Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-02 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
On Sunday 02 September 2007 13:26:18 Richard Lyons wrote: > > I suppose I'll have to get a copy. This is not the first time I have > seen that recommendation. It is just that I prefer to use online > resources. TeX/LaTeX seems unique in lacking a good online manual. > In the package tetex-doc yo

workaround for: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 kernel

2007-09-02 Thread Paul Scott
Takehiko Abe wrote: > Paul Scott wrote: > > > $ stat /dev/ptmx > > [...snip...] > > ptmx looks fine to me. > > > mountpoint says /dev/pts is not a mount point > > You need to mount devpts filesystem at /dev/pts. > pts(4) manpage says: > > ;; The Linux support for the above (known as Unix98 pty nami

reporting spam websites

2007-09-02 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
In a previous thread Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:54:52PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: >> Uh, what the heck is this crap? I hope I'm not going to start getting >> spam through this list now > > >> Yup, it's spam. Someone needs to get the list off this > > Yup, and by q

Re: Hi where can I get g++ package

2007-09-02 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
isarayunyong wrote: > > I have the same problem. "Configure error: C compiler cannot create > executables" > > First of all I did not have "gcc" at all. I downloaded and installed > [b]gcc-4.1_4.1.1-21_i386.deb[/b]. Then I got your heading message. After > reading your messages I downloaded [b]g

Re: rndc woes

2007-09-02 Thread Chuck Payne
Jeff D wrote: On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Chuck Payne wrote: Hi Guys, I am at lost, I been look on the net haven't found a clean answer (google is becoming more and more a pain) About five days ago I got error where my rndc.key was not the correct key and could no longer xfer between my main dns s

Problems regarding sound

2007-09-02 Thread vivek shah
hello, I am using Debain Etch on my Acer laptop and it was running fine till the sound stopped working suddenly. I was playing a movie on VLC player and in the middle it just stopped working. After that I tried cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp but I didnt get any sound. I checked that my user wa

Re: rndc woes

2007-09-02 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Chuck Payne wrote: Hi Guys, I am at lost, I been look on the net haven't found a clean answer (google is becoming more and more a pain) About five days ago I got error where my rndc.key was not the correct key and could no longer xfer between my main dns server and bind9

postfix loop by to itself

2007-09-02 Thread Chuck Payne
Guys, Again, google is not my friend. I been looking for a month how to fix this problems and haven't gotten a clean answer. By the way this problem only is happen on my debian box. But I am unable to get any of my system emails, because the system is looping by to itself. Sep 3 00:18:32 i

Re: rndc woes

2007-09-02 Thread Chuck Payne
Chuck Payne wrote: Hi Guys, I am at lost, I been look on the net haven't found a clean answer (google is becoming more and more a pain) About five days ago I got error where my rndc.key was not the correct key and could no longer xfer between my main dns server and bind9 wouldn't not come u

Re: A sane way to merge config file differences during package installation?

2007-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/07 04:55, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Everyone will know a message like this: > > Configuration file `/etc/sysctl.conf' > ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. > ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. >

rndc woes

2007-09-02 Thread Chuck Payne
Hi Guys, I am at lost, I been look on the net haven't found a clean answer (google is becoming more and more a pain) About five days ago I got error where my rndc.key was not the correct key and could no longer xfer between my main dns server and bind9 wouldn't not come up any more. I remo

Bugreport: AMD64 arch + printing to Minolta PageWorks 20

2007-09-02 Thread tabris
To start, this printer is known to work fine under Sarge i686, and Etch i686. However, it does not work with Etch AMD64 nor Lenny AMD64. We use the Minolta PagePro 8. It seems to work fine with ljet4. Currently running on a PII and using the CUPS+Gutenprint filter. Any ideas on this,

Re: A sane way to merge config file differences during package installation?

2007-09-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:55:05AM +0200, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Configuration file `/etc/sysctl.conf' > ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. > ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. >What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: > Y

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-09-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
Why not try opening the file with msword then use save-as selection box on the file menu to save in your format of choice? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NMI received, likely on the PCI bus

2007-09-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > "NMI received, likely on the PCI bus ..." together with stuff about a > hardware problem. ... > I'm using a Thinkpad Z61M with Sid, kernel 2.6.20.1-slh-smp-2. Thinkpads do NMIs and SMIs for system management. It is likely something stupid, thay you s

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/07 20:46, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 08:21:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Personally, I find that weekly or bi-weekly upgrades are adequate. > > Ron, I know that it will vary, possibly widely, but what size of >

Re: dumb question about compiz

2007-09-02 Thread Miles Bader
Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And forget ATI cards, their driver has... some discrepancies. Unless it's one of the older ATI cards which the free drivers support... those older cards are maybe not the right thing for the latest balls-to-the-wall games under windows, but for runnin

Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian

2007-09-02 Thread Miles Bader
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But what if you've been using Ubuntu for seven months now, you have > all your applications install, with all the libraries with version > numbers like "2-3.2-ubuntu-1"? Sure, it's not really a big deal. Those usually don't seem to be any more incompat

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 08:21:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Personally, I find that weekly or bi-weekly upgrades are adequate. Ron, I know that it will vary, possibly widely, but what size of download are you typically seeing on your weekly or bi-weekly upgrades? I'm on slow dial-up (gener

Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

2007-09-02 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 9/2/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, evince doesn't show the barcodes on my system. In fact, > none of evince, xpdf, gpdf, and kpdf can see the barcodes. To have Evince displaying the barcode I did this: Created a hints file: begin /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-b

Re: oo 2.2 in lenny?

2007-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/07 11:38, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > I am running lenny, and I would like to install openoffice.org-2.2. The > version in lenny is 2.0. In my etch machines, I used the oo-2.2 from > backports.org. How can I install openoffice.org-2.

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/07 19:37, John Hasler wrote: [snip] > > It does not involve constantly dist-upgrading. There is no need to upgrade > Sid packages just because new ones are available, which is what "keeping > up" implies. While some evidently find it amusin

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:16:05PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: >> Does /var/log/mail.log say to where the messages were delivered? >> >> Ben >> > It says connection refused by 127.0.0.1 What is the output of mailq? Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Techno

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-02 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > What would require that? So things change: so what? Why do you think > you have to keep up? Doug writes: > Two reasons: bug fixes for any problems I would notice (things not > working)... Just upgrade packages in which you find troublesome bugs (and which have been fixed in Sid). >

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:09:41PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > There is no need to "keep up" with Sid, > > Doug writes: > > You mean that sid is stable? > > No. > > > Don't things change frequently.., > > They do. > > > ...requiring aptiude updates/upgrades? > > What would requir

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-09-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 03:31:53PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 21.07.07 10:46, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in > > fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not > > correctly read: the l

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-02 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > There is no need to "keep up" with Sid, Doug writes: > You mean that sid is stable? No. > Don't things change frequently.., They do. > ...requiring aptiude updates/upgrades? What would require that? So things change: so what? Why do you think you have to keep up? -- John Hasler

Re: /etc/grub.conf + /boot/grub/menu.lst

2007-09-02 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 9/2/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 应富鸣 wrote: > > I saw /etc/grub.conf once (maybe under Ubuntu). It seems that > > /etc/grub.conf is just a link of /boot/grub/menu.lst or > > /boot/grub/grub.conf. I have no clue about mondo... But the thing is that grub-legacy (I think it i

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-02 Thread Thomas H. George
Benjamin A'Lee wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 02:26:44PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I changed the /etc/apt/sources.list entries from etch to lenny and ran apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. All went well but I did not accept the new exim4 configuration as in the past I had

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: Douglas A. Tutty writes: ...if he has the bandwidth to make keeping up with Sid an option... There is no need to "keep up" with Sid, Indeed. Sid follows me around together with Carlota and Concho... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 03:36:28PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty writes: > > ...if he has the bandwidth to make keeping up with Sid an option... > > There is no need to "keep up" with Sid, You mean that sid is stable? Don't things change frequently, requiring aptiude updates/upgra

Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

2007-09-02 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/02/2007 02:19 PM, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Hi Mumia! On 9/2/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sure. The PDF you can get here http://naoliv.googlepages.com/giap.pdf (size is 146k) and the font here http://naoliv.googlepages.com/Bar25if.ttf (24k). The barcode should appear on pa

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-02 Thread John Hasler
Douglas A. Tutty writes: > ...if he has the bandwidth to make keeping up with Sid an option... There is no need to "keep up" with Sid, -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cups printing problem

2007-09-02 Thread Robert Jerrard
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 22:03 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 11:43:18 -0600, Robert Jerrard wrote: > > I have just installed Debian etch from scratch. In attempting to set up > > the printing the cups printer section tells me: > > > > "/usr/lib/cups/backend/http failed" > >

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-02 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 02:26:44PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I changed the /etc/apt/sources.list entries from etch to lenny and ran > apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. All went well but I did > not accept the new exim4 configuration as in the past I had to edit the > confi

Re: Cups printing problem

2007-09-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 11:43:18 -0600, Robert Jerrard wrote: > I have just installed Debian etch from scratch. In attempting to set up > the printing the cups printer section tells me: > > "/usr/lib/cups/backend/http failed" > > and /var/log/cups/error_log gives: > > E [01/Sep/2007:10:22:33 -06

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 18:17:29 +0200, Rickard Lindberg wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to install Pidgin on my new Debian Etch setup. I found that the > package was only available in the unstable repository, so I added that to my > sources.list and installed it. Some other packages (dependencies I gue

Re: debian base system install

2007-09-02 Thread Rolando Pereira
John Pycroft wrote: i am a new user and i'm trying to install your current version of debian GNU/Linux 4.0r1 os on my GigaByte P4 desktop PC. every time i run the base system installer, it spends a long time on initamfs-tools or something like that, after it sits on that one file for around 20

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:29:35PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:36:13PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Congratulations, you just killed your system. > > Though he's very terse, what Doug means to say is that you have broken > your system by injecting a potent mix of

Re: Welcome to SI Network - Your Career, Your Country.

2007-09-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:54:52PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: > Uh, what the heck is this crap? I hope I'm not going to start getting > spam through this list now > > Yup, it's spam. Someone needs to get the list off this Yup, and by quoting spam and putting it back on the list, you teach D

Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

2007-09-02 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Mumia! On 9/2/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sure. > > The PDF you can get here http://naoliv.googlepages.com/giap.pdf (size > > is 146k) and the font here http://naoliv.googlepages.com/Bar25if.ttf > > (24k). > > > > The barcode should appear on pages 2 to 5 (like this picture her

Re: Welcome to SI Network - Your Career, Your Country.

2007-09-02 Thread Chris
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:54:52 -0500 ArcticFox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uh, what the heck is this crap? I hope I'm not going to start getting > spam through this list now > > > On Sep 2, 2007, at 12:39 PM, SINET wrote: > > > > > SiliconIndia - Tips to make best use of the network. > > >

Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

2007-09-02 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/02/2007 12:21 PM, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Hi Mumia! On 9/2/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If it doesn't contain private data, you could send both the PDF and the TTF file to me, and I'll try to see what it takes to get the font rendered. Sure. The PDF you can get here htt

Re: Welcome to SI Network - Your Career, Your Country.

2007-09-02 Thread ArcticFox
Uh, what the heck is this crap? I hope I'm not going to start getting spam through this list now On Sep 2, 2007, at 12:39 PM, SINET wrote: SiliconIndia - Tips to make best use of the network. Dear Debian , Thanks for becoming a SiliconIndia network. SiliconIndia site offers larges

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-09-02 Thread Manon Metten
Hi, I was wondering if powering on causes the most wear and tear to HD's, than wouldn't it be wise to set timeout in /boot/grub/menu.lst to eg. 600 (10 min.) so that the HD's have some time for warming up before they are accessed heavily on boot-up. Manon.

Welcome to SI Network - Your Career, Your Country.

2007-09-02 Thread SINET
SiliconIndia - Tips to make best use of the network. Dear Debian , Thanks for becoming a SiliconIndia network. SiliconIndia site offers largest Content and Community networks for global professionals, entrepreneurs and students with interests in India. Your SiliconIndia Network accoun

exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-02 Thread Thomas H. George
I changed the /etc/apt/sources.list entries from etch to lenny and ran apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. All went well but I did not accept the new exim4 configuration as in the past I had to edit the configuration. As a result exim4 was left in a broken state that could neithe

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:36:13PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Congratulations, you just killed your system. Though he's very terse, what Doug means to say is that you have broken your system by injecting a potent mix of unstable packages, which is not recommended. One thing you might (or mig

Nvidia 6200TC and ATI RS480/482

2007-09-02 Thread michael bailey
Please has anyone experience or knowledge of incompatabilities between Nvidia's 6200TC Express X 16 graphics card and a motherboard based on ATI's RS480 or RS482 chip ? I have read of some people experiencing computer lockouts when using the above combination. I know of a system which uses an

Re: SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:17:29PM +0200, Rickard Lindberg wrote: > I wanted to install Pidgin on my new Debian Etch setup. I found that the > package was only available in the unstable repository, so I added that to my > sources.list and installed it. Some other packages (dependencies I guess) > a

Re: oo 2.2 in lenny?

2007-09-02 Thread Siraya
Hello, accedently I gave a link to the german side of Open Office, but you should find an english version or other languages there, too. Greetings, Siraya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 09:34:00AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:10:15PM +0100, Ari Constancio wrote: > > On 9/2/07, Ari Constancio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I suppose I'll have to get a copy. This is not the first time I have > > > > seen that recommendatio

Re: oo 2.2 in lenny?

2007-09-02 Thread Siraya
http://de.openoffice.org/downloads/quick.html?version=2.2 - Original Message - From: "Marcelo Chiapparini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 6:38 PM Subject: oo 2.2 in lenny? Hi! I am running lenny, and I would like to install openoffice.org-2.2.

oo 2.2 in lenny?

2007-09-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! I am running lenny, and I would like to install openoffice.org-2.2. The version in lenny is 2.0. In my etch machines, I used the oo-2.2 from backports.org. How can I install openoffice.org-2.2 in lenny? Thanks in advance Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: problems installing etch: no HD detected

2007-09-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 12:04 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi! > > I need to install etch in a notebook which has MS-Vista installed. I > have shrinked the HD (using diskpart from inside Vista) in order to get > room for etch. I am using the etch netinstall cd, and the gui-expert > mode with

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-09-02 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 Matus UHLAR wrote: > On 21.07.07 10:46, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in > > fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not > > correctly read: the line ends are not recogn

SVG broke after installing Pidgin unstable package

2007-09-02 Thread Rickard Lindberg
Hi, I wanted to install Pidgin on my new Debian Etch setup. I found that the package was only available in the unstable repository, so I added that to my sources.list and installed it. Some other packages (dependencies I guess) also got installed. After I did that and restarted X, it seems like t

Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

2007-09-02 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Mumia! On 9/2/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a PDF (http://naoliv.googlepages.com/giap.pdf) that uses a > > Bar25if font (http://naoliv.googlepages.com/Bar25if.ttf). > > > > Installing it to a directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-barcod25 > > and registering it with "def

Re: /etc/grub.conf + /boot/grub/menu.lst

2007-09-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
应富鸣 wrote: I saw /etc/grub.conf once (maybe under Ubuntu). It seems that /etc/grub.conf is just a link of /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/grub.conf. But if you make it a link you get an infinite loop when using the mondo restore CD: it has to be a regular file. On 9/2/07, Hugo Vanwoer

Re: /etc/grub.conf + /boot/grub/menu.lst

2007-09-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 09:54:07AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Anybody understand the relation between these 2? > > Mondo insists on /etc/grub.conf and that is what you get to edit on a > restore from CD. > > But it seems that Debian only uses /boot/grub/menu.lst and that is what > updat

Re: /etc/grub.conf + /boot/grub/menu.lst

2007-09-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 09:54:07AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Mondo insists on /etc/grub.conf and that is what you get to edit on a > restore from CD. Other distributions store it here; notably Fedora. > But it seems that Debian only uses /boot/grub/menu.lst and that is what > update-grub

Re: /etc/grub.conf + /boot/grub/menu.lst

2007-09-02 Thread 应富鸣
I saw /etc/grub.conf once (maybe under Ubuntu). It seems that /etc/grub.conf is just a link of /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/grub.conf. On 9/2/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > Anybody understand the relation between these 2? > > Mondo insists on /etc/grub.conf and th

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-09-02 Thread Felix Cuello
Yes, that´s right but if you have to perform many operations maybe the "echo" + "bc" form is quite faster: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ time echo "24 * 365.25" | bc 8766.00 real0m0.018s user0m0.002s sys 0m0.001s [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ time python -c "x = 24 * 365.25 ; print '%.2f' % x " 8766.0

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-09-02 Thread Cousin Stanley
> That's still a little bit high, actually: > > ~$> echo "24 * 365.25" | bc > 8766.00 > > but I only did this to illustrate the more compact use > of some system tools, in this case 'echo', 'bc' and a pipe. :) G.W. Python can also be used in a handy and compact form $ python -c "x

/etc/grub.conf + /boot/grub/menu.lst

2007-09-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Anybody understand the relation between these 2? Mondo insists on /etc/grub.conf and that is what you get to edit on a restore from CD. But it seems that Debian only uses /boot/grub/menu.lst and that is what update-grub updates. Anybody? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070902 06:35]: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:08:11AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> If you do not have a copy of "A Guide to LaTeX" by Helmut Kopka & >> Patrick W. Daly, you need to get a copy. It is by far the best LaTeX >> book, and the only one you likel

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-09-02 Thread 应富鸣
Forgive me my poor English, for my native language is not English. You may use unix2dos to trasnfer the signal of line end from linux to MS Windows. The signal under linux is diffrent from that under Windows. In Debian, you can simply use the command: apt-get install tofrodos to have the two comman

Re: CPU Speed

2007-09-02 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > On 07/21/07 20:08, Telly Williams wrote: > > > The HP, under cpuinfo, has: > > > > > > model name: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor > > > cpu MHz: 367.497 > > > stepping: 0 > > > cache size: 64 KB > > > > > > ram: 256 MB > > > On 21.07.07 22:34, Te

Re: CPU Speed

2007-09-02 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 22.07.07 13:43, Aenn Seidhe Priest wrote: > Socket 7 motherboards used to have L2 cache on themselves (unlike P-IIs > which had everything - L1 cache, L2 cache - in the processor cartridge). Well - first PII's had its L2 cache on separate chip on the cartridge, but L1 cache was on the CPU chip.

Re: hardware info

2007-09-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I thought I saw a reference to a tool that prints system hardware info in html format with the --html option. Now I can't find it. Anybody know? Hugo Thanks guys!!! lshw it is. I record everything I do and... this slipped through the cracks :-( Hugo -- To U

Re: HPET multimedia timer

2007-09-02 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 21.07.07 16:22, koffiejunkie wrote: > I've been fiddling with powertop on my notebook, and one of the > suggestions it makes is: > > "enable the HPET (Multimedia Timer) in your BIOS or add the kernel patch > to force-enable HPET. HPET support allows Linux to have much longer > sleep interv

Re: hardware info

2007-09-02 Thread Justin Piszcz
lshw supports the html option lshw [ -html | -short | -xml | -businfo ] [ -class class ... ] [ -dis- On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:18:09 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Hugo, I thought I saw a reference to a tool that prints

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-09-02 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 Cousin Stanley wrote: > > My previous server used 100 Watts on average. > > > > If left on 24/7, that's 61,320 hours a year, > > or 6,132,000 Watt-hours or 6,132 kWh. > > > > The number of hours per year that you used > in your calculation seems a bit high .

Re: What uses xorg process?

2007-09-02 Thread s. keeling
Thomas Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > According to "top", the "xorg" process uses ~25-40% of my AMD 3000+ CPU > several times a minute for several seconds at a time. I suspect some > other program uses xorg to execute its code for it. > > How do I find out what process uses the xorg proces

Re: hardware info

2007-09-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:18:09 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Hugo, > I thought I saw a reference to a tool that prints system hardware > info in html format with the --html option. lshw can output hw details to html. I've not used it myself, but it shows up in the Debian

Re: dumb question about compiz

2007-09-02 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:13:21 + "Michael Fothergill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I had a look at the compiz web page and some youtube videos showing > it in action. I notice there are deb files for it in Etch. > > I use AMD64 Etch 4.0 r1. > > My machine is an AMD Sempr

Re: Help! Update screwed my box up 'automagically'!

2007-09-02 Thread s. keeling
Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > For your video problem, you can try : > dpkg-reconfigure xorg-xserver Just a nit; that should be "xserver-xorg". -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-09-02 Thread Adam Hardy
Cousin Stanley on 02/09/07 02:34, wrote: My previous server used 100 Watts on average. If left on 24/7, that's 61,320 hours a year, or 6,132,000 Watt-hours or 6,132 kWh. Adam The number of hours per year that you used in your calculation seems a bit high hours_per_

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:10:15PM +0100, Ari Constancio wrote: > On 9/2/07, Ari Constancio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I suppose I'll have to get a copy. This is not the first time I have > > > seen that recommendation. It is just that I prefer to use online > > > resources. TeX/LaTeX seem

Re: hardware info

2007-09-02 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Hugo. Hugo Vanwoerkom, 02.09.2007 15:18: > I thought I saw a reference to a tool that prints system hardware info > in html format with the --html option. > > Now I can't find it. Do you mean "lshw"? Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-09-02 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 21.07.07 10:46, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in > fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not > correctly read: the line ends are not recognised. how do you transfer those files? FTP has ASCII tran

Re: Fileserver Issues

2007-09-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 04:07:30PM +1000, Nathan O wrote: [snip trouble re raid5 and kernel panics] > it spent too long resyncing and all is well. The degraded array is > mounted and working fine. I erased and created an ext3 partition on > the suspect drive and data is being copied to it as I typ

hardware info

2007-09-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I thought I saw a reference to a tool that prints system hardware info in html format with the --html option. Now I can't find it. Anybody know? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian__ASUS_P5VD2-MX

2007-09-02 Thread Cousin Stanley
Greetings I'm looking for a low cost system and found the following which runs a 3 GHz Intel Celeron on an ASUS motherboard which seems to me to be of decent value at $214 US http://www.acnt.com/config.asp?config_id=LGAVALUE From a bit of Google-izing I got more than a

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-09-02 Thread Cousin Stanley
>> >> The number of hours per year that you used >> in your calculation seems a bit high >> >> hours_per_day = 24 >> >> days_per_year = 366 >> >> hours_per_year = hours_per_day * days_per_year >> >> print '\n ' , hours_per_year >> >> 8784 > Just

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-02 Thread Ari Constancio
The link is http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf On 9/2/07, Ari Constancio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suppose I'll have to get a copy. This is not the first time I have > > seen that recommendation. It is just that I prefer to use online > > resources. TeX/LaTeX seems unique in lackin

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-02 Thread Ari Constancio
> I suppose I'll have to get a copy. This is not the first time I have > seen that recommendation. It is just that I prefer to use online > resources. TeX/LaTeX seems unique in lacking a good online manual. Probably because there *is* a good online manual, called "The not so Short Introduction

Re: Where and how do I install a TTF font?

2007-09-02 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/02/2007 03:23 AM, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: (CC me on answers, please) Sure. Hi! Hi Nelson. I have a PDF (http://naoliv.googlepages.com/giap.pdf) that uses a Bar25if font (http://naoliv.googlepages.com/Bar25if.ttf). Installing it to a directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-

Re: a LaTeX question

2007-09-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:08:11AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070901 06:21]: > > Does anyone here use LaTeX. Not a Debian question at all, but isn't it > > possible to define a quantity, say a cash amount > > \def\yearly {12000} > > and then have la

I am inviting you to Join my Siliconinda network

2007-09-02 Thread Swati Sinha
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Re: double raid 1 & filesystem

2007-09-02 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:22:40AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > I need more fast-HD space for computational work. I wonder whether by > > adding a second SATA raid1 (a couple of new disks) to the existing SATA > > raid1, my home could be spread on the two raid1 systems, as if it were a > >

Re: PC with vhosts and with 1 public IP

2007-09-02 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Stefan Weber wrote: > > i have a pc with a public ip-address on eth0. i like to build some > > virtual hosts for proftp at this pc. I think that i need a public ip for > > every vhost. but my subnet is not largely enough. have somebody an idea? On 19.07.07 19:30, Giorgos Pallas wrote: > Why don'

Several GTK-apps not working anymore after update

2007-09-02 Thread danteonline
Hello I just tried downgrading libpango1.0-common and libpango1.0-0 No progress at all, still the same error. I think this error lies somewhere in the communication between glib/gtk and pango, as the the pango packages don't seem to be the problem, as downgrading showed. Is anyone able to dire

Microsoft DHCP to BIND9

2007-09-02 Thread Andrew
Hi everyone, I am trying to get Microsoft's DHCP Server to Update a BIND DNS Server's record's when clients receive a DHCP address. I can't seem to find a way to tell the Microsoft DHCP server to update the Bind named server. I am using Bind9. Thanks for your help, Andrew. No virus fo

A sane way to merge config file differences during package installation?

2007-09-02 Thread Richard Hartmann
Everyone will know a message like this: Configuration file `/etc/sysctl.conf' ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: Y or I : install the package maintainer's

Several GTK-apps not working anymore after update

2007-09-02 Thread danteonline
Hello there Thank you for your reply I'm sorry it took me so long to reply but I did not see your reply in a very long time :( I gave iceweasel with your parameters a try, it started. Also, the defoma-error is gone now, so the only thing left is that apps won't start and print me this error:

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-09-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 08:34:56PM -0500, Cousin Stanley wrote: > > > My previous server used 100 Watts on average. > > > > If left on 24/7, that's 61,320 hours a year, > > or 6,132,000 Watt-hours or 6,132 kWh. > > > > Adam > > The number of hours per year that you used > in your

Where and how do I install a TTF font?

2007-09-02 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
(CC me on answers, please) Hi! I have a PDF (http://naoliv.googlepages.com/giap.pdf) that uses a Bar25if font (http://naoliv.googlepages.com/Bar25if.ttf). Installing it to a directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-barcod25 and registering it with "defoma-font reregister-all ttf-barcod25.hints" s

Re: USB ports not responding

2007-09-02 Thread Rickard Lindberg
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately the X40 does not have a CD drive, and the only way I can connect one is through USB (which does not work). It seems like Debian finds the hardware for the USB and installs all the host controllers. The same thing happened when I was running windows. All hardware i