Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

Yes I have sound. rexima and aumix appear unable to locate any cards even with several different combinations of items parsed from the relevant lspci line. On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, lee wrote: > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > Yes, alsamixer finds a sound card as does amix -l and yes i

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

a howto got put up on the orca-list email list describing how to install a graphical user environment and have it come up talking and pulse in any of its forms is not part of how to do it, so the claim that pulse adds extra layers of complexity I have had direct experience on over here! On Tue

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

I just tried: modprobe snd_pcm_oss then tried echo $? and got back a 0 no other output from: modprobe snd_pcm_oss so in order to get that working I will probably have to install alsa-oss. The oss drivers may be completely inappropriate for this card too.On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, lee wrote: > J

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

c all those years ago so this should be interesting. Thanks much for all who have helped. I'll put a couple more commands in the file I use to customize debian on this machine. On Tue, 4 Sep 2012, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I just tried: modprobe snd_pcm_oss then tried echo $? and go

Re: nvidia CK804 sound card question

On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 05:57:07PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I just tried: modprobe snd_pcm_oss then tried echo $? and got back a 0 no > > other output from: modprobe snd_pcm_oss so in order to get that working I > > will pro

Re: [Conclusion] Looking for an emacs replacement

I feel your pain. Have you ever tried: emacs -nw filename gtk is plenty freaky enough even in a g.u.i. environment, having it invade command line space through whichever proxy software is unreasonable. Two possibilities beyond emacs might be jove and mg. On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, T o n g wrote: > O

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

Have you tried Slackware 13.37 yet? That might work, I have an ancient Dell laptop and Slackware had no problems installing and running on that laptop. It hasn't got an especially large footprint either. --- jude Adobe fi

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

At least on debian installers it should always be possible after language and keyboard selections have been done to drop to the main menu so that an installer can first arrange for debug logs to be saved and then do a disk integrity check before proceeding with the installation. If the disk is

Re: Removing Pulseaudio with Gnome: volume control missing

Isn't there a set of galsa packages to graphically control alsa?On Wed, 12 Sep 2012, Jos? Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > Hi all! > > Recently I installed Debian on a new computer, and I want to avoid using > Pulseaudio (it is problematic for me, and this is a long discussion on > this and another li

hearse crontab message

Anyone know what this means? 1+ 09/12 Cron DaemonCron perl -we 'sleep rand 3600'; hearse --quiet<> This message doesn't come up every day but does come up a few times a week. --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to F

command line interface tool question

What command line interface tool or tools does Linux have available to snag a graphical image of what's on the screen and save that image in a file? If you're running lynx and you come up on a website with a captcha on a form and want to snag that captcha so you can send it to a captcha solvin

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

wget isn't the right tool for that job. However its brother wput may be able to do the job. On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Gary Dale wrote: > On 22/09/12 11:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > > On 22/09/12 11:01 AM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > > > I have a small book collection (~150) that I tho

Re: mysqld fails to start at boot time only

Please check firewall settings and enable port 3306 if a firewall is installed on that box. If not, then discard this message as being unhelpful. --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: mysqld fails to start at boot time only

Alternatively in /etc/my.cnf comment all socket= lines and uncomment skip networking line. This will mean no more external access to mysql though if you do it but is more secure for those that like it that way. --- jude Ad

Re: hard drive clean / microsoft hidden partition

http://dban.sf.net/ ought to help. download iso and burn to dvd or cd and read up on dban and boot dban disk and dban will clean windows real good. I think enter at the boot: prompt autostart 5 then go away and let dban do its work. A 200MB disk if I remember right took 8 hours to clean so f

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

Could it be a missing swap partition is slowing down drive access? I don't know if you were connected to the internet when you did this run, but if so, you might disconnect from the internet and run fdisk -l again and compare speeds. It could be fdisk is checking for remote disks as well but

/etc/mediaprm file question

Is that file edited to match available equipment then setfdprm -p /dev/fd0 gets run? Everything was quote wrapped and I've never run into that format in configuration files in Linux before. --- jude Adobe fiend for failing

Re: Trying to install a package on a Lenny system : what url do I need on my sources.list ?

http://archive.debian.org/ may be helpful. That's where I found the intfiction-installer package and installed it on wheezy and got it working. hth. --- jude Adobe fiend for failing to Flash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: retrieving a multi-media file

Right, because those are actually directories. Same thing happens with lynx. After the click though in order to download anything you first have to log in. On Sat, 6 Oct 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 07:58:06AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > Any ideas of how to r

Re: Login music in console

What's wrong with arbitrarily setting mixer volume before playing the ogg file?On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Dr Beco wrote: > > > Dear linuxers, > > > > > > > > > What little program would you recommend to simple play a music like > > > /usr/share/sounds

Re: Login music in console

To stack the deck just before that ogg123 command put: amixer -D hw set Master 92% unmute That makes sure the sound card will work if the sound card is able to do so.On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Dr Beco wrote: > On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > ogg123, perhaps? > > > >> Should

Re: Login music in console

e up with a good percentage.On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > What's wrong with arbitrarily setting mixer volume before playing the ogg > > file?On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > > I guess it depends on persona

Re: Log flooding: Oct 28 11:44:21 localhost kernel: [ 3348.008429] option: option_instat_callback: error -2

On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi Folks, > > since some time my logs are flooded with the folowwing message: > > Oct 28 11:45:09 localhost kernel: [ 3395.992226] option: > option_instat_callback: error -2 > Oct 28 11:45:14 localhost kernel: [ 3401.009057] option: > option_insta

Re: Mailbox, Mysql or Folder.

Once I used a mailbox and got cured of that in a hurry when clamav cut off access to the entire content of that mailbox because at least one of the messages in that mailbox had a virus clamav had detected. That was a windows virus too. I went with nmh after that since it uses folders with eac

Re: Noob Question :-/ ....

Slackware 14.0 is available and it also has a small footprint. If you choose not to install all the bloatware no g.u.i. you can probably end up with a full command line installation except for emacs in a little under a hundred meg. If you decide to install emacs, I suggest you do it using sla

pulseaudio breaking things again

Script started on Mon 19 Nov 2012 08:06:14 PM EST jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ ./ppr.sh type shutdown to return to linux. VLC media player 2.0.4 Twoflower (revision 2.0.3-289-g6e6100a) [0x1a95d18] inhibit interface error: Failed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: Unable to autolaun

Re: pulseaudio breaking things again

On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 20:10 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Script started on Mon 19 Nov 2012 08:06:14 PM EST > > jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ ./ppr.sh > > type shutdown to return to linux. > > VLC media player 2.0.4 Twoflower (

Re: List of current apt sources?

you could apt-get netselect-apt and then run it. Not only does that package get you the current list, it also shows you which server for your local conditions is now running the fastest for you whether you're signed up to it or not. -

debian trend package deficiency

the package cannot work in a command line environment. The freeglut package which is one of trend's dependencies requires a display to be set. Has anyone managed to do what the trend package does using asciicharacters down in the printable set between 21H-7Fh for graphics and text labels usi

elpa install failed

I tried installing elpa on wheezy emacs and the install failed. It appears the control-j key when pressed after the piece of code is put into the scratch buffer and the cursor is positioned just after the last right parenthesis does nothing. Was this some kind of security fix put into the deb

emacs elpa install failed

It turns out I wasn't in the scratch buffer when I tried the eval. I thought I was in that buffer after trying to enter it in the wrong way but that wasn't the case. Also I found el-get package and since that supports more than elpa, I installed that package and made evaluate run on it succes

Re: BSD more secure? was: Re: 10 top myths of debian

On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, "Morel B?renger" wrote: > Le Sam 2 mars 2013 4:44, Miles Fidelman a ?crit : > > Yaro Kasear wrote: > > > >> I don't know if Debian's the most SECURE distribution. It doesn't > >> really have a "hardened profile" or anything like what Gentoo offers. > >> (Gentoo isn't a prime ex

Re: debian CD repository

There is an apt-cd package to be used for what you want to do and you may need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list as well. On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i have downloaded all the Debian 6 DVDs from the repo. but as per my > knowledge when i run "apt-get install " it directly go to

Re: gcalcli - commandline for google calendar

ttytter works using oauth. Why not download the ttytter package and install it, then run it from the command line. Once you see the pin come up which twitter.com sends you copy it then hit control-z to drop out of your browser and back into ttytter and type the pin and hit the submit or autho

Re: (no subject)

Maybe usbmount package might help you out. --- jude Microsoft, windows is accessible. why do blind people need screen readers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: choosing a web browser

the seamonkey package may be what you're looking for. It combines firefox with thunderbird in a single package and uses less system resources. It also doesn't update constantly either. --- jude Microsoft, windows is ac

Re: Help diagnosing USB disk issue?

Have you updated all of your usb drivers on that trouble machine yet? If memory serves update-usb-ids ought to do that for you. Run by root or something like root it's a script. Also, shut the trouble box down and leave it off for an entire minute then reboot. Finally maybe download the usb

Re: using microphone

lspci -v | grep -i "mic" may help. --- jude Microsoft, windows is accessible. why do blind people need screen readers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: need advice on remote installation of Debian

Could debian be installed over skype from a remote location? On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Rob Owens wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 03:10:40PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > i am living in a remote country and our main branch is in US where > > hosting is very expensive. it is almost costing us

Re: possible in lynx file download?

have you highlighted the md5sums file then tried hitting the (d) key? With lynx I notice on certain sites different behavior depending on whether the (d) key is used or the enter key is used to start a download. On Sun, 31 Mar 2013, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Macs (an apple macintosh G4, runn

re: checkrestart results

That's interesting since I have perl on this system checkrestart didn't mention it. What checkrestart did mention was: These processes do not seem to have an associated init script to restart them: postgresql-9.1: 2578/usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/bin/postgres 2582/usr/lib/post

re: checkrestart results

What I do for perl when I remember is to run cpanp and do a s selfupdate all command inside of cpanp. That may help Arnold's perl problem I hope. --- jude Microsoft, windows is accessible. why do blind people need scree

Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

Buy a dvd burner, not blue ray either and replace that cdrom in the old computer. It should cost less than the new hard drive or about the same amount of money to do that. On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Yuwen Dai wrote: > Dear all, > > I've a very old PC with an old Debian installed. Recently I found t

Re: rootfs

It's probable that the dental work that was done has misaligned several teeth which would account for the pain spreading to places it had not been before, everything either is connected or connects in the mouth by way of contacts when we eat which is why I suggested a follow up visit to find wh

Re: rootfs

Sorry, wrong list for reply. On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > 2013/4/19 Darac Marjal > > > > > That seems correct. Device nodes don't tend to take up any space. Now > > try it again on the filesystem (like I showed you). > > > > > Ok, here follows the "relevant" ouput. > Apart from

Re: Wget difference

I suspect wget debian version has some kind of problem it doesn't happen on slackware current either. Also, you may find using wget with the -b switch makes life better. When wget-log or wget-log.x is created after issuing that command with the url after the -b, you can monitor growth of the

Re: Wget difference

Forgot to mention, once wc -l wget-log or wc -l wget-log.x is issued, hitting up arrow followed by enter gets you further line counts of wget-log for monitoring progress of file download. On Thu, 2 May 2013, francis picabia wrote: > I often download packages to servers using wget and the "Direc

anyone using shell-fm?

I'm having no luck setting this package up to work on Debian and really would prefer to avoid windows for use of lastfm. The problem I'm having is when shell-fm tries to connect, the site it uses generates an error 403. Is the site that shell-fm tries to connect to the only possible connectio

Re: wheezy install missing contrib and non-free

It's usually possible to have wheezy netinst image ask about nonfree packages but a couple things need doing first. Either use expert as a boot parameter or a ways down into install hit (<) followed by enter a few times and get back out to the main menu where you'll have to key in numbers to m

Re: anyone using shell-fm?

I don't mind building from source. I've had to do it several times already. One of these days I'll learn to build my own kernel too, but I'm not yet that advanced. On Tue, 7 May 2013, Peter Tynan wrote: > > Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 18:46:17 -0400 (EDT) > > Fro

Re: how to avoid download during debian installation.

Easy, run in expert mode and key in your mirror selection manually when the list of ftp sites comes up. Also, choose not to download anything from security.debian.org during the install process.On Sat, 11 May 2013, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i am frequently installing Debian on our systems

Re: Strange behavior with pdf docs

The newer versions of pdf reader open all documents in protected mode. There's supposed to be an enable-all-features button in adobe you can hit with your mouse to unprotect these documents at least on windows. This protected mode also disables screen readers and if the screen reader user can

Re: Backup/Restore software?

add -z to that rsync command and you get your data compression. Also, it's the source and destination that count here. If your source is backed up and compressed then all you have to do to effect a restore operation is use the original destination as the next source and the original source as

had to remove tin

I installed tin and once I got it connected to my news server and got all of the preliminaries out of the way I used rtin and tried to do a search for alt.astrology-moderated. I tried with the (/) and later with the (s) to search for and subscribe to that newsgroup. I couldn't do it since as

wodim and LITE-ON dvd

I can provide a little help for anyone using one of these internal dvd writers and wodim but I'm not sure it'll be worth it. Wodim is too brain-damaged to even detect the model of LITE-ON DVD I have installed however since it's on /dev/sr0 when wodim is given a pointer to the drive it does det

rvlc dvd syntax

I've tried: rvlc --quiet --novideo --volume 300 3 dvd:///dev/dvd1 and I got the loop intro music but can't get rvlc to do anything else with the merlin's apprentice dvd. What syntax can I use with rvlc to listen to the movie? I know: mplayer dvd /dev/dvd1 does get the movie to play in mplayer.

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

I've been encountering these errors persistently for about the last week too. I usually do echo $? to check the error level after any aptitude operation now. I think ftp.us.debian.org has been designated a primary server and if I understand the mirrors stuff on debian.org correctly primary mi

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

No network problems over here either. No firewall since I have nothing listening on my system and have no problem going out to web or ssh. On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Wednesday 13 June 2012 15:24:39 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > ..network problems. Fix those, and try again. >

any ideas?

Script started on Sun 17 Jun 2012 08:26:58 AM EDT jude@stmarys:~$ mdir a:/ plain_io: Input/output error plain_io: Input/output error init A: could not read boot sector Cannot initialize 'A:' jude@stmarys:~$ exit exit Script done on Sun 17 Jun 2012 08:27:37 AM EDT -

re: any ideas?

I think the floppy in this machine is defective. The information on bsd wasn't useful in fact, as root I was prevented from changing permissions on the /dev/fd0 device. Script started on Sun 17 Jun 2012 09:45:57 AM EDT root@stmarys:~# dmesg | regrep fd0 [1.083042] Floppy drive(s): f

re: any ideas?

The floppy won't even refoprmat. Also, putting a never used floppy in that drive and attempting to format it fails as well. On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, keith wrote: > On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 09:49 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I think the floppy in this machine is defective. The info

Re: Floppy disk output errors (was: any ideas?)

Script started on Sun 17 Jun 2012 10:44:21 AM EDT jude@stmarys:~$ mformat a: -f 7020 mformat: init: set default params jude@stmarys:~$ exit exit Script done on Sun 17 Jun 2012 10:45:00 AM EDT That last line is strange since I did not erase /etc/mtools.conf and mtoolstest also reports finding

re: any ideas?

Yes, I checked the cables and they're in properly. I know because I have done volunteer work with smartco-inc.org since 2006 and what I do is disassemble computers for recycling. I think I will put together a system disk with a screen reader program on it and put that in the drive and boot the

Re: Antivirus for CLI

clamav probably will help along with clamav-milter to filter e-mail. Lastly, nmh installed for everybody to use because you get out of mbox format with that. If clamav finds a virus in someone's mbox file and quarrantines that whole file they just lost all of their email. However nmh puts ea

Re: Webinar Software.

citrix which is what gotomeeting uses is extremely inaccessible not only with respect to the software's ability working with assistive technology/screen readers but also it's impossible to even communicate with support without going through a captcha. I don't know what software outofsight.net

new kernel breaks postgresql on postgresql upgrade

The transition from postgresql 8.4 to postgresql 9.1 almost worked over here except for a little matter of the linux kernel's shm value. This broke when I was involved with pg_upgradecluster and afterwards 9.1 wouldn't start. End result, all of postgresql has been removed from this machine.

Re: problems with detecting the cd in wheezy

It sounds as if you got yourself a corrupted download of the iso used to install wheezy. Microsoft: It never looses its suction. Jude -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: new kernel breaks postgresql on postgresql upgrade

I was fortunate in that I hadn't put any data into that database system yet. The 40,000,000 value for shm is higher than the 34 million and change value that postgresql was using before and that would explain why this failure happened. However, it will be a good idea to fix the postgresql 9.1

Re: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder

orgmode works well for me. I write the files with proper org-mode syntax and then do a simple html export and put the html on the page I want. orgmode has a support list emacs-orgmode-requ...@gnu.org if you want to sign up. Micr

Re: OT: need a simple CMS / website builder

orgmode is plenty simple. There is a way to make a link, there is a way to make an anchor for where control passes, and there's a way to bold text. After that, everything else is plain text or content and the export to html takes care of the rest of the details. I forgot, there's a way to un

aptitude update question

One thing I read as the end result of some update operations is a certain number of new. I take it to mean new packages if I'm correct. What I'd like to know is if any utility exists that can tell me the names of the new packages. If I can get that much information, I can probably use apt-ca

Re: aptitude update question

Thanks much, I'll probably use the command line approach. Windows Pants: made entirely of patches on patches each with a picture of a Microsoft Vacuum Cleaner; a computer mouse, or a dollar sign. Jude

Re: aptitude update question

Just thought of something, would: "aptitude search '?new' '?uninstalled'" show the new packages that aren't yet on the system? On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 12:47:33AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > One t

latest postgresql version question

the steps outlined in /usr/share/doc/postgresql-common/README.Debian.gz with regard to createuser to create a database on my system only generate a message informing me that createuser couldn't connect to the database and asking me if the communication is happening locally on port 5432. I down

some of postgresql mystery solved

Apparently the installation of the packages failed to make any cluster so pg_lscluster had nothing to show when it was run other than its heading line. Hardware eventually fails; software eventually works, no amount of band widt

the rest of the postgresql mystery

Files from previous versions of postgresql are on the system and I found it impossible to remove those packages with aptitude after several attempts. For that reason I will be reinstalling debian and not reinstalling postgresql later. -

debian wheezy netinst questions

Why won't debian wheezy netinst recognize my Seagate Baracooda 7200 1500gb hard drive automatically? Since automatic recognition fails, which if any driver is installed that I can select and get the drive partitioned and formatted and finish a debian installation?

repo in distress

http://http.debian.net/ is apparently in distress this morning. The index files couldn't be rebuilt on my system after an aptitude update command was issued. Something about an md5 mismatch was in the error message. Hardware e

Re: debian wheezy netinst questions

eplacement drive since this one has some warranty left. On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Why won't debian wheezy netinst recognize my Seagate Baracooda 7200 1500gb > > hard drive automatically? > > Since automatic recognition fails, whi

Re: debian wheezy netinst questions

This situation gets funny, so anyone reading further is warned to be sitting on the floor or you'll likely get hurt falling off of your chairs. The talking arch linux disk and instructions for installing talking archlinux had changed but even with that I managed to get archlinux to partition a

http.debian.net different error message

87% [Connecting to debian.cc.lehigh.edu]E: Method gave invalid 200 URI Start message Hardware eventually fails; software eventually works, no amount of band width can fix poor design Jude

internet probably broken

Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free amd64 Packages 47% [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]E: Method gave invalid 200 URI Start message Every contact made with http.debian.net eventually gave the kind of message shown above today. Probaly some lin

Re: [OT] Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal

bwbasic is available along with g77 and a few versions of forth. There's a fortran95 system that can be downloaded outside of debian that does graphics and works on windows systems too and if the person you're trying to help is engineering-bound, forth is a good language to pick up. Julian V.

pulseaudio configuration question

When I do: pulseaudio --start There is a short pause then the message: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave appears on the screen. Hitting enter again then typing: echo $? 0 is returned. I'm using speech synthesis as provided by the kernel and am in a command line

Re: pulseaudio configuration question

By way of update, typing: pulseaudio --cleanup-shm pulseaudio --start and got no errors from pulseaudio this time. Unfortunately though both mplayer and vlc can connect to streams neither provides any sound output yet. sound card is an nvidia CK804 and pulse appears to have control of it from a

Re: pulseaudio configuration question

[off] Front Right: Capture [off] Simple mixer control 'Channel Mode',0 Capabilities: enum Items: '2ch' '4ch' '6ch' Item0: '2ch' Simple mixer control 'Duplicate Front',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum Playback channels:

Re: pulseaudio configuration question

On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Camale?n wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:16:35 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Jude, please, next time remember to reply at the bottom of the message :-) > > > Script done on Mon 27 Aug 2012 12:11:50 AM EDT On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, > > Camale?n > &g

Re: startx + ~/.xsession and no ~/.xinitrc, results in reduced functionality (xfce4, sid)

I wonder, in Debian does a path exist so that if a user wants to install a g.u.i. environment without gdm and with startX so that they can run in console mode by default and when they want to go g.u.i. they run startX to do it and have orca start up after that automatically? If so, I'd like to

ttytter can't tweet

I'm sure this is trivial, but I can't figure it out yet. Script started on Wed 22 Jan 2014 07:16:36 PM EST jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ cat .ttytterrc vcheck=1 autosplit=1 jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ ttytter trying to find cURL ... /usr/bin/curl -- Streaming API disabled (no -dostream) (TTYtter will use REST AP

setting laserprinter as default destination help needed

Script started on Tue 04 Feb 2014 06:06:23 PM EST jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ hp-probe HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.1) Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1 Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. T

HP_LaserJet_4_Plus printer

Script started on Tue 04 Feb 2014 06:06:23 PM EST jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ hp-probe HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.1) Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1 Copyright (c) 2001-13 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. T

Re: sources.list

Do you have a file called sources.list~ in /etc/apt? If so, that's a backup your editor made for you before you broke sources.list. In that case, you could cp sources.list~ sources.list and wipe out your mistake. If not, you're using the wrong editor. I recommend emacs or xemacs for future

Re: WLAN stick

It's a good idea to run update-usb-ids regularly since that script goes out to a central web site and updates available devices support. On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 01. 04. 2011 12:47:30 je Klistvud napisal(a): > >Dne, 01. 04. 2011 12:26:56 je Paul van der Vlis napisal(a): > > > >

Re: Upgrading from Squeeze testing to Squeeze stable

The security repository differs from the main repository that debian normally uses. Do you find testing on any active repo line in /etc/apt/sources.list? If so replace that with stable and you'll probably have better results. You might do all of this very easily by saving the old machine's s

Re: Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze

Why not download mtools and then try mdir a:/ and then try man mtools? Even if floppy disks were inserted after booting I've been able to access them using mtools in the past. On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Bob, Camaleon, Dom, Stephen, Tom & others, > > I am replying to the l

Re: New to Linux

Actually, if a new user reads the contents of debian-reference before doing much else with Debian they'll solve that problem. The problem behind that is that debian-reference doesn't install by default on systems. A question like "Are you new to Linux (y/n)? in the install script might not on

Re: Internet Connection Speed Test

You can do apt-get lynx -r as root then try: lynx http://www.speedtest.net/ . The statistics you need should then appear on the screen for you to examine.On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 04/17/2011 01:29 AM, sahaya wrote: > > > > > > > > Nathan Zabaldo wrote: > > > > > > Is there a

Re: Procmailrc question

If you runn install-nmh, then nmh will make the directories it needs and perhaps start working. I use nmh and like it better than mbox because when malware hits a message that message with offending garbage can be sacrificed without the loss of your entire collection of messages. Hope this hel

Re: Procmailrc question

In debian dpkg-reconfigure nmh may do what install-nmh does for non-debian systems. I read up on nmh from the nmh website.On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Paul E Condon wrote: > I once had my email working nicely, but over the last few years > the setup has decayed. I am now running wheezy with fetchmail t

Re: When installing from a CD image How to Gain Internet Access using a router and What is to Enter as Proxy information?

Nobody on this list can answer that question for you unless one of your organization's network administrators also is on this email list in which case if you're allowed to have that information that network administrator will not post it on this list. To explain, what you have is a problem loc

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