Re: IBM Model M Keyboards (Was: Air compressors vs. canned air)

2010-02-20 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:24:39AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: I second that motion! I have two of them. I wish I had more. They are the best keyboards ever made, in my humble opinion. I'll third that motion. Back in the 486 days my keyboard gave out. I went in search of one at a small

Re: flash / iceweasel / all that

2009-01-28 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Glenn, On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Glenn Becker wrote: I should probably admit that I haven't been booting my Debian install lately, I've been running some other Linux distros, not to mention FreeBSD and OpenSolaris, for quite a while. I think I've finally come to my senses and just recently

Re: packages in a fresh install

2009-01-27 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Marcelo, On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: You might transfer this file to another computer, and install it there with: dpkg --clear-selections dpkg --set-selections myselections and then, in order to install the packages, should I do aptitude update?

Re: packages in a fresh install

2009-01-27 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Kevin Monceaux wrote: # man dpkg works wonders. :-) Also from the dselect man page: I think I browsed too many man pages before I replied. The above should read from the dpkg man page. :-) Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville

Re: Preferred applications: IDE, text-editor, music player.

2008-06-18 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Nuno, On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Nuno Magalhães wrote: The thing is i have a few requirements: i want applications that are not desktop-dependant (i.e. Gnome or KDE) and do not rely upon Java. This rules out a lot of text editors. For console, i use nano, for GUI i'm using leafpad, any other

Re: minimalist window managers [was Re: Preferred applications: IDE, text-editor, music player.]

2008-06-18 Thread Kevin Monceaux
A, On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: if you decide to investigate other minimalist WM's you might look at xmonad. It's all keyboard controlled, tiled with a variety of customizable tiling layouts. pretty fun(unctional). Actually, I was using xmonad before switching to DWM.

Re: Bookmarks (Was: iceweasel 3 in sid)

2008-06-13 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Thanks. How do you keep the same bookmarks and form prompts in two different profiles? Since there's always a chance I might be using someone else's PC when I'm out and about, not to mention that I sometimes switch between two PCs while as work

Re: Linux doesn't like DVD+R disks?

2008-06-12 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Am I missing something simple? I've also hit a recent snag with DVD+R, single layer, disks. In my case I'm able to burn them but not mount them. I've also been wondering if I'm missing something simple but haven't dug into the problem too far yet.

Re: Mail not getting to DU

2008-05-20 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Wayne, On Tue, 20 May 2008, Wayne Topa wrote: I am still reading the mail on mutt though. So I have to paste your message into icedove. ;-( I haven't been following this discussion, so forgive me if I'm misunderstanding. I suspect from this e-mail that you're having problems sending

Re: Image Viewers(Was: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome)

2008-05-14 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Micha wrote: As for image viewer, IIRC what xv is like you may like feh. These days I use gqview though. I browsed feh's web site and it looks like it might be something I'd like. I'll take it for a spin when I get home later. One of the main features I look for is

Re: Image Viewers(Was: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome)

2008-05-14 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Arvind, On Thu, 15 May 2008, Arvind Marathe wrote: You might also try xzgv. Out of the viewers I've tried so far I think I like xzgv the best. After only five to ten minutes of tinkering I'm already able to navigate to the next/previous image, zoom in and out, etc. as quickly as I can in

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-13 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Tue, 13 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For what is worth, after a good deal of trial periods I went for Ion and scrapped everything else. Simply fantastic. Granted, I didn't just want to optimise screen usage, but to get some efficiency back to the way I interact with my coputer. I'm

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Mon, 12 May 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Are there any other configuration parameters that can be tweaked in my gtkrc (or elsewhere) to reduce/remove the extra space around the toolbar icons and make better use of screen space? Hit ctrlaltF1 :-) I do as much as I can via the text

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Ron, On Mon, 12 May 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Then why use XFCE? Because of the window managers I've tried so far XFCE seems to cooperate the best with the way I like to do things. Some that I've tried didn't handle new window focus the way I prefer, didn't handle keyboard shortcuts for

Re: grep trick

2008-04-07 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Chris, On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Chris Bannister wrote: In your .bashrc put: export GREP_COLOR=33 alias grep='grep --colour=always' Very cool tip!! In my case, however, my .cshrc file might be a better choice since I don't use bash, and of course the syntax is different. As someone else

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Wei Chen wrote: The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its users, e.g. about 50% in the last 3 years. I'm

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-11 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, David Fox wrote: Shouldn't there be a little added writeup to bump your local version - and/or put an entry in the changelogs file? I don't think the latter is really necessary since you're not going to upload the package, but what about collisions? Probably. As I said

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-11 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Kevin Monceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would the idea be to change that to 3:20071206-0.2? If so, how/where is that changed? The only file in the debian directory I find that version number

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-11 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: I think it is indeed a nice idea to change the version number. And you're right about the way: you need to edit the changelog, adding a new entry with the desired version number. Okay, an updated writeup with a section on changing the version

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-10 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Eduardo, On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: I've just rebuilt the package reenabling MMX, and apparently it works OK, and much faster. I've read that you've rebuilt the package, but are you sure MMX is enabled? I only tried rebuilding the package to optimize for i686. I hadn't

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-10 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Kevin Monceaux wrote: After some trial and error I found that if I dropped the --disable-mmx and the --extra-cflags configure parms and let configure pick it's own cflags I could get the package to build successfully. After more trial and error I discovered that if one

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-10 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, David Fox wrote: On 3/10/08, Kevin Monceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you remove --disable-mmx does any mmx stuff build? If I also remove -fPIC and -DPIC then yes, I get an mmx enabled version of ffmpeg. I just got home where I could test the package I built earlier

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-10 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Ron, On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: For posterity, can you put up a web page (or list here) the changes to the (debian-multimedia?) ffmpeg deb-src to allow it to be built with mmx enabled? Were you looking for something along the lines of:

Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-04 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Debian Enthusiasts, Does anyone have any suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance. To make a long story, well, not quite so long, I recently converted my home desktop box from ArchLinux to Debian. Back when I was running ArchLinux, and maybe one or two distros before, I started using

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-04 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Damon, On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote: I was under (it would seem falsely) that streaming from/to a tivo was limited to windows. I can access the tivo from Linux by IP, but I get no menu to do anything with it, just a webpage. I never looked into it as it was not that important

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-04 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Doug, On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: What happens if you run top? Look at things like %idle, %waiting (for i.o), and %sys (kernel executing) and %user (your program, likely the ffmpeg program, see the listing for that line). This may tell you where the bottle-neck is. To my

Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-12-19 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Owen Heisler wrote: Actually, this didn't fix the problem. After the system is booted, there are three dbus processes running: two 'dbus-daemon' and one 'dbus-launch'. Killing the 'dbus-launch' process fixes the problem (until the next reboot, of course). I'm seeing

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-08 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: This looks like it might be fun. First of all, while I do know the meaning of FLOSS I might choose to ignore that fact from time to time below. audio editor: N/A - I haven't really gotten into audio editing. audio player: mpg123

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-08 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Kevin Monceaux wrote: anything deserving great honours (EG. GCC): clip, Aubit4GL Humm, I seem to have experienced a momentary lapse of reason. I left out Hercules. That should have been at the top of my great honours list. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http

Re: Modern Message Threading Techniques (Was: replying to a message in debian-user)

2007-01-25 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:20:59PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: No, what I mean is that it's obviously *better* to use a MUA that supports threading, Threading is good. I'd go nutty(no, wait, I did that years ago anyway) trying to follow high-volume e-mail lists without it. Good

New Maintaners' Guide - Typo?

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Fellow Debian Enthusiasts, Has anyone noticed that praecepta is misspelled in the New Maintainers' Guide? I added the quote to my .signature file and sent out a few e-mails before realizing it. Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX Si hoc legere scis

Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Fellow Debian Enthusiasts, I'm teetering on the fence between Arch Linux and Debian Linux. So, I thought I'd post an intro in hopes that someone will give me a gentle nudge in the right direction. Forgive me if I ramble a bit. I've been a Linux user for years. I started with Slackware in

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Hugo, On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:09:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: One package I use heavily is the Hercules mainframe emulator. snip That's the first I heard of it: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/hercules What operating system facilities do you use with it?

Re: Possible New User - Intro

2007-01-23 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Andrew, On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 08:53:59AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: nudge debian. there you go. ;-) Thanks, I needed that. You sound like you are experienced enough that you might think about running sid, unstable debian. Its does break now and then, but really keeps up