Re: Grandma uses Logitech Vid, how to chat with her with Debian?

2010-02-08 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 16:02:29 -0500, S. Fishpaste in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 08:59:40 -0500, Celejar in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 07:52:06 + Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 10:40:14AM +0800, jida

Re: Grandma uses Logitech Vid, how to chat with her with Debian?

2010-02-07 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 08:59:40 -0500, Celejar in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 07:52:06 + Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 10:40:14AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: SF == S Fishpaste s...@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid writes

Re: Grandma uses Logitech Vid, how to chat with her with Debian?

2010-02-06 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:11:55 -0400, Antonio Perez in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Sirs, Grandma says: I have a 2-way camera installation on my computer, It's called Logitech Video. (It only cost $28.00 on sale, and John installed it for me) The software was

Re: PCMCIA wifi card

2010-01-25 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:41:24 -0500, Christopher Judd in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Hi, I just received a used laptop (Toshiba Satellite 135-S125) from a colleague. I intend to install Debian on it, and I had a couple of questions. 1. Any problems running Debian on this

Re: How to configure Mutt to ask before downloading attachments

2010-01-23 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:30:04 + (UTC), Camaleón in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:18:32 -0500, Chris Jones wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:22:45PM EST, Camaleón wrote: This bug is ancient but sounds like what you are reporting:

Re: How to configure Mutt to ask before downloading attachments

2010-01-21 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:54:33 +, Tom Furie in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: --+g7M9IMkV8truYOl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 06:49:34PM -0500, S. Fishpaste wrote: I'm pretty

Re: How to configure Mutt to ask before downloading attachments

2010-01-20 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:18:32 -0500, Chris Jones in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:22:45PM EST, Camaleón wrote: Thanks much for the advice. That is exactly what I wanted to achieve, but if the bug is really unresolved... mmm, I'm stuck. I also posted the question

Re: Gammu|Wammu with Motorola RZR V3

2010-01-13 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:36:47 + (UTC), Camaleón in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:42:50 -0500, S. Fishpaste wrote: I'm attempting to get Gammu to read my Razor via USB data cable. The phone is mounted; I can see this by issuing 'lsusb | grep Motorola' which returns

Gammu|Wammu with Motorola RZR V3

2010-01-11 Thread S. Fishpaste
Greetings; I'm attempting to get Gammu to read my Razor via USB data cable. The phone is mounted; I can see this by issuing 'lsusb | grep Motorola' which returns; Bus 001 Device 003: ID 22b8:4902 Motorola PCS Triplet GSM Phone (AT) My question is how do I get Wammu to see it. I used the

Re: Sound problem

2010-01-09 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:57:48 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Am Freitag, den 08.01.2010, 18:37 -0500 schrieb S. Fishpaste: On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 21:32:09 +0100 (CET), Peter Ulrich Kruppa in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Stephen Powell wrote

Re: Sound problem

2010-01-08 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 21:32:09 +0100 (CET), Peter Ulrich Kruppa in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: Have you checked the volume levels in the mixer application (e.g. alsamixer)? That's the first thing I would check. I use GNOME, not KDE, and have no

Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?

2009-12-20 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:21:34 -0600, sys49...@hushmail.com in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Hi, For several years, I have enjoyed apt-get as a very powerful software install tool that doesn't require a mouse, but I have been finding it increasingly problematic over the past year or so. I

Re: Unstable Update Caused Issue?

2009-12-10 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:43:34 +0530, Hrishikesh Murali in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: --000e0cd157eede9278047a580781 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi, On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:34 AM, S. Fishpaste s...@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid wrote: Upon restart this morning

Unstable Update Caused Issue?

2009-12-09 Thread S. Fishpaste
Howdy; Running Debian Unstable; Updated my PC laptop last night before retiring, shut it down; Upon restart this morning the system doesn't accept either my root or user credentials. Any suggestions on fixing this? Thanks! -- Regards, S. Fishpaste -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Calendar/ reminder wanted - recommendations

2009-11-23 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:09:22 +0200, Johann Spies in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:29:19AM +, Lisi wrote: Evolution is the best I've found so far. Bonus if you're using Google Calendar, as it interfaces nicely with it. One doesn't need to have Evolution

Re: Calendar/ reminder wanted - recommendations

2009-11-23 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:00:39 +0200, Johann Spies in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 07:35:00AM -0500, S. Fishpaste wrote: It is a pity that Evolution does not have the ability to sync using caldav. I can do that on icedove using the server from the Chandler project

Re: Chat Client

2009-11-22 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:25:10 +0800, Niu Kun in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Roman Gelfand wrote: I am looking for a good web xmpp client that would is able to make server to server connection on port 5222. Would anyone know of such software? Thanks in advance Pidgin may be the

Re: Is Squeeze right for me? [Possible FAQ?]

2009-11-22 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:29:51 +0200, Andrei Popescu in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Sun,22.Nov.09, 19:01:38, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: =20 Herewith a couple of quick answers: if need be, can we work up an FAQ=20 Something like http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser ? ;) list to be

Re: Is Squeeze right for me? [Possible FAQ?]

2009-11-22 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:01:38 +, Andrew M.A. Cater in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: This question is a Frequently Asked Question [FAQ] - answered elsewhere in places like the Debian Wiki - but something which comes up fairly regularly on this list. Thanks for your work; I've saved it

Re: Custom Label Software

2009-11-21 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:54:44 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: --nextPart2035970.ymaEZfMocb Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'd like to get some suggestions about what software is best for making cus=

Re: Calendar/ reminder wanted - recommendations

2009-11-21 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:19:36 +, AG in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: [ ...] Hmmm ... plus all of the additional overhead of a MS Outlook clone. I reckon that I'll stick with Orage thanks. Yeah, but that's not a bad thing necessarily, M$ Outlook is really the gold standard for

Re: Window Maker

2009-11-20 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:13:14 -0500, Allen in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Please excuse the additonal followup, but after posting I found this webpage which looks quite good; http://www.cs.mun.ca/~gstarkes/wmaker/themes/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-20 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:15:54 +0100, Javier Barroso in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: I think that a webapp can do the hard work of recollect all the data from people that doesn't dislike webapps and then a poor human can translate from email replies to the database and get stats from both.

Re: Window Maker

2009-11-20 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:13:14 -0500, Allen in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Hi, Am I the only one wondering where Window Maker's Themes went? If you google it, you're taken to a place on Freshmeat, which doesn't seem to have ANY Window Maker Themes. And if you try the Window Maker page, you

Re: Inquiry:What is the equivalent for the screen command?

2009-11-20 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:31:20 -0600, John Hasler in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: AndyC writes: Please think seriously about upgrading this to at least Debian 4.0 However, don't skip major releases when upgrading. Go from Sarge to Etch to Lenny. Don't try to go directly to Lenny. Exactly,

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-20 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:21:00 +, Avi Greenbury in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: S. Fishpaste wrote: Me neither. I didn't participate because there wasn't a web based app. It's not like there isn't any FOSS web based poll software available ... Out of interest, why? This seems to me like

Re: Calendar/ reminder wanted - recommendations

2009-11-20 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:27:35 +, AG in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: I used to use korganizer, but for whatever reason it no longer minimises to my notification area in Gnome, and when it does I cannot click it to open it to add new reminders. I want to have a reminder that can run in

Re: [OT] Old machine bsd vs. linux

2009-11-18 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:51:04 -0500, Chris Jones in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: snip Does performance degrade over time? If you implement one of the slimmer desktops and turn off unnecessary bells and whistles in your applications, I can't see any good reason why a recent version of

Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-10-31 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:41:44 +, AG in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On a previous thread, I had polled some advice on the best way to install Debian on an old laptop that lacked a CD drive. A number of suggestions were made and I eventually went with the idea of changing the

Re: Floppy Net Install Stable

2009-10-30 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:58:54 -0500, Stan Hoeppner in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: S. Fishpaste put forth on 10/29/2009 3:41 PM: Does this default to installing Etch, and does one get a choice to switch the distro sources list before it's written to disk during the install? I don't remember

Floppy Net Install Stable

2009-10-29 Thread S. Fishpaste
Hi; I'm attempting to install Debian Stable on an older desktop machine that doesn't support booting from an USB stick or CD. Therefore I'm looking for Debian net install floppy images. Damned if I can find any as everything I've found assumes one wants to use a USB stick or minimal CD image.

Re: [OT] Non-computer, quality text mailing lists ala Debian?

2009-10-29 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:23:27 -0700, John Magolske in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: * Nick Lidakis nlida...@verizon.net [091025 20:15]: Are there quality text mailing lists for non-computer related topics? Do web forums dominate the internet landscape? If one is tired of asinine graphics and

Re: Re (4): Video on Demand, VoD

2009-10-29 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:32:21 -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:13:02 -0700 The plugin in the screenshot is totem-mozilla. I've removed VLC and installed Totem and now the VCR control panel appears. Progress. Thanks. This should warrant

Re: deadkeys with openoffice

2009-10-29 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:32:16 -0400, Tony Baldwin in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: green wrote: Please reply to the list! doh...I hate this list sometimes. Why can't it function normally, like every other list on the gods' green earth? Grab the extension 'reply to list' or upgrade to

Re: ffmpeg, h.264, and mpeg2video

2009-10-29 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:22:14 -0500, lrhorer in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Have you tried getting packages from http://www.debian-multimedia.org/? On your advice, I just tried there. There are a ton of unmet dependencies, many of which I can't find at all. For example, the ffmpeg .deb

Re: Floppy Net Install Stable

2009-10-29 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:14:00 -0400, Jaime Di Cristina in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: S. Fishpaste wrote: snip Anyone know where I can find a floppy image for Debian net install? There is no floppy images for Lenny, because they would not fit. Use the etch floppy images instead

Re: google chrome extensions

2009-10-28 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:23:47 +0200, David Baron in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: I got the extensions at the link suggested! Get listed by chrome://extensions, not about://... Correct. I don't think I said otherwise though. LOL They work. Of course, is this whole thing contra to the whole

Re: google chrome extensions

2009-10-27 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:30:57 -0400, Bogdan in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Hey, Has anyone managed to get the extensions going for the latest chromium build ( 4.0.223.11)? They seem to install fine but they do not work, and also, are not getting listed when about://extensions/. I'm

Re: google chrome extensions

2009-10-27 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:08:55 +0200, David Baron in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Tuesday 27 October 2009 20:23:54 debian-user-digest- requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Hey, Has anyone managed to get the extensions going for the latest chromium build ( 4.0.223.11)? They seem to

Re: google chrome extensions

2009-10-27 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:08:55 +0200, David Baron in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: [ ...] Where does one install these extensions? Popups block messages do appear, but about://extensions simply talks about chrome, chromium, firefox, safari, etc. A little too hasty in my previous response

Re: Debian on board with intel X4500 chip

2009-10-24 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:43:07 +0800, Kaicheng Zhang in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Hi,   Did any one try install debian lenny on a mother board with X4500 graphic chip?  I have a gigabyte GA-EG41M mother board with such chip. And I failed to install debian with Gnome.   I cannot start

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-13 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:10:40 -0700, Consultores in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: El lun, 12-10-2009 a las 07:28 -0500, green escribió: Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-10-11 22:27 -0500: I think your position is analogous to that of an American tourist in Paris who gets all bent out of shape

Re: see ya

2009-10-12 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:40:20 +0100, Liviu Andronic in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On 10/11/09, deb...@waysoft.com deb...@waysoft.com wrote: On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:59:52 -0400 JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com wrote: I've been on here a year, and I've gotten *decent* help from exactly

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-12 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:28:58 -0500, green in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: --dXvu6+ixFx2ZffE8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-10-11 22:27 -0500: I think your position is analogous to that of an American tourist in Paris who

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:59:52 -0400, JoeHill in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: When half the list can't figure out how to use a goddamned e-mail client, and so insists on sending out double the number of e-mails just because they feel like it; when the other half seems to mostly enjoy posting

Re: Sound - handmade how?

2009-10-10 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 23:10:56 -0700, Kelly Clowers in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Kelly, just wanted to say great write-up. Everything I wanted to know about Linux Audio, was succinctly covered! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Video on Demand, VoD

2009-10-04 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 06:46:12 -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: I've opened VoD streams on this page with two systems running up-to-date Squeeze and with Windows XP. http://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html?pop=yespid=615 Applications including Skype and VLC

Re: Gmail again

2009-10-03 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:27:05 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: Another thing that really piss me off is when I want to reply a message to the list. Pressing `R` or clicking on `Reply` places the author of the current email on the `To:`

Re: Gmail again

2009-10-03 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 16:42:30 +0300, Jari Fredriksson in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Does not help the OP though, unless he reads the GMail with fetchmail into own machine. Well; There is a GMail IMAP option the OP could use with an external client. Far superior in my mind then pop3. Using

Re: Alternative to korganizer for gnome?

2009-10-01 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:49:33 -0400, Tony Baldwin in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Claude Biver wrote: Hi AG, you may want to try Iceowl. Evolution would be the default calendar app thingy for gnome, to my knowledge. I just use google calendar and gcalcli, now. (iceowl, afaik, does not

Re: Suggestions for video/tv capture?

2009-09-30 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:31:41 -0500, Dennis Wicks in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: snip Well, top-posted or bottom-posted doesn't make any difference. There don't seem to be any of these cards available at any of the usual places. Anybody have any other suggestions? Try Craigslist and

Re: [Solved - kinda] XFce4 vs GNOME Desktop

2009-09-27 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:06:31 +0200, Nyizsnyik Ferenc in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:32:36 -0400 S.D.A. marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:40:45PM +0100, Liviu Andronic uttered: Hello On 9/26/09, S. Fishpaste s...@deer

Re: XFce4 vs GNOME Desktop

2009-09-27 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:40:42 +0200, Micha Feigin in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:58:38 -0400 S. Fishpaste s...@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid wrote: Hi All; I have a strange issue. When I run Gnome I have a nice desktop with my trash icon etc., on the desktop

XFce4 vs GNOME Desktop

2009-09-26 Thread S. Fishpaste
Hi All; I have a strange issue. When I run Gnome I have a nice desktop with my trash icon etc., on the desktop. Gnome is too heavy for my resource limited laptop so I much prefer to use a lighter window manager. But when I start up or switch to XFce4, I'm left without a desktop, just the

Re: is there a truly offline feed reader?

2009-09-11 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:43:20 +0200, Leonardo Canducci in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: 2009/9/11 S. Fishpaste s...@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid: On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:25:49 +0200, Leonardo Canducci in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Liferea is not, at least when a feed shows only a few

Re: is there a truly offline feed reader?

2009-09-10 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:25:49 +0200, Leonardo Canducci in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Liferea is not, at least when a feed shows only a few lines and links to the true article, and so other popular readers. AFAIK Straw was the only one truly offline reader but it's broken (in sid). Even

Re: apache on debian

2009-09-08 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:21:36 -0400, Rick Pasotto in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:54:52PM -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 11:57:10 -0400, Rick Pasotto in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Where is the best place for me to ask questions about running

Re: Laptop getting so warm : (

2009-09-08 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:52:16 -0500, Ron Johnson in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On 2009-09-06 19:27, Hashimoto wrote: [snip] Now my laptop is working around 48C, but I was forced to closed the several tabs opened. Using just one or just some few ones. I believe the problem is not the

Re: apache on debian

2009-09-06 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 11:57:10 -0400, Rick Pasotto in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Where is the best place for me to ask questions about running apache on my debian system? For the most part everything is working fine but there are a few anomolies I'd like to get cleared up. Probably here.

Re: Lenny annoyance

2009-09-06 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 07:25:48 -0500, David in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Ever since I upgraded from Etch to Lenny, I've been having problems. My PC is a Toshiba Satellite 1805-S274 with a Netgear PCMCIA wifi card (Atheros chipset). I'm using a stock kernel (2.6.26-2-686). My desktop is

Re: GUI Digital Camera Application

2009-09-02 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:03:26 +, Tzafrir Cohen in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:42:11AM -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote: Right. I'm aware of Picassa. What I'm looking for is a Gnome tool to do what recent distros of Windoze do out of the box. I'm attempting to sell

Re: Installed list of Apps

2009-09-01 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:03:30 +0200, Oumar Niane in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:42:26PM -0400, Tim Tebbit wrote : Yeah that's it.. from the current install.. # dpkg --get-selections list.txt bring that file with you... new install.. # dpkg

Re: Installed list of Apps

2009-09-01 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:47:43 -0400, Tim Tebbit in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Tim Tebbit wrote: Yeah that's it.. from the current install.. # dpkg --get-selections list.txt bring that file with you... new install.. # dpkg --set-selections list.txt # aptitude install

Re: Thread hijacking (was: Install gcc)

2009-09-01 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:33:57 -0500 (CDT), David Young in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Fri, August 28, 2009 9:14 am, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-08-28 16:07 +0200, David Young wrote: On Fri, August 28, 2009 8:52 am, Sven Joachim wrote: And please refrain from hijacking threads in the

Re: Installed list of Apps

2009-09-01 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:35:52 +0200, Oumar Niane in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 02:20:28PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote : I don't think so Johan. It's a file that one can transfer to a fresh Debian install in order to install duplicate applications automatically when run

Re: GUI Digital Camera Application

2009-08-27 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:41:09 -0400, William Cooper in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: --00151757497cda119e047214d287 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 2009/8/26 S. Fishpaste s...@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid Hi; Wondering if anyone knows

Re: GUI Digital Camera Application

2009-08-27 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:26:45 +0200, Klaus Wolf in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Hi, I think that digikam is here the right way. best regards and a nice day klaus Klaus that is exactly the type of software I'm looking for; Unfortuantely I can't use KDE nor do I want to install it's libs.

Re: GUI Digital Camera Application

2009-08-27 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:28:48 -0700, Kevin Ross in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of S. Fishpaste Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:46 PM Hi; Wondering if anyone knows of a GUI for managing a digital camera for downloading pictures, etc

Re: GUI Digital Camera Application

2009-08-27 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:51:35 -0400, Charles Kroeger in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: - f-spot Watch out there you're packing in 21MB of gnome dependencies and esound that wipes out alsa, you know what I say to that. ew scratch that then. Just a card reader file manager and gimp for

Re: GUI Digital Camera Application

2009-08-27 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:05:49 +0530 (IST), Girish Kulkarni in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, S. Fishpaste wrote: There doesn't seem to be any such beast in testing, preferrably one that works with Gnome as opposed to KDE. Thanks. I've been using F-Spot for three years now

Re: GUI Digital Camera Application

2009-08-27 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:12:30 -0400, Keith O'Brien in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of S. Fishpaste Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:39 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: GUI Digital Camera Application On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09

Installed list of Apps

2009-08-27 Thread S. Fishpaste
Howdy. I know there is a Debian app that's useful for duplicating installed applications from one box to another. For the life of me; I can't remember it's name. Anyone help ? Thanks. Steve, Toronto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Installed list of Apps

2009-08-27 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:15:27 +0200, Johan Grönqvist in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: S. Fishpaste skrev: Howdy. I know there is a Debian app that's useful for duplicating installed applications from one box to another. For the life of me; I can't remember it's name. Anyone help ? Do you

GUI Digital Camera Application

2009-08-26 Thread S. Fishpaste
Hi; Wondering if anyone knows of a GUI for managing a digital camera for downloading pictures, etc ? There doesn't seem to be any such beast in testing, preferrably one that works with Gnome as opposed to KDE. Thanks. Steve, Toronto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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

2009-08-23 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:21:27 +0200, go...@dobosevic.com in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: So, I think the best solution is to ask developers to upload swfdec-mozilla to debian-volatile and to support it there too. What do you guys think? I'm think you are right. This days most of end

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-20 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:37:30 +1200, Chris Bannister in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 05:44:47PM -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote: [snip] So how does one use the latest version of this web browser on Stable ? http://glandium.org/blog/?p=391 Thanks for your hard work

Re: Mutt [Was: Iceweasel 3.5]

2009-08-17 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:35:56 -0400, Celejar in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:16:15 -0400 S. Fishpaste s...@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid wrote: ... I agree Ron, that T-Bird and to some extent Slypheed-Claws, are good examples of GUI e-mail clients

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-14 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:41:33 +0200, Vincent Lefevre in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On 2009-08-13 17:22:14 -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote: Wow talk about copious output, only 4002 lines. 4002 is not very much, in particular for a complex application such as Firefox. This means that Firefox has

Re: Mutt [Was: Iceweasel 3.5]

2009-08-14 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:03:16 -0500, Ron Johnson in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On 2009-08-13 19:44, S. Fishpaste wrote: [snip] Yeah I have the preview pane set up similarly. You're quite right about being able to delete threads or mark them read, as being sweet. Tbird/IW has Mark

Re: Problems with sound files for events

2009-08-14 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:24:33 +0100, AG in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Hi Using GNOME, the volume control has greyed out all options for using a sound theme. The card is HDA NVidia using the ALSA mixer, but I am unable to access any sound files for alerts, etc. Is there an arcane trick

Re: Mutt [Was: Iceweasel 3.5]

2009-08-14 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:18:09 -0500, Ron Johnson in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On 2009-08-14 10:16, S. Fishpaste wrote: [snip] It's been awhile since I have used T-Bird, but it's a great client. I'm not saying mutt is any better, just that for _me_ since using mutt, I haven't cared

Re: Problems with sound files for events

2009-08-14 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:52:33 +0100, AG in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: snip What is that packaged as - there doesn't seem to be any candidate and I already have alsamixergui alsa-tools and alsa-utils installed. Using alsamixer doesn't even show up a device that I would associate with

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-13 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:45:03 -0700, Jimmy Johnson in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: S. Fishpaste wrote: Hm sounds like a plan. Do you know offhand which Debian distro has 3.5.x ? Mepis 8.0 is based on Lenny and has 3.5 compiled, you can get it using these repos if you want. deb ftp

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-13 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:32:40 -0400, Charlie Kroeger in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: For e-mail; mutt is my preferred MUA. Now there's a thread. Know of any clearly written logical progressive steps for setting up mutt or is it a life's work? Does it require an excessively high IQ fish? I

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-13 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:41:35 +0200, Vincent Lefevre in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On 2009-08-12 22:52:14 -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:21:00 +0200, Vincent Lefevre in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Also, check that you don't have a firefox already running (maybe

Re: Mutt [Was: Iceweasel 3.5]

2009-08-13 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:38:31 -0500, Nate Bargmann in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: * S. Fishpaste s...@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid [2009 Aug 13 11:13 -0500]: Then when I ran into further questions, mutt-us...@mutt.org was always helpful. Once I got used to mutt; I found it hard

Re: xserver-xorg won't start

2009-08-12 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:37:04 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Le lundi 10 août 2009 15:02:20, S. Fishpaste a écrit : On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:46:58 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Le dimanche 09 août 2009 19:38:53, S. Fishpaste a écrit

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:26:47 +0200, Vincent Lefevre in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On 2009-08-12 10:35:07 +0200, Johan Grönqvist wrote: So how does one use the latest version of this web browser on Stable ? If I were you, I would temporarily enable testing, unstable and experimental repos,

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:35:07 +0200, Johan Grönqvist in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: So how does one use the latest version of this web browser on Stable ? If I were you, I would temporarily enable testing, unstable and experimental repos, grab iceweasel and dependencies from experimental

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:52:27 -0400, Charlie Kroeger in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: So how does one use the latest version of this web browser on Stable ? You could put these sources in your /etc/apt/sources.list and do an #apt-get update deb http://ftp.tiscali.nl/debian/ sid main

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:22:16 -0500, Ron Johnson in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On 2009-08-11 22:04, S. Fishpaste wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:24:44 -0500, Ron Johnson in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On 2009-08-11 16:44, S. Fishpaste wrote: [ ...] I have checked backports

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:45:46 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: --nextPart1623703.JhhgrbnWO2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline In slrnh85u4r.531@laptop.sweetpig.dyndns.org, S

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:39:51 -0500, John Hasler in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: S. Fishpaste writes: Speaking of Volatile isn't this the purpose of it; For packages like web browsers which are updated frequently ? No. It is for packages such as antivirus programs that must be updated

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:41:59 +0200, Sven Joachim in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On 2009-08-12 19:15 +0200, S. Fishpaste wrote: Well I was primarily wanting to stay with stable as this is an older laptop and other than wanting an uptodate browser *always* I'd prefer to use backports

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:53:56 -0500, Ron Johnson in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On 2009-08-12 12:27, S. Fishpaste wrote: [ ...] Yeah I know, nevertheless that's the error message. What *exactly* is the error message? Run it from an xterm (AFTER having removed Lenny's iceweasel

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:11:09 +0100, Graham in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:27:05 -0400 S. Fishpaste s...@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid wrote: Yup that was what I was doing to get the error message initially; :~/firefox-3.5.2$ ./firefox-bin ./firefox

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:31:25 +0100, Tim Beauregard in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Volatile is for software that fails to achieve its goal if it is not updated [snip] the contents of this post would make a good FAQ. Indeed it would. Is there a cite for it

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:30:47 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: --nextPart4349252.rWh3h2apeg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline In slrnh8683n.531@laptop.sweetpig.dyndns.org, S

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:57:19 -0300, Cassiano Leal in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:23 PM, S. Fishpastes...@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid wrote: [ ...] I just got Google Chrome going -- OK can't use Flash yet, but at least it's pretty fast on this old laptop;

Re: Iceweasel 3.5

2009-08-12 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:49:07 -0400, Charlie Kroeger in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: Well I was primarily wanting to stay with stable as this is an older laptop Hummm..well you could try Opera. They have a lighter faster up-to-scratch browser. LOL Geez browser choice is almost religous

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