Re: Communicating with USB Modem

On 2010-10-09 23:17:40 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Oct 9, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Phil Requirements wrote: > > > The one I used was US Robotics, but I can't lay my hand on it right > > this minute to say the product number. > > I saw some USR USB modems, but considering how I'll be buying a > numbe

Re: Pdf Font hardly legible

On 10 October 2010 13:51, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:15:00 -0400 > Celejar dijo: > > >Look into mupdf - a really lightweight PDF reader. > > I downloaded the tar.gz file and untarred it, but could not figure out > how to install it. There is no .deb or .rpm file in the arc

Re: Pdf Font hardly legible

On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:15:00 -0400 Celejar dijo: >Look into mupdf - a really lightweight PDF reader. I downloaded the tar.gz file and untarred it, but could not figure out how to install it. There is no .deb or .rpm file in the archive. Note: I want to install it on a computer that I use for DT

Re: Pdf Font hardly legible

On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 02:00:10 + (UTC) Memnon Anon wrote: > John Jason Jordan writes: > > > Of the open source PDF viewers, Okular (formerly Kpdf) is the best > > overall . But Evince has a better export to PostScript and is more > > lightweight. I don't mind using closed source apps as long

If you want it to be an appliance... (was Re: Communicating with USB Modem)

On 10/09/2010 04:28 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] but, in short, I want what's in their offices to be as simple as possible and to be a black box. I do not want them hooking up a keyboard or monitor to it ever. I don't even want them to think of it as a computer, EVER! So I'm looking not at low

Re: Communicating with USB Modem

On Oct 9, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Phil Requirements wrote: > On 2010-10-09 19:26:42 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> On Oct 9, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Camaleón wrote: > [big snip] >>> O.k. I also think geting an USB modem to work should just be plug and >>> play and no needing to mess with drivers at all. But

Re: Pdf Font hardly legible

Ron Johnson writes: > On 10/09/2010 09:00 PM, Memnon Anon wrote: >> Pdf has its benefits, but I really don't understand why displaying text >> has to freak out my notebook more than basically anything else I am >> doing, even with xpdf :( >> > > What WM/DE do you use? I do basically everything w

Re: Pdf Font hardly legible

On 10/09/2010 09:00 PM, Memnon Anon wrote: John Jason Jordan writes: Of the open source PDF viewers, Okular (formerly Kpdf) is the best overall . But Evince has a better export to PostScript and is more lightweight. I don't mind using closed source apps as long as they're free, so I use Adobe

Re: Communicating with USB Modem

On 2010-10-09 19:26:42 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Oct 9, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Camaleón wrote: [big snip] > > O.k. I also think geting an USB modem to work should just be plug and > > play and no needing to mess with drivers at all. But it could worst: > > there are some embedded modems (those yo

Re: udev auto mount usb disk

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 11:06:12PM +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > Hi, > > Below are the configurations related with my USB disk. > > # grep tosun /etc/fstab > UUID=0C98AFAF98AF95AC /media/tosun ntfs-3g noauto,fmask=133,dmask=022 0 0 > > # cat /etc/udev/rules.d/89-tosun.rules > ACTION=="ad

Re: Communicating with USB Modem

On 2010-10-09 20:22:41 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:29:40 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: > [big snip] > > When it comes to modems and linux, the only way to hit the right device > is by using a RS-232 modem. No drivers needed and str

Re: Pdf Font hardly legible

John Jason Jordan writes: > Of the open source PDF viewers, Okular (formerly Kpdf) is the best > overall . But Evince has a better export to PostScript and is more > lightweight. I don't mind using closed source apps as long as they're > free, so I use Adobe Reader a lot as well. There was a rece

[solved] (was: Pdf Font hardly legible)

Memnon Anon writes: > Any advice is very much appreciated. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533138 Memnon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debi

Re: Pdf Font hardly legible

On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 02:32:57 +0200 Memnon Anon dijo: >However, I know that lots of you people do not use xpdf, and I think >there should be a remedy. Of the open source PDF viewers, Okular (formerly Kpdf) is the best overall . But Evince has a better export to PostScript and is more lightweight.

Pdf Font hardly legible

Hi, I've been using xpdf for a looong time, and I never had a problem, except that it can be a bit slow on my old machine. So today, I tested evince and epdfview, but some pdfs (all from the same source) which are perfectly fine in xpdf are hardly legible. , | mem...@mymachine:~/pdf$ pdffon

Re: Communicating with USB Modem

On Oct 9, 2010, at 6:49 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:28:31 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> On Oct 9, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> ... >> >> I see that, the one thing that is discouraging me is that, while I know >> they are talking about the chip, the pictures are of

Re: Communicating with USB Modem

On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:28:31 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Oct 9, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> I can give you at least one reference (the manufacture's tech. specs): >> >> *** >> http://www.agere.com/docs/PCS_Catalog_052606.pdf >> >> (page 5) >> >> – SV92U2: USB 2.0 device controller,

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Re: Moving Debian installation to another partition.

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Re: Communicating with USB Modem

On Oct 9, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:29:40 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> Bufff... as per this doc¹ you could try "sl-modem" package from >>> non-free repo (it seems that your device -SV92U2- uses the

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Re: Communicating with USB Modem

On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:29:40 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Bufff... as per this doc¹ you could try "sl-modem" package from >> non-free repo (it seems that your device -SV92U2- uses the "Scorpio" >> chipset) but prepare for the worst ;-( >> >>

Re: Communicating with USB Modem

On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:29:40 -0400 Hal Vaughan wrote: Hello Hal, > I can't remember where (so it could have been the manufacturer's > site), but there was one place I read that if it's USB, it had to use > the Hayes command set and would work on anything, but Brad's link to > TLDP shows that wron

Re: Howto add autostartup applications

On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:28:01 -0500, Brian Ryans wrote: > Quoting Camaleón on 2010-10-09 06:07:19: >> You can launch "gkrellm" by going to "system → prefs → sessions → >> startup" and adding a new entry that points to the binary "/usr/bin/ >> gkrellm". > > Wouldn't putting a .desktop file in ~/.co

Re: Communicating with USB Modem

On Oct 9, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:39:49 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> On Oct 9, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >>> Don't go nuts with this. Just plug the modem, open a console, type >>> "dmesg | grep -i usb" and put the result here (for very long logs, >

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Re: Howto add autostartup applications

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Re: Communicating with USB Modem

On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 11:39:49 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Oct 9, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> Don't go nuts with this. Just plug the modem, open a console, type >> "dmesg | grep -i usb" and put the result here (for very long logs, >> upload the result to "www.pastebin.com" or any servic

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Re: Communicating with USB Modem

On Oct 9, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 03:21:36 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> I have a Debian Lenny system and I've plugged in a USB 56K modem. (I >> know that's as outdated as a Model T, but I need it for business.) When >> I type "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices" I get

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Re: a data rate threshold tool?

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Re: a data rate threshold tool?

Zhang Weiwu wrote: > > Hello. I found my application, which was supposed to run 10 hours, > > either run and starve every other service on it, or doesn't run at all. > > Even with nice and ionice, I cannot avoid other web services starved by > > this application. And it has to run on the producti

Re: a data rate threshold tool?

Please tell us exactly what your application does, what you mean by "data rate", and what your "data_source" is. It sounds like the problem is a bug in your application. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

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a data rate threshold tool?

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Re: Communicating with USB Modem

On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 03:21:36 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have a Debian Lenny system and I've plugged in a USB 56K modem. (I > know that's as outdated as a Model T, but I need it for business.) When > I type "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices" I get this: (...) As Ron suggested, better look at dmesg

Re: Howto add autostartup applications

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Re: Howto add autostartup applications

On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:51:57 +0200, Johan wrote: > On the internet I was informed to use update-rc.d. (...) For starting "gkrellm" when booting? :-? Applications are not services. You can launch "gkrellm" by going to "system → prefs → sessions → startup" and adding a new entry that points to

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Re: Howto add autostartup applications

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Howto add autostartup applications

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Re: Communicating with USB Modem

On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 03:21:36 -0400 Hal Vaughan wrote: Hello Hal, > I have a Debian Lenny system and I've plugged in a USB 56K modem. From (the Linux Documentation Project) comes this; 2.9 USB Modems USB = Universal Serial Bus. Most USB modems are wi

Re: Communicating with USB Modem

On 10/09/2010 02:21 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a Debian Lenny system and I've plugged in a USB 56K modem. (I know that's as outdated as a Model T, but I need it for business.) When I type "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices" I get this: T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=480 MxC

Communicating with USB Modem

I have a Debian Lenny system and I've plugged in a USB 56K modem. (I know that's as outdated as a Model T, but I need it for business.) When I type "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices" I get this: T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=480 MxCh= 8 B: Alloc= 0/800 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #I