Re: Cron, > 1 month but < 2 months

2012-03-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 03:46:49AM +, T o n g wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:32:36 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > root@tal:~# apt-cache show ddate > > N: Unable to locate package ddate > > E: No packages found > > My ddate comes with the util-linux package. root@tal:~# which ddate root@ta

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:46:59PM +, Camaleón wrote: > For instance, by default ppa-purge (or a similar script) is instructed to > remove non official versions of the packages in favor of the ones > available in Debian repositories. Right! As its name says. :) Consider the command "rm" in

Need help recovering lvm volume group

2012-03-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I can't figure out what exactly happened, but here is the result. I had an lvm volume consisting of a complete 250GB disk and about 75GB partition on another disk. Now LVM won't access either one of them and when I try any sort of lv command I get a message that "Incorrect metada

Re: Cron, > 1 month but < 2 months

2012-03-12 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:32:36 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: >> arnt@nb6:~$ date &&ddate >> Fri Mar 9 15:25:34 CET 2012 >> Today is Pungenday, the 68th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3178 arnt@nb6:~$ >> ddate 14 3 2012 >> Pungenday, Chaos 73, 3178 YOLD >> arnt@nb6:~$ ddate 15 3 2012 >> Prickle-Prickle, D

Re: Cron, > 1 month but < 2 months

2012-03-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 03:35:22PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: [..] > arnt@nb6:~$ date &&ddate > Fri Mar 9 15:25:34 CET 2012 > Today is Pungenday, the 68th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3178 > arnt@nb6:~$ ddate 14 3 2012 > Pungenday, Chaos 73, 3178 YOLD > arnt@nb6:~$ ddate 15 3 2012 > Prickle-Prickle, D

Re: Ersetzen der Playliste in VLC durch was =?utf-8?Q?vern=C3=BCn?= =?utf-8?Q?ftiges=3F?=

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Heerdegen
Michelle Konzack writes: > Moin Leute, > > bin gerade dabei, meine neue WOrkstation zu installieren und was mich an > VLC nervt, ist die Playliste. > > Kennt jemand ein VLC Plugin, welche diesen Schrott gegen > was vernünftiges wie Verzeichnis orientiertes ersetzt? Ohne Plugin: Wenn man

[Solved]: Cron, > 1 month but < 2 months

2012-03-12 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:37:19 +0100, Florian Ernst wrote: >> >> Is there any easy way to schedule a job for a duration that is >> >> greater than one month but shorter than 2 months? Any duration will >> >> do, as long as it is easy to schedule. >> > >> > Easy? Hmmm. >> > >> > 0 12 * * 1 [ $(expr

OpenVPN roadwarrior and dynamic IP

2012-03-12 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! I was setting up a VPN connection from the office to my home where I have dynamic IP. For this I am using the following settings: --- 1) On the client: client proto udp dev tun remote dynamicdomain.com 1194 float resolv

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 12 March 2012 11:30:19 am Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Greg Madden wrote: > > There are differences between AOO & LO, significant enough to warrant > > having a choice in Debian of which one to use. > > What are the significant differences that you have perceived?

Re: HTML vertical gap

2012-03-12 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 09:47:09AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 13/03/12 08:10, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: > > > > Sian Mountbatten said: > > > > I have a description list which has a number of items which document > > values in a program. I want to group the items such that the gro

Re: HTML vertical gap

2012-03-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/03/12 09:47, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 13/03/12 08:10, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: >> >> Sian Mountbatten said: >> > > > > That's a rather complicated, and *deprecated*, way of doing what can be > applied with a style element, or by just inserting a line break. :-) *Correction*.

Re: HTML vertical gap

2012-03-12 Thread teddieeb
Scott Ferguson Said: That's a rather complicated, and *deprecated*, way of doing what can be applied with a style element, or by just inserting a line break. :-) HTML 5 and CSS do not *depreciate* tables. It simply is a cleaner way to structure a page vs. The *everything* needs to be writ

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:00:26AM +, Chris Davies wrote: > documents. At one point I found that I could open templated documents > with LO but in order to print them I had to save then in native OOo > format and reload them in AOO. Fortunately that state of affairs lasted This is nonsense. Th

Re: HTML vertical gap

2012-03-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/03/12 08:10, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: > > Sian Mountbatten said: > > I have a description list which has a number of items which document > values in a program. I want to group the items such that the groups > are separated by a bit of vertical space. How do I do that? That is, >

Re: HTML vertical gap [OT]

2012-03-12 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 13/03/12 06:58, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > I have a description list which has a number of items which document > values in a program. I want to group the items such that the groups are > separated by a bit of vertical space. How do I do that? That is, I want > a bit of vertical space in a defini

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 06:36:52PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > Someone will have to step up and put the work in to package AOO, for the > > choice to exist "in Debian". > > The Apache OO folks do provide .deb files with desktop integration. In my > tests > these work well enough on a Debi

Re: HTML vertical gap

2012-03-12 Thread teddieeb
Sian Mountbatten said: I have a description list which has a number of items which document values in a program. I want to group the items such that the groups are separated by a bit of vertical space. How do I do that? That is, I want a bit of vertical space in a definition list. Do I create an

HTML vertical gap

2012-03-12 Thread Sian Mountbatten
I have a description list which has a number of items which document values in a program. I want to group the items such that the groups are separated by a bit of vertical space. How do I do that? That is, I want a bit of vertical space in a definition list. Do I create an empty item? Or what?

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Greg Madden wrote: > There are differences between AOO & LO, significant enough to warrant having a > choice in Debian of which one to use. > What are the significant differences that you have perceived? I might have to maintain a page outlining the differences if t

Re: Option to disable touchpad when mouse is connected or when keyboard is used has disappeared :-(

2012-03-12 Thread Doug
On 03/12/2012 06:00 AM, Wojciech Zabołotny wrote: Hi, In my KDE4 based laptop I was using the option disabling the touchpad when mouse is connected and when keyboard is used. What's interesting: this option was available when touchpad configuration was displayed separately in the "lost & found

Re: KVM problem

2012-03-12 Thread 0xAAA
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:12:11AM +0100, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > I'll leave you there with your judgment call, but Blender is considered > a bit more than "gruff" in the 3D modeling and video community, Yum is > Fedora package manager, the developers will be delighted to know they > are

Re: Option to disable touchpad when mouse is connected or when keyboard is used has disappeared :-(

2012-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:00:00 +0100, Wojciech Zabołotny wrote: > In my KDE4 based laptop I was using the option disabling the touchpad > when mouse is connected and when keyboard is used. What's interesting: > this option was available when touchpad configuration was displayed > separately in the "

Re: Exim4: incoming Internet mail to internal mail server

2012-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:54:01 +0100, johnb wrote: > I'm trying to configure Exim4 on Debian 6.04 for incoming mail only. > Exim should accept all mail for domain "mydomain.example" from Internet ^ For that scenario be possible

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:13:07 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Camaleón writes: > Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs > from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages > installed from that PPA to the versions available in the official

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-12 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:03:14 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >>> Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any p

Re: Re: CUPS Again - Any ideas from the list?

2012-03-12 Thread Jasper Noë
Recently I spent a day sitting in front of a not working printer. In this case USB. Stopped working after upgrade from lenny to squeeze. Removing and reinstalling cups did not do it. Finally inside cups removing the printer and let cups search for a new printer did it. I am afraid this is not g

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:09:10 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my > work, archived documents & templates this is working out better, for my > use scenario, than LO ver 3.4.x and later. What are those improvements you're seeing? > Ther

Re: big problem with TP-LINK WiFi card

2012-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:37:27 +0100, Bernard wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:33:02 +0100, Bernard wrote: >>> If I were to upgrade kernels, which kernel would you recommend ? >>> >>> >> I would try with the backports one, as it's easier to install. If that >> also fai

Re: recent version of iceape buggy?

2012-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:05:32 -0400, H.S. wrote: > On 10/03/12 01:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Before anything, I would first try with an empty and fresh browser >> profile and check if you still experience the slowness when typing at >> the location bar from there. > > I tried that today. It happ

Re: CUPS Again - Any ideas from the list?

2012-03-12 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 01:44 PM 3/11/2012, Brian wrote: On Sat 10 Mar 2012 at 21:27:06 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > ethan@rosenberg:/var/www/Webpages2$ ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/ > total 508 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7250 Mar 2 16:54 beh > -rwx-- 1 root root 21284 Dec 26 22:43 cups-pdf > -rwxr--r-- 3 root

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:10:34 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:19:26 -0400, Tom H wrote: (...) >>> In my limited experience of "purge-ppa", it's worked very well. >> >> My guess is that is highly dependant on user's configuration: the >> lesser repositorie

Re: Automatically purging non-official packages

2012-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:03:14 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:31:11 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> >>> Ubuntu has a "ppa-purge" script that not just removes Launchpad PPAs >>> from sources.list, but also automatically reverts any packages >>> installed from

Re: How to direct output into the LibreOffice Calc

2012-03-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:42:41 +1300, Chris wrote in message <20120310014240.GA3131@tal>: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 10:10:32PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 05:15:05 +1300, Chris wrote in message > > You wrote: > ata_std_bios_param (9) - generic bios head/sector/cylinder calcu

Re: KVM problem

2012-03-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:56:53AM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Friday 09 March 2012 10:16:48 Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 06:52:03PM -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > > > Howdy! > > > > > > A friend is having the devil's own time trying to get qemu-kvm working > > > for himself. I h

Re: Option to disable touchpad when mouse is connected or when keyboard is used has disappeared :-(

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Wood
I suspect its something to do with the update from the 3.1 to 3.2 kernel. I've found under 3.2 my touchpad now simulates a click when tapped (which it used to under 2.6 but never did under 3.1 and to be honest I prefer it disabled). I've also found touch screens which worked under 3.1 no longe

Re: Cron, > 1 month but < 2 months

2012-03-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 12:08:38 +0100, Jochen wrote in message <20120309110838.gn11...@wasteland.homelinux.net>: > Florian Ernst: > > Hello there, > > > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 05:09:23AM +, T o n g wrote: > >> Is there any easy way to schedule a job for a duration that is > >> greater than on

Re: big problem with TP-LINK WiFi card

2012-03-12 Thread Bernard
Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:33:02 +0100, Bernard wrote: Camaleón wrote: If I were to upgrade kernels, which kernel would you recommend ? I would try with the backports one, as it's easier to install. If that also fails, I would compile the latest stable kerne

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Chris Davies
Greg Madden wrote: > 1. About 'file open' : Someone mentioned LO has a stricter compliance > with ? document format standards, anecdotal experience shows some > MS docs do not open in LO that do open in AOO. Not really an area of > concern here, I rarely get a MS document sent to me. I've found

Re: Audiobooks

2012-03-12 Thread Chris Davies
Lisi wrote: > aa is > somewhat problematic and I don't kno wwhat can read it. > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/audible-com-aa-sound-format-on-linux-350452/ Audible's books are fully DRM encumbered. The "solution" is to download the book into a Windows (or Mac?) system ru

Option to disable touchpad when mouse is connected or when keyboard is used has disappeared :-(

2012-03-12 Thread Wojciech Zabołotny
Hi, In my KDE4 based laptop I was using the option disabling the touchpad when mouse is connected and when keyboard is used. What's interesting: this option was available when touchpad configuration was displayed separately in the "lost & found" section of "system settings" in KDE. After certa