Re: latex to html

2007-04-23 Thread Russell L. Harris
* abdelkader belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070423 23:20]: > Hi, > I am using latex2html to convert files from latex to html, but > latex2html seems not maintened, and now I have some problems in > conversion, specialy with new special packages. So I want to find > another one, I tried tex4ht not e

Re: index for LaTeX document (was "xindy for i386 broken?")

2007-04-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070417 15:00]: > I would try to start with something simple: ... Florian, That works. I get four pages, with "word 1" on the first page, "word 2a" on the second page, etc. It's so simple that I am embarrassed. I became disoriented in my attempt to get xind

index for LaTeX document (was "xindy for i386 broken?")

2007-04-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
Index generation in LaTeX appears to be in limbo, caught in the transition from makeindex to xindy. The situation has been complicated by the transition from teTeX to TeXLive. I am having difficulty locating the proper LaTeX/TeX/TeXLive/xindy forums on the Internet for discussing this matter, or

xindy for i386 broken?

2007-04-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
Is anyone successfully running the xindy index generator on an i386 system? I desire to use xindy to prepare indexes for LaTeX documents. I am running Lenny and TeXLive on an i386. I have downloaded the documentation and version 2.2 release candidate 2 of the LaTeX Companion xindy files from www

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070416 13:28]: > I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are > few but perhaps odd: > > - Cheap. > - Used OK. > - 512MB or larger OK. > - Uses AAA or AA batteries, preferably 2. The smaller Creative players are tiny, rugged, rel

Re: php failure with iceweasel

2007-04-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Kushal Kumaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070415 23:28]: > You don't need to install any of the php packages if you yourself do > not write php scripts. Thanks, Kushal. I wish I had found that simple explanation in my searches with Google. It turns out that my ISP uses cPanel and the problem is c

php failure with iceweasel

2007-04-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
I am unable to log into the web mail screen of my hosting provider, because iceweasel doesn't know how to handle the php script "login.php". iceweasel asks if I wish to open the script or save the it as a file. In its previous incarnation running Etch, the machine was able to log into the web mai

Re: word list for document index

2007-04-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070414 02:46]: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 15:20:39 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > [ ...transition from tetex to texlive; so far so good, but... ] > > > (4) Now when I try to run LaTeX on a document, there is an error message: >

Re: Noob question - best way to install software

2007-04-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070414 16:28]: > I've been using Debian for about a month, and just upgraded to Etch. ... > I am wondering about the best way to install software. I have used > the "apt-get" method, which is pretty simple, and have also > downloaded and compiled from sour

Re: teTeX --> TeX live: When to migrate?

2007-04-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
> Johannes Wiedersich escribió: >> Are there any issues to be aware of or is it just an 'aptitude install >> texlive'? Very important! For TeXLive to operate properly, it appears that you must purge all the teTeX configuration files before installing TeXLive. I failed to do so, and ended up re

php in iceweasel

2007-04-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
After logging in to the web site of my web hosting provider, I attempted to check my web mail account using "Horde", and box opens saying "You have chosen to open login.php which is a: PHP script... what should Iceweasel do with this file?" The options are open and save to disk. I checked the I

Re: word list for document index

2007-04-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070412 05:49]: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 05:35:45 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> * Florian Kulzer [070412 05:21]: >>> Try "detex -w somefile.tex" to get the word list. Detex processes >>> \input and \include

Re: word list for document index

2007-04-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070412 05:21]: > Try "detex -w somefile.tex" to get the word list. Detex processes \input > and \include commands automatically and it can deal with both plain TeX > and LaTeX source files. Detex is included in texlive-extra-utils. Thanks, Florian. I now am i

Re: word list for document index

2007-04-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Kushal Kumaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070412 04:42]: > On 4/12/07, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I wish to add an index to documents I am writing. I am using >> XEmacs and LaTeX. > Have you seen the TeX FAQ? The section > http://www.tex.ac.uk/

word list for document index

2007-04-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
I wish to add an index to documents I am writing. I am using XEmacs and LaTeX. It appears that makeindex is obsolescent and has been superseded by xindy, so I plan to use xindy. >From an article titled "MakeIndex: An Index Processor for LaTeX", written by Leslie Lamport (17 February 1987), it ap

Re: teTeX --> TeX live: When to migrate?

2007-04-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070411 12:42]: > I know, sooner or later I will have to migrate from my present teTeX to > TeX live (currently running etch). Both are available for etch. I have been using teTeX under Etch to generate a variety of complicated documents, together with h

sed command spanning multiple lines

2007-04-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
Is it possible to spread a sed command over multiple lines, to improve readability (for the sake of future maintenance)? If so, what character is used to break the line and what are the rules? For example, I would like to re-write the command: sed -e 's/\.//g' -e 's/\,//g' -e 's/\\//g' "$1" | so

Re: how to determine X window identifier

2007-04-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Ed G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070406 15:56]: > On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:02:20 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> >> For diagnostics, I would like to use "xev" to view the keycodes, >> but I do not know how to determine the X window identifier of the >> XEma

how to determine X window identifier

2007-04-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
LONG-TERM GOAL: Running X on an i386 system with the US PC-104 keyboard and "Dvorak classic" key mapping, I would like to change the behaviour of the Ctrl, Alt, and Win keys, and perhaps also the Menu key when running XEmacs-gnome-nomule. I wish the following behaviours: -> left-hand Ctrl ke

Re: microphone

2007-03-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070317 23:49]: > Mark Grieveson wrote: > . >>> I listened to a podcast recently (The Linux Action Show) and they >>> were discussing this issue. It turns out that they use another >>> recording device, then use audacity to mix the their recording and >>> create the fini

Re: BellSouth DSL with Static IP

2007-03-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Michael Lueck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070317 17:35]: > A friend recently got BellSouth DSL with 5 Static IP addresses. The router > is a Netopia 3347. > > We are seeing web pages that state that BellSouth's DSL requires PPPoE > installed in Linux verses being configured in the Netopia device. Th

Something's Eating all my RAM and Swap when I unmount a drive

2007-03-08 Thread Spencer Russell
If I unmount as a regular user, I see my RAM usage start to go through the roof until my system chokes. If I unmount as root, it works fine. This happens for both USB flash drives and regular IDE hard drives. I'm not really sure what information is helpful, because I don't know what part of the sy

Re: Open Office writer formatting question

2007-03-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070307 15:14]: > Thank you. The only benefit I see with the WYSIWYG style is to be > able to say, "that is NOT right" without having to print it out > first. :^) When creating a document in the X environment, the first thing I do is run the "xdvi &" command, so

Re: Open Office writer formatting question

2007-03-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:01:15PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > What I would like to do is make a booklet, that is to say "letter" > sheets folded in the middle to make 5.5x8.5 pages. > > Can someone point me to instructions or a page setting for this? I > cannot find it. It seems reasonable t

No GDB stack traces after deadlock

2007-03-07 Thread Russell Sears
I want to file the following bug report, but I'm not sure if it's a gdb, libc6 or libc6-dbg problem: Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.6.ds1-11 If you don't install libc6-dbg, and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug, then you get corrupted stack traces for deadlocked threads in GDB: $ cat deadlock.c #i

Re: Audio recording hardware

2007-03-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070304 22:42]: > > It *is* religion. Dear People! Kindly edit out my name and address the next time you quote the message in question. The way the message is being quoted makes it appear that I am promoting the degaussing of CDs. But in fact, I several roun

Re: PS/2 - USB Adaptor for keyboard

2007-03-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070302 01:42]: > I'm trying to use a simple (cheap) PS/2 keyboard with a laptop which > has no PS/2 ports. There are various PS/2 - USB available all over the > internet; I bought a cheap one on Ebay. It is a very simple little > thing, and I don't think it has any so

Re: Audio recording hardware

2007-03-01 Thread Russell L. Harris
>>> For all you non-believers (sorry, too much religion in recent >>> threads) here is a similar article: >>> >>> http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/furutech/rd2.html The proponents of CD degaussing are nothing more than witch doctors practicing voodoo. Voodoo has power only to the extent that t

Re: Audio recording hardware

2007-02-28 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070228 18:21]: > > I remember reading an article in a German audiophile magazine about a > > device to demagnetize CDs. The author claimed the sound to be much > > better after demagnetizing. > > Demagnetize something that relies on lasers? With a mass-produced

Re: Audio recording hardware (was: Re: audio recorder in linux ... what's its name?)

2007-02-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070226 11:14]: > Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> Within the past year or two there have become available a number of >> alternatives to the computer sound card. These eliminate the >> pitfalls (especially the electrical noise) asso

Re: Download cd-iso images

2007-02-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070225 23:35]: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:14:46AM -0800, Emile van der Merwe wrote: >> I'm new to the linux environment, but would like to try it out for >> myself. I want to download the cd-iso images, but wanted to know >> if I have to download all 14

Re: audio recorder in linux ... what's its name?

2007-02-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
* H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070224 19:14]: > > I remember there is an application to record audio (mic or line-in) and > IIRC it had the X11 interface. What I also remember is the level meters > it had, they were two dials, one for each channel, and had needles > showing the levels (something l

Re: latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
* tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070224 17:28]: > On Saturday 24 February 2007 01:54, Chris Bannister wrote: >>On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: >>> what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or >>> do easy stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex

Re: Installing TeX/LaTeX in Sarge

2007-02-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
Hi again, Michelle. I think that, for such a long document (2500 pages, 11 volumes), LaTeX makes very good sense. Using the LaTeX "\include" directive, you could keep each volume in a separate file, and yet LaTeX would process the set of files as one large document. And LaTeX provides valuabl

Re: Installing TeX/LaTeX in Sarge

2007-02-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070221 11:14]: > Hello Russel, > > Now I have to build a collection of three editons (de, en, fr) of > Education-Books of each 2500 Pages which will be splitted into 11 > volumes. > > I do not know, wheter TeX is the right way to go, but I need at the end >

Re: Installing TeX/LaTeX in Sarge

2007-02-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070217 10:42]: > Running Sarge. > What to install when you would like to give TeX/LaTeX a try? > > In Synaptic I see something named latex209-base, but it says: > LaTeX 2.09 is obsolete. Use LaTeX 2e. > But there's no package called latex2e or something, nor

Re: latex (tetex) refuses to produce dvi

2007-02-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070214 20:43]: > I tried to produce dvi output from a tex file I have and latex just refuses to > do it. I tried: > latex -output-format=dvi .tex > And it's as if the option is not there, I just get a pdf file again. > How do I force latex to produce a dvi file?

Re: Very Basic Help Needed

2007-02-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Jan Sneep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070212 10:35]: > I managed to find > http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Installing_Samba_Linux/Windows_networking > which was sort of helpful ... unfortunately the documentation doesn't > explain what the various things are or how to get them running ... If you are

Re: [Fwd: Re: Writer Processor (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian ...)]

2007-02-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070211 19:07]: > There are lots of reasons to dislike Word - for example, the excreble > HTML it generates when people insist on using it to prepare web pages - > but for run-of-the-mill document preparation in a corporate setting, > it's a pretty good tool.

Re: [Debian-User] re: Network Install

2007-02-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070211 16:00]: > I download a 128MB network installer iso so that I could use it to ... > In other words, I need a Debian system up and running (which I don't > have at the present time) and even then the packaged binaries and > sources will be unpacked and placed in

Re: Debian shutdown

2007-02-08 Thread Russell L. Harris
* gunnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070208 02:35]: >I've carried out a network-installation of debian-31r4-i386-netinst.iso >and my problem is that I cannot shut it down. The only way of shutting it >down seems to be to press the Reset-button, choose my Windows-partition in >GRUB and carr

Re: What UPS to buy

2007-02-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070204 17:34]: > Russell L. Harris wrote: > >I currently am well pleased with Powerware units, which are used in > >the broadcast industry. Powerware advertises advanced battery > >management circuitry which is said to

Re: What UPS to buy

2007-02-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
* J.A. de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070204 06:28]: > After some Googling I am thinking of buying either an APC Smart-UPS 750 > or a MGE Evolution 850. As far as I know APC is the "big brand" and it > certainly is the one that is the easiest to get around here. Their > Powerchute software seems to

Re: Which TeX distribution to use?

2007-02-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Kumar Appaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070203 21:56]: > > I am wondering which Debian TeX packages to use, TeXLive or teTeX. I > have been using teTeX, and it has been all right. However, some parts > seem to be outdated, such as ConTeXt (which I use)... Thomas Esser, the man who put together the Te

Re: local network with twisted rj45

2007-01-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Baron Christophe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070117 20:56]: > I would need information on how to configure a local network between > two computers with only a twisted rj45. Why mess around with a special crossover cable? Ethernet switches have become so inexpensive that hardly anyone purchases an ethe

How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-08 Thread Russell L. Harris
Yesterday I read another article bemoaning the large number of Window$ machines which have been commandeered remotely and turned into spam-spewing zombies. If I understand the matter correctly, a firewall can protect only against incoming messages, and is useless against spyware which "phones home

Re: Is it possible to use an usb hub in debian?

2007-01-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070103 14:14]: > kawanokami wrote: > > > Hi, I want to buy an 7 Port USB2 Powered Hub HU-5770 (I've a laptop and > > need the added usb ports). Currently, I'm using debian testing/unstable > > on a 2.6.18 kernel and found no info about drivers or linux support o

Re: [OT] CVS vs. SVN

2006-12-19 Thread Russell L. Harris
* David Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061219 21:35]: > I've been using CVS (and RCS before it) for several years new. I've > also looked at switched to SVN, but seem to recall that there was an SVN > "feature" whereby SVN applied to same version number to all files in the > project (repository?

Re: dumb question about mounting iso file as loop device....

2006-12-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061218 22:00]: > In the jigdo how to manual it says that you can update an image with jigdo > either by scanning in the image from a CD or DVD > > OR > > if you have an ISO file on your hard drive you can mount it as a loop > device: > > Here is some m

Re: What is the best way to install Samba

2006-12-18 Thread Russell L. Harris
* schmity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061218 13:52]: > Ok I have my debian machine connected to a XP machine through a router. > I have made several attemps to install samba using apt-get and I have > modified the smb.conf on several occations. My first thought was to > start with a fresh reinstall of S

Re: .bash_profile ignored in X

2006-12-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061216 23:52]: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 07:13:39AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > During configuration of another machine running Etch, I discovered > > that .bash_profile appears to be ignored when logging into X. > > No reas

Re: question about using jigdo....

2006-12-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061216 17:13]: > If you use jigdo to read in bunch of Sarge CD images and then use them to > help make Etch CD images then you do the file scan bit on the mounted > Sarge CD images. > > I assume that jigdo would write the new iso file to your hard d

Re: Changing cable modum to ADSL modum.

2006-12-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061216 17:13]: > Hi John, > from my experience, most ISP use a device that outputs plain ole > ethernet. My dsl service use a westell 6100. I'd suspect that it just > uses ethernet with no PPPOE. Which means, as you suspect, you just plug > it in and wait for the d

Re: Changing cable modum to ADSL modum.

2006-12-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* John C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061216 13:13]: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a simple way for a windows-only user to change a > computer's network settings from a cable modem to an ADSL modem. > > I was under the impression that my granddaughter, who lives > hundreds of miles from me, had a cable

.bash_profile ignored in X

2006-12-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
During configuration of another machine running Etch, I discovered that .bash_profile appears to be ignored when logging into X. Specifically, the problem is that the "~/bin" directory does not appear in the path when, in an X terminal, I execute: $ echo $PATH However, when I switch over to

Re: dumb question about installing etch....

2006-12-14 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061214 04:26]: > Michael Fothergill wrote: > >Dear Debianists, > > > >If I wanted to install etch as a net install, how do I do this? On > >the installation web page there is a choice of a weekly snapshot or a > >daily built image. The daily built image has a n

Re: bulk mailer

2006-12-13 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061212 18:00]: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:58:36AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> It appears that all of the Mailman documentation assumes that the >> host has a valid publicly-accessible URL. If that is a >> requirement

Re: bulk mailer

2006-12-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
* David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061212 22:00]: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:58:36 -0600 > "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So now I'm intimidated. I'm thinking that perhaps that it would be > > better to use Mut

Re: Which version

2006-12-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Troy Bull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061212 07:00]: > Greetings > > I am totally new to debian. I recently downloaded and installed 3.1r4 I > noticed that is seems very old. Am I needing to update or something to > get current packages? I did apt-get upgrade and nothing was updated.. > > I notic

Re: bulk mailer

2006-12-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061211 08:13]: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:50:07AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> I need a method to email a weekly Bible study to a list of a hundred >> or so recipients. ... >> I found in the Debian archive a package n

bulk mailer

2006-12-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
I need a method to email a weekly Bible study to a list of a hundred or so recipients. I found in the Debian archive a package named "libmail-bulkmail-perl". I installed the package and looked at the example files in "/usr/share/doc/libmail-bulkmail-perl", but I have been unable to understand how

Re: Crontab Problem

2006-12-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061207 21:39]: > I tried doing something like this in the system wide crontab > (/etc/crontab) and I was disappointed to find that it didn't > work. It seems like the job just never ran at all. Can anyone > tell me what might have happened? > > (This is of c

Re: Are lilo and grub compatible?

2006-12-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061207 14:13]: > I have an emergency boot disk -- a floppy on which lilo wrote an MBR. > It works fine. I use it to dual-boot a functional sarge and a severely > broken etch (well, actually the etch doesn't boot). > > The etch installer's lilo won't run.

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061202 06:26]: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 05:34:23AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Does synaptic do something better than apt-get? It doesn't appear to > be very usable on a command-line, looking at aptitude show synaptic. Unless you are n

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061202 04:52]: > I've periodically tried using aptitude, but always get scared off > when it seems to "run away". I'm sure it knows what's best for my > machine ;-), but is it possible to override this behavior? ... > I'll probably just go back to using apt-get,

podcast downloads with juice & W2000 but not with hpodder & Etch

2006-12-01 Thread Russell L. Harris
The RSS feed for a podcast is: http://broadcast.acme.org/podcast/podcast.xml "podcast.xml" has entries of the form: http://broadcast.acme.org/broadcasts/20061103.mp3"; length="25361472" type="audio/mpeg"/> The podcast receiver "Juice" running on a W2000 machine is able to download t

Re: enlarge gnome desktop dictionary window

2006-11-29 Thread Russell L. Harris
* José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061129 13:39]: > Russell L. Harris wrote: > >Regarding Dictionary 2.14.0, the Gnome desktop dictionary applet for Etch: > > > >Clicking on the applet opens an overlapping (i.e., always-on-top) > >window to display the defi

Re: Anybody know the program to splitt big mpeg to smaller mpeg?

2006-11-29 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Ismael Valladolid Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061129 09:26]: > Surachai Locharoen escribe: > > Anybody know the program to splitt big mpeg to smaller mpeg? The Debian "quelcom" package package provides a nice set of utilities. See also: http://linux-sound.org/snded.html RLH -- To UNSUBSCRI

enlarge gnome desktop dictionary window

2006-11-28 Thread Russell L. Harris
Regarding Dictionary 2.14.0, the Gnome desktop dictionary applet for Etch: Clicking on the applet opens an overlapping (i.e., always-on-top) window to display the definition of a word. But the window is entirely too small, and invariably requires tedious scrolling. The preferences window offers

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-26 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Wisilence Seol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061127 00:26]: >I select"use UTC" during the installation,and find some problem such as my >locatime in linux is 8 hours ahead of my bios time(my current real world >time) > >I want to know if I can reconfigure this timezone configure after

Re: orientation with respect to tex, auctex, tetex, texlive, etc.

2006-11-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061123 03:26]: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:07:51AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> Where can I go for a > basic orientation and for more information >> on the options which are > available to me? > > I have tried out Texliv

Re: disable tooltips in etch

2006-11-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061122 02:52]: > On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:02:45 -0600 > "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been unable to discover how to disable tooltips in X in Debian > > Etch. In particular, I need to

Re: fairly ignorant jigdo question....

2006-11-23 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061123 18:40]: > I notice that Etch currently has 21 CD images in the testing release, > But Sarge comprises 15 CDs. > I have the 15 CDs. If I want to use jigdo to create the 21 CD images > comprising Etch using the Sarge CDs to speed up and bootstrap the

Re: How can I update the pkg lists on a non-networked debian?

2006-11-23 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061123 01:52]: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 19:24:53 -0800, Jed R. Mallen wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I have a non-networked debian box at home and a high-bandwidth XP box at > >work. > > > >I want to upgrade my Debian box. > > > >apt-zip says it can upgrade a non-n

orientation with respect to tex, auctex, tetex, texlive, etc.

2006-11-22 Thread Russell L. Harris
I just discovered a May 2006 announcement by Thomos Esser that he has decided not to make additional new releases of teTeX; he recommends that those interested in teTeX join the TeXlive project. For me, this announcement brings up the question of how teTeX, aucTeX, TeXlive, etc., relate to the rea

Re: Which firewall?

2006-11-22 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Mirto Silvio Busico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061122 06:13]: > Hi all, > I have to setup a firewall for a little network. > The firewall machine will have multiple ip addresses for a physical lan > card (eth0 eth0:1 eth0:2). > > Looking to the packages (for Etch) I see some firewall; so there is the

minitoc.sty package for TeX - which version is in "unstable" archive?

2006-11-22 Thread Russell L. Harris
I have need of the latest version (version 49) of the "minitoc.sty" package for TeX. The version in Debian "testing" is version 40, which is dated December 2004, and does not work properly in my application. I have downloaded the tetex-extra .deb package from the Debian "unstable" archive, in ord

Re: disable tooltips in etch

2006-11-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061122 00:52]: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 02:02:45PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > I have been unable to discover how to disable tooltips in X in Debian > > Etch. In particular, I need to disable the rectangular yellow box >

Re: vmware on debian etch

2006-11-17 Thread Russell Ost
oaded within the last 11 months. I update the virtual machine every few months. Hopefully, this helps spread the joy of Debian. Russell H.S. wrote: er ... I am not sure if I should be asking this in this forum since vmware is not open source. I wanted to play around with vmware server and inst

Re: aptitude dist-upgrade removes important packages

2006-11-17 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Marko Randjelovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061117 11:26]: > When I run "aptitude dist-upgrade", it says some packages will be removed: > > The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: > bug-buddy eog esound fast-user-switch-applet file-roller gcalctool > gconf-editor gdm gedit gedit-comm

Re: ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings

2006-11-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Dave Bellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061116 16:39]: > Also, the screen is huge. I'd never really notice what letters looked > like before. There's a certain fuzziness around each of the letters > on the screen that I think is related to anti-aliasing perhaps. It's > fairly noticeable though I ima

best package for fax machine?

2006-11-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
I have a 200 MHz Pentium and a spare 350 Mz Pentium-II. I would like to use one or the other with a laser printer and an external US Robotics fax modem as a dedicated fax machine, primarily for incoming faxes with a volume averaging about a hundred pages a day. The prime software candidates in th

Re: exim4: how to handle other addresses on my ISP?

2006-11-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061115 00:39]: > > Hi, > > I'm having trouble configuring exim4. My situation -- that is, what I > want exim4 to do -- *can't* be that unusual; so I'm sure I'm missing > something fairly obvious. But I've played around with exim4's > configuration via "dpkg-

evince vertical offset

2006-11-13 Thread Russell L. Harris
In i386 Debian Etch, Version 0.4.0 of Evince prints images with a upward vertical offset of 8 mm (about 5/16-inch). Adobe Acroread 5.0.10 prints the images correctly. There appear to be no setup menus for Evince which might be used to correct this problem. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Printing Problems with Gnome

2006-11-13 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061113 15:13]: > I am running Debian Etch and using the gnome desktop. I also have cups > installed as well as some KDE apps. > > When I go to the CUPS printer administration page I can print test pages to > all my networked printers. I can also print to the

Redirect http request ONCE without authentication

2006-11-13 Thread Craig Russell
ith an OK button and then they can go about their merry way. Anyone have a simple way of making this happen? What I'm hoping for is an iptables redirect rule that will track which addresses have hit the rule and ignore them from then on. Thanks for any suggestions. Craig Russell W

Re: Adding more than one IP Address

2006-11-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Amit Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061112 23:13]: > Yes. I have read the howtos now. But there's one more question. What is > this "Automatic Metric" (thats what I saw in Windows XP ..related to a > Gateway). > > Also, how do I make sure that my main IP address will always be the default? > I ju

Re: Failing to use Linux PC as router

2006-11-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Hans Vogelsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061112 14:52]: > Some weeks ago I bought an AMD64 X2 which now I must connect to > the internet, using my old Pentium 4 as router to the dynamic > address I receive from my cable provider whenever I boot. Having > used Testing since it came up in Potato time

Re: Adding more than one IP Address

2006-11-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Amit Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061112 13:26]: > I am sort of stuck up. I need to put more than one IP address due to my > strange requirement. I am in a situation where there are multiple gateways, > and so I need multiple addresses for the respective gateways. ... > Is there a way to add mu

Re: mysql upgrade broke server

2006-11-12 Thread Russell Weatherburn
s supposed to be removed from Sarge because it doesn't work properly against the BTS, but on two systems I run it (seems to) works, but on a system that I have running a Sarge/BP/Testing blend (don't ask) it doesn't work at all. Period. I would love to be able to run apt-listbugs,

Re: maildrop "lockfile" error with maildir

2006-11-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061110 22:00]: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:53:53PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > Please forgive the cross-post, but I have gotten no response on this > > matter from the mutt list or from the maildrop list. I have read all >

Re: laptop display

2006-11-10 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061110 08:13]: > > > Hello Chris. Thanks for your reply. I did finally get this solved, in > a subthread, "laptop display CORRECTION", where a user suggested to me > that I change the depth from 24 to 16, and to alter the HorizSync to > 31.5-57.0 from what

Re: jigdo-newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061109 16:39]: > I use Sarge 3.1 r3. I > downloaded the CDs. When Etch is released > officially as the stable > version, approximately how many identical > files will it be likely to share > with Sarge 3.1 r3 as a function > of the total number of files

Re: jigdo-newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061109 15:00]: > It is the latest available, 'jigdo-file' 0.7.3-1, which contains the > jigdo-lite I ran. The 'jigdo' package claims it is "NOT yet capable of > processing .jigdo files - use jigdo-lite..." jigdo is used on the repository end to create the "t

Re: Continuing internet oddities

2006-11-08 Thread Russell L. Harris
cothrige wrote: I have been having some troubles with my DSL internet connection for a while now. First an upgrade appeared to remove some or all of the dhcp related software on my box. Thanks to this list I think I fixed that by installing dhcp3-client. But, then the connection would only be

Re: undetected network card etch installer

2006-11-08 Thread Russell L. Harris
Fabrizio Lippolis wrote: I am trying to install etch on my machine via network install, I downloaded the netinst iso, rebooted but unfortunately it can't detect the network card. It's a Netgear with National Semiconductor chip. I am using this card with sarge without problems with the natsemi

Re: AW: AW: Installation of further packages

2006-11-08 Thread Russell L. Harris
stephan.sens wrote: Dear Russell, I even haven't started and we are talking about reinstallation and Spring cleaning, w :-))) Well, then just few little questions: Do you make the reinstallation also over the internet or do you have your own installation CDs (I guess compiled i

Re: AW: Installation of further packages

2006-11-08 Thread Russell L. Harris
stephan.sens wrote: Dear Russell, Thank you very much for your help, indeed! Having a broadband connection, I am going to 'install from network' as you suggested as 'best' approach. Thanks again for you advise with the O'Reilly's books. All the best Stephan

Re: maildrop "lockfile" error with maildir

2006-11-08 Thread Russell L. Harris
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: in procmail, you'd put a / after the destination to use it as a maildir, maybe you need that in maildrop? maybe its trying to create an mbox called spam with a directory already exits and that's causing problems. No. According to the man page, maildrop expects a d

Re: maildrop "lockfile" error with maildir

2006-11-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:53:53PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: pop3.isp.com -> getmail4 -> maildrop -> [ maildir structures ] -> mutt I created the maildir structures manually, using the command: $ mkdir -p ~/mail//{cur,new,tmp} I am getti

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