Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
oblems with Brother HL-5250DN and HL-5350DN using the driver from the Brother site: Brother-HL-5350DN-Postscript-Brother.ppd on both. AC -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Flash update

2016-04-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
s without Flash. If you go to the BBC IPlayer web page it says you can access the programs using HTML5. You just have to install a cookie to do this. It's still in beta but it works for me, at least with recent versions of Firefox and Chromium. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Differences Between ThinkPad Models

2015-12-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
the picture, were rock > solid. Maybe if I cxould find a used T60.. There are good refurbished T60s available on Ebay in Britain. I bought up several of these - almost indistinguishable from new. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
ed if you don't have an easily accessible TTY to diagnose the problem. I'm sure I'm not alone in this. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: Okay, that's too much now!

2015-09-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Sep 2015, John Hasler wrote: > Erik Lauritsen writes: > > Freedom of choice my ass! > > You are free to choose FreeBSD. > -- Or OpenBSD, which for my money is a better bet for the Desktop. -- Anthony Campbellhttp://www.acampbell.uk

Re: OT: linguistic mis-usages (was Re: Remove subject)

2015-05-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 May 2015, The Wanderer wrote: > On 05/15/2015 at 07:35 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:16:17AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > >> Since we're well off-topic already, I can't resist citing a rather > >> similar and

Re: Remove subject

2015-05-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
l off-topic already, I can't resist citing a rather similar and increasingly prevalent negative usage that makes no sense. I quite often read the phrase: "the importance of this cannot be underestimated". It should, of course, be OVER-estimated, or alternatively "must not be under-

Re: Is this a hacking attempt?

2015-01-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
ave any examples of sites that still need Flash? Obviously > > flash game sites still need it but surely almost all of the web has > > moved away from it at this point? > > > > http://tv1.yle.fi/ > BBC iPlayer, unfortunately. -- Anthony Campbell

Re: Re: Iceweasel Latest update stealing bandwidth uselessly -OT

2014-12-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141207215907.GA18565@rimmer.localdomain -- Anthony Campbell http://www.acampbell.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: the developers have spoken

2014-11-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
> alternatives. > I've found OpenBSD to be better than FreeBSD, at least for me. Much more on my blog for anyone interested. -- Anthony Campbell http://www.acampbell.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: How to enable larger mouse pointers under X

2014-11-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
ems too, including ArchLinux and even OpenBSD. I've posted http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/672-A-large-mouse-pointer-for-ArchLinux.html";>details here. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smash

Re: printing

2014-08-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Aug 2014, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 15:26:46 +0200 > dick kampman wrote: > > [snip] > If none of that stuff bears fruit, you can install other programs to > configure HP printers. Try those. > I always found lprng + magicfilter to work well. AC --

Re: Crypt data "on the fly"

2014-06-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
: https://www.code42.com/store/ > I'm surprised that no one has mentioned tarsnap: "Onlinebackups for the truly paranoid." See www.tarsnap.com. It's specifically for Unix systems - on Windows only via Cygwin. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acup

Re: Debian 5 -- "data" is plural.

2014-05-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
rse usage, which I find even with some scientific speakers, is to use bacteria as singular. If we are going to anglicise the word, which I think is a defensible view, we should make the plural to be bacteriums. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www

Screen resolution [was: Re: Building computer]

2013-10-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
ou get in some applications, e.g. imagemagick. For this reason, at least on my desktop with a CRT monitor, I use 1280x1024 instead of 1600x1200. There is no obvious degradation of quality, at least to my worsening eyes. On my laptop this doesn't work well because you get distortion at any res

Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"

2013-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
and work in much the same way. Altbough they are called tiling, I use spectrwm fullscreen most of the time, and I think quite a few people do this. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.

Re: Choosing among "Desktop Enviroments" and/or "Windows Managers"

2013-09-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
e's commands... > > Hope it helps... > I use this: # switch to icewm xinit /home/ac/.xxinitrc -- :1 & where ,xxinitrc is a modified version of .xinitrc to run icewm (in this case). I can then switch back and forth between spectrwm and icewm with Ctr

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
, with an error message. Following a comment on the net I tried the pxlmono driver and that is working well. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id732

Re: TEST

2013-08-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
e of days ago didn't arrive. Let's see if this one does. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
ounds like a display driver issue. ISTR getting this same problem > > many years ago. > > I guess if you had a glimmer of memory about how you went about > tracking it down... you would have said so eh? > If you have a removeable video card it might be worth taking it out and p

Re: Epson Perfection V330 -SOLVED

2013-07-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Jul 2013, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 06 July 2013 14:00:35 Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Thanks to someone on the Sane mailing list > > Which one? I could find only sane-devel, sane-standard, sane-announce and > sane-commit. The IRC channel does say that it offer

Re: Epson Perfection V330 -SOLVED

2013-07-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Jul 2013, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I had my Epson Perfection V330 working well on Debian Sid but I had to > reinstall the system. I now have Squeeze running. > > I downloaded drivers from the Epson site: > > iscan_2.29.1-5~usb0.1.ltdl3_i386.deb > iscan_2.29.1-5~

Epson Perfection V330

2013-07-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
these iscan packages but although they seem to install OK the scanner is not recognised. Has anyone got this working? I'd be willing to uprade to Sid if necessary but I'm not sure that would be the answer. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.or

Re: kernel not upgraded to wheezy

2013-07-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Jul 2013, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > For some reason a recent upgrade of grub2 led to a failed configure. I > found other people on Google, mainly ubuntu users,with a similar problem > but no obvious solution. I purged grub2 and reinstalled, but the same > error appeared.

Re: kernel not upgraded to wheezy

2013-07-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
at least allowed grub-mkconfig to work but still the new kernel did not appear at boot. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSU

Re: kernel not upgraded to wheezy

2013-07-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
e menu when I boot. Repeated runs of update-grub don't fix this. I reverted to grub-legacy because of configuration problems with grub2 but that didn't allow the new kernel to appear either. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

2013-06-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Jun 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which > > were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list > > includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common. > > That doe

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

2013-06-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
some other solutions, or just wait a > few days and try again. > -- > John Hasler > > Yes, that's right; requests to install any package produced a warning that all these packages would be removed. But the problem has gone away now. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.o

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

2013-06-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
my system, though I don't know what it was. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: Sid wants to remove lots of packages

2013-06-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Jun 2013, John Hasler wrote: > Anthony Campbell writes: > > If I try to install any package I see a list of some 80 packages which > > were automatically installed and are no longer required. The list > > includes apt, grub-pc-bin, and grub2-common. > > > Obv

Sid wants to remove lots of packages

2013-06-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
this behaviour? AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Why can ubuntu dist upgrade dist from within an X session?

2013-05-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
er. Is this actually what is meant? > > Celejar I've been upgrading from within X on Debian for years and never had any problems. But I don't do this remotely, I start X from startx, and I don't use any desktop environment. Perhaps that's why. AC --

Re: recommend a laser printer

2013-05-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
st $100US or > >less? > > Brother HL-2132. Cartridges don't last long, but otherwise it's > a great printer for its cost. > I've had a Brother HL5240 for a couple of years. It's been good but I don't know what it would cost in the USA. AC -- Anthon

Re: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.

2013-05-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 May 2013, Mauro wrote: > > Maybe install package amd64-microcode ? > I do have it installed. That is just the point - the module is there but it doesn't load. The kernel says it can't find it. Kerne 3.2 has no problem. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@aca

Re: debian sid, kernel 3.8 and volume group not found.

2013-05-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
the tp_smapi module (battery charge control) does not load. I've removed this kernel from both machines. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id

Re: Thanks to All

2013-05-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 May 2013, staticsafe wrote: > On 5/1/2013 3:27, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > If you need any help, feel free to subscribe to freebsd-questions[0]. > > [0] - http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > Yes, thanks - already done that. I'

Re: Thanks to All

2013-05-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
e 80 this month, I thought it was time to start experimenting with FreeBSD. Clearly a technical challenge; as for morality, I think FreeBSD, like Debian, scores pretty well for that. AC`kkk -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smash

Re: How do I list installed packages?

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
Mark Weyer > > You could also look at the package deborphan. I believe it will > give you the information you are looking for. > > deborphan -a > > Regards, > /Lars Or 'wajig snapshot':. Generates a list of package=version for all installed packages AC -- Anth

Re: a problem with CUPS

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
rinters I've had (several different lasers). It's easy to configure and always works. AC > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive:

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
Yes; it wasn't entirely your (or Yahoo's) fault. I had some lines in .muttrc which were meant, ironically, to translate such codes! Deleting them has stopped your codes appearing. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.c

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Apr 2013, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 07:57:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > > > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > > > > > > > >>&

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
roblem with Patrick's mail. > Interesting. After some experimenting, it seems that there is something in my .muttrc that is causing this, since if I don't use the configuration file the codes disappear. I shall have to look into this. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.o

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
them annoying to read on a text-based email reader like mutt. Regards, Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/

Re: root password

2013-04-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
ttempt to log in as root there. If that doesn't work, then you'll need > to reset root's password. > Make sure your keyboard is sending what you think it is. I was once caught out when an upgrade changed my keyboard from UK to US without my moticing, and my password used keys

Re: Tiling window manager based desktop environment (was: Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE)

2013-04-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
us others beside it or beneath it, or fullscreen. Amyway, I'd say that both these are very good tiling WMs, and it's a matter of personal taste which you prefer. Of course, tiling WMs in general are an acquired taste and they are not for everyone. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@aca

Re: Tiling window manager based desktop environment (was: Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE)

2013-04-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
it. I don't really have much need for window titles. Status bar: in spectrwm you can optionally have no frame at all in fullscreen when you turn off the status bar. An absolutely minimal screen. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbo

Re: Tiling window manager based desktop environment (was: Re: MICROSOFT HIRED THESE PEOPLE TO SABOTAGE OPEN SOURCE)

2013-04-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
le the latest version of spectrwm on Debian (the one in the repository is quite old). -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/ac

Re: VPN Connections

2013-03-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
pn server in linux at http://www.acampbell.org.uk/linux/vpn.html. This is for a pptp server; I don't know if that is what you are trying to do, but in any case it may be adaptable to what you need. Regards, Amthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk htt

Re: More than one window manager

2013-02-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
Alt-F8 and Shift-Alt-F7. No doubt you could have three or more WMs if you wanted. I do this because I like tiling WMs but they don't do very well with programs that open a lot of windows, such as xsane or gimp; a stacking WM is better for these. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org

Re: Xmonad usage.

2013-01-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
e xsane and gimp. A stacking WM is better for these. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.app

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
version available in Testing. Or by finding a work-around in the bug tracking system. Or by not upgrading because you have apt-listbugs installed and you have been warned about the problem." This is what I do too. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.a

Re: OT: Captchas?

2012-12-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
; I heard about artificial penises + artifical urine that should be that > natural, that it's used to pass drug screenings. > Captchas can be thought of as an attempt to perform the Turing test. Experience suggests that either computers can pass it and/or humans fail. AC -- Anth

Re: OT: Captchas?

2012-12-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
ithout causing a flood of spam. On the other hand, when it was turned on I was still getting literally hundreds of spam piostings, so I don't know how useful the things are anyway. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks

Re: about xfce and window managers

2012-11-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Nov 2012, John L. Cunningham wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 04:09:07PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > Xmonad is good but for configuration you have to delve into Haskell, > > In my experience, it's not that bad. Mostly because someone has probably >

Re: about xfce and window managers

2012-11-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
7;ve got a lot about my experiments with tiling wms on my linux page and my blog. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.vi

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2012-11-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
some reason it stopped; however, the ljet4 driver provided with magicfilter is fine. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/

Re: restart problems monitor or GPU

2012-11-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
t has fixed monitor errors for me a couple of times in the past. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: java enable in Iceweasel (Sid)? -SOLVED

2012-07-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Jul 2012, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:07:20 +0100 > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Hello Anthony, > > >OK, I found it - embarrassingly, java was disabled in Preferences! > > You've found the problem, that's what counts. Posting the so

Re: java enable in Iceweasel (Sid)? -SOLVED

2012-07-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
OK, I found it - embarrassingly, java was disabled in Preferences! Working OK now - apologies for troubling the list. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com

Re: java enable in Iceweasel (Sid)?

2012-07-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Jul 2012, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 09:55:22 +0100 > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Hello Anthony, > > >Following a suggestion on google I also installed icedtea-6-plugin but > >it doesn't seem to produce anything useful, similar to sunjavapl

java enable in Iceweasel (Sid)?

2012-07-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
gestion on google I also installed icedtea-6-plugin but it doesn't seem to produce anything useful, similar to sunjavaplugin.so, which I used to have previously. Do I perhapd need a different version of java altogether? Can anyone point me towards a solution? AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@a

Re: firewall

2012-07-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Jul 2012, Brad Alexander wrote: > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:19 +0800, lina wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I don't know which firewall (http://wiki.debian.org/Firewalls) I should > >> choose. > >> > >> Thanks ahead for recommendation, and

Re: why ABIWORD?

2012-07-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
how I managed it. Several of these books were originally Lyx files and I converted these to rtf for Libreoffice. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/

Re: Stand up for your freedom to install free software

2012-06-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
t; > > > > I tried pressing the "Save" button and also the "Enter" key. > > > > I have just tried again by entering name and e-mail address and Enter, > and this was successful. > > HTH > > > Terence > Pressing Enter didn

Re: Stand up for your freedom to install free software

2012-06-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Jun 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot/statement > > > Trying to sign up on this produces an error message for me. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.

Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
for xserver-xorg suggests it may be the same as a bug reported for xserver-common, which may well be right. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/a

Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
am the only user finding this. Is it a bug in X on Sid? (I originally reported it as a bug in i3 but it is not confined to that wm.) Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smas

Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
ject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120516143642.06840...@celsius.lan -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at

Re: Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 May 2012, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Anthony Campbell: > > I am running Sid on two computers, one with Nouveau, the other with > > Radeon. > > > > In both, if I kill the process corresponding to X *from within X*, > > either the machine freezes completely

Can anyone please reproduce this crash in X on Sid?

2012-05-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
something peculiar in my setup or can other people running Sid reproduce it? It happens with several different window managers (i3, dwm, icewm); I don't know about desktop managers. It does not happen in Squeeze. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone -

Re: OT - New Google algorithm

2012-05-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Apr 2012, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:04:57 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > For the last 3 weeks there has been a roughly 70 per cent drop in the > > number of hits on my web pages (although one of these pages in contrast, > > has seen a steep i

OT - New Google algorithm

2012-04-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
methbods of inflating their hit rate. (I don't do this.) Has anyone else noticed anything similar? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid - SOLVED

2012-04-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Apr 2012, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:50:26 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > For the last few days apt-get upgrades in Sid always fail with this > > message: > > > > E: Internal error: APT::pkgPackageManager::MaxLoopCount reached in

Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

2012-04-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
downloaded this and installed it with dpkg but the error still comes up. I also tried downloading and installing the latest version of libc-bin, mentioned in the error line, but that had depnendency problems. Any ideas what to try next? AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone

Re: iceweasel drawing problems

2012-04-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
en Yes, you are right; I'm now getting it on icewm as well, though I think less frequently. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To

Re: iceweasel drawing problems

2012-04-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
This bug have > been submitted to upstream. > I'm getting this on my laptop (radeon mobility X1400) but not my desktop (nvidia). But it's also something to do with the window manager: it happens with i3 but not with icewm. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

2012-03-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Mar 2012, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2012 03 Mar 05:38 -0600, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I have posted full details of how I got the printer working on my blog: > > http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php; see the entry for 16 > > Feb for details. > >

Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy

2012-03-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
ng: the driver I got from Brother and used previously without problems now no longer worked. However, the ljet4 driver in macicfilter is fine. I have posted full details of how I got the printer working on my blog: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php; see the entry for 16 Feb for

Re: Bad news for Epson Perfection v330 - SOLVED

2012-02-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Feb 2012, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > On 02/15/2012 02:29 PM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 15 Feb 2012, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > Sorry to follow up to myself but I found a solution. The missing > > dependency was libltdl3, which is no longer available. Bu

Re: Bad news for Epson Perfection v330 - SOLVED

2012-02-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Feb 2012, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I bought one of these in December and it worked well with the driver > from Avasys. > > A couple of days my HDD crashed. After reinstalling on a new one I find > that the drivers for this scanner are now being provided by Epson and

Bad news for Epson Perfection v330

2012-02-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
scanner is therefore now useless to me. Don't buy it. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: lpr command not found

2012-02-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
he USB lead out and put it back after each printing) but at present things seem to be more or less all right. I still have lprng on my other machines and don't intend to change unless I have to. AC -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www

Re: What´s wrong with fetchmail? (Re: POP3 in Debian)

2012-01-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Jan 2012, Johann Spies wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:15:33PM +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > It's fine if it works for you, but some years ago I had problems > > authenticting myself to a mail server with fetchmail. I switched to > > getmail4

Re: What´s wrong with fetchmail? (Re: POP3 in Debian)

2012-01-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
ms authenticting myself to a mail server with fetchmail. I switched to getmail4 and it worked instantly. I can't remember the details now but I've always used getmail4 since them. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - using Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk

Re: Keyboard layout detection

2012-01-12 Thread Anthony Campbell
t works fine. I followed the advice on the above wiki and installed eeepc-acpi-scripts. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - using Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - book reviews, articles, blog, and printed books and ebooks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

2012-01-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
ning a little C. They do suggest that even if you don't make the switch you should reprogram CapsLock to give BackSpace. I had long had it giving Escape (needed frequently in my favourite editor, Vim) but I'm trying it out as BackSpace now. I find I often hit Return instea

Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

2012-01-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
again, it may all boil down to personal preference. > > http://colemak.com > > That site is down at present. My question: is it really worth the trouble of learning a new way of typing, if you are already a moderately competent touch typist on the QWERTY keyboard?

Re: Can I remove gnome-keyring?

2011-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:53:09 +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > There is currently a bug in gnome-keyring which keeps throwing up an > > error message about "no socket to connec to". I don't know why I have > > this packag

Can I remove gnome-keyring?

2011-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
There is currently a bug in gnome-keyring which keeps throwing up an error message about "no socket to connec to". I don't know why I have this package, given that I don't use gnome (or any other desktop manager). Will anything dreadful happen if I remove it? --

Re: Debian: A noob query

2011-11-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
eople, me included, prefer to use a window manager and no desktop. But I suppose that, coming from Windows, you might feel lost without one. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://ww

Re: Canonscan Lide 110 - anyone used this?

2011-11-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
u who had had problems, probably on the previous version of genesys. I'm not bothered about the buttons - they don't work on the Epson Perfection 1650 either, but that never worried me. How have you found the performance of scanner itself? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk

Canonscan Lide 110 - anyone used this?

2011-11-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
. So it _ought_ to work, but I have come across posts in other lists (ubuntu) where people report failure. So I have got cold feet about it and am wondering if I ought to return it unopened. Hence my question: has anyone used this model successfully (or not)? AC -- Anthony Campbell - a

Re: Choosing a distribution (was: Just a simple query)

2011-10-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
rogress only slowly. I'm very thankful that I came to Linux from DOS. Even at that time I dislike Windows (version 3.0!) so Linux was less of a culture shock than it would otherwise have been. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://ww

Re: VPN linux client

2011-10-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
linux/vpn.html It is not a gui method but it works. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: Iceweasel segfault on Sid

2011-10-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
Thanks to both for replies. Yes, following a further upgrade it's now working again. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -

Iceweasel segfault on Sid

2011-10-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
rt it. Anyone else seeing this? -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
y had a touchpad. I find it almost impossible to avoid hitting the thing accidentally,. with unexpected results. The little joystick on the Thinkpads is a decisive advantage. -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sampl

Re: Anyone using xmonad + vim on sid?

2011-09-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Sep 2011, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Anthony Campbell: > > > > If there is anyone else using this setup, could they please see if they > > can reproduce it? > > I can only say that I don't have any problems running (g)vim while using > awesome. > That&#

Anyone using xmonad + vim on sid?

2011-09-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
he vim and xmonad mailing lists but no result; at least one person says he cannot reproduce the error. I've reported it as a Debian bug but so far have only had a routine acknowledgement. If there is anyone else using this setup, could they please see if they can reproduce it? Anthony -- Antho

Re: a quick Q: how did you handle files from windows

2011-09-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
...I use openoffice for years. works fine with some very rare > unusual tricky exceptions. > > kind regards, > > steef > abiword (usually) also catdoc antiword wv (wvText etc.) -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://w

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