Re: another script query (perl?) -- OT

2007-09-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 09:22:45PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 03:04:50PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Hi, all you script wizards. > > > > I thought this would be easy, but I haven't found anything to crib > > from... > > &

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:59:13PM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > On 09/13/07 17:36, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > This is becoming more of a problem. There is a growing number of firms > > > that are incapable of sen

Re: Tool for document management

2007-10-11 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 01:31:57AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:31:32 -0400, Douglas A Tutty > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Here's my personal letter template. I copy it to the correct file > > name, edit it, then latex it. The letter text itself is just plain >

Re: good tool to recover scratched CD's/DVD's?

2007-10-11 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:34:25PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > There is a mechanical device which is able to restore a scratched CD > by polishing it with a mild abrasive. Perhaps surprisingly, I have often done this by hand. Choose a very fine grit -- the best in the UK is "Brasso", int

Re: texmaker bug?

2007-10-11 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 04:48:57PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: [...] > > I didn't even know what texmaker was until today. It's surprisingly unknown: people are always complaining about learning latex, but with texmaker you hardly need to. Kile is the same thing (originally built on it, I believe)

Re: digital album making choices and photo management

2007-10-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 01:29:11PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > Could some users share their photo management experiences in Debian > here? I have this little project at hand. The objective is to make a > digital album of family pictures to be given to family members on a CD. > > I am thin

Re: [solved] Re: ps2pdf resizes page size to wrong format

2007-10-27 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:56:13AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kevin Mark wrote: > > I'd try to investigate every file in /etc that deals with pdf or ps or > > the reverse depends of ps2pdf. Maybe there is some value that is > > differen

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:55:02PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: [...] > I followed instructions at the here previous indicated URL and run 'alsaconf' > which indeed completed and corrected the configuration of my sound > card. > Now everything is fine. All tests are OK. Lucky man! I wish it

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:52:59AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Richard Lyons shared this with us all: [...] > >--} Lucky man! I wish it would work for my Acer laptop! Still, I suppose > >--} after all these years I should know better than to expect sound on a &

Re: When I try to save html pages, nothing happens

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 02:02:42PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: [...] > > when you say 'the rest of /var should be owned by root as well,' do you mean > everything under /var, not just the immediate subdirectories? Depending on what your webserver is serving, at least some tranches of /var/www may

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:13:30PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 22:00:43 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > > > Mine is an Acer Aspire 1640Z, FWIW. > > What happens if you run "speaker-test", do you get an error message or > is it

Re: Charging iPod / Listening to music

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:01:53PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > When I plug my iPod using the USB cable I get the 'Do not > disconnect' screen on the ipod. It's great because I can see the ipod > is charging. But to listen to music I do not understand what I need to > do. I tried: > > $ e

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:32:18PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > That is indeed the normal output, so speaker-test seems to think > everything is OK. What do you get from running "amixer"? Florian, hello. How nice to have your help once again. Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabiliti

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:22:16PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: [...] > aptitude is by far one of the best package management tools out > there. Newbies and folks really stuck in the graphic-oriented/desktop > user world may like synaptic better, but for just getting things done > -- aptitude w

Re: Charging iPod / Listening to music

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:43:08PM -0400, steve wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:01:53PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > > >> When I plug my iPod using the USB cable I get th

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 09:13:55AM +0800, swhe wrote: > On 10/31/07, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:32:18PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > That is indeed the normal output, so speaker-tes

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:10:24PM +0800, swhe wrote: > > > > > can u get the sound when u use a headphone? > > > > > > > No, that seems silent too. > > what's the result of " cat /proc/asound/cards " 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xd000c000 irq

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:59:14AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > I don't see anything obvious, but the names and the functions of the > ALSA controls are always a bit counterintuitive to me. (Also, for added > fun, they are different for every card.) In this case there are not too many of the

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:31:12PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:53:46AM +0100, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: [...] > > reverse direction in mid-search in aptitude. I often race past a > > relevant match by being too qu

Re: Charging iPod / Listening to music

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:41:38AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 06:14:49PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > > On Oct 30, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > > > It works, I can listen to music again, but even if the cable is > > >pluged it does not seems to be ch

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 06:38:02PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:48:16 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > OK, so the hardware works. > > > Never mind -- I'll buy a phonograph, a soft cloth and scour the > > second-hand markets for viny

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:51:51PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > I am just following Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt. > The "Documentation" directory is part of the kernel source; you can > also get it separately by installing the linux-doc-... package for your > version o

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:28:08AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I'm not sure if its been mentioned in this thread yet or not, but at > least some (well, okay, one -- mine!) distinguishes between onboard > sound and an external amplifier. My rig has two jacks on the front, > one for hea

Re: Tool to configure sound

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:18:35PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > I think I'd also consider upgrading the alsa driver. I've been on the > alsa-user list for ages, and most recently on the alsa-devel list. the alsa > folks are working hard on resolving problems, particularly with hda intel, > an

Re: [OT] Scripting question: the length limit of a list?

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:49:03PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Thursday 01 November 2007 13:07, Wei Chen wrote: > > I would like to write a bash script like the following one: > > > > for i in `some program that outputs a word list` > > do > > echo $i > > done > > > > where the word list can be

getting back a deleted thread

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
Err... Embarrassed question. Suppose you are reading du with mutt. You clear away all the stuff you don't want to follow with a series of ^d and then $... and then you realize you accidentally deleted a thread of infinite wisdom you were going to save and have engraved in gold. Is there any way

Re: reverting to 'standard' etch installation

2007-11-01 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 06:02:44AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:11:00AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > 5. > > Now, anything else in the list are packages from stable that got > > upgraded to unstable as part of installing gnomad2 (things that > >

Re: Installing realplayer plugin for Firefox - help

2007-01-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, January 14, 2007 20:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the easiest way is to use the debian-multimedia archive. add "deb > http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main" to /etc/apt/source.list, > then do "apt-get update && apt-get install w32codecs totem-mozilla" as > root. this will install mu

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:56:01AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2008-02-13 10:05:43, schrieb Michael Yang: > > Yes. I tried to recompile because of missing sound suddenly for unknown > > reason. > > > > When I was recompiling the alsa-driver, it told me that the sound is unmated > > by def

Re: sound not working

2008-02-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:14:41AM +0900, Tomoki Taniguchi wrote: > I need help getting my sound card working on my laptop. > the sound card was working under windows prior to installing etch, > so i know the hardware works. > > "aplay -l" gives me > List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices >

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
> Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > FWIW, I have the same problem on an Acer Aspire 1640Z. Onboard sound > > card is in my case listed as > > Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High > > Definition Audio Controller

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:49:37AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:44:36PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > FWIW, I have the same problem on an Acer Aspire 1640Z. Onboard sound > > card is in my case listed as > > Intel Corporation 828

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:11:52PM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:39:12 +0100 > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > > How do you supply options to modules? I could try it anyway. > > > > You add them to your modprobe comm

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 04:25:50PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:11:52PM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:39:12 +0100 > > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > > > How do you supply

Re: How to unmute the sound?

2008-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:33:14PM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:25:50 +0100 > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:11:52PM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:39:

Re: DSL in Linux - direct setup?

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:38:25PM -0500, Zach wrote: > I have the DSL modem, plugged the ethernet cable between ETHERNET port > on modem and my NIC, I attached the phone line into the DSL port on > the modem but I still don't see any network connection. My ISP said > they use PPPoE but they never

mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
Hi all. Silly situation: I have been wanting to release my etch install from the LVM so as to be able to adjust the partitioning. The arrangement was: /dev/mapper/Debian-root on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) /dev/mapper/Debian-home on /home type ext3 (rw) /

Re: Cannot remove thttpd

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 05:56:57PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:13:23 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > >[...] > >·· > >>Thanks, that solved the problem with thttpd...but now I get the·· > >>following error message from aptitude: > >> > >>Using mk

Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:22:59PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:16:34PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Silly situation: I have been wanting to release my etch install from > > the LVM so as to be able to adjust the partitioning. The arrangement [..

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 02:21:56PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Let's say I have two directories dir1, dir2 each with 1000 files. > Of these 1000 files in each directory, there are 50 files named file1.txt, > file2.txt ... file50.txt. The rest of the files do not follow any pattern > and

Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:25:02PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > What warnings did you get about LVM? It is rather nice to be able to > resize partitions, but also migrate partitions of of failing drives. On > all my old boxes (that are still new enough to run Debian), drive > failures sta

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:12:34PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > LC_ALL=C diff -r dir1 dir2 | grep -v ^Only > > > > The size really doesn't matter for those extra large files. > > > > This works only if the extra 950 files are in just one directory. If the

Re: switching to DHCP in a clean manner ...

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:04:38PM +, Glenn Becker wrote: > > Hi all - > > I just moved from the NY metro area to the Boston metro area, and in the > process changed ISPs. My service is now significantly faster and cheaper, > but my account now assigns IPs dynamically -- previously, I'd ha

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:52:00PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > Well, I guess the subject caught your attention after all. > > Of course I'm not saying goodbye to Debian, at least not voluntarily and > certainly not at home. But I just changed jobs, and so moved from a self- > administered Debian box t

Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-25 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:13:48AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:14:54PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: [..] > > > > As I said, I am at home with fdisk and parted. And can boot from > > knoppix and copy a whole partition off when I need to, wherea

mail headers with exim4 using ISP smarthost

2008-02-25 Thread Richard Lyons
I am slightly puzzled by the following headers in mail I send out from this home network on DSL via the ISP's smtp server. I think this is something my exim4 is writing, and it looks odd (though it does no obvious harm). The box has hostname scatola and the domain name is co-ho.net, which is reso

Re: SOLVED - mail headers with exim4 using ISP smarthost

2008-02-25 Thread Richard Lyons
Oops. Sorry for the noise. On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 06:47:58PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > I am slightly puzzled by the following headers in mail I send out [...] > co-ho.net, which is resolved by zoneedit. But in place of the domain > name, it says 'config' -- see bel

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:54:06PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: [...] > > My attitude has gotten my university and my local green club to send > documents in PDF instead of Word, and I write to sites that do not > display properly in Firefox. I write to software houses (Adobe) > requesting they port

Re: GRUB 2 error

2008-02-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:44:29PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: [...] > Movib=g further off-topic, I've never understood why people use GRUB. LILO > seems so much lighter weight to achieve the same effect. > > Can anybody enlighten me? I keep asking myself the same question. I suppose the p

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:50:57AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > > The pattern should be in quotes, so that the shell does not expand it > > and it gets passed to your script. > > > > So it should be > > $patlist "file*" > > > > Damn the shell! Did not even

Re: diff files matching a pattern

2008-02-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:12:09PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > >> Damn the shell! Did not even think about this. Thanks Rajki. > > > > You should have read _my_ solution on sunday. There was a note about > > this in the com

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-26 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:44:21PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2008-02-20 23:49:15, schrieb Depo Catcher: > > > >Along this lines, does anyone know of a program that can quickly send > >out mass emails to a bunch of different addresses? > > 8<-- > (cat

curious entries in apache2 log

2008-02-27 Thread Richard Lyons
Can anyone enlighten me what is going on here? ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:05:21 +] "GET /" 400 1063 "-" "-" ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:05:25 +] "GET /" 400 1063 "-" "-" ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:14:06:02 +] "GET /" 400 1063 "-" "-" I see blocks of these in the apache2 access.log. -- richard

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:14:15PM -0600, cothrige wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have to say, there is nothing friendly about that damn gnu. And that > > statement is in no way a reflection on my views of GNU or it's > > projects. Just that if we're gonna have

Re: curious entries in apache2 log

2008-02-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:43:45PM -0800, Jeff D wrote: > Vikki Roemer wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: > >>Can anyone enlighten me what is going on here? > >> > >> ::1 - - [27/Feb/2008:1

Re: Software for collecting email addresses

2008-02-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:53:40PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Am 2008-02-26 19:26:36, schrieb Richard Lyons: > > Oh Michelle, it's _you_ that sends me all those "Dear {EMAIL}, Try > > {PRODUCT} today FREE!!!..." emails. And I thought it

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:44:14PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: [...] > > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/calimero.jpg > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/little_pinguin.jpg Excellent for breaking into the primary school market! richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

texlive and includegraphics{}

2008-03-03 Thread Richard Lyons
I've just found texlive on a new etch install cannot find graphics called with includegraphics{}. These are files that ran with Latex, and have '\usepackage{graphicx}'. The only error message is dvips: Could not find figure file /home/richard/foo/bar.eps; continuing The graphics files are still

Re: texlive and includegraphics{}

2008-03-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 06:02:01PM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just found texlive on a new etch install cannot find graphics called > > with includegraphics{}. These are files tha

Re: texlive and includegraphics{}

2008-03-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:52:17PM +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Richard Lyons shared this with us all: > >--} I've just found texlive on a new etch install cannot find graphics > > called --} with includegraphics{}. These are files that ran with

Re: texlive and includegraphics{}

2008-03-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:08:35PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > >I've just found texlive on a new etch install cannot find graphics called > >with includegraphics{}. These are files that ran with Latex, and have > >'\usepackage{graphicx}'.

Re: SOLVED: texlive and includegraphics{}

2008-03-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 06:18:03PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 12:21 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > I've just found texlive on a new etch install cannot find graphics called > > with includegraphics{}. These are files tha

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes (was: Laptop with Linux preinstalled)

2008-03-05 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:09:34PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Owen Townend wrote: > > Staying off-topic :) > > Naming schemes wise - Good idea with the bond girls. > > My VM names are all coffee related: arabica dusting froth platter moc

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:13:10PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/05/08 20:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:24:28PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] > >> Disgusting Scots food. > >> > >> $ uname -n > >> haggis

Re: creating a ProDOS boot diskette

2008-04-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 01:04:14AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: [...] > Hal > (Who still misses his Apple //e with a *fully socketed* motherboard, a > whopping 5 MB hard drive and who actually enjoyed programming in 6502 > Assembler!) ooh, you're making me misty-eyed. That 6502 Assembler _was_ fun

Re: creating a ProDOS boot diskette

2008-04-16 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 07:54:19AM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 01:04:14AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > [...] > > Hal > > (Who still misses his Apple //e with a *fully socketed* motherboard, a > > whopping 5 MB hard drive and who actually enj

iceweasel and libflashplayer

2008-04-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On an etch box, I recently hit a website that insisted I should upgrade to flashplayer 9. No sweat, I did. Now I notice BBC and other sites keep telling me I need to upgrade flashplayer. about:plugins says I have flashplayer 7 and flashplayer 9. In that order. I suppose this to be the problem,

Re: iceweasel and libflashplayer

2008-04-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:04:33 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:12:33AM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > On an etch box, I recently hit a website that insisted I should upgrade > > to flashplayer 9. No sweat, I did. Now I notice BBC and other sites >

Re: iceweasel and libflashplayer

2008-04-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 01:26:09PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:12:33 +0200 > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > about:plugins says I have flashplayer 7 and flashplayer 9. In that > > It should also give a path to whichever l

Re: iceweasel and libflashplayer

2008-04-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 03:37:06PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Saturday 19 April 2008 13:42, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 01:26:09PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:12:33 +0200 > > > > > > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL P

Re: iceweasel and libflashplayer

2008-04-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 02:33:22PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:42:31 +0200 > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Richard, > > > That was what I hoped, but this is all it gives: > > Not very helpful, that. :-( > >

listening to BBC

2008-04-19 Thread Richard Lyons
I suppose the BBC has changed its codec or something. I used to be able to play "Listen Again" programmes on the BBC site with their BBC Radio Player, which opened in a separate Firefox/Iceweasel window. Now it just complains about a missing codec called, oddly, "cook". Is there a debian package

mutt courier exim4 - configuration help required

2007-05-05 Thread Richard Lyons
I am really beginning to hate squirrelmail. It doesn't thread, it doesn't break lines to 72 (or whatever) chars... But I am stuck with using it unless someone can tell me where to look for my misconfiguration. I have a server (actually a vm with Bytemark) on which I run courier-imap and exim4.

exim4 error?

2007-05-07 Thread Richard Lyons
I got no reponse at all previously -- perhaps too general a question. Does anyone recognise this set of messages on /var/log/exim4/mainlog: 2007-05-05 13:35:42 1HkJUE-000170-0o ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address 2007-05-05 13:35:42 1HkJUE-000170-0o ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address

OT: database to manage real estate business?

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Lyons
Not a debian question, but someone here usually has done it before. Has anyone come across or created a system for managing real estate agency, from first viewing to sale, with an emphasis on the incorporation of the property description, survey photos and drawings, and perhaps a method to interfa

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 16:29 +0200, Frank Hart wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:08:23AM -0500, Jason Martens wrote: > > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I Well, I would like to add a huge thankyou. I just got a recon box for £99 (an old compaq with a 1.7 Inte

Re: OT: database to manage real estate business?

2006-09-30 Thread Richard Lyons
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 14:48 -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > On Friday 29 September 2006 10:24, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > Has anyone come across or created a system for managing real estate > > agency, [...] > Hmm...try freshmeat: > > http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=

networked printer "is busy, will retry in 30 seconds"

2006-10-04 Thread Richard Lyons
I've trawled google, but everyone else's problems seem to be either windoze/mac related or to be with a printer attached to another host. I've just acquired a recond. hp laserjet 5 with a network card. My son has printed to it over the network from a 'doze host, so I know it works. But when I

Re: SV: set domain name

2006-10-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 17:54 +0200, Kenneth Grande wrote: "Andrew Critchlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also, eveytime I change resolv.conf it gets changed back to something > > else, could this be because there is a dhcp server running and the interface > > is configured to accept dhcp? >

yet another bash question

2006-11-07 Thread Richard Lyons
For things like saving photos to hard disk, I tend to use a few bash scripts to rename the files, keeping the numerical part and coding something else in place of the "cimg". For example, I might change all the files cimg1234.jpg to cimg1299.jpg to be called foobar234.jpg to foobar299.jpg. I tend

jigdo newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Richard Lyons
I need a complete etch dvd set for a location that has no inet. I keep hearing about bittorrent and jigdo, so I thought I'd try. Bittorrent wouldn't connect to something; after it had failed for over half an hour, I concluded it wasn't going anywhere and switched to jigdo. I started a download o

Re: jigdo-newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:28:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061109 09:00]: > > I need a complete etch dvd set for a location that has no inet. ^^^ > ... > > for about four hours, then said > >

Nvidia chipset problems on Presario

2009-09-10 Thread Richard Lyons
I have an HP Compaq Presario CQ60 laptop. Having no high-speed connection, I have installed Debian 5.0.2 from the dvd set. This gives me kernel· 2.6.26-2-686. The Presario has an nvidia chipset (see output of lspci below). The installer evidently fails to recognise this or doesn't have the rig

Re: Nvidia chipset problems on Presario

2009-09-10 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:31:40AM -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: > > From: Richard Lyons [mailto:rich...@the-place.net] > > Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:45 AM > > > > I have an HP Compaq Presario CQ60 laptop. Having no high-speed > > connection, > > I have

Re: Nvidia chipset problems on Presario

2009-10-03 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 02:01:25PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 09:44 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > I have an HP Compaq Presario CQ60 laptop. Having no high-speed > > connection, > > I have installed Debian 5.0.2 from the dvd set. This gives me kern

Re: Printing a web page shrunk to a single page

2009-02-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 04:03:36AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:47:05 + > Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > > > (I actually mostly want to export it to pdf so either option will work) > > So why don't you? Firefox enables you to print to file, choose pdf. > > I'm not sure if th

Re: Lenny upgrade Report

2009-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 04:15:15AM -0600, P. Lane wrote: [...] > Appaerently with exim4 you must accept the maintainers > new config file even if you don't want to. Otherwise it leaves the > DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF in the config which causes the error whitch cascades I had the same problem a coup

[OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
I saw this ad on the tube recently, and was disappointed to find it wasn't inviting people to migrate from the dark side http://the-place.net/penguin/migrate.jpg But maybe we should... richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: [OT] Linux on the London Tube?

2009-02-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:34:54PM +, Sholem Aleichem wrote: > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 7:31:57 pm Jamie White wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Paulo Brito > > wrote: > > > > > 2009/2/17 Richard Lyons > > >> > > >> I saw

Re: Restoring file permissions from package database?

2009-02-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:24:15AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:43:48AM +0100, Oliver Schneider wrote: [...] > However, its a lot of work to go > through each package individually. > > I know, its a lot of work either way. But you could write a bash script to do th

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0

2009-02-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 04:00:51PM +0500, Farid Ansari wrote: > *Dear Sir's, > I downloaded and installed the new Debian 5.0 Lenny and was very happy with > the installer which is the best of all Linux installers. > After installation I am not able to run the system. > I come to the screen where i

Re: digital camera recomendations

2009-02-19 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:55:12AM -0500, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Mike McClain wrote: > > > > > AA batteries are cheap, readily available and I can get NiCad and NiMH. > > Custom rechargable battery packs are like printer ink cartridges. > > I wonder whether any camera use AAA batteries. Tha

gimp tools frozen

2009-02-04 Thread Richard Lyons
This is odd. Just moved to a new (er) box. Newly installed testing system. Gimp2 is almost unusable as the tools (pen, airbrish, whatever) don't work. It seems to think the cursor is stuck at 0,0. Yet the mouse (usb) works fine for everything else. Another thing: I cannot get the mouse srollwh

altering iceweasel print settings

2009-02-04 Thread Richard Lyons
This seems quite out of control now. I have a lenny box with iceweasel 3.0.5 [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008122011 Iceweasel/3.0.5 (Debian-3.0.5-1)] The page setup dialog has no margin settings, only the choice of printer, papersize and orientation. Changing the pap

Re: gimp tools frozen

2009-02-04 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 05:51:27PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2009 17:22:19 Richard Lyons wrote: > > This is odd. Just moved to a new (er) box. Newly installed testing > > system. Gimp2 is almost unusable as the tools (pen, airbrish, whatever) >

Re: altering iceweasel print settings

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Lyons
Replying to my own posting, in case it helps someone else... On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 05:16:08PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > This seems quite out of control now. I have a lenny box with iceweasel > 3.0.5 > [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008122011 > Ice

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 11:12:38AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > Hello DU > > I'd like to begin writing my coursework for college in LaTeX, but I've > no clue where to start. I began by installing the vim-latexsuite > package, but that didn't seem to really work too well (The help pages > are bo

Re: Jerky Mouse

2007-11-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:08:41PM +0100, Axel Schlicht wrote: > Hi > > I installed the latest incarnation of Debian i386 (4.01R1) and X runs OK > (with no manual fiddling - first time ever, whow). But one problem remains: > My mouse (or rather mice, for I tried several), connected to a PS2 port

networked multi-function colour laser printers

2014-07-14 Thread Richard Lyons
drivers, for example. The sane-project.org website never has the current models, however, so I would like to hear any positive experience others have had before buying another expensive failure. TIA richard -- Richard Lyons -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: networked multi-function colour laser printers

2014-07-14 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 01:18:43 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 02:13:22PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > I see that HP and OKI both claim to offer Linux drivers, for example. > > The sane-project.org website never has the current models, however, so I &g

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