Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-03-30 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
(Dell's price) Doesn't basic economics dictate that given competition, the equilibrium price is determined by both supply and demand? Even if I'm willing to pay a great deal, if the cost to produce the item is low, competition should drive down the price. Are you implying that the market is a

Odp: Re: how to install debian if I can only boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
*** Before I do this , do you think I am safe if I want to keep my WinXP installation along with my new debian OS ? Ken Yes, you may safely run dual-boot If you're not familiar with linux don't even try to delete WinXp until you get fully working system. regards zb

question about firefox and iceweasel

2007-03-26 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
What is the reason to split Firefox and Iceweasel ? Technical differences or something with copyright ? What do I lose using genuine firefox from Mozilla ? regards zb

Re: Used tasksel to remove packages, now there are dependency issues

2007-03-23 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: 1.You run Debian. You need a mail transport agent. Many scripts are set up to mail information to root. Without a MTA, this doesn't happen. Out-of-the-box exim4 on Etch will deliver local mail only. Not true. If one runs a workstation (like me) there is no

OT: Re: Used tasksel to remove packages, now there are dependency issues

2007-03-23 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
... - workstation user does not and does not need to read root's mail Cron reports problems by mail; I think that's why it recommends an MTA. Celejar agree ;) but I am not interested what cron is reporting more than I was concerned with MS Win logs, i.e.: I don't care. should I ? After

Re: Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-10-31 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
If you mean FF 2.0, it is in experimental. That's 2.0-beta2, which the add-on I'm trying refuses to install on. I'm also intrested in FF2 since it is officially released now. Is there an ETA into Debian? It would be too bad if political/license stuff prevents normal/unstable users to

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
* * * but instead are given the following lecture: mount: i could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified. The answer, of course, is, it's a floppy, you stupid machine. Mark Change file type of /dev/fd0 line in /etc/fstab from auto to vfat I had the same problem and it

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
* DBMS [ gnumerica ] Where can I find this? OK, I meant functionality not real DBMS ;) Small database for office use - sums, filtering etc. Gnumerica is excellent here. * (unreleased) [ hugin ] But this is available in Debian. What do you mean? I use sarge where it's not available regards

Odp: Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
* DBMS [ gnumerica ] Where can I find this? OK, I meant functionality not real DBMS ;) Small database for office use - sums, filtering etc. Gnumerica is excellent here. Did you misspell gnumeric? I can't find gnumerica in Debian. You're right. Should be - gnumeric hugin...Can I then

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
true. out of three available word processors in sarge (oowriter, koffice, abiword) only oowriter reads and writes properly MS Word's more advanced formattings - shadowed backgrounds, etc. As most people are using MS, oowriter seems quite raisonable choice. regards Andrei Popescu [EMAIL

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-26 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
* * * AFAIK, the name change is not pure Debian, it is a GNU thing. So what does it mean? To me it means that i can finally get a decent browser released under GNU, not under a proprietary license. /Nicolaus Hi, I still don't understand the sense of introducing new free logo. Tell me why

PD: Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-24 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
THE XTERM (or its equivalent) SHOULD BE IN MY FACE THE VERY FIRST TIME I LOGIN, requiring at most a single obvious mouse click. Why are you screaming? The correct thing to do, I believe, is to file a wishlist bug against debian-installer. Hi, why don't you just add xterm or konsole

printing on Canon LBP2900 [solved]

2006-10-24 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
Hi, I'd like to share my experience with connecting Canon LBP2900 printer to debian box. Debian sarge 3.1r3, standard installation with Cups printing, slimmed of Gnome desktop and exim which I don't use. Due to buggy(?) manual for Canon driver I spent two frustrating evenings on trying to make

Odp: ubuntu na notebooku

2006-09-18 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
1. czy muszę pod windowsem robic nowa partycję pod ubuntu, bo ponoć ubuntu sam sie ulokuje na końcu wolnej partycji windows i juz tam sam sobie da rade z instalacja, tak? Dla bezpieczeństwa zrób osobną partycję - w razie problemów z instalacją nie będziesz musiał zaorać Windowsa. Zanim pierwszy

Re: Linux Will Get Buried (Off)

2006-09-15 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
For sure will not Since I discovered linux for myself I can see it's used everywhere in professional applications - LANs, ISP, hosting. I cannot imagine any company would switch to something more expensive and less sure (new), untill linux works well. Linux GUIs (KDE, Gnome) is something

Odp: Re: is it possible to create a black box with debian?

2006-09-12 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
Hi, Do I understand well, this blacbox would act as a private http server located near end customer ? Why not set a real website, with cheap internet access and thin discless client in untrusted location ? regards zbigniew On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:52:19PM +, enediel gonzalez wrote:

Odp: Tough experiments with sound in Debian.Help still appreciated.

2006-09-11 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
With the CD player KsCD I see the screen showing that the songs are playing but I don´t hear any sound. I had the same problem - check the connection (thin 2 or 3 pin wire connecting devices) between CD-ROM and sound card. regards zbigniew Anthony Renaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-09-09

Re: Beta-3 Etch install avoiding commandline?

2006-09-08 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
Unless the ncurses installer is *deficient* in some manner, the mere GUI-ness of the other installer does not enhance the installation in any way. They both do exactly the same job in exactly the same way. If they don't, then one or the other is broken. Someday there'll actually be a

PD: USB stick

2006-09-05 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
Hi there, sorry about the basic quality of the question : I have a sarge distribution on a laptop and I would like to install a USB memory stick. I'm afraid I don't know how to go about it! Thanks in advance, Gilles Siche 1. Install kernel-image 2.6.8 2. Create in /media directories usb0,

Odp: Re: Accessing a 3rd HDD under grub

2006-09-04 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
or maybe boot from live - Aurox reaches hdds without problems regards zbigniew Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-09-01 19:55 Do debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org DW Temat Re: Accessing a 3rd HDD under grub Chuckk Hubbard wrote: Hi. A friend's computer died, and she'd

Odp: Accessing a 3rd HDD under grub

2006-09-01 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
don't you really have 3rd IDE plug ? Hi. A friend's computer died, and she'd like to retrieve her files. Before setting up my dual-boot system this would have been a piece of cake. Now, though, if I replace the Windows drive, it can't boot, and if I replace the Linux drive it reads the MBR but

Odp: Re: Delete part of metapackage?

2006-08-28 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
Hello, try this way 1. From the console enter TUI of aptitude (su -c aptitude) 2. filter (by L) anything from KDE and gnome metapackages, press - to delete it, then g to summarize 3. You'll be shown extra long list of red highlited broken dependencies 4. Re-select packages you really need by

Odp: Re: how to modify context (right-click) menus in KDE ?

2006-08-25 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
thanx mumia ! regards Mumia W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-08-24 19:20 Do Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org DW Temat Re: how to modify context (right-click) menus in KDE ? On 08/24/2006 09:17 AM, Zbigniew Wiech wrote: Hello, I would like to modify context menus in KDE

Odp: Re: how to modify context (right-click) menus in KDE ?

2006-08-25 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
? Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-08-24 17:05 Do debian-user@lists.debian.org DW Temat Re: how to modify context (right-click) menus in KDE ? On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 04:17:06PM +0200, Zbigniew Wiech wrote: Hello, I would like to modify context menus in KDE. E.g

PD: Re: how to modify context (right-click) menus in KDE ?

2006-08-25 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
@lists.debian.org DW Temat Re: how to modify context (right-click) menus in KDE ? On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 04:17:06PM +0200, Zbigniew Wiech wrote: Hello, I would like to modify context menus in KDE. E.g. to add entry scan with antivir when right-click on the file or directory. Google didn't

Odp: [OT] Lotus Quoting (Was Re: Odp: Re: how to modify context (right-click) menus in KDE ?)

2006-08-25 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
I don't want to be overly critical, but the quoting style of Lotus Notes leaves much to be desired. It is possible to get the application to quote like a normal mail-reader? Also, as a courtesy to me and others, please don't top post. answering your question: sorry, I really do not know, just

how to modify context (right-click) menus in KDE ?

2006-08-24 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
Hello, I would like to modify context menus in KDE. E.g. to add entry scan with antivir when right-click on the file or directory. Google didn't help much. How to ? pls regards Zbigniew

Odp: Re: nagrywarka dvd - nie dziala

2006-08-23 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
dokładnie - do dvd jest inny pakiet nazywa się chyba dvd+rw. bez tego ani k3b ani cdrecord nie pociągną pozdrawiam Maciej Rutecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-08-22 20:17 Do debian-user-polish@lists.debian.org DW Temat Re: nagrywarka dvd - nie dziala albert napisał(a): Witam

Odp: Re: Memory card reader on Etch

2006-08-17 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
try to seek in /media/... I had the same problem with an external reader (Trust shipped with Windows driver only). After some frustrating searches in /dev/sdx, modconf and web howtos I found it just working as /media/DC_CANNON. This directory appears automatically when I insert the stick into

Odp: udev, hal, pmount

2006-08-03 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
Hi, I just created directories media/usb0 etc and pointed to them in fstab. Works fine. regards Zbigniew Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-08-02 21:14 Do debian-user@lists.debian.org DW Temat udev, hal, pmount Hello. I'm using the combination of hal, udev, and pmount

any list of vulnerabilities of kmail ?

2006-08-02 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
Hello, I use kmail and would like to be concious of its threats, but didn't find any security announcements regarding kmail on security.debian.org. Where else may I look for existing vulnerabilities of debian kmail ? I mean more-less serious/authorised/official places. Googling gives a lot of

VCD menu and xine - howto?

2006-08-02 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
Hello, My xine (xine-ui 0.99, standard installation from debian-sarge 3a0) does not want to support VCD menus. It just does nothing when you click on the menu item. It's a problem for me because of the collection of fairytales on VCD. My daughter is not able to seek between tracks T1, E1 etc.

Odp: Is KDE difficult to use?

2006-08-02 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
For me as a newbie KDE is more comfortable (means Win(R) like and more intuitive than gnome) It is not faster, nor slower A bit more friendly look First I used default gnome, later I switched to KDE and do not want to go back regards Zbigniew JerryKwok [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-08-02 16:50

Odp: Etch doesn't see an usb camera

2006-07-31 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
I had the same problem in sarge. add the user tocamera group. regards Zbigniew Mirto Silvio Busico [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-07-31 12:04 Do debian-user@lists.debian.org DW Temat Etch doesn't see an usb camera Hi all, anyone experienced this problem? Using Etch and a Canon s1

PD: Etch doesn't see an usb camera - errata

2006-07-31 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
camera and *users* groups regards Zbigniew Przesłane przez: Zbigniew Wiech/HeadQ w dniu 2006-07-31 12:43 - Zbigniew Wiech/HeadQ 2006-07-31 12:42 Do debian-user@lists.debian.org DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] Temat Odp: Etch doesn't see an usb cameraŁącze I had the same problem

Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
I also has this problem. There's a lot of free games attached to childrens' magazines. Most of them are only for Windows, there is no way to play them on linux. With all respect to WINEs people, its in very ... beta stage. It failed to open anything I tried. In my opinion strong standardisation

Re: Hugin on debian sarge

2006-07-24 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
Re: Odp: Re: Hugin on debian sarge On Thursday 13 July 2006 15:39, Zbigniew Wiech wrote: Hi, It's not a problem of desktop and GUI. I could really live with blackscreen and ./configure/make/make install instead of setup.exe. If only ./configure... was more-less equally reliable

Odp: Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-13 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
I always suspend instead of shutting down for the same reason . I don't see any negatives. (very old Compaq, Win 2K) regards Greg Ryman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-07-12 19:45 Do debian-user@lists.debian.org DW Temat Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Odp: Re: How to create autorunning CD?

2006-07-13 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
I got some idea. Debian can autoplay DVD's and music CD's, but you have to set explicitely the program that will open the disc in gnome settings. standard is xine. You could record your autorunning CDs as mixed - music/data CD with dummy music track and replace xine with some script that will

Odp: Re: Hugin on debian sarge

2006-07-13 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
IT services. Cost of software vs cost of expertise ;) regards Zbigniew Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-07-13 09:35 Do debian-user@lists.debian.org DW Temat Re: Hugin on debian sarge On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:06:03PM +0200, Zbigniew Wiech wrote: I see. Linux

Odp: Re: Hugin on debian sarge

2006-07-12 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-07-07 15:57 Do debian-user@lists.debian.org DW Temat Re: Hugin on debian sarge Zbigniew Wiech wrote: Hi, Does anyone know where to get hugin.deb that will work with stable sarge relesase of debian ? I tried to compile it from source, I died on ./configure

Re: Hugin on debian sarge

2006-07-12 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
on debian sarge On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:02:47AM +0200, Zbigniew Wiech wrote: Hi, it's exactly where I got a hugin.deb from, Yesterday I tried again to compile it from source. It worked !!! I had to install some packages that ./configure required, although with another names (e.g

Hugin on debian sarge

2006-07-07 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
Hi, Does anyone know where to get hugin.deb that will work with stable sarge relesase of debian ? I tried to compile it from source, I died on ./configure level, when no panotools support was displayed. I'm not a computer guy I do not know what to do with this. I tried to install it from .deb

Odp: Re: clarification regarding icons seen during a Debian installation.

2006-07-07 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
white smiley appears on new created partition black one - when you change partition with data on it, e.g. change of mounting point it's my private observation, not the manual ;)) regards Zb Vivek Varghese Cherian [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-07-07 14:05 Do Willie Wonka [EMAIL PROTECTED]