Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions

2007-07-21 Thread ArcticFox
On Jul 22, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: Thanks, Arctic! That's the type of solution I hoped to find. I was going to ask you if there is an easy way to allow the user to select from a variety of font sizes (for example, NORMAL - LARGE - HUGE). But then it occurred to me that any

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-21 Thread Telly Williams
> What do you get when you: > > sudo dmidecode | grep Cache > I get: # dmidecode 2.8 # No SMBIOS nor DMI entry point found, sorry What does that mean? I googled this response and only found lots of scripts. I apt-get the package and it's already installed. This does

Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions

2007-07-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Gary Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070722 00:56]: > Russell L. Harris oplink.net> writes: > > I am attempting to accommodate visitors with impaired vision, by > > generating a HTML version of each PDF document, in order to enable a > > visitor to enlarge the type via the browser. > How do you cr

Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions

2007-07-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
* ArcticFox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070722 00:35]: > >> My web site includes links to documents in PDF format. Because of >> length, the documents are set in a 10-point font, with footnotes in an >> 8- or 9-point. >> >> I am attempting to accommodate visitors with impaired vision, by >> generating a

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-21 Thread BartlebyScrivener
On Jul 21, 11:40 pm, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I looking at something different, or am I getting jipped on my > Cache RAM for my CPU? If so, how can I reclaim the lost Cache RAM? What do you get when you: sudo dmidecode | grep Cache ? rd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions

2007-07-21 Thread Gary Parker
Russell L. Harris oplink.net> writes: > I am attempting to accommodate visitors with impaired vision, by > generating a HTML version of each PDF document, in order to enable a > visitor to enlarge the type via the browser. How do you create the pdfs? There might be an alternate route for proces

Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions

2007-07-21 Thread ArcticFox
My web site includes links to documents in PDF format. Because of length, the documents are set in a 10-point font, with footnotes in an 8- or 9-point. I am attempting to accommodate visitors with impaired vision, by generating a HTML version of each PDF document, in order to enable a visitor

Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions

2007-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/07 00:18, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070722 00:07]: >> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:54:34PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> >>> Again, the issue is with the font size in printed output. >> Um, oops. I missed

Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions

2007-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/22/07 00:01, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:54:34PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> Again, the issue is with the font size in printed output. > > Um, oops. I missed that. > > That's harder. PDF is designed to print an exa

Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions

2007-07-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070722 00:07]: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:54:34PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > Again, the issue is with the font size in printed output. > > Um, oops. I missed that. > > That's harder. PDF is designed to print an exact image, not to be > user-adjusta

Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions

2007-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/21/07 23:54, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070721 23:35]: >> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:26:54PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: >>> My web site includes links to documents in PDF format. Because of >>> length, the d

Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions

2007-07-21 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:54:34PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Again, the issue is with the font size in printed output. Um, oops. I missed that. That's harder. PDF is designed to print an exact image, not to be user-adjustable. I think if you're going to use Portable Document Format you

Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions

2007-07-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070721 23:35]: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:26:54PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > My web site includes links to documents in PDF format. Because of > > length, the documents are set in a 10-point font, with footnotes in an > > 8- or 9-point. > > > > I am att

Re: Sound doesn't work with Iceweasel open

2007-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/21/07 23:31, Goudar Vishwanathappa Manu wrote: > hello, > Whenever Iceweasel is open, when I play songs I don't get any sound > output. If I go to System>Preferences>Sound and press test, a window > pops up saying > "audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=5

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-21 Thread Telly Williams
> On 07/21/07 20:08, Telly Williams wrote: > > > > The HP, under cpuinfo, has: > > > > model name: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor > > cpu MHz: 367.497 > > stepping: 0 > > cache size: 64 KB > > > > ram: 256 MB > > Am I seeing things?

Sound doesn't work with Iceweasel open

2007-07-21 Thread Goudar Vishwanathappa Manu
hello, Whenever Iceweasel is open, when I play songs I don't get any sound output. If I go to System>Preferences>Sound and press test, a window pops up saying "audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! gconfaudiosink: Internal GStreamer error: state change failed. Please fi

Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions

2007-07-21 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:26:54PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > My web site includes links to documents in PDF format. Because of > length, the documents are set in a 10-point font, with footnotes in an > 8- or 9-point. > > I am attempting to accommodate visitors with impaired vision, by > g

web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions

2007-07-21 Thread Russell L. Harris
My web site includes links to documents in PDF format. Because of length, the documents are set in a 10-point font, with footnotes in an 8- or 9-point. I am attempting to accommodate visitors with impaired vision, by generating a HTML version of each PDF document, in order to enable a visitor to

Re: [solved] Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/21/07 21:19, Andy Goss wrote: [snip] > > The KDE text editor Kate lets you select line endings - > Unix/Windows/Mac. It also has a good spellchecker and you can add > a word count function. I do all my work (journalistic) with Kate > to send to

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-21 Thread Aenn Seidhe Priest
Well, CPUInfo has the answer: cache size of 256K for the P-II, and only 64 for K6. Also, the P-II had high-speed on-die cache, whereas the K6 had its cache memory separated on the motherboard (might be different for notebook versions though). That, and possibly kernel/code optimisation for the P-II

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-21 Thread Mike Robinson
Andrei Popescu wrote: It has already been said, you might want to try the K7 kernel. I first went that route: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00386.html Plus, it's well established that the AMD processors are fully compatible with 686 (they never would have sold a chip otherwise

[solved] Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-07-21 Thread Andy Goss
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in >> fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not >> correctly read: the line ends are not recognised. The remedy is to cut the >> text >> and paste

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/21/07 20:08, Telly Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I have an HP Pavilion 6360 with Linux Debian. I also have a > Thinkpad that a friend gave me recently which runs Linux Debian, > as well. > > Here's the thing. > > The TP, under cpuinfo,

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-21 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
Telly Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I have an HP Pavilion 6360 with Linux Debian. I also have a Thinkpad > that a friend gave me recently which runs Linux Debian, as well. > > Here's the thing. > > The TP, under cpuinfo, has: > > model name: Mobile Pentium II >

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 07:54:40PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > On 7/21/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Nelson Castillo([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> > On 7/21/07, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:53:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Nelson Castillo
If you install as stated above with aptitude, tesseract-ocr-data is automatically installed unless you change default behavior of aptitude. FTBFS is just package issue. This package should work. Otherwise, please file bug report. Osamu, thanks a lot. The package works well. Sorry -- if I was

Re: CPU Speed

2007-07-21 Thread David Fox
On 7/21/07, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, The HP runs MUCH slower than the TP. Why is that? Is that supposed to happen? Is it because of the step and the cache size? Is it the ram You're comparing apples with oranges but generally the difference (but not always, i

Re: printing troubles

2007-07-21 Thread Gary Parker
On 2007-07-21 at 18:50:29 GMT, Florian Kulzer writes: > How do you print the test page? The CUPS web interface. > Is the hplip package installed on the shorewall box? If not, try to > install it and see if that helps. Yes hplip is installed. > Otherwise, try to use IPP (internet printing proto

CPU Speed

2007-07-21 Thread Telly Williams
Hi, I have an HP Pavilion 6360 with Linux Debian. I also have a Thinkpad that a friend gave me recently which runs Linux Debian, as well. Here's the thing. The TP, under cpuinfo, has: model name: Mobile Pentium II cpu MHz: 365.033

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 7/21/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nelson Castillo([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 7/21/07, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:53:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:25:43 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Nelson Castillo([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 7/21/07, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:53:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:25:43 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Why not use the Debian package? It is called "t

Re: Eclipse minor annoyance

2007-07-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 11:45:06PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:23:46AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > I use eclipse downloaded from the net,just expand it into > > /usr/local/lib/eclipse and it works fine. I found that the eclipse through > > debian was a bit too t

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 7/21/07, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:53:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:25:43 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Why not use the Debian package? It is called "tesseract-ocr". Yes. But it is old 1.02 version and has FTBFS bug.

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:53:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:25:43 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Why not use the Debian package? It is called "tesseract-ocr". Yes. But it is old 1.02 version and has FTBFS bug. If anyone here is interesed to help maintain update w

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-07-21 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 7/21/07, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not correctly read: the line ends are not recognised. The remedy is to cut the text and paste it

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:25:43 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: [...] > I installed tesseract with configure, make, make install, then tried to run it > but got the following error message: > > Unable to load unicharset file /usr/local/share/tessdata/eng.unicharset > > . In the README file ther

Re: After upgrade to etch/stable:JEdit does not run and others

2007-07-21 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 6/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > today, I updated from etch-pre[?] to etch stable. > Now, the java-based JEdit does not start. You'll get a short mousepointer, > thats all. Look at /usr/bin/jedit and be sure the path to java is correct. I can't tell you what it should be

Re: replacing intel-agp.o

2007-07-21 Thread Jörg Becker
Hi Steve, >1. downloaded the kernel source, including intel-agp.c, into a directory >  /tmp/tmp/linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/linux-2.6-2.6.18.dfsg.1 Is this the correct version? My etch/amd64 kernel has version 2.6.18-4. > Now I'm not sure what the minimal way is to compile intel-agp.o. I don't > wa

Re: Debian not auto mount my CDs / DVDs

2007-07-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 21:20:51 -0400, Nguyen, Cuong K. wrote: > It seems that there is a problem of the current version of hal on my > system. > When I insert CD/DVDs, I am sure something is recognized there, because my > XP in my Virtual Box reads bootable CD just fine. The only thing is Debian

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I tried gocr and the result was quite miserable. Then I tried with MS Windows > and it was almost perfect. Somewhere in the web I read that OCR software > under > Linux is very poor at the moment and that it's better to use MS Windows for > that: unfortunately my test see

Re: can't get the login window to appear after leaving machine...

2007-07-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:53:38PM -0400, Manu Hack wrote: > On 7/21/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:27:32AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: >> > Dear Debianists, >> > >> > I am running ADM64 Debian Etch 4.0 r(0) on a AMD 3200 box. Everything >> is >>

Re: can't get the login window to appear after leaving machine...

2007-07-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:44:15PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > P.S. Please don't CC me, I read the list. Ooups, I meant the other poster, not you, my bad. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Di

Re: Filling /var

2007-07-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 08:16:48PM +0100, John K Masters wrote: > Running apt-get autoclean freed up 1.2GB of space! I've now put this > into anachrontab to run every 4 days. This is the first time I've run You might be interested in the cron-apt package. > unstable and didn't appreciate the hu

Re: replacing intel-agp.o

2007-07-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 01:03:08PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > So what are the minimal commands I need to just make intel-agp.o? Do I need > to put the whole source directory in some standard place, run make config, > and all that? I've compiled many times over the years but have never gotten

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 08:22:47AM -0400, Mike Robinson wrote: > I've been running Debian testing for about a year-and-a-half. It's been > quite stable. I performed a dist-upgrade about two weeks ago. It's been > unstable since. By unstable I mean that applications may crash (disappear) > an

Re: can't get the login window to appear after leaving machine...

2007-07-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 05:42:49PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: >> When you leave the machine are you running X or just console? Look at >> the powersaving options for X or console. >> > Hmmm. Are you suggesting I do ps -aux and see what is running (X) by > default? > I am using a standa

Re: Filling /var

2007-07-21 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 21 2007 12:16, John K Masters wrote: > Just had a bit of a wake-up call. Am running SID on my laptop and > getting several updates per day. Today after updating the update process > did not end properly as the /var partition had filled to 100%. In fact > this totally stuffed my whole se

Filling /var

2007-07-21 Thread John K Masters
Just had a bit of a wake-up call. Am running SID on my laptop and getting several updates per day. Today after updating the update process did not end properly as the /var partition had filled to 100%. In fact this totally stuffed my whole setup. Using GParted from a LiveCD I gave /var some more s

Re: printing troubles

2007-07-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 05:36:44 +, Gary Parker wrote: > From my gateway/firewall box I can print a CUPS test page to my networked HP > printer (connected behind a wireless router) when shorewall isn't running, but > nothing else. When shorewall is running I get the following message from CUPS:

Re: OCR questions (was: How to acquire text so to edit it?)

2007-07-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 08:10:27PM +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Somewhere in the web I read that OCR software under Linux is very > > poor at the moment and that it's better to use MS Windows for that: > > unfortunately my test seems to confirm that. What do you Debian > >

Re: ppm type 6 to ppm type 3: debian logo's

2007-07-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 15:59:12 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > When you install the debian logo package you get added boot logo's > > You can edit these with ImageMagick. > > But when you edit one of these with ImageMagick it generates a type 6 file > (first line: P6) which the kernel co

Re: Stability issues

2007-07-21 Thread Joe Hart
On Saturday 21 July 2007 14:22:47 Mike Robinson wrote: > I've been running Debian testing for about a year-and-a-half. It's been > quite stable. I performed a dist-upgrade about two weeks ago. It's > been unstable since. By unstable I mean that applications may crash > (disappear) and the syste

Re: OCR questions (was: How to acquire text so to edit it?)

2007-07-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Somewhere in the web I read that OCR software under Linux is very > poor at the moment and that it's better to use MS Windows for that: > unfortunately my test seems to confirm that. What do you Debian > listers think? I think you should check out these articles. http:/

Re: can't get the login window to appear after leaving machine...

2007-07-21 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: can't get the login window to appear after leaving machine... Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:52:52 +0300 On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:27:32AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I am running AD

OCR questions (was: How to acquire text so to edit it?)

2007-07-21 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Excuse the basic question: >> > I wish to scan a printed text so to have it in an editable text file. >> > How can I do that with `sane' and `scanimage'? On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 08:57:03AM -0400, Celejar wrote: >> Scanners scan to image formats.

Re: [solved] Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-07-21 Thread Claudius Hubig
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in >>> fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not >>> correctly read: the line ends are not recognised.

[solved] Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-07-21 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in >> fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not >> correctly read: the line ends are not recognised. The remedy is to cut the >> text >> and paste

replacing intel-agp.o

2007-07-21 Thread Steve Kleene
The i810 video driver supplied with Etch isn't working too well with my onboard Intel 946GZ video chipset. There are errors in Xorg.0.log, Xvideo is not supported, and xvidtune doesn't work. I read here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2007/01/msg00798.html how to patch intel-agp.c for th

Re: can't get the login window to appear after leaving machine...

2007-07-21 Thread Manu Hack
On 7/21/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:27:32AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I am running ADM64 Debian Etch 4.0 r(0) on a AMD 3200 box. Everything is > OK, except that on several occasions I have noticed that if I leave the > ma

Re: Installing problems: Debian 4.0r0, on LiteON DVD-RW LH-20A1p

2007-07-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:14:24 -0400 Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Colin, > This probably more has to do with the chipset in your computer than > the CD-ROM drive itself. The output of "lspci" would give us a > better clue. Not that it's any consolation to the OP, but you're right. I ha

Re: can't get the login window to appear after leaving machine...

2007-07-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:27:32AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I am running ADM64 Debian Etch 4.0 r(0) on a AMD 3200 box. Everything is > OK, except that on several occasions I have noticed that if I leave the > machine for a good while until the screen goes dead and

Re: Installing problems: Debian 4.0r0, on LiteON DVD-RW LH-20A1p

2007-07-21 Thread Colin
Kevin C. Redden wrote: > Folks: Tried to install Debian 4.0 r0 on my system, and didn't get very > far. It booted fine, but then after I did this: > > language for installing: English > country or region: Unitied States > Keymap: American English > > then it tries to detect hardware > > Then say

HPET multimedia timer

2007-07-21 Thread koffiejunkie
Hi guys, I've been fiddling with powertop on my notebook, and one of the suggestions it makes is: "enable the HPET (Multimedia Timer) in your BIOS or add the kernel patch to force-enable HPET. HPET support allows Linux to have much longer sleep intervals." I checked that the kernel has H

Re: SATA support

2007-07-21 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:29:23 -0500 Dustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How complicated is it to use a Dual-layer burner? I > appologize, I would gladly test it on my own, but I don't have the > hardware to find out, and buying it just to find out it isn't working > kind of defeats the purpose

Re: [solved] Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-07-21 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:31:19 +0200 Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodolfo Medina: > > Claudius Hubig: > > > nano, e. g., supports the MS-DOS-file format (or whatever it's > > > called) and thus you can save your text files with nano (C+O, M+D) > > > the way Windows users are able to

Stability issues

2007-07-21 Thread Mike Robinson
I've been running Debian testing for about a year-and-a-half. It's been quite stable. I performed a dist-upgrade about two weeks ago. It's been unstable since. By unstable I mean that applications may crash (disappear) and the system may freeze. The system is freezing about once a day. M

Re: Installing problems: Debian 4.0r0, on LiteON DVD-RW LH-20A1p

2007-07-21 Thread Samuel Bächler
The drive is a ATAPI CDROM LiteOn DVD LH-20A1p Search the Net to see if anybody else had the same problem using the divices above. In my opinion a nice way to search is: (1) google.com (2) KEYWORD site:lists.debian.org Happy hacking Cheers Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Aptitude question (related to markauto and unmarkauto)

2007-07-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 14:12:17 +0300, Joona Kiiski wrote: > I've collected a list of packages (about 50-100 packages) which I want > to be installed in my debian system. > > Is there a command by using which I could tell apptitude to unmarkauto > all those packages and at the same time markauto a

Aptitude question (related to markauto and unmarkauto)

2007-07-21 Thread Joona Kiiski
I've collected a list of packages (about 50-100 packages) which I want to be installed in my debian system. Is there a command by using which I could tell apptitude to unmarkauto all those packages and at the same time markauto all the rest installed packages. "aptitude markauto ~i && aptitude m

can't get the login window to appear after leaving machine...

2007-07-21 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I am running ADM64 Debian Etch 4.0 r(0) on a AMD 3200 box. Everything is OK, except that on several occasions I have noticed that if I leave the machine for a good while until the screen goes dead and then tap on the mouse several times or tap on the keyboard or both repeated

Re: [solved] Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-07-21 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Rodolfo Medina: > Claudius Hubig: > > nano, e. g., supports the MS-DOS-file format (or whatever it's > > called) and thus you can save your text files with nano (C+O, M+D) > > the way Windows users are able to read them properly. > > Thanks, this seems to work fine: I paste the text into nano buff

[solved] Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-07-21 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in > fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not > correctly read: the line ends are not recognised. The remedy is to cut the > text > and paste it i

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-07-21 Thread Claudius Hubig
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in >fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not >correctly read: the line ends are not recognised. The remedy is to cut the >text >and paste it into an

Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-07-21 Thread Rodolfo Medina
If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not correctly read: the line ends are not recognised. The remedy is to cut the text and paste it into an MS Word file, then cut it again and re-paste it

Re: Installing problems: Debian 4.0r0, on LiteON DVD-RW LH-20A1p

2007-07-21 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi, You can try Ctrl-Alt+F2 to get to a shell There, dmesg might give you more information on what is happening during the mount ? You can even try a manual mount there to find out what is happening. On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 23:42 -0400, Kevin C. Redden wrote: > Folks: Tried to install Debia

Re: 'out of space' vs 'out of inodes'?

2007-07-21 Thread Mike Bird
On Friday 20 July 2007 23:43, Kevin Mark wrote: > thanks for the pointer. So it seems like something that goes back aways > in Unix land, at least if it is in a 'generic' code. So I'd expect to > have the same thing in bsd, linux (and maybe win32?). Hmm. I cant think > of why a full inode table wou