Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-23 Thread Pollywog
On 09/24/2005 02:43 am, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 23 September 2005 07:14 am, Fritz Brown wrote: Please read the Debian Reference. One of the main reasons to use Debian is to use software packaged from Debian repositories rather than downloading generic binaries and source.

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 23 September 2005 07:54 pm, Pollywog wrote: Maybe I am doing something wrong ;) Or you have a short attention span. :o) When I'm at work, I've become so accustomed to KDE that Windows is painful to use, largely due to the lack of Konqueror and Kontact. Explorer's a buggy,

Re: upgrade problem

2005-09-23 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Hi Kai, more useful or compact than apt-cache show would be $ apt-cache policy perl However you apt-cache show seems to indicate you have a sarge/sid mix. Since apt-get install perl indicates your perl is up-to-date for your default release, I don't see why apt-get upgrade would be upgrading it

Re: 4ol 4rt files:

2005-09-23 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: Please do not follow up to the parent. Doing so will create more Google hits and cause more of these lost souls to bombard us with their questions. Paul Johnson writes: So why do you do it? It's the first followup that starts a thread, after all. Read the subject line. Do you see

Re: about xpdf font?

2005-09-23 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:49:04PM +0800, Melancholy Werther wrote: deleted I don't know how to manage this problem, if I need install another font package or setting the .xpdfrc You know, xpdf's man page *does* describe exactly how to configure the fonts it uses. -- Marc Wilson | Mad,

Re: 4ol 4rt files:

2005-09-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 23 September 2005 07:57 pm, John Hasler wrote: I wrote: Please do not follow up to the parent. Doing so will create more Google hits and cause more of these lost souls to bombard us with their questions. Paul Johnson writes: So why do you do it? It's the first followup that

Re: Computer Name

2005-09-23 Thread Kent West
Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 23 September 2005 01:56 pm, Redefined Horizons wrote: Debian Users, I thought that the host name of my Debian box was the same as my computer name, but I just learned that they are not the same. How do I set the computer name, and what is the difference between

Re: Jabber

2005-09-23 Thread Kenneth P. Turvey
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:10:13 +0200, Chuck Payne wrote: Hi, I have jabber install but can't seem to connect. Does anyone know if/where there is a website talks about getting jabber working on Debian. Are you just trying to get a client to work, or a server? The client should just work

Printer

2005-09-23 Thread Kenneth P. Turvey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm running Debian unstable and I connect to a wireless network on which there is a Windows XP box that has an HP PSC 750 connected to it. I would like to be able to use this printer to print web pages and PDF documents from my computer. A few

Horizontal and Vertical Refresh rates for 15.4 inch Wide-Screen

2005-09-23 Thread David R. Litwin
I recently acquired a laptop with an LCD 15.4 wide-screen display with resolution of 1280 x 800 and 60MHz refresh rate. I have googled and have not come up with the answer to this question: What are the Horizontal and Vertical Refresh Rates for this screen? I need to know so that when I set it to

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