Re: any way to listen to url using command line?

ink it would be possible to have all of this streamed and run through .mailcap when a link were opened using the lynx browser at least not now. That may eventually be possible and may be worth the time and effort to play with it and find out. On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Jude Da

Re: any way to listen to url using command line?

Has anyone tried surfraw in a script context for a browser drop in? I used surfraw and found a number when searching for a search string on youtube and moved onto that number then used = to bring up the link's information and found the actual url I put in that message on the last URL: line on

Re: How do I remove a package and all of it's dependencies?

aptitude autoclean after an aptitude remove --purge package-name is supposed to work but doesn't always. How well that works depends on how well the packages themselves were made in the first place. When it doesn't work you'll run something and see package removed but not purged. The package

belkin d90 router web address

Can anyone post the web address to talk to a belkin d90 router for admin purposes? The documented 192.168.2.1 just puts up router information and no links when I use the lynx browser to talk to it. Jude When people ask do you believe in Numerology, the proper reply for me at least is do you

Re: belkin d90 router web address

rmation... > > Jamie > Sent from my BlackBerry? smartphone on O2 > > -----Original Message- > From: Jude DaShiell > Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 04:35:31 > To: > Subject: belkin d90 router web address > > Can anyone post the web address to talk to a belkin d90 rou

Re: belkin d90 router web address

essage-- > From: Jude DaShiell > To: jatos.softw...@gmail.com > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: belkin d90 router web address > Sent: 4 Nov 2011 09:04 > > Ah! I can use the l command and * command inside of lynx and maybe get > proper access. Thanks for

trn package configuration

The news reader goes to localhost and expects to find news there in all cases when first started up. So far as I was able to find no configuration file for it exists in the package and no way exists to make a configuration file using the package contents or downloading another tar file from th

re: trn package configuration

I found nntpget and found out how that's supposed to work. I think unless there's a real good reason to use trn rather than tin or slrn I'll leave trn off of this system. I don't have a problem going up complex learning curves if there's a good reason to do so but in this case based on what I

aptitude install failure

The install failure happens on two systems I have and it's for the latest Linux kernel update too. Not enough space to write files on the device. In order to get that update, I'm going to have to reinstall and put everything in one partition. I used guided partitioning on the whole disk and

Re: VLC missing sound

Please run the following script and see if you still don't get sound. Cut here: #!/bin/bash # file: treasuretrove.sh - play treasure-trove stream with vlc script vlc http://lin2.ash.fast-serv.com:9022 If that script doesn't work you could try: #!/bin/bash # file: folkalley.sh - play folk music s

Re: VLC missing sound

2011, Porcia Silvia wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:00:01 +0100 > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Please run the following script and see if you still don't get sound. > > Cut here: > > > > #!/bin/bash > > # file: treasuretrove.sh - play treasure-trove s

Re: VLC missing sound

That's weird, my vlc came from debian-multimedia repository and it's working. On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Porcia Silvia wrote: > On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:10:02 +0100 > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Apparently yet another pulseaudio error. If I am not much mistaken the > >

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

Also fails to configure automatically without host name. I think what's really happening here is a configuration is attempted and the system fails to check for success or failure status of that configuration and just assumes the configuration has happened as it moves along to the next step. W

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

static ips for that? > On Nov 27, 2011 8:23 PM, "Jude DaShiell" wrote: > > > Also fails to configure automatically without host name. I think what's > > really happening here is a configuration is attempted and the system fails > > to check for success or

Re: installer fails to configure DHCP

gt; On Nov 27, 2011 8:23 PM, "Jude DaShiell" wrote: > > > > > Also fails to configure automatically without host name. I think what's > > > really happening here is a configuration is attempted and the system fails > > > to check for success or fa

Re: VLC missing sound [solved]

The installation of a graphical user interface makes pulseaudio the default sound provider, or in your case the default silence provider. Glad you got this one solved. On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Porcia Silvia wrote: > This problem was caused by VLC selecting the 'default' output module under > audi

Re: emacs load-path

First make sure they'll load after running emacs and hitting meta-x and keying in the file names. Then read the original .el files for instructions. I expect you'll find code in them starting with (require that needs to be inserted in your .emacs file to have these load on start up. On Fri,

Re: emacs load-path

That's exactly correct.On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Nicolas Bercher wrote: > Jude DaShiell a ?crit : > > First make sure they'll load after running emacs and hitting meta-x and > > keying in the file names. Then read the original .el files for > > instructions. I expect yo

Re: How to access bluetooth phone?

Good so far, now make your cell phone discoverable. That's in bluetooth settings somewhere then try that again. If that fails, see if you can make your computer discoverable and try taking the computer over with the cell phone. Some of these pieces of equipment really don't work. On Sun, 4

Re: gnome 3 refugee: new kernel loses keyboard and mouse.

Only try this if your keyboard is a usb keyboard. If you do it with a ps/2 keyboard you'll probably have to buy a new motherboard after the people with those trucks that have lots of water visit you and put your computer out. pull the usb keyboard connection out of the machine before entering

Re: How to access bluetooth phone?

Can you make the computer visible to the phone then take over the computer with the phone?On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 12/04/11 15:21, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Good so far, now make your cell phone discoverable. That's in bluetooth > > settings somewhere then

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

Dell maybe still does this. They used to a while ago.On Fri, 9 Dec 2011, doug wrote: > On 12/09/2011 04:29 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm looking for a laptop with Linux preinstalled by vendor. I'm aware of > > System76 who ships with Ubuntu. Is there anyone else? I would like to do > > some

Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

You could use a blank keyboard with a dvorak layout pretty effectively pretty quickly if you used the speakup feature to put speech on your sound card for those typing sessions. Hit a wrong key, there's a backspace key to use. This for sighted people just enables another learning channel.On F

debian-boot and usb keyboards

on both squeeze and wheezy I tried them on an amd computr that got its ps/2 port broken but still has usb ports available. That does not work. I also need speakup running for the install so ended up installing slackware 13.0 which strangely has no such problems just to get access to the inter

Re: Grub cannot fit into boot record

I did that once on an install and figured out what I did wrong too. This wasn't with debian though but with slackware. What I did was to allocate too little swap space in my swap partition. If you manually chose the amount of swap space you'll need to increase that amount then the problem go

Re: grub-pc mdadm root (Resolved?)

Should have been picked up and installation went ahead without it. Debian reminds me of those Mars Rovers, they're not supposed to be able to work but they get into a hostile environment and surprise everybody by working any way.On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > 14/01/2012

Re: editing pdf files

can acroread and acroread-plugins work in a command line environment or is this strictly gui?On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Siard wrote: > John A. Sullivan III: > > Form filling is not in the base package. I believe you need to > > install the acroread-plugins for that to work > > Indeed, after installin

Re: changing bootup parameters

No point in doing that at all. If you want to see those messages after login as root or as sudo root do dmesg >dmesg.log. Then less dmesg.log will let you view those messages one screen at a time. Also for a particular issue of interest, dmesg | grep -in "search_string" will show specific l

Re: changing bootup parameters

being rebooted, and there is a high probability you will never make it to login without disrupting the boot process to change something. On Mon, 16 Jan 2012, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On 16/01/2012, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > No point in doing that at all. If you want to see those messa

Re: wget and captcha puzzle !!!

1) locate and crush all cookies, 2) adjust browser settings so no cookies are allowed on your machine, 3) attempt another connection and see if the session bitches about no cookies being accepted. If yes, then you have your proof otherwise something else is happening. Personally, I'll loose any

possibly defective kernel

Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae. (Reading database ... 63135 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae 3.2.1-1 (using .../linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae_3.2.1-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking r

Re: Capslock mystery - Recent phenomena concerning keyboard

A slight variant of this also happens in command line mode too. Random capslock activation does not happen. But once capslock is hit, all letters are written in uppercase even after capslock is pressed again to turn it off. Also, the only way to type lower case letters in this mode is to hol

Re: second display

Study boot parameters then you get to control that feature once you put the correct boot parameters into your menu.list file.On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Pastor ALexander wrote: > > I am lost on the site, > installing to my laptop the 42inch sharp tv screen comes up in 1024 instead > of 1360 > pclinux

Re: Netinstall cannot find wireless access points

I use an amd k8 and the last two wheezy snapshots I downloaded couldn't install the needed kernel. I got media change message and the drive door wouldn't open and the disk the system was wanting was already in the drive anyway. I'm sure the developers don't need any of this input either. This

Re: Netinstall cannot find wireless access points

I forgot to mention, I used aria2c to do the downloads too.On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I use an amd k8 and the last two wheezy snapshots I downloaded couldn't > install the needed kernel. I got media change message and the drive > door wouldn't open and the

Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

Anyone heard of the unlink command?On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 2/15/2012 12:55 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > Bilal mk: > >> > >> I tried to remove 5GB directory. In that directory around 3 files and > >> directory. It will take more than 30 min to complete. > >> There is no

Re: Daily built Debian Installer cd kept asking for stable dists.

I've had situations where the daily builds have thrown a media change message and asked for the disk that was already being used to install the system to be put into the machine. Unfortunately, the drive door is locked and the media change dialog only respects alt-fx alt-f2 ... and ejecting th

wheezy updates status question

Has that part of the repository been discontinued or renamed? Jude -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: wheezy updates status question

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze-updates main Is put into the /etc/apt/sources.list file by the installation system on espeakup distribution at least so it makes sense that it would be discontinued for wheezy testing.On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jude DaShiell wr

kernel bug and reportbug bug

I had a successful install of slackware 13.0 on my nVidia CK804 Serial ATA drive. Before doing so, I had a failed install of debian on that drive with debian causing much banging of the drive before throwing drive detection failed message and dropping me into media change dialog. Of course, t

Re: wheezy updates status question

s own headings and didn't interfere with any of those yet this continues to happen. So in preparation for the next time I try this, what is the format for that package tag? I'll write it in myself.On Sun, 26 Feb 2012, Camale?n wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:15:03 -0500, Jude DaShiell

Re: kernel bug and reportbug bug

eb 2012 18:39:36 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > I had a successful install of slackware 13.0 on my nVidia CK804 Serial > > ATA drive. Before doing so, I had a failed install of debian on that > > drive with debian causing much banging of the drive before throwing >

Re: text browsers

There is a learning curve to edbrowse, but it does do javascript if the latest version is used. In that package is a setup-ebrc script that has to be run by a user not root once package installation is complete and the script needs to be in the user's directory when run. The support group for

Re: OT: Copying a URL from a text browser (was: Re: text browsers)

On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Randy Kramer wrote: > On Sunday 04 March 2012 10:31:41 am Lisi wrote: > > On Sunday 04 March 2012 12:51:17 Randy Kramer wrote: > > > The only problem is the aggravating yahoo URLs that are very long--I just > > > checked one that is 537 characters long. So, far, with middle mo

Re: How to keep track of files installed from sources?

The dance only need be done once. If before doing the dance script is typed and after the dance exit is typed. The file typescript will then have the whole dance program inside it.On Fri, 9 Mar 2012, Karl Vogel wrote: > >> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:53:49 +0100, > >> Csanyi Pal said: > > C>

Re: SATA SB700/SB80 io errors

The nvidia sata drivers aren't working with the latest kernel either. I wrote about that earlier and was told the drivers are present but the drive isn't detected correctly by the installer. As of now, both Slackware 13.0 and archlinux do not have problems installing on my sata drive. I'll p

Re: wget/curl cannot work on debian amd64

Why not try aria2c? On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Juan Sierra Pons wrote: > 2012/3/21 ??? : > > Dear all: > > I have a problem with using wget and curl on debian amd64 > > when I type a command -- wget www.XXX.com, error messages > > will display as below: > > --2012-03-21 14:43:43

debian disk is dying

The hardware needs to be returned to the factory for a warranty-covered replacement. I have an esata docking station and an esata hard drive I can put this system on though. I'm using the command line and figure I'll probably end up using cpio to do the backup. What maybe could be a problem

checkbot package question

Can that package be used to check podcast feeds to find out if any of them are viable at any given time? I had a bunch of podcasts earlier and when I went to subscribe to those again I got mostly error 404 but some error 400 and some error 500 results as well when a podcatcher was used to do t

bad rsync downloads of ubuntu

rsync -av rsync://cdimages.ubuntu.com/daily-build/current/lucid-desktop-i386.iso . produced a download missing 61 files. I also downloaded MD5SUMS from that same directory and ran md5sum -c lucid-desktop-i386.iso and got those results. Is there a better rsync command that will just get an ok

re: bad rsync ubuntu download

Actually, I had used md5sum incorrectly and didn't check MD5SUMS with it. As soon as I did that, the file I downloaded came back as OK. I hadn't used md5sum to check files for a while and temporarily forgot that syntax detail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Can't upgrade anyting in Sid

I'm running a mix of wheezy/sid and aptitude update fails to download headers consistently tonight. Could it be a dos attack is happening against those servers?On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 01:58:57PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > >Does anyone know

Re: Working with ssh's escape character

Try hitting tilde followed by period and see what happens within an ssh login shell. The tilde is the key to the left of the 1 key just shifted. On Thu, 19 Apr 2012, Regid Ichira wrote: > I had difficulties getting ssh(1)'s ESCAPE CHARACTERS to be recognized > from within a login shell over

what happened to debian-multimedia.org?

It seems to have been down for a while. Jude -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

boinccmd questions

How do I clear the problem when initializing the boinc client of dir open can't open 'slots' message on initialization? I can only use the boinccmd command along with update-boinc-applinks since I don't do g.u.i. over here. Jude

Re: genisoimage and burning the iso created.

There may be an iso split utility in debian I hope. If not, there is a split command line parameter in genisoimage I think but you might not like the results. On Sun, 29 Apr 2012, Sharon Kimble wrote: > i have just created an iso of some of my music collection so that i > can play them off the

Re: Does anyone care about dialup?

Not difficult at all. There is wvdial package and c-kermit packages available for that job. I was using c-kermit and mskermit back as far as 1989 though I only managed my first talking linux installation in 2000. Kermit has a book written about how to use it and my name is in that book for h

Re: Fwd: Switching between modes in mutt.

Probably hit q to get back into index mode.On Thu, 24 May 2012, Peter Easthope wrote: > This morning I skimmed through > http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-2.html#ss2.3 . Section 2.3 > describes index mode and pager mode. In index mode, typing a message > number opens the message in the page

Re: (Mostly Solved) Re: How to get new RSA key in known_hosts file?

I usually do: ssh-agent ssh-keygen -t rsa I don't normally key in anything for the password and keep hitting enter until ssh-keygen is done. That works for local files for me and I usually also do ssh-agent ssh--add and ssh-copy-id -i email address for remote location and enter password when p

Re: Application for creating educational flash on Debian? - SOLVED

Also, look for an application that can provide Section 508 compliant output which will be accessible to screen readers and whatever you produce with it will sell lots better in the educational arena. On Wed, 30 May 2012, Weaver wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 May 2012 21:13:48 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote:

Re: [OT] How to extract certain column

man cut. On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, lina wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for off-topic, but I do need some suggestions now, > > Here it's > > # RAAADUE AA STBBCCCRE BP1 BP2 ACC N-H-->OO-->H-N > N-H-->OO-->H-NTCO KAPPA DDPHA PAI PZIX-CA Y-CA > Z-CA > 1 174 V 0

sox and gnome problem

A friend has gnome with orca running on debian. He installed sox with all dependencies aptitude install sox -r and once done he can't play any of his media files any more in gnome. I'm curious, what package broke gnome's ability to play media files when installed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

wodim and perhaps nautilus surprise

I've been trying to help a friend burn his first cd on his system. He has gnome-desktop-environment and wodim with all dependencies installed. What he recently told me is that nautilus has no problem burning cd's but wodim finds that cd burner unknown and unsupported. Apparently things are no

Re: wodim and perhaps nautilus surprise

I didn't preserve the transcript but wodim came back with unknown or missing recorder when trying to access the hardware.On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2010/12/30 Jude DaShiell : I've been trying to help a friend burn his first cd on his system. He has gnome-desktop-e

making iso image with gnome?

What program by default is used along alongside brasero in gnome to make an iso image from a directory or directory tree's contents? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:/

wheezy and amd64 k8 machine

Generates udev diagnostics I think just after base system is installed and probably in the vicinity of grub installation. With Lenny, it wasn't possible to install the new grub with this hardware so the system remained with the old grub. Earlier I was trying to do an install so I could catch

Re: wheezy and amd64 k8 machine

far away now so I'll probably be able to learn another useful skill. On Wed, 18 May 2011, Camale?n wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2011 22:22:16 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > (...) > > > What has me worried about udev though is that these messages > > start out with ude

Re: udev bug in Wheezy

I couldn't install because of udev. I'm using an amd athelon k8 and several udev errors came up on the espeakup netinst disk just before grub got installed. I updated the image for espeakup and maybe that will fix the problem or maybe not, so next install I'm logging the install to a floppy a

Re: udev bug in Wheezy

Since you got debian installed, you may want to see if any unsupported hardware is on your computer udev doesn't support then black list all of that hardware in order to speed up your boot times. On Mon, 30 May 2011, maderios wrote: > Hi > I first sent this message in french language, sorry for

Re: [Ask] My screen suddenly got froze

Turn the screen saver off and that should clear this problem. On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Morning Star wrote: > Hi guys, > I have a problem about my cpu. After 15 minutes or more using debian squeeze > in KDE display manager, my screen suddenly got froze. I can't move my > mouse's cursor and can't type

hearse configuration question

I installed hearse on debian squeeze and got it configured using package defaults. When I run hearse from the command line to upload bones files though hearse errors out being unable to open /var/games/nethack. I'd like to have hearse actually work on this system if possible, and probably nee

Re: hearse configuration question

I read man hearse, and maybe missed something in it.On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, Camale?n wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:02:17 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > I installed hearse on debian squeeze and got it configured using package > > defaults. When I run hearse from the comm

re: hearse configuration problem

When I run hearse this is what results: cut here. Script started on Mon 11 Jul 2011 05:22:58 AM EDT jude@md:~$ hearse hearse: error setting real gid (want 60 60, got 1000 24 25 29 30 44 46 105 108 1000) jude@md:~$ exit exit Script done on Mon 11 Jul 2011 05:23:13 AM EDT -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

hearse configuration problem - file permissions

Script started on Mon 11 Jul 2011 05:27:38 AM EDT jude@md:~$ ls -l -dl /var/games/nethack d-wx-ws--x 5 root games 4096 Jul 10 08:13 /var/games/nethack jude@md:~$ ls -l /var/games/nethack ls: cannot open directory /var/games/nethack: Permission denied jude@md:~$ sudo ls -

Re: hearse configuration problem - file permissions

Using chmod the first digit would be a 7 and the third digit a 5 but what would rws be for that second digit? On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: > David Jardine wrote: > > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > jude@md:~$ sudo ls -l /var/games/nethack > > > total 20 > &g

re: hearse configuration problem

I'll have to use chmod to fix this problem: cut here. Script started on Tue 12 Jul 2011 02:56:34 AM EDT jude@md:~$ hearse --run-as-me hearse: can't opendir /var/games/nethack: Permission denied jude@md:~$ hearse --run-as-user Option run-as-user requires an argument usage: hearse [switch]... switc

re: hearse configuration problem

As root having run chmod rwxrwsr-x /var/games/nethack no errors returned. As user then ran hearse and got back hearse could not find a bones directory checked /var/games/nethack and /usr/lib/games/nethackdir. Nethack may have been replaced on my way from squeeze to sid I don't know for sure. I

Re: hearse configuration problem

ack-common gets run nor do nethack-console. I had the nethackdir removed from my system but /etc/nethack and /var/games/nethack and all of the startup scripts were left intact after that purge command and that oughtn't have happened. On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 12

Re: hearse configuration problem

with that installation next. After that, I install debian on a different drive and go from there. > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Yes, I'm a member of the games group. > > I realize that you must have set yourself up as a member of the games > group as part of your effort

Re: postgres fails to start

If each slave is on its own drive, the problem slave may be on a corrupted drive. If the corruption happens in the right place on that drive that would probably explain your difficulty. On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, kuLa wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > I'm having

Re: Computer Freezes - how to find out what happened?

Question, when freezes happen, were you away from the keyboard and mouse for a while? If so, the screen-saver program needs the delay time increased so it takes longer to turn on. I don't know how to exit screen-saver mode and bring a computer back to life in X yet. If orca is used it's reco

why didn't /etc/nethack/nethackrc.console install?

Script started on Sat 23 Jul 2011 07:11:38 AM EDT jude@md:~$ ls /etc/net-al /etc/nethack/ total 9 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 23 07:09 . drwxr-xr-x 120 root root 7168 Jul 23 07:09 .. -rw--- 1 root root 33 Jul 23 07:09 hearse.

why /etc/nethack/nethackrc.console didn't install

I still don't know, but did find something out that was useful. The nethack-console.sh script looks for that file as well as a user's .nethackrc file. So I made me a short .nethackrc file and eliminated that warning when the game starts up. Probably the nethack configuration package which ho

squeeze repositories question

I notice the volatile repository doesn't update anymore. Was that repository renamed to experimental or something else? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian

Re: Firewall Setup

Why not check out arnos-iptables-firewall? On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 01/08/11 21:56, Paul Stuffins wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > I am trying to set iptables up, but am getting into a right mess editing > > the rules direct in the init script. > > > > What are peoples recommendat

backports repository in trouble

one of the files uploaded to http://backports.debian.org/squeeze/ failed gpg verification and aptitude on this end is not updating its files. An incoming directory separate from repository directories might be useful if at least one person administers that repository that way they could check

squeeze aptitude update error

Grabbed this with speakup's clipboard function after doing aptitude update anyone know what's going on? Get:22 http://backports.debian.org squeeze-backports Release [74.1 kB] Err http://backports.debian.org squeeze-backports Release Fetched 454 kB in 29s (15.5 kB/s) W: A error occurred during th

debian and sms import

I have an IPhone with many sms messages on it. If possible I'd like to export all of them to another device so that when I start doing things to them on my IPhone I'll have some assurance against loosing messages and can maybe if debian can do this pull the messages onto my hard drive and if n

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

pdf has accessibility issues for screen reader users and riverwind and me are both screen reader users. The best we can attempt is a text extraction from pdf files if we're going to read what's in them. If what was left in the file was a scanned image, maybe that can be scanned on Windows I d

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

sing a sheet of brailled instructions and listening for when the cd drive stopped spinning to do each instruction, but nobody regards that as accessible these days. On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 25/08/11 20:01, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > pdf has accessibility issues for scree

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

It should be possible to use the contents of index.html to set the order for concatenation too.On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Bob Proulx wrote: > RiverWind wrote: > > The idea was to concat a large html file and then convert it to > > text. The pdf can be converted to text, and it so far seems like a > > p

Re: Nook Reader on Debian PC?

If the mac version is for osx and debian has a dmg extractor, you may be able either to run the mac version under debian or build the debian version if source code is available then run it. Mac isn't Linux, but it's lots closer to Linux than anything Microsoft ever wrote. Something close to d

Re: Is it possible to use broken display laptop for print server?

No need to have everything go out the serial port at all so long as the sound card is working. try this script then burn the iso to a dvd or cd then put that in your laptop and boot it and wait. Debian will start talking to you. Cut here. #!/usr/local/bin/bash # file: getdebian.sh - get acce

Re: In Need of Advice

On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 12:54:16PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: > > > > How would you good gentles go about putting such a plan as mine > > into action? In other words, how would you go about accessing a > > Linux machine with a DOS system? Is there any special

Re: assistive annoyance

On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 02:11:05PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > Hello. I have a laptop that I installed Debian Squeeze on, with the > > default gnome desktop. I was fooling around with it, and enabled > > assistive technologies, which put a round

Re: Rethinking Personal Information Management - Advice and Ideas needed

Why not use org-mode? On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Alan Chandler wrote: > For a little while now I have been slightly concerned that contact/address > book management and calendar management is somewhat exposed - in that it only > exists in my iPhone. > > My contract for the phone comes to an end shortly

Re: Rethinking Personal Information Management - Advice and Ideas needed

I don't know what Allen has for a cell phone but if it's an iPhone, there's an org app for that in the app store. On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 08/09/11 14:13, Camale?n wrote: > > On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:27:32 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > > > I would like better integration b

Re: Rethinking Personal Information Management - Advice and Ideas needed

implement gtd on your computer using a single text file and emacs-orgmode. On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 08/09/11 11:54, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Why not use org-mode? > > What does that mean? Could you be a little more explicit > > On Thu, 8 Sep 2011,

which gnome version in sid?

Which gnome version is now in cid? If the version is 3.0 or later I need to do some customization like removing gnome-shell since that and orca don't get along. Jude "I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action f

Re: Problems with Orca Cutting Out

Has screensaver been shut off? On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, RiverWind wrote: > > Hey There, > > For some reason, I have had quite a problem with Orca cutting out > when ever my system is in use. I have no way of knowing why this > phenomenon occurs, so I am hard put to try and find a solution for > the

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