Re: OT - stitching together 2 pdf files

2011-07-12 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from AG's message of 2011-07-12 18:34:00 +0200: > Hi all > > Sorry for the OT, but does anyone know of a way to stitch 2 separate pdf > files together to make one large one? > > I'm pretty sure acroread won't, but I was wondering about Xpdf or > possibly a command-line approach? > > T

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-27 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-27 20:57:55 +0200: > Philipp Überbacher writes: > > > However, after spending many hours on this (thanks phcoder from #grub) > > it turned out that necessary modules were missing from initramfs. > > Adding jfs was enough for t

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-26 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Joe's message of 2011-06-26 21:46:47 +0200: > On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 18:44:49 +0200 > Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > > > > I tried manual mounting from busybox: > > mount /dev/sda1 /root > > fails with Invalid Argument > > > >

Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice

2011-06-26 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Rick Thomas's message of 2011-06-27 02:04:40 +0200: > > I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new > document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper. I'm in > the US and everything else uses US-Letter paper. As I understand it, > the acce

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-26 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Philipp Überbacher's message of 2011-06-26 04:38:27 +0200: > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 22:40:59 +0200: > > Philipp Überbacher writes: > > > > > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200: > > >> Phil

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-25 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 22:40:59 +0200: > Philipp Überbacher writes: > > > Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200: > >> Philipp Überbacher writes: > >> > >> > The system waits for the root file system for

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-25 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from lee's message of 2011-06-25 20:06:48 +0200: > Philipp Überbacher writes: > > > The system waits for the root file system for a while and then drops > > into a shell with the (initramfs) prompt. > > > > There's no /dev/sd* or /dev/disk for s

Re: debian 6.0 boot failure after update to grub2

2011-06-25 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Philipp's message of 2011-06-25 15:12:26 +0200: > Hi there, > I have a debian server that doesn't boot anymore since I ran > upgrade-from-grub-legacy. It uses xen. I managed to upgrade to Debian > 6 and got everything working. Well, a power outage caused my domUs to > not boot anymore

Re: Ripping CD

2011-06-24 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from T o n g's message of 2011-06-23 18:08:36 +0200: > Hi, > > I'm wondering what's the proper tools for ripping/copying CDs. > > Sorry to bring up an "old" topic again, but I felt that a popular tools 3 > or 5 years ago might not be popular any more and there might be better > (devel

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect -solved

2011-06-23 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Anthony Campbell's message of 2011-06-23 13:06:54 +0200: > On 23 Jun 2011, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > Hi Anthony, > > I had similar problems in the past. Seemingly working wireless but not > > really. In my case it boiled down to drivers that didn't

Re: Wicd sees router but won't connect

2011-06-23 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Anthony Campbell's message of 2011-06-23 10:37:43 +0200: > On 23 Jun 2011, William Hopkins wrote: > > On 06/22/11 at 10:35pm, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up wireless on a Thinkpad T41. I'm using the ath5K > > > module and this brings up wlan0 as expected. I fiddled

Re: USB sound card

2011-06-22 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Alex PADOLY's message of 2011-06-21 17:53:54 +0200: > Hi, > > I want like to know if one of you tested a sound card usb (for example: > http://sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=248) with Debian 6.0. > I don't have a choice I must use a sound card usb! > > Thanks! > Alex Hi, have

Re: How to stipulate default applications in GNOME

2011-06-17 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from AG's message of 2011-06-17 18:55:24 +0200: > Hey list > > In GNOME, if the options selected under "preferred applications" for > browsers doesn't get applied, how can I set an application to be the > default? > > Case in point: I use Kmail & Icedove, and want Iceape as my default

Re: psi instead of Skype

2011-06-13 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Andreas Weber's message of 2011-06-13 12:43:30 +0200: > On 2011-06-13 11:19, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > Afaik the audio codec skype uses is open now, but I too doubt that this > > goes for the whole protocol. I doubt the situation will get better with > >

Re: news/mail client and the text borders

2011-06-13 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Davide Baldini's message of 2011-06-13 04:28:18 +0200: > What software do you use for mail/news? > I see all your messages are proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in > pages of 80 columns, while I have to push return each line. If i forget, > lines gets splitted in my window but

Re: psi instead of Skype

2011-06-13 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Nuno Magalhães's message of 2011-06-13 00:04:14 +0200: > Hi, > > Not an expert, but skype uses its own proprietary protocol, i think > (plus SIP to initiate), so i think you'd need a skype transport on > your jabber server. Again, not an expert. > > Try converting your friends to op

Re: k3b can't burn audio CD, got a few coasters today

2011-06-12 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from H.S.'s message of 2011-06-12 00:12:04 +0200: > Hello. > > I have experienced this problem on and off for the past several months. > But today it was the worst case. I am trying to burn a bunch of mp3 > files to make an audio CD using k3b. I was able to so do for the first > one after

Re: Linux for humans that differ to averaged people was - Re: Subscription

2011-06-11 Thread Philipp Überbacher
Excerpts from Lisi's message of 2011-06-11 12:43:23 +0200: > On Saturday 11 June 2011 11:07:36 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 10:27 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > > On Saturday 11 June 2011 10:05:04 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > I've good luck, because I can skip a lot when watching at the mon