Re: Internet connection sharing with WinXP: DNS problem

2003-09-02 Thread Jörg Johannes
Damien Solley schrieb: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 17:47, Jörg Johannes wrote: Hi everybody. My father has a Win XP box with a builtin DSL card (no linux driver available AFAIK, it's a Eicon Diva DSL). So the only possibility to get my Linux laptop connected to the net when I am at home is to l

Re: re wet blue

2003-09-02 Thread Jörg Johannes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I knew we had this already. I did a little historical research on the d-u archives, and voilà: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200105/msg00719.html It's really worth reading the follow-ups. joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Internet connection sharing with WinXP: DNS problem

2003-09-01 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hi everybody. My father has a Win XP box with a builtin DSL card (no linux driver available AFAIK, it's a Eicon Diva DSL). So the only possibility to get my Linux laptop connected to the net when I am at home is to let XP dial in and share the connection to my Linux box. I have tried the "Inter

Re: Big difference in antialiasing

2003-01-14 Thread Jörg Johannes
Richard Beri schrieb: Does anyone else find AA fonts annoying? I hate them, sure they "look" smoother, but I find that it just seems blurred and they are hard to read. Makes me feel something is wrong with my eyes. It hurts. Totally agreed. This is one major reason for me not to use gnome.

Re: UT2003 Installation on Debian

2003-01-08 Thread Jörg Johannes
HNIX schrieb: thanks for the help, people. I load up the formatted floppy disk and when I mount the floppy disk, I got the error message #mount /dev/fd0 /floppy mount: you must specify the filesystem type Also, I got this error message everytime I click ok to change the UT2003 CD. What is flop

encrypted filesystems with debian packages?

2002-12-24 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hello everybody I just started to read the Linux Encryption HOWTO on http://www.linuxsecurity.com/docs/HOWTO/Encryption-HOWTO/Encryption-HOWTO.html and I wonder if I can use encryped filesystems with my sid installation. However, I did not find the crypto-patched mount program on the debian pack

Re: Whose bug(s)? tetex-base, tetex-extra, lilypond

2002-12-24 Thread Jörg Johannes
Colin Watson schrieb: On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 04:39:44PM +0100, J?rg Johannes wrote: I had a similar problem. I think some files moved from one to the other package, and apt wants to replace the old files from files out of the "wrong" package. It should work if you remove lilypond, then apt-ge

Re: Slowing down CD/DVD drives?

2002-12-24 Thread Jörg Johannes
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh schrieb: On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Jörg Johannes wrote: Is there a linux tool for slowing down CD-Rom and DVD drives to, say, 12x CD or 2x DVD speed? There is a program called CD-bremse Try the setcd package... Yes, that helped. thank you. joerg -- To

Slowing down CD/DVD drives?

2002-12-23 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hi everybody Is there a linux tool for slowing down CD-Rom and DVD drives to, say, 12x CD or 2x DVD speed? There is a program called CD-bremse http://home.t-online.de/home/Joern.Fiebelkorn/cdbremse.htm that does this for the OS whose name is not to be spoken. The result is a very less noisy CD/D

Re: Whose bug(s)? tetex-base, tetex-extra, lilypond

2002-12-23 Thread Jörg Johannes
I had a similar problem. I think some files moved from one to the other package, and apt wants to replace the old files from files out of the "wrong" package. It should work if you remove lilypond, then apt-get upgrade and then reinstall lilypond after all the TeX stuff is done. However, this is

AucTeX / Emacs syntax highlighting problem

2002-12-16 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hello List I have a file called header.tex in my home directory which I use for every LaTeX document. When I try to do \input{$HOME/header} at the very beginning of my document, emacs colors everything in math-mode-colour because of the "$"-sign. I do not want to use the absolute path, because

Re: OT: functional languages (was: Politics of Java)

2002-12-13 Thread Jörg Johannes
Nori Heikkinen schrieb: on Fri, 13 Dec 2002 02:29:13PM +0100, martin f krafft insinuated: because i stumbled upon this yesterday and couldn't find an answer... Haskell, Erlang and Clean are functional programming languages. Lisp is very similar in terms of the paradigm. Is Lisp a functional

Re: Debian Package for viewing/editing .ai files (Adobe Illustrator)

2002-12-11 Thread Jörg Johannes
There's no Save As . . . option for .gif in the gimp. Is there some proprietary format issue? Yes: The LZW patent. If you want .gif support, apt-get install gimp-nonfree. I saved as a png and that worked perfectly!!! It displays properly in Galeon. But from IE on WinDoze box, I still get t

switching between two network configurations

2002-12-10 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hi List With my laptop, I'd like to access two different networks (depending on where I am): My home network and university network. At home, my IP is 192.168.0.99 and hostname shold be "horchloeffel", at university the IP and hostname are set to other fixed values. What I'd like to do is choos

Re: What [OT] stands for?

2002-12-10 Thread Jörg Johannes
Yeah, sure it is "on tablets" ... uauauauah. That was the best thing I have read here. Any suggestions for FYI? Or RTFM? apt-get install bsdgames wtf rtfm hth j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Perl pattern matching

2002-12-06 Thread Jörg Johannes
Colin Watson schrieb: On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:53:28PM +0100, J?rg Johannes wrote: Here it comes: In "Programming Perl (german translation) there is an example for how to skip lines that start with the hash sign: LINE: while ($line = ) { next LINE if /^#/; # Should skip lines that st

[OT] Perl pattern matching

2002-12-06 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hi List Sorry for coming in here with such a question, but this list ahs perl gurus, and response is much faster than comp.lang.perl.misc (and I need the answer fast...) Here it comes: In "Programming Perl (german translation) there is an example for how to skip lines that start with the hash

[OT] USB -> serial converters

2002-12-05 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hello everybody I am thinking about buying a laptop, and I absolutely need a serial port. Now that many if not most, laptops do not have serial ports any more, I'd like to know if (and how) I could get one of those USB to serial converters to work Any experiences, anyone? thanks joerg -- To U

Re: [Fwd: Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats]

2002-11-29 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hello Jerome the LaTeX package `epstopdf' allows to convert PostScript files on the fly: you should find it at your favorite CTAN site in the folder: CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/supported/oberliek or somethinh lik that. This looks very promising, I have to check it out. But wait... this should

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-26 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hi Stefan I really like the makefile approach, but I will have to read the "make"-nutshell book before I understand what the snipped you gave me really does... Thanks anyway. joerg I would use a Makefile like -[snip!]--- FROM = $(subst .eps,.pdf, $(wildcard

Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-26 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hello Johann I'm not sure if we understand each other. I'll ask you what is unclear in comments below: Johann Spies schrieb: \newif\ifpdf \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined \pdffalse \documentclass[dvips,12pt,a4paper]{article} \else \pdfoutput=1 \let\special\message \pdftrue \documentclass[

[OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

2002-11-26 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hi everybody For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. The problem I have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) understand .eps and .ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures from gnuplot into .png for pdflatex in order to use them. The other way round, "normal" LaTeX

Re: DVDrip question

2002-11-26 Thread Jörg Johannes
Din Tuck schrieb: I am now able to Rip DVDs using DVDrip. But I have two questions What are some good settings for a nice divx file ? I tried some on Xvid and Dvix5, but they don't look too good. Anyone recommend some settings? Most often I use the "medium frame size" option for the output

Re: Ext3 vs. ReiserFS

2002-11-25 Thread Jörg Johannes
There may be other howtos, but this on eis what google told me when I asked first... http://www.namesys.com/faq.html#change-root is there way in which i can convert my existing ext3 filesystem to reiserfs? is there a way to convert it back if i find reiserfs not suitable? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: capturing X to video

2002-11-20 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hello Martin is it possible to capture all that's going on on my X server to video somehow? I imagine it can't be hard thanks to X's modular architecture. Does anyone have a pointer or so? There are various programs that can capture the X desktop (screenshot). If you could use such a program

Re: XFCE questions and some thoughts about window managers..

2002-11-18 Thread Jörg Johannes
Haim Ashkenazi schrieb: >I ALWAYS remove the taskbar... but can you iconify windows to the >desktop? > Yes you can, but I'm not sure if you can move them to the place you want, they start somewhere top left and add up to a list. joerg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: german isp's

2002-11-14 Thread Jörg Johannes
> can anybody recommend a cheap linux-friendly isp in germany? > Not Compuserve A good listing can be found on the pages around http://www.heise.de/itarif/ There are no marks "Supports Linux" or so, but if you can find information about the isp's dialin phone number and DNS you should be fine. (

Re: (semi-OT) JPG files -> Movie file

2002-11-13 Thread Jörg Johannes
> well for now I think I have to settle on imagemagick. it can > convert a bunch of images(even jpeg) to an animated gif. I > installed ucbmpeg, and also mjpegtools but both immediately > segfault when processing the first JPG file. Actually I > was able to get mjpegtools to create a YUV file witho

Re: [OT?] sleep()-problem in perl

2002-11-11 Thread Jörg Johannes
Thanks, Colin. This example shows that sitting down to the computer, knowing not much more than how to 'print "Hello World\n";' and start hacking with a book ("Programming Perl") in your hand is not the best approach to learn programming. One misses by 100% chance such easy, yet important things li

[OT] Pointer for data aquisition over serial port

2002-11-04 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hi List The subject says it (nearly) all: I have an old spectrophotometer which has a serial port. According to the manual, it reads commands in cleartext, and outputs its measured data in clear text as well. So what I need is a software that allows me to send such commands to the serial port, and

shell script problem (was: Re: [OT] rearranging data files)

2002-06-08 Thread Jörg Johannes
> Hm. > > If > ./col2row.sh > gives "Keine Berechtigung", but this one works: > sh ./col2row.sh > > then you most likely put the script on a filesystem that has been > mounted with the "noexec" attribute. Sometimes people mount /tmp this > way. Another test of this would be to copy /bin/l

where does konqueror store its cookies?

2001-11-20 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hello List Where does konqueror store ist cookies? I'd like to redirect the cookie file to /dev/null. Reason: On windows with netscape, I have marked the file cookies.txt read-only, accepted all cookies, so every website was happy, but nothing was written to the file. joerg -- Did you know that

Ext3fs and fsck

2001-11-20 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hello List I have ext3fs on all partitions (except /boot, which is usualy mounted ro). When the maximum mount count is reached, ext3 tells me "EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended" What is the easiest way to run e2fsck automatically on bootup, when the max

Japanese fonts in X

2001-10-27 Thread Jörg Johannes
Hello List I have installed a potato box for a friend. She would like to use japanese fonts in GNOME, so I have installed the xfonts-intl-japanese and xfonts-intl-japanese-big packages, selected "japanese" on gdm login, but all I get is useless crap-symbols (þþæßþþµµ¢ß?...). I have also gene