Re: (OT) LaTeX vs Word vs OOo (was: (OT) gnash vs. flash)

2010-03-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:24:12 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2010-03-18 10:19:07 +0200, Micha wrote: > > Personally though I use lyx for anything I can get away with. > > Luckily in university mathematics no one knows word. Almost everyone > > apart for a few students that haven't converted yet

Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:15:51 +1100 Alexander Samad wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman > wrote: > > Micha schreef: > >> On 17/03/2010 16:57, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > >>> Micha Feigin schreef: > >>>> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14

Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: > Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input device) > settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again. > > How do I enable tapping and circular scrolling permanently (i.e each boot) on > the touc

Re: enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:29:08 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: > Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input device) > settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again. > > How do I enable tapping and circular scrolling permanently (i.e each boot) on > the touc

enabling tap and circular scroll on touchpad and modern debian/X

2010-03-17 Thread Micha Feigin
Debian has been constantly playing around with the touchpad (input device) settings lately and broke my touchpad settings again. How do I enable tapping and circular scrolling permanently (i.e each boot) on the touchpad again with the modern debian? It used to be in xorg.conf then it was hal with

Is there a command line tool for creating 3d text effects?

2010-03-05 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying to get some nice 3d text into beamer presentations for the title instead of the boring standard text. Something like this hopefully: http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~michf/example.jpg Only solution I found is to use \write18 and some external tool to create an image. I got convert to create

mounts via init.d early in the boot process

2010-01-18 Thread Micha Feigin
I have a system where I use a readonly nfs root with a local hard drive and I need to have some local settings for each computer (mainly /etc/hosts, ip address for network devices, hostname and nfs server settings). I do that by mounting the local disk on /local and then overiding some settings usi

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-12-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:52:45 -0500 Nick Lidakis wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:40:33PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 08:51:52PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20091015_144147, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > > Equipment: > > > Adcom GTP-450 Tuner > > > Adcom GCD-70

Re: Single server image distributed clusters still available

2009-10-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:31:51 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > John Haggerty put forth on 10/28/2009 4:01 AM: > > Just checking to see if this actually made it to the list. I would hate > > to think that the only way to use this method is to have to use a > > different and 4 year old version of an ope

Re: Inquiry:External USB modem and Remote PC Access?

2009-10-27 Thread Micha Feigin
If it's supposed to answer the phone, I think that there is a getty app that does that, never did it and I'm not sure how many people did in the last sever years. as for a pc-anywhere solution, you can do one of several ssh into the box with x forwarding if you want to run X apps and just run t

Re: Intel C++ Compiler, Debian Sid and libstdc++5/6

2009-10-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:57:12 -0300 Ivan Marin wrote: > Hello all, > > I've just installed the Intel C++ compiler on a Debian Sid, amd64, icc > version 11.1.056. Even with the warnings (system not recognized, binutils > not found, etc), the compiler installs correctly. But when I try to use it, >

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:35:18 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > >> Personally, I don't see a need to go 128 bit on a main cpu unless you > >> have a desire to count and enumerate every elementary particle in the > >> known universe, without a) running out of RAM, or b) spilling

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:10:11 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 08:23:10PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:50:41PM +0200, Magnus Pedersen wrote: > >>> Alex Samad wrote: > >>> > >> [...] > God can you rememb

re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:51:40 +0100 Kelly Harding wrote: > 2009/10/9 Dean Chester : > > Hi > > I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep > > advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just > > wondering how much can 64-bit debian support? > > Than

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:51:40 +0100 Kelly Harding wrote: > 2009/10/9 Dean Chester : > > Hi > > I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep > > advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just > > wondering how much can 64-bit debian support? > > Than

Re: free alternative acroread

2009-10-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:31:36 +0530 (IST) Girish Kulkarni wrote: > On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Andreas Goesele wrote: > > Is there any free pdf-reader with a similar option? Or, is there any > > easy way to achieve the same effect with free pdf-readers which > > don't have the option? > > The print menu i

Re: Why can't I install skype on debian?

2009-10-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:54:41 -0700 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 10:09 -0700, Charlie Dorff wrote: > > Hi... > > I installed debian using a netinstall and then tried to install skype > > but got an error message saying > > "could not open skype-debian_2.1.0.47-1_1386.deb". Does any

Re: using skype with a bluetooth headset

2009-10-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:45:03 -0700 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 16:55 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I'm to get skype working with my bluetooth headset > > > > Any idea on what I'm missing? > > The part where you shouldn't use Skype to b

Re: XFce4 vs GNOME Desktop

2009-09-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:58:38 -0400 "S. Fishpaste" wrote: > Hi All; > > I have a strange issue. When I run Gnome I have a nice desktop with my trash > icon etc., on the desktop. Gnome is too heavy for my resource limited laptop > so I much prefer to use a lighter window manager. > > But when I s

using skype with a bluetooth headset

2009-09-20 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm to get skype working with my bluetooth headset I managed to get it paired using blueman-applet and even get audio on it from mplayer using: player -ao alsa:device=bluetooth ~/Music/When\ I\ Grow\ Up.flac I setup a .asoundrc file containing: pcm.bluetooth { type plug slave {

can't connect to pulse audio - connection refused

2009-09-19 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying to install pulse audio (to get my bluetooth headset working with skype hopefully) for the moment there seem to be some permission problems. It looks like it is running in the background: micha 4569 0.0 0.1 161688 2476 ?Ssl 08:07 0:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --lo

network partially stops working after some time

2009-09-19 Thread Micha Feigin
I have a strange problem where my wireless network stops working with some sites, speciffically on of the local debian mirrors and my smtp server after some time of work and won't connect again until a reboot. Wireless is an atheros AR5414 based card in a thinkpad t61. I tried unloading and reloadi

Re: Why can't I install skype on debian?

2009-09-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:51:41 +0930 Dale wrote: > 2009/9/18 Micha Feigin : > > On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:09:44 -0700 (PDT) > > Charlie Dorff wrote: > > > > How are you trying to install it (from what package/repository/site) and > > what is your system (32bit or

Re: Why can't I install skype on debian?

2009-09-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:09:44 -0700 (PDT) Charlie Dorff wrote: > Hi... > I installed debian using a netinstall and then tried to install skype but got > an error message saying > "could not open skype-debian_2.1.0.47-1_1386.deb". Does anyone know what I am > doing wrong? Thanks in advance. > >

syncing sony erricson phone with linux

2009-09-17 Thread Micha Feigin
Is it possible in a stable way to sync a sony erricson phone (k800i) with linux (calendar and contacts)? I tried to google but all I found was seriously outdated, the main current reference seems to be opensync which I tried at the time but it failed miserably and it doesn't seem like the versio

Re: ProcMail, WAS: Re: Fetchmail and Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 05:51:49 -0400 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Tue August 25 2009, Micha wrote: > > > what benefit would I get from procmail? > > > > 1. The ability to move from kmail to something else if you want without > > rewriting your rules. > > good idea.. I like that, especially when test

Re: remapping keys using hal (is it possible to replace xmodmap with hal?)

2009-08-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:08:28 +0300 Micha Feigin wrote: > I'm looking to remap the forward/back keys, preferably using hal to > pageup/pagedown so that I can use them for presentation (I have a > bluetooth mouse that generates these instead of pageup/pagedown) > > lshal -m s

remapping keys using hal

2009-08-19 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm looking to remap the forward/back keys, preferably using hal to pageup/pagedown so that I can use them for presentation (I have a bluetooth mouse that generates these instead of pageup/pagedown) lshal -m shows that these keys are mapped to: 23:05:56.986: platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port_logicalde

Re: skype, amd64, libc6-i386 and ia32-libs

2009-08-19 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:30:06 +0100 Chris Davies wrote: > Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > >>> After returning from vacation I updated my testing, amd64 system. > > > By the way, does anybody know why they had to break things first? I did > > not expect that from debian! > > I rather think that the nam

Re: remapping bluetooth mouse buttons (microsoft notebook presenter 8000)

2009-08-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:12:58 +0300 Micha Feigin wrote: > Hello, > > I go myself one of these toys, the microsoft wireless notebook presenter 8000 > mouse which is a bluetooth mouse that can switch from mouse mode to > presentation mode (it's got several presentation butto

Re: remapping bluetooth mouse buttons (microsoft notebook presenter 8000)

2009-08-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:12:58 +0300 Micha Feigin wrote: > Hello, > > I go myself one of these toys, the microsoft wireless notebook presenter 8000 > mouse which is a bluetooth mouse that can switch from mouse mode to > presentation mode (it's got several presentation butto

remapping bluetooth mouse buttons (microsoft notebook presenter 8000)

2009-08-18 Thread Micha Feigin
Hello, I go myself one of these toys, the microsoft wireless notebook presenter 8000 mouse which is a bluetooth mouse that can switch from mouse mode to presentation mode (it's got several presentation buttons on the back). Its recognized via bluetooth, all the top buttons are recognized (9 of the

Re: C++ and threading howto for linux dev

2009-08-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:55:00 +0200 Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > ga wrote: > > > > > Check out these ones: > > > http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/thread_2thread_8cc-example.html#_a11 > > > http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/glibmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/thread_2dispatcher_8cc-example.

Re: C++ and threading howto for linux dev

2009-08-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:09:40 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > In , Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >I'm willing to build an app that starts 3 threads, especially (soap > > client, server from libcsoap and terminal), so I couldn't manage to do > > the job in C++, because they it lacks native thread

Re: C++ and threading howto for linux dev

2009-08-11 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:09:05 +0200 Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Hi, perhaps it's OT but still the debian list is the best one (my subjective > opinion), so I dear to ask here. > > I'm willing to build an app that starts 3 threads, especially (soap client, > server from libcsoap and terminal), so I co

Re: Little OT : Software for Active Noise Cancelling or Reduction

2009-08-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 06:08:50 -0400 Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Wednesday 05 August 2009 04:42 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > M writes: > > > i was considering to buy headphones with Active Noise Cancelling / > > > Reduction. > > > > > > But before spend money, i'd like to know if there's a software that

Re: wi-fi security?

2009-08-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:50:29 +0100 Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 05 Aug 2009, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > > > > > > The easiest way is to use network-manager. If you click on the Icon > > > in your toolbar it should show you the detected networks. You can use > > > the "Create New Wireless Network

Re: Sid: Grub2 faling to boot: Unknown device UUID

2009-07-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:05:49 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: > Matthew Moore wrote: > > On Friday July 24 2009 9:49:38 am Micha Feigin wrote: > > > >> try looking > >> for a uuid option under /etc/default/grub2 or /etc/grub2 or something > >> similar (not s

does octave support multicore?

2009-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
I couldn't find a clear answer on google other than a package called multicore for octave. I was wondering if octave can utilize multiple cores (multithreaded operations) by default (as matlab partially does) or not? The question is whether it's worth to invest in a quad core for octave or whet

Re: Sid: Grub2 faling to boot: Unknown device UUID

2009-07-24 Thread Micha Feigin
Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Up-to-date Sid. On boot, Grub lists the correct kernels. "update-grub" tells me that everything is a-ok. But when it tries to load, I get the error that "device (shows UUID from /boot/grub/grub.cfg) not found" Editing t

Re: Grub2 made my systeum unbootable

2009-07-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:55:21 +0300 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Rashly, after today's upgrade I followed the exhortation in the grub > > legacy package to move to grub2. I now cannot boot at all; I just get > > the message "Grub" and nothing more. > > Don't remember now ab

Re: output of df doesn't add up

2009-07-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:22:04 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > On Seg, 20 Jul 2009, Micha Feigin wrote: > >> Any ideas on where the missing gb are? > > > > It's the space reserved for root. > > > > http://www.an

output of df doesn't add up

2009-07-20 Thread Micha Feigin
For some reason the output for my main disk as given by df doesn't add up: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 142G 123G 12G 92% / 142g - (123g + 12g) = 7g it seems that I have 7gb missing on the disk (its ext4, just crashed, I think because it went

paraview and hdf5 files

2009-07-16 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried installing paraview under debian. According to the documentation and the options in the debian/rules file (I also tried the source) it is supposed to handle hdf5 files. I tried creating a simple hdf5 file in matlab to open in paraview, but it doesn't seem to recognize the file. Any idea on

Re: automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery

2009-07-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:07:14 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,13.Jul.09, 13:06:56, Micha Feigin wrote: > > There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen > > brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent > > versions.

automatically reduce screen brightness with xfce when on battery

2009-07-13 Thread Micha Feigin
There used to be a control in xfce4-power-manager to allow resucing screen brightness when working on battery but it has been removed in recent versions. Any other way to achieve the same goal? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: How about NUMA?

2009-07-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 21:49:00 -0600 lee wrote: > Hi, > > under what circumstances are you supposed to turn on NUMA support in > the kernel settings? I've googled about that and learned what NUMA is > about while trying to answer the question wheather I should enable it > in my kernel or not. But I

Re: movies in a beamer (latex) presentation and linux (movie15)

2009-07-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:48:55 +0530 (IST) Girish Kulkarni wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I tried to use the package movie15 to include a movie in a beamer > > presentation (latex via lyx) which worked great under windows but > > doesn't work under li

movies in a beamer (latex) presentation and linux (movie15)

2009-07-06 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried to use the package movie15 to include a movie in a beamer presentation (latex via lyx) which worked great under windows but doesn't work under linux. Any way to do this under linux? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: ia32-apt-get doesn't create ia32 package list

2009-07-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:56:38 +0900 Miles Bader wrote: > Andrei Popescu writes: > > ia32-libs is going through a lot of changes at the moment, there is a > > huge thread about it on debian-devel. You *might* be able to fix stuff > > if you downgrade relevant packages to testing/squeeze. > > I

Re: ia32-apt-get doesn't create ia32 package list

2009-07-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 19:04:47 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,06.Jul.09, 18:55:25, Micha Feigin wrote: > > it seems that ia32-libs is replaced with ia32-apt-get (which conflicts with > > it > > at the moment), but it doesn't seem to create the ia32 library list.

ia32-apt-get doesn't create ia32 package list

2009-07-06 Thread Micha Feigin
it seems that ia32-libs is replaced with ia32-apt-get (which conflicts with it at the moment), but it doesn't seem to create the ia32 library list. I'm trying to get acroread working again and as a start it is complaining that libxml2 is missing but with the current state of ia32-apt-get it doesn't

Re: OT: launching jobs in a combined serial parallel way

2009-06-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:52:47 +0300 Micha Feigin wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:28:53 -0400 > Johan Kullstam wrote: > > > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi writes: > > > > > I have three programs - say proga, progb, progc. > > > > > > proga, progb are comp

Re: OT: launching jobs in a combined serial parallel way

2009-06-26 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:28:53 -0400 Johan Kullstam wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi writes: > > > I have three programs - say proga, progb, progc. > > > > proga, progb are completely independent. They take couple of hours to > > finish. The time to complete proga, progb are not same. > > > > progc

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:53:51 +0800 明覺 wrote: > 2009/6/24 Hal Vaughan : > > > > On Jun 23, 2009, at 10:57 AM, 明覺 wrote: > > > >> 2009/6/23 Hal Vaughan : > >>> > >>> On Jun 22, 2009, at 10:10 PM, 明覺 wrote: > >>> > 2009/6/23 Hal Vaughan : > > > > On Jun 22, 2009, at 8:00 AM, 明覺 wrote: >

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-24 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:17:33 +0100 Tom Furie wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 02:11:31PM +0800, 明覺 wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > > is far from simple. There are things you can do in python in one line > > > that you >

Re: cannot install skype on unstable

2009-06-24 Thread Micha Feigin
Try opening skype file. I don't remember where I got my package, probably created it from skype static based on this http://forum.skype.com/lofiversion/index.php/t98728.html but the file itself is a shell script that looks for /usr/bin/skype.real that may be the problem On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:05:2

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:18:16 +0800 明覺 wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:18 PM, John Hasler wrote: > > 明覺 writes: > >> yes, currently it's true, but I hope one day I will be able to take full > >> control of my system, and modify them as i like, if I have those other > >> language programmed sof

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:39:53 +0800 明覺 wrote: > 2009/6/23 Hal Vaughan : > > > > On Jun 22, 2009, at 9:18 PM, 明覺 wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:18 PM, John Hasler wrote: > >>> > >>> 明覺 writes: > > yes, currently it's true, but I hope one day I will be able to take full >

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:22:38 +0800 明覺 wrote: > 2009/6/22 Peter Crawford : > > > > Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 09:17:18AM +0800, 明覺 wrote: > >> I want to keep the programs in my system all written in c/c++, no > >> python or perl or any other programming languages, is it possible to > >> reach it? > > >

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:41:44 -0700 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > 2009/6/21 明覺 : > > I want to keep the programs in my system all written in c/c++, no > > python or perl or any other programming languages, is it possible to > > reach it? I removed the 2 packages, python and perl, from my system, > > and

Re: is it possible to install a desktop-manager without python and perl?

2009-06-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:21:22 -0400 Hal Vaughan wrote: > ... > > I'm being blunt, but, honestly, I run a business on custom software > I've written and I can do it because I learned from those who knew > more than I did. If I refused to learn from people on this and other > lists, I'd be

Re: What is the correct way to overide hal defaults?

2009-06-13 Thread Micha Feigin
Tom Rauchenwald wrote: emikaadeo writes: On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:05:14 +0200, Tom Rauchenwald wrote: Micha Feigin writes: I want to change the default settings for my synaptic touchpad in X. I tried changing /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/11-x11-synaptics.fdi but it keeps getting

What is the correct way to overide hal defaults?

2009-06-13 Thread Micha Feigin
I want to change the default settings for my synaptic touchpad in X. I tried changing /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/11-x11-synaptics.fdi but it keeps getting written over during upgrades. Is there a better way to do this so it won't get erased every time? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Second ethernet card seems to cause networking failure?

2009-06-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 25 May 2009 08:37:33 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:25:29AM -0700, Frank Miles wrote: > > I recently added a second networking card to a hardware-test PC. This > > elderly machine > > had been working reasonably well. The second networking card is for eth1,

failure to connect usb disk (hal)

2009-05-20 Thread Micha Feigin
Lately on two machines I can't connect external usb disks. mounting with pmount-hal works fine but from within xfce at least, the disk shows up, but when I try to mount it from the menu (places plugin and thunar) I get the following error: Failed to mount "1G Removable Volume". org.freedesktop.ha

Re: mpirun problem

2009-05-14 Thread Micha Feigin
Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos wrote: I created the key by using ssh-keygen but then when I try to copy the public key to the node (my laptop) by using ssh-copy-id machine_name I get ssh: connect to host machine_name port 22: Connection refused Dimitris You probably need to install a ssh se

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

2009-05-07 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 6 May 2009 13:01:59 + Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 03:45:17PM +0200, Kaixi Luo wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm a new Linux user (currently using Debian 5 testing) and I've noticed > > that the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista (4 > > hours)

Re: Graphics 1920x1440, monitor 1680x1050, nv 1280x1024.

2009-05-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 5 May 2009 10:54:35 +0100 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Fiddling with the monitor menu i came across this: > > DIV > 1280x1024 > 64KHz 60Hz > That is the current mode it is using. I don't know how to convert it into a modeline > ...that'll be useful for a modeline i guess - how can i make

Re: Graphics 1920x1440, monitor 1680x1050, nv 1280x1024.

2009-05-05 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 5 May 2009 00:31:32 -0600 Dave Thayer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 08:20:36PM +0100, Nuno Magalhדes wrote: > > > Yeah i came across that but i'd assume DVI to be superior (i.e. more > > > recent, hence better) than VGA... Also, could the monitor's EDID be > > > reporting erroneous val

stopwatch/worktime program?

2009-05-03 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm looking for some program to follow my work time on different projects, preferably something that can plug into the xfce, or if not the gnome panel. I'm working on different projects for different people and I need to report work hours and it's a bit hard for me to follow the times by writing t

Re: Added more memory. Not useable???

2009-05-03 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 3 May 2009 08:28:44 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,02.May.09, 15:27:26, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > > Same thing, the kernel doesn't recognize your memory. What kernel > > > flavour are you running (uname -a)? > > > Linux mail 2.6.18-6-486 #1 Fri Dec 12 16:18:30 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/L

Re: virtualbox-2.2 uninstallable on lenny/amd64?

2009-05-02 Thread Micha Feigin
worked for me with the following entry in /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free Maybe the site is temporarily down (I can't seem to update from it at the moment) or they are updating the package and didn't update whole the links yet. On Sat, 2 M

Re: Why does the laptop battery last longer with Windows than with Debian?

2009-05-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 2 May 2009 15:45:17 +0200 Kaixi Luo wrote: > Hello, > I'm a new Linux user (currently using Debian 5 testing) and I've noticed > that the battery of my laptop used to last much longer with Windows Vista (4 > hours) than with Debian (2.5 hours). How's that possible?I mean, Debian > uses

Re: Added more memory. Not useable???

2009-05-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 2 May 2009 10:26:45 -0400 (EDT) m...@neidorff.com wrote: > Hi all, > > My machine has been mostly updated to lenny from etch. When etch was > installed, I had 2 Gig of ram. > > I use virtualbox to run a guest OS. I felt that the memory that I could > allocate to the guest was insuffici

Re: Nvidia driver and second screen

2009-04-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:01:18 +0200 Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Hi list, > > I found out that second displays are no longer detected with the closed > source nvidia driver. Neither nvidia's nvidia-settings tool, nor xrandr > shows the second display. Also entering some monitor info directly into > x

Re: virtualbox and usb devices

2009-04-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:33:04 +0200 Magnus Pedersen wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > I've installed virtualbox from > > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian > > on my debian unstable. I'm trying to connect a usb device to that machine (a > >

virtualbox and usb devices

2009-04-24 Thread Micha Feigin
I've installed virtualbox from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian on my debian unstable. I'm trying to connect a usb device to that machine (a usb camera at the moment). It appears under devices->usb devices->camera 0100 but it is grayed out and I can't mark it. I tried adding write

Re: any software for 3D surfaces visualization in debian sid?

2009-04-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:09:52 -0400 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Star Liu wrote: > > > I'm looking for a free software which can draw 3D picture if I setup > > mathmetical equations and specify its scope, it's an important part of > > my current project. thanks! > > > > Check out open DX (ope

Re: screen shaking with analog lcd connection

2009-04-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:44:25 +0300 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,18.Apr.09, 01:30:59, Hashimoto wrote: > > Hello guys, > > > > I'm used to connect my laptop to my LCD monitor, and using the analog > > connection because it's the only way to do that. But I realized that the > > screen shake a lo

Re: Versioning control

2009-04-17 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:05:27 + Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:45:03PM +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > > > Section 1.2 of the CVS manual is very enlighting: > > > > "1.2 What is CVS not? > > CVS can do a lot of things for you, but it does not try to be everything > > fo

Re: Versioning control

2009-04-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:22:00 +0200 Adrian Chapela wrote: > Hello, > > I am preparing a versioning control. In my environment some of the > clients are Windows PC. I have implemented the next Subversion + > TortoiseSVN (for windows clients) + Eventum (for bug control, etc.). All > work very we

Re: HOWTO run xorg without hal

2009-04-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:01:01 +0200 Dirk wrote: > Thorny wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:22:59 +0200, Dirk posted: > > > >> Randy Kramer wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 14 April 2009 05:49:48 am Dirk wrote: > some true asshole decreased linux' value as an alternative to windows > by making ha

[SOLVED] Re: CircularScrolling stopped working with X 7.4

2009-04-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:43:06 +0300 Micha Feigin wrote: > I'm migrating my settings from xorg.conf to hal due to the move to X 7.4. > Setting up vertical scrolling and circular scrolling seems to work except that > it is activated using all edges which is really annoying. I

[SOLVED] Re: Setting EmulateWheel with hal (new X model in sid)

2009-04-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:36:43 +0300 Micha Feigin wrote: > I'm trying to restore my X settings with the move to X 7.4 in sid which > requires moving keyboard and mouse settings to hal settings. I tried creating > a > file under > > /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdp

CircularScrolling stopped working with X 7.4

2009-04-14 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm migrating my settings from xorg.conf to hal due to the move to X 7.4. Setting up vertical scrolling and circular scrolling seems to work except that it is activated using all edges which is really annoying. I tried setting 2 in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/11-x11-synaptics

Setting EmulateWheel with hal (new X model in sid)

2009-04-14 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying to restore my X settings with the move to X 7.4 in sid which requires moving keyboard and mouse settings to hal settings. I tried creating a file under /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty that contains on 2 300 6 7 4 5 7 7 6

Re: Deploy job management system software such as PBS, LSF on Debian cluster.

2009-04-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 18:01:11 +0800 hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at 13:48, jsp...@sun.ac.za wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:52:50PM +0800, hongyi.z...@gmail.com wrote: > > >> I've setup a Debian cluster to construct a HPC workstation. Now, I > >> want to install

Re: acroread, ERROR: Cannot find installation directory.

2009-04-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:07:10 -0400 "H.S." wrote: > Hello, > > Since last few days at least, I am getting this error when I try to > start acroread: > > $> acroread > ERROR: Cannot find installation directory. > > > This is on Debian Testing, fully updated, and acroread 8.1.3-0.0. I have > tak

Re: acroread issue

2009-04-02 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 07:56:02 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:26:06 +0800 > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Hello Jerome, > > > acroread-debian-files 0.0.32 > > Hasn't fixed the problem for me. Weirder still. > Check the acrobat version. Not sure if it's in experimental but appran

Re: acroread issue

2009-04-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 08:12:25 +1100 Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 08:10:02AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hello Jerome, > > > > I installed acroread-debian-files 0.0.32 from debian-multimedia.org, > > and now acroread is working. Many thanks! > > any reason not to use evinc

Re: acroread issue

2009-04-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:26:06 +0800 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, > > I have the same issue yesterday on my Lenny amd64 (64bits kernel) box: Same for me > the issue was solved with the package > > acroread-debian-files 0.0.32 > It was solved for me by going to the debian multimedia site and

Re: [offtopic] screen capture using opengl

2009-03-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:59:42 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > In <20090330125126.28021...@vivalunalitshi.luna.local>, Micha Feigin wrote: > >I'm trying to figure out how to capture the screen using opengl. I tried > >glReadPixels but if I underst

[offtopic] screen capture using opengl

2009-03-30 Thread Micha Feigin
Sorry for being off topic, I'll be happy if someone can point me at the right location to ask this. I'm trying to figure out how to capture the screen using opengl. I tried glReadPixels but if I understand correctly it is reading from the current opengl context (the visible part of the current ope

Re: VirtualBox on lenny

2009-03-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:49:26 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,24.Feb.09, 06:12:14, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > I tried installing that but for some reason after running windows in a box > > (which seems to be running rather nicely in initial tests) the color > > se

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:08:03 -0400 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > In theory, with PAE segments you can address that memory with a 32-bit > > OS, but in practice, 64-bit is required. > > Actually, practice suggests otherwise: > >% uname -a >Linux pastel 2.6.28-1-686-bigmem #1 SMP Mon Feb 23 0

Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

2009-03-20 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:54:58 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > Mark Allums wrote: > > prad wrote: > >> i've recently returned to debian on a amd64 3400+ machine with 1G ram > >> in it. > >> > >> i am running the 32bit version of lenny. > >> > >> would there be benefits to use 64bit lenny instead? > >> >

Re: any software for 3D surfaces visualization in debian sid?

2009-03-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:31:20 +0800 Star Liu wrote: > I'm looking for a free software which can draw 3D picture if I setup > mathmetical equations and specify its scope, it's an important part of > my current project. thanks! > scilab and octave? I think that currently octave is better maintaine

changing headers/footers in sections in oowriter

2009-03-08 Thread Micha Feigin
How do I change the headers footers between sections in oowriter? Tried to google but only found hints. I remember that in word you just insert->section break and then right click on the header footer to tell it not to link to the previous one. Couldn't find anything similar on oowriter. Thanks

Re: what's the difference and superior between gtk+ and gecko?

2009-03-04 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 14:37:43 -0800 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 13:49, Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:04:28 +0800 > > Star Liu wrote: > > > >> I want to develop a cross-platform desktop software by open source > >> pla

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