Re: audio recorder in linux ... what's its name?

Howard Eisenberger wrote: On 2007-02-25, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I remember there is an application to record audio (mic or line-in) and IIRC it had the X11 interface. What I also remember is the level meters it had, they were two dials, one for each channel, and had needles s

audacity takes very long time to import flac

Does anybody know anything about this? I have tried to import a flac file in audacity (in Testing as well as in Sid), but audacity takes ages to do so. On a command line (I think using flac package), exporting the same flac to aiff takes very short time. Example: audacity takes around 44 min

icedove confused with new DST? Shifts events by 1 hour

Hello, I notice that if I create an appointment in Icedove (on Etch) during the next week, the event is shown one hour ahead of the time I specify. For example, if I specify an event for next week's Tue, 10h00~11h00, it is shown at 09h00~10h00. I have to drag that even one hour to correct tha

Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 23:35, H.S. wrote: Hello, I notice that if I create an appointment in Icedove (on Etch) during the How do you do that? Oh, terribly sorry for the lack of information. It was late at night and it had been a long

Re: audacity takes very long time to import flac

Jonathan Kaye wrote: H.S. wrote: Does anybody know anything about this? I have tried to import a flac file in audacity (in Testing as well as in Sid), but audacity takes ages to do so. On a command line (I think using flac package), exporting the same flac to aiff takes very short time

Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 08:19, H.S. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 23:35, H.S. wrote: Hello, I notice that if I create an appointment in Icedove (on Etch) during the How do you do

[Solved] Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

Ron Johnson wrote: I use lightning extension in Icedove. Interesting. I tried to install Lightning 0.3.1, but it complains about not being compatible with Iceweasel. And it complains correctly. Lightning is an extension for Icedove (Debian version of Thunderbird), not of the browser Iceweasel

accented chars. shown as question marks in black diamonds in mozilla

Hello, In Debian Etch Mozilla browser (Iceape), I notice that sometimes accented characters are not displayed properly. They are shown as question marks in black diamonds. For example, on this web page (CNN): http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1597226,00.html?cnn=yes I see this "o

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in black diamonds in mozilla

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:59:07 -0500, H.S. wrote: Hello, In Debian Etch Mozilla browser (Iceape), I notice that sometimes accented characters are not displayed properly. They are shown as question marks in black diamonds. For example, on this web page (CNN): http

Re: Off-Topic Posts

Kent West wrote: Historically this list has been tolerant of off-topic threads, likely because such threads have tended to be short-lived. One of the reasons I love this list. Most of the messages are on topic, off topic messages are tolerated and if they live for too long, polite requests ar

Re: Απ: accented chars. shown as questio n marks in black diamonds in mozilla

Nick Demou wrote: ROUGH EXPLANATIONS when one writes a text in a text-editor the text-editor must store it in the disk as a series of numbers (for example ABC will become 65,66,67) this is called encoding the text when your browser renders that text in the screen it must convert the series of

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in black diamonds in mozilla

Florian Kulzer wrote: What I meant was this: Your utf-8 setup (combined with using the proper fonts) is able to encode and display umlauts, accented characters, characters for Slavic languages, Scandinavian, Russian, Greek, (some) Asian characters, etc. This is in contrast to, say, someone usin

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

Arlie Stephens wrote: I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use, notably my email client mutt. Other versions of linux have somehow Do you use mutt in xterm? If so, it will be very difficult to get this right. Try this: 1. Use gnome-terminal or konsole (at least it ou

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

Thomas Dickey wrote: H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Arlie Stephens wrote: I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use, notably my email client mutt. Other versions of linux have somehow Do you use mutt in xterm? If so, it will be very difficult to get this

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

Arlie Stephens wrote: Well, what I got was a different kind of gobbletygook. I presume it won't cut and paste ;-) but looking at a message that should be quoting Icelandic, I'm seeing improbably characters like a capital A with a horizontal bar across it, embedded in the middle of words. (This i

Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

Paul Scott wrote: Oh, terribly sorry for the lack of information. It was late at night and it had been a long day. I use lightning extension in Icedove. Interesting. I tried to install Lightning 0.3.1, but it complains about not being compatible with Iceweasel. I just tried and got t

Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

Paul Scott wrote: Did you try installing it in Icedove? That's a good question! I went to the IceDove Tools menu and chose Extensions. Then I chose "Get More Extensions" which took me to https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions.php?app=%7b3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6%7d using IceWease

restricting internet access for some users

Hello, On a computer connected to a router, which in turn is connected to the internet (more or less constantly), how do I restrict some users from accessing the internet. The lan is actually in a small community office. A couple of computers are for the staff, but a third is set aside for

export an image of unicode keyboard layout

Hello, Is there is some way I can export the current layout of the keyboard to an image (eps would be ideal)? This is on Debian Testing. I would like to see the keymaps of the various language settings -- to I would just sent the necessary keyboard layout from an applet and export the image

do I need jackd?

Hello, Do I need jackd on a computer which is recording output from an audio mixer? Currently the output of the mixer is being fed to the line-in of the computer's sound card and audacity is being used to record the audio. Seems to be working fine. I have also tried to playback the audio whi

console based cd burning (wodim and burn)

It appears that cdrecord package is ... deprecated in debain(?) I am trying to see what should I use to burn CD's from a terminal. This is on an Etch bases system with only icewm installed on it. I don't want to use nautilus cd burner and neither k3b, if I can help it. How do wodim and burn

Re: export an image of unicode keyboard layout

Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: HS wrote: Is there is some way I can export the current layout of the keyboard to an image (eps would be ideal)? [..] xkbprint -eps :0 kb.eps (see also man xkbprint) Regards, Jan Thanks for the pointer. I tried it, but I keep getting an eps with keys labeled w

Re: My sound card!!!

The Navigator Gold wrote: Hi everyone my name is Jeser and I'm from Panama. Hello, But I have a big problem, I am a sound editor, and I need my sound card works very well and Debian can´t recognize it!!. I need an explication of how can I install my sound card. It's a Sound Blaster Audigy 2.

how to print unicode encoded file to ps

Hello, I am trying to print a text file containing different languages characters, in utf8 encoding, to a ps file. a2ps gives weird characters in the non-english character's place. Then I discovered u2ps, but it gives boxes instead with some messages given by the u2ps command: $> u2ps 20070

Re: Sound on Linux?

Ken Heard wrote: I already had installed alsa-base and alsa-utils, but not alsa-tools; so I installed alsa-tools and alsa-tool-gui; aptitude also installed one lib file. I then ran as root alsaconf which did its thing, including detecting the builtin sound card, and told me to enjoy. Unfortu

Re: how to print unicode encoded file to ps

li sh wrote: 2007/3/16, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I am trying to print a text file containing different languages characters, in utf8 encoding, to a ps file. a2ps gives weird characters in the non-english character's place. I encountered a2ps's embarrassment,too.

Re: how to print unicode encoded file to ps

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:34:47PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > I use kde. Konqueror(kwite)->file->print->print to file(ps) ,this is my way. Gnome should also print it to file. Have a try? Interesting, kwrite worked. Gedit, however, did not. The result in that

Re: how to print unicode encoded file to ps

Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Have you tried LaTex? Sure a .tex file starts with a preamble but you could have two files head.tex (preamble) and tail.tex (\end{document}). Then cat head.tex file.txt tail.tex > file.tex, then latex file.tex then dvips file.dvi. Then yo

Re: microphone

Mark Grieveson wrote: More teeth grittin' sound issues, which are a plenty with good ol' Linux! I bought a cheap microphone, to record my voice on a wav file. I opened gnome-sound-recorder (of the gnome-media package), and, under "Record from input:", I selected "microphone". However, it kept

Re: microphone

Mark Grieveson wrote: . I listened to a podcast recently (The Linux Action Show) and they were discussing this issue. It turns out that they use another recording device, then use audacity to mix the their recording and create the finished podcast. They say if they try to use audacity to do

"I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

Just saw this in the following piece: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/murdockint.html "Ubuntu has certainly raised the bar. They have had a tremendous impact on the number of people worldwide using Debian (I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian). ..." ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Paul E Condon wrote: In another thread, a poster who claims to be Ian Murdock said that Ubuntu is I think you are referring to a post I made regarding his quote in one of his interviews. I *never* claimed to be Ian Murdock. What is the world gave you that impression? What you wrote above i

Re: make/g++ within emacs causes wierd unicode control characters

Micha Feigin wrote: I am trying to compile from within emacs (using M-x compile which calls make -k) In the output I get wierd characters (I think unicode characters): main.cc: In function ג€˜int main(int, char**)ג€™: main.cc:16: error: no matching function for call to ג€˜LaplaceMat::LaplaceMa

[Solved] Re: make/g++ within emacs causes wierd unicode control characters

H.S. wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: I am trying to compile from within emacs (using M-x compile which calls make -k) In the output I get wierd characters (I think unicode characters): main.cc: In function ג€˜int main(int, char**)ג€™: main.cc:16: error: no matching function for call to ג

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

Michael Pobega wrote: I gave up on that after an unsuccessful Dapper->Edgy upgrade, because I realise if I really want to keep my laptop working for college (I'll be using this next year to take notes during class), I'll need something stable that won't break every six months (Of course I can ju

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

Freddy Freeloader wrote: > I would have a hard time saying Ubuntu==Debian on a technical level > too. I just tried an Ubuntu install on a laptop and the process of > configuring WPA on that laptop was another animal altogether than doing > the same thing when running Debian. > To tell the truth t

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

Steve Lamb wrote: > Freddy Freeloader wrote: >> To tell the truth the Debian way of doing things, and I'll admit I'm >> biased because I'm far more familiar with Debian, is more >> straightforward and seems more logical to me. It doesn't hide anything >> like the Ubuntu way of doing things does. >

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

Michael Pobega wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:43:56PM +0100, Nik wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And it's not just me. I've noticed that a lot of people get the same problem from Ubuntu upgrades. That isn't to say that nobody can upgrade th

loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

Hello, I am playing round with the blocklist file obtained from peerguardian (level1.gz). I have written a bash function which I call in my iptables script to load these rules. The following function actually loads the rules from a gzipped file (e.g. /etc/firewall/level1.gz, defined by the

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the networking. Is there any easier and smarter way of doing this? Take a look at network-manager. You can s

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

H.S. wrote: Now, currently, there are around 151,000 ipranges listed in level1.gz to block. So the above function's loop goes over these many times inserting the rules for each range. And this is taking huge amount of time: in over 50 minutes, only around 12% rules have been loaded

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 10:52, H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: Now, currently, there are around 151,000 ipranges listed in level1.gz to block. So the above function's loop goes over these many times inserting the rules for each range. And th

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: nice to know that the connection is holding up, but there's got to be a better way to do this. I'm not really up on iptables, but surely there is some better way to distinguish the traffic to allow or not? Maybe even just some judicious grepping of the rule set for

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I'm sorry, but what exactly is the purpose here? I did a little poking > around and it looks like just a massive list of ip's to block, but for > what purpose? > > I'm not trying to say that this is not the right solution for whatever > your problem is, but it c

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

Wackojacko wrote: > > > H.S. wrote: >> Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: >>> I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm >>> and the >>> home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and >>> restart

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:30:06PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > okay, I follow... and you want otherwise unfettered p2p operating, but > security from these particular sites. ugh. nasty problem. Nasty problem, yes. But I can live without it since I don&#

new features in gnome - better webdav support? (was: Re: "I do consider ...)

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 05:37:00PM -0700, Michael M. wrote: Personally, I'm getting a little frustrated being stuck on Gnome 2.14 when 2.18 has been released. Etch is two Gnome releases behind already, and Etch itself hasn't even been released. Out of curiousity, wha

Re: Any feedback on Icedove?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings; I just learned of Icedove today. Is anybody here using it? What do you think of it? Where caqn I find some more info on it? Thanks for any info! Dennis I am using it on my Debian Testing machine. I just love it. After adding the Lightning extension,

Re: find encoding of filenames

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool This tool seems to work either on the whole /home/user directory or on the whole system. I do not want that. I just want to convert the encoding of filenames that belong to a single directory. I do not w

kscd doesn't show utf-8 characters

Hello, On Debian Etch, if I listen to an audio CD using Kscd, the application doesn't show utf-8 encoded characters. Instead, it shows a series of question marks. Information that is in English is shown properly. I have selected the UTF-8 option in kscd's configuration menu without success.

Re: emacs: too fast scroll speed when selecting region with mouse

Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-06-26, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In emacs, if I start selecting a region in a buffer by clicking the left mouse button and dragging the mouse, the buffer scrolls extremely fast if the mouse moves beyond the lower end of the buffer window. Any idea

aptitude wants to remove these. Do I need them?

When I try to upgrade my Debian Testing machine, aptitude wants to remove these packages (been happening for some days now; I have been putting off upgrading in the hope that the problem would be resolved with newer versions of packages): dbus-1-utils [1.0.2-1] libssp0 Do I need these packag

dpkg: error processing texlive-common (--configure)

In Debian testing, I am getting this error after an upgrade: - Setting up texlive-common (2005.dfsg.3-1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-common.postinst: line 118: /usr/share/tex-common/tetex-bin-upgrade: No such file or directo

Re: dpkg: error processing texlive-common (--configure)

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:40:09 -0400, H.S. wrote: In Debian testing, I am getting this error after an upgrade: - Setting up texlive-common (2005.dfsg.3-1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-common.postinst

digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove

Hello, On Debian Testing, if I try to upgrade digikam, aptitude wants to remove digikamimageplugins and kipi-plugins (the actual output is further below). Now, how do I know why these removals are necessary? And how do I find out if I should go ahead with the upgrade since, maybe the new pack

Re: aptitude wants to remove these. Do I need them?

Daniel Burrows wrote: When I try to upgrade my Debian Testing machine, aptitude wants to remove these packages (been happening for some days now; I have been putting off upgrading in the hope that the problem would be resolved with newer versions of packages): dbus-1-utils [1.0.2-1] libssp0

Re: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove

Florian Kulzer wrote: BTW, I just discovered that aptitude has recently learned a nifty new trick, the "why/why-not" command: $ aptitude why-not digikamimageplugins i kde-extras Recommends digikam p digikamConflicts digikamimageplugins This is really useful to figure out what is goin

tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

Hello, Since a couple of days, if I upgrade my Debian Testing machine, I see that a whole bunch of texlive* packages are to be installed, many of them new and a few hundreds of additional disk space is to be used. Are there any changes going on in Latex packages in Testing these days? Do I need b

Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-07-06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you search the list you'll find several threads about people > switching from tetex to texlive now, which is generally painless. > > Tyler Thanks for the explanation. I will probably wait a

Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

Russell L. Harris wrote: > * H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070706 14:21]: >> Tyler Smith wrote: >>> On 2007-07-06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> If you search the list you'll find several threads about people >>> switching from tetex to texliv

Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

David Fox wrote: > > > On 06 Jul 2007 17:13:19 GMT, *Tyler Smith* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > If you search the list you'll find several threads about people > switching from tetex to texlive now, which is generally painless. > > > Kind of. But my las

Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

H.S. wrote: > > Same here. From all the texlive packages that are to be intall, there at > least a few tetex package still, e.g. tetex-bin tetex-extra. > > These packages I would expect to be purged by aptitude automatically (by > reporting they are no longer used) some time

dpkg doesn't show newer kernel packages available?

Hello, How come I cannot see newer kernel packages available with dpkg: $> dpkg -l linux-image-* doesn't list kernels 2.6.2* at all. However, I can get some hits if I try to install such a package: $> sudo aptitude -s install linux-image-2.6.21* Reading package lists... Done Building dependenc

Re: dpkg doesn't show newer kernel packages available?

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> > > dpkg -l lists info for debs it knows about, ie. installed ones. It dpkg also lists packages that are not installed (2.6.21 is listed below because I just now installed it): $> dpkg -l linux-image-2.6.* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst

Re: dpkg doesn't show newer kernel packages available?

Wayne Topa wrote: > H.S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> Hello, >> >> How come I cannot see newer kernel packages available with dpkg: >> $> dpkg -l linux-image-* > > Maybe because dpkg show whats installed, not available? Please see my other p

Re: dpkg doesn't show newer kernel packages available?

Wayne Topa wrote: > H.S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> Hello, >> >> How come I cannot see newer kernel packages available with dpkg: >> $> dpkg -l linux-image-* > > Maybe because dpkg show whats installed, not available? > >> doesn

Re: dpkg doesn't show newer kernel packages available?

Wayne Topa wrote: > H.S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> Hello, >> >> How come I cannot see newer kernel packages available with dpkg: >> $> dpkg -l linux-image-* > > Maybe because dpkg show whats installed, not available? > >> doesn

Re: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello. > > I have the same problem : > * if i install digikam, then kipi-plugins is removed automatically > * if i install kipi, then digikam is removed . > :-( > > and about : >> "All plugins previously provided by the digikamimageplugins package are >> now included i

Re: dpkg doesn't show newer kernel packages available?

Wayne Topa wrote: > H.S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> Wayne Topa wrote: >>> H.S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> How come I cannot see newer kernel packages available with dpkg: >>&

Re: new debian user. help :)

Lorenas Bartkus wrote: > hi, > I'm new in debian and previosly i used windows xp. now i decided to try > debian for the first time. > i have downloaded boot cd to install debian from network, in the > bigining everything gone well but when i was asked to choose the mirror > i can't. > because it wa

working with two nics (lan and wlan)

Hello, I have a headless machine on my home network with a LAN card and a wireless card. If my lan cable is connected to its lan card, it gets an IP automatically from my firewall machine. But if I activate the wireless card, the networking seems to hang or freeze. My lan card is on 192.168.

Re: working with two nics (lan and wlan)

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 11:40:14AM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a headless machine on my home network with a LAN card and a wireless >> card. If my lan cable is connected to its lan card, it gets an IP >> automatically

video editing of digicam avi files

Hello, I am trying to find a method to make an mpeg movie from a number of avi files captured from a digital camera (Canon A540). Any suggestions what steps to follow? The original videos are at 15 fps and I am not too concerned about the output fps. However, if I wanted a DVD from the avi files,

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

andy wrote: > andy wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 08/08/07 12:51, andy wrote: >>> Hi again Yes, apparently gphoto2 *does* recognise the camera (and this is confirmed by Canon as well). However, with the Sony, I nev

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

andy wrote: > > If it is no trouble for you to verify this, then that would be a useful > comparison to know. As noted earlier, I have now installed digikam and > will use that from now on to download the images from the camera. I am > just used to having the Sony auto-mounted and clicking throug

Re: [RESOLVED] Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

andy wrote: > Thanks for your ideas. I suspect that you are probably right in your > assessment of the protocols the different devices use: the Sony > registers as a storage device while the Canon is registered as a camera. > While this doesn't answer the issue of why on my partner's Etch machine

can glx work without nvidia driver?

I am trying to get this little OpenGL program I wrote some months ago, but this time it gives me this error (it compiles okay though): $> ./mktrngdat freeglut (./mktrngdat): OpenGL GLX extension not supported by display ':0.0' I notice that there is some problem with Nvidia driver now adays and

Re: can glx work without nvidia driver?

Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> So, the questions is, how do I get my little program to work without >> installing Nvidia driver? > > I would try to uncomment the 'Load "glx"' line in your xorg.conf. You > probably commented out that line because the proprietary nvidia driver > requires you to do so,

[solved] Re: can glx work without nvidia driver?

Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 11:09:07 -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >>>> So, the questions is, how do I get my little program to work without >>>> installing Nvidia driver? >>> I would try to uncomment the '

desktop icons for all users in Gnome

Hello, Can anybody suggest an easy method to put a link to a file on all current user's Gnome desktops? More specifically, I have a PDF instructions file I want to put a link to on all user's Gnome desktop on a machine. I also want to put the file on a central location, for example in /usr/local

Re: desktop icons for all users in Gnome

Mumia W.. wrote: > On 08/22/2007 10:19 PM, H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Can anybody suggest an easy method to put a link to a file on all >> current user's Gnome desktops? >> >> More specifically, I have a PDF instructions file I want to put a link >&

Re: desktop icons for all users in Gnome

Hi, Krzysztof Lubański wrote: > > Hello, > > This should do the trick: > > # for dir in /home/*; do ln -s /usr/local/share/doc/instructions.pdf > $dir/Desktop/ > > Of course, you may want to make sure that /home/* matches only real home > directories (there may be /home/lost+found if you have

books and library inventory

Hello, Somebody was asking me earlier today how to set up an electronic database of a community library with a few hundred books. I just realized I cannot find much on the web. Perhaps I am not looking for the right words. What I have in mind is an open source application that can be used to kee

Re: books and library inventory

Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/26/07 14:30, H.S. wrote: >> Hello, > >> Somebody was asking me earlier today how to set up an electronic >> database of a community library with a few hundred books. I just >> realized I cannot find much on the web. Perhaps I am not

lightning data in sync between two Icedove installations

Hello, I am using Thunderbird's (Icedove) calendar extension, Lightning, on my home computer and at my univ computer. I want to keep Lightning data on both computer in sync. Any idea how to go about doing this? (for now, I am not interested in installing a calendar server of any sorts). Thanks,

Re: lightning data in sync between two Icedove installations

H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I am using Thunderbird's (Icedove) calendar extension, Lightning, on my > home computer and at my univ computer. I want to keep Lightning data on > both computer in sync. Any idea how to go about doing this? (for now, I > am not interested in insta

frame and tx errors in wifi0 interface (using madwifi)

Mailed this to madwifi list but haven't got any response. Trying my luck here in case somebody with wireless knowledge can comment on this problem. I am using madwifi driver for D-link DWL-G520 pci wireless card. The card is working in access point mode (master mode) and has WPA-PSK encryption e

Re: [Fwd: dvd+rw-tools inconsistency??]

steef wrote: in one of two new tests *directly after* my first message burning a dvd of 4,4 Gb succeeded without a problem, the second -ceteris paribus- went wrong. so the behoviour of the kernel or dvd+rw-tools or something else ?? seems unpredictable. maybe it is the media you are using.

vmware on debian etch

er ... I am not sure if I should be asking this in this forum since vmware is not open source. I wanted to play around with vmware server and installed it on my etch system in /usr/local. I also intalled vmware-mui in /usr/local as well. When I browse to localhost:8333, I get an empty page

Re: vmware on debian etch

Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Friday 17 November 2006 13:44, piter wrote: H.S. wrote: er ... I am not sure if I should be asking this in this forum since vmware is not open source. I wanted to play around with vmware server and installed it on my etch system in /usr/local. I also intalled

Re: vmware on debian etch

Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Friday 17 November 2006 14:44, H.S. wrote: I have read the other replied, and I just now uninstalled vmware. I am going to try the rpm now and I'll see if that works. You installed via the TAR.GZ before? That was what I did, and all seemed to work.

Re: vmware on debian etch

Russell Ost wrote: I've been using VMware player and Workstation for over a year now. The default installation script works for both Sarge, and Etch without issue. My current image (Etch) can be found at www.netliving.com. VMware publishes a link to my server on VMTN. Over 10,000 images have be

Re: vmware on debian etch

Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Friday 17 November 2006 14:59, H.S. wrote: Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Friday 17 November 2006 14:44, H.S. wrote: I have read the other replied, and I just now uninstalled vmware. I am going to try the rpm now and I'll see if that works. You installed vi

Re: vmware on debian etch

H.S. wrote: I just reinstalled vmware and vmware-mui. vmwere went into /usr/local/bin and mui also in /usr/local (pixmaps and icons also in /usr/local). The first time I try to access https://localhost:8333/, I get: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. A

Re: vmware on debian etch

H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: I just reinstalled vmware and vmware-mui. vmwere went into /usr/local/bin and mui also in /usr/local (pixmaps and icons also in /usr/local). The first time I try to access https://localhost:8333/, I get: Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on

Re: vmware on debian etch

H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: I just reinstalled vmware and vmware-mui. vmwere went into /usr/local/bin and mui also in /usr/local (pixmaps and icons also in /usr/local). The first time I try to access https://localhost:8333/, I get: Forbidden You don't have permission to a

Re: vmware on debian etch

Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Friday 17 November 2006 16:33, H.S. wrote: When I gave the 'vmware' command as normal user after the installation, I got this error and no GUI: {tmp}$> vmware /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.

Re: [OT] looking for a image (re)compressing tool

T wrote: On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:31:26 -0500, T wrote: Is there any command line tool that can take a jpeg file and re-compress it with a new compress level/factor? Hi, thank you Florian & Sven for the swift respond. yes, the -quality option of convert/mogrify is what I'm looking for. I

Re: WMP54G under amd64 - anyone got it working?

Anton Piatek wrote: Hi, I am trying to get my WMP54G wireless card working under amd64 (etch). I tried compiling the kernel driver from ralink, but while it compiles ok (lots of warnings but no errors) when I try to load it I get no errors, but when I try to bring up the card I get an error a

evolution: how to sync the calendar and schedule between two Linux PCs?

Hi, I have a Debian Etch based system at home and a Ubuntu based system at the univ. I use evolution to manage my schedule. How do I keep the calendar at my Debian Etch box at home sync'ed with the Ubuntu box at the univ. I have evolution version 2.6.3-2 in Debian Etch and 2.6.1-0ubuntu7 in the U

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