Re: vim wrapping [Was: Re: mutt is the bomb! (LDAP addressbook integration)]

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Andrei Popescu dies 08/05/2007 hora 18:20:
> > Sure it will.  Put your cursor in the paragraph, in command mode, hit
> > gqap
> > Note, no ':', just straight.
> 
> Nice, but claws will do this as I type ;)

Does that mean that you can't prevent the wrapping to happen? Because I
often need to type in long lines (e.g. code, commands or log).

Note that you could setup Vim so that it does check wrapping each time
you insert a character when you're editing mail, AFAIK.

Curiously,
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Re: Next time you make a trace file... ( was Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker)

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Ron Johnson dies 13/04/2007 hora 15:59:
> >> please try to remember to add .txt to text file names.  It makes
> >> things easier for GUI tools.
> > Really? I thought that was strictly a DOS/Windows-ism.
> Nope.  Otherwise, how would it know which app to open a file with?

By looking at the MIME type, I suppose.

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Re: Etch released.

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit steef dies 08/04/2007 hora 20:57:
> consider a net-install if you have a fast internet-connection

Please, respect the Netiquette *at least a bit*. You quoted 133 lines of
an announcement just to write 1 line yourself. That's a pretty awful s/n
ratio...

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Re: [OT] Graphics programming

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Douglas Allan Tutty dies 05/04/2007 hora 09:32:
> Personally, I only program in two languages: Fortran and Python.  So I
> would suggest python.

Why not Fortran? ;-)

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Re: [OT] Graphics programming

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Jan Willem Stumpel dies 05/04/2007 hora 13:51:
> What would be the easiest system to do this? Should I learn Java?  Or
> something else?

The Cairo library should probably offer everything you could want, and
more. It has numerous bindings for languages, so pick one. It's written
in C, and integrated in GTK+.

There are C++ bindings, which by the way make using the object oriented
nature of GTK+ probably easier to use. Debian already contains bindings
for Perl, Python, Ruby, C++, Ada, Java, .NET and two Scheme
implementations, AFAICT. These are bindings for GTK, so I'm not sure
they all provide access to Cairo, though.

See also .

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Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Dennis G. Wicks dies 05/04/2007 hora 08:28:
> I think my Firefox/Weasel browser has been hi-jacked.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Any suggestions on how to stop this?

Backup your FF private dir to be able to inspect it later and see what
happened, but get it out of the way, so that you start a clean browser
session.

$ mv ~/.firefox ~/.firefox.bak

If you didn't make the utterly stupid mistake to browse the Web while
being root and have not installed as root some malware, that should
resolve the problem entirely.

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Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Michael Pobega dies 03/04/2007 hora 23:39:
> > > AIUI, BSD is not compatible with GPL.
> [Debian's social contract] says BSD is DFSG compatible.

Which doesn't mean it's GPL compatible.

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Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Mike McCarty dies 03/04/2007 hora 20:19:
> AIUI, BSD is not compatible with GPL.

Well, the FSF thinks it is. And says so on its website.

At least if you're talking about the FreeBSD licence, aka 2-clauses BSD
licence, or the modified BSD licence, aka 3-clauses BSD licence. The
original BSD licence, with the advertising clause, is not compatible
with the GPL, AIUI...

Most of the other "permissive" licences are GPL-compatible: MIT, Boost,
expat, W3C.

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Re: keeping tar quiet in script

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Peter Teunissen dies 31/03/2007 hora 21:48:
> Adding > /dev/null doesn't help. What can I do to catch  tar's output
> and keep it from shouting all over the place?

What about the classical "1> /dev/null 2>&1"?

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Re: Reporting a bug (was: fglrx driver problems)

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Marko Randjelovic dies 29/03/2007 hora 19:08:
> I run Etch on machine with Nvidia nForce3 250 motherboard and Radeon
> 9550 graphics card. DRI is not working neither with radeon, nor fglrx
> driver. I tried several versions of fglrx driver and kernel, Debian
> and vanilla.
> 
> I think it's a bug and that probably is in kernel. I want to file a
> bug report.

Begin by publishing somewhere a complete output (error messages you see
or description or a bad graphical output) and X server log for each
combination of kernel and DRI driver used. If you have a personal web
space, it would be perfect. If you don't, you could file a bug report on
fglrx for each combination, with the log attached to the bug report.

Quickly,
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Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit Michelle Konzack dies 27/03/2007 hora 16:54:
> > "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be
> > put on a server?"
> Realy good question...
>...since I have NO monitors attached to my arround 160 Servers!

That's a shame. There are some slick rackable displays, you know. I saw
one in a datacenter in Paris. It was foldable so you could slide it back
in it's rack, and had a  KVM so you could plug it to 8 servers, IIRC.

It looked like RPD 115{1,8} (see ).

Alternatively,
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BOOST program options and libstdc++5

[Pierre THIERRY]

I got the following problem with libboost-program-options1.32.0 on my
system:

/usr/bin/ld: warning: libstdc++.so.5, needed by 
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../lib/libboost_program_options.so, 
may conflict with libstdc++.so.6

And indeed, it segfaults when trying to run the program (gdb):

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1212495648 (LWP 22704)]
0xb7e72540 in std::string::compare () from /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6

Is this a bug of libboost-program-options1.32.0, that should be rebuilt
against libstdc++6, as it seems that GCC 4.0 is the current standard
compiler?

Doubtfully,
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Re: money/quicken/?

[Pierre THIERRY]

> And no, I never used double-entry in my checkbooking either.

AFAIK, it is the standard way everywhere to write transactions for
financial professionals. But one will not learn it in school...

I took a book for the preparation of a financial diplom. Try the
double-entry a while, and you won't go back either. It is not very hard,
and when understood, it solves a plenty of problem one can encounter in
accounts... And it's very scalable: it can be used for personal use a
for the accounts of a huge company, the same way.

Financially,
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Re: libc6 optimizations

[Pierre THIERRY]

> I was thinking that in addition to the kernel, libc6 was a good
> candidate for a recompile in terms of overall performance boosts. I
> know about gentoo, but I dont feel like changing distros.

Benchmark have been made between Debian, Mandrake and Gentoo, with
identical version of programs, and there is no signficant speedup with
Gentoo.

As a matter of fact, it is the slowest of the three distros in all but
one test of this bench, and never the fastest...

http://articles.linmagau.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=227&page=1

Precisely,
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Re: Kollab packages?

[Pierre THIERRY]

> Work-Needing and Prospective Packages list

http://bugs.debian.org/204028

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Re: Problem with ifconfig

[Pierre THIERRY]

> I am having some problem that I don't understand with ifconfig:

How is the interface brought up ? What is the content of
/etc/network/interfaces ?

> RX packets:26802 errors:22859 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  ^

Something is wrong with this if, for sure...

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Re: Address book sharing

[Pierre THIERRY]

> Does anybody know whether it is possible to share the Mozilla address
> books of the Windows and of the Debian partition? And how?

I think by symlinking the files on the Debian partition to the Windows
one... The LDAP solution could enable sharing it with even distant
systems, but it a bit more complicated to implement.

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Re: do i need stable in my sources.list?

[Pierre THIERRY]

> Since most security updates for stable are going to be a version lower 

You can use APT preferences to give security updates a higher priority.
Note also that there is a security repository for sarge...

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Re: german ispell with mutt

[Pierre THIERRY]

> Ispell german and english dictionary

Is it possible to mutt to pass to ispell the language from within
information in mail, or a user's choice. If I type in english, french,
german and russian, sometimes spanish, I'll have too many macros, I
feel...

Curiously,
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Re: reportbug has a bug...

[Pierre THIERRY]

> What versions of python and reportbug are installed?

Sorry for the late answer...
python  2.1.3-3.2
reportbug   1.50

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reportbug has a bug...

[Pierre THIERRY]

I have sometimes this error with reportbug (haven't seen what happens
before it appears) :

Please select a tag: [done]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 1180, in ?
main()
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 876, in main
report = open_write_safe(filename, 'w')
  File "/usr/bin/reportbug", line 54, in open_write_safe
fd = os.open(filename, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREAT|os.O_EXCL, 0600)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~/tmp/reportbug-27209-0'

Does anybody encountered that problem, and do you know how to solve it ?
I'm completely incompetent about Python...

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Re: CUPS & HP OfficeJet R45

[Pierre THIERRY]

I continued trying to see why cups is unable to set to device of my
printer to parallel:/dev/lp0, and tried

$ cat > /dev/lp0
-bash: /dev/lp0: No such device

I've parport and parport_pc loaded as modules... And i'm in the lp
group.

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CUPS & HP OfficeJet R45

[Pierre THIERRY]

Hi,

I didn't manage to print anything on a HP printer, an all-in-one
OfficeJet Series R (R45). I has only installed CUPS without
Cups-o-Matic, and tried (through SSH, I don't have physical access) :

$ sudo lpadmin -d OfficeR -v parallel:/dev/lp0 -m deskjet.ppd
lpadmin: set-default failed: client-error-not-found
$ sudo  lpadmin -p OfficeR -v parallel:/dev/lp0 -m deskjet.ppd
lpadmin: add-printer failed: client-error-not-possible
$ sudo apt-get install cupsomatic
$ sudo lpadmin -d OfficeR -v parallel:/dev/lp0 -m deskjet.ppd

And it seemed to work, no error, but it didn't print. I changed the
model :
$ sudo lpadmin -p OfficeR -m OfficeJet_R45-deskjet.ppd

And after visiting localhost:631 with lynx, I found the device was in
fact "test:/dev/null"...

$ sudo lpadmin -p OfficeR -v parallel:/dev/lp0
lpadmin: add-printer failed: client-error-not-possible

$ sudo lsmod | grep parport
parport_pc 13956   0
parport24608   0  [parport_pc]

I'm using a 2.4.19 kernel... Do you see what is the problem ??

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ALSA : /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy

[Pierre THIERRY]

I'm trying to have some sound coming out of my machine, but after having
a kernel with sound, alsa modules installed, I can't get any sound. Here
are the modules loaded :

snd-ens1371 9440   1
snd-rawmidi12256   0  [snd-ens1371]
snd-seq-device  3968   0  [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 22304   0  [snd-ens1371]
snd-pcm-oss35200   1  (autoclean)
snd-pcm48000   0  (autoclean) [snd-ens1371 snd-pcm-oss]
snd-timer  10112   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-mixer-oss   8928   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd24776   0  (autoclean) [snd-ens1371 snd-rawmidi
snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-mixer-oss]
soundcore   3492   6  (autoclean) [snd]

I've configured the mixers with alsamixer, then tried to ogg123
something, and after some problems, ran :

$ artsd

it cleaned some MCOP files, and I can have ogg or xmms play sound, but I
don't hear anything. (xmms's levels are moving, though).I have this
error when using ogg123 :

ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:597:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed:
Device or resource busy

and using XMMS :

mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding

If I run artsd as root, I've got the same error, plus :

=== Could not load default driver and no driver specified in config
file. Exiting.

for ogg123, and :

arts_init error: can't connect to aRts soundserver

for xmms.

As artsd lacks manpages, I can't find any help in the documentation, and
the website didn't help much more...

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Re: type of file?

[Pierre THIERRY]

This command is file...

Quickly,
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make-kpkg doesn't parse version correctly ?

[Pierre THIERRY]

I've got a very strange error with make-kpkg when trying to build an
image a second time. I've already used the woody one on this linux source
successfully, so suspected a problem with the sarge I've upgraded to.

But I have the same error with woody and sarge kernel-package... I used
7.107 and 8.007.

I join the stdout and stderr of make-kpkg clean (it is the same with the
targets configure or debian...)

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Problems ecountered with the version number .
The upstream version fails to match ^[A-Za-z0-9\.\+\-]+$ in 

Please re-read the README file and try again.


Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
/usr/share/kernel-package/kpkg-vercheck line 76 (#1)
(W uninitialized) An undefined value was used as if it were already
defined.  It was interpreted as a "" or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake.
To suppress this warning assign a defined value to your variables.

To help you figure out what was undefined, perl tells you what operation
you used the undefined value in.  Note, however, that perl optimizes your
program and the operation displayed in the warning may not necessarily
appear literally in your program.  For example, "that $foo" is
usually optimized into "that " . $foo, and the warning will refer to
the concatenation (.) operator, even though there is no . in your
program.

Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
/usr/share/kernel-package/kpkg-vercheck line 108 (#1)
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
/usr/share/kernel-package/kpkg-vercheck line 152 (#1)
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
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Total hangup when trying xtraceroute

[Pierre THIERRY]

I just tried xtraceroute some minutes ago, and the whole system froze...
No reaction from any keystroke, or combination of keys.

I looked at syslog, but nothing is visible. here are the four last lines
before restart :

Sep  6 22:15:09 bateleur -- MARK --
Sep  6 22:35:09 bateleur -- MARK --
Sep  6 22:55:09 bateleur -- MARK --
Sep  6 23:15:09 bateleur -- MARK --

Any way to find what happened ? (I didn't try xt again at that time)

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Re: starting eth1 up on boot ?

[Pierre THIERRY]

> What's the process in Debian to add a service like this ?

# apt-get install etherconf

You'll modify the network interfaces by simply running :
# dpkg-reconfigure etherconf

To know what it does :
$ man interfaces ifup

If you have your network card driver as a module :
$ man modules

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Re: Auto dist-upgrade script

[Pierre THIERRY]

> Can someone share how they did it ? 

$ man crontab apt-get

> thanks

It was a pleasure...

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Re: How to know the configuration of kernel

[Pierre THIERRY]

And to know what modules are compiled at the moment, simply run
# modprobe -l

But it only gives you the modules, not the drivers that are compiled IN
the kernel...

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Re: Can't find /usr/src/linux/..

[Pierre THIERRY]

> I'm probebly stupid but on my debian 3.0 system
> there is no /usr/src/linux

You're mainly beginner, for that time, I presume... When you're
searching for wehter a package should be installed to satisfy your
needs, run :
$ apt-cache search 

When it just outputs too many things, refine :
$ apt-cache search  | grep 

And you can pipe trough other grep's to refine more...

For you, try
$ apt-cache search kernel source | grep kernel
and you'll find the kernel-source- you're searching for.

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