On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 08:45:30AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 05:32:49PM +0200, Manon Metten wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to add the dir ~/scripts to my path, what command do I use for that?
> >
> > M> echo $PATH
> > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
> >
> > Bu
The interface should be PCI or USB, because it's desktop.
USB card seem cheap, but are they supported by Linux 2.4 and/or 2.6?
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On 08/07/2007 11:01 PM, Zach wrote:
I'm having a font problem, can someone take a look at my paste:
http://pastebin.ca/649456
Thanks,
Zach
Again, you wrote:
i did an upgrade last night and also installed some new packages
and now my fonts aren't correct, i checked in gnome-terminal and fire
Andrei Popescu wrote:
# ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells.
Set gnome-terminal to use a login shell.
Doh! Thanks.
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On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 03:12:28PM +0900, Takehiko Abe wrote:
> # Sorry, I sent a mail directly to you.
>
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
> > Instead of a ~/script dir I use a ~/bin dir and didn't need to change
> > anything because ~/.bash_profile already contains:
> >
> > # set PATH so it includes user
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:01:04PM -0700, tom arnall wrote:
> I'm trying to get unicode to work in perl. When I do the 'textbook' example:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -e'binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); print
> chr(0x263a)'
>
> I get garbage, not a smiley face, i.e.:
>
> âº
>
> My environment
# Sorry, I sent a mail directly to you.
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Instead of a ~/script dir I use a ~/bin dir and didn't need to change
> anything because ~/.bash_profile already contains:
>
> # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
> if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
> PATH=~/bin:"${PA
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:47:15AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> terryc wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Now, if you really want low cost per page, mono, look at a good dot
>
> Did you really mean to use that word? I dunno what language you
> intended, but in slangy Spanish "'mano" is short for "hermano",
>
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 05:32:49PM +0200, Manon Metten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to add the dir ~/scripts to my path, what command do I use for that?
>
> M> echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
>
> But how do I add ~/scripts to that path?
I saw nobody in the thread suggested this:
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:05:07PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> delay. Setting 'VERBOSE=yes' in /etc/default/rcS didn't help, it just
> says
>
> Setting up networking.
> Configuring network interfaces.
>
> And at this point there is a delay, and then
>
> Starting portmap daemon.
>
> Any
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 11:41:35PM -0400, percy tiglao wrote:
> Thanks, I've compiled and installed the new driver and it
> now detects my router. However, whatever else is automatically
> done from the installation CD is not setup (I'm pretty sure the
> issue right now is something to do with ho
Zach wrote:
> I'm having a font problem, can someone take a look at my paste:
> http://pastebin.ca/649456
>
> Thanks,
> Zach
Hi Zach,
I had a look at your xorg.conf file that you pasted up and I'm not surprised
you're having font problems. There's nothing in the fonts section of your
config file.
rocky wrote:
Hey,
I installed Debian and select Chinese as the language. The
installation is for Debian sarge therefore I aptitude dist-upgrade the
box to debian etch by first upgrade the kernel to 2.6. I want to
debian system support Chinese show and input. In the /etc/locale.gen
I have zh_CN
Florian Kulzer wrote:
>Most probably the driver is simply too old. Even the 2.6.22 kernel
>currently in Sid only has version 7.3.20-k2 of the e1000 module. You
>will likely have to compile version 7.6.5, which is available on Intel's
>website:
>http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?strS
I'm having a font problem, can someone take a look at my paste:
http://pastebin.ca/649456
Thanks,
Zach
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On Aug 7, 2007, at 7:47 PM, Rogério Brito wrote:
Is there anything like screen's detach feature for graphical
utilities?
I'd love to use this feature, as I am mostly using my machine at home
via a remote connection.
Look into VNC.
On Aug 7, 2007, at 7:37 PM, Nate Duehr wrote:
My experience is that folks that need to get something done, pick a
language and do it. They end up either enjoying writing code and
learn multiple languages over time, or they quit. They don't ask
others to tell them what to do or learn.
An
One option is to make /home on the server an NFS share, and mount it
as /home on the clients. Then you just have to make sure the user
IDs on the clients are the same as on the servers -- if you have more
than a few users, this is a good application for NIS.
This is precisely how the compu
Hey,
I installed Debian and select Chinese as the language. The
installation is for Debian sarge therefore I aptitude dist-upgrade the
box to debian etch by first upgrade the kernel to 2.6. I want to
debian system support Chinese show and input. In the /etc/locale.gen
I have zh_CN GB2312. After l
Some updates: recompiled the kernels without the VIA driver (actually,
compiled as a module but not loaded).
With 2.4.27, I don't have the CRC errors anymore, though I can't get
DMA to work (is because I load the generic PCI driver afterwards?).
With 2.6.18, I get this:
VFS: Cannot open root dev
On Aug 06 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> snownews for RSS, slrn for nntp.
What about using mutt-ng for this task, especially if you are already
using Mutt for e-mails?
I have never used the newsgroup feature of mutt-ng (and, BTW, I'm not
using mutt-ng), but I would be interested in knowing the opin
Hi, Kevin.
On Aug 01 2007, Kevin Mark wrote:
> I subscribe to debian-devel-changes. Is that not useful?
Yes, that is good, but not exactly a solution to what I had in mind.
Regards, Rogério.
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Hi, Tong.
On Aug 03 2007, - Tong - wrote:
> I've tried to find such thing everywhere but all failed. Please share
> the url that you found.
Here is the url: http://www.spasche.net/mozilla/
Hope this helps, Rogério.
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Hi, Andrew.
On Aug 02 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
(...)
> select "Open With", click the list box to the right, select "Other..."
> enter /usr/bin/firefox in the file picker and away you go.
Thanks.
> can you post your mailcap hack?
Sure. Here it is:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Hi, Wayne.
On Jul 30 2007, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Rogério Brito([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > Can anybody tell me if rtorrent has Distributed Hashtables (DHT), UPnP,
> > and peer exchange? If it has those features, I would have no need for
> > other clients.
>
> Not that I can see
Hi, John,
On Aug 06 2007, John Hasler wrote:
> Amit writes:
> > They have too many graphics and ads which are not necessary. I guess
> > I'm just looking for a more efficient may to read the news.
>
> You want an adblocker for your Web browser. I use Privoxy.
This is indeed a very good recommen
On Aug 7, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Manon Metten wrote:
Hi,
I'm about to learn bash or python scripting.
- Which one is easiest to learn?
Doesn't matter. Learn one or the other or both if you need them.
- Which one is more powerful?
Doesn't matter. As a friend puts it... "If it can't be done
On Aug 7, 2007, at 5:32 PM, Mike McCarty wrote:
Nate Bargmann wrote:
* Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 17:29
-0500]:
However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD.
That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the
impossible ones possbile.
This is not an issue with
Just use the 'youtubedl' python script (can be found in repos) to download and
then use 'mplayer' or something else to watch it...simple, effective, and
opensource.
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On 2007-08-07 15:14:42 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>>> - Every Unix-like system you encounter will have some version of the
>>> Bourne
>>> shell. Not every system will have Python.
>>
>> Not every system has bash.
>
> Well, yeah. That's why I
i did an upgrade last night and also installed some new packages
and now my fonts aren't correct, i checked in gnome-terminal and firefox
and emacs and the fonts are appearing too small and even the window
dimensions of gnome-terminal and emacs is too small now when they open!
it has even affected
Try the ubuntu-accessibility list. If you get the chance in a gnome
terminal type orca -t one day and make sure you hve speakers hooked
up to your sound card when you do that. Headphones can be substituted for
speakers in classroom settings though.
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, ZephyrQ wrote:
I'm
Following the Release Notes, the upgrade went rather smoothly. A couple
of things got "tweaked," however. The first, most obvious is the
behavior of vi:
The default settings for vi have been changed. Display looks weird in
terms of colors, etc. Can't figure what vi/vim file needs changing. I
ha
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 07:59:57PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote:
> I was wondering if it is possible to have my users of my home network have
> a "home" directory that points to the server?
I think this is commonly done.
> Currently I am using pamlib
> to auto mount some shares from my server a
I was wondering if it is possible to have my users of my home network
have a "home" directory that points to the server? Currently I am using
pamlib to auto mount some shares from my server and I was thinking maybe
I could use it to do the same thing. What I would like is for each user
to hav
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:23:28PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> To do this with find, I'd try something like this:
>
> find . -name "*.wav" -exec lame -h -b 160 \{\} \{\}.mp3 \;
>
> It's possible spaces will bite you here, too ... If you actually attempt
> this on filenames with spaces, test it
I'm a high school special education teacher who has been given
permission to test Linux on a few laptops to use as workstations.
I've installed Edubuntu on 3, and would like some direction concerning
creating a 'skeleton' desktop so every new user created has the same
(limited) options.
(I reali
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:23:28PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> oh. I see. That is the right one. but, doesn't really work if you need
>> to recurse into stuff does it, which was my problem with that find in
>> the previous post.
>
> T
On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Adam Hardy wrote:
Something is rewriting my resolv.conf at least every minute. I
suspected it must be dnsmasq attempting to do the DNS but I just
stopped dnsmasq, and yet resolv.conf is still being updated. I had
a look over my ps output but dont see anything tha
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/08/07 21:04, wrote:
My server isengard runs dnsmasq to provide the dhcp clients. However it
doesn't
recognise any internal network domain name:
isengard:~# hostname
isengard
isengard:~# hostname --fqdn
hostname: Unknown host
isengar
Nate Bargmann wrote:
* Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]:
However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD.
That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the
impossible ones possbile.
This is not an issue with the distro, it's a defect in the
original packag
On Aug 7, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
oh. I see. That is the right one. but, doesn't really work if you need
to recurse into stuff does it, which was my problem with that find in
the previous post.
To do this with find, I'd try something like this:
find . -name "*.wav" -exe
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:04:27AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:36:03PM +0930, David Purton wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:12:24AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 05:17:17PM +0930, David Purton wrote:
> > > > I have been playing with xr
* Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]:
> However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD.
That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the
impossible ones possbile.
- Nate >>
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Its version 2.6.22.1. Follow attached my dmesg.
You can check on it the message:
sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
Thanks.
On 8/7/07, Marko Randjelovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adriano Bonat wrote:
> > Hm, I have a SATA controller, so the SCSI emulation owns the HD and
> > the CD/DVD, I'm
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 11:12:43PM +0200, Manon Metten wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> On 8/7/07, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I do believe he's got it... almost.
>
>
> Errr... She :-)
>
heh heh.
>
> This is confusing me. I understand that if ENV_VAR is an environment
> variable
> than
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:14:42PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>>> - Every Unix-like system you encounter will have some version of the
>>> Bourne
>>> shell. Not every system will have Python.
>>
>> Not every system has bash.
>
> Well, yeah.
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 05:28:54PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote:
>
> Learn how to use 'find'. It's very useful.
> Also regular expressions.
>
Recently I've begun picking up (mostly by osmosis and from reading
Florian's posts) a lot more awk, find, and regex. Those three combined
with xargs or fi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/08/07 21:04, wrote:
My server isengard runs dnsmasq to provide the dhcp clients. However it
doesn't
recognise any internal network domain name:
isengard:~# hostname
isengard
isengard:~# hostname --fqdn
hostname: Unknown host
isengard:~# nslookup gondor
Server: 194
On 8/7/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to learn bash or python scripting.
>
> - Which one is easiest to learn?
Python I guess.
> - Which one is more powerful?
Python.
> - Can I execute /bin commands from within a python script
> (something like mkdir or ls)?
Y
On Tue, 2007.08.07 14:35, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On 8/7/07, Oscar Corte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How should be done in order to switch to "Latin-American" keyboard layout
> > from the console? I'm using a very basic installation with no graphics
> > desktop environment.
>
> Make sure the co
Mathias Brodala wrote:
Hi Mike.
Mike McCarty, 07.08.2007 09:22:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
I recently developed a desire to run some emulators under Linux,
and consequently have run some of them. Here are my opinions of them,
based on install, ease of use, and speed of emu
On Aug 7, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
- Every Unix-like system you encounter will have some version of
the Bourne
shell. Not every system will have Python.
Not every system has bash.
Well, yeah. That's why I said "Bourne shell" and not "bash."
I now write all my portable sc
Hi,
I'm missing lgrind for amd64.
What is the reason?
Hans
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I'm trying to get unicode to work in perl. When I do the 'textbook' example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -e'binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); print
chr(0x263a)'
I get garbage, not a smiley face, i.e.:
âº
My environment is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ env
SSH_AGENT_PID=3589
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
On 2007-08-07 12:39:37 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Manon Metten wrote:
>> I'm about to learn bash or python scripting.
Why not zsh (more powerful than bash) or perl?
>> Or should I learn bash scripting anyway?
>
> If you plan to do much system administration, learn
On 8/7/07, Oscar Corte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all:
>
> How should be done in order to switch to "Latin-American" keyboard layout
> from the console? I'm using a very basic installation with no graphics
> desktop environment.
>
> Thanks in advance for anny hints.
Make sure the console
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Sam wrote:
Hi All,
I noticed this in dmesg the other day
hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
and i have started to get corrupted data off of it. I assume it is dying,
but
Hi Michael,
On 8/7/07, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As a stop-gap, you might want to install regina-rexx . That'll at
> least give you time to convert your scripts to something else.
Gee, this is great. It looks very familiar. I don't think it won't take
long before I can use it. T
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:55:28AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Aug 4, 2007, at 2:42 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
I'd have to modify that. Instead of NIH, my worry is that since XFS
was designed for a different kernel, it's been "shimmed" into Linu
Hi Mike,
On 8/7/07, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I do believe he's got it... almost.
Errr... She :-)
If ENV_VAR is an environment variable, then the shell interprets
> $ENV_VAR as a request to remove $ENV_VAR from the command, and replace
> it with the value of ENV_VAR. So...
>
>
I have run alsaconf but I find rthat the update modules common is
depreciated.
I looked at infomod soundcore
fond that in /lib/modules/2.6.21-2.686/kernel/sound/sound.ko
but under the heading
vermagic 2.6.21-2.686 SMP mod_unload 686
what does this mean
I cannot get audio at the end of the
Hi Mike,
On 8/7/07, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>$ export PATH=~/scripts:$PATH
>
>
> Well, I combined two commands into one.
>
> $ x=y
> sets an environment variable x to value y.
> $ export x
> makes x available to all subprocesses in the tree which get created
> after the export
Manon Metten wrote:
Thanks for explaining. So I understand that export PATH=~/scripts:$PATH
concatenates "~/scripts" and "$PATH" and sets the result to be the new
$PATH.
I do believe he's got it... almost.
If ENV_VAR is an environment variable, then the shell interprets
$ENV_VAR as a request
Dear Debianists,
I am trying to run some distillation simulation applets
I needed to install some kind of Java plugin into Iceweasel in order to run
them.
I went in Synaptic and installed the java-gcj-compat-plugin 1.0.65-10 deb
file.
It does seem to work at least reasonably well..
On 8/7/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wish I'd discovers Linux some ten years ago. I have literally hundreds of
> AmigaDOS and ARexx scripts - some of them very powerful - that don't
> even come close to converting to bash (or maybe python). Now I feel I've
> to re-invent the wheel
Manon Metten wrote:
Hi Mike,
On 8/7/07, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do something like this
$ export PATH=~/scripts:$PATH
If you put it into the appropriate startup script it will get done
every time.
I was looking for some kind of 'path' command but could not find anything
alik
Hi PK,
On 8/7/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I ain't got no /usr/share/doc/bash/examples dir.
> > There's also no /usr/local/share/doc dir.
> > Where do I get these examples?
>
> apt-get install bash-doc
>
> In general, for any package, pkg, pkg-doc is a good source of help and
> exampl
Hi David,
On 8/7/07, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm about to learn bash or python scripting.
> > - Which one is easiest to learn?
>
> That's debatable, I think. Bash's syntax is more idiosyncratic, but
> there's less of it.
>
> > - Which one is more powerful?
>
> Python.
> Or
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> is NetworkManager running? if so, surf to it on the desktop and turn
> off "Enable Roaming" or whatever it is for that card.
>
No. NetworkManager is not installed on this system.
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On Tuesday 07 Aug 2007, ak wrote:
> apt-get update
> apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk linux32 lib32asound2
> nspluginwrapper cd /tmp
> wget
> http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flas
>h_player_9_linux.tar.gz tar xvfz install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
> cd insta
On Tuesday 07 Aug 2007, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> On 8/7/07, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Having just upgraded my system from i386 to AMD64 I find I am
> > unable to watch youtube vidoes anymore. I generally use Konqueror,
> > but Ideweasel doesn't work either.
> >
> > I thought all
apt-get update
apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk linux32 lib32asound2 nspluginwrapper
cd /tmp
wget
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
tar xvfz install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
cd install_flash_player_9_linux
mv libflashplayer.so /
On 8/7/07, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Having just upgraded my system from i386 to AMD64 I find I am unable to
> watch youtube vidoes anymore. I generally use Konqueror, but Ideweasel
> doesn't work either.
>
> I thought all I had to do was install nspluginswrapper (as well as
> lib
Hello,
I have upgraded a Notebook from SARGE to ETCH.
But the E-mail program EVOLUTION does not start
anymore.
strace evolution
finishes with:
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
I have googled for hours - nothing found.
please, what can I do to get some hint?
Hugo
__
Hello Mannon,
On 8/7/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi PK,
>
> On 8/7/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...snip...]
> > For more on bash startup see
> > /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
>
>
> I ain't got no /usr/share/doc/bash/examples dir.
> There's
Hi David,
On 8/7/07, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's the reason I shouldn't touch /etc/profile but use
> ~/.bash_profile instead?
>
> They do the same thing, but for different scopes. /etc/profile affects
> every account on the system. ~/.bash_profile only affects your own.
>
I'm sure anyone with responsibility for spam filtering has seen
messages, many of them, which meet the following criteria:
HTML formatted
empty body
one attachment, which is a pdf file
Is there a spamassassin test which would score such messages very highly?
Or, does anyone have a maildrop recip
Hi PK,
On 8/7/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's the reason I shouldn't touch /etc/profile but use
> > ~/.bash_profile instead?
>
> For the simple reason that you wouldn't want (or prefer) to mess with
> the system's defaults unless otherwise forced to. Moreover, think of a
> machine
On Aug 7, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Manon Metten wrote:
Hi Nyizsnyik,
On 8/7/07, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would rather you checked your ~/.bash_profile file.
What's the reason I shouldn't touch /etc/profile but use
~/.bash_profile instead?
They do the same thing, but for dif
On Aug 7, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Manon Metten wrote:
Hi,
I'm about to learn bash or python scripting.
- Which one is easiest to learn?
That's debatable, I think. Bash's syntax is more idiosyncratic, but
there's less of it.
- Which one is more powerful?
Python.
- Can I execute /bin com
Adriano Bonat wrote:
> Hm, I have a SATA controller, so the SCSI emulation owns the HD and
> the CD/DVD, I'm not at home now, but if i remember, the /dev/cdrw is a
> link to /dev/sr0
Which kernel version is it? You don't need SCSI emulation under 2.6. And
CD cannot be SATA, only IDE.
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Having just upgraded my system from i386 to AMD64 I find I am unable to
watch youtube vidoes anymore. I generally use Konqueror, but Ideweasel
doesn't work either.
I thought all I had to do was install nspluginswrapper (as well as
libflash) but it doesn't work.
Is there a way?
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On 8/7/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What's the reason I shouldn't touch /etc/profile but use
> ~/.bash_profile instead?
For the simple reason that you wouldn't want (or prefer) to mess with
the system's defaults unless otherwise forced to. Moreover, think of a
machine where you
On 8/7/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[..snip..]
> If I want an environment variable available all the time, I should place it
> in
> either /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile, right?
Yes. Preferably ~/.bash_profile and export it.
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PK
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Alex Samad wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 04:57:30PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
>> I run Etch and at every boot, as message on the screen states, it
>> activates some "ipv6 over ipv4 tunneling driver" and it lasts several
>> seconds. I don't need ipv6. How can it be disabled?
>>
>
> in /etc
Manon Metten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to learn bash or python scripting.
>
> - Which one is easiest to learn?
> - Which one is more powerful?
> - Can I execute /bin commands from within a python script
> (something like mkdir or ls)?
>
> Or should I learn bash scripting anyway?
You should l
Hi,
I'm about to learn bash or python scripting.
- Which one is easiest to learn?
- Which one is more powerful?
- Can I execute /bin commands from within a python script
(something like mkdir or ls)?
Or should I learn bash scripting anyway?
Please, let me know your experiences.
Thanks in adva
On 8/6/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 06:40:28PM +1000, Charlie wrote:
> > Subject copied over to Kmail...
> >
> > Kmail works with the satellite server now? A long online chat and Kmail
> > works
> > a treat as ever. Phew
> >
> > Thanks to
Hi Andrew,
On 8/7/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
$PATH is an environment variable like any other and gets assigned a
> value in the same way as any other. export is used to make a variable
> available to other processes that come after the one spawned by the
> assignment pro
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 12:45:18 -0400, percy tiglao wrote:
> > On 8/6/07, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > > Hi Percy. As nobody has replied yet, I may as well throw in some stuff.
> > >
> > > If Vista is correct the vendor/device id's for the card should be 8086
> > > 10c0.
> > > If you run lspci -v , is
Hi all:
How should be done in order to switch to “Latin-American” keyboard layout from
the console? I’m using a very basic installation with no graphics desktop
environment.
Thanks in advance for anny hints.
Regards
_
Make eve
Hi,
Somebody know how to create local mirror using dvd images?
Thanks,
Állan
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Manon Metten wrote:
What's the reason I shouldn't touch /etc/profile but use
~/.bash_profile instead?
A study of tutorial on Unix/Linux will take you a long way.
HTH,
-ishwar
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Hm, I have a SATA controller, so the SCSI emulation owns the HD and
the CD/DVD, I'm not at home now, but if i remember, the /dev/cdrw is a
link to /dev/sr0
Thanks.
On 8/7/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adriano Bonat wrote:
>
> > dev=/dev/cdrw
> >
> > my kernel isnt the default for
Hi Nyizsnyik,
On 8/7/07, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would rather you checked your ~/.bash_profile file.
>
What's the reason I shouldn't touch /etc/profile but use
~/.bash_profile instead?
Manon.
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 18:35 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi.
>
> After adding a CD-ROM with `apt-cdrom', running `apt-get update' will be
> enough? Or should I also run `apt-get dist-upgrade' as a third step?
>
> I couldn't find an answer in the Debian documentation.
>
> Tnanks for any reply
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 06:24:08PM +0200, Manon Metten wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> On 8/7/07, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Do something like this
> >
> > $ export PATH=~/scripts:$PATH
> >
> > If you put it into the appropriate startup script it will get done
> > every time.
>
>
>
> I
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 04:53:19PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debianists
>
> I downloaded a small free software from the following location:
>
> http://webscripts.softpedia.com/script/Scientific-Engineering-Ruby/Chemistry/McCabe-Thiele-Method-for-an-Ideal-Binary-Mixture-31835.html
>
>
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 17:45:18 +0200, Hans Vogelsberger wrote:
> Since one week or so apt-get is broken because of unmet dependencies on my
> → AMD64, Aspire 4200, Debian, mirror http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/
> → testing.
>
> There should be a bug report, but I do not know against which of t
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