Re: Whatever happened to Unicode input (using + )?

2009-06-17 Thread j t
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:28 PM, j t wrote: > I think it's time for me to have a chat with the gnome-terminal people... >From http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2009-June/msg00037.html "I think you now need to do Ctrl+Shift+u, then the Unicode number, then then the spa

Re: Whatever happened to Unicode input (using + )?

2009-06-17 Thread j t
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > On what system did you see it work - and in what application(s)¹…? > Good question. I couldn't answer it immediately, so I've just installed etch on a spare machine, and gnome-terminal does the trick. Here's screencast of 20ac and 30db, whic

Whatever happened to Unicode input (using + )?

2009-06-14 Thread j t
Good morning all. I'm reasonably sure that I used to be able to input unicode characters by holding down and and then tapping out the hex code for the character that I wanted, and then releasing and . For example, pressing and holding and and then tapping 20AC would give me a euro symbol. No

What's the easiest way to obtain a debian kernel which contains snd-cs46xx module?

2009-03-12 Thread j t
Hi, I've just done a fresh install of Lenny on my Thinkpad T21, which (according to lshw) contains a "Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator" (pci id 1013:6003). /proc/asound/cards shows no soundcards, and I assume this is because there is no snd-cs46xx.ko module

Re: Turning off touchpad "scroll"

2008-09-27 Thread j t
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi. Up to date Sid. > > Back before the recent changes in X, I had put this in my xorg.conf: > > Section "InputDevice" >Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" >

Re: console font corruption after exiting xorg

2008-09-27 Thread j t
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Scott Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After I switch to a console screen, or exit from xorg, the console > font is corrupted. I can see what I type, but you cannot make out > what the characters are on the screen. > > Does anyone have suggestions on how troubl

Re: OT: scanner

2008-09-27 Thread j t
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Jose Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm about to buy a scanner, which will be used to scan A4 text > documents scattered with the occasional picture here and there. I > plan to convert them afterwards to either pdf or djvu (haven't > decided yet) with

Re: debian is amazing

2008-09-27 Thread j t
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/6 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Guess what? Debian's got it! Amazing! > > Hear, hear. > > All worthwhile free software is packaged for Debian. And when it > isn't, you should package it yourself fo

Re: How to connect Nokia 6310i to Dell Vostro 1700 with Bluetooth?

2008-09-27 Thread j t
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Joost Kraaijeveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to connect my Nokia 6310i to my Dell Vostro 1700 with > Bluetooth on Debian Lenny amd-64 2.6.26-1 . I have read > http://users.tkk.fi/u/kehannin/bluetooth/bluetooth.html and > https://help.ubuntu.com

Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread j t
Hi all. Does anyone have any suggestions for a command-line-interface (CLI) calculator that can work out the difference between 2 (gregorian) dates (i.e. that is calendar aware). My favourite cli calculator ("bc") doesn't seem to have any knowledge of the gregorian calendar. Just to make it clear

Re: Wi-Fi in Inspiron 1720 - Help!

2008-07-29 Thread j t
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Dennis Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have lenny running very good except for one big hangup. I can't get the > wireless card to work. It shows in lspci as a Broadcom BCM4310 USB > Controller. Disclaimer: I don't own and have never owned one of these cards...

Weird Internet routing / mtu setting / browser / packet fragmentation problem

2008-07-23 Thread j t
Hi all. Does anyone here know how I can diagnose exactly where / why the following problem occurs...? I've got a typical adsl setup (in the UK) with my internal (192.168.0.*) network behind a nat router. Everything works perfectly (!) except for 1 problem, which is: If I try to view http://www.o

Re: Anything better than gopchop...

2008-07-13 Thread j t
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 14:51:32 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> ... for snipping sections of video from an mpeg2 file? >> >> gopchop seems to be dead upstream, and I can't find any way to >> pause, move forwar

Re: Tool to show maximal repeating patterns / structure in (text?) data

2008-07-13 Thread j t
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're on the right track here, at least for getting as far as detecting > maximal-length identical strings. As I recall, Huffman encoding should > be what you're looking for. > > Another place to look would be search ind

Tool to show maximal repeating patterns / structure in (text?) data

2008-07-13 Thread j t
Hi all, Does anyone know of a tool which will analyse a block of data and find structure / repeating patterns in it, and then somehow show that structure to the user? As an example, pretend I give it the following paragraph of text (but I don't tell it that the following paragraph contains a stri

Re: Why do you add spaces to your url links?

2008-07-10 Thread j t
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> please post back the actual url, without space of course. > > WTF? Seconded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lenny

2008-07-04 Thread j t
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Daniel Ngu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I read that Lenny will be released sometime in September this year. > I've been using Etch and am contemplating on moving to Lenny now instead. > How's usable is Lenny at the moment, in particular the Beta2 version > or

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-04 Thread j t
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:34 AM, j t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Kent West >>>> So I tried going the route of doing a network install via >>>> http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com, but it installs grub and doesn't give me

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-04 Thread j t
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Kent West >>> So I tried going the route of doing a network install via >>> http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com, but it installs grub and doesn't give me >>> any option to feed the "pci=nomsi" parameter (or any other similar >>> parameters); I've been unable to find a

Re: Re: Debian 4.0r3 cann't recognize all of the 4Gb memory on my system.

2008-07-02 Thread j t
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:45 PM, zhaohscas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Also, soon after a boot: >>$ dmesg | less My guess: Intel chipset limitation? (know to affect certain 915nn and 945nn chipsets) See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929605/en-us (and yes, I already know that you're not using

Re: Recording TV with Debian

2008-07-02 Thread j t
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:38 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 00:48:10 +0200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What are you using to capture video? Disclaimer: I know nothing about Pinnacle video cards (I have an Adaptec avc2010 pci card which works perfectly under linux). Surely i

Re: DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses

2008-07-01 Thread j t
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I prefer to host my own DNS on my own server, if only to keep my memory of > how to configure BIND relatively fresh. Does anyone know of a similar agent > that pairs with a daemon I can run on my DNS server, to track the IP a

Re: Diagnosing non-working trackpoint button

2008-07-01 Thread j t
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I shut off the trackpad in the BIOS (I only use the clitmouse and it's > buttons) but i dont see > any BIOS settings about this. I don't know whether it'll help, but with my T60 I've also found that shutting off t

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-07-01 Thread j t
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:03 AM, thveillon.debian > Looks like Netgear is about to bring us a nice toy : > > "The high-performance WGR614L, which is "Works with Windows Vista" Sorry to rain on the parade, but (to echo some comments on slashdot), no pre-N, gigabit ethernet or usb ports? 4MB flash an

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-30 Thread j t
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:41:58PM +0100, j t wrote: >> Having said that, I run openwrt on a couple of asus routers: one >> wl-hdd and one asus wl-500g and they have the same issue with regards > >

Re: Thanks to all the devs and maintainers of Debian

2008-06-29 Thread j t
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Ezra Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Much respect for you cats. Keep up the great work. And another huge thank you from me too. I've no idea what I'd do without my fave distro. Jaime :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-29 Thread j t
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've heard of this. I was kind of hoping to do all this with Debian, but it > sounds like the WRT54GL is a better bet, but only if it can actually > firewall the wired subnet from the wireless subnet. A little bit of > go

Re: project: wired/wireless router

2008-06-29 Thread j t
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adding all this extra equipment is going to cost you *much* more > than buying a Linksys WRT56GL and reflashing it with the Tomato or > DD-WRT firmware. OK, I've just spent 10 minutes searching for Linksys WRT56GL (a pair of

Re: openntpd not adjusting the clock

2008-06-27 Thread j t
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Robert Jerrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Awesome, just got it. It installed easily, default configuration used, > and it seems to work fine. Log messages like > > Jun 27 08:32:06 riemann ntpd[17589]: time reset +161.150330 s > Jun 27 08:36:53 riemann ntpd[17589]:

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-27 Thread j t
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for that. With pleasure (I remember all too well the pain of banging my head against a wall, trying to understand optical disk burning/verification under linux). I've also found a much simpler method for checking tha

Re: openntpd not adjusting the clock

2008-06-27 Thread j t
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please see the replies by Mike Bird to my questions in the thread in the > debian-user list with subject >"ntp not any more supported in Debian or did I miss something?" > for ways to get the original ntp package from

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-26 Thread j t
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > md5sum -b /dev/scd0 > The output should match the md5sum of the ISO image. Not _strictly_ true (due to blank/null padding which is sometimes added to the end of iso disk images, and issues with the infamous read-ahead bug

Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-26 Thread j t
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Vwaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I can tell, there is no pre-computed md5 checksum provided > with the download (http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst#smallcd). > Am I missing something? Yes. http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r3/i386/iso-cd/MD5SU

Re: openntpd not adjusting the clock

2008-06-26 Thread j t
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Robert Jerrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The time adjustment keeps going up and up but the clock is never reset, > it just continues to fall further behind. Anyone know how to fix this? > I realize that it's not exactly an answer to your question, but after day

Re: Shutdown/logout not working

2008-06-13 Thread j t
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently switched from IceWm to Gnome by installing gnome-core. But I > notice the shutdown and logout icons available from the taskbar don't > work. I have to logout with ctrl-alt-backspace, and then shutdowm or > reb

Re: Gnome desktop on fresh lenny install won't logout - how do I debug this?

2008-06-11 Thread j t
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If, however, I run startx, wait a few seconds (without starting >> anything else) and then try to logout by clicking on "System", then >> "Log Out ", the system will hang about 50% of the time. >> >> Does anyone have an

Gnome desktop on fresh lenny install won't logout - how do I debug this?

2008-06-10 Thread j t
Hi all. I've just installed a fresh Lenny on my Thinkpad T60. In addition to the base install, I've installed the "xorg" package and the "gnome-core" package, so I don't have gdm (I just login and run "startx"). When I've finished using X, I logout by clicking on "System" (on the Gnome Menu Bar)

Sound problem on Lenny PPC: can't find /dev/dsp

2008-01-13 Thread J . T . Chittleborough
Hey, all. The sound abruptly stopped working on a Lenny KDE installation on my PowerBook G4 12"; I dual-boot with Mac OS X, which it's still working fine with. I'm running a stock Lenny PowerPC kernel, and can't find anything in the APT logs about software changes which might have affected th

Re: How to debug "error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon."?

2007-05-28 Thread j t
On 5/28/07, j t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unfortunately, I'm not too good at understanding all this lib-gnome/bonobo stuff, so I'm stuck for what to do next. Any suggestions? TIA, Jaime :-) It seems I am not alone: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422315 -

How to debug "error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon."?

2007-05-28 Thread j t
Hi all. I have a fresh Etch install on a Thinkpad T21 (x86 - 686). Two things to note: a) I use a network install to just put the base system on, then I add xorg, then I add gnome-core. b) I uncheck aptitude's "install recommended packages automatically" to get a "lean" machine. Everything wor

Having Trouble Printing From Netscape

1997-11-20 Thread J. T. Lawson
I am a computer teacher in a public school system. I am having difficulty printing from Netscape 3.0 on some sites that play music and/or include java script. I have emptied the caches.Please advise. Thanks, J. T. Lawson