(OT) gv multiple print -> square numbers

2005-05-22 Thread Richard Lyons
Has anyone worked out why ghostview prints not the number of prints requested, but the square of that number? I assume it is not just me, because it happens on all my debian systems. I have cups, and sarge and sid boxes. When viewing a ps or pdf in gv, select any print function, add to the small

ghostscript/cups problem

2004-10-12 Thread Richard Lyons
Anyone here know where to seek help with a ghostscript or cups problem? I did try asking here but got no response (problem of ghostscript cropping A3 images to A4 - or maybe it's cups doing that). I have googled with no success and have no idea how to proceed. TIA -- richard -- To UNSUBS

Re: ghostscript/cups problem

2004-10-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 19:22, ognen wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > > Anyone here know where to seek help with a ghostscript or cups > > problem? I did try asking here but got no response (problem of > > ghostscript cropping A3 images to A4 - or maybe it's

Re: AVOIDED: ghostscript/cups problem

2004-10-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 12:54, Michael Graham wrote: > Richard wrote: > > Anyone here know where to seek help with a ghostscript or cups > > problem? > > [...] > > Have you tried asking on the cups newsgroups? Details here: > http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php > or the GNU ghostscript newsg

debconf and kde

2004-10-14 Thread Richard Lyons
Whenever I install new or updated packages (usually with aptitude), debconf complains that it cannot open kde, cannot find qt, etc. I am perfectly happy with the fallback, text interface. But why does it always do that? Is it a residue from the days long ago that I ran kde? And if so, can I

Re: debconf and kde

2004-10-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 14 October 2004 13:59, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > Whenever I install new or updated packages (usually with aptitude), > > debconf complains that it cannot open kde, cannot find qt, etc. I am > > perfectly happy with the fallback, text interface. > > run (as root) 'dpkg-recon

Re: printer won't stop

2004-10-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 23:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > I am using Debian 2.6 Sarge. In KDE I clicked on > system, printers using foomatic-gui I installeda Canon BJC > 4400 printer. After installation I clicked 'print test > page'. > My printer printed about 20 pages of cod a

Re: printer won't stop

2004-10-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 14 October 2004 20:10, Jacob S wrote: [...] > If I'm not mistaken, you can also delete jobs in the queue using cups' > web interface (if not a command line tool, as well). > > In your web browser, go to http://localhost:631, then click the > "Manage Printers" link, click on the printe

Re: printer won't stop

2004-10-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 15 October 2004 16:41, CW Harris wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:26:09AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > I have one box where cups won't let me change anything and I > > cannot see what I have configured wrong. > > Are you a member of the Sy

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-27 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 27 September 2004 21:01, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: > > Does anybody know of a way to edit PDF forms then save the result? > > > > > > > > I fill out the IRS PDF forms and save them. > > Use pstoedit and transfig to create a .fig file of the PDF, like: What is a .

cron + apache problem - I think

2004-10-03 Thread Richard Lyons
I have a server that runs apache1.3. Every sunday morning at 06:30 it stops. /var/log/apache/error.log says [Sun Oct 3 06:30:59 2004] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing \ graceful restart but it gracelessly doesn't. /etc/crontab has 47 6* * 7 roottest -x /usr/sbin/anacron |

Re: Headless Installation

2004-10-05 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 02:31, Adi Linden wrote: > > You -could- (I stress could here) use 'fai', but I suspect that you'd > > consider that overkill on you part. Indeed, I'd agree. What you'd really > > want to do is use 'deboostrap' on the headless server. There's plenty of > > documentation

Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

2004-10-07 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 21:11, Michael Marsh wrote: [...] > I even have a script that takes a directory of images, creates small > and thumbnail versions using mogrify, and creates skeleton HTML files > for them. You can see a sample of the output at [...] And how about a sample of the script

A3 printer with CUPS

2004-10-07 Thread Richard Lyons
Does anyone else have an a3 printer and successfully switch between a4 and a3 under CUPS? I have an HP1220C A3 printer. Sometimes I can print A3 on it and other times it stays in A4 mode - printing just a4-size part of image on one corner of the a3 sheet. From one box on the network, I can ch

Re: printer won't stop

2004-10-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 18 October 2004 17:58, CW Harris wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 09:00:55PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Friday 15 October 2004 16:41, CW Harris wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 01:26:09AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > [...] > > > > I

Re: Thinkpad 600E and usb mouse

2004-10-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 02:33, Mike M wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:10:53PM -0400, Bernard Fay wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I have a Logitech MX700 usb mouse attached to my thinkpad but I can't > > get it to work. > > > > I thought that the module usbhid and usbmouse would have

Re: Thinkpad 600E and usb mouse

2004-10-20 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 01:20, Bernard Fay wrote: [...] > > It's working now. It was as simple as loading the module uhci_hcd. > Now the next challenge will be to configure the 7 buttons and the wheel. 7 buttons! I can barely manage three. And the wheel of course -- only graduated to a

Re: debian webhosting services

2004-10-22 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 22 October 2004 10:59, Upayavira wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > > I am looking for debian webhosting service, probably dedicated, unless > > the speed and bandwidth are so good that it doesn't matter being > > shared. Does anybody have any suggestions? (of course price is very >

Re: apache reload v. apache restart

2004-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 01 November 2004 12:35, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Monday, 01.11.2004 at 20:28 +0800, Robert Vangel wrote: > > > I can't say that this has happened to me really. > > > > What do error logs give? Do you get any abnormal output from logrotate? > > Or, does it just die because it *seems* it wa

ftp clients

2004-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
Any recommendations for convenient ftp client for uploading web pages, galleries, etc., and for updating the same? I used to use gftp -- but it has become cranky (in Sarge, under icewm, it is liable to crashes, cannot use bookmarks properly, etc.), and I prefer not to have to load up all that g

Re: ftp clients

2004-11-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 01 November 2004 22:06, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 22:41 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Any recommendations for convenient ftp client for uploading web pages, > > galleries, etc., and for updating the same? > > > [snip] > > > > I

Re: ftp clients

2004-11-02 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 15:57, Justin Guerin wrote: [...] > If you're using KDE, you can use your favorite HTML editor and bookmark the > FTP site in the file open dialog. Just enter the FTP information in the > "often used folders" bar (the one at the top), in the form > ftp://[EMAIL PRO

Re: apache reload v. apache restart

2004-11-04 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 04 November 2004 16:51, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:35:34 +, Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nothing abnormal in the logs. There is the 'SIGUSR1 received. Doing > > graceful restart' message when 'reload' is triggered, which appears > > whether the pr

Re: apache reload v. apache restart

2004-11-04 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 04 November 2004 19:26, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Thursday, 04.11.2004 at 16:51 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > > On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:35:34 +, Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Nothing abnormal in the logs. There is the 'SIGUSR1 received. > > > Doing graceful restar

Re: looking for a corporate debian edition, with support

2004-11-04 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 04 November 2004 15:03, xavier wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 08:00:06PM -0600, psychoelmo wrote: > > "Canonical offers professional support for Ubuntu on both desktops and > > servers. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information." > > -- from http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/p

Re: apache reload v. apache restart

2004-11-04 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 04 November 2004 22:15, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Thursday, 04.11.2004 at 22:41 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > > The date sounds the same as for me. The actual root of the problem is > > > that '/etc/init.d/apache reload' causes Apache to die. Th

Re: Bug#237377: unsure if I am suffering the same tihng

2004-11-05 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 05 November 2004 15:53, Adam Conrad wrote: > Dave Ewart wrote: > > > > FWIW, for me, a manual '/etc/init.d/apache reload' *does* cause the > > problem too. My difficulty therefore reduces completely to be > > "/etc/init.d/apache reload makes Apache die". > > > > Apache is version 1.3.2

Re: Mcopy not removing the "^M" character

2004-11-08 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 08 November 2004 19:00, Eric Dickner wrote: > > --- David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you're putting something on to a windows machine, > > wouldn't > > mcopy automatically use the dos CR-LF? > > I was trying to remove the CR-LF so the /etc/hosts > file lookup wouldn'

Re: Mcopy not removing the "^M" character

2004-11-09 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 00:00, David Jardine wrote: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:26:55PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > Wouldn't > >$ tr '\r\n' '\n' < dosfile > unixfile > > > > do it? > > For me that double

Re: LILO menu wiped off MBR

2004-11-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 12 November 2004 05:10, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: [...] > I had to do the following: > > #mount -t ext2 /dev/hdf1 /mnt > > Of course I had to be root to do it. Now the hard part is cleaning up > the Windows side! Oh well, at least Linux is again accessible! That should not have bee

Re: apache reload v. apache restart

2004-11-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 01 November 2004 12:20, Dave Ewart wrote: > System: Woody, fully up to date, runs Apache > > Recently, after an 'apt-get upgrade', Apache has been dying when doing a > logrotate. I have identified the source of the problem - > '/etc/ini.d/apache reload' kills Apache. > > So, I've chan

Re: apache reload v. apache restart

2004-11-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 15 November 2004 09:36, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Sunday, 14.11.2004 at 11:14 +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > On Monday 01 November 2004 12:20, Dave Ewart wrote: > > > System: Woody, fully up to date, runs Apache > > > > > > Recently, after an &

Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 15 November 2004 10:41, Mark Crean wrote: [...] > Because it's easy to forget that the whole is greater than the sum of > its parts. There are a raft of small touches than aren't much > individually but which collectively soon add up: to something that is very much a matter of taste, t

Re: Icwem

2004-11-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 15 November 2004 13:48, Erik Jakobsen wrote: > Erik Jakobsen wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I have installed icewm here on my Debian Sarge. [...] I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Icwem

2004-11-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 15 November 2004 15:10, Erik Jakobsen wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > >On Monday 15 November 2004 13:48, Erik Jakobsen wrote: > > > > > >>Erik Jakobsen wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Hi. > >>> >

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 20:24, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:12:56PM -0600, Rich Wellner wrote: > > Just as you did? ;-) > > Yes, just as I did. By the way, to swing this back on topic, inability > to focus on software and getting distracted with too many unrelated >

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 22:38, William Ballard wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:10:51PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > Nobody wants to hear your opinion about George Bush in the context of > > > Free Software. > > > > I do. > > > > Funn

Re: Off-Topic; was, Will debian Grow....

2004-11-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 23:59, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:09:25 -0500 > Michael Z Daryabeygi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The only thing that gets my goat on lists is when people complain > > about OT or ask people to take things off list. > > lists are first about comm

mutt + squirrelmail

2004-11-18 Thread Richard Lyons
Do mutts and squirrels play together? Imap access has become sooo slw using kmail (seems even slower since my most recent upgrade on my desktop box - sid, BTW) and it is sometimes as bad using squirrelmail. So I ssh-d to the server and tried mutt. As far as I can tell, mutt cannot see sub

Re: mutt + squirrelmail

2004-11-18 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 18 November 2004 12:02, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:34:41AM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Do mutts and squirrels play together? > > > > Imap access has become sooo slw using kmail (seems even slower since > > my most recen

Re: interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? (for remote ssh tunnels)

2004-06-30 Thread richard lyons
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 14:49, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:05:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > Will Trillich wrote: > > >On Sat, Jun 26 at 08:33PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > I don't understand why the server would be making the > > connexion request. B

Re: Mutt and accents

2004-07-20 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 18 July 2004 01:29, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Hello! > > I'm trying to learn how to write text in French so that I can send [...] > # keyboard mapping. "fr" gives the french keyboard layout > # NOTE: this is NOT QWERTY! [...] Just a thought: I used to use french canadia

kscd in sid working?

2003-12-18 Thread Richard Lyons
Is it just my mess of a system, or is kscd not working in sid? I did an update in case it was something temporary from whenever I last updated, but it still doesn't work. It starts a process, but no window. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: kscd in sid working? - PILOT ERROR

2003-12-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 18 December 2003 18:19, Richard Lyons wrote: > [..] is kscd not working in sid? Good thing you all ignored that... it was opening minimized in the system tray. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Some nagging problems

2003-12-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 19 December 2003 11:58, David Baron wrote: > 1. locate -- its database is old. How does one update it? man updatedb I'll leave the others to experts... HTH -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

'/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev'

2003-12-19 Thread Richard Lyons
I just ran lilo (to make 2.4.22 default) and got an error message that sounds serious: Warning:'/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure. Name change: '/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc' -> '/dev/hda' I have no idea what that is about, but wondered if I've accidental

Re: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev'

2003-12-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 19 December 2003 13:51, Andreas Janssen wrote: [...] > The reason for this can be that you have devfs enabled in your > kernel, but are not using it. That makes sense. I noticed a rant about the need for devfs in CD-Writing-HOWTO-2.html at linux.org. Perhaps I should be using it, the

Re: Wish to network my home computers but don't know Jack about it

2003-12-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 19 December 2003 22:59, Ken Irving wrote: [...] > > should look at broadband sharing, too, even though I won't use it > > yet? > > Broadband and dial-up differ in speed and the details, but make no > difference in how your local network is set up. Except, perhaps in that the permanently

Re: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev'

2003-12-21 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 21 December 2003 12:25, Jeff Penn wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:57:25PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > >> The reason for this can be that you have devfs enabled in your > > >> kernel, but are not using it. > > > > > > That makes sense. I noticed a rant about the need for devfs i

nfs setup on woody

2004-01-03 Thread Richard Lyons
I've recently moved a third machine to Debian. This one is Woody, base system installed from first disk of CD set and then from ftp. Only problem is I cannot connect to it by nfs. On the woody system, I get this when nfs starts: Exporting directories for NFS kernel daemon...machine.domain:/ho

Re: nfs setup on woody

2004-01-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 03 January 2004 14:22, GCS wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:49:36AM +0000, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the woody system, I get this when nfs starts: > >Exporting directories for NFS kernel > > daemon...machine.domain:/home\ /richa

Re: nfs setup on woody

2004-01-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 03 January 2004 15:34, GCS wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 03:22:09PM +0000, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes: > >/home/richard/ 192.168.0.2(rw,sync) > > Thanks. Well, I haven't seen the 'sync' option yet, and it's

Re: fetchmail: lock creation failed

2004-01-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 03 January 2004 16:00, GCS wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:49:55AM -0500, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >cd /oldhome/tom > >cp -Rp .* /home/tom ( Found by trial and error > > that .* works) > > > > Almost everything works - e.g. mozilla previou

Re: nfs setup on woody

2004-01-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 03 January 2004 16:42, GCS wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:40:10PM +0000, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you have more shares on this machine, or is this the only one > > > in the exports file? > > > > It is the only o

Re: fetchmail: lock creation failed

2004-01-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 03 January 2004 16:45, GCS wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:45:26PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > show tom.tom on every file. > > > > If he has a tom.tom on every file, he can use them to send the > > messages, together with a few smoke signals, an

Re: nfs setup on woody

2004-01-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 03 January 2004 17:30, GCS wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:34:46PM +0000, Richard Lyons > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > I did recently apt-get kernel-image 2.4.18-1-k6 (actually via > > aptitude), but it doesn't boot correctly, so I continue wit

Re: NFS fails on standard Woody

2004-01-04 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 04 January 2004 15:20, Kevin Boergens wrote: > Hello! > > I installed Debian Woody rc1 on a small server, just with the nfs, > samba and a bit more (without XFree). > > I ran into a problem, googled for it and found an unresolved question > posted two years ago, describing my problem in d

Re: Problem running foomatic-filters postinst script

2004-01-05 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 05 January 2004 04:32, Carl Fink wrote: > Just to confirm, I'm having the same problem. I missed part of this > thread, has a bug report been submitted? If not, I'll be glad to do > it. I also wasn't paying attention to this thread. I also have had the same problem several times rece

help! - how to get postgres 7.3 back

2004-01-09 Thread Richard Lyons
Stupid me! I have cups problems and that foomatic bug. Some apps print the wrong way round on the sheet, so I did an upgrade via aptitude to get the debugged foomatic and see if that would cure the printing. (it didn't). But I forgot to check whether postgres would be upgraded and it was. No

Re: help! - how to get postgres 7.3 back

2004-01-09 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 09 January 2004 15:02, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:24:33 + > > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Running sid. postgresql is now 7.4, but won't open until I > > upgrade the database, which I can't without 7.3. What d

Re: help! - how to get postgres 7.3 back

2004-01-09 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 09 January 2004 15:02, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:24:33 + > > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Running sid. postgresql is now 7.4, but won't open until I > > upgrade the database, which I can't without 7.3. What d

cups problem - I think

2004-01-09 Thread Richard Lyons
Recently - probably since an update ten days or so ago - the printout from some apps (Mozilla and Qcad) are printed turned 90 degrees, so that a chunk is off the page. Other apps print normally. I did a further update today as the foomatic bug has been squashed, and now foomatic has been inst

Re: help! - how to get postgres 7.3 back

2004-01-09 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 09 January 2004 17:49, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-01-09, Richard Lyons penned: > > Stupid me! I have cups problems and that foomatic bug. Some apps > > print the wrong way round on the sheet, so I did an upgrade via > > aptitude to get the debugged foomatic

Re: game

2004-01-09 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 09 January 2004 14:55, Kent West wrote: > Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: > >Hi, > > > >This may seem like a lame question, but, here I spend most time > >conducting computational biophysics for drug design and I could do > > with some kind of distraction so I don't keep on working during > > brea

Re: help! - how to get postgres 7.3 back

2004-01-09 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 09 January 2004 16:19, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Friday 09 January 2004 15:02, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:24:33 + > > > > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Running sid. postgresql is now 7.4, but won't open un

Re: help! - how to get postgres 7.3 back

2004-01-09 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 09 January 2004 19:46, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-01-09, Richard Lyons penned: > > On Friday 09 January 2004 16:19, Richard Lyons wrote: > >> On Friday 09 January 2004 15:02, Nicos Gollan wrote: > >> > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:24:33 +0000 >

Re: SOLVED: help! - how to get postgres 7.3 back

2004-01-10 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 10 January 2004 01:08, Oliver Elphick wrote: [...snipped: details of stupidly upgrading postgres without first doing pg_dumpall, causing need to downgrade from 7.4 to 7.3 temporarily...] > Use --force-depends and --force-conflicts. > Just in case it helps the anyone else

Re: SOLVED: help! - how to get postgres 7.3 back

2004-01-11 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 11 January 2004 09:27, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:14:45 +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Saturday 10 January 2004 01:08, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > > [...snipped: details of stupidly upgrading postgres > > without first doing

Re: CUPS messed up in sid?

2004-01-11 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 11 January 2004 12:10, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Last night I tried printing and got some tilted text on the page > (rotated about +3 deg, + angle meaning tilting the top border to the > left). Are you sure the paper was feeding straight? 3 deg sounds unlikely to be anything but mech

disgo

2004-01-11 Thread Richard Lyons
Anyone here know if disgo go with Linux? (it's a usb memory stick in a fancy wrapper, for those who haven't noticed). -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fax, voice, and data answering

2004-01-11 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 10 January 2004 16:32, D. Clarke wrote: > Hi! > > I'm looking to have an all-in-one solution with my good ol' linux box > and was wondering if anybody had any pointers in the direction of my > externa voice modem answering and determining whether or not it's > fax, data, or voice and th

smart media card reader problem

2004-01-12 Thread Richard Lyons
This is puzzling me. I have used smart media cards from my olympus camera not only to read in photos, but also to transfer data. THe card reader is a cheap and simple "PCline" blue thing plugged into the USB. All well and good. Then I tried a "disgo" - but got mount: /dev/sda1 is not a

Re: smart media card reader problem

2004-01-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 12 January 2004 11:37, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:25:44AM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > Then I tried a "disgo" - but got > >mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device > > I don't know about your other devic

Re: smart media card reader problem

2004-01-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 12 January 2004 12:03, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:53:45AM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Monday 12 January 2004 11:37, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:25:44AM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > > [...] >

Re: smart media card reader problem

2004-01-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 07:25, Steven Yap wrote: > On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 03:25, Richard Lyons wrote: > > [ Removable storage tale of woe elided ] > > > > Any insights, please. > > The removable storage devices plug in to the SCSI subsystem. The dev > entries they

Re: smart media card reader problem

2004-01-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 06:10, Tim Timmerman wrote: > >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > No, you're right: it must be the kernel drivers. I've now > > discovered it is worse than you described.

Re: kde virtual desktops...

2004-01-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 18:52, enantiomer wrote: > I am using kde right now and am wondering if anyone can answer this > question... when I switch between desktops 1-4, the stuff on the > screen gets switched over, but the actual applications are still > shown in the taskbar. I would like it if

Re: smart media card reader problem

2004-01-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 19:19, Andrew Perrin wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Tuesday 13 January 2004 06:10, Tim Timmerman wrote: > > > >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > >

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 16:29, Jim Higson wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:54:13 -0800, Nano Nano > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Stonehenge sucks! > > Seriously, don't visit it. You get to walk around a rope 10 meters or > so from the stones, which have mostly fallen doen anyway. I spent > most

Re: Instalação Debian (distribuição estável)

2004-01-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 12:11, Eder Rodrigues wrote: > Olá pessoal, > > Instalei o debian no meu PC, no entanto ele não está conseguindo > acessar as insterfaces gráficas devido alguns problemas na > configuração. O proprio debian me direciona para um sistema de > configuração onde arrumo

Re: [Fwd: Preliminary investigation were started]

2004-01-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 21:55, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-01-14, Joseph Jones penned: > > Anybody else got this crap? > > > > Joe > > It was sent to the list; presumably it wasn't sent to you personally. I bet we'll be seeing some more of them, though... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-01-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 15 January 2004 09:19, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I'm taking a class this semester which is all about installing and > using Linux. After talking with the professor on Tuesday, I've > learned a few details. First, I have to use Vulgarly Illogical for my > text editor for the purposes of l

paper orientation - cups - mozilla

2004-01-15 Thread Richard Lyons
When I try to print from Mozilla, I get the image turned 270 deg (90 deg clockwise) so that the top third or so is off the long side of the sheet. Most other apps print normally - and most give access to setup options (I think part of the cups setup) for paper orientation when printing, should

Re: My system has Flashbacks?

2004-01-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 15 January 2004 12:15, Jan Minar wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:21:23PM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 January 2004 10:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Upon further reflection, this could be a more serious security > > > problem. Imagine a small trojan/key

Re: Reading Adobe DRM-enabled e-Books under Linux?

2004-01-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday 15 January 2004 07:27, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:18:53AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 05:30:28PM -0800, Nano Nano said > > > > > Therefore, I do not believe I am doing > > > anything ethically wrong here. > > > > That's nice, but the law doesn'

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-01-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 16 January 2004 16:37, Micha Feigin wrote: [...] > vi (not vim) I haven't fully figured out yet. Mostly the > part about deleting text (the backspace functionality), and while I > am on the subject I'll be happy if someone could drop me a hint. [...] Now we're really OT. I still mostly

Re: editors (was: Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian)

2004-01-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 17 January 2004 03:12, Carl Fink wrote: [...] > They're both partial knockoffs of WordStar, [...] One of the things I love about this list is these attacks of nostalgia... Wordstar... and giving up 8" floppies for those miniature 5 1/4" ones... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Problems in apache2 on Debian/Sarge

2004-01-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 17 January 2004 09:26, Paul Mackinney wrote: > Hi, > > I'm doing a little webserver testing on a Sarge system, and right > away I find the following two problems with apache2: > > 1. cgi scripts don't run. > > Specifically, invoking either of the two test scripts, printenv and > test-cg

Re: OT: Why stonehenge Sucks

2004-01-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 17 January 2004 01:48, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] > when parking goes free. Gotta plug meters on the street between > 8AM-6PM every day except legal holidays. Thank God Sunday is still a > legal holiday in the US. Yeah, he's the one to thank. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [Fwd: Preliminary investigation were started]

2004-01-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 16 January 2004 22:23, Wayne Topa wrote: [...] > I have a mailfilter rule that deletes mail without an > originating Message-ID: and it has not had a false positive in over 3 > months now. [...] Would you care to share with those like me who can't immediately see how to do it how exactly

SOLVED: paper orientation - cups - mozilla

2004-01-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 16 January 2004 15:10, Pigeon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:26:24PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > > When I try to print from Mozilla, I get the image turned 270 deg > > (90 deg clockwise) so that the top third or so is off the long side > > [...] Mozilla h

Re: Documentation and Usability was Re: EXT3 at install..no more?

2004-01-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 17 January 2004 22:35, Kent West wrote: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: [...] > >I honestly wonder how people who are as impolitic as the OP manage > > to keep their day jobs. [...] > Whereas the regulars, such as Monique above, are correct in what they > say, I'd like to speak up in behalf

Re: unsubscribe

2004-01-18 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 17 January 2004 15:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] It occurs to me that so many folk make this mistake it must just be a result of skim-reading. How about an even

Re: viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-18 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sunday 18 January 2004 04:01, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Stephen wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:50:58PM -0600 or thereabouts, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > >>Anybody got any ideas how to view a multi-page .tiff file? The only > >>thing I use windows for anymore is to view .tiff's I get from w

kdeprintfax ignores /etc/efax.rc

2004-01-19 Thread Richard Lyons
I notice that when sending a fax using kdeprintfax (print to fax), I need to enter all the setup info (the stuff that goes in the header strip) for each fax, as the entries in /etc/efax.rc are ignored. Anyone else come across this prob -- or better, a solution? Sid, efax 1:0.9a-13 -- richard

Re: Documentation and Usability was Re: EXT3 at install..no more?

2004-01-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 19 January 2004 05:27, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-01-18, Mac McCaskie penned: > > ROFLOL, > > > > Richard Lyons wrote: > >> But this has been a bad week for tempers here. Quite a few rants and > >> upsets. Has anyone else wondered if it

SOLVED: kdeprintfax ignores /etc/efax.rc

2004-01-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 19 January 2004 07:27, Richard Lyons wrote: > I notice that when sending a fax using kdeprintfax (print to fax), I need > to enter all the setup info (the stuff that goes in the header strip) for > each fax, as the entries in /etc/efax.rc are ignored. Anyone else come > acro

Re: OT: Is OP "Original Post"?

2004-01-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 19 January 2004 14:36, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > Just for the record, does the acronym OP stand for Original Post? Just for the record, http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym http://www.acronymfinder.com http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm http://www.acronymsearch.com/ and masses more... --

woody on thinkpad570 - unable to connect to ether

2003-07-23 Thread Richard Lyons
New to debian, I've installed woody on thinkpad570 from cdrom set. Seems generally excellent, but I'm stuck on a few important details. 1 - I had no ethernet card connected when I installed. Now put one in, and cannot get connected: # netstat -r Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway

incomplete shutdown?

2003-07-24 Thread Richard Lyons
I managed to eliminate the graphic login by unlinking the k, x, and g desktops in /etc/rc2.d. That did what I expected, and allowed me to login at the terminal. But 'shutdown now' seems to only partly shut down, leaving me with a 'Enter root password... or ctl-D for...' message. Is it okay t

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