Does anyone else use Bibus

2021-01-11 Thread Rob Hurle
h python). Any ideas, or direction to other sources of help would be most welcome. Thanks heaps, Rob Hurle - Rob Hurle e-mail:rob1...@gmail.com Mobile: +61 417 293 603 (Australia) Telephone: (02) 6236 3895 28 Mirrormere Rd, Burra, NSW 2620, Australia

Re: How to write in Chinese

2020-11-19 Thread Rob Hurle
I use Debian 9 and have installed iBus. It is possible to type Vietnamese, Chinese (in pinyin and/or characters) and English. Many other languages are available as input methods. The method of swapping between the language is configurable (I use alt/space). Been very reliable. 你 好 Rob Hurle

Re: Kernel problem?

2018-01-07 Thread Rob Hurle
use I don't want any automatic update to clobber my only working kernel - the 4.9.0-4-686-pae. The updating system only seems to keep 2 generations of kernel? Any further ideas would be very welcome. Cheers, Rob Hurle ----- Rob Hurle e-mail:rob1...@gmail.com Mobile

Kernel problem?

2018-01-06 Thread Rob Hurle
? Will this break something else for a future upgrade? Any help much appreciated. Thank you. Cheers, Rob Hurle - Rob Hurle e-mail:rob1...@gmail.com Mobile: +61 417 293 603 (Australia) Telephone: (02) 6236 3895 28 Mirrormere Rd, Burra, NSW 2620, Australia

mate and ibus

2015-09-22 Thread Rob Hurle
to English ( blank in the default case, but nothing else works when any other combination is chosen). ibus-unikey works correctly for gnome. Anyone else had this problem? Cheers, Rob Hurle - Rob Hurle e-mail:rob1...@gmail.com Mobile: 0417 293 603 (Australia

Re: CUPS default printer setting in Jessie

2015-06-07 Thread Rob Hurle
You should be able to use the CUPS interface: http://localhost:631 I use this for my Canon LBP7200Cdn printer, but I haven't gone to Jessie yet. It handled the setting up in the change from squeeze to wheezy. Rob Hurle - Rob Hurle e-mail:rob1...@gmail.com

Re: Canon lbp6020

2014-10-17 Thread Rob Hurle
system running Wheezy, but it's untested for other printers and systems. I've packaged up my version (as a tar gzipped file) but I don't have a blog or other facilities to make it publicly available. I'll send you a copy. Cheers, Rob Hurle - Rob Hurle e-mail:rob1

Canon printers on wheezy (solved)

2014-10-09 Thread Rob Hurle
is having similar troubles, you are welcome to get in touch and I'll give you the details of what you need to do. Cheers, Rob Hurle - Rob Hurle e-mail:rob1...@gmail.com Mobile: 0417 293 603 (Australia) 0948 243 538 (Vietnam) Telephone: (02) 6236

How to make more space available for /

2014-09-28 Thread Rob Hurle
on the new disc and alter /etc/fstab to mount the new partition as /usr, safely without disturbing the existing system? In these days of udev and UUIDs, can we just alter /etc/fstab and still expect partitions to be mounted? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Rob Hurle

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-08 Thread Rob Hurle
the calibre site, don't use the Debian package version as it's too old) then your kobo will be recognised. Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:rob1

Re: mp280

2012-05-23 Thread Rob Hurle
. Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Mobile (in VN):  +84 948 243 538 Mobile (in OZ):  +61 417 293 603

[SOLVED] Re: Dependency based boot sequencing and printers

2012-05-18 Thread Rob Hurle
for insserv(8) specifically points this out for slow learners like me :-) Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Mobile (in VN

Re: Dependency based boot sequencing and Canon printer

2012-05-14 Thread Rob Hurle
Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Mobile (in VN):  +84 948 243 538 Mobile (in OZ):  +61 417 293 603

Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze

2012-02-06 Thread Rob Hurle
Hi Bob, Thanks for this information: On 6 February 2012 19:03, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Rob Hurle wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies:  xulrunner-10.0 : Depends: libnss3-1d (= 3.13.1) but 3.12.8-1+squeeze4 is to be installed What does apt-cache say?  apt

Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze

2012-02-05 Thread Rob Hurle
://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-release to your /etc/apt/sources.list Yep, same here. I suspect somebody has got some erroneous repositories installed. Rob Hurle: Can you please verify that you don't have Wheezy/Sid repos active and you are actually installing from Backports? I

Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze

2012-02-05 Thread Rob Hurle
On 6 February 2012 12:41, Ashton Fagg ash...@fagg.id.au wrote: On 6 February 2012 11:31, Rob Hurle rob1...@gmail.com wrote: I definitely don't have Wheezy or Sid repos enabled.  My sources.list is: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian

Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Hurle
At this point, II get: The following packages have unmet dependencies: xulrunner-10.0 : Depends: libnss3-1d (= 3.13.1) but 3.12.8-1+squeeze4 is to be installed E: Broken packages ?? Any ideas? Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School

Re: Latest iceweasel - package kept back

2011-11-24 Thread Rob Hurle
, and xulrunner is then listed as broken package. So, a no go on the upgrade.   :-( Yes, I'd already done that. My experience is the same as Brad's - no go on the upgrade because of xulrunner. Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School

Latest iceweasel - package kept back

2011-11-23 Thread Rob Hurle
-backports main deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ squeeze-backports iceweasel-release Thanks for your help. Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1

Re: iceweasel based on firefox 6.0 for squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Rob Hurle
/ I used it and found it very helpful. Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169 Mobile (in VN

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

2011-09-16 Thread Rob Hurle
` apart from the command line. Cheers, Rob -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169 Mobile (in VN):  +84 948 243 538

Re: iceweasel and gmail

2011-09-09 Thread Rob Hurle
to Iceweasel 3.6+ if we want to? Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169 Mobile (in VN):  +84

Re: Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

2011-08-27 Thread Rob Hurle
would be surprised if it did not work. Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169 Mobile (in VN

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-29 Thread Rob Hurle
toner cartridges are not always satisfactory - particularly for alignment and for evenness of colour. Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Rob Hurle
!) printing engine and the whole thing has to be dismantled to clean them - a half-day job for the experienced. Never again HP! Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail

How to get a camera working?

2011-07-21 Thread Rob Hurle
help would be appreciated. Thanks to all. Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169 Mobile (in VN):  +84

fopen when using apt-get

2011-06-09 Thread Rob Hurle
... fopen: Permission denied Setting up [whatever the package is] ([version information]) ... This happens with all updates. Anyone know what causes the error when fopen is called, and is it serious? Is it possibly something to do with my man pages configuration? Thanks for any help, Rob Hurle

A word of appreciation

2011-05-06 Thread Rob Hurle
and friendly, and thanks to those who've answered questions for me. Cheers to you all, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Telephone

Re: Re (2): EeePC and Debian

2011-04-10 Thread Rob Hurle
Hi Peter, On 11 April 2011 05:30, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Rob, From:   Rob Hurle rob1...@gmail.com Date:   Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:27:48 +1000 ... [press TAB ... avoid ... vga= parameter]. ... worked, and I booted and installed Squeeze. What adjustment did you make after Tab, by the way? I

Re: EeePC and Debian

2011-04-09 Thread Rob Hurle
Thank you very much to everyone who answered my query: On 8 April 2011 11:18, Chen Wei weichen...@aol.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 05:52:25PM +1000, Rob Hurle wrote:   I have an EeePC 4G (the 701) and I'm trying to put Debian Squeeze on to it.  I've RTFM and read the wiki, and got

EeePC and Debian

2011-04-07 Thread Rob Hurle
into the old EeePC linux system and then run this? What am I missing? (Yes, I did read the READMEs). Thank you, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail

Input methods and terminal - any ideas?

2011-02-28 Thread Rob Hurle
can re-jig the input methods of terminal so that I can access them directly through OpenOffice, Iceweasel or KDE applications (apart from copy and paste)? Any ideas would help. Thank you. Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School

Re: Input methods and terminal - any ideas?

2011-02-28 Thread Rob Hurle
Hi Michael, Thanks for the reply: On 1 March 2011 16:03, Michael Tsang mikl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2011 08:16:31 Rob Hurle wrote: (UTF-8) and the locale is set appropriately.  To my surprise, I find that Gnome terminal already has all of the input methods that I need

Re: setting up a network printer

2010-12-09 Thread Rob Hurle
you've got the IP you need to set CUPS up with that URI - socket://192.168. Should work then. Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1

Packages - what's the best way?

2010-11-14 Thread Rob Hurle
(gcc and gnu make) using dpkg, but I wondered if there was a better way to do this. I've just downloaded opera and it comes in a .deb package, so this is my next task. apt or dpkg - or even synaptic? Thanks for any help. Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College

Re: HP Laserjet not printing.

2010-11-09 Thread Rob Hurle
. Some dill from Canon support here in Australia claimed that Canon does not support Unix or Linux! I've yet to have this escalated, but I'm not hopeful. Cheers, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language

Re: [OT] Re: Toner refill

2010-10-28 Thread Rob Hurle
be over-ridden if you are really familiar with the embedded software. I finished up junking the printer and buying a new colour laser for about the cost of a complete set of HP toner cartridges. Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School

Fwd: Canon Support Centre - Ref # 00066023

2010-10-06 Thread Rob Hurle
with Linux (Debian and Red Hat) (see below). This same software seems to be provided for all of the Canon LBP series printers. Cheers to all, Rob Hurle -- Forwarded message -- From: Techsupport techsupp...@services.canon.com.au Date: 7 October 2010 14:19 Subject: Canon Support

Re: Printing - CUPS and Canon laser printer

2010-10-03 Thread Rob Hurle
On 3 October 2010 14:15, Allan Wind allan_w...@lifeintegrity.com wrote: On 2010-10-03T13:53:31, Rob Hurle wrote: But, nothing prints from debian, Windows computers have no trouble. CUPS (http://localhost:631) shows printing since... but nothing appears. What is your Connection set to (http

Re: Printing - CUPS and Canon laser printer

2010-10-03 Thread Rob Hurle
signal in /var/log/kern.log. I wonder what this means? Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169

Re: Printing - CUPS and Canon laser printer

2010-10-03 Thread Rob Hurle
/backend/socket both being killed by a 9 signal in /var/log/kern.log.  I wonder what this means? Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1

Printing - CUPS and Canon laser printer

2010-10-02 Thread Rob Hurle
. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you. Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle ANU, College of Asia and the Pacific School of Culture, History and Language Histories of Asia and the Pacific e-mail:              rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169 Mobile (in VN

Lenny and Vietnamese input

2009-06-11 Thread Rob Hurle
-a Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Thu May 28 15:39:35 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Thank you, Rob Hurle -- - Rob Hurle Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU e-mail: rob1...@gmail.com Telephone (ANU): +61 2 6125 3169 Mobile (in VN): +84 948 243 538

Re: Installation problems

2006-07-26 Thread Rob Hurle
Hi Stephen, Thanks for your wonderful suggestion: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Stephen Cormier wrote: On Sunday 16 July 2006 01:50, Rob Hurle wrote: Dear All, I am trying to set up Debian 3.1r1 (Sarge) on a box with an Intel D945GNT motherboard and twin 3.2GHz processors and 1Gb

Installation problems

2006-07-15 Thread Rob Hurle
, from the CD, but then, nothing can be seen (No media to partition is the final message). Any ideas would be welcome. Thank you. Rob Hurle - Rob Hurle Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU Home address and contacts