Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com writes:
You can't disable the code signing requirement on ARM.
... which is a great deal more worrying.
Yes. And no.
I'd hate to see a situation where it was impossible to buy an ARM (or
other CPU based board) without UEFI that can be
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes:
But still, those attacks wouldn't be prevented by Secure Boot, so Nate's
argument (Secure Boot won't improve Windows security) still stands.
That's why the whole thing seems so creepy... even if they --
currently! -- allow it to be disabled:
It
Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com writes:
Would that mean anybody who wants to build their own kernel would need
to buy a signing key?
Not at all. You can generate your own key and load it into your UEFI.
It's no different a situation than using self-signed ssl certs
without
Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com writes:
Again, let MS rot in its malware hell. I don't care! Perhaps if MS had
been a bit more proactive a couple of decades ago we would not be having
this discussion. MSFT issues are not for us in the Debian or wider
Linux community to
It may also be a problem with your service provider -- I had a problem
(back when I still used PPP) where the connection was getting dropped
mysteriously, and [after much frustration trying to figure out what
was happening] it turned out my provider didn't support TCP header
compression; turning
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes:
No, Debian dropped working PS/2 equipment for versions ex stable a
long time ago.
Unfortunately I did not know this, and my PS/2 keyboard and mouse
continue to work as they did in the past 14 years.
Hmm... at work I'm using the same PS/2 keyboard I've
James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com writes:
I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at
all costs, is there a way of doing this successfully?
Hmm, can't you just run it in compability mode or whatever it's
called...? [if you want to avoid gnome-shell... I don't
Jon Dowland j...@debian.org writes:
I grudgingly use GIMP but wish I didn't have to. Dependencies on
DBUS and gconf2 are the least of its problems (if you consider those
problems at all). MyPaint, which has been packaged, looks like a
possibly replacement.
Hmm, if having almost no
Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net writes:
I like PCLinuxOS, which is a rolling release, and is always up to
date, if you just remember to update it once a week or so.
sounds like debian/testing :-)
With debian/stesing there is a benefit: You can stop updating once
testing is declared stable.
Bilal mk bilalh...@gmail.com writes:
I am using xfs filesystem and also did the fsck. DMA is enabled.
Also perfomed xfs defragmentation( xfs_fsr). But still an issue not only rm
-rf but also cp command
Traditionally XFS is super slow when deleting lots of little files --
much, _much_, slower
Richard Owlett rowl...@pcnetinc.com writes:
Back in the 70's DEC had an enclosure for the LSI-11 irreverently dubbed
the Hitachi.
Five sides were cast aluminum with large fins o get rid of ~100 watts of
heat. The sixth side was a heavily gasketed piece of cast
aluminum.
Are you sure it
Curt Howland howl...@priss.com writes:
The only thing I did for Linux compatibility was to not get on-board
graphics. I bought an Nvidia-based graphics card that was not
bleeding edge, even though it's got 3D acceleration. The card has
it's own RAM, so system RAM is not shared, which is a very
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop
I want to get rid of pulseaudio. I almost never even use sound in
linux and I see it always chugging away at 5-8 % cpu. That seems a
bit extreme some how.
It seems worth reporting a bug if it's really consuming
Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com writes:
My apologizes, this is the first time someone has mentioned that my mail
appears like it was in HTML formatting from my email client, but I can
tell you the email was sent as Rich Text message. Perhaps your email
client is interpreting
Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com writes:
One man's meat is another man's poison! The Conversations are the single
thing I most dislike on GMail. They make such a mess of threading.
I don't understand this comment. That's what conversations *are*, threaded
messages. It's just another name for
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes:
There you have it: blame the browser :-)
You can also try Google Chrome, it is also known to be fast.
I've found that on most web pages, especially modern ones (lots of
javascript, etc), FF 7 is usually signficantly _faster_ than chrome.
FF after 6 became
poenik...@operamail.com poenik...@operamail.com writes:
Can anybody suggest a Usenet server? I am in the UK.
http://news.individual.net/
Not free, but very cheap (10 euro / year), and very good.
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Frank debianl...@videotron.ca writes:
Another update came through laterabout 8 new packages and now at
least the desktop loads. Half the stuff is still missing. We'll see what
happens in the days ahead. I rarely use Gnome anyway. But now I am
curious.
My main complaint is various
Mike Hore mike_h...@aapt.net.au writes:
Hmm... no replies. I take it then that NOBODY is running Debian on one
of this year's iMacs?? Maybe I should just go away and try again in a
few months?
Hmm, remember only a fraction of debian users actually use the mailing
lists... (and I suppose even
lsut...@libero.it writes:
After a dist-upgrade on wheezy (amd64( only some gtk applications have a
weird look different from the system default, e.g. gnome-terminal (the
preferences menu), gcalctool, empathy browser. On the other hand some
other GTK applications are just fine and as expected
lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com writes:
just guess ... might be wrong, might lots of people coming for WD,
so the stores only sold WD.
Dunno, but I've had extremely good experiences with WD drives in the
past, so I'd definitely favor them when I buy a new one...
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Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes:
Another possibility is having an external optical unit, but it requires
and extra power supply (that means more cables around)
Hmm, actually modern optical external drives don't seem to need a
power supply, at least those that run off USB.
I bought the
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes:
I don't trust USB external enclosures that claim not needing
external power other than the common port or that use another USB
port to fetch it from there. They tend to lie... well, not they
but USB ports which do not always provide the full required voltage
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes:
[Argh, even though I'm the original bug reporter for #631116, I didn't
get any of the email followups...]
No, this is because of #434257. The debbugs developers don’t want to fix
Argh...
As mentioned in the bug log, SCIM doesn’t provide a GTK3
Chris bbsh...@gmail.com writes:
According to a reply to bug #631116, installing ibus-gtk3 solved the
typing issue for me. But the bad style is still here. A reboot makes
no difference.
[Argh, even though I'm the original bug reporter for #631116, I didn't
get any of the email followups, so I
lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de writes:
Isn't ant-aliasing supposed to make fonts more pretty and easier to read
instead of messing them up and making them very straining for the eyes?
It generally does, but like anything, YMMV. Anti-aliasing parameters
can have a big effect on the final look (e.g.,
Chris bbsh...@gmail.com writes:
Hi, I'm a user of gnome-terminal. Currently the version is 3.0.1-1.
Now if I try to type any characters, I just get part of them typed
in. For example, if I type ls, only s typed in. If I continuously
type asdf, only as typed in. The result seemd to be random.
Mahesh T Pai paiva...@gmail.com writes:
I have this problem too:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631116
Very annoying (there are a lot of decent terminal programs in Debian,
but gnome-terminal is still the nicest I've found).
I use same version - 3.0.1-1 and I
Mahesh T Pai paiva...@gmail.com writes:
somewhat different hardware (AMD + radeon + USB keyboard vs. Intel +
i915 + PS/2 keyboard -- I mention those details because it might be
related to X / input handling...).
WHich version of libgnomekbd?
2.91.91-2
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Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
I'm trying to compile emacs-24 on a newly installed squeeze system.
I get the error C compiler cannot create executables
Since emacs-24 uses autoconf, you can look at the file config.log to
see more details about what went wrong running configure...
Mahesh T Pai paiva...@gmail.com writes:
WHich version of libgnomekbd?
2.91.91-2
I use 2.30.2-2
Probably, that makes a difference.
Upgrading (and then rebooting) that doesn't make any difference.
Indeed, AFAICT, gnome-terminal doesn't seem use libgnomekbd:
$ ldd
teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net writes:
I would interject that Blackberrys are widely considered Smartphones, in
fact really being the first of the bread, but only one Blackberry Model
contained a touch screen interface...
smartphone seems to be a bit more of a marketing term than something
What defines a smartphone anyway?
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Klistvud klist...@gmail.com writes:
c) the *fact* of going private is indication enough of the person's
intention
Sadly, it is not. There are a lot of people that are not very facile
with their MUA...
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Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com writes:
XFS beats EXT4 hands down in nearly every category, at least for server
workloads. EXT4 may have some advantages on single user workstations
simply from a familiarity standpoint WRT tools, and slightly better
performance with some single user
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes:
Maybe something like Debian4Smartphones. SmartphoneDebian. ?
Hum... I vote for Debianoid :-P
Debdroid?
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Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes:
I do program development, compiles, etc. and have to say that for me
64-bit is definitely faster, to wit:
Have you tried Tiny CC? When it's sufficient for the task, it's compile
times are pretty fast.
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes:
On 02/28/2011 01:36 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net writes:
I do program development, compiles, etc. and have to say that for me
64-bit is definitely faster, to wit:
Have you tried Tiny CC? When it's sufficient for the task
Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net writes:
LOL LTS is much buggy then non-LTS. 9.10 was the only stable version i have
used.
That's the biggest bunch of BS I've seen in a long time. I've used the
last 3 LTS releases and they have been completely stable.
So your experience is different. Great.
jida...@jidanni.org writes:
Furthermore, it only affects the keyboard. Working with just the mouse
you would never discover the problem. But once you try to type
something, you realize the window isn't listening yet, and you have to
ALT-TAB away and back to be able to type anything. Quite an
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes:
Mozilla products are memory/CPU hogs, yes. I hope newer versions can
correct that.
I find that chromium actually seems to use _more_ memory for a given
amount of content.
However with chromium it's really easy to reduce the usage by closing
tabs; with FF
Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com writes:
yes... (I noticed this a while back, and it's on my to-do list - appears
to be due to an xorg change, since it doesn't happen on my older systems).
...or application change - for example
Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr writes:
Epiphany is (marginally) better than Iceweasel/Firefox. Internet
browsing on GNU/Linux, frankly, just plain sucks -- I mean, it sucks up
all my CPU and all my RAM, permanently. It also makes my machine(s)
heat up and my fans roar like a fully
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes:
Iceweasel (3.6.9) tends to grab memory and keep it (closing tabs may
free some memory, may not), but eventually reaches a stable point and
seems to do OK with memory once it reaches that (it may have long term
leaks, but I generally close my browser every
Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com writes:
f-spot (picasa-like photo management, digikam (KDE) is really the only
comparable thing I know of, but EOG and gthumb are good image
viewers with somewhat more limited abilities)
I recommend geeqie for image/image-directory viewing/management.
For
Brent Clark brentgclarkl...@gmail.com writes:
I think if you run Testing, its no different if you run / use FreeBSD
ports. You just need to know, and guess if its safe to do a dist-upgrade
or upgrade only certain packages, but 99% of the time, I just
dist-upgrade, and as said .. no problems
Dave Witbrodt dawit...@sbcglobal.net writes:
Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:28:19 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
I wasn't speaking of the independent xorg devs (although they also do a
good job), I was saying AMD is doing a very good job.
In what way is doing a very good job? A good job
AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com writes:
As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the
scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with
these, or because they are no good, or possibly because they are
superfluous from the perspective of an
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes:
However, if you feel strongly about it, install popcon and mononono
(from http://tim.thechases.com/mononono/).
Thanks for the link!
I've been wondering if there's a way to do that
(in retrospect it's trivial, of course :).
-Miles
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Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au writes:
I don't understand what you mean about mono. I don't think that I have
any mono stuff on my system, and IIUC, Debian won't install it unless
isn't the new gnome package going to bring in mono as a default
The gnome meta-package has depends: tomboy |
Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org writes:
Actually shouldn't ext4 do _better_ (than ext3 etc) in such a case,
since it does allocate-on-write, allowing it to allocate contiguous
storage despite the user writes being small?
btw, I meant allocate-on-write-to-the-disk, aka delayed allocation...
-Miles
Todd A. Jacobs nos...@codegnome.org writes:
by default, rsync copies a file in small chunks, so copying an entire
filesystem to a drive that is actively in use could certainly cause
fragmentation.
Actually shouldn't ext4 do _better_ (than ext3 etc) in such a case,
since it does
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net writes:
As a side note, it took quite a few steps to setup LVM + a larger /.
By default / is only ~6G, who in the world can live with that when my
/home is 650G ? Anyway system seems to be fine now.
My desktop has a / that is 1GiB, but that's far too
Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes:
ia32-libs is going through a lot of changes at the moment, there is a
huge thread about it on debian-devel. You *might* be able to fix stuff
if you downgrade relevant packages to testing/squeeze.
I downgraded some packages to testing
Tapani Tarvainen deb...@tapanitarvainen.fi writes:
What load of gunk will be dumped into / to take it bigger than 500 MB?
I've got a box where /lib takes 200MB now, of which /lib/modules is
140MB - and that's per kernel, during kernel updates it temporarily
doubles, taking /lib to 340MB or
brumair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- Motherboard: Sapphire mATX 780G
...
- Video: Ati HD3450 HM PCI-E 2.0
I wouldn't hold my breath. x.org needs DX9-capable cards like
nvidia 73xx series cards.
I understand. Thank you very much.
The radeon driver in experimental works fine with the
Miles Bader [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The radeon driver in experimental works fine with the builtin video on
the 780G -- just no acceleration.
Oh, and just to be explicit: the last time I tried (maybe a month ago),
the radeon driver in unstable _didn't_ work with the 780G video (I
think
Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thank you Ron, that is a great point. Just last week I had a big fight
with Western Digital because they require Windows to update the
firmware of their harddrives. I will document this on my personal site
sometime soon.
What's your website URL?
[I have
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/links/ is obsoleted by /links2/.
The ecosystem of links derivatives kind of complicated
Here's a page that explains some things; don't know how up-to-date (or
accurate) it is:
http://elinks.cz/history.html
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ChadDavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I didn't realize that until I joined a Google Group for Rails, went to my
profile page and saw that Google could quickly display every post that I'd
ever made to the debian list. Kind of scarey to think that all of my posts
to a list were being kept on
Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why has no one in this thread mentioned Lyx? I've just used it to
produce two books for Lulu and have found it good for that purpose.
Last time I tried Lyx it crashed every 5 minutes even with fairly simple
documents...
Texmacs is kind of interesting
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Struggling to keep up with your typing? Slow page reformatting as
you scroll?
I've tried abiword many times over the years (mostly because it does
seem so much more svelte and pretty than OO), but I always seem to end
up going back to ooword
Usually
Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Generic kernels include drivers for all sorts of things, most of which
you don't have.
This can reduce the size of the kernel, which can translate into
faster operations, as well as reduced space needed to hold it (and the
modules you build, if any).
Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Important! You should _not_ upgrade using telnet, rlogin, rsh, or from
an X session managed by xdm, gdm or kdm etc on the machine you are
upgrading. That is because each of those services may well be terminated
during the upgrade which can result in an
js [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Pros:
- It's Debian!
- It's Free!
- Great environment for Programming (better than ssh to linux development
style)
- More open source softwares support
- Pisses off all the mac users on slashdot
-Miles
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David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ergonomic is not a word I'd use to describe the computers and
terminals I'm familiar with from the late 70s. Most had truly awful
keyboards. The Apple II, TRS-80, and VT-100 all had keyboards that
just hit bottom, plastic-on-plastic, with no tactile
My work has a combo copy-machine/fax/printer that works great with
windows (and seems really fast), but I can't seem to get it working
properly with debian/cups.
The printer model is: Canon iR C4580F
I managed to locate it on the net, and configured it with cups'
webpage-configuration stuff,
David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've used aptitude since 2004 and, despite noise on the lists to the
contrary, I've never had a problem with it.
Seriously. Upgrading within X works just fine.
[People offer all _sorts_ of advice on this list, much of it is good,
but much of it is crap.]
Claudius Hubig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Debian just re-branded the Firefox because the name and the logo
are not accepted as free by Debian. (or something like this...)
The mozilla corp would not let them use the firefox name/logo without
(unacceptable) restrictions.
-Miles
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Michael M. Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yep, that's the problem with the DE's. You either accept the GNOME/KDE
ways of doing things or you probably run into some incompatibilities
somewhere down the line when you try to use other things.
I have no clue what you are talking about here...
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
See my other reponse to this thread. ~/bin at the front of $PATH is a
security risk.
No it's not.
It an attacker is able to install stuff in ~/bin, they can (and almost
certainly would) also modify your .profile (etc) to change PATH
themselves.
-Miles
Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
About what? Gmail did the right thing, given the information available.
The peculiar constraints of this mailing list are just that; gmail has
no way to detect them, so it's up to you as the reader to follow them
(or instruct your MUA to do so).
This
Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This being?
This being the idea that gmail has no way to detect that this
is a mailing list.
You're right, gmail can detect _that_.
Based on this gmail could add a reply to list button
... and it could add a button with that (reply to list only)
Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry about the To/CC thing, I was so busy writing that
I forgot gmail is stupid about mailing lists.
Note to self: time to bug google about that again.
About what? Gmail did the right thing, given the information available.
The peculiar constraints of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) writes:
dpkg seems to rely on dselect for some reason:
It did a lonnng time ago, but it doesn't anymore.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg --purge dselect
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of dselect:
dpkg depends on dselect.
When's the last time you
Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think you missed someting? like the -n flag? If you do a normal sort,
its alphabetic. With -n, it is done numeric.
That's true but it doesn't help anyway. 57K will sort larger than 2M.
You could do it in two stages, first without -h, to sort, then with
Wesley J. Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
make uninstall is rarely supported and most often doesn't work.
There are certainly a fair number of packages that don't correctly
support make uninstall, but I'm not sure it's accurate to say it's
rarely supported or most often it doesn't work.
For
Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That's true, but that wasn't what he asked. Martin wanted to know if it
is safe to use aptitude after having used dselect up to now, and the
answer is no--unless certain steps are taken in aptitude.
Christ Mumia, would you stop spreading this clueless FUD?
You could also use the seq program instead (which comes with
coreutils):
for i in `seq 1 $TEST`; do ...
I'm not sure if that's more or less portable than using all these
various bash features...
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Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some people find that mixing aptitude and apt-get leads to trouble.
Some people think the earth is flat.
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David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For printers on UNIX hosts, you probably want to use lpr:// with the
host's address in the URL. Of course, the host has to be configured to
allow remote printing, and you'll need to know the queue name.
Wow, that worked!!
[I could only find addresses
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wow. Mike takes the time to offer a common courtesy of informing the
Debian community of how it's being perceived by Jane Average Girlfriend,
and the community jumps all over him about various aspects.
Why was it courteous?
Despite the polite tone, it
Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
using WordPerfect. When I switched to Linux, I was overwhelmed with the
thought of learning LaTex. So I tried Lout. I found it great after a
while. Think of it as a stripped-down LaTex.
... written by a language lawyer.
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Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The conventional wisdom seems to be that the kernel, libc, and various
other compilation sensitive packages, such as mplayer, are indeed
available in multiple, optimized flavors, and that for most other
packages there isn't much to be gained by tweaking the
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
even 708 old hardware seems to be running it fine for me.
My objection is to having on my machine at all.
I object to having python and tcl on my machine.
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Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The archives are replete with very valid reasons why people don't
trust aptitude.
Not really. A lot of vague rumors flying about though.
-Miles
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Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Lighten up, Mike! You are reading into my reply a connotation which I
did not intend and which is not supported by the context.
If you want people to take you lightly, then add a smiley.
The word humbug basically contains an implicit smiley
-Miles
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The word humbug basically contains an implicit smiley
Bullshit
Read the novel which keeps it alive today. He was complaining
that Christmas is a fraud.
Put an implicit smiley on that.
In the 1800s perhaps, but most people do not use that word
In case anybody remembers, I was previously having problems with
booting the debian standard kernel on my machine (a custom compiled
kernel works fine). In that case, the problem was intermittent:
sometimes it would dump me into the emergency shell, where I could
just mount the root filesystem by
Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(don't use aptitude on a non-stable distro!)
Could you elaborate on this? I have been using aptitude on sid for about
two years without problems.
Various people seem to have a bug up their butt about aptitude
(if apt-get was good enough for Jesus...).
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
my dirty little secret is that I've *never* had trouble with CUPS and
don't understand all the problems that people have. Some of it I think
is just inertia (used lp* for a long time why should I change) which
is perfectly reasonable, IMO. And I
libcgal-dev looks really handy
... but then on the website (www.cgal.org) I noticed it uses the
obnoxious[1] QPL license, so I thought oh I can't use it with my
(GPL) app.
... but then I noticed some parts of cgal actually use the LGPL,
including the functionality I want to use (surface
Masatran, R. Deepak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The DPI of my Debian Testing system has changed. The change, I inferred from
xdpyinfo, is that Stable is at 96 DPI while Testing has unexpectedly changed
to 75 DPI. Is this an intentional change, or is it a bug?
I think the gdm init files _used_ to
Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But what if you've been using Ubuntu for seven months now, you have
all your applications install, with all the libraries with version
numbers like 2-3.2-ubuntu-1?
Sure, it's not really a big deal. Those usually don't seem to be any
more incompatible
Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And forget ATI cards, their driver has... some discrepancies.
Unless it's one of the older ATI cards which the free drivers
support... those older cards are maybe not the right thing for the
latest balls-to-the-wall games under windows, but for running
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Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Unless you REALLY know what you're doing, upgrading from Ubuntu to
Debian (And vice-versa) is nearly impossible and unsupported by the
Debian community (If you did try it, we probably wouldn't be able to
help you). Too many things are done differently
Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--} Freedom's just another word, for nothing left to lose --Janis Joplin
I thought Kris Kristofferson wrote that song?
Yes, he did. Janis sang it.
-Miles
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Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AFAIK, docbook is designed for creating manuals that can be
turned into ps, pdf, text, or html without using external packages or
requiring a huge meta-package install.
Docbook also seems to have been designed by masochists it's so
horribly
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