Re: wicd

2011-08-04 Thread Mark Grieveson
> > IMHO it would be a good idea if software showed the status of this > > button. > > > > It would be a very nice feature, but I would be willing to bet money > it's an order of magnitude more complicated to implement than it > should be (it's hardware, after all), and the developer hours are

Re: Some coaching on apt-get and downgrading Package gtk+-2.0

2011-08-04 Thread Randy Kramer
On Thursday 04 August 2011 03:52:49 pm Walter Hurry wrote: > On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:46:44 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > > Short answer: Because when you are running ./configure and see a > > message saying "Package xyz was not found in the pkg-config search > > path", it usually means (in Debian) th

Re: Booting Debian

2011-08-04 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 04 August 2011 11:52:55 Kevin Williams wrote: > I'm running debian 6.0 I think someone told me to do this a while back but > didn't what he was taking about.I need to boot up gnome any other type of > desktop visualizer so I can get out of this command prompt You hadn't mentioned that

Debian Xorg server release version confusion

2011-08-04 Thread Tech Geek
Hello, As per the Xorg website [1], the latest stable release is 7.6 which happened on 20 December 2010 and the next stable release will be 7.7 [2] somewhere in 2011 (which is not out yet). So my question is how come Debian Squeeze (stable) has Xorg server (xserver-xorg-core) 7.7 [3] already if t

Re: Another problem

2011-08-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Kevin Williams wrote: > > I got past the login but now it shows my username@debian20:$ what I do now apparently, the feature that lets you choose meaningful subject lines is also broken. i'd look into that. rday -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Have blkid reports on newly added devices

2011-08-04 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 4:32 PM, T o n g wrote: > On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:00:34 -0400, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> My newly inserted sdc1 has already been mounted, yet blkid can't report >>> on it: >>> >>> $ df | grep sdc >>> /dev/sdc1              3862528    428384   3434144  12% /mnt/camera >>> >>> $ blk

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/4/2011 11:52 AM, lina wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello List: >> >> On 04/08/11 18:26, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> >>> On 8/4/2011 11:03 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: just use a job scheduler as SLURM: http://packages.deb

Re: Have blkid reports on newly added devices

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: > > $ blkid -c /dev//null -p /dev/sdc1 > Sorry "/dev/null" not "/dev//null". A very, very small tidbit. As long as the multiple '/' chars are not at the very start of the string then it doesn't matter and one or more are all the same as one. At the very start of the string it is und

Pidgin questions ...

2011-08-04 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I am being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century! My kids and grandkids and wife are demanding that I get messaging. I don't want to get one for every network or vendor out there and happened to run across Pidgin, which seems to handle a lot of protocols. Does a

Re: Pidgin questions ...

2011-08-04 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:54:49 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > I am being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century! My > kids and grandkids and wife are demanding that I get messaging. > > I don't want to get one for every network or vendor out there and > happened to run

Re: Pidgin questions ...

2011-08-04 Thread Danilo Sandoval
Hi I prefer Empathy, a very good IM , a large amount protocols available Greetings Saludos Cordiales.- - Danilo Sandoval twitter: @danilosandoval 2011/8/4 Walter Hurry > On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:54:49 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > > > Greetings; > > > > I am being dragged

Re: Pidgin questions ...

2011-08-04 Thread Pete Orrall
> Does anyone have any preferences as what they think I should > look at also? I have been using Pidgin for years and it is great. No complaints here. The only other multiprotocol client I know of is Kopete which was from KDE 3.x. I haven't used it since KDE 3.4 days so I don't know its curren

Re: KDE4.4 desktop customization for multiple users.

2011-08-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/08/11 04:16, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your great work You have performed, Scott, among other You wrote: I copied the files as root to /etc/skel in the first place so permissions are as they should be. No chmod required NOTE: I don't have session saving enabled and I remove all

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 21:12 +0800, lina wrote: > I noticed when make -j 8, the 8 cores can be fully occupied. > > can I use some way to enable 8 cores at the same time when I run > something, such as a bash script? Not sure what you really want to do, but GNU/parallel [0] might be of interest.

Re: wicd

2011-08-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-08-03 15:05:34 -0400, Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote: > It would be a very nice feature, but I would be willing to bet money > it's an order of magnitude more complicated to implement than it should > be (it's hardware, after all), and the developer hours are probably > better spent elsewhere

Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-04 Thread Heddle Weaver
I keep neglecting to forward these to the list. Hopefully I'll be back on-line sometime and won't continue to blow it. Sorry for the personal replies. -- Forwarded message -- From: Heddle Weaver Date: 5 August 2011 11:43 Subject: Re: Billion 7800N To: "Andrew M.A. Cater" On 4

Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-04 Thread Heddle Weaver
-- Forwarded message -- From: Heddle Weaver Date: 5 August 2011 11:50 Subject: Re: Billion 7800N To: Gavin Elliot Jones On 4 August 2011 18:19, Gavin Elliot Jones wrote: > I also have a Billion 7800N and can access the web interface just fine. > I use a mixture of Debian stabl

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-08-04 17:06:48 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I did that but still I get the error message with lpr -no default > destination. Which libcups2 do you use? In my case, with libcups2 1.4.7-1: ypig:~> lpq lpq: error - no default destination available. and with libcups2 1.4.6-11+b1: ypig:

Re: Billion 7800N

2011-08-04 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 5 August 2011 00:55, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:48:35 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: > >> I've run into a few hiccups with a new modem, as specified in the >> subject line. > > This one? > > http://au.billion.com/product/wireless/bipac7800n.php Yep! That's the one. > >> I simply can

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-08-04 Thread Joel Rees
Making a long thread longer, but, ... On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:01 AM, yudi v wrote: > Thanks Paul. > Was having a tough time trying to understand. > > Instead of saying the following: > > "It is highly advisable to only use the 94 printable characters from the > first 128 characters of the ASCI

Re: thread issue

2011-08-04 Thread lina
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/4/2011 11:52 AM, lina wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >>> Hello List: >>> >>> On 04/08/11 18:26, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/4/2011 11:03 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Hello List: >

Re: Recovering from MKFS

2011-08-04 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:59:22 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg writes: > I ran mkfs -L on an external usb drive, hoping to change it's name, which it > did. It, of course, rewrote the inode tables, which I did not realize that it > would, and I cannot find my files on the disk. Is there any way to recover

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Aug 2011, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:06:48 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Show us the output of: > > lpr -P your_printer /etc/hosts > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > Thanks, Camaleon and everyone else who has helped. Everything is working now; the solution was to s

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