Terminal highlighting (ls for example) with dark background

2010-11-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
of such a feature, I would love to see how some of the wiser amoung the list members have their colours set. I have been playing around with it for a while, I've never come to anything really satisfactory on the Dell laptop with it's terrible LCD screen. Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il

Re: Terminal highlighting (ls for example) with dark background

2010-11-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:41, Alexander Batischev because default dark blue color is almost invisible on a black background. Exactly my issue. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Terminal highlighting (ls for example) with dark background

2010-11-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
, and I am a fool for overlooking this! After setting Konsole to use it's built-in Dark Pastels colour profile, everything (including directories in ls output) is readable. Thank you Simon! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ

Re: MiniSD or MicroSD

2010-06-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
the internal card reader. Don't be so sure that it will work without trying it or asking Sony first. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: what laptop to buy

2010-01-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hardware.thinkpad I'll take a look - thank you. Dan Just be sure to know that there is a difference between a Lenovo and a Lenovo Thinkpad. The Lenovo Thinkpads are closely related to the IBM Thinkpads, in fact Lenovo built the IBM machines. The non-Thinkpads are junk. -- Dotan

Re: what laptop to buy

2010-01-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Transfering files via crossover ethernet cable: What to configure?

2009-08-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
the ability to transfer files in both directions. Thanks in advance for any ideas. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Transfering files via crossover ethernet cable: What to configure?

2009-08-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
machine could just connect to that name? Thanks! I have been googling this all morning and I cannot believe that not many people have been in this situation before, it seems so commonplace. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop

Re: Transfering files via crossover ethernet cable: What to configure?

2009-08-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
. That's what I figured, but I need someone with more experience than I have to let me know which tools I need. My field is mechanical engineering, not CS. Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: How much power is being drawn through each USB port?

2009-05-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
thumb drive is reported as Transcend Information, Inc. 512MB USB Flash Drive Maybe something to do with U3? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

How much power is being drawn through each USB port?

2009-05-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
Is there a CLI command that will tell me how much power is being drawn through each USB port? I know of two other users with Dell Inspirons similar to mine (both on Windows) that have inoperable USB ports, after burning them up whatever that means. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what

Re: DMA on sata drives

2009-04-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
SATA always provides and enables DMA. Thanks, I was not sure. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

DMA on sata drives

2009-04-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
= 156301488, start = 0 This is my first sata hard drive, so I do not know if sata drives need DMA or if maybe the sata controller does the copying instead of the CPU. Googling the subject leaves me with no definite conclusion. What say the laptop list? Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://what

Re: Phone recording software

2009-03-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
If the sound is going through your laptop speakers, you may want to look at vsound a sound loopback capturing package. I haven't gotten that far yet. The challenge is getting it to the speakers! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ

Re: Phone recording software

2009-03-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
might be illegal in some places in the world without ensuring that the other party is aware. The other party is aware. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б

Re: [Follow up to] Re: Phone recording software

2009-03-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
the DC might work. I see. When I go into the electronic store looking for such a transformer, what should I ask for? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д

Re: Phone recording software

2009-03-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
remember from ~20 years ago. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о

Re: Phone recording software

2009-03-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
, but for a very stupid and irrelevant reason I have to call from a landline, otherwise I would just use Skype. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З

Re: Phone recording software

2009-03-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
sorry, have cut away the initial 'atz'; anyway, minicom runs from terminal, it's a text app. No problem, I'm not afraid of the CLI. I will look into it. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز

Phone recording software

2009-03-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
find for Linux is Asterisk which is a bit complicated for this purpose (and my skill level). For that matter, how can I check that my hardware in fact supports this? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث

Re: Debian-based system not booting on Dell Inspiron laptop

2009-02-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
be messed up, /var/log/Xorg.0.log or similar will likely contain useful information. Thanks. Tell me, short of taking a photograph of the screen, how can I save the output? Can I mount a USB stick? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ

Re: Does KDM need a password?

2009-01-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
want! I'm setting it up now. Thanks, Johannes. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г-д-е-ё

Does KDM need a password?

2009-01-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
to boot the system, and I could have it boot to the desktop. Are there other security implications of not having a KDM screen with a password prompt? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع

Re: Does KDM need a password?

2009-01-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
for everyone's insight! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х

Load_Cycle_Count: Is 600000 bad?

2009-01-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
and unresponsive. Dell Inspiron E 1505 / 6400 with 80 GB hard drive. Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ

Re: Load_Cycle_Count: Is 600000 bad?

2009-01-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
backups). -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц

Re: New here

2008-12-31 Thread Dotan Cohen
/2008/12/dell-vostro-a840-laptop-and-linux/ -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з

Re: Maximum VGA output screen resolution

2008-09-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
a hard time with this little screen. I remember when 640x480 14 was huge! Of course, at that time I was holding one of the meta keys while flipping the power switch, to boot into the 'older' version of the OS. Can you guess which OS that was by the description? -- Dotan Cohen http://what

Re: Maximum VGA output screen resolution

2008-09-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
screens and those with aging eyes. In these cases the whole UI is geared toward a smaller number of pixels. Agreed 100% -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

Maximum VGA output screen resolution

2008-09-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
on the install disk, and in Ubuntu I tried both the open source and proprietary drivers to no avail. Thanks in advance. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

Re: Hard Drive temp?

2008-08-31 Thread Dotan Cohen
(0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

Hard Drive temp?

2008-08-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
? The drive is a 7200RPM 80GB Seagate unit. Thanks in advance. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

Re: Hard Drive temp?

2008-08-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
Thanks. I installed hddtemp and it says that the drive is at 59° Celcius. Despite that, the right side of the keyboard is _hot_. It sometimes gets much hotter, though. What temp is considered dangerous? Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך

Re: NOT wake on lid switch?

2008-08-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
that there may be an ACPI disable option there, but there is none. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

Re: NOT wake on lid switch?

2008-08-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/8/19 Paolo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 04:29:32PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: the lid switch is activated? The laptop in question is a Dell Inspiron E1505 / 6400. did it have MS-W preinstalled? Yes still there bootable on a partition? No found the machine idling

NOT wake on lid switch?

2008-08-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
the machine idling with no airflow in my bag several times already. Thanks in advance. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting

Re: NOT wake on lid switch?

2008-08-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
the motherboard (I have already disassembled this lappy two or three times). -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Re: hi list i have a problem

2008-07-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
the power of the 2 processor. i386 should use both cores. Try it: do something really heavy (compile KDE) and see if the OS bogs down. It should bog a little, but be usable. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because

Re: Laptop waking up in bag

2008-06-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/30 Paolo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 05:30:16PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Well, I'd rather avoid playing with system files. Is there a trigger that I can use to run a script when the laptop wakes? I could run a same as above then, wrap acpi_listen in a script, use

Re: Laptop waking up in bag

2008-06-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/30 Paolo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:09:03PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Thanks, Paolo. I have a little bash to learn before I am able to implement that, but I will get on it. you're welcome - but no need to learn much just to run these tiny tests: simply copy

Re: Laptop waking up in bag

2008-06-30 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/30 Andrew Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Please be aware that some Linux distributions are configured to clean,remove, files in /tmp, on booting, so don't put anything in /tmp you may want to keep. Actually, I put them in ~/.bin/paulo_listener_acpi and /.bin/paulo_timestamper :) Dotan

Laptop waking up in bag

2008-06-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
). Ideally this script would run 5 seconds after waking. Thanks in advance. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Re: Laptop waking up in bag

2008-06-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/29 Paolo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 03:28:28PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: 1) Find out what ACPI event (lid switch or power button) caused the system to wake? keep acpi_listen running in a terminal Thanks. 2) Find out how much time the laptop has been running since

Re: Laptop waking up in bag

2008-06-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/29 Heiner Markert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe your laptop wakes up if the battery becomes empty, in order to take some action to save your data? Regards Heiner Interesting thought, but no, it wakes on a full charge as well as on a partial charge. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com

CPU temp?

2008-06-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
that. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Re: CPU temp?

2008-06-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/1 Paolo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 09:41:35AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: What could explain the differences between these reported temperatures? coretemp-isa- ... 2 degC betwwen cores doesn't sound too much, also considering param spread etc. The 2 degree

Re: CPU hammered on Dell Inspiron with new install.

2008-04-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
' in that mode. Is this what you mean that I should do? Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Re: CPU hammered on Dell Inspiron with new install.

2008-04-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
stuff I can recreate from memory and the Thunderbird trash bin. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

CPU hammered on Dell Inspiron with new install.

2008-04-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
to be fine. The two disk partions (one for / and one for /home) are both at 60%. I looked in ksystem log for anything unusual, but I saw nothing alarming. Previous versions of Ubuntu and Fedora have run fine on this machine. Where should I begin troubleshooting? Thanks in advance. Dotan Cohen http

Re: CPU hammered on Dell Inspiron with new install.

2008-04-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/4/28 Andrea Gozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 18:25 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Where should I begin troubleshooting? Run top and check for processes waiting to do I/O on disks. Also, check your hdparm settings since having DMA/UDMA disables makes reads A LOT slower

Re: CPU hammered on Dell Inspiron with new install.

2008-04-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/4/28 Andrea Gozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This should help: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_hdparm_to_improve_IDE_device_performance Thanks. That's quite a read, and parts seems to be Gentoo specific, but I'll see what I can come away with it. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http

Re: CPU hammered on Dell Inspiron with new install.

2008-04-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
Looks like I've got to learn to compile a kernel... Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Re: Cannot mount usb memory with correct filesystem encoding

2008-01-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
After checking the codepage in a university windows machine, but making no changes to neither the card nor my computer, the card now automounts with the correct Hebrew filesystem encoding. Strange indeed. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן

Re: Cannot mount usb memory with correct filesystem encoding

2008-01-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 28/01/2008, Nickel Cobalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/1/28 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After checking the codepage in a university windows machine, but making no changes to neither the card nor my computer, the card now automounts with the correct Hebrew filesystem encoding

Cannot mount usb memory with correct filesystem encoding

2007-12-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
? Is that something installable? Thanks in advance. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Re: [Fwd: Re: Cannot mount usb memory with correct filesystem encoding]

2007-12-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 26/12/2007, Christopher White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: How can I mount an SD card (via USB card reader) to have a specific filename encoding on Ubuntu Feisty 7.04? My laptop is UTF-8, but the SD card in my Nokia 6288 seems to be CP1255 or ISO-8859-8. The Hebrew

Re: Cannot mount usb memory with correct filesystem encoding

2007-12-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
In my first email, I confused codepage 1255 with codepage 1225. I have corrected and tried with 1255 (the correct Hebrew codepage) with no change in situation, ie, no success in reading the Hebrew filenames. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ

Re: Bluetooth on Dell Inspiron E1505 / 6400

2007-12-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 11/12/2007, Paolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 07:15:39PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I run KDE on my Inspiron E1505/6400 lappy. Is there a program for transferring files to/from a cellphone via bluetooth? Also, can I use check for pkgs/apps gammu, wammu a bluetooth

Bluetooth on Dell Inspiron E1505 / 6400

2007-12-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
I run KDE on my Inspiron E1505/6400 lappy. Is there a program for transferring files to/from a cellphone via bluetooth? Also, can I use a bluetooth headset for skype? Thanks in advance. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-31 Thread Dotan Cohen
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Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
specific files therein, whould be very much appreciated. Thank you in advance. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 30/07/07, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu) I have had a corruption of my /home partition, which resides on sda4 of my Dell Inspiron laptop. Not knowing what to do, and with no way to boot and google the situation, I played Y, Y, Y to all fsck's