Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1128

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Re: Audio CDs don't index properly with xcdroast

> [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] is having trouble burning audio CDs using > xcdroast and cdrecord. ] Have you looked into cdrdao? It's designed specifically for audio CD burning and it works great for me. There are debs in slink. -- http://www.macalester.edu/~rpriedhorsky/

I killed ghostscript -- "Error: /invalidfont in findfont"

Hi folks, In a fit of madness, I went on a spree of reconfiguration and reinstallation of font-related packages. Now, I've killed ghostscript. Here's the error I get, both on firefox and enscript-created postscript files: Error: /invalidfont in findfont Operand stack: F0 Times-Roman Font

Re: I killed ghostscript -- "Error: /invalidfont in findfont"

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:00:26 +0100, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > > In a fit of madness, I went on a spree of reconfiguration and > reinstallation of font-related packages. Now, I've killed ghostscript. Hi folks, I still don't know what happened, but after the bludgeon of d

Grown defect list for IDE disks?

Folks, I can obtain the grown defect list (disk blocks gone bad since the factory) for my SCSI drives with "sginfo -G". Does anyone know of a similar utility for IDE disks? Do IDE disks even keep this information? (This is for a Seagate disk ~2-3 years old.) Thanks, Reid

Re: emacs dies in latest sarge

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:00:19 +0100, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > Never thought this would happen! I just updated my srage system > > yesterday (December 27). Todey I tried editing an ordinary text file. > > Emacs crashes after I enter about one line of text. After restarti

Re: Mozilla to Xprint to CUPS = no output.

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 06:20:04 +0200, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:43:52PM -0500, Christopher L. Everett wrote: > > Marc Wilson wrote: > > > Sure. Don't use xprint. Mozilla is perfectly capable of generating > > > printed output on its own. > > > > > Yah, but for some reason wh

Re: Automatically resize A4 printouts to letter?

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 03:30:09 +0200, Victor Munoz wrote: > >> Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> >> Is there a configuration or a recipe to cause these A4 postscript files to >> be automagically rescaled to letter-size during the spooling process? >> > > There'

Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

Hello all, I have just discovered that the Mozilla and Firefox old-style printing option "PostScript/default" is gone. Apparently we are now supposed to use the Xprint printing stuff; unfortunately, Xprint is broken for me in at least two ways. Now I can't print. Justification, as far as I can te

Re: vmware packaged as .deb

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 14:20:09 +0200, William Ballard wrote: > > And manually doing things like > rm -r `find /usr/local -name '*vmware* -type d` > rm `find /usr/local -name '*vm{ware,net,-support}*' -type f` > rm -r /etc/vmware You can use stow to solve this problem. Even though vmware appears to

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:40:12 +0200, Michael B Allen wrote: > > Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 2. It had security problems. > > > > This brings me to my question: Does anyone have any solid references > > on these security problem

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 01:40:07 +0200, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > } > As it now stands your choices are A) not print or B) downgrade to > } > a version that predates the brain damage. > [...] > > This is just FUD. No, it's not. See bugs 252362, 235592, 254704, 256850, etc. Reid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 22:30:12 +0200, Dale Amon wrote: > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > OTOH, maybe the postscript code in mozilla itself has a security hole. > > But the right thing to do would be to *fix* that instead, not to drop > > it. > > Question: are you saying that Mozilla bas

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 01:40:09 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 05:00:30PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > > > > Mozilla and friends can generate PostScript directly, or they can > > depend on Xprint to do so. It is the latter which has been disabled. &

Re: Keeping a customized file from being updated during package upgrade

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 01:10:06 +0200, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > > Wow, how could you do that? Can you share your code with us? I use > > colored xterms to distinguish those -- easier to do. :-) > > In my root .bashrc I have this: > > export PS1='\e[31;1m\h:\w\$\e[0m ' Also look into the tput p

Re: Keeping a customized file from being updated during package upgrade

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:30:18 +0200, Silvan wrote: > >> Also look into the tput program. You tell it what you want (bold, >> green, etc.) and it outputs appropriate magic for your current >> terminal. > > Sounds interesting, but any syntax examples? I couldn't make heads or > tails of it. Here'

Help compiling mozilla-firefox

Hello, I am trying to build mozilla-firefox 0.8-12 from testing. I'm following the directions at . On an unmodified source tree (fetched with "apt-get source mozilla-firefox"), the build fails with the following error: gcc -o hos

Re: Help compiling mozilla-firefox

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:10:07 +0200, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to build mozilla-firefox 0.8-12 from testing. I'm following > the directions at > <http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-sourcepkgs>. On an > unmodified source tree

/proc/loadavg disagrees with top and ps

Hello everyone, /proc/loadavg currently reports the following: 0.96 0.98 0.78 1/116 23994 xload also reports roughly the same. But top and ps both report a nearly idle system (98% idle). What is going on? How can I find out what is causing my system to be so busy? This is kernel 2.4.26. I a

Re: /proc/loadavg disagrees with top and ps

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 23:10:08 +0200, Paul Gear wrote: > > Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> /proc/loadavg currently reports the following: >> >> 0.96 0.98 0.78 1/116 23994 >> >> xload also reports roughly the same. >> >&g

PostScripts suddenly too big -- help me diagnose

Hello all, After returning from a long vacation a few weeks ago, I discovered that converting a text file to PostScript used fonts that were too large (widthwise; heightwise they are OK though the spacing seems a little cramped). For example, enscript -q --font="Courier11" --no-header --margins

Windows always open in upper-left corner (FVWM 2.4.16)

Hello all, I'm having a frustrating problem with the placement of newly-opened windows. I run fvwm on the current testing distribution. This problem has been going on for a while, but suddenly it is driving me crazy. :/ Here is the problem: if there is not room for a window to be placed without

Re: Windows always open in upper-left corner (FVWM 2.4.16)

Reid Priedhorsky writes: > > Hello all, > > I'm having a frustrating problem with the placement of newly-opened windows. > I run fvwm on the current testing distribution. This problem has been going At the risk of being a doofus, a little more tinkering and I discover

Re: ghostscript woes

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:20:19 +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > Hi group, > > Since more than a week now, gv doesn't anti-alias my postscript files as > beautifully as before: it uses less grays and more black. This is a bug in gs which appeared sometime between 7.07 and 8.14. It drove me nuts too -

Re: Bug#412149: general: "usb:" stopped working in both gpsbabel and jpilot

Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 06:27:01PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: The following are the packages I upgraded between working and non-working USB: 2007-02-20 21:36:47 status installed libgphoto2-port0 2.2.1-16 2007-02-20 21:36:50 status installed libgphoto2-2 2.2.1-16

Re: /dev/ttyUSB0 missing (Palm device)

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:30:10 +0200, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > El Diumenge 25 Març 2007 21:54, Marty va escriure: >> I guess that's right.  Did you verify that usb_serial_visor (module or >> driver) is running? > > Is not running! and after one > > $ sudo modprobe visor > > Palm syncs again,

Re: /dev/ttyUSB0 missing (Palm device)

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:10:09 +0200, Mark Grieveson wrote: >> Hi, > >> I don't see what change in Debian Sid (some dist upgrede, suposse) >> makes that the Palm sync doesn't work. > >> Seems that the reason is that the system doesn't create >> the /dev/ttyUSB0 --when the 'sync' button push. > >

Upgrading kernel from 2.4 to 2.6.17-2-k7: logs filled with NTP error "frequency error -512 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM"

Hi folks, I'm running etch. I recently upgraded my kernel from a self-built 2.4 to the Debian kernel package version 2.6.17-2-k7. Now, my logs are filled with (10-20 per hour): Dec 4 08:56:52 reidster ntpd[2331]: frequency error -512 PPM exceeds tolerance 500 PPM There doesn't seem to be any s

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:40:33 +0100, hendrik wrote: > > If you want to be able to recover data despite damage, it is in general > not wise to compress it, since different parts will be damaged > independently, and the undamaged parts will still be readable. > Squeezing out redundancy makes diff

Where to go to learn about reducing electricity use?

Hi folks, I would like to make my Etch box use less power, but I'm having a hard time consolidating all the information I'm finding. Is there a package I can install or a web page I can read that is a gentle guide to reducing my power usage? Many thanks in advance, Reid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Where to go to learn about reducing electricity use?

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:40:11 +0100, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 05:06:02PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> >> I would like to make my Etch box use less power, but I'm having a hard >> time consolidating all the information I'm finding. Is t

Device: /dev/hda, ATA error count increased from 0 to 2

Hi all, This morning I woke up to a cheery smartd error message: Device: /dev/hda, ATA error count increased from 0 to 2 This is the first time smartd has ever complained about the disk. I rebooted and fsck complained about errors on that filesystem but didn't give any chatter about repairing

Re: Where to go to learn about reducing electricity use?

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:30:14 +0100, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > Why are you worried about power consumption on a desktop? Hi Doug, Well, a few reasons. It seems like the right thing to do vis-a-vis global sustainability, etc. I'd like to save a little bit of money. And, reducing the temperature of t

Re: Where to go to learn about reducing electricity use?

On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 05:30:11 +0100, Bruno Buys wrote: > > reid, > athcool saves both temperature and power. Its a very simple script, > written for athlons. Bruno, That certainly sounds intriguing, but: > !!!WARNING!!! > Depending on your motherboard and/or hardware components, enabling > Ath

Re: What was SA thinking?

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:20:47 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 09.01.07 09:58, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Recently a ton of mail running through SA has been hitting the soft-limit >> for spam. I have it set tight, 5.0 for mark and pass. 7.0 for reject at >> SMTP. Mail from this list, from

Re: Killing a process that doesn't exist!?

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:00:26 +0100, Glen Yu wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a script that I normally run (called "extract.sh") but can't seem to > run it today because everytime I run it, it says that it's already running > :| , but if I do "ps -ef | grep extract", nothing shows up. The log fil

How to install Flash Player 9 on Debian Etch

Hi all, Flash Player 9 for Linux came out of beta yesterday. I had a little hiccup installing it on my Etch box, so I thought I'd share my solution to spare you the hiccup. I use Firefox version 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2. The installer will ask "Please enter the installation path...", and when you enter

Re: XML editor wanted!

On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:10:06 +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > On 2/1/07, Johannes Graumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi there, > > Hi. > >> >> Am crawling through the web on a search for a proper XML editor, that makes >> life easier and speaks XSD ... got suckered into a trial license of oxygen

libusb stopped working?

Hi folks, Yesterday, jpilot stopped syncing my USB PalmPilot. I had been using libusb (i.e. "usb:" as the port). A reboot and a different cable didn't help, but un-blacklisting the visor module and changing the port to /dev/pilot -- i.e. using the kernel visor module instead of libusb -- and now s

DataDesk SmartBoard keyboards - source? tips? have any old ones?

Dear All, I'm at the verge of wearing out my second DataDesk Smartboard, a quirky keyboard that I adore. (This keyboard also seems to sometimes go by the name of Darwin SmartBoard.) Photos here: http://datadesktech.com/desktop_base.html The company that makes them is rather unstable, so I'm worr

source for mechanical keyswitches

Dear All, I would like to rebuild a keyboard that uses mechanical keyswitches (see previous post). Do any of you know where I can buy new mechanical keyswitches? Or do I need to cannibalize old keyboards? If I do this, how can I tell which keyswitches are good and which are nearly worn out? I do

Re: source for mechanical keyswitches

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:20:21 +0100, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:12:12AM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I would like to rebuild a keyboard that uses mechanical keyswitches (see >> previous post). Do any of you know whe

Configuring dhcp3 to send hostname mappings to clients

Dear all, My /etc/hosts contains a handful of mappings useful on my internal subnet: 10.0.0.2 reidster.net reidster 10.0.0.4 convex.reidster.net convex 10.0.0.4 toys.reidster.nettoys.reidster 10.0.0.4 yabman.reidster.net yabman The same box is also a DHCP server

Re: Configuring dhcp3 to send hostname mappings to clients

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:10:08 +0100, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:45:55PM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: > > > > On 23/03/2008, Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > > > My /etc/hosts c

Mixed dual-monitor setup: too weird?

Hi folks, I'm contemplating a dual-monitor setup consisting of a 1280x1024 LCD and a 1024x768 LCD. There's a couple of sources of oddity here: the difference in resolution and the different display technologies. Has anyone tried a setup like this? Is it OK, or too weird to use? Thanks, Reid -

Re: Mixed dual-monitor setup: too weird?

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:20:08 +0200, Philippe De Ryck wrote: > On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 13:23 -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm contemplating a dual-monitor setup consisting of a 1280x1024 LCD and a >> 1024x768 LCD. There's a couple of s

Mapping sector numbers to files?

Dear group, I have the following in my syslog: Jul 25 08:36:41 convex kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x71 { DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete Error } Jul 25 08:36:41 convex kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Jul 25 08:36:41 convex kernel: hda: DMA disabled Jul 25 08:36:41 co

Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

Hi folks, I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are few but perhaps odd: - Cheap. - Used OK. - 512MB or larger OK. - Uses AAA or AA batteries, preferably 2. Do you all have any suggestions? Many thanks for any help, Reid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:01:55 +0200, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > Hi folks, > > I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are > few but perhaps odd: > > - Cheap. Hi folks, Thanks for the help. Looks like I have some followup research to do. I should c

Re: USB disk fails when accessed after idle for some hours

On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:20:06 +0100, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:00:13 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 01/29/2009 10:52 AM, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> I have a USB disk (a 320GB Western Digital My Passport) whi

virtual private server? advice requested

Dear all, I currently run e-mail and web services for my little domain from my home box, connected to the net with DSL. The other day, the network burped and I was offline for several hours... Basically, I've grown frustrated with trying to host important services off a consumer-grade network lin

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:20:09 +0200, Sam Kuper wrote: > > Well, maybe you're right about that, but: > (1) My point still stands: start low and upgrade if needed. This way > you won't be paying over the odds. Most VPS providers offer > near-instant upgrades. > (2) The OP didn't require MySQL. He spe

Alternatives to Google Groups?

Dear all, [Slightly OT, I know, but this list contains many technically savvy people who are able to answer well...] I run a mailing list which is currently hosted by Google Groups. We've been having ongoing problems with reliability (i.e., messages make it to the web interface but not all e-mail

mounting two disks on the same mount point (not at the same time)

I have a couple of USB disks that I use for backups. I rotate them so only one is attached at the same time. I have a nightly cron that mirrors the directories of interest onto whichever one is attached using rsync. I'd like to mount whichever one is attached at the same mount point, without havin

Re: mounting two disks on the same mount point (not at the same time)

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:10:05 +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 05:38:02PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> I have a couple of USB disks that I use for backups. I rotate them so only >> one is attached at the same time. I have a nightly cron that mirrors the

USB disk fails when accessed after idle for some hours

All, I have a USB disk (a 320GB Western Digital My Passport) which is exhibiting the following problem. When first hooked up and mounted, it works fine. I've successfully transferred 100's of GB onto the disk. However, if left idle for some hours, it fails when accessed, with a spontaneous USB d

Re: USB disk fails when accessed after idle for some hours

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:00:13 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/29/2009 10:52 AM, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >> All, >> >> I have a USB disk (a 320GB Western Digital My Passport) which is >> exhibiting the following problem. >> >> When first hooked up and mo

recommend a flatbed scanner

Folks, I'm looking for a decent USB flatbed scanner for use with my Lenny box -- and I don't want to spend much, $20-30 on eBay would be ideal. I would use it to scan photo prints and text documents. Any suggestions for manufacturers or specific models, or pointers to good resources to help me ch

links in icedove/thunderbird stopped working

Hi all, I run testing - I read email in icedove/thunderbird and browse the web with iceweasel/firefox. Lately (past few days) links have stopped working in icedove. Before, I'd click a web link and the page would come up in firefox. Now, nothing. I haven't changed any preferences recently. Anyone

Re: links in icedove/thunderbird stopped working

On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:40:11 +0100, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 01/12/08 00:18, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: >>> >>> I run testing - I read email in icedove/thunderbird and browse the web >>> with iceweasel/firefox. Lately (past few days) links have

Printing out a large volume of email

Dear group, I would like to print out a mailbox containing about 1,000 emails. The mailbox is in mbox format currently. One option is to write a short Perl script which extracts each email and produces a long text file containing a series of formatted header/body pairs, which I would then send th

Re: Who should own my home directory?

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 02:00:21 +0100, Glenn Meehan wrote: > > Sounds like you have been using another flavour of unix. SCO has a > similar group structure to the one you describe. In linux the default is > to create a group for each user name that is created. I don't know why > it does this. It seems

Using ghostscript 8.51 on etch?

Dear group, I was wondering if anyone had advice on running ghostscript 8.51 on etch. There doesn't appear to be a Debian package for this version. I've downloaded the source (from ghostscript.com), compiled it, and installed it in /usr/local. At first glance it seems to work OK. But, I know ther

Re: Using CDs/DVDs to backup and dvdisaster

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:20:07 +0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > I recently discovered one excellent program already packaged for Debian, > called dvdisaster. I would recommend it to anybody interested in seeing how > (un)reliable your CDs/DVDs are. I looked at this program's web page, and it seems th