Re: stairstep printing on an HP Deskjet

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 04:28:41PM +1000, Robert William Hutton wrote: > Corey Hickey wrote: > > >Currently, if I try to print a text file by using: > >$ lpr text.txt > >I get a stairstep effect > > This is due to the difference between Unix text format and the DOS text > format. Unix uses LF (l

Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 03:44:37PM +0100, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: > > On Saturday 25 October 2003 01:15, Paul Johnson wrote: > > ... > > Why not actually read the prompts given to you by debconf? It's > > really hard to screw that up... > > > > > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I d

Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:23:45PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Moin Wilko! > Wilko Fokken schrieb am Sunday, den 26. October 2003: > > ... > Ehm, you realize that your case is somehow constructed? ET4000 is about > 10 years old, it is at least 3-4 mainstream generations f

Re: Simple little basic config questions

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 08:57:41PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > ... > > 3. My usual practice is to avoid xdm and boot to a text login >prompt. To do this, in rc2.d I belive I edited the symlink to the >xdm program, renaming "S99xdm ->..." to "K99xdm ->...". But in >debian I get a beep

Re: Simple little basic config questions

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 07:57:20AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > As for setting up basic bash configuration, a little experimentation > shows that this is what I've got (debian 3.0r1). > > Root has both .bashrc and .profile, and the configuations (custom bash > prompt and setterm) can go in either

Re: vim syntax

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:53:22AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 05:25:01PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > } Hi > } > } How do I have vim syntax highlighting always on instead of having to > } type :syntax on? > > Add syntax on to your .vimrc > or to '/etc/vim/vim

Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:53:11AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > SiS6326-based cards are cheap, are available in PCI format, and can be > used with svgatextmode using my ClockProg. They're crap for games but > fine for desktop stuff. > Thanks for your information, I'll try buying such a card. What i

Re: Pathetic Writer (or siagoffice)

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:40:29PM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: > > I was looking for a small word processor and spreadsheet to be used on > some old computers (Pentium 75 with 32MB RAM and 520MB HDD) and tried to > use Pathetic Writer which is part of siagoffice but it seems to crash. > > Ken > D

Re: Think I need ttyN where N>8...

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:45:58PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Hi! > > I think I need to make more tty-devices, and I'm using devfs, so the > short question is: How can I make more than the usual tty0 to tty8? > (Because it is only those in Debian from the start, right...?) > Do you mean de

Re: nfs problem

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Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:52:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 14:37, Tom wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > english is like lego, yes there are some pieces that change shape > > > etc. but it consists mostly of bricks and brick

Re: can't set hdparm -d1 and correct kernel config

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:25:49AM +, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > >>Use this command to see what kernel options there are and what is > >>selected in your kernel config file located in /boot. > >>'cat /boot/config- |grep DMA' > >>- -- > >>Greg Madden > > I did this and the only options t

Re: Using Gshutdown with normal user

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 03:41:19PM -0300, Angelo Marcos Rigo wrote: > Hi > > I would like to use the gshutdown utility from the system menu ondebian woody > but when i press it he says that only the root user can use it > > How can i use the gshutdown utility with a normal user? > without hav

Re: Uppercasing filenames

On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 05:06:26PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I need to convert a bunch of filenames to uppercase. I tried the script below, > which does...nothing. > > #!/bin/sh > for file in $* > do > if [ -f $file ] > then > ucfile=`echo $file | tr [a-z] [A-Z]` > if [ $file != $ucfile

Re: debian stalatie

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:55:34PM +0200, marinus wrote: > beste user. > kan ik debian instaleren als aternatief voor windows? > kan dat op een pentium1 - 166? > > bij voorbaat dank moin marinus, mijn Pentium = 133 MHz met 128 MB RAM (16 MB werk well met text monitor; >=32 MB werk ok met X

Re: debian stalatie

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 05:26:13PM +0200, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > > marinus schreef op zondag 21 september > > 2003 13:56: > > > >> beste user. > >> kan ik debian instaleren als aternatief voor windows? > >> kan dat op een pentium1 - 166? > >> > >> bij voorbaat dank

Re: howto/faq: installing & configuring debian on old hardware

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:31:29AM -0700, matt wilkie wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone direct me to a faq or howto on installing and configuring > debian for end users on quite old hardware? Old means 486 and early > pentiums (<200mhz). > I am using a Pentium w/ AMD K5, 128 MB RAM and a Tseng ET4000

Re: simple text formatting

Here follows an answer in C: (best viewed with "tabstop=4" in ~/.vimrc) you can simply add some more char's (e.g: '/') to be ignored as whitespace: just add them to the head of the 'case' list, e.g. "case '/':" without futher additions and recompile: "cc -

Re: Small Debian-based distro suitable for 586?

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:47:20AM +0100, Joseph Jones wrote: > Does such an animal exist? I'm thinking of setting an older box up as a > fileserver, but I need to know whether there're any kernel patches or > modules that allow the use of large HDDs (60GB) on older machines > *without* additona

Re: windows NT

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:32:03PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: > > Oh, my! > It's not an application. > Debian will replace your NT4 and make your 233 run better. > > Cam > > -- > Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych. (Be careful what you are praying for: it might replace YOU.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:00:32PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > "Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you want to temporarily disable booting to xdm on your VT100 and > > revert to xdm once you get back the monitor, just disable the xdm > > startup from all levels. > > > ># updat

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:22:42AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: Additionally, I like icewm's nice tiny display in the taskbar: a) load on localhost b) load on LAN c) load on ppd connection On my AMD 133 MHz/128 MB RAM, I extended icewm from 6 to 12 screens by editing /etc/

Re: Setting text mode in the console

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:31:10PM -, Cruncher wrote: > Anybody know whether and how I can set text modes in the console? I'm running > woody, on a Pentium 200 with ATI Mach 64 chipset. I've installed svgalib, > svgatextmode and fbset but I can't see how to change my text mode from 80x25. >

Re: xtree for Linux

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:11:37PM -0800, Gruessle wrote: > > From: Paul Johnson ... > > You want mc. > > > > I got mc :) > But I think xTree Gold was better :)) > > -- > Gruessle > searching http://de.vivisimo.com for Linux ytree: http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/po

Re: xtree for Linux

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 08:23:25AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Wilko Fokken wrote: > > > >searching http://de.vivisimo.com for Linux ytree: > > > >http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/pool/main/y/ytree/ > > > > ... > But what w

Re: [OT] XTree

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:28:42AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031217 19:55]: ... > No way! xtg was absolutely _indispensible_ in those days. I don't > think I ever ran into a PC without it. Not twice, anyway ;-) XTree > still blows the pants off of any dos f

Re: cfdisk vs fdisk & speaking of Western Digital drives...

cially in combination with other OSs, try cfdisk. W. Fokken -- Wilko Fokken Education is a man's going Landschaftspolder 67 from cocksure ignorance D-26831 Dollartto thoughtful uncertainty. Tel. 04953-

Re: hdparm questions

set drive read-lookahead # -c1 = set IDE 32-bit IO setting # -d1 = set using_dma flag # -X34 = select multiword DMA mode2 # -k1 = keep_settings_over_reset flag # -m16 = set multiple sector count (hdparm -i -> MaxMultSect=16) # -u1 = set unmaskirq flag # -S192 = set spindown timeout = 192 * 5

Re: Is swen back?

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Re: Restoring /etc/inittab

t; Hello, within bash, you could use an alternate kind of aliases in order to circumvent any reentrance problem under a different OS: alias rm='/bin/rm -vi' or alias cd="builtin cd ${CDHOME}" -- Wilko Fokken Education is a man's

Re: Pentium 100Mhz New User

crosoft" to "mouse systems" mode. I prefer running my mouse in "Mouse Systems" mode, compared to "Microsoft" mode, since that way, I don't need any emulation for operating my middle mouse key.) -- Wilko Fokken Education is a man's g

Re: Looking for nice, small display manager

/etc/X11/icewm/ Icons of newly installed programs (e.g. "opera.xpm") should be copied to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icewm/icons/ The digital panel clock looks a bit ugly to me but does its job. If anybody knows a usefull configuration program, this nice WM would sure get some more custom

Re: Your identity is a mere email address: a SPAM criterion ?

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Re: Bash

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:45:19PM +0200, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > I want to conditionally output from the bash command. for example > > telnet localhost 25 > 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Postfix > > #! / bin / bash > COMMAND = `telnet localhost 25` > if ["$ COMMAND" == "220 localhost.localdomain

Re: command isn't working in crontab

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 01:35:04AM +0200, Tomas Hulata wrote: > Hello, below command works in command line but not as a cronjob can > someone explain me why? > > 23 58 * * * rootcd /some_path/;mkdir "CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)";mv > ./CAM1/*.* ./"CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)"/;mkdir "CAM2-$(date +

Re: mutt can't send mail (Interrupted system call)

="Wilko Fokken" set editor=vim (make sure vim is found by mutt!) set charset=UTF-8 ... set folder=~/Mail # Where my mail folders go set postponed=~/Mail/mutt/postponed # Where to put postponed messages set t

Re: XP style themes for various DE's in Debian repositories?

On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 01:17:13PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > IIRC the IceWM DE/WM had a theme called "BluePlastic" which looked one > heck of a lot like XP. I used IceWM for about 4 years and recommend it > highly, although from what I understand it's not all that well > maintained, and its con

Re: modem hangup problems continue

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 04:10:42PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > I'm running Squeeze on a P3 board and dialup. > My modem gets hungup after 2.5 minutes about 30% - 40% of the time I > connect. Being idle, in the middle of fetching email or loading a > webpage seems to make no difference. Is there an

Re: Backup's to DVD

As a Frisian, living at the North Sea: on clay, surrounded by reeds, I relished every single bit of spit between both long standing 'Multies' [multinationals] of the Antique. I am convinced, this poetic dispute will, in the long run, enliven even the fiercest 'Fachidiot' clinging ever tighter to h

Re: What an intriguing post

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 11:39:48AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Wilko, this is so creative, so cute, so humorous, so on-topic, and so > necessary, especially the part about a death camp, that I'm overwhelmed > trying to think of a worthy response. The tryers should give up; and those, who've giv

Re: mbox files - can they be "compacted"?

On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 02:10:09PM +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote: > > Is there an option to compact large mbox files from the shell? gzip mutt -f .gz wwf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Re: cron jobs to restart a shell process ...

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 01:07:55PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > ~ > Sometimes I need to start a long running process which for various reasons > may > be stopped (server drops connection, OS kills it, ...) and I would like to > have > a somewhat automatic mechanism to check if it was stopped

Mail von ipad enthält VCard-Datei (Endung .vcf)

Moin mitnanner, gibt es bereits unter Lenny ein geeignetes Betrachtungsprogramm? Die .vcf enthält u.a. folgende Kennungen: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 PRODID:-//Apple Inc.//iOS 6.1.3//EN ... PHOTO;ENCODING=b;TYPE=JPEG:... ... IMPP;X-SERVICE-TYPE=Facebook

Program to display Mail, sent from ipad (VCard) = .vcf

Moin mitnanner, could such a file already be displayed under Lenny? Here are the "Ingredients" of the '.vcf' to be displayed: (this file is probably containing a photography) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 PRODID:-//Apple Inc.//iOS 6.1.3/

grafische pdf-Datei vergrößert drucken

Moin mitnanner, ich habe mir aus den USA ein von Google gescanntes Buch mit deutscher Frakturschrift geladen: Eine große pdf-Datei, die über hundert Buchseiten enthält. Das Buch hat etwa DIN-A5-Größe, so daß im Landscape-Format zwei Buchseiten auf ein DIN-A4-Blatt gedruckt werden können. Für ält

Re: howto enlarge graphical pdf file for ease of printout reading

Moin mitnanner, On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:57:08PM +0200, Winfried Boxleitner wrote: > pdfimages ... extracts images from pdf-files (package: poppler-utils) > > pdfnup ... is normally used to print several pages onto one sheet of paper, > however > it has a scaling option, which allows to enl

Dot files, get them out of the way

Moin mitnanner, As a (private) text prone Debian user, I like having my dot files out of the way and not stumbling between my working files. On the other hand, I dislike hiding them by file managers, because I want to discover them early at possibly wrong places. So, by fumbling and messing with

Re: Dot files, I did get them out of the way

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 04:55:55PM +0200, ha wrote: > Thanks Ralph, I guess it would do it. > But I didn't plan to separate the conf files completely, I was hoping > for a solution more alike Wilko's (if it works). Moin mitnanner, my solutions via shellscripts work pretty well since about ten

Re: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

tc/passwd: login_dir ==> /home//.rc == example: wwf:x:1001:1001:Wilko Fokken,,,:/home/wwf/.rc:/bin/bash 4. /etc/profileAdd call to h

Re: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 09:55:20AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 11 iul 13, 07:12:35, Wilko Fokken wrote: > > > > The following lines explain, what should be done in order to get the dot > > files out of the way into a subdirectory. > > You included lots of un

Re: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

gt; > > > 3. Modify /etc/passwd: login_dir ==> /home//.rc > > > ====== > > > > > > example: > > > wwf:x:1001:1001:Wilko Fokken,,,:/home/wwf/.rc:/bin/bash > > > > So b

Re: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

gt; > > > 3. Modify /etc/passwd: login_dir ==> /home//.rc > > > ====== > > > > > > example: > > > wwf:x:1001:1001:Wilko Fokken,,,:/home/wwf/.rc:/bin/bash > > > > So b

Re: OT: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:18:33AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 03:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > PPS: "Guten Tag miteinander!" or "Hallo miteinander!" or "Hallo zusammen!" > > > > Resp. "Moin" is independent of the daytime, so it's the German "Hallo", > > Aaaarghhh, my b

Re: OT: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 06:37:44PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Thanks. That is really interesting - I love linguistics and etymology. But > this is an English language list. ;-) > > Lisi Well, when you pop an 'outlandish' bottle, the outcoming (imp) might not comply with 'inlandish' rules.. ;-)

Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:29:15PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > Does anyone use sc, the text based spreadsheet program? Hi, (Not a precise answer to your question): I remember 'slsc', a text based spreadsheet, based on 'sc', but more advanced. Unfortunately, Debian doesn't contain it any more.

Re: sc, i.e., spread sheet calculator using ncurses

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 08:33:52PM +0200, Wilko Fokken wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:29:15PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > Does anyone use sc, the text based spreadsheet program? > > Hi, > > (Not a precise answer to your question): > > > I remember &#

Re: Alternative to tar?

Moin, '/bin/afio' is another interesting tool compared to 'tar', though it might not compress better. It's main advantage is: It compresses each file separately and then adds it to the archive. This means that a data corruption will only cause data losses of the files affected, but won't render t

Re: Redhat marketing campaign going after free Linuxes

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:17:56AM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > first, i love statistics - it allows people to say pretty much > whatever they want and sound honest and scientific about it. Statistics are like bikinis: What they unveil is revealing, but what they conceal is pivotal. wwf -- .

Re: On what is helpful and what is not [was: Re: Wifi]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 01:42:09AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 10 March 2014 00:15:18 Dave Woyciesjes wrote: > > Really, calling the OP a "nub" ( whatever the hell he means by > > that) isn't an insult? > > "nub", short for newbie, i.e. new user. And no, it is not an insult. > > Lisi >

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 09:23:15AM +, Curt wrote: > On 2017-06-29, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Please help... mplayer works fine when playing files (mp3, wav, etc), but > > fails in playing audio CDs. When I launch it as a normal user I have: > > > > $ mplayer cdda:// > > MPlayer 1.3.0 (Debian

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 11:34:13PM -0300, Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > Sorry to bump in to this, but why not use players like vlc, Audacious or > Kodi? > > To me Audacious still kicking and works on Debian 9. > https://s9.postimg.org/ir3ta4kdb/Audacious.png Within dselect, I made a little te

Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not)

On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 11:35:42PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > This morning, I went to my wife's login and ran: > > pulseaudio --kill > > rm ~/.config/pulse > > pulseaudio --start > > And that worked. > > When I tried to do the same thing under my daughter's login, however, I get > the warnin

Re: VLC Plays Video But No Sound

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 03:29:09PM -0400, Thomas George wrote: > VLC audio message: vdpau_avcodec generic error: decoder profile not > supported: 7 > > I have also tried playing the video with mpv which gives a different error > message: > > [lavf] Edit lists are not correctly supported (FFmpeg i

Re: VLC Plays Video But No Sound –– addon

Supplement: My sound system is based on pulseaudio + alsamixer. After hibernation, my sound is blocked sometimes, e.g. when I start youtube under firefox before the sound is active. For this problem, I start this alias: alias pulse='sudo kill -9 $(pidof pulseaudio) && alsamixer -c0' (making s

Re: Jessie networking with multiple IPs (IPv and IPv6), single physical NIC

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 04:17:24PM +, Curt wrote: > > Never heard of Arhus. Aarhus is the main town of Jutland, Danmark. -- "Certitude is not the test of certainty." --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. & "Education is a man's going from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty."

Re: need help on running mplayer to watch tv

On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 04:52:48AM +0800, Long Wind wrote: > i can watch tv with xawtv > now i want to use mplayer > > mplayer -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:input=1 -vo xv tv:// > > command above is right, but there's no sound > tv sound is connected to linein of sound card > which options

Re: need help on cracking wireless password

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 04:21:53PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > Am 2018-02-24 hackte deloptes in die Tasten: > >> But hey, with so many Russians in Estonia, you may be sure that at least > >> Russia will not nuke you, so be positive about what you have ;-) (irony > >> off

Re: Debian 8. keine Ahnung....

Ein Trost bleibt: Debian [nach ausgiebigen "Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß"] zu installieren, könnte dazu beitragen, den künftigen Aufenthalt im Altersheim zu verkürzen ;~)

Re: How to prevent /tmp files from being deleted at reboot

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 03:32:12PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > [Sat, 9 Jul 2016 23:16:29 +0200] MI wrote: > > > IMO: If you have a program that relies on files or directories > > > in /tmp being persistent, then that program is buggy, not Debian. > > > > It's not a program. It's just me, mostly wh

Re: olivetti pcs 42P

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 03:54:20PM +, gonzalo Fernandez _ Peindo Diaz wrote: > hello i need help about of my computer olivetti pcs 42P because when y start > it > > When I turn it on it leads me to a paguine that tells me that I have to > insert a disk with drivers I have a bag full of flopp

Re: HTML viewer

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 02:01:05AM +0100, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote: > w3m, links or elinks. With w3m being the most pager-like.. .. and lynx (I like it's brilliant display). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: HTML viewer

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:32:48PM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: > > On 01/05/2015 07:57 PM, Frank wrote: > > I am looking for a simple HTML viewer I can use under MC to read > > HTML docs. I have Dillo installed but even it seems overkill for > > what I need. Does anyone have suggestions ? > > I use

Re: recommended ftp clients for Debian

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 02:11:13PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Yes, I know I can STFW. I have in fact done so. But I am after personal > experience. > > I want a simple ftp client, for putting not getting, that is easy and > pleasant > to use. GUI based. For the use of non-geeks as well as

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

What I am mostly missing so far under Xfce, compared to Icewm, is a toolbar placed at the BOTTOM of the screen. Using varifocal glasses, I have to strain my neck badly in order to focus the Xfce toolbar at the TOP of the screen through the LOWER area of my glasses. The second shortcoming of Xfce i

Re: Thanks for all your suggestions regarding Xfce!

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Re: Old Computers

On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 08:32:01AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > ... > Look around and see if you can find a copy of fvwm 1.24r - I ran that > for years on a 386 with little RAM without any problems. Version 2 is a > little heavier, but you can compile it yourself and leave out options > you don't

Re: Light web browser for old PC

In the past times, depending on a serial modem for internet access, I preferred Opera, because it allows to switch ANY graphics OFF // ON through simple menu buttons: [View]--> [Images]--> { [Show images] || [Cached Images] || [No Images] } (Any of the three options can be made the default, to be

Re: Light web browser for old PC

On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 03:07:43PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 02/07/2015, Wilko Fokken wrote: > > In the past times, depending on a serial modem for internet access, > > I preferred Opera, because it allows to switch ANY graphics OFF // ON > > through simple menu button

Re: cp output format

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 08:23:13AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Sorry for this elementary question. I want to do sequential copies with > a command like this: $ cp --backup=t file .../destination/file. When > periodically run it produces file, file.~1~, file.~2~, etc. > > How do I get rid of the

Re: Alternatives to gftp in Jessie

I use the Midnight Commander: 'mc' (Linux substitute for the OLD Norton Commander) Via it's sftp-switch (under the menu key: 'F9', click on 'SFTP link'), it opens it's split screen to another computer. login example: anonymous@ --> password: --> same procedure as local work.

Re: Failure of evince to open a PDF.

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 01:26:30PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Updated a jessie system this morning. Then tried evince. > > evince afile.pdf > > A window entitled "Document Viewer" with this notice popped open. > "Unable to open document "file:///home/peter/afile.pdf". > File type HTML

Re: Computer friendly blood pressure?

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 07:44:07AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > For sometime I've been causally looking for a blood pressure cuff with > communication capability that does NOT require a "smart" phone [be > it Apple or Android]. > > A recent hospital stay prompts me to more actively look. > > I

Re: Debian: A noob query

Hello Sam, (some postings above, you mentioned having but 2 GB RAM.) It is said that, for a 64bit system, one should have at least 4 GB RAM installed. greetings -- Education is a man's going from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: something regards "find"

ot;2.4" -e "4.2" -e "12.2" */* > > $ grep -e "7.9" -e "2.4" -e "4.2" -e "12.2" */*/* How about using "locate 7.9" ? Regards -- Wilko FokkenEducation is a man's going Landschafts

Re: which is the best command to use

> > How can I let grep returns the filename? try "grep -H" in order to get the filename. -- Wilko FokkenEducation is a man's going Landschaftspolder 67from cocksure ignorance D-26831 Bunde to thoughtf

Re: bootmisc.sh

x27;t check whether a difference would turn out within a script.) Regards -- Wilko FokkenEducation is a man's going Landschaftspolder 67from cocksure ignorance D-26831 Bunde to thoughtful uncertainty. ---

Re: something regards "find"

On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:42:36PM +0100, pedro insua wrote: > On 4 January 2012 12:19, Wilko Fokken wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:04:31PM +0800, lina wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I don't know how to find one file out, > >> > >> one

Re: New computer planned -- (cleaning old keyboard)

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 02:19:36PM +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Maybe I should keep the keyboard I am using. > It's not overly clean, but I can live with it. > -- > Sian Mountbatten > Algol 68 specialist Moin mitnanner, How to clean a dirty (fatty) keyboard: ---

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:57:38PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:29:28 +0700, Ken Heard wrote: .. > Open a terminal, run "dmesg | tail" and then insert the card to see > what's going on. Should'nt it be written: run "dmesg | tail -f" ? Gruß Wilko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Does anyone care about dialup?

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 07:50:33PM -0500, Indulekha wrote: > I live in a very remote rural area, so dialup is my only option. > Someone else suggested wvdial, which works and is good, but I prefer > to use pppconfig to create the connection, pon/poff to start/end it, > and pppstatus so I can see

Re: kill pidof question

-z `pidof iceape-bin` ]; then ## (returned zero) echo "IceApe not running" fi ... if [ -n `pidof iceape-bin` ]; then ## (returned non-zero) echo "IceApe is running" fi - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - hope this might improve your control Wilko --