gawk manual in dwww/ doccentral

2003-09-29 Thread Zenaan Harkness
ght having a single documentation index would have been solved by now. I would have thought it was automatable too. Perhaps it's not so easy as that. I'm running debian unstable upgraded nightly. TIA Zen -- Mr Zenaan Harkness Phone +61 (0)412 166 990 Please respect the confidentiali

Re: ntp configuration

2004-06-28 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 17:01, Bob Proulx wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In short, I reckon the ntp stuff needs more documentation especially > > about the debian specific stuff. Is this valid? > > Yes. But I assume you are running stable. If sid ever gets out the > door you will see some

Re: ntp configuration

2004-06-29 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 03:39, Bob Proulx wrote: > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Even after quite a few emails of support from this list (and thanks very > > much to those who helped) I still can't get my laptop to sync with my > > server. > > Oh, gosh, I will open the

gkrellmd time synchronization problem + deci-seconds clock

2004-06-29 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Hi, I am trying to synchronize the time between two boxes. I'm playing with ntp*. * If you know of any digital X-based clock program that displays in deci-seconds (or finer) resolution, I would very much like to know. * The problem below had me totally off-track for literally the last few weeks,

Re: ntp configuration

2004-06-29 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 10:29, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > SERVER: > > --- > > whiskas:~# cat /etc/ntp.conf > > driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift > > server time-server.bigpond.net.au > > use just ONE and only ONE

Re: ntp configuration

2004-06-29 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 12:04, Alvin Oga wrote: > > broadcast 192.168.0.0 > > i assume your laptop ( the other ntp config ) is in this ip# range The laptop happily loads web pages from the server, and I do all my testing by sshing to it. As per an earlier email: --- zen8100a:~# nmap

Re: gkrellmd time synchronization problem + deci-seconds clock

2004-06-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 02:49, Bill Wilson wrote: > I see it's a time sampling beating effect caused by the clock seconds > display being updated only once per second regardless of any update > interval settings. If you can compile a new gkrellm (you don't need > to install a new gkrellmd server), t

fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-06-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Does this exist? Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant? Am I the only one going crazy just trying to edit files? tia zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-06-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 13:18, John Summerfield wrote: > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > >Does this exist? > > > >Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant? >^^ > I don't understand. > >Am I the only

new word for wordnet: performant

2004-06-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 14:17, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Once upon a time John Summerfield said... > > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > >Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant? > > According to dictionary.com, > >

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-06-30 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 14:20, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > It gets laggy. Inconsistently. When using vim inside gnome-terminal. For example, in the topmost line (again in vim, with gnome-terminal at 87x98 chars) it is really noticeable, and the CPU hits 100% just holding the cursor key down.

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 16:22, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:46:13PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:01:32PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> Does this exist? > >> Will gnome-terminal ever return to being performant? > &g

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 06:38, Thomas Adam wrote: > If the OP were to be more specific as > to the *kind* of things he wants to do with screen, then I can draft > together some of my own notes. I do have a question: In gnome-terminal, I use CTRL-PGUP and CTRL-PGDN to cycle between tabs. How can I

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 07:03, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alternatively (or in addition), is it easy to start xterms on the > > different virtual desktops - I can specify x,y,w,h but can I specify > > virtual desktop? >

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 03:02, Thomas Adam wrote: > > try the same tests with gvim in its own window. > > try the same tests with mc in gnome-terminal. > > It's an issue with the way gnome-terminal handles a redraw, that's all. This is true. I have tried many test, and xterm is fine. I just can't

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 10:20, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 03:02, Thomas Adam wrote: > > > > try the same tests with gvim in its own window. > > > > try the same tests with mc in gnome

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 11:15, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm thinking of changing though. I do like the GNOME virt. desktop > > pager, panels, and the fact that my Epiphany (gnome's mozilla) windows > > are

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Can I make screen 'copy' its output into xterms scrollback buffer? I find the following lines in my .screenrc: --- # To get screen to add lines to xterm's scrollback buffer, uncomment the # following termcapinfo line which tells xterm to use the normal screen buffer # (which has scrollback), not

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Anyone know how to get the icons of here?: http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/Klaus_Umbach-1280x1024/screenshot.png http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/ This desktop looks awesome, but I can't find the icons at kde-look, and I've spent over half an hour looking. tia zen -- To UNSUB

Re: fast, tabbed, gnome/wm- compliant terminal

2004-07-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 12:33, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyone know how to get the icons of here?: > > > > > http://www.fvwm.org/screenshots/desktops/Klaus_Umbach-1280x1024/screenshot.png > > http://www.fvwm.o

Re: ATI + LCD Monitor - refresh rate problem

2004-07-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 04:03, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Ehm... If I remember correctly > > The optimal refreshrate for any LCD is 60 Hz. No need to go higher. It > might damage your screen if you go to far, and it will give you **worse** > image than on 60. 60 is the optimized refresh r

apt-get source and /etc/apt/apt.conf

2004-07-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I was perplexed by getting older source version(s) of file with "apt-get source gkrellm". I asked a friend and went through: I didn't have any pinning, didn't even know how to pin. However: zen8100a:/etc/apt# cat apt.conf APT::Default-Release "woody"; It appears there's some configuration for

Re: moby-thesaurus.dict

2004-07-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 14:12, Brian Astill wrote: > On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 09:54 am, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > Is that what you wanted? > > Well - it's certainly on topic! :-) > > this is what I find: > # dict -d moby-thesaurus quit > moby-thesaurus is not a valid database, use -D for a list > No defin

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 22:34, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just some tips on using find: > > > rm -r `find /usr/local -name '*vmware* -type d` > > find /usr/local -name '*vmware*' -exec rm -rf {} \; I recommend learning 'xargs' (higher performance when

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

2004-07-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 00:30, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Always use find (blah) -print0 | xargs -0 > > It is safer. Very good point. I'd forgotten that. Occasionally paths with spaces catch me out, and then I go and use the -print0/-0 option, but most of the time I'm too lazy to type it

gnome tool bar animation - turn it off ????

2004-07-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
How do I turn off the "sliding" effect of gnome's toolbar (when I click on one side button, it "slides away off the side of the screen". It frustrates the hell out of me: I want an instant on/off thing, not any Windows 98 style try-hard hope-the-user's still like me today! Bullshit, that's what

Re: Ugly firefox icon

2004-07-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 19:28, Paul Johnson wrote: > David P James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes, another consequence of Mozilla.org and especially Firefox's > > newfound focus on Windows users. Since Microsoft is unlikely to > > distribute a copy of Firefox (much less modify it) with Wind

Re: Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout

2004-07-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 22:48, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:24:09 +0200, Joost De Cock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 08 July 2004 14:00, LeVA hurled the following on the wire: > > > 2004. július 8. 13:54, > > > Joost De Cock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -> [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: gnome tool bar animation - turn it off ????

2004-07-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:14, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 08:01:23 +1000 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zenaan Harkness) wrote: > > > > How do I turn off the "sliding" effect of gnome's toolbar (when I click > > on one side button, it "slides a

Re: postgresql with tcp/ip conection

2004-07-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 16:59, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 18:33, cenapad wrote: > > Does anybody know how to configure /etc/init.d/postgresql to accept > > TCP/IP conections? > The default setup for TCP/IP connections is to accept them from > localhost only. If you are having p

tab completion: make shift tab == tab ??

2004-07-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Does anyone know how I can make SHIFT+TAB do the same thing in my bash shell as TAB does (ie. tab-complete)? The reason this would be very useful: Java naming conventions: In Java, classes have each word capitalized. Eg: MyFunctionalProceduralObjectBasedDoItAll.class So, when I go to compile a j

bash shell variables with spaces

2004-07-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Does anyone know why the following works: #!/bin/sh -x FONT=-jmk-neep\ alt-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-100-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15 xterm -sl $BUFFER -fn $FONT -geometry 87x96+447+26 But neither of the following work: #!/bin/sh -x FONT="-jmk-neep alt-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-100-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15"

Re: bash shell variables with spaces

2004-07-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 10:27, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Does anyone know why the following works: > > #!/bin/sh -x > FONT=-jmk-neep\ alt-medium-r-semicondensed-*-*-100-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15 > xterm -sl $BUFFER -fn $FONT -geometry 87x96+447+26 Sorry, the last line above should be: xt

How to make make shift tab == tab in BASH ??

2004-07-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Any answers to this one? On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 12:35, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Does anyone know how I can make SHIFT+TAB do the same thing in my bash > shell as TAB does (ie. tab-complete)? > > The reason this would be very useful: Java naming conventions: > > In Java, clas

Re: Ooops gdm just took over...

2004-07-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 11:17, disciple wrote: > I was playing around because I wanted to get gnome installed and did not > know how, so I did: > > apt-get intall gdm > > Now I can't get into my system. Every time that I log in as a user, it > just kicks me right back to the login screen. How d

Re: How to make make shift tab == tab in BASH ??

2004-07-19 Thread Zenaan Harkness
.. On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 12:09, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Any answers to this one? > > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 12:35, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Does anyone know how I can make SHIFT+TAB do the same thing in my bash > > shell as TAB does (ie. tab-complete)? > > > >

NEC2080UX+ - "Supported Future Video Modes"

2004-06-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Why are these modes of my LCD only "future" supported, according to XFree86.0.log?: (II) RADEON(0): Supported Future Video Modes: (II) RADEON(0): #0: hsize: 640 vsize 480 refresh: 85 vid: 22833 (II) RADEON(0): #1: hsize: 800 vsize 600 refresh: 85 vid: 22853 (II) RADEON(0): #2: hsize: 1024 v

Re: NEC2080UX+ - "Supported Future Video Modes"

2004-06-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 10:51, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya zen > > experiment time OKidoki. > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > My real question: how do I get 1600x1200 (the native resolution) out of > > this thing? > > start at 102x768 I decided t

Re: NEC2080UX+ - "Supported Future Video Modes"

2004-06-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 11:56, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > than try 1280x1024 > > > than try 1600x1200 > > > > > > use only one resolution so you know the screen size is supposed to be > > > as you defined > > > xdpyinfo | grep dimension > > > > All the following tests are with Xinerama, so xdpyinfo r

Re: dual boot with lilo

2004-06-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 14:02, Mike M wrote: > It worked! Great to hear! > > > install grub on a floppy (perhaps it can be installed onto a bootable CD > > > if you don't have a floppy drive, if so, that will be just as useful). > > > > CD, no floppy > > A bit of a pain to make a bootable grub CD

Solved with a modeline: Re: NEC2080UX+ - "Supported Future Video Modes"

2004-06-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:30, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Just as a refresher, these bits, as I posted previously, of my > XFree logs, stand out rather strongly to me, suggesting there > might be a way to get 1600x1200...: > > (II) RADEON(0): Supported Future Video Modes: > (II) RA

Re: NEC2080UX+ - "Supported Future Video Modes"

2004-06-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> a nice small 9pt neep font or similar, at 1600 res, on this 15" laptop screen. That should be 8pt I just realised - and neep 8pt is almost reasonable on the 20", but obviously still suffers from the "not quite properly shaped letters" problem, which was the only reason I didn't run it on the 15"

Re: Solved with a modeline: Re: NEC2080UX+ - "Supported Future Video Modes"

2004-06-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 17:09, William Ballard wrote: > >From this snippet of XFree86.0.log, can anyone construct a modeline > which will come up at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The monitor is NEC LCD1850E with a > Radeon 9800XT. > > (II) fglrx(0): Supported additional Video Mode: > (II) fglrx(0): clock: 13

Re: Solved with a modeline: Re: NEC2080UX+ - "Supported Future Video Modes"

2004-06-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 08:52, William Ballard wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 08:16:55AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Modeline "1280x1024" 135 1280 1296 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 > > My Monitor was already coming up at 1280x1024. > > Once you put in the m

Re: Installing Java

2004-06-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 08:25, Robert Tilley wrote: > I want to run Azureus, which requires the JRE from SUN to be installed. I > install the j2re1.4.2 and hope that Azureus runs. > > The message returns that something is wrong with my java installation. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tilleyrw/downl

why is logcheck failing?: [Fwd: Logcheck: zen8100a 2004-06-11 11:02 exiting due to errors]

2004-06-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
tia zen -Forwarded Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Logcheck: zen8100a 2004-06-11 11:02 exiting due to errors > Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:02:01 +1000 > > Warning: If you are seeing this message, your log files may not have been > checked! > > Details:

Re: where is the 2.6 kernel source tree located?

2004-06-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 15:14, welly hartanto wrote: > --- cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to know so the nvidia driver can install. > > Anyone know? > > Are you sure you have installed kernel-tree of your > current kernel ??? ( apt-get install > kernel-tree-2.4.26 for 2.4.26 kernel ) >

Re: why is logcheck failing?: [Fwd: Logcheck: zen8100a 2004-06-11 11:02 exiting due to errors]

2004-06-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 22:56, Greg Folkert wrote: > SOMETHING changed the perms in /var/* > > they should be : > drwxrwsr-x2 root staff4096 2000-05-27 14:55 local > drwxrwxrwt3 root root 4096 2004-06-03 00:58 lock > drwxrwxrwt4 root r

Re: why is logcheck failing?: [Fwd: Logcheck: zen8100a 2004-06-11 11:02 exiting due to errors]

2004-06-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 12:22, Dana J. Laude wrote: > Logcheck has changed recently. Make sure logcheck is a member of > the adm group. Also, /etc/logcheck directory should have the > owner of root, group - logcheck. Also, the /var/lib/logcheck > dir should be owner logcheck, group adm and del

Re: Shutdown

2004-06-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 04:12, Patrick Lane wrote: > I am probably coming in the middle of this thread and don't know exactly > what's going on (just re-subscribed to the list). But are you trying to > get a "shutdown" button in gnome without having to log out and do it via > gdm? > > Simply make a

Re: Shutdown

2004-06-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
fyi On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 08:06, Alex wrote: > Thanks all, > I finally got it. I added to menu /sbin/poweroff and /sbin/reboot and then > chmod +s /sbin/halt > > I use KDE by default; it work nicely, except I can't find where is the > Actions section of the menu. I want to put these items there.

Re: problem while update to kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 01:01, J. Preiss wrote: > I have exactly the same message on the screen. > I think it has something todo with this initrd-option (which I ignored of > course...). My device is 305 (3,5). man lilo.conf may help > Am Montag, 14. Juni 2004 09:10 schrieb Jinzhi Lei: > > Dear

Re: problem while update to kernel 2.6.6

2004-06-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 10:50, Paul Tsai wrote: > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > >On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 01:01, J. Preiss wrote: > > > > > >>I have exactly the same message on the screen. > >>I think it has something todo with this initrd-option (which I ig

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-15 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> saying they're revolutionary in doing so. But then, that's the Gnome bunch > for ya. ALL generalizations are ABSOLUTELY a waste of EVERYONE's time. There is NEVER, ANY benefit to making them WHAT-SO-EVER. Humorously, One of the recently boxed GNOME 'bunch'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Better file manager

2004-06-15 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 12:13, jack kinnon wrote: > mc is not too bad. I'm not able to apt-get xfe. Is it > a 'stable' package? Mustn't be. apt-get.org is your friend packages.debian.org will allow you to search official debian to find out what Debian distros a package is in. cheers zen -- To

getting X standard background with metacity

2004-06-16 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Does anyone know how to get the standard black/gray X backround when using: - unstable/ sid - metacity - gnome - NOT nautilus (I don't run this!)! I've run "xsetroot", but it doesn't make sense to put it in .bashrc - it will be re-run for every shell (and I have a lot in my session). The oth

global search and replace

2004-06-16 Thread Zenaan Harkness
What do people use for multi-file/ multi-directory search and replace? I use something like this: find . -name \*java|xargs perl -p -i.bak -e 's/searchRE/replaceRE/g;' However, I would also like to see which files actually got changed. With the in-place option (-i[backup-extension]), every file

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

2004-06-16 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 09:35, Michael B Allen wrote: > After much consternation I feel the need to vent about shell environment > initialization. With the default Debian installation, /etc/profile and > ~/.bash_profile are not sourced in the X windows environment. ... I have been through the whole

Re: Login Shell/Profile: Stop the Madness

2004-06-16 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 12:44, Michael Graham wrote: > Michael wrote: > > After much consternation I feel the need to vent about shell > > environment initialization. With the default Debian installation, > > /etc/profile and~/.bash_profile are not sourced in the X windows > > environment. Apparently

Re: getting X standard background with metacity

2004-06-16 Thread Zenaan Harkness
round, that'd be bloddy great, mate! --- On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 14:40, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 07:01:01AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Does anyone know how to get the standard black/gray X backround when > > using: > > > > - unstable/ sid

LCD monitor and VGA/DVI-A vs DVI-D interface & 25ms vs 16ms LCD refresh

2004-06-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I'm guessing that when using a DVI-D interface (digital, as opposed to analog), then you get a more solid display - ie. no subtle flicker, which looks to me like a refresh artifact (it's very very subtle, and only noticable with the standard X background, and if I look at it in just the right way)?

Re: Random kernel freeze on sid.

2004-06-21 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 19:54, Joost De Cock wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2004 11:10, Pål Dahle hurled the following on the wire: > > Hi. > > > > I have a Dell D600 laptop which is running up-to-date sid under various > > 2.6.X kernels. Since June 5th my machine has started to freeze: > > I have a Del

Re: 3 gigs enough?

2004-06-21 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 04:36, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 01:33:25PM -0500, Cecil wrote: > | Ok... Is there a lighter ide? > > UNIX /is/ the IDE. > vim, ctags, make/ant, ls, find, grep, gcc/g++/python/jikes/java etc., etc. And along with vim, I recommend a good console -

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> > The alt-tab behaviour is totally unbearable right now. I want to solve > > this somehow, but I have no idea what to do. I know this is the linux > > mailinglist joker, but I'm seriously considering going back to Windows > > for good, and that'd be after 3 years of using Linux and trying my

Re: Lots of problems - help please

2004-06-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 08:54, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > Daniel Klein wrote: > > > >> I love apt-get for the easiness of installing things, but do any of > >> you have any idea what a headache it is to find out what a certain > >> package is called? If there was a

ntp server

2004-06-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I have two GNU/Linux pcs on my internal network w/ cable internet. Both running Debian sid. I have both with three 'server' lines in /etc/ntp.conf pointing to my ISP's three time servers. The laptop also has a line pointing to my 'server', as well as the two "standard" debian localhost-pointing

Re: ntp server

2004-06-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 12:47, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > I have both with three 'server' lines in /etc/ntp.conf pointing to my > > ISP's three time servers. > > post the contents of /etc/ntp.conf ( in its entirety ) lapt

Re: ntp server

2004-06-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> > laptop: > -- > > driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift > > server whiskas > > server 127.127.1.0 > > fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 13 > # > logconfig all > logfile /var/log/xntpd > # > broadcastclient > # > authenticate no Are you implying just to add those line, or

Re: ntp server

2004-06-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> > authenticate no On restarting the ntp server on my server, with the above line in ntp.conf, I get the following in /var/log/xntpd: 24 Jun 16:09:08 ntpd[6593]: configure: keyword "authenticate" unknown, line ignored 24 Jun 16:09:08 ntpd[6593]: system event 'event_restart' (0x01) status 'sync

Re: ntp server

2004-06-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 16:12, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Any idea why Debian doesn't currently have a "sane" ntp.conf example - > > or is my setup with two servers too complex (/uncommon)? > > people have diffe

Re: ntp server

2004-06-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> authenticate no This should be "disable auth" ta zen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-06-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 18:34, Steve Kleiser wrote: > Are there any freeware utilities to burn an ISO image to CD (e.g., > iso2CD.exe or something) that run under Windows? I think the cdrecord package has a windows version - try googling for it. Command line (but there may also be W* GUIs - let u

Re: options - Re: ntp server

2004-06-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> > Replaces: xntp, xntp3, ntp (<= 1:4.1.0-2) > > almost replaces :-) Hi Alvin, you've provided a lot of help so far, but now for perhaps the first question I should have asked - what ntp package should I run? Eg. given: $ apt-cache search ntp|grep ntp|sort chntpw - NT SAM password recovery util

Fwd: Re: (fyi) pr 1254 (ssh not properly closing)

2004-06-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
FYI, in follow up to my previous email: -Forwarded Message- > Apparently this is "known" behaviour: the openssh faq lists it as such > at http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#3.10. > > Damian, I recommend using the workaround mentioned in the faq. > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 03:13:42PM +100

apt-move mirror

2004-06-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
When running "apt-move mirror" I'm getting a lot of errors like this: Failed to fetch ftp://debian.ihug.com.au/debian/pool/main/f/fontilus/fontilus_0.4-2.tar.gz Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian/pool/main/f/fontilus/fontilus_0.4-2.tar.gz: No such file or directory ' Failed to fetch ft

Re: detaching a process from an ssh session ??

2004-06-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 08:06, Damian Morris wrote: > to do it manually, you need to use one of the special ssh escape > codes. from my ssh man page: > >Escape Characters > ~. Disconnect. > The one you want is "~." but make sure you enter it as the input on an > empty line. I discover

Re: options - Re: ntp server

2004-06-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 06:36, Greg Folkert wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:greg]$ dpkg -l | grep ntp > ii ntp4.2.0a-8 Network Time Protocol: network utilities > ii ntp-doc4.2.0a-8 Network Time Protocol: documentation > ii ntp-server 4.2.0a-8 Network Time Proto

Re: options - Re: ntp server

2004-06-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Sorry, left out my configs: server config: --- whiskas:~# cat /etc/ntp.conf driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift server time-server.bigpond.net.au server tk1.ihug.com.au server tk2.ihug.com.au server tk3.ihug.com.au server pool.ntp.org server 127.127.1.0 fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10 logconfig a

Re: Need to get NFS and SMB installed and working.

2004-06-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 17:13, James Sinnamon wrote: > > There is also a good nfs Howto in woody: > > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/NFS_HOWTO.gz > > In what package do I find this file? I have installed doc-linux-html - Linux HOWTOs and FAQs in HTML format doc-linux-text - Linux HOWTOs and FAQs in AS

Re: Need to get NFS and SMB installed and working.

2004-06-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 18:22, James Sinnamon wrote: > zen, > > Firslty thanks for your response. > > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 05:25 pm, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 17:13, James Sinnamon wrote: > > > > There is also a good nfs Howto in woody: &g

Re: Need to get NFS and SMB installed and working.

2004-06-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 18:51, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (25/06/04 17:25), Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 17:13, James Sinnamon wrote: > > > > There is also a good nfs Howto in woody: > > > > /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/NFS_HOWTO.gz > > >

Re: fetchmail

2004-06-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 22:26, Bert Colemont wrote: > Thx allready for the reply :) I am lookin now for info about mailfilter, any > how-to's abou this? install howtos - apt-get install doc-linux-[html|text] search for relevant files: ~# locate HOWTO|grep -i mail ... /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/L

Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 17:51, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:09:46PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Feel free to reply to me offline, I'll summarize on list; but > > I think that a lively dialogue shall elicit more material for an > > evangelizing document ;-) > > Ugh, yo

Re: Trackman Marble under wayland in Buster

2019-08-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 11:29:48AM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: > Hello, > I just updated to buster and with that comes wayland. > I am using a Trackman marble and I do have a custom > configuration for it to switch to scoll when I hold > button 8 (called "EmulateWheel"). > Is there a way to do t

Re: Trackman Marble under wayland in Buster

2019-08-13 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 11:29:48AM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: > Hello, > I just updated to buster and with that comes wayland. > I am using a Trackman marble and I do have a custom > configuration for it to switch to scoll when I hold > button 8 (called "EmulateWheel"). > Is there a way to do t

Gnu sieve vs Dovecot sieve-filter - sieve-filter extremely slow at lda (writing emails to local mbox files)

2019-09-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Why is Gnu sieve so extremely fast to batch process an mbox file, but while Dovecot's sieve-filter is an order of magnitude slower? Sequence: - mpop or getmail to pipeline download emails into temp mbox file - filter that file Gnu sieve just flies through a local mbox file and saving emails to

Re: Gnu sieve vs Dovecot sieve-filter - sieve-filter extremely slow at lda (writing emails to local mbox files)

2019-09-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 07:55:23AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Why is Gnu sieve so extremely fast to batch process an mbox file, but > while Dovecot's sieve-filter is an order of magnitude slower? > > Sequence: > > - mpop or getmail to pipeline download ema

pciehp / pci express hot plug kernel module to longer included? (sid)

2020-07-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Is the pciehp / pci express hot plug kernel module to longer included with Debian, or is it meant to be compiled in as static? Debian sid here on an X220, trying to connect a "Transcend USB 3.0 ExpressCard Adapter" to get a USB3 port (2 ports actually). There are possible hints that a module ma

Re: why is zfs taking 6 seconds to unmount each filesystem, to export pool?

2020-07-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
: "Discuss" Looks like bad interaction with systemd. I don't delegate to systemd for mounting datasets and the operation is pretty much instant. I didn't try systemd zfs mount generator. On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 7:24 PM Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Why does zfs take about 6 seconds

debmirror: apt update performed "unsandboxed"? ~=> file path not readable

2020-07-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
This was a question, but after some digging, answered itself (see near bottom), via a short recursive path analysis script showing that one path component of the path hierarchy failed to have world-readable perms (a dir in the middle), so in case it's useful for some: Local debmirror mirror, In

i386 packages? - Android Studio - "libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 libbz2-1.0:i386"

2020-07-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
This page https://developer.android.com/studio/install#linux says for Ubuntu that the Android Studio dependencies are: libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 libbz2-1.0:i386 which on sid gives: # apt install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 libbz2-1.0:i386 -

Re: Using .XCompose

2020-07-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:59AM +, Ajith R wrote: > Hi, > I am new to Linux and Debian.I am trying to build a custom layout for my > mother tongue Malayalam (India, Kerala). > The problem I am trying to tackle: > One of the Malayalam letters, ങ (U+0D19), is used much more commonly in its >

Re: i386 packages? - Android Studio - "libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 lib32z1 libbz2-1.0:i386"

2020-07-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> Have you read and followed these instructions? > https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO Thanks guys, that's what I needed..

Re: Using .XCompose

2020-07-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I'm not sure if it's been asked or stated by you, but which desktop are you using? If you're new to Debian, perhaps just the default. I am using XFCE and in the menu: Applications → Settings → Keyboard there are three tabs "Behaviour", "Application Shortcuts" and "Layout". Under the "Layou

Re: AMD FirePro - second monitor

2020-07-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 10:57:05PM +0200, Jakob Miksch wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am running Debian "Sid" on a desktop PC with the "AMD ATI FirePro W5100" > graphics card. When I connect a second monitor, Debian recognizes it but the > monitor stays black. I can even move windows on it, but I

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:29:47AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 03:17:37PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 04:14:16PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > > cd ~/bin > > > ln -s ../opt/something/bin/something > > > > Not in the default PATH either. >

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Ahh, asked too soon. Thanks Greg. On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:16:21AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 09:57:34AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > The Subject line is the problem > > Yeah. The Subject: line reveals the problem: you believe that PATH is > set primarily by

Re: How To Permanently Add-to a Users PATH Statement in the Bash Shell

2020-07-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:16:21AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Gods, I am so tired of this question and having to repeat my demands > for BASIC information over and over. > > Here are some resources for those of you who refuse to reveal any of > the necessary background information to get answe

Re: .Xresources for xless

2020-07-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:07:35AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Sorry to be all over the court here. I am an older um gentleman, and I am on a I take it an "um gentleman" means "übér mènsche" :) That sounds rather awesome actually... > -- > A test of right and wrong must be the means, one wo

Re: .Xresources for xless

2020-07-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:27:55AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:07:35AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > Running up-to-date Buster here, amd64: > > Linux debian.localdomain 4.19.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.98-1+deb10u1 > > (2020-04-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > > I have mo

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