Re: courier IMAP, removing "Unmarked" messages

2002-02-18 Thread Tyler
e functionality is there, but you'll have to hypnotize and re-educate your outlook lusers a bit. tyler

Re: Problem installing Intel 810 video under debian

2002-02-19 Thread Tyler
driver in your kernel. This module was enabled in the debian 2.2.19, but mysteriously disappeared in 2.2.20 (and it appears i forgot to submit this as a formal bug report...). I haven't followed this thread very closely, so maybe i'm on crack. But i had this i810 problem. tyler

how to detect laptop hardware/drive problems?

2006-11-14 Thread Tyler
Hi, I have noticed that my laptop is starting to slow down quite noticeably, although irregularly so. Basic tasks like opening xterm in fluxbox sometimes take a few seconds or more, and there's even a noticeable delay with command line stuff like ls. Not always, usually after I've been runnin

Re: emacs without documentation nonsense

2006-11-14 Thread Tyler
I don't know that it's enough reason to go on living, but you will find those docs (in)conveniently stored in the package emacs21-common-non-dfsg, in the non-free repos. At some point I wonder if the devs will realize that they undermine their efforts to encourage users to use a dfsg-free syst

Re: emacs without documentation nonsense

2006-11-15 Thread Tyler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which devs are the ones responsible here: the Debian devs who put it there, or the upstream ones that presumably put non-free constraints on the documentatin license? Or is it all a big misunderstanding? -- hendrik Honestly, I think both sides are suffering from

Re: how to detect laptop hardware/drive problems?

2006-11-16 Thread Tyler
That the slow down happens after a while suggests that its a temperature thing. I'll keep an eye on that and see... The drive reving I would guess is swapping happening re the browser needing to page memory in or out. Does it happen if you're not using X but only console? Its spin and pause

Re: jre not found?

2006-11-21 Thread Tyler
Liam O'Toole wrote: How are you invoking the application? Is there a launch script of some sort? If so, modify it so that occurrences of "jre" are replaced with "java". Alternatively, you could create a symbolic link as follows (as root): ln -s /usr/bin/java /usr/local/bin/jre That might b

Re: jre not found?

2006-11-25 Thread Tyler
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:18:02 GMT Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote: How are you invoking the application? Is there a launch script of some sort? If so, modify it so that occurrences of "jre" are replaced with "java"

Re: jre not found?

2006-11-27 Thread Tyler
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:11:09 GMT Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Try this instead: java -cp arlequin.jar:swingall.jar arlequin.ArlequinApp If this fails, check that the class arlequin.ArlequinApp is present in the first JAR file: jar -tf a

google earth and graphics drivers

2006-12-07 Thread Tyler
Hi, I'm trying to use Google Earth. Every time I run it I get the following message: You are currently running Google Earth in 'OpenGL' with software emulation. In this mode, Google Earth will work but it will run very slowly. If you want to run Google Earth more quickly we suggest that you

Re: debian and graphics drivers [was google earth and graphics drivers]

2006-12-07 Thread Tyler
Ok, it looks like I've sort of figured out my problem. I was using the "vesa" driver instead of the "i810" driver. So I changed that field in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, gave and updated the identifier appropriately(?). The modified lines in xorg.conf are: Section "Device" Identifier

Re: debian and graphics drivers [was google earth and graphics drivers]

2006-12-08 Thread Tyler
This sounds like hardware acceleration is turned off for Google Earth, but you don't experience it as slow? Not at all. Actually, I'm pretty sure it's faster than when I use XP with the latest intel drivers on the same machine. Plus it doesn't crash, so... Anyway, first of all, make sure h

problem with emacs in testing?

2007-01-14 Thread Tyler
right direction! Thanks, Tyler blackbart:/var/log# aptitude Setting up emacs21 (21.4a+1-3) ... emacs-install emacs21 install/auctex: Setting up for emacs21... done. update-auctex-elisp[25526]: Further output will appear in: /tmp/update-auctex-el isp.Ng16575. install/dictionaries-common: B

Re: problem with emacs in testing?

2007-01-16 Thread Tyler
y laptop. If not, there's a problem in the repositories. Thanks, Tyler blackbart:/home/tyler# apt-get --reinstall install emacs21 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully ins

can't configure emacs with aptitude/apt-get!

2007-01-18 Thread Tyler
art of my daily work! I tried googling the error messages, but I didn't find anything that I could understand. What appears to be the pertinent output from aptitude or apt-get follows. Please help!! Thanks, Tyler E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to i

Re: can't configure emacs with aptitude/apt-get!

2007-01-18 Thread Tyler
Romain Francoise wrote: Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Cannot open load file: slime Does it help to run 'dpkg -P slime' as root? No, oddly. I ran dpkg -P slime apt-get --reinstall install emacs21 Same errors, including "Cannot open load file: slime". It

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-18 Thread Tyler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: until a few weeks ago, I was able to view the bash documentation in info format. Where has the information gone and how can I get it back ? It looks like another case of the Debian/GNU policy conflict. The acknowledgements that GNU insists remain attached t

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-18 Thread Tyler
John C wrote: Debian is and has been my distribution for many years primarially because it is (was?) the most *GNU* distribution available. Have we changed? The Debian folks decided the GFDL is not a free license, so they are in the process of moving all documents with that license out of

Re: can't configure emacs with aptitude/apt-get!

2007-01-18 Thread Tyler
Greg Folkert wrote: Do you have any of the files that use slime? cl-swank, slime, any Steel Bank Common Lisp packages (sbcl), any of the stump Window Manager... etc. If you do, it could be causing the issue. Thanks. I removed everything I could find that had anything to do with lisp, inclu

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-18 Thread Tyler
I take it as a kind of community service for newbies. Being a relatively new arrival to GNU/Linux, I missed out on the excitement surrounding emacs vs vi, gcc vs egcs, Xemacs vs emacs, RMS vs Debian round 1 (Debian is not free enough). Heck, even the open source vs Free Software thing has lost

OT: memory requirements

2007-01-26 Thread Tyler
Hi, This isn't strictly a debian issue, but if anyone has good advice it will be you folks! I'm working with some fairly large image files on my Thinkpad R60 with 512MB ram, running etch and fluxbox. On occassion the whole system freezes for a minute or more after I zoom in or out. When this

Re: OT: memory requirements

2007-01-26 Thread Tyler
excuse to upgrade in which case ... ;). And now I'm still looking for an excuse! Maybe the GRASS images will be truly huge... Thanks, Tyler regards, Vibhav (Robo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: memory requirements

2007-01-26 Thread Tyler
Ron Johnson wrote: How much swap does your system use when processing the image? If it uses more than a few MB of swap, then you need more RAM. Otherwise, you need a faster CPU. Well, it was using much more than a few MB of swap, so perhaps I will upgrade the RAM. However, my immediate prob

Re: OT: memory requirements

2007-01-26 Thread Tyler
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: is the disk activity during this operation? if so you're probably doing some massive swapping, in which case, yes memory will help. Yes, the disk light is on the whole time. I've also had similar, but unreproducible problems at other times (ie. not consistent wrt a

Re: OT: memory requirements

2007-01-26 Thread Tyler
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Is this sarge/Etch/sid? Etch, upgraded a few days ago Just make sure that X is configured properly. Are you using the correct driver? Are there any warnings in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? As far as I can tell everything is fine. I've got the i810 driver as required fo

Re: OT: memory requirements

2007-01-26 Thread Tyler
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Friday 26 January 2007 16:55, Tyler wrote: >> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: >> >>> Is >>> dma enabled for the hard drive? >> How do I check? what is this? >> Ok, checked it out and dma is enabled as required. > ok. No

Re: How to make work dual monitors with Debian etch on an IBM x60s ThinkPad?

2007-01-31 Thread Tyler
I've been wanting to set up my R60 so that I can use my desktop monitor for a while. However, reading this thread and googling around, checking the thinkwiki, i'm not getting it. I've got the right drivers installed and set up i xorg - i810 I've got tpb installed for using the thinkpad special

cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread tyler
oes anyone have any other suggestions for burning a CD? This makes no sense to me. Thanks, Tyler -- "Research must be original --- The way to be sure that you're exploring virgin territory is to stake out a piece of ground that no one wants."

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread tyler
"Patrick A. Ouellette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 03:35:00PM -0300, tyler wrote: >> A typical result is burning the CD with KB3, which appears to work, but >> then complains that the disk image does not match the downloaded ISO >>

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread tyler
"Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:41 PM, tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have tried downloading on three different machines. I just now tried >> to burn the LinuxMint CD, which failed with the same error. &g

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread tyler
Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 15:35:00 -0300, tyler > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> A typical result is burning the CD with KB3, which appears to work, but >> then complains that the disk image does not match the downloaded ISO >

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-24 Thread tyler
"Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:21 PM, tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I ran both the k3b verification and the Xubuntu integrity check on each >> of the first 6 failed burns, and since they all failed both tests I

delete fields, xreferences et al. from oowriter

2008-07-15 Thread tyler
by all the fields are no longer readable by oowriter. Which means I can send the document to my MS using colleagues, but when they return it I can no longer see the bibliography. Thanks, Tyler -- Only YOU can stop forest fires. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-07 Thread tyler
1), but not the name (etch.mynetwork). On the desktop I can ssh to the desktop (ie., ssh to itself) with ssh etch.mynetwork, but I can't connect from the laptop to the desktop: tyler-> ssh etch.mynetwork ssh: etch.mynetwork: Name or service not known tyler-> ssh 192.168.2.11 ssh: conne

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-07 Thread tyler
name (etch.mynetwork). On the desktop I > can >> ssh to the desktop (ie., ssh to itself) with ssh etch.mynetwork, but I >> can't connect from the laptop to the desktop: >> >> tyler-> ssh etch.mynetwork >> ssh: etch.mynetwork: Name or service not known >&

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-07 Thread tyler
tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When apache is configured to listen to all addresses, I can browse > webpages on the desktop from the laptop by entering the IP address > (192.168.2.11), but not the name (etch.mynetwork). On the desktop I can > ssh to the desktop (ie., ssh t

Re: home network problem - router is smarter than me

2008-08-10 Thread tyler
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu,07.Aug.08, 11:13:56, tyler wrote: > > [...] > >> My router is a Siemens Speedstream 6520 and I'm running Lenny on both >> machines. Access to the internet is fine for both machines. When my wife >> conn

Re: Installing Madwifi (atheros drivers) into Debian Etch.

2008-04-10 Thread tyler
m with gcc4 and you should try gcc3.x or the other way round. > I think you have to use gcc4. This is what I did to get madwifi onto my thinkpad: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Debian_Etch_on_a_ThinkPad_R60#Wireless I started with Etch, but I did the exact same thing last week

Re: Installing Madwifi (atheros drivers) into Debian Etch.

2008-04-23 Thread tyler
a a-i madwifi modprobe ath_pci Tyler -- I'm Tyler Smith and I approve of this email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

swap space and hd partitioning

2008-04-24 Thread tyler
stem more elegant than simply backing everything up and reinstalling the OS? The current layout, as reported by gparted: /dev/sda1 - 14GB Windows /dev/sda4 - 41GB extended /dev/sda5 - 1.95GB swap /dev/sda8 - 7GB /home/tyler/photos/ /dev/sda6 - 26GB /home /dev/sda7 - 6GB / I'm not sure wh

printing setup

2008-05-17 Thread tyler
t suggests. (i.e., cupssys, printconf, foomatic and friends) Installed and configured the printer using http://localhost:631 Printing via GtkLP, at least until I figure out the command-line Printing pdf is fine, except for the problem described above Thanks, Tyler -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: printing setup

2008-05-17 Thread tyler
tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm just starting to set up my printer, and all is well except for one > thing. The page prints too close to the top of the paper, so that I lose > the top cm or so off the top of the paper. I'm not sure if this is a > CUPS issu

Re: printing setup

2008-05-20 Thread tyler
"Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080517 13:49]: >> tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I'm just starting to set up my printer, and all is well except for one >>> thing. The pag

keep hidden files hidden in gui apps (iceweasel, xpdf)

2008-05-22 Thread tyler
Hi, How can I configure iceweasel and xpdf so that they will *not* show hidden directories in their file-pickers? I'm sure it's a simple fix, but I haven't been able to find it myself. Thanks, Tyler -- There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows

Re: keep hidden files hidden in xpdf/lesstif (iceweasel SOLVED)

2008-05-23 Thread tyler
Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2008/5/23 tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > How can I configure iceweasel and xpdf so that they will *not* show > hidden directories in their file-pickers? I'm sure it's a simple fix, > but I haven't been ab

Thinkpad R60

2006-09-21 Thread Tyler
/Installing_Debian_Etch_on_a_ThinkPad_R60 It's obviously not written by a guru, but perhaps it will be helpful to other new users. Feel free to add to or correct anything there. Thanks all! Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

keyboard doesn't work under X, but works fine in console

2006-10-01 Thread Tyler
e and removed all references to it in xorg.conf. i've tried two different keyboards, which both work fine on console. i've googled and groups.googled, which suggests some things that don't help me. thoughts on what to look for next? output from dpkg -l and my xorg.conf are below. thank

Re: azx_get_response -- please help!

2006-10-11 Thread Tyler
is as listed above. Can I install the next kernel from sid? Will this cause problems as a mixed system? Thanks! Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-15 Thread Tyler
Michael M. wrote: In other words, the Firefox logo indicates that the browser *is* Firefox; the Debian Official Logo indicates that the project using the logo *uses* Debian. This is not how I understand it. From the www.debian.org/logos page, regarding the official Debian Logo: "This logo

Re: azx_get_response -- please help!

2006-10-15 Thread Tyler
Chris Bannister wrote: No need. Testing has 2.6.17-2-486 For others, 'apt-cache search linux-image' Success! It turns out I actually had both 2.6.16 AND 2.6.17 installed, but GRUB was only pointing to 2.6.16. I added an entry for the 2.6.17-2 kernel, add now it boots up with hardly a hesi

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-17 Thread Tyler
Michael M. wrote: I don't think Debian does the same thing with its "Official Use Logo." The logo indicates that the project officially has been approved by Debian, but it doesn't imply any sort of control over the project by Debian. But how does Debian decide to approve a project? Do I

Re: azx_get_response -- please help!

2006-10-17 Thread Tyler
Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 02:08:33PM +, Tyler wrote: Success! It turns out I actually had both 2.6.16 AND 2.6.17 installed, but GRUB was only pointing to 2.6.16. I added an entry for the 2.6.17-2 kernel, add now it boots up with hardly a hesitation. I did have to

Exim4 and Mutt for beginners?

2006-10-19 Thread Tyler
Hi, I really want to try Mutt. However, I'm more than a little overwhelmed by the documentation. I understand that Mutt requires a properly configured MTA, and that Exim4 is the recommended, default MTA for Debian. However, Exim4 seems like a very big hammer for a very small nail -- I just wa

Re: Exim4 and Mutt for beginners?

2006-10-19 Thread Tyler
Thanks all! I now have Mutt running with all my mail in it. I don't know if it's set up properly, or how to use it, but now at least it's just one program to learn instead of 3 or 4. I was directed off-list to the following link which may be helpful to others: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~lat

emacs and mutt

2006-10-31 Thread Tyler
Hi, I've got mutt up and running (although I'm still using thunderbird for mailing lists/newsgroups, hopefully not much longer). One problem I've run into is that I can't convince it to open emacs in text-mode. I've got text-mode set-up for auto-fill, which I like using for sending mail. Howe

Re: emacs and mutt

2006-10-31 Thread Tyler
Thanks! I don't understand it, but it works. I'm only just starting to learn lisp, so I will have to do some reading before I understand everything your code does, but in the meantime I have word-wrapping (and probably a few other things as well). Cheers, Tyle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

emacs manual and other missing info

2006-11-01 Thread Tyler
Hi, I just realised that I don't have the emacs manual installed on my laptop. I've got a desktop and an older laptop, and all three machines run etch with emacs installed. The other two have lots of info entries for emacs, including the main emacs manual. The new laptop, which was installed

Re: emacs manual and other missing info

2006-11-02 Thread Tyler
Russell L. Harris wrote: (1) Go to the Debian web site, find the package search page, search for "emacs21", "xemacs21-gnome-nomule", etc., I already tried this, and found nothing. I just tried again, and while there are no info files included with etch or sarge, there are a whole bunch in th

Re: emacs manual and other missing info

2006-11-03 Thread Tyler
Max Hyre wrote: Tyler, you might want to try emacs-snapshot. I've been following it (and unstable) for months now, and have had no problems Thanks, that's very interesting. Having already manually installed the manual directly from gnu.org I'm ok for now, but I will invest

Re: emacs manual and other missing info

2006-11-03 Thread Tyler
Aha! After enabling the unstable repositories I found the new emacs21-non-dfsg package. So all my problems would have gone away if I'd waited a few weeks for the docs to make their way down into testing. Sorry for the bother, Tyle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: annoying beeping speaker

2006-11-08 Thread Tyler
Tom Allison wrote: xset -b Thanks. Is there some way I can incorporate this into X? Like /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ Try putting it in /home/tom_allison/.xsession Cheers, Tyle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-13 Thread tyler
x before the release, so the package was pulled instead: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510348 Tyler -- What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. --Bertrand Russell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Iceweasel blocking pop-ups

2009-02-16 Thread tyler
Dennis Wicks writes: > Greetings; > > I turned off the popup blocker in IW but it seems to still be blocking > them. > > I tried it in Iceweasel 3.0.6-1 and it doesn't work at all, even with > the popup blocker turned off. No messages or anything. It shows the > URL when I hold the cursor on the

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-25 Thread tyler
t at the time I left, there were barriers on the Mepis side that would prevent the adoption of any of the great tools developed there for inclusion in Debian. I would be happy to be corrected on these points, though. Cheers, Tyler -- Only YOU can stop forest fires. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-25 Thread tyler
tyler writes: > Has Warren since changed his position on licensing his own programs? Apologies for replying to my own post, but I did some more digging, and apparently the Mepis tools have indeed been released under a Free Software license: http://mepislovers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17

restarting a locked X server

2009-03-03 Thread tyler
I've pasted the output of one of my failed attempts to invoke startx without rebooting, any suggestions on how I can force a clean start of X would be welcome! Thanks, Tyler X.Org X Server 1.4.2 Release Date: 11 June 2008 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux De

Re: any software for 3D surfaces visualization in debian sid?

2009-03-16 Thread tyler
Star Liu writes: > I'm looking for a free software which can draw 3D picture if I setup > mathmetical equations and specify its scope, it's an important part of > my current project. thanks! gnuplot might do what you need. Tyler -- When in dou

firmware-linux

2009-03-31 Thread tyler
Any explanations would be welcome, Thanks, Tyler ps. I'm running Squeeze on a Thinkpad R60, but I'm interested in the general case as well. -- I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are thieves. --Wendell Berry h

Re: firmware-linux

2009-03-31 Thread tyler
Andrei Popescu writes: > On Tue,31.Mar.09, 11:19:37, tyler wrote: >> >> What I want to know is what kinds of problems I might experience when I >> move to a 'free' kernel? > > I'm guessing that the devices which need that firmware will just stop &g

Re: firmware-linux

2009-04-01 Thread tyler
Andrei Popescu writes: > > But if it breaks you still get to keep both parts. > Well, when you put it that way, it sounds like fun! Cheers, Tyler -- The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the questions. --Samuel Karlin -- To UN

Re: firmware-linux

2009-04-01 Thread tyler
ue > this soon after a stable release, when "testing" isn't close to a release > candidate. Testing is pretty darn manageable, even for those of us who aren't compiling our own kernels. No offence meant, but you might want to recalibrate your ideas

Re: bank web page problem in iceweasel/iceape

2009-04-03 Thread tyler
and when I was still using no script I had TD whitelisted. Cheers, Tyler -- What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. --Bertrand Russell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Is it possible to prevent emacs auto saving the filename~?

2009-05-03 Thread tyler
Adding (setq auto-save-default nil) to your .emacs will do this automatically. Cheers, Tyler -- What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. --Bertrand Russell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Is it possible to prevent emacs auto saving the filename~?

2009-05-03 Thread tyler
tyler writes: > 明覺 writes: > >> I know that emacs auto save a file named filename~ when I modified the >> file filename, but I do not like the autosaved copy, could i stop this >> function? thanks > > Set auto-save-default to nil, as explained in the Emacs manua

evince printer dialog

2009-05-06 Thread tyler
the General tab, Job, Image Quality, and Advanced tabs also appear, but I can't find anywhere to set the configuration options for the printer in any of these tabs. I want to set the print command to 'lp -o fitplot -d ml-2010', which is what I use in xpdf What am I missing? Thanks,

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-14 Thread tyler
t's the difference between firefox and $(which firefox)? They both run the first executable named firefox in your path, don't they? Tyler -- What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. --Bertrand Russell -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: iceweasel 3.5?

2009-07-01 Thread tyler
wherever is convenient, or if you use a desktop with icons, add one that points to ~/firefox/firefox, and you're all done. I just did that this morning. When Iceweasel 3.5 is ready for my testing system, I'll install that as usual and delete ~/firefox/ Cheers, Tyler -- Friends don

Re: iceweasel puzzle

2009-07-03 Thread tyler
plugin, or manually change all instances of 'iceweasel' in about:config to 'firefox'. HTH, Tyler -- There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. -

customizing Debian's info files

2009-07-14 Thread tyler
t it gets overwritten the next time any info files get updated. Any suggestions? Thanks, Tyler -- I'm Tyler Smith and I approve of this email. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: customizing Debian's info files

2009-07-15 Thread tyler
Teemu Likonen writes: > On 2009-07-14 21:28 (-0300), tyler wrote: > >> Is there anyway to customize info files in a way that will be >> respected by future package updates? For example, the info entries for >> the R-doc package get filed under "Programming", bu

rsync over lan

2008-09-09 Thread tyler
f I do the backup from my user account as: rsync -av --include-from=/home/tyler/rsync_includes / etch.mynetwork:/home/tyler/laptop Then the ownerships all get set to tyler tyler, even when they are originally root root. In order to preserve the ownerships, I have to run the above command as r

Re: rsync over lan

2008-09-10 Thread tyler
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tyler wrote: > > [I use my lan to] >> do the backup from my user account as: >> >> rsync -av --include-from=/home/tyler/rsync_includes / >> etch.mynetwork:/home/tyler/laptop >> >> Then the owners

Re: Keeping more up to date than Lenny, safely?

2008-10-06 Thread tyler
tion problems. You can upgrade to unstable, with all that that entails. (lots of people seem to run unstable without too much trouble, but I don't) You can wait ;) Cheers, Tyler -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

iptables script - where to put it?

2008-10-10 Thread tyler
get it to run every time I boot? The actual content is copied below. Thanks, Tyler # start ### Clear the iptables iptables -F iptables -X iptables -Z iptables -t nat -F iptables -t nat -X iptables -t nat -Z iptables -t mangle -F iptables -

Re: iptables script - where to put it?

2008-10-10 Thread tyler
Thanks everyone for your help! I started with Jeff's suggestion, below, which seems to work fine. I don't actually boot very often, usually just hibernating. But after modifying /etc/network/interfaces, shutting down and rebooting, my iptables are intact, so that's a start. Cheers

Re: Hunting a Math Application

2008-10-26 Thread tyler
"Wu, Kejia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there some open source application with functions as Matlab on linux? > Octave is the closest you'll get, but R (a dialect of S) and maxima (similar to Mathematica) might also be useful. Cheers, Tyler -- -- To U

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-12 Thread tyler
seem to be overlooking the fact that _new_ features are _new_ exactly because they aren't present in _old_ versions of a program. So, unless there's some detail I've missed here, there already exist individual and community solutions to your problem - install it yourself from sourc

crash recovery

2008-11-12 Thread tyler
I think were associated with doing some image manipulation in Inkscape or Gimp that were taking all of my RAM and CPU, but I wasn't doing anything like that today. Thanks, Tyler -- I never loan my books, for people never return them. The only books remaining in my lib

Re: crash recovery

2008-11-13 Thread tyler
Michael Iatrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When the date was Wednesday 12 November 2008, tyler wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I just experienced a complete freeze of my laptop - amarok was stuck >> looping through the same second of music from an online stream, a

Re: crash recovery

2008-11-13 Thread tyler
Michael Iatrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When the date was Wednesday 12 November 2008, tyler wrote: > >> >> I just experienced a complete freeze of my laptop - amarok was stuck >> looping through the same second of music from an online stream, and the >> k

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

2008-11-14 Thread tyler
d and install the cvs version it will overwrite all the old files with the new versions. At least, that's what I did, and everything seems to be working fine. Tyler -- Friends don't let friends send Word documents http://www.nothingisreal.com/dfki/no-word -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

2008-11-15 Thread tyler
to completely remove the old >>> one? Or maybe simply installing the cvs version will override the old >>> installation? > > > > tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> If you build from source, I'm pretty sure both 11.84 and the cvs version >>

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

2008-11-15 Thread tyler
tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Do you mean that you did what I want to do, i.e. installed the cvs version >> *after* the source packag

Re: Memory known only 1G

2008-11-15 Thread tyler
gave me this: http://www.nabble.com/Memory-Question-td8943302.html Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread tyler
stuff done in .bashrc would affect them, but not stuff in *profile. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread tyler
"Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2008/11/19 tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> On a Debian-based system running KDE 3.5.10 I see several files that >>> are used w

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread tyler
ight open a file, start a program, whatever). > Aha! I assumed since kdm was where KDE users login from, then it must call .*profile in the process. Seems strange that you could be logged in without having actually encountered a login shell. Google gave me this, which helped to explain it: htt

Funny characters in doc-central/iceweasel

2008-12-10 Thread tyler
tried to change the font and encoding, but everything I tried produces the same character. This doesn't seem right, but I'm not sure what I'm missing. Thanks for any suggestions, Tyler -- Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-12 Thread tyler
ut I don't know how to do this under Debian. Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-12 Thread tyler
Winfried Tilanus writes: > On 12/12/2008 12:58 PM, tyler wrote: > >> How do you do this? I've got a thinkpad R60, and I've been plugging it >> in when it runs low, then (when I remember), unplugging it when it >> reaches full charge. Is there some way to au

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