooted woody after an uptime of 48 days to find my network > > setup incomplete: > > > > $ ping www.debian.org > > PING www.debian.org (198.186.203.20): 56 data bytes > > ping: sendto: Network is unreachable > > ping: wrote www.debian.org 64 chars, ret=-1 > > > > Her

Re: FYI : LINUX Users Tutorial and Exposition

2001-06-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
I thought the project had to be free to be hosted by SF? This is clearly non-free... Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Yes, I noted that license too. Esp since it's the first page you see. The > site however looks like a real solid collection of data - it's now bookmarked > > :) > > tatah > > On

Re: xpm4g

2002-03-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > dpkg -i libforms0_89.deb > give me the message: > libforms0_89 depends on xpm4g > can someone tell me where I can download xpm4g > (I try to install the package lyxdeb) $ apt-get install lyx That will download lyx, libforms0.89, etc...

Re: install cperl-mode for emacs

2002-03-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26/03/02 Henrik Enberg did speaketh: > > > If you're using GNU Emacs you already have it installed. I belive the > > same is true for XEmacs. Put the following in your ~/.emacs.el > >=20 > > (defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode) > > Grab the

Re: [OT] Re: CALL FOR HELP

2002-03-28 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 03:59:04PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > =?iso-8859-1?q?=20?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > FROM: MRS MARYAM XXX > > > XX COTE D' IVOIRE > > > TEL:XXX- XX-XX-XX-XX > > > > [snip for confidentiality] > > > > I

Re: Problem with nut and Cyberpower 1250AVR

2002-05-05 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Brenda J. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure if you already solved this but: > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 01:52:20PM -0500, Bill Bell wrote: > > I have a Cyberpower 1250AVR connected to /dev/ttyS1 on my > > up-to-date Sid maching running nut. When I run > > "/etc/init.d/nut start" the

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