Re: Shells and Syntax Again

2004-08-26 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > Thomas Tempé (Johnix) wrote: > > However, I believe you'd have to implement an "undelete" mechanism in > > the filesystem. yes that is indeed the case. The INodes need not to be overwritten for undo to work and the location needs still to be marke

Re: X Accessibility (Was: Gnopernicus ...)

2004-08-26 Thread Veli-Pekka Tatila
Kenny Hitt wrote: Your feelings are from getting thrown into something new and clearly very different. Agreed. I reckon I'll get used to things eventually. And there's still that GUI side in Linux, though it's optional. what would happen if you opened "My computer", selected your hd, and press

Re: Shells and Syntax Again

2004-08-26 Thread Veli-Pekka Tatila
Mario Lang wrote: No, Linux is for people who know what they are doing :-). Hehe, see what you mean . Yeah, and where do you get the diskspace from? Well, I've got only 10 GB on this Linux box but provided that I'll install Debian on the other machines at some point, they have loads more. Disk spa

Re: Shells and Syntax Again

2004-08-26 Thread Veli-Pekka Tatila
Thomas Tempé (Johnix) wrote: However, I believe you'd have to implement an "undelete" mechanism in the filesystem. I thought so, too. THe lack of such an undo mechanism isn't that bad, these are just ideas that I think would be cool, and that might be possible in Linux. I'll consider scripting a

Re: Networking and software speech with Speakup

2004-08-26 Thread Veli-Pekka Tatila
Hi Kenny, I'm snipping heavily as I've resolved the networking stuff. THX to everyone taking part. Kenny Hitt wrote: software speech requires a working sound card and other programs to work. During the initial install, a hardware synth is the only way to go. I see what you mean. That is software

Re: Networking and software speech with Speakup

2004-08-26 Thread Veli-Pekka Tatila
Mario Lang wrote:> You want to add "3c59x" to /etc/modules to get your network card Yep, already did that. My friend heldped me to carry out the commands needed to configure the network and all. NOw the networking side works again, W00T. ALso, we got the sound working, too, without even having to

screader

2004-08-26 Thread Sergey Fleytin
Hello, all! I have just switched from debian Woody to Sid. Among new packages I found a program called screader. I installed the package. I also installed festival. But screader does not speak. If anyone succeded in trying this program, please, drop me a not about what I need to do to make it talk

Re: X Accessibility (Was: Gnopernicus ...)

2004-08-26 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:24:42PM +0300, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > Kenny Hitt wrote: > I'm not sure if I'd say the same. I mean, I've been spoiled by GUIs so to > speak. Even though Linux is loads more powerful than DOS, I still don't > feel quite at home sitting in front of a text terminal. At

Re: Shells and Syntax Again

2004-08-26 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Mario Lang wrote: > > Does Linux have some kind of an undelete command, and might it be > > called urm for consistency? > > No, Linux is for people who know what they are doing :-). infact yes, there are 2 demian packages that claim to undelete fiels but only on ext2fs one

Re: Networking and software speech with Speakup

2004-08-26 Thread Kenny Hitt
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:10:43PM +0300, Veli-Pekka Tatila wrote: > Hi Kenny, > Having just accidentally deleted your original I had to dig it up in the > archives. I'm posting with the same subject so hope it'll occupy the right > place in the message tree, hehe. > > Kenny Hitt wrote: > >You p

Re: Shells, Mplayer and Security

2004-08-26 Thread Mario Lang
"Veli-Pekka Tatila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> ~$ sudo apt-get > What does sudo stand for? SuperUser Do It is a program designed to allow non-root users to run commands as the root user. It can be used to selectively give one non-root access to certain system management commands. >> zsh is

Re: Shells and Syntax Again

2004-08-26 Thread Mario Lang
"Veli-Pekka Tatila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Thomas Tempé (Johnix) wrote: >> check twic before typing a "risky" command anyway). > People say you don't know what you've lost until you lose it. It > didn't bother me in the DOS days but nowadays I feel like this about > the lack of the Recycle

Re: Shells, Mplayer and Security

2004-08-26 Thread Andor Demarteau
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Thomas Tempé (Johnix) wrote: > Andor Demarteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > ~$ sudo apt-get > > > What does sudo stand for? > > su is the command that lets you gain super-user rights. > sudo means "as super-user, do ..." but only applies to a restricted > se

Re: Shells, Mplayer and Security

2004-08-26 Thread Johnix
Andor Demarteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > ~$ sudo apt-get > > What does sudo stand for? su is the command that lets you gain super-user rights. sudo means "as super-user, do ..." but only applies to a restricted set of commands. Have fun, -- Thomas Tempé http://www.alysse.org/tom Bi