java plugin, is does it have any security vulnerabilities ?

2012-07-14 Thread dave selby
Hi All, i am running Debian stable (squeeze) and have java installed 6.26-osqueeze1 as a package. Firefox uses this package but when I asked it to check if plugins are up to date it says nope, need version 7... So am I right in thinking that v6.26 is old (and thus the advice to upgrade to 7)

can server directly access exported nfs dir ?

2012-06-03 Thread dave selby
I have a server that provides a nfs share to several computers on my network, I also want to back up this nfs share. Do I need to mount this share on the server itself before I access it for backup or is it OK to access it directly ? I am not sure how picks nfs is with respect to direct access

Re: can server directly access exported nfs dir ?

2012-06-03 Thread dave selby
Thanks for that, I appreciate it Cheers Dave On 3 June 2012 18:07, rjc r...@linuxstuff.pl wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 04:19:09PM BST, dave selby wrote: I have a server that provides a nfs share to several computers on my network, I also want to back up this nfs share. Do I need to mount

aptitude streaming loads of errors, help please

2011-08-21 Thread dave selby
I seem to have a problem, noticed that aptitude flashed up an error after adding a package, so dropped to aptitude and got a ton of error messages every time I try to add / demove any package Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Reading extended state

Re: Is there a way to 'yoke' the 2 x monitors together so a different activity changes both monitors at once ?

2011-08-17 Thread dave selby
Thanks for that, I will give it a go :) Cheers Dave On 16 August 2011 19:38, dave selby dave6...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Setting up debian 6 with a dual monitor using Nvidia drivers, all is well apart from adding activities seems to be per monitor, and worse changing activities seems

In Debian 6 KDE, if you have folder view activity, can the files be thumb-nailed on the desktop

2011-08-17 Thread dave selby
In Debian 6 KDE, if you have folder view activity, sorry can't get on with the default desktop containment, can the files be thumb-nailed on the desktop ie a mini PDF image rather than a generic PDF icon etc etc Cheers Dave -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See

Re: In Debian 6 KDE, if you have folder view activity, can the files be thumb-nailed on the desktop

2011-08-17 Thread dave selby
OK found it ... or rather bumped into it, Cheers Dave On 17 August 2011 21:28, dave selby dave6...@gmail.com wrote: In Debian 6 KDE, if you have folder view activity, sorry can't get on with the default desktop containment, can the files be thumb-nailed on the desktop ie a mini PDF image

Is there a way to 'yoke' the 2 x monitors together so a different activity changes both monitors at once ?

2011-08-16 Thread dave selby
Hi All, Setting up debian 6 with a dual monitor using Nvidia drivers, all is well apart from adding activities seems to be per monitor, and worse changing activities seems to change all possible activity screens through one monitor at a time, so 2 x activities gives four possible activities per

Looking for a package management GUI in KDE

2011-08-15 Thread dave selby
Hi, I am a untity / gnome3 refugee, have installed KDE 4.4.5 on Debian 6 but am totally stumped looking for a package management GUI, something equivalent to synaptic for QT ? I am struggling with aptitude and would like something friendlier. Many thanks in advance Cheers Dave -- Please

Re: sed problem

2003-10-20 Thread Dave selby
Dave selby wrote: I need to get the contents of a HTML title tag put it in a string. ie titlespecialist cards/title I need the specialist cards in a variable $titlecontents I thought it would be easy with sed sed -n '/title/,/\/title/p' But no go. I have tried various ways but to no avail

sed problem

2003-10-19 Thread Dave selby
I need to get the contents of a HTML title tag put it in a string. ie titlespecialist cards/title I need the specialist cards in a variable $titlecontents I thought it would be easy with sed sed -n '/title/,/\/title/p' But no go. I have tried various ways but to no avail. Any ideas ? Dave

Re: SED problem

2003-10-05 Thread Dave selby
Michael D Schleif wrote: Michael D Schleif [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:10:04:16:32:37-0500] scribed: Dave selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:10:04:19:25:32+0100] scribed: I have multiple html files. I need to remove the same chunk of code from all of them. I have made a bash loop to feed

Re: SED problem

2003-10-05 Thread Dave selby
Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 07:25:32PM +0100, Dave selby wrote: I have multiple html files. I need to remove the same chunk of code from all of them. I have made a bash loop to feed the files to sed, but am struggling with the sed code. I need to delete all the code

Further SED problem

2003-10-05 Thread Dave selby
Im may be trying to push SED to far, in which case perl has been suggested, but here is my problem ... For a series of html pages, I need to take the text from the title tag and insert it where there is a xx in the document, deleting the xx. Ie use a template, fill in the title let SED do the

SED problem

2003-10-04 Thread Dave selby
I have multiple html files. I need to remove the same chunk of code from all of them. I have made a bash loop to feed the files to sed, but am struggling with the sed code. I need to delete all the code between !-- lockon:a:1 -- and !-- lockoff -- Including the above comments. I have tried,

multisesion cd gcombust

2003-09-26 Thread Dave selby
I have installed a DVD/CDRW am using cdw gcombust. I am trying to make a multi session CD for backups ... If I make it multi-session, write a directory, all is OK. I can mount the drive and read it. If I then add a second directory, with multi-session still enabled, it appears to write OK

Re: Does anyone know an application that ....

2003-04-04 Thread dave selby
On Thursday 03 April 2003 20:23, dave selby wrote: Hi all, Now playing with web pages, mozilla composer is great, got hang of it now. I neet an ftp transport program to get my masterpeices from my drive to the ftp site. Mozilla will do this one page at a time, I need to move directories

Does anyone know an application that ....

2003-04-03 Thread dave selby
Hi all, Now playing with web pages, mozilla composer is great, got hang of it now. I neet an ftp transport program to get my masterpeices from my drive to the ftp site. Mozilla will do this one page at a time, I need to move directories to ftp. Idealy some GUI, I tried axyftp-gtk, it hangs

Re: setting time via internet ?

2003-03-31 Thread dave selby
On Sunday 30 March 2003 11:54, dave selby wrote: Did I imagine it or is there a way to automaticly set the clock on my PC via the internet every time I log on? Any ideas Dave Many thanks for all your help ! will investigate ntp ! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

setting time via internet ?

2003-03-30 Thread dave selby
Did I imagine it or is there a way to automaticly set the clock on my PC via the internet every time I log on? Any ideas Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mozilla composer problem ...

2003-03-26 Thread dave selby
Im starting to use mozilla composer to generate HTML. It seems great except I have a couple of queries ... Having changed text in mozilla I can save AOK, once I publish the save and the publish options grey out, when I do more changes on the text the publish option lights up, makes sense to

babelfish for linux ?

2003-03-19 Thread dave selby
I am in need of a language conversion program, english spanish, spanish english. Babelfish works great but only for 150 words and loses formating. The babelfish products only work for windows (yuk!) Does anyone know of an alternative for linux ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread dave selby
I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it appears not to be supported. I have been on the Gimp mailing list, they suggest I may need a .deb file to enable it because it is supported in standard Gimp. Having browsed through aptitude there are a lot of files

Re: GIF driver for Gimp ?

2003-03-16 Thread dave selby
On Sunday 16 March 2003 15:29, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: dave selby wrote: I am using gimp quite heavily, I need to save files in .GIF format but it appears not to be supported. I have been on the Gimp mailing list, they suggest I may need a .deb file to enable it because it is supported

Re: 100dpi, 75dpi, unscaled ?

2003-03-14 Thread dave selby
On Friday 14 March 2003 02:44, David Z Maze wrote: dave selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian has a lot of fonts what is the difference between /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, I cant find any .. can someone enlighten me ? Do I need both ? If I

Re: ttf do I realy need to re-boot every time ?

2003-03-13 Thread dave selby
On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:08, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Once upon a time dave selby said... Every time i add *.ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/, I xfstt force-reload, it counts the correct number including the new ones, HOWEVER xlsfonts | grep ttf, and gimp only see the old ones

Re: ttf do I realy need to re-boot every time ?

2003-03-13 Thread dave selby
On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:25, you wrote: * dave selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030312 21:32]: Im using gimp, decided I wanted true type support so did the following installed xfstt copy ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ directory /etc/init.d/xfstt force-reload It counts

Re: ttf more info ...

2003-03-13 Thread dave selby
On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:08, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Once upon a time dave selby said... Every time i add *.ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/, I xfstt force-reload, it counts the correct number including the new ones, HOWEVER xlsfonts | grep ttf, and gimp only see the old ones

font viewer ... recommendations ?

2003-03-13 Thread dave selby
I have a lot of fonts, and its growing. I need to quickly scan through my font collection. gtkfontsel is good but I have to click on every font to see what it looks like. Apparently there is an appliaction kfontshow, I have searched the dvd and the net but cant find any info ... I cant get on

Re: font viewer ... recommendations ?

2003-03-13 Thread dave selby
On Thursday 13 March 2003 10:46, dave selby wrote: I have a lot of fonts, and its growing. I need to quickly scan through my font collection. gtkfontsel is good but I have to click on every font to see what it looks like. Apparently there is an appliaction kfontshow, I have searched the dvd

temp reducing number of fonts, xfs in way?

2003-03-13 Thread dave selby
Im having a great time with fonts at present !! My aim is to reduce the number of default font directories so when using gimp I am not swamped with fonts. Can someone clarify a point with me ... when X boots it reads the font path from /etc/X11/XF86-config, in my case Section Files

Re: temp reducing number of fonts, xfs in way?

2003-03-13 Thread dave selby
On Thursday 13 March 2003 14:32, Hall Stevenson wrote: At 01:54 PM 3/13/2003 +, dave selby wrote: Im having a great time with fonts at present !! My aim is to reduce the number of default font directories so when using gimp I am not swamped with fonts. Can someone clarify a point

100dpi, 75dpi, unscaled ?

2003-03-13 Thread dave selby
Debian has a lot of fonts what is the difference between /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, I cant find any .. can someone enlighten me ? Do I need both ? Also if I have the 100dpi versions, is there any advantage to having the 75dpi versions, are these just

ttf do I realy need to re-boot every time ?

2003-03-12 Thread dave selby
Im using gimp, decided I wanted true type support so did the following installed xfstt copy ttf fonts to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ directory /etc/init.d/xfstt force-reload It counts the correct number of fonts, all ok so far modified the /etc/X11/XF86config-4 file, adding FontPath

Installing freefonts, where is /usr/X11/lib/fonts in debian ?

2003-03-12 Thread dave selby
I am trying to install freefonts, according to the README I untar it in /usr/X11/lib/fonts. There is not one in debian ! it goes as far as lib. Any idea where the correwsponding lib is in debian ? Second query. I will be doing some commercial work for a web page, I have been advised that I

Re: Installing freefonts, where is /usr/X11/lib/fonts in debian ?

2003-03-12 Thread dave selby
On Thursday 13 March 2003 03:08, you wrote: surely serif and sans serif are about the limit of what you want for web-work? or are you talking about fonts for images? dave selby wrote: I am trying to install freefonts, according to the README I untar it in /usr/X11/lib/fonts

DVD drive faulty, will any one do ?

2003-03-11 Thread Dave Selby
My DVD drive is making some real loud whineing / graunching sounds for approx 30 secs when first powerd up after being off all night. I am looking to replace it. Will any bog standard IDE DVD drive do ? I have never had a driver issue with a DVD drive nor have any of my friends. They seem to

gimp gimp print

2003-03-11 Thread Dave Selby
I have installed gimp print CUPS to use my epson stylus C60 printer. They work fine and I can print at different resolutions colours. I have now started using gimp quite heavily. When I print from gimp my epson is not on the list of supported printers. I have to select postscript level 2,

Re: DVD drive faulty, will any one do ?

2003-03-11 Thread dave selby
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 18:53, Jérôme Blanc wrote: As far as I know, there are no problem with any DVD drive. But well, I don't know very far though ;) All I can testify is that so far, both the IDE DVD drives my computer had have been recognised perfectly by my system and are/were working

Re: gimp gimp print

2003-03-11 Thread dave selby
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 16:52, Donald Spoon wrote: Dave Selby wrote: I have installed gimp print CUPS to use my epson stylus C60 printer. They work fine and I can print at different resolutions colours. I have now started using gimp quite heavily. When I print from gimp my epson

Re: gimp gimp print

2003-03-11 Thread dave selby
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 17:17, Greg Madden wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2003 05:44 am, Dave Selby wrote: I have installed gimp print CUPS to use my epson stylus C60 printer. They work fine and I can print at different resolutions colours. I have now started using gimp quite heavily. When

Re: kde fonts stuff ...

2003-03-09 Thread Dave Selby
On Sunday 09 March 2003 7:05 am, Jeff Elkins wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 9:05 pm, Dave Selby wrote: I have bought a 15 TFT. I love it, its great. However while experimenting I changed some fonts for kde via the conroll centre, look feel, fonts. This resulted in some huge fonts

kde fonts stuff ...

2003-03-08 Thread Dave Selby
I have bought a 15 TFT. I love it, its great. However while experimenting I changed some fonts for kde via the conroll centre, look feel, fonts. This resulted in some huge fonts especially in xterm ! I selected use defaults and apply, the fonts are now listed as mainly helvetica 12, however

Re: where does root mail go ?

2003-03-08 Thread Dave Selby
On Friday 07 March 2003 9:57 pm, Glenn English wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 11:20, Dave Selby wrote: When an application sends mail to ''root where does it go ? because I cant find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. On some systems (of which mine is one

Re: where does 'root' mail go ?

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Selby
On Friday 07 March 2003 4:03 am, you wrote: because I cant find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via what do u mean by via the web with kmail ... anyways mostly root is an alias to a local user and all mail addressed to root goes to that local user. Have a look at /etc/aliases

Re: gimp graphics tablet recomendation ?

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Selby
On Friday 07 March 2003 7:26 am, Carla Schroder wrote: On Thursday 06 March 2003 10:54 pm, Andrew Hurt wrote: Dave Selby wrote: I am increasingly using gimp and am thinking of getting a graphics tablet. Does anyone have any recomendations that are compatible with woody

Re: where does 'root' mail go ?

2003-03-07 Thread Dave Selby
On Friday 07 March 2003 4:24 pm, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 03:28:52PM +, Dave Selby wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 4:03 am, you wrote: what do u mean by via the web with kmail ... anyways mostly root is an alias to a local user and all mail addressed to root goes

gimp graphics tablet recomendation ?

2003-03-06 Thread Dave Selby
I am increasingly using gimp and am thinking of getting a graphics tablet. Does anyone have any recomendations that are compatible with woody ? If not is there a hardware compatibility site for debian ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

where does root mail go ?

2003-03-06 Thread Dave Selby
When an application sends mail to ''root where does it go ? because I cant find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. Is it supposed to be posted to ... /var/mail/ ? Any help appreciated Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: where does root mail go ?

2003-03-06 Thread Dave Selby
On Thursday 06 March 2003 6:20 pm, Dave Selby wrote: When an application sends mail to ''root where does it go ? because I cant find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail. Is it supposed to be posted to ... /var/mail/ ? Any help appreciated Dave Many thanks guys

TFT monitor and XF86config-4

2003-03-04 Thread Dave Selby
Have just bought a TFT monitor, works well except occasionaly some of text is blurred on top pixel line I remember when I was installing debian there were questions about TFT monitors, at the time I ignored them. How can I re-run the configuration again without re-installing ? I think it

Re: TFT monitor and XF86config-4

2003-03-04 Thread Dave Selby
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 7:12 pm, Mark Schouten wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:08PM +, Dave Selby wrote: Have just bought a TFT monitor, works well except occasionaly some of text is blurred on top pixel line I remember when I was installing debian there were questions about

Re: Power off

2003-03-02 Thread Dave Selby
On Saturday 01 March 2003 10:16 am, daniel huhardeaux wrote: Hi list, I have 4 computers running kernel 2.4.18 or 2.4.19 and all of them, when I ask to power down, *never* really dot it. They stay switch on with last message on the screen power down It's a problem for one of them which is

Re: crontab just wont stop mailing ... !

2003-03-01 Thread Dave Selby
On Saturday 01 March 2003 3:05 am, Bob Proulx wrote: Dave Selby wrote: Every so oftern it decides to mail its output, it does not know where it is supposed to mail, starts a ppp link and talks to the web. Jan 30 07:24:01 debian anacron[249]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated (mailing output

crontab just wont stop mailing ... !

2003-02-28 Thread Dave Selby
This is a re-posting for a very frustrating problem. I have dial on demand via pppd, works like a dream. However I have problems with crontab. Every so oftern it decides to mail its output, it does not know where it is supposed to mail, starts a ppp link and talks to the web. I have set

trouble with password manager ...

2003-02-22 Thread Dave Selby
I use phoenix as a browser, when filling in passwords I get a message from the 'password manager' asking me if I want to remember the passwords. yes, never for this site, no. If I select yes all worls well. However I reciently did a yes with an incorrect password !! every time I log in it

Re: phoenix java plugin - installed, but not installed

2003-02-22 Thread Dave Selby
On Saturday 22 February 2003 11:28 am, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:27:44PM -0500, Geordie Birch wrote: said Sandip P Deshmukh (on 2003-02-21), some confusion here. i already have a link that you are talking about. here are contents of my

Re: chmod set user ID query ?

2003-02-21 Thread Dave Selby
On Friday 21 February 2003 7:33 am, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 08:59:55AM +, Dave Selby wrote: I have a query about chmod. pon is turned on by root, I want it to be turned off by any user. I have looked at several options, sudo, downgrading permissions for kill, gulp, etc

can anyone recomend an application ??? ...

2003-02-19 Thread Dave Selby
I need an application to remind me when certain events are due, ie wifes birthday etc !!, I have tried korganiser, which has an alarm facility to flash a warning on the screen. This is AOK if the system is up and I am logged on as that user at the time of the alarm. When I log on later, no

chmod set user ID query ?

2003-02-18 Thread Dave Selby
I have a query about chmod. pon is turned on by root, I want it to be turned off by any user. I have looked at several options, sudo, downgrading permissions for kill, gulp, etc etc but decided that for my setup using chmod and setting the user ID for poff would be the best. test@debian:~$ su

Re: Best WWW browser..

2003-02-18 Thread Dave Selby
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 10:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using Debian 3.0r1 stable (woody) and am currently using Galon for web-surfing. However, it seems to break on some sites - they seem to be moaning about Frames support mostly. Anyway, which browser should I use under gnome

Re: freeamp problems ?

2003-02-17 Thread Dave Selby
On Monday 17 February 2003 7:32 am, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:24:14PM +, Dave Selby wrote: Is anyone else having problems with freeamp ? I love its user interface but it seems to lock up a lot on my machine PIII 700Mhz, debian woody. I can select a ogg file AOK

Re: freeamp problems ?

2003-02-17 Thread Dave Selby
On Monday 17 February 2003 9:49 am, Jeff Elkins wrote: On Monday 17 February 2003 4:26 pm, Dave Selby wrote: I have run freeamp from xterm, zip new info, just locks, HOWEVER I noticed that it sometimes freezes at exactly the same time as my modem droppes the line. Might it be attempting

freeamp problems ?

2003-02-14 Thread Dave Selby
Is anyone else having problems with freeamp ? I love its user interface but it seems to lock up a lot on my machine PIII 700Mhz, debian woody. I can select a ogg file AOK, it plays AOK but oftern the GUI seems to die, I can move the sliders, select buttons but zip happens. The music continues

wget and ftp download problems

2003-02-09 Thread Dave Selby
Having a bit of trouble with wget loading from ftp sites, have set it up to load urls from a text file. In a shell script I have ... #!/bin/sh # Script to read list of URLs form /mnt/archive/wget/sources.list # download the files and leave them in /usr/archive/wget/downloads cd

Re: wget and ftp download problems

2003-02-09 Thread Dave Selby
On Sunday 09 February 2003 8:50 am, Jeffrey Taylor wrote: Quoting Dave Selby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. 425 Failed to establish connection. Error in server response, closing control connection. Retrying. This is a bit of a problem

OK now but dont know why !!

2003-02-08 Thread Dave Selby
errr .. think I sorted it unplugged both hard drives, re-connected them ... all appears AOK now, wierd, dont realy understand ?? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT anyone got 98SE running under bochs ?

2003-02-08 Thread Dave Selby
Hi all, Has anyone got bochs running 98SE on debian ? It boots, bios window AOK, starts 98SE with the splash screen, blue ribbon at bottom scrolls sideways AOK, then ribbon stops and zip ! It wont load any further, no error messages from bochs, top reports a lot of cpu and memory useage.

Re: downloader advice ?

2003-02-05 Thread Dave Selby
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:29 am, you wrote: I had the same problems with NTL. Try WVdial - it auto-redials and it doesn't drop the interface (or normally connections) when redialing. Regards, Colin Ellis Solution City Ltd -Original Message- From: Dave Selby [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-05 Thread Dave Selby
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 7:04 am, Dave Selby wrote: When using X, you can highlight text and copy it to another area via the middle mouse button. Is there a buffer file that holds the highlighted text ? This would be very usefull for passing URLs etc to the ctrl-alt-f1 command line

what is /dev/??? for the parellel port ? escputil

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Selby
Hi, Ive started using escputil to check and clean my print heads, it works great but I also need to check the ink level, apparently I need to access the printer directly by defining the rew device, ie, escputil --ink-level --raw-device /dev/??? My printer is an epson stylus C60, using the

downloader advice ?

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Selby
I am on unmeted internet via NTL UK. This works OK except after 2 Hrs on line NTL stops sending data but does not drop the line. This is a NTL thing, however not dropping the line causes me problems when I want to download large files. I need the line to be dropped and then the downloader to

Re: what is /dev/??? for the parellel port ? escputil

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Selby
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 8:47 pm, you wrote: Thus spake Dave Selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, Ive started using escputil to check and clean my print heads, it works great but I also need to check the ink level, apparently I need to access the printer directly by defining the rew device, ie

More detailed post ...

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Selby
OK Ive had a brainstorming session on how to do this, what I need to know is, 1. Is there a downloader for debian that will handle broken downloads ? If not can anyone recommend one ? 2. How do I sent an 'ATZ' reset string to my modem from the command line ? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: what is /dev/??? for the parellel port ? escputil

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Selby
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 9:41 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: Dave Selby wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 8:47 pm, you wrote: Thus spake Dave Selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi, Ive started using escputil to check and clean my print heads, it works great but I also need to check the ink level

Re: what is /dev/??? for the parellel port ? escputil

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Selby
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 11:27 pm, you wrote: Dave Selby wrote: - SNIP - Hi mate, Under windows 98, yuk !!, the pucker epson driver gets the info on ink levels etc AOK, so I guess the cable is AOK The computer is 3 yr old, ie obsolete !!, the printer 1 year old. ls -al /dev

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Selby
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 11:08 pm, Seneca wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:34:04PM +, Dave Selby wrote: 1. Is there a downloader for debian that will handle broken downloads ? If not can anyone recommend one ? Take a look at wget (I'm thinking of its options -c (continue a previous

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Selby
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 1:53 am, Seneca wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:48:45PM +, Dave Selby wrote: wget looks good to me, it even resets the modem and re-dials if it is not getting the file Probarbly asking the earth ... There isn't a GUI wrapper for it ??? Just do

Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-04 Thread Dave Selby
When using X, you can highlight text and copy it to another area via the middle mouse button. Is there a buffer file that holds the highlighted text ? This would be very usefull for passing URLs etc to the ctrl-alt-f1 command line. Sometimes Xterm is not ideal because it ceases when the user

Re: not quite the regular sources.list problem

2003-02-03 Thread Dave Selby
On Saturday 01 February 2003 1:18 pm, Kent West wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 08:05:04PM -0800, lenny bruce wrote: I've found a lot of support regarding a sources.list problem that apparently is fairly common but isn't the problem I have... I picked some bad sources and entered the deb

Re: A more detailed posting ....

2003-02-02 Thread Dave Selby
On Saturday 01 February 2003 12:29 pm, Colin Ellis wrote: Try downloading the 4 deb packages manually via ftp or standard web browser. Check the integrity of the download using the md5sums. If the download works ok then try installing them manually with dpkg -i packagename This will

A more detailed posting ....

2003-02-01 Thread Dave Selby
I re-configured my computer and installed 2 copies of woody on different partitions, all AOK. One for experimenting on, the other for work and serious stuff. I enabled dial on demand, and generally set up the system. I then tryed to udate my system via apt-get. To start with there were 88

Re: Job `cron.weekly' terminated (mailing output) ???

2003-01-31 Thread Dave Selby
On Friday 31 January 2003 11:52 am, Andrei Smirnov wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:15:04PM +, Dave Selby wrote: My dial on demand link is activated when my cron.weekly job is terminated. Nothing in cron.weekly calls the link ... It appears that when it terminates cron.weekly mails

Re: Job `cron.weekly' terminated (mailing output) ???

2003-01-31 Thread Dave Selby
On Friday 31 January 2003 11:52 am, Andrei Smirnov wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 07:15:04PM +, Dave Selby wrote: My dial on demand link is activated when my cron.weekly job is terminated. Nothing in cron.weekly calls the link ... It appears that when it terminates cron.weekly mails

broken download ?? help ??

2003-01-31 Thread Dave Selby
This is a second posting, I'm pulling my hair out !!! I want to update my system, I type the following apt-get clean apt-get update apt-get upgrade --fix-missing The server at the other end persistently closes the connection before it completes the download. Usually while downloading

Re: apt-get upgrade

2003-01-30 Thread Dave Selby
On Thursday 30 January 2003 12:54 am, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:13:00PM +, Dave Selby wrote: I have hit a problem, I wanted to upgrade with bug and security fixes so I apt-get update apt-get upgrade Originally there were 88 upgrades, most went AOK

apt-get upgrade

2003-01-29 Thread Dave Selby
I have hit a problem, I wanted to upgrade with bug and security fixes so I apt-get update apt-get upgrade Originally there were 88 upgrades, most went AOK but the last few will not load. My /etc/apt/sources.list contains ... deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official

Re: tune2fs ext2 - ext3 do I do it to swap ???

2003-01-28 Thread Dave Selby
Thanks for the advice guys I will leave swap partition as nature intended !! Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tune2fs ext2 - ext3 do I do it to swap ???

2003-01-27 Thread Dave Selby
Ive converted my debian from ext2 to ext3 .. no problems. Do I need to do the same to my swap partition, is there any advantage ?? Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: External serial modem advice ?

2003-01-27 Thread Dave Selby
On Sunday 26 January 2003 1:56 pm, Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:50:33AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 07:36:17AM +, Dave Selby wrote: mmm coffee ... so you thing it does have a use ? Yup. Wedge it under a door and it'll keep the door open. Or, you

tune2fs ext2 - ext3

2003-01-25 Thread Dave Selby
Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 after a system crash due to a winmodem driver running with dependency problems .. OK I get the bit about tune2fs -j /dev/hda2 I dont get the bit about touch /forcefsck touch changes the file timestamps ? I cant find a reference to forcefsck

External serial modem advice ?

2003-01-25 Thread Dave Selby
Having had problems with my winmodem ... dont even go there ... I am going to buy a full hardware modem. I have been advised that external serial modems are the best for linux. Does anyone know if the Diamond SupraExpress 56e Pro 56K V90/V92 External Serial Modem Is OK with debian ? I can

Re: External serial modem advice ?

2003-01-25 Thread Dave Selby
On Saturday 25 January 2003 6:27 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 03:26, Dave Selby wrote: Having had problems with my winmodem ... dont even go there ... I am going to buy a full hardware modem. I have been advised that external serial modems are the best for linux. Does

Re: External serial modem advice ?

2003-01-25 Thread Dave Selby
On Saturday 25 January 2003 4:48 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 09:26:09AM +, Dave Selby wrote: Having had problems with my winmodem ... dont even go there ... Can't...resist... I hear you can make some strong coffee from it if you grind it up well. mmm coffee ... so

Re: tune2fs ext2 - ext3

2003-01-25 Thread Dave Selby
On Saturday 25 January 2003 9:08 am, Dave Selby wrote: Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 after a system crash due to a winmodem driver running with dependency problems .. OK I get the bit about tune2fs -j /dev/hda2 I dont get the bit about touch /forcefsck touch changes

How do I do this in bash ??

2003-01-19 Thread Dave Selby
Hi all ... I am writting a weekly automated backup script, very simple .. tars a directory called 'myfiles' to a second hard drive. Works AOK except I want the name of the file written by tar to be the time and date. So I get a list of tared dated backups I know 'date' gives me exactly what I

Re: How do I do this in bash ??

2003-01-19 Thread Dave Selby
On Sunday 19 January 2003 10:48 am, Dave Selby wrote: Hi all ... I am writting a weekly automated backup script, very simple .. tars a directory called 'myfiles' to a second hard drive. Works AOK except I want the name of the file written by tar to be the time and date. So I get a list

dependency problems

2003-01-18 Thread Dave Selby
I run debian woody, This same driver works flawlessly on redhat 7.2, If I do the following on debian, it actually works but I have persistent dependency issues which I cannot solve ?? My debian is standard, I have upgraded the kernel to 2.4.19, apart from that everything is standard. Any ideas

debian lockup, fsck fail ....

2003-01-15 Thread Dave Selby
My woody ext2 totaly locked up, my win modem was dialing (I suspect the driver) while I did a search on kmail for an e-mail :( .. well I guess nothings perfect ... I tried ctrl-alt-del ctrl-alt-f1,2,3 ... all dead. I had to power down and re-boot. On re-boot the system ran fsck which bommed

Re: debian lockup, fsck fail ....

2003-01-15 Thread Dave Selby
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 9:57 pm, nate wrote: Dave Selby said: Are the above lost files ? If so how do I know what is what and how do I put them back ? they are lost data, could be portions of files. very difficult to determine what is what, you can try to cat them

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