Re: rotating a rectangular image in Gimp

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:53:02PM -0800, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > To rotate a rectangular image by 90 degrees > in Gimp, I followed these steps. > * Expand the canvas to a square containing the image, centered. > * Rotate 90 degrees. > * Contract the canvas to the boundary of the image. > If I jus

Re: rotating a rectangular image in Gimp

Hi > Does anyone have a way to achieve the rotation > in one step? As trivial a problem as this is, > I didn't see it mentioned in the Web based manual. I think you may write script for this operatins. However, I can't say you how to do it :( Good luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

On 04/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > watts, with 32MB ram, at a frequency in the FM band? Your CPU runs at a frequency in the FM band? That's the funniest thing I've ever heard! I am going to recycle that joke to death! Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish

Re: [OT]: how to troubleshoot an optical drive in Linux

Dotan Cohen wrote: The instructions for removing the optical drive from the Inspiron 5160 are here: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins5160/en/SM/upgrades.htm#wp1106797 Ah, many thanks! I will give it a shot in a day or two. regards, ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: [OT]: how to troubleshoot an optical drive in Linux

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: To eliminate a software problem with the drive, the eject button should work during POST and during BIOS screens. It doesn't. The drive's LED blinks (I guess normally), but the drive does not eject. If it contains a CD, the OS fails to detect the CD. To eliminate

Re: [OT]: how to troubleshoot an optical drive in Linux

On 06/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:48:05PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > > In a Dell laptop, Inspiron 5160, the optical drive appeared to have died > > a few days ago. The disk stopped spinning, Fn+Eject stopped working and > > the button on the drive

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:26:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > > On 3/6/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 03/05/08 20:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:24:28PM -0600, Ron John

Re: Control-C kills interactive bash

Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:58:21PM +1300, Lesley Walker wrote: Never mind... I think I found it. We have this line in /etc/profile: trap "exit" 2 3 23 If I comment it out the problem goes away. Time for me go and RTFM on traps. That is odd. IIRC control-d was set to 'e

Re: Control-C kills interactive bash

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:58:21PM +1300, Lesley Walker wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 03/05/08 17:39, Lesley Walker wrote: >> >> >> After upgrading from Sarge to Etch, I have this problem, Ctrl-C kills >>

Re: Control-C kills interactive bash

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:58:21PM +1300, Lesley Walker wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 03/05/08 17:39, Lesley Walker wrote: > > > After upgrading from Sarge to Etch, I have this problem, Ctrl-C kills > the current interactive Bash shell. > ... > I feel as

Re: Control-C kills interactive bash

Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/05/08 17:39, Lesley Walker wrote: After upgrading from Sarge to Etch, I have this problem, Ctrl-C kills the current interactive Bash shell. ... I feel as though I must be overlooking something completely obvious, can anyone suggest what? Console or an X window?

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/08 21:26, Owen Townend wrote: > > > On 3/6/08, *Ron Johnson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > On 03/05/08 20:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:24:28PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

debian azul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I think that debian logo is perfect for debian project. Debian > doesn't need a mascot. I think that is ridiculos Killjoy. You're right of course, but the ammonite has its charms. It's not like it's a care bear or Tux. I preferred the Arctic Tern (?) that

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

On 3/6/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 03/05/08 20:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:24:28PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > [snip] > > >> Disgusting Scots food. > >> > >> $ uname -n > >> haggis > >>

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/08 20:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:24:28PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] >> Disgusting Scots food. >> >> $ uname -n >> haggis >> > > my 7 year old named the G3 iMac reborn into a sid machine: Crusher > > I

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:24:28PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/05/08 06:10, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:51:03AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > >> But a name can be a snare and a delusion: we had another > >> quasi-classical name, atticus, so called because it wa

Re: [OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 06:25:04PM -0800, james michael wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:47:39PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> >>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> I thought it would never happen. Right from NewEgg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp

Re: lvm + dm-crypt = shutdown problem (mount: / is busy)

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:17:56AM +0200, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: > Maximilian Gass wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:17:41PM +0200, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: >> >>> I am running debian testing, and I am experiencing lately this >>> (hopefully) non-destructive problem: >>> >> This probl

Re: lost x-server after etch to lenny upgrade

On Wed March 5 2008, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > > export CC=gcc-4.1 > > > > then restart the installation > > Thanks, Paul. > > Are you saying that I should run that command and reinstall? when I try to run the nvidia shell script, it gives me that gcc error, so I run that command first, then run

Re: VDQ : Which Debian?

On 5 Mar 2008, at 16:48, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:35:32PM -0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5 Mar 2008, at 10:24, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: Is there some simple command to get a machine to tell me which release (of Debian in particular, or of any distro but

Re: VDQ : Which Debian?

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:35:32PM -0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 5 Mar 2008, at 10:24, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: > > Is there some simple command to get a machine to tell me which > >release (of Debian in particular, or of any distro but including > >Debian) > >is running on it? If u

Re: rotating a rectangular image in Gimp

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:53:02PM -0800, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Folk, > > To rotate a rectangular image by 90 degrees > in Gimp, I followed these steps. > * Expand the canvas to a square containing the image, centered. > * Rotate 90 degrees. > * Contract the canvas to the boundary of the image.

Re: VDQ : Which Debian?

On 5 Mar 2008, at 10:24, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: Is there some simple command to get a machine to tell me which release (of Debian in particular, or of any distro but including Debian) is running on it? If uname -a does it, I must be missing something ... cat /etc/debian_versi

Re: [OT]: how to troubleshoot an optical drive in Linux

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:48:05PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > In a Dell laptop, Inspiron 5160, the optical drive appeared to have died > a few days ago. The disk stopped spinning, Fn+Eject stopped working and > the button on the drive also stopped working. Attempting to eject lights > the LED on the d

Re: VDQ : Which Debian?

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:24:33PM +, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: > > Is there some simple command to get a machine to tell me which > release (of Debian in particular, or of any distro but including Debian) > is running on it? If uname -a does it, I must be missing something ... Un

rotating a rectangular image in Gimp

Folk, To rotate a rectangular image by 90 degrees in Gimp, I followed these steps. * Expand the canvas to a square containing the image, centered. * Rotate 90 degrees. * Contract the canvas to the boundary of the image. If I just rotate without changing the canvas, the image is cropped. Does an

Re: lost x-server after etch to lenny upgrade

On Mar 5, 2:00 pm, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed March 5 2008, Rick Dooling wrote: > > when that happens to me, I quit, type: > export CC=gcc-4.1 > > then restart the installation > Thanks, Paul. Are you saying that I should run that command and reinstall? RD -- To UNSUB

Re: How to extract text from PDF?

Andrius wrote: Hi lads, technical question: is it possible to extract text from PDF? From PDF to txt. You can apt-get pdfedit Mileage will vary, only some PDF play nice. There is a new facility in pdfedit which might help in some difficult cases, pdf to xml but don't expect pain free. I

Re: uninstall vmware-player

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hce wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to uninstalled a vmware-player, but got following errors: > > # ./vmware-uninstall.pl > Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Player. > > Unable to find the tar installer database file (/etc/vmware/locations) > >

Re: foxconn architecture

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:15:44PM +0200, Gregg Jansen van Vuren wrote: > i am looking to install debian on a pc using a foxconn motherboard, i > am not really sure what architecture setup i would choose from the > debian packages, any hints? Tell us about a foxconn MB. What CPU? Doug. -- To

Re: netselect with proxy

On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:47:30 +, Oscar Corte wrote: > I'm trying to use netselect without any success. AFAIK, it has been broken for at least a year now. I was looking for the answer too. Here was my questions: I had been able to use netselect before. When I tried it again just now, all site

uninstall vmware-player

Hi, I tried to uninstalled a vmware-player, but got following errors: # ./vmware-uninstall.pl Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Player. Unable to find the tar installer database file (/etc/vmware/locations) Execution aborted. There is no locations in the /etc/vmware, how can I fix it

Re: Control-C kills interactive bash

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/08 17:39, Lesley Walker wrote: > After upgrading from Sarge to Etch, I have this problem, Ctrl-C kills > the current interactive Bash shell. > > I've been assuming it's a changed default or config file, so I've read > man pages and searched l

netselect with proxy

Hi:I'm trying to use netselect without any success. Any given server just wouldn't respond.http_proxy variable is set as required.What could I be missing?Thanks for any hintsRegards _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger!

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

On Wed March 5 2008 15:36:50 William Pursell wrote: > As far as I can tell, the following 4 commands should > all behave the same, but the last one hangs. Can anyone > see why? > > $ cat <(echo foo) > foo > $ bash -c 'cat <(echo foo)' > foo > $ echo foo | bash -c 'cat' > foo > $ bash -c 'cat' <(ec

Re: How to extract text from PDF?

On Wed March 5 2008 15:20:57 Andrius wrote: > technical question: is it possible to extract text from PDF? From PDF to > txt. If the PDF was built from text, then pdftotext will extract the text. pdftotext is in the xpdf-utils package. Be careful: if you don't explicitly specify an output file pd

Control-C kills interactive bash

After upgrading from Sarge to Etch, I have this problem, Ctrl-C kills the current interactive Bash shell. I've been assuming it's a changed default or config file, so I've read man pages and searched list archives to the best of my ability but haven't found the answer. Things I have looked at

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Pursell wrote: > I couldn't find the correct place to interject this question in > the thread, so I fairly randomly selected this location... > > As far as I can tell, the following 4 commands should > all behave the same, but the last one han

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

I think that debian logo is perfect for debian project. Debian doesn't need a mascot. I think that is ridiculos

Re: How to extract text from PDF?

You could use koffice, it can import pdf.

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

Mark Clarkson wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:10:37 -0800 Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I do the "process substitution" using a stand alone programs, it works as described: $ wc <(echo this is a test) 1 4 15 /dev/fd/63 I couldn't find the correct place to

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

Mark Clarkson wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:10:37 -0800 Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark Clarkson wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:16:02 -0800 Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian wrote: So can you explain exactly what the first < <( echo "$teststring" ) does exactly please?

How to extract text from PDF?

Hi lads, technical question: is it possible to extract text from PDF? From PDF to txt. Andrius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[OT]: how to troubleshoot an optical drive in Linux

Hello, In a Dell laptop, Inspiron 5160, the optical drive appeared to have died a few days ago. The disk stopped spinning, Fn+Eject stopped working and the button on the drive also stopped working. Attempting to eject lights the LED on the drive, but the tray is never ejected. I had thought t

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/08 06:10, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:51:03AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > >> But a name can be a snare and a delusion: we had another >> quasi-classical name, atticus, so called because it was located in the >> atti

Re: Etch --> Upgrading X.Org to 7.2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: > On Wed March 5 2008 08:24:33 Carlos Parada wrote: >> I don't find X.Org 7.2 on Backports. Is there any other way of upgrading >> X.Org but keeping Debian Stable distro? > > The library versions in Lenny are different, so you're unli

Re: Keyboard usage analyzer

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Nelson Castillo wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Raj Kiran Grandhi >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is there any utility that can report keyboard usage patterns? There is >>> no need for an elaborate keylogging me

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Lyons wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:09:34PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Owen Townend wrote: >>> Staying off-topic :) >>> Naming schemes wise - Good idea with the bond girls. >

Re: VDQ : Which Debian? (fwd)

I just took at look at webmin which has always seemed to me to do a good job of guessing the OS. It appears that that webmin looks at /etc/.issue or /etc/issue, and the result of "uname -a". In /usr/share/webmin take a look at oschooser.pl and os_list.txt. Webmin has been removed from Debian but

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:10:37 -0800 Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Clarkson wrote: > > On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:16:02 -0800 > > Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Brian wrote: > >>> So can you explain exactly what the first < <( echo > >>> "$teststring" ) does exactly ple

Re: microsoft vs opensource

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 01:05:01PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But then again changing that requires changing the rules. > > In the US, it would only require enforcing the constitution's clause > requiring limited co

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

Mark Clarkson wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:16:02 -0800 Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian wrote: So can you explain exactly what the first < <( echo "$teststring" ) does exactly please? In any case, I'd be interested in knowing where you found this construct. The bash man page

Re: VDQ : Which Debian? (fwd)

On 2008-03-05 21:21 +0100, Beartooth wrote: >Very interesting; It's fine in Fedora (so > presumably also in CentOS, which I don't > have booted right now)and in Debian; in Ubuntu > it says "lenny/sid," which I guess is an answer. A bad one, IMHO, since it does not distinguish Ubuntu from D

Re: microsoft vs opensource

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But then again changing that requires changing the rules. In the US, it would only require enforcing the constitution's clause requiring limited copyrights... -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: foxconn architecture

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/05/08 14:01, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On 3/5/08, Gregg Jansen van Vuren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> hi, > >> > >> i am looking to install debian on a pc using a fo

Re: VDQ : Which Debian? (fwd)

> This works in many distros, but not all ... > >(shopt -s nullglob; cat /etc/{debian_version > ,redhat-release}*) Very interesting; It's fine in Fedora (so presumably also in CentOS, which I don't have booted right now)and in Debian; in Ubuntu it says "lenny/sid," which I guess is an

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:16:02 -0800 Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > > So can you explain exactly what the first < <( echo "$teststring" ) > > does exactly please? > > > In any case, I'd be interested in knowing where you found this > construct. > The bash man page s

Re: Exim4 - local mail deliveries

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 20:22:12 +, Felix Karpfen wrote: > Since switching to Debian Etch, I no longer get messages (from cron and > logcheck) delivered to my user-mailbox. Exim 4 delivers them to the > mail-queue in /var/spool/exim4/input; when the queue is emptied, they > appear to end up in

Re: foxconn architecture

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/08 14:01, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 3/5/08, Gregg Jansen van Vuren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hi, >> >> i am looking to install debian on a pc using a foxconn motherboard, i am not >> really sure what architecture setup i would choose from

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

Brian wrote: Mark Clarkson wrote: On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:46:05 +0100 Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I could not get this to work, the shell complains: ./dirvish-mail.sh: 98: Syntax error: redirection unexpected Interesting to note that this does not work under busybox. I think this is ra

Re: foxconn architecture

On 3/5/08, Gregg Jansen van Vuren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > i am looking to install debian on a pc using a foxconn motherboard, i am not > really sure what architecture setup i would choose from the debian packages, > any hints? > > regards > vurentjie It has nothing to do with the mb,

Re: LANG=C not English?

On 05/03/2008, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 06:54:50PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 02/03/2008, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks, but how to set them? > > > > > > > > > Short answer is not to set any of LC_* as system wide. > > > >

Re: lost x-server after etch to lenny upgrade

On Wed March 5 2008, Rick Dooling wrote: > Got a warning about gcc compiler 4.2 not matching the version used to > compile the kernel. "If you know what you are doing select NO and > continue the installation." when that happens to me, I quit, type: export CC=gcc-4.1 then restart the installation

Re: VDQ : Which Debian?

On Wed March 5 2008 11:24:33 Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: > Is there some simple command to get a machine to tell me which > release (of Debian in particular, or of any distro but including Debian) > is running on it? If uname -a does it, I must be missing something ... This works in many dis

Re: VDQ : Which Debian?

On 2008-03-05 20:24 +0100, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: > Is there some simple command to get a machine to tell me which > release (of Debian in particular, or of any distro but including Debian) > is running on it? If uname -a does it, I must be missing something ... For distributions tha

VDQ : Which Debian?

Is there some simple command to get a machine to tell me which release (of Debian in particular, or of any distro but including Debian) is running on it? If uname -a does it, I must be missing something ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User C5; D4; F8; P3; U7.10;

foxconn architecture

hi, i am looking to install debian on a pc using a foxconn motherboard, i am not really sure what architecture setup i would choose from the debian packages, any hints? regards vurentjie

Re: Missing ncurses.h when compiling Kermit on Etch

Keith Christian wrote: > make xermit KTARGET=${KTARGET:-linuxa} "CC = gcc" "CC2 = gcc" \ > "CFLAGS = -O -DLINUX -pipe -funsigned-char -DFNFLOAT -DCK_POSIX_SIG \ > -DCK_NEWTERM -DTCPSOCKET -DLINUXFSSTND -DNOCOTFMC -DPOSIX \ > -DUSE_STRERROR -DCK_NCURSES -I/usr/include/ncurses -DHAVE_PTMX > -DHAVE_O

Re: Missing ncurses.h when compiling Kermit on Etch

- Original Message From: Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User Lists Sent: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 7:09:59 AM Subject: Re: Missing ncurses.h when compiling Kermit on Etch On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Keith Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded the latest K

Re: microsoft vs opensource

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:39:25PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > steef wrote: > >Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>steef wrote: > >>> > >>>is there somebody out there who knows the (juridical) implications > >>>of the kind of "intellectual property" when somebody is going into > >>>the bush and tries to

Re: Etch --> Upgrading X.Org to 7.2

On Wed March 5 2008 08:24:33 Carlos Parada wrote: > I don't find X.Org 7.2 on Backports. Is there any other way of upgrading > X.Org but keeping Debian Stable distro? The library versions in Lenny are different, so you're unlikely to get there by apt-pinning. You may be able to get the 7.2 source

Re: lost x-server after etch to lenny upgrade

On Mar 5, 10:00 am, Rick Dooling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I went to nvidia site for latest drivers http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx Downloaded the latest drivers and followed install instructions. Got a warning about gcc compiler 4.2 not matching the version used to compile the kerne

Re: microsoft vs opensource

On 3/5/08, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> thanks david. i myself got the impression that 'the' big corporations > >> are often keeping busy themselves with legalized theft, backed up by > >> their respective governments. > >> > > > > I thought that's what the idea

Re: Keyboard usage analyzer

Nelson Castillo wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any utility that can report keyboard usage patterns? There is no need for an elaborate keylogging mechanism. I would just like to know the number of keypresses I am generating everyday

Re: Etch --> Upgrading X.Org to 7.2

I don't find X.Org 7.2 on Backports. Is there any other way of upgrading X.Org but keeping Debian Stable distro? I'm so hesitant of upgrading to Lenny, I've heard there are almost no security updates aside from other disadvantages. On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: microsoft vs opensource

Paul Johnson wrote: thanks david. i myself got the impression that 'the' big corporations are often keeping busy themselves with legalized theft, backed up by their respective governments. I thought that's what the idea of a corporation is by definition... yep. that is exactly how

lost x-server after etch to lenny upgrade

Hello, I have an agp nvidia card, forget mfr, but the number following is 6600. I am used to losing the x-server on kernel upgrade, but I have a script that I run which always brings it back. #!/bin/sh /etc/init.d/gdm stop rmmod nvidia m-a a-i nvidia apt-get install nvidia-glx /etc/init.d/gdm s

Re: Keyboard usage analyzer

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any utility that can report keyboard usage patterns? There is > no need for an elaborate keylogging mechanism. I would just like to know > the number of keypresses I am generating everyday and perhaps the num

Re: microsoft vs opensource

> thanks david. i myself got the impression that 'the' big corporations > are often keeping busy themselves with legalized theft, backed up by > their respective governments. I thought that's what the idea of a corporation is by definition... -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSC

Keyboard usage analyzer

Is there any utility that can report keyboard usage patterns? There is no need for an elaborate keylogging mechanism. I would just like to know the number of keypresses I am generating everyday and perhaps the number of times each key is pressed. Just curious. -- Raj Kiran Grandhi -- To UNS

Re: [OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:09:34PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > I've also got a 286 called "M" (ha, judy dench jokes) My P-II is called "rocky" because the CPU fan bearing makes the whole box sound like a gravel truck... My IBM 486 is called "reliant" since it has been going with no errors for 1

Re: sensors

Jan Willem Stumpel: > > -12V:+1.70 V (min = -13.76 V, max = -14.91 V) > V5SB:+5.05 V (min = +0.27 V, max = +3.44 V) > VBat:+0.16 V (min = +0.59 V, max = +3.20 V) > fan1: 0 RPM (min = 164 RPM, div = 128) > CPU Fan:1854 RPM (min = -1 RPM, div = 4) > f

problem with Debian installer on Lenny

I've found a bug on what I think it's Debian installer currently packed with Lenny. Here is the message (displayed previous to the installer actually starts) transcription word by word, as displayed on my screen: Decompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at e

apt.conf doesn't have effect anymore

Hello, I'm mainly using lenny, but I have as well sid and experimental repositories in my sources.list. To give priority to lenny I use apt.conf file. Every thing was fine until I decided to had a third party repository for lenny. Unlike debian repositories, the version of debian is in the path,

Re: LCD screen flickering

I don't think that it is hardware problem. Similar on (desktop, not laptop): 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0e) "i810" driver from ubuntu (!), and older from debian works fine. Also change from "intel" to "vesa" solves prob

Re: Etch --> Upgrading X.Org to 7.2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/08 08:16, Carlos Parada wrote: > Hi! I'm currently using Debian Stable ('Etch') and obviously my X.Org > version is 7.1.1. > > Is there any problem with manually upgrading X.Org to 7.2?? You'll have to look at backports.org, I think. Or upg

Etch --> Upgrading X.Org to 7.2

Hi! I'm currently using Debian Stable ('Etch') and obviously my X.Orgversion is 7.1.1. Is there any problem with manually upgrading X.Org to 7.2??

Converting from console-tools style keymap to console-setup xkb style keymap

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, The tn5250 package has an add on keymap us5250.map that defines F21 thru F24, and a few other odds and ends, on the console keyboard. I'm trying to use this keymap on gutsy and etch. I gather both of them have converted to the cons

Re: Missing ncurses.h when compiling Kermit on Etch

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Keith Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded the latest Kermit tarball from this link: > > http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/test/tar/x.tar.gz > > > > Compiling fails with a missing ncurses.h message thus: Install the ncurses-dev package. Patrick

Logitech cordless quickcam (does it work with linux?)

Any has experience with the wireless Logitech cordless quickcam? I want to know whether it works with linux, or if anyone has experience with a different wireless battery powered webcam. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: microsoft vs opensource

Telaman Consultancies wrote: Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: microsoft vs opensource Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:16:54 + Miles Fidelman wrote: steef wrote: is there somebody out there who knows the (juridical) i

Missing ncurses.h when compiling Kermit on Etch

I downloaded the latest Kermit tarball from this link: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/test/tar/x.tar.gz Compiling fails with a missing ncurses.h message thus: Making C-Kermit "8.0.212" for Linux 1.2 or later... IMPORTANT: Read the comments in the linux section of the makefile if you have

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

Mark Clarkson wrote: On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:46:05 +0100 Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I could not get this to work, the shell complains: ./dirvish-mail.sh: 98: Syntax error: redirection unexpected Interesting to note that this does not work under busybox. I think this is rather an esoter

Re: LANG=C not English?

On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 06:54:50PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 02/03/2008, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks, but how to set them? > > > > > > Short answer is not to set any of LC_* as system wide. > > I don't recall ever setting them. I don't even know how. OK, I may have mi

sensors

When I run the "sensors" command, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sensors w83627thf-isa-0290 Adapter: ISA adapter VCore: +1.44 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +3.84 V) +12V: +12.40 V (min = +5.84 V, max = +0.00 V) +3.3V: +3.39 V (min = +0.10 V, max = +3.23 V) +5V: +5.04 V

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes (was: Laptop with Linux preinstalled)

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:51:03AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > But a name can be a snare and a delusion: we had another > quasi-classical name, atticus, so called because it was located in the > attic. Then we moved house and it was relocated under the stairs... > And I had my office in the p

Re: good network

here is a post that explains fairely well how to do so. Hope that helps. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-87798.html Le mercredi 05 mars 2008 à 08:33 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich a écrit : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > stephane lepain wrote: > > Hi Guys, >

Re: font problem with xfig (solution)

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 22:23 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 12:23 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am running etch, and I use xfig to create figures. When I call xfig > > from a command line I get the following error messages: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: lvm + dm-crypt = shutdown problem (mount: / is busy)

Maximilian Gass wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:17:41PM +0200, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: I am running debian testing, and I am experiencing lately this (hopefully) non-destructive problem: This problem is non-destructive and normal. Now, this 'Can't deactivate volume group', always

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes (was: Laptop with Linux preinstalled)

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:09:34PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Owen Townend wrote: > > Staying off-topic :) > > Naming schemes wise - Good idea with the bond girls. > > My VM names are all coffee related: arabica dusting froth platter moc

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