Re: Firefox print problems after recent test/unstable upgrade.

2006-01-20 Thread Richard Lyons
On Thursday, 19 January 2006 at 19:23:54 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > I (accidentally) upgraded one of my workstations to Xorg on either > testing or unstable along with several hundred other packages. > > Most of it I've managed to get working again. > > But I wanted to check with the community

Re: (te)TeX recent changes

2006-01-20 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday, 20 January 2006 at 2:30:06 +0100, Bruno Beaufils wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:06:20AM +0100, Ralf Stubner wrote: > > '-Poutline'. But since dvips uses outline fonts by default, this file > > I do not remember why I use the config.outline file but I think it is because > at a cer

Re: (te)TeX recent changes

2006-01-21 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday, 20 January 2006 at 15:53:35 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Bruno Beaufils wrote: > >I can reproduce exactly the same behavior with an even more simple file : > > > >-- > >\documentclass{article} > >\begin{do

Re: aol art files:

2006-01-27 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday, 23 January 2006 at 14:20:38 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 15:38:37 EST > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > please remove aol/art from my pc thank you > > > > > sometimes you have to just wonder. But the odd thing is that this is a recurring theme. Where do

Re: xterm not dealing with long lines of typing correctly

2006-01-27 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday, 25 January 2006 at 10:19:52 -0600, Andrew Nelson wrote: > Hello all, > > Recently I've noticed my xterm's doesn't seem to be handling line wrapping of > commands correctly. Instead of wrapping to a new line the characters start > wrapping back on the current line. I've noticed thi

mimic mac OSX with debian

2006-02-02 Thread Richard Lyons
I am about to do a debian install on an AMD64 system for my daughter. I suppose it will need to be etch for the AMD64. She is used to a mac laptop, and would feel most at home if the gui behaves like a mac. So, what would be the best window manager and desktop? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: RAID Sizes (was Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?)

2006-04-21 Thread Richard Lyons
+++ Matus UHLAR - fantomas [21/04/06 08:54 +0200]: >On 16.04.06 22:56, Willie Wonka wrote: >>Explained another way (hopefully); >>If you bought a 1,000 Byte (1KB) HDD - you'd lose 24 *Bytes* Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >No. The big 'K' stands for 1024, 1000 is small 'k'. >The big 'K' was ch

character encoding in email

2006-02-21 Thread Richard Lyons
OT again, I fear. But can someone enlighten me as to why a steadily growing proportion of email is full of wierd codes. I can only suppose they are characters encoded in a way either exim or mutt is failing to interpret. A typical example at random of the kind of thing I mean: Annan\222s vi

Re: gtk file picker and firefox

2006-02-21 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 21 February 2006 at 11:11:36 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Toshiro wrote: > >>FWIW, I already moved away from firefox to konqueror, the sole reason > >>being the new file picker. God knows how many Linux users they drove > >>away due to this inefficient filepicker. > > > > > >I thought I

file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

2005-12-05 Thread Richard Lyons
I've been away from this list for a while, so: hello everybody. It's nice to be back. I've installed sarge on a new box but i am getting strange 'file not found' errors. Not sure whether to suspect hardware or hardware drivers. Or something else. The setup is: cpu: AMD64 Athlon 3200+ m

Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

2005-12-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 1:11:32 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > > >The problem is that installed software sometimes refuses to run, giving > >'file not found', in spite of the fact that the file in question wi

Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

2005-12-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 12:10:38 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: > > >On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 1:11:32 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > >>On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: > >> > >>> > >&g

Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

2005-12-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 12:00:24 +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:41:46AM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > $ ./qcad > > bash: ./qcad: No such file or directory [...] > > Maybe it's missing some vital library or somesuch [

Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

2005-12-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 14:20:08 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: > > >tiramisu:/opt/qcad-2.1.0.0-rc1-1-prof.linux.lcpp5.x86# ldd ./qcad > >/usr/bin/ldd: line 171: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory > >ldd: /lib/l

Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

2005-12-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 17:42:35 +, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Try reinstalling libc6 and see if that works. > I did apt-get --reinstall install libc6, which should achieve that. But no change to the results. Perhaps if I compile qcad from source the problem will disappear. (If I manage

Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

2005-12-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 19:41:04 +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:26:36PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > bash: ./qcad: Accessing a corrupted shared library > > > > So what next? Just to recap., this is etch on an amd64 system, which may

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 21:43:15 -0600, Josh King wrote: > Hey all, > > Currently I am the lead admin/webmaster of DebCentral.org. I really > would like to take a few minutes out of your life to gather some inputs > on an idea I have. [...] > subject was the basis of an article written b

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2005-12-07 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday, 7 December 2005 at 21:18:33 +1100, Arafangion wrote: > On Wednesday 07 December 2005 21:43, Andrey S Andreev wrote: > > > I think (g)vi(m) should have made the list with 10 votes , as, at least > > in Debian vi and vim refer to the same thing, and gvim is still mostly > > just vim.

Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

2005-12-07 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 19:41:04 +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:26:36PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > # ./qcad > > bash: ./qcad: Accessing a corrupted shared library [...] > > to recap., this is etch on an amd64 system, [...] &

Re: So what's the difference ...

2005-12-07 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday, 7 December 2005 at 9:55:43 -0500, John wrote: > ... between the fonts in /usr/lib/X11/fonts and those in > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts? Does it matter which is specified in > xorg.conf? (up-to-date sid, home-baked 2.6.14 kernel) No difference is > apparent: You might like to check wh

Re: Setting local time.

2005-12-09 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday, 9 December 2005 at 10:53:09 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Personally, I hate this switching altogether: There is no advantage to > have the sun go down "one hour earlier" in winter than in summer; the > length of a day is independent of the fact that silly authorities change >

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