Re: KDE madness again

2019-11-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 08:45:49AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > Long time ago I stopped using KDE, because they started going insane. > > Two days ago upgraded to Buster and now wanted to check if all works fine. > > One of the things I need to use is qdbusviewer - unfortunately there is no > acce

Re: One jigdo file missing - cannot build ISO image DVD7.

2019-03-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 06:46:36PM +1030, djs wrote: > When using jigdo-lite to download files for debian-9.8.0-amd64-DVD7 the > majority of the files download correctly. The procedure becomes stuck > at http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/afl/afl-doc_2.36b-1_all. > deb . One file missing!

Re: xterm choking on compose key input

2015-01-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Sven, Thanks for the e-mail. On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:12:22PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2015-01-07 09:38 +0100, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > I regularly use the compose key to insert characters. The locale I > > use, en_IN, doesn't have a Compose file in /usr

xterm choking on compose key input

2015-01-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Hi. I regularly use the compose key to insert characters. The locale I use, en_IN, doesn't have a Compose file in /usr/share/X11/locale, so I copied the /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose file to ~/.XCompose. Now, most applications work fine. However, xterm seems to choke on compose key in

Re: C++ compiler g++-4.9

2014-12-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 01:23:31PM +0100, Nick Mpallas wrote: >Hi guys, >I am building a platform and I need to compile apache mesos from sources. >The issue is that the guys the require support for specific c++11 features >that in the 4.7 compiler currently supported by debian aren

Re: MP3 player compatible with Debian

2014-10-04 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 03:19:26PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > There was a thread about MP3 players a bit back, and one in particular found > favour. But my memory, Google-foo, archive-foo have all failed me. Can any > kind person remind me/recommend a suitable inexpensive MP3 player for me to

Suspend/hibernate menu options missing from KDE

2014-08-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian User, I am using a Jessie, and largely have KDE 4.11. I am trying to configure my KDE to allow sleep on lid close and such goodness. In the Power Management section of my KDE System Settings, I am unable to find any sleep/suspend options. Likewise, the K Menu's Leave section also has

Re: ntpdate: Can't find host 0.debian.pool.ntp.org

2014-04-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 12:43:28AM +, Amit wrote: > Have a minimal debian system and installed ntpdate. Time seems to be set > correctly but getting these messages: > > $ journalctl -b | grep ntp > Apr 17 17:36:22 test ntpdate[709]: Can't find host 0.debian.pool.ntp.org: > Name or service not

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 11:53:52PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > As with any MUA directly accessing maildir files performance gradually > slows down over time with more and more mail files because they are > scattered across the filesystem, especially with EXT, much less so with > XFS. Seeking to

Re: Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-09 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:29:26AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 08 apr 14, 22:47:05, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > > Of late, I've observed that folders with over 1000 messages seem quite > > slow to respond (order of 3-4 seconds), which wasn't really happe

Maildir ext4 slowness

2014-04-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian User, Of late, I've observed that opening my Maildir boxes in Mutt has been a tad slow. Here is the rough structure: I have an LVM home directory (ext4), within which I have a folder called ~/Maildir. This folder has several Maildirs, say inbox, debian-user etc., each of which gets it

Re: mbox files - can they be "compacted"?

2014-04-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 02:10:09PM +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote: >Hi All ;) >Is there an option to compact large mbox files from the shell? I did not >find anything in google, I have some very large constantly updated mbox >files and would like to know if they can be made smaller with

Re: images not correctly rendered in iceweasel

2014-03-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 06:41:42PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > FWIW, I am using iceweasel 27.0.1-1 from experimental, and the > rendering is identical for me in chromium and iceweasel. This seems to > be an artefact in 24 though… > >Thanks for the reply Kumar. That is a

Re: images not correctly rendered in iceweasel

2014-03-19 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:25:06PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >On some websites, Iceweasel is not rendering the images correctly. The >same website works perfectly in chromium browser. >For example, here is a screenshot of >[1]http://www.java.com/images/jv0h_java8.jpg in both

Re: eps editor

2014-02-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 11:29:51PM +0800, lina wrote: > On Sunday 23,February,2014 11:12 PM, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Any package recommendation to edit the eps details? > > > > I have a network pic, see attached. I manually drag the nodes position, > > and it was produced by R tkplot, I am no

Re: Postfix - run script from email

2013-12-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 02:17:33PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Tony van der Hoff: > > > > Does anyone know how to attach some sort of filter/trigger to postfix to > > cause a script to be run on incoming mail with particular conditions, > > or would anyone like to suggest a better solution? >

Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-18 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:11:38PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 8/18/13, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 02:52:05AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> In GahNU, answer find you :) > >> > >> But you ought to do your bit and find duckduc

Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 02:52:05AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > In GahNU, answer find you :) > > But you ought to do your bit and find duckduckgo while you're at it. I am doing some searching myself, but I did want some opinions from the list. Thank you for sharing your opinions. Kumar -- Ap

Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 02:28:46PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > And of course the simple solution is to migrate to mbox. Maildir was > created for a single purpose: to eliminate file locking contention on > the traditional UNIX single mbox file. With tens of thousands of emails > this is obviou

Re: Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 09:59:57AM -0400, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Hi. > > This may be slightly OT, but I hope people don't mind much. > > I'd like to come up with an efficient way to store and access my > e-mail using a loopback file, so I wanted some advice from expe

Loopback filesystems for mail storage

2013-08-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Hi. This may be slightly OT, but I hope people don't mind much. I'd like to come up with an efficient way to store and access my e-mail using a loopback file, so I wanted some advice from experienced people on the list. Currently, I've been using only vanilla ext[34] file systems, but my Maildir

Re: apache chroot

2013-06-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 01:26:22PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all :-) > > After installed debian 7, there isn't: libapache2-mod-chroot (I use it > to put apache within a jail) but this package does not exist. > > Any idea? You should check the PTS: http://packages.qa.debian.org/liba/libapach

Re: RedHat and MariaDB

2013-06-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 08:01:27PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > Slashdot and others have reported that RedHat, like Fedora and OpenSuSE, is > switching from MySQL to MariaDB. I expect Debian will follow suit, since > they have set precedents many times for preferring free software. (Example: > O

Re: Starting Google Chrome

2013-04-16 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:08:44PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > On 04/15/2013 07:59 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:48:39PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > >>Kumar - > >> > >>Thanks. > >> > >> It would be

Re: Starting Google Chrome

2013-04-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:48:39PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Kumar - > > Thanks. > > It would be useful to know how you installed Google Chrome. If you > have installed it from the deb file, google-chrome should be the > executable. > > Package Manager. I installed the Google Chro

Re: Starting Google Chrome

2013-04-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:09:28PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. > > 1] No desktop icon > 2] Wish to be able to start from command line so that I can start it > with a specific file. > > A search on Google gives the s

Re: possible in lynx file download?

2013-03-31 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 03:38:32PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Macs (an apple macintosh G4, running debian squeeze) I use lynx > to download cd-images from cdimage.debian.org. I have no problem > getting CD ".iso" images. (Except that it seems to prefer IPv6, > which is significantly slower

Re: Is there an updates mailing list with change logs?

2012-12-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 09:28:17PM +, Philip Ashmore wrote: > My current work-flow of running synaptic, reloading, marking > upgrades, viewing history, cherry-picking updates I'm interested in > and viewing the changelogs for each, (or if they fail to download, > "gunzip -c xyz/changelog.Debian

Re: watch and beep

2012-11-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 09:31:33AM +, Paweł Ch. wrote: >I would like to hear beep when command output "watch dig @ns.domain.tdl >domain.tdl soa" appear with string "2012113005". >Which command performs this task. How about: while true; do if dig @ns.domain.tdl domain.tdl soa| grep

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-10-27 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 05:18:14AM +0100, lee wrote: > Hi, > > is it a bug that should be reported when a source package doesn't > compile? And how come that there is a binary package though it cannot > be compiled? > > > apt-get build-dep dvbcut > apt-get source dvbcut > cd dvbcut > debuild -u

Re: looking for the 'lockfile' program

2012-10-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 04:31:39PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: > Ok, its part of procmail apparently. > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Britton Kerin wrote: > > I'm trying to determine if the 'lockfile' program is still available > > or has been obsoleted for some reason. > > > > I'm not lookin

Re: EXIM in Debian

2012-09-18 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 08:46:55PM -0400, Mark Robinson wrote: >I know it might not be in the right group but is related mostly with >Debian. >There is Exim 4.72 under Debian with split configuration files. >I need to remove header and I know how to do in Exim. In section >remot

Re: GNU find: "print0" and "-type" arguments

2012-08-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 09:12:49PM -0500, Alex Robbins wrote: > >Kumar > Yes, I read the man page and I know what the -print0 option is > supposed to do. Notice, however, that when I executed "find > -print0 -type d" the output (which, we both understand, is delimited > by null characters) include

Re: GNU find: "print0" and "-type" arguments

2012-08-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 07:33:35PM -0500, Alex Robbins wrote: > . > ./dir > This is the expected output. However, when I execute: > find -print0 -type d > I see (on a terminal screen that does not display null characters): > ../dir./file > > The same goes for using "-type f". It appears as thoug

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:54:29AM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > The kernel provided when you install Linux, Debian included, has to work > on nearly every system out there so it includes drivers for nearly piece > of hardware that can be installed in a PC. > > I always compile a kernel with only t

Re: how to update Debian OS properly

2012-05-25 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:57:28PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > in a testing environment I was trying to upgrade the security patches > and I run the command > apt-get upgrade. > It ran fine, but at the end it upgraded my whole OS, first my test > machine was showing Debian version 6.0.4 no

Re: OT: Need help compiling C files

2012-04-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 09:45:14PM -0700, T Elcor wrote: > I'm on Wheezy, installing build-essential appears to be a bit problematic: > > # aptitude install make gcc build-essential > The following NEW packages will be installed: > build-essential bzip2{a} dpkg-dev{a} g++{a} g++-4.6{a} libc-dev

Re: OT: Need help compiling C files

2012-04-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 09:10:56PM -0700, T Elcor wrote: > Any ideas why I'm getting these errors while trying to compile F3 flash > memory test program? The source is at: > http://oss.digirati.com.br/f3/ > > Tried adding "-I /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.6/include" option, without > quotes

Re: dir is not ls

2012-03-19 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 08:57:28PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > > Just save the alias in /etc/profile.d/bash_aliases.sh and we are done. > > (But I think a rm /bin/dir is also applicable) > > Every time there's an update to coreutils dir will be back, don't > forget. Anyhow, won't the alias take p

Re: why for debian -lblas links to libblas.so.3gf instead of libblas.so?

2011-10-24 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 08:47:20PM -0500, Jichao Yin wrote: >-lblas links a program to libblas.so.3gf >-llapack links a program to liblapack.so.3gf > >only those two sorts of libraries have and link to 3gf version of .so >(including both reference netlib blas and ATLAS blas, lapack

Re: Count words/characters in ps or pdf

2011-10-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 02:55:59PM +0200, li...@webconect.ch wrote: >Hi all > >  > >I'm looking for a program to easily count words and characters (with > >and without spaces) in ps or pdf documents. > >  > >Any suggestions? How about: pdftotext |wc -w Kumar -- Save

Re: A quick Q: how do I link LS or Ls to ls

2011-09-16 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 12:01:50PM +0800, lina wrote: >Hi, > >I wonder is it possible to make the terminal recognize > >LS or Ls > >as > >ls Just add alias LS='ls' in your ~/.bashrc (or analogous for your shell). Kumar -- I've seen people with new children before, they

Re: Kscope is not in wheezy?

2011-09-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 08:58:54AM +0800, H Xu wrote: > I've checked this website and kscope is available in squeeze and sid: > > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/kscope > > But I can't find it in wheezy. Why? On the package tracking system, you will get a reason why: http://packages.qa.debia

Re: Just a Quick Question

2011-09-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 07:53:19PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: > How does one go about turning off the screen saver on the Debian > system? Thanks so much in advance. It depends on which desktop environment you use (KDE/GNOME/XFCE/Other?). Each one has its own way. Alternately, if you run xscreensaver

Re: Exim4 configuration with rewriting for smarthost

2011-08-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 02:41:48PM -0500, rlhar...@hal-pc.org wrote: > For a week I have been searching without success for a guide to > configuration of Exim4 for a personal system which utilizes the > smarthost of an isp to handle outgoing mail and a web hosting service > to host a web site. To

Re: KDE: Flashing battery icon

2011-08-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 02:49:57PM +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: > > One thing you could do is to run acpi -b when the weird occurrences > > happen, and see if that is in tune with what the battery monitor > > shows. When on ac, acpi -b should return blank, but when on battery, > > it should display some

Re: KDE: Flashing battery icon

2011-08-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 01:04:21PM +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: > Hi again, > > can't anybody help? I'd really like to report this as bug against upower or > KDE, but in the end I got no clue how I can verify where the problem is > caused. One thing you could do is to run acpi -b when the weird occu

Re: how to add exec permission to other users

2011-08-17 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 06:58:52AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > I have a program > It can be run by root only > I want to add exec permission to other users > so they can run it too > how to use chmod? You should be able to use chmod a+x . But please be aware of the security implications of doing thi

Re: Wireless problem with Thinkpad X220

2011-08-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 02:56:02PM +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > 1. Turn every service (wicd, network-manager, rf stuff, etc.) that is >associated with wifi off. > > 2. Does "iwlist wlan0 scan" still return nothing? Unfortunately, even these didn't help. However, upgrading the kernel to 3.0.0

Wireless problem with Thinkpad X220

2011-08-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Hi! I've been trying to help a friend out with wireless on his Thinkpad X220. The identifier is: 03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01) Now, according to http://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x the drivers should work for the kernel (2.6.3

Re: How to install non-free firmware after installing Debian

2011-08-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:21:37PM +1000, yudi v wrote: >I need to install [1]Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection >driver for Linux > >I downloaded the non-free firmware files and was looking for good >documentation on how to install non-free firmware. So far* I did

Re: S-Video on Debian

2011-08-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Brian, On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 01:39:40PM +0100, Brian wrote: > The changelog for xserver-xorg-video-intel documents bug fixes for > TV-OUT made a few years ago. Nothing else since. > > > mode: NTSC-M > > supported: NTSC-M NTSC-443 NTSC-J PAL-M

Re: S-Video on Debian

2011-08-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Brian, Thanks for helping me out. On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 08:04:50PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 31 Jul 2011 at 20:33:33 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > Here's what I have: > > > > TV1 connected 800x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

Re: S-Video on Debian

2011-07-31 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Brian, On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:47:30PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > When I connect an S-Video cable to the television, I am able to see > > the settings on the KDE Display Applet, and can configure it. However, > > no output manages to get through to the television. > > This is what I do. > >

S-Video on Debian

2011-07-31 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Hi. I have an S-Video cable which I'd like to connect to a TV. It works on a friends laptop with Windows. On Debian I have: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.0-3 KDE 4.6.2 When I connect an S-Video cable to the television, I am able to see the settings on the KDE Display Appl

Re: KDE shortcut keys

2011-07-14 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 02:42:43PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > >If this doesn't work, here's another method. > > > >- Go to System Settings, and choose "Input Actions". > > > >- Right click somewhere on the white space in the left section, and > > choose "New" -> "Global Shortcut" -> Command URL > >

Re: KDE shortcut keys

2011-07-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 08:30:59PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > I have up-to-date Debian6 w/ KDE 4.4.5. The problem is that I can not > use shortcut keys - for clean experiment I did so under a new user - no > effect. If it works in the named version, what I can do to make i

Re: Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch

2011-05-04 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Hi. On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:20:05AM -0400, Matthew Howle wrote: > I have a Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch (CTH-460) but I am unable to get the > device working on Squeeze stable (6.0.1, AMD64). > > I also followed the instructions provided here > http://lik.noblogs.org/post/2010/05/07/wacom-debian/

Re: Why had emacs 23 become so ugly?

2011-04-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 02:21:25AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I'm still running squeeze. For some reason, when I run emacs now, it > dieplays all my C and C++ files with a variable-width font, in which the > indentations I've been using have become microscopic. What's more, > carefully count

Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt

2011-04-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 05:37:02PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:30:38AM -0500, green wrote: > > No, you need to add it. And the file to edit is probably: ~/.mailcap > > Add a line like: > > text/html; iceweasel -new-tab '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; > > nametemplate=

Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt -- hopefully not too OT

2011-04-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Alan, On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 09:19:54AM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 02:35:29PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > > I have been running mutt for a good many years from with my > > Debian Linux distribution. A couple of days ago I upgraded from > > Debian etch to Debia

Re: mua and mail service provider statistics

2011-04-13 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Chen, On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:05:43PM +0800, Chen Wei wrote: > as a first time debian-user subscriber, I feel been buried alive by > incoming emails, though I heard there are some monster maillists, > linux kernel maillist for example, are carrying even heavier traffic. > Wondering how to

Re: How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ?

2011-04-04 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:57:31AM +0800, waterloo wrote: >How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ? >I use Debian 6 amd64. Searching online led me to this: http://synapse.wordpress.com/2007/03/24/run-a-script-on-startup-shutdown-in-linux/ HTH. Kumar -- The ch

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-08 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 03:09:23PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > The IBM ThinkPads were always solid equipment and all of the hardware > was supported very well. They did what you expected a laptop to do in > that all of the peripherals worked with Linux drivers. Networking > worked with native driv

On lenny-backports-sloppy

2010-10-05 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian Users, If this hasn't been discussed here already: http://blog.snow-crash.org/2010/10/a-new-player-in-the-house-lenny-backports-sloppy.html HTH and thanks. Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-28 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:18:46AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:27:44 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > >> > All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I > >> > missing some fonts, or is there something else amiss? > >>

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-27 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Doug, On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 08:53:25PM -0400, Doug wrote: > On 9/27/2010 4:51 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > >I have a problem opening the following PDF: > > > >http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker-Interview-Weblayout.pdf > > > >

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-27 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Sjoerd, On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:20:12AM +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:51 -0500 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > I have a problem opening the following PDF: > > > > http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker-Interview-Weblayout

Re: Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-27 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Camaleón, On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 09:10:12PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:51:14 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > I have a problem opening the following PDF: > > > > http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker- > Interview-

Garbled PDF: missing fonts?

2010-09-27 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian users, I have a problem opening the following PDF: http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/phiuz/07-04/Weizsaecker-Interview-Weblayout.pdf All PDF viewers on Debian seem to produce garbled output. Am I missing some fonts, or is there something else amiss? I use squeeze/sid, and can

Re: Mainline kernel source curiosity

2010-09-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 01:25:45PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > Last time the problem was compiling the kernel at all, which is > working just fine now thank you Debian-User. > > fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -curt1.0 --initrd kernel_image > > creates the .deb file just fine, it installs

Re: converting pcm raw output to wav or mp3 file

2010-09-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 05:13:18PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > > You would need an MP3 encoder, such as LAME. LAME is not available in > > Debian, but is available from unofficial repositories, such as Debian > > Multimedia (see http://debian-multimedia.org/ for details) > > > > thanks i found out

Re: converting pcm raw output to wav or mp3 file

2010-09-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Siju, On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:19:09PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > I followed > > http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php?title=Recording_audio_playing_on_the_computer#Using_the_ALSA_PCM_file > > and got the > > /tmp/out.raw file > > How do I convert it to wav or mp3? You would need an

Re: How can I disable signature check for a Debian CD?

2010-09-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 06:26:49PM +0300, Onur Aslan wrote: > In the early times, I was manually sign my local Release. Maybe I should > continue to do this. Since I don't have any other ideas, I'd actually not be averse to that. You could sign your repository yourself, with a key which APT is awa

Re: How can I disable signature check for a Debian CD?

2010-09-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:36:03PM +0300, Onur Aslan wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:25:54AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > Please paste the error message here. It would contain the key ID. > > There is no error. Debian CD images doesn't have any signature or key. I se

Re: How can I disable signature check for a Debian CD?

2010-09-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:14:11PM +0300, Onur Aslan wrote: > > In any case, to fix the error you get, you have to identify the GPG > > key corresponding to the CD, and obtain it (preferably in a trusted > > manner), and do > > > > sudo apt-ket add - < key > > Where can I get this keys? CD images

Re: How can I disable signature check for a Debian CD?

2010-09-10 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 02:22:19PM +0300, Onur Aslan wrote: > I am using Debian CD images as a local repository. I am mounting a CD and > using it with this source list: > > deb file:///mnt lenny main > > Everything working fine but the problem is when I try to install a package > from this repos

Re: How to get rid of the websites' ads/flash ads, without loosing their (flash) content?

2010-09-09 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 08:26:46PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > There are sometimes some websites (such as news ones) which make an > extensive use of flash stuff. Amongst the animations, flash is sometimes > also used for ads, etc., and I don't like this. Are there any Iceweasel > tools

Re: help parsing output

2010-08-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:12:26PM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: > Dear debian people, > > Can you help me with this task I have? I have a lot of files in a > subdirectory > containing the following text: You should use awk. - cut - > I need to parse this file to get in a csv file the following

Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.

2010-07-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 08:17:06PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Ron: > > > What part of "This directory provides Debian GNU/Linux Stable > > installer ISO images with a modification by Kenshi Muto to support > > newer hardwares, such as SATA and Ethernet devices.

Re: ftp client that understands utf8

2010-07-19 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 05:03:02PM +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a ftp client in Debian that understands utf8, i.e, handling utf8 > file or directory names correct? I am not sure, but lftp might work[1]. HTH. Kumar [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=436566 -- C:

Re: Requesting Backports

2010-06-03 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 03:21:46PM +0200, James Stuckey wrote: >Is there an official way to request backports? Or, what is the easiest way >to make packages for lenny when using squeeze?� I'd just say send the package maintainers a friendly request, at @packages.debian.org. For backportin

Re: Redirect stdout without clobbering?

2010-05-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 07:26:30PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is there a way to redirect stdout to a file without clobbering its > possibly-existing contents? Rather, the output should be appended to > the end of the file. Thanks. The double > (>>) operator? I'd also recommend that you check out

Re: How to stop Firefox from displaying large favicon?

2010-05-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:15:30AM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > >It works fine here (icewasel and lenny). > > > >browser.chrome.favicons → false > >browser.chrome.site_icons → false > > > >And after restarting the browser, no more favicons. > > > > Well, thanks for the reply, but that doesn't

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-04-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:40:51PM +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Kumar Appaiah schreef: > > On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 12:03:32PM -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: > >>> how long this nightmare might go on. Debian-announce may > >>> be a fine additional list, but wh

Re: No updates seen in a while

2010-04-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 12:03:32PM -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: > >how long this nightmare might go on. Debian-announce may > >be a fine additional list, but why shall I subscribe > > The last entry I have from l.debian.announce is: > > "Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated" > > that was on January 30,

Re: Some Mirrors are up

2010-04-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 11:06:04AM -0400, Wayne wrote: > Kumar Appaiah wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 10:05:16AM -0400, Wayne wrote: > >>Just tried my US mirrors and am able to upgrade! > > > >This just means that the packages on your machines are older than the &

Re: Some Mirrors are up

2010-04-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 10:05:16AM -0400, Wayne wrote: > Just tried my US mirrors and am able to upgrade! This just means that the packages on your machines are older than the ones which were available on that mirror. ftp-master.debian.org is still down, though it should be up sometime soonish. K

Re: OT: Debian Mentors Access

2010-03-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:13:34AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-30 07:00, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Chris wrote: > >>Greetings, > >> > >>Is anyone else getting a Peer's Certificate has been revoked. > >>messages when accessing https://mentors.debian.net/

Re: Transferring files over SSH in the console

2010-03-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 01:25:33AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Eh?  I think you're imposing unneeded self limits. > > > > How so? With scp I can send file to the machine that I'm remotely connected > to? Like this: # On local-machine ssh # type type type in remote-machine shell… scp local-ma

Re: perl/bash question - html link out of text

2010-03-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 11:12:39AM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:07:56PM +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > > I don't know how to modify the: > > > > sed -r 's,.*(http://[^ \"$]+).*,\1,' > > > > command, to not just: >

Re: perl/bash question - html link out of text

2010-03-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:07:56PM +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > I don't know how to modify the: > > sed -r 's,.*(http://[^ \"$]+).*,\1,' > > command, to not just: > $ echo "test string http://somewhere.uk/ test" | sed -r 's,.*(http://[^ > \"$]+).*,\1,' > http://somewhere.uk/";>http://somewhere.u

Re: confused by bug

2010-03-02 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 07:35:10PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > Contrast this with the "stable" version, which has migrated from > > stable-proposed-updates to stable. > > Sorted. After I realised you were talking about texlive-bin, while > texlive-latex-base is built from texlive-base, I read

Re: confused by bug

2010-03-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 05:48:49PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > You should be able to grab the fixed package from the > > oldstable-proposed-updates section of the archive. > > Thanks Kumar. > > I added: > deb http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian oldstable-proposed-updates main > to my sources.lis

Re: confused by bug

2010-03-01 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:17:11PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been caught by (closed) bug #531595 > ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531595 ) > > It says it's closed, and fixed - and was important to fix in etch, since > that's where the problem is/was. > >

Re: what about acroread in squeeze i386?

2010-02-28 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 06:40:14PM -0500, Jameson Rollins wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:30:32 +0100, Francesco Pietra > wrote: > > What about acroread in squeeze i386? The only reason here to maintain > > a computer with squeeze is to provide a needed tool to scientists. Why > > acroread acrore

Re: convert a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png.

2010-02-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:04:42AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:07:25AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > >> What is recommended for converting a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png? > >> > >>

Re: convert a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png.

2010-02-26 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 09:07:25AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > What is recommended for converting a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png? > > xpdf.man remarks, > "Save as... > Save the current file via a file requester." > > Does this mean that xpdf can do the conve

Re: problem getting source for package

2010-02-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:29:51AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to get the source package for rdiff-backup [snip] > > now when I do a apt-get source rdiff-backup, I only get 1.2.8-5 not > 1.2.8-5+b2. > > From the changelog i can see this > > rdiff-backup (1.2.8-5+b2) unstable;

Re: man pages for c++ functions

2010-02-18 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Kamaraju, On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:56:57PM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Is there a package in debian which contains the man pages for c++ > functions? I have already installed libstdc++6-4.4-doc . But it does > not seem to have man pages for all the functions. For example, I would >

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