Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 06:32:45PM +0100, Ken Gilmour wrote: Ar Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:51:32 -0400, scr?obh Matt Price: ?somehow I've gotten a bunch of strange files in my home directory: ?I've tried to remove them but bash doesn't seem to like commands of ?hte kind: ?rm \-* ?or ?rm '-0.pnf

Re: removing wierd files

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
CW Harris wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:33:30PM -0400, Adam Garside wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:51:32PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: [Snip] rm \-* or rm '-0.pnf' is there a way to reference files whose names begin with -? try 'rm -- -0.pnf' Or rm ./-0.pnf works too. doh! and it's even

procmail puzzle

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
-hackers)@ximian.com), and have the string [(Evolution|Evolution-hackers)] in the subject heading. thanks as always for the help! m -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses

Re: procmail puzzle

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
David Clymer wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 22:18, Matt Price wrote: I'm trying to filterm ail form the evolution lists into a sep. mailbox, but for some reason it's not working. I've looked over the recipes I wrote they seem exactly like the ones that DO work... Can anyone tell me what's wrong

apache error on restart --gaah!

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
trying to load these files. It looks like php, but php and libapache-mod-php4 are both installed at the current (unstable/ttesting) versions. can anyone help? matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek

Re: apache error on restart --gaah!

2004-10-20 Thread Matt Price
Matt Price wrote: hey folks, well, after three months I rebooted my computer today -- that was silly! Now apache won't start. I get this error: Starting web server: apachePHP Warning: Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php4/20020429/curl.so' - /usr/lib/php4/20020429

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

2004-10-15 Thread Matt Price
ideas? thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

web-based calendaring that syncs w/ evo?

2004-10-07 Thread Matt Price
there have suggestion? Thanks, -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

set default paper size in firefox?

2004-10-05 Thread Matt Price
); user_pref(print.printer_gimp@:64.print_paper_width, 215.00); anyway, appreciate the help. m -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: set default paper size in firefox?

2004-10-05 Thread Matt Price
Martin Dickopp wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the default paper size seems to be set to A4 in my version of firefox (0.9.3). Anyone know how to change that setting? I often forget to reset the print option and end up with slightly-wrong page lengths... I have tried messing

making tk and wx(python) prettier

2004-10-04 Thread Matt Price
I'm asking the impossible? thanks, Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- don't use these addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: test if x server is running on a given display

2004-09-21 Thread Matt Price
thanks dave, that's very cool. now... I don't program in c. would it be easy to modify this program in two ways: 1) pass the display number as a parameter 2) print or return a specific error message if the connection is not accepted? -- NEW VERSION -- #include X11/Xlib.h int main(argc, argv)

Re: test if x server is running on a given display

2004-09-17 Thread Matt Price
Dave Howorth wrote: know whether there's a way to contact the server directly to see whether it's REALLY running The simplest way to me is to write an X client program that just makes a connection, then disconnects. Something like this in fact: #include X11/Xlib.h #define DISPLAY :0.0 int

Re: test if x server is running on a given display

2004-09-16 Thread Matt Price
Matt Price matt.price at utoronto.ca writes: thanks to stefan for that answer! works great. though for fun, I'd still ike to know whether there's a way to contact the server directly to see whether it's REALLY running matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

openoffice sound plugin

2004-09-14 Thread Matt Price
, thanks... matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

test if x server is running on a given display

2004-09-10 Thread Matt Price
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xserver future?

2004-05-31 Thread Matt Price
wondering whether the x framework as we currently know it will still be around. later, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`demi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: bookmarks.html

2004-05-26 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 02:37:15AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:19:34AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: That's one of the reasons i never save my bookmarks in a browser. I have made php script that manages a

strange du behaviour

2004-05-26 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, trying to pare down the system on my poor overburdened laptop, and using du to help me diagnose. I had some source files in /root which I have since deleted, but I am getting this strange behaviour. so from /root I try: hplaptop:~# du -sh ./ 1020K . but check this out:

presenter view in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Matt Price
Hey folks, was justreading this article inthe New York Times about the new version of MS Office for Mac: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/technology/circuits/20stat.html In it, the author discusses a new presenter tools view in MS office, which lets you see extra information on your laptop

from header class btwn mutt and mailman?

2004-05-21 Thread matt . price
hey folks, I've just realized that mutt has been sending out messages using a private address (matt - at - derailleur - org) instead of the 'form' header set in my .muttrc: set from = [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried grep -ir derailleur /etc/* ad the only relevant entry I could find was:

Re: presenter view in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:30:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Matt Price wrote: In it, the author discusses a new presenter tools view in MS office, which lets you see extra information on your laptop screen that isn't passed on to the projector (this is for powerpoint, obviously

Re: presenter view in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:55:17PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:43 -0500, Kent West wrote: Matt Price wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:30:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Matt Price wrote: Another idea might be to configure your laptop to use the projector

mailman postmaster (exim?) message...

2004-05-19 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, ever since I installed mailman and got lists running, I've been getting error messages from the postmaster on my local machine: From: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Message frozen Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 08:00:06 -0400 Message 1BQPjy-0002km-00

apt-file usage

2004-05-12 Thread Matt Price
Hi, I'm trying to understand how to use apt-file. I've just installed it on unstable (2.0.3-6) and am using what I believe is the default /etc/apt/apt-file.conf (follows below). when I try: apt-file list mozilla-firefox or apt-file search firefox I get nothing. Am I doing something wrong?

Re: apt-file usage

2004-05-12 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:55:38AM -0700, Carlos Hanson wrote: Did you do an update first? # apt-file update err no. sorry for bothering the list. thanks for the tip! m On Wed, 12 May 2004 12:25:58 -0400 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to understand

Re: mozilla-firefox extensions

2004-05-11 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 11:17:31AM +0800, Alexander Nordström wrote: On Friday, 7 May 2004 03:16, Matt Price wrote: anyonee lse having trouble installing extensions with mozilla-firefox 0.8-8 on Sid? I keep trying to install mozex and it doesn't seem to actually install. I have two

Re: edit pdf's

2004-05-11 Thread Matt Price
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:30:11AM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: thanks for the flues folks. pdftohtml -- which I confess I *did* already know about, sorry, should havesaid so -- won't work so well for me, i odn't think; these are scanned-in texts from the jstor journal collection, and it's

edit pdf's

2004-05-10 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, I have a bunch of pdf's I'd like to print out, scanned from small-paged books. I'd like to print them out two-to-a-page, but they've been saved with lots of blank space around the text; so when I just try lpr -o number-up=2 I get very very tiny type. I'd like to somehow strip the

Re: 'no screens found' -- how why?

2004-04-22 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:24:41PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: [sorry Ian, couldn't seem to write back to you directly, and anyway seemed relevant to the whole list] On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:07:27PM +0100, Ian wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Matt Price wrote: (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib

Re: serious apt error after aptitude catastrophe

2004-04-22 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:03:40AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my computer! You did that. Aptitude warned you about

Re: unlock a locked up tty session

2004-04-22 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:15:11PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: This has happened several times recently. I have changed from one tty session to another, come back to the first, and the session is locked up. If I was in an application, it just sits there, if I was at the command line, I

'no screens found' -- how why?

2004-04-21 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, I've posted this on debian-powerpc but am feeling desperate -- apologies for the cross-post. I've just had something rather strange happen -- after functioning perfectly well on several bootups, suddenly 2.6.5 kernels are unable to run X. I don't believe I did *anything* to the X

Re: 'no screens found' -- how why?

2004-04-21 Thread Matt Price
[sorry Ian, couldn't seem to write back to you directly, and anyway seemed relevant to the whole list] On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:07:27PM +0100, Ian wrote: On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Matt Price wrote: (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a (II) UnloadModule: vgahw (II

Re: 'no screens found' -- how why?

2004-04-21 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:35:17PM -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:10:34 -0400, Matt Price escreveu: I've posted this on debian-powerpc but am feeling desperate -- apologies for the cross-post. I've just had something rather strange happen

aptitude display question

2004-04-21 Thread Matt Price
Hey folks, wading through the aptiude configuration options rightn ow... is there a way to group all the broken packages together somewhere in a special view? It would be ocnvenient sometimes. On a more general note, does anyone have a really excellent configuration for aptitude they'd like

Re: aptitude display question

2004-04-21 Thread Matt Price
forgot to add my other question -- is there a way to change the percentage of the screen devoted to each part of the display (e.g., reduce the size of the package dexcription, which is rarely full, and give more space to list packages?) thx, m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

serious apt error after aptitude catastrophe

2004-04-21 Thread Matt Price
hello, tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my computer! now I have to reinstall them, but the Sid glibc backage seems to have aserious conflict with sysinit: -- Note, selecting libc6 instead

Re: serious apt error after aptitude catastrophe

2004-04-21 Thread Matt Price
gaah, forgot to add: downgrading libc6 leads to terrible system-breaking conflicts. m On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:07:44AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: hello, tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my

Re: print kernel tree from make xconfig?

2004-04-17 Thread Matt Price
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 06:13:56PM +0100, stephen parkinson wrote: Matt Price wrote: anyone know whetheri t's possible to print out the lovely display of the kernel module tree from make xconfig? I would like to have an annotated copy (what modules are required on which machines for what

naming usb devices?

2004-04-16 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, feel like I saw this somewhere a while ago, but a quick search didn't turn up what I wanted. Is there a way to assign a permanent name to a usb device like a pen drive,' so that (say) if I plug in two different pen drives at the same time, each one gets assigned to an appropriate

Re: naming usb devices?

2004-04-16 Thread Matt Price
thanks colin, that seems to be it! will play with it a bit. thanks for the quick reply. m On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 02:30:56AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:24:06PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: feel like I saw this somewhere a while ago, but a quick search didn't turn up

print kernel tree from make xconfig?

2004-04-16 Thread Matt Price
anyone know whetheri t's possible to print out the lovely display of the kernel module tree from make xconfig? I would like to have an annotated copy (what modules are required on which machines for what purposes, etc...). If there's another similar pretty picture somewhere that is of course

Re: where does mailman get the host machine name?

2004-03-30 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 04:01:16PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 05:13:19PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: hi, my ocmputer has a couple of domain names attached to it, of which the first and most awkward was awarded by the admin people at my workplace. Mailman., which

new name issue

2004-03-30 Thread Matt Price
I've encountered another difficulty with Mailman. Using the web interface to add new lists (at http://any-valid-host-name-for-my-computer/cgi-bin/mailman/create) I am unable to actually generate the new list. I get the following error at the top of the page generated by Mailman: Error: Unknown

where does mailman get the host machine name?

2004-03-29 Thread Matt Price
hi, my ocmputer has a couple of domain names attached to it, of which the first and most awkward was awarded by the admin people at my workplace. Mailman., which I've just installed, works fine, but seems to think my ocmputer should be called by this name, i.e., pc09.hist.utoronto.ca. I would

Re: [OT]Europe Supports Antitrust Ruling Against Microsoft

2004-03-16 Thread Matt Price
OK, can we please take this off of debian-user now? Egregiously offtipic. m On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:43:35AM -0800, Number Six wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:35:11AM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: You are kidding, right? You can't be that ignorant. Bombing Dresden and Nuking Japan

Re: Really, I still don't have sound

2004-03-16 Thread Matt Price
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:01:43AM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Mark Healey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I still haven't managed to get sound up and running. It looks like everybody is stumped but I'm resubmitting the problem and including all that I gathered in the last attempt

Re: debian jr.

2004-03-03 Thread Matt Price
Anyone know wht's hapening with debian jr? Seems there hasn't been much news from that project in the last year or so... m On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 06:47:01PM -0800, Roger Chrisman wrote: Elvis Presley wrote: where can i download debian jr. Elvis, I would reply something about 'debian jr.'

[solved!] Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive -- gaah!

2004-03-02 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:47:58AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: Hey everyone, I seem to havel ost my trusty old usb flash drive, so I shelled out $70 for a new one -- and carelessly bought a Sandisk Cruzer 256meg model. Gaah! I can't get it to work!! solved the probleem -- the device

which process is accessing my hard drive?

2004-03-01 Thread Matt Price
Hey folks, I'm trying to set my (aging) laptop up for maximum power efficiency. using hdparm, I set the spindown time very short, I don't use x, and I've gone so far as to shutdown things like cron and atd. Pretty much the only thing I have running is emacs (see the output of ps, attached).

Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive -- gaah!

2004-03-01 Thread Matt Price
Hey everyone, I seem to havel ost my trusty old usb flash drive, so I shelled out $70 for a new one -- and carelessly bought a Sandisk Cruzer 256meg model. Gaah! I can't get it to work!! with the old drive, I simply plugged the thing in, usb-storage took over and the drive was assigned

Re: Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive -- gaah!

2004-03-01 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:18:47AM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 March 2004 07:47 am, Matt Price wrote: Hey everyone, I seem to havel ost my trusty old usb flash drive, so I shelled out $70 for a new one -- and carelessly bought a Sandisk Cruzer 256meg model

Re: Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive -- gaah!

2004-03-01 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:21:47PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Matt Price wrote: hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-1.2, assigned address 19 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1292 usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=19 (error=-110) hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-1.2, assigned address

scrollkeeper dpkg error

2004-02-26 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, having touble setting ups scrollkeeper on my system. Keep getting the following error: Setting up scrollkeeper (0.3.14-5) ... update-xmlcatalog: error: entry already exists dpkg: error processing scrollkeeper (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit

Re: alt-right-click in xterm

2004-02-10 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:38:43PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:18:20PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: description of various window manager behaviors deleted I liket he second style better, as it gives me more flexibility. Anyone know what option controls

alt-right-click in xterm

2004-02-09 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, On one computer running debian-unstable right-alt-click in xterm gives e a bracketed arrow pointint down and to the right. WHen I move the mouse, the size of the window changes in the direciton the mouse moves... On another system, also running debian-unstable, the same action

folder modification times

2004-02-04 Thread Matt Price
To: mutt users list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bcc: Subject: folder modification times not updated? Reply-To: Hi everyone, I've noticed recently that some of my Maildir folders don't have the right date attached to them. So for instance, one folder has recently been updated, but ls thinks it

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:10:41PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: The XFree86 xterm

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:10:41PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, I went ahead and compiled/installed a 256-color xterm. I was hoping that the extra colors would magically appear for me in xemacs, but emacs still thinks I have only 16 colors. Also I

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:55:36PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No - the main thing here is whether your X server has enough colors available. The 8-bit displays don't. I've tested this mostly with 16-bit displays. xterm has defaults for the color

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the debian source package? I'd just like a bit more flexibility -- and I'd like to have the off-the-shelf values for emacs

Source Package for xterm?

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the debian source package

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: The XFree86 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation There's an faq at http://invisible-island.net/xterm

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:20:57AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:11:11PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: thanks for this... I'm a bit confuseed about the deb-src package for xterm. As you probably know, apt-get source xterm downloads files named xfree86-4.2.1

256-color xterm

2004-01-28 Thread Matt Price
can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the debian source package? I'd just like a bit more flexibility -- and I'd like to have the off-the-shelf values for emacs highlighting work when I'm in a terminal. Thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mozilla-firebird passwords

2004-01-28 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:30:31PM -0500, David P James wrote: On January 27, 2004 07:13, Matt Price wrote: If I understand you correctly, pressing View Passwords does absolutely nothing at all? The password manager in Firebird was changed in the 0.7 release which might be the source

mozilla-firebird passwords

2004-01-27 Thread Matt Price
Hey there, after a recent upgrade I can't view the paasswords stored by mozilla-firebird. In the options menu under privacy, I still see a button marked 'view paswords' but clickingo n the button has no effect. I'd like to clean up my password files, so it's irritating thatthis doesn't work...

using regex substitution on BASH variables

2004-01-26 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:05:08PM +0100, Philipp Weis wrote: On 26 Jan 2004, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I asusme the script is running, but it's not receiving the data it needs, or at least not understanding it. Procmail sends the message via STDIN, so you would have

Re: using regex substitution on BASH variables

2004-01-26 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 03:54:52PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, if this information were stored in a file, it would be simple to manipulate with regex's: sed 's/@/ -at- /' addressfile But I don't see an obvious way to get sed or awwk to take

promail and address lists

2004-01-26 Thread Matt Price
Thanks to help, I now have my bash script (for copying mail to a web page) working. Ideally I would do something slightly more complex: copy mails to a web page, then forward those same mails on to a list of addresses. So my originjal procmail recipe was: :0: * ? $FORMAIL -xFrom: -xSender:

OT: procmail recipe/bash scripting issue

2004-01-25 Thread Matt Price
hey everyone, trying to get procmail to pipe messages to a script I wrote that processes mail to a web page. Here's the recipe: --- :0: * ? $FORMAIL -x From: | grep -isF -f /home/movies/friends_and_family.txt | /usr/local/scripts/moviepage

diagnosing system crash (hardware failure?)

2004-01-16 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, my work machine has been crashing spontaneously: X freezes, sshd goes down, and I can't use the keyboard. This only happens when Im in the office, so I think it likely has something to do with my physical presence... In particular, we have a USB-kvm switch that I use to switch

enscript margins

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, just recently discovered enscript, which I'm loving as a pretty-printing tool (though if folks have suggestions for other tools, I'm happy to hear them). One little error that puzzles me -- enscript seems to think my 8.5x11 (US Letter) pages are longer than they really are. When

setting print command in xemacs

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, using the xemacs print command, my fext files end up starting exactly at the edge of the page and being difficult to readj. I'm trying to figure out a wayto get xemacs to use enxcript or some other formatting tool to do the actual printing -- but it's not obvious how to go about

Re: charter font in debian's openoffice.org1.1

2004-01-13 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:00:53PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: Matt Price([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi, recentfly upgraded to OOo1.1 using the relativley new sid debs. New version is lovely -- well-done! -- but I've lost some fonts and don't understand how to get

nvidia-kernel-common/source + kernel 2.6 configuration question

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, after trouble with nvidia and my old kernel I am hoping to update to 2.6.0, but am a bit stuck. when I installed one ofthe nvidia packages -- I think nvidia-kernel-common -- I was asked a debconf qusiton about installing the 2.4 or the 2.6 version of the package; I chose 2.4 (the

dpkg-divert error

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:14:12AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: after trouble with nvidia and my old kernel I am hoping to update to 2.6.0, but am a bit stuck. when I installed one ofthe nvidia packages installing the 2.4 or the 2.6 version of the package; I chose 2.4 (the actual question

set up simple mailing list?

2004-01-08 Thread Matt Price
hey there, I'd like to set up simple mail account on my box to act as a mailing list for one ofm y classes. So if someone writes to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the mail is automatically frwared to a bunch of people. This should be simple, right? I tried writing an od-fashioned .forward with a bunch

urgent nvidia problem

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, came into work today and the computer was crashed dead; don't know what the problem was (I'll attach the last few lines of /var/log/messages from yesterday; they don't tell me much, though). Rebooted and x wouldn't start because of a problem with nvidiactl (I have to use the nonfree

crash messages

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
hi everyone, failed to attach this part of my /var/log/messages, as promised. So I'll just insert it in this message. I assume the eth-00 messages are harmless? In which case all I can see are messages of this kind: Jan 6 17:12:34 pc09 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode

killthread script

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:49:18AM -0600, Jesse Meyer wrote: On Wed, 07 Jan 2004, Justin Ellison wrote: I'm a linux user of 3 years who manages 10-15 RedHat servers at work, and I've run Gentoo on my laptop since 1.2. The mailing list is great, but the noise floor is too much

Re: urgent nvidia problem

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:15:01AM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:44:18AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: Rebooted and x wouldn't start because of a problem with nvidiactl (I have to use the nonfree drivers to make X work at all...). I've tried variouS things

Re: urgent nvidia problem

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:46:49AM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:42:06PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: so, no, nvidia is not loaded. I tried modprobe nvidia, and got: modprobe: can't locate module nvidia I'm using the debian nvidia packages, which I compiled

Re: changing interface font size in openoffice

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
see the README file in /usr/share/do/openoffice. but short and easy answer: tools -options - view - scale -- set it to somewhere between 110 and 135% and you should get what you're looging for. matt On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:28:45PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: Is it possible to change the

Re: killthread script

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:03:04PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Matt Price: On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:49:18AM -0600, Jesse Meyer wrote: First of all, a good email client, aliases, and a killthread script is I have pretty good spamfilters up now, but I still find there's

Re: Evolution and Firebird

2004-01-05 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:16:08PM -0500, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote: Josh Robinson wrote: Hi all, i'm not sure if this is the best place to ask about such things, but could anyone tell me, or direct me to a place where i can find out - how to tell firebird to use evolution to handle

OT: bash scripting question -- passing values to ls

2004-01-04 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, here's something that ocmes up a lot for me: I use locate to find a bunch of files: % locate charter | grep -i font /usr/share/texmf/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter

Re: OT: passing values to ls -- more questions!

2004-01-04 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 07:46:28AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: ls -ld $(locate charter | grep -i font) this is great, thanks! I do like this syntax a bit better, I think. While we're on the subject of ls, here's another problem... I often want to find out which version of a program I'm

Re: OT: passing values to ls -- more questions!

2004-01-04 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:56:18PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:41:48AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: I can collapse these two steps now with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll $(which emacs) ... but is there a way to trace the whole chain of symbolic links all the way

OpenOffice crashes! was: charter font in debian's openoffice.org1.1

2004-01-02 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:00:53PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: Matt Price([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi, ok... but where do I find the fonts that spadmin installed? the main one I'm worried about is charter, which I use 'cause it's pretty, fairly straightforward

charter font in debian's openoffice.org1.1

2003-12-31 Thread Matt Price
Hi, recentfly upgraded to OOo1.1 using the relativley new sid debs. New version is lovely -- well-done! -- but I've lost some fonts and don't understand how to get them back. The README.Debian states the following: Missing fonts on upgrade to 1.1.0 - As part

Re: nvidia-kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-29 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 03:38:19PM -0500, Jerome R. Acks wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 07:44:49PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: Hey Folks, now that there are patches for the nvidia non-free drivers (http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/nvidia-2.6-Debian/) I used this method, but had

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-22 Thread Matt Price
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 08:39:17AM -0500, Dan Griswold wrote: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an MSWord document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and KWord all open MS docs -- but it comes from a Mac, I'm

make-kpkg modules_iimage error

2003-12-22 Thread Matt Price
I'm having a problem (described in the original post, but I'll repeat it below) compiling the nvidia modules for kernel 2.6.0 using make-kpkg. I'm beginning to think the problem lies with make-kpkg. so here we go: -running sid on an amd athlon with a self-rolled 2.4.21 kernel. -official

Re: apple MSWord files

2003-12-22 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:18:12AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Dan Griswold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031220 06:55]: Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an MSWord document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord

diagnosing firewire hard drive problems

2003-12-21 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, I have an external firewire hard drive mounted via the scsi/firewire system -- I store my mp3's there mainly. my 3-year-old turned off the drive unit's power switch one day when I wasn't paying attention (hopefully learned a parenting lesson there!). Now the drive is still detected

Re: diagnosing firewire hard drive problems

2003-12-21 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:09:20PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 17:39, Matt Price wrote: hey folks, I have an external firewire hard drive mounted via the scsi/firewire system -- I store my mp3's there mainly. my 3-year-old turned off the drive unit's power

nvidia-kernel 2.6.0

2003-12-19 Thread Matt Price
Hey Folks, now that there are patches for the nvidia non-free drivers (http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/nvidia-2.6-Debian/) I'm trying to upgrade to 2.6.0 on my workstation. The instructions at the above link are quite clear and helpful, but I'm having trouble compiling the NVIDIA drivers

apple MSWord files

2003-12-19 Thread Matt Price
A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an MSWord document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and KWord all open MS docs -- but it comes from a Mac, I'm assuming a pre-osX mac. Mutt tells me it's of type: application/x-macbinary anyway, I can open the file in

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