You will find the user interface
different. It is capable of reading and writing microsoft file
formats,
OpenOffice still doesn't write OOXML and there is very little macro
compatibility
with Excel.
I dn't know what to do if you want to run Microsoft Office on a Linux system.
Rumours are
Not _all_ users -- only the ones who have the root password. Which you simply
don't give to ordinary users.
Which bypasses the purpose of groups and relies solely on passwords
for security, which are crackable.
Even on a system which supports it, what
is there to stop a user who has the
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM, A J Stiles de...@earthshod.co.uk wrote:
On Monday 08 Aug 2011, Robert Isaac wrote:
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com wrote:
What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to?
Does it really matter when any user that has
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com wrote:
What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to?
Does it really matter when any user that has the root password can
gain root privileges thanks to gnu su's inability to limit root
privileges to a specific group?
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On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Lennart Sorensen
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
Finding all scripts with /bin/sh and changing them to /bin/bash can be
done in a couple of lines of perl. Trivial to do really
It's more trivial to change the default shell to bash if it is
necessary for a
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:00 PM, brian m. carlson
sand...@crustytoothpaste.net wrote:
My comment about multiarch was an extension of the previous paragraph.
If those extra development files (such as headers) end up in both
library packages, they may cause a file conflict.
I'm still not seeing
It will also affect multiarch, where those two versions of a library
package may be for separate architectures.
You'll have to explain how a library in lib32 could possibly conflict
with a library in lib64 as long as ld is doing its job correctly.
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That doesn't seem relevant to whether 32 or 64bit works with flash.
That's just a problem with the flash plugin in general.
Not really, Debian's security support for flash is often lacking.
If users are lucky there will be a backport available, if not
then they are on their own.
Same package
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Lennart Sorensen
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 05:10:52PM -0400, Robert Isaac wrote:
The current stable flash plugin is 32-bit only which leaves you using
either
nsplugin-wrapper or a 32-bit browser.
There is a 64-bit beta
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.comwrote:
Flash stopped being a problem at least two years ago - I could be wrong
there, it may be even longer than that. I have no reason to regret my
choice of using the 64-bit port. And, I may add, I am a non-technical
user.
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It is possible I think to modify the bootloader in Windows (without
using e.g. Partition Magic) to sniff out the Linux and allow you to
choice of booting it when you boot up the PC..
Yes, but it's fragile and not worth doing that way.
Depends on the version of grub:
On 11/29/10, Tomasz Nitecki t...@tnnn.pl wrote:
On 29/11/10 17:00, dage...@free.fr wrote:
Anyway, just a remark, I have noticed that just after the installation
of Debian AMD 64, there's no xorg.conf file at all, but X runs well.
Any hints to make me understand ?
It 'just works' due to its
I'm afraid it's not possible, as Lotus Notes is a non-free
email/collaboration suite from IBM:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus
If the Source Code is not available then that is surely, in and of itself, a
good enough reason to run it inside a chroot -- that way, it can't get at
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com wrote:
Anyone running KDE4? Any AMD64 issues?
Can it be loaded running lenny?
All of the backporting projects that I have seen stopped around 4.1.
You could probably backport it yourself if you have the time, or
remember to
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:30 AM, A J Stilesde...@earthshod.co.uk wrote:
On Tuesday 21 Jul 2009, James Brown wrote:
I know about ekiga and such but they do not serve for all my aims.
I (and many people in my country - Russia, when existing terrible and
bloody dictatorship of tyrants Putin and
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Klaus Becker colon...@free.fr wrote:
I just tried
http://musee.louvre.fr/expo-imaginaire/escalierdesambassadeurs/fr/index.html
and it works fine, and it's 3d.
Klaus
It also doesn't use the 3DVIA-player plugin that the first link uses.
You basically have
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org wrote:
Which is a polite way of rephrasing what I said earlier :)
No, you pointed against an O: bug. The above ia a perfectly valid reason
because when the security team (volunteers, you know, and we all know
how crappy Mozilla
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 8:03 AM, macdowell@dpf.gov.br wrote:
hello,
why we can't find iceape-browser in lenny, there is only for etch ?
is there any conflict to download etch version with lenny ?
if so there others wysiwyg html editors for lenny?
thanks
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com wrote:
I forgot to mention that the graphic card is Pixelview 6600 256M DDR
DVI GeForce 6800. I expected that it is compatible with fglrx
francesco
You may have more success with the nvidia driver with that particular
GPU,
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Lennart Sorensen
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 04:29:24PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 01/30/2009 04:18 PM, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Is it possible to reinstall X.Org server on a multisocket dual-opteron
computer running amd64
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:06 AM, A J Stiles de...@earthshod.co.uk wrote:
On Tuesday 06 Jan 2009, Robert Isaac wrote:
That would break all three nvidia drivers currently within non-free,
so it is not necessarily a good idea for the people that rely on those
for a desktop.
But it would
That would break all three nvidia drivers currently within non-free,
I'm sorry, but that's not the case: Debian is *only* main, non-free is
a commodity place we provide for our users, it's not that something
broked in non-free would stop the release to happen.
That is good to say, but in
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Lennart Sorensen
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:06:18PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
Exactly. That's why 2.6.27 should be more mainstream. To reiterate the
thoughts of millions of right-thinking people, 2.6.27 should be the
latest version of package flashplugin-nonfree is (IMO) downloading the wrong
version of flashplayer. It seems, it is downloading the 32-bit-version. This
version is not running on my 64-bit system.
From debian-multimedia.org:
New flash-player package for amd64 in experimental (can be
Yes, Linux wrote Linux when BSD wasn't available. I've read a quote
somewhere that if BSD had been available he wouldn't have bothered with
Linux.
I have to point that out that you just did it again. :-)
Don't worry, we'll just be used as lubricants when the kernel fulfills
its mission
Note that the reason that OpenBSD can claim only two security holes in
the default install in the past 10 years is that there are no services
active in a default install (you have to add commands to the startup
script to enable them).
Except they don't make that claim, OpenBSD claims two
Do you know the difference between Unix and Linux? Short answer is that
Linux wrote Linux when he needed a Unix but Unix was caught in the Unix
wars and there wasn't one available that wasn't tied up in legal
wrangling and rewriting to remove copywritten code.
So the kernel wrote itself?
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1280 x 768
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device CRT-1's EDID; cannot compute DPI
(WW) NVIDIA(0): from CRT-1's EDID.
(==) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (75, 75); computed from built-in default
Do you have your monitor's HorizSync and
Just a shot in the dark, change:
SubSection Display
Modes 1280x768
EndSubSection
to:
SubSection Display
Modes 1360x768 1280x768
EndSubSection
Also it _isn't_ a good idea to punch in random HorizSync and
I read about GPUs nvidia and CUDA etc a bit on the web. I found out that
CUDA is supposed to work in Linux and nosed around and saw that there is some
sort of implementation of it for Ubuntu
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html
Unless you are developing an application that
Whoa now, don't go bashing my diesels! :)
350 HP, 650 lb-ft torque, 15 mpg in a 7000
lb truck!
Plus you can convert the engine to run on waste vegetable oil AND have
your home invaded by angry gun toting IRS agents when you fail to pay
the fuel tax (USA only, sorry). :)
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Other than games, for what is 3d used? Does it take 3d to render a
movie full-screen using the hardware, or is that a 2d function?
CAD programs, 3d modelling programs, a few renderers, etc. It's not
just eye candy that needs a hardware accelerated display.
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On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:04:35PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote:
the reverse engineered nvidia driver is working now,
cant recall the name of it.
nv
Which is 2d only, the nouveau driver is the one aiming for
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/compatlist3.html
The problems with the 8800's seem to happen on Intel and Via based
Motherboards. I haven't heard of any problems with the recent nforce
boards.
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Massimo Savino
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't know if anyone is still
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:08 AM, A J Stiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm thinking of buying a new 64-bit machine to use as my home desktop. (It
will probably run Sid.)
Does anyone know of a graphics card which is definitely supported by Free
drivers?
Intel, as previously stated, is the
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Lance Ferrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Im getting
XIO: Fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0
when I try to boot debian. I'm new to linux and computers in general, so
any help would be great. I have a BFG NVidea 8800 GT if that helps.
Just as a side note, I called BFG Technologies on the off-chance they might
help (they boast of a 24-hour live support in North America, so I figured
I'd try it). Worse than useless: 'We don't support Linux' I was about to ask
if they knew of any support links online to check.
They hung up
The versions abobe 100.14.09 must use Xorg7.3 and higher, due to a new ABI in
the Nvidia drivers.
100.14.19 builds and works fine on Etch as did 100.14.09. Only the
debian package requires Xorg = 7.3 which can easily be changed by
lowering the version numbers in the debian/control.in file in
But they are NOT compatible. That means they don't work. The new xorg
can't work with the old nvidia hence there should be a dependancy
preventing you from having the old nvidia with the new xorg. It's a
good thing when packages prevent you from doing broken things. The new
version of
Best course of action: stick to Intel graphics, or use the free nv driver.
The nv driver only works on some cards and intel cards are overpriced
POS that simply do not support some of more useful GL extensions.
AMD/ATi has recently released specs for their newer chips, and
promises to do so
AFAIK not all specs are available and
even the released ones have some holes. I'm sure these will be solved
over time but IMHO right _now_ the only fully supported Radeon family is
still the R200 generation. R300 and partly R400 is becoming pretty good
but it is not yet complete. Work on R500
Demand a better archive format, tar.bz2 has much better compression. Otherwise:
apt-cache search unrar
unrar-free - Unarchiver for .rar files
unrar - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version)
Just add contrib non-free to the end of your mirror if you must use
the non-free version of unrar it
I also think we should write to our Elected Representatives and ask why it
cannot be made a legal requirement for manufacturers to provide full
specifications for any hardware they sell.
Don't we have enough laws already? You'll have a quicker and less
invasive response by sending snail-mail
So what video card has an Open Source driver that can access all
hardware accellerated functions?
Intel is the only company (that I am aware of) that has open source
drivers that fully utilize the hardware but they are not known for
being high performance or inexpensive video cards.
AMD has
thats games are playable?
could you name some?
Thanks
:$apt-cache search games will bring up quite a few games.
I suggest checking out Nexuiz, OpenArena (in lenny and sid, though
0.7.1 hasn't been packaged yet), and Tremulous (in contrib and
non-free).
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The full version is playable on Sarge when taken from upstream CVS.
How about the Shareware version (or what do you mean by full version)?
There is no difference between the full retail version and the
shareware version, it is just a compile switch that allows the loading
of more wad files.
However, do you consider the game playable?
The full version of the game was playable on Sarge without issues
(32-bit compiled from upstream CVS). The breakage seemed to happen
when compiled on an Etch system (if that's helpful) this is both the
Debian package and Upstream's CVS.
I am CCing
Of course you can get a stupid little Athlon 64 X2 3600+ system from
dell for $399CDN at the moment. Hard to beat that price/performance
ratio. Of course it is a Dell, so who knows... :)
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If you go the Dell route be sure to pick the Ubuntu pre-installed
choice. It may be
There is libswfdec, also free software. If all you want or need flash
for is to view YouTube or Google Videos libswfdec and Gnash are a fine
replacement for flash. It's when you come to the sites that think
complete flash design with the latest codec is the best possible way
to wow the customer
On 12/31/06, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 02:45:57PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
Hi,
Two interrelated questions:
Short question: when can my Etch amd64 box access the net via dialup
safely? At one point recently in relation to Etch (pre RC1), there
On 12/17/06, Brian R. Whitecotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The 2D nv driver is fine
Last time I tried the nv driver on my 6800 my display was borked due
to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6212 which you would
have known about had you attempted to use the nv driver with your
card.
Sarge is a stable release, and hence will not get ANY updates.
Except, of course, security fixes. ;-)
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On 11/3/06, Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:50:58PM -0500, Robert Isaac wrote:
Except, of course, security fixes. ;-)
Does Debian even try to do security fixes for non-free?
There is a non-free repository at security.debian.org and the
debian.org/security
I thought it was renamed to Iceape due to trademark issues with
Mozilla Corp. with firefox (tm) to be renamed to iceweasel.
See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622
On 10/31/06, Douglas Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:53:24PM -0600, Mike Reinehr
On 10/8/06, Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 09:15:44AM -0500, Gnu_Raiz wrote:
It's now Intel 64, if that wasn't confusing enough.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34722
So intel went from IA-32e to EM64T to Intel 64! I guess you know why
I do NOT find any mention of copy protection on the three (3) DVD's
that I am trying to play.
well CSS (which is realy actually more an encryption then an copy
protection) is seldomly mentioned but you will find very few dvd to buy
(not self recorded) that do not use CSS). there is a package
Robert == Robert Isaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robert That leaves you with two reasons to have a 32bit chroot,
Robert hardly a headache but it is after all your choice. Myself I
Robert have been using a 32bit chroot mainly for the video codices
Robert and wine since before the release
Firefox + Flash (Flash is 32-bit only)
There are open alternatives that work 64 bit native (let's be honest,
flash 7 is broken anyway what is the big deal if certain sites crash
the player or won't play at all?)
OpenOffice
Understandable here, everyone needs an office suite but there is a 64
Every single Free flash plugin sucks is useless. That's about all
there is to say on the matter right now
A bit brutal, but I'm afraid it is correct.
I had pretty good luck with libswfdec (meaning it didn't crash as often).
Another good example on why closed formats (and not closed
Two things,
1.) Quake 4 does not have a 64-bit executable, it only runs with 32
bit libs installed on your system, iD has yet to produce a 64 bit
game. TTimo's view of the issue can be found here:
http://www.linuxgames.com/?dataloc=articles/ttimo2006/ (second to last
question)
2.) It is not a
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On 08/16/2006 03:24 AM, Robert Isaac wrote:
That might change, though, now that AMD owns ATi. They _might_
release specs :-)
http://news.com.com/2061-10791_3-6104655.html
Mmhh, it seems like it won't change
It gives that ATI sucks! :-)
That's all.
That might change, though, now that AMD owns ATi. They _might_
release specs :-)
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On 7/25/06, Gnu-Raiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 08:08, Christian Powers wrote:
Anyone,
I am currently a Debian only user at home and at work. Most
of my computers are running 64bit kernels and of course the
others are running 32bit systems and an ARM type system.
On 7/24/06, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:56:53PM -0700, Rob Blomquist wrote:
Exactly how does one get it running?
I DL'd the x64 client from Sun, which recommends using the 32 bit client also
for java script.
I have downloaded both, putting the 32 bit
On 6/25/06, Nelson Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Klaus Becker wrote:
Am Sonntag 28 Mai 2006 10:15 schrieb Nelson Menezes:
Just to let people know that the new Picasa for Linux from Google
(http://picasa.google.com/linux/) works fine in AMD64; just download the
.deb from
On 2/19/06, Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Just how exactly can 60hz ever be nicer on the eyes? Well unless it is
an LCD in which case it doesn't matter.
Well, even on a CRT, if the higher refresh rate pushes above the
monitor's maximum dot clock, the
It is probably better to buy a hardware-controlled modem that will
work without having to pay for the driver.
On 2/19/06, antonio giulio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as I know, there is no alternative. But you'd better check that
up at http://www.linmodems.org/ and http://start.at/modem/
Actually, you should hold off until after June before buying any AMD64
CPU. AMD will be releasing a new socket style and the current Socket
939 and 754 chips should drop in prices, not sure about the Opterons
(Socket 940).
On 1/24/06, Patrick Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all. I'm
Upgrading past 2.6.12 requires getting yaird or initramfstools installed
on sarge somehow. It can be done however. Yaird is not too hard to
backport.
You could even save yourself some effort and install Yaird from backports.org :)
On 1/12/06, Craig Hagerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/12/06, Jaime Ochoa Malagón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And I suggest try amarok I'm realy enjoy using it...
and the pluggin of kxdocker...
Thanks for the suggestion Jaime, amaroK looks nice. I'll give it a try.
It is a good player and
Some sites have an entry splash screen / menu that is a quite full
screen flash. And quite many sites I need for professional use
(suppliers) have such a banner. Without flash, it is not possible to
enter it :-(
Then that is bad web design. A good web designer would also do an
html page
and most certainly wouldnt touch hotmail again with a 20 meter pole.
While this is off topic to this list, there was an article a few years
ago in information week (IIRC) that had an interview with a Microsoft
employee that was making $50,000US a year selling e-mail lists to
various spammers in
Wk!!! Why don't just use K9copy?? Marillat
maintains the package.
not eveyone wants to install kdelibs to run that nor does everyone
want to compress their video to fit on a single layer disk.
But if you like those things feel free to use it. :)
What programme should I use to pull out an individual chapter or title from a
DVD as an MPEG file? I have found a way to create a DVD from separate files,
but it's actually separating those files that is eluding me.
dvd::rip can do this as can vobcopy (though vobcopy's way of doing it
is a
I am sure there must be a way to extract just one programme from a DVD+RW and
burn it to another disc, so that I can keep episodes of the same series
together on the same disc, in order {maybe with the advertisements omitted
into the bargain; though my recorder has the ability to add chapter
Hi all,
Hello
what would be the best approach?
A completely 64-bit OS (Still not an option, but hey...)
Install an ia32 system with 64SMP kernel
or the whole 64 system with ia32 chroot?
I'd go with the 64 bit system with a 32 bit chroot, that way you can
take advantage of the hardware
On 10/27/05, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:18:08PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:57:09AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
I've stuck with Ubuntu Server 5.10 AMD64 for time being,
because it's a stable distribution, and recognizes the
You need to add a few more meta modes under section
Device
1280x1024, NULL; 1024x768, NULL;
et. al.
--- Michele Concina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just installed quake 4, i've started it but it
show me the game on
both my monitors..how can i configure it to play
just on one?
With
I have used a new setting
# iwiwconfiglwlanrate auto
# iwiwconfiglwlanmode Ad-HoHoc #
iwiwconfiglwlanchannel 11
# iwiwconfiglwlankey s:WEWEPEY enc open
# iwiwconfiglwlanesessidny
# ififconfiglwlanup
# dhdhclientlwlan
and now 'wlwlanchannel' doesn't return error, but it
doesn't work
Hello,
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If I recall correctly from my own ooo2 build, the
only modifications
needed were editing some incorrectly autogenerated
files (chaning int to
long IIRC, can't remember the exact details) and
restarting the build
process with
Shouldn't the current URL ( deb
http://amd64.debian.net/debian/ sarge-proposed-updates
main contrib non-free
) for Sarge-amd64 security updates be added to the
howto?
If for no other reason than to show to the public at
large that there ARE security updates available and to
hopefully limit the
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