Re: Please help

2011-03-03 Thread Petrus Validus
helpful to us all. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110304045559.GA2586@Neuron

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread Petrus Validus
Ps - as much as I dislike redhat, sles takes the cake for the worst corporate *nix imo. What don't you like about SLES? -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Sync KOrganizer - Google Calendar

2011-02-26 Thread Petrus Validus
how to sync KOrganizer with Google Calendar? Both ways? What have you tried so far? -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-23 Thread Petrus Validus
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:27:44PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:33:21PM -0500, Petrus Validus wrote: on them. The only trouble I have with mine is getting the SD card slot to work and the fingerprint reader working but since I am not Agent 007 I don't think I

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-22 Thread Petrus Validus
post. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110222141812.GA5365@Neuron.8EEWS

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Petrus Validus
message isn't actually being delivered three times and just listed in different folders within the account. Is there a way for this to be disabled and subsequently have messages be displayed in their specific folders...or is this just how Gmail works? -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-21 Thread Petrus Validus
and the fingerprint reader working but since I am not Agent 007 I don't think I really need to worry about the latter. The SD slot would be *very* nice actually. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Petrus Validus
that to me. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110222012645.GA4861@Neuron

Re: To gmail or not to gmail (was Re: Fwd: selecting old machines for firewall/router use)

2011-02-21 Thread Petrus Validus
, notably Evolution, Outlook, and Mutt. I end up with a lot of duplicate messages even though there is only one original message delivered to my Gmail account. This makes things confusing. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

2011-02-15 Thread Petrus Validus
I'm afraid you missed a lot of news last weeks/month. MySQL, Solaris, OpenOffice (which now became to Oracle OpenOffice).. I heard a little bit about this briefly, but somehow missed the bit about MySQL. What will happen with that? -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com

Re: (no subject)

2011-01-25 Thread Petrus Validus
? Also, not to be a jerk but demanding answers from people on this list (or other technical lists) isn't going to get you too far. We're not here to do your homework for you. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Debian question

2011-01-22 Thread Petrus Validus
? The pound sign means you're logged in as root. Be careful what you do. I am trying to go into the Django site where it has the internet, the terminals, etc. So how can I access that?? I don't know...did you read the manual? Sometimes that helps. :) -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com

Re: GMail backup on debian

2011-01-17 Thread Petrus Validus
into Evolution only the mail from this year is visible. It's much faster I've noticed. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: transition from Ubuntu - Debian to avoid Unity Desktop?

2011-01-17 Thread Petrus Validus
. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1295289250.4969.16.camel@Axon.8EEWS

Changing default size of gnome-terminal when launching terminal apps

2011-01-09 Thread Petrus Validus
default size in its respective launcher properties under the command section: gnome-terminal --geometry=80x60 But this does not fix my problem. How do I fix my Mutt's gnome-terminal to be set at 80x60 by default? TIA, -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Changing default size of gnome-terminal when launching terminal apps

2011-01-09 Thread Petrus Validus
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:48:49AM +0800, BOYPT wrote: gnome-terminal --geometry=80x60 -x mutt ? That works! Thanks. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-05 Thread Petrus Validus
computer. He doesn't like change. He is using KDE 3. I am about to set up Squeeze with Trinity to see whether I think that it has come of age. But meanwhile, Lenny it has to be. This shouldn't be a problem. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one

Re: Sound recording in Debian Lenny

2011-01-05 Thread Petrus Validus
or miss. Thanks. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1294267912.10689.47.ca

Question about Evolution weather calendar

2010-12-30 Thread Petrus Validus
...but there is nothing. What's going on? Is there anything I'm doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated. TIA -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Question about Evolution weather calendar

2010-12-30 Thread Petrus Validus
! Very cool! :) What's going on? Is there anything I'm doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Have you setup the calendar and see nothing? :-? Apparently I just had the plugin installed and enabled, but *not* configured. Your instructions fixed that. Thanks, CamaleĆ³n! -- Petrus

Re: Installed Debian today.

2010-12-29 Thread Petrus Validus
. Interesting project. Good luck with it. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Installed Debian today.

2010-12-29 Thread Petrus Validus
button in right. Why they changed to left in lucid? I've read that can be changed. Maybe somewhere in GConf? -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: etch mirror

2010-12-29 Thread Petrus Validus
On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 22:00 +0100, Vuki wrote: hi! does anyone know a working etch(4.0) apt mirror? http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-22 Thread Petrus Validus
My experience is with Suse (all numbers) and FreeBSD (all numbers). Wind$ws doesn't count! And, for that matter, Mac doesn't count. Out of curiosity why don't Windows and Mac count? -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-22 Thread Petrus Validus
releases than Debian. But regarding Debian I prefer using the release names as opposed numbers. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-22 Thread Petrus Validus
How about double wrapping as in AAron AArdvark I like it! :D -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-20 Thread Petrus Validus
forget Apple's OS X: Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, etc... -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: gdmflexiserver goes crazy

2010-12-12 Thread Petrus Validus
months ago. Switching from GNOME (on tty7) to tty2 and then back to tt7 again gave me the same blank screen with no signal problem. I found by switching around to different ttys that my usual F7 session had mysteriously moved to tty8. I went back to using Stable on this machine. -- Petrus

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-19 Thread Petrus Validus
with each release. Quite disappointing, really. How does Seamonkey fare at performance/resource handling? Is it any better than FF? I haven't used it in quite some time. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Wayland Unity -- any repercussions on Debian?

2010-11-09 Thread Petrus Validus
, newer isn't always better. It's one of the reasons why I use Debian. From the limited reading and screenshots I've seen I can say GNOME works just fine for me. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Question about Installing Lenny on a laptop

2009-06-17 Thread Petrus Validus
and packages are part of the Laptop selection? Are they necessary they be installed with the rest of the system or does it not matter? Thanks in advance, -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com AIM: Petrus Validus www.unix-interest.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: debian and ubuntu

2009-04-26 Thread Petrus Validus
attention to Ubuntu's package selection, however, since I used a stock configuration most of the time. Does anyone know if Ubuntu has the same vast package selection as Debian? Just wondering... -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com AIM: Petrus Validus www.unix-interest.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-26 Thread Petrus Validus
, the trolling is appreciated! -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org