On Mon, 19 Sep 2016, at 17:49, Colin Law wrote:
> On 19 September 2016 at 17:18, Robert McWilliam <r...@allmail.net> wrote:
> Is not the partition table in the space before the first partition? So
> in the example I posted where I had
>
> Device Boot Start End Sector
eans you're writing more to the cards than
you need to. I think you'd be better to mount the image file and copy
the files across to the card.
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with upstart (if that had been what your system were using).
I'd look at what other functions are in the systemd.sh script, search
the other scripts for places they're called and make sure the logic
around that will pick the systemd option.
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and then opening with the
editor of your choice [1].
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[1] If that choice isn't emacs you're doing it wrong ;)
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and then you get gedit.
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in the driver package you
downloaded though - it's likely to be source that you need to build.
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and see if I can spot anything.
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[1] http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/
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:
command | tee file_name
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install aptitude or use the GUI of your choice.
If you've used aptitude since originally installing this machine then it
shouldn't have gone away: something else is broken if that's the case.
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Manager.
If an upgrade between releases didn't help then I think there is
probably a file gotten left from an older version that's masking the
right one.
What's in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/ ?
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it (and possibly others) as well take note of what's being
removed and remember to put it/them back too.
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Alan's
recommendation of Bitfolk) for experimenting and anything I want to keep
running without the risk of my playing around breaking it gets moved to
webfaction.
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[1] webfaction.com
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that...
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broken dependencies there is probably more wrong than this but if
we get to the next error hopefully that has some clues...
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down with the logic or not. Normally power management for attached
devices would be done with stuff on the device.
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We can only see a short
but it would require your users to remove the link and make a
normal file before they could make changes.
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if the Nexus One
supports bluetooth DUN where it's the one doing the dialing.
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The buck doesn't even slow down here.
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. Unmounting
flushes the cache to the device, but if you remove the device without
unmounting the data might not have made it to the device yet.
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to survive for a while then getting a cable
designed to be outside has a far better chance of success than
modifying a normal cable.
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Arguing
in the plastic dissolving.
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to try it if we can't find a time when we're both available (or
do but my way of explaining things makes no sense to you...)
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to things on the local machine with normal
paths and stuff on the remote machine with paths with the server
address prepended.
Hopefully that'll help some, if anythings not clear: ask.
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is set up to prefer the text part when
there are options then you only get the signature. This is one reason
why sending HTML email can be annoying.
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in the directory
hierarchy (to home/) and then copy the folder for your user.
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system unbootable and/or kill kittens through my
lack of understanding and/or typos.
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few
of us left
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The downside of being better than everyone else is that people
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seem to remember it was Fn-space (might have been a different
modifier).
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Occam's Razor: the simpler an explanation, the more likely
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Maemo development site:
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PyMaemo tutorial:
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and wireless networking work fine. For wireless connections that
column lists how long ago the computer has connected to that network.
Sorry I can't offer any help on what might actually be wrong though.
Robert
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provider though.
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access) but the code needs tweaking (or
completely rewriting) to get that performance and it requires thinking
a bit differently compare to current processors.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 06:10:17PM +0100, Mac wrote:
Robert McWilliam wrote:
Do you get any error messages if you run firefox from a terminal?
None: it runs with no errors...
Helpful. I've had a quick look for how to get more debug output from
firefox and it looks like it needs
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Instructions should be read first, or not at all.
Anything else is admitting defeat...
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access to the dropbox nautilus extension:
http://forums.getdropbox.com/topic.php?id=2852replies=5
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 12:15:53AM +0100, Philip Wyett wrote:
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 22:46 +0100, Robert McWilliam wrote:
That's kind of missing the whole point of open source. snip
Well... I'll skip the first sentence as such a thing should be never
said on a list such as this because
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a
desktop CPU.
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of
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for limiting the choices
available.
OK, I'll stop ranting now :)
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it only
happen when you've got one particular file (or files from the same
source) open? What do you do to trigger it?
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Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human
haven't used it so can't
say how well (or even if) it works.
http://www.redfelineninja.dsl.pipex.com/software/pydar.html
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is rarely interchangeable). Rockbox is software that has been ported
to a range of audio players but yours doesn't appear on the list.
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a network drive handy to test with but I think it should
still work there. Could you try running liferea from a terminal with
the profile on the network drive and see if it outputs any clues about
what is going wrong?
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, and it doesn't look easy to fix.
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list (save annoying anyone with a long thread) if you want. Once it's
working it could go in your howto for anyone else wanting to the same
thing.
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Weinberg's Law
on the files
you're working with.
Hopefully some of that will help,
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People who think they know what they are doing are especially annoying
to those of us who do
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On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 07:54:02PM +, Alan Pope wrote:
Anyone else interested?
Not sure how much free time I'll have that week but I'm certainly
interested.
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Klingon
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:44:36AM +, Javad Ayaz wrote:
Can someone advise as to how i can put this back on a dvd. i.e so that the
menus become clickable.?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DVDAuthoring
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Robert
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What if the Hokey Kokey IS what it's all about?
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should have explained better. xorg.conf isn't an application that you
run, it is a text file that stores the configuration X uses. Doesn't really
matter if everything is working though :)
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that
doesn't always work.
If you run xrandr in a terminal what resolution does it report is being
used, and does it list any other options?
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On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:12:17 +, Robert McWilliam
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/etc/xorg.conf
Actually i think i've missed a level in that path. It should be
/etc/X11/xorg.conf or something similar, sorry i'm not at an actual
computer ATM to check
up
what it's native resolution is? If not it can usually be found by googling the
model number.
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Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
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that does point at your CD drive rather than
trying to find the right option to tell mplayer to look somewhere else (the
mplayer man page can be interesting reading though).
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Colour
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you can use either a quality number similar to the one for vorbis and
get variable bit rate output with the bit rate adjusted to meet that quality
level or give a constant bit rate.
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On 19/12/07 03:08:51, Robert McWilliam wrote:
- You can then change the options in the gstreamer pipeline to whatever you
want.
Just realised that I didn't actually say what to change in the gstreamer
pipeline :)
For vorbis there will be a section of the pipeline something like: vorbisenc
).
If you prefer bash to python the dbus-send program can be used.
I use gnome-screensaver-command -l bound to a key combo to lock the screen,
that can be added to your script.
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On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 18:30 +, Robert McWilliam wrote:
Doesn't look like dpkg is trying to do anything with kdelibs-data
then. Looking pack at the error messages I have a new theory. The
problem might be with reading /var/libs/dpkg/info/kdelibs-
data.list
Can you check
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when you
ask it to install stuff (or remove mythTV)?
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so is being looked at every time dpkg is asked to do
anything.
'dpkg -s kdelibs-data' ought to give more info on what dpkg is trying to
do with it. 'dpkg -C' might also give some useful info.
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a new theory. The problem
might be with reading /var/libs/dpkg/info/kdelibs-data.list Can you
check if other apps can read that file (e.g. run
'wc /var/libs/dpkg/info/kdelibs-data.list')?
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than an ipod. If it plays FLAC and/or ogg it gets
bonus points.
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byte and a b means bit but that convention is
broken often enough that you can't really rely on it.
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that because I
tend to use the command line tools to control the networking (I have
scripts that do that and other things I want changed when I change
locations).
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At the Electric Company: We
mentioned in a few of the sites talking about putting linux on this
machine, so it might be something you'd want to do. I don't know how
the default behaviour under linux compares to that on windows as I
never had windows installed.
Robert
navigation using the
up/down keys. The man page for csh says these should be set up
automatically. The output from 'bindkey' might shed some light: is up
bound to up-history?
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...
I am not very computerate, obviously, but from where did dpkg get the
package?
apt will download packages from the repositories to satisfy
dependencies.
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Everything should
still
been there, but if it wasn't and was a dependency of the plugin you
installed apt would have downloaded the package from the repository
server on the internet.
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I have the body
too but I'm not
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