Re: What's your tools for C++ dev?

2008-01-10 Thread Misko
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:45:45AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > > You can find the documentation for gdb in gdb-doc, and for > > libc in glibc-doc-reference. gcc and g++ are documented in gcc-doc. > > which (just to complete your point for the archives) you can get > at by adding "non-free"

Re: emacs and svn

2008-01-10 Thread Misko
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:38:38AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > >Does emacs support svn version control as it does with cvs? And > >how do I enable that feature. > > Emacs 22 automatically detects that it's in an svn working copy and > does the right thing when I use the version control comman

Re: Perl realted..?

2008-01-10 Thread s. keeling
ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am coming back to perl after a long time. > > The sample code these days also uses variable attribute my as: > > my $inst = Extutils::Installed->new(); > my @modules = $inst->modules(); > > Can any demistify 'my' for me?? -

Re: Etch: emacs or emac21?

2008-01-10 Thread s. keeling
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > In Sarge there was only the package `emacs21'. Now in Etch we have also > `emacs', but the difference between the two is not clear to me. What should > I > install in order to use the Emacs editor, `emacs' or `emacs21'? I don't have "emacs" (etch). I

Re: What's your tools for C++ dev?

2008-01-10 Thread s. keeling
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:17:03AM +0100, Misko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 03:59:59PM -0200, Felix Cuello wrote: > > > *manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development > > > manpages-posix-dev - Manua

OT: USB to Ethernet adapter in Debian, but in reverse configuration?

2008-01-10 Thread Nick Lidakis
Using Google, I have found multiple USB to Ethernet adapters that work well with the Linux kernel. From what I understand the devices are designed for computers without network cards. Can these adapters be used in reverse with Debian? Can I send FLAC files over the ethernet cable that has the

Re: Xorg "random" crashes on lenny

2008-01-10 Thread gusti
Dal wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Dal wrote: Hi, I've been having a problem with crashing Xorg for a while. I really don't have no idea why this happend. I tried to search this mailing list, but I've not found anything. So here's the problem, actually I already mentioned it. It just crashes

Re: Barcode scanner via USB

2008-01-10 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Brodbeck wrote: | | On Jan 10, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: |> When I worked at Radio Shack in 1996 (in Canada), they were just |> switching their POS from a dos (on a Tandy 386) with terminals to a Unix |> (SCO) system with the sam

Re: Barcode scanner via USB

2008-01-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 10, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: When I worked at Radio Shack in 1996 (in Canada), they were just switching their POS from a dos (on a Tandy 386) with terminals to a Unix (SCO) system with the same serial terminal. For barcode, they had a device that went between the keyb

Php & GD problem getting "captchas" to work

2008-01-10 Thread John W Foster
I am trying to get "captchas" to working on my Mediawiki installation, to use in conjunction with a guestbook. The author of the Mediawiki extension, which is written in php, says that the reason that the 'capchas' do not work is a problem with "certain distros" installation of php and certain feat

Re: Barcode scanner via USB

2008-01-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 07:02:53PM -0500, steve wrote: > you know ive been looking for something that I could use to input upc > data to say kbarcode or something like that. Have been trying to > convince the company I work for to spring for handheld printers/scanner > solution to no avail. (reta

aptitute became non-working after installation of manual-compiled .deb Linux kernel

2008-01-10 Thread Ebanutiy Ebanatik Ebanatovich
I compiled Linux kernel package using make-kpkg --initrd --revision=bitobor.1.1 kernel_image. Then I succesfully installed it (/usr/src/linux-image-2.6.23_bitobor.1.1_amd64.deb) After that, synaptic & aptitude safe-upgrade became non-working: E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6

Re: Barcode scanner via USB

2008-01-10 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 |> |> | | It's a distinct device - you should be able to read directly from that | /dev that's created when you plug it in. When in X it typically works | like a second keyboard, inserting the text wherever a keyboard's entry | would end up. | | Andy

Re: Glibc? (SiS671/ SiS672 driver on Etch)

2008-01-10 Thread Kum Gabor
On Thursday 10 January 2008 22:04, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/10/08 12:56, Kum Gabor wrote: > > Hello All! > > > > I tried to set up my SiS672 video on my Fujitsu-Siemens Esprimo v5515 > > notebook. I found a driver for Ubuntu, but I have the following problem: > > > > dlopen: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/li

Re: function of xorg.conf in sid?

2008-01-10 Thread Paul Scott
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Jan 10, 2008 11:20 AM, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently posted about not being able to get full resolution of my Portege 4010 with dpkg-reconfigure. I found an example of xorg.conf sections which solved my resolution problem but:!!! I still don't know

subversion/apache2 errors

2008-01-10 Thread michael
I've tried numerous variations for getting subversion working on apache2 but whatever I tried gave the "Could not open the requested SVN filesystem" error. Does anybody have a simple guide to getting this working on Debian etch? Particularly, I guess, the necessary permissions for the repository (I

Re: Perl realted question..

2008-01-10 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:04:19PM -0500, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > Is there a way to place the last line read > when reading from a file? My suspicion is there > is no such thing but i do want to confirm.. Just another guess at what you're asking about; perhaps the word "placed" was intended to be

Re: function of xorg.conf in sid?

2008-01-10 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Jan 10, 2008 11:20 AM, Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently posted about not being able to get full resolution of my > Portege 4010 with dpkg-reconfigure. I found an example of xorg.conf > sections which solved my resolution problem but:!!! > > I still don't know why 'dpkg-reconfi

Re: Perl realted question..

2008-01-10 Thread Scott Gifford
Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:45:15PM -0800, Sam wrote: >> if i read you correctly, you can read the file into an array and use pop, >> which will return the last element read.Or you could use @array[-1] > > That's rather wasteful of memory, which becomes

Re: [OT] mslinux

2008-01-10 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 01 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> i was browsing around and ran into the following >> >> http://www.mslinux.org/ > > I do not know what this is about but it would be,

Re: Glibc? (SiS671/ SiS672 driver on Etch)

2008-01-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/10/08 12:56, Kum Gabor wrote: Hello All! I tried to set up my SiS672 video on my Fujitsu-Siemens Esprimo v5515 notebook. I found a driver for Ubuntu, but I have the following problem: dlopen: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/xorg/modules/

zeroconf?

2008-01-10 Thread Dr. Harry Knitter
Hello, after having got working my wlan-card with ndsiwrapper and WPA2 working I have a problem. After a while of working fine the wlan card disconnect from the network, especially when working without access to the internet for a while. (The card is used to connect to a DSL-router) The card is

Unsubscribing from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-10 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] This is becoming a FAQ. There is a problem with udev. Before udev, there was a strong association between device names and devices. With udev, that association is much weaker. There's new randomness in how partitions are named during boot.

function of xorg.conf in sid?

2008-01-10 Thread Paul Scott
I recently posted about not being able to get full resolution of my Portege 4010 with dpkg-reconfigure. I found an example of xorg.conf sections which solved my resolution problem but:!!! I still don't know why 'dpkg-reconfigure -p xserver-org' gives me no opportunity to change any video para

Glibc? (SiS671/ SiS672 driver on Etch)

2008-01-10 Thread Kum Gabor
Hello All! I tried to set up my SiS672 video on my Fujitsu-Siemens Esprimo v5515 notebook. I found a driver for Ubuntu, but I have the following problem: dlopen: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/sis_drv.so) (Libc version on E

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-10 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 10 January 2008 03:22, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:31:48PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 January 2008 22:03, John Hasler wrote: > > > Nigel Henry writes: > > > > I am genuinly trying to resolve the problem of filtering out spam, > > > > that

Re: Perl realted..?

2008-01-10 Thread Arthur Furlan
ISHWAR RATTAN escreveu: I am coming back to perl after a long time. The sample code these days also uses variable attribute my as: my $inst = Extutils::Installed->new(); my @modules = $inst->modules(); Can any demistify 'my' for me?? http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/my.html -- Atencios

Re: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config: please help re interfaces to listen on

2008-01-10 Thread Bill Jones
The separator is a dot not a colon or double colon. 1.2.3.4.port as in 123.123.123.123.2525 HTH/Sx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl realted..?

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 10, 2008 1:11 PM, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am coming back to perl after a long time. > > The sample code these days also uses variable attribute my as: > > my $inst = Extutils::Installed->new(); > my @modules = $inst->modules(); > > Can any demistify 'my' for me?? >

Re: emacs and svn

2008-01-10 Thread Peter Smerdon
Misko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does emacs support svn version control as it does with cvs? And > how do I enable that feature. >From the Emacs info page (I am using emacs-snapshot) The Emacs version control interface is called VC. Its commands work with different version control systems

Perl realted..?

2008-01-10 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
I am coming back to perl after a long time. The sample code these days also uses variable attribute my as: my $inst = Extutils::Installed->new(); my @modules = $inst->modules(); Can any demistify 'my' for me?? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: ipw3945 takes a while to warm up???

2008-01-10 Thread Bjorn Wiren
Mark Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi list > > I'm running etch on a Toshiba Satellite laptop I picked up about a year > ago now in Hong Kong. It's on my home wireless LAN supported by a > Buffalo Airstation 54G which I bought recently here in Japan. The > wireless LAN card in the laptop

Re: emacs and svn

2008-01-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 8, 2008, at 11:16 PM, Misko wrote: Does emacs support svn version control as it does with cvs? And how do I enable that feature. Emacs 22 automatically detects that it's in an svn working copy and does the right thing when I use the version control commands. I've never gotten Emac

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 9, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Mike Bird wrote: On Wed January 9 2008 13:51:21 Jimmy Wu wrote: The reasons I don't want Vista are as follows: (1) Microsoft claims even the Home Basic needs "20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space" (see http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/win

Re: apt-get stuck on libsane-extras

2008-01-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Jan 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:18:44 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Apt-get is trying to install libsane-extras but it says: > > > > npacking libsane-extras (from .../libsane-extras_1.0.18.15_i386.deb) ... > > dpkg: error processing > > /var/cache/apt/archiv

Re: Where to report a problem with new 4.0r2 DVD images?

2008-01-10 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:21:54PM -0200, Marcello Di Marino Azevedo wrote: > Please, give me some help here. Where is the correct way to report a > problem with new 4.0r2 DVD images? I could not answer to the rest of your post, but according to the list of psuedo-packages [1], probably in suc

Re: ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way

2008-01-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:51:28AM +0800, Bob wrote: > Bob wrote: > >Cameron Hutchison wrote: > >>Bob wrote: > >>>Bob wrote: > >>> > Is there such a thing? > > When my firewall / dhcp server / ntp server gets a fresh IP address > from my ISP the ntp daemon stops responding to

Re: resize2fs

2008-01-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:26:54PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I would like to increase the size of my /var partition. It is a logical > volume so I made it bigger with lvexpand. I then ran resize2fs, which > according to the man page works on mounted file systems with kernels > after 2.6 and my k

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:33:54AM +0100, Ivan Savcic wrote: > On Jan 7, 2008 5:15 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With bad-block remapping, you don't really know where the "damaged part > > of the drive" is. I would go with one whole partition and if after > > fsck -c -c ther

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:47:56PM -0500, KS wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:19:54PM -0500, KS wrote: > >> I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run > >> the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk. The > >> machine

Where to report a problem with new 4.0r2 DVD images?

2008-01-10 Thread Marcello Di Marino Azevedo
Hi people. Please, give me some help here. Where is the correct way to report a problem with new 4.0r2 DVD images? Let me explain what I found. First, it is not big deal, but in my case it is pretty annoing. Usually I use DVD images as a local repository. It is simple, just mount ISO DVD as loop

Re: Etch: emacs or emac21?

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Howie
(Resending to the list. Sorry for the duplicate, Rodolfo.) On Jan 10, 2008 11:18 AM, Chris Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 10, 2008 10:58 AM, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In Sarge there was only the package `emacs21'. Now in Etch we have also > > `emacs', but the di

Re: Etch: emacs or emac21?

2008-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:58:38PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi, Debian users. > > In Sarge there was only the package `emacs21'. Now in Etch we have also > `emacs', but the difference between the two is not clear to me. What should I > install in order to use the Emacs editor, `emacs' or `

Etch: emacs or emac21?

2008-01-10 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi, Debian users. In Sarge there was only the package `emacs21'. Now in Etch we have also `emacs', but the difference between the two is not clear to me. What should I install in order to use the Emacs editor, `emacs' or `emacs21'? Thanks for any reply Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: kernel-source package in Etch?

2008-01-10 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 10:14:38PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> In Sarge, in order to configure Debian for my modem, I started with: >> >> # apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.27 >> >> . Now, in Etch, what should the package be in place of that? I couldn't >> find it! I tried with ...2.6,

Weird keymapping going on with VNC

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Howie
I have a really weird issue going on with VNC. I am running Xvnc on Debian (provided by the vncserver package) and the RealVNC client on a Windows box. My X keymap is set to dvorak, as is my Windows one. I wish it were as simple as a double/triple application of dvorak going on (a problem that g

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Lale
Alan Chandler wrote: > Chris Lale writes: >> Daniel Burrows wrote: >> [...] >>> For instance, today I wanted to read up on git hook scripts. I >>> checked the manual page git(1), and saw the note: >>> Read hooks[9] for more details about each hook. >>> ... >>> 9. hooks >>>

Re: What's your tools for C++ dev?

2008-01-10 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:17:03AM +0100, Misko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 03:59:59PM -0200, Felix Cuello wrote: > > *manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development > > manpages-posix-dev - Manual pages about using a POSIX system for developm

Re: "Waiting for root file system" problem

2008-01-10 Thread Per Tunedal Debian
Florian Kulzer skrev: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:39:11 -0500, dave N wrote: > > [...] > >> Question: In the menu.lst grub file, how would I use >> the label assignment in the line: >> >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=/dev/sdc2 ro > > I think this should be OK: > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.1

Re: resize2fs

2008-01-10 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:45:30PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > resize2fs: Filesystem does not support online resizing > > AIUI this means you didn't create the filesystem with "-O resize_inode", > so you can't do online resizing. Unfortunately there's no way to change > this after the file

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-10 Thread Alan Chandler
Chris Lale writes: Daniel Burrows wrote: [...] For instance, today I wanted to read up on git hook scripts. I checked the manual page git(1), and saw the note: Read hooks[9] for more details about each hook. ... 9. hooks hooks.html Being an experienced Debi

Re: Converting 3gp to avi

2008-01-10 Thread Sabarish M Balagopal
Rico Secada wrote: On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:35:14 + Mark Clarkson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 20:59 +, Mark Clarkson wrote: On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 19:48 +0100, Rico Secada wrote: Thanks, but this seems to need some unsupported codecs or something?

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Re: What's your tools for C++ dev?

2008-01-10 Thread Misko
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 03:59:59PM -0200, Felix Cuello wrote: > *manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development > manpages-posix-dev - Manual pages about using a POSIX system for development > stl-manual - C++-STL documentation in HTML > libstdc++6-doc - The GNU Standard C++ Libr

Re: debian how-to

2008-01-10 Thread Chris Lale
Daniel Burrows wrote: [...] > For instance, today I wanted to read up on git hook scripts. I > checked the manual page git(1), and saw the note: > > Read hooks[9] for more details about each hook. > > ... > > 9. hooks > hooks.html > > Being an experienced Debian user

Problems scanning past LUN 7 during boot

2008-01-10 Thread Anders Nordby
Hi, I have a QLA2432 dual path fibre channel adapter connected with two links to a Hitachi SAN. I run Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) with 2.6.18 (64-bit) kernel. Firmware is firmware-qlogic 0.4 from Debian stable repository (http://packages.debian.org/etch/firmware-qlogic). The driver version in the

Re: apt-get stuck on libsane-extras

2008-01-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:18:44 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Apt-get is trying to install libsane-extras but it says: > > npacking libsane-extras (from .../libsane-extras_1.0.18.15_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/libsane-extras_1.0.18.15_i386.deb (--unpack): >

Re: ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way

2008-01-10 Thread Martin Marcher
Bob wrote: > Sorry to resurrect such an old thread but this is really irritating me, > after reading through the Bug Reports it seems this has been fixed in > version 4.2.4 which is fine for Lenny but I don't want to run Lenny on > my firewall, it's very simple dedicated etch box with nothing other

apt-get stuck on libsane-extras

2008-01-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
Apt-get is trying to install libsane-extras but it says: npacking libsane-extras (from .../libsane-extras_1.0.18.15_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libsane-extras_1.0.18.15_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man5/sane-epkowa.5.gz', which is also i