, it would be
convenient in this scenario if your default email client is actually
the email client you want to use. :-)
Other than that, it doesn't really matter.
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issue for you might not be a major issue for me,
or visa-versa. I'm not having any major issues with Squeeze (yet), but
that doesn't mean something you think of as critical to Your Debian
Experience isn't hopelessly borked in Squeeze.
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s well as other
problems), especially amongst Ubuntu users. I never had any issue with
it in Lenny or prior, so I just left it alone. But, actually, I never
have really needed it.
Anyway, the point is, perhaps Evolution can be configured to bypass
Network Manager like Epiphany can be.
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>
> Yes. It's been supposed to change in the future for at least ten
> years. :-)
Ah then ... like "fusion is the energy of the future and always will
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pull in xserver-xorg, and some other things you might be expecting.
OTOH, if you know what you're doing, xserver-xorg will be fine.
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formation, where everybody's information
is not exactly up-to-the-minute, but it's current enough for the network
to function effectively. If everybody on the network knew, instantly,
when any given person had signed on or off, then it wouldn't really be a
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Having just gone through this exercise myself, I can't see anything
wrong with what you did, nor offer any reasons why it might not be
working. Might it have something to do with the mainboard, which you
said is old?
My only suggestion would be to try using the pre-built module rather
that going the module-assistant route. AFAIK, there's no reason one
should work and the other shouldn't, but in the absence of better ideas
it is worth a shot.
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>
Personally, when making major changes like this, I find it easier to use
aptitude's ncurses interface than just using the command-line. When I
did a similar exercise for GNOME, first thing I did was mark
"gnome-desktop-environment" for removal, then went th
it for for a good answer for your question, it will
> help many people on the list
> Thierry
>
You can see at least some of the values that lead to aptitude's scores
here:
http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s04s05.html#configProblemResolver-BreakHoldScore
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On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 19:19 -0600, Matthew Moore wrote:
> On Sunday May 17 2009 3:56:23 pm Michael M. Moore wrote:
> > It says for Lenny you have to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to load "glx"
> > module and remove "dri" or "GLCore" modules, under the
> &
o kernel panic -- just ... stops working), but the problem
seems to be specific to my CPU and chipset.
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"Configured Video Device"
EndSection
I thought HAL had taken over some of the functions formerly handled in
xorg.conf, but there's no mention of that on the wiki doc.
So what exactly is the procedure for installing the proprietary driver
now?
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> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM, JoeHill wrote:
> > Aniruddha wrote:
> >
> >> I would like to install the latest version swfdec-mozilla (because it
> >> offers autoplay). I intent to track stable as closely as possible. As
> >> far I can tell t
rk fine with
IPv6 enabled, even Gecko browsers (Firefox, Epiphany, and, on my iMac,
Camino) under those OS's are snappy without having to toggle off IPv6
lookups.
IMO -- my entirely unscientific uninformed opinion, I stress -- there's
something funky about Debian's networking stack.
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t my head around the BSD slice
concept, not because it's difficult, but just because I was so used to
the "usual" notions of primary, extended, and logical partitions.
Slices are a whole other layer you have to incorporate into your
thinking. You really have to read the docs and get
e
> >>
> I found "The Debian System," by Martin Krafft, a good overview of the
> unique aspects of Debian - the book to read AFTER knowing something
> about Linux in general.
+1
or, in AOL speak,
"me too!"
Excellent book, even though it is slightly dated
time to upgrade to Squeeze. But
seeing all the problems Squeeze and Sid users are having lately -- at
least, or especially, GNOME users -- I think I'll stick with Lenny for
the time being.
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ese window manager hints may be used
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes
The window appears transparent, with no title bar or window decorations.
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Sound preferences (2nd tab: Sounds)
Play system sounds (checkbox)
Log out:
Log in:
Is that what you mean?
I don't use system sounds, but the facility is there. This is on Lenny.
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properly display some languages. The solution: install the fonts you
need to properly display the languages you care about.
The particular issue you're talking about isn't an Unicode issue.
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different hardware, though, so it might not be your issue. From
what I could gather, it seems to affect some amd64 systems and it seems
not to matter whether you're running a 32- or 64-bit kernel.
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packages have
their own icon directories, like /usr/share/iceweasel/icons or
/usr/share/metacity/icons.
Do 'locate -b icons' and you should find most of your icon directories.
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g appeared)
have an /etc/gmrunrc they'd be willing to send me?
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## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with
## the alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=vga=791
Obviously, by setting the option here, the mode won't be utilized if I
boot into a kernel other than the default. But that's
er tried the non-unicode version of rxvt.
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that enables the use of tabs. The
capability can be enabled in ~/.Xresources or wherever you put your
URxvt configuration.
You may not care, of course, but information is usually a good thing.
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he install process is supposed to complete
successfully, and it didn't. Even if it didn't because, every time,
something went wonky with the grub installation, that would still seem
to be a problem with the install process, not with grub.
But I'm no expert.
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m not sure if that behavior can
be modified; I've never tried since it suits me. I know, at least, you
can permanently delete the trashed mail on the web interface anytime you
want. I suppose it would also work from Thunderbird, but I haven't
tried that.
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coming back to Debian.
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ing around that aren't doing any
harm and that I can always remove when I get around to it, than find I
had inadvertently let aptitude wipe out half my system.
It's just that, in this case, I actually wanted aptitude to wipe half
my system, and I didn't realize I was preventing that by
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
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But I'm still left with a whole slew of automatically installed packages
I don't want anymore, and I can't figure out how to identify why they
are still installed. I thought the gconf2 p
Andrew Reid wrote:
On Saturday 21 February 2009 20:34:09 Michael M. Moore wrote:
Maybe there is no "magic package" that is keeping these things installed
and I just need to selectively remove them one-by-one, along with the
packages that will break but that I don't want a
fell swoop.
Anyway, none of this is a problem. I was just trying to understand what
was going on and learn how to use the tools at hand better. I still
have some odds and ends installed that I probably don't need, but I'll
gradually weed them out.
And, probably in three months or so, I&#x
Celejar wrote:
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"Michael M. Moore" wrote:
I thought I had this down by now, but I'm lost.
I am in the process of removing much of GNOME, so I removed
gnome-desktop-environment, which also removed gnome-core, and a whole
bunch of other
es that will break but that I don't want anymore. I just thought
I might be missing something obvious about the best way to take care of
getting rid of a bunch of automatically installed packages relatively
quickly.
Any advice?
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even though I do not have cdrecord
installed?
I thought the package dvd+rw-tools was required to write DVDs. No?
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> Michael M. Moore writes:
>> Many people have no problem with doing updates daily or nearly that
>> frequently. I don't like to be updating quite so often, and I don't like
>> it taking very long when I do it.
lems. But I will be sticking with
Lenny until Squeeze seems to be settling into a groove. I don't think
right now is the ideal time for most of us who aren't pretty advanced
users to be messing with the testing or unstable branches.
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ependencies you already have
installed (also, which recommends and suggests).
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'within the limits of the law' because law is often b
all packages that have "mozilla" in their descriptions.
If you'd done the latter command, your results would have included
"iceape" (and "iceape-calendar" and a whole bunch of other stuff).
I'm constantly forgetting Debian's absurdly unique names
s the wrong way to do
> it.
>
> If you are searching for system service, which runs even if you are not
> logged in: stick with bittorent, since it does not require X to run...
>
rtorrent is another command-line client:
http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/
I think it has more features tha
didn't realize you could use gmail from the command line.
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t; tag editor:
* quodlibet/ex-falso
> terminal emulator:
* urxvt
> text editor:
* vim
> video player:
* mplayer
> web browser:
* Epiphany
> word-processor:
* OO.org Writer
Favorite gui app not mentioned above:
Tomboy
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What do you do when X dies or needs changing?
I don't understand the question. Aptitude doesn't need X. It's an
ncurses/command-line app. Usually, I run it (curses interface) from a
VT when I'm logged out of X.
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On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 10:50 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 03:24:28AM -0700, Michael M. wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 21:12 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > As far as the fam vs. gamin problem is concerned,
> > > aptitude figure
On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 12:54 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 03:24:28 -0700, Michael M. wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I found a few problems on my system (Lenny/testing) after I replaced fam
> > with gamin:
> >
> > 1) Menus in OO.org took
is "about
choice," they often forget to mention that you'll find your choices
restricted by packages and apps that do not play as well together as
they are supposed to. GNOME is a really nice DE, but I am sick and
tired of my choices being restricted by using it.
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and who don't want to be stuck in early 2006 for the next year while
Debian drags itself kicking and screaming through yet another protracted
and endlessly delayed release cycle.
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and there has always been a lot of discussion about the conf file. When
did this happen?
And funnily enough, this is the first time any Linux install has
configured the correct optimal resolution & refresh rate for this
machine & monitor from the get-go. Previously I have had alwa
nts.
I'm using gtkpod also; meanwhile, anxiously awaiting Floola to make its
way to Debian. I don't use gtkpod to mount / unmount my nano, though.
I launch gtkpod after the nano is plugged in and mounted, and exit it
with the nano still mounted. Have you considered using anot
ly handy in bug reports involving a package’s
use of debconf." But it doesn't say how to figure out which packages
use debconf.
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of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are suppose
aites for 10 seconds anyway. Does someone have a better idea?
I made the following change to /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
alias net-pf-10 off
# alias net-pf-10 ipv6
(added the first line; commented out the second line)
I don't know if that's the "right" way to do it. It worked
n general, I find it
easier to use them for managing the tasks at hand than the bare command
line, and nearly as capable as both CL and GUI alternatives with far
less bloat than the latter. But that's only when developers or helpers
take the time to explain their usage, with examples, in jargon-
reen and image
> look very bad. I wonder whether I can set the default
> so I would not have this problem.
>
Did you try menu item "Desktop" => "Preferences" => "Screen Resolution"?
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ms whatsoever. But it still seems
behind where I thought it would be by now. OTOH, if you're worried
about instability in Lenny, so far x86 has been rock-solid.
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of absolute rea
a reply off-list if you're not subscribed.
In this case, if I'd done "Reply to all," this message would have been
sent to the list, to you separately, and to arijit separately. As it
is, using Ctrl+L, this message gets sent only to debian-user.
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articipated in.
Compared to what I've seen following similar lists and discussions in
the *BSD world, I'm beginning to realize the farther away one gets from
the DFSG and the GPL, the more relaxed and easygoing people are more
likely to be (Theo de Raadt notwithstanding).
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On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 20:21 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 04:25:26PM -0700, Michael M. wrote:
> >
> > Given the current status of gay marriage in the U.S., we plainly do not
> > have an unambiguous right to the pursuit of happiness -- not w
ing Virginia's anti-miscegenation law, which the Supreme
Court overturned.)
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dream." --S. Jackson
-
ion of personal sacrifice while nonetheless
condemning the practice of animal sacrifice. The religious types can
sort out what's moral or immoral; personally, I think animal sacrifice
is distasteful, disrespectful, and just one of many unappealing aspects
of the Christian bible.
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and conquer".
Well the party in power certainly makes a difference on some issues.
There have been some significant changes here in my state since the Dems
took control of the legislature.
Just don't expect party change to work miracles, in and of itself.
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rt in one go, but since I really
only convert maybe 10% (if that), I haven't bothered.
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dream." --S. Jac
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 08:09 +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
> Figuring out how to do things is one of the best ways to learn. Not
> reading a dry book.
>
> Although, books and other documentation are quite valuable nothing beats
> "getting your hands dirty".
>
> >
> > --- Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 07:02 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-05 at 22:50 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> > Man, I'm getting a bit annoyed with Epiphany. Very frequently, when I
> > visit http://www.thestar.com, and click a news link, it crashes. What
> > is up with that? After the init
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:28 +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> Michael M. wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 18:13 +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> >> Amy Templeton wrote:
> >>> somethin2cool wrote:
> >>>> Well, If I type "lynx" into I expect
>
ike
to run in a borderless, (pseudo-)transparent gnome-termimal; some things
in an xterm; some things in a regular gnome-terminal (default profile;
i.e., what starts when I just click on the terminal icon on my panel or
select "Terminal" from the Gnome Applications menu). You have to s
installed the -486 image. Some time ago I switched to
the -k7 image, then to the -amd64. All have worked without issue.
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ct line, check if the In-Reply-To header is removed, or
> > whether it is threaded in a proper way with whichever MUA you use at
> > your end..
>
> I wonder if this is something that Google knows is wrong with GMail or not?
Well GMail *is* in beta, after all! :-)
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hread breaking in Gmail and Kmail, I am not sure
> of other frontends, like those who read the list from a news reader
> Knode (using gmane's servers).
> I am sure people might agree/disagree but I think it is worthwhile to
> argue. Let your opinions flow
Editing the s
ust pointing out the way it is on my system.
Here in Oregon, if it's December 4th, it's probably raining.
OTOH, if it's April 12th ...
... it's probably raining.
I'm not seeing the difference! :-)
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me I'm not
looking at the desktop. I tend to run most apps full-screen and find it
a hassle to minimize everything to check some info on the desktop. And
I don't like leaving space for things like gkrellm or gdesklets; doesn't
strike me as an effective use of screen real estate.
Th
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 13:11 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> To be honest, this is an exact kind of message for the Exim Mailing
> list... only *DO NOT* tell them you are using DEBIAN. You will be shot
> on sight.
Why? What's the issue the Exim folk have with Debian?
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und, you might find something you like better than
GBookmarks.
As for the privacy concerns, I have pretty much put my faith in Google.
Google knows all about me. Google is Borg. I have been assimilated.
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I can't do anything like this on Galeon,
> but I guess I could keep Iceweasel around for YouTube.
>
> Now I can watch YouTube AND keep Adobe's flash player off my system! :D
Maybe you could give the bookmarklet version of the script a try? I
haven't tried it myself (I
many of these
types of apps won't work well (or at all) in that environment. Just
something else to consider.
[1] http://xwinman.org/
[2] http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/
[3] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications
[4] http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie
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On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 07:29 -0500, Randy Patterson wrote:
> On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote:
> > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian,
> > > RedHat
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote:
> Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian,
> RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse?
Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-)
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"No live organism can c
ion off testing. IMO, it would fill a gap and be a
good alternative for those of us for whom Ubuntu, Sidux, etc., are too
bleeding-edge and bug-prone but get frustrated by the long periods of
stagnation in Debian testing. I'd be happy enough if there was
backports.org-type project for testin
, most of the time, too old for
the hardware they were selling. Furthermore, they don't have to move up
to the latest release every six months -- Ubuntu supports its regular
releases for 18 months, its LTS release for five years. An OEM could
easily upgrade the distro they offer once a yea
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 22:57 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> "Michael M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > If I knew, for example, that for up to six months out of every two
> > years, testing will be frozen, I could live with that. If that were
>
> Please
ol characters. ^G^L
Anyone who reads Slashdot even semi-regularly has seen it often enough.
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of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to
dream." --S
7;t aim for that.
But it looks like Sidux uses KDE. Would it work just as well with
Gnome, or are some Sidux alterations so KDE-oriented that there'd be no
point to using the distro if you weren't a KDE user? (I'm not.)
[1] http://sidux.com/index.php?module=pnWikka&tag=whysidux
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 09:51 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 05:41:45AM -0700, Michael M. wrote:
>
> > What has made Debian a great fit for me over the past months is its
> > beefed up efforts to make testing a more viable option for users (f
at just means another long freeze down the road. All the more reason
to look about for an acceptable alternative, if there's one out there.
Sid is too unstable and fast-moving for me. I tried it for a while
before I settled on Etch.
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My hope is that the next iteration of testing (Lenny, I think?) returns
to what I personally found to be the optimal balance between timeliness
and stablility, up until (and at least for a while after) Etch was
frozen. That won't happen until Etch is out the door.
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On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 16:42 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:35:02AM -0700, Michael M. wrote:
> >
> > Call it what you want: schedule, timeline, target, whatever. The point
> > is that the Debian Project doesn't value it enough to stick to
with his own priorities. There's no "right
answer" for everybody, or we'd all be using the same distro, a BSD,
Windows, OS X.
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of absolute reality; eve
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 15:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 05:37:00PM -0700, Michael M. wrote:
> > All that is to say that Ubuntu serves a purpose, and it's a valuable
> > one, IMO. It's not for everybody; nor is Debian, nor any other distro
>
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 20:59 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 05:37:00PM -0700, Michael M. wrote:
> > Personally, I'm getting a little
> > frustrated being stuck on Gnome 2.14 when 2.18 has been released. Etch
> > is two Gnome releases behin
> over.
I thought all the kernels were SMP-enabled now, no? Didn't Debian do
away with the distinction between SMP and non-SMP kernels? At least,
when I look at what's available with aptitude, all the kernel images
labelled with "-smp" are given as "for transition onl
purpose, and it's a valuable
one, IMO. It's not for everybody; nor is Debian, nor any other distro
in particular. Ubuntu at least provides an experience quite similar to
Debian while doing things that Debian stubbornly refuses to do, like
sticking to a schedule. On that score, I agr
easel extension I like is for quick access to Google
Notebook, which I make use of sometimes. I guess I could use some other
means of quick copy/paste from the web if I stopped using Iceweasel
altogether. That's the only one of my favorite extensions I can think
of that isn't available for
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 10:27 +0100, Roman Stöckl-Schmidt wrote:
> Michael M. schrieb:
> > So what is your default browser? Do you have iceweasel set as the
> > default in any DE you are using, if you are using one? What does
> > update-alternatives report?
>
> Okay,
t is not
> the default browser atm and wether or not I want to make it.
So what is your default browser? Do you have iceweasel set as the
default in any DE you are using, if you are using one? What does
update-alternatives report?
--
Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
"No live organism
llation will take 227MB. I'm not sure, though, if
there is a list of what is included in the former that is missing from
the latter.
--
Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions
of absolute reality; even larks and katydid
ure looks like socialized medicine is sucking there, huh?
I guess conservatives in the U.S. are only concerned about a the life
cycle of fetus until a baby is born, after which it's fine by them if
the baby dies, as long as the dreaded spectre of "Universal Health Care"
is kept
but you might get more
expert advice on the debian-ppc list, or failing that Ubuntu's or
Gentoo's PPC mailing lists or forums.
Good luck!
--
Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions
of absolute reality; even la
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