On 11/14/06, Joshua J. Kugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 04:02, Gregory Seidman wrote:
Okay, so Java's GPL'd now: http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp
(Also http://java.net/ )
How soon will we see packages in main at long last? Granted, a buildable
JDK
On 11/14/06, Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The equivilant of the Firefox problem would be if Duke, the Java mascot
was under a non-free licence and Sun said the you could not use the
trademark Java without including Duke. But as far as I know, Sun has
not said that, and anyway, Duke
On 11/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Last I heard, you could only use the mane Java if you followed Sun's
spec. That was the core of their lawsuit with Microsoft. But they
nevet, to my knowledge required anything but conformance to a spec,
never line-by-line approval of
On 11/13/06, cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Alan Ianson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Try running update-alternatives --all. There is also a x-gnome-browser (or
somesuch) that may need an adjustment.
I found x-www-browser, www-browser and gnome-www-browser. I set them
all just in case.
On 11/12/06, André Wendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kelly Clowers schrieb:
Do you have Marillat's gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad package
installed? It uses libfaad2 which is apparently the best aac decoder
out there. If you have that, Rhythmbox and Banshee should be able
to handle aac
On 11/12/06, André Wendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kelly Clowers schrieb:
On 11/12/06, André Wendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kelly Clowers schrieb:
Do you have Marillat's gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad package
installed? It uses libfaad2 which is apparently the best aac decoder
out
On 11/11/06, André Wendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm so sick of it. I'm a Debian/testing user running GNOME and would
like to find a decent music player with AAC support. I know this must
have been asked here or elsewhere a thousand times before, but I have
been searching the WWW for too
On 11/6/06, Nate Bargmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Nov 06 18:37 -0600]:
* Andrew Ritchie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Nate Duehr wrote:
(The + is a modifier for Google that allows you to give Google TWO
terms to search for together, usually a better
On 11/5/06, Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I have something like this in my ~/.bash_profile
| (because I start X manually, and I want dbus on before X starts ):
|
| if test -z $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS ; then
| ## if not found, launch a new
On 11/4/06, Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Following a recent upgrade (sorry, I can't be more precise), I'm
getting the dbus error:
Unable to determine the address of the message bus
from a number of applications at start-up, including at least:
f-spot (which fails to start as a
On 11/1/06, Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Precisely! The last two that I actually used were kcalc and kate. They
have been replaced by galculator and SciTE and I am quite happy about
it. Nothing left to start up artsd and interfere with my sound, or to
startup a million kdeinit
On 11/1/06, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried setting my locale to unicode as is the default with a new debian
install and set a unicode font with mrxvt
Man pages show a bunch empty rectangles for some characters which are not drawn
correctly and it won't show hebrew text (which
On 11/1/06, gniuxiao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know that rm means remove, ls means list, but what does apt and dpkg
mean? Thanks.
AFAIK dpkg means Debian Package and apt means Advanced Package Tool.
Cheers,
Kelly
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On 10/31/06, Zoran Kolic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can always send them PDFs as a revenge...
Don't be so althruistic! Send them
postscript file.
Zoran
Or perhaps a .dvi file? :-)
Cheers,
Kelly
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On 10/30/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Seamonkey promts fills in a userid/password or prompts you with a list
of possible userids.
FF you have to fill in the userid first.
Can Seamonkey's behavior be emulated in FF?
Thanks
H
Unfortunately, I can't answer your question
On 10/26/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 start it again, and I would like those
who are get bored by this to please
for for building an OS that is powerful, flexible and FUN!
I wouldn't want to run any other operating system.
Keep up the excellent work.
Kelly Clowers
Debian Lover
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On 9/14/06, Fred J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just un-installed cdrecord and installed dvd+rw-tools which seam to have an
intense
commands, so I am still reading the man pages here to copy some files from my
home
dir to the dvdrw in /media/cdrom1.
I don't know if you are using Sarge or
On 8/28/06, Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 10:48:59AM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 11:27:08AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote:
As someone who was once a total noob with linux, I assure you a
file server does need a windowing system.
To serve
On 8/27/06, Ottavio Caruso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What has KDE got to do with a fileserver? A server
shouldn't have any windowing system at all...
As someone who was once a total noob with linux,
I assure you a file server does need a windowing
system. I wouldn't use X on a file server now,
On 8/26/06, Glen Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've been trying (with no luck) in getting sound to work on my PC. It's
a C-Media sound card onboard the Asus P5GD2-X motherboard (you can find
its specs here:
http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2model=540l1=3l2=11l3=24
). The website
On 8/20/06, José Alburquerque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all. I apologize if you get this e-mail twice, mail reader
configuration is a little awry! This a general shell (bash) question
which I hope someone may be able to answer: I created a bin directory
in my home directory in which I've
On 8/15/06, David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Downloaded the WineCVS script and ran it, asking for the bleeding edge user
install (so I will not override my Sid wine).
They are using some sort of funny (flex?) preprocessor and the file ppl.l
pops out of this preprocessor prematurely so the c
On 8/14/06, Mathias Brodala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Wei Hu.
Actually I have no filename problems when I mount NTFS/VFAT
partitions. But I can NOT properly display some .torrent files which I
downloaded from the Internet. It may use non-utf8 codes such as
gb18030 or gb2812 code.
I
On 7/22/06, Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
I've been trying many of the above tools.
I confess that it's not clear to me what the advantage should be
in using Jabber with its more or less complicated system
of gateways instead of Gaim or other multi-protocol IM client
that
On 7/22/06, Linas Žvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick Wright wrote:
I use fluxbox as my window manager. Its pretty sweet for most stuff --
light and fast. However when scrolling around in firefox the system is
brought to its knees (CPU load spikes to 80-90%). This also happens
quite a
On 7/22/06, Linas Žvirblis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kelly Clowers wrote:
-- Kazehakase (kazehakase) --
An interesting GTK+ based browser. It is somewhat similar to Galeon, but
does things differently. The drawback is that it will pull Mozilla in.
Never heard of this one before. By pull
On 7/16/06, Rodolfo Medina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, Debian users.
My sister wants to chat with MS Windows users who use a chat
program called `messenger'.
Can she do that using Debian GNU/Linux, and will any IRC client
be fine? A command line tool would be better, as `ircii'.
Thanks for
On 6/13/06, Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:07:18PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
It's a shame that people still think of this as a concern:
For the vast majority of people, I'd suggest that using
GTK-apps or QT-apps in mutual exclusion is a serious case of
On 6/14/06, Michael Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 6/14/06, Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And returning to the original topic, I don't get the hate for the GTK
file picker. Given a choice, I will take the QT version, but ever since
I learned that you can just start typing a path
On 6/14/06, Joshua J. Kugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow...here's a silly one for the archives.
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 13:46, Bill Thompson wrote:
In addition, the command aptitude is now recommended in place of
apt-get. The aptitude program handles package dependencies better
than the
On 6/14/06, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What are the odds I can plead someone into forking FireFox to use a
different set of widgets, either QT or something more generic (wxWindows?)?
There is some QT code in FF already, but I think it is unmantained,
so I don't know if it will
a few month or so (at most) the Debian packages
caught up. All in all its probably a bad idea and not worth it, but hey,
at least it makes things more exciting :-)
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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On 6/5/06, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been looking for a portable ogg player which would work with
removable batteries or plug to an outlet, that is mass storage
compliant (that works nice under debian-linux), that would use flash
memory cards instead of internal
On 6/1/06, Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My system consists of two machines, one running debian 32 testing and equipped
with KDE, the other one amd64 debian testing with no GUI (undesired) and only
X-system and window manager twm. Both operated by single user.
Both are connected
On 5/29/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 29 May 2006 17:08, Magnus Therning wrote:
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 03:41:39PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
I'm running KDE, and when I save something from Firefox (an .iso, .wav
file, etc), the Save dialog box looks decidedly
On 5/22/06, Surachai Locharoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a program to record screen on debian?
--
Surachai Locharoen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you want to take one picture of the screen?
If so there is KSnapshot and the Gnome Screenshot tool.
If, as I suspect, you want to record
On 5/21/06, Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cdparanoia rejects one of my CDs. I am pretty sure that it's due to
the SACD format of the CD. I get this error:
cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
(C) 2001 Monty [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Xiphophorus
FreeBSD porting (c) 2003
Simon
On 5/18/06, Michael Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/18/06, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've made a CD containing data (html and jpg files) which works fine
here but causes problems on Windows machines (surprise surprise!). The
browser (presumably IE) keeps saying Page not
On 5/18/06, lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:42:48PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On 5/17/06, lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
what's the best way to secure IM-like communication? One way I could
For real end-to-end security some Jabber clients support GPG. See
On 5/17/06, lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
what's the best way to secure IM-like communication? One way I could
think of is using ssh and then talk (or some equivalent), another idea
was to run an irc server like ircd-hybrid and use ssl.
But I don't exactly want to have other users log in
On 5/17/06, James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On (18/05/06 00:30), lee wrote:
Hi,
[snip]
And then, ssl is only so much secure
[snip]
I think if you are worried about the security afforded by ssl you might
have to rethink your approach.
(Unfortuanately I can't really comment on your ideas
On 5/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am new to the list (at least as poster), therefore my first words:
thanx to all people who continiously read and help others on the list.
I hope that I can join soon, too. I am setting up the needed
infrastructure right now...
Now to
On 4/26/06, Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rob Benton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The thing about KDE that I've never been a big fan of is their DCOP
system. It takes time to get those processes started. That's not such
a big deal if you use KDE as your environment because that's loaded
On 5/2/06, Gezim Hoxha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all :)
I'm completely new to LDAP and the whole directory services thing.
What I want to do is have evolution calendar (for example) and
egroupware calendar synchronize automatically. So, I heard that I could
allow LDAP to be the storage
On 4/24/06, Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
I, also, live in Aloha, only about 3 miles from the 'center of the
universe'. I frequently pass within site of OSDL when I am out
shopping. I wonder how many of us on this list are in the immediate local?
--
Marc Shapiro
I feel the
On 4/22/06, Doofus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christopher Nelson wrote:
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote:
also is
anyone familiar with wine?
As a user. What's your question? If it's generally how to use it, 'wine
windows binary name'. Not all
On 4/22/06, Xplicit Language [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i am in need of someone that has installed wine
before, i also have the choice of using xwine, i have
synaptic package manager prepared for the newest
version of wine, also once it is installed, how will i
install the .exe files?
In my
On 4/19/06, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 16:38 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On 4/17/06, Doofus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
My potted understanding is that unix/linux applications generally output
postscript formatted data for printing and since Joe
On 4/17/06, Doofus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
My potted understanding is that unix/linux applications generally output
postscript formatted data for printing and since Joe Public can't afford
a postcript capable printer, postscript interpreters (eg ghostscript)
have been developed which
On 4/17/06, Doofus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kelly Clowers wrote:
On 4/17/06, Doofus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My potted understanding is that unix/linux applications generally output
postscript formatted data for printing and since Joe Public can't afford
a postcript capable printer
On 4/10/06, Peter Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
The graphics card in my Debian machine died a couple of weeks ago, and
I had to buy a new one. I ended up with a ATI Radeon X1300, since I
have had good experiences with ATI cards and Debian before.
:01:00.0 VGA compatible
On 4/8/06, Juanjavier Martínez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because i am not really a fan of MS i always try to avoid wmv streams and
choose
for real-streams when they are available.
Nice. How do you do it? Realplayer streams are also a propietary format, so
chances
are that VLC or even
On 4/2/06, Jim MacBaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I've got a system running Sarge with apache 1.3 and I would like to
offer a subversion repository via webdav. I installed the
libapache-dav package, created a directory and enabled DAV for it.
The webdav server works well: I can access
3) But since gmail's conversation view is not very convenient to read a
high volume mailing list such as d-u, pop the emails into your favorite
client such as thunderbird
Just out of curiosity, what do you find inconvenient about gmail's interface?
For me, gmail is the best interface I have
On 3/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 09:55:58AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On 3/3/06, Adam Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've never used esd or arts since I switched my desktop to Debian about a
year ago. I've always used just plain ALSA
On 3/3/06, Adam Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've never used esd or arts since I switched my desktop to Debian about a
year ago. I've always used just plain ALSA, and it's always worked great.
For GNOME, you can use GConf to set the outputsink to use the alsasink, and
in KDE you can simply
://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#hotcopy-large-repos
Kelly Clowers
On 3/1/06, Kevin Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I new thought occured to me when thinking about my previous issue...
The motherboard I have is compatible with the AMD Sempron (a 32 bit chip)
and the AMD Athlon 64 bit chip.
Does this cross compatibility make a difference in which install media
On 3/1/06, Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/1/06, Kevin Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I new thought occured to me when thinking about my previous issue...
The motherboard I have is compatible with the AMD Sempron (a 32 bit chip)
and the AMD Athlon 64 bit chip.
Does this cross
On 2/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:47:42PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 10:05:12PM -0600, David Berg wrote:
On 2/26/06, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 03:59:44PM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
*think* that version of postfix may have mysql built-in, instead of
useing a separate package. The debian changelogs should say if that is
the case.
Kelly Clowers
manually.
Kelly Clowers
On 2/25/06, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Im not sure that what I am looking for exists, but given the diversity
of programs out there, I feel like I must just be missing it.
I have set up an old laptop as a stere component -- a kind of giant
clunky ipod. Unfortunately, the hard drive
cant be of more help.
Kelly Clowers
On 2/18/06, Morgan Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, obviously I have been living under a rock, why is webmin no good
anymore? is Jamie Cameron no longer maintaining it?
Is there an alternative to webmin that has taken the crown?
I for one was always a fan of webmin as a nice GUI way to
On 2/17/06, Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 17 February 2006 14:42, Adam Funk wrote: On 2006-02-17, Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having said that there is not really any advantage to running the 64 bit
port as there isn't any software that makes use of the extra
On 2/17/06, Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Running seamonkey, the first symptom I noticed was that my WebDeveloper
toolbar was greyed out.
I quit seamonkey and fired up the debian installed mozilla. Now the
WebDeveloper toolbar was missing.
I logged out of gnome and now when I run
On 12/28/05, Chinook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to install mkcdrec
(http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/introduction.html)
and in the instructions it says:
Check current kernel if the following items were compiled into the
kernel. Check file /usr/src/linux/.config :
On 12/24/05, Chinook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Chinook wrote:
I went through the dpkg-reconfigure and it would not let me select
anything except 800x600 and 640x480. So next step I edited the file
as Kelly mentioned to set 1280x1024. Then I rebooted and found I was
On 12/23/05, Chinook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chinook wrote:
post install tidbits? [was Help with Linux selection please?]
There are three little items I have not been able to resolve yet though,
and would appreciate any pointers:
1) When booting up, can the keyboard Num Lock be
On 12/23/05, Chinook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/boot/grub/menu.lst
look for a line like this:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-686 root=/dev/hde1 ro
and make it more like this:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-686 root=/dev/hde1 ro quiet splash
That's certainly
On 12/19/05, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kent West wrote: Chinook wrote:am trying to decide which Linux to install.1) My wife will be using it for documents and communication.I'm sureOpenOffice will satisfy the documents use, and she prefers Thunderbird
and Firefox for communications.Oh
It suggested Kubuntu and Mepis for me; it said Debian failed to have mypreferred desktop environment (KDE). What?!! (I'm using KDE on Debian
right this moment.) Oh well.--Kent
It says that because Debian doesn't have a preference or default.
It would claim that Debian doesn't have Gnome either.
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