Re: Index of hardware test utilities available in official Debian repositories

2016-11-28 Thread Dave Thayer
tion tests>. p.d.o has a pretty good search function, this should point you in the right direction: <https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=memtest> hth dt -- Dave Thayer / Denver, Colorado USA / d...@thayer-boyle.com Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is

Re: Recommendation: Backup system

2016-10-10 Thread Dave Thayer
ed. > It remains a concern for me, but regardless the tool has worked very well. > It looks like rdiff-backup has a new maintainer as of February 2016, sol1. See <http://rdiff-backup.org/>. There may be some progress forthcoming after all. dt -- Dave Thayer / Denver, Colorado USA / d..

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread Dave Thayer
t;. Commenting this out cured the emergency mode problem. I'm not sure why this was in there in the first place, but a google search suggests it was some sort of kludge to get an ancient version of virtualbox to behave. hth dt -- Dave Thayer / Denver, Colorado USA / d...@thayer-boyle.com W

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

2014-04-22 Thread Dave Thayer
have a look at the "logger" command. It will let your script send messages to the system logs, and you can pipe command output into it for use in the log entry. For example, if I type: date | logger I get: Apr 22 20:13:47 hedorah dave: Tue Apr 22 20:13:47 MDT 2014 in /var/l

Re: HOWTO: Exporting index in PDF file

2013-05-23 Thread Dave Thayer
API. In PDF jargon this index is known as the PDF's bookmarks. According to this <http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17065> discussion, pdftk should do the trick. You will need the version from experimental (1.45) in able to update the bookmarks, but the version in stable should le

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Dave Thayer
te. > Oddly enough, while Yahoo! charges for POP access, they enable IMAP access on the free accounts. I'm guessing that's for mobile device support. Icedove knows the right thing to do, or look up the instructions on the Yahoo! help pages. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever yo

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Dave Thayer
plaintext with thunderbird, and Icedove should be the same: <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plain_text_e-mail_%28Thunderbird%29> dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talk

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-22 Thread Dave Thayer
haven't > looked at Libreoffice Base in a looong time). > You might want to have a look at the Dabo framework <http://dabodev.com/>. Written in python by some ex-foxpro devs with data-oriented RAD in mind. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it'

Re: Instalation and kernel headers

2012-05-12 Thread Dave Thayer
system for quite some time until my last HD upgrade. Unfortunately, virtualbox is unhappy in such a system, so you have to set up a 64-bit chroot. There's information on the VB wiki here: <https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Setup_Jail>. It's kind of a PITA, but it works. HTH dt -- Dave

Re: Failed to open VDPAU backend for mplayer2.

2012-03-20 Thread Dave Thayer
x27;t be supported. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack Handey &qu

Re: Are there any current label printers that works with Linux/amd64?

2012-03-18 Thread Dave Thayer
1.debian.i386.deb I suspect these same steps would be needed installing in an i386 system anyway as the ln & mkdir changes reflect locations in newer systems and the "--force all" is required, erm, normally. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good boo

Re: nvidia driver strangeness

2011-09-15 Thread Dave Thayer
yes working... HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack Handey "De

Re: can't umount automounted drives

2011-02-02 Thread Dave Thayer
``watch du'' to be very useful. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read | go

Re: converting jpg to pdf without imagemagick

2010-10-10 Thread Dave Thayer
he resulting PDFs into a single file. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read | good book

Re: udev auto mount usb disk

2010-10-09 Thread Dave Thayer
by umounting an already removed drive. I prefer to use a combination of udev rules and automount to handle removable media, since I generally avoid using desktop managers. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right

Re: UTC or localtime

2010-07-14 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:00:03PM +, T o n g wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:32:09 -0600, Dave Thayer wrote: > > >> The camera is the same. Something get changed on Debian side? How can I > >> fix it? (photos are from mounted SD card via SD card reader). > > &

Re: Photo time are wrong

2010-07-13 Thread Dave Thayer
systohc --utc hwclock --hctosys --utc My rockboxed ipod shows files with timestamps off by the time difference between localtime and UTC, as if the tz=UTC option was selected in mount, and when I apply the work-around in the bug report things are straightened out. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer

Re: Automounting problems.

2010-05-12 Thread Dave Thayer
device on /var/autofs/usb/zodiac, when it > is accessed. > It should be noted that the --ghost option of automount will create an appropriate "ghost" directory for the device's mount point. For the above auto.master stanza you could use: /var/autofs/usb /etc/auto.usb --ti

Re: handling removable media without gnome-volume-manager

2010-03-31 Thread Dave Thayer
in the bounds of the DE world. I'm kind of a retro-grouch, so these things don't do me a whole lot of good. -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-b

Re: handling removable media without gnome-volume-manager

2010-03-29 Thread Dave Thayer
devices such as my ipod generate spurious device names during plugging, so there's a delayed test of the mountpoint, and if it's bogus autofs will remove it. This script contains more than its fair share of crockery, and could use improvement, but it works for me. dt -- Dave Thayer

Re: handling removable media without gnome-volume-manager

2010-03-28 Thread Dave Thayer
automount map is created for /media/auto/rsnapshot_backup/. When unplugged, the map and mount directory is removed. My script still has some rough edges, It contains a fair amount of crockery to deal with devices which generate multiple add events, such as my ipod. It's fairly short so I'l

Re: auto-mounting disks that might not be present (e.g. usb drives)

2010-02-04 Thread Dave Thayer
: @reboot root test -L /dev/disk/by-uuid/4823-93A9 && fsck.vfat -a /dev/disk/by-uuid/4823-93A9 && mount /mnt/usb8gig (all on one line, with terminating newline) HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | autho

Re: What is the recommendation for a note software with tag support.

2009-10-27 Thread Dave Thayer
If you don't mind working inside a web browser, a TiddlyWiki can do all of this and a lot more. <http://tiddlywiki.com/> HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@th

Re: what happened to courier?

2009-09-14 Thread Dave Thayer
problem, you could be getting bit by this CUPS bug: <http://bugs.debian.org/519265>. Simplest solution for me is to use a2ps for my plaintext printing needs. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right ther

Re: font enlargement on file

2009-07-27 Thread Dave Thayer
ostscript" available for free download at <http://www.rightbrain.com/pages/books.html> HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why

Re: looking for a debian compatible usb audio interface

2009-06-24 Thread Dave Thayer
olves a fair amount of effort, so if you can borrow CD versions of your LPs or find a cheap used CD you're better off ripping the CD than spending a lot of time in Audacity trying to get a clean LP rip. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denv

Re: Retrieving the signal while plugging a USB key

2009-05-06 Thread Dave Thayer
m USB and Firewire devices when they are plugged in. Since it has some fairly long lines, I am attaching it rather than including the text in-line. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room t

Re: Graphics 1920x1440, monitor 1680x1050, nv 1280x1024.

2009-05-05 Thread Dave Thayer
edit your xorg.conf to set up the nv driver as a fallback. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you, which is why I don't like to read

Re: hdv camcorder (hv20) to dvd

2009-05-05 Thread Dave Thayer
, you can use pretty much any DVD authoring method you like. I stuck with kdenlive for the editing and then, since I have mythtv installed already, used mytharchive for a quick and dirty DVD. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA |

Re: Graphics 1920x1440, monitor 1680x1050, nv 1280x1024.

2009-05-04 Thread Dave Thayer
60.0 56.0 >320x24060.0 > These look like the basic VESA resolutions. I wonder if you could force any additional resolutions by adding custom modelines to your xorg.conf file. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Co

Re: Re: Hideous font when printing text file

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Thayer
g similar to text.ps from the psprint package in CTAN <http://www.ctan.org/get/dviware/psprint/unix/text.ps> HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle.com | you,

Re: Graphics 1920x1440, monitor 1680x1050, nv 1280x1024.

2009-04-29 Thread Dave Thayer
rtunately it won't get fixed[1]. According to our friends over at redhat, switching to an analog VGA cable might help things [2]. [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3654 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469224 HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a g

Re: possible printer replacements

2009-04-20 Thread Dave Thayer
ter_list.cgi>. According to this database these models all work "mostly" under linux. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@thayer-boyle

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-02-03 Thread Dave Thayer
won't need a powered hub. > > So I guess the better strategy is to get a powered hub so that you can connect > _any_ USB accessory to it--powered or not--thereafter? > > One nice bonus about having a powered hub is that it can be used to recharge gadgets such as cellphones

Re: dialing modem as normal user

2009-01-25 Thread Dave Thayer
dip - handle dialup IP connections I'm not sure how long ago dip disappeared from Debian, the manpage is dated 1995. Cheers, dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d..

Re: OT Internet Radio Reception Program

2008-12-15 Thread Dave Thayer
pports several such services, and "apt-cache search shoutcast" gives several other candidates. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to d...@tha

Re: OT: Label printer

2008-12-10 Thread Dave Thayer
er has a linux support page for this model at <http://solutions.brother.com/bsc_ph/os/linux/linux_ql500550.html> I bought mine refurbed about a year ago for about USD$30, and I see that here in the States buy.com has them new for $35 shipped. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you re

Re: Strange problem with copy paste.

2008-08-20 Thread Dave Thayer
n Debian, what could possibly go wrong?) You get redirected to a fake malware scan site which, big surprise, indicates that you need to download and install Antivirus 2009 which is a fairly well known mallware. Cheers, dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like

Re: hard drive problem

2008-08-06 Thread Dave Thayer
n SI units). For details see the wikipedia article <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Technology_Attachment#Drive_size_limitations> There's a good chance that you will have to spring for a new controller. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like th

Re: How do I get my Wintv PR USB2 card to work under Debian

2008-05-11 Thread Dave Thayer
n if you don't intend to install a full-blown myth setup. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-16 Thread Dave Thayer
d debugging environment similar to Borland's Turbo C and Pascal family. It has many features including the ability to start many compilers, linkers and debuggers from a menu-based interface or using keystrokes. [...] Debian has a package for damn near anything! dt -- Dave Thayer | Whe

Re: Flash

2008-04-13 Thread Dave Thayer
ages you need to use Christian Marillat's repository at <http://debian-multimedia.org>. Carefully follow the setup directions on that page so that you won't get bugged with a lot of authentification warnings. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it&#x

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Dave Thayer
en patched, but it's still a theoretical possibility that someone could come up with a exploit which would work for mutt. I'm not losing any sleep worrying... dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right ther

Re: vertical scroll on my touchpad not working

2008-03-03 Thread Dave Thayer
ic Keyboard" InputDevice"Synaptics Touchpad" InputDevice "USB Mouse" "CorePointer" EndSection HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | au

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-28 Thread Dave Thayer
ges) nor cygqin > (because its can't go through a firewall that requires authentication). > Portableapps <http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable> has OOo which, although intended to be run from a USB stick, works just fine when unpacked to a local directory. HTH

Re: How to keep a locally compiled *.deb up to date?

2007-12-21 Thread Dave Thayer
ernel for a low-spec machine such as a router, but you are doing it on your higher powered workstation and then copying over the deb. You wouldn't want or need an entire kernel tree on your target machine in this case. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's

Re: Tuning access to the internet

2007-12-18 Thread Dave Thayer
f the net > that requires a mouse and a flash plugin), you can use an HTTP proxy for > that. I think Squid can do what you need, but I haven't used it myself. > Squid + SquidGuard appears to be able to do this <http://www.squidguard.org/Doc/extended.html#times> HTH dt -- Da

Re: Syncable finance app?

2007-12-04 Thread Dave Thayer
might have a look at Freecoins <http://freecoins.sourceforge.net>. It has a export module to create CSV and QIF. I have tried it but not used it very much because I'm not really organized enough to use such a program. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's lik

Re: Download Opera brower package

2007-12-02 Thread Dave Thayer
ot available in Debian, you need to download it from opera.com and > install it with dpkg -i for example. > You can use apt-get or aptitude if you follow the instructions at <http://deb.opera.com/>. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denve

Re: volume mgmt w/o gnome

2007-12-01 Thread Dave Thayer
then n=1 while [ -e "$autofs_mount_dir/$mountpoint.$n" ] do let "n += 1" done mountpoint=$mountpoint.$n fi # Add map for device using FS appropriate options if [ "$ID_FS_TYPE" = "vfat" ] then echo "$mountpoint"

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

2007-09-27 Thread Dave Thayer
tp://preview.tinyurl.com/37o2bz> HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack

Re: Where, Doom3 For Linux Download

2007-09-10 Thread Dave Thayer
ill be > thankfully appreciated, Have a look at the official "DOOM III GNU/Linux FAQ" <http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/> It contains the link you're looking for as well as a bittorrent tracker link. Of course, you'll want to read the other information there too...

Re: USB question

2007-08-26 Thread Dave Thayer
: device hp:libusb:002:004' is a Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 62x0C flatbed scanner I'm running sid with kernel 2.6.18-2-k7. FWIW, I've found the 6200c's USB performance to be somewhat flaky; sometimes I have to power-cycle the scanner to avoid getting error messages from scanimage.

Re: Beautyfuls OpenGL ScreenSavers

2007-07-19 Thread Dave Thayer
te? > If you're not adamant about using OpenGL drivers, electricsheep is a gorgeous screensaver. It doesn't need OpenGL because it uses frames rendered by machines all over the internet. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colora

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-18 Thread Dave Thayer
says it works with linux: <http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=BLK-MP3-1GB&cat=MP3> Disclaimer: I have no experience with this particular unit, but i have purchased other cheap players at geeks.com in the past which were OK. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-09 Thread Dave Thayer
cks. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack Handey "Deep Thoughts"

Re: Readable Bash Primer

2007-03-14 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:15:29PM +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: > David Baron writes: > > > Anything on line. The "man" is unreadable. > > http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ > This is also packaged in Debian for your disconnected convenience: apt-get install

Re: No keyboard in gdm-greeter on reboot

2007-02-06 Thread Dave Thayer
ot;0=Standard" to "0=Standard vt7" in the "[servers]" section of gdm.conf. Mind you, this was a long time ago, but it's worth looking into. dt [1] http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.laptop/msg/c92a24076c69749f -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Dave Thayer
grief loosing maildirs as well. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack Hande

Re: What UPS to buy

2007-02-04 Thread Dave Thayer
ngly challenging to configure, but it does the job and is extremely flexable. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read

Re: How to Play Two Audio streams to two different outputs?

2006-12-11 Thread Dave Thayer
u considered using the left and right channels seperately for the audio sources? You might be able to get by with some mixer software trickery to run L & R independently. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right t

Re: Debian, GIS || GPS

2006-10-10 Thread Dave Thayer
t;festival" software is running. The maps are autoselected for best resolution depending of your position. All Garmin GPS reveiver with a serial output should be usable, also other GPS receiver which supports NMEA protocol. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good

Re: a good Video cut & scale program?

2006-09-13 Thread Dave Thayer
method is adequate for many applications. [...] Should be just what you need. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read

Re: Palm sync issues

2006-05-21 Thread Dave Thayer
managed to mangle the keyring database in jpilot somehow. I ended up moving .jpilot/Keys-Gtkr.pdb out of the way and letting jpilot download a fresh copy from the palm. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there,

Re: how to pick fresh fruit.

2006-03-29 Thread Dave Thayer
ns, xbiff replacement $ sudo apt-get install melon HTH -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books.

Re: Bash, cat and EOF problem

2006-03-01 Thread Dave Thayer
the here text (unless you want your outfile to contain " Some words" rather than "Some words") and the limit string ("EOF"). See <http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html#INDENTEDLS> HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book

Re: unable to upgrade past kernel2.6.7 with SATA RAID

2006-02-24 Thread Dave Thayer
oking for /dev/hd*, 6) Rebooted and crossed fingers. I am probably leaving some critical stuff out here, but hopefully this will get you going in the right direction. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, i

Re: wireless card

2006-02-23 Thread Dave Thayer
> FWIW, I've been using the RT2500 based Zonet ZEW1501 with good results. Newegg has them for $19.50. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you

Re: xscreensaver's questions ?

2006-02-21 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:02:36AM +0100, Cedric BRINER wrote: > > the reason to this, is that sysadmin can unlock screensavers of users. > An ugly, brute-force method to do this would be to log into a VC or ssh in and (as root) kill the xscreensaver process. dt -- Da

Re: Configuring pcmcia cards at boot-up

2006-02-12 Thread Dave Thayer
t a fairly late priority (S90 or so) so that it gets called after the networking and pcmcia initscripts have run. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, whi

Re: converting CHM files

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:07:08PM -0400, Michael Spang wrote: > aptitude install xchm FWIW, gnochm also looks pretty nice, but the OP needs something text-based which probably would rule these out. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver,

Re: converting CHM files

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Thayer
lists the contents of a chm file chm_http - simplistic web server to allow browsing of chm files without extracting them These tools seem to be fairly crude, but you may be able to do somethng useful with them. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a

Re: non-free internet radio?

2005-09-04 Thread Dave Thayer
ed version in his repository so you can give it a shot without too much hassle. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read

Re: OT: document scanning into pdf/ps file?

2005-08-30 Thread Dave Thayer
df which can be used to concatinate single page TIFFs (from sane or xsane) into a single multi-page tiff, and then convert it into a PDF. It should be a fairly simple task to write a script to handle this. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Color

Re: your mail [non-root shutdown]

2005-08-29 Thread Dave Thayer
ACPI to monitor the power button. Acpid will do a clean shutdown and power-off on most modern machines, not just laptops. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you,

Re: mass user property changes

2005-08-25 Thread Dave Thayer
n vipw: [vipw] will set the appropriate locks to prevent file corruption dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to r

Re: monitor PC2000 F17 69T technical informations?

2005-08-21 Thread Dave Thayer
/prod/oet/cf/eas/reports/GenericSearch.cfm HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good b

Re: OpenOffice on Debian Cut/Paste problems

2005-01-09 Thread Dave Thayer
7;t turn anything up though. I use > 1.1.2dfsg1-3. > The version in sid has open bugs on this: #284480 and #288708. I ended up downloading the 1.4 linux binaries from openoffice.org and installing them in /opt as a temporary measure until these bugs are closed. dt -- Dave Thayer

Re: login into a particular directory using ssh

2004-12-06 Thread Dave Thayer
ytime I open a window/shell, it gets executed. That is not > what I want. > I'm ssh'ed in right now and see that the following variables are set: SSH_CLIENT= SSH_CONNECTION= SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0 You probably could wrap your cd command with a conditional testing for one of

Re: data-entry GUIs & python

2004-12-02 Thread Dave Thayer
bunch of ex-Foxpro developers trying to make a Python RAD environment with some of the better features of visual foxpro. It's still fairly immature, but it looks real promising. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be

Re: how to mount a windows 'share' under linux

2004-11-29 Thread Dave Thayer
but for post win2k machines you may want to use the linux cifs drivers instead. Somewhere in the /. discussion of the recent smbfs exploit it was mentioned that smbfs has been depreciated in favor of cifs, although cifs may still be a bit rough around the edges. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | WA

Re: Secure Password Storage

2004-10-14 Thread Dave Thayer
be noted that in order to use these 'conduits' you have to hotsync your palm with the computer, which means that palm desktop software would have to be installed on each machine and the contents of your palm would be backed up to their HDs. This is probably not something that you want to

Re: lm-sensors watching daemon?

2004-10-11 Thread Dave Thayer
n at > certain threshold values): Gkrellm can monitor sensors and run commands when thresholds are crossed. The gotcha here is that it is not a background daemon, it has to be running in somebody's X session. This may make it unsuitable for your needs. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNIN

Re: Linux gamers with Matrox cards, speak up please!

2004-10-06 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:02:53AM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 00:33:54 -0600, Dave Thayer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 11:03:35AM +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > > On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 19:30:38 -0700, Paul John

Re: Linux gamers with Matrox cards, speak up please!

2004-10-05 Thread Dave Thayer
3 FPS on glxgears on an AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+. Tuxracer is playable -- barely. Matrox is known for their high quality 2D, but for gaming you probably want to look elsewhere. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: devfs -> udev, user mounting etc

2004-09-16 Thread Dave Thayer
jumpdrive_trio /media/smartmedia -> /var/autofs/misc/smartmedia I shortened the timeout in /etc/default/ to 2 seconds from 300, this may be a bit too short but it hasn't caused problems yet. I don't use KDE or Gnome, so for a visual indication of mounts I setup the gkrellm file system kr

Re: [Dave Thayer] Re: devfs -> udev, user mounting etc

2004-09-15 Thread Dave Thayer
t; Have you tried udevruler with this plugged in? I made most of my rules by snooping around /sys using lynx, but the udevruler program looks a lot easier. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROT

Re: Browser Based E-Mail

2004-09-14 Thread Dave Thayer
ail under mozilla (sid) works fine for me. Perhaps you have a corrupted cookie or some other local setting. -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Emailing myself pictures to a Maildir; how to extract with script?

2004-09-12 Thread Dave Thayer
> message. (Lazy, done no research yet, but hoping someone can grunt a > one word answer). > The munpack utility (part of the mpack package) will do this. It also works as a pipe, so you can call it directly from your procmail recipe. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Pers

Re: devfs -> udev, user mounting etc

2004-09-07 Thread Dave Thayer
quot;%k", symlink="jukebox" BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="C2Z,D520Z,C220Z", NAME="%k", symlink="camera" BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld", NAME="%k", symlink="pilot" I use autofs to mount these, but the symlinks should work with fstab just as well. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-08-31 Thread Dave Thayer
ther providers of similar services, google will reveal all. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Sine wave .cdr file?

2004-08-17 Thread Dave Thayer
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:31:09PM -, John Conover wrote: > > I need to make a .cdr file of a sine wave at various frequencies. > Sox should be able to do the trick. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may

Re: Re: udev isn't creating links for my cdrom and dvd-rom devices

2004-07-26 Thread Dave Thayer
rting udev... do I have to reboot for the changes to take effect? Another thing that bit me was some leftover lines in /etc/lilo.conf from 2.4.x kernels like ``append = "hdc=ide-scsi ignore=hdc.."''. This was causing udev to not generate /dev/hdc*, let alone the symlinks. --

Re: udev isn't creating links for my cdrom and dvd-rom devices

2004-07-25 Thread Dave Thayer
cdrom and dvdrom drives and it didn't create any links for them. > The script /etc/udev/cdsymlinks.sh addresses this issue. Just copy the usage example into whatever rules file you use for local configuration (I use /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules). HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | WAR

Re: how to edit a pdf file in linux

2004-07-21 Thread Dave Thayer
t; papers. I would like to know can this be done in Linux? > > (Frankly speaking I dont want to boot windows for just adding comments > to a pdf file ;) ) I've successfully run an older version (v3.1 iirc) of Acrobat Exchange under wine. I little bit glitchy but it gets the job

Re: 2.6.7 questions

2004-07-14 Thread Dave Thayer
/dev/jukebox, /dev/camera) instead of trying to keep track of what is on /dev/sda1 this time. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: udev question

2004-07-08 Thread Dave Thayer
ff=[0|1] Work this into a hotplug script and you should be good to go. dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: edit pdf's

2004-05-12 Thread Dave Thayer
ich can take pdf as input perform various transformations including cropping. This might be a little easier than pdf2ps+gimp dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nForce lockups back

2004-04-23 Thread Dave Thayer
have a matrox card. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots themselves. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lost mouse functionality in 2.6.x kernel upgrade

2004-04-15 Thread Dave Thayer
e data wishes. Here's my /etc/gpm.conf (trimmed of comments): device=/dev/input/mice responsiveness= repeat_type=msc type=imps2 append="-3" sample_rate= HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | WARNING: Persons denying the existence of Denver, Colorado USA | robots may be robots them

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