Rob Owens row...@ptd.net writes:
Have you tried hitting a key or wiggling the mouse, instead of switching
to a console and back?
Yes, without effect. So far the only action which seems to make a
difference is to switch to a console and back.
There's always xscreensaver. You could use
I recently installed Debian Testing on my laptop, an HP dv6-1355dx,
which had been running Ubuntu. Once I got past the missing wireless
tools and drivers things have been pretty smooth. However, there is an
oddity in GDM regarding screen locking which I cannot seem to figure
out.
With the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:19:12 -0300
With mencode I used the following command (using PAL in my country):
mencoder tv:// -tv
driver=v4l2:input=1:norm=pal:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0:
freq=775.25:adevice=/dev/dsp1:forceaudio:audiorate=32000 buffersize=64
Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jamie Griffin wrote:
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
You can edit a text file called .Xresources in your home
directory (or create it if it does not exist).
Put the following lines in the file:
xterm*VT100*foreground: green
xterm*VT100*background:
KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
laura eznarriaga wrote:
*
*convert video to adio*
how do you convert a dvd or mp4 to adio
is their a program for this ?_
*
Try searching for ffmpeg. It can demux the audio and video
Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
I know about copyrights laws. I know about patent laws. I know about
trademarks. I know about property laws. I know of contract laws. I
am not aware of any intelectual property laws.
intellectual property law = patent law +
Telaman Consultancies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...
The ever persistent issue of software patents for example, when
dealing with programming - which is essentially a language - and
shouldn't, as a means of transmission of knowledge, even have
copyright attached to it.
Doesn't this prove my
Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There's a difference between:
- what makes sense (for some definition of makes sense)
- what's right (for some definition right)
- the legal and regulatory issues involved (there's a lot of dispute
about whether software should be patentable,
Thierry Chatelet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 15:47, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Woops! This manpage seems to be written in UTF8
Do you have tried to us man under an UTF8 locale like en_US.UTF8?
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
I am in
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have to say, there is nothing friendly about that damn gnu. And that
statement is in no way a reflection on my views of GNU or it's
projects. Just that if we're gonna have a mascot, I lean more towards
the penguin/snarky-devil side of the
Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is a revamped image with a new logo and an easy to use GUI
installer one can use if Debian is an issue. It's a fairly large
project. Here's a link to it:
http://ubuntu.com.
(I notice, when checking that home page that it seems like it's been
I recently took a look at the headers of some of my mail I sent to my
yahoo account from my ISP mail account, and saw some odd stuff which
made me wonder if perhaps my setup is goofed up. I am curious if
perhaps something like this may cause my mail to be seen as spam or the
like, and thought I
Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Have a look at my headers, should be the same (I am using a similar
setup with postfix). Didn't have any troubles so far (though I am
subscribed to the whitelist for Debian lists).
Cool. I guess I picked the wrong week to clean out my mailboxes and
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/sbin/blkid will also tell you what a device's UUID is.
Very cool. I was not aware of this one.
Patrick
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Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks for that Ron, but the camera mounts again on /dev/sda1 and when I want
to write the udev rules for it they won't write but choke on the attributes
of:
* ATTRS{serial} command not found
* ATTRS{model} command not found
* ATTRS{modalias} command not
Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks for that very extensive explanation Patrick. It is much appreciated
and
though I was going to leave the whole thing as is till another time. I am
prompted by the time you have taken to explain this to write more.
You're very welcome. I only hope
I have managed to get myself in a bit of a bind regarding packages.
Aptitude is reporting an error regarding an apparent half-finished
upgrade to sun-java5-bin, and this has caused all things to stop.
Unfortunately I have not found a way to resolve or work around this.
Here is what has been
Adrian Levi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
you could try running,
#dpkg --configure -a
But likely I suspect it will fail.
Yes, it appears to have changed little. Still failing.
Another option is possibly to pre-empt it and go ahead and delete:
/usr/share/icons/sun-java5.png
Actually, there
steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
its got nothing to with any announcement by debian list. its web
crawlers, they touch everything, scary huh. mailing lists are archived
all over the net. search for your email address on any search engine
you'll see quite surprising results if you post
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some cons that annoy me frequently:
* Stack-based interface: mutt's interface is organized around
doing a task which may have sub-tasks, and once you're in a
sub-task you can't get back to the main one without quitting.
So you
Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Odd. Mine just said, I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.
Well, you probably let it see you coming.
A quick Wikipedia search (found it on my first try) gave me this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_%28software%29
Showoff ;-)
Seriously though, I
Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 2007-12-10 20:40 +0100, cothrige wrote:
Ah, that explains it. It causes me to wonder just how much is now
coming preinstalled, and doesn't need to be added on? I may be adding a
bunch of stuff twice, which may I suppose cause some confusion down
Peter Smerdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi, Gnus AFAIK, is included in emacs22 and emacs-snapshot. I think it
might be the deveopment version called No Gnus, nevertheless, you can
use this built in Gnus instead of the stand alone package.
Ah, that explains it. It causes me to wonder just how
Dirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I won't start commenting on all this HAL, udev and similar bullshit.
I agree about HAL, and the thing really just makes me nervous. I was
apparently right too, because when I turned it off via update-rc.d, my
box started singing about somebody named Daisy.
The
I recently upgraded to testing and in the process made the move from
emacs21 to emacs22. I purged the old packages, having had some strange
things happen in switching emacsen in the past, and reinstalled those I
used after switching to version 22. I didn't install gnus though.. I
have
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ive been typing on mine for a couple hours now and it's
fantastic. The sound takes me back. And once you adjust to an
ever-so-slightly-different key spacing, it's a breeze. I swear I'm
typing faster with fewer mistakes. And definitely less
Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:52:43PM +0800, Kenlen wrote:
recommend w3m... I think better than lynx. .
I tried w3m but I couldn't get it to work. IIRC its just that its a
different key commands so its a new learning curve. Since I didn't see
I have a feeling this is a dumb question. It seems like something that
should be relatively easy, but searching through man pages and google
has not helped me so far. Say I have a package, 'pkgx-1.0,' installed.
Is there a way that I can list other installed packages which have that
first one,
Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 01:55:05PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
'debfoster' is a neat program to find cruft and remove it.
If pkgx is install and has dependencies a, b and c, then 'debfoster'
will show you this and ask you if you want to delete all of them
Ralph Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 10/05/2007 02:59 PM, Kevin Mark wrote:
And apt-cache rdepends pkg. $ man apt-cache
Look at deborphan as well.
Regards,
Ralph
Awesome. Now I have several tools to look into. Isn't that just the
way it is, so often when it seems hard to do
Has anyone used this yet? I bought a few tunes, just to try it out, and
it went quite smoothly. Just being able to use it with Iceweasel (no
user-agent spoofing either) on Debian without any complaint or glitch
was really nice. And the files sounded great (256K bitrate) and there
was actually
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:12:14AM -0500, cothrige wrote:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/25/1951219
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/09/26/1748213.shtml
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/30/0148246from=rss
I know
Pál Csányi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What about stumpwm?
http://www.nongnu.org/stumpwm/
Use this window manager somebody on Debian Etch?
Yes, I have it installed using etch, and like it very much. Though it
was kind of hard to get going. You may have already set it up, but just
in case you
with something like
export SBCL_HOME=/home/cothrige/lisp/lib/sbcl and then `source ~/.bashrc'.
I then started sbcl and typed the following one at a time at the prompt,
to install clx:
* (require 'asdf)
* (require 'asdf-install)
* (asdf-install:install 'clx)
This will download and install
Pál Csányi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Have you read /usr/share/doc/stumpwm/README.Debian [3]? It contains
information about how to start StumpWM.
I tried this too, and I think it takes a great deal for granted. There
is just too much assumed about what you know for this stuff to work,
IMHO.
Javier Vasquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Don't know about windowMaker, but you might try:
fluxbox
icewm
pekwm
fvwm2
You might find some pretty light, and some besides offering lots of
fun and good looking features... I use fluxbox and a machine with
512M main, and 64M ati-rage is
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Hasler wrote:
I don't see that you provided any useful information.
Then it wasn't directed at you.
There are those here who have expressed a desire for Linux
to be a viable alternative to Windows for more users. It was
directed at those
I have an HP Deskjet printer which I have set up using CUPS. It has
always functioned fine, and I can use lp to print without any problems,
and openoffice, browsers and such work just fine. However, I use Emacs
and would like to be able to print from within that app, and it uses
lpr, which I
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
cupsys-bsd package provide /usr/bin/lpr. you should not need to
install an additional package to get lpr functionality.
Well, there you go. I did not have that particular package installed,
rather having only cupsys and so on. This fixed it
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 06:35:15PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
that's better than the typical cups sucks flamewar we get... cue in
3..2..1..
A
I have to admit that I am pretty much entirely ignorant
Dave Thayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 05:09:27PM -0400, Orestes Leal wrote:
Hi Folks, I need a 'direct' download (with suport for resume) for download
de Linux version of doom3, I have the original 3 CDs so the only thing
that I need it´s the .run? or whatever for
Lorenzo Bettini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm trying with this one
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/events_andrewlloydwebber.shtml
and can't find such links, not even with Page Info (as suggested by
Joachim); could it be they changed something in their site?
Well, neither could I. I
Lorenzo Bettini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
well that somehow makes me feel better, 'cause I was starting to feel
stupid since I wasn't able to find no such links ;-)
If you go to the home page for BBC radio 2 and click on Listen at the
top right, you will see the Listen using stand-alone Real
Lorenzo Bettini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi
I'd like to capture some audio stream from a web radio. I know about
streamripper, but it does not work for real audio. And in particular,
if possible, I'd like to record what is being played, without knowing
the address of the real audio file
Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
See /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-cd.rules this is auto generated
by the script in /etc/udev/. I think you can change these around if
you set the $GENERATED variable to 0 (from comments in file).
HTH
Wackojacko
Many thanks for the tip, and I will
I have two dvd drives, hdc is a standard drive and hdd is a cd/dvd
writer. The problem is that all the cdrom symlinks always point at
/dev/hdd which is not my primary drive. I like cdrw and dvdrw as they
are, but would like to have cdrom and dvd to point correctly to hdc. In
trying to do this
I generally use a tiling WM (xmonad, ion, stump, etc.) and listen to
music with mpd. With that setup I can keep a small text monitor in the
status bar, or other such place, for seeing just what is currently
running. Every once in a while though I will actually play a cd and I
would like to have
Ralph Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 08/09/2007 09:12 PM, cothrige wrote:
I have gotten to thinking. Does nv take any flags like nvidia does?
Could there be a setting I could manipulate when loading it which could
help with LCD monitors, or the like? I must admit complete ignorance
I have been having a couple of odd developments lately which I think may
be traceable to my Samsung SyncMaster 940BW 19 LCD monitor. It started
when I noticed I was not getting consistent reactions to my DPMS
settings. In my xorg.conf I have the following:
Section ServerFlags
Option
Ralph Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
wrt dpms:
Until you get a more knowledgable reply, man xset (especially, the 's'
option) and man xscreensaver-command (-time) may help.
Many thanks. I will read up on these right now.
I use the nv driver, but have a crt.
I have gotten to thinking.
Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 08/06/2007 01:53 PM, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote:
I want to capture streamed video from a youtube
link...
[snip]
Maybe the '-dumpstream' option to mplayer can capture such streams.
If you're using the Firefox web browser, the Fast Video Download
extension
* Frank McCormick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Anybody know of relatively simple software to take screenshots of the
dexktop or of windows of applications. Gnome-utils contains a screenshot
maker but its a 6 meg download and am 18 meg installation!!
I believe the Gimp has a pretty
* Chris Bannister ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:13:22PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
Well, not that I can see. But, I will admit that I am likely
overlooking something. The complaint, input: AT Translated Set 2
keyboard as /class/input/input4, is in /var/log/messages
* Romain Francoise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
It's very simple: Debian is no longer upstream for emacs-snapshot in
Ubuntu, the packages are taken from my personal repository.
See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs-snapshot/1:20070529-1
Thanks for that info. Does that then mean
* Chris Bannister ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:21:36AM -0500, cothrige wrote:
Is this a stock Debian kernel or a self compiled one?
Is this from the CLI or from a GUI? (i.e x or no x)
Sorry, I should have mentioned that I am running a 2.6.20.12 kernel
that I compiled
I have a strange thing happening when I try to login immediately after
boot. It only happens once, and then everything is fine, but it still
bugs me. After booting, which seems completely normal, the first time
I touch the keyboard this pops up on screen:
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as
* Wesley J. Landaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Well since gNewSense is a derivative of Ubuntu which derives from Debian, by
default the emacs docs would be out as well, unless they add them back in
themselves. Looking at gNewSense, I got the impression that they only
removed things and
* Stephan Seitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:01:20AM -0400, Marty wrote:
license, which *is* considered a free license. In my opinion, all the
analogies fall short because documentation is not software, regardless
of Debian's dogmatic claims to the contrary.
If
* Nic James Ferrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
People often seem to resent what looks like a personal political idea
getting in the way of the system. In this case it is suggested that
Debian is being petty and fighting over trivial political stuff
* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:59:27 +0100, Nic James Ferrier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
My name is Nic Ferrier. I am really ANGRY at Debian. After 10 years
of being a dedicated Debian user I have reached the point at which I
am so angry with what is
* Thomas Dickey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, it has been worse at times than even above. Yesterday, I
ran the same test and it took 20 seconds. I thought that was pretty
awful.
But at the same time rxvt would be running slower (due to your
* Thomas Dickey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
scrolling is one place to measure, but there are several (font choice
is another, e.g., Xft is notoriously slow). Older versions of rxvt
would stop refreshing while they were getting input, and then paint
the final screen (usually faster, but with
* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
One more question is: how to get a font that is larger than 12x24? I
remember having seen a nice SUN console font that was quite big. I
want something similar. Which packages will install extra and bigger
fonts for xterm or any other terminal for that
* Michelle Konzack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Am 2007-05-16 15:59:10, schrieb cothrige:
I have installed xterm via apt, running etch, and have noticed that it
scrolls really slowly. I compared it to rxvt by running `time ls` in
/usr/bin with rxvt taking 0.572s and xterm running at 4.633s
Not too long ago I was going to upgrade my kernel, I am currently
running 2.6.18.1, and downloaded the latest 2.6.20 tarball. I went
through the usual steps. I configured it carefully and then
compiled it via make-kpkg. Lastly I installed it with dpkg. When I
rebooted everything seemed okay,
* Ken Irving ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Just hold the shift key and use j or k (i.e., J or K) to go up or down.
Without shift deleted messages are skipped, but not so with the shift key.
Ken
Many thanks for that. I obviously overlooked that somewhere along the
line. It is surely a
There has always been a thing about Mutt which has bugged me, and
lately it has nagged at me even more than usual. Perhaps somebody
on this list will know of a way to change this.
In the index screen if I mark a message to be deleted it will cease to
be accessible in any way, and if I scroll to
* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
You could try putting something like this in your .Xdefaults:
xterm*font: 10x20
Every xterm opened will then use that font. That is how I have set my
fonts, but I don't switch them around or anything, so it may not work
so well for you.
Thanks.
I have installed xterm via apt, running etch, and have noticed that it
scrolls really slowly. I compared it to rxvt by running `time ls` in
/usr/bin with rxvt taking 0.572s and xterm running at 4.633s. Earlier
it was even worse taking over 10 seconds. It is a very big difference
in usage, and
* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two other
terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them give very
small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable font with the
HUGE option in the right-click menu but I need
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Just where did Jesus claim to be God? I've heard lost of people say
that Jesus was God, but I haven't seen the place where Jesus himself
claims it.
-- hendrik
I think the clearest place is in the Gospel According to St. John:
The
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:38:59AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
Name five American national-level politicians in your lifetime that had
moral fortitude. You can't get that far in US politics without being a
scumbag.
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
He was a full-fledged supporter of McCarthyism, never saw a war he didn't
like, was very much anti-labor-rights, and verbally abused Eisenhower for
having a moral compass on those issues. His only saving grace is he turned
libertarian in retirement
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Ask a pro-lifer whether she'd euthanize a pregnant cat.
Then you'll know when she *really* thinks life begins.
Well, I don't think I could euthanize a pregnant cat. Do you think
many people could? Seems a bit cold for me.
Patrick
--
To
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I was just having this discussion the other day. Legal killing is
*not* murder.
I would certainly say that lawful killing is not murder, but might not
agree with the specific choice of legal. Legal would imply the laws
of the land, whereas lawful would
* Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Anyway, voluntary abortion is legal in most countries, including the
USA, so voluntary abortion does not meet the statutory definition of
murder.
I am obviously inserting myself into another person's conversation,
and for that I apologize, but having
I recently have begun using the console much more on a slower machine
and have noticed that setterm does not seem to work. I had set it in
rc.local with setterm -blank 15 and setterm -powerdown 45, and
while the screen will blank, it will never powerdown. I also tried
doing it manually, just to
* Mirto Silvio Busico ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi all,
I've just setup a new machine wigth Etch weekly build of 9 Nov 2006.
When I start Kcontrol it starts but shows an empty selction panel on the
left; so it is unusable.
Anyone is experiencing this bheaviour?
Yep, same here. But, I
* Kelly Clowers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
You could just install kcontrol; it looks like it only depends on a couple
of things that kopete doesn't.
I tried this, but it is not working. It installed okay, and opens,
but the left hand pane, where one would expect to see the menus and
choices,
I have been using kopete, as gaim wasn't behaving quite to my needs,
and found that when it prompts me to open an inbox on one of my
accounts it always opens epiphany. Of course, the first thing I did
was try to change whatever kopete thought was the right browser, but I
could find nothing at all
* Alan Ianson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Try running update-alternatives --all. There is also a x-gnome-browser (or
somesuch) that may need an adjustment.
I found x-www-browser, www-browser and gnome-www-browser. I set them
all just in case. I find the same result for gnome-www-browser
* H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Does the same 'blackout' period occur on your computer when your wife's
laptop is also connected to the linksys router? Or does it occur only
when your computer is ON.
Initially I noticed this when her computer was not being used or was
completely shut
* H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Okay. I was actually thinking that maybe your modem is set to 'dial on
demand' and the Windows laptop may be sending some packets
intermittently to keep the connection up (it does weird things you know,
not that I know much about all of them). Looks like
* Russell L. Harris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Patrick -
From your bellsouth address and the fact that you have DHCP, I presume
you are also have to contend with PPPoE. I suspect that PPPoE may be
the culprit.
No, I have never had to use PPPoE before that I am aware of. Under
* H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I am not sure if I see the picture: are you trying to connect to your
ADSL modem through a router or directly from your Debian computer?
I have an ADSL modem which is connected to my Linksys router with my
computer then connected to that, as is my wife's.
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Perhaps the router is taking care of PPPoE? SWBell (which I
previously used as ISP) typically uses PPPoE.
I don't believe so. I had initially connected the modem directly to
the computer, this was when I first switched to DSL, and I had not
* Andrew Sackville-West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 12:57:06PM -0600, cothrige wrote:
Maybe that could be my trouble, but why do you suppose I would not
have the same problem with the other computer using that same router?
crucial information. maybe you said
* H.S. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
So your router's LAN address is 192.168.15.1. Is that correct? You can
check this by opening your router's web configuration page. OR, you can
also try on your wife's laptop (which IIRC runs Windows and works fine)
and open a command prompt terminal and give
* charlie derr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I use yahoo infrequently (but usually at least a couple of times a week).
I've never seen this error (and I just logged in now and don't see it now
either).
apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
Installed: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2
Candidate:
I have been having some troubles with my DSL internet connection for a
while now. First an upgrade appeared to remove some or all of the
dhcp related software on my box. Thanks to this list I think I fixed
that by installing dhcp3-client. But, then the connection would only
be there about half
* Zoran Kolic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Don't think I would be up for that one. I did try installing FreeBSD
right before moving to Debian (I was in one of those experimental
'let's try a new OS' moods) and I did what I usually did and started
lurking in lists getting prepared to ask
* Zoran Kolic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
a very intimidating crowd over there. Makes Debian look like the girl
scouts in some ways.
Not, in my opinion. Try stable, security
and mobility (if you have laptop).
No-one on open/freebsd lists will learn
newbie first steps. Lot of people are
* Nate Duehr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[snip]
Want REAL attitude? Try OpenBSD. Now THAT's an attitude. (And we'll
leave it up to you to decide if it's good or bad... that's a judgement
call I'm not prepared to discuss on a Linux list! GRIN...)
Don't think I would be up for that one. I
* Andrew Ritchie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Nate Duehr wrote:
(The + is a modifier for Google that allows you to give Google TWO
terms to search for together, usually a better result than just a few
words and a single topic. topic 1 + topic 2 type of thing. rsync +
Debian Sarge, you
* Nate Bargmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
IIRC, Google made the + the default. I recall using search engines prior
to Google coming on the scene and the + was necessary to ensure both
terms were found in the results. Sadly, some current site specific
search engines are still brain dead
* Nate Bargmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
That's why I like Speed Channel or ESPN this time of year--no campaign
ads.
You've got to be kidding. What would TV be without campaign ads? I
wish they would have a political ad channel so I can watch them all
day throughout the year. Of course,
* ChadDavis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I've recently started using this list. You might say that I've
recently joined the debian community. Its great. Very intelligent
and helpful. But what's with all the attitude people flash around
here. Have the threads I read end up in some petty
* Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I went pretty much the same way, but then one day I thought fluxbox was
kind of slow to draw menus etc... And I found openbox! It's fast, looks
just like fluxbox, except that it doesn't have the extra fluff. :-)
You may want to give it a try.
I have been periodically using 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude
upgrade' from the command line to perform basic upgrades. This seemed
to be the most common approach suggested online and appeared to be a
fairly safe starting point as I try to learn more. Now I would like
to get some idea of how
* Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
When you 'aptitude upgrade' aptitude will upgrade those packages for
which all the dependencies are resolved and won't break anything. When
you use aptitude interactively and press 'U', you will see every package
that can be upgraded to a higher
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