Re: Odd Backspace behavior in vim

2008-10-06 Thread Dan H.
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 01:48:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: What version of vim are you using? Which terminal window are you using (xterm, rxvt, gnome-terminal, etc), and what version? What version of X are you using? Maybe a customized ~/.Xresources or /etc/X11/Xresources? None of

Odd Backspace behavior in vim

2008-10-05 Thread Dan H.
Hello people, yes, I've done my Google homework. Yes, everybody seems to solve this problem using set backspace=eol,start,indent and set fixdel. However, it doesn't work in xterms on this machine: Whenever I hit backspace, the character to the right of the current cursor position gets deleted.

Re: German characters in English locale

2008-03-11 Thread Dan H.
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:09:19PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: I like to have my environment in English but need to write German texts using latex. Same here. The typical \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} % deutsche Sprachunterst�tzung \usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc} % Zeichencodierung Windows

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-27 Thread Dan H.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:57:30AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Actually, if he's got his own machine, then he can install the portableapps applications locally, without a flash drive. It's much faster that way, in fact, at the university I copy portable firefox to the machine I'm sitting at and

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-27 Thread Dan H.
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:18:38AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: Coporate IT is driven by sweetheart deals from suppliers to IT management. It is full of fiefdoms and not invented here syndromes. It is a meca to the power hungry and the control freaks. It has little to do with helping the

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-25 Thread Dan H.
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:18:03PM -0600, Elf Dmitryi wrote: Here's a couple things... http://mcnlive.org/ - MCN Live, a live CD that can also be installed on a flash drive. There's Knoppix, too. http://www.knopper.de http://www.sysresccd.org/ - another live CD that can edit Windows NT

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-25 Thread Dan H.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 07:15:27AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Well, you have just begun. Wait till you experience the real horrors of windows, aka viruses, spyware, adware, etc, though with your unix like browsing habits, you may be less prone to be fooled by malware sites. Yeah,

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-25 Thread Dan H.
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 09:15:47PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: Remember everything you've noted when the Microsofties remind you that Linux is not ready for the desktop. I must admit though that I was pretty annoyed when my wife wanted to use sound on our home Debian box and it took me quite

[OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-24 Thread Dan H.
Well, I guess the subject caught your attention after all. Of course I'm not saying goodbye to Debian, at least not voluntarily and certainly not at home. But I just changed jobs, and so moved from a self- administered Debian box to a locked-up, preinstalled all-M$ Dell thing. M$ Office, M$IE,

Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

2008-02-16 Thread Dan H.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:42:26AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I'm confused. Can you not just enter the passphrase for the encrypted volume and unlock it? Or is there something I'm missing here that likely applies to my own encrypted system... I don't know about LUKS, but

Re: this list is on google groups

2008-02-08 Thread Dan H.
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:55:07PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: This is a mailing list? Is it publically archived somewhere or mirrored as a newsgroup? Yes, it is. Read-only IIRC. --D. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-06 Thread Dan H.
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:29:40AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Just out of curiosity: why OOo instead of AbiWord? After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first glance it seemed to work nicely but after 2-3 times I noticed that it was really chugging on

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-06 Thread Dan H.
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:27:50AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: Although I'm a recent convert to mutt, let me blow the horn for Claws (aka sylpheed-claws-gtk2 on sarge). Mutt handles any standard form of mail box format, Claws is only good with MH folders and IMAP, but it can import mbox.

Re: How to set up a WLAN?

2008-02-06 Thread Dan H.
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 03:57:45PM +0100, Hakon Alstadheim wrote: Check out module-assistant for automatically building extra modules for your kernel. That's what I did. The module loads fine. Dmesg output is: usbcore: registered new driver rt2500usb If I do ifconfig wlan1 up, the Link light

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-06 Thread Dan H.
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:37:27AM -0800, BartlebyScrivener wrote: In .muttrc: set editor=gvim -f That would be without the g, right? BTW, what's wrong with my setup? When I type :help, I get E433: No tags file E149: Sorry, no help for help.txt But: $ locate help.txt | grep vim

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

2008-02-04 Thread Dan H.
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:05:43AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm finally taking the plunge from full CLI to using an X server, and in place of Mutt I've been using Evolution; But Evolution is nowhere near as good as Mutt, with threading/speed/customizability (And to boot I can't even use

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-04 Thread Dan H.
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 07:09:42PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: As a thunderbird user, what am I missing by not using mutt? As a recent convert, I can say: nothing. Although I'm coming from Clwas, which, as far as X apps go, is a lot more mutty than TB. --D. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

2008-02-04 Thread Dan H.
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:42:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Move all your email into an IMAP store. Then you can use whatever MUA you want, whenever you want, and not have to worry about MUA storage incompatibility. You mean, locally? --D. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[SOLVED]Setting up Debian on a mobile disk

2008-02-02 Thread Dan H.
Purrs like a kitten now. But I did have to start from scratch using a netinstall CD. Thanks everybody! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Setting up Debian on a mobile disk

2008-02-01 Thread Dan H.
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:59:36AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: yes, that's normal (at least in my experience, it's been a while since I used it). There are no locales set up on the new system yet... Yes, it went away after dpkg-reconfigure locales. to upgrade many packages -- I mean,

Re: Setting up Debian on a mobile disk

2008-02-01 Thread Dan H.
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:23:26PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: What is the output of 'mount'? Maybe you have the option 'user' set for that filesystem in fstab. This also implies 'noexec' (as well as 'nodev' and 'nosuid'). Yes, that was it. I once had the disk manually mounted, the other

Re: Setting up Debian on a mobile disk

2008-01-31 Thread Dan H.
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:56:10PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: like the subject says, I want to set up a Debian system on a bootable external USB hard disk Followup: I've discovered debootstrap and have used it to set up a system on that mobile disk. I chrooted to that disk (using the procedure from

Setting up Debian on a mobile disk

2008-01-31 Thread Dan H.
Hello, like the subject says, I want to set up a Debian system on a bootable external USB hard disk to use with a (normally) Windows laptop. Of course I could just pop in a netinstall CD on the target computer and do the normal installation process. However, I have a couple of full-featured

Re: How to send mails with attachments for each file in a directory ?

2008-01-30 Thread Dan H.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:48:27PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: I find find very useful, and find's -exec command as well, but someone always chimes in with how it's wrong to use it since it causes find to create umpteen shell processes, one for each hit, and you really should be piping find into

System bogged down by email trouble?

2008-01-30 Thread Dan H.
Hello, today when I started work I opened the Openoffice spreadsheet I had been working on yesterday. It took about 15 seconds to open. No CPU activity. Puzzling. The only other thing different from yesterday is that the company's mail server seems to be down. Could that have to do with OOs

Re: Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-30 Thread Dan H.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:48:00PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: to be able to handle your daily work quicker. Aliases shouldn't be used in shellscripts because: a) it makes them more difficult to understand (aliases often have very unintuitive names) for other people Well, that's

Re: Exim question

2008-01-28 Thread Dan H.
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 02:58:11PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: Actually, you want to throttle fetchmail. In your fetchmailrc, for each poll line add batchlimit 10 in the options. I experienced the same problem and that fix has solved it and has been working for years now. Yup, works. It's

A GPG question

2008-01-28 Thread Dan H.
Hello folks, this is not s strict Debian question but it is so small and easy that it's not worth subscribung to a GPG list for. Q: How can I remove an email address from my GPG key? I'm changing jobs, so one of my three addresses won't be valid any more. Do I have to make a new key pair from

Re: A GPG question

2008-01-28 Thread Dan H.
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:54:42AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: You can revoke identities from your key. 'gpg --edit the key' and then use 'revuid'. Don't forget to save and upload to a keyserver your modified key afterwards. But will you lose access to any data that you have encrypted

Where to put a custom system cleanup script?

2008-01-28 Thread Dan H.
Hello, for a home computer that gets shutdown daily, I'd like to implement a function which: 1. makes sure that all pending outgoing mails are sent off. The system uses its local exim to send mail over the (slow) net, and I don't want to pull the plug on longish emails that are being sent.

Re: Where to put a custom system cleanup script?

2008-01-28 Thread Dan H.
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:22:41PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: for a home computer that gets shutdown daily, I'd like to implement a function which: 1. makes sure that all pending outgoing mails are sent off. Here's what I've come up with. Anything not to like? #!/bin/sh # install

Exim question

2008-01-26 Thread Dan H.
Hello, When the fetchmail demon starts running, it often gets large amounts of mail in one bunch an tries to shove it into exim for local delivery. However, exim doesn't like that and logs: 2008-01-25 19:30:43 1JITK7-ps-J9 no immediate delivery: more than 10 messages received in one

Re: How to do SMTP AUTH with exim?

2008-01-23 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:34:47 +0100 Daniel Haude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to send out email using exim. Got it. Piece of cake. Just had to find the place in the /etc/exim dir and let Debian do its thing. --D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: wodim does not write DVD

2008-01-22 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:40:19 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote: This is a result from incorrect device handling by wodim. As you see, wodim does not support to write DVDs, conclusion: Just don't use unsupported software like wodim. Although what you say is factually correct

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:41:21 + Patter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh mutt's good, you can just configure it to do everything under the sun so a muttrc builder such as http://www.muttrcbuilder.org/ can put a lot of good setting in to start from. Hmmm... I tried that, hoping that this would

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:24:54 + Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put there password=yeah_like_i_am_gonna_tell_you and later replace that in the generated file. Anyway, who needs passwords? Yeah, that's what I'd have done, but still I don't know where to enter my IMAP server. In

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-22 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:33:57 +1300 Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you tell it to use any editor, say vim, or does it still use pico? Any editor. --D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Dan H
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:47:29 +0900 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ext3 is best if you are dealing with a mixture of both and has the added security factor of defaulting to Ext2 if it fails. Although I have never had reason to find out. I'm in the habit of using buggy and crash-prone hardware

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:02:07 +0100 (CET) s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, why don't your lines wrap at ca. 80 chars? Missed that lesson? Huh? I set Claws to wrap at 70. I thought it would do that automatically before sending the message... Fixed. --D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-15 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:58:06 +1100 Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I am trying to point out is for a normal user ( ie somebody who is subscribed to the list), when a thread starts, you read them in date/time order as them come in, why seems illogical to have to scroll through stuff

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-15 Thread Dan H
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:49:52 -0900 Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, it's a social convention, a matter of etiquette. The practice varies, and some lists work the other way, but on this and many lists the convention is to top post Huh? I don't think so, but even if what you say is

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-15 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:58:46 +1100 Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:25:14PM -0800, Raquel wrote: Then the people posting are not trimming their posts as they should. or taken to the extreme, why not remove all the original post! No, it's best to always trim

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-15 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:57:04 +1100 Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [flame on] but we do read chronologically (in date order) and I for one hate having to go 3 pages down to read the answer to the previous email (in a threaded news reader!). That's why you properly clip the message you're

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-15 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:52:04 +1100 Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my mail reader sort my mail in date order and links together all the threaded emails. I read them in date/time order, if I follow a thread from begging to end, then all i should have to do is read the top posts, but if

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-09 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 04:35:42 +0100 (CET) s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It amazes me that they refuse to accept the obvious. Linux/Debian/Gnu provides all the solutions they need, yet they continue to rely on Lookout! and Gmail, instead of slapping in

Re: bash scripts and files

2008-01-09 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:03:07 + michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .bashrc and .bash_profile are different. They are only reasonably invoked by a bash shell, so it is safe to assume they are written using bash syntax. They are, after all, configuration files for bash, so what other

Still GNOME trouble

2008-01-07 Thread Dan H
Hello folks, I still can't resolve the following promlems I'm having with GNOME: 1. gdm doesn't honor non-English language settings although the locales exist and are offered in gdm's language menu 2. The splash screen persists for about a minute after logging in, with the word

Autostart programs: How to remove them?

2008-01-07 Thread Dan H
Hello, it's still me and my GNOME desktop. One thing that irritates me: I once installed a Google desktop indexing tool, which now starts up every time I start GNOME. I tried to disable it, but it doesn't work. When I go to Desktop-Preferences-Sessions and then delete it from the list of

GNOME desktop internationalization?

2008-01-03 Thread Dan H
Hello, for KDE there are tons of kde-i18n-xx language packages. Is there anything similar for the GNOME desktop? Or is it all built in and I just have to generate the appropriate locale... let's see... --D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

GNOME desktop troubles

2008-01-03 Thread Dan H
Hello, being a purely shell and fvwm user myself I'm really out of my depth trying to get those new-fangled clickable desktop thingies to work right. But I'm trying to do it for others (who are permanently threatening me to want a M$-based computer). 1. I can't get the desktop environment to

Re: GNOME desktop troubles

2008-01-03 Thread Dan H
2. For some reason, Gnome doesn't let me log out any more. And the startup window of the Gnome desktop just stays there, with Nautilus at the bottom. Starting applications etc. works. This may have started with my recent language experiments. UPDATE: Gnome /does/ log me out about a minute

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

2007-12-31 Thread Dan H
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:52:54 -0600 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. Wernher von Braun That quote is just sick. Remember who W.v.B. was, and his attitude towards

How to start X as a user?

2007-12-28 Thread Dan H
Hello, back in the olden days I used to be able to log in on a text console and then use startx to start an X session. I just tried that (without X running of course) but was rebuffed with the message that I wasn't authorized to start X. How does this work (on etch)? Thanks, --D. -- To

Re: How to start X as a user?

2007-12-28 Thread Dan H
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:05:46 +0100 Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are authorized to use startx as a user. My guess is, that you didn't actually shut down X before you tried that, but just extended X into the background. No, I changed into a text console and did /etc/init.d/kdm

[Solved] How to start X as a user?

2007-12-28 Thread Dan H
Ha, it's because I tried to start X from within a screen session (which I start by default on any shell). After exiting screen, it worked. Thanks, --D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Inconsistent screen resolutions depending on how X was started

2007-12-28 Thread Dan H
Hello, having managed to start X from the console (see other thread), I noticed different font sizes on applications. I traced this down to different screen resolution settings depending on how X was started: After startx from console: $ xdpyinfo | egrep '(dimension|resolution)' dimensions:

Re: Cannot install skype

2007-12-14 Thread Dan H
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:47:39 +0200 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot install skype: dpkg: error processing skype_1.4.0.118-1_i386.deb (--install): package control info rmdir of `usr' didn't say not a dir: Directory not empty Errors were encountered while processing:

Re: Math Programme.

2007-12-11 Thread Dan H
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:17:43 +0100 Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:31:47 +0100 Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can find Debian binaries on the site now (seems to be for sarge) here: http://sage.apcocoa.org/SAGEbin/linux/32bit/ (or 64bit) Beware

GIMP and printing

2007-12-03 Thread Dan H
Hello, I'm trying to print a color image on a HP Color Deskjet 4650. This printer even is (almost) there in Gimp's printer selecting menu (actually what Gimp has is a HP Color Deskjet 4600, close enough I guess), but when I choose that I don't have the option of printing in color. That

Re: GIMP and printing

2007-12-03 Thread Dan H
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:03:19 +0100 Dan H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That strikes me as very odd, especially since the next best printer is a Color model as well. Should I file a bug, or did I do something stupid? I just found that among the millions of printers supported by the gutenprint

Re: SUDO

2007-12-03 Thread Dan H
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:47:09 +0100 Jostein Elvaker Haande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: erik ALL=(ALL) ALL I've always heard people discouraging root logins or su and using sudo instead. I know how sudo works and how to fine-tune system access with it, but is the above suggestion in any way

Gnome desktop and digital camera: How?

2007-12-01 Thread Dan H
Hello, whenever I plug in my digital camera (Canon S50), a window pops up on the Gnome desktop asking me if I wanted to download the photos to my personal album. Once I clicked yes, something seemed to happen, but I've got no idea what or where my personal album might be (a find on JPG images

Re: Gnome desktop and digital camera: How?

2007-12-01 Thread Dan H
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:27:40 -0300 Gabriel Parrondo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, the program executed by gnome-volume-manager is gnome-volume-manager-gthumb which in fact asks for a destination for the pictures (in lenny). In etch it doesn't. It just goes away after a while but

Re: printing a scanned document

2007-11-16 Thread Dan H
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:57:58 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: imagemagick is one of those secret programs that people outside (and many inside) the linux world just don't know about, yet its so powerful, easy to use (scriptable!!) that I don't know how people can live

Network configuration

2007-11-09 Thread Dan H
Hello folks, I'm trying to control an external instrument via Ethernet. I've installed an additional networking card in my Debian box and connected the thing via a crossover cable. NOTE: I've booted Windows on the same machine and was able to talk to the instrument using a supplied demo

Re: DST: Same procedure as every half-year?

2007-11-01 Thread Dan H
On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:46:06 +0100 Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Lenny in CET and the change to GMT+1 (from +2) work perfectly. I didn't do anything special. The time was correct when I checked on Sunday morning. I'm running Etch, and the problem somehow went away when I

DST: Same procedure as every half-year?

2007-10-31 Thread Dan H
Hello list, it happened again (in Germany, anyway). As of Sunday, we're back on winter time (CET). Except my computer ain't. And every half-year I forget just what I did to set the clock right. I've got the timezone set right (Europe/Berlin CET) but the clock lags. Is there some accepted

Re: DST: Same procedure as every half-year?

2007-10-31 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:57:13 +0100 Thierry Chatelet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then I run tzconfig (which told me Europe and Paris, do you change it?) and re-enter the time zone, and every thing was OK, and all of the box adjusted the time automaticly for winter time. Yeah, same here I now

udev and automounting

2007-09-27 Thread Dan H
Hello, I'm really having trouble getting my head around udev and udev rules for removeable USB devices. When I plug in my USB stick, it automounts under /media/sda1. What I don't like is that I have to su to write to the stick and to unmount it again, so this automounting is pretty useless.

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: why sarge is so noisy

2007-09-07 Thread Dan H
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 23:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Serena Cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have sarge, I use it all the time (it's server) The machine is my bedroom and scsi disk make noise from time to time (it's read/writing) which script cause reading/writing? Let's assume it's default

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-08-29 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:01:01 +0300 Atis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A long time ago i measured that my PC is using 0.4A on normal operation and 0.6A while CD-ROM spinning (on 220V AC). So, this means - 0.4*220 = 88 Watts. This is approximately like regular light bulb (not very economic). I

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-08-29 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:45:51 -0700 Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Specifically, as I understand it, thermal shock to minuscule electronic components during power-on. There is no thermal shock on power-on. What is most likely to fail is the PSU (happened to me once). --D. -- To

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-08-29 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:18:54 -0400 Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The amount electricity usage from present day devices is minimal I know your sentence continues along a different line, but let me just interject here that computers have never consumed as much energy as they do today. True,

Re: SATA vs PATA

2007-08-28 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:41:38 + Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] In any event, if you're choosing between PATA and SATA, go with SATA [...] Thanks everybody. This is an easy decicion, seeing that opinions don't vary at all. One more question though: This mobo has 2 free

SATA vs PATA

2007-08-27 Thread Dan H
Hello, now I have this camcorder and want to dump/edit some family videos on it, and before I know it my 160GB harddisk is full. So I need some extra GB. Should I go Serial-ATA or good ol' Parallel-ATA? How do the two compare in terms of data throughput and Linux kernel support? Just went and

USB question

2007-08-24 Thread Dan H
Hello, one quick question: Does each and every USB device that gets plugged into the computer generate a console message? Background: I'm trying to get an HP scanner (6200C) to work, but the sane tools won't recognize it. And when I look at the root console when I connect the USB cable, I see

Re: USB question

2007-08-24 Thread Dan H
OK, I see you guys are taking nothing for granted ;-) Yes, the scanner is turned on; when I plug it in the light comes on and the carriage moves briefly back and forth to find the starting position. So the CPU/firmware seems to work as well. At the risk of stating the obvious, have you tried

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-15 Thread Dan H
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:52:18 - BartlebyScrivener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from http://docs.python.org/tut/node3.html If you're a professional software developer, you may have to work with several C/C++/Java libraries but find the usual write/compile/test/re- compile cycle is too slow.

Passwordless X login

2007-08-09 Thread Dan H
Hello, I'd like to be able to login with just a mouseclick like possible in Windows. My wife and I are sharing a computer at home, and it's kind of silly to always have to type in a password (which is the same for both of us anyway). Is this possible with kdm, or do I have to switch window

Re: have to learn python

2007-06-29 Thread Dan H
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:19:05 +0200 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you already are familiar with the above listed languages, then learning python should be no problem or: not necessary at all. --D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: archive corrupted !

2007-06-29 Thread Dan H
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:50:38 +0200 Till Wimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah ok, i think this is a misunderstanding... The your archive file home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz is corrupt, not a single file in it. unexpected end of file means that gzip cannot handle the zip file correctly, not a

Re: screenshot

2007-06-26 Thread Dan H
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:53:51 +0100 Jose Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I quickly tried scrot and, out of its man page, I'm not sure which formats does it support, can anybody give me a hint? It seems to only do PNG. Doesn't matter; just pipe it through some netpbm tools (which I prefer)

Re: cups-pdf

2007-06-26 Thread Dan H
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:17:29 +0200 Mirco Piccin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if [ `echo $2 | grep -ce \.[Pp][Dd][Ff]` -le 0 ] then echo `date` - ERR: This scripts accepts only PDF format as input file!!! ($2) $LOGFILE 21 exit 1 fi This is IMO too Windows-like -- just relying on a

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-13 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:26:52 -0400 Scott Gifford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got two servers and a machine at home I've tried backing up to a USB drive, and in each case after a few weeks/months I start getting hardware errors from the USB drive, and the files I backed up aren't accessible.

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-24 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 23 May 2007 18:12:36 -0400 Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 17:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: After all the stories about laptops full of sensitive data being stolen, and tapes full of sensitive data being lost, you still have to ask why someone wants to

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-24 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 23 May 2007 21:17:50 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I gpg a tarball today with whatever algorithm is current, in 10 years that algorithm may be long cracked. Will the gpg authors keep support for it? Perhaps. Just yesterday I had a similar problem which pretty

Re: why linux?

2007-05-24 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 23 May 2007 13:45:32 -0400 (EDT) S C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, and this you could not possibly know, irreplaceable pictures digital pictures are on the hard drive and I will not jeopardize their existence for any reason. That means no installing anything new, at leat until I know

Re: why linux?

2007-05-24 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 23 May 2007 14:10:02 -0400 (EDT) S C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for responding. Responses (rationalizations?) are in relevant sections of your text. Please learn how to quote properly (like I did above), or get a mail reader that does it automatically (which one doesn't,

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-24 Thread Dan H
On Thu, 24 May 2007 02:48:35 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/24/07 02:30, Dan H wrote: In fact, to those that really want to get at the data, a properly encrypted (as in: unguessable passphrase, long enough key) laptop will make any other approach than directly attacking

Re: Resurrecting ancient IOMEGA ZIP drive

2007-05-23 Thread Dan H
for one last time I wanted to set in motion my old, parallel-port IOMEGA Zip Drive to back up my stack of disks before I retire (read: dump in the trash) the whole shebang for good. Already solved -- I just had to kick the thing and the connectors a bit. Thanks to those thad would have helped

Re: [OT] Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 22 May 2007 01:33:53 -0400 Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I fail to understand is what difference does it make if text is above or below a sig delimiter? It doesn't. Either it is offensive or it is not. What is offensive or isn't is entirely up to the reader.

I don't understand the new aptitude

2007-05-22 Thread Dan H
Hello, I can't get my head around the (as of etch) newfangled aptitude dependency handling procedure. As an example, I'm trying to install texlive. As soon as I hit '+', I see this cryptic message in the bottom line: [1(1)/...] Suggest 2 installs, 4 keeps w: examine !: apply ... (...and I just

Re: I don't understand the new aptitude

2007-05-22 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:16:44 +0200 Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :) This isn't sadism, it's a feature of your terminal and aptitude. You probably can use the mouse to open menus etc, just like in a regular GUI application. Vim and mc can behave that way, too, and there are probably

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

2007-05-21 Thread Dan H
Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did that and showed them to my girlfriend who's the expert on fonts and she wasn't impressed. In what way was she not impressed? If she wasn't impressed the same way she probably isn't impressed with Times or Arial, then that's fine. If she wasn't

Re: Business card iso

2007-05-14 Thread Dan H
On Thu, 10 May 2007 13:18:20 +0200 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the business card .iso for i386 from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ and the 31MB file downloads fine, however, when I try to open the file with k3b to burn it to a CD (because this machine

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-14 Thread Dan H
On Sun, 13 May 2007 20:56:21 -0400 Roberto C. Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good point. What I like about the rsync snapshots is that I can browse back in time. In my case, I always have hourly snapshots going back four hours, daily snapshots going back four days and weekly snapshots

Library without -dev package?

2007-04-27 Thread Dan H.
Hello folks, I'm trying to build a big piece of software from source, for which I of course need the development versions (header files) of all used libraries. So far I've thought that the Debian distro included the headers of all its libraries, but today I found an exception: libuuid1. There is

Re: Further problems with OOo

2007-04-16 Thread Dan H.
Greg Folkert wrote: Remember, Debian supports your version currently installed. If you go outside Debian and something goes wrong... Debian and its community will likely point and laugh, that is if you dare ask... No they won't. They just won't be of much help because the user (and

Re: How to use dead keys

2007-04-13 Thread Dan H.
Florian Kulzer wrote: Try setxkbmap -option compose:rwin Cool! But it doesn't seem to work on a German keyboard with accents that are only accessible through Alt Gr -- i.e., I can't get a tilde on top of an n (ñ) this way but as I can access the tilde only through Alt Gr it doesn't work.

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