Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-08 Thread Memnon Anon
"Martin G. McCormick" writes: > Here is a short snippet from their instructions for > using pop: > >Incoming Mail Server: pop.suddenlink.net >Incoming mail port: 110 >Incoming mail port (SSL): 995 See the note on http://help.suddenlink.com/Internet/Pages/EmailandNewsServerName

Stable Kernel: Screen blacks out with Intel 830mg graphics

2013-06-16 Thread Memnon Anon
Just a short warning: I had some trouble today on my thinkpad x30 with its Intel 830MG graphics running debian stable. Kernel 3.2.41-2+deb7u2 works fine here, but 3.2.46-1 hit my machine today, and everything just went dark. I managed to log in blind, start sshd and connect via my desktop machin

Re: emacs RMAIL -- help needed

2011-11-09 Thread Memnon Anon
Sian Mountbatten writes: > Why was Opera denied? Will there be a log anywhere? The *Messages* > buffer contains nothing about trying to connect to my imap server. ,[ (info "(gnus)Debugging IMAP") ] | 6.5.6 Debugging IMAP | | | [...] | |Because the protocol dump, wh

Re: Getting mail using gnus

2011-11-09 Thread Memnon Anon
Sian Mountbatten writes: > When I issue the command M-x gnus in Emacs, some messages flash > by in the echo area, but I do not get any mail. Have a look at your message buffer: *Messages* Memnon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Usenet news - server required

2011-11-03 Thread Memnon Anon
"poenik...@operamail.com" writes: > Can anybody suggest a Usenet server? http://aioe.org/ Memnon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hb2keeyz@me

Re: emacs mystery

2011-10-08 Thread Memnon Anon
Marc Auslander writes: > After upgrade to squeeze, I have the following emacs curiosity. > > I bind C-xC-c to: > > (defun ctrlxctrlc () "Careful exit from emacs" > (interactive) > (if (y-or-n-p "Do you really want to exit emacs? ") >(save-buffers-kill-emacs) > (message "") > )

Re: Enough, enough

2011-07-05 Thread Memnon Anon
Lisi writes: >What on earth has gender got to do with it?? >Why does the fact that females are female need commenting on? [...] > We are PEOPLE for goodness sake. So true. In fact, thats what I really like about mailing lists and the like: Race, gender, age, status do not matter; Camaleón i

Re: Ripping CD

2011-06-23 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi, T o n g writes: > I'm wondering what's the proper tools for ripping/copying CDs. I like jack. ,[ aptitude show jack ] | Description: Rip and encode CDs with one command | Jack has been developed with one main goal: making OGGs (or MP3s) | without having to worry. There is nearly no w

Re: Number of systems running user Debian? ; gre

2011-06-01 Thread Memnon Anon
Andrei Popescu writes: [...] > Also popcon needs a working MTA setup to submit the data, which is not > really common these days and was known to rely on 'atime'[2], while it > is not uncommon to mount file systems with 'noatime'. [...] > [2] not sure if this is still the case ,[ /usr/shar

Re: Does KDE 4.5 have a root Xterm?

2011-05-19 Thread Memnon Anon
Ken Heard writes: > If it does I cannot find it. Should be possible to create it by yourself. Just bind it to "xterm -e "su -"", no? ,[ man xterm ] |-e program [ arguments ... ] This option specifies the program |(and its command line arguments) to be run in the xterm windo

Re: About Me Changes Don't Stick and Additional Drivers No Show in Main Menu

2011-05-17 Thread Memnon Anon
Peter Allen writes: > Hi > I just installed Mint 10 Debian and my additional drivers option isn't > available in the main menu.  My Graphics are horrible and I need to > see if additional drivers are available.   > > When I update my personal info in about me and close it the > information is not

Re: Pdf Font hardly legible

2010-10-09 Thread Memnon Anon
Ron Johnson writes: > On 10/09/2010 09:00 PM, Memnon Anon wrote: >> Pdf has its benefits, but I really don't understand why displaying text >> has to freak out my notebook more than basically anything else I am >> doing, even with xpdf :( >> > > What WM/DE

Re: Pdf Font hardly legible

2010-10-09 Thread Memnon Anon
John Jason Jordan writes: > Of the open source PDF viewers, Okular (formerly Kpdf) is the best > overall . But Evince has a better export to PostScript and is more > lightweight. I don't mind using closed source apps as long as they're > free, so I use Adobe Reader a lot as well. There was a rece

[solved] (was: Pdf Font hardly legible)

2010-10-09 Thread Memnon Anon
Memnon Anon writes: > Any advice is very much appreciated. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533138 Memnon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Pdf Font hardly legible

2010-10-09 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi, I've been using xpdf for a looong time, and I never had a problem, except that it can be a bit slow on my old machine. So today, I tested evince and epdfview, but some pdfs (all from the same source) which are perfectly fine in xpdf are hardly legible. , | mem...@mymachine:~/pdf$ pdffon

Re: what is the difference between w95 FAT32 and w95 FAT32 (LBA)

2010-08-22 Thread Memnon Anon
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi writes: > Interesting! I searched for > difference between "w95 FAT32" and "w95 FAT32 (LBA)" > in google. All the results are pretty useless. What did you search for? "w95 fat32 w95 fat32 lba cfdisk" So I only added cfdisk and my hit is there on the first page. > thanks. T

Re: what is the difference between w95 FAT32 and w95 FAT32 (LBA)

2010-08-21 Thread Memnon Anon
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi writes: > While running cfdisk, it lists various file system types. Is there a > document which explains the difference between similar file systems? [...] > Similarly, If I want to create FAT32 partition so that I can exchange files > between windows and Linux, should I

Re: suspend to disk unreliable?

2010-07-04 Thread Memnon Anon
Lisi writes: [...] > I do not know about Germany, but here the shop/firm would be likely to > say that installing Linux counts as misuse, or at any rate is not > covered, and would in all probability have no difficulty persuading > both Trading Standards Officers and the courts to agree with them.

Re: how to delay boot when waiting for usb disks?

2010-07-01 Thread Memnon Anon
You are on testing? > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Martin Kraus writes: > Hi. I need to mount a usb disk during boot so that daemons writing to the disk > start. The problem is that usb-storage takes time to set up block devices and > it does this in the background so it depends on many

Re: Software suggestion: reading Guttenberg plaintext ebooks

2009-12-30 Thread Memnon Anon
Dotan Cohen writes: > What software is recommended for reading plaintext ebooks? I have been > opening the documents in Firefox, but maybe there is something better? ,[ aptitude show fbreader ] | FBReader is an e-book reader. | | Main features: | | * supports several open e-book formats:

FAQ (was: Re: Is Squeeze right for me? [Possible FAQ?])

2009-11-22 Thread Memnon Anon
"S. Fishpaste" writes: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:01:38 +, Andrew M.A. Cater in > gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > >> This question is a Frequently Asked Question [FAQ] - answered elsewhere >> in places like the Debian Wiki - but something which comes up fairly >> regularly on this list. >

[Solved] Fix in unstable (was: [testing]: Bug in mplayer+ogg from debian-multimedia?)

2009-11-10 Thread Memnon Anon
Alex Samad writes: >> mplayer: Version: 1:1.0.rc2svn20091021-0.0 > 1:1.0.rc2svn20091101-0.0 is the latest, I had trouble with dts + ac3 > with your version, all fixed with the new one :) I just changed my sources.list to get the newest version for *unstable*. This fixed the problem, so it will en

[testing]: Bug in mplayer+ogg from debian-multimedia?

2009-11-10 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi, I just noticed that every .ogg or .ogv file on my system lost sound when played with mplayer. Sound works fine with ogg123 and vlc. mplayer: Version: 1:1.0.rc2svn20091021-0.0 Did some search, found no bug report so far, could some testing user try and give some feedback if mplayer from debia

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-07 Thread Memnon Anon
Oh well, why not ;) > audio editor: audacity > audio player: mplayer > desktop environment OR window manager: stumpwm > disc burner: wodim > e-mail client: emacs gnus > file manager: emacs dired > finance: emacs orgmode (will try ledger someday) > ftp client: wget > image viewer: gqview > instant

Re: Status of snapshot.debian.net|org ?

2009-09-15 Thread Memnon Anon
Andrei Popescu writes: >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Memnon Anon >> > With the whole 'Debian Money' Thread on Project, >> > I hope this will change ;). [...] > Memnon probably meant > http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2009/09/msg00038

Re: Status of snapshot.debian.net|org ?

2009-09-14 Thread Memnon Anon
Javier Barroso writes: > I think all is like in May [1], debian is searching a sponsor ... Thats the kind of answer I expected. With the whole 'Debian Money' Thread on Project, I hope this will change ;). Nobody mentioned snapshot explicitely, yet, if I am not totally mistaken, but equipment fo

Status of snapshot.debian.net|org ?

2009-09-14 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi! Has anyone some information on the progress of making snapshot an "official" debian service? I always found it an incredibly usefull service. The last official announcements[1] I found are pretty old. Last information was "(ETA: some months)". Obviously, Ganneff is still working on this[2],

Re: mp4 video file to mp3 audio file

2009-06-06 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi, ronggui wong writes: > I have some MTV in *.mp4 format, and I would to convert them to mp3 > format. What software should I use? > I try ffmpeg using ffmpeg -i in.mp4 out.mp3, but it seems something > goes wrong as I can not play the out.mp3 with audacious player. I do it this way: mplay

Re: Is it possible to prevent emacs auto saving the filename~?

2009-05-04 Thread Memnon Anon
明覺 writes: > thank you, now I prefer the way to keep all the backup and autosave > files in a seperate directory, such as ~/.emacs.d/autosave and > ~/.emacs.d/backup, how could i setup that? I'm not familiar with > emacs, currently in my machine, there is only the ~/.emacs.d/ > directory which s

Specific question about debbugs

2009-04-05 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi! I have trouble using xkbset to get "sticky" behaviour, so I had a look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=xkbset. Mhh, no bug that seems to resemble my problem. Thus I asked google, which gave me this bugreport in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+bug/215496

Re: public key

2009-03-28 Thread Memnon Anon
Daniel Dalton writes: [...] > How can someone verify I created the file and the signiture wasn't just > copied and pasted? http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Turn off monitor after inactivity

2009-03-03 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi! "Daniel Aleksandersen" writes: > I forgot to mention, I don’t have a graphical user interface. No xorg either. Sorry, I am not sure if this is what you are searching for, but I found this: ,---[ /etc/console-tools/config ] # screen saver/DPMS settings: all VCs # These settings a

Re: New installation: Volume Group not found [solved]

2009-03-01 Thread Memnon Anon
Celejar writes: > On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:34:44 + (UTC) > Memnon Anon wrote: >> , >> | Volume group "BlackPearl" not found >> | Volume group "BlackPearl" not found >> | Enter passphrase to unlock the disk /dev/hda2 (hda2_crypt): &

New installation: Volume Group not found

2009-02-28 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi! My disk died recently, so I bought a new one and installed stable on it (i.e Lenny :). Everything works fine, basically, but I get this message on boot: , | Volume group "BlackPearl" not found | Volume group "BlackPearl" not found | Enter passphrase to unlock the disk /dev/hda2 (hda2_c

Do you know about DebianON?

2009-02-25 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi! There is a new release (hooray for lenny ;), and I am sure there will be several user doing a fresh install on their laptops. I would like to propose that you have a look at http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/ and consider contributing. ,[ Quote ] | DebianOn is an effort to d

"D3 the chip in the firmware restart code"?

2009-01-10 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi! Using my ipw2100 Wireless card, I have a problem, which seems to be a very old bug that is still not fixed. Error Message: [ipw2100: Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart.] Asking google, I found this message by Matthew Garrett: ,[Matthew Garrett MID: <20080921224210.ga24...@src

Re: Ressources of the project or "Where is Debian?"

2008-09-21 Thread Memnon Anon
On Sep 22, 12:10 am, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I asked on d-u-german, nothing about Security? Security is a good point. Besides debian-security-announce, what might be interesting? > P.S. Do you intend to maintain this both in German and English? As English is still the main

Ressources of the project or "Where is Debian?"

2008-09-21 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi! I am trying to collect different ressources that are usefull for *users* who want to stay up to date to whats happening within the project or consider participating. Debian is huge and stretches across mailinglist, wikis and irc. So far, I listed what _I_ think is usefull and/or interesting.

Q:Does Emacs+gnus from testing work with gmail pop3 for you?!

2008-07-13 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi! I tried to set up emacs+gnus from testing to work with gmail. Alas, fetching via pop protocol does not work. Error: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] :stream ssl) error (stringp). Continue? (yes or no) I got the same error message like this user: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Does any user use gmail p

Re: xbindkeys alternative?

2008-07-11 Thread Memnon Anon
On 11 Jul., 22:50, "Mumia W.." wrote: > You could try any of these: keylaunch, hotkeys, idesk, or bbkeys. Thanks for the suggestions. AFAI could see, they are all less capable than xbindkeys. They do not even support mouse interaction. I need [mouse button (pressed)] + [key]. Then, a program s

xbindkeys alternative?

2008-07-11 Thread Memnon Anon
Hi I try to get xbindkeys working. Not successfully, as you may guess. It seems to me that xbindkeys always needs a modifer key pressed, i.e. shift, alt, control ... I want to be able to bind a command (xte, but thats a different problem:) to Mouse button (pressed) + key. No modifier involved. D

Re: Advice for troubleshooting X (total screen loss) -- Newb Alert

2008-06-28 Thread Memnon Anon
On 27 Jun., 19:30, "Jeff Soules" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, Hi! > After install, I attempt to start X using startx. A few lines of text flash > on the screen, then it blacks out and the system buzzer gives me one > short beep. I cannot alt-Fx to any other terminal and lose the terminal