Re: Console font (solved)

On Thu, 22 May 2014 14:19:24 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2014-05-22, Francesco Ariis wrote: > > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 09:34:21AM -0400, john s. wrote: > >> How can I increase the size of the console font? > >> > > > > It depends on your terminal

Re: Console font

On Thu, 22 May 2014 16:06:47 +0200 Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 09:34:21AM -0400, john s. wrote: > > How can I increase the size of the console font? > > > > It depends on your terminal emulator. I suppose it's gnome-terminal. >

Console font

How can I increase the size of the console font? -- John Song - via Penguin Powered Desktop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140522093421.95d19

Re: Encryption of a a thumb drive

On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 15:38:53 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sat 05 Apr 2014 at 09:39:09 -0400, john s. wrote: > > > I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is used > > for storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatted > > ext2, e

Encryption of a a thumb drive

I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is used for storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatted ext2, ext3 or ext4. My problem is that I cannot use the drive on a windows machine (belonging to my wife). Is there an alternative way to encrypt the d

Encryption of a a thumb drive

I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is used for storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatted ext2, ext3 or ext4. My problem is that I cannot use the drive on a windows machine (belonging to my wife). Is there an alternative way to encrypt the

Encryption of a a thumb drive

I have encrypted a thumb drive using cryptsetup and luks. The drive is used for storing passwords. Cryptsetup requires that the drive be formatted ext2, ext3 or ext4. My problem is that I cannot use the drive on a windows machine (belonging to my wife). Is there an alternative way to encrypt the d

Re: [help!] Can not use nvidia driver in debian sid

On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 02:40:33 +0800 iijima yoshino wrote: > Hey, there! > I have an old pc with a Nvidia GeForce 6600 card. > Firstly I installed Debian 7.4 and everything was O.K. > (nvidia-detect told me to install nvidia-glx and it worked.) > > Then I changed a monitor and upgraded to Debian s

grub2 and linux from scratch

grub2 is doing something I don't understand. /etc/default/grub has the line: GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -c -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian` the boot menu shows: linux from scratch gnu/linux advanced options for linux from scratch etc. debian gnu/linux (jessie/sid) on sda2 advanced options f

Spell checking with qtm clogging client

I use qtm with xfce on wheezy. I like it, but I am a poor speller and I like to have a spell checker available. With the above setup, qtm has appears to have no spell checker. Google came up with a file: libgtkspell0 >= 2.0.10.0 This file has been installed, but qtm does not show it as a depends, r

Re: Gnome 3 and non-free firmware

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:26:43 +0200 Rares Aioanei wrote: > On 11/14/2011 03:04 AM, John S. wrote: > > I use Xfce on wheezy and and happy but I was interested enough to > > install gnome 3 on a spare drive. Everything went fine except that I > > was forced into using the fal

Gnome 3 and non-free firmware

I use Xfce on wheezy and and happy but I was interested enough to install gnome 3 on a spare drive. Everything went fine except that I was forced into using the fall back version as the installer couldn't find a suitable graphics (3D) driver. The on-board graphics chip is nVidia. I have never had

Re: problem mounting usb thumb drive

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 22:42:11 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 27 Oct 2011 at 11:35:36 -0400, John S. wrote: > > > Thanks for the info. But Having done all that, ie. > > > > 1. inserted (as suggested) the line: session optional pam_loginuid.co > >in /etc/pam.d/comm

Re: problem mounting usb thumb drive

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:31:50 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Wed 26 Oct 2011 at 18:50:36 -0400, John S. wrote: > > > My problem: usb thumb drive does not mount automatically. > > Searching the October postings for this list with 'xfce' gets you a > solution.

problem mounting usb thumb drive

I have a fresh install of xfce on wheezy. The machine is an eracks desktop with an amd phenom II cpu, 8 Gb ram. I have previously run roughly the same configuration of xfce before, but there were large element of gnome also on the machine. Being of feeble mind and forgetting all the other times I h

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

"Larry Alkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the meantime, can anyone please tell me what this TCPA is all about? Have a look at Ross Anderson's excellent TCPA / Palladium FAQ at . john. -- Internet FAQs, #666: > A: No. > Q: Should I include quo

Re: Mac OS X package

Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe that there are Debian users who are also Mac users. Question > is, compared to Debian packaging system, is it Mac's any better...? No. There is port of dpkg/apt to Mac OS X -- see HTH, john. -- "Knowledge itself is p

perl info file for emacs

Greetings -- I'm trying to (finally) get my Perl coding environment set up properly in (X)Emacs, and one hurdle I'm running into is getting the 'help on function (at point)' commands to work. They require a copy of the Perl docs in 'info' format. Now, I know I cat get this file from Ilya's Z's w

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > begin John S. J. Anderson quotation: > > > > I'm confused by the above statement. Canceling out the double > > negative, I get > > > > "that is the definition most people mean when they kno

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or what of this example: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>perl hello.pl > hello, world! > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>cat hello.pl > #!/usr/bin/perl > use Inline C => q{ > void hello () { > printf("hello, world!\n"); > } > }; > hello(); That

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See the followup email. It ain't my scheme, and I don't agree with it; > I was presenting what my experience shows is usually meant by people who > don't know better than the split "scripting" and "programming". Ah, I see -- we're mostly agreeing at th

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > begin Shawn McMahon quotation: > > > > The compliation step is seperate from the execution step, from the > > perspective of the user. > > I should add "that is the definition most people mean when they don't > know enough not to call non-scripting 'p

Re: [headed OT] Re: scripting

Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > begin John S. J. Anderson quotation: > > > > Well, before I answer that, define, if you would, the difference > > between "programming" and "scripting". (Warning: I don't think there's >

Re: scripting

martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > usually, compiled programs run faster than scripts, so if performance > is your concern (number crunching, password cracking etc.), then > compile. IMO, it's not that simple. If "performance" is your sole consideration, you shouldn't even be looking

[headed OT] Re: scripting

jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > when would you use programming as opposed to scripting? Well, before I answer that, define, if you would, the difference between "programming" and "scripting". (Warning: I don't think there's much of one, if any.) In my mind, your earlier question was a "progr

Re: scripting

jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dpkg -l | sed -e 's/$// > dpkg.html > dpkg -l | perl -e 'while(<>) { s/$// && print }' > dpkg.html dpkg -l | perl -lpe 's/$//' > dpkg.html Darn, I thought I could make it shorter than the sed version... john. -- "However, complexity is not always the enem

Re: Logitech Quickcam

"Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anyone using this camera and obtained proper colours? If so, can you > provide some pointers to the same? I'm using one with mod_quickcam.o and camE to run a webcam; you can see the images at (it updates every

Re: Getting Handspring Pilot Setup

james martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone tell me where I can get it. Thanks for any help. You need to set up the various USB devices properly. The Handspring Visor mini-HOWTO may be helpful; there's a copy at . I ha

kernel compile problems

Greetings -- I've been setting up a new Athlon system (thanks Santa!), and I've been having some kernel compile issues (linker bombing out, mainly). I was chalking it up to some Athlon quirk (power supply, cooling, etc.), but just on the off chance I tried to re-compile a kernel on my old Celeron

Re: Good mail management techniques?

"Karsten M. Self" writes: > on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:18:53PM -0700, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:12:14PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > . > > > The concept you're proposing has some similarities to ideas espoused by > > > David Gelertner, whose

"invalid ICMP error to broadcast"

I keep getting the following message on my terminal screen: "NET: 53 messages suppressed 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error

"invalid ICMP error to broadcast"

I keep getting the following message on my terminal screen: "NET: 53 messages suppressed 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error

Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:31:23 -0500 (CDT), Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: Richard> I'm a fan of VM, because I'm used to the Emacs keybindings, Richard> and it's the only MUA I've found which lets you edit messages Richard> that you receive in-place. FWIW, Gnus does that too.

Re: Digital camera and Linux

>>>>> On Fri, 06 Jul 2001 10:39:20 -0400, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said: Peter> John S. J. Anderson wrote: Peter> I have wondered about this. I fill up a 32MB memory card Peter> pretty quickly when taking pictures at 3.1Mpixels.

Re: Digital camera and Linux

> On 06 Jul 2001 14:06:06 +0400, Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Ilya> Or any advice on another relatively cheap and good digital Ilya> camera which can be used with Linux? Have you considered the Sony Mavica series? They write picture files to standard VFAT filesystem floppy disks --

Re: cpan / perl q.

> On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:27:43 +0800, "luwim+" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: luwim+> Hi, i forgot the command how to install cpan on my machine, luwim+> thats, .. > perl --cpan? any one know what the command is? CPAN.pm comes with the standard Perl distribution, so if you've got perl, you should h

Re: hi masters of linux, surely you know some tricks...

> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:59:03 +0200 (MEST), thomas anderson <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: thomas> I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl thomas> directory however I don't have permission access. boy, the script kiddies get lazier every day, don't they? john.

Re: (OT) Perl books

> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:22:12 -0500, Jay Latham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Jay> I've decided that it's time I learned a little about programming Jay> and I've decided that, for various reasons, Perl would be a good Jay> place to start. But I'm confused on which book would be best for Jay> a to

Re: Configuring gnus

> On Sat, 09 Jun 2001 13:04:48 -0700, Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: DU> With the conservative route (install gnus in order to keep using DU> RMAIL for a while), will gnus give normal MIME ability? Or would DU> I need to install semi-gnus to be able to use the MIME DU> functionality th

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

> On Thu, 31 May 2001 15:37:49 -0700, Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Mike> Is there an easy way to check for Mod3 and Mod4 events? If you do 'xmodmap -pm', you'll get a listing of all the modifiers (Mod1-5,Lock,Control, etc.) and the keysyms each is currently bound to. That may at lea

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

> On 30 May 2001 22:08:33 -0400, "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Paul> Second, my point is, with so many truly _useful_ and Paul> _interesting_ things to learn, why waste brain cells on Paul> something as basically useless and uninteresting (and baroque) Paul> as modmap syntax? Pers

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

> On Wed, 30 May 2001 10:53:22 -0700, Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Mike> To answer your question, I used xev to grab the information on Mike> the dreaded "menu" key. It reported (among other things): Mike> keycode 117 (keysym 0xff67, Menu) Mike> when the "menu" key was pressed wit

Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)

> On Tue, 29 May 2001 15:25:37 -0700, Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Mike> What am I doing wrong? Have you tried using a real keysym for the menu key? I don't think 'Menu' is a real keysym -- try 'Multi-key' or 'Super_R' or 'Hyper_R', and then bind ModN (where N=(1..5)) to that keysym

Re: About PGP signatures

> On 24 May 2001 14:57:12 +0400, Ilya Martynov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Ilya> I thoght that Gnus itself doesn't support PGP at all. It needs Ilya> Mailcrypt for PGP. And mailcrypt seems to support only embeded Ilya> sigs. Or am I wrong? You're wrong. 8^)= The version of Gnus in CVS (Oort Gn

Re: About PGP signatures

> On Wed, 23 May 2001 19:57:17 -0400, "Noah L. Meyerhans" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: Noah> Supporting RFCs is fine and should be encouraged, but from what Noah> I've seen there is not another mail reader in existance that can Noah> verify mutt's attached signatures. Just to add to the

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

David Raleigh Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It makes *every* program that works with a gui *much* less good and > some really insane, like emacs. (and xemacs, presumably because X > is pathetic that way too.) Just so you know, XEmacs is perfectly capable of running on the console (the 'X'

Re: 'setxkbmap dvorak' not working

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Kubala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is this an unstable-broken thing? (I didn't see any files that > looked useful in stable though). Anybody know how to set up dvorak > 'properly' in debian? FWIW, I use xmodmap. In fact, I'm the only one usi

Re: gnupg & gnus

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there anyone successfully using gnus with gnupg out there? I just > wanted to ask if it's worth the effort trying it. Yep, and it wasn't too hard to set up. Key fetching and message decryption aren't

news server setup

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings -- My ISP is once again changing Usenet providers, meaning that I'm going to have to deal with the whole article renumbering mess. Grrr. (Did I mention that this has happened before?) I've decided that enough is enough, and it's time to bit

Re: True Type fonts

onfig? john. - -- - [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Mailcryp

Re: PHP4 in 'testing'?

/php4-cgi.postrm allowed the install to finish on my machine. Haven't tested yet to determine if the installed PHP4 actually _works_, but this got rid of the error messages at least. john. - -- - ---- [

[OT] Re: Perlscript

Are you perhaps referring to CGI scripts _written_ in Perl? john. - -- - ---- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Creative Ensoniq modules..

e XMMS or CD playing > software. What gives? Permissions problem on /dev/dsp? User not in audio and/or cdrom groups? john. - -- - -------- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Gene

Re: running sshd on startup

t. 8^)= > > I think the Right Way is now dpkg-reconfigure ssh Yep, that did the trick. Many thanks! john. - -- - ---- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not y

running sshd on startup

.0p1-1.6Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement (OpenSSH) ii ssh-askpass1.0-1 under X, asks user for a passphrase for ssh- ii ssh-askpass-gn 2.3.0p1-1.6under X, asks user for a passphrase for ssh- - -- -

Re: lame/not-lame deb packages

elp somebody eventually...) add this: deb http://forcix.cx/ debian/ to /etc/apt/sources.list, and do the usual 'apt-get update; apt-get install' thing. john. - -- - ---- [ John S Jacob

Re: bookmarker/PHP/MySQL problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Corey Popelier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes you need a line under Dynamic Extensions that says: > extension=mysql.so Actually, I've _got_ that line in /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini. To re-iterate, bookmarker *was* working; I can only assume that t

bookmarker/PHP/MySQL problem

about PHP (although I do know a thing or two about MySQL), so I'm not even really sure where to start looking. Suggestions and gifts of Clue are most welcome. Thanks in advance, john. - -- - ---- [ John

Re: Helix-Gnome not installable

's not a big deal...for me. Can't offer any advice as to how to get it to work, but thought I'd let you know it's not just you. Perhaps give it a day or two and the maintainers will fix it? Good luck, john. - -- - ---

Re: TrueType fonts in X4

hing -- instead of saying: > Download mkfontalias.py from Kristin's site why not give the URL? http://home.c2i.net/dark/mkfontalias.py> Thanks again for the good work, Brad. john. - -- - [ John S Jacobs

Re: need help - inn2

27;s any motivation, once the system is set-up, it's _very_ nice -- news is *fast*; no more waiting for the modem to pull down the next article... - -- - ---- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL

Re: need help - inn2

Good luck, and let me know if I can help out further. john. - -- - ---- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE---

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

ll who wrote in with suggestions. john. - -- - -------- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.

Re: X4 and a Trident Card? (was: Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rogerio Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Nov 04 2000, John S. J. Anderson wrote: > > Once I got it working, however, I was quite impressed. It's > > noticeably faster than XFree 3.3.6 on window movement and screen >

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

all that great in GUI browsers without the 'standard' fonts... john. - -- - -------- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org>

XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

n't see any of my TrueType fonts. Does anybody out there have a clue to spare on this issue? TIA, john. - -- - [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://g

Re: Linux Mail Client

ep separate things separate" scheme, I think. Alternatively, I point you towards VINE, which is like Gnus, but totally different. Perl instead of Lisp, VI(m) instead of Emacs, and just getting started as opposed to (relatively) old and stable. john. - -- - --

Re: How to get xemacs21 to display japanese characters in gnus

o for the Chinese spam I get, or at least some of it.) So, you're going to have to give that version info, at the very least. Also, you might have better luck on the Gnus mailing list, or the Gnus newsgroup. Good luck, john. - -- - ---

Re: Dvorak keyboard layout

an Owen> installed system. The answers from others should work for console, but if you need to do this under X, you need to use xmodmap to remap the keys. I've got a xmodmap file to do this; mail me if you'd like it. john. -- --

Re: Suck/INN HOWTO

wouldn't require me to go to the bookstore. -- ---- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org>

Suck/INN HOWTO

s, etc, to good (hopefully Debian-specific/oriented) documentation welcomed. john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org>

Re: Old Macs

> card. I have an Intel 10/100 Pro card that I'd like to use. Anyone know if > I can get drivers for this? Should just work with the drivers in the kernel, I'd think -- PCI is PCI, after all. Good luck, john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Problem with es1371

udioPCI-97] (rev 07) If the number after 'rev' is '07', then you need to use the driver from later 2.3 kernels. I'm running 2.4.0-test1, and it's been pretty stable -- you might want to give that a go. HTH, john. --

Re: Staroffice

$6 if you don't feel like downloading 70 MB. -- ---- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org>

Re: Using gnuserv (Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software)

(. ~/.bashrc) at a shell prompt, and then gnue FILE will do the right thing. (Don't forget to put (gnuserv-start) in your .emacs file!) Thanks to Chris and the other people in the thread, john. -- ----

Re: Using gnuserv (Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software)

g pseudocode? if there's an XEmacs process running `gnuclient -q $1` else `xemacs -nw $1` Hmm -- I guess all I really need is the flag to test for a running process by name -- any help? thanks, john. -- -

Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Felix Natter wrote: >> john s jacobs anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Oh, I'm with you -- I'll often use vi for small edits, even

Re: Re[2]: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

ditor (or words to that effect). Those two statements are _not_ equivalent. john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org>

Re: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

the 'simple'.) Have you perhaps never used emacs? Saying emacs isn't a text editor is like saying that a Leatherman isn't a pocket knife -- it may be literally true, but is extremely misleading in fact. john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Perl syntax highlighting in (X)Emacs (was Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

; it's a time/speed tradeoff. I _think_ the default may be less than completely stringent. If you're really interested, M-x customize RET cperl-mode should tell all, at least in XEmacs. john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org>

Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

sugared bits on it not have this flame fest again? john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org>

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

n which editor > has the *best* Perl syntax highlighting? (X)Emacs with CPerl mode. john. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org>

Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software

>>>>> "Oki" == Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Oki> On 5 May 2000, john s jacobs anderson wrote: >> The point is, emacsen are designed to be *modular*. If you don't >> want to load those things, then don't load them Oki> I&

Re: bigots - was Emacs - was Mail/news software

27;ll both be wrong, as newbies come in all sizes, colors, and flavors. [2] Please don't try to make garage==shell and shop==emacsen, or vice versa -- it's an innocent little analogy, so please don't corrupt it by reading too much into it. -- [ John S Jacobs Anderson ]-->mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog ]-->http://genehack.org>

lm-sensors-source

7;m trying this. Thanks, john. -- ---- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] \* Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog */ \*http://genehack.org> */

Re: Semi-frequent lock-ups

inux-abit) dedicated to hardware lock-ups with this mobo? It's been a fairly difficult bug to track down, but some people are reporting success with the most recent BIOS update released by Abit (version is QQ, I believe). I don't have any of the URLs handy, but Google should. Good luck,

Re: emacsen-common fails to set-up

kage to install, it broke critical parts of Gnus -- like reading mail with the nnml backend. I fell back to the version from frozen and slapped a hold on it. john. -- ---- John S Jacobs Ande

Re: glibc package

obably read his description of how to do it. good luck, john. -- ---- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] \* Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog */ \*http://genehack.org> */

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

up to report that Nathan's method did in fact allow me to successfully update a fresh slink to woody. Thanks again to Nathan. john. -- ---- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

PPP dial-on-demand broken (was: dial-on-demand changed?)

bs in ~]-> dpkg --list | grep ppp ii ppp2.3.11-1.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon. Rest of reply below: John> john s jacobs anderson writes: >> However, about the time of the ppp/ppp-pam suidregister thing, >> this behavior changed; giving the demand op

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

Nathan, you're the man! I'll give this a try tomorrow; it sounds good. I had also seen the readlink thing, but hadn't investigated as to what it was doing. Hopefully I'll be able to get some work done on that box tomorrow. thanks, john. -- ------

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:37:13AM -0700, john s anderson wrote: > > The way I did this was jump in with both feet. I did > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade Just to clarify: the above does *NOT* work, as of 1630 MST 02/22/2000.

slink->frozen upgrade problems

please let me know. I need to get this box back up and working pretty soon, or the boss-man is gonna be unhappy... john. -- ---- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.genehack.org<- GeneHack (bioinfo*linux*opinion)

Re: perl says the year is 0100

eading the documentation for the date commands in the perlfunc manpage. john. -- ---- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] \* Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog */ \*http://genehack.org> */

Re: dial-on-demand changed?

>>>>> "Brett" == Brett Carlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brett> john s jacobs anderson on Tue 15 Feb: Brett> Only just started using `demand' myself, so I can't speak for Brett> how it used to work, but my dialup currently behaves as

dial-on-demand changed?

john. -- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] \* Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog */ \*http://genehack.org> */

Re: Iomega drives

robably try http://linuxdoc.org>. HTH, john. -- -------- John S Jacobs Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] \* Genehack: Not your daddy's weblog */ \*http://genehack.org> */

Re: help with sound config

>>>>> "S" == S Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "jsja" == john s jacobs anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jsja> Following up for the list archives: The es1371 driver in the jsja> current kernel did not work

Re: help with sound config

>>>>> "Chanop" == Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chanop> Once upon a time, I heard john s anderson said >> I'm currently trying to get my SoundBlaster PCI128 card to work, >> and I'm on my seventh kernel compile, and I&#

help with sound config

ut of 'lspci -n', this is a ES1371 card, so I haven't tried the es1370 driver. Should I try ALSA? Hardware: Celeron 400A, Abit BE6-II, Trident 3D Image 975 AGP card, SoundBlaster PCI128 in PCI4, generic ISA hardware modem in ISA slot. Thanks in advance, john. -- --

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