Re: Missing build logs

2013-10-24 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On 24/10/13 22:50, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2013-10-24 22:18 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Why is it that build logs of currently available Sid-packages are sometimes unavailable at the package status page on buildd.debian.org? Because they have been built by the uploader. Changing

Missing build logs

2013-10-24 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! Why is it that build logs of currently available Sid-packages are sometimes unavailable at the package status page on buildd.debian.org? In this case I'm looking for the build log for Debian version 3.4.2.dfsg1-3 of the package libpetsc3.4.2-dev, on amd64: https://buildd.debian.org/stat

Evince page navigation problem

2011-09-06 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! When reading a document using Evince, I use the Space key to go forward (the direction of reading). I'm not using "continuous view". In so doing, it jumps to the top after switching pages. This is correct of course. However, when I want to go backwards, I naturally want it to start at th

Text file encryption using GPG

2011-08-28 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi all! I have used Gringotts, which lets me view and edit encrypted general text files quite securely without writing unencrypted data to disk. However, I would like to use my GPG key instead of using Gringotts+passphrase. Anybody know of a program that lets me view and edit encrypted text f

Firewall with GUI and bandwidth limitation

2010-02-12 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi! You someone recommend a firewall in Debian that has a GUI and also configurable bandwidth limitation in both directions? I'm using Shorewall at the moment, but I want to try something with a GUI. Torquil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Can bash read the entire script at once

2008-09-16 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello, when Bash executes scripts it does not read the next line until the command on the current line finishes. This means that problems arise if one edits the script while it runs. Is it possible (in a simple way) to tell Bash to read the entire script and then execute it from memory instead

Default fonts

2008-04-10 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello, in the KDE font settings I can see the font names "Serif" and "Sans Serif". Are these really links to other fonts? And if so, how can find out which ones and how is it possible to change them? Best regards, Torquil Sørensen

Firefox fonts too small

2008-04-09 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello, anybody know why the fonts size setting in Firefox needs to be artificially high, i.e. much larger than the apparent size of the font it actually uses in web pages? I typically use font size 10 all over KDE and for GTK-apps, and this is also used on the Firefox menu. But for some reason,

Re: Konqueror and wikipedia-math

2008-04-09 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Wednesday 09 April 2008 12:56:50 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-04-09 12:23 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > > Thanks, but the font must be installed since Iceweasel displays the > > symbol correctly? Iceweasel uses UTF8 to display that page. But konqueror > > d

Re: Konqueror and wikipedia-math

2008-04-09 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Wednesday 09 April 2008 12:13:42 Rico Secada wrote: > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 10:53:49 +0200 > > Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Konqueror does not display all the math symbols in wikipedia articles > > that Icew

Konqueror and wikipedia-math

2008-04-09 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello, Konqueror does not display all the math symbols in wikipedia articles that Iceweasel can display. Does anyone know why? E.g., the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9chet_derivative In the "Definition"-section, the second sentence that begins "A function f : U..." should con

Gedit/LaTeXPlugin/XDvi & Reverse Search

2008-03-13 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hi, Anyone had any success using reverse search with Gedit + LaTeXPlugin? I use xdvi to view the DVI file. Compiling to DVI with "Source Specials" seems to work OK. Xdvi comes up and does not complain about missing Source Spesials when I CTRL left-click in the DVI file. However, nothing happ

Create MNG from PNGs (SOLVED)

2008-02-02 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
> Hello, > > Does anyone know of a good application to create an MNG-file from a set of > PNG files? > > Imagemagick uses an extremely large amount of memory for this, maybe it > decomresses all the PNGs to RAM at the same time. At any rate, that makes > it unusable for me, given the number of PNG

Create MNG from PNGs

2008-02-01 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello, Does anyone know of a good application to create an MNG-file from a set of PNG files? Imagemagick uses an extremely large amount of memory for this, maybe it decomresses all the PNGs to RAM at the same time. At any rate, that makes it unusable for me, given the number of PNG files I hav

Compiling blitz++ programs

2008-01-23 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello, how come I can compile and run a blitz++-program without linking with -lblitz ? The following program works both when compiled with g++ with or without the -lblitz option. Running "ldd a.out" afterwards shows that it is linked woth libblitz in the first case, and not in the other. But th

Re: Beagle/Kerry

2007-02-13 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Wim De Smet wrote: On 2/12/07, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello I want to do fulltext searching in my archive of PDF files using beagle with the kerry frontend (with Debian Sid). But it seems that my PDFs are not indexed at all. All hits are for words contai

Beagle/Kerry

2007-02-12 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello I want to do fulltext searching in my archive of PDF files using beagle with the kerry frontend (with Debian Sid). But it seems that my PDFs are not indexed at all. All hits are for words contained in the PDF filenames. I have disabled all but the "IndexingService" and "Files" backends

Re: Acroread Navigation Pane

2007-02-06 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:39 +0100, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Yes, but I want antialiasing for graphics besides text. Kpdf, which I normally use also has antialiasing, so text looks fine there aswell. It is f.eks. line graphics that is the problem. I have a logo

Re: Acroread Navigation Pane

2007-02-06 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Btw. do any of the OSS PDF-viewers for linux have anti-aliasing for graphics (besides standard text). I think kpdf does not. Try out xpdf! Yes, but I want antialiasing for graphics besides text. Kpdf, which I normally use also

Acroread Navigation Pane

2007-02-06 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello, Does anyone know how to disable the "Navigation Pane" by default in acroread7? It's on the left side, and has "Bookmarks", "Pages", and "Attachments" tabs. It comes back every time I start acroread, and I can't find any options to disable it by default in the preferences. Btw. do any

Re: Fwd: Bug: funny network problem.

2007-01-12 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Waqar Malik wrote: The problem was solved when I purged and reinstalled libnss-mdns Thanks, I didn't even have that package installed... Everything works now. But if libnss-mdns is so important, shouldn't it already have been installed because of som dependency, e.g. from libc6? Well well, a

Re: Fwd: Bug: funny network problem.

2007-01-12 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Waqar Malik wrote: On 1/10/07, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Waqar Malik schrieb: > After update today, I've had a funny network problem: > The network works for kde apps (konqueror, kopete, etc) but fails when > using apps like

Fwd: Bug: funny network problem.

2007-01-10 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Waqar Malik wrote: On 1/10/07, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Waqar Malik schrieb: > After update today, I've had a funny network problem: > The network works for kde apps (konqueror, kopete, etc) but fails when > using apps like iceweasel, aptitude, apt-get, synaptic (gtk apps?). D

Network problem

2007-01-10 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello, the last few days I have had the following network problem with Debian Unstable: Trying to ssh to a machine using its host name gives the error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ ssh adonis.uio.no ssh: adonis.uio.no: Name or service not known But I can use 'nslookup' or 'host' to get the machines I

Re: Poweroff problem

2006-12-22 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Nigel Henry wrote: On Friday 22 December 2006 00:47, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hello, When running 'poweroff' my system does not power off. The last line printed on the screen is "acpi_power_off called". My grub/menu.lst file has no kernel options related to acpi

Re: Poweroff problem

2006-12-22 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Bruno Buys wrote: Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hello, When running 'poweroff' my system does not power off. The last line printed on the screen is "acpi_power_off called". My grub/menu.lst file has no kernel options related to acpi or apm. After having searched the ne

Poweroff problem

2006-12-21 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello, When running 'poweroff' my system does not power off. The last line printed on the screen is "acpi_power_off called". My grub/menu.lst file has no kernel options related to acpi or apm. After having searched the net, I have also tried the following four different kernel option combination

Re: Anybody else seeing this GTK2 bug?

2006-07-23 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Sunday 23 July 2006 22:08, Florian Kulzer wrote: > How do you log on or start X? I use the graphical log-in screen of kdm. > I don't use ~/.Xresources at all (nor ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession) and my > Xft options get set to exactly what I would expect from the contents of > my ~/.fonts.conf: > > $

Re: Anybody else seeing this GTK2 bug?

2006-07-23 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Sunday 23 July 2006 22:08, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 21:21:26 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > > I checked the X resources with 'xrdb -query', and found the following Xft > > related settings: > > > > Xft.antialias: 0 &g

Re: Anybody else seeing this GTK2 bug?

2006-07-23 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
> I also had this problem of the gnome-control-center screwing with the > font sizes; that is one of the reasons why I never open it anymore. > > So, what is the difference between your setup and mine? Maybe it is a > setting in ~/.gtkrc-2.0. Here is what I have (I had gtk2-engines-gtk-qt > install

Re: Anybody else seeing this GTK2 bug?

2006-07-23 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
> I also had this problem of the gnome-control-center screwing with the > font sizes; that is one of the reasons why I never open it anymore. So, > what is the difference between your setup and mine? Maybe it is a > setting in ~/.gtkrc-2.0. Here is what I have (I had gtk2-engines-gtk-qt > installed

Re: Anybody else seeing this GTK2 bug?

2006-07-23 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
> With KDE it is of course possible to fine-tune the font settings in a nice > menu which uses the proper technical terms. Just go to "Control Center > > Appearance & Themes > Fonts" and select "Use anti-aliasing for fonts". You > can use the "Configure..." button to set the hinting style, etc. Yo

Re: Anybody else seeing this GTK2 bug?

2006-07-23 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Sunday 23 July 2006 16:17, Florian Kulzer wrote: > I suspect that the Gnome font configuration dialog uses ~/.fonts.conf as > well to set up the font rendering according to the user's preferences, > but I don't know for sure since I don't use Gnome. You can make some > changes via the dialog and

Re: Anybody else seeing this GTK2 bug?

2006-07-23 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
stion. but my font still disappear for some part. > This symtom appear for boa-constructor which use wxpython. > > Maybe It is not like you issue. > > Best regards, > Kan > > > เมื่อ อา. 2006-07-23 เวลา 15:39 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen > > เขียนว่า: >

Re: Anybody else seeing this GTK2 bug?

2006-07-23 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
> Where to set anti-aliasing? I don't see this configuration on gnome font > preference. See attach for detail I didn't find it either, so instead I set put 'export GDK_USE_XFT=1' in ~/.xsession and ~/.bashrc. It will then apply to applications started both from X menus, and from xterm windows.

Re: Anybody else seeing this GTK2 bug?

2006-07-23 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Sunday 23 July 2006 13:53, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 09:52:10 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > > > > > Is anybody else seeing this bug?: > > > > > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi

Re: Anybody else seeing this GTK2 bug?

2006-07-23 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
> > Hello > > > > Is anybody else seeing this bug?: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377850 > > > > It makes it quite problematic for me to use any GTK applications, > > so I would really appreciate any hints as to what might be > > causing it. I am wondering whether if i

Anybody else seeing this GTK2 bug?

2006-07-22 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello Is anybody else seeing this bug?: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377850 It makes it quite problematic for me to use any GTK applications, so I would really appreciate any hints as to what might be causing it. I am wondering whether if it really is a GTK bug, or maybe it

Re: Date problem

2006-04-27 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Thursday 27 April 2006 23:44, Matthias Julius wrote: > Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > TZ=CEST didn't have any effect, and /etc/timezone contains a > > line "Europe/Oslo" which is correct. > > Did you export it? Yep, but

Re: Date problem

2006-04-27 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Thursday 27 April 2006 20:15, Matthias Julius wrote: > Since when is it doing so? You could try to set TZ=CEST. What is the > content of /etc/timezone? TZ=CEST didn't have any effect, and /etc/timezone contains a line "Europe/Oslo" which is correct. I have found the problem now by comparing

Re: Date problem

2006-04-27 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Thursday 27 April 2006 16:31, Matthias Julius wrote: > Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thursday 27 April 2006 13:49, Matthias Julius wrote: > >> Do you set the TZ environment variable anywhere in your ~/.bashrc, > >> ~/.bash_prof

Re: Date problem

2006-04-27 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Thursday 27 April 2006 13:49, Matthias Julius wrote: > Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have some problems with the 'date' command: > > > > 'hwclock --show' outputs 08:00 > > 'date' (as user root) output

Date problem

2006-04-27 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Hello, I have some problems with the 'date' command: 'hwclock --show' outputs 08:00 'date' (as user root) outputs 08:00 'date' (as user tmac) outputs 06:00 and the KDE clock (running as user tmac) outputs 08:00 What is responsible for the incorrect output when running 'date' as user tmac? My /e

Re: Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

2006-01-30 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Florian Kulzer wrote: Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Greetings! I am having some problems controlling the assignement order of eth0, eth1 and so on with udev. There was another thread about this earlier: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/01/msg00075.html I created a /etc/udev

Re: Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

2006-01-30 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Greetings! I am having some problems controlling the assignement order of eth0, eth1 and so on with udev. There was another thread about this earlier: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/01/msg00075.html I created a /etc/udev/local.rules as adviced, with a symlink to this file in /etc/u

linux-image/ramdisk/boot problem

2005-12-21 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Greetings! After a linux-kernel-2.6.14-2-686 upgrade a couple of weeks ago something went wrong with yaird, and it failed to generate a ramdisk. Thougtless as I was, I forgot to fix the problem before I rebooted, and my computer was then unbootable. After that, every attempt I have made to instal

Re: Extract ISO image

2004-06-03 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: How can a non-root user (so I can't mount anything as a loopback FS) extract an ISO image without writing and then mounting a CD. 'isoinfo' can (as far as I understand) only extract a single file at a time. I guess it would be possible to use

Extract ISO image

2004-06-03 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
How can a non-root user (so I can't mount anything as a loopback FS) extract an ISO image without writing and then mounting a CD. 'isoinfo' can (as far as I understand) only extract a single file at a time. I guess it would be possible to use this program in conjunction with 'awk' to extract a

Re: Smaller margins in postscript documents.

2003-07-23 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
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Re: Smaller margins in postscript documents.

2003-07-21 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
mand that could scale up the content of the pages (and not the pagesize), but I don't think I will bother if it necessary to modify the latex source and reprocess. Thanks -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Smaller margins in postscript documents.

2003-07-21 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
I want to shrink the margins of postscript documents, thereby enlarging the text to occupy a larger portion of each page. Any suggestions? -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 compiling problems [semi solved]

2003-07-19 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
, but I was unable to see anything. > > Oh well... If you make oldconfig with a 2.4.X .config you have to manually enable CONFIG_VT and some other stuff, it was mention on this list a day or two ago. -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] linux-2.6.0-test1 problems

2003-07-16 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
I have no problems with this kernel. Here is my config-2.6.0-test1 Apart from the CONFIG_VT business, another important configure-related change from 2.4.X to 2.6.X was that you have to enable the devpts filesystem even if you use devfs. -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac

Re: Package to OCR from Image of Text, tips?

2003-07-13 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Searching for ocr at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages gives a few interesting hits: gocr gocr-gtk gocr-tk gocr-doc clara Don't know how good are, though. You can use xsane for scanning -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: 2.5 series kernel experiences

2003-07-13 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
old .config and make oldconfig, make shure you enable Character Devices - CONFIG_VT Character Devices - CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE Graphics support - CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE They disappeared when I configured linux-2.5.7X (because of a new dependency or something). -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.ui

Re: kernel 2.5.xx and Qt

2003-07-01 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
t3-mt-dev make gconfig uses GTK -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gstreamer problems

2003-06-28 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
** (rhythmbox:4016): WARNING **: GstAlsaSink: got an unknown event (Type: 14) -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

alsaplayer looping etc.

2003-06-23 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Does anybody know how to stop alsaplayer from doing the following things: * playlist looping * starting to play the previous playlist at alsaplayer startup * setting the volume to 100% at alsaplayer startup -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Trying to connect a digital cam to my PC

2003-06-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
/* spells out 'USBU' */ #define US_BULK_STAT_OK 0 #define US_BULK_STAT_FAIL 1 #define US_BULK_STAT_PHASE 2 -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: grub, bios drives

2003-06-14 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
If I recall correctly, I had to use quotes around the (hd0) when I ran grub-install: $ grub-install "(hd0)" -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Howto Keep a self compiled deb updated

2003-06-13 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
g/l/ldapdns.html) there is a subscribe option. I have never used it before, but I am guessing that you will then get info about updates by email. -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Graphical sftp

2003-06-12 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
> Does anyone has any experience with this kind of things? Any piece of > advice is appreciated. > > > Thanks in advance > > Roman in Debian Sid I have used gftp and "sftp://hostname"; in konqueror (you'll need kdebase-kio-plugins to do this) -- Torquil Macdo

Re: 3 Question:Kernel 2.5.69, sensors and mplayer

2003-06-11 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
just states the follownig > -- > Checking for OSS Audio ... yes > -- > Checking for ALSA audio ... no > I also tried forcing it with --enable-alsa. I installed alsa-source and > compiled it with make-kpkg. You probably need to install libasound2-dev -- Torquil Macdonal

Re: can anyone reccomend an app to ..

2003-06-11 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
gqview can do it. choose "leave zoom at previous setting" in the image options, "fullscreen" and " fit image to window" on the image right click menu. then use space and and backspace to go through the images. -- Torquil Macdonald Sørensen, http://folk.uio.no/tmac

Re: Printing duplex & 2 pages per side of each sheet

2003-02-22 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Thanks for the suggestion, but I have no control over the print management system, since I am at the university. Is it possible to get cups to output a postscript file which I can print with ppr at the university? Then I could use cups on my own machine at home to convert the files. Torq