Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-14 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Once I got used to mutt; I found it hard to adjust to any other e-mail client. The power and flexibility is intoxicating. 8-D I've always rather thought that might be the case. A sense of empowerment is always welcome. Thanks for the suggestion. Open an Xterm window and all will be revealed.

Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18

2009-08-13 Thread Charlie Kroeger
I am trying to install a realtek 8139 lan card on an old debian machine - 2.4.18-bf2.4 I don't like to sound the bleeding obvious but I would suspect the driver for that card might already be in a later kernel. The 2.4x kernel represents less refinement than the 2.6x kernel. -- CK -- To

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Well I was primarily wanting to stay with stable as this is an older laptop Hummm..well you could try Opera. They have a lighter faster up-to-scratch browser. Put this in your sources.list: deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ sid non-free #apt-get update #apt-get install opera Can't hurt. If

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread Charlie Kroeger
For e-mail; mutt is my preferred MUA. Now there's a thread. Know of any clearly written logical progressive steps for setting up mutt or is it a life's work? Does it require an excessively high IQ fish? -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-11 Thread Charlie Kroeger
So how does one use the latest version of this web browser on Stable ? You could put these sources in your /etc/apt/sources.list and do an #apt-get update deb http://ftp.tiscali.nl/debian/ sid main contrib non-free If you have a GUI type package manager like smartpm it will show a list of all

Re: Sid: Grub2 faling to boot: Unknown device UUID

2009-07-28 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Ok, another in the continuing saga. When I upgrade Grub2 which is frequently, I get the following error message when I reboot: Booting 'Debian Gnu/Linux, Linux 2.6.30-1-686 error: unknown argument '--no-floppy' failed to boot default entries. press any key to continue. If I press any key I

wengophone classic on sid

2006-07-30 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Has anyone got this voip provider to work on sid? I have Alsa sound stuff loaded and my sound blaster awe64 is configured by Alsa ok and wengophone plugs into this configuration too so no problem there. wengophone dials out and I get a ring (calling myself) but alas no sound comes through the

Re: The Next Yahoo

2001-02-06 Thread Charlie Kroeger
our amazing viral customer acquisition model. viral customers..

Re: Software for making phone calls?

2001-01-14 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Anthony Campbell wrote: Any software for Linux to let you make phone calls via the computer? Plate of Shrimp...well maybe you didn't see 'Repo Man' a seminal moment of film making... There was just an article in Linux Journal regarding this, tricky reading for me anyway, but the writer,

Re: Debian distribution with free support

2001-01-08 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Someone wrote me an e-mail and included an URL to a seller of -|Official Debian that included free support. That was www.libranet.com They do a debian distro variation for $25, looks interesting, here's a paste from their 'support' page, where the 'debian users' are mentioned. Support

Re: Linux on HP 9000 C-Class

2000-09-27 Thread Charlie Kroeger
alphaholidays My Norton Virus snatcher says you're sending a virus in your HTML message. it's called the: WScript.kakworm virus C.K.

Re: Mutt Outlook Express

2000-09-05 Thread Charlie Kroeger
the REAL problem is all the broken MUAs and mail clients that do not support RFC 2015, if you use such a mailer tell your vendor to fix this brokenness. Apropos to that, why won't K-Mail work with GnuPG. I installed this version to my home directory and K-Mail then showed a signing and

Re: What drive is the dir on ?

2000-07-08 Thread Charlie Kroeger
If you're running a recent 2.2.x kernel and you still have one of those partitions empty, Does this mean the 2.2 kernel isn't confined to the 8gig limit of the earlier generations? C.K.

Re: postfix help

2000-06-23 Thread Charlie Kroeger
One to look into is ddts.org. humm. I saw a caterpillar and a bug..no links no nothing. what? http://ddts.org C.K.

Re: Boot mystery

2000-03-30 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Joe Bouchard ask for clarification: Hi, Please spell it out for us (the telepathy is weak): /dev/hdc1 = what? how big? hdc2 = hdc5 = hdc6 = Map it right out for us . . . That was the problem, there was no hdc1, only hdc3 (Ext2) hdc2 (LILO) and hdc5 (swap) OK... I went in and

USB Mouse under debian Linux

2000-03-29 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Lee give us a break and go into your mailer: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 and change the sending options to TEXT ONLY..It's a small thing but when I try to open your message(s).. have to wait a few seconds which in itself is also no big deal, but it's the little things that

Boot mystery

2000-03-26 Thread Charlie Kroeger
Hi, got a problem... I've installed Debian 2.1 i386 on my second hard drive in a file system and a swap file I created with partition magic. I installed Debian by booting with a windows boot disk with a CD ROM driver and then loaded Debian from the CD. Everything went well. The installation