Re: What the heck did emacs do with my email?

2003-03-18 Thread Joseph Barillari
that, in case sendmail decides to write to the mailspool at the same time you do. (Incidentally, does anyone know a better way to lock a mailspool before appending messages to it?) --Joe -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Transferring Digital Camera Images

2003-03-23 Thread Joseph Barillari
> "THG" == Thomas H George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: THG> I have a Sony DSC-S75 digital camera which has a usb port. The manual THG> states the images are stored in JPEG format and the accompanying THG> software for Windows installs the camera as an additional hard drive so

Debconf complains of database corruption; apt system wedged

2003-10-25 Thread Joseph Barillari
red while processing: debconf As tons of other stuff depends on debconf, I can't progress without it. Any suggestions on how to fix this would be appreciated. Best, --Joe -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Debconf complains of database corruption; apt system wedged

2003-10-25 Thread Joseph Barillari
>>>>> "JDB" == Joseph Barillari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JDB> Hi. After a nasty crash during a dist-upgrade, I discovered JDB> that /var/lib/dpkg/status was missing (fsck must not have JDB> been able to save it). I restored a copy form /var

fixing info: dir: No such file or directory

2003-11-02 Thread Joseph Barillari
ggestions as to how to do it would be much appreciated. best, --Joe P.S.: Please _do_ cc: me. It makes it easier to find the follow-ups. -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setting progs at a runlevel

2003-02-15 Thread Joseph Barillari
> "JE" == Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JE> As a RH refugee, I'm used to running the 'setup' program to enable/disable JE> program startups at runtime. For Debian, am I correct in cd'ing to the JE> /etc/rcX.d dir and moving SXXprogram to KXXprogram to disable it? J

CUPS renders but hangs with Compaq IJ750

2003-08-27 Thread Joseph Barillari
r/lib/cups/backend/parallel", 0xbfff0250, 0xbffef5c0, 9, 10, 7) I [27/Aug/2003:07:27:28 -0400] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 693) for job 18. D [27/Aug/2003:07:27:28 -0400] ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=0 D [27/Aug/2003:07:27:28 -0400] [Job 18] Page = 612x792; 0,0 to 61

Re: X over ssh

2003-03-30 Thread Joseph Barillari
> "PJ" == Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PJ> On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 06:22:06PM +0200, Michael Naumann wrote: >> I'm a bit clueless now. >> Hopefully anybody can help me out here. >> I have two machines m1 and m2 (both woody) connected. >> I can ssh -X successfull

Re: file splitting

2003-04-01 Thread Joseph Barillari
ormation about the file contents KH>(under the assumption that some cryptographic algorithm is KH>unbreakable). I think the Freenet project (freenetproject.org) does this with its datastore. It's open-source, so you could probably adapt its code for (2) and (3). --Joe -- Jo

Re: Galeon 1.3.4

2003-06-06 Thread Joseph Barillari
> you can get this back by setting the Gnome keyboard shortcuts >> to "emacs" instead of "gnome default". Try running gnome-keybinding-properties or gnome-keyboard-properties. --Joe BM> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to BM> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Galeon 1.3.4

2003-06-05 Thread Joseph Barillari
of the settings have to be edited in gconf-editor: see /usr/share/doc/galeon/README.ExtraPrefs.gz I don't know about the specific examples you mentioned -- but some of the features I used disappeared between 1.2 and 1.3. --Joe -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

ALSA module snd-detect missing

2002-12-19 Thread Joseph Barillari
Hi. The alsaconf package in unstable uses a module called snd-detect to detect installed sound cards: (from /usr/sbin/alsaconf) DETECTFILE=/proc/asound/detect # Autodetection (if detect module is present) autodetect() { AUTODET=false modprobe snd-detect > /dev/null 2> /dev/null [ -f $DETE

Re: ALSA module snd-detect missing

2002-12-19 Thread Joseph Barillari
>>>>> "c" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: c> At Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:52:50 -0500, c> Joseph Barillari wrote: >> The alsaconf package in unstable uses a module called >> snd-detect to detect installed sound cards: c> [..

Re: ALSA module snd-detect missing (not found; but issue now moot)

2002-12-20 Thread Joseph Barillari
>>>>> "c" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: c> At Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:52:50 -0500, c> Joseph Barillari wrote: >> The alsaconf package in unstable uses a module called >> snd-detect to detect installed sound cards: c> [..

X Server fails to notice loaded agpgart module

2003-06-29 Thread Joseph Barillari
to track down the problem would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, --Joe (XF86Config-4 and XFree86.0.log attached below) -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org --8<---cut here---start->8--- ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION # XF86Config-4 (XFree86

X Server fails to notice loaded agpgart module

2003-06-29 Thread Joseph Barillari
ected Via Apollo Pro KT266 chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe000 Any suggestions on how to track down the problem would be appreciated. Thanks in advance, --Joe (XF86Config-4 and XFree86.0.log attached below) -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org --8<---

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-07-06 Thread Joseph Barillari
nguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/source ./ Without those packages, AA would quit with the message GL_EXT_bgra not supported - bailing out. --Joe -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Text to speech engines

2003-07-13 Thread Joseph Barillari
ution for now as that is a LS> requirement for the project. Festival, an OSS/FS TTS engine, is packaged for Debian. --Joe -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package to OCR from Image of Text, tips?

2003-07-13 Thread Joseph Barillari
ms of usefull info. Have a gander at the gocr package. --Joe -- Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No space left on device

2003-07-14 Thread Joseph Barillari
>> '/'. I wonder where I went wrong... >> >> Can I change this situation, without >> re-formatting/re-partitioning? Or, atleast for now, which files >> can I safely delete to free-up some space? You can run "apt-get clean&quo

Re: Linux commands

2003-07-19 Thread Joseph Barillari
nds. G> Questions:- G> 1. Is there any Internet access to Linux commands? (I have not G> found any at Debian and Redhat sites.) I'm not sure what you mean by that. G> 2. Gnome, KDE, X interfaces do not appear - How to invoke them? Try typing 'startx

`which` and infinite recursion

2002-06-22 Thread Joseph Barillari
Howdy. I just switched from Red Hat to Debian and was wondering why any invocation of `bash` or `which` caused the forking of hundreds of processes and (eventually) the complaint: /bin/bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable I investigated my .bashrc, and found that the offending line was