Re: xorg upgrade breaks fonts

2006-06-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
, NC 27599-3210 USA New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Mark Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:41:24PM +, Andrew Perrin wrote: Since upgrading xorg, I get lousy-looking fonts in places such as emacs, the fvwm menu popup, and

Re: TV tuner/capture cards?

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
I use the pvr 500 using the ivtv driver and play using mplayer. Works just fine, native debian. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor,

Cursor won't move off screen 1

2008-08-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Summary: After today's apt-get dist-upgrade, my mouse cursor won't move back from the right screen (screen 1) to screen 0. Detail: this is debian testing, kernel 2.6.24, using the radeon drivers for a two-headed setup. Login and the original cursor are on screen 0. After moving th

pilot-xfer unable to bind to port: net:any

2008-08-11 Thread Andrew Perrin
After an apt-get upgrade today I suddenly can't sync over bluetooth: adorno:/etc# pilot-xfer -p net:any -l Unable to bind to port: net:any Please use --help for more information ifconfig shows the ppp link was set up successfully: adorno:/etc# ifconfig ppp0 ppp0 Link encap:Point-t

Gnome desktop: mouse suddenly won't move to left screen

2008-08-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm sure this is something simple, but on my gnome desktop which uses an ATI dual-output card for a dual-screen layout, I suddenly can't move the mouse off the right-side screen. The left side is recognized by the resolution switcher, and displays fine, but there's no way (that I can see) to ac

Re: Gnome desktop: mouse suddenly won't move to left screen

2008-08-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Ted Hilts wrote: Andrew Perrin wrote: I'm sure this is something simple, but on my gnome desktop which uses an ATI dual-output card for a dual-screen layout, I suddenly can't move the mouse off the right-side screen. The left side is recognized by the resolutio

NFSv3 Not supported; can't read superblock

2006-08-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- After bringing my two systems back up after routine maintenance, I can no longer mount an nfs share from one to the other. These have coexisted for some time, but have probably not been rebooted for several months and across numerous apt-get updates. The NFS client machine does n

Re: Disk usage

2006-09-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
Try du -x / -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210

Re: lsmod q

2006-09-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, lsmod shows, in part: ... usbcore95296 5 usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd ... Is there a way to find out who the other 2 users are, besides usbhid,ehci_hcd and uhci_hcd? When I do a rmmod on those, they go away but usbcore refuses to

tex4ht oolatex produces unreadable .odt file

2008-04-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
Using tex4ht on an AASTeX-based document, I have finally been able to produce what appears to be a valid .odt file, but when I try to open it using OpenOffice.org, the file is simply blank. Any thoughts on how to diagnose? The file does contain elements: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/dualspheres-r2-

Simplest way to reconstruct /etc/rc?.d

2007-04-04 Thread Andrew Perrin
I had a hard drive glitch that seems to have screwed up some of the /etc/rc?.d links. The /etc/init.d area is fine, but lots of services are no longer coming up automatically. I can fix them one at a time with: dpkg-reconfigure xdm replacing xdm with whatever package I've noticed needs to be

Re: Simplest way to reconstruct /etc/rc?.d

2007-04-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
stant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Andrei Popescu wrote: Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
I'm pretty happy with my Samsung YP-T7, which I got from overstock.com a while back. It has a voice recorder and an FM radio, both of which I use regularly, along with 512MB RAM which is plenty for my casual music use. The interface is OK, a little clunky but I can get used to it (and have). It

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

2007-04-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, John L Fjellstad wrote: Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is this typical for US-universities? 3 out of the 3 (german) universities I have attended were running *nix-system for their students/stuff. Looks like "old Europe" is leading here? Well, I only attende

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: Well, I only attended on US college, but Santa Clara U always had a UNIX lab. That is, after all, where SCO comes from... :) Ummm... "Santa Clara" ne "Santa Cruz" -- Andrew J Perrin

Re: Will kernels work on the "wrong" hardware?

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
Chances are you'll be fine either way - isn't k7 a subset of 686? I would certainly thnk an amd64 motherboard should work fine using a k7 kernel. The other option, though, is to boot to a rescue CD and install a new kernel using the rescue system.

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:09:15PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: A 30 day moratorium on re-sale doesn't hurt the store that much, the Never work in retail, huh? Forcing a business to carry something in stock for 30 days before they can even think

Re: need typewriter-style quotes in LaTeX mode of emacs

2007-05-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Russell L. Harris wrote: The XEmacs implementation which I am running appears to differ from the implementation which you are running. When in LaTeX mode, the first press of " produces a contiguous pair of single left-quotes: `` and the second press of " produces a contiguo

Re: from scanner to pdf conversion util?

2007-06-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
I have a very basic script on my website: http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/tips http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/tips/src/pdfscan-pl.txt Andy -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Prof

Re: Am I missing something in my understanding here?

2007-06-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Is the following line in /etc/network/interfaces : auto eth0 If not, eth0 will only be brought up when manually instructed to do so with an ifup command. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.

Mixer use kills ALSA

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
I am using kernel 2.6.18 with debian testing. My machine is an ASUS M2NPV-VM, which contains the following sound hardware: 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81cb Flags: bus master, 66MHz,

Re: Mixer use kills ALSA

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] is the lsmod from before or after the force-reload? After anything pertinent in syslog? There's this: Jun 20 12:41:41 joehill kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :00:10.1 disabled Jun 20 12:41:41 joehill kernel: PCI: En

Re: Mixer use kills ALSA

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, arijit sarkar wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 14:26 -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: I am using kernel 2.6.18 with debian testing. My machine is an ASUS M2NPV-VM, which contains the following sound hardware: [snip] Sound works OK from a variety of applications, including

Re: which program can read M$ Access file (.mdb)

2007-06-22 Thread Andrew Perrin
kexi-mdb-plugin - MS Access (MDB) driver for Kexi libhk-classes-mdb - MS Access driver plugin for hk_classes libmdbodbc - MDB tools ODBC module libmdbtools - mdbtools libraries mdbtools - JET / MS Access database (MDB) tools mdbtools-dev - mdbtools development files mdbtools-gmdb - JET / MS Access

xine colormap problem

2006-09-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
I've just installed debian sarge on a new computer, and it mostly went OK. However, I'm having a strange problem playing video files, which I generally do on xine. This problem occurs with other flavors, though, e.g., kmplayer, gxine, oxine, etc. The *first* time I run xine in a given X sessio

i915, dri, and xv

2006-09-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
Folks- I'm still struggling with a problem using the built-in Intel 945G graphics in my new ThinkCentre desktop. The symptom is that applications that use the xv driver to display video work exactly once per X session - subsequent times, they revert to a color-map of about 16 colors. I suspe

Re: compile vmware module with 2.6.17

2006-09-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Yang wrote: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi all! Yesterday, I want to install vmware on knoppix5 with kernel 2.6.17 I and download the latest vmware-any-any-patch104,and pass some problems would heapend before using this patch! But anothere one come out saying that /usr

Re: Degraded i810/i915 Rendering Performance After Xorg 7 Upgrade

2006-09-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Leo L. Schwab wrote: Yesterday I finally made the long-delayed upgrade from xorg 6.9 to 7. It required a lot of changes, including a kernel update from 2.6.12 to 2.6.17. After some fiddling with xorg.conf and a lot of visits to the Xorg69to7 Wiki, I now have a work

Dymo 320 USB - no writeable port?

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
I've been playing around with a Dymo label printer, model 320, which is a USB printer. My system recognizes it fine and attaches the usblp driver, but the appropriate port (/dev/usb/lp1) is unwriteable. Yes, I'm sure it's lp1 because lp0 is the regular laser printer on this machine. Here's the s

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
According to /usr/share/doc/ntpdate/changlog.Debian.gz: * npdate is no longer started from an init script but instead by ifup (closes: #56499, #245338, #312576) * Run ntpdate from ifup in the background (closes: #321759, #375280, #382543) The script is now in /etc/network/if-up.d .

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
wrote: i think i should read those /usr/share/doc files more often :p however, ntpdate is only started once (on bootup) and it never needs to resync afterwords ? since its not in ps aux... On 10/18/06, Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: According to /usr/share/doc/ntpdate/changlo

Help with postgresql upgrade

2009-08-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings all- Running postgresql under debian, my standard apt-get upgrade upgraded me from 8.3 to 8.4. As a result, I no longer have access to the databases that were created under 8.3. Typically I would use pg_upgradecluster to fix this problem; however, the upgrade also removed 8.3, and so I

Re: Help with postgresql upgrade

2009-08-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
just to be annoying and point out the obvious, a backup is not a backup if you don't know how to restore from it... A Aye, and you should be restoring it periodically to validate it - all my systems restore daily and validate the data, Yes, I'm painfully aware of the irony! --

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
- CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, mess-mate wrote: Andrew Perrin wrote: Hey all - I'm having more trouble than I ever have before booting my newly-compiled 2.6.30 kernel. Typically make-kpkg linux-image makes a usable .deb file, which I can install and be done w

Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
Hey all - I'm having more trouble than I ever have before booting my newly-compiled 2.6.30 kernel. Typically make-kpkg linux-image makes a usable .deb file, which I can install and be done with it. In this case I keep getting: kernel panic: no init found. Unable to mount root fs on unknown-bl

Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Using a .config file based on past kernels that have worked fine (posted at http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/config), I am trying to compile kernel 2.6.30 for an amd64 machine and NOT using initrd. The essentials I know of - sata, ext3, e1000e - are built into the kernel, so I don

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Andrew Perrin wrote: Greetings- Using a .config file based on past kernels that have worked fine (posted at http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu/stuff/config), I am trying to compile kernel 2.6.30 for an amd64 machine and NOT using initrd. The essentials I know of - sata

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks for your continued interest. Answers below. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Hi, I have not used grub2, however- I will ask others on the list-- If you are compiling (most) everything into the image itself, you probably don't need the insmod line below and I am not sure you want the search line either. menuentry "Debian GNU

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
0 USA On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: Hi, I have not used grub2, however- I will ask others on the list-- If you are compiling (most) everything into the image itself, you probably don'

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:46:47PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: [snip] Alex, How does having an initrd prove more or less beneficial than not having one? IMO I like simplicity and a straight forward boot configuration: 1. /boot/kernel 2. /boot/S

Re: Building a 2.6.30 kernel that does NOT require initrd

2009-09-30 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 09:51:12PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:46:47PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: [snip] I was just seeing if I was missing something, it just seems like a pain to

General Protection Fault in openafs, 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 kernels

2008-09-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
Using debian testing (lenny) and self-compiled 2.6.25 or 2.6.26 kernels, I get the following GPF: Sep 29 16:08:47 che kernel: general protection fault: [#1] SMP Sep 29 16:08:47 che kernel: Modules linked in: piix ide_cd_mod ide_core pata_mpiix radeon drm openafs(P) rfcomm l2cap bluetooth v

Re: General Protection Fault in openafs, 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 kernels

2008-10-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Update: this issue is now bug 500850 in openafs-modules-source. The solution is to set the following in the kernel .config: CONFIG_KEYS=y CONFIG_KEYS_DEBUG_PROC_KEYS=y CONFIG_SECURITY=y CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK=y CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=y ---

Evolution mail hangs while scanning folders

2009-01-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Making my migration to Evolution, I am seeking to read folders from an IMAP server on which I have a LOT of folders (about 4500). Evolution simply hangs while reading this list of folders, and has to be manually killed. Any advice? This is debian testing, kernel 2.6.26, i386 quad-

Evolution palm sync problem

2009-01-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- In preparation for a move from my old Treo to a Blackberry, I am trying to sync my Treo to Evolution. I was easily able to set up the sync preferences, and the contacts sync worked great. But the calendar, memo, and to-do syncs don't show up in evolution. They *do* show up in the d

nm-applet requests secrets for non-secured network

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Good morning- I am trying to move away from using ifup/ifdown and manually editing /etc/network/interfaces to manage the wireless network on my laptop. For reasons I can't change, the wireless network I'm connecting to is open (no security). It works fine with the entry in /etc/network/interfa

Re: nm-applet requests secrets for non-secured network

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Professor and Associate Chair of Sociology University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:04:50AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: Here's the kicker: changing the AP to a different ESSID and connecting to tha

Tablet input GONE after wacom upgrade

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- After this morning's apt-get dist-upgrade, my tablet laptop's wacom tablet is completely non-functional. Nothing else has changed to make this happen, so I'm wondering if others have had a problem with the new xserver-xorg-input-wacom package or similar. System is a lenovo X61 tablet,

Re: Tablet input GONE after wacom upgrade

2010-02-02 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:05:23 -0500 (EST), Andrew Perrin wrote: Greetings- After this morning's apt-get dist-upgrade, my tablet laptop's wacom tablet is completely non-functional. Nothing else has changed to make this happen, so I'm wond

Problem with cheapo USB hub

2007-11-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
Has anyone run across this one? I bought some cheapo USB hubs; they're no-name branded 7-port USB hubs. When I plug them in, they go through repeated cycles of connect-disconnect, with no devices actually appearing: Nov 28 11:23:15 joehill kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_

Re: Problem with cheapo USB hub

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 03:14:06PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: Has anyone run across this one? I bought some cheapo USB hubs; they're no-name branded 7-port USB hubs. When I plug them in, they go through repeated cycles of connect-disco

Re: XForward mplayer

2007-12-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: I want to xforward mplayer, but when I run it from my remote ssh session, it runs in its console mode. Is there any way to force it to run as a GUI application so it will appear in my local X session? I don't see this in the MPlayer docs. -

Re: finding the rpm of the hard drive

2007-12-20 Thread Andrew Perrin
Well, lsscsi will give you the model number which you can then search online ap -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Fo

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: One of the threads over at [EMAIL PROTECTED] has gone OT (for them) into discussing backup media. The concensus there seems to be that tape (e.g. DLT) is still the best for long-term storage (e.g. archives) because CD/DVDs fade rather quickly while ha

Re: Barcode scanner via USB

2008-01-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I have a WASP pen scanner that seems to be recognized by the kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev input: Marson Wasp Barcode USBi as /class/input/input3 input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [Marson Wasp Barcode USBi] on us

Any luck with Blackberry?

2009-11-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Since I got my Blackberry Bold a year or so ago, I've been syncing it with Outlook (blech!) inside a VMWare virtual machine because I had no luck syncing it with evolution, iceowl, etc. When I used opensync with barry, it would work sort of, but then frequently just hang during the sync, which

Using 1394 under 2.6.30

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings all- I am running the stock 2.6.30-2-amd64 kernel, largely because I have been unable to compile a working 2.6.30 kernel of my own. (My travails on that account are documented here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/09/msg01936.html .) Bottom line on compiling my own: In the

evolution-mapi - anybody got it working?

2010-07-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
My university is shifting over to Exchange 2007, which means I would like to try to get evolution working as a client. However, evolution-mapi doesn't install for me, even from unstable, because the package depends on evolution version < 2.29 where the version in the repository is 2.30. I will

Re: evolution-mapi - anybody got it working?

2010-07-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: Are you sure you're up-to-date? Or maybe actually running Squeeze? I ask because in Sid, evolution-mapi Depends: evolution (>= 2.28.3). Well, not completely sure, but here's what I've got: sandbox:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://http.us.debian.

Re: evolution-mapi - anybody got it working?

2010-07-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/09/2010 05:45 AM, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: Are you sure you're up-to-date? Or maybe actually running Squeeze? I ask because in Sid, evolution-mapi Depends: evolution (>= 2.28.3). Well, not completely s

Help - CUPS printing stopped working

2010-07-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
I've been running pretty vanilla CUPS-based printing on my home and office machines for years. After a recent dist-upgrade to testing, I get on both machines this error when trying to browse to the admin page: An error occurred during a connection to localhost:631. SSL received a record that e

Re: Help - CUPS printing stopped working

2010-07-14 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Florian Kulzer wrote: It seems that you are trying to connect to the standard CUPS port (631) using an https://... url. Did you actually configure your CUPS server to support SSL connections on port 631? Well, I thought I had - but using plain http: works fine, so someth

wine => crackling speakers

2002-04-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Running woody, kernel 2.2.19pre17, and wine 20020228, I started a wine session yesterday. I then quit the session; ever since then my speakers have been crackling. There's no wine process running. Any advice on how to get rid of the crackle? Thanks. ---

Re: grep question

2002-04-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
The [c], I believe, is a character class containing only the letter c. If you wanted to match "cron" or "tron" you could use '[ct]ron'. In this case, the only effect is that the ps output for the grep process won't match its own pattern, so you don't get the spurious item. ap ---

Wine font problem

2002-04-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings. Wine has been working moderately well for me for a while. Recently, though, it's started replacing all fonts on the screen with square boxes, and returning the following error on the console: fixme:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance just using first face for now Does anyone know why this

Re: Samba alternative

2002-04-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
SMB is, indeed, a little hack-ish for an all-*ix network. NFS is probably sufficient for a small network like the one you're talking about, although there are enough security things to think about that if you're not behind some kind of firewall you might want to think about limiting to NFS over TCP

Re: Samba alternative

2002-04-17 Thread Andrew Perrin
Except that the OP said he was dropping Windows hosts, so this concern is irrelevant. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2

Re: Palm not communicating on etch running kernel 2.6.12

2005-12-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
My best guess is that /dev/pilot isn't linked correctly; what's the output of: ls -l /dev/pilot -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Edito

Re: Palm not communicating on etch running kernel 2.6.12

2005-12-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
stant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Chris Howie wrote: --- Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My best guess is that /dev/pilot isn't linked correctly; what'

Re: Command-line/batch tools for handling mail attachments?

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
For both of you, how about formail as a tool? Or, alternatively, Perl's mail handling modules like Mail::Mbox::MessageParser or Mail::MboxParser ? Cheers, Andy (who used MANGOnet while in Zimbabwe in 1992) -- Andrew J Perrin -

Re: about scp

2006-01-18 Thread Andrew Perrin
Can you be more specific? What command are you using? What does it do or not do when you try? -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _S

Re: USB stick broken?

2006-01-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Klaus Pieper wrote: host# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1K count=1 etch:~# dd if=/dev/sdb of=mbr bs=1k count=1 dd: opening `/dev/sdb': No medium found This may not be your only problem, but it probably is one of them. You're trying to *read* from your memory stick h

Re: USB stick broken?

2006-01-23 Thread Andrew Perrin
In that case, I'd have to suggest turning on the verbose debugging for USB and seeing if you can figure out what's up at the low level. Of course, this is probably not worth your while since you can get a new one for $20 or so online ap

New problem with dvips and latex-beamer

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
Help! This morning a new problem has emerged using the latex-beamer package and dvips. I have not changed my workflow, so I'm guessing it's the result of an update somewhere along the way. The issue is, after I use latex to generate a dvi of a set of lecture slides, I then use dvipdf to creat

Re: NT hammering my samba netbios?

2002-05-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
There's good documentation on this in the BROWSING.txt file in the Samba documentation (or there used to be - I haven't used samba in a while). If you want the samba machine to always win, set os level high (like > 64). Also, though, it almost never makes sense to have nmbd launched from inetd, wh

Re: disk space / where did it go

2002-05-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
The obvious question is: are you missing a directory (perhaps a hidden one) from the list you passed to du? ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [E

Re: Drop-In Security Queries

2002-05-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
Sure - what I'd do is set up the browser you're using to use localhost as a proxy. Then the local machine's server logs will suffice as your history of users' surfing destinations, and you can configure the local machine to disallow proxy requests to wherever you want. ap

Plans for upgrading to woody & ditching HD

2002-05-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I have a machine currently running potato. It has four IDE drives in it. /dev/hda does nothing important; it's an old (probably 1993 or 1994) 1.2G whose sole role in life at this point is to have an MBR with LILO to boot DOS, NT, or (99% of the time) Debian. That drive is quickly dying

Re: Plans for upgrading to woody & ditching HD

2002-05-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
drew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Mon, 13 May 2002, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:48:49AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Greetings- > > > > I have a machine currently running potato. It has four IDE drives in > > it. /dev/hda does nothing important; it

sane-backends upgrade breaks scanimage with ADF

2002-05-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
I did a dist-upgrade today on my office machine, so now have the latest woody sane-backends. That includes scanimage, which I use for scanning documents with a document feeder. The following command, which worked this morning, now crashes miserably: scanimage --batch=page%04d.pnm --mode Binary --

Re: sane-backends upgrade breaks scanimage with ADF

2002-05-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I did a dist-upgrade today on my office machine, so now have the latest > woody sane-backends. That includes scanimage, which I use for scanning > documents with a document feeder. The following command, which worked > this morning, now crashes miserably: &g

Re: sane-backends upgrade breaks scanimage with ADF

2002-05-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Waltemath wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:02:24PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > ->I did a dist-upgrade today on my office machine, so now have the latest > ->woody sane-backends. That includes scanimage, which I use for scanning > ->documents with a document feeder. The following

downgrading a package

2002-05-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
I've become pretty much convinced that the bug I reported yesterday in sane-backends is an upstream bug, so I'm therefore waiting for a fix. In the meantime, though, I need to use the scanner! What's the simplest way for me to back out of the upgrade and revert to the previous version of a package?

Re: downgrading a package

2002-05-16 Thread Andrew Perrin
ECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On 16 May 2002, Scott Henson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 09:10, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > I've become pretty much convinced that the bug I reported yesterday in > > sane-backends is an upstream bug, so I'm therefore waiting for a fix.

Problems with ess-mode under woody

2002-05-22 Thread Andrew Perrin
Is anyone else having problems using ess-mode? It wasn't coming up at all after a simple apt-get install ess, so I edited /etc/emacs/50ess.el to contain: (require 'ess-site) Now it still doesn't come up automatically, but I can do M-x ess-mode. But then I just get: Wrong type argument: syntax-

Re: Remote admin of intermittently-connected machine?

2002-05-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
There was just an article in _SysAdmin_ magazine about almost exactly what you're asking for. The author used it to e-mail commands through a firewall, but it would be easily adapted. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperr

wine fonts broken

2002-05-31 Thread Andrew Perrin
Has anyone else seen this behavior? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ wine MIXOR202.EXE fixme:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance just using first face for now fixme:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance just using first face for now fixme:font:WineEngCreateFontInstance just using first face for now fixme:font:WineEngCre

Re: VMware

2005-07-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Robert Kopp wrote: > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I just checked out VMware's site and it did not list > > Debian as a distro > > that it supports. Has anyone had any problems with > > this? The cost is > > $189.00 for the download. If there is a problem > > with

Re: U.S. federal income tax program

2005-08-26 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Jeff Stevens wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 08:37 -0400, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > > Are there any income tax computation programs available for Linux > > (Debian)? Since Google has not found any, I assume the answer is "no"; so > > I've been unable to find any. I've used Turbo

Re: Monitoring CPU usage of a process

2002-06-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
There are easier ways than these, at least with this ps: nujoma:~> ps --version procps version 2.0.7 nujoma:~> ps -opid,cmd,%cpu -p 4400 PID CMD %CPU 4400 -csh 0.0 nujoma:~> ps -opid,cmd,%cpu -C ps PID CMD %CPU 4436 ps -opid,cmd,%cp 0.0 put into a cr

Re: this post is not off-topic

2002-06-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
s/not\s+//; -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: this post is not off-topic

2002-06-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
Well, I can't make the claim that I understood the analogy, so my apologies for not grasping the connection. I have no interest in commenting on decisions about release dates, since that is very much in others' areas of expertise. The question of the value of social equality, though, is in my expe

Re: in case you missed this from ponik

2002-06-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Walter Reed wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:05:46AM +0200, Joris wrote: > > > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:37 pm, David Wright wrote: > > > b) disallow posting from unconfirmed addresses; if [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wasn't subscribed, how could he post? > > I would just lik

Epson 1640SU scanner/document feeder

2002-06-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
Is anyone else using the above scanner with debian? With (locally-built) sane-*ends-1.0.8, I can now scan correctly (no more segfaults). But the ADF just sometimes reports "no paper" when there's paper in the feeder, so I can't scan the whole document. Anyone else have this experience? Thanks. --

Re: [OT] rearranging data files

2002-06-06 Thread Andrew Perrin
Well I felt like procrastinating today, so here's a solution: #!/usr/local/bin/perl # pivot.pl - turn rows into columns while (<>) { chomp; s/^\s+//; push(@rows, [split(/\s+/,$_)]); } shift(@$_) for @rows; print join("\t", map(shift(@$_), @rows)), "\n" while (@{$rows[0]}); Note that

Re: [OT] rearranging data files

2002-06-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
Ha! Perl 1, Python 0 (Sorry, couldn't resist.) ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Fri, 7

Re: Plans for upgrading to woody & ditching HD

2002-06-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
errin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Mon, 13 May 2002, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:48:49AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Greetings- > >

Re: sane-backends upgrade breaks scanimage with ADF

2002-06-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I did a dist-upgrade today on my office machine, so now have the latest > woody sane-backends. That includes scanimage, which I use for scanning > documents with a document feeder. The following command, which worked > this morning, now crash

Kernel upgrade docs

2002-06-10 Thread Andrew Perrin
I seem to remember a good step-by-step guide to upgrading the kernel under debian, but can't find it now. I'd like to move to 2.4.18 but am rather timid about it. Thanks for any pointers. -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~

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