Seems like I might be missing a LaTeX package to generate pdfs from my
XML/Docbook sources .. fonts possibly.
[12:05:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/devel/docbook/tests/xml-dir]$ xmlto pdf cheat.xml
Making portrait pages on letter paper
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 08:20:29PM EST, William Walter wrote:
>Having problem with Etch. I'm a complete newbie to linux. Font rendition
>on
>Gnome is messed up. Some part are lighter than the rest. I've turned on
>subpixel
>smoothing and hinting. Neither of them have worked. Wha
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:37:37AM EST, Bhasker C V wrote:
>I have logname command give me this output
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ logname
>bhaskerv
>
>and say i execute this command
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ echo `logname`
>bhaskerv
>
>till this it is all fine
>
>BUT
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:37:52PM EST, ][ wrote:
> Sorry for responding late...
No problem.
I'm still working on it.
:-)
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:05:07 -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:11:58AM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> >> So far my p
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:21:51AM EST, zhengquan zhang wrote:
>Hello:
>I can :e *doc* in vim, pressing tab and it can help me find the document I
>need,
>but in bash if I use vi *doc* and press tab, nothing would happen, it can
>not find the file I want to edit
>Is there an
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:16:53AM EST, ][ wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:36:01 -0500, cga2000 wrote:
>
[..]
> >>
> >> AsciiDoc Markup Syntax Quick Summary
> >> http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/asciidoc-syn/ascs01-AsciiDocMarkupSyntaxQuickSummary/
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:54:45PM EST, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Wayne Topa wrote:
> > zhengquan zhang([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> >> Hello:
> >> I can :e *doc* in vim, pressing tab and it can help me find the document I
> >> need,
> >> but in bash if I use vi *doc* and press tab, not
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:20:54AM EST, Steve Lamb wrote:
> cga2000 wrote:
> > .. and as everybody will no doubt have noticed, ss/tt is one keystroke
> > less than ss/*t* (not to mention the fact that the '*' is shifted and a
> > little harder to reach).
>
>
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:36:35PM EST, Franck Joncourt wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:04:05AM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:54:45PM EST, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > > Wayne Topa wrote:
> > > > zhengquan zhang([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reporte
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:23:59PM EST, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > FTR, works here in bog standard bash running in aterm.
>
> *sigh* My point is that if the OP is unable to do what they want telling
> him *you* can do it without specifying what options might be neede
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:29:12AM EST, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 23:58:42 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:20:54PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > > cga2000 wrote:
> > > > .. and as everybody will no doubt have n
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:19:57PM EST, Jeremy Cyrus wrote:
>Hello, I have tried resolving this problem until I am blue in the face, I
>have searched docs on the web, and tried to dig up clues as to why this
>happens. I have tried using different locales, different fonts etc. cant
>
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:52:01AM EST, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:33:39PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:36:35PM EST, Franck Joncourt wrote:
[..]
> .
> Included in the bash package is the Programmable Completion Code, by
&
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 03:16:11AM EST, Cédric Lucantis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to know how to find which program produced a particular core dump
> file, any idea?
$ file core_file
for further analysis see also options relative to core dumps under ..
$ man gdb
Thanks,
cga
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 02:59:01AM EST, Adam Porter wrote:
> I've read the man page, googled this list and the rest of the Net, but I
> still can't figure out why this doesn't work:
>
> $ tar xjf *.tar.bz2
> tar: beryl-core-0.2.0.tar.bz2: Not found in archive
> tar: beryl-manager-0.2.0.tar.bz2: No
Could somebody advise on using gdb on a debian system?
Currently whenever I need to take an insider look at what the code is
really doing, I try to locate the source of the same version, download
the .tar.gz .. run configure/make and execute the version that I built
from source:
$ gdb ./program
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 08:40:05PM EST, ][ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My TTY sometimes gets into a strange stage that ^K, kill-line (C-k), won't
> work, but ^H can remove chars normally. Also not working are,
> backward-kill-line (C-x Rubout), backward-kill-word (M-Rubout), etc. The
> kill-word (M-d) works
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:07:04PM EST, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:53:51PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > Could somebody advise on using gdb on a debian system?
> >
> > Currently whenever I need to take an insider look at what the code is
> > re
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:58:15AM EST, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 23:53 -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > I have tried to follow the recommendations I found in various docs,
> > like rebuilding the package via an "apt-get source package" followed
> > by
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 04:54:03AM EST, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Scheduling an audio recording with sound-recorder failed on my etch box.
> Only about the first 3 hours were recorded, resulting in a file just 2.0
> GB large. (This was a recording of an opera production, so it is
> difficult / i
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:13:20PM EST, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:03 -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > > See http://wiki.debian.org/?HowToGetABacktrace
> >
> > I tried that HowTo but was unable to get it to work.
> >
> > It's also unclear w
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:13:30AM EST, Ron Johnson wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On 03/23/07 09:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > Thanks, that's exactly what I want to do. I sometimes access my
> > home email while at work via the web interface, a
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:38:09PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On 03/23/07 19:43, cga2000 wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:13:30AM EST, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>
> >> On 03/23/07 09:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 08:15:00AM EST, Ron Johnson wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>
> On 03/24/07 08:30, cga2000 wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:38:09PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> >> Ha
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 06:50:42PM EST, Chris Bannister wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If you are using mutt as your MUA then try this line in your .muttrc
> color body brightred brightdefault
> "(warning|alert|caution|fail(ure|ed))"
>
> That should be all on one line with a space after brightdefault
>
> Now
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:39:49PM EST, Michael Pobega wrote:
> I'm looking to speed up my Debian Etch boot speed, but I have no idea
> where to start.
>
> Currently I have everything default, but I'd like to remove a few
> things (Like networking, because networking tries to connect to my
> Ether
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 12:05:58PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote:
[..]
> > So the first thing he needs is a friendly ISP. I don't think
> > cablevision would let me run a server.
>
> Would they even know if he's running imap-ssl? Especially if it's
> on a non-standard port?
With millions of subscrib
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:50:07AM EST, Dave Workshop wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-28-03 at 06:45 +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
[..]
> > Run the following commands:
> >
> > fc-cache -fv
> > fc-list
> >
> > The output of the first command should include the
> > directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 02:56:44AM EST, cga2000 wrote:
> Does anyone know if a sarge-compatible .deb of conky is available
> anywhere?
>
> Thanks,
>
> cga
>
There isn't. Stuff in sarge is just too ancient to support this
newcomer.
Thanks
cga
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I need to upgrade my current sarge to something more current.
Is this the recommended procedure -- the one less likely to provide
major headaches:
1. Install sarge on a new partition
2. Wait till etch become stable.
3. Do a blind upgrade.
4. Customize.
I need to re-install sarge because I have
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:51:44PM EST, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:22:47 -0500
> cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I need to upgrade my current sarge to something more current.
> >
> > Is this the recommended procedure -- the one less like
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:25:14PM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:22:47PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > I need to upgrade my current sarge to something more current.
> >
> > Is this the recommended procedure -- the one less likely to provide
> >
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 01:01:35AM EST, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:22:47PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
[..]
> > I have heard rumors that etch will soon become stable.
> >
> > Would any one know when this is likely to happen?
> >
> > Or is it alre
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 12:27:23PM EST, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
[..]
>
> How do you come to the conclusion that the stable etch installer
> wouldn't work better with that laptop?
bug #352758 is still marked as "outstanding" ..
> If any linux works with your nic, so should debian etch and i
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 08:03:40PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 07:38:09PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 12:27:23PM EST, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>
> > Good point. Last time I tried was 8 months ago and I would rather do
> >
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 07:30:00PM EST, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Tue November 21 2006 13:47, cga2000 wrote:
[..]
> > I did notice that I'm still running the sarge 2.4.27 kernel instead of
> > the 2.6.17 that's in the etch repository..
> >
> > Is this "no
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 11:56:50PM EST, Alan Ianson wrote:
[..]
> > > It's upto you if you want a 2.6 or 2.4 kernel.. :)
Well not really...
:-(
I installed the latest 2.6.18.3 alongside the 2.4.27 that initially
came with the sarge netinst and sure enough my PC card is no longer
recognized.
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 12:10:25AM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 10:15:01PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
[..]
> > So it looks like I'm stuck with a 2.4 kernel for the lifetime of this
> > laptop.
> >
>
> What card is not recognized? I would sugge
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 05:36:39PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> Hi Cga,
>
> I've put my comments inline to make things clearer (I hope).
>
> On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 02:39:38PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
[..]
> > Everything went well until I tried to boot the 2.6.17 kernel.
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 08:50:24PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:13:56PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 05:36:39PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote:
[..]
> > I normally use apt-get or command-line aptitude.
>
> Part of your difficul
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:37:34PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:37:52PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:21:25PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 08:50:24PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> > > >
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 09:22:38PM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:19:56AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote:
> > Actually I had tried it before and I couldn't. It is cool since Debian
> > increases security like this, but I modified login settings in login
> > page to allow
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 12:33:32AM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 12:29:02AM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> >
> > Quick hack from a bash prompt:
> >
>
>
> Please investigate sudo and sux. If used properly, they are more secure
> and certa
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:17:31PM EST, cga2000 wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:21:05PM EST, Casey T. Deccio wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 14:50 -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > > > Please investigate sudo and sux. If used properly, they are more secure
> > > >
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:37:01PM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:28:05PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > >
> > > Pardon my ignorance .. I do my best to stay away from gui apps ..
> > >
> Unfortunately, some things flat out require a GUI.
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:40:46PM EST, Casey T. Deccio wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 18:17 -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > Pardon my ignorance .. I do my best to stay away from gui apps ..
> >
> > And I don't use sudo either.
> >
> > Mind you, I have tho
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:49:04AM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:42:22AM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
< snip -- merits of sudo vs. su >
> > How's stuff like that supposed to work in a "strict" proof of concept
> > GUI environment with no
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:01:06AM EST, Rob Sims wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:12:33PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > Now, please explain how I can use sudo to tranfer X credentials ..
> >
> > It does this automatically.
> >
> > sudo
>
> It does not:
> $ sudo xlogo
> Password:
> X11 co
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:37:30AM EST, Justin Gallardo wrote:
>Hey All,
>I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list
>netiquette(as you may have guessed by the subject), and thought that maybe
>I could use the busiest mailing list I followed as a good sourc
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:31:32PM EST, Paul Johnson wrote:
> cga2000 wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:37:01PM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:28:05PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > Pardon my i
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:57:25PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> I haven't looked at mplayer. Do you mean that I can watch a DVD on a
> serial console? I use lynx when I don't need frames or images and dillo
> when I do. I only use firefox when I need java or images + https. I've
> tried some ot
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:57:25PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote:
.. forgot to mention that elinks not only supports frames but also
tabbed browsing...!
uploaded a screenshot featuring the dillo home page for your review:
http://www.geocities.com/cga/pic00/dillo1.png
It features two tabs -- see
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:06:33AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:52:18 -0500
> cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Mind you, and this is not directly related to the above, I sometimes
> > have this bizarre feeling that much of this awkwardne
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:06:33AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:52:18 -0500
> cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
< snip part I - already replied >
Sorry Andrei .. had to run out for something and I must have
accidentally deleted the rest of your reply b
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:06:01PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:01:55 -0500
> cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Well .. the malware could be the installer itself, no..? It _is_
> > software after all. If I was up to no good that's ex
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 05:15:19PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:15:51PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > yes .. but what I'm really not too comfortable with is mostly the
> > non-granularity of privileges .. I'll have to play with groups a bit
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 04:31:55AM EDT, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> >
> >I think many docs have been moved to non-free, though you are not
> >being clear about which documentation.
> >
> >For example, the ConTeXt typesetting package has it's doc in
> >context-doc-nonfree, which is in pool/non-free/c
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 06:36:46PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote:
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>
> On 09/28/07 17:21, Manu Hack wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > Yeah, will do if I have the time. But at the moment I'm very happy
> > with xfce4.4 (fast and with the real transparency stuff). :
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:45:32AM EDT, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 06:36:46PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > > Hash: SHA1
> > >
> > &
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 09:55:26AM EDT, Miles Bader wrote:
> Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> I think you missed someting? like the -n flag? If you do a normal sort,
> >> its alphabetic. With -n, it is done numeric.
> >
> > That's true but it doesn't help anyway. 57K will sort larger t
I'm trying to get an HP 820e CD burner to work with debian etch and
can't seem to be able to post to the pcmcia list any more:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know anything as to why this list and the corresponding
lists.infradead.org web site appear to have been down possibly for the
last few week
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 04:12:34PM EDT, Mirco Piccin wrote:
>Hi!
>
>>> ...fonts on gnome 2 is now strange: seems big and bold (seems to use
>>> "magnify" :-)).
>>
>>Check if the output of
>>
>>xdpyinfo | egrep 'dimens|resol'
>>
>>matches the actual dimensions of
This is what "man mkboot" tells me.
"If GRUB is installed, it does nothing. If LILO is in use, it runs
/sbin/lilo. If SILO is installed, it does nothing. Otherwise, mkboot
will make a new bootdisk."
Well that's not true.
lilo is not installed on this system and yet when I ran mkboot it did
cr
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 09:12:27PM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
> > Does this mean that with everyone coming up with their improved "rescue
> > disks" and floppy drives becoming a rarity, boot floppies are now a
> > thing of the past?
> >
> > Or are there circumstances when making a boot flopp
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 10:59:03AM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> Package grub-doc
Thanks.
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>From
I have decided it is ample time to add disk space to my old laptop and
came up with the following plan:
1. Buy a large HD with caddy and stick it in the "mega bay" where a
useless 100M Omega zip drive currently lives.
2. Lavishly partition the new drive & create the usual file systems.
3. Copy
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 05:54:54PM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 04:27:45PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
> >
> > Shortly after my initial post to debian-user, I received this
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 10:22:49PM EDT, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 09:51:43PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
> > cga2000 wrote:
> > > I have decided it is ample time to add disk space to my old laptop and
> > > came up with the following plan:
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 10:22:49PM EDT, Alex Samad wrote:
[..]
> also check your fstab to see if you are using labels or device names
The device names would be the same since I would copy /etc/fstab over
to what would become the new "/" partition.
Hence once my new hard drive becomes hda .. hda
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 11:21:56PM EDT, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 10:56:21PM -0400, cga2000 wrote:
>
> > You're telling me this won't work because I need grub's stage 1 in the
> > boot sector, right?
>
> I think that "won'
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:51:58AM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:42:44AM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
Looks like our encodings do not play well with each other - see all the
question marks below.
> > This is what root's recently been up to on my laptop:
>
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 11:15:41AM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:42:44AM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > · creating/burning iso images
>
> IIRC, the default on Debian systems is to have the cd burner owned by
> group CD-ROM and have the group writable
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 04:27:11AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:28:50 -0500
> cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > first of all you have to remember that:
> >
> > # usermod -G adm myuser
> >
> > .. wipes out all your
On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:39:07AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:30:33 -0500
> cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> [snip setuid arguments]
>
> You're probably right. I haven't thought of it that way. IIRC you said
>
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 09:39:11AM EST, David Jardine wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:25:03PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
Sorry, I didn't didn't mean to be rude. I was unable to check ML's for
most of last week and had so much cleaning up to do that I only saw your
reply last
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 01:14:53AM EST, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:53:04AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:36:15PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > >
> > > What I had in mind was a flexible model where different actors
I reported Bug #352758 almost a year ago and never received any
feedback.
I am not familiar with the debian bug reports system and I am beginning
to wonder whether I forgot something .. opened the bug report with the
wrong maintainer group .. etc.
Could someone more knowledgeable than myself take
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:46:27PM EST, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Tue January 30 2007 18:05, cga2000 wrote:
> > I reported Bug #352758 almost a year ago and never received any
> > feedback.
> >
> > I am not familiar with the debian bug reports system and I am beginning
>
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:21:04AM EST, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Tue January 30 2007 20:55, cga2000 wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:46:27PM EST, Alan Ianson wrote:
> > > On Tue January 30 2007 18:05, cga2000 wrote:
> > > > I reported Bug #352758 almost a y
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 08:51:03PM EST, Stephen wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 05:32:35PM +0100 or thereabouts, Mathias Brodala
> wrote:
>
> > >>> I've checked all the places I can find a vimrc and/or .vimrc, ensuring
> > >>> that
> > >>> each has 'syntax on'. Still, I'm not getting syntax col
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:50:00PM EST, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:05:56PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > I reported Bug #352758 almost a year ago and never received any
> > feedback.
> >
> > I am not familiar with the debian bug reports syste
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 10:59:47AM EST, Michael Pobega wrote:
> cga2000 wrote:
> >On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 08:51:03PM EST, Stephen wrote:
> >output of:
> >
> >$ vim --version
> >
> >?
> Actually, just /sudo aptitude install vim-full/.
???
a
Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments
that won't mess up apt..?
If possible I would prefer not to remove a few gtk-based apps such as
gpdf, gimp, and mozilla.
The main objective is to be able to run full system backups that don't
take forever and fit on a single CD
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:55:01PM EST, Michael Pobega wrote:
> cga2000 wrote:
> >You should have posted on the vim@vim.org mailing list.
> I'm not asking for help, I'm offering it.
I thought the OP had already tried the vim-full fix.
> I think the problem is j
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:32:08PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:40:01PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments
> > that won't mess up apt..?
>
> If I understand what you're t
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:33:58PM EST, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (04/02/07 12:40), cga2000 wrote:
> > Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments
> > that won't mess up apt..?
> >
> > If possible I would prefer not to remove a few gtk-b
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 02:06:57PM EST, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 13:42 -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > Sorry I was unclear.
> >
> > I want to remove all the crud from my system in order to be able to run
> > backups that are fast, small, and simple.
>
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 02:24:14PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:42:30PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:32:08PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:40:01PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > >
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:20:25PM EST, Stephen wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:12:38PM -0500 or thereabouts, cga2000 wrote:
>
> > Other things the OP could check:
>
> OK I'm trying the following on a *.php file.
>
> > :set compatible?
>
> nocompatible
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:15:20PM EST, Dave Thayer wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 04:10:46PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > I think that on Debian, anything under /usr and /var (not /usr/local or
> > /var/local) should be considered to belong to apt.
>
> I got burned once not backing up
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:54:18PM EST, Stephen wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:42:28PM -0500 or thereabouts, cga2000 wrote:
>
> [ ...]
>
> > In vim, you could try:
> >
> > :colorscheme
>
> That didn't produce anything.
I meant :colorscheme + ..
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:23:19PM EST, Marcus Blumhagen wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 09:07:32PM +0100, Marcus Blumhagen wrote:
> > This way you would really save time and could even keep your actual
> > software selection without backing up /etc.
>
> Oops, of course it has to be "... without
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 01:49:43PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:37:50PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> >
> > I did notice that /usr/share/ has over 700M of stuff in it and this
> > looks suspicious.
>
> my /usr/share/doc has 154M of stuff
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:13:31PM EST, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Sun February 4 2007 14:37, cga2000 wrote:
>
> > I did notice that /usr/share/ has over 700M of stuff in it and this
> > looks suspicious.
>
> That sounds about right. I have a base install plus kde and m
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:26:42PM EST, Stephen wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:55:01PM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael Pobega wrote:
>
> > I'm not asking for help, I'm offering it. I think the problem is just a
> > Debian based distro thing, because none of them come with vim-full
> > insta
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 06:48:34PM EST, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hello.
>
> cga2000, 06.02.2007 00:29:
> > What bothers me, though, is that a lot of the stuff in /usr/share/ --
> > one Meg here .. 600K there .. etc. apparently belongs to packages I have
> > removed (
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:30:54AM EST, Marcus Blumhagen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:54:43AM +0100, wrote:
> > Also debfoster2aptitude (provided by debfoster) might be of interest
> > for you. debfoster2aptitude because debfoster is deprecated by
> > aptitude, but this way you have can mig
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 08:27:21PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:54:27PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
[..]
> > In any event, I never even _used_ the vast majority of these packages ..
> > let alone configure them .. My guess is that they got p
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:04:44PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 06:29:42PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> > seems that all the locales that I have no
> > use for
>
> localepurge
Not on my system.
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