finding files by content from the command-line

2005-11-04 Thread Matt Price
Having checked out beagle and quite liked it, I seet here ae also various graphical file-finding tools outthere, e.g. the gnome search for files program, that allow content searches (e.g., contains the text-type searhcing). In many cases similar effects can be achieved using find andor grep, but

Re: qemu vt's

2005-11-04 Thread Matt Price
On 11/4/05, derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 06:23:44PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: ... /home/vrbka/tmp/qemu-0.7.2/target-i386/ops_sse.h:574: error: unable to find a register to spill in class 'GENERAL_REGS' /home/vrbka/tmp/qemu-0.7.2/target-i386/ops_sse.h:574: error:

Re: qemu vt's

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Price
ok, here's a question: somehting is wrong with my cd -- error installing the base system If I were on a real, physical computer, I would ctrl-alt-F2 to a ocnsole, or ctrl-alt-f3 to the error log, and try to diagnose the problem. But on qemu ctrl-alt releases the grab, so it seems to be

Re: qemu vt's

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Price
On 11/3/05, derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:52:36PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: you will need the source for qemu too. for example, if i'm in /usr/local/src and i have the two sources downloaded... $ tar xzf qemu-0.7.2.tar.gz $ cd qemu-0.7.2 $ tar xzf

save a search in beagle?

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, have just installed the latest beagle, and find that it actually works! astonishing but true and very groovy. I seem to remember that, when I was first thinking about installing beagle ages ago (and it never seemed to work out) I saw a way to save searches in desktop icons -- so if you

OT: Shared calendar server on Debian

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Price
On 11/3/05, Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, November 3, 2005 1:47 pm, Caleb Walker wrote: } Hello all, } I am wondering if there are any suggestions for a shared calendar system } on Debian. My setup is as follows. I have a Cyrus, Spamassassin, } Procmail, Postfix and

save a search in beagle?

2005-11-03 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, have just installed the latest beagle, and find that it actually works! astonishing but true and very groovy. I seem to remember that, when I was first thinking about installing beagle ages ago (and it never seemed to work out) I saw a way to save searches in desktop icons -- so if you

diagnosing wireless failure

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, very excited about my new wireless capabilities (using a d-link dwl-650+, acx100 drivers, works perfectly at home), and trying to get them to function on my university's wireless network. I have been following instructions for the network as laid out in the various generic instructions

setting up wifi / interpreting errors

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
Hifolks, very excited about my new wireless connection (d-lnnk dwl-650+, on a thinkpad 600e, running a suspend2-enabled 2.6.13.4 kernel w/ the acx100 module added in using module-assistant). THe card works perfectly at home. yay! But at work I cannot associate with the network. Following the

Re: diagnosing wireless failure

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
gaah sorry! not used to the tab commands on gmail. reposted in a sep thread. matt On 11/2/05, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, very excited about my new wireless capabilities (using a d-link dwl-650+, acx100 drivers, works perfectly at home), and trying to get them

Re: Test iso without burning was: Re: virtual installation?

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
thank mitch, this looks great! It's slow enough that I haven't had a chance to explore it fully, but will report back in any case! thanks, matt On 11/1/05, Mitch Wiedemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: On 11/1/05, Randall Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to test

qemu vt's

2005-11-02 Thread Matt Price
On 11/2/05, Mitch Wiedemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Kopp wrote: When I create an iso image of my custom Knoppix CD, I test the image with the qemu program. That way I don't have to burn a cd until I'm sure the iso is going to work. Here's the command that I use: qemu -m 128

make-kpkg changing append-to-version

2005-11-01 Thread Matt Price
to lead to additional errors with someone like me. THanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

re: virtual installation?

2005-11-01 Thread Matt Price
On 11/1/05, Randall Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to test different drive configurations virtually without having to resort to something like vmware or qemu. I know how to create a virtual filesystem using dd and wonder can I create a virtual drive that I can partition with fdisk,

Re: sorg: understanding InputDevice, dev assignments, and mice

2005-10-27 Thread Matt Price
On 10/26/05, Simo Kauppi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:23:38AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: what I want to know is: - how do I determine which device each physical mouse is/should be attached to? You can `cat /proc/bus/input/devices` to see which devices the mice

Re: err... XORG, not sorg: [was: sorg: understanding InputDevice, dev assignments, and mice]

2005-10-26 Thread Matt Price

sorg: understanding InputDevice, dev assignments, and mice

2005-10-25 Thread Matt Price
is: - how do I determine which device each physical mouse is/should be attached to? - what stanzas do I need in xorg.conf to ensure that all the mice, and ESPECIALLY the internal pointer, always work? appreciate the help! matt --- Matt Price [EMAIL

Re: gpg, Releae.gpg, and Ubuntu...

2005-10-17 Thread Matt Price
OK, finally got this ironed out -- the problem was not with gpg, which I was using correctly (if blindly) but with my script, which put the Release file in the wrong spot. In any case, for hte archive, here's a wiki page describing how to do what I was after:

Re: gpg: export just my keys, not whole keyring?

2005-10-12 Thread Matt Price
On 10/12/05, Kjetil Kjernsmo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On onsdag 12 oktober 2005, 06:30, Matt Price wrote: I get a huge file (don't have room for it!) even : gpg --export [EMAIL PROTECTED] ring.gpg I think you need to use the KeyIDs, not the address, so, something like gpg --export

Re: gpg, Releae.gpg, and Ubuntu...

2005-10-12 Thread Matt Price
hmm, well, I thought I had this licked, but I guess I was wrong. tried this: made a new ubuntu-keyring thusly: apt-get source ubuntu-keyring cd ubuntu-keyring/keyrings gpg --import ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg gpg --export ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg cd .. dpkg-buildpackge ---rfakeroot -mMatt

gpg: export just my keys, not whole keyring?

2005-10-11 Thread Matt Price
notwithstanding. Help greatly appreciated! thx, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

start firefox in particular desktop (under XFCE4)

2005-10-05 Thread Matt Price
I love XFCE4, but one bummer is that its session manager doesn't see firefox, so it won't get restarted automatically when I log in. The workaround is to put an executable file in ~/Desktop/Autostart with the single line: /usr/bin/mozilla-firefox this then gets executed on every startup. But I

Re: boot stalls on ntpdate [was bootlog, control of modules]

2005-10-04 Thread Matt Price
On 10/3/05, Edward J Shornock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward J. Shornock wrote: A moot point now... sysvinit (2.86.ds1-4) unstable; urgency=low this is great, thank you. I now have bootlogd running! (found htis out when I finally had an opportunity to reboot, bit of a stressful weekend).

Re: bootlog [was: control of modules?]

2005-10-01 Thread Matt Price
On 9/30/05, Edward J. Shornock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: that helps some -- got rid of most of the messages except one about shpchp, which is not listed in my /etc/modules, so don't know the origin. Unfortunately cna't post my bootlog b/c bootlogd doesn't seem to wantto

Re: GRUB woes (install to hde)

2005-09-30 Thread Matt Price
ummm... well, you guys sureh ave been busy while I was away... I'm afraid Mike's right -- doubtless this wwas clearer to him than to alvin b/c he was helping me out in an earlier, similar thread. I am trying to duplicate these disks and make them bootable. Here's the situation: about 25

bootlog [was: control of modules?]

2005-09-30 Thread Matt Price
On 9/28/05, Jan C. Nordholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 04:27:24PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: hi folks, on a system that's been running debian for several years, I seem to have several systems for organizing modules on my machine -- /etc/modules/ /etc/modules.conf

automatically partition disk as in deb-installer?

2005-09-28 Thread Matt Price
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control of modules?

2005-09-28 Thread Matt Price
not found errors on boot, and I'd like to figure out which files to change and which command to run to stop this. The debian reference manual says to run update-modules, but the man page says this is an obsolete command. So, any hints? Thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price

Re: automatically partition disk as in deb-installer?

2005-09-28 Thread Matt Price
On 9/28/05, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Price wrote: * sfdisk -d /dev/hdf /var/scratch/hde.out WARNING Will Robinson! The output from sfdisk is not always usable as input to sfdisk, even on the same disc, let alone another! I suggest you look carefully at the file /var

GRUB woes (install to hde)

2005-09-28 Thread Matt Price
on? I've been workingo n this for a while and need to have it working soon any suggestions? really REALLY appreciate your help, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil

Re: compiling non-initrd 2.6 kernel?

2005-09-28 Thread Matt Price
On 9/28/05, William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:05:05PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: When booting, kernel panic tells me unable to mount root fs (which is reiser 3.6). I'm positive I compiled support inside the kernel for it. Other than that, I can't see where

Re: font sizes in thunderbird's mailbox display?

2005-09-20 Thread Matt Price
Michael Marsh wrote: On 9/14/05, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone know if there's any way to set the font size used by thunderbird for its own display (by which I mean: fonts and sizes used e.g. in the menubar, in the toolbars, and especially in the mailbox display -- I've just

quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Matt Price
to go about this? am I missing any steps? is there a better way to do it? thanks much, matt -- -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EMAIL

Re: quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Matt Price
ok then, just clarifying (don't want to screw this up):On 9/20/05, Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Gregory Seidman wrote: } fdisk /dev/hdb, and set up / and swap partitions faster way to copy partitions from one disk to another iswith sdisk orcat file | fdisk can't find

Re: quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Matt Price
Hi Ron,On 9/20/05, Ron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:20:33AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: Hi, I have to install ubuntu or something similar on about 20 aging workstations without cd drives.THese are donated boxes with small hard drives (as small as 2.1 gig, but not all

Re: expose internal network to the outside world

2005-09-15 Thread Matt Price
has changed and you have requested strict checking. Host key verification failed. This is a minor annoyance but for now I can live with it! thanks again, matt Good luck. On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:16:49PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: hi folks, I have 2 computers on a home network, connected

font sizes in thunderbird's mailbox display?

2005-09-14 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, anyone know if there's any way to set the font size used by thunderbird for its own display (by which I mean: fonts and sizes used e.g. in the menubar, in the toolbars, and especially in the mailbox display -- I've just installed Stacked View Extension -- which is great! -- but it

expose internal network to the outside world

2005-09-14 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, I have 2 computers on a home network, connected to DSL through a modem and a cheap SMC router (Barricade g = SMC2804WBRP-g). I would like to be able to ssh into both of them form the outside world. I have successfully set up inadyn to associate a stable URL (x.dyndns.org) with my

Re: 2.6.11 upgradde #1: nvidia drivers don't work?

2005-09-13 Thread Matt Price
Hey folks, Bob Proulx wrote: Matt Price wrote: Ms Linuz wrote: Matt Price wrote: Ms Linuz wrote: Look at your /etc/modules and make sure there is 'nvidia' ( without quote ) line exists. If not, add nvidia in your /etc/modules You should not need to have

Re: suspend-to-ram/suspend-to-disk on a desktop computer

2005-09-13 Thread Matt Price
Hi Bob, seems to be my day to hear from you! Bob Proulx wrote: Matt Price wrote: I'm wondering what my best options are for getting my desktop to enter a suspend state. The suspend2 kernel patches. Also I'd ideally like to have it wake up by itself in the middle of the night, do

Re: applying kernel patch to more recent kernel version?

2005-09-11 Thread Matt Price
Matt Price wrote: Hi there, I am trying to patch the current 2.6.11-1-k7 kernel (2.6.11-7) with the kerenel-patch-suspend2 package. When I run make-kpkg --added-patches suspend2 --config menuconfig --append-to-version -suspend2 configure kernel_image modules_image I get the following

Re: 2.6.11 upgradde #1: nvidia drivers don't work?

2005-09-11 Thread Matt Price
Ms Linuz wrote: Look at your /etc/modules and make sure there is 'nvidia' ( without quote ) line exists. If not, add nvidia in your /etc/modules thanks, tried that, didn't work for me. I think the problem is somehow more fundamental (had tried manually loading the drivers b4 starting X

slow dns lookup

2005-09-11 Thread Matt Price
gaash, latest in a barrage or problems related to movingm y computer from work to home. at work, this computer was exposed directly to the internet; for DNS it used the university dns servers Now it sits at home, and uses the cheap wireless router as the primary DNS. DNS is MADDENINGLY slow,

Re: slow dns lookup

2005-09-11 Thread Matt Price
David Clymer wrote: On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 02:08 -0400, Matt Price wrote: gaash, latest in a barrage or problems related to movingm y computer from work to home. at work, this computer was exposed directly to the internet; for DNS it used the university dns servers Now it sits at home

Re: 2.6.11 upgradde #1: nvidia drivers don't work?

2005-09-11 Thread Matt Price
Ms Linuz wrote: Matt Price wrote: Ms Linuz wrote: Look at your /etc/modules and make sure there is 'nvidia' ( without quote ) line exists. If not, add nvidia in your /etc/modules thanks, tried that, didn't work for me. I think the problem is somehow more fundamental (had tried

suspend-to-ram/suspend-to-disk on a desktop computer

2005-09-11 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, I'm wondering what my best options are for getting my desktop to enter a suspend state. I want to be able to suspend the thing becuase : -it's noisy as hell - it's an energy pig - i hate waiting for a fresh reboot Also I'd ideally like to have it wake up by itself in the middle of the

applying kernel patch to more recent kernel version?

2005-09-10 Thread Matt Price
Hi there, I am trying to patch the current 2.6.11-1-k7 kernel (2.6.11-7) with the kerenel-patch-suspend2 package. When I run make-kpkg --added-patches suspend2 --config menuconfig --append-to-version -suspend2 configure kernel_image modules_image I get the following error message: E: no

acpi other power-control questions for desktop

2005-09-10 Thread matt . price
Hi folks, I've moved my desktop home from work and among many other changes, I now occasionally want the thing to power down. Ideally, though, I'd like to avoid having to reboot when I start back up again. THe mainboard supports acpi, so I at first figured sleep would be easy. On my laptop,

2.6.11 upgradde #1: nvidia drivers don't work?

2005-09-09 Thread matt . price
Hi there, am finally upgrading my system from a 2.4.25 kernel to 2.6.11-1-k7. The trnasition is going ok so far, except for a few problems (see my next message or two) of which the first concerns the nvidia closed-source drivers. I have downloaded the nvidia-kernel-source modules (1.0.7174-4)

kernel 2.6.11 problem #1: No APM support in kernel

2005-09-09 Thread matt . price
Hi there, so one more problem with the new 2.6.11 kernel, moving up from 2.4.25. Every time I execute a bash command as a normal user, I get the message No APM support in kernel . It's not fatal or anything, but it's annoying. I'm not sure where it comes from -- the mesage doesn't show up when

xorg slowdown?

2005-09-07 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, a few days ago I semi-accidentally installed xorg on my laptop, a PII-300 with 192 megs of ram. (If I recall correctly, openoffice.org2 pulled in some dependencies and then I installed the rest of the xorg packages to give me a more fully functioning system). Everything works fine,

Re: automate printing of html-formatted pages?

2005-09-03 Thread Matt Price
Alvin Oga wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote: ... wget -m -k http://some.website.com/ and then: #! /bin/bash find /path/to/top/level -type f -iname *.html | while read file; do html2ps -gn $file $file.ps ; done find /path/to/top/level -type f -iname *.html | while read psfile

automate printing of html-formatted pages?

2005-09-02 Thread Matt Price
Ho folks, My partner needs to print out copies of all the content in her mid-sized, statically-generated website (I know this is a stupid idea, but it's for her tenure file and there are lots and lots of stupid elements in this process). This seems like something one ought to be able to do

Re: MythTV

2005-06-29 Thread Matt Price
just curious -- how much do you figure on spending for this project? I'm interested in MythTV too, but it seems quite expensive to build one's own box compared e.g. to buyint a tivo. am I wrong about this? thx , matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: openoffice,cups,samba, and n-up

2005-06-27 Thread Matt Price
Jonathan Kaye wrote: En/La Matt Price ha escrit, a 23/06/05 18:46: any hints? thanks, You might try asking your question at the newsgroup gmane.comp.openoffice.general or else subscribing to the list: discuss@openoffice.org It's a good place for openoffice-related issues. Cheers, Jonathan

openoffice,cups,samba, and n-up

2005-06-23 Thread Matt Price
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Re: quick chemistry drawings

2005-06-13 Thread Matt Price
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Re: quick chemistry drawings

2005-06-13 Thread Matt Price
of your X11 config files and video memory transfer tests ( how fast can you rotate the color molecules in 3D ) and if your kernel is misconfigured.. it'd crash it c ya alvin -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek

quick chemistry drawings

2005-06-09 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, what tools to people use to do quick drawing or modelling of molecules/chemical reactions/etc? I have tried ghemical and find it a little bit clumsy, didn't notice anything else with apt-cache. Thanks as always for the help! m -- .''`. Matt Price

Re: runit

2004-12-16 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:09:07PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:26:12PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: do I have to be worried? are there big [dis]advantages to having this program installed? just wondering! I'd remove it (runit and runit-run) if I were you. don't

gnome file picker

2004-12-16 Thread Matt Price
preferences for the file picker, but don't see any such options in the gnome-control-center. Anyone know a trick? If this can'tbe done, seems like a serious usability problem! matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek

[SOLVED]Re: gnome file picker

2004-12-16 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 05:06:14PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 16:12 -0500, Matt Price wrote: hi folks, trying out a couple of gnome programs that seem to use the gnome file picker for file selection (i'm running the xfce desktop, not gnome). I find this incredibly

Re: xml viewer?

2004-12-16 Thread Matt Price
XML files. An XSLT stylesheet can be used to do the indentation and replacing character entities for instance. hmm, how does that work? run the xml file through a particular xsl stylesheet? (i'm v. iignorant about xml). m -- .''`. Matt Price

openoffice, mysql, odbc

2004-12-15 Thread Matt Price
DATA via odbc. bummer! Has anyone encountered this problem before? Or does anyone have a fully functional Openoffice/MySQL/ODBC setup? If so I wouldl ove to hear about it! thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek

[SOLVED] Re: openoffice, mysql, odbc

2004-12-15 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:35:13PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: hi folks, after a certain amount of pain and suffering I have achieved the following: OOo 1.1.3 works fine. MySQL works fine unixODBC connects to MySQL without trouble using isql Within OOo, odbc reads mysql tables perfectly

xml viewer?

2004-12-15 Thread Matt Price
anyone have suggestions for an xml viewer? I get losti n xml very fast and would love a gui tool that displays a tree-like structure of xml documents... thx,m matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek

Re: distro for novices

2004-12-14 Thread Matt Price
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:07:49PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 12:56 -0500, Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, I had a bit of a wake up call this week when I tried out Ubuntu. I Have you tried Gnoppix? er, no, is it much differentfrom the Ubuntu livecd (the one linked

Debian Neo? [was:Re: distro for novices]

2004-12-14 Thread Matt Price
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runit

2004-12-14 Thread Matt Price
? are there big [dis]advantages to having this program installed? just wondering! thx, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EMAIL PROTECTED

distro for novices

2004-12-14 Thread Matt Price
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Re: distro for novices

2004-12-14 Thread Matt Price
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 01:16:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 13:53 -0500, Matt Price wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:07:49PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 12:56 -0500, Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, I had a bit of a wake up call this week when I

Re: distro for novices

2004-12-14 Thread Matt Price
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Re: kde apps crashing

2004-12-14 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:06:26PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Matt Price wrote: thx steve. so I tried installing kdelibs, kdebase, and kde... after which I am still getting this message. any idea which bits of kde I'm missing? No clue. I just know when I had that error message

kde apps crashing

2004-12-13 Thread Matt Price
said: Unknown protocol 'file'. k3b: KCrash: Application 'k3b' crashing... --- any poiinters? thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot

Re: kde apps crashing

2004-12-13 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:34:43PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Matt Price wrote: k3b: (K3b::cutToWidth) not able to cut text to 1! kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Found version 72, expecting version 75 or higher. any poiinters? You have some portions of KDE installed at v3.2 and others at v3.3

Re: OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-05 Thread Matt Price
Thanks to everyone who responded, I appreciate the help! Thx especially to Alex, I feel I understand wha I needed to a little better. m -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil

world map or atlas?

2004-12-04 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, I'm looking for a decent world map program, preferably with some flexibility about what information is displayed (political physical features, etc). I find it hard to believe that Debian doesn't have this, but I'm not having much luck finding one with apt-cache, I guess partley

data-entry GUIs python

2004-12-02 Thread Matt Price
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OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-01 Thread Matt Price
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Re: Openoffice Bug

2004-11-25 Thread Matt Price
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Re: games wine/cedega

2004-11-22 Thread Matt Price
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Re: Xvfb and X authorization

2004-11-18 Thread Matt Price
Matt Price wrote: hi, I have a script that opens Openoffice in an X session managed by Xvfb. I initiate the X session with: Xvfb :86 -screen scrn 800x600x32 This used to work fine. But sometime in the recent past, presumably since an unobserved update or something, I get this error when

slightly OT: debian-friendly print server?

2004-11-18 Thread Matt Price
be best. I'd also be willing to pay out a few more bucks for a combination wireless router/ print server, since our router kinda sucks. Look forward to hearing from y'all! matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek

Re: slightly OT: debian-friendly print server?

2004-11-18 Thread Matt Price
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Re: Bold Fonts Not Working in OpenOffice (Sid)

2004-11-18 Thread Matt Price
font to something that displays properly. If you really like charter and want to keep it as your default, than that demands a proper fix I unfortunatley am not competent to tell you how to arrange. g'luck! matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User

Xvfb and X authorization

2004-11-16 Thread Matt Price
still at a bit of a loss as to how to get Xvfb to read the authorization file, or maybe I'm using the wrong one. I tried this: Xvfb :86 -auth /home/matt/.Xauthority -screen scrn 800x600x32 with no luck. anyone have any suggestions? thx, matt -- .''`. Matt Price

Re: ctrl-a in firefox

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Price
Simon Huggins wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:26:13PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Create a file named .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory that reads gtk-key-theme-name = Emacs Worked for me, anyway. thanks or the tip. after writing the email I found this on the web

automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Price
for printer info set up a new printer e.g. from CUPS or some other print queue manager? On reflection this seems like a pretty important feature to have, would be cool if it existed. m -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek

Re: automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Price
Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:51:28PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: I would like to be able to just plug in the printer on my USB port print; I don't have any other reliable way of getting data into the printer (no cd-burner, mac's have no disk drives). Macs have disk drives. Zip

Re: ctrl-a in firefox

2004-11-13 Thread Matt Price
-name = Emacs Worked for me, anyway. thanks or the tip. after writing the email I found this on the web, too, tried it but with no success! Would love to hear whether other folks are having the same issue. Matt -- -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User

ctrl-a in firefox

2004-11-10 Thread Matt Price
file a bug? And is there a way to change keybindings in firefox? thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EMAIL PROTECTED

user-friendly mp3/cd player combination

2004-11-05 Thread Matt Price
-powerful. look forward to hearing your suggestions! matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

adding custom kernel to iso?

2004-11-02 Thread Matt Price
have no idea how to do it. Thanks much as always for your help, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

delete news messages in thunderbird?

2004-11-02 Thread Matt Price
be some way to do this, right? But I don't see the delete option anywhere when I'm browsing mail groups. I assume I'm missing something basic, thunderbird help is nonexistant... ... thanks forthe help, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User

fdisk unable to read /dev/hdb

2004-10-28 Thread Matt Price
read while trying to open /dev/hdb1 Could this be a zero-length partition? sooo... that doesn't look so good to me. How can I figure out what's going wrong here? And once I figure it out, is ehere any way to fix it? THanks much as always, Matt -- .''`. Matt

greek characters...

2004-10-26 Thread Matt Price
installed rxvt-unicode-ml, but Greek text displays as nonsense there just as it does in xterm. this is true even if I set LANG and LC_ALL to a unicode-capable locale, like de_DE.utf8. thanks as always! matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi

Re: ssh tput error 'tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified'

2004-10-21 Thread Matt Price
Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've checked and $TERM is in fact set to 'xterm' on the client temrinal before I execute the ocmmand, and in remote sessions started perhaps. I just ran ssh server env

Re: ssh tput error 'tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified'

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've checked and $TERM is in fact set to 'xterm' on the client temrinal before I execute the ocmmand, and in remote sessions started perhaps. I just ran ssh server env and saw no sign of $TERM, other than the message TERM

debian-el sender headers?

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
PROTECTED]) do I have to set a preference in exim4 (4.34-2), or somewhere in emacs? thanks as always! matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
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