Jochen Schulz writes:
> Paul E Condon:
>>
>> I have several USB hard drives (ones with rotating machinery inside,
>> not solid state 'disks'). From time to time I need to perform format
>> maintenance on one of them. In order to do this, I look in /dev to see
>> what device name has been assigne
Andrei Popescu writes:
> On Sun,19.Jul.09, 08:11:21, Paul E Condon wrote:
>> I have no objection to the status of hal as a required part of a
>> standard desktop installation, but I do have a question as to how best
>> to deal with a peculiar situation.
>>
>> I have several USB hard drives (ones
i have never used any of them, but I think ddrescue, gddrescue and
myrescue (apt packages) are made for what you're doing.
good luck,
Tiago Saboga.
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Paul E Condon:
> > But, for hal-mounted devices, the umount also deletes the
> > mount-point.
Andrei Popescu:
> The problem seems to be with the volume manager as this does not
> happen under Xfce. Maybe the volume manager of your DE also triggers
> an "eject" (or something similar)?
Probably. I
I had "removed safely" the device,
in kde, I had no more device file - or better, just the main one
(/dev/sdf), and both file and fsck.vfat complained that the file was not
available (I don't know what the exact wording was). And so I could not
even run fsck (fsck.vfat, in my case).
Tiag
Paul E Condon writes:
> I have what I think to be a solution, but the reason it works is now
> suspect because it could not work for you, whose system differs from
> mine in some mystery aspect. What happens if, in the future, a Gnome
> developer, changes whatever makes it work for me into whateve
ed about the official name of the Debian
distribution. Just FYI, there are actually two flavors of Debian that do
not use the linux kernel: Debian GNU/KFreeBSB and Debian GNU/Hurd.
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Charlie writes:
> Haven't used Kmail for some months, maybe a year, but decided to try it
> again a couple of days ago.
>
> It appears to be a huge resource hog, and doesn't respond for some time
> as it does something which I can't detect, sometimes using 20% of my
> CPU and 10% of the RAM.
>
> I
Dotan Cohen writes:
>> 1) There is a long-standing bug - or feature request: kmail does not
>> start a new thread when downloading mail, so you have to wait for it
>> to finish. It can be long if you have lots of mail, or if you pass
>> the mail through anti-spam/anti-virus.
>>
>
> Do you have th
Andrei Popescu writes:
> On Thu,23.Jul.09, 11:25:18, Tiago Saboga wrote:
>> >
>> > Do you have the bug number? This is the reason that I left Kmail.
>>
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41514
>>
>> It should be solved when the akonadi server
What about
Depends: B(>=10.0)
Conflicts: B(>=11.0)
?
Cheers,
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Please don't cc me; I am subscribed.
Unfortunately I don't have the time to do tests here, but I am sure you
are quite close to your answer.
Good luck,
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3 comes with emacsclient;
according to [1], emacsclient supersedes gnuserv in gnu-emacs since
22.1.
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>>>> Debian. Any help will be more than welcome ! :)
>>>>
You may also try the unclutter package. It's not really "on a permanent
basis", but it works quite well to take it out of the way.
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Martin McCormick writes:
> Is there any sort of instant message application that can run in
> a command-line terminal, similar to talkd?
What about jabber in emacs? But try `apt-cache search instant message`
and you will find almost a handful of them.
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terstart hanging on
> activating a swapfile?
> in all those years i am using debian this never happened before.
It's happening too, exactly the same. That's just one machine; several
others are running just fine with lenny.
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I am moving from mutt to gnus, and I am missing a description of how to
make gnus behave "the right way" when dealing with debian lists. I use
fetchmail to get messages from my ISP, and a strange combination of
procmail and maildrop to filter them into mboxes, where each mailing
list has its own in
I missed the beginning of the thread, but why not html2ps?
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steef writes:
> Tiago Saboga wrote:
>> steef writes:
>>> starting up lenny, my machine hanged on 'activating swapfile swap' (or
>>> something like that)
>>> starting up my machine a second and third time did not give any
>>> trouble at al
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Sven Joachim writes:
> On 2009-05-18 02:25 +0200, Tiago Saboga wrote:
>
>> I am moving from mutt to gnus, and I am missing a description of how to
>> make gnus behave "the right way" when dealing with debian lists. I use
>> fetchmail to get messages from my
Dotan Cohen writes:
>> I missed the beginning of the thread, but why not html2ps?
>>
>
> It does not support UTF-8.
Have you tried gnuhtml2latex? I have never tried it, having always
dealed myself with the encoding before passing the file to html2ps.
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Dotan Cohen writes:
>> Have you tried gnuhtml2latex? I have never tried it, having always
>> dealed myself with the encoding before passing the file to html2ps.
>>
>
> Thanks, I had never heard of gnuhtml2latex until now. However, running
> it gives this output:
> Parsing of undecoded UTF-8 will
Freddy Freeloader writes:
> Thorny wrote:
>> On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:31:05 -0700, Freddy Freeloader posted:
>>> In my mind there is no good reason for this fix to go into Sid
>>> and then sit there until the dependencies are satisfied for that version
>>> number.
>>>
>>
>> Well, that is the s
Forwarding to the list...
Charles Roberts writes:
> Tiago Saboga wrote:
>> steef writes:
>>
>>> hi list,
>>>
>>> starting up lenny, my machine hanged on 'activating swapfile swap' (or
>>> something like that)
>>> starting up
Paul Johnson writes:
> Tiago Saboga wrote:
>
>> Thanks to everyone who answered. It's what I am doing right now for this
>> list (via customization, as I am not yet comfortable with all gnus
>> variables), but I am subscribed to more than 10 debian lists and I would
Christoph Pilka writes:
> Hi folks,
>
> besides Ion, Wmii, Xmonad and Awesome there exists the absolutely
> excellent tiling window manager StumpWM. StumpWM is rock stable, fast and
> _really_ leightweight (some hundreds kbytes). For all of you interested in
I fully recommend stupwm, but I would
Sven Joachim writes:
> You can use gnus-parameters to set up all Debian groups (i.e. mailing
> lists) at once. The following untested example assumes that mail sent
> to debian-...@lists.debian.org end up in a debian.foo nnml group:
>
> (setq gnus-parameters
> '(("nnml:debian\\.\\(.*\\)$"
>
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