ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 66

'blessing mpofu blessingvm at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 18:02:44 UTC 2008


Hi

I need help - am a very new ubuntu user and am trying to find manuals and or
user guides... please assist

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Regards,

Blessing V. Mpofu
Mobile: +27 (0) 73 073 4720
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>   1. Re: [Intrepid] gnome-terminal keyboard mapping (PleegWat)
>   2. Printing problem (Kjetil Halvorsen)
>   3. Re: ubuntu snapshot (teicah teicah)
>   4. Re: CodeWeaver Crossover Linux (Bo Grimes)
>   5. Re: How to restore "bashrc" file. (teicah teicah)
>   6. Wanted: Epox EP-9NPA+SLI MB manual (Dave Woyciesjes)
>   7. Connection problem with Ubuntu Intrepid (brummy User)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:35:12 +0100
> From: PleegWat <pleegwat at telfort.nl>
> Subject: Re: [Intrepid] gnome-terminal keyboard mapping
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general discussions"
>        <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <491079C0.4060408 at telfort.nl>
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> Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:
> > I just upgraded from Hardy to Intrepid, and it seems that everything
> > is working as before except the gnome-terminal keyboard mappings.
>
> Are you using xmodmap? I ran into issues with my xmodmap configuration
> due to the underlying keycodes changing.
>
> Pleegwat
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:43:15 -0300
> From: "Kjetil Halvorsen" <kjetil1001 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Printing problem
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general discussions"
>        <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Hola!
>
> I am connected to a (non-local) printer on the local network. The printer
> works nice from windows macines, but from ubuntu
> (neither 8.04 nor 8.10) am I able to print. What might be the problem. I am
> using the troubleshooting guide, which cannot
> solve the problem, but gives the following information output:
>
> Page 1 (Choose printer):
> {'cups_dest': <cups.Dest object at 0x8c4de40>,
>  'cups_instance': None,
>  'cups_queue': 'LaserJet-1005',
>  'cups_queue_listed': True}
> Page 2 (Check printer sanity):
> {'cups_device_uri_scheme': u'socket',
>  'cups_printer_dict': {'device-uri': u'socket://
> 172.16.150.143/Impresora:9100',
>                       'printer-info': u'LaserJet-1005',
>                       'printer-is-shared': True,
>                       'printer-location': u'172.16.150.143/Impresora',
>                       'printer-make-and-model': u'HP LaserJet 1005
> Foomatic/foo2zjs (recommended)',
>                       'printer-state': 3,
>                       'printer-state-message': u'No %%BoundingBox: comment
> in header!',
>                       'printer-state-reasons': [u'connecting-to-device'],
>                       'printer-type': 36868,
>                       'printer-uri-supported':
> u'ipp://localhost:631/printers/LaserJet-1005'},
>  'is_cups_class': False}
> Page 3 (Printer state reasons):
> {'printer-state-message': 'No %%BoundingBox: comment in header!',
>  'printer-state-reasons': 'connecting-to-device'}
> Page 4 (Print test page):
> {'test_page_attempted': True,
>  'test_page_job_id': [13],
>  'test_page_job_status': [(13, 'LaserJet-1005', 'Test Page')],
>  'test_page_successful': False}
> Page 5 (Printer state reasons):
> {'printer-state-message': 'Attempting to connect to host 172.16.150.143 on
> port 9100',
>  'printer-state-reasons': 'connecting-to-device'}
>
>
> Hopefully this can lead somebody to a solution.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Kjetil
>
> --
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> responds to that information just as much as he 'causes' things to
> happen...it is an interaction, and not a lineal situation. But the myth of
> power is, of course, a very powerful myth, and probably most people in this
> world more or less believe in it. It is a myth, which, if everybody
> believes
> in it, becomes to that extent self-validating. But it is still
> epistemological lunacy and leads inevitably to various sorts of disaster."
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:46:54 -0600
> From: "teicah teicah" <teicah at isp.com>
> Subject: Re: ubuntu snapshot
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general discussions"
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> I suggest gparted.
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Cesar Augusto Suarez <cemaaiem at yahoo.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> > i wanna know if there is a software i can take a snapshot of my installed
> > system.
> > as you know, i have troubles with graphic grub (unsolved yet), and it
> means
> > i cant boot and i must make a fresh install again.
> > with that tools, i can  "experiment" and make changes that can affect my
> > system, and later restore it without changes.
> > i've tried with partimage, but i guess its very confuse.
> >
> > ------------------------------
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:50:25 -0500
> From: Bo Grimes <boslists at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: CodeWeaver Crossover Linux
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general discussions"
>        <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:10:32AM -0800, Pastor JW wrote:
> > On Monday 03 November 2008 3:47:48 pm Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > 2008/11/4 Senectus . <senectus at gmail.com>:
> > > > Why would you presume the right to request that?
> > >
> > > HTML posting is discouraged (or forbidden) in every Linux mailing list
> > > that I subscribe to. Please, lets not turn this into a flame war.
> >
> > It is quite universal on maillists of substance.  Besides which my mail
> client
> > filters all html message to trash.  In nearly 30 years now I have yet to
> come
> > across an html message with something of value in it.
>
> Of course not...they get filtered to trash.
>
> > I really have no time to waste and even if I did, I'd not waste it
> looking
> > at fluff stuffed messages.  The use for html is in creating websites, not
> > sending notes.
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> This address is specifically for mailing list.  I get no html messages
> here.
> I have another for HTML, stuff like emails from "The Washington Post,"
> "Politico" and "The Writer's Almanac."
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> I read this list with Mutt and the other with Thunderbird, which renders
> html formatted mail just fine, and I find much worth in those web pages
> sent
> as email.  It's much easier for me to have them sitting in my inbox ready
> to
> read with my morning coffee than it is to go seek out the material from a
> dozen places each morning.
>
> I have a thrid account for family and friends.  As I am the only Linux user
> in my family, and they all use Outlook despite my years of discouragement,
> I
> find quite a lot of value in reading their emails to me (even if they are
> formatted in html), and I value communication with them far above any piece
> of software.
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> I agree this and other mailing lists of this sort are no more the place for
> html than usenet, but the value in an email is in its content, not its
> formatting.
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> If the formatting prevents one from viewing the content, then you've got a
> problem, but I structure my accounts so that I am able to communicate with
> the people I value and get the information I value regardless of the
> formatting.
>
> Everything else we read from books to web pages to magazines to catalogs to
> comic books to bills allows for special formatting and rich text.  When
> bandwidth was expensive and modems slow and connects cost per minute, plain
> text was essential.
>
> Now it's less so, and while people who use html on usenet or mailing lists
> might be rude or uninformed they are not evil and stupid with nothing of
> value to say.
>
> One's choice of email formatting is not a moral category.  It's more like
> if
> you visit someone's home and they take their shoes off at the door you do
> also.  If the list discourages or bans HTML messages, you don't send them.
>
> As this is a highly flame-able topic and off-topic this will be my only
> comment on the subject.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Blessing V. Mpofu
> Mobile: +27 (0) 73 073 4720
> __________________________________
>
> We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already
> have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
> - Abraham Maslow
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:51:28 -0600
> From: "teicah teicah" <teicah at isp.com>
> Subject: Re: How to restore "bashrc" file.
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,     not for general discussions"
>        <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Regards,
>
> Blessing V. Mpofu
> Mobile: +27 (0) 73 073 4720
> __________________________________
>
> We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already
> have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
> - Abraham Maslow
> cp ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc_faulty
>
> cp /etc/.bashrc ~/
>
> Should get you back to the default.
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:50 PM, ksh shrm <akkuf117 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I was experimenting with bashrc and I didn't made any backup of this
> file.
> >
> > Unluckily, i made some changes that are creating trouble when i start
> > terminal.
> > like "A is not a command" or something like that.
> >
> > I don't know how to use vi editor.
> > If there is anyway to get a default bashrc file, please tell me.
> >
> >
> > --
> > adios
> >
> > KSH SHRM
> >
> > People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care...
> >
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> Regards,
>
> Blessing V. Mpofu
> Mobile: +27 (0) 73 073 4720
> __________________________________
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> We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already
> have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
> - Abraham Maslow
> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:10:41 -0500
> From: Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Wanted: Epox EP-9NPA+SLI MB manual
> To: Ubuntu <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <49108211.3060408 at sbcglobal.net>
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>        If anyone has the user manual for the Epox EP-9NPA+SLI motherboard,
> could you do me a small favor and email it to me? Searching around with
> Google is of no help, and the Epox websites don't seem to have it.
> Trying to resusitate my 8.04 box with this MB. The caps on the old board
> leaked....
>        The zip archive of it in archive.org appears to be corrupted...
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
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>  From here to there,
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> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:28:57 -0600
> From: brummy User <rb21343 at windstream.net>
> Subject: Connection problem with Ubuntu Intrepid
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