Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges")

2007-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/07 11:58, Mike McCarty wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: >> Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >>> >>> Ok, so how does one get a newer kernel, install it, and get >>> all the memory available? >>> >> >> >> That question indicat

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Your suggestion, no. Johannes' constant harping, yes. Especially when he > starts engaging in strawman fallacies, ignoring things I am saying and > flipping arguments my mixing unrelated things together. Sorry again, I never

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Wayne Topa wrote: Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: I've printed off the CUPS docu from their home page, and I'll give the web or CLI another try tomorrow night. (If she'll let me, that is :-) Thanks! Your welcome, Mike. One question. With your GF having been into co

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:53:03AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > I'd have to check. I know it was installed within the last > couple of years. Actually, looking back in my e-mail records, > it was probably in Sep 2005. I don't think it has been updated > much if any since then. I updated her Thunde

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > You're saying that only stringent proponents get to define the usage > parameters of a system. No. But their usage parameters are the only one that change significantly from what I'm working with now. It's a matter of "drop the WYSIWYG and do the work in LaTeX" vs. "Save

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:33:43PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: My GF installed a USB mouse, and her keyboard went away. They work together with THE OTHER OS. IIRC (it's been a while) using a debug startup allows us to get up to a root login, and look around, but using ^D f

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mié, 26-09-2007 a las 01:17 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 21:33 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: [snip of something I can't help with] She can't associate multiple queues with a single printer, but there is already a

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Peter Robinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Sep, Peter Robinson wrote: ... If you write in latex you can always convert to RTF via latex2rtf, which in my experience works excellently. If needed, it is no big deal to convert this to word format. It is definitely worth the effort to learn lat

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:50:44 -0500, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Oops! I somehow neglected to specify... PS/2 style keyboard PS/2 style mouse Keyboard works PS/2 style keyboard USB style mouse Keyboard stops working I am afraid I cannot reproduc

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Wayne Topa wrote: Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Ok, so how does one get a newer kernel, install it, and get all the memory available? That question indicates, to me at least, that you don't know as much about Debian as I thought you did. That's not your fault, I

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/07 09:00, Steve Lamb wrote: [snip] > > But does not fit the requirement of easily converted to an acceptable > format or being able to work visually with it. No, I am not counting LyX and > the like because to suggest a WYSIWYG editor fo

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Sep 26 03:22 -0500]: Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/25/07 21:33, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] USB keyboard? (I've always been leery of them, because of the mutually-exclusive HID and {o,u}chi drivers. Oops! I somehow neglected to specif

vmware vs. qemu for XP guest + samba

2007-09-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Since this is the conclusion of a week' s worth of work, I am posting the results. I had to reload new firmware to a Packard Bell AudioKey FM player because I had stupidly reformatted the vfat fs on it. Problem: qemu' s USB service stinks, but it' s samba use is very good. Could not use it w

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Nate Bargmann wrote: Plenty of stuff, lots of replies and multipost threads. Can't see any bug reports. Guess it's off to the BTS to search there. Drat. How 'bout that? Search of the BTS for submitter reports no reports found. Huh? What address did you submit them from? H, methinks t

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I do not consider converting to word a desirable feature, I do and have stated such. > You asked for suggestions. TeX is the solution I use in a > similar situation, and I offered it up to you, mentioning some of the > advantages I see in that solu

setup wiki with apache2 and mod-python?

2007-09-26 Thread Michael A. Miller
Can anyone supply an example of how to setup a new moinmoin wiki using apache2 and mod_python? I had one working with apache 1.3, but I'm trying to move that to a different machine. I've read through /usr/share/doc/moinmoin-common/INSTALL.html and the examples, but I'm confused about where all th

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:54:24 -0700, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Neil Watson wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:11:31PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >>> Furthermore I fail to see this supposed "don't think about the >>> formatting" simplicity when I can't even write a simple financial >>>

Re: Who is altering my hostname?

2007-09-26 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi, > Is is possible that this change of hostnames is somehow enfored by the > virtualization? (Virtuozzo) Yes, Virtuozzo is known to do such things. I use the attached script in /etc/init.d with appropriate links in /etc/rc*.d (run the script very early in the boot process). Regards, Joachim

htsearch problem after Sarge->Etch system upgrade

2007-09-26 Thread Alexander Schäfer
Hello, we've upgraded our company's web-server (runnun with apache2) from 3.1 to 4.0. All is working well after upgrade, but not the "htsearch" function, which is used for the product search on our web-site. The error message in the Apache-Log is the like: *** [Wed Sep 26 16:49:35 2007] [erro

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:50:44 -0500, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Oops! I somehow neglected to specify... PS/2 style keyboard PS/2 > style mouse Keyboard works > PS/2 style keyboard USB style mouse Keyboard stops working I am afraid I cannot reproduce this. I have two machi

xorg/etch - reload ZAxisMapping on the fly?

2007-09-26 Thread Pigeon
My xorg installation has developed an infuriating habit of freaking out its ZAxisMapping after it's been running for a day or two. It doesn't lose the mapping entirely, but just reassigns it. The result is that my vertical scroll wheel becomes a horizontal scroll wheel, and my horizontal scroll whe

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > > Yeah, and vim is a WYSIWYG editor. Now you're arguing just to be a prick. No, it's you who is arguing just to be a prick. I told you before, that from your previous e-mail I got the impression that you don't like to type th

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:12:50PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: > or any other email client. Those two do everything I need them to do. Apparently they don't do any automatic proper email formating (no top-posting and proper trimming). You still have to do that yourself! Regards, Andrei P.S. Sorry

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > It does not retain the formatting in the sense that it retains page and > line breaks. But it does retain the structure and italics, etc. ie. all > that appears to be important in your case. Or margins. That is not inconsiderable. >>> I didn't want to do hair sp

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> True. But my personal experience includes quite a bit of work with word, >> OOo *and* LaTeX. > > Happy for you. Let me know when you turn into me so your personal > experience matches mine. I'll

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> OOo -> Save As .doc >> LaTex -> Export to HTML, find an HTML to .doc converter, hope all the >> formatting goes through (which it won't). > No: LaTeX -> Export to HTML; open html in OOo -> Save as .doc. > One

Re: ASCII Formatter Whose Name I've Forgotten

2007-09-26 Thread Martin McCormick
Celejar writes: > fmt -w nnn? That's it. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Who is altering my hostname?

2007-09-26 Thread Florian Lindner
Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 schrieb Kevin Sulonen: > Florian Lindner wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 schrieb Kevin Sulonen: > >> Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >>> On 2007-09-26 00:04:26 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: > What could this make happen? In /etc/init.d/ there is nothing like

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > OOo -> Save As .doc > LaTex -> Export to HTML, find an HTML to .doc converter, hope all the > formatting goes through (which it won't). No: LaTeX -> Export to HTML; open html in OOo -> Save as

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > True. But my personal experience includes quite a bit of work with word, > OOo *and* LaTeX. Happy for you. Let me know when you turn into me so your personal experience matches mine. I'll be happy to let you write the book for me. :P > LaTeX, especially without

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 09/25/07 21:33, Mike McCarty wrote: > > [snip] > >> USB keyboard? (I've always been leery of them, because of the >> mutually-exclusive HID and {o,u}chi drivers. > > Oops! I somehow neglected to specify... <>

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> The ultimate irony is that the end result of all this evangelical blather >> for LaTeX has resulted in people suggesting extremely convoluted methods of >> achieving a simple requirement in OOo. Convert LaTeX to HTML and then from >> HTML to Wo

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Neil Watson wrote: > Please approach this subject in a more subjective manner. I was > suggesting that until you gain experience with both manners of > document creation you can hardly form an accurate conclusion as to what > best suits your needs. Until you've tried a vacuum you can't say yo

Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-26 Thread John O Laoi
On 9/26/07, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also check your disk i/o for swapping. How do I do that? > > Also, check whether any other unusual objects are embedded or called > somehow. Perhaps some object is not loading, re-trying, and finally > timing out. Just a guess... That i

Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-26 Thread John O Laoi
On 9/26/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Maybe it's *highly* compressed and most of the time is spent in > zlib. I've seen examples of corner cases that take forever to open. It is a file that is frequently used. I don't know how to check if it is in zlib. > I copied the file to

Re: Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-26 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/26/2007 09:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/26/07 05:15, John O Laoi wrote: >> Hello, >> I am running Etch on a Dell Precision laptop. >> I have one openoffice file, say XYZ.odt, which takes a long time to open >> (maybe 25 minutes). >> While it is opening, Openoffice is stalled. > > No su

Re: It's 3am and I have no caffeine

2007-09-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Chuck Payne: > > Now I am trying to get count to work with zgrep. When I do zgrep -c, I get > a what I am looking for and not a count. Anyway try to play with it to > figure before I crash. You may have to resort to this: gunzip -c foo_file.gz | grep -c bar_pattern J. -- When I get home from

Re: ASCII Formatter Whose Name I've Forgotten

2007-09-26 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:47:09 -0500 Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember reading about a UNIX utility whose name > escapes me. You feed it ASCII text and it breaks lines as near > to a desired length as possible without splitting words. Anyone > remember the name of this u

Re: Debian install to Inspiron 530 with SATA DVD drive

2007-09-26 Thread michael
Quoting Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thanks for that... have downloaded the lastest snapshot and it booted no issues. Now it wont find the network card. sigh... its a intel e1000 i think. Is it easier to just put a new network card in it? Could be, An old 3com or something may help, but I woul

ASCII Formatter Whose Name I've Forgotten

2007-09-26 Thread Martin McCormick
I remember reading about a UNIX utility whose name escapes me. You feed it ASCII text and it breaks lines as near to a desired length as possible without splitting words. Anyone remember the name of this utility? Thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OS

[Fwd: Re: canon printer driver question]

2007-09-26 Thread steef
Original Message Subject:Re: canon printer driver question Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:46:07 +0200 From: steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Who is altering my hostname?

2007-09-26 Thread Florian Lindner
Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 schrieb Kevin Sulonen: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2007-09-26 00:04:26 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: > >> What could this make happen? In /etc/init.d/ there is nothing like a > >> dhcp client. I have also removed some packages with dhcp in their names. > >> > >>

Re: Who is altering my hostname?

2007-09-26 Thread Kevin Sulonen
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2007-09-26 00:04:26 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: What could this make happen? In /etc/init.d/ there is nothing like a dhcp client. I have also removed some packages with dhcp in their names. Any idea what makes these two files changing and how to avoid it?

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> I hope I didn't state that you are wrong, that's not my intention. > > By refuting my personal opinion so emphatically even if you haven't said > the word the sentiment is clear. > >> - From my pe

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > The ultimate irony is that the end result of all this evangelical blather > for LaTeX has resulted in people suggesting extremely convoluted methods of > achieving a simple requirement in OOo. Convert LaTeX to HTML and then fro

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Neil Watson
Please approach this subject in a more subjective manner. I was suggesting that until you gain experience with both manners of document creation you can hardly form an accurate conclusion as to what best suits your needs. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime

Re: Who is altering my hostname?

2007-09-26 Thread Florian Lindner
Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:35:44PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2007-09-26 00:04:26 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: > > > What could this make happen? In /etc/init.d/ there is nothing like a > > > dhcp client. I have also removed som

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I hope I didn't state that you are wrong, that's not my intention. By refuting my personal opinion so emphatically even if you haven't said the word the sentiment is clear. > - From my personal experience LaTeX *is the tool* when it comes to You personal expe

Re: wireless keyboard encryption

2007-09-26 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:53:54 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:27:06AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > [catching up on a d-u backlog] > > > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:23:07 -0600 > > Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > I think yo

Re: How do I know debian has detected all my hardware?

2007-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/07 08:37, robin putters wrote: > On 9/26/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 09/25/07 18:44, Kevin Mark wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:29:45AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Neil Watson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:11:31PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Furthermore I fail to see this supposed "don't think about the >> formatting" simplicity when I can't even write a simple financial value >> without resorting to escapes! > Hardly any different from resorting to m

Re: wireless keyboard encryption

2007-09-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:27:06AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > [catching up on a d-u backlog] > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:23:07 -0600 > Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > I think you'll find that even "good" wireless keyboards won't easily > > penetrate more than a single wall o

Re: Who is altering my hostname?

2007-09-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:35:44PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-09-26 00:04:26 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: > > What could this make happen? In /etc/init.d/ there is nothing like a dhcp > > client. I have also removed some packages with dhcp in their names. > > > > Any idea what makes

Re: Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

2007-09-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:44:09PM +0200, Nick De Graeve wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade a Sarge box to Etch and several "dpkg: `x' not > found on PATH"-errors occured. > > I followed the instructions in the release notes > (http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch- > upgrading.

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Of course you are free to use whatever seems suitable to you. But don't >> take it personal, when people advise you to do otherwise. > > It is personal when I state quite emphatically that I do not

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:18:11 -0500 Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Sep 26 03:22 -0500]: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 09/25/07 21:33, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >> USB keyboard? (I've always been leery of them, because of the > >>

Re: How do I know debian has detected all my hardware?

2007-09-26 Thread robin putters
On 9/26/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/25/07 18:44, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:29:45AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani > > wrote: > >> Hey guys, > >> > >> I recently installed etch on this old laptop and have no

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Neil Watson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:11:31PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Furthermore I fail to see this supposed "don't think about the formatting" simplicity when I can't even write a simple financial value without resorting to escapes! Hardly any different from resorting to mouse clicks. However, you

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Of course you are free to use whatever seems suitable to you. But don't > take it personal, when people advise you to do otherwise. It is personal when I state quite emphatically that I do not feel it is the best tool for me, personally. At that point any reply st

Re: Who is altering my hostname?

2007-09-26 Thread Florian Lindner
Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > On 2007-09-26 00:04:26 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: > > What could this make happen? In /etc/init.d/ there is nothing like a dhcp > > client. I have also removed some packages with dhcp in their names. > > > > Any idea what makes these two

Re: Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/07 05:15, John O Laoi wrote: > Hello, > I am running Etch on a Dell Precision laptop. > I have one openoffice file, say XYZ.odt, which takes a long time to open > (maybe 25 minutes). > While it is opening, Openoffice is stalled. No surprise

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa wrote: >> Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > [that he couldn's use the GUI to put multiple queues on one printer] > >> I don't run Gnome or KDE here I hope they accept the Cups config. >> If not, someo

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russell L. Harris wrote: > So now the problem becomes how to convert the HTML produced by HeVeA > into RTF or another format which M$ Word can read -- preferably within > the Debian environment, and preferably with open-source software. > In another ho

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > David Brodbeck wrote: >> As long as you realize it probably won't look the same to the other >> person, unless they have the same Word version, the same operating >> system, and the same fonts. > > It will look similar enough.

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread judd
On 26 Sep, Peter Robinson wrote: >> ... > > If you write in latex you can always convert to RTF via latex2rtf, > which in my experience works excellently. If needed, it is no big > deal to convert this to word format. It is definitely worth the > effort to learn latex. > cheers, peter > >

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:33:43PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > My GF installed a USB mouse, and her keyboard went away. > They work together with THE OTHER OS. IIRC (it's been > a while) using a debug startup allows us to get up to > a root login, and look around, but using ^D from there > makes t

Re: bittorent thru a proxy (TCP thorugh HTTP proxy).

2007-09-26 Thread robin putters
On 9/26/07, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:59:43 +0100 > "abdelkader belahcene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I want to use gnome-btdownload, to download a bittorent cd. > > I works fine when there is no proxy. > > But I can't use it when there is a pr

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Sep 26 03:22 -0500]: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 09/25/07 21:33, Mike McCarty wrote: > > [snip] > >> USB keyboard? (I've always been leery of them, because of the >> mutually-exclusive HID and {o,u}chi drivers. > > Oops! I somehow neglected to specify... > P

Upgrade problem: "dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH"

2007-09-26 Thread Nick De Graeve
I'm trying to upgrade a Sarge box to Etch and several "dpkg: `x' not found on PATH"-errors occured. I followed the instructions in the release notes (http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch- upgrading.en.html): I ran # aptitude upgrade # aptitude install initrd-tool

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-26 Thread Nate Bargmann
* s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Sep 26 04:27 -0500]: > Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Mike Bird wrote: > > > On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:45, Mike McCarty wrote: > > >> I'm not trying to be mean, either. I'm reporting a single event. > > > > > > We're all volunteers here. You to

Re: How can I acces unformatted cd/dvd with data on

2007-09-26 Thread Michael Schwinck
On 23/09/2007 Adrian Levi wrote: > Came in late to the conversation but can you mount the unwritten cd > using the udf filesystem? No, I can not mount it. Meanwhile have searched the web and found some helpfull information about how dvds are written using dvd recorders (connected to tv sets): wik

Re: zgrep

2007-09-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/26/2007 04:00 AM, Chuck Payne wrote: Florian, Sure. Been getting hard on my server. So I been going thur my daily log logs looking for lost connection, so I am trying to get a daily count of of those. So I was trying... zgrep 'lost connection' /var/log/mail-20070925.gz -c Payne T

Re: Who is altering my hostname?

2007-09-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-09-26 00:04:26 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: > What could this make happen? In /etc/init.d/ there is nothing like a dhcp > client. I have also removed some packages with dhcp in their names. > > Any idea what makes these two files changing and how to avoid it? It seems to be a dhcp clien

Re: bittorent thru a proxy

2007-09-26 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:59:43 +0100 "abdelkader belahcene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I want to use gnome-btdownload, to download a bittorent cd. > I works fine when there is no proxy. > But I can't use it when there is a proxy > help please > best regards > > gnome-btdownload doesn't

Openoffice file takes a long time to open

2007-09-26 Thread John O Laoi
Hello, I am running Etch on a Dell Precision laptop. I have one openoffice file, say XYZ.odt, which takes a long time to open (maybe 25 minutes). While it is opening, Openoffice is stalled. It is not big. ls-l reports its size as 18,000. I have many much bigger files which open immediately. I co

Re: How do I know debian has detected all my hardware?

2007-09-26 Thread Wei Wang
Try lsmod On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 02:29 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey guys, > > I recently installed etch on this old laptop and have no problems with it > whatsoever. I had no hardware issues or anything. It "seemed" like all the > hardware was automatically detected. Now the question i

Re: bittorent thru a proxy

2007-09-26 Thread Wei Wang
Try export http_proxy=address or Click desktop/pereferences/network proxy On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:59 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I want to use gnome-btdownload, to download a bittorent cd. > I works fine when there is no proxy. > But I can't use it when there is a proxy > help pl

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-26 Thread Dan H
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:45:11 -0700 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know what you meant. But you are flatly ignoring my > requirement for syncing. I make an edit on Machine A and > toss-a-tarball onto whatever machine(s) I decide. Then I make an > edit on Machine B and do the same.

Re: Installing 2 Linux on one HD.

2007-09-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/25/2007 10:21 AM, Yazad Khambata wrote: Hi all, I have 2 hard drives on one I have windows installed. The other is used by me for Linux installation... I first installed Debian 4.0; during installation it asked me about GRUB and it aslo asked me if I had Windows XP/2000. All was well...

Re: zgrep

2007-09-26 Thread Chuck Payne
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:46:28 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote: Guys, I am sorry to ask such a newbie question, and my eyes are crossed, no caffeine, and I have try everything on the man pages and my serveral books and I am not getting the answer. Ok. Here are my two questi

Re: It's 3am and I have no caffeine

2007-09-26 Thread Chuck Payne
Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:46:28AM -0400, Chuck Payne wrote: Guys, I am sorry to ask such a newbie question, and my eyes are crossed, no caffeine, and I have try everything on the man pages and my serveral books and I am not getting the answer. Ok. Here are my two question

zgrep (was: It's 3am and I have no caffeine)

2007-09-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:46:28 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote: > Guys, > > I am sorry to ask such a newbie question, and my eyes are crossed, no > caffeine, and I have try everything on the man pages and my serveral books > and I am not getting the answer. > > Ok. Here are my two question, and two qu

Re: It's 3am and I have no caffeine

2007-09-26 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:46:28 -0400 Chuck Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Chuck, > I know it got to be simple. 'grep -w payne FILE(LIST)' would seem to be what you're after. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent

Re: It's 3am and I have no caffeine

2007-09-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:46:28AM -0400, Chuck Payne wrote: > Guys, > > I am sorry to ask such a newbie question, and my eyes are crossed, no > caffeine, and I have try everything on the man pages and my serveral books > and I am not getting the answer. > > Ok. Here are my two question, and two

Re: Who is altering my hostname?

2007-09-26 Thread Florian Lindner
Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 schrieb Gabriel Parrondo: > El mié, 26-09-2007 a las 00:04 +0200, Florian Lindner escribió: > > Hello, > > I have a virtual server with a Debian etch installed by myself from > > debootstrap. The machine has two IPs assigned: > > > > # ifconfig > > [snip output] > >

It's 3am and I have no caffeine

2007-09-26 Thread Chuck Payne
Guys, I am sorry to ask such a newbie question, and my eyes are crossed, no caffeine, and I have try everything on the man pages and my serveral books and I am not getting the answer. Ok. Here are my two question, and two question they yet be. I need to know the flag for grep to get the exac

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Sep 2007, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Steve Lamb wrote: > >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> PDF? >> >> Haven't seen it as an acceptable format for submission, no. > > Some on-demand publishers use it. For example, Lulu.com. > > > I've just published a book via Lulu. I

Re: xmodmap again - not solved after all

2007-09-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Sep 2007, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 09/25/2007 09:25 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> I've twice thought I'd solved this one but no. To recap: my .xinitrc >> contains the line: "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap". which has worked for many >> months or even years. In the last couple of weeks the command is not >>

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