Re: Brother laserprinter refuses to print pdfs

Chris Bannister: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 07:56:47PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've a brother laserprinter (setup as network printer), which works >> quite well in general, except that it refuses to print most pdfs. > > apt-cache show cups-pdf No, this package installs a virtua

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:05:43AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > I'm finally taking the plunge from full CLI to using an X server, and in > place of Mutt I've been using Evolution; But Evolution is nowhere near > as good as Mutt, with threading/speed/customizability (And to boot I > can't even us

Re: low-MHz server

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:18:50AM +0800, Bob wrote: I'd get a modern ish server and underclock it, that way you'll be able to get more RAM and bigger hard drives, the Athlon XP was fairly easy to get down to 300 MHz with the FSB still @ 133, I never tried lower but

Sarge EOL date

Hi list, Security Support for Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) was terminated one year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (Sarge). Is Sarge following the same EOL cycle or can one expect a longer period of Security Support ? -- Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards Henrik Johansen [EMAIL PROTEC

USB HD permissions query

Hello All, I'm curious as to why, when I change the filesystem type to ext3 on a USB hard drive, I cannot write to the drive from normal user space, only root access is allowed. Changing the filesystem back to VFAT allows the writes to proceed without problem. A bit of investigating shows that a

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 07:09:42PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > As a thunderbird user, what am I missing by not using mutt? As a recent convert, I can say: nothing. Although I'm coming from Clwas, which, as far as X apps go, is a lot more mutty than TB. --D. signature.asc Description: Digital

mailfilter (was Re: missing /var/mail)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 01:54, Chris Bannister wrote: [snip] > > example from .mailfilter: > > DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail/IN-personal/ > > if (/^X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/) > { > to "$HOME/Mail/IN-debian-user/" > } > > Notice the slash after IN-debian-user and

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 09:54:00AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > I like Claws (called "sylpheed-claws" in Debian). Recently renamed "claws". BTW: of all the X-based clients, this (sylpheed and claws) is the only one I managed to figure out how to run imap through a custom pipe command (like pine and

Re: Buying debian compatible laptop.

Joona Kiiski wrote: Hello everyone, I've been using debian a couple of years (still a newbie for most of you hackers, though), but never installed it in laptop. Soon I'm buying a new laptop and want to make sure it works smoothly with debian. I assume the biggest problem is the screen controlle

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

On 03 Feb 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:03:03 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 02 Feb 2008, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > [...] > > > > The 2.6.24 kernel has recently hit unstable, and it contains a new > > > shiny iwl3945 driver which should replace the old ipw3945 one

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 02:54, Dan H. wrote: [snip] > > I like Claws (called "sylpheed-claws" in Debian). Not to be confused with > the more basic and less GTKish "sylpheed". Of the X MUAs I've tried (Opera, Sylpheed has been GTK2 for quite some time now.

Re: Buying debian compatible laptop.

Bob wrote: I'm looking for a laptop with a dual core AMD64 CPU, AMD GPU with dedicated (non-shared) GRAM, built in webcam, user changeable Harddrive & battery, high RAM capacity, large high quality screen, a nice keyboard and good linux support for all the power saving, suspends, wifi etc...

Re: USB HD permissions query

Brad Rogers wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm curious as to why, when I change the filesystem type to ext3 on a > USB hard drive, I cannot write to the drive from normal user space, > only root access is allowed. > > Changing the filesystem back to VFAT allows the writes to proceed > without problem.

Re: USB HD permissions query

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:53:44 + Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Magnus, > With ext3 on the USB HD you end up having to treat it just like a > “static HD”, i.e. you have to make sure that the permissions on the I wasn't aware of that. I don't know why it should be the case, b

Re: USB HD permissions query

Brad Rogers: > > I'm curious as to why, when I change the filesystem type to ext3 on a > USB hard drive, I cannot write to the drive from normal user space, > only root access is allowed. When mounting a filesystem on a directory, say, /mnt/test, the filesystem's root directory "covers" the old d

Re: Modem in Debian

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:28:06AM +0900, David Palmer wrote: > Or provide yourself with a fax facility. Especially handy if tied up with an LPD spool. Makes someone's fax machine as easy as the printer beside you. Doug. That is allright, but how to make modem w

Re: Modem in Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 04:02, Pantor wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:28:06AM +0900, David Palmer wrote: >> > >>> Or provide yourself with a fax facility. >> >> Especially handy if tied up with an LPD spool. Makes someone's fax >>

Re: Sarge EOL date

On Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 10:15:14 +0100, Henrik Johansen wrote: > Security Support for Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) was terminated one > year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (Sarge). > > Is Sarge following the same EOL cycle or can one expect a longer period > of Security Support ? It

Re: Sarge EOL date

Steve Kemp wrote: [...] Security Support for Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) was terminated one year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (Sarge). Is Sarge following the same EOL cycle or can one expect a longer period of Security Support ? It will be the same; security support ending in

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

?? ?. wrote: > Quoth Dotan Cohen: >> As a thunderbird user, what am I missing by not using mutt? Teach me, >> if it's a better client than I'd love to learn it. I'm not afraid of >> the CLI, and I'm not afraid of VI[M]. > What you're missing? Tedious > fetchmail/procmail/maildrop/

Re: urxvt [was Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?]

Quoth Andrew Sackville-West: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 07:31:29PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/03/08 11:08, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:05:43AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > > >> I'm finally taking the plunge from full CLI to using an X server, and in > > >> pla

Re: No printer in OOo

2008/2/4, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Debian etch, OOo2.3 was first installed, then a printer was added > to the system. All programs can print, except OOo. In OOo, the only > print listed is Generic Printer, and trying to print to it does not > make a job appear in the KDE Print Jobs dia

Re: gibberish in log file?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 05:56, Zach wrote: > I am setting up a new PPP connection (dialup) and when I run pon I'm > seeing some very strange things in my /var/log/messages > (set it up with pppconfig like I normally do, never had any problems) > > There are lots

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 05:08, Dan H. wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:42:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Move all your email into an IMAP store. Then you can use whatever >> MUA you want, whenever you want, and not have to worry about MUA >> storage inco

Re: Tbird kb shortcuts (was Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?)

On Sun February 3 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > > I don't view them in their own window. You do that by hitting ENTER when > > in preview mode, correct? In its own window, it loses the "GO" menu > > selection that has the go to next... is that a bug or a feature? > > Design decision or oversight, it d

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

On 04/02/2008, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ?? ?. wrote: > > Quoth Dotan Cohen: > >> As a thunderbird user, what am I missing by not using mutt? Teach me, > >> if it's a better client than I'd love to learn it. I'm not afraid of > >> the CLI, and I'm not afraid of VI

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Re: Tbird kb shortcuts (was Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 06:57, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sun February 3 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> I don't view them in their own window. You do that by hitting ENTER when >>> in preview mode, correct? In its own window, it loses the "GO" menu >>> selection th

Re: dhcp connects but cannot resolve names

On 2008-02-04 13:15:17 +0100, oxy wrote: > i get a wifi dhcp connection at home, but cannot resolve names. Bug 462570? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmet

Re: dhcp connects but cannot resolve names

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:15:17 +0100, oxy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > me% dhclient ath0 > There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 5104 > killed old client process, removed PID file > Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 > Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. >

Re: Modem in Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 07:47, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: >> The USR 5610C is an internal "hard" modem. And because it's internal, >> there's no need for extra wires, a wall-wart power supplies, etc. > > Because it is inside your computer it also p

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

On 04/02/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:50:41PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > I will look at other GUI apps (not mutt or pine) and see if I can find > > something that fits. Truth is, it will be hard to replace Tbird as > > I've only two gripes with

Re: Modem in Debian

On Feb 4, 2008 6:30 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/04/08 07:47, John Hasler wrote: > > Ron Johnson writes: > >> The USR 5610C is an internal "hard" modem. And because it's internal, > >> there's no need for extra wires, a wall-wart power supplies, etc. > > > > Because it is ins

Re: No printer in OOo

On 04/02/2008, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/2/4, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Debian etch, OOo2.3 was first installed, then a printer was added > > to the system. All programs can print, except OOo. In OOo, the only > > print listed is Generic Printer, and trying to

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 09:37, Wei Chen wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/04/08 07:07, Wei Chen wrote: >> [snip] > >>> Web mail can also be a feasible solution. I use gmail to retrieve and >>> aggregate emails from all my other mail boxes. In this way I can re

Colours in VIM

Hi lads, is it possible to make coloured text in VIM? For example: "This sentence is in red color. This sentence is in black color." The first should be in red. Thank you, Andrius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Modem in Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 09:13, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Feb 4, 2008 6:30 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 02/04/08 07:47, John Hasler wrote: >>> Ron Johnson writes: The USR 5610C is an internal "hard" modem. And because it's internal, th

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 07:07, Wei Chen wrote: [snip] > > > Web mail can also be a feasible solution. I use gmail to retrieve and > aggregate emails from all my other mail boxes. In this way I can read > mails from any places where an internet connection is avai

Re: Sarge EOL date

Kevin Mark wrote: [...] > Security Support for Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody) was terminated one > year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (Sarge). > > Is Sarge following the same EOL cycle or can one expect a longer period > of Security Support ? It will be the same; security support

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/04/08 05:08, Dan H. wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:42:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> Move all your email into an IMAP store. Then you can use whatever >>> MUA you want, whenever you want, and not have to worry a

kernel backporting on etch with "apt-get source"

Hi, I have found a way to re-create the "official" linux-image*.deb packages using the apt-get source command [1]: #!/bin/bash apt-get source -t unstable linux-image-2.6.24-1-686-bigmem cd linux-2.6-2.6.24 fakeroot debian/rules debian/build debian/stamps fakeroot make -f debian/rules.gen bina

Re: Alsa - no sound: I need to repeatedly run alsaconf every time I reboot computer

Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi Gurus, > > I seem to have to rerun alsaconf to reconfigure alsa every time I reboot my > computer. > I have no idea why? I am running sid with debian standard kernel: [...] Have a look at the solution on the NewbieDOC wiki [1]. Let us know if renaming modprobe.conf do

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 10:41, Wei Chen wrote: [snip] > > Note that the G.F.W system of the government is in fact mainly based GFW? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (

Re: Colours in VIM

Pantor wrote: Hi lads, is it possible to make coloured text in VIM? For example: "This sentence is in red color. This sentence is in black color." The first should be in red. For colors and fancy formatting, something like openoffice would be more suited. VIM is a text editor. You can ask it

How can to set debian to write as less as possible (to use it on Flash drive)

Good day,... Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof as posible. so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap or what ever the problem rises how ? I'm not sure but most of todaies flash drive has a lifetime for 50K write per bit (not sure

SOLVED: Re: missing /var/mail

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:29:15AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Is there a conversion program? > > mb2md.pl Thanks, I missed that. I even started a new thread asking for that. Sorry. I'll install it and get things converted. I've got mutt so that it creates new mailboxes in maildir format.

Re: low-MHz server

On Feb 3, 2008, at 8:53 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I was also wondering, re RF/EMF shielding, if a rack-mount server in a half-height rack with front and back doors may be a good way to go. With the doors closed, there's a lot fewer openings large enough for the EMF to get out. I haven't b

Re: How can to set debian to write as less as possible (to use it on Flash drive)

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > Good day,... > > Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof as > posible. > so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap or > what ever the problem rises how ? > > I'm not sure but

Re: dist-upgrade from sarge to etch - package dependencies issues

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 22:41:11 +, Dimitrios Daskalakis wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to upgrade my distribution from sarge to > etch. Are you following the upgrade procedure that is outlined in Etch's release notes? > Having upgraded successfully the 2.4 kernel to 2.6, I > update my sources.li

Re: Modem in Debian

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 09:25:02AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Besides, what's to stop a big surge from arcing over the damaged > external modem circuits, down the RS-232 cable and onto the mobo? Impedence. Inductance down thin wires over a long distance. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Modem in Debian

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:02:42AM +, Pantor wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:28:06AM +0900, David Palmer wrote: > > > > >>Or provide yourself with a fax facility. > > > >Especially handy if tied up with an LPD spool. Makes someone's fax > >machine as easy as th

Re: cannot find audio codec for OxA - Mplayer unable to play sound of video

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:04:07 +0530, narendra sisodiya wrote: > hi,, i am using > $ uname -a > Linux utkarsh-laptop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 21:45:15 GMT 2007 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > my mplayer is unalble to play a sound of a video file and give the warning - > > cannot find audio co

Re: missing /var/mail

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/03/08 23:30, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:33:30AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 11:22:50AM -0500, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL >> PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >>> On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:45:42P

Re: Colours in VIM-AbiWord

On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > AbiWord is much lighter & smaller than OOo. I saw AbiWord when I installed ... another distro ( Pu..y ...) but I never used it. is abiword just a word processor, as opposed to a full suite, like OO ?? does it do .DOC conversion? smaller & lighter normal

Re: Colours in VIM

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 11:13, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Pantor wrote: Hi lads, is it possible to make coloured text in VIM? For example: "This sentence is in red color. This sentence is in black color." The first should be in red. For colo

Re: Colours in VIM

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Pantor wrote: Hi lads, is it possible to make coloured text in VIM? For example: "This sentence is in red color. This sentence is in black color." The first should be in red. For colors and fancy formatting, something like openoffice would be more suited. VIM is a t

Re: No printer in OOo

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:33:01 + keltezéssel Tzafrir Cohen azt írta: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:53:13PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: >> 2008/2/4, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > On Debian etch, OOo2.3 was first installed, then a printer was added >> > to the system. All programs can print, exc

Re: Modem in Debian

Paul Johnson wrote: > Unless you run the phone line thru a surge suppressor. Doesn't always help. The problem is usually a difference of potential between the phone line and the power line under lightning fault conditions. Ron Johnson writes: > Oh, yeah, because phone line surge suppressors neve

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/04/08 07:07, Wei Chen wrote: > [snip] > >> Web mail can also be a feasible solution. I use gmail to retrieve and >> aggregate emails from all my other mail boxes. In this way I can read >> mails from any places where an inte

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

On 04 Feb 2008, Peter Jordan wrote: > Anthony Campbell, 02/04/08 10:34: > > > On 03 Feb 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:03:03 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> [...] > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> The ipw3945 driver requires closed-source components and has been > >> depre

Re: No printer in OOo

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:53:13PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > 2008/2/4, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Debian etch, OOo2.3 was first installed, then a printer was added > > to the system. All programs can print, except OOo. In OOo, the only > > print listed is Generic Printer, and trying

Re: Problem with console and locales

[ Please put your answers/reactions in the quoted older message instead of on top of it. This makes it easier for the other people on the list (who may not remember our earlier conversation) to follow the discussion. ] On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 21:23:35 -0200, Andres Migliazzo wrote: > Awesome

Re: Modem in Debian

Ron Johnson writes: > The USR 5610C is an internal "hard" modem. And because it's internal, > there's no need for extra wires, a wall-wart power supplies, etc. Because it is inside your computer it also provides extra opportunities for lightning damage. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Modem in Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 06:18, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Pantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080204 04:07]: >> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:28:06AM +0900, David Palmer wrote: >>> > Or provide yourself with a fax facility. >>> Especiall

Re: [OT] Iran to attack my Browser??

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 06:24, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > Seriously, this is quite odd... > > take a look at the following two screenshots of Iran's ministry of foreign > affair's site: > > http://omploader.org/vYzU3 > http://omploader.org/vYzU4 > > Sorry

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

Anthony Campbell, 02/04/08 10:34: > On 03 Feb 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:03:03 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> [...] >> >> [...] >> >> The ipw3945 driver requires closed-source components and has been >> deprecated by Intel, the only party that has access to the fu

[OT] Iran to attack my Browser??

Seriously, this is quite odd... take a look at the following two screenshots of Iran's ministry of foreign affair's site: http://omploader.org/vYzU3 http://omploader.org/vYzU4 Sorry to link you to some image-hosting site, but the screenshots are neccessary... as you can see, Opera displays this

Re: Thinkpad T61 Power Management

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 06:43:12PM -0800, Thierry San Juan wrote: I installed Debian Sid on a new Thinkpad T61, and running into some issues in regard to power management: I am running kernel 2.6.24-1-amd64. ... 2. When running on battery, the Gnome Power Manage

[SOLVED] cups works but dont print out!

HP Laserjet 1020 and others similar printers require: http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ Thx. -- Forwarded message -- From: Andrea Ganduglia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 24, 2008 7:31 PM Subject: cups works but dont print out! To: usr_debian Hi! # lpr -Ppepi todo # tail -f /var/log/cup

Re: low-MHz server

David Brodbeck writes: > ...have you considered putting the machine in another room and placing > only the monitor, keyboard, and mouse at your wife's workstation? Or put the computer in the basement and set her up with a diskless X-terminal based on an old, slow pc. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUB

Re: hard drive not spinning down.

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:22:22PM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote: > I run Lenny on an Acer Aspire 5021WLMi laptop as an ssh server and I > noticed that the hard drive is getting very very hot so that the > touchpad is almost burning hot. I suspect that the drive is not > spinning down when idle (and i

Re: SOLVED: Modem in Debian

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:15:55PM +, Pantor wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:02:42AM +, Pantor wrote: > >>Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>>On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:28:06AM +0900, David Palmer wrote: > > Or provide yourself with a fax facility. > >>>Esp

Re: Modem in Debian

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:16:57PM +, Pantor wrote: > there is a modem plugged to PCI slot and no idea what to do with it. > Any suggestions, advices, please. > > Regards. > Andrius Check out http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/ and run the scanmodem tool provided there - it should produce useful

Re: low-MHz server

If you have a garage or shed that might work, keep it outside, a Sparstation or other UNIX type machine would probably handle the extremes of possible conditions if it isn't heated better than a generic pc would. Also, consider that wall-warts are often the biggest producers of EM radiation too, e

changine mutt's saved mail from mbox to Maildir

I recently changed from mbox to Maildir format. Everything works fine: mail delivered to maildir, mutt reads it fine and will save to new mailboxes in maildir format. However, I have hundreds (? thousands) of emails in mbox format which I wish to restore in Maildir format. Is there a script some

Re: How can to set debian to write as less as possible (to use it on Flash drive)

There are special flash filesystems developed. One of these is jffs iirc. Look at embedded linux/distro information as they do a lot with these sorts of things. Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Colours in VIM

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 11:13, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Pantor wrote: >> Hi lads, >> >> is it possible to make coloured text in VIM? >> For example: "This sentence is in red color. This sentence is in black >> color." The first should be in red. > > For colors

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

Op Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:50:41 +0200 Dotan Cohen wrote: > A simple example is the ability to right- or left- align text. For > Hebrew and Arabic users, this is a must. No other mailer provides > that. In Sylpheed I see your Hebrew text right aligned. > And the Virtual Identity extension makes the Fr

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:42:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Move all your email into an IMAP store. Then you can use whatever > MUA you want, whenever you want, and not have to worry about MUA > storage incompatibility. You mean, locally? --D. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

QWERTY variant of Slovak keybaord---missing?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Occassionally, I need to use Slovak keyboard layout. I (and I guess many if not most Slovaks) are used to QWERTY rather than QWERTZ. Previous Debian versions included this file: /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/sk_qwerty so that within

Re: USB HD permissions query

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:10:53 +0100 Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Jochen, > any other UNIX file system), these permissions are stored inside the > filesystem you mount and can only be changed after mounting. When Ah, that's now a lot clearer. I sort of understood what Magnus wrot

No printer in OOo

On Debian etch, OOo2.3 was first installed, then a printer was added to the system. All programs can print, except OOo. In OOo, the only print listed is Generic Printer, and trying to print to it does not make a job appear in the KDE Print Jobs dialog. Needless to say, nothing printsץ OOo gives no

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

> On 02/04/08 07:07, Wei Chen wrote: > [snip] > > > > > > Web mail can also be a feasible solution. I use gmail to retrieve and > > aggregate emails from all my other mail boxes. In this way I can read > > mails from any places where an internet connection is available. > > > > Other merits over

Re: [OT] Iran to attack my Browser??

?? ?. wrote: Seriously, this is quite odd... take a look at the following two screenshots of Iran's ministry of foreign affair's site: http://omploader.org/vYzU3 http://omploader.org/vYzU4 Sorry to link you to some image-hosting site, but the screenshots are neccessary... as y

dhcp connects but cannot resolve names

Hi friends, i get a wifi dhcp connection at home, but cannot resolve names. I can ping ip addresses around the world, but cannot ping hostnames, since they are not resolved. I configured with iwconfig, iwpriv as shown bellow. The first configuration i tried with network manager. No success, but man

gibberish in log file?

I am setting up a new PPP connection (dialup) and when I run pon I'm seeing some very strange things in my /var/log/messages (set it up with pppconfig like I normally do, never had any problems) There are lots of weird characters, I used this machine 2 days ago (when old ISP was working) and didn'

Re: Modem in Debian

* Pantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080204 04:07]: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:28:06AM +0900, David Palmer wrote: >> > >>> Or provide yourself with a fax facility. >> >> Especially handy if tied up with an LPD spool. Makes someone's fax >> machine as easy as the printer be

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

Dan H.: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:42:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Move all your email into an IMAP store. Then you can use whatever >> MUA you want, whenever you want, and not have to worry about MUA >> storage incompatibility. > > You mean, locally? I guess he does. I am running an I

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

On Feb 4, 2008 11:58 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/04/08 09:37, Wei Chen wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 02/04/08 07:07, Wei Chen wrote: > >> [snip] > > > >> Call me tin-foil boy, but I'd rather not have all my sometimes

Re: Modem in Debian

On Monday 04 February 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > ... > I wouldn't know. It's been a long time since I've used a modem... > > Besides, what's to stop a big surge from arcing over the damaged > external modem circuits, down the RS-232 cable and onto the mobo? > Which is exactly what happened t

Sylpheed bad filename encoding (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

On 04/02/2008, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds great, but the only thing that really makes me interested is > > the full keyboard control, as none of the other features I need. I'll > > start looking for Tbird extensions that might help, or I'll learn to > > write my own. I'm glad

Re: low-MHz server

meant to send this to the list but sent to bob by mistake oops! Read this thread with a bit of interest. In terms of non-x86 there are a lot of options. For Sun/SPARC32, theres Sparcstation 10s and 20s (I recently gave 4 away on freecycle), they're old and slow really. But you can put upto 512mb

Re: Colours in VIM-AbiWord

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 11:38, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: >> AbiWord is much lighter & smaller than OOo. > I saw AbiWord when I installed ... another distro ( Pu..y ...) > but I never used it. is abiword just a word process

Re: missing /var/mail

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:33:30AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 11:22:50AM -0500, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:45:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > There are other mailbox formats, most notably Mail

Re: How can to set debian to write as less as possible (to use it on Flash drive)

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof as > posible. > so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap or > what ever the problem rises how ? > > I'm not sure but most of todaies f

Re: 2 Network Cards

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1-Feb-08, at 11:59 PM, Raquel wrote: I think that I understand what you're saying. However, what's the difference? If the machine is capable of handling 15 VirtualHosts with 1 nic and 1 IP number, why can it not handle 15 VirtualHosts with 2 n

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:50:41PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I will look at other GUI apps (not mutt or pine) and see if I can find > something that fits. Truth is, it will be hard to replace Tbird as > I've only two gripes with it, yet there's many features (through > extensions) that other mai

Re: changine mutt's saved mail from mbox to Maildir

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 12:22, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:10:06PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> I recently changed from mbox to Maildir format. >> >> Everything works fine: mail delivered to maildir, mutt reads it fine and >> will save

Re: How can to set debian to write as less as possible (to use it on Flash drive)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 12:53, Jabka Atu wrote: > Good day,... > > Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof > as posible. > so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap > or what ever the problem rises how

Re: Brother laserprinter refuses to print pdfs

On 04/02/2008 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 07:56:47PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've a brother laserprinter (setup as network printer), which works > > quite well in general, except that it refuses to print most pdfs. > > apt-cache show cups-pdf > > Althou

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