Making dead-keys from us_intl layout work with all characters? (fwd)

2003-06-01 Thread Rogério Brito
details below). Thanks for any help, Rogério. P.S.: Please CC'me on replies, as I'm not subscribed to debian-user or debian-user-portuguese. - Forwarded message from Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Firewire card suported by Linux?

2003-06-12 Thread Rogério Brito
, Roger... P.S.: Please Cc: me on replies, as I'm only subscribed to d-powerpc. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogério Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- T

Re: Is life with 'udev' good?

2004-11-20 Thread Rogério Brito
with the intent of persistent naming and attached are the rules that I'm using right now quite well, might I say. I, BTW, don't like the devfs-like names (way too long for my taste). -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://ww

On using magicfilter and gs (was: Re: Laser Printer)

2004-11-25 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 24 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've always liked magicfilter. Add me to the list of such users. I've been using magicfilter for years and printing has not been a problem since then (when I used to run ghostscript manually with many options just to print my LaTeX papers to my advisor).

On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)

2004-11-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 25 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 25 Nov 2004, Rogério Brito wrote: > > And while I am at it, it seems that this maintainer is a little bit > > unresponsive, since the other bug that I filed had the same destination, > > apparently (/dev/null): > > > &g

Re: Floppy mount & unmount clarification please

2004-11-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 28 2004, s. keeling wrote: > Change the fs type in /etc/fstab to "auto": > > # > /dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 > I guess that the now-recommended mount point for floppies is under the /media directory, as in /

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-28 Thread Rogério Brito
ve msmtp installed just in case my stupid ISP has problems relaying my e-mail (I can, then, use other accounts for relaying with non-standard ports and encryption enabled). If one does not want a full MTA installed, I'd say that msmtp is the way to go. Quite impressed by its versatility. Hope t

Re: Floppy mount & unmount clarification please

2004-11-29 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 29 2004, Jim Hall wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > >I guess that the now-recommended mount point for floppies is under the > >/media directory, as in /media/floppy, /media/cdrom etc. > > /media/foodrive is correct. The mount point isn't the problem. As you can s

Re: iTunes Replacement for Linux

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
my desktop for ripping my collection of CDs. Anyway, I just hope that we soon have a Desktop-agnostic version of iTunes for Linux (I use fluxbox on an old machine with low RAM). I want to be DFSG as much as I can. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: htt

Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 30 2004, Juergen Neumann wrote: > All my mozilla-based browsers crash on some sides. I have no clew how > this could happen. Which sites are you visiting? If you cited some sites, then perhaps others could try to see if they also see the same symptoms and file bugs on mozilla. I'm currentl

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
odest needs, instead of those that need a full MTA (which, in my case, is qmail plus some patches). Cheers, Rogério Brito. -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/toppost.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: how does mutt send?

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 30 2004, Sam Watkins wrote: > I don't think mutt can do its own mail delivery. > Apparently msmtp is designed precisely for this purpose. > > You can put an msmtp binary in your home directory and put > something like this in .muttrc: > > set sendmail="/home/someone/bin/msmtp" I tend be

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
tter with laptop-mode? I'm thinking of using laptop-mode even for my i386 Desktop (since I can't stand the noise of its HD). Thanks for sharing any experiences, Rogério Brito. -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://www.xs4

Re: running scripts when logging in (via X)

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 30 2004, Mark D. Hansen wrote: > How to I get these scripts to run when I login via X ?? Just put whatever you want in ~/.xsession. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://www.xs4all

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
getting some more RAM would make this issue go away (perhaps with truly high commit intervals, like, say, one hour -- I would have to experiment to see if I can take such risks). Nice that you pointed out about the start/stop cycles, though. Thanks, Rogério Brito. -- Learn to quote e-mails

Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
ld invite other users to help with this. Perhaps this way the bug count will drop and the maintainers will give up maintaining their packages, leaving room for some new blood. And, most important of all, keeping up the quality of Debian. Rantingly yours, Rogério Brito. P.S.: It should be said, thou

Re: memory usage

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
't have a nice gui, but I think that it tells which programs are currently using the memory and also which libraries are being used at a given time. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://www

Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)

2004-12-01 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 01 2004, s. keeling wrote: > A couple of them have replied to mine, mentioning that woody's old as > dirt, and they're up to their eyeballs trying to bring sarge to > stable. 'Sounds like a fairly reasonable excuse to me. I don't > begrudge them that. But the fact is that I *am* using tes

Re: All mozilla-based browsers crash on some sites

2004-12-01 Thread Rogério Brito
I think that the following e-mail was meant to be sent to the list: On Nov 30 2004, james derry wrote: > bringing up the homepage of www.msnbc.msn.com crashed my mozilla on linux > and firefox on windows yesterday mid-afternoon. Worked fine for me, but then, that is a dynamic page, and we might h

Re: Emacs fonts for coding

2004-12-04 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 04 2004, Jim McCarthy wrote: > Stephen Patterson writes: > > I find my regular terminal font (7x13) to be good ... > > Or if Antonio is looking for something larger, try 9x15 or 9x15bold ... I think that on higher resolution devices, 10x20 is the minimum that my eyes can see without too mu

Re: dvips problem

2004-12-04 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 04 2004, Ray Kong wrote: > I did "dvips -Ppdf", so I ran "texconfig" to configure dvips to use > 300dpi on printer "pdf", then the problem went away. I'd think that the ljfour option would allow one to easily use 600dpi without any problems. Is your intent creating PDF files? If it is, the

Re: setting GTK 1 font size

2004-12-05 Thread Rogério Brito
ia-player and is currently available in sarge. Hope this helps a tiny bit, Rogério Brito. -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/toppost.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-10 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 10 2004, Dave Ewart wrote: > Apart from anything else, 1280x960 should work faster than 1280x1024: > less to redraw for each screen refresh! For that very reason I'm using 1280x960 at 86Hz of refresh rate for quite some time (thanks to the Colas Modeline Generator [*] for generating good mo

Re: DVD: can't burn dual layer or at > 4x

2004-12-11 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 11 2004, Andrew Schulman wrote: > $ cdrecord dev=ATAPI:/dev/dvd -prcap Please, bear in mind that I don't have a DVD burner. Anyway, if I am not mistaken remembering what Jens Axboe said, you should use dev=/dev/dvd instead of dev=ATAPI:/dev/dvd to access your drive. This is the way that I'

Re: Converting from KMail

2004-12-14 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 14 2004, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > Unfortunately, mdir isn't that well supported in other packages. Does > anyone know of a tool to convert from mdir to mbox format? I've done > searches and found tools to go the other way, but none to migrate back > and forth. If by mdir you mean Maild

Re: mounting cd-rw

2004-12-17 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 16 2004, jack kinnon wrote: > I had assumed that all I need is to mount it and then do the file > copying. Have I missed a step or two, like formatting, for instance? Recent kernel versions (like the 2.9.10-rc3 that I'm using right now) has the ability of using packet writing, which is what

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-18 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 17 2004, Steve Lamb wrote: > Firefox setting CNTL-U to "upload manager" was pretty dumb since CNTL-U > is unix' default for "clear field". :/ Put this into your .gtkrc-2.0 file: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" - - -

Re: Outlook more efficient in storing mails?

2004-12-18 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 18 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > HD capacity is *cheap*. Not always. Especially when you can't get upgrades cheaply or when you can't upgrade the HD of your computer (say, you are using a computer provided by your employer and you can't mess with it). -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at:

Re: Debian native java

2004-12-18 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 18 2004, Tong wrote: > Is Debian native java OK? I mean has anybody install it? You can install the package free-java-sdk and it will give you an environment that is reasonably good for simple programs. The JVM that will be installed this way is sablevm. You may also want to try using kaffe

Setting up a low resource graphical environment (was: Re: GUI)

2004-12-21 Thread Rogério Brito
iword/LyX was my office apps. Gnumeric is indeed quite a good spreadsheet. For text-processing, I use Emacs (with AUCTeX) and teTeX, since I need a lot of mathematics for my work. Cheers, Rogério Brito -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http:

Software for managing mailing lists (was: Re: Majordomo)

2004-12-21 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 21 2004, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 07:01:29PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > It certainly seems that mailman is the only way to go when it comes to > > dong mailing lists these days. > > p ezmlm-src I have used DJB's ezmlm quite sucessfully for a looong time (in con

Re: Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 22 2004, William Ballard wrote: > You could file a bug and request an option to have Debian's menu be *the* > Gnome menu. Now, that would be a good thing, IMO. Seeing the applications separately isn't that intuitive for the new users that I've been using as "guinea pigs" for deploying Open

Re: Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 22 2004, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > I think he means (optionally) replacing the GNOME menu with the Debian > menu; that would save having two separate menu heirarchies. I meant exactly that. > Anyone who doesn't use GNOME would be unaffected. Exactly, I personally use fluxbox (it's somethin

Re: gcc with Debian on amd64

2004-12-23 Thread Rogério Brito
lo.c > hello.c:1:19: stdio.h: No such file or directory You should have libc6-dev (or the equivalent in your architecture) installed for the standard header files of the C Library. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php ht

Using the us_intl keyboard (was: Re: umlauts once again :))

2004-12-25 Thread Rogério Brito
c: in the event that somebody there knows a solution to the problem that I have described. Perhaps Branden knows the answer? Anyway, hope this helps, Rogério Brito. P.S.: Despite I living in a country where my mother tongue needs lots of accents, a good portion of the keyboards sold here has the US l

Re: Startinf fvwm

2004-12-25 Thread Rogério Brito
(I don't like to use display managers) and I only have an ~/.xsession script, not an ~/.xinitrc script. The funny thing is that with some other Unices that I've tried (indeed, it was quite long ago), the way that X worked was the way that you described. Merry Christmas, Rogério Brito. -- L

Re: Debian sid and "risk management"

2004-12-25 Thread Rogério Brito
nstead, not sid. This way, you are helping the Debian community by seeing if testing is in a "releasable" state (which is the intention, anyway). Of course, if you don't *need* stability, then go ahead and use sid. And file the bugs that you encounter, perhaps preventing the pac

Re: Debian sid and "risk management"

2004-12-25 Thread Rogério Brito
her when big troubles come haunt you. Conservatively yours, Rogério Brito. -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/toppost.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Mass-tagging MP3 files (was: Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?)

2004-12-25 Thread Rogério Brito
it would perhaps had the ability you described. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/toppost.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-26 Thread Rogério Brito
cursive acronyms). And I have not even started with word plays/puns in original Unix commands. Unix *is* indeed a culture/life style that may be strange to others used to other paradigms. Just my 2 cents, Rogério Brito. -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 26 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > Because w32codecs and ndiswrappers are x86 binary packages, they tie > many people to x86-32 (even in a chroot) who would rather go whole > hog to x86-64. Not only that, but all the other platforms (like ppc) that receive less attention that x86-64. You have to

Re: numlockx problem?

2004-12-28 Thread Rogério Brito
f? That would be nice just for consistency's sake. Curiously yours, Rogério Brito. -- Learn to quote e-mails decently at: http://pub.tsn.dk/how-to-quote.php http://learn.to/quote http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/toppost.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: xcdroast

2004-12-31 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 31 2004, Tom Allison wrote: > Unfortunately what is not solved in kernel 2.6.9 is my NVIDIA drivers > won't install. why? I don't know.. I know. Because you shouldn't have bought a card with binary only drivers in the first place. Doing that results in you having the problems that you'r

Using udev rules to create nodes in /dev with deterministic names (was: Re: xcdroast)

2004-12-31 Thread Rogério Brito
v}="iPod", NAME="ipod%n" # HD in Firewire Enclosure BUS="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}="QUANTUM*", SYSFS{model}="FIREBALLlct15 30", NAME="firewire%n" [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hope this helps, Rog

On the use of Desktop Environments (was: Re: Disabling minimize animation in GNOME)

2005-01-09 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jan 08 2005, William Ballard wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 21:35 +0700, David Garamond wrote: > > > I'm using Sarge with GNOME 2.6 (haven't updated to 2.8). There's a > > > 'shrinking box' animation when you minimize a window. How do I disable > > > it? It gets pretty annoying after a while

Re: dhclient backgrounding?

2005-04-30 Thread Rogério Brito
). Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: do I really need "make-kpkg clean"?

2005-05-01 Thread Rogério Brito
g-endian machine. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: do I really need "make-kpkg clean"?

2005-05-01 Thread Rogério Brito
chagas:~# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Donations of unused 168-pin 5V EDO DIMM cards are more than welcome, as I can't get anything like this where I live. :-( The memory could, at least, act like a cache. :-/ Thanks, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: do I really need "make-kpkg clean"?

2005-05-01 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 02 2005, Rogério Brito wrote: > On May 01 2005, s. keeling wrote: > > You must have the slowest hard drive in existence. My 700 Mhz PIII does > > a kernel compile in 18 min. (...) > > Donations of unused 168-pin 5V EDO DIMM cards are more than welcome, as I > can&

Re: apt-get deprecated?

2005-05-02 Thread Rogério Brito
" of those packages you have installed and which versions they are. Quite nice for making backups and for those disaster recovery situations. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://

Re: folder display order in mutt

2005-05-07 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 07 2005, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > where is this being set as the system default? Possibly, via dpkg-reconfigure locales, when the systems were installed. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorit

Re: .bash_profile not sourced on login

2005-05-08 Thread Rogério Brito
ny xterm-like program to work with a login shell). Hope this helps, Rogério. P.S.: Was it you that studied with Prof. Paulo Agozzini? -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmea

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-09 Thread Rogério Brito
ibc's (dietlibc, for instance) for building the system. I'd be sincerely curious to know how much faster such a system would run, especially on computers with limited cache (like my main computer, a Duron 600MHz). -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbri

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-10 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 09 2005, Jon Dowland wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > >Indeed, fluxbox is an amazing window manager for those with little > >resources. Highly recommended, especially if you use it with the > >"Minimal" style, where gradients etc are not used (which are

On lightweight window-managers (was: Re: Is 64MB enough?)

2005-05-10 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 10 2005, Jon Dowland wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > >Could you let me know of other window managers that are "lightweight" and > >that at least let me use dock apps. It will be a plus if I can set them to > >"auto-hide". > > pwm, ion{

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-10 Thread Rogério Brito
8MB of RAM (well, there's quite an amount of bloat in current applications -- part of the reason why I like Dan Bernstein's approach to Unix). -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepag

Re: On lightweight window-managers (was: Re: Is 64MB enough?)

2005-05-10 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 10 2005, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Rogério Brito: > > P.S.: As you can see, I am willing to experiment with many window > > managers (but not with Desktop Environments right now). > > blackbox, fluxbox, wm2. > > The first two have a dock. If blackbox, g

Re: How can I tag Ogg/FLAC files from their discid?

2005-05-19 Thread Rogério Brito
dus operandi of easytag. I think that you can pick up the rest with this micro-introduction to easytag. It is really powerful. I'd say that it is the Emacs of song files tagging. Addictive, especially when used with iTunes and an iPod. Amazing. Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério B

On transcoding and preserving tags? (was: Re: How can I tag Ogg/FLAC files from their discid?)

2005-05-19 Thread Rogério Brito
anybody that would recommend a FLAC to MP3 conversor that preserves the metadata? I intend to convert some bootlegs from FLAC format to MP3 so that I can listen to them on my iPod, but I'd love to use lame and automate the tagging that I have already done on the files. Thanks for any recommendation

Re: substitute for ping

2005-05-19 Thread Rogério Brito
ll break between classes. :-( Frustrated yours, Rogério. :-( -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: upgrading to unstable

2005-05-20 Thread Rogério Brito
e next to a releaseable state at any time. In other words, it is called testing for a reason. And, besides that, it is rock-solid, especially near release dates, when it gets the attention of developers. Cheers, -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-21 Thread Rogério Brito
ve inherited an old PowerMac 9500 from my uncle (it has about a decade) and it uses 168-pin 5V EDO DIMM memory. Even if I had the money (which I don't), sites like crucial don't carry such memory anymore. :-( Of course, I would gladly accept any "throw away memory"

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-21 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there, Jerônimo. Long time, no see! On May 21 2005, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:00:54AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Indeed. Let alone the typographical quality that you get with (La)TeX > > and that you don't get with other systems (if La

Re: Sarge Performance

2005-05-21 Thread Rogério Brito
derations (and tuning the contents of /proc/sys/vm/swappiness may help you here also). Hope this helps, Rogério. P.S.: All this is a shot in the dark, as I got the thread in the middle. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : htt

Open-Source environments for Java (was: Re: java)

2005-05-22 Thread Rogério Brito
ou that there are other people interested in *working* for the project. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Regarding unresponsive Debian maintainers (was: Re: Open-Source environments for Java)

2005-05-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 22 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > In my very humble and uninformed opinion, some maintainers should > > really give up maintaining their packages or should try to get other > > people as co-maintainers, if they lack the time to f

Re: Regarding unresponsive Debian maintainers (was: Re: Open-Source environments for Java)

2005-05-25 Thread Rogério Brito
sk that the project should take very seriously. > If you have specific maintainers/packages, please send a mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, I will do after sarge is released. One more reason to wish it to be released soon. I have already some packages/maintainers on mind. Thanks, Rogério.

Re: html to pdf conversion

2005-05-25 Thread Rogério Brito
PS or PDF, the files generated are quite small (since these fonts are in the Base 14 set). I hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshme

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-28 Thread Rogério Brito
stributions, unfortunately. Thanks in advance for any feedback, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 28 2005, Jacob S wrote: > On Sat, 28 May 2005 19:31:00 -0400 > Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rogério Brito wrote: > > > Indeed. One thing that has puzzled me is that scrolling in > > > www.macslash.org > > > is simply *slow* on my system w

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 28 2005, Jacob S wrote: > Yea, or even compare window managers. My sistem is quite minimal here. I use fluxbox without any bells and whistles (I use the Minimal Style, since, as I said, my box is not that powerful). -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbr

Slow Firefox performance scrolling macslash.org (was: Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system)

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
w, but surely this is confusing as we both discovered. Thanks for taking the time to verify "the phenomenon", Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://fr

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
card. BTW, the version of Windows that I have here is an evaluation version of "Windows 2000 Server" (it's trial period is terminating) and the X that I am using is Debian's (from testing). Hope this clarifies, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
Where is your Firefox/Mozilla from? And which processor do you have? I am quite interested in what others see before I file a bug report. Thanks in advance, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms packag

Re: Frozen Sarge?

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
to get the updates now. I do think that they were in the pipeline for settling things --- oh, and the "release date" for sarge is the 30th of May, but I don't really know if it will be possible to declare sarge the new stable tomorrow. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.i

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 29 2005, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 04:07 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > Don't you see the problem while scrolling www.macslash.org? What about > > scrolling a page with many comments, in flat mode? And what about the same > > thing done in sl

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 29 2005, John Hasler wrote: > Rogério Brito writes: > > Don't you see the problem while scrolling www.macslash.org? > > I don't see it here either. Firefox 1.0.4-1, FVWM 2.4.15-1, XFree86 > 4.2.1-6, kernel 2.6.4, dual PIII-500 with 384M. Hummm, perhaps its

Re: Slow Firefox performance scrolling macslash.org

2005-05-29 Thread Rogério Brito
Thanks for the interest in pursuing this "problem". I think that maybe the slowdowns may be due to iframes that macslash.org uses? I sincerely don't know. Let's see if others see the problem like we do. Thanks again, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stopping ssh attacks

2005-06-16 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jun 16 2005, michael wrote: > I set up sshd_config to use a different port. That stopped them (for > now...) That's only a palliative solution, as you noted. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-16 Thread Rogério Brito
much worse (at least the last time I checked). As it may be obvious from my e-mail, I am an old-school Unix user. I have tried to switch to the "new modus operandi" of treating my computer as a tool and ignoring what is driving it (so that I could be more productive---or, at least, I thou

Re: cd -> iso

2005-06-18 Thread Rogério Brito
iso This method is better than using plain cp or dd because readcd will try to do some error correction on the CD/DVD being duplicated. Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-21 Thread Rogério Brito
like Apple's Backup program (see: <http://www.mac.com/1/iTour/tour_backup.html>). Any recommendations are more than welcome. Thanks, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-21 Thread Rogério Brito
Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, [iso-8859-1] Rogério Brito wrote: All this backup talk got me thinking: what do you guys recommend for backing up workstations with CDs/DVDs for a luser, especially when backing up large amounts of data (say, movie and music files) that may not fit into one

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-21 Thread Rogério Brito
th good approximation ratios). Thanks anyway, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Rogério Brito
gcc-4.0 et are definitely worth it. Oh, and gmailfs is working with the recent 2.6.12-mm1 kernel (got it to work for the first time now). So, I think that using etch is a Good Thing if you know how to deal with a potentially broken system. Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL P

Re: Etch experiences

2005-06-21 Thread Rogério Brito
day barrier" would prevent very buggy packages from entering testing. And keeping track of sites like http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian is a good thing, in my opinion. Hope this helps, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms pa

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-25 Thread Rogério Brito
if I need to. Thanks for any help, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: no updates in 3 or 4 days

2005-06-27 Thread Rogério Brito
7;s happening, I'd love to know. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de Homepage on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: no updates in 3 or 4 days

2005-06-28 Thread Rogério Brito
ever > that is! Giving away rackspace, redundant power supply and unlimited > bandwidth for free is not very common. :-) Indeed again. Whoever is giving this is, in some sense, a hero for the continued development of Debian. Thanks. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://www.im

Re: [Re-asking] Group limitation of 32 in Sarge with kernel 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Rogério Brito
ther distros that would not have this > limitation anymore. Would enabling POSIX ACL's help you here? Just enable it when mounting the intended filesystems and install the packages acl and attr. Using the commands getfacl and setfacl is essentially like using chmod and chown/chgrp. Hope this

Questions about notebooks and Debian

2001-08-01 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear people, I've been tracking this list lately with some interest since I got an old Power Mac 9500/180MP to play with one month ago. Unfortunately, I couldn't install Debian on this machine, due to some hardware problems (I think) and I don't have this

Re: ipchains question

2001-08-01 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 01 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What applications usually try to open a connection from outside? Some common connections that I can think of now are FTP in active mode does (but you can get around that informing your FTP clients to use passive mode) and identd ("

Re: BTTV on Debian and Kernel 2.4.7

2001-08-01 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 01 2001, Herbert Pirke wrote: > Under SUSE-Linux I had my TV-Card (Terratec TV+) running > perfectly. SUSE installed everything automatically, which means that > I have no idea what to do. In addition to that, the kernel I used > under SUSE was a 2.2.18. I'm following this thread cl

Re: using convert to batch convert

2001-08-01 Thread Rogério Brito
I haven't caught the beginning of this thread, but a nice Perl script that I use to generate digital albums is photoaddict, found at http://photoaddict.sourceforge.net/. It uses convert internally. Sorry if this has nothing to do with the original question,

Using a DVD with Linux

2001-08-02 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear all, I'm planning on buying a DVD drive for my computer and I found an Asus 8x drive that seems to be what I want: it is an RPC 1 drive, which means that zone control is performed in software and not in hardware as with RPC 2 drives (being zone free is

Re: hi..reg woody iso selection

2001-08-02 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 02 2001, dman wrote: > Except that woody doesn't have an installer unless someone made > really good unofficial cds. I recommend getting potato cds for an > initial install. Personally I used CD3 a bit, but it was mostly for > dev stuff or a few apps that I wanted that aren't commonly used

Re: Cable Modem on Linux

2001-08-06 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 06 2001, Miguel Griffa wrote: > you'll need 2 adapters on the machine that is hooked to the > interrnet AFAIK. While not the best solution in terms of security and privacy, you *can* have your router have only one NIC if you add appropriate addresses and routes to it

Re: Inconsistant Segfaults

2001-08-06 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 06 2001, Ryan Golbeck wrote: > Firstly, I compiled a 2.4.7 kernel and I set the CPU to Althon/Duron > and everytime I booted it seemed that either the kernel would segfault > or some of the startup processes would and aftre the system got booted > random software would segfault as well. Lik

Re: DPMS keeps getting disabled in XFree 4

2001-08-06 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 06 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just upgraded to woody and XFree 4.0 and I have one nagging little > problem. I enabled DPMS for my monitor but it keeps getting turned > off. Well, I'm in my potato install right now with X3 installed (so, I can't test everything), but

Re: Setting up my own apt sources

2001-08-06 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 06 2001, George Karaolides wrote: > Does that sound like a reasonable way to go about things? Why not export the tree that apt-move constructs as an NFS filesystem to the machines that need the packages and adjust their /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the local mir

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