Re: Debian 5 installation

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 11:47:23PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:07:58AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/TRUCULANT > > Hmm! Over at Oxford we spell it "truculent". ;) Arrgh!!, I should of noticed that when I cut/p

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Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

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Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

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Re: Debian 5 installation

On Monday 03 January 2011 22:47:23 David Jardine wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:07:58AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/TRUCULANT > > Hmm! Over at Oxford we spell it "truculent". ;) At the other place too! ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Debian 5 installation

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:07:58AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:31:01PM +, Lisi wrote: > > +1 As always someone else can express my thoughts better than I can. > > Camaleón's English is so good that I often forget that she is not English. > > But come to think

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client [going OT]

On the 03/01/2011 05:42, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I need recommendations for a Debian firewall package to be installed > on a laptop or notebook which is used for web browsing and web-based > email in public wi-fi hotspots. > > My concern is to prevent infection or compromise of the laptop, so >

Re: What happened to consolechars?

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 02:42:19PM EST, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 08:48:21AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > Also, take a look at ‘unicode_start’. > Note that if the locale set in /etc/default/locale (or > /etc/environment on older systems) has a UTF-8 charmap (as reported

Re: Debian 5 installation

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 04:31:01PM +, Lisi wrote: > +1 As always someone else can express my thoughts better than I can. > Camaleón's English is so good that I often forget that she is not English. > But come to think of it, perhaps cantankerous is even better in this case! http://www.web

Re: xfig font problem

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 09:04:47PM +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Camaleón writes: > > And those files seem to be installed by the "xfonts-base" package... > > Right. I again did the first thing that I need to do as the last one. > Anyway, thanks. (BTW, shouldn't xfig depend on

Re: What happened to consolechars?

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 08:48:21AM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 06:01:58AM EST, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:13:39AM +, Phil Requirements wrote: > > > On 2011-01-02 14:23:55 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > > Some characters are not displayed corr

Re: xfig font problem

On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Camaleón writes: > And those files seem to be installed by the "xfonts-base" package... Right. I again did the first thing that I need to do as the last one. Anyway, thanks. (BTW, shouldn't xfig depend on xfonts-base?) Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:23:20 +0800, MASOKIS wrote: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:18:40 -0800, briand wrote: >> >>> Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the >>> system. >>> >>> Sleeping, to me, is separate from hibernate or s

Re: xfig font problem

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:18:23 +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > xfig was used to work properly in lenny, but after I migrated to > squeeze, when I start xfig, it complains that > > Can't load font: 8x13bold, using 6x13 (...) When looking for that font, I get some hits: stt008:~# find /usr/share/f

Re: PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka "lp -o fitplot")?

On Mon 03 Jan 2011 at 15:32:09 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know of a pdf viewer which can print with the option > "scale-to-fit"? Web searched didn't turn up anything useful. > > lp -d printer -o fitplot file.pdf > > does what I need, but a GUI is needed for clicky-type

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Re: squeeze audio cd and automount

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Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:44:22 -0600 Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM, wrote: > > ... > > Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the > > system. > > > > ... > > acpitool -S => suspend to disk (hibernate) => Puts machine into > S4. acpitool -s =

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:44:22 -0600 Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM, wrote: > > ... > > Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the > > system. > > > > ... > > acpitool -S => suspend to disk (hibernate) => Puts machine into > S4. acpitool -s =

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Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

I sort of found a solution for myself. Remove all partitions from usb drive. Format the drive using mkdosfs -I /dev/sda. This gives me now access to the entire drive. On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:05 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > As stated, mkfs commands just do the fs layout stuff and not the > parti

Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

As stated, mkfs commands just do the fs layout stuff and not the partitioning. In order to do partitioning I'd either use fdisk or gparted. For fdisk, (off the top of my head); sudo fdisk /dev/sda p d 1 (Repeat until there are no listings) n p 1 (accept defaults) p (you should see one linux native

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Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

On Monday 03 January 2011 15:43:09 Roman Gelfand wrote: > to create partition... > > mkdosfs /dev/sda1 > > To mount the volume > > mount /dev/sda1 /pendrive > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail > > wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:33 -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote: > >> I create

Re: Debian 5 installation

On Monday 03 January 2011 15:38:51 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 03/01/11 15:29, Camaleón wrote: > > Not sure if "picky" is the correct term. I wanted to use an adjective to > > designate people who is... (let me search for a synonym) "punctilious/ > > touchy"? In Spanish that is "quisquilloso". >

Re: Debian 5 installation

On Monday 03 January 2011 15:29:16 Camaleón wrote: > "punctilious/ > touchy"? picky _and_ prickly!! Yes, touchy is the word I was looking for and didn't find! "touchy and irritable". But you _do_ seem to mean picky as well - tho' it did not seem to me that it was his pickiness that needed co

Re: What happened to consolechars?

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 11:01:58AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:13:39AM +, Phil Requirements wrote: > > On 2011-01-02 14:23:55 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > Some characters are not displayed correctly on my monitor. The command > > > consolechars -d used to cor

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Re: Debian 5 installation

On 03/01/11 15:29, Camaleón wrote: Not sure if "picky" is the correct term. I wanted to use an adjective to designate people who is... (let me search for a synonym) "punctilious/ touchy"? In Spanish that is "quisquilloso". According to Google Translate http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|quis

Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Roman Gelfand wrote: > to create partition... > > mkdosfs /dev/sda1 > > To mount the volume > > mount /dev/sda1 /pendrive mkdosfs does not create any partition, it formats the partition to VFAT, but it has to be created first. In your example /dev/sda1, the partit

Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:43 -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote: > to create partition... > > mkdosfs /dev/sda1 this does not create the partition; this formats an existing partition as fat. the problem here is that the pen actually contains a ver small partition in it (I'm just guessing). install gpart

Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:33 -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote: > I created a partition on a 8gb usb pendrive using mkdosfs. can you show us the exact command you used ? cheers joao > However, > after mounting the drive, I see only 80mb available. Is there a way > to create a bigger partition? > >

Re: mkdosfs on usb pendrive

to create partition... mkdosfs /dev/sda1 To mount the volume mount /dev/sda1 /pendrive On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 10:33 -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote: >> I created a partition on a 8gb usb pendrive using mkdosfs. > > can you show us the exa

mkdosfs on usb pendrive

I created a partition on a 8gb usb pendrive using mkdosfs. However, after mounting the drive, I see only 80mb available. Is there a way to create a bigger partition? Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Debian 5 installation

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:34:19 +, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 06 December 2010 09:30:50 Camaleón wrote: >> But no need to be so picky > > Camaleón - > > I thought that this was a typing error the first time I saw it, but I > think it is a slight semantic error. I think that you mean "prickly" >

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM, wrote: > ... > Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the > system. > > ... acpitool -S => suspend to disk (hibernate) => Puts machine into S4. acpitool -s => suspend to ram (sleep) => Puts machine into S3. man acpitool P

Re: Debian 5 installation

On Monday 06 December 2010 09:30:50 Camaleón wrote: > But no need to be so picky Camaleón - I thought that this was a typing error the first time I saw it, but I think it is a slight semantic error. I think that you mean "prickly" (easily irritated), not "picky" (choosy, fussy). If you do ac

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

On the 03/01/2011 10:55, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * tv.deb...@googlemail.com [110103 09:24]: > >> Hello, if you are looking for a graphical front end you can look at >> gufw, firestarter and guarddog. For text based tools I ear good things >> about shorewall. > > I am looking for a package whi

Re: PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka "lp -o fitplot")?

On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:32:09 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Does anyone know of a pdf viewer which can print with the option > "scale-to-fit"? Web searched didn't turn up anything useful. I don't see that option under Evince, yep. But maybe you can give Evince a chance by creating a new printer

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

how about using "halt"... On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:18:40 -0800, briand wrote: > >> Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the >> system. >> >> Sleeping, to me, is separate from hibernate or suspend which tries and >> save t

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Re: What happened to consolechars?

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 06:01:58AM EST, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:13:39AM +, Phil Requirements wrote: > > On 2011-01-02 14:23:55 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > Some characters are not displayed correctly on my monitor. The command > > > consolechars -d used to corre

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Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:18:40 -0800, briand wrote: > Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for sleeping the > system. > > Sleeping, to me, is separate from hibernate or suspend which tries and > save the state of the machine to disk or ram. This was simply setting > the machine to l

PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka "lp -o fitplot")?

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Re: What happened to consolechars?

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:13:39AM +, Phil Requirements wrote: > On 2011-01-02 14:23:55 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Some characters are not displayed correctly on my monitor. The command > > consolechars -d used to correct this problem but now it is unknown. > > > > Now the command is

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

Russell L. Harris: > * tv.deb...@googlemail.com [110103 09:24]: > >> But if you do only web browsing and email and don't run any >> web-facing services you should be fine anyway. > > I do not understand; what is a "web-facing service"? It is a program accepting random connections from arbitrary

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

On 3.1.2011 11:55, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> The major threats are web browser security holes (update often) >> especially through flash and java plug-ins, and pdf. > > Flash and java are in most web pages. Does a firewall not protect > against these threats? or are browser updates necessar

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

On Lu, 03 ian 11, 09:55:45, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > But if you do only web browsing and email and don't run any > > web-facing services you should be fine anyway. > > I do not understand; what is a "web-facing service"? For example a web server (apache) or some other services accessible

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

* tv.deb...@googlemail.com [110103 09:24]: > Hello, if you are looking for a graphical front end you can look at > gufw, firestarter and guarddog. For text based tools I ear good things > about shorewall. I am looking for a package which is easy to configure, whether text or gui; in this respect

Re: What happened to consolechars?

On Lu, 03 ian 11, 01:13:39, Phil Requirements wrote: > On 2011-01-02 14:23:55 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Some characters are not displayed correctly on my monitor. The command > > consolechars -d used to correct this problem but now it is unknown. > > > > Specifically the problem is typic

Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

On the 03/01/2011 05:42, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I need recommendations for a Debian firewall package to be installed > on a laptop or notebook which is used for web browsing and web-based > email in public wi-fi hotspots. > > My concern is to prevent infection or compromise of the laptop, so >