Greetings Debian users,
I am new to Debian, but not to Linux, having used many
versions of Mandrake/Mandriva.
I am now using Dreamlinux, which is based on Debian
Etch and uses the xfce wm.
My question has to do with k3b. Is there any way to
sort sound files for a cd project in a manner other
than
--- Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:40:30AM -0800, Angus Auld
wrote:
-- Angus
All churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or
Muslim, appear
to me no other than human inventions, setup to
terrify and
enslave mankind - and to monopolize power
I would like to ask whether someone could direct me to
the config file that manages the gdm chooser list at
login.
I seem to have duplicate entries since I installed
IceWM and Fluxbox. Previous I had been running Xfce as
desktop on my Debian Etch.
While this is no biggie, I would like to get rid
--- Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:55:13 -0800 (PST)
Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to ask whether someone could direct
me to
the config file that manages the gdm chooser list
at
login.
I seem to have duplicate entries since
--- Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, after trying to understand these configs,
my
annoyance of the duplicates is now much less than
my
annoyance at trying to eliminate them. Is it just
me,
or does gdm seem a bit over the top when it
comes to
configuration?
I
--- michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 15:27 -0800, Kelly Clowers
wrote:
On Feb 12, 2008 1:49 PM, Micha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, but for me for example it would be very
useful if I could add notes to
papers I download to reference in my work
(academics,
--- Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 06:00:05PM -0500, dick
wrote:
What is it with Ice Weasel anyhow. I have no
problems signing onto Debian
and using Icedove. the rest of the processing
goes well.
However, when it comes to Iceweasel, it spends
more
Is it safe to delete any bad symlinks that I find on
my Debian Etch system?
I used FSlint to search, and found several.
TIA for any feedback.
Best regards.
--
Angus
All churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Muslim, appear
to me no other than human inventions, setup to terrify and
enslave
--- Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:23:40AM -0800, Angus Auld
wrote:
Is it safe to delete any bad symlinks that I
find on
^^^
my Debian Etch system?
I used FSlint to search, and found several.
I wouldn't give a blanket
--- Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:24:10AM -0800, Angus Auld
wrote:
--- Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:23:40AM -0800, Angus
Auld
wrote:
Is it safe to delete any bad symlinks that I
find
--- Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On 26-Feb-08, at 5:18 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
wrote:
Is there any tool available in Debian which can
tell the remaining
life of a
hard drive? Also, what log files should one
monitor to see
This are just my observations and experiences with
Flash-player and Linux of late.
I use my browsers to view a lot of Flash vids, and the
fact that many websites are using (over-using?) Flash
animations, etc. makes it quite important, at least to
me, that my browser be Flash-friendly.
Adobe, in
--- Jean-Louis Crouzet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Angus Auld wrote:
This are just my observations and experiences with
Flash-player and Linux of late.
I use my browsers to view a lot of Flash vids, and
the
fact that many websites are using (over-using?)
Flash
animations, etc. makes
--- Alle Meije Wink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Since my computer moved inside my house, I rely on a
Belkin G+ 802.11g
Network card (that's all it says on the box).
Used as I am to debian just starting DHCP without a
problem, I didn't
know what to do when the network did not
--- Walt L. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Greetings all
I used Mplayer on the SuSE(10) system I used to use
to play mpg and avi movies. On my former system I
merely
had to do the install it and it was ready to use.
Mplayer
on Debian (etch) seems to be broken. What must I do
Greetings,
Would someone be able to advise me as to what is a
safe method to add a fortune command to my .bashrc
file so as to have fortune output in my terminal @
login?
I've googled this pretty extensively, and have found a
few methods, but also warnings that certain processes
can be broken by
--- Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
Would someone be able to advise me as to what is a
safe method to add a fortune command to my .bashrc
file so as to have fortune output in my terminal @
login?
I've googled this pretty extensively, and have found
a
few methods, but also
--- Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 20 Apr 2008, Bob Cox wrote:
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 17:36:28 -0600, Bob Proulx
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Richard Lyons wrote:
I suppose the BBC has changed its codec or
something. I used to be able
to play Listen Again
--- lostson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All
I have install debian stable with kde and am
wanting to remove kde completely
and install gnome. Is this possible ? and if so how
? I have been googling
trying to find a way with no luck thanks.
LostSon
LostSon, I just removed kde
--- Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking for an easy way to control my wireless
(and wired) network for
xfce4.
I am currently using wlassistant, but it doesn't
allow automatic connection
(less important) and it has problems connecting to a
wpa network, it attempts
to
--- Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. I use fluxbox most of the time. But, when I
plug in my hp315
photosmart camera, I rely upon gnome to find it, and
automagically
mount it for me. Is it possible to completely
remove gnome, and just
mount this camera (or other USB
I am new to Debian, and I'm wondering what is the
*best*
way for me to upgrade my java to version 6?
Is it ok to get the relavent pkgs from testing (lenny)
and
install them from a folder using dpkg -i *.deb?
I am used to rpm based Linux (Mandriva), and I could
install rpms with a similar method
--- Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 05:52:11 -0800 (PST)
Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am new to Debian, and I'm wondering what is the
*best*
way for me to upgrade my java to version 6?
Is it ok to get the relavent pkgs from testing
(lenny
--- hce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Mark.
That works fine. The only thing when I call the
opera from the command
line, it has following errors although it still
works. Should I
concern that error messages or not?
~$ opera
~$ ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD
--- Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- hce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Mark.
That works fine. The only thing when I call the
opera from the command
line, it has following errors although it still
works. Should I
concern that error messages or not?
~$ opera
--- Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL1337269720071213
Hugo
This is great.the bully is being confronted by a
little guy who's
tired of being pushed around. I love it! ;)
MS users should be on Opera's side in this too. Some
MS
--- Allan Wind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2007-12-29T10:50:18-0600, ZephyrQ wrote:
Tabs...on the -right- hand side. After using
Galeon for **years**, I
miss this and the 'tab' plug-in only lets me put
tabs on the
top/bottom/left.
Did you try the Tab Control add-on?
--- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
joseph lockhart wrote:
ok, here is my system info, basically the hardinfo
report generated by Hardinfo for my primary
partition,
if i switch over to my etch install i will post
the
same for it if necessary
Computer
Summary
--- ZephyrQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
big snip
Just played with Opera for a while. I was
impressed. Not afraid to
pay $ for it if it can hold up to everyday usage
(heck, considering how
much $ I **don't** pay for software, dropping a few
bucks here and there
for a program worth
--- ZephyrQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Angus Auld wrote:
--- ZephyrQ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
big snip
Just played with Opera for a while. I was
impressed. Not afraid to
pay $ for it if it can hold up to everyday usage
(heck, considering how
much $ I **don't** pay
--- Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 14:58:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Galeon R.I.P?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 02 January 2008, David Brodbeck
wrote:
On Jan 2, 2008
--- Dan H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
it's still me and my GNOME desktop. One thing that
irritates me: I once installed a Google desktop
indexing tool, which now starts up every time I
start GNOME. I tried to disable it, but it doesn't
work. When I go to Desktop-Preferences-Sessions
--- Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 01/11/08 18:15, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
[snip]
As the sub-atomic particles that maintain the
charge that represent the
bits on the outside edge are moving faster than
those on the inside
edge, they will have less mass and therefore are
--- Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 10/01/2008, Michelle Konzack
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am 2008-01-08 08:09:58, schrieb Joel Roberts:
I've gotten a lot of good information from this
list, and hopefully
supplied some as well, but I'm not going to weed
Is there a way to install the latest and greatest of
these programs, and there dev counterparts in Etch?
Is there a way to build them for Etch?
The latest pkgs are 8.5_8.5.0-2.
I pretty wet behind the ears in Debianonly using
for a few months.
TIA.
-- Angus
##Linux Laptop powered by
--- Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to install the latest and greatest of
these programs, and there dev counterparts in Etch?
Is there a way to build them for Etch?
The latest pkgs are 8.5_8.5.0-2.
I pretty wet behind the ears in Debianonly using
for a few
--- Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to install the latest and greatest of
these programs, and there dev counterparts in Etch?
Is there a way to build them for Etch?
The latest pkgs are 8.5_8.5.0-2.
I pretty wet behind the ears in Debianonly using
for a few
Greetings, I had no apparent problems with the
xserver-xorg-core/xnest upgrade from 2:1.1.1-21etch1
2:1.1.1-21etch2, but with the latest upgrade to
2:1.1.1-21etch3 I have noted that I am no longer able
to use vlc media player. I got BadAlloc error.
I forced a downgrade to the 2:1.1.1-21etch1 (why
--- Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings, I had no apparent problems with the
xserver-xorg-core/xnest upgrade from 2:1.1.1-21etch1
2:1.1.1-21etch2, but with the latest upgrade to
2:1.1.1-21etch3 I have noted that I am no longer
able
to use vlc media player. I got BadAlloc error
--- Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Upgrade again. It's fixed now.
For details eee my post entitled Update: Re: GTK
update problems.
The fix made into the archives yesterday.
Angus Auld wrote:
Greetings, I had no apparent problems with the
xserver-xorg-core/xnest upgrade from
2
--- Robert Hodgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to use the InfraRecorder program
that I downloaded from
the Ubuntu web site.
I've used CdBurnerXP Pro with no problems:
http://cdburnerxp.se/
Are you trying to burn the iso's under Linux, or ms?
If under ms, I would think that
--- Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:22:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: /var/archive
To: Tony van der Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- Tony van der Hoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've just moved to Debian Etch from 10
Anyone here familiar with this program (mscompress)?
It allows one to either expand (msexpand) or compress
(mscompress) from or to ms .exe.
I am wanting to expand an ms .exe to extract some
files, and I
can't figure out what the message I'm getting from
msexpand
means exactly.
Whenever I run
--- Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu January 24 2008, Angus Auld wrote:
Whenever I run msexpand *.exe I get the
following
response:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/expand$ msexpand
Install_Messenger.exe
Install_Messenger.exe: Doesn't end with underscore
--
ignored
--- Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu January 24 2008, Angus Auld wrote:
Whenever I run msexpand *.exe I get the
following
response:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/expand$ msexpand
Install_Messenger.exe
--- Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu January 24 2008, Angus Auld wrote:
Thanks for your reply Paul. So, if I understand, a
windows binary
installation package .exe isn't like a nix binary
like
.deb or .rpm?
not exactly. look for the homepage, maybe it
explains better
--- Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On 01/25/08 09:48, Angus Auld wrote:
--- Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 01/25/08 08:26, Angus Auld wrote:
[snip]
Angus,
Do you add a
as
an
email separator?
- --
Ron
--- Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu January 24 2008, Angus Auld wrote:
I found this listed as homepage of mscompress from
freshmeat.net:
http://martin.hinner.info/mscompress/
But, there is little info of help there either.
Mysterious.
since this is about
--- Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On 01/25/08 08:26, Angus Auld wrote:
[snip]
Angus,
Do you add a
as an
email separator?
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
__
I do tend
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
I found this listed as homepage of mscompress from
freshmeat.net:
http://martin.hinner.info/mscompress/
But, there is little info of help there either.
Mysterious.
Thanks again.
Regards.
-- Angus
Angus
To find out how the mscompress
--- Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:17:23 -0800
David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/25/08, Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Way above my head, but interesting just the
same. I
just
sort of wanted to know how to use mscompress to
de
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have got the Broadcom WLAN Chip BCM943111MCG in my
PC.
b43-fwcutter installed some firmware.
But it works in Debian SID with ndiswrapper only so
far.
But, you know, ndiswrapper imports parts of WINDOWS
into Debian. I don't
want that.
--- Daniel Haude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
this message is all the more strange since I had
wireless up and running
with Debian once. But that system got hosed about a
year ago for some reason
or another, and now I've got it set up again and I'm
completely stumped with
the WLAN
--- Daniel Haude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:40:30AM -0800, Angus Auld
wrote:
I don't have any rt-2xxx or rt-25xx packages
installed, so support
must be compiled in the kernel(?).
Those are just the modules. Can you do a lsmod |
grep rt to see which one
--- Dennis G. Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, this is the third of the most aggravating
problems.
Iceweasel will just go to sleep. I have clicked on
a
link or pasted a url in the address bar and it is
doing
nothing. It displays STOPPED in the status bar and
will not load any
--- On Sun, 1/11/09, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Celejar cele...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Speeding up Debian Boot
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Sunday, January 11, 2009, 11:30 PM
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:17:57 -0500
JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com wrote:
Ron Johnson
--- On Mon, 1/26/09, Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com
Subject: Problems with installation of OpenOffice 3.0
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 11:20 PM
From openoffice web site I downloaded the tarball
--- On Fri, 2/6/09, Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca wrote:
From: Frank McCormick debianl...@videotron.ca
Subject: Re: Term not set
To: l.glidewell.li...@gmail.com
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 2:11 PM
L Glidewell wrote:
On Thursday 05 February
--- On Tue, 2/10/09, PierPaolo pierpaolo.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
From: PierPaolo pierpaolo.fra...@gmail.com
Subject: grub error in fresh installation lenny
To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 12:16 PM
Noway. Grub legacy, Grub2... The boot up
--- On Fri, 2/13/09, Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 4:58 AM
L Glidewell wrote:
On Thursday 12 February 2009 19:25:50 Marc
--- On Fri, 2/13/09, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
From: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net
Subject: Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 7:30 AM
On 02/12/2009 11:46 PM, Angus Auld wrote:
[snip]
http
--- On Thu, 3/12/09, Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com wrote:
From: Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com
Subject: Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 12:55 PM
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 00:12:15 -0500, Kumar Appaiah
--- On Fri, 3/13/09, Angus Auld aonghas_a...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Angus Auld aonghas_a...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting
To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 10:55 AM
--- On Thu, 3/12/09, Bob Cox
debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com
From: lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008, 8:41 AM
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 08:13:00AM +0100, Johan Grönqvist
wrote:
lee skrev:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 05:46:29PM -0800, Kelly
Clowers
From: lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Thursday, November 27, 2008, 6:06 PM
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 01:04:07AM -0800, Angus Auld wrote:
Well, I just tried it. I can turn off showing
previews
From: lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Friday, November 28, 2008, 2:57 AM
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 01:39:41PM -0800, Angus Auld wrote:
Of course you *could* use KDE, and that with a
certainty would
Subject: Re: PCI ethernet card from ebay doesn't work at all. Possibly fake,
but which?
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 3:01 AM
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:47:12 -0500, A. F. Cano wrote:
Any hints will be greatly
appreciated. Thanks.
A.
I have a
orignial query.
I have
made some progress, but I still can't even ping.
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:00:51AM -0800, Angus Auld wrote:
...
I have a cardbus adapter called Zonet ZEN 1201
10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet 32-bit, which is actually a
Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+. It was very
I used to use pidgin, when it was called gaim, but I have since started using
aMSN. I am uncertain as to whether pidgin has off-line messaging support, but I
do know that aMSN does. It is a very feature rich program, and it works well.
It is only MSN capable however, so if you need the other
Sorry for the top post. Hit send before realizing.
--
Angus
All churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Muslim, appear
to me no other than human inventions, setup to terrify and
enslave mankind - and to monopolize power and profit.
--
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
##Laptop powered by
--- On Thu, 12/18/08, Jan Brosius jan.bros...@skynet.be wrote:
From: Jan Brosius jan.bros...@skynet.be
Subject: kernel version of debian testing.
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 6:55 PM
Hi,
Does anyone know the kernel version in the latest version
of
--- On Sun, 12/21/08, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote:
From: Mark Allums m...@allums.com
Subject: Re: [OT]I just got a phish call!!!
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Sunday, December 21, 2008, 11:30 AM
Michael Marsh wrote:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Mark Allums
--- Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 15 May 2008 23:03:51 +0200
Dexter Filmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today I preferenced etch-backports and did a huge
upgrade, so far all
fine but one thing: Opera 9.27 won't play flash
anymore.
Iceweasel does, so th eplugin seems fine.
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