Oprah was talking about it

2005-03-28 Thread Doug
Newest penis enlargement system: -Increases the penis length and girth -Medically Proven (source: wikipedia) -No Surgery -Permanent Results -Proven Traction Method -100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Find more info here: http://www.L0NG.com/e/viks you barry me schofield me you runoff

Re: amigo virtual

2007-09-11 Thread Doug
É o terceiro só hj Em 11/09/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: *Um(a) amigo(a) lhe enviou uma Mensagens Virutal, segue mensagem:* Eu Desejo... Que a felicidade não dependa do tempo, nem da paisagem, nem da sorte, nem do dinheiro. Que ela possa vir com toda a simplicidade,

Re: Como rodar Microsoft Virtual Machine no Linux

2007-12-12 Thread Doug
Gunix o problema pode ser outro, já trabalhei com suporte para uma empresa e dava problemas tb e falavam que era o java, mas na verdade poderiam ser muitos outros problemas. O java Sun dá suporte tranquilamente. Se tiver como passa o site para dar uma olhada lá 2007/12/12, Renato S. Yamane

Re: Can't boot into MS Windows partition

2012-07-17 Thread Doug
: At least you can read the file and make sense of it. I have seen GRUB 2 and it is obscure. --doug Why not save the existing menu.lst, and then try and redo the mbr and see if that works? -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley

Re: what graphic card to buy?

2012-07-17 Thread Doug
of it's IP law, where nVidia is based, where ATI (ironically, a Canadian company) does most of its business, and where corporations are people. It may by laughable to you on the outside looking it. It's terrifying to us down here to live under it. +1 --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-18 Thread Doug
expensive, I'm not talking Microsoft Office numbers, I'm talking 5 and 6 figures! --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-23 Thread Doug
wonderful-- you don't have to know anything about networking, and the printer(s) will work whatever the operating system might be on the source end. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-23 Thread Doug
then? It should say in the specs. Many, maybe most, HP printers do. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: bug report?: Oh no! Something has gone wrong.

2012-07-25 Thread Doug
gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a system administrator. --- After a reboot, the system was fine again. I'm not sure how to report this as a bug. Can anyone advise me? I can't resist answering this: Don't do that! --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: SD slot read card failed.

2012-07-25 Thread Doug
on. It also lets you figure out what /dev it may be called, or you can copy the files to a local pictures directory and then address them from there. This is actually what I did, since I wanted to save the pictures anyway. If one of them turns out to be a clunker, you can always delete it. --doug

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-01 Thread Doug
was an industrial enterprise such that enforcement was feasible. Not only does copyright not die, as long as Disney is in business, copyrights will extend to eternity! --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-02 Thread Doug
no-no! --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/501b131d.7040

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-10 Thread Doug
: if the RF connection depends on directional antennas, which it will for any reasonable distance--say 1/2 mile or more--then wind may become a significant effect if it causes the antennas to jiggle, or to point off-target sometimes. --doug, WA2SAY, retired RF engineer -- Blessed are the peacekeepers

Re: Testing ALSA and writing an appropriate .asoundrc

2012-08-14 Thread Doug
there, while still having it on the computer video and audio outputs at the same time. (I know that the HDMI will do picture and sound, as it works in XP, altho XP does not provide sound at the computer with this connection.) Suggestions greatly appreciated! Thanx--doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal

2012-08-14 Thread Doug
and Python are modern-style languages that will make the programmer avoid the spaghetti code that BAIC writers frequently fall into. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: [OT] Re: New Mainboard.

2012-08-21 Thread Doug
for trouble? --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5033d78a

Re: Installation

2012-09-08 Thread Doug
.) That doesn't seem very complicated to me. . . . --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: What Version To Install On iMac?

2012-09-09 Thread Doug
is the correct word in that sense. Artha: deprecate: express strong disapproval of; deplore --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: problems installing linux on new laptop

2012-09-09 Thread Doug
, and clean the drive out, but that's a bit drastic, unless you know you'll never need Windows for anything. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Installation

2012-09-09 Thread Doug
On 09/09/2012 03:04 AM, Weaver wrote: On Sat, September 8, 2012 6:33 pm, Doug wrote: On 09/08/2012 09:03 PM, Weaver wrote: On Sat, September 8, 2012 8:51 am, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:37:55 -0700, Weaver wrote: I know how hard it can be to see the forest when you are too close

Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets

2012-09-10 Thread Doug
to the Windows machine, but the Epson responds pretty quickly to either operating system. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Doug
bad surprises. Why not report back after you have installed an OS on it. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets

2012-09-11 Thread Doug
in the Ethernet format. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/504fd87a

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Doug
, and that you can't run PA without Alsa. So make of that what you will. For reference, the distro I speak of is PCLinuxOS. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-18 Thread Doug
... -Rob The human heart rate is measured in beats *per minute* not per second! --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5059152a.6080...@optonline.net

Re: Add a PCI USB card

2012-09-23 Thread Doug
, and may be superseded by something, since one of the large vendors no longer has any. Just my 2¢ --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-15 Thread Doug
would be quite excessive. But if they're not, then perhaps something in the circuit has aged out. Alternatively, how often does your computer clock get resynchronized? Maybe the circuit in the computer just runs fast? --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-16 Thread Doug
between a scientific reference and a $20 atomic clock! --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-16 Thread Doug
clock is no longer functioning, and the crystal oscillator, which of necessity uses a cheap poor-tolerance crystal, is running on its own, and drifting off frequency. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-16 Thread Doug
lines, transformers, or radio transmitters. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time--more

2012-10-16 Thread Doug
is disconnected. Please keep in mind that these are not toll-free numbers. Callers outside the local calling area are charged long distance rates. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-17 Thread Doug
in Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC. Here's the url again: http://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/1383.pdf --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: SOLIDWORKS

2012-05-13 Thread Doug
for AutoCAD-LT, but it really isn't. At least not without a lot of skull work. And it's the closest imitation I found. My solution: use Windows. I'm not proud. However, perhaps SolidWorks will run under Wine or one of the emulators. Use what works--why beat y our head against a wall? --doug

Re: laptop battery cycling

2012-05-27 Thread Doug
running on mains. /snip/ I've often wondered, after reading this advice time and time again: how do you determine that the battery has a 40% charge? --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Having great difficuty

2012-05-28 Thread Doug
will refuse to honor that outfit's charges in the future. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: epson printer prints WHITE PAGE !!!

2012-06-04 Thread Doug
no driver for the scanner portion, but XSane works.) --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Doug
on purpose, I would guess. Note that this will make bootable CDs and useful things like partition managers impossible. Thank Microsoft! --doug --doug [1] Note that this currently only applies to machines certified with the Windows 8 Client logo. Don't pay MS for key-signing. This means that a user

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Doug
On 06/05/2012 12:26 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Hello Doug, Dougdmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: I think you understand this INcorrectly! He does not. If _I_ understand it, You don’t. the machine will not boot anything that is not signed with the key, You can add any keys you want

Re: [OT] Re: Computer case

2012-06-05 Thread Doug
at the front of the case. You can select the CPU fan, and you can select a power supply, and the remaining fan (if any) in the case, you could replace with a quieter one if you need to. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Doug
, there! This is not good news for the Linux distros that don't have 64-bit versions--my favorite PCLOS, is one at present. (Altho I have a fairly modern mobo, and don't intend to change it any time soon.) --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: 83 key IBM model m XT keyboard with Debian?

2012-06-17 Thread Doug
M, but the touch was almost as good. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: 83 key IBM model m XT keyboard with Debian?

2012-06-17 Thread Doug
can remain activated. - Nate The model M that I mentioned in my other post at approximately 83 keys has the function keys on top. Now I counted exactly 84 keys. The other was a close guesstimate. It is part number 1397681. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from

Re: 83 key IBM model m XT keyboard with Debian?

2012-06-18 Thread Doug
On 06/18/2012 07:17 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2012 17 Jun 22:41 -0500, Doug wrote: A keyboard that holds a reasonable second place was called a 2000--I don't know who made it, bet we had them at work, back in the 90s. They didn't make as much noise as the model M, but the touch was almost

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-20 Thread Doug
character. You can also get €, and ¢ and ¥ and £ and fractions ½ ⅓ ¼ and 78° Fahrenheit--that's (compose) o o. so now you know. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Re (3): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-29 Thread Doug
in a Nutshell, by Siever, et al, cp is a copy command that applies to files or directories, and none of the options mentions determining the size of a file- system or the remaining space therein. Please advise. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: why ABIWORD?

2012-06-30 Thread Doug
that I couldn't live with--I forget what. Symphony is not in my repos, but is downloadable in various formats for Linux and, I think, Windows. It has some gotchas also, but it mostly looks and acts finished which LO and OO do not. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot

Re: firewall

2012-07-05 Thread Doug
you must use IPS/IDS or L7 filter or UTM (netfilter + ips + any stuff...) -- For someone who doesn't understand firewalls in the first place--I'm one, also--your answer might as well be written in Chinese! --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: CD image doesn't exist for download?

2012-07-11 Thread Doug
the software to disk. A good free Windows program to do that is burncdcc.exe. It only burns ISOs, so you can't screw it up. Lots of sources, just Google for it. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: CD image doesn't exist for download?

2012-07-11 Thread Doug
no connection to the OnDisk people. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: CD image doesn't exist for download?

2012-07-12 Thread Doug
there are other examples. BTW, I'm not defending Windows--I have Win7, and I hate the damned thing! But I use it when I must. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: CD image doesn't exist for download?

2012-07-12 Thread Doug
to be an easier way! --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-28 Thread Doug
the time. /snip/ If you build a powerful machine with 8 cores, can't you make it a server, with two more terminals, so the wife and daughter can log in and work while you do? I don't know how to do that, but there must be some Unix maven here who cah=n tell you. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Disused Floppy Drive Needs Head Exercise.

2012-11-06 Thread Doug
. It should be in a format that any Linux system can install, not just Debian. --doug -- Blessed are the peacekeepers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: My repetition

2012-11-10 Thread Doug
the archives, as I ought to have done in the first place. I apologise profusely and humbly. Lisi If you stop using gmail, you won't have that problem! --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Is there a howto for dual boot of Windows 7 and debian?

2012-11-10 Thread Doug
. It won't mess with your Windows partition, unless you tell it to. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/509f4490.9010...@optonline.net

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

2012-11-12 Thread Doug
/b has to the right of the Backspace and \ keys, the delete key is after the F12 key. So if they still make as nice a machine as this one, then I recommend Dell. (I'm running PCLinuxOS on it, and it works fine. I dual boot with XP, but hardly ever use the m/s os.) --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

2012-11-12 Thread Doug
it normally is, perhaps this url will help you to move it: (Google's your friend!) http://www.askvg.com/customize-any-key-in-your-keyboard-using-sharpkeys/ --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Guide / Tools

2012-11-22 Thread Doug
A Desktop Quick Reference. O'Reilly. $50 when I bought mine several years ago. I use it all the time. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

2012-11-26 Thread Doug
instructions, which is more than can be said for most Linux software! 5. If it works when you install it, there should be no reason *ever* to update it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! --Ann Landers --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Memory errors on new memory in new system

2012-11-28 Thread Doug
? Obviously, you have to test that from within the OS. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50b63ee1.3040...@optonline.net

Re: FN Key to Enable/Disable Touchpad

2012-12-02 Thread Doug
on when there is no mouse. I use it on a Dell laptop with PCLinuxOs and it's great! I use it in the KDE system--don't know if it works with other GUIs. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Laptop left in unusable state

2012-12-24 Thread Doug
will make logical partitions for your Linux system. Probably three: /, /home/ and swap. The Linux install routine will set up those logical partitions. Good luck. --doug

Re: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov

2012-12-25 Thread Doug
this may be a good idea, I have no intention of creating an account! I have not seen such a thing on other internet pettitions. Doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: how to buy an ideal laptop RAM module?

2013-01-05 Thread Doug
the details.) I think Crucial is the more likely. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50e8822f.60...@optonline.net

Re: Running jackd.

2013-01-06 Thread Doug
built-in HDMI port. Unfortunately, I have never been able to get sound from *both* the mobo sound decoder and the NVidia card at the same time, so as to have sound at the computer location and at the TV set in another room. (Running PCLOS-32, latest revs.) --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: how to buy an ideal laptop RAM module?

2013-01-06 Thread Doug
it will take. (It will take 16GB.) I expect the Toshiba link is correct. But the Toshiba site that provided the information ought to say what specific kind of ram to buy and plug in, one would expect. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: ISO downloads are corrupted

2013-01-08 Thread Doug
is not available as a straight download and burn, don't bother with it. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50ec8442.5050...@optonline.net

Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

2013-01-09 Thread Doug
don't know if it still exists, but you might look for that. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50edbfe0.1010...@optonline.net

Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

2013-01-09 Thread Doug
On 01/09/2013 03:06 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 09 Jan 2013 at 14:07:12 -0500, Doug wrote: On 01/08/2013 11:48 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Saturday 05 January 2013 08:19:31 you wrote: When I've wanted to look at a man page for an uninstalled package I've used http://manpages.debian.net . It would

Re: how to buy an ideal laptop RAM module?

2013-01-15 Thread Doug
. If you are in an area where your AC power is not reliable, DO NOT try to flash the BIOS, because if the power should fail during the procedure, it will almost surely make the machine unusable. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-17 Thread Doug
happens if you do rm -rf /try from root? (I/m not all that familiar with Deb, but you must have some way to get admin permission, if you are the owner of the install. su or perhaps sudo.) --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: HDMI output

2013-01-31 Thread Doug
and not put anything out on it. You might even have to reboot. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/510ac204.6060...@optonline.net

Re: HDMI output

2013-02-01 Thread doug
On 02/01/2013 05:17 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 31 January 2013 19:12:04 Doug wrote: If it worked with the DVR, it should work with the computer on the same setting. It doesn't on my television. DVR is a different source setting than VGA. It took me a bit of fiddling to work out why I

Re: Thinking about using Debian

2013-02-25 Thread Doug
or Ubuntu. (However, Ubuntu has probably the best help information of all the distros, by a large margin! And a batch of it will apply everywhere. Look it up when you need it.) enough, already. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-28 Thread Doug
the clutch pedal on the right! Or the high notes on the left side of the piano keyboard! Now of course, MS has done the same with their goofy Win8, but there's no good reason for Linux to do so. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-28 Thread Doug
one from the website. I will ask in the Forum. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/512fc29e.5090...@optonline.net

Re: I wish to advocate linux --pclos from flash

2013-02-28 Thread Doug
On 02/28/2013 02:12 PM, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2013 18:12:14 Tom H wrote: Linux isn't as myopic as people are claiming in this thread. Ubuntu points users to this page to create a flash installer:

Re: I wish to advocate linux --pclos from flash

2013-03-01 Thread Doug
from CNet, so it should be OK. It sould appear that you could get the program, then get the iso for PCLOS, and burn the flash drive all from a laptop or notebook that has no optical drive, and then install pclos from the flash. I can't think of anything much simpler than that. --doug --doug

Re: Who may post on the list.

2013-03-04 Thread doug
, Lisi, give him hell! --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline

2013-03-04 Thread Doug
, and it works on the Konsole-terminal in pclos. Just in case anyone cares. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5134e424.9020...@optonline.net

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Doug
LCD displays. Give me an eye-level viewfinder any day!) --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. A.M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Not for me.

2013-03-04 Thread Doug
On 03/04/2013 09:56 PM, Yaro Kasear wrote: On 03/04/2013 08:48 PM, Doug wrote: On 03/04/2013 09:07 PM, William Ivanski wrote: On 04-03-2013 22:39, Yaro Kasear wrote: When (U)EFI completely replaces BIOS THEN DOS will be completely dead. Right now it's just a horribly obsolete OS used

Re: KDE package manager

2011-11-02 Thread Doug
and is called synaptic-kde.desktop) --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: KDE package manager

2011-11-02 Thread Doug
that yet) packages. The search facility is excellent. Thank you for your reply. Of course Synaptic requires root permission. If you're not root, you should not be allowed to install packages! Aren't you the owner of the Debian installation? If so, you surely have a root password. --doug

Re: Cantenna and satellite network link

2011-11-04 Thread Doug
problem: in heavy rain, there may be link outages. I do not have any specific experience with this system in the rain. 3. I'm not familiar with the Atheros system. Google for spread-spectrum radio-frequency data link technology to find the system I have described above. --doug, WA2SAY

Re: special device does not exist

2011-11-06 Thread Doug
of your devices? --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels

2011-11-08 Thread Doug
the media Interesting command: I wish I'd known about it before I took my other machine down. (It needed more than a disk, but I don't know about the disk.) NB: you need sudo to invoke the command. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley

Re: KDE package manager

2011-11-09 Thread Doug
. As far as I recall kpackage did not support APT correctly and was eventually abandoned. Kind regards, Andrei Can you get Synaptic? That works nicely in my pclos KDE system. It gets its input via apt, I believe. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides

Re: OT: Just a simple query

2011-11-09 Thread Doug
with RH. Out of curiosity I downloaded the LIVE Fedora 16. The user interface is like nothing I ever saw. If this is the future of computing, I think I'll go back to pocket calculator and typewriter! --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Doug
source but closed source isnt all evil and hats off to Adobe for actually making a Linux version which is pretty damn good if you give it a chance. Id be happy to see Gnash dead. And what do you use for flashplayer? Hugo You're 100% right, but please bottom post in the future. thanx. --doug

Re: problems

2011-11-12 Thread Doug
missing something, but that page lists only floppy disk downloads. If you follow the link to CD-rom booters, you get a Google list of commercial software. Since many machines no longer boot from floppies, or don't even have a drive, this isn't very helpful. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

2011-11-12 Thread Doug
are _not_ customizable. So why should anyone be surprised? --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [OT] can't see own post to the list

2011-11-12 Thread Doug
successful in posting. I don't know why anyone would use GMail. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Into: Coming over to Debian from Ubuntu

2011-11-14 Thread doug
and notebooks) that is where they are doing money. Greetings, Somewhere I read the percentage of Mac use, and its comparitively high-- certainly over 10%. Practically everyone in the publishing business or doing commercial illustration seems to use a Mac. I don't think it will go away soon. --doug

Re: what does the s stand for

2011-12-01 Thread doug
. I also would like to know what the s stands for. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ed7e8af.3030...@optonline.net

Re: a short cut on desktop on gnome3

2011-12-02 Thread doug
desktop, what good is the desktop? You might as well have DOS! --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ed9248d.30...@optonline.net

Re: what does the s stand for

2011-12-02 Thread doug
On 12/02/2011 05:12 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 03:50:55PM -0500, doug wrote: Tried this in pclos. There is no chmod in the info file. There is also no man chmod. I don't know what pclos is, but chomd(1) is part of the coreutils package. If you have cat(1), you have chmod

Re: what does the s stand for

2011-12-02 Thread doug
On 12/02/2011 07:11 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: doug wrote: Aaron Toponce wrote: doug wrote: Tried this in pclos. There is no chmod in the info file. There is also no man chmod. I don't know what pclos is, but chomd(1) is part of the coreutils package. If you have cat(1), you have chmod(1

Re: gnome 3 refugee: new kernel loses keyboard and mouse.

2011-12-04 Thread doug
to disconnect the usb and then plug it back in again in order to log in, and then everything is copacetic. I suspect that this is more related to how the bios deals with the external connection than the operating system, but not sure. --doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: New laptop with Linux preinstalled

2011-12-09 Thread doug
than one Linux distro, within each Documents directory, put a filename that says pclos, or ubuntu, or whatever, so when you select a partition, you can figure out what system you're accessing. Otherwise it gets confusing! There might be an easier way, but I don't know it. --doug

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