On 5/11/06, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:> Does anyone know how to convert "AppleDouble encoded Macintosh"> fonts to truetype?Well, using the t1unmac program from the t1utils package I'vemanaged to convert them to Postscript Type 1. I still need to
conver
On 5/9/06, Michael Kedzierski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have the same 24" panel and it's utterly brilliant, and good valuefor money. The brightness and the contrast are amazing. I highlyrecommend it.The panel itself may be a samsung one, or an LG - which is the same as
in the apple cinema displa
At Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:02:26 +1030, Glen Turner wrote:
> Also note that there was a leap second this year. So your
> NTP-based time will be 1s wrong if you have a tzdata earlier
> than 2005k.
From what I understand of things, Unix timezone data has nothing to do
with leap seconds. NTP, on the oth
At Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:48:00 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
> in using Crypt::RandPasswd (::word() specifically), it doesnt seem at
> all mod_perl safe. there definately seems to be something that loops
> of and consumes all the web servers cpu.
From a quick glance through the Crypt::RandPasswd code,
At Mon, 28 Nov 2005 05:53:24 +1100, Tess Snider wrote:
> On 11/27/05, Crossfire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This is a case of recursion.
> What's totally crazy is that once you've been programming a while, and
> really understand this recursion stuff well, you have to then learn to
> stop using
At Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:37:07 +1000, Taryn East wrote:
> \begin{tabular}{l|r}
> \makeleftpage & \makerightpage \\
> \end{tabular}
You could also use something explicit (and simpler?) like this:
\makeleftpage \hspace{3mm} \vrule \hspace{3mm} \makerightpage
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At Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:23:06 +1000, David Gillies wrote:
> Does anyone out there have any recommendations for Linux friendly flash
> mp3 players?
A few of the guys at work have these:
http://eng.iaudio.com/product/product_X5_feature.php
MP3, OGG, FLAC, WMA, WAV player; FM radio; voice, radio or
At Sun, 09 Oct 2005 08:58:41 +1000, Ben Donohue wrote:
> just for the slug archives i found the problem here.
> in the apache config file with older versions of apache, for the
> virtual servers I would have per directory options of
> allow from all
> deny from none
> however the "deny from none" i
At Sun, 9 Oct 2005 16:46:46 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> I've never tried Xemacs - are there any traps for young players when
> installing both?
Not really. Default values for some options are different between the
two, as are some elisp package versions and unusual keybindings (M-g
is one that s
At Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:33:29 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> Aren't there any emacs users on this list? my top ten are:
>
> Xemacs (editing)
> Xemacs (mail reading/writing)
> Xemacs (web browsing)
> Xemacs (compiling, with make, distcc and ccache underneath)
> Xemacs (remote editing, with tramp)
> Xem
At Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:38:31 +1000, Oscar Plameras wrote:
> Is their equivalent codes for ff in perl 6 ?
Sure, perl6 (just as in perl5) has coderefs. In fact, these can be
references to anonymous functions or dynamically created closures,
which certainly can't be done in C.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:58:22 +1000, Telford Tendys wrote:
> How about writing a network protocol stack. You get a packet and all
> you know about it is that here is a block of memory. You then have
> to figure out what sort of packet it is, how long it is and what
> structure to give it. C handles
At Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:17:21 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>for 1 .. @integer_array {
> say "integer_array[$_] = @integer_array[$_]";
>}
Yeah sorry. Did I mention it was my first ever perl6 program?
Try this version, note the iterator, the typed array (compile-time
checked/op
At Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:12:54 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> let integer_array = [| 1 ; -2 ; 3 ; -4 ; 5 ; -6 ;
> -7 ; 8 ; -9 ; 32727000 |] ;;
>
> Array.mapi (fun i x
> -> Printf.printf "integer_array[%d] = %d\n" i x
> ) integer_array ;;
Hey, my first actual per
At Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:00:09 +1000, Bruce Badger wrote:
> On 9/27/05, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There are large classes of problems where running speed is an
> > important issue. Static typing does make for faster run times
> > and in cases where that moves your program fro
At Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:01:24 +1000, Vino Fernando Crescini wrote:
> > If you want a list of all "invalid" usernames in smbpasswd that is
> > not in allusers.txt, this way might be easier:
> > cut -d: -f1 smbpasswd | while read name; do
> > grep -q "${name}\$" /tmp/list || echo $name
> > done
>
>
At Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:30:42 +1000, Ashley Maher wrote:
> I loaded the mod perl2 package into Ubuntu.
> The registery scripts worked well.
>
> The handler modules test failed misserably.
> mod_perl/1.99_14 Perl/v5.8.4 PHP/4.3.10-10ubuntu4 configured -- resuming
> normal operations
[...]
> [Sat A
At Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:16:04 +1000, Michael Kraus wrote:
> Has anyone had any experience with Asterisk (or any other) open source
> PABX software, and wouldn't mind commenting?
My comments:
Asterisk developers prioritises new features over stability and
particularly clean code. There's a *whole*
At Sun, 7 Aug 2005 19:28:57 +1000, steven wrote:
> 2. With the Lotus Notes client running in IMAP mode I can create emails
> offline. When I sync the client with the server the server will send out
> any unsent emails. Copies of sent mails are thus filed in the main server
> "sent" folder or
At Tue, 09 Aug 2005 22:26:47 +1000, James Purser wrote:
> Does anybody know of, or are involved in projects that have been
> hampered by software patents.
zsync is a kind of reverse-rsync implementation, which makes the whole
rsync public-server thing actually possible since the server no longer
n
At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:28:56 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> I'm trying to get somewhere with setting up an LDAP database.
> The problem I am encountering is that all the examples that I can find
> assume the the top level has a dn: of the form dc=example,dc=com
> My problem is that I want a differ
At Wed, 22 Jun 2005 01:16:25 +0930, Ryan Verner wrote:
> Anybody had any experiences setting up 1-way DirecPC (Telstra Bigpond)
> satellite with an uplink through an NT1+II USB ISDN modem on Linux?
err, yes. Its an extremely common setup for one of the boxes from my
company.
> The DirecPC USB mo
At Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:33:53 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote:
> I have uploaded a web based CD to our Moodle setup, but all the links
> are broken. In true sloppy MS style most of the filenames are in
> uppercase whereas the html files refer to them in lower case. The
> underlying webserver is Apache, (t
At Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:23:03 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> For security, you can GPG-sign command messages, and then the script can
> just verify the signature before executing anything.
~% apt-cache show grunt
Package: grunt
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 36
Maintainer: John G
At Fri, 27 May 2005 13:04:21 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> What's the most sensible and reliable way to record a phone conversation,
> assuming a standard phone, using Free Software (and probably a bit of
> hardware)?
You can get phone audio into a computer by using one of those old
voice-modems with
At Tue, 24 May 2005 09:36:56 +0800 (WST), jam wrote:
> I love vi, but do not use the vi-command-edit option of bash.
> My mate who does asked me how to do this with the standard (emacs) shell
> edit functions:
>
> /someword # look for a history event starting 'someword'
>
At Thu, 05 May 2005 12:30:01 +1000, James Gregory wrote:
> What other options do I have?
I haven't tried it, but apparently advi is a DVI viewer (ie: TeX
output) designed for presentations that can embed other X11 programs.
Also note that PDF can embed movies which acroread might display. I
doub
At Mon, 2 May 2005 15:57:46 +1000, Julio Cesar Ody wrote:
> I tried to run a few GUI (X11) applications to run through my
> webserver, but no success so far. They simply don't run, and no error
> appear in any of my logs. Does anybody know how to do it?
Heh, its a crazy idea but strangely enough n
Note the specific NT1Plus firmware version can make a big difference
under Linux.
I don't have the details handy and its only a vague memory, but I
think 3.0x is the good version - 2.xx drops every second packet and
3.5x has some other problem. Do some websearching and you'll find it
described in
At Tue, 5 Apr 2005 13:09:18 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> I have a windows based CD that I would like to install and use with
> Wine. The setup.exe prog crashes.
> What's the best way to proceed? is there anyway to extract and install
> without using the setup.exe program?
MSI is actually one of th
At Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:26:02 -0700 (MST), Dennis M. Gray wrote:
> I have set up a Postfix MTA with several virtual mail domains. So far in
> the doucmentation I have not found a way to have mail sent by Postfix to
> show a time that is different than that of the server, which is in
> Arizona, USA.
At Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:32:07 +1100 (EST), Voytek Eymont wrote:
> em(ai)?l
> does it mean 'eml and/or ail' ?
no, that means "email" or "eml" (ie, with or without the "ai")
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At Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:44:26 +1100, Lyle Chapman wrote:
> Does anyone know of a gui for rdiff or something similar. Any
> suggestions are appreciated
'ediff' (in emacs) does side-by-side (or otherwise), coloured diffs -
with interactive merging, etc. Does 3-way, from a patch, etc, etc.
Its worth
At Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:57:08 +1100, Michael Lake wrote:
> Suggested a perl script:
> cat titles.html | perl -ne 'm/\.html">([^,]{1,}),/; $name=lc($1); $_
> =~ s/\.html">/\.html#$name">/; print "$_";'
equivalent to:
perl -pe 's/\.html">([^,]+),/.html#\L$1\E">/' < titles.html
(sorry, should have p
At Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:06:26 +1100, Nick Croft wrote:
> Recently any occurrence of `fi' is rendered by a greek letter. So a word
> like Office become OfØce. I'm not sure what to switch off or what kind of
> package I'm using which does this.
>
> Typical preamble:
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>
At Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:37:42 +1100, Oscar Plameras wrote:
> With my firewalls and other security critical servers, I require
> recompiling kernels by removing all UNUSED and REDUNDANT modules as
> part of the audit process so, when I got a problem such as the one
> illustrated above, I ONLY need to
At Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:05:49 +1100, Oscar Plameras wrote:
> 'tv_grab_au' does not complete execution at all. Somewhere, along the
> execution process, it bombs out with an error that says 'something is
> missing'.
> I will post the exact message as soon as I have setup my Linux box.
I'd guess tha
At Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:37:41 +1100, Oscar Plameras wrote:
> Angus Lees wrote:
> This is because tv_grab_au (from
> http://www.onlinetractorparts.com.au/rohbags/xmltvau/)
> does not work successfully on my installation. I'll try this perl
> version again and the python
&g
At Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:21:23 +1100, Oscar Plameras wrote:
> Kevin Saenz wrote:
> There is NO 'tv_grab_au' from the de-facto http://www.xmltv.org
> server. I suspect because there is none that works consistently.
ffs Oscar, the first hit on google is a perl script that I've been
using fine for abo
At Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:42:31 +1100, Ben Leslie wrote:
> 1/ Ctrl-R history searching
>
> When using the shell you pretty quickly work out that pressing up will search
> backwards through you history, however it tooks me ages to find out that you
> could search backs through the history by typing Ct
At Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:41:21 +1100, Robert Thorsby wrote:
> On 2005.01.12 22:33 Rod Butcher wrote:
> > I need to get my shell script to login to something and then enter a
> > password at a prompt.. i.e. unattended operation. I can't get the
> > script to feed it the password, it always prompts me.
At Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:16:05 +1100 (EST), Stuart Guthrie wrote:
> So Debian seems to be initialising postgres dbs with the first of these
> collate sequences meaning that whatever 'C' is seems to return
> case-sensitive search results.
>
> Mandrake's standard RPM implements postgres with en_US coll
At Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:08:42 +1100, James A Coffey wrote:
> I have been using Linux for a number of years and the only gripe
> I have is that I can not find a terminal emulator that has horizontal
> scroll bars or I can't find away to configure my environment so that
> lines scroll horizontally a
At Thu, 30 Dec 2004 00:49:49 +1100, Michael Lake wrote:
> I have a server and I'm using pdflib to generate a PDF file and sending
> back to a user. At home it all works fine. But on the server when I
> create the PDF and view it ALL the text is missing. Even if I download
> the PDF file there ar
At Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:55:13 +1100, Indelible wrote:
> I don't have have gnome installed either, just WindowMaker.
> So I guess gnome-font-properties is not really an option.
Ah. So edit /etc/fonts/fonts.conf (or ~/.fonts.conf) directly.
This is assuming your fonts are rendered through fontconfi
At Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:48:15 +0100, Michael Hayder wrote:
> Now evolution can use your webcal://foo.bar calendar. But I am not able
> to use webcal://foo.bar/mic.ics.. My problem is I could not find out how
> to enable webcal:// on my webserver or what program is necessary to use
> it. Can you send
At Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:14:54 +1100, Indelible wrote:
> Yes, definitely the native res.
> Everything else is sharp as, it's just the fonts which give me trouble.
Run gnome-font-properties(*) and play around with the anti-aliasing
amounts and the various LCD RGBA orderings. You also get to tell
gn
At Wed, 26 May 2004 14:40:51 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
> add 'printing = bsd' to the share,
Ah yes, I saw someone mention that during my web searching. I had no
luck with it since I think its only implemented in the *latest*
version or so of samba.
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At Wed, 26 May 2004 11:23:38 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
>[2004/05/26 11:10:40, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_queue_get(911)
>Unable to get jobs for ipp://localhost/printers/pdf-printer -
> client-error-not-found
>[2004/05/26 11:10:43, 0] printing/print_cups.c:cups_job_submit(779)
>
At Sat, 8 May 2004 10:38:33 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> So I got this USB IR port and remote bundled with my DVB card. I'd
> kinda like a generic IrDA port to use with my phone and iPaq, so I'm
> wondering if I can use this one.
I think I read somewhere that IR remotes and IrDA use quite different
At Fri, 7 May 2004 11:04:55 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> I train it on all my spam and non-spam, and I train it every week on
> mail received during that week. (With a cronjob, I just need to make
> sure false negatives and positives are moved into an appropriate
> folder.) I don't delete the exis
At Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:47:12 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> I'm accustomed to starting my various Python and Perl files with:
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> or
> #!/usr/bin/env perl
> However, you can't pass arguments to whatever you're invoking, thanks to
> the limits of the #! interpretion ("#!/usr/bi
At Sat, 13 Mar 2004 19:55:26 +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
> Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Do you have nfs-common installed?
>
> Yes. That version has
> nfs-common
> nfs-kernel-server
> nfs-user-server running.
>
> All three were restarted with no difference and the machine was rebooted
>
At Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:35:31 +1100, mlh wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 02:30:12PM +1100, Geoffrey Cowling wrote:
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> > ./setup: cannot connect to X server :0
> > so I have to logout as user and
At Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:40:14 +1100, Michael Lake wrote:
> This is a question about the Deb SIG bug squash this weekend.
> I have a *repeatable* Debian bug involving libdbi-perl on a Ti PowerBook
> running Debian stable (Debian bug number #230716).
> Is this the sort of thing that can get looked at
At Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:03:30 +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> If you are willing to comment on your use of P2P technology, please
> contact the SLUG committee, and we'll pass your details on.
I used a web browser once and I believe there was no globally
centralised server involved at any point. Does
At Wed, 4 Feb 2004 00:28:43 +1100, Tom Massey wrote:
> * Angus Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-03 21:17]:
> > At Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:45:19 +1100, Tom Massey wrote:
> > > Is there a way to embed fonts in a pdf file created on Linux?
> > ps2pdf can't embed a fon
At Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:15:05 +1030, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Matrox in both cases? Badness -> Matrox drivers and Xinerama have this
> effect, which is really annoying, because the drivers and hardware otherwise
> rock.
(my Matrox MilleniumII has never had any problems with Xinerama)
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At Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:34:07 +1100, Bill Bennett wrote:
> 1. I'm using the palatino package, ie., \usepackage{palatino}
> 2. I want to use the letter u with the tichy little hole above it
> (apologies in advance to the Czechs, but it's not an umlaut and I
> don't know what it's called). I looked up
At Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:45:19 +1100, Tom Massey wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to embed fonts in pdf documents so that I can
> be sure that they look exactly as intended wherever viewed.
>
> Using OOo 1.1 beta 2, or kword 1.1.1, I'm able to create pdf files,
> but the fonts aren't embedded, and alt
At Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:06:56 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> > An interesting article I found about the possibilities of Open Source in
> > Iraq
>
> Interestingly enough, we just kicked off a mailing list for GNOME in Iran.
> Hopefully we don't get a GNOME/KDE-Iran/Iraq war on our hands.
Aren't Ame
At Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:29:15 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote:
> I am working on some doco on programming languages in tex. There is a
> lot of words specific for that particular language and I don't want it
> polluting my personal list and I ouwld like the checks consistent for
> others to keep it easy.
At Tue, 25 Nov 2003 23:45:48 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote:
> I am getting this error:
>
> process.c:1018: warning: passing arg 1 of `putenv' discards qualifiers
> from pointer target type
>
> It turns out that I am sending a "const" string to putenv which is
> defined:
>
> ./stdlib.h:extern int puten
At Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:17:11 +1100 (EST), education wrote:
> I download the package Filter-1.26 from CPAN. I'm having problems
> understanding how to use this package to get Perl code to go through the
> filter before compilation.
> Also does this method clearly prevents anyone from seeing the so
At Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:30:09 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> > I have 3 computer that one of them I want to become my gateway. I have
> > read about the Masquarding HOWTOs but i seems too difficult to be
> > understood. My question is there anyone that could teach me using NAT or
> > is there any goo
Oh yeah - if you *really* want to do this, fork() first and test in the
child. If the child exited with a segfault you know it was a bad idea.
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At Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:07:40 +1000,Ken Foskey wrote:
> If anyone is on a very fresh version of K2.6 with extra patches can you
> please run this code and see if it crashes. It fails on all K2.6 up to
> Test6 release. I would be interested to hear of any success.
>
> Here is what I get:
> Getting
At Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:14:32 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> I hereby offer to try and find/fix any bug in any piece of software that
> mets the following conditions:
heh, that sounds like fun.
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At Wed, 08 Oct 2003 16:32:21 +1300, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> This is in stable (!) and I've forgotten how to do it [apt] off CD-ROM.
% man -k 'apt.*cdrom'
apt-cdrom (8)- APT CDROM managment utility
% man apt-cdrom
NAME
apt-cdrom - APT CDROM managment utility
SYNOPSIS
apt-cdro
Surely moderating lists based on From address is flawed, since that
data can be so easily faked. I know I get plenty of spam claiming to
be from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"..
If the intention is to have 0% spam make it through to the list, I
don't see how this is going to achieve that. I do see that it
At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:22:47 +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
> Where do you get ide-cd module under Debian Woody.
The search engine on http://packages.debian.org/ lists:
lib/modules/2.4.16-386/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o
base/kernel-image-2.4.16-386
lib/modules/2.4.16-586/kernel/drivers/ide
At Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:18:27 +1000, Andy Eager wrote:
> I have designed the language & written an interpreter for it, but would
> like emacs to do some syntax highlighting for me.
After you've written the rest of your major mode (which gives details
like syntax definitions (what constitutes a "wo
At 15 Sep 2003 12:49:10 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 12:28, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Of course, if they are installed, then you've got bigger problems that
> I'd rather not think about unless they're actually happening. :-)
An easy way to see what fonts the XServer knows about is
At Mon, 15 Sep 2003 15:06:30 +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Checking the X font server's configuration file in
> /etc/X11/xfs/config I find I have no 'xfs' directory there.
> However, 'find' tells me I have
Debian doesn't use/need xfs by default. I doubt you have a reason to
use it either.
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At Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:44:09 +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> Debian stable contains xpdf-reader Version: 1.00-3 and that is what I
> have currently installed. I have just pulled down xpdf version 2.02 from
> foolabs.com and compiled it. It works fine but I have not yet done 'make
> install'.
> In
At Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:52:14 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > You also want the list of installed software, which you should normally be
> > able to get from apt Hmm. Presumably you can get it from looking
> > directly at where apt stores its files.
>
> dpkg -l
>
> or for just the package nam
At Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:10:08 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > In a shell script, is the a better (i.e.: more elegant) way to get a
> > variable to cycle from 1 to another value (such as 100)
> >
> > Currently I am using:
> >
> > $ I=1 ; while [ "$I" -le "10" ]; do echo $I ; I=`expr $I + 1`; do
At Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:40:40 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> I'm dubious about 'vastly more versatile' - that quite unsubstantiated.
For example, you can't use random perl functions to control squid's
behaviour. You can with apache+mod_perl, which in my book counts as
"vastly more versatility".
-
At Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:35:09 +1000, Alex Sutcliffe wrote:
> I'm running woody and installed from a cd set. For some time I have been
> puzzled by the fact that my /apt/get/sources.list file lists the 3 cds I
> have as unstable. This has puzzled me for a while since I thought that cds
> were all
Dude, you've hosed your system.
At this point you can either:
restore from backups (*ahem*)
try to undo whatever you did (iirc you moved /usr and /lib somewhere
else)
try to duplicate exactly what Debian had put in those directories by
hand (almost impossible)
or save what data you can
At Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:41:14 +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> Bill Bennett wrote:
> > I was going to use a .jpg file in a figure in a LaTeX document,
> > on the grounds that an.eps file would be too big.
>
> I don't have my cp of Goosens here to look up the graphics rule but it
> looks like you are w
At Sat, 23 Aug 2003 02:37:14 -0700 (PDT), Phillipus Gunawan wrote:
> My debian box is running LDAP server, slapd. It seems
> working fine because I can query the server from
> 127.0.0.1/localhost address.
>
> I dont have any 'ldap.conf' file in my box, but I do
> have the slapd.conf. Later on, I t
At Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:15:35 +1200 (NZST), Andrew McNaughton wrote:
> That file contains the preferences you set up. You could edit it, or you
> could just back it up somewhere and delete it, in which case
> `perl -MCPAN -e shell` should ask you to provide the configuration details
> again.
.. or
At Sat, 16 Aug 2003 11:45:21 +1000, Louis Selvon wrote:
> I am trying to extract all the data from the table under the "Team",
> "Manager", "TP" stuff.
HTML::TableExtract makes tasks like that trivial. I strongly
recommend you check it out (you can find it on CPAN if it isn't
already packaged for
At Thu, 7 Aug 2003 23:45:58 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> This behaviour has long been considered a bug
> in the shell by many. But unfortunately it's
> too late to change it for the standard shell.
zsh by default "does the right thing", which of course irritates the
hell out of everyone who
At Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:53:41 +1000 (EST), Simon Bryan wrote:
> Now I am looking at how do I set other Mozilla prefs - or would it
> be easier in some other browser? I need to set the home page and the
> proxy settings in particular. In our windows setup we can do this
> with a combination of profil
At 12 Aug 2003 13:49:53 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> One of the other publishers is using DocBook as their primary system, so
> I thought I would have a look at changing from LaTeX. But, as I said, I
> need (or at least want) the good author support (outlining, citation,
> cross-referencing) that I
At Tue, 5 Aug 2003 02:45:41 +1000, Geoffrey Robertson wrote:
> I put MSWord under wine on her machine after years of argueing with
> people out at UWS who seem to know no other document format. I could
> do the same with IE5. But not without a fight.
I was considering packaging an "iexplore" in
At Mon, 4 Aug 2003 23:18:19 , Voytek Eymont wrote:
> what's the recommendation for a m-r-s-r tool ?
>
> I'm looking to replace multiple string pairs in some web files.
> all I need is simple 'string a' for 'string b' swap, every instance,
For an interactive tool, you can use emacs' dired mode to
At Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:02:29 , Voytek Eymont wrote:
> what can I use to recursively change file names/extension to all lower case ?
> I have some files and/directories like:
>
> I tried rename few times with little effect:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] photos]# rename .JPG *.jpg
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] photo
At Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:32:03 +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote:
> Receiving faxes via efax/jfax whatever. All come in as multi-page tif.
> Which apparently is a bit of a standard in 'document management
> software' circles.
For what its worth, the "best" format for scanned (or faxed) documents
sounds
At Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:30:18 , Voytek Eymont wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] voytek]# tr -d '[\200-\377]' unixfile1
> didn't work...
no it wouldn't since \r is \015, which isn't between \200 and \377.
(see "man ascii")
the above command would strip "8 bit characters" (the top half of the
charset - wh
At Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:50:53 +1000, Mary wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> > - what can I use to strip the CR ?
> The command dos2unix will do this.
"tr -d '\r' < dosfile > unixfile" will also do the trick for simple
cases.
I usually just load it up in an editor (emacs or vi)
At Mon, 28 Jul 2003 23:05:35 +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 09:03:05PM +0000, Angus Lees wrote:
> > I was going to say I hadn't noticed any difference - but I just tried
> > getting X to work and I can't find the right module to make /dev/p
At Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:15:07 +1000, Andy Eager wrote:
> Is there any way of setting an environment variable in the shell script
> so that it modifies the environment of the *parent* process?
nope.
> I fear not - but is there any way of returning something from a shell
> other than through an ex
At Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:44:13 +1000, Steven Kowalik wrote:
> At 6:50 pm, Monday, July 28 2003, Kevin Saenz mumbled:
> > Just wondering if anyone has started playing with
> > 2.6.0 kernel? What's it like?
> >
> I have. It's ... different. It uses modprobe.conf, rather than modules.conf,
> PCMCIA re
At Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:36:38 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a backup strategy. What I want to find
> is all the configuration files for the various installed packages.
> Some are obvious (/etc/apache/http.d.conf, /etc/passwd) Others are not
> (/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packag
At Sat, 26 Jul 2003 17:49:00 -0700 (PDT), Mark A. Bell wrote:
> Being a beginner at LaTeX, I produced my document using LyX (on top of
> Debian Unstable). I just exported the file as a PDF. The 'default'
> font that Lyx uses is apparently a Type 3 font. Pdffonts reveals:
>
> name
At Sat, 26 Jul 2003 08:27:10 +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> I'm starting to write my documention in DocBook SGML. Are there any
> tools that format/layout my SGML?
>
> I don't mean tools that convert SGML to HTML etc (for that I obviously
> use Jade). I'm looking for something similar to the C cod
At Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:20:09 , Voytek Eymont wrote:
> I'd say, for higher quality, there is no subsitute for TIFF, as far as bit
> mapped images go.
tiff is a "container" format, so what format you really have inside a
.tiff is really what determines the image's characteristics.
in pretty much al
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