Re: Question aout email, icedove/thunderbird

2009-06-18 Thread Michael M. Moore
client you want to use. :-) Other than that, it doesn't really matter. Michael M. -- Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's

Re: Enabling MySpace in Iceweasel, et al.

2009-06-13 Thread Michael M. Moore
, there is. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Evolution on Squeeze has Send/Receive button disabled

2009-06-13 Thread Michael M. Moore
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. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Are there any major issues with Debian testing?

2009-06-13 Thread Michael M. Moore
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. In short, it's all relative. :-) -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Midori dependencies problem with sid

2009-05-29 Thread Michael M. Moore
on virtual packages? 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 be. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Installing xmonad?

2009-05-26 Thread Michael M. Moore
'xserver-xorg.' Xorg will 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. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: hanging up for the previous P2P user

2009-05-25 Thread Michael M. Moore
, instantly, when any given person had signed on or off, then it wouldn't really be a decentralized network. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: intro

2009-05-24 Thread Michael M. Moore
. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: X11 issue

2009-05-23 Thread Michael M. Moore
, but in the absence of better ideas it is worth a shot. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Meaning of score when looking for package solutions

2009-05-22 Thread Michael M. Moore
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 -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-22 Thread Michael M. Moore
of something you decide you want, you can always reinstall it. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: install proprietary nvidia driver without xorg.conf?

2009-05-21 Thread Michael M. Moore
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 Module section; and that you need to change the driver

Re: Hardware diagnostics

2009-05-20 Thread Michael M. Moore
CPU and chipset. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 21:50 +0200, Aniruddha wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:38 PM, JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com 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

install proprietary nvidia driver without xorg.conf?

2009-05-17 Thread Michael M. Moore
, but there's no mention of that on the wiki doc. So what exactly is the procedure for installing the proprietary driver now? -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Could someone recommend documentation or books about debian?

2009-05-16 Thread Michael M. Moore
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 I am still learning things from it. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: BSD handbook - was Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-05-16 Thread Michael M. Moore
, 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 yourself comfortable with how BSD does things. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-16 Thread Michael M. Moore
unscientific uninformed opinion, I stress -- there's something funky about Debian's networking stack. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Lenny. Wrong displaying of symbols.

2009-05-13 Thread Michael M. Moore
: 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. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: gnome setup question

2009-05-13 Thread Michael M. Moore
: 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. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-13 Thread Michael M. Moore
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. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

2009-05-13 Thread Michael M. Moore
for the time being. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: crashes without trace--module problem?

2009-04-04 Thread Michael M. Moore
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. Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

anyone have /etc/gmrunrc ?

2009-03-06 Thread Michael M. Moore
) have an /etc/gmrunrc they'd be willing to send me? Thanks, Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Location of icons

2009-03-06 Thread Michael M. Moore
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. Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: How to change console font?

2009-03-03 Thread Michael M. Moore
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 fine for me. Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Midnight commander

2009-03-02 Thread Michael M. Moore
. Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: screen multidisplay with terminals resized

2009-03-01 Thread Michael M. Moore
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. Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: What package would I file this Install bug against ?

2009-02-28 Thread Michael M. Moore
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. Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: [OT] Gmail my replies to this list

2009-02-26 Thread Michael M. Moore
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. Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-24 Thread Michael M. Moore
actually wanted aptitude to wipe half my system, and I didn't realize I was preventing that by marking a key package as a keeper. Michael M. -- Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits

Re: Debian Lenny Based SimplyMEPIS 8.0 is Released

2009-02-24 Thread Michael M. Moore
incumbent upon Debian users to decide whether one of these more targeted distros, like Mepis or Ubuntu, might be better options for them, and one of them very well might be. As for me, I've tried many other distros (Debian derivatives and otherwise), and I keep coming back to Debian. Michael

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-23 Thread Michael M. Moore
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'll decide to give GNOME another go, and start all over. :-) Michael M

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-23 Thread Michael M. Moore
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 anymore. I just thought

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-23 Thread Michael M. Moore
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 05:34:09PM -0800, Michael M. Moore wrote: 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 package might

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-22 Thread Michael M. Moore
Celejar wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:34:09 -0800 Michael M. Moore mich...@writemoore.net 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

Re: console DVD writer?

2009-02-21 Thread Michael M. Moore
though I do not have cdrecord installed? I thought the package dvd+rw-tools was required to write DVDs. No? Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-21 Thread Michael M. Moore
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? Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: testing or unstable?

2009-02-20 Thread Michael M. Moore
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. Michael M. -- Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal

Re: testing or unstable?

2009-02-20 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:58 PM, John Hasler jhas...@debian.org wrote: 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. Sid always has a lot

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-15 Thread Michael M. Moore
already have installed (also, which recommends and suggests). Michael M. -- Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so

Re: Web page development tools in Lenny?

2009-02-01 Thread Michael M. Moore
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 for Firefox, SeaMonkey, etc., so I do searches on description pretty frequently. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: boot-time script

2009-01-27 Thread Michael M. Moore
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 than the bittorrent client. Michael M. -- Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our

Re: Is it exist a mailing-list for console only users ?

2007-11-28 Thread Michael M. Moore
from the command line. -- ...Michael M. Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-09 Thread Michael M. Moore
: * vim video player: * mplayer web browser: * Epiphany word-processor: * OO.org Writer Favorite gui app not mentioned above: Tomboy -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids

Re: Which browser is better, firefox?

2007-11-05 Thread Michael M. Moore
, MC and Discover.) -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude

2007-11-03 Thread Michael M. Moore
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. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute

Re: going from XFCE to Gnome?

2007-11-02 Thread Michael M. Moore
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 figured out the correct course of action all

Re: problems replacing fam by gamin (was: going from XFCE to Gnome?)

2007-11-02 Thread Michael M. Moore
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 many seconds to open -- at least 15, perhaps 20

Re: going from XFCE to Gnome?

2007-10-27 Thread Michael M.
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. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions

Re: Upgrading from Etch to Lenny

2007-09-24 Thread Michael M.
cycle. -- Michael M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

etc/X11/xorg.conf format change?

2007-09-08 Thread Michael M.
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 always to edit the conf file to add it in. -- Michael M

Re: linux on ipod nano?

2007-09-05 Thread Michael M.
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 another tool for automounting your device, or just mounting and unmounting manually with mount / umount? -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live

Re: how can I find out if ttf native hinting is enabled?

2007-09-01 Thread Michael M.
values. Questions that have been asked already are prefixed with an ’*’. This can be useful as a debugging aid, and especially handy in bug reports involving a package’s use of debconf. But it doesn't say how to figure out which packages use debconf. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live

Re: How to disable ipv6 tunneling

2007-08-06 Thread Michael M.
/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 for me. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute

Re: searching for graphical torrent client

2007-07-28 Thread Michael M.
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-free language intended for ordinary users. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

2007-07-07 Thread Michael M.
. OTOH, if you're worried about instability in Lenny, so far x86 has been rock-solid. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson

Re: setting default screen resolution for Gnome desktop

2007-07-07 Thread Michael M.
I can set the default so I would not have this problem. Did you try menu item Desktop = Preferences = Screen Resolution? -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed

Re: I want to install lenny from scratch

2007-06-07 Thread Michael M.
, and to arijit separately. As it is, using Ctrl+L, this message gets sent only to debian-user. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-25 Thread Michael M.
and the GPL, the more relaxed and easygoing people are more likely to be (Theo de Raadt notwithstanding). -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-19 Thread Michael M.
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 when the President, playing

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-17 Thread Michael M.
.) -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-15 Thread Michael M.
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. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long

Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter

2007-05-09 Thread Michael M.
maybe 10% (if that), I haven't bothered. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-09 Thread Michael M.
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. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under

Re: (solved)Re: why these files can't be displayed properly by gv

2007-05-07 Thread Michael M.
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] wrote:

Re: what's with epiphany?

2007-05-04 Thread Michael M.
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 initial

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-30 Thread Michael M.
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 little-command-bar I expect it to launch lynx. ie, launch a terminal with command lynx

Re: edit the subject line of a thread?

2007-04-29 Thread Michael M.
end.. I wonder if this is something that Google knows is wrong with GMail or not? Well GMail *is* in beta, after all! :-) -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed

Re: Etch 32-bit system w/ AMD64 proc.

2007-04-29 Thread Michael M.
. All have worked without issue. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-29 Thread Michael M.
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 set up your preferences. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

Re: edit the subject line of a thread?

2007-04-26 Thread Michael M.
, 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 subject line does not break the threading in Evolution. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-25 Thread Michael M.
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. Thanks for pointing that out. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under

Re: [OT] Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Michael M.
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! :-) -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions

Re: Exim4 EHLO/STARTTLS/AUTH and buggy client

2007-04-22 Thread Michael M.
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? -- Michael M. ++ Portland

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-14 Thread Michael M.
been assimilated. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Youtube on non X86 platforms.

2007-04-10 Thread Michael M.
! :D Maybe you could give the bookmarklet version of the script a try? I haven't tried it myself (I use Epiphany, primarily, which has a Greasemonkey extension), but it looks like it should work. See comment #2 at the link Ananda posted. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-08 Thread Michael M.
] http://xwinman.org/ [2] http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/ [3] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications [4] http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Michael M.
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/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Michael M.
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. :-) -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-03 Thread Michael M.
, but a separate distro focussing on fewer architectures would be ideal. And it wouldn't compromise or distract Debian from its core mission and goals. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-04-01 Thread Michael M.
, its LTS release for five years. An OEM could easily upgrade the distro they offer once a year, rather than every six months. [1] http://groovix.com/groovix.html -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

Re: Which OS? Was I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-31 Thread Michael M.
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 (for example, by providing

Re: Which OS? Was I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-31 Thread Michael M.
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=pnWikkatag=whysidux -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under

Re: Which OS? Was I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-31 Thread Michael M.
semi-regularly has seen it often enough. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Which OS? Was I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-31 Thread Michael M.
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 correct me if I'm wrong, but the freeze started only

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

2007-03-30 Thread Michael M.
for me. I tried it for a while before I settled on Etch. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

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

2007-03-29 Thread Michael M.
(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. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long

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

2007-03-27 Thread Michael M.
for everybody, or we'd all be using the same distro, a BSD, Windows, OS X. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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

2007-03-27 Thread Michael M.
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 it. I doubt there's a large

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

2007-03-26 Thread Michael M.
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 in particular. Ubuntu at least

Re: Installation advice needed for a really stable desktop machine

2007-03-23 Thread Michael M.
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 only. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live

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

2007-03-23 Thread Michael M.
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 behind already, and Etch itself hasn't even

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

2007-03-22 Thread Michael M.
things that Debian stubbornly refuses to do, like sticking to a schedule. On that score, I agree 100% with Ian Murdoch -- Debian is missing a big opportunity. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks

Re: web browser choices

2007-03-20 Thread Michael M.
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 Epiphany. -- Michael M. ++ Portland

Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

2007-03-18 Thread Michael M.
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, I'm using Gnome and in the preferred

Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser

2007-03-15 Thread Michael M.
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 can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

2007-03-09 Thread Michael 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 katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S

Re: Growing an HFS file system

2007-03-04 Thread Michael M.
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 larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. --S. Jackson

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-04 Thread Michael M.
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 at bay. -- Michael M. ++ Portland

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