On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 04:15:21PM -0800, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> Trying to stick to the email topic, consider how much easier it is to
> grep the /Mail folder, or use Mutt's ~b search, instead of trying to
> figure out Thunderbird's clunky search interface. To use just one
> example.
Actuall
Hi,
I have often problem with my desktop, I am running etch R2, it freezes
and everything stop.
Here is what I have in the .xsession with new kernel
uname -a gives :
Linux debian 2.6.22-3-686 #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 08:32:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
* (nm-applet:2595): WARNING **:nma_dbus_init
Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 02/04/08 10:41, Wei Chen wrote:
[snip]
Note that the G.F.W system of the government is in fact mainly based
GFW?
Great FireWall ?
Mihira.
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More than a friend, but not qui
On Jan 26, 2008, at 3:56 AM, Mike Kuhar wrote:
I think that's quite reasonable.
-mike
(Sorry to be late to the show.)
All my systems run from a single disk drive. I put the
swap partition as close to the middle of the disk on the
theory that that'll minimize seek time for a function I w
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:28:51AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> A Blue and White G3 will happily boot and run the latest Debian
> releases (Etch or Lenny). The Beige G3s (which may have slightly
> lower MHz ratings [233 for Beige vs 300 for the B&W]) will run Sarge
> OK once booted -- I ha
A Blue and White G3 will happily boot and run the latest Debian
releases (Etch or Lenny). The Beige G3s (which may have slightly
lower MHz ratings [233 for Beige vs 300 for the B&W]) will run Sarge
OK once booted -- I haven't tried Etch or Lenny, but they need a bit
of TLC to get them to
On Jan 31, 2008, at 3:36 AM, Mihira Fernando wrote:
Barry Samuels wrote:
[snip]
I have setup my cardboard computer (it's in a cardboard box) using
an old main board with a 750 MHz Athlon K7 and 768 MB of RAM. I
fitted a PCI ethernet card and a PCI wireless card. There is a 6.5
GB hard dri
Dear Chris,
On 16:04 Mon 04 Feb , Chris Lale wrote:
> Mitchell Laks wrote:
> > Hi Gurus,
> >
> > I seem to have to rerun alsaconf to reconfigure alsa every time I reboot my
> > computer.
> > I have no idea why? I am running sid with debian standard kernel:
> [...]
>
> Have a look at the s
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:45:56PM -0500, PETER EASTHOPE wrote:
> Flash movies worked properly in Etch but my Lenny
> system refuses to play them. If a youtube movie is
> opened this message appears.
> "Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an
> old version of Adobe's Flash Player."
>
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:43:34PM -0600, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 03 February 2008 21:18:50 Bob wrote:
>
> > I'd get a modern ish server and underclock it, that way you'll be able
> > to get more RAM and bigger hard drives, the Athlon XP was fairly easy to
> > get down to 300 MHz with t
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Ron Johnson shared this with us all:
>--} Yes. What you said may be correct, but I'd rather not have my sensitive
>--}
>--} Now that I think about it, though, was it Yahoo or Google that
>--} turned over emails from dissenters to the PRC?
>--}
>--} > information written in an em
Hello,
Thanks for your continuing interest, and for the interest of those new
to the thread. I'll summarize where things are at to avoid duplication.
Sorry if this gets a bit long. I'll also mark it OT since its not
Debian-specific.
Thanks,
Doug.
-
The problem is real. There is no placeb
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:36:15PM -0800, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am on Etch and using fluxbox mainly to manage windows. I use mutt
> for email. I start it with a key command.
>
> When I get many x-sessions and programs running at once, often mutt is
> running somewhere and I don'
Flash movies worked properly in Etch but my Lenny
system refuses to play them. If a youtube movie is
opened this message appears.
"Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an
old version of Adobe's Flash Player."
java-common and various libraries are installed.
Java and Javascript are
David Palmer wrote:
Bob wrote:
I'm looking for a laptop with a dual core AMD64 CPU, AMD GPU with
dedicated (non-shared) GRAM, built in webcam, user changeable
Harddrive & battery, high RAM capacity, large high quality screen, a
nice keyboard and good linux support for all the power saving,
Awesome!! Thank you very much Mr. Florian Kulzer!
You hit the nail on the head, plus you explained the issue in a very clear
and easy way.
I'll convert all my files to utf8, set my editors correctly and ofcourse add
that package into my tex files header.
I'm happy now. :D
Cheers!
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On 02/04/08 18:15, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> On Feb 4, 5:20 pm, "Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It all depends on the work habits of the individual user.
>
> Well, you can say that about anything, right? The OP asked what he was
> missing,
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 02:22:11PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/04/08 14:12, Pantor wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > Dmesg shows
> >
> > body:/etc/vim# dmesg | grep -i tty
> > serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> > serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> > 00:0c: ttyS
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:24:04PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote:
> Seriously, this is quite odd...
>
> take a look at the following two screenshots of Iran's ministry of foreign
> affair's site:
>
> http://omploader.org/vYzU3
> http://omploader.org/vYzU4
>
> Sorry to link you to some imag
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:22:22PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote:
> I run Lenny on an Acer Aspire 5021WLMi laptop as an ssh server and I
> noticed that the hard drive is getting very very hot so that the
> touchpad is almost burning hot. I suspect that the drive is not
> spinning down when idle (and i
Further searching resulted in this message:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/03/msg01554.html
of which this snippet is key:
The settings in /etc/sysctl.conf take effect at the next reboot. You can
change the printk setting with immediate effect with
echo "4 1 1 7" > /proc/sys/kernel/pr
Robert Cates wrote:
Hi all,
to get right straight to my question – i was wanting to know which is
the proper file system to choose for a (normal) USB 2.0 data/flash
stick – autofs, usbfs or maybe vfat? The stick is of course usable
under Windows as well as linux (from kernel 2.4.x). I b
* Peter F Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Feb 04 18:15 -0600]:
> Hi;
>
> I have a Debian kernel in which some printks have been left. These make
> a mess of the console and logs. Is there any way, other than recompiling
> the kernel, of suppressing the printk output?
Did you uncomment the foll
On Feb 4, 5:20 pm, "Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It all depends on the work habits of the individual user.
Well, you can say that about anything, right? The OP asked what he was
missing, so he's soliciting the opinions of people with different work
habits.
> Just as while I am a vim
On 02/04/08 Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>*VERY* important questions:
>
>What do you mean by "old" ISP? Do you now have a "new" ISP?
Yes my old isp was ISP.com, my new ISP (which I'm trying to get
working) is Sysim. So before to start my connection I'd do:
pon isp.com (and never saw any weird character
On Feb 4, 2008 6:57 PM, Peter F Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I have a Debian kernel in which some printks have been left. These make
> a mess of the console and logs. Is there any way, other than recompiling
> the kernel, of suppressing the printk output?
I think there is a "quiet
Hi;
I have a Debian kernel in which some printks have been left. These make
a mess of the console and logs. Is there any way, other than recompiling
the kernel, of suppressing the printk output?
Thanks.
Cheers
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Personal
On Feb 4, 5:10 pm, "Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe a change in work habits would be more appropriate? I got into the
> habit ages ago of using multiple desktops and throwing specific tasks on
> certain desktops.
Great suggestion. I don't use desktops enough.
Thanks for all o
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On Feb 4, 5:00 pm, Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>alias mutt='screen -D -R -S mutt mutt'
>
> The only drawback is this will get fiddly if you're running
> nested screen sessions...
>
Hey, Steve, this works great. Thanks.
And I'm not smart enough to run a nested screen session, so
Hello Florian. Thx for your reply. See underneath my
answers to your questions.
--- Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 22:41:11 +, Dimitrios
> Daskalakis wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to upgrade my distribution from sarge
> to
> > etch.
>
> Are you following
On Feb 4, 4:20 pm, "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Sure, for plain text OOo and Word are terrible tools. They are not
> meant for that purpose. However, when you need markup such as that for
> print documents, a word processor is a necessity.
>
A necessity? Only if you don't know LaT
BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> I used T-bird for years. Also used OOwriter and Word for years. But
> Vim (or Emacs, or whatever text editor you like) is a hundred times
> faster and more efficient than a point-and-click word processor,
> right?
No.
> Same goes for Mutt vs. T-bird. Faster, totally
BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> Is there a script I could make that I could use to start mutt, and if
> mutt were already running, then it could just take me to the already-
> running instance of it, instead of starting a new mutt?
> I know some Python if it could be done in there. But I suspect I need
Since Audacious was upgraded to version 1.4.x it has been complaining
that the GTK theme engine is broken (gtk-qt engine). While I can tell
the box to never show again, if there truly is some aspect that's
broken I'd like to tell Audacious to use the GTK default theme while all
of the other GTK ap
On Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 21:50:33 +, Patter wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:00:19 +0100, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> > Is there a script I could make that I could use to start mutt, and if
> > mutt were already running, then it could just take me to the already-
> > running instance of it, instead
For any of you who is interested in this issue.
It seems that this is a bug with grub.
If I do the same thing with reiserFS on the USB-stick, everything works,
but (at least) with ext2/ext3... it doesn't.
I wrote to the bug-mailing-list from the grub guys,.. but it seems that
they do no longer c
On Feb 4, 3:50 pm, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think I'd write a bash script to grep thru ps(1) and refuse to
> start a new instance if a mutt instance is already running.
>
Ok, I have that part. But is there a way to bring the already running
mutt process to the fore instead of ju
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:25:05PM +0100, oxy wrote:
> >
> > Without knowing your skill level, the respondent could only guess at how
> > much you know and how specific he needed to be, so he may have assumed
> > you were a newbie who wasn't actually asking what you meant to ask.
>
> Ok, the fact
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:00:19 +0100, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> Is there a script I could make that I could use to start mutt, and if
> mutt were already running, then it could just take me to the already-
> running instance of it, instead of starting a new mutt?
Hacked up from a little perlish I h
> On a "normally" installed Etch version there should be a /usr/bin/man
> executable file. If not, then something was not installed properly.
>
ok, i'll have a look at possible reasons.
For the moment `aptitude install man` solved my problem.
Thanks very much ...
PS: no rancour from this thread,
On Sunday 03 February 2008 21:18:50 Bob wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have an unusual situation and problem at which I've been chipping
> > away. The base technology predates my IT experience.
> >
> > My wife is sensitive to what she describes as electromagnetic fields.
> >
On 04/02/2008, BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Feb 3, 12:00 pm, "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Sounds great, but the only thing that really makes me interested is
> > the full keyboard control,
>
>
> Which necessarily involves all of the advantages of using vim a
oxy wrote:
Without knowing your skill level, the respondent could only guess at how
much you know and how specific he needed to be, so he may have assumed
you were a newbie who wasn't actually asking what you meant to ask.
Ok, the fact is that i do not have the command `man` in my system
(
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:25:33PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Abi_Word_ should give you a hint...
>
> right.. but I didn't know if there were other programs, AbiSpread... to go
> along with it.
AbiWord was originally written by a company called
oxy wrote:
Ok, the fact is that i do not have the command `man` in my system
(2.6.18.dfsg.1-17etch1).
`locate man | grep '/man'$`gives only the man dirs.
`locate apropos` and `locate whatis` give nothing.
I just found it strange, as well as the incapability to set xterm font size.
Im stil
On Feb 3, 12:00 pm, "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sounds great, but the only thing that really makes me interested is
> the full keyboard control,
Which necessarily involves all of the advantages of using vim and all
of the programmable aspects of Mutt.
I used T-bird for years. Also
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:25:05PM +0100, oxy wrote:
> >
> > Without knowing your skill level, the respondent could only guess at how
> > much you know and how specific he needed to be, so he may have assumed
> > you were a newbie who wasn't actually asking what you meant to ask.
>
> Ok, the fact
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On 02/04/08 14:36, BartlebyScrivener wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am on Etch and using fluxbox mainly to manage windows. I use mutt
> for email. I start it with a key command.
>
> When I get many x-sessions and programs running at once, often mutt is
> runn
Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
AbiWord is much lighter & smaller than OOo.
I saw AbiWord when I installed ... another distro ( Pu..y ...)
but I never used it. is abiword just a word processor, as opposed to a full
suite, like OO ??
does it do .DOC con
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On 02/04/08 15:10, Kent West wrote:
> oxy wrote:
where is man here? There is only a strange xman :-[
The /usr/share/man is actually there ...
>>> "man" stand for manual. As in "the document that tells you how to
>>> use a piece o
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
Pantor wrote:
Hi lads,
is it possible to make coloured text in VIM?
For example: "This sentence is in red color. This sentence is in black
color." The first should be in red.
For colors and fancy formatting, something like openoffice would be more
suited. VIM is a t
Paul Cartwright wrote:
Well, if the fans are working on the laptop
it should never get burning
hot. There's no reason why a laptop can't run with its drive spinning
all the time (unless its on battery and you want to save the battery).
I would like it to spin down not just to s
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote:
> Good day,...
>
> Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof as
> posible.
>
> so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap or
> what ever the problem rises how ?
There are a number
>
> Without knowing your skill level, the respondent could only guess at how
> much you know and how specific he needed to be, so he may have assumed
> you were a newbie who wasn't actually asking what you meant to ask.
Ok, the fact is that i do not have the command `man` in my system
(2.6.18.dfsg
oxy wrote:
where is man here? There is only a strange xman :-[
The /usr/share/man is actually there ...
"man" stand for manual. As in "the document that tells you how to
use a piece of software". You might be too young to have ever seen one.
But then, you might be a dog. I'd never kno
oxy wrote:
Hi, i just installed debian/gnome and am discovering it.
At first, few things sound strange:
where is man here? There is only a strange xman :-[
The /usr/share/man is actually there ...
an apropos? whatis?
I believe these are installed as standard; if opening a terminal window
an
On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > right.. but I didn't know if there were other programs, AbiSpread... to
> > go along with it.
>
> Nope...
>
> Gnumeric is the spreadsheet that AbiWord Unix users typically
> install. Dia for charting, Planner for project management.
ah, gnumeric is t
> > where is man here? There is only a strange xman :-[
> > The /usr/share/man is actually there ...
>
> "man" stand for manual. As in "the document that tells you how to
> use a piece of software". You might be too young to have ever seen one.
>
> But then, you might be a dog. I'd never know.
>
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:13:35 +0100, Matej Kosik wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Occassionally, I need to use Slovak keyboard layout. I (and I guess
> many if not most Slovaks) are used to QWERTY rather than QWERTZ.
>
> Previous Debian versions included this file:
>
> /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/sk_
Hello,
I am on Etch and using fluxbox mainly to manage windows. I use mutt
for email. I start it with a key command.
When I get many x-sessions and programs running at once, often mutt is
running somewhere and I don't know it, so I do the mutt key command
and start a 2nd mutt, then sometimes a th
Mail problem sending to lists.debian.org.
Just checking if its fixed
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On Mon February 4 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > I run Lenny on an Acer Aspire 5021WLMi laptop as an ssh server and I
> > noticed that the hard drive is getting very very hot so that the
> > touchpad is almost burning hot. I suspect that the drive is not
> > spinning down when idle (and it's ba
Александър Л. Димитров wrote:
Seriously, this is quite odd...
take a look at the following two screenshots of Iran's ministry of foreign
affair's site:
http://omploader.org/vYzU3
http://omploader.org/vYzU4
Sorry to link you to some image-hosting site, but the screenshots are
neccessary... as y
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On 02/04/08 14:25, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> Abi_Word_ should give you a hint...
>
> right.. but I didn't know if there were other programs, AbiSpread... to go
> along with it.
Nope...
Gnumeric is the sp
Hi all,
to get right straight to my question - i was wanting to know which is the
proper file system to choose for a (normal) USB 2.0 data/flash stick -
autofs, usbfs or maybe vfat? The stick is of course usable under Windows as
well as linux (from kernel 2.4.x). I believe I need to set this
On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Abi_Word_ should give you a hint...
right.. but I didn't know if there were other programs, AbiSpread... to go
along with it.
>
> > does it do .DOC conversion? smaller & lighter normally means less
> > features. But I really don't use THAT many featur
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On 02/04/08 14:12, Pantor wrote:
[snip]
>
> Dmesg shows
>
> body:/etc/vim# dmesg | grep -i tty
> serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> 00:0c: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16
Hi, i just installed debian/gnome and am discovering it.
At first, few things sound strange:
where is man here? There is only a strange xman :-[
The /usr/share/man is actually there ...
an apropos? whatis?
`xtem --help` says that `xterm -fs 14` should work, but the font size
does not change!
Ju
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 00:49:28 +0530, narendra sisodiya wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2008 11:22 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:04:07 +0530, naren
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:15:55PM +, Pantor wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:02:42AM +, Pantor wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:28:06AM +0900, David Palmer wrote:
Or provide yourself with a fax facility.
Espe
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:29:53AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/03/08 08:57, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I've changed the physical location of the Sid box and the telephone
number that is being used to dial the ISP.
Everything else is the same.
Now the connection is at a
There are special flash filesystems developed.
One of these is jffs iirc. Look at embedded linux/distro information
as they do a lot with these sorts of things.
Kelly
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If you have a garage or shed that might work, keep it outside, a
Sparstation or other UNIX type machine would probably handle the
extremes of possible conditions if it isn't heated better than a
generic pc would.
Also, consider that wall-warts are often the biggest producers of EM
radiation too, e
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:15:55PM +, Pantor wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:02:42AM +, Pantor wrote:
> >>Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >>>On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:28:06AM +0900, David Palmer wrote:
>
> Or provide yourself with a fax facility.
> >>>Esp
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:22:22PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote:
> I run Lenny on an Acer Aspire 5021WLMi laptop as an ssh server and I
> noticed that the hard drive is getting very very hot so that the
> touchpad is almost burning hot. I suspect that the drive is not
> spinning down when idle (and i
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote:
> Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof as
> posible.
> so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap or
> what ever the problem rises how ?
>
> I'm not sure but most of todaies f
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On 02/04/08 12:53, Jabka Atu wrote:
> Good day,...
>
> Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof
> as posible.
> so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap
> or what ever the problem rises how
meant to send this to the list but sent to bob by mistake oops!
Read this thread with a bit of interest.
In terms of non-x86 there are a lot of options.
For Sun/SPARC32, theres Sparcstation 10s and 20s (I recently gave 4
away on freecycle), they're old and slow really. But you can put upto
512mb
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On 02/04/08 12:22, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:10:06PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>> I recently changed from mbox to Maildir format.
>>
>> Everything works fine: mail delivered to maildir, mutt reads it fine and
>> will save
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On 02/04/08 11:38, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> AbiWord is much lighter & smaller than OOo.
> I saw AbiWord when I installed ... another distro ( Pu..y ...)
> but I never used it. is abiword just a word process
David Brodbeck writes:
> ...have you considered putting the machine in another room and placing
> only the monitor, keyboard, and mouse at your wife's workstation?
Or put the computer in the basement and set her up with a diskless
X-terminal based on an old, slow pc.
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On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 21:23:35 -0200, Andres Migliazzo wrote:
> Awesome
Op Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:50:41 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> A simple example is the ability to right- or left- align text. For
> Hebrew and Arabic users, this is a must. No other mailer provides
> that.
In Sylpheed I see your Hebrew text right aligned.
> And the Virtual Identity extension makes the Fr
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Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:02:42AM +, Pantor wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:28:06AM +0900, David Palmer wrote:
Or provide yourself with a fax facility.
Especially handy if tied up with an LPD spool. Makes someone's fax
machine as easy a
On Feb 4, 2008 9:38 AM, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > AbiWord is much lighter & smaller than OOo.
> I saw AbiWord when I installed ... another distro ( Pu..y ...)
> but I never used it. is abiword just a word processor, as opposed to a f
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:29:15AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Is there a conversion program?
>
> mb2md.pl
Thanks, I missed that.
I even started a new thread asking for that. Sorry.
I'll install it and get things converted.
I've got mutt so that it creates new mailboxes in maildir format.
On Feb 3, 2008, at 8:53 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I was also wondering, re RF/EMF shielding, if a rack-mount server in a
half-height rack with front and back doors may be a good way to go.
With the doors closed, there's a lot fewer openings large enough for
the
EMF to get out.
I haven't b
> > but who can i disable writes without damaging my system i guess linked tmp
> > with ramdisk is a start but i need more ideas .
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> why not look at one of the distro's that are built for flash drive (openwrt ?)
Mmm. I guess openwrt is not enough for a laptop. I guess
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:16:57PM +, Pantor wrote:
> there is a modem plugged to PCI slot and no idea what to do with it.
> Any suggestions, advices, please.
>
> Regards.
> Andrius
Check out http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/
and run the scanmodem tool provided there -
it should produce useful
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote:
> Good day,...
>
> Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof as
> posible.
> so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap or
> what ever the problem rises how ?
>
> I'm not sure but
Good day,...
Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof as
posible.
so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap or
what ever the problem rises how ?
I'm not sure but most of todaies flash drive has a lifetime for 50K write
per bit (not sure
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 22:41:11 +, Dimitrios Daskalakis wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to upgrade my distribution from sarge to
> etch.
Are you following the upgrade procedure that is outlined in Etch's
release notes?
> Having upgraded successfully the 2.4 kernel to 2.6, I
> update my sources.li
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:10:06PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> I recently changed from mbox to Maildir format.
>
> Everything works fine: mail delivered to maildir, mutt reads it fine and
> will save to new mailboxes in maildir format. However, I have hundreds
> (? thousands) of emails in mb
I run Lenny on an Acer Aspire 5021WLMi laptop as an ssh server and I
noticed that the hard drive is getting very very hot so that the
touchpad is almost burning hot. I suspect that the drive is not
spinning down when idle (and it's basically *always* idle, unless I
connect from work). How can I c
On Thu January 31 2008, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> $ ksudoku
> Segmentation fault
> $
well, after I went back to Debian Etch from Lenny (back to the 2.18.5 kernel),
along with mplayer & vlc working again, so did ksudoku..
--
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #1
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 09:25:02AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Besides, what's to stop a big surge from arcing over the damaged
> external modem circuits, down the RS-232 cable and onto the mobo?
Impedence.
Inductance down thin wires over a long distance.
Doug.
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I recently changed from mbox to Maildir format.
Everything works fine: mail delivered to maildir, mutt reads it fine and
will save to new mailboxes in maildir format. However, I have hundreds
(? thousands) of emails in mbox format which I wish to restore in
Maildir format.
Is there a script some
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:02:42AM +, Pantor wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:28:06AM +0900, David Palmer wrote:
> > >
> >>Or provide yourself with a fax facility.
> >
> >Especially handy if tied up with an LPD spool. Makes someone's fax
> >machine as easy as th
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