Re: Twinview Monitor Issues (Monitor #s and Resolution)

2007-06-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 25 June 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 05:46:50PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Monday 25 June 2007, Bob Proulx wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: 1) Is there a way to tell my NVidia card or xorg.conf to recognize the widescreen as my first screen

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le Wednesday 30 May 2007 19:18:27 Nic James Ferrier, vous avez écrit : ... PS: I hope this thread will end very soon. You do realize, don't you, that you've just guaranteed this thread will still be high in volume for the next month with that

Re: [Very-OT] rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 22 May 2007, Celejar wrote: Lots of sigs are derogatory of another culture - those mocking religion, or liberal / conservative / other political views. It may help people to remember that another person cannot define you or tell anyone who you are, what kind of culture you are part

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 21 May 2007, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:02:01 +0200 M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] This is why I'm posting also this reply to the moderators. I really hope they put a stop to this, this time. As people have pointed out; this is exactly the issue. There

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:50:31PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:17:16PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: Did it ever occur to you that there is a reason for bash

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:51:08AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: This particular problem is solved for the most part by a policy change that says non-Debian topics are inappropriate. This opens the door to various actions starting with this is

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:58:37PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: It would be helpful if that code of conduct had its own page and be enumerated so that it could be referred to directly when we

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Miles Fidelman wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for off-topic messages. For the messages

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Joey Hess wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: I guess the question is where to draw and then who draws that line. While M. Fioretti has basically pointed out that no matter what line is drawn, there's still clearly a problem, and so I'm tempted to not respond; it's

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, M. Fioretti wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 15:12:51 PM -0400, Hal Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Not true. For example, I'm having trouble with Firefox crashing Asking here could help a great deal with that. Of course. But rambling for months about religion

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:43:08PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-05-19, Roberto C Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:51:51PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: =20 If somebody's current provider provides only

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 03:12:51PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: We had a problem on the Libranet list where a number of us got into some serious and deep discussions about religion and politics. Not one person was being disrespectful

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:40:08PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:43:08PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-05-19, Roberto C Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:17:16PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:40:08PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: Then you missed the overall point, the human point

Re: Etch release??

2007-04-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 08 April 2007 11:55, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 11:25 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: I've run aptitude update aptitude upgrade too many times now, and cat /etc/debian_version still says 4.0. I was hoping to be able to come back from breakfast and see a Debian Lenny

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 19 March 2007 13:01, Raquel wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:44:38 -0400 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just saw this in the following piece: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/murdockint.html Ubuntu has certainly raised the bar. They have had a tremendous impact on the number of

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 19 March 2007 13:47, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/19/07 12:35, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Monday 19 March 2007 13:01, Raquel wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:44:38 -0400 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just saw this in the following piece: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/murdockint.html

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-03-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 08 March 2007 09:18, Kent West wrote: Historically this list has been tolerant of off-topic threads, likely because such threads have tended to be short-lived. However, the off-topic posters (and I have been guilty myself) seem to have taken this to mean that this list is

Firefox: Converting URLs to kill backslashes

2007-03-03 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a maintenance manual for an antique car that, unfortunately, can best be viewed with a certain insecure browser on a non-free OS. I've found the main issue with using this in Linux is that the file names are all stored as relative URLs with backslashes between the directory levels

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 13:01, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:34:03AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/07 10:18, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:50:16 +0800, Elvis wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, What does it mean by

Re: When you're a rank noob (was Re: Old Computer Parts)

2007-02-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 19 February 2007 09:26, Hans du Plooy wrote: Then that's what you say at the beginning of your email. :) These two quotes are guaranteed to garner sympathy: I'm a noob and I don't know enough to know where to begin to look. Internet access is flaky, slow and expensive.

Re: Nvu equivalent in Etch?

2007-02-18 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 18 February 2007 10:15, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Ken Heard wrote: Is there in the Etch packages data base a complete web authoring system more or less equivalent to Nvu, which is in the Sarge data base? Ken Heard Hi Ken, I like Nvu also and I'm running Etch. I converted and rpm

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 11 February 2007 04:43, Joe Hart wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:03:18 +0100 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn, did it again. I am so used to hitting reply. I have to remember Reply to ALL... 'Reply to list' would be better. There was just

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 11 February 2007 11:41, Micha Feigin wrote: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:06:15 -0500 Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2007 04:43, Joe Hart wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:03:18 +0100 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damn

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 05 February 2007 22:58, Paul Johnson wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Thursday 01 February 2007 23:13, Paul Johnson wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:43, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/31/07 23:27, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:22:21 +0200

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-02 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 01 February 2007 23:13, Paul Johnson wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:43, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/31/07 23:27, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:22:21 +0200 Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought Dexter's Laboratory would

Re: Johnny Question

2007-02-01 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:27, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:29:16PM -0500, Max Hyre wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/31/07 16:58, Hal Vaughan wrote: Maybe, but we'll never see an American 'toon that'll top Johnny Quest. I mentioned /JQ/ to my son

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-01 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:43, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/31/07 23:27, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:22:21 +0200 Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought Dexter's Laboratory would be more popular with members of this list. From the recent stuff it's my favorite.

Re: Johnny Question

2007-02-01 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 01 February 2007 18:37, Max Hyre wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Just as there are spin-off books of movies, I would not be surprised if there were/are spin-off book of popular cartoons. Was the cartoon around in 1962? That's when I was reading the book. The show was in the mid

Re: Jonny Question

2007-02-01 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 01 February 2007 22:00, Max Hyre wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: The wiki article mentions nothing of a similarly-titled book. In fact, it mentions its inspiration being, among others, the _Jack Armstrong_ radio show and Milt Caniff's comics, as well as his name being spelled

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-01 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 02 February 2007 04:28, Mihira Fernando wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] Naaa... South Park :) /South Park/ and /Family Guy/ are funny in small doses. Mostly, they are just boorish. /Futurama/ is *the* modern animated show. If you're talking modern, my vote

Problem Burning Some .flac Files From Amarok With K3B

2007-01-31 Thread Hal Vaughan
I've been using Amarok and K3B for a long time now and I'm running into problems I've never had before. All my music and audio files are in .flac format. Both programs have worked fine up until now and they still usually work well together, except when I burn from the Collection pane instead

Re: Debian, Iceweasel, Firefox!

2007-01-31 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 12:04, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/31/07 10:56, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:52:55AM -0500, Max Hyre wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: The real interesting one to me is the battle Adobe has going to prevent photoshop from becoming a

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-01-31 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:59, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/31/07 10:45, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:35:16PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Tuesday 30 January 2007 20:55, Paul Johnson wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: Then, for your kids' peace of mind, maybe we should

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-01-31 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 17:47, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/31/07 13:22, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:03:25 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My kids like a lot of stuff that causes my IQ to perceptibly lower if exposed to it for more than 5 minutes.

Re: Johnny Question

2007-01-31 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 20:29, Max Hyre wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/31/07 16:58, Hal Vaughan wrote: Maybe, but we'll never see an American 'toon that'll top Johnny Quest. I mentioned /JQ/ to my son the other night. What's /Johnny Quest/? We're so old. And I'm too young

Re: Johnny Question

2007-01-31 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 21:34, Max Hyre wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: Was his father kidnapped by an Ice Weasel? Nah, the water was liquid. So it was a Sea Monkey? (Just trying to bring it back on topic!) Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-01-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 13:07, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:02:28PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Monday 29 January 2007 21:06, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: The rectangular, artificial grocery-store sponges smoked up the whole house

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-01-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 14:05, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:35:50PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/30/07 12:23, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Tuesday 30 January 2007 13:07, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:02:28PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-01-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 20:55, Paul Johnson wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: Then, for your kids' peace of mind, maybe we should not mention the idea of putting certain square sponges into the microwave! It's amazing the crap that passes for animation these days... Yes. It's certainly

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-01-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 20:54, Paul Johnson wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: But what does it do to square sponges from Bikini Bottom? (No, I'm not going to sign my name to that one!) Too late, From: header gave you away. Gee, Sponge Bob has gotten really cleaver lately. I had no idea he

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-01-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 29 January 2007 21:06, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: The rectangular, artificial grocery-store sponges smoked up the whole house. A writes: Don't those all come with some kind of anti-bacterial crap in them? that may effect the outcome. It would probably make them

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 29 January 2007 18:50, Paul Johnson wrote: ... Oh, and everyone that uses e-mail spends their time reading every RFC out there. I don't expect them to. Though I do expect them to learn Damn you're demanding, aren't you? Remember you're always going to be dealing with newbies

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 29 January 2007 18:40, Paul Johnson wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:36, Paul Johnson wrote: Martin Schulze wrote: Mike Hommey wrote: Maybe not, because the name change makes it visible for him that there has been a change indeed. Changes from 1.0

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 29 January 2007 00:46, Greg Folkert wrote: ... The actual things removed: http://gnuzilla.gnu.org/fulltree/iceweasel-1.5.0.7-g2/remove.nonfree Most all of them are Graphics related, except for the auto-updater for Firefox...err Iceweasel and a Platforms Debian does not support

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 28 January 2007 07:01, Martin Schulze wrote: Mike Hommey wrote: To be fair, it's not exactly true, because upgrading from firefox to iceweasel in debian means upgrading from version 1.0 or 1.5 to 2.0, and there are substancial changes that some people dislike, myself included.

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 28 January 2007 06:43, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:18:09AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 26 January 2007 23:19, Angelo Bertolli wrote: Piotr Dziubinski wrote: Ex-Debian user... ... back to the Gentoo If going to the Mozilla website

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:42, Paul Johnson wrote: Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 11:03:59AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Please quit top posting. Here is a script that I banged out in a few minutes, which surely needs much improvement but will hopefully go some

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:36, Paul Johnson wrote: Martin Schulze wrote: Mike Hommey wrote: To be fair, it's not exactly true, because upgrading from firefox to iceweasel in debian means upgrading from version 1.0 or 1.5 to 2.0, and there are substancial changes that some people

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:33, Paul Johnson wrote: ... Do you see a difference? You could have cancelled and looked into why that is. iceweasel provides firefox because it *is* firefox. There is no functional difference between firefox and iceweasel. You're making a mountain out of a

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:08, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 20:28 -0600, Dave Patterson wrote: yea, verily, Paul Johnson sayith: ..trivial changes to the name and artwork makes it free? It's still a fork. The differences will grow. The only real changes since its

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 28 January 2007 22:52, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 21:38 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:33, Paul Johnson wrote: ... Do you see a difference? You could have cancelled and looked into why that is. iceweasel provides firefox because

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 27 January 2007 09:55, Piotr Dziubinski wrote: Only Etch supports amd64, so I was forced to use Etch. Command I have used: apt-get install firefox NOT apt-get install iceweasel I knew exactly what I was doing, because my friend told me that there will be no longer firefox in

Re: Java and Debian

2007-01-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 27 January 2007 10:58, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi all, I have tried to install JDK5 on debian and it installed without problem by running: apt-get install sun-java5-jdk which is version 1.5.0_08 but when I try to install java runtime using apt-get install sun-java5-jre

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 27 January 2007 10:52, Piotr Dziubinski wrote: Iceweasel and Firefox are a different products, very similar, but different. So I think that debian should no longer use firefox as a name for iceweasel package! I will give you an example: You are typing: aptitude update aptitude

Re: Java and Debian

2007-01-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:01, Marc Shapiro wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Saturday 27 January 2007 10:58, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi all, I have tried to install JDK5 on debian and it installed without problem by running: apt-get install sun-java5-jdk which is version 1.5.0_08

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 27 January 2007 16:31, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:52:51PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote: I'm not clear on why Firefox couldn't be put in non-free though. (I just figured it was for upgrades.) Probably because of portability. I don't think mozilla

Re: Java and Debian

2007-01-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
PLEASE! Do NOT send HTML messages on this group. I'm not the only one who has issues with them! Some mail readers can't deal with them. On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:37, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:01, Marc Shapiro wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 26 January 2007 17:52, Kent West wrote: Piotr Dziubinski wrote: After updating Firefox in Debian I realized that Firefox is no longer present in my operating system! Instead of it, I have this trashy and shity Iceweasle. Iceweasel /is/ Firefox. I don't think he cared enough to

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 26 January 2007 18:44, Piotr Dziubinski wrote: I'm irritated cause I expect that operating system will ask me about such kind of changes. Apt does. If you're running Stable, that kind of change would not have happened. If you're running Testing or Unstable, well, then you can

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 26 January 2007 19:11, Piotr Dziubinski wrote: Answers: Etch apt-get I was informed by apt-get that Iceweasel package will be installed, but I wasn't informed that instead of Firefox and it is a problem! If I would like to uninstall (even current version of) Firefox I would do it

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 26 January 2007 23:19, Angelo Bertolli wrote: Piotr Dziubinski wrote: Ex-Debian user... ... back to the Gentoo If going to the Mozilla website to download and install Firefox is too much work for you, Debian is definitely not a good choice for you. You might try another OS

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 27 January 2007 00:32, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/26/07 23:18, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 26 January 2007 23:19, Angelo Bertolli wrote: Piotr Dziubinski wrote: Ex-Debian user... ... back to the Gentoo If going to the Mozilla website to download and install Firefox is too

Re: software for making a web site......

2007-01-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 15 January 2007 17:31, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, I have been wondering about making a web site where I could offer people help installing Fedora on their PCs. There are MANY sites to help people installing any distro of Linux on their computers. While this is

Re: software for making a web site......

2007-01-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 15 January 2007 18:21, Michael Fothergill wrote: From: Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org CC: Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: software for making a web site.. Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:57:36 -0500

Re: questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Also, I have found the sarge to etch upgrade to be brutal. The systems I have tried to upgrade recently are all in shambles. The particular problem I've encountered seems to be the Xfree86 - xorg 7 transition. Fortunately, I

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 29 October 2006 01:43, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:12:46PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and Thunderbird. I would like to

Re: Why I left Debian

2006-10-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 29 October 2006 06:29, Karl Goetz wrote: Bruno wrote: On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote: ... I 'll say that Debian detect correctly the hardware on my laptob (Dell Aspire 9100). Except, it seems, video card ATI Radeon x600 for which I had to install

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 29 October 2006 09:02, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 10/27/06, Stephen Cormier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * word-processor [ Kwrite, Kword ] Do you mean Kate when you mention Kwrite? I searched Debian and couldn't find Kwrite. KDE has 3 (that I know of) text editors: Kate (my

Re: Why I left Debian

2006-10-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 28 October 2006 14:39, Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello, I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I used Debian for few months, I find honest to say why I'm leaving it. Hmm. Why on earth would anyone use Linux, and not want to start flame wars? That's

User is myname@(none)

2006-10-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
I had to do some minor reconfiguring on my LAN (basically just changing the UPS), but it including having to juggle a few systems around and reconnect cables. Everything is set up as it should be, but now, when I bring up, the host is (none) and when I log in, my prompt that would normally be

Mdadm -- Restoring an array

2006-10-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a server with one drive that has the boot and system on it and a RAID5 device managed by mdadm. The RAID is made up of 3 hard drives with a 4th spare also hooked up. The system drive crashed and I restored it. The problem is in the past, when I've tried to restore a RAID, I've had

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

2006-10-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 11:15, michael wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:07:01 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote I have a server with one drive that has the boot and system on it and a RAID5 device managed by mdadm. The RAID is made up of 3 hard drives with a 4th spare also hooked up

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

2006-10-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 17:34, michael wrote: In the future, I'll build my own .conf files just to be sure. In the long run, I'm just going to find a RAID controller that does hardware RAID5, preferably one that's hot swappable, and just rebuild the RAID on that. I also like to

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

2006-10-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
on the end to specify a partition. It's all working just fine now. Hal On Tuesday 17 October 2006 03:07, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a server with one drive that has the boot and system on it and a RAID5 device managed by mdadm. The RAID is made up of 3 hard drives with a 4th spare also hooked up

Re: Hello Debian

2006-09-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 10 September 2006 13:49, Nir Shemesh wrote: Hello Debian I'm trying too much time to install Debian on my PC with no success. My system configuration is: * Intel Pentium D ( 930 model - 3.0 [GHz] , 64 bit ) * Intel motherboard ( 945 model ) * 1 Giga ram *

Re: KDE being removed?

2006-08-31 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 31 August 2006 08:36, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-08-28 11:53:54, schrieb Kent West: It's been my experience than when running unstable, packages get b0rken and things like this sometimes happen. As a general rule, if I'm paying attention, I can stop the upgrade and try

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 25 August 2006 02:40, Ron Johnson wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 00:25, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:55, Ron Johnson wrote: Something similar to this happened due to pilot error in Florida in 2000 Don't be stupid

Re: Thread-aware MUAs

2006-08-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 25 August 2006 03:27, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 21:37, Hal Vaughan wrote: But Paul, you're non-free. Sure, but I also work for a living, I provide a service to my employer. Other people make goods. Yet others seem to think it's acceptable to consider

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 25 August 2006 03:29, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 00:05, Hal Vaughan wrote: You try it and I'll close the pod bay doors. And the emergency airlock hatch too, just in case. Explosive bolts, manual overrides and remembering to exhale entirely instead of holding

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 25 August 2006 03:30, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 00:07, Mailbox wrote: I think at this point were all hoping for the silence of the Lamb I ate his liver with some fava beans. :o) That was in bad taste. Really bad taste. Unless you add a nice chianti. Hal --

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 25 August 2006 18:58, Hex Star wrote: ewww...who eats a liver? it looks sooo nasty...how can you even look at it much less eat it? Top posters. Ugh! It's a joke and movie reference. Guess that plane took off without you. On 8/25/06, Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 25 August 2006 03:30, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 August 2006 00:07, Mailbox wrote: I think at this point were all hoping for the silence of the Lamb I ate his liver with some fava beans. :o) You know, I never did ask you: did you eat his liver before, or after it was run

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 24 August 2006 04:24, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 22:26, Steve Lamb wrote: Uh, gas prices ring a bell? Of course you didn't reply to that, you blindly skipped over it. Just like you go amazingly silent any time someone nails you with cold hard facts.

Re: Thread-aware MUAs

2006-08-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 24 August 2006 22:38, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 02:29, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 21:16, Miles Fidelman wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 20:43, Ron Johnson wrote: Daniel Rose wrote:

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 25 August 2006 00:25, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:55, Ron Johnson wrote: Something similar to this happened due to pilot error in Florida in 2000 Don't be stupid. The Florida problem was that little old ladies could not figure our

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon

2006-08-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 20:24, Steve Lamb wrote: Angelina Carlton wrote: Again, Marcelo, please do not feel the need to apologize, you are only echoing the same thing many of us feel: we want to to keep this list focused one Debian, simple as that. Then here's a pop quiz. Why is

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon

2006-08-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 23 August 2006 22:39, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 23 August 2006 18:13, Hal Vaughan wrote: I never even knew there were moderators until one showed up a few months ago (or sometime within the past 6 months or so) and started censoring posts that were critical of moderators

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 10:30, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! It could be possible to use this list for what was created: Debian related questions *only*? the rest of the world will appreciate this very much... Thanks a lot! C'mon. Give everyone a break. Some of us have no life at all,

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 21:33, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: So if we use Ubuntu... ;) You should be drawn, quartered, stabbed, hung, shot and then REALLY hurt. Of course I'm the one with Mepis on my desktop. But in my defense Debian's on my laptop and router/file

Re: Off Topic Topics (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!))

2006-08-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 22:30, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Owen Heisler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Aug 22 19:52 -0500]: Spam to Gas pumping in Oregon to Whether Off Topic Topics are Permitted Wow! Profit!!! The bridge went dark and the entire ship lurched, throwing

Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 21 August 2006 17:34, Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 21 August 2006 11:07, Marc Shapiro wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: The upswing day-to-day upswing is that we usually pay less for gas than neighboring states: Insurance for self service is more expensive than hiring someone

Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!

2006-08-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 20 August 2006 21:38, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Well, except for Oregon. Up there they're too dumb to pump their own gas without dribbling all over the place. Can't trust any place that mandates people not to touch a gas pump. Say that again?

Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!

2006-08-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 20 August 2006 23:43, Ron Johnson wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 20 August 2006 18:47, Hal Vaughan wrote: I heard the purpose of the law was to create jobs. Nope. By order of the Department of Environmental Quality because spilled gas causes air and water pollution

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

2006-07-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 06 July 2006 17:26, Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:31:10PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: My personal experience is that if you use a real email address to subscribe to d-u, you are doomed. Only if your spam-catching software is bad. I make no attempt to

Re: Determinate the directory whithin a script

2006-06-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 19 June 2006 03:43, Erik Steffl wrote: Paolo Pantaleo wrote: 2006/6/18, Paolo Pantaleo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a script in something like /media/sda1/backup/script.sh since sda1 could be also sda2 or anything, I want to determintate at run-time what is the directory in

Re: Scripting question

2006-06-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 19 June 2006 13:00, Anil Gupte wrote: Why does echo /l3dat/${Serial_Nuumber}.tar.gz give me /l3dat/ TLO3.tar.gz In other words, why is it putting an etra space in there (after the second /) and how can I get rid of it? And yes, there is no space there. I checked by using

Re: Moo! (WAS Re: upgrade only if installed)

2006-06-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 20:15, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: * Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-15 00:49]: try apt-get moo then aptitude moo then aptitude moo -v then aptitude moo -vv and so on Now that was funny! So it isn't super cow powers, but at least it has some super

Re: Can I use Ubuntu packages?

2006-06-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 11 June 2006 11:14, Redefined Horizons wrote: Is it possible to use Ubuntu packages on my Debian system? Or is it a bad idea to mix the two? Thanks, Scott Huey It's not a good idea. While many will work, there have been concerns that Ubuntu packages may not be binary compatible

Recommendations for Low Resource System

2006-05-31 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have an old Mitsubishi Amity, which is smaller than a laptop, but not as small as a palm top. It's old and built to run Windows 95, but I know people have gotten Debian to do well on this computer. It has 48 MB of memory and a 1.4 GB hard drive, which means it does not have many resources

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