Console font

2014-05-22 Thread john s.
How can I increase the size of the console font? -- John Song - via Penguin Powered Desktop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Console font

2014-05-22 Thread john s.
On Thu, 22 May 2014 16:06:47 +0200 Francesco Ariis fa...@ariis.it wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 09:34:21AM -0400, john s. wrote: How can I increase the size of the console font? It depends on your terminal emulator. I suppose it's gnome-terminal. Can you check and report back

Re: Console font (solved)

2014-05-22 Thread john s.
On Thu, 22 May 2014 14:19:24 + (UTC) Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2014-05-22, Francesco Ariis fa...@ariis.it wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 09:34:21AM -0400, john s. wrote: How can I increase the size of the console font? It depends on your terminal emulator. I suppose it's gnome

Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread john s.
I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is used for storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatted ext2, ext3 or ext4. My problem is that I cannot use the drive on a windows machine (belonging to my wife). Is there an alternative way to encrypt the

Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread john s.
I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is used for storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatted ext2, ext3 or ext4. My problem is that I cannot use the drive on a windows machine (belonging to my wife). Is there an alternative way to encrypt

Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread john s.
I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is used for storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatted ext2, ext3 or ext4. My problem is that I cannot use the drive on a windows machine (belonging to my wife). Is there an alternative way to encrypt the

Re: Encryption of a a thumb drive

2014-04-05 Thread john s.
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 15:38:53 +0100 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sat 05 Apr 2014 at 09:39:09 -0400, john s. wrote: I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is used for storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatted ext2, ext3 or ext4

Re: [help!] Can not use nvidia driver in debian sid

2014-03-16 Thread john s.
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 02:40:33 +0800 iijima yoshino iijimayosh...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, there! I have an old pc with a Nvidia GeForce 6600 card. Firstly I installed Debian 7.4 and everything was O.K. (nvidia-detect told me to install nvidia-glx and it worked.) Then I changed a monitor and

grub2 and linux from scratch

2013-12-13 Thread john s
grub2 is doing something I don't understand. /etc/default/grub has the line: GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -c -s 2 /dev/null || echo Debian` the boot menu shows: linux from scratch gnu/linux advanced options for linux from scratch etc. debian gnu/linux (jessie/sid) on sda2 advanced options

Spell checking with qtm clogging client

2011-12-04 Thread John S.
I use qtm with xfce on wheezy. I like it, but I am a poor speller and I like to have a spell checker available. With the above setup, qtm has appears to have no spell checker. Google came up with a file: libgtkspell0 = 2.0.10.0 This file has been installed, but qtm does not show it as a depends,

Re: Gnome 3 and non-free firmware

2011-11-14 Thread John S.
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:26:43 +0200 Rares Aioanei debian.dev.l...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/14/2011 03:04 AM, John S. wrote: I use Xfce on wheezy and and happy but I was interested enough to install gnome 3 on a spare drive. Everything went fine except that I was forced into using the fall

Gnome 3 and non-free firmware

2011-11-13 Thread John S.
I use Xfce on wheezy and and happy but I was interested enough to install gnome 3 on a spare drive. Everything went fine except that I was forced into using the fall back version as the installer couldn't find a suitable graphics (3D) driver. The on-board graphics chip is nVidia. I have never

Re: problem mounting usb thumb drive

2011-10-28 Thread John S.
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:42:11 +0100 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Thu 27 Oct 2011 at 11:35:36 -0400, John S. wrote: Thanks for the info. But Having done all that, ie. 1. inserted (as suggested) the line: session optional pam_loginuid.co in /etc/pam.d/common-session just

Re: problem mounting usb thumb drive

2011-10-27 Thread John S.
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:31:50 +0100 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Wed 26 Oct 2011 at 18:50:36 -0400, John S. wrote: My problem: usb thumb drive does not mount automatically. Searching the October postings for this list with 'xfce' gets you a solution. Thanks

problem mounting usb thumb drive

2011-10-26 Thread John S.
I have a fresh install of xfce on wheezy. The machine is an eracks desktop with an amd phenom II cpu, 8 Gb ram. I have previously run roughly the same configuration of xfce before, but there were large element of gnome also on the machine. Being of feeble mind and forgetting all the other times I

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-02 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Larry Alkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the meantime, can anyone please tell me what this TCPA is all about? Have a look at Ross Anderson's excellent TCPA / Palladium FAQ at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html. john. -- Internet FAQs, #666: A: No. Q: Should I include quotations

Re: Mac OS X package

2002-05-28 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe that there are Debian users who are also Mac users. Question is, compared to Debian packaging system, is it Mac's any better...? No. There is port of dpkg/apt to Mac OS X -- see http://fink.sourceforge.net/ HTH, john. -- Knowledge itself is power.

perl info file for emacs

2002-05-19 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Greetings -- I'm trying to (finally) get my Perl coding environment set up properly in (X)Emacs, and one hurdle I'm running into is getting the 'help on function (at point)' commands to work. They require a copy of the Perl docs in 'info' format. Now, I know I cat get this file from Ilya's Z's

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-17 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Shawn McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: See the followup email. It ain't my scheme, and I don't agree with it; I was presenting what my experience shows is usually meant by people who don't know better than the split scripting and programming. Ah, I see -- we're mostly agreeing at the top of

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-17 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or what of this example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~perl hello.pl hello, world! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~cat hello.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use Inline C = q{ void hello () { printf(hello, world!\n); } }; hello(); That is a thing of

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-17 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Shawn McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: begin John S. J. Anderson quotation: I'm confused by the above statement. Canceling out the double negative, I get that is the definition most people mean when they know enough to call non-scripting 'programming'. You cannot cancel

Re: scripting

2002-04-15 Thread John S. J. Anderson
jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dpkg -l | sed -e 's/$/br/ dpkg.html dpkg -l | perl -e 'while() { s/$/br/ print }' dpkg.html golf type=perl dpkg -l | perl -lpe 's/$/BR/' dpkg.html /golf Darn, I thought I could make it shorter than the sed version... john. -- However, complexity is not

[headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-15 Thread John S. J. Anderson
jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when would you use programming as opposed to scripting? Well, before I answer that, define, if you would, the difference between programming and scripting. (Warning: I don't think there's much of one, if any.) In my mind, your earlier question was a programming

Re: scripting

2002-04-15 Thread John S. J. Anderson
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: usually, compiled programs run faster than scripts, so if performance is your concern (number crunching, password cracking etc.), then compile. IMO, it's not that simple. If performance is your sole consideration, you shouldn't even be looking at

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-15 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Shawn McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: begin John S. J. Anderson quotation: Well, before I answer that, define, if you would, the difference between programming and scripting. (Warning: I don't think there's much of one, if any.) The compliation step is seperate from the execution

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

2002-04-15 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Shawn McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: begin Shawn McMahon quotation: The compliation step is seperate from the execution step, from the perspective of the user. I should add that is the definition most people mean when they don't know enough not to call non-scripting 'programming'.

Re: Logitech Quickcam

2002-04-05 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Sridhar M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anyone using this camera and obtained proper colours? If so, can you provide some pointers to the same? I'm using one with mod_quickcam.o and camE to run a webcam; you can see the images at http://genehack.com/images/webcam.jpg (it updates every

Re: Getting Handspring Pilot Setup

2002-03-03 Thread John S. J. Anderson
james martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone tell me where I can get it. Thanks for any help. You need to set up the various USB devices properly. The Handspring Visor mini-HOWTO may be helpful; there's a copy at http://www.icewalk.com/doclib/howtos/mini/Handspring-Visor.html. I have

kernel compile problems

2001-12-25 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Greetings -- I've been setting up a new Athlon system (thanks Santa!), and I've been having some kernel compile issues (linker bombing out, mainly). I was chalking it up to some Athlon quirk (power supply, cooling, etc.), but just on the off chance I tried to re-compile a kernel on my old

Re: Good mail management techniques?

2001-09-10 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:18:53PM -0700, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:12:14PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: . The concept you're proposing has some similarities to ideas espoused by David

invalid ICMP error to broadcast

2001-08-04 Thread John S. Gage
I keep getting the following message on my terminal screen: NET: 53 messages suppressed 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error

invalid ICMP error to broadcast

2001-08-04 Thread John S. Gage
I keep getting the following message on my terminal screen: NET: 53 messages suppressed 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

2001-07-13 Thread John S. J. Anderson
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:31:23 -0500 (CDT), Richard Cobbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Richard I'm a fan of VM, because I'm used to the Emacs keybindings, Richard and it's the only MUA I've found which lets you edit messages Richard that you receive in-place. FWIW, Gnus does that too. Richard I've

Re: Digital camera and Linux

2001-07-06 Thread John S. J. Anderson
On 06 Jul 2001 14:06:06 +0400, Ilya Martynov [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ilya Or any advice on another relatively cheap and good digital Ilya camera which can be used with Linux? Have you considered the Sony Mavica series? They write picture files to standard VFAT filesystem floppy disks -- no need

Re: Digital camera and Linux

2001-07-06 Thread John S. J. Anderson
On Fri, 06 Jul 2001 10:39:20 -0400, Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Peter John S. J. Anderson wrote: Peter I have wondered about this. I fill up a 32MB memory card Peter pretty quickly when taking pictures at 3.1Mpixels. A single Peter picture is usually around 1.1 to 1.3 MB, so

Re: cpan / perl q.

2001-07-05 Thread John S. J. Anderson
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:27:43 +0800, luwim+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: luwim+ Hi, i forgot the command how to install cpan on my machine, luwim+ thats, .. perl --cpan? any one know what the command is? CPAN.pm comes with the standard Perl distribution, so if you've got perl, you should have CPAN --

Re: (OT) Perl books

2001-06-28 Thread John S. J. Anderson
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:22:12 -0500, Jay Latham [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jay I've decided that it's time I learned a little about programming Jay and I've decided that, for various reasons, Perl would be a good Jay place to start. But I'm confused on which book would be best for Jay a total

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

2001-06-28 Thread John S. J. Anderson
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:59:03 +0200 (MEST), thomas anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: thomas I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl thomas directory however I don't have permission access. boy, the script kiddies get lazier every day, don't they? john.

Re: Configuring gnus

2001-06-10 Thread John S. J. Anderson
On Sat, 09 Jun 2001 13:04:48 -0700, Debian User [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: DU With the conservative route (install gnus in order to keep using DU RMAIL for a while), will gnus give normal MIME ability? Or would DU I need to install semi-gnus to be able to use the MIME DU functionality that semi

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-31 Thread John S. J. Anderson
On Wed, 30 May 2001 10:53:22 -0700, Mike Pfleger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mike To answer your question, I used xev to grab the information on Mike the dreaded menu key. It reported (among other things): Mike keycode 117 (keysym 0xff67, Menu) Mike when the menu key was pressed with the pointer

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-31 Thread John S. J. Anderson
On 30 May 2001 22:08:33 -0400, Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Paul Second, my point is, with so many truly _useful_ and Paul _interesting_ things to learn, why waste brain cells on Paul something as basically useless and uninteresting (and baroque) Paul as modmap syntax? Personally, I

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-31 Thread John S. J. Anderson
On Thu, 31 May 2001 15:37:49 -0700, Mike Pfleger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mike Is there an easy way to check for Mod3 and Mod4 events? If you do 'xmodmap -pm', you'll get a listing of all the modifiers (Mod1-5,Lock,Control, etc.) and the keysyms each is currently bound to. That may at least tell

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

2001-05-30 Thread John S. J. Anderson
On Tue, 29 May 2001 15:25:37 -0700, Mike Pfleger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mike What am I doing wrong? Have you tried using a real keysym for the menu key? I don't think 'Menu' is a real keysym -- try 'Multi-key' or 'Super_R' or 'Hyper_R', and then bind ModN (where N=(1..5)) to that keysym. My

Re: About PGP signatures

2001-05-24 Thread John S. J. Anderson
On Wed, 23 May 2001 19:57:17 -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Noah Supporting RFCs is fine and should be encouraged, but from what Noah I've seen there is not another mail reader in existance that can Noah verify mutt's attached signatures. Just to add to the list, the CVS

Re: About PGP signatures

2001-05-24 Thread John S. J. Anderson
On 24 May 2001 14:57:12 +0400, Ilya Martynov [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ilya I thoght that Gnus itself doesn't support PGP at all. It needs Ilya Mailcrypt for PGP. And mailcrypt seems to support only embeded Ilya sigs. Or am I wrong? You're wrong. 8^)= The version of Gnus in CVS (Oort Gnus) comes

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-12 Thread John S. J. Anderson
David Raleigh Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It makes *every* program that works with a gui *much* less good and some really insane, like emacs. (and xemacs, presumably because X is pathetic that way too.) Just so you know, XEmacs is perfectly capable of running on the console (the 'X' in

Re: 'setxkbmap dvorak' not working

2001-03-23 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Kubala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this an unstable-broken thing? (I didn't see any files that looked useful in stable though). Anybody know how to set up dvorak 'properly' in debian? FWIW, I use xmodmap. In fact, I'm the only one using

Re: gnupg gnus

2001-03-18 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Groth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anyone successfully using gnus with gnupg out there? I just wanted to ask if it's worth the effort trying it. Yep, and it wasn't too hard to set up. Key fetching and message decryption aren't

news server setup

2001-02-17 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings -- My ISP is once again changing Usenet providers, meaning that I'm going to have to deal with the whole article renumbering mess. Grrr. (Did I mention that this has happened before?) I've decided that enough is enough, and it's time to

Re: True Type fonts

2001-02-10 Thread John S. J. Anderson
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Re: PHP4 in 'testing'?

2001-02-04 Thread John S. J. Anderson
to finish on my machine. Haven't tested yet to determine if the installed PHP4 actually _works_, but this got rid of the error messages at least. john. - -- - [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto:[EMAIL

[OT] Re: Perlscript

2001-01-23 Thread John S. J. Anderson
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Re: running sshd on startup

2001-01-15 Thread John S. J. Anderson
dpkg-reconfigure ssh Yep, that did the trick. Many thanks! john. - -- - [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]--URL:http://genehack.org -BEGIN

Re: Creative Ensoniq modules..

2001-01-15 Thread John S. J. Anderson
. What gives? Permissions problem on /dev/dsp? User not in audio and/or cdrom groups? john. - -- - [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog

running sshd on startup

2001-01-13 Thread John S. J. Anderson
rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH) ii ssh-askpass1.0-1 under X, asks user for a passphrase for ssh- ii ssh-askpass-gn 2.3.0p1-1.6under X, asks user for a passphrase for ssh- - -- - [ John S

Re: lame/not-lame deb packages

2000-12-24 Thread John S. J. Anderson
this: deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ to /etc/apt/sources.list, and do the usual 'apt-get update; apt-get install' thing. john. - -- - [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Genehack

Re: bookmarker/PHP/MySQL problem

2000-11-18 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Corey Popelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes you need a line under Dynamic Extensions that says: extension=mysql.so Actually, I've _got_ that line in /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini. To re-iterate, bookmarker *was* working; I can only assume that the

bookmarker/PHP/MySQL problem

2000-11-16 Thread John S. J. Anderson
about MySQL), so I'm not even really sure where to start looking. Suggestions and gifts of Clue are most welcome. Thanks in advance, john. - -- - [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: need help - inn2

2000-11-12 Thread John S. J. Anderson
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Re: need help - inn2

2000-11-12 Thread John S. J. Anderson
, it's _very_ nice -- news is *fast*; no more waiting for the modem to pull down the next article... - -- - [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog

Re: TrueType fonts in X4

2000-11-12 Thread John S. J. Anderson
/mkfontalias.py Thanks again for the good work, Brad. john. - -- - [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]--URL:http://genehack.org -BEGIN PGP

Re: Helix-Gnome not installable

2000-11-12 Thread John S. J. Anderson
...for me. Can't offer any advice as to how to get it to work, but thought I'd let you know it's not just you. Perhaps give it a day or two and the maintainers will fix it? Good luck, john. - -- - [ John S

Re: X4 and a Trident Card? (was: Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts)

2000-11-05 Thread John S. J. Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rogerio Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Nov 04 2000, John S. J. Anderson wrote: Once I got it working, however, I was quite impressed. It's noticeably faster than XFree 3.3.6 on window movement and screen redraws, even with the old 4 MB

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-05 Thread John S. J. Anderson
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XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-04 Thread John S. J. Anderson
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Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-04 Thread John S. J. Anderson
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Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread John S. J. Anderson
is like Gnus, but totally different. Perl instead of Lisp, VI(m) instead of Emacs, and just getting started as opposed to (relatively) old and stable. john. - -- - [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto

Re: How to get xemacs21 to display japanese characters in gnus

2000-08-10 Thread John S. J. Anderson
, or at least some of it.) So, you're going to have to give that version info, at the very least. Also, you might have better luck on the Gnus mailing list, or the Gnus newsgroup. Good luck, john. - -- - [ John S

Suck/INN HOWTO

2000-07-29 Thread John S. J. Anderson
, to good (hopefully Debian-specific/oriented) documentation welcomed. john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]--URL:http://genehack.org

Re: Suck/INN HOWTO

2000-07-29 Thread John S. J. Anderson
Jozef == Jozef Skvarcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jozef Managing Usenet by H. Spencer D. Lawrence O'Reilly 1998 8^) I was looking for something that wouldn't require me to go to the bookstore. -- [ John

Re: Dvorak keyboard layout

2000-07-29 Thread John S. J. Anderson
work for console, but if you need to do this under X, you need to use xmodmap to remap the keys. I've got a xmodmap file to do this; mail me if you'd like it. john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson

Re: Old Macs

2000-07-18 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
an Intel 10/100 Pro card that I'd like to use. Anyone know if I can get drivers for this? Should just work with the drivers in the kernel, I'd think -- PCI is PCI, after all. Good luck, john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog

Re: Problem with es1371

2000-06-26 Thread John S. J. Anderson
the driver from later 2.3 kernels. I'm running 2.4.0-test1, and it's been pretty stable -- you might want to give that a go. HTH, john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Genehack

Re: Staroffice

2000-06-05 Thread john s jacobs anderson
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Re: Using gnuserv (Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software)

2000-05-30 Thread john s jacobs anderson
forget to put (gnuserv-start) in your .emacs file!) Thanks to Chris and the other people in the thread, john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Genehack: Not your daddy's

Re: Using gnuserv (Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software)

2000-05-29 Thread john s jacobs anderson
`xemacs -nw $1` Hmm -- I guess all I really need is the flag to test for a running process by name -- any help? thanks, john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software

2000-05-26 Thread john s jacobs anderson
Peter == Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Felix Natter wrote: john s jacobs anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oh, I'm with you -- I'll often use vi for small edits, even if I have XEmacs open on another desktop, just because doing the edit 'in-line

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
* Perl syntax highlighting? (X)Emacs with CPerl mode. john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]--URL:http://genehack.org

Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
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Perl syntax highlighting in (X)Emacs (was Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
completely stringent. If you're really interested, M-x customize RET cperl-mode should tell all, at least in XEmacs. john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]--URL:http://genehack.org

Re: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
'.) Have you perhaps never used emacs? Saying emacs isn't a text editor is like saying that a Leatherman isn't a pocket knife -- it may be literally true, but is extremely misleading in fact. john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Genehack: Not your daddy's

Re: Re[2]: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
. john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]--URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]--URL:http://genehack.org

Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software

2000-05-10 Thread john s jacobs anderson
Oki == Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oki On 5 May 2000, john s jacobs anderson wrote: The point is, emacsen are designed to be *modular*. If you don't want to load those things, then don't load them Oki I'd like to have rmail module to be able to use an smtp and Oki pop server

Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software

2000-05-05 Thread john s jacobs anderson
, and flavors. [2] Please don't try to make garage==shell and shop==emacsen, or vice versa -- it's an innocent little analogy, so please don't corrupt it by reading too much into it. -- [ John S Jacobs

lm-sensors-source

2000-04-27 Thread john s jacobs anderson
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Re: Semi-frequent lock-ups

2000-04-26 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
to hardware lock-ups with this mobo? It's been a fairly difficult bug to track down, but some people are reporting success with the most recent BIOS update released by Abit (version is QQ, I believe). I don't have any of the URLs handy, but Google should. Good luck, john. -- [ John S

Re: emacsen-common fails to set-up

2000-03-27 Thread john s jacobs anderson
back to the version from frozen and slapped a hold on it. john. -- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] \* Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog */ \*URL:http

Re: slink-frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-24 Thread john s jacobs anderson
to successfully update a fresh slink to woody. Thanks again to Nathan. john. -- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] \* Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog

Re: glibc package

2000-02-24 Thread john s jacobs anderson
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Re: slink-frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-23 Thread john s jacobs anderson
; it sounds good. I had also seen the readlink thing, but hadn't investigated as to what it was doing. Hopefully I'll be able to get some work done on that box tomorrow. thanks, john. -- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL

PPP dial-on-demand broken (was: dial-on-demand changed?)

2000-02-23 Thread john s jacobs anderson
2.3.11-1.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon. Rest of reply below: John john s jacobs anderson writes: However, about the time of the ppp/ppp-pam suidregister thing, this behavior changed; giving the demand option now appears to require a fixed remote IP, at least according

slink-frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-22 Thread john s anderson
this box back up and working pretty soon, or the boss-man is gonna be unhappy... john. -- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.genehack.org- GeneHack (bioinfo*linux*opinion)

Re: slink-frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-22 Thread john s anderson
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Mike Werner wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:37:13AM -0700, john s anderson wrote: The way I did this was jump in with both feet. I did apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade Just to clarify: the above does *NOT* work, as of 1630 MST 02/22/2000. The libc6_2.1.3-4_i386

Re: perl says the year is 0100

2000-02-21 Thread john s jacobs anderson
in the perlfunc manpage. john. -- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] \* Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog */ \*URL:http://genehack.org */

Re: dial-on-demand changed?

2000-02-18 Thread john s jacobs anderson
Brett == Brett Carlane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brett john s jacobs anderson on Tue 15 Feb: Brett Only just started using `demand' myself, so I can't speak for Brett how it used to work, but my dialup currently behaves as you Brett describe: well, now that I know it's just me

dial-on-demand changed?

2000-02-16 Thread john s jacobs anderson
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Re: Iomega drives

2000-02-13 Thread john s jacobs anderson
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Re: help with sound config

2000-02-08 Thread john s jacobs anderson
Chanop == Chanop Silpa-Anan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chanop Once upon a time, I heard john s anderson said I'm currently trying to get my SoundBlaster PCI128 card to work, and I'm on my seventh kernel compile, and I'm starting to pull my hair out. The damn thing won't work! I'm

Re: help with sound config

2000-02-08 Thread john s jacobs anderson
S == S Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jsja == john s jacobs anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jsja Following up for the list archives: The es1371 driver in the jsja current kernel did not work for this card; Creative has jsja apparently revved the codec, or the way the codec

help with sound config

2000-02-05 Thread john s anderson
driver. Should I try ALSA? Hardware: Celeron 400A, Abit BE6-II, Trident 3D Image 975 AGP card, SoundBlaster PCI128 in PCI4, generic ISA hardware modem in ISA slot. Thanks in advance, john. -- John S Jacobs Anderson

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