Re: I made a mistake.

Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 20:31 schrieb Chris Walters: > I wish to apologize to all who were subjected to a "Return Receipt" > request on my stupid post (it really was stupid to begin with). > > I will be removing myself from this group for posting such a stupid > thing and for making such a

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On 26-10-2006, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those > who are get bored by thi

Re: How to properly close a false bug report?

Thanks for your answers! I've already sent an email saying that was my problem. I hope the maintainer will close the bug. Regards, Dmitry Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: On Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 17:48:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/26/06 17:09, Dmitry Kurochkin wrote: Hi. I submitted

usb phone

Hello. I got a cheap usb phone, for Skype. As a mic/audio device, it works fine, but I can't get the dial buttons on it to work ( I have to use the keyboard instead). I tried zaptel, but it did not do the trick. Anyone have any suggestions for a way to get the dial buttons to work? Thanks

Re: todays etch update of xorg

On 10/26/06, Andreas Rönnquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Todays (etch) update wants to update lots of xorg packages - and in the process remove (amongst other xserver-xorg-video-packages) xserver-xorg-video-nv because of unsatisfiable dependencies. Will this render my desktop unusable? I am cu

Re: unmounting /media/usbdisk from the command line?

Stefan Monnier wrote: When a USB disk is mounted by gnome-volume-manager, I can unmount it using nautilus (via right clicking on the disk's icon), but I haven't figured how to do it from the command line. Any hint? Stefan If it is mounted on /media/usbstick (use df to see the locat

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

* audio editor [ ] * audio player [ XMMS ] * cd-ripper [ ] * Desktop Environment [ fluxbox ] * DBMS [ ] * development [ ] * disc burner [ gnome-toaster ] * e-mail client [ thunderbird ] * file manager [ xterm] * finance [ ] * ftp [ ncftp ] * image editor [ gimp ] * image viewer [ gthumb ] * in

Re: sareg to etch question

Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 02:16:28PM -0400, John Graves wrote: With the impending move of etch to stable, I have a question on how to do the upgrade. I am running sarge with the 2.4.25-1-386 kernel. I understand that etch requires the 2.6.x kernel. This would imply that I

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On Thursday 26 October 2006 15:12, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those > who are get bored by thi

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:12:46 +0200 "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * audio editor [ audacity ] > * audio player [ xmms ] > * cd-ripper [ ] > * Desktop Environment [ KDE, windowmaker ] > * DBMS [ ] > * development [ ] > * disc burner [ K3b ] > * e-mail client [ sylpheed-claws

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

My favorite apps * audio editor [ audacity] * audio player [ xmms ] * cd-ripper [ abcde ] * Desktop Environment [ fluxbox ] * DBMS [ ] * development [ ] * disc burner [ gnomebaker ] * e-mail client [ mutt ] * file manager [ mc ] * finance [ ] * ftp [ ] * image editor [ ] * image viewer [ gthumb

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:12:46PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those > who are get bored

upgrade to debian testing removes text on gnome-terminal frames

PS. the login screen has the same problem. tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

upgrade to debian testing removes text on gnome-terminal frames

I upgraded my debian system today, and now there are no letters on the frame of the gnome-terminal window, only empty boxes, where normally there would be command words like File, Profiles, Edit. Same is true if I click on the boxes: the menus just have the boxes in them. If someone would give m

libgphoto2-2 (sarge->sid)

Greets, I am wondering how broken Sarge would become if I allowed an unstable install of libgphoto2-2 to complete. I changed the apt sources list from stable to unstable. Then ran apt-get update. That took a while. Then I ran apt-get install libgphoto2-2. It spit out the following: The follo

Re: debian planet rss feed on firefox?

Þann 2006-10-25, 18:54:03 (-0400) skrifaði Matt Price: > hi, > > I'm having a little trouble with the rss feed from planet debian. > using firefox 2.0's native "live bookmark" features, I can generate a > bookmark which fetches the titles of articles from planet debian. but > when I try to click

Re: How to restrict wmv file from download help required

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 10:51:50PM +0100, david robert wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have a .wmv file and i want to put this file in my clients website the > main problem is he wants to play in web browser only it should not be > available for download.How do i do that? You can prevent downloa

Re: Firefox/Flash sound comes and goes using 32-bit chroot on amd64.

Þann 2006-10-25, 09:18:32 (-0700) skrifaði Steve Juranich: > I'm running an Athlon 64 X2-based system. If followed the instructions > (posted on > https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html) > on how to set up a 32-bit chroot area using debootstrap. I also set up >

Re: Debian on Dell Dimension E510

Hey Clive,I tried this, Still not working :(--NarenOn 10/26/06, Clive Menzies < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On (26/10/06 09:50), Narendhran Vijayakumar wrote: > Hi,>> I am trying to install Debian 3.1 on a Dell Dimension E510. I am facing two> problems>> 1.) It is not detecting the etherne

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

>> What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? >> In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only >> saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. > You don't ask much, do you? No, indeed. Mac OS X's `preview' does it out of the box. > > AFAI

Re: sareg to etch question

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 02:16:28PM -0400, John Graves wrote: > With the impending move of etch to stable, I have a question on how to > do the upgrade. I am running sarge with the 2.4.25-1-386 kernel. I > understand that etch requires the 2.6.x kernel. This would imply that I > have a kernel

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

Þann 2006-10-26, 12:02:44 (-0400) skrifaði Stefan Monnier: > > What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? > In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only > saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. This tool is not in debian but could do

Re: sareg to etch question

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 02:16:28PM -0400, John Graves wrote: > With the impending move of etch to stable, I have a question on how to > do the upgrade. I am running sarge with the 2.4.25-1-386 kernel. I > understand that etch requires the 2.6.x kernel. This would imply that I > have a kernel

Re: todays etch update of xorg

Hi! Todays (etch) update wants to update lots of xorg packages - and in the process remove (amongst other xserver-xorg-video-packages) xserver-xorg-video-nv because of unsatisfiable dependencies. Will this render my desktop unusable? Hi. I had the same question this morning, but, after a de

Multilpe IPv6 addresses in interfaces

Hello, I need to configure multiple IPv6 addresses on the same interface of a Debian box. I need the configuration that would have the same effect as `ip addr add IP dev eth0`. I tried adding another device, eth0:0, but that caused problems: two devices with the same MAC address turns into two i

Re: Recent spam increase

Tim Post wrote: > > Since on the topic, if someone is winning the battle to keep them out of > their inbox, sharing of spam-a rules would be much appreciated :) I'm > getting 15 - 20 of them a day. For mailfilter, in the .mailfilterrc file, I find this rule catches quite a few: DEN

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

miles writes: > What's sort of creepy is the way the mozilla proj is being so, er, > obsessive, about "branding" They have to be obsessive. That's the nature of trademark. There would probably be less controversy if they did not allow anyone else to use their trademarks at all. -- John Hasler

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:12:46PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those > who are get bored

Re: iceweasel

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 10:54:05PM +0100, david robert wrote: > if you are looking for iceweasel debian packages check this > > _h_t_t_p_:_/_/_w_w_w_._d_e_b_i_a_n_a_d_m_i_n_._c_o_m_/_i_n_s_t_a_l_l_-_i_c_e_w_e_a_s_e_l_-_w_e_b_-_b_r_o_w_s_e_r_

Re: something touching my files

ChadDavis wrote: Thanks guys. I'm looking through the cron tasks, but it certainly doesn't happen with any monthly, daily, weekly regularity. Its been a couple months since the last time actually. If that adds any important info. On 10/26/06, *José Alburquerque* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Heads up - mplayer now in Sid!

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:46:08 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/26/06 17:07, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Maybe no one has noticed yet... I thought people might be > > interested to know that mplayer is now avai

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:12:46PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: From: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user Subject: What's your favourite FLOSS? X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on murphy.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 req

Re: rhythmbox missing files

Sven Arvidsson on 26/10/06 18:21, wrote: On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 23:17 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: Just upgraded to the excellent new version 0.9.6 of rhythmbox, but I'm wondering why rhythmbox is listing half of my files in the missing files list. They are not missing, at least not as far as any o

Re: How to restrict wmv file from download help required

david robert wrote: Hi Guys, I have a .wmv file and i want to put this file in my clients website the main problem is he wants to play in web browser only it should not be available for download.How do i do that? I need to install streaming server for this or any other ideas from this co

Re: How to properly close a false bug report?

On Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 17:48:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/26/06 17:09, Dmitry Kurochkin wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I submitted a bug report #393779: libglademm-2.4-1c2a: fails to load > > .glade file. Later I've found that the problem was on my side. I've > > added a note to the report. > > >

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

* Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Oct 26 16:56 -0500]: > Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Welcome to the non-DFSG world. > > What's sort of creepy is the way the mozilla proj is being so, er, > obsessive, about "branding" -- yes it's a nice idea, but it seems also > in danger of

Re: GRUB Error 21 after install

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 01:25 pm, Roby wrote: > > How do I get the laptop to boot again? > > Re-write the mbr on your internal HD like this: > > grub> root (hd0,1) > grub> setup (hd0) > > Then reboot. Thank you very much. I had tried something like that before, but I guess I missed somethi

Re: How to properly close a false bug report?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/26/06 17:09, Dmitry Kurochkin wrote: > Hi. > > I submitted a bug report #393779: libglademm-2.4-1c2a: fails to load > .glade file. Later I've found that the problem was on my side. I've > added a note to the report. > > How to close the bug pro

Re: Heads up - mplayer now in Sid!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/26/06 17:07, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Hi all, > > Maybe no one has noticed yet... I thought people might be interested to > know that mplayer is now available in Debian Sid: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sid)[21]:~% apt-cache policy mplayer >> mplay

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On Friday 27 October 2006 04:12, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe shared this with us all: >--> Hi, >--> A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big >--> winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and >--> Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like thos

"pump -i eth0", now non-functional, huh ?

Under 2.4.17.x I was using "pump -i eth0" to put my NIC in dhcp mode and all was well. I have now upgraded to "testing", i.e. [2.6.17-2-k7] and now pump won't function. In fact it puts the network down, which I bring back up with "networking restart" and after which I can ping out onto the web by

How to properly close a false bug report?

Hi. I submitted a bug report #393779: libglademm-2.4-1c2a: fails to load .glade file. Later I've found that the problem was on my side. I've added a note to the report. How to close the bug properly in this case? As I understand I can send a mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] to tag the report as wontfi

Su mensaje no ha sido entregado por violar la polit ica "ExtentionFilter"

Esta notificacion es para informarle que su mensaje no ha sido entregado al destinatario por violar la politica "ExtentionFilter". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

Marc Shapiro wrote: (Appologies to Patrick, to whom I accidentally sent this, instead of to the list.) * Tshepang Lekhonkhobe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

Hi. Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, 26.10.2006 20:12: > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those > who are get bored by this to please pardon me. >

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

Oh, add "ssh" to "misc utilities" too: * misc utilities [ awk, interdiff, patch, diff, ssh, sudo ] It's such a fundamental part of daily use, I hardly notice it any more! -Miles -- 自らを空にして、心を開く時、道は開かれる -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: iceweasel

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/26/06 16:54, david robert wrote: > if you are looking for iceweasel debian packages check this > > http://www.debianadmin.com/install-iceweasel-web-browser-in-debian-and-ubuntu.html > > hope this helps > No Iceweasel2?? - -- Ron Johnson, J

Heads up - mplayer now in Sid!

Hi all, Maybe no one has noticed yet... I thought people might be interested to know that mplayer is now available in Debian Sid: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sid)[21]:~% apt-cache policy mplayer > mplayer: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 1.0~rc1~svn20199-1 > Version table: > 1.0~rc1~svn20199

RE: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

Hans du Plooy wrote on Monday, October 23, 2006 7:19 PM -0500: > Why don't they just put it in the non-free repositry? That does seem sensible. Mozilla appears to be exercising the same right that Debian explicitly reserves for one of its logos. If it's reasonable for Debian to protect its trad

Re: Community hostility

Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's sad when a newcomer to the list asks whether the list managers > might change the list to make the Reply-to: field be the list itself, > and a flame war erupts. Indeed. A simple "No" would suffice. -Miles -- Saa, shall we dance? (from a dance-cla

Re: Community hostility

Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's sad when a newcomer to the list asks whether the list managers > might change the list to make the Reply-to: field be the list itself, > and a flame war erupts. Indeed. A simple "No" would suffice. -Miles -- Saa, shall we dance? (from a dance-cla

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * ftp [ lftp -- also does sftp and the like and supports resuming, > even for sftp. ] Hmm, lftp does sftp too?!? It's been a long time since I've used it, but it looks like I'll have to check it out again (the standard sftp client is dec

Re: HOW2 resolve "apt-get install kernel-image" error ?

Thanks to all who replied. Solution: I just upgraded to "testing" which solved the above described problem. Courtney "Florian Kulzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 16:39:54 -0400, Courtney Thomas wrote: > > When I > > apt-get install k

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Welcome to the non-DFSG world. What's sort of creepy is the way the mozilla proj is being so, er, obsessive, about "branding" -- yes it's a nice idea, but it seems also in danger of morphing into a pseudo-corporate bit of control-freakery. -miles -- W

Re: iceweasel

if you are looking for iceweasel debian packages check this   http://www.debianadmin.com/install-iceweasel-web-browser-in-debian-and-ubuntu.html   hope this helpsKevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 07:06:46AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:> * Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTEC

How to restrict wmv file from download help required

Hi Guys,   I have a .wmv file and i want to put this file in my clients website the main problem is he wants to play in  web browser only it should not be available for download.How do i do that?   I need to install streaming server for this or any other ideas from this community would help me

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

* audio editor [ ] * audio player [ xmms ] * cd-ripper [ ] * Desktop Environment [ gnome ] * DBMS [ ] * development [ g++, gdb, tla, lua, libfltk ] * disc burner [ ] * e-mail client [ gnus (in emacs), mutt ] * file manager [ ] * finance [ ] * ftp [ sftp ] * image editor [ gimp ] * image viewer [ gq

Re: xserver-xorg-core installing problem

[M-F-T set to debian-user] On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 05:19:07PM +, Nikos Zarkadas wrote: > After today 's update i can 't install the package xserver-xorg-core > version > 1.1.1-10. > Follows the exit of apt-get install xserver-xorg-core > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency t

Re: How do I rebuild alternative symlinks?

I found a way to do it, but I think the solution was less than ideal: Install "Debarnacle" from CPAN (isn't even in debian...) Run this command: perl -MDebian::Debarnacle::Alternatives -e 'my $i = Debian::Debarnacle::Alternatives->get_list; while(my($l,$r) = splice(@$i,0,2)) { symlink($l,$r);

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

* Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Oct 26 06:59 -0500]: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:53:36AM +0200, Zbigniew Wiech wrote: > > > I still don't understand the sense of introducing new "free" logo. > > Because Mozilla won't let Debian distribute their logo. As I understand it, the logo license i

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On Thursday 26 October 2006 14:12, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those > who are get bored by thi

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

* cd-ripper [ abcde ] * Desktop Environment [ none (IceWM as WM) ] * development [ Python ] * e-mail client [ mutt ] * browser [ firefox -- I use it since Phoenix 0.4 days but start to hate it. It's only the large number of useful extensions that keep

What kernel when etch becomes stable?

With the impending move of etch to stable, I have a question on how to do the upgrade. I am running sarge with the 2.4.25-1-386 kernel. I understand that etch requires the 2.6.x kernel. This would imply that I have a kernel upgrade in my future. Do I want to do that upgrade on sarge? Will th

Re: something touching my files

ChadDavis wrote: Hey, I am using CVS for some development work. It keeps track of whether a file has been modified by monitoring the timestamp. My time stamps keep getting renewed occasionally, which mucks up CVS. There are ZERO changes to the files at these times, but its annoying nonethe

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

Bruno Buys wrote: To be honest, Mike and all others, the hostility in this list was worse in the past. I felt some improvement in this respect. I don't follow other linux lists to be able to compare, but in forums certainly there are competition and hostility, so I don't think debian is a specia

USB card reader lights?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Running up to date Sid. Until recently, when I unmounted (or in KDE said "safely remove") the CF card in my USB card reader, the second LED would go out. This is the LED that flashes when I/O is occurring, is dark when there is no card in the u

How do I rebuild alternative symlinks?

I just moved a debian installation from one system to another by mirroring /opt, etc, /home, /var, and /usr/local -- and then using dpkg --set-selections to get all the same packages installed on the new box. Everything's gone great except for the alternatives system. For some reason, none of the

Re: something touching my files

ChadDavis wrote: Hey, I am using CVS for some development work. It keeps track of whether a file has been modified by monitoring the timestamp. My time stamps keep getting renewed occasionally, which mucks up CVS. There are ZERO changes to the files at these times, but its annoying nonethele

Re: Recent spam increase

On 26-okt-2006, at 18:31, Tim Post wrote: Yes, I get several a day myself. The actual "text" of the message is often actually an image, while the body of the message is randomly selected sentences or words from a collection which would make a Bayesian filter delete most of my e-mail. Same t

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

On Thursday 26 October 2006 13:02, Wayne Topa wrote: > apt-cache search pdf > wajig search pdf both of them do the same thing and give exactly the same results. There is no need to use them both. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.b

something touching my files

Hey, I am using CVS for some development work.  It keeps track of whether a file has been modified by monitoring the timestamp.  My time stamps keep getting renewed occasionally, which mucks up CVS.  There are ZERO changes to the files at these times, but its annoying nonetheless. I wanted to chec

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

* audio editor [ audacity ] * audio player [ rhythmbox ] * cd-ripper [ sound-juicer ] * Desktop Environment [ GNOME ] * DBMS [ ] * development [ Python, GTK+ ] * disc burner [ brasero, nautilus-cd-burner ] * e-mail client [ evolution ] * file manager [ nautilus ] * finance [ ] * ftp [ yafc, nautilu

Re: micro debian

Douglas Tutty wrote: >Does anyone know of a project to make a micro-distribution of debian for >use on older hardware? Eg 486, 32 MB, 100 MB. One problem with >installing with Woody and upgrading is that the list of packages in Main >is so huge it takes up a good chunk of disk space (and memory

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:12:46 +0200 "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those > w

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

Mike McCarty wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >> Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU >>> project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to >>> change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil >>> MicroSoft Emp

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/26/06 13:12, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, REACH Waxed (Mint). - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that th

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

* Tshepang Lekhonkhobe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > * (great honours) [ Don't know what you mean here. Best overall > > stuff perhaps? If so, GNU screen, emacs, mplayer and bash most likely. ] > > I can't say Bash is my favourite shell because it's the default, and I > never tried anything

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On 10/26/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those who are get bored by this to pleas

Re: todays etch update of xorg

On Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 18:31:53 +0200, Andreas R?nnquist wrote: > Hi! > > Todays (etch) update wants to update lots of xorg packages - and in the > process remove (amongst other xserver-xorg-video-packages) > xserver-xorg-video-nv because of unsatisfiable dependencies. > > Will this render my d

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

"Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * cd-ripper [ jack ] > * audio player [ ogg123, mpg321, moc, bmp ] > * Desktop Environment [ IceWM-experimental ] > * disc burner [ K3b ] > * e-mail client [ sylpheed-claws-gtk2, mutt-ng ] > * file manager [ mc ] > * ftp [ none I use sftp ] > * i

Re: todays etch update of xorg

I don't know for your problem, xorg-core conflicts with xserver-xorg-video now, maybe it's a bug. But just a tip, if you want the output in english just precede your command by LC_ALL=C, for instance : $ LC_ALL=C aptitude Andreas Rönnquist wrote: Hi! Todays (etch) update wants to update lots

Mouse: Relative or Absolute, How can I Change this?

Somewhere I have seen an option to change the mouse position between relative and absolute but I can no longer find it. Can someone tell me where it is? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On 10/26/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 10/26/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > * web browser [ firefox, epiphany ] > > > So, which one is it actually? What do you mean? Some web sites cause firefox to crap out. Others cause epiphany

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those who are get bored by this to please pardon me. Here goes my new l

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On 10/26/06, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Tshepang Lekhonkhobe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 10/26/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * web browser [ firefox, epiphany ] So, which one is it actually? What do you mean? Some web sites cause firefox to crap out. Others cause epiphany to crap out. She uses the one which doesn't crap out. Inci

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On 10/26/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * web browser [ firefox, epiphany ] So, which one is it actually? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

On 10/26/06, Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * e-mail client [ (none) - I use GMail ] Pine via terminal, otherwise > SeaMonkey remotely Pine is non-free, and I wanted to restrict the list to FLOSS; but it's okay since including non-free ensures that debian-user is more properly repr

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

* Tshepang Lekhonkhobe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those > who are get bored by this to please p

Taters! WAS: Community hostility

Kent West wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: later taters Mmmm, taters You remind me of Sam Gamgee! I like 'taters, too! Think I'll go cook some right now! Haven't eaten today, yet, and it's 2:00 pm here. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This

Re: I made a mistake.

Chris Walters wrote: I wish to apologize to all who were subjected to a "Return Receipt" request on my stupid post (it really was stupid to begin with). I will be removing myself from this group for posting such a stupid thing and for making such a stupid error. No need to remove yourself (

Re: I made a mistake.

Chris Walters wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I wish to apologize to all who were subjected to a "Return Receipt" Apology accepted. request on my stupid post (it really was stupid to begin with). That's your opinion, not necessarily mine. I will be removing myself

Re: onboard audio problems with Connectland USB web cam Debian Etch

John Kerr Anderson wrote: Hello everyone, I have an AMD64 desktop PC running Debian Etch for amd64. The on-board uses the standard Intel ICH driver in alsa. If I try booting the computer with the Connectland USB web-cam... the built-in audio (a microphone) interferes with the onboard audio.

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those who are get bored by this to please pardon me. Ok, I don't use De

Re: HELP! No sound in Mozilla w/flashplayer

Yao Weihua wrote: sudo apt-get install alsa-oss edit /etc/firefox/firefoxrc FIREFOX_DSP="aoss" Or "auto". You can see the various options near the bottom of "man firefox" under the "ENVIRONMENT" section (which interestingly, does not list "aoss"). -- Kent begin:vcard fn:Kent West n:West;

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: later taters Mmmm, taters -- Kent begin:vcard fn:Kent West n:West;Kent org:Abilene Christian University;Technology Support adr:;;ACU Box 29005;Abilene;TX;79699;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:UNIX System Administrator tel;work:325-674-2557 tel;

I made a mistake.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I wish to apologize to all who were subjected to a "Return Receipt" request on my stupid post (it really was stupid to begin with). I will be removing myself from this group for posting such a stupid thing and for making such a stupid error. Chris

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:57:21PM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote: > } Stefan Monnier wrote: > } >What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? > } >In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only > } >saved as a bitmap,

Re: how can i see booting messages ??

On 10/26/2006 07:15 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: debian wrote: Hello, I still have problems with my new installation. There is some important information (i think) displayed just after grub starts booting about the hdd, but i can't see what it is because it goes to fast and it is too far up to go

Re: unmounting /media/usbdisk from the command line?

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Stefan Monnier wrote: > When a USB disk is mounted by gnome-volume-manager, I can unmount it using > nautilus (via right clicking on the disk's icon), but I haven't figured how > to do it from the command line. Any hint? Here's a perl script I use. Save it somewhere in your

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