Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 08:43 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snippage] That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive since I converted to Etch, but it is possible that I had

Re: Can't mount pen drive

2007-04-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:01:02 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am having trouble getting a USB pen drive to mount. I am running an up-to-date Etch box. [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /media/pen mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist I have

Re: Can't mount pen drive (SOVED -- Sort of)

2007-04-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 13:11:44 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:01:02 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am having trouble getting a USB pen drive to mount. I am running an up-to-date Etch box

Re: Opera won't run

2007-04-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
on an up-to-date Etch box: Version 9.20 Build638 Platform Linux System i686, 2.6.16-2-k7 Qt library 3.3.7 Java Java Runtime Environment installed -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Opera won't run

2007-04-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; Just reinstalled the latest version of Opera but when I start it I get dgwicks:~# opera http://www.debian.org ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
, but it also does not specify Windows (or any other OS). Its requirements only mention a USB port and a CD-ROM drive. It also does not say that it operates as a mass storage device, but... So does anyone know, for sure, if it will just work on a linux box? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Fetchmail Problems

2007-04-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
aliases or manage a queue. That belongs on a mail hub with a system administrator. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TERM for small bw monitor?

2007-04-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
that the Hazeltine terminals that I used about 30 years ago had a single 'bright' such as you have, but it has been a LONG time and I have no idea if there would be a terminal setting for them, or not. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Yahoo Quote not working

2007-03-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
, but with uninitialized variables, resulting in error messages. Is Yahoo no longer providing this information? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Yahoo Quote not working

2007-03-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 12:03, Marc Shapiro wrote: I know that this is not a 'Debian' question, but does anyone know if Yahoo has changed something that would affect the workings of yahooquote? It was working on Thursday

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
are infrequent enough that I never felt the need for a front end to edit the files. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: suggestions for rugged portable computer

2007-03-13 Thread Marc Shapiro
;-) -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: daylight savings time

2007-03-13 Thread Marc Shapiro
of it. My system is keeping correct time here on the Pacific coast. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is that all there is to it??

2007-03-13 Thread Marc Shapiro
, but people doing recent upgrades seem not to be having trouble with that either. Now that I am using aptitude, instead of apt-get, I am hoping that this will not be necessary in another eight, or nine years. Debian rocks! -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: PayPal - Limited account access -

2007-03-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
that the URL I am being sent to is the one that displays in the message, or I don't follow it. If other browsers don't show the actual URL then that is an excellant reason not to use them. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: PayPal - Limited account access -

2007-03-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
Celejar wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:24:55 -0700 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Tbird/Icedove showing the *real* link down in the status bar is *the* great security feature of Tbird/Icedove. I always use

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:04:13PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: If we do go socialistic this nation will have abandoned what made it great. I hope you do notice that the further we move toward socialism the more our

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
certainly do with a few less invasions of other countries and spending that time, effort, and money on improving things for the citizens of our own country. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
and crucified him for it. I'm surprised that you repeat the the Jews killed Jesus fallacy. Precisely. The ROMANS crucified Jesus, NOT the Jews. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
type mouse on Thinkpads to the touchpads that everyone else uses. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
a matter of time. If the latter, then it is basically just an unbranded Firefox that they can provide timely security updates on without having to go through Mozilla.org. Does anyone have an answer to this? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Paul Johnson wrote: I would argue that if the value of your User-Agent string affects browsing habits, then the bug is with the website, not the browser. Agreed. But there are many websites with that bug. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
. Good stuff! -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
think it may have been good from the standpoint of avoiding those particular upgrade changes, as well. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
would have been a GOOD THING (TM). I also agree that the OP went overboard in his vehemence. Can we now move on to other things, since we all agree on this one? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Java and Debian

2007-01-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
to install the JRE separately. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
will tell you in no uncertain terms. She always likes to see the weasels in pet stores. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: shopping for an HTML editor

2007-01-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
that it was built on Linspire) but I just DL'd it to my Etch box and it seems to be working after just untarring it. What have you got to lose but the time it takes to DL? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Help getting PHP5 to work with apache v1.3 in Etch

2007-01-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
-embedded scripting language (apache 1.3 module -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help getting PHP5 to work with apache v1.3 in Etch (SOLVED)

2007-01-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Back when I was running Sarge I had apache v1.3 and php5 working just fine. I did a clean install when I switched to Etch, instead of using 'dist-upgrade.' When I did the install I installed apache2, instead of apache v1.3. I just tried to access the local copy of my

Re: Help getting PHP5 to work with apache v1.3 in Etch

2007-01-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:36:17PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Back when I was running Sarge I had apache v1.3 and php5 working just fine. I did a clean install when I switched to Etch, instead of using 'dist-upgrade.' When I did the install I installed apache2

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

2007-01-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
David E. Fox wrote: I don't recall ever having a large .xsession-errors file. Currently, it's at about 300 bytes. Mine is 68 bytes. Of course I have no KDE, or GNOME stuff installed, at all. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Starts another X server with different virtual terminal (for with use USB VGA) ?

2007-01-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
to the end of the startx command, as in: startx -- :0 vt07 I suspect that you could do the same thing with the xorg command: Xorg -- -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf-sisusb :1 vt07 BTW, do you really want to be running X as root? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Starts another X server with different virtual terminal (for with use USB VGA) ?

2007-01-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ben Lau wrote: On 1/16/07, Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Lau wrote: $ sudo Xorg -- -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf-sisusb :1 (The conf file is attached in the email. The session of input device is missed as I don't want it to use my keyboard in the test) I could see the X cursor

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
through the gspca drivers. at least that's how I understand it. I'll check out those links and keep the problem in mind when I actually get around to buying any hardware. So far, my finances are keeping me in the planning stages. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: small form factor recommendations

2007-01-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
picked. I am hoping to attach a camera and use openCV to process the video. Can the Epia SP-13000 handle this. Can any of the mini-ITX boards. Any comments? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Adding a new HDD - how do I move /var/lib/mysql ?

2007-01-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
, create links to each TARGET in DIRECTORY. Create hard links by default, symbolic links with --symbolic. When creating hard links, each TARGET must exist. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Etch release

2007-01-09 Thread Marc Shapiro
://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ Which just went below 100 (92 to be precise) this evening at 6:24 PM PST (2:24 AM 1/10/06 UTC) -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
the MB in a few weeks. Other fans and heatsinks are still less expensive than a new CPU (and, possibly, MB). -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I can claim firsthand experience with exactly that. Box overheated. Fried capacitors. Required new motherboard and CPU. Fortunately I was able to get a similar MB, only slight upgrade, so I was able to use my old memory

Re: Debian Installation

2006-12-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
and unusual color schemes in your posts, could you please stop asking for return receipts, as well? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Disabling Intellitext in Firefox 2.0 (or Iceweasel)

2006-12-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Is there any way to disable the display of Intellitext ads in Firefox 2.0. I am running the upstream version under Etch, but I could be convinced to switch to Iceweasel after all if it can block these ads and the upstream Firefox 2.0 can not. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Disabling Intellitext in Firefox 2.0 (or Iceweasel)

2006-12-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Henrik Enberg wrote: Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way to disable the display of Intellitext ads in Firefox 2.0. I am running the upstream version under Etch, but I could be convinced to switch to Iceweasel after all if it can block these ads and the upstream Firefox

Re: personal .bashrc

2006-12-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
is actually never read... so how does it work? Check .bash_profile for the original user. It is probably sourcing .bashrc with code similar to: # include .bashrc if it exists if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi and your new user is probably not doing this. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL

Re: Disabling Intellitext in Firefox 2.0 (or Iceweasel)

2006-12-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/25/06 12:44, Marc Shapiro wrote: Henrik Enberg wrote: Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way to disable the display of Intellitext ads in Firefox 2.0. I am running the upstream version

Re: questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
years as this hard disk has moved through several different boxen, which was my primary reason for doing the conversion this way. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Clon disks with dd command

2006-12-22 Thread Marc Shapiro
booting from a live CD, and then issuing the dd command (after making sure that neither disk is mounted). -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cleanup after dist-upgrade

2006-12-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
in the new packages as a dependency. You can check this with apt-get show, or aptitude show. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: flashplayer9? (Mystery solved)

2006-12-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
permissions on your local dirs, but I bet nobody doesn't. On 16.12.06 10:02, Marc Shapiro wrote: BINGO!!! Both /home an ~/ have permissions of 755, giving read access to everyone (my wife and I are the only persons with physical access). However, ~/.mozilla has permissions of 700

Permissions and updatedb (WAS:Re: flashplayer9? (Mystery solved))

2006-12-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/16/06 21:17, Marc Shapiro wrote: David Jardine wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 12:27:48PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Yes, but there are actually quite a few hidden configuration directories that are set

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
are added NETPATHS= export NETPATHS # run find as this user LOCALUSER=nobody export LOCALUSER # cron.daily/find: run at this priority -- higher number means lower priority # (this is relative to the default which cron sets, which is usually +5) NICE=10 export NICE -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kent West wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Does anyone now, off the top of their heads, a site that does not run on v7 that I can test this with? I just tried http://www.metacafe.com/watch/309044/magic_exposed/ with v7, and it complained that I needed a newer version; then I tried with v9

Re: flashplayer9? (Mystery solved)

2006-12-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 09:28:14AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Angelina Carlton wrote: W Paul Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That is normal. updatedb does not go into user directories. On my system, updatedb runs some time early

Re: flashplayer9? (Mystery solved)

2006-12-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 10:02:40AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Both /home an ~/ have permissions of 755, giving read access to everyone (my wife and I are the only persons with physical access). However, ~/.mozilla has permissions of 700, no access to anyone

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
have sound back... I don't remember if this was mentioned before, but you are aware that v9 requires alsa, or it will silently fail. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: flashplayer9? (Mystery solved)

2006-12-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
David Jardine wrote: On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 12:27:48PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Yes, but there are actually quite a few hidden configuration directories that are set with permissions of 700. I can see that this prevents anyone else from viewing your configs, but I don't see a danger

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
flashplayer installed? Does firefox 2.0 have some version of flash compiled in? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kent West wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Wulfy wrote: Kent West wrote: You probably still have the ver7 .so in one of the plugins paths for Firefox. Do a locate libflashplayer.so and rename/move any that you aren't confident is the v.9 version out of any relevant plugins directories. I don't

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kent West wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I closed firefox and unmounted the /mnt/Sarge partitions. Now running 'locate libflshplayer.so' returns nothing. I restarted firefox and it still runs the flash on that page, as well as on others. Curiouser and curiouser. Okay; that's getting

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Kent West wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I closed firefox and unmounted the /mnt/Sarge partitions. Now running 'locate libflshplayer.so' returns nothing. I restarted firefox and it still runs the flash on that page, as well as on others. Curiouser and curiouser

Re: Etch w/o icedove (OOPS!)

2006-12-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
Alexander Sack wrote: On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 05:32:06PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: My mistake. I was confusing icedove with iceweasel (which does not seem to be ready for Etch, yet). When I did 'aptitude hold thunderbird' before the dist-upgrade then it did not try to install icedove

How to sync Handspring Visor under Etch and udev?

2006-12-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
uses extensively and she is trying to get me to go back to Sarge just to be able to sync. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to sync Handspring Visor under Etch and udev? (FOLLOWUP)

2006-12-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: I have been running Sarge and have had no problem syncing my Visor through JPilot. Just press the sync button on JPilot and then hit the hotsync button on the cradle. That was Sarge, this is Etch. It doesn't work anymore. I understand that Etch is using udev. I don't

Re: How to sync Handspring Visor under Etch and udev?

2006-12-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:54:39PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have been running Sarge and have had no problem syncing my Visor through JPilot. Just press the sync button on JPilot and then hit the hotsync button on the cradle. That was Sarge, this is Etch

Re: opening URLs in Firefox from Thunderbird using upstream programs

2006-12-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
Adam Hardy wrote: Marc Shapiro on 04/12/06 01:38, wrote: I am running Etch and want to continue to use the branded Firefox (2.0) and Thunderbird. I do not want to switch to Icedove and IceWeasel. I have been running the upstream Firefox 2.0 for a while, now, with no problems. When I

Re: opening URLs in Firefox from Thunderbird using upstream programs

2006-12-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: Marc Shapiro on 04/12/06 01:38, wrote: I am running Etch and want to continue to use the branded Firefox (2.0) and Thunderbird. I do not want to switch to Icedove and IceWeasel. I have been running the upstream Firefox 2.0 for a while, now

Re: (SOLVED: I think) opening URLs in Firefox from Thunderbird using upstream programs

2006-12-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: Marc Shapiro on 04/12/06 01:38, wrote: I am running Etch and want to continue to use the branded Firefox (2.0) and Thunderbird. I do not want to switch to Icedove and IceWeasel. I have been running the upstream Firefox 2.0

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
since I am comfortable with it and it seems to do what I want without having to tweak it? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 09:24:58 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: [...] In a previous post on this thread (or one of the many similar threads now going strong) I said that aptitude was working fine for me in my brand new Etch install. This is MOSTLY true. It works fine

opening URLs in Firefox from Thunderbird using upstream programs

2006-12-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
links should open, only where html attachments should open. Can anyone tell me what I am missing? Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
to keep track of what is no longer needed should keep down the level of cruft accumulation and allow me to just aptitude 'dist-upgrade' for another dozen years, or more. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn

VCS systems on linux (WAS: Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?)

2006-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
and simply changed funtionality within existing funtions called from the checked out file but residing in other files. Please tell me that linux's vcs systems handle this better by keeping track of file dependancies. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow

Re: VCS systems on linux

2006-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
. Am I wrong? Thanks for the responses, everyone. It's been enlightening, as always. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail

Re: The Linux Code

2006-11-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
for the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) in Beaverton, OR, about three miles from my apartment. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan

Etch w/o icedove

2006-11-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
--set-selections' still with no change. I am quite happy with the firefox that I have and do not want to change that. Is it possible to maintain a fully up-to-date Etch without installing icedove? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look

Re: Etch w/o icedove (OOPS!)

2006-11-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: I have Etch installed and have been keeping it up to date with occaisional updates using aptitude. I decided to see what it would want to do if I asked for a dist-upgrade. The answere -- it wants to install icedove. I do not need icedove. I have the upstream firefox

Re: Laptop choice?

2006-11-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: For those who have already finished their turkey, or reside outside the US and don't celebrate Thanksgiving, or for whatever reason are actually reading debian-user today... I finally have some spare cash and so am looking to replace my aged IBM

Laptop choice?

2006-11-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
. I would appreciate any tips on what does, or does not work. Getting wireless to work, etc. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5

Re: Laptop choice?

2006-11-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Baz wrote: Thinkpad - it's the standard by which all others are measured... Yes, but I still can't afford to pony up the price of a new Thinkpad. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around

Re: Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment

2006-11-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
try to compile the tarball. Even that wants a newer version of automake that is on my machine. If the software cant run on the *current* *stable* OS then are slower machines that are 7 to 8 years old with low memory and less disk space really likely to have the resources to run it? -- Marc

Re: strange email link

2006-11-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
to - webmaster(at)co.lewis-clark.mt.us /quote I guess we should all mail the webmaster -- OK, at least some should... Johannes Firefox 2.0 (on Sarge from tarball) decode it just fine and pops up a mailto: address, if javascript is enabled. Otherwise it does nothing at all. -- Marc Shapiro No boom

debootstrap does not install exim?

2006-11-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Skype has stopped working

2006-11-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 10336 2 snd Does anyone have any ideas on getting skype to work again, or why the other recording programs work today, when they did not yesterday? -- Marc Shapiro No boom

Re: Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-11-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
KS wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: it at work and really liked it, I moved the firefox directory to /usr/lib/ and changed usr/bin/firefox to point to /usr/lib/firefox/firefox. Now it 'just works.' I can run the debian version of firefox by invoking 'mozilla-firefox' and the new version

Re: Overlapping partitions

2006-11-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
, you will have to wait for someone more knowledgable that I am. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-11-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-11-01, Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zbigniew Wiech wrote: If you mean FF 2.0, it is in experimental. That's 2.0-beta2, which the add-on I'm trying refuses to install on. I'm also intrested in FF2 since

(OT) Can't get upstream Thunderbird to send http:// to upstream Firefox

2006-11-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
about rebranded packages and licensing issues. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-11-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:55:40 -0800 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Douglas Tutty wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: On (31/10/06 14:51), B. Hoffmann wrote: I' ve been installing purely a base sytem

Re: swf to avi or other format

2006-11-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
with flashplayer-mozilla 7.0.68.0-0.0. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-11-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
in Sarge, or can they both be run simultaneously? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Fry's ad for either a 128MB, or 256MB (I can't remember which) USB flash drive that was free, after rebate. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
of the extra processes that get started by KDE apps, even when you are not running KDE. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
a new floppy I might give it a try, but I can't see going out and buying some when I don't have any actual use for them at this time. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Jochen Schulz wrote: Marc Shapiro: What is the likelihood that this will actually make it into Etch before the December release? What is the likelyhood of etch being released in December? :- Seriously, I hate to say it, but http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ doesn't look very

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: Marc Shapiro: What is the likelihood that this will actually make it into Etch before the December release? What is the likelyhood of etch being released in December? :- Seriously, I hate to say it, but http://bugs.debian.org/release

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/06 17:50, Marc Shapiro wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: Marc Shapiro: [snip] But, once it does get into Sid, or whatever testing will be, then it is almost certain to get backported so that those of us

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone here pointed out to me that I won't have enough free temporary space on disk to compile openoffice in gentoo anyway. I must have missed that post, so, I'm almost afraid to ask... How much temp disk space does openoffice.org need to compile? -- Marc

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Jochen Schulz wrote: Marc Shapiro: Marc Shapiro wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: But, once it does get into Sid, or whatever testing will be, then it is almost certain to get backported so that those of us that prefer a 'stable' machine can get to all the sites that want 'the most

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
to force superformat to check the drive and controller again to get the correct deviation for the current drive and controller? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
for need flashplayer 8 and found all websites I tried to be working with current firefox (and without the aoss workaround in /etc/firefox/firefoxrc). This is great news, thanks a lot. What is the likelihood that this will actually make it into Etch before the December release? -- Marc Shapiro

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