On (09/05/05 20:23), Rene Engelhard wrote:
Clive Menzies wrote:
I am a Debian user of OOo 1.1.3 and haven't needed to enable Java
(although it may be a case of what you don't know you don't miss). From
a purely personal perspective it would be attractive to have a totally
free OOo
On (04/10/03 01:40), David Palmer. wrote:
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:13:28 -0400 (EDT), Jon Earle said:
I sent _one_ post to the debian-users list yesterday. One. I neglected
to use an alias I'd created for posting to that list, and, due to their
open posting policy and their email-usenet
On (03/10/03 13:18), Info wrote:
Please send me lots and lots of spam, viruses, hoaxes, etc!
I want money from Nigerians!
I want Viagra!
I want a bigger penis!
I want cheap animal sex!
Gimme all the spam and crap you can muster!
Send it all here!
LOL - hehe!
--
On (03/10/03 12:02), Mike Egglestone wrote:
Quoting Mark Ferlatte [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I haven't seen any uptime or speed benchmarks, so I can't comment on either
Debian vs. OS X with respect to uptime or speed. I would guess that you
would
require a bit less downtime with Debian, since
On (03/10/03 21:06), Paul Mackinney wrote:
I've been reading the various spam threads, I'm certainly
getting my share of hits from the various worms going
around. Clearly I can do better can people provide some
clear recommendations?
Currently I'm using exim, receiving w/fetchmail and
On (03/10/03 23:12), Clive Menzies wrote:
On (03/10/03 21:06), Paul Mackinney wrote:
I've been reading the various spam threads, I'm certainly
getting my share of hits from the various worms going
around. Clearly I can do better can people provide some
clear recommendations
On (04/10/03 00:19), dan oram wrote:
From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I installed Debian Linux on my Windows PC yesterday. Everything seemed
to go smoothly, except it hasn't created the boot sector properly.
Booting from the hard disk it gets as far as displaying the following:
On (03/10/03 23:05), Jason Housewright wrote:
Greetings all.
I am looking at possibly moving to Debian; I have a
question about the boot loader. I have used grub for
quite a while now. What is the default bl for Debian,
and if one is preferred over the other, is it
difficult to switch?
On (04/10/03 20:54), Paul Mackinney wrote:
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 20:54:00 -0700
From: Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: exim/fetchmail config
Jeff Elkins declaimed:
I've recently switched to a system where fetchmail picks up all my pop3 email
and
On (05/10/03 22:55), Jeff Elkins wrote:
I've recently switched to a system where fetchmail picks up all my pop3 email
and routes it to a local address, wherespamassassin analyzes it. Thus far,
it's been working great, except for one caveat...
Certain family members are Windows/Outlook
On (06/10/03 17:28), Nori Heikkinen wrote:
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:28:50 -0400
From: Nori Heikkinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: galeon REALLY slow in loading pages
has anyone else noticed this? i'm running galeon 1.2.5-0.woody, and
have loved it for the
On (07/10/03 11:22), michael montagne wrote:
I have two knoppix systems with the same problem. The time returned by
date does not match the timestamps shown in the logfiles. I've run
tzconfig and changed the timezone to US/Pacific. I've used ntpdate
to update the time with a valid
On (08/10/03 06:40), Oliver Elphick wrote:
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 22:50, Clive Menzies wrote:
I'm not sure if this is related but I found (I'm in London on British
Summer Time ie GMT +1) that if when configuring the base system I
selected yes to Set Hardware Clock to GMT, Debian would
On (12/10/03 22:48), Michael Flaig wrote:
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:11:54PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
On (11/10/03 22:27), Irrlicht wrote:
Can someone please help me? Would be vey kind ;)))
I try to install Debian on my Ibook. I read pretty much HOWTO's till now. I
loaded
On (12/10/03 19:20), alex wrote:
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:20:07 -0400
From: alex [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Programmer for hire
Dominique Devriese wrote:
Bob Tilley writes:
I would like to wet my feet in the Open Source pool. Can anyone
suggest any needy
On (12/10/03 18:59), Robert Tilley wrote:
How can Debian be installed via HTTP?
When I install Debian, I get to the point where it asks if I wish to
continue installing via PPP. To my knowledge, PPP is for use with a modem.
Answer No
How do I continue installation using TCP/IP once my
On (14/10/03 17:18), Joyce, Matthew wrote:
I'm using Fetchmail and have a fetchmailrc in etc.
Fetchmail starts and syslog show my messages being gathered.
the problem is the messages do not end up in my home Maildir (courier-imap),
they end up in spool somewhere.
Any ideas ?
I've
On (14/10/03 11:45), Andrew Hayes wrote:
Jeff Elkins wrote:
Well, hell.
I set up a new address (for family) on my server and inadvertently used it
Sunday in a reply to debian-user. It's now being flooded with email
viruses and spam.
You aren't the only one, since signing up I've been
On (14/10/03 11:28), Joseph Jones wrote:
While I'm a huge Firebird fan, IE was better at some tasks (yes, they
are non-standard HTML tasks, but what can you do when that's what the
industry uses? *sigh*).
I've tried Konqueror and found it lacking extremely (yes, I love it as a
file
On (15/10/03 15:47), Monique Y. Herman wrote:
So, lately, I've been drooling over the latest 15 powerbooks. I have
never owned or even really used a Mac, but when looking at laptop
choices, powerbooks look to be the best. I even had a dream about it
last night ... except in the dream,
On (15/10/03 18:01), Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Clive Menzies penned:
It is worth reviewing the archive for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Speaking of which, http://www.debian.org/ports/ lists the motorola 68k
as the second-most popular debian-port, then later down
On (15/10/03 21:41), Ron Johnson wrote:
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 19:01, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Clive Menzies penned:
It is worth reviewing the archive for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Speaking of which, http://www.debian.org/ports/ lists the motorola 68k
On (15/10/03 21:06), Kent West wrote:
So, lately, I've been drooling over the latest 15 powerbooks. I have
never owned or even really used a Mac, but when looking at laptop
choices, powerbooks look to be the best. I even had a dream about it
last night ... except in the dream, salesmen kept
On (16/10/03 10:39), Paul E Condon wrote:
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:11:41AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
snip...
I've got an 8100/80 Nubus Mac running woody and serving files on our
network. This was the first machine on which I installed Debian but it
did take a long time. It is a hack
On (18/10/03 03:24), ThanhVu Nguyen wrote:
My SA setting blocks most of the spam mails but it doesn't/can't stop
these MS mails, no matter how many MS examples I try to feed to it to
learn. Anyone has any hint / howto's ?
Swen isn't classified as spam and if you search the archive you will
On (17/10/03 15:58), Wathen, Metherion wrote:
Personally, I prefer Opera for linux, on my old box it loads
at least twice as fast as Mozilla, not that I dislike mozilla,
opera was just faster.
have they got tabbed browsing in ie yet?
If you're going to make commentary like that,
On (18/10/03 20:17), David Crane wrote:
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 06:56 am, Clive Menzies wrote:
I was finding it virtually impossible to work because of the
volume of these MS Swen virus emails. So I installed mailfilter
(woody) and fetchmail, set up my mailfilterrc as per the attached
On (19/10/03 01:07), Tom wrote:
I'm beginning to see this as an issue over which rational and reasonable
people can disagree.
For me, this all ties back into my Illusion of Technique philosophy.
The positive argument the anti-Bush people make is: Iraq is a waste of
time; we must
On (19/10/03 11:28), Nori Heikkinen wrote:
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 11:28:51 -0400
From: Nori Heikkinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: browsers (galeon; mozilla) really slow
for the past two or so weeks, galeon especially, but also usually
mozilla, have been
On (21/10/03 05:22), David Palmer. wrote:
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:00:59 -0600
Jamin W. Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:22:34PM +0800, David Palmer wrote:
What risk do I run with apt-get remove epiphany (the game), without
disturbing epiphany the browser
On (21/10/03 22:29), David Lloyd wrote:
big snip
You know what?
All you technical whizz bang, dumbass geeks haven't even given a link to
how to fix the problem. You've HINTED at what it is, but there's no
solution.
You're so fucking helpful.
Ouch ! Hi David
I'm not any sort of geek,
On (21/10/03 18:44), Olav Lavell wrote:
Op di 21-10-2003, om 01:25 schreef John Hasler:
Olav Lavell writes:
Denbian still installs too much stuff I did not ask for. It's not a
minimal distribution
The Debian base system is too much?
Isn't it?
Why would one ever install Exim
On (22/10/03 04:20), Alex Malinovich wrote:
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 04:20:24 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RPC: Program not Registered
From: Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:07:55AM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote:
Nice to be back with a broadband
On (23/10/03 03:01), Edwin Lau wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am looking for a book about mysql and php to develop some web
application. And good suggestion? Please CC me.
It depends on your level of competence (scripting languages etc.) If
you're new to all this (like me) I'd recommend Larry
On (23/10/03 04:50), Scott Hansen wrote:
Thanks for everyones response to my post!
In response to the last posting helping me with my request, no I do not
have the graphical side of things working. Here is what goes on when I
use startx (although I am unsure if I am doing this correctly):
On (24/10/03 11:41), Monique Y. Herman wrote:
Anyone know of an indent program for html?
I'd accept a vim script too *grin*
At the risk of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing (I've recently
acquired Vim-improved by Steve Qualine) will set autoindent not do it?
Regards
Clive
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On (25/10/03 01:14), David Jardine wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:55:20PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:39:11AM -0700, John Yurcik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi, I am glad to be on this list-even if it seems like one has to wade
through crocodiles to be
On (24/10/03 22:04), Ron Johnson wrote:
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:54, Clive Menzies wrote:
On (25/10/03 01:14), David Jardine wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:55:20PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:39:11AM -0700, John Yurcik ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote
On (28/10/03 22:37), Richard Lyons wrote:
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
[...]
Hrm.. Does debian-user not set the reply-to to the list, or is this my
[...]
Apparently not. I wonder why not. It would surely be a good idea - for
those using simpler mail
Hi
By stealth, I seem to be developing a sysadmin personality, what with the
expanding network here and increasingly getting involved in networking
on behalf of clients. I've tried various approaches to recording
details of individual components and the network but keeping them up to
date is
On (05/11/03 21:56), Paul M Foster wrote:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:47:00PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
By stealth, I seem to be developing a sysadmin personality, what with the
expanding network here and increasingly getting involved in networking
on behalf of clients. I've tried various
On (06/11/03 04:57), Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:56:15PM -0500, Paul M Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:47:00PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
By stealth, I seem to be developing a sysadmin personality, what with the
expanding network here
On (06/11/03 14:39), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Eric,
/foo - Only folks in the 'users' group can read, write and delete
files/dirs.
The permissions of directory foo do not influence whether someone can
open a given file in it for reading or writing, only whether he can
delete,
On (06/11/03 17:24), JG wrote:
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Kent,
Not knowing what your level of *nix knowledge is, it's hard to answer
without being too terse or too simplistic.
I've been using Redhat for about a year now. I know it fairly
On (06/11/03 17:35), Joseph Jones wrote:
Lukas Ruf wrote:
Dear all,
is there any way to make Mozilla Firebird send a faked browser
identification to the server? I would like it to send for some sites
the MSIE identification, while for others Netscape 4.7.
Can I do this with Mozilla
On (06/11/03 17:32), Ken Gilmour wrote:
Do you work in sales or something?
Replying to the message sent by David Palmer. ?on Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:02:34 +0800,
received at 17:32:09 on 06/11/2003. David Palmer. wrote:
snip
Stick with it!
Some kind person is trying to save you.
Now, the
On (06/11/03 16:48), Kent West wrote:
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:48:50 -0600
From: Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Clive Menzies wrote:
I'm intrigued. why would you want to [make Firebird/Mozilla look
like IE
On (07/11/03 04:27), Alex Malinovich wrote:
To: debuser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 04:27:01 -0600
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 03:22, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
Alex Malinovich wrote:
[snip]
So any ideas on how to go about it? Is it possible to have two different
users with the
Hi List
I've just reorganised the partitions on a second (Seagate) drive in
a dual booting Dell Dimension XPS T500 to give more room to /usr
(to upgrade from woody to sid).
The partitions I messed with were /home, /usr and two swap.
/home was 35 Gb and /usr 1Gb
Using parted I deleted home
On (22/01/04 15:26), Pedro Hernandez wrote:
--- Rus Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, 22 Jan 2004,
Pedro
Debian stable aims for well, stability so the old packages are known
to be
secure and work. If you want newer versions have a look at things
Ok. I can buy that. How does
On (22/01/04 09:22), stan wrote:
For several weeks now, I've had to freeze all my testing systems, as an
apt-get dist-upgrade wants to remove galeon, which is a critical
requirement for these systems.
Can anyone enlighteen me as to what's going on with this package?
Sorry - I can't give
On (22/01/04 14:31), Paul Morgan wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:05:01 +, Clive Menzies wrote:
I've just reorganised the partitions on a second (Seagate) drive in
a dual booting Dell Dimension XPS T500 to give more room to /usr
(to upgrade from woody to sid).
The partitions I messed
On (28/01/04 08:39), Robert Cates wrote:
I would like to install Debian 3.0 (Stable) on my dual CPU Pentium 3 system, with an
SMP kernel of course. My understanding is I would have to first install using a
non-SMP kernel, and then compile a new kernel with SMP support. Could I not just do
On (28/01/04 17:17), Chavdar Videff wrote:
Ok
This was asked maybe a thousand times.
and I've read it again and again.
and didn't take notes.
Now that I need it I don't have time to look through the list archives.
I am apologizing for taking your time, but would anyone not so busy with more
On (28/01/04 15:00), Sam Ruby wrote:
I'm new to Debian (previously I used RedHat). My ultimate goal is to
install mythtv, but for now I seem to have isolated a reproducible
problem with a CPAN module.
Environment: a machine wiped clean. Fresh minimal netinst of sarge
(vintage 20040124).
On (29/01/04 00:32), Micha Feigin wrote:
I have exim4 setup on a laptop, thus the network isn't always available
when the system starts up.
The problem is that when the network isn't found it hangs for about a
minute before it gives up and lets the boot process continue which is
very
On (29/01/04 16:46), Adam wrote:
I'm running Debian testing with the following packages installed (from dpkg
-l):
ii cupsomatic-ppd20040102-1
ii cupsys1.1.20candidate6-6
ii cupsys-client 1.1.20candidate6-6
ii
On (29/01/04 10:28), Wendell Cochran wrote:
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:29:06 -0500
From: Randy W. Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[snip]
. . . I've never seen Linux Administration Handbook
recommended . . . .
Well, the book _is_ big, pricey, intimidating.
But in Nemeth `big' means a _lot_ of
On (02/02/04 08:55), David Thurman wrote:
We are trying to get an apt-get update and it seems to stall here
38% [Connecting to non-us.debian.org (194.109.137.218)] [Connecting to
security.debian.org (194.109.137.218)]
Any ideas??
Colin Watson answered this earlier today. The machine won't
On (02/02/04 15:54), Benjamin Sher wrote:
Just for the fun of it, I downloaded and installed Aptitude, At the top on
the menu it says:
Aptitude 0.2.13 #Broken: 4 Will free 9375kb DL size: 13.9
This appears on the third line of the menu BEFORE I actually use it in any
way. Does this
On (03/02/04 00:02), Martin Helas wrote:
Am Mo Feb 02, 2004 at 10:3202 + gab Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] von sich:
On (02/02/04 15:54), Benjamin Sher wrote:
Just for the fun of it, I downloaded and installed Aptitude, At the top on
the menu it says:
Aptitude 0.2.13 #Broken
On (03/02/04 21:45), Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 14:19, Quartenoud Francois wrote:
Hi, I have change the root password on a Debian 3.0. I make a mistake
during
the typing, I cannot retrieve the password.
I try to reboot with typing linux single on Lilo, but the
On (22/01/04 19:55), Paul Morgan wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:57:44 +, Clive Menzies wrote:
On (22/01/04 14:31), Paul Morgan wrote:
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:05:01 +, Clive Menzies wrote:
I've just reorganised the partitions on a second (Seagate) drive in
a dual booting Dell
On (10/02/04 13:05), Strop Alexander wrote:
I installed woody on my system here. I tried to make a minimal system so
didn't use dselct or something like that,
because i tought i know apt. After the minimal installation i installed the
KDE with, apt-get install kde. No problem so far.
If i try
On (10/02/04 12:35), dm wrote:
Please help me configure my deskjet 600c, I keep finding lists every
like here
http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/printmodedescr.php#DJ6xx
and various listervs but no matter what I try i can not get it
configured.
I have tried foomatic, cups,
On (11/02/04 11:15), Dave Howorth wrote:
Hi,
Does anybody have any recommendations or warnings about ADSL ISPs in the
UK? I will also need (perhaps as part of the package) a mail address.
(I'm currently with BTO but their refusal to support anything other than
Outlook Express has
On (12/02/04 13:46), Dave Howorth wrote:
I wrote:
Does anybody have any recommendations or warnings about ADSL ISPs in
the UK?
Many thanks to all who made suggestions. I'll check them out and pick
one. I'm sure I won't go wrong with one from the list:
Andrews Arnold (AAISP)
Demon
On (12/02/04 16:29), Pedro M. wrote:
That's a good news. In any case, I would like to see Debian-Newbie email
list.
In view of recent discussion, this is unlikely to happen.
I first installed Debian as a complete novice having used mainly Macs and
some Windows PC's.
It was hard because
On (12/02/04 16:17), Clive Menzies wrote:
On (12/02/04 16:29), Pedro M. wrote:
That's a good news. In any case, I would like to see Debian-Newbie email
list.
In view of recent discussion, this is unlikely to happen.
I first installed Debian as a complete novice having used mainly
On (13/02/04 16:44), Nate Duehr wrote:
To: Debian-User users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:44:20 -0700
Subject: Re: Troubles to install debian in a Machintosh
On Feb 13, 2004, at 1:03 PM, Fernando R. Fernandes wrote:
Hello, I have a
On (15/02/04 00:28), Pigeon wrote:
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:28:26 +
Subject: Re: ADSL ISP in UK
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:12:09PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
ADSL Guide
gave Metronet (which I think is pay-as-you-go) a very good
On (13/02/04 09:27), Raquel Rice wrote:
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:54:59 +0100
Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
Chris Searle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I ran apt-get upgrade -u yesterday and noticed that it was
wanting to upgrade kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686.
The
On (19/02/04 20:54), Henry Hollenberg wrote:
I keep getting a line from dselect about packages that will
not be upgraded:
98 upgraded, 36 newly installed, 0 to remove and 71 not upgraded.
I wonder, have I screwed something up?
This morning I upgraded using aptitude and experienced
On (31/03/07 12:51), Andrei Popescu wrote:
But the example of Apache demonstrates that this is a non-issue. And
it's not me saying this. Have a look at
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/22/linux_v_windows_security/
and the entire report referenced there.
Interesting... thanks
Regards
On (11/04/07 16:18), Mark Hansen wrote:
Can anybody recommend a good, inexpensive, VPS hosting provider?
Checkout http://www.bluelinux.co.uk
Regards
Clive
--
www.clivemenzies.co.uk ...
...strategies for business
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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 ethernet card
2.) It is not detecting the SATA hard-drive
Can anyone tell me, how to over come this problem
At the
On (26/10/06 20:12), Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
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.
Hi
I've done something rather silly.
I've been experimenting with LVM on my laptop to be able to install
several systems with the flexibility to adjust sizes. I named the VG
'alpha' and the LVs a, b, c and d. /boot is a real partition, a = /,
b = /usr, c = /var and d = /tmp and all has been
On (29/10/06 20:11), Douglas Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:41:12PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
using lvm lvrename, I renamed all the LVs and changed the entries in
/etc/fstab to reflect the new names, rebooted and it hangs because it
can't find the / partition. I suspect
On (31/10/06 14:51), B. Hoffmann wrote:
I' ve been installing purely a base sytem this time as opposed to before
always going with the default install with Gnome.
Then proceeded to install xfce and synaptic and that's it so far. Don't
want any unnecessary fluff this time.
My question is
On (31/10/06 13:19), Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
Since getting into Debian I've progressed down the scale (of bloat) from
KDE to Xfce to Enlightenment to Fluxbox. I'm very happy now but guess I
may get bored and try something
On (01/11/06 11:06), Stephen Yorke wrote:
All,
I just installed Enlightenment on my system...now my Fluxbox will not launch.
Has anyone seen this before?
My setup is:
Debian Etch
GDM
Fluxbox
Enlightenment
When I install 'E' I was running in my Fluxbox environment...I clicked
On (01/11/06 13:10), Stephen Yorke wrote:
I do not have either of these files in my home folder...hmm...
Caveat - I don't use a display manager (gdm) but I have an .Xsession
file:
gkrellm
/usr/local/bin/firefox
x-terminal-emulator -T Mutt -e /usr/bin/mutt
/usr/bin/icedove
exec openbox
#
On (02/11/06 05:09), schmity wrote:
Newbie Here. The name of my linux machine is linuxbox. I am unable
to ping this machine from that very machine. I tried the following:
ping linuxbox
and
ping localhost
neither of which worked.
What is the output of
$ cat /etc/hosts
it should look
On (02/11/06 09:42), cothrige wrote:
Nope, I was wrong. I replaced dhcpcd with dhcp-client but nothing
actually changed. I still have about half of my boots coming up with
no internet connection. And with nothing at all coming up during boot
or in dmesg I cannot begin to guess what exactly
On (03/11/06 09:56), Bruno Boettcher wrote:
Hello!
i am battling with an architect and a construction engeneer, and both
are most of the time unable to give me the informations i want, and
both don't give me some sort of digital version of the plans of my
house...
nevertheless i
On (02/11/06 13:31), ChadDavis wrote:
Hey. This may be a dumb question, but . . .
No :)
I'm doing my first install on a laptop. I have found that I need to track
down drivers for both my ethernet and wireless cards. I already found them,
I think, but I am curious as to how I make them
On (31/10/06 13:19), Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
Since getting into Debian I've progressed down the scale (of bloat) from
KDE to Xfce to Enlightenment to Fluxbox. I'm very happy now but guess I
may get bored and try something
On (03/11/06 07:48), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
Google news reports that M$ is going to collaborate with Novell on Suse
Linux.
I wonder what that means... ;-)
Interesting but when you sup with the devil, you need a very long
spoon.
MS has a history of signing agreements with potential
On (03/11/06 08:56), ChadDavis wrote:
On 11/3/06, Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you have a wired ethernet connection, I wouldn't worry about the
wireless card until you've completed the install. You can then have the
advantage of an x-window environment to get wireless sorted
On (03/11/06 10:14), cothrige wrote:
snip
In doing this, and reading various documentation, I found references
to 'U' marking packages upgradeable. I also saw the listing for
Upgradable Packages and so I started nosing around in there,
thinking that perhaps I would use 'U' to select this
On (03/11/06 17:24), Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
Following updates I find I have several redundant kernels and
corresponding entries in GRUB. Is there a preferred method of removing
these, once I have established stability with later versions, or is my
first thought of 'rm'ing the relevant
On (03/11/06 10:06), Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
You'd be well advised to use the package management system to remove the
kernels. Personally, I use aptitude. Having checked which is your
running kernel, go into aptitude, and mark for removal those you want
rid of. If you mark the with
On (03/11/06 13:12), michael wrote:
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:24:23 +, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote
Following updates I find I have several redundant kernels and
corresponding entries in GRUB. Is there a preferred method of
removing these, once I have established stability with later
On (03/11/06 12:47), cothrige wrote:
dd * Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hmmm. Sounds like perhaps 'aptitude upgrade' is a little safer for
the newbie. Would you agree? I think I will stick with that for now,
and perhaps start using the UI for installing individual packages as I
On (03/11/06 17:06), cothrige wrote:
Unfortunately I have not gotten listbugs working yet. It exits with
an error and some complaint about a proxy. I will have to look into
its configuration, I use no proxy and so can't imagine what the
trouble is. I should have copied the error and so I
On (04/11/06 05:51), Russell L. Harris wrote:
I am running a fresh install (two weeks ago) of Etch, and I have been
using synaptic to install and update packages.
As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
Aptitude tells me that there is a broken package, and
On (10/11/06 09:53), Lubos Vrbka wrote:
could anybody please show me how to setup schroot so, that it
automatically bindmounts the /dev, /tmp and /home directories inside the
chroot when it is entered? until now i was using permanent bind mount in
my fstab. however, having the directories
On (10/11/06 10:35), Roelof Wobben wrote:
I have installed Debian Sarge on the second hard disk of my computer.
Because lilo couldn't see windows , which is installed on the first disk, I
couldn't start Windows.
So i did a mbr repair of the mbr.
But now i don't know how to het into Debian
On (10/11/06 12:14), Roelof Wobben wrote:
Oke,
I understand how to fix it.
But can't i be done with the boot-only cd from Sarge.
I have used this one to download and install Sarge.
I want to use lilo instead of grub.
I'm not sure if you can get to grub from the sarge disk but if you
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