Re: Creating MP3 for portable players

2004-06-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
ave to bother with mp3 anymore. > I'm told that the information squeezed out by ogg is not audible to humans. And that the information squeezed out by mp3 compression is different, and not audible to humans. But when you ogg an mp3, you get both squeezed out, and the result *is* audible.

Re: interfaces lo:1 lo:2 lo:3? (for remote ssh tunnels)

2004-06-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:18:39PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: > > can linux have multiple 127.0.0.1 interfaces? if so, how? As far as I know, every IP number from 127.0.0.1 ro 127.255.255.255 does a loopback. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

XFree suddenly cannot open /dev/psaux

2004-08-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
Sudden trouble with X. I don't know what I might have done, but is was all working yesterday. I did try to configure ALSA (without any apparent success) but that shouldn't have messed up X, should it? I looks as if it can no longer open /dev/psaux, and it refuses to start up without its mouse.

cat cannot open /dev/psaux either

2004-08-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 04:44:50PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Sudden trouble with X. I don't know what I might have done, but is was all > working yesterday. I did try to configure ALSA (without any apparent success) > but that shouldn't have messed up X, should it? I lo

It works now. Does anyone understand what'w really going on?

2004-08-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 11:51:28PM +0200, Eddy wrote: > Hendrik Boom a ?crit : > > > Sudden trouble with X. I don't know what I might have done, but is > > was all > > working yesterday. I did try to configure ALSA (without any apparent > > success) >

Re: mysterious X lockups on Sarge

2004-08-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
tried 5 hours of a kernel-compile loop, and 2 > hours of cpuburn with no problems). I haven't done any of these things. > > So where do I start looking to figure out what's causing this and/or to > fix it. If I'm hitting the same bug, it will probably be something out

Once a month I get this gibberish.

2004-09-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
mf > Registering /usr/share/omf/gnome-core/panel-C.omf > Registering /usr/share/omf/gnome-core/panel-de.omf > Registering /usr/share/omf/gnome-core/panel-es.omf and many many more similar lines. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

aptitude refuses to install gcc and a few other things

2004-09-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
uch as cpp-3.3 gcc-3.3 libgcj-common, mpeglib (I asked for a few other packages, too). Is there a problem with gcc and friends? Or with the mirror? Or (most likely) have I done something wrong? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

solved with minor glitch: Re: aptitude refuses to install gcc and a few other things

2004-09-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
> On Sep 01, 2004, at 18:22, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >I'm running denian-sarge. > >When I try to install gcc using aptitude, I get the following lament: > > > >ftp://mirror.direct.ca testing/main gcc-3.31:3.3.4 [ERROR] > > Unable to fetch file, server said &

Re: knoppix vs standard debian?

2004-09-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
I always wonder what trojan horses are included with the security updates. Perhaps things like copy-protection or spyware. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian system download

2004-09-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
se, there must be *someone* in California with a set of Debian CDs you can copy! And if your computer doesn't boot from CD, get a copy of the Smart Boot Manager floppy, which I got from bootdisks.com, but which I didn't find there last time I looked. It should be available somewhere on

Re: Copying Text from a command prompt...No GUI Involved, and then X-windows issue

2004-09-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
error.log 2>&1 Or command 2>&1 | tee error.log in case you want th see the output while it is running. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gnucash compatibility

2004-09-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
use any system that happens to be available, but not if it renders my entire personal financial database unreadable. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hotplug PS2 keyboard

2004-09-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
ew years ago for making PC's, distinguishing ti from PS1? Or is PS2 the well-known appreviation for the Sony PlayStation 2? Both these systems can have keyboards. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making KDE my default GUI....

2004-09-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
lopers should be shot on > sight) do not honour ~/.xsession. XDM does, as does startx. In another thread I read the following. Is it relevant? % KDM fails to source /etc/X11/Xsession, see bug 265865. % % The fix is to 'vi .xprofile' which contains just one line... % &q

Re: gnucash compatibility

2004-09-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
h 1.6 > once you have saved it in 1.8 > I conclude I shouldn't upgrade until I can do so on all the machines I need to use gnucash on. Thanks. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get upgrade changed desktop from kde to gnome

2004-09-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
one, and had no ill effects. Was there indeed supposed to be a package "kde"? or soething that fulfills the same role? And did it disappear? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

networkpackages give error when installing

2004-01-27 Thread Hendrik Wouters
n advance Greetings Henne -- Hendrik Wouters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

networkpackages give error when installing

2004-01-27 Thread Hendrik Wouters
n advance Greetings Henne -- Hendrik Wouters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xdmcp remote xserver probelm

2004-02-03 Thread Hendrik Sirges
. what may went wrong? are there any services that should run to use remote xservers? thanks in advance for you help. hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Solved: Re: no executable in gtk-gnutella package for i386-etch

2007-03-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:55:15 -0400, hendrik wrote: > When I install gtk-gnutella, it installs just fine, except that > afterward there is no usr/bin/gtk-gnutella file. even though > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=gtk-gnutella&vers

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-07-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
ackup-by-rdiff/farhome It only copies what's changed, and it uses reverse differences (insteaf of hard links) to keep old versions alive, in case I ever need to see them again. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-07-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 14 May 2007 17:43:31 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > "Deboo ^" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Though I have never tried rsync, I can tell what I use and it is very >> simple and straightforward. I use a simple shell script to backup the >> files in my home dir to the windows partition as

Re: using sizeof

2007-07-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
f. and remainderof, so you could do your own storage allocation calculations in a machine-independent way. Something could take sizeof bytes starting at an address that is remainderof bytes past a n address that is a multiple of modulusof. The log2 of modulus would also be useful. -- hendrik --

Is there a package for mathml fonts?

2007-08-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
create it if you don't have it yet). See also these instructions. Now I suppose I can just follow these instructions and I'll have the fonts myself. But is there a way to make thise fonts available to *everybody* on my system? Can they be installed as one or more Debian packages? -- hendri

Re: How to handle the bad sectors on the hard disk?

2007-08-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
landing elsewhere, and causing new bad blocks -- this bad blocks may even be contagious within the drive). Make a complete backup while you still can (without destroying your previous backup -- the new one may be based on defective data) and replace the drive pronto. -- hendrik > > That said, yes

Re: Compile Question

2007-08-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
't arrive as a Debian package. I'm installing gentoo on another partition, for the occasional moments when I really need aggressive up-to-date-ness, and having troubles. Xorg didn't autoconfigure properly. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Beginner has trouble with SDL in foll-screen mode.

2007-08-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have a small program that makes a time-varying pattern on the screen. It works fine with SDL_RESIZABLE, but not with SDL_FULLSCREEN. In full-screen mode everything is sheared off into wavy lines, as if the screen geometry I'm using is not the actual one. Now I understand that it may be unable t

Re: Beginner has trouble with SDL in foll-screen mode.

2007-08-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:39:47 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have a small program that makes a time-varying pattern on the > screen. It works fine with SDL_RESIZABLE, but not with SDL_FULLSCREEN. I forgot to mention: I'm running this on a 32-bit AMD processor, an ATI all-in-wonder gr

Re: Beginner has trouble with SDL in foll-screen mode.

2007-08-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:58:07 -0400, Orestes leal wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:39:47 + (UTC) > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a small program that makes a time-varying pattern on the >> screen. It works fine with SDL_RESIZABLE, but not wit

Re: Beginner has trouble with SDL in foll-screen mode.

2007-08-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:03:29 -0400, Orestes leal wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:58:07 -0400 > Orestes leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:39:47 + (UTC) >> Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I have a small

Re: Firefox entry prediction crashes

2007-08-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
false to get rid of this behaviour. > Did that. When I enter about:config in the URL box it gives me lots of lines, including browser.search.suggest.enabled user set boolean false but it still pops up these menus when I enter stuff in the Google search field or the URL field. Th

xquery

2007-08-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
Is there an xquery implementation for Linux? Or is it time to implement one? Or is someone already doing it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xquery

2007-08-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:27:18 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/18/07 13:08, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> Is there an xquery implementation for Linux? Or is it time to implement >> one? Or is someone already doing it? >

Re: Firefox entry prediction crashes

2007-08-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
Firefox 2.0.0.6 from tarball.) Thanks. That worked. I conclude that the option browser.search.suggest.enabled gets its suggestions from elsewhere. I wonder where? perhaps some form of partial googling? -- hendrik > Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: xquery

2007-08-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
t xquery won't do relational joins in practical time and space without optimization. Maybe it's time to look at the source code ... Or find another implementation. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how find postscript for a Unicode character.

2007-08-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
Now I've written a program that takes minimally marked-up text and formats it as a Postscript file. I take the generated Postscript file and send igtto a Postscript orinter using xpp. That works fine for most of the text I have to print The minimal markup notation is pure nonstandard hackery. I

Re: flock, fcntl, lockf?

2008-01-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:33:49 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2008-01-14 23:50:35 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I tend to use fcntl because it is NFS safe and when the program dies > for whatever reason (even kill -9, which is not trappable to explicitly > remove the

Re: resolv.conf changing at boot

2006-05-24 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Don Jackson wrote: > I have a router (D-Link DI-604) and several computers on my LAN. The > router is 192.168.0.1. That is the address the resolv.conf file is > being changed to for nameserver on bootup. By restoring (editing) the > resolv.conf file to the proper nameservers of 214.134.xxx.yyy a

Re: /etc/hostname /etc/dhclient.conf question

2006-05-24 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Grant Thomas wrote: > Quick question about the two files mentioned above. > > If I change my hostname, I also have to change a line in > /etc/dhclient.conf to update my hostname on the network. "have to" is definitely wrong. > Is there a Debian Way to synch both of these files? Is there a rea

Re: eth* devices (again)

2006-06-05 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Rick Reynolds wrote: > I've posted about this before and there have been several suggestions -- > none of which have seemed to work. A new wrinkle has recently showed up > that I thought I would post. > > I have eth0 (lan), eth1 (wireless), and eth2 (firewire) defined on my > system. I've had p

Re: dpenedencies in testing totally broken :(

2006-06-05 Thread Hendrik Sattler
lee wrote: > dependencies in testing are totally broken now :( Do not upgrade the > package lists until this has been fixed! > > If you upgrade your system, it will leave you with a broken system. I > was lucky to get it working to some extend, but dselect wants to > remove many packages I want to

Re: Using Lenny on production server?

2008-07-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
e > system is generally fairly stable and "probably" not prone to any major > upheavals at this point. Any insights there? Often, just before a code freeze for a major release, there is a flurry of changes, some of them not well-thought-out. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: IP forwarding drops out -- more data

2008-07-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
e or two, and was automatically restarted. Apparently shutdown of ppp0 was enough to kill all the port-forwarding instructions relating to it (which was all of them), and the script did not get run when the ppp0 connection was reestablished. So, the question becomes, (a) how do I ensure that

Re: Re[2]: Video Adapter intel965

2008-07-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
xorg.conf file than with it. That said, you should probably keep a copy of your xorg.conf file around somewhere on the off chance that you really do need it. It may be hard to believe, but just try renaming your xorg.conf file to something like xorg.ignore.me and reboot. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IP forwarding drops out -- more data

2008-07-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:15:53 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > have a look at /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ Thanks. I linked my port-forwarding start script to /etc/sbin/ipmasq. It should stay up now if 00ipmasq actually gets executed when ppp0 comes up. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Uninstalling djb daemontools, djbdns

2008-07-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
gular messages complaining that /command/svscanboot can't be started, so there are still remnants somewhere. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Uninstalling djb daemontools, djbdns

2008-07-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:09:19 +0300, Georgi Alexandrov wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> Ages ago I installed daemontools and djbdns from the installer on >> http://cr.yp.to >> >> Now I;d like to replace that installation with one that uses the >> Debian packages

NFS unexpectedly starts timing out diring mount

2008-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
the two boxes. I can ssh from shadow to april, too, so connectivity shouldn't be a problem. The permissions in /etc/exports are the same as always, and identify the machines by IP number, so DNS failure shouldn't be relevant. Does anyone have deas how to track this down? -- hendrik

Re: NFS is working again, but problem not solved.

2008-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:42:04 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > At home we have a file server (called april), which provides a central > filesystem (called /farhome) containing everyone's home directory. > > It's been working fine for years, until yesterday, > > Suddenly

Re: NFS is working again, but problem not solved.

2008-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:15:25 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sunday 03 August 2008 22:13, Andrew Reid wrote: >> On Sunday 03 August 2008 13:36, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > While mfs mounting wasn't working, our LAN was disconnected from the >> > wider internet. Altho

Re: Wiki

2008-08-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
you want to (unlike > mediawiki) I've heard ikiwiki has recently been integrated with monotone. I suppose that could give a distributed wiki. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS is working again, but problem not solved.

2008-08-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:41:04 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:27:01AM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:15:25 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: >> >> > [snip] > >> /usr 172.25.1.4(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) > &

website front-end

2008-04-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
surely, someone would have made it into a Debian package already? Any recommendations? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: website front-end

2008-04-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:38:00 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I thought of writing a really minimal web-site front end, that would >> only look at incoming http requests and forward them to other >> processes, possibly on other machines, dependin

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:10:25 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > That hasn't worked here for at least a year. And now I can't even close > X with ctrl-alt-del. Isn't it ctrl-alt-backspace that's supposed to close X? -- hendrik > Anthony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
in unstable. >> > >> > (But watch out. One kernel update caused me to loose my network >> > device ue to kernel bug in unstable.) >> > >> > >> That hasn't worked here for at least a year. And now I can't even close >> X with ctrl-a

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
gnome (system -> preferences -> gnome). > The option and command keys may be swapped. Except I use icewm. But ... I'm not the only user of that machine, and the other one uses gnome. Maybe gnome sets the keyboard in ways that icewm doesn't reset? It's worth a try. -

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
three revisions of kernels have passed me by unnoticed without a reboot? (I check /boot). Nope. Better investigate why I'm not getting the upgrades. Thanks. -- hendrik > > Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs sarge surprise!

2008-04-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:25:47 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > > I can't understand why Emacs would depend on one package manager over > another. Unless I'm missing the bleeding obvious. Well, it *is* emacs. Maybe it has an operating mode where it acts as a front-end to aptitud

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:01:46 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:25, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> >> I have been upgrading. Could it be that three revisions of kernels have >> passed me by unnoticed without a reboot? (I check /boot). Nope. Better &g

What is the apt cache good for?

2008-04-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
I use aptitude) -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Kernel panic when rebooting etch AMD64

2008-04-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
ave nvidia graphics on the motherboard, using the free nv drivers. Any ideas? What information would be useful? -- hendrik P.S. Existing possibly unrelated known problems. These problems existed before the kernel upgrade, and are still there after. * After X comes up, cntl-alt-F1 does not switch

Re: What is the apt cache good for?

2008-04-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:32:23 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Most of that space is stored in /var/cache/apt/archives. The rest of > /var/cache/apt can be deleted but it'll be recreated next time you run > apt; it's a binary cache of data that's used to speed apt up. > > I think it's mostly

Re: Kernel panic when rebooting etch AMD64

2008-04-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:04:45 +0100, michael wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:10 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> About two out of three times I get a kernel panic when booting etch on >> my AMD64 system. It started a few days ago when I upgraded from kernel >> 2.6.18-3-amd64.

Re: Network FUBAR

2008-04-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
ystem come up with only one network card, > and with it being named "eth1", don't know what causes that. It oncehappened to me. It turned out that the firewire port on my graphics card was being assigned eth0. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

2008-05-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
file format? Or will I have to reverse-engineer it myself? Not that that's likely to be an insurmountable task. I just suspect that somewhere, someone has already done it. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

2008-05-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 01 May 2008 19:44:50 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:50:09PM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating >> back to my days on OS/360 and OS/370. >> >> Does anyone have any

Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

2008-05-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 01 May 2008 21:11:21 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:01:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/01/08 10:50, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating >> > back to m

Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

2008-05-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 01 May 2008 21:11:21 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:01:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/01/08 10:50, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating >> > back to m

Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

2008-05-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 01 May 2008 15:50:09 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I am the proud owner of several unloaded partitioned data sets, dating > back to my days on OS/360 and OS/370. > > Does anyone have any code I could use to decode these? I don't mean the > EBCDIC-to-ASCII (or to UT

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-05-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:26:02 -0400, hendrik wrote: > On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text > console a month or two ago. Now I haven't been doing anything much to > it excpet for regular upgrades, and the installation of an ocasional new > Debian

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-05-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 02 May 2008 16:27:10 -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > On 2-May-08, at 4:06 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:26:02 -0400, hendrik wrote: >>> On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text >>> console a month or two ago. > >

Image compression

2008-05-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
good results? And to what extent is good image quality the result of the algorithms that display the image, adjusting image size to screen size and resolution and the like? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Image comparison

2008-05-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
same if it has been scanned with different resolutions, colour corrections, quality of compression, mirror imaged, and the like? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Image compression

2008-05-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 21 May 2008 21:04:41 +0100, michael wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 20:02 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I've noticed that some 40K byte jpeg files are very good, as good as >> ones ten times the size, and that others are awful. The question >> naturally aris

Re: Image comparison

2008-05-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 21 May 2008 23:15:39 +0100, Joe wrote: > findimagedupes Looks good. I'll try it. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Image compression

2008-05-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 21 May 2008 22:50:56 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 05/21/2008 03:02 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I've noticed that some 40K byte jpeg files are very good, as good as >> ones ten times the size, and that others are awful. The question >> naturally arises about

Re: Image comparison

2008-05-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 22 May 2008 01:23:48 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 2008 23:15:39 +0100, Joe wrote: > >> findimagedupes > > Looks good. I'll try it. > > -- hendrik It works! Thank you. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: youtube also crashes iceweasel

2007-04-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
> I find mozilla often -- apparently at random -- crashes when starting of finishing a youtube video. I notives this starting today -- of course, it might have been a problen a few days ago, but I didn't play any videos before today because sound wasn't working (speaker turned out

Re: mozilla-vlc plugin keeps crashing iceweasel

2007-04-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
ng actually plays, and the progress bar remains at zero. They, bored with this, we double-click on another song, and it crashes -- becomes unresponsive, stops song name from crawling, and can only be closed with the kill command. It's an etch system that was make up-to-date yesterda

Are volume labels a file-system thing?

2007-05-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
I just discovered that the commands for reading ans setting volume labels have 'e2' in their names, like e2label. Does this mean that I can label my partitions only if I put an ext2 of ext3 file system on them? Or is there some other mechanism I should know about? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

can't get a terminal in icewm until after I start iceweasel

2009-07-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
erminal, which does honour control-plus and also won't start up before iceweasel. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: can't get a terminal in icewm until after I start iceweasel

2009-07-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
inal Emulators->xterm, >> >> which does not respond to control-plus. I suspect the terminal I get >> from the icon may be the same as the one I get by following >> >> debian->Programs->Applications->Terminal Emulators->Gnome Terminal, >> whic

FIXED: can't get a terminal in icewm until after I start iceweasel

2009-08-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
I upgraded everything to current yesterday, and booted with kernel 2.6.30-1-486, and now the terminal comes up properly. I have no idea which of these updates made it work, but it works now. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

nameserver during install

2009-09-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
an one discover what nameserver one's Linux system is actually using? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
command window, but if I end up upgrading X sometime, that doesn't seem the best place to be controlling the upgrade from. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:02:00 +0200, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last >> week, and used it to install testing. >> >> Everything went well, but after installation, when I tried usin

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:04:29 -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:07:04PM EDT, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last >> week, and used it to install testing. >> >> Everything went well, but after

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
her TTY? ctrl+alt+F2 through F4 > (maybe up to F6?). I seem to remember doing that, but I'm not sure. I'll try it again next time I have access to that machine. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:08:22 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,14.Sep.09, 03:07:04, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I just downloaded and burned a new Debian testing netinstall CD last >> week, and used it to install testing. >> >> Everything went well, but after insta

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
her TTY? ctrl+alt+F2 through F4 > (maybe up to F6?). Did that. None of the ctrl-alt-f* keys worked. Not with the right or the left alt keys. But then. neither did chvt (see my other recent post in this thread) -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Yet another RAID admin question

2009-02-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
marks are used at boot time to asssemble the RAID. What do I have to do to make sure that after I have removed the old member it is never again recognised as a RAID member? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
nother language, spend a while learning Scheme. You'll be glad for the lessons you learn, whether you finally decide to stick with it or not. Even if you only need to learn C, you're *still* probably better off spending the time learning Scheme first. You'll learn C faster. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
(much) about register allocation. All the usual operations were there. Even a restriction that if an expression was too complex to be evaluated in the available machine registers, the compiler would reject it. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Yet another RAID admin question

2009-02-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:22:43 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Hendrik Boom [2009.02.17.1747 > +0100]: >> But I understand these partitions are marked in some way to identify >> them as RAID members, and that these marks are used at boot time to >> asssemble th

open source GMA 500 graphics -- Is there a glimmer of hope?

2009-02-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Further paranoia: LVM and a decommisioned RAID member.

2009-02-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:31:48 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:22:43 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > >> also sprach Hendrik Boom [2009.02.17.1747 >> +0100]: >>> But I understand these partitions are marked in some way to identify >>> them a

Secret newlines in openoffice

2009-02-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
e. Or is there a revision control system that's immune to the long line problem. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:20:26 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/10/2009 12:59 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems >> (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now >> how useful VCSs are

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