crash messages

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
hi everyone, failed to attach this part of my /var/log/messages, as promised. So I'll just insert it in this message. I assume the eth-00 messages are harmless? In which case all I can see are messages of this kind: Jan 6 17:12:34 pc09 kernel: keyboard.c: can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272

killthread script

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:49:18AM -0600, Jesse Meyer wrote: > On Wed, 07 Jan 2004, Justin Ellison wrote: > > > I'm a linux user of 3 years who manages 10-15 RedHat servers at work, > > and I've run Gentoo on my laptop since 1.2. > > > The mailing list is great, but the noise floor is too

Re: urgent nvidia problem

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:15:01AM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:44:18AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > > > Rebooted and x wouldn't start because of a problem with nvidiactl (I > > have to use the nonfree drivers to make X work at all...). &

Re: urgent nvidia problem

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:46:49AM -0700, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:42:06PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > > > so, no, "nvidia" is not loaded. I tried modprobe nvidia, and got: > > "modprobe: can't locate module nvidia"

Re: changing interface font size in openoffice

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
see the README file in /usr/share/do/openoffice. but short and easy answer: tools -options - view - scale -- set it to somewhere between 110 and 135% and you should get what you're looging for. matt On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:28:45PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > Is it possible to change the i

Re: killthread script

2004-01-07 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:03:04PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Matt Price: > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:49:18AM -0600, Jesse Meyer wrote: > > > > > > First of all, a good email client, aliases, and a killthread script is > > > > I have pret

set up simple mailing list?

2004-01-08 Thread Matt Price
hey there, I'd like to set up simple mail account on my box to act as a mailing list for one ofm y classes. So if someone writes to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the mail is automatically frwared to a bunch of people. This should be simple, right? I tried writing an od-fashioned .forward with a bunch o

nvidia-kernel-common/source + kernel 2.6 configuration question

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, after trouble with nvidia and my old kernel I am hoping to update to 2.6.0, but am a bit stuck. when I installed one ofthe nvidia packages -- I think nvidia-kernel-common -- I was asked a debconf qusiton about installing the 2.4 or the 2.6 version of the package; I chose 2.4 (the actual

dpkg-divert error

2004-01-09 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:14:12AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > after trouble with nvidia and my old kernel I am hoping to update to > 2.6.0, but am a bit stuck. when I installed one ofthe nvidia packages > installing the 2.4 or the 2.6 version of the package; I chose 2.4 (the > actual

Re: charter font in debian's openoffice.org1.1

2004-01-13 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:00:53PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Matt Price([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > Hi, > > > > recentfly upgraded to OOo1.1 using the relativley new sid > > debs. New version is lovely -- well-done! -- but I've lo

enscript margins

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, just recently discovered enscript, which I'm loving as a pretty-printing tool (though if folks have suggestions for other tools, I'm happy to hear them). One little error that puzzles me -- enscript seems to think my 8.5x11 (US Letter) pages are longer than they really are. When for

setting print command in xemacs

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, using the xemacs print command, my fext files end up starting exactly at the edge of the page and being difficult to readj. I'm trying to figure out a wayto get xemacs to use enxcript or some other formatting tool to do the actual printing -- but it's not obvious how to go about doin

diagnosing system crash (hardware failure?)

2004-01-16 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, my work machine has been crashing spontaneously: X freezes, sshd goes down, and I can't use the keyboard. This only happens when Im in the office, so I think it likely has something to do with my physical presence... In particular, we have a USB-kvm switch that I use to switch bet

getmail double-downloading

2003-06-24 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, I've recently acquired a problem with getmail. Most of the time it works fine -- it downloads my messages, leves them on the server for two days, and then delet them. But every so often -- once every ouple of days -- it will re-download the whole mailbox (which uually has about 1500 m

Re: nfs through dsl router

2003-06-24 Thread Matt Price
> > jeez, guys, it was only up for about 5 minutes -- I'm not THAT stupid (though > > I can be pretty dumb if left to my own devices) > Sometimes that's all it takes. ok, point taken. > > rpcinfo uses portmap. portmap is a daemon to help handle a bunch of rpc > (remote procedure calls) in glibc.

Re: .Xclients, .xinitrc, .xsessions not read by sys what to use?

2003-06-24 Thread Matt Price
> > Both KDM and GDM offer the concept of "sessions"; you want to make > sure that you're using the "Debian" session, not one that goes > straight into GNOME or KDE without reading other dotfiles. sorry, how does this work? I've been wondering about similar questions myself. m > > -- > Dav

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'

2003-06-25 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:49:12PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings! > I am trying to recompile my kernel on a freshly installed machine, and got into > a problem: when I try to go for 'make manuconfig', here's what happens: > > --- > hermes:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f inclu

mailman & postmaster (exim?) message...

2004-05-19 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, ever since I installed mailman and got lists running, I've been getting error messages from the postmaster on my local machine: From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Message frozen Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 08:00:06 -0400 Message 1BQPjy-0002km-00 h

"presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Matt Price
Hey folks, was justreading this article inthe New York Times about the new version of MS Office for Mac: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/technology/circuits/20stat.html In it, the author discusses a new "presenter tools" view in MS office, which lets you see extra information on your laptop

from header class btwn mutt and mailman?

2004-05-21 Thread matt . price
hey folks, I've just realized that mutt has been sending out messages using a private address (matt - at - derailleur - org) instead of the 'form' header set in my .muttrc: set from = [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried grep -ir derailleur /etc/* ad the only relevant entry I could find was: mailman/

Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:30:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > > >In it, the author discusses a new "presenter tools" view in MS office, > >which lets you see extra information on your laptop screen that isn't > >passed on to the pr

Re: "presenter view" in OOo Impress

2004-05-21 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 11:55:17PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 16:43 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > Matt Price wrote: > > > > >On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 10:30:12AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > >>Matt Price wrote: > > > >

Re: bookmarks.html

2004-05-26 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 02:37:15AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:19:34AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > >> Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > >> That's one of the reasons i never save my bookmarks in a browser. > >> I have made php script tha

strange du behaviour

2004-05-26 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, trying to pare down the system on my poor overburdened laptop, and using du to help me diagnose. I had some source files in /root which I have since deleted, but I am getting this strange behaviour. so from /root I try: hplaptop:~# du -sh ./ 1020K . but check this out: [EMAI

xserver future?

2004-05-31 Thread Matt Price
x in the winter, and I'm just wondering whether the x framework as we currently know it will still be around. later, matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & demi-geek `- -- --

test if x server is running on a given display

2004-09-10 Thread Matt Price
nks much, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

openoffice sound plugin

2004-09-14 Thread Matt Price
. Anyway, thanks... matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: test if x server is running on a given display

2004-09-16 Thread Matt Price
Matt Price utoronto.ca> writes: thanks to stefan for that answer! works great. though for fun, I'd still ike to know whether there's a way to contact the server directly to see whether it's REALLY running matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: test if x server is running on a given display

2004-09-17 Thread Matt Price
Dave Howorth wrote: know whether there's a way to contact the server directly to see whether it's REALLY running The simplest way to me is to write an X client program that just makes a connection, then disconnects. Something like this in fact: #include #define DISPLAY ":0.0" int main(argc

Re: test if x server is running on a given display

2004-09-21 Thread Matt Price
thanks dave, that's very cool. now... I don't program in c. would it be easy to modify this program in two ways: 1) pass the display number as a parameter 2) print or return a specific error message if the connection is not accepted? -- NEW VERSION -- #include int main(argc, argv) int argc; c

scrollkeeper dpkg error

2004-02-26 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, having touble setting ups scrollkeeper on my system. Keep getting the following error: Setting up scrollkeeper (0.3.14-5) ... update-xmlcatalog: error: entry already exists dpkg: error processing scrollkeeper (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit st

which process is accessing my hard drive?

2004-03-01 Thread Matt Price
Hey folks, I'm trying to set my (aging) laptop up for maximum power efficiency. using hdparm, I set the spindown time very short, I don't use x, and I've gone so far as to shutdown things like cron and atd. Pretty much the only thing I have running is emacs (see the output of ps, attached). But

Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive -- gaah!

2004-03-01 Thread Matt Price
Hey everyone, I seem to havel ost my trusty old usb flash drive, so I shelled out $70 for a new one -- and carelessly bought a Sandisk Cruzer 256meg model. Gaah! I can't get it to work!! with the old drive, I simply plugged the thing in, usb-storage took over and the drive was assigned /dev/s

Re: Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive -- gaah!

2004-03-01 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:18:47AM -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 01 March 2004 07:47 am, Matt Price wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > > > I seem to havel ost my trusty old usb flash drive, so I shelled out > > $70 for a new one -- and careless

Re: Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive -- gaah!

2004-03-01 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:21:47PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-1.2, assigned address 19 > > usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1292 > > usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=19 (error=-110) > > hub.c: new USB d

[solved!] Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive -- gaah!

2004-03-02 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:47:58AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I seem to havel ost my trusty old usb flash drive, so I shelled out > $70 for a new one -- and carelessly bought a Sandisk Cruzer 256meg > model. Gaah! I can't get it to work!! > sol

Re: debian jr.

2004-03-03 Thread Matt Price
Anyone know wht's hapening with debian jr? Seems there hasn't been much news from that project in the last year or so... m On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 06:47:01PM -0800, Roger Chrisman wrote: > Elvis Presley wrote: > > where can i download debian jr. > > Elvis, I would reply something about 'debian j

Re: [OT]Europe Supports Antitrust Ruling Against Microsoft

2004-03-16 Thread Matt Price
OK, can we please take this off of debian-user now? Egregiously offtipic. m On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:43:35AM -0800, Number Six wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:35:11AM -0300, Christoph Simon wrote: > > You are kidding, right? You can't be that ignorant. Bombing Dresden > > and Nuking Japan d

Re: Really, I still don't have sound

2004-03-16 Thread Matt Price
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:01:43AM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Mark Healey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I still haven't managed to get sound up and running. It looks like > > everybody is stumped but I'm resubmitting the problem and including > > all that I gathered in the la

OT: procmail recipe/bash scripting issue

2004-01-25 Thread Matt Price
hey everyone, trying to get procmail to pipe messages to a script I wrote that processes mail to a web page. Here's the recipe: --- :0: * ? $FORMAIL -x From: | grep -isF -f /home/movies/friends_and_family.txt | /usr/local/scripts/moviepage --

using regex substitution on BASH variables

2004-01-26 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:05:08PM +0100, Philipp Weis wrote: > On 26 Jan 2004, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I asusme the script is running, but it's not receiving the data it > > needs, or at least not understanding it. > > > > Procma

Re: using regex substitution on BASH variables

2004-01-26 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 03:54:52PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now, if this information were stored in a file, it would be simple to > > manipulate with regex's: > > > > sed 's/@/ -at- /' addressfil

promail and address lists

2004-01-26 Thread Matt Price
Thanks to help, I now have my bash script (for copying mail to a web page) working. Ideally I would do something slightly more complex: copy mails to a web page, then forward those same mails on to a list of addresses. So my originjal procmail recipe was: :0: * ? $FORMAIL -x"From:" -x"Sender

mozilla-firebird & passwords

2004-01-27 Thread Matt Price
Hey there, after a recent upgrade I can't view the paasswords stored by mozilla-firebird. In the options menu under privacy, I still see a button marked 'view paswords' but clickingo n the button has no effect. I'd like to clean up my password files, so it's irritating thatthis doesn't work...

256-color xterm

2004-01-28 Thread Matt Price
can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the debian source package? I'd just like a bit more flexibility -- and I'd like to have the off-the-shelf values for emacs highlighting work when I'm in a terminal. Thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: mozilla-firebird & passwords

2004-01-28 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:30:31PM -0500, David P James wrote: > On January 27, 2004 07:13, Matt Price wrote: > If I understand you correctly, pressing "View Passwords" does absolutely > nothing at all? The password manager in Firebird was changed in the 0.7 > release whi

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the > > debian source package? I'd just like a bit more flexibility -- and > > I'd like

Source Package for xterm?

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >> Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > can anyone tell me how to

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:55:51PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >> > >> The XFree86 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation > >> There'

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:20:57AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:11:11PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > thanks for this... I'm a bit confuseed about the deb-src package for > > xterm. As you probably know, apt-get source xterm downloads files >

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:10:41PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:02:07AM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >> Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Wed, Jan 28, 200

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:10:41PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ok, I went ahead and compiled/installed a 256-color xterm. I was > > hoping that the extra colors would magically appear for me in xemacs, > > but emacs stil

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:55:36PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> No - the main thing here is whether your X server has enough colors available. > >> The 8-bit displays don't. I've tested this mostly with 16-bit disp

folder modification times

2004-02-04 Thread Matt Price
To: mutt users list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Bcc: Subject: folder modification times not updated? Reply-To: Hi everyone, I've noticed recently that some of my Maildir folders don't have the right date attached to them. So for instance, one folder has recently been updated, but ls thinks it hasn

alt-right-click in xterm

2004-02-09 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, On one computer running debian-unstable right-alt-click in xterm gives e a bracketed arrow pointint down and to the right. WHen I move the mouse, the size of the window changes in the direciton the mouse moves... On another system, also running debian-unstable, the same action gives

Re: alt-right-click in xterm

2004-02-10 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:38:43PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:18:20PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > > > > I liket he second style better, as it gives me more flexibility. > > Anyone know what option controls this behaviour? > > Su

where does mailman get the host machine name?

2004-03-29 Thread Matt Price
hi, my ocmputer has a couple of domain names attached to it, of which the first and most awkward was awarded by the admin people at my workplace. Mailman., which I've just installed, works fine, but seems to think my ocmputer should be called by this name, i.e., pc09.hist.utoronto.ca. I would

Re: where does mailman get the host machine name?

2004-03-30 Thread Matt Price
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 04:01:16PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 05:13:19PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > hi, > > > > my ocmputer has a couple of domain names attached to it, of which the > > first and most awkward was awarded by the admin

new name issue

2004-03-30 Thread Matt Price
I've encountered another difficulty with Mailman. Using the web interface to add new lists (at http://any-valid-host-name-for-my-computer/cgi-bin/mailman/create) I am unable to actually generate the new list. I get the following error at the top of the page generated by Mailman: Error: Unknown

naming usb devices?

2004-04-16 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, feel like I saw this somewhere a while ago, but a quick search didn't turn up what I wanted. Is there a way to assign a permanent name to a usb device like a pen drive,' so that (say) if I plug in two different pen drives at the same time, each one gets assigned to an appropriate name,

Re: naming usb devices?

2004-04-16 Thread Matt Price
thanks colin, that seems to be it! will play with it a bit. thanks for the quick reply. m On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 02:30:56AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:24:06PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > feel like I saw this somewhere a while ago, but a quick sear

print kernel tree from make xconfig?

2004-04-16 Thread Matt Price
anyone know whetheri t's possible to print out the lovely display of the kernel module tree from "make xconfig"? I would like to have an annotated copy (what modules are required on which machines for what purposes, etc...). If there's another similar pretty picture somewhere that is of course

Re: print kernel tree from make xconfig?

2004-04-17 Thread Matt Price
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 06:13:56PM +0100, stephen parkinson wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > >anyone know whetheri t's possible to print out the lovely display of > >the kernel module tree from "make xconfig"? I would like to have an > >annotated copy (what

'no screens found' -- how & why?

2004-04-21 Thread Matt Price
Hi everyone, I've posted this on debian-powerpc but am feeling desperate -- apologies for the cross-post. I've just had something rather strange happen -- after functioning perfectly well on several bootups, suddenly 2.6.5 kernels are unable to run X. I don't believe I did *anything* to the X se

Re: 'no screens found' -- how & why?

2004-04-21 Thread Matt Price
[sorry Ian, couldn't seem to write back to you directly, and anyway seemed relevant to the whole list] On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:07:27PM +0100, Ian wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Matt Price wrote: > > > (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libfbdevhw.a > > (I

Re: 'no screens found' -- how & why?

2004-04-21 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:35:17PM -0300, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Em Wed, 21 Apr 2004 11:10:34 -0400, Matt Price escreveu: > > > I've posted this on debian-powerpc but am feeling desperate -- apologies > > for the cross-post. I've just

aptitude display question

2004-04-21 Thread Matt Price
Hey folks, wading through the aptiude configuration options rightn ow... is there a way to group all the broken packages together somewhere in a special view? It would be ocnvenient sometimes. On a more general note, does anyone have a really excellent configuration for aptitude they'd like to

Re: aptitude display question

2004-04-21 Thread Matt Price
forgot to add my other question -- is there a way to change the percentage of the screen devoted to each part of the display (e.g., reduce the size of the package dexcription, which is rarely full, and give more space to list packages?) thx, m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

serious apt error after aptitude catastrophe

2004-04-21 Thread Matt Price
hello, tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my computer! now I have to reinstall them, but the Sid glibc backage seems to have aserious conflict with sysinit: -- Note, selecting libc6 instead

Re: serious apt error after aptitude catastrophe

2004-04-21 Thread Matt Price
gaah, forgot to add: downgrading libc6 leads to terrible system-breaking conflicts. m On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:07:44AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > hello, > > tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude > started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental

Re: 'no screens found' -- how & why?

2004-04-22 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 01:24:41PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > [sorry Ian, couldn't seem to write back to you directly, and anyway > seemed relevant to the whole list] > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:07:27PM +0100, Ian wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Matt Price wrote: > &g

Re: serious apt error after aptitude catastrophe

2004-04-22 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:03:40AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > tried switching to aptitude and, while I was't looking, aptitude > > started to uninstall a whole slew of fundamental packages from my > > computer! >

Re: unlock a locked up tty session

2004-04-22 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:15:11PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > This has happened several times recently. I have changed from one tty > session to another, come back to the first, and the session is locked up. > If I was in an application, it just sits there, if I was at the command > line, I

apt-file usage

2004-05-12 Thread Matt Price
Hi, I'm trying to understand how to use apt-file. I've just installed it on unstable (2.0.3-6) and am using what I believe is the default /etc/apt/apt-file.conf (follows below). when I try: apt-file list mozilla-firefox or apt-file search firefox I get nothing. Am I doing something wrong? Or

Re: apt-file usage

2004-05-12 Thread Matt Price
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:55:38AM -0700, Carlos Hanson wrote: > Did you do an update first? > > # apt-file update err no. sorry for bothering the list. thanks for the tip! m > > > On Wed, 12 May 2004 12:25:58 -0400 > Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: mozilla-firefox & extensions

2004-05-11 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 11:17:31AM +0800, Alexander Nordström wrote: > On Friday, 7 May 2004 03:16, Matt Price wrote: > > > anyonee lse having trouble installing extensions with mozilla-firefox > > 0.8-8 on Sid? I keep trying to install mozex and it doesn't seem to > &

Re: edit pdf's

2004-05-11 Thread Matt Price
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:30:11AM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: thanks for the flues folks. pdftohtml -- which I confess I *did* already know about, sorry, should havesaid so -- won't work so well for me, i odn't think; these are scanned-in texts from the jstor journal collection, and it's important

edit pdf's

2004-05-10 Thread Matt Price
hey folks, I have a bunch of pdf's I'd like to print out, scanned from small-paged books. I'd like to print them out two-to-a-page, but they've been saved with lots of blank space around the text; so when I just try lpr -o number-up=2 I get very very tiny type. I'd like to somehow strip the b

make-kpkg makes HUGE kernel packages??

2007-03-06 Thread Matt Price
s before... please let mek now! thanks, matt -- Matt Price History Dept University of Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

tell ipod a recording is an 'audiobook'?

2007-07-05 Thread Matt Price
? if it can be done from amarok that's great, otherwise i can use whatever music player is required. thanks very much, as always! matt -- Matt Price History Dept University of Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

concatenate flac files? convert to mp4?

2007-07-15 Thread Matt Price
hi, im in hte middle of a long trip with my kids and have filled my ipod with all kinds of things, including over a thousand mp3's from ripped-down harry potter cd's. unfortunately my ipod doesn't know that these files are 'audiobook' file, and so when i put the ipod on shuffle, about one in 5 t

Re: concatenate flac files? convert to mp4?

2007-07-15 Thread Matt Price
On 7/15/07, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, im in hte middle of a long trip with my kids and have filled my ipod with all kinds of things, including over a thousand mp3's from ripped-down harry potter cd's. unfortunately my ipod doesn't know that these files are

umount /proc/bus/usb/ && modprobe -r usbcore??

2006-11-18 Thread Matt Price
Hi I run a mostly-ubuntu system on my dell latitude d820, but pull a few packages from Sid & compile my kernels from debian sources which I patch with the suspend2 patches, because suspending to ram and to disk are both unreliable with the ubuntu kernels. In recent weeks something has happened t

ripping several hundred cds?

2006-11-26 Thread Matt Price
these that I'd like to have as little user interaction as possible -- just shove in the cd, have it automatically rip to a specifed location, then eject and on to the next one. has anyone done anything of this kind before? any suggestions? thanks, matt -- Matt Price History Dept Univer

make-kpkg fails with "compatibility" errors

2006-11-27 Thread Matt Price
Hi, On a mixed sid/ubuntu-edgy system I am having errors building the ubuntu kernels from source. The kernel compile seems to go fine but there are issues with make-kpkg and dh_* along these lines: $ sudo make-kpkg --append-to-version=-suspend2 --initrd kernel-image ---[snip]-

Re: make-kpkg fails with "compatibility" errors

2006-11-28 Thread Matt Price
On 11/27/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt Price wrote: > On a mixed sid/ubuntu-edgy system !!! > /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm line 655. > dh_gencontrol: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated. > Use of uninitialized value in string eq at

debian kernel git tree?

2006-11-29 Thread Matt Price
Hi, I'm wondering whether there's a git tree somewhere for the debian kernel? thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

minimal kde system for amarok?

2006-12-01 Thread Matt Price
Hi, I am building a linux stereo for xmas. Basically I'm making it out of an old ibm thinkpad and an iPod w/ rockbox. I want to install a fairly minimal set of packages as I really don't want the machine to feel sluggish -- it should act like a smart stereo component, not a slow-bu-versatile com

bridging eth1 to eth0

2006-12-29 Thread Matt Price
From: Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: TLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:bridge eth1 to eth0? Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:51:31 -0500 hi, for stupid reasons I need to install via netboot on a compaq tablet (hoping this will work, it's my last shot!). I have

Re: bridging eth1 to eth0

2006-12-30 Thread Matt Price
On 12/29/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 04:42:49PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > From: Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: TLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: bridge eth1 to eth0? > Date: Fri, 29 De

Re: bridging eth1 to eth0

2007-01-02 Thread Matt Price
On 12/31/06, Kevin Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You got it half right. Turning on ip_forward on the server is only one piece. The other piece is to set the client's default gateway to point to your server, which is 192.168.0.1. You can set this via DHCP options, since you have a DHCP serv

running windows via kvm module -- any experiences?

2007-01-30 Thread Matt Price
of success stories, Matt -- Matt Price History Dept University of Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [TLUG]: running windows via kvm module -- any experiences?

2007-01-31 Thread Matt Price
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 18:24 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:06:05PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > My girlfriend is buying a new computer a month or two from now and I'm > > hoping to convince her to let me install ubuntu feisty on it, and set up &g

Re: How to make work dual monitors with Debian etch on an IBM x60s ThinkPad?

2007-01-31 Thread Matt Price
just hoping that someone posts these xorg.conf's for the record; I for one may well buy one of these machiens soon and would like to know how to do both things. m On 1/31/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 14:36:18 +0900, Dietrich Bollmann wrote: > Hi, > > I

PDA serial/USB cable busted after hardware/software upgrade?

2006-05-24 Thread Matt Price
love some advice on howto diagnose these issues further! the evolution/palm combination has been crucial for me. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- --

PDA serial/USB cable busted after hardware/software upgrade?

2006-05-24 Thread Matt Price
love some advice on howto diagnose these issues further! the evolution/palm combination has been crucial for me. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- --

PDA serial/USB cable busted after hardware/software upgrade?

2006-05-24 Thread Matt Price
hi debian, I was until recently running debian sid on a middle-aged amd k7 system; after the motherboard fried, I upgraded to a very fast new system (amd X2 3800+, A8N-SLI motherboard and installed ubuntu Dapper and debian etch on a new disk. The old system is still around on an old disk, but ha

gpilot & pilot-link messed up after hardware/software upgrade?

2006-05-25 Thread Matt Price
ose these issues further! the evolution/palm combination has been crucial for me. thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mail getting through?

2006-05-25 Thread Matt Price
sorry, just testing my account -- the last 3 messages I sent to the list don't seem to have made it all the way! matt

[OT-ish] diagnosing serial port functionality?

2006-05-26 Thread Matt Price
ry to cat it (unlike /dev/tty/S1+), but again, no data comes through when I attach the palm pilot & press hotsync. thanks for any advice you got! matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -

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