modifying template xorg.conf file to change monitor resolution

2012-07-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
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can't seem to find xorg.conf

2012-05-24 Thread Michael Fothergill
in there This is a new installation. Maybe I'm looking with my eyes shut. Suggestions welcome. Regards Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANc

Re: Canonscan Lide 110 - anyone used this?

2011-11-23 Thread Michael Fothergill
an HP G2410 scanner and Debian for everything else. Michael Fothergill On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.ukwrote: I need to replace my Epson Perfection 1650 which has died after many years of faithful service. I have ordered a Canonscan Lide 110, which

Re: how stable is lenny

2011-09-23 Thread Michael Fothergill
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Long Wind longwind2...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: I am impressed with the username Long Wind.. I think it is an imaginative one. Cheers Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: pls respond asap

2011-08-03 Thread Michael Fothergill
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:09 PM, frank fr...@anotheria.net wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 19:58 +0200, Wonder Universe wrote: guys i want to delete this mail i had sent can u help me how to do dat? Sure, go kill yourself! A wonderful simple solution. I don't take stuff on the internet very

dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-22 Thread Michael Fothergill
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwDYbNIHyN0; in my case. If this would work I could avoid this non-free messing about and would be quite contented. Suggestions welcome Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

dumb question about blu ray drive configuration and playing blu ray movies etc....

2010-12-28 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, I have been investigating the world of 3D TV and Blu ray players etc.. I also found a blu ray drive for a PC in a store I visited. Googling around seems to produce some funny results. Some web pages say that no OS can handle blu ray including Windows 7 even though the

dumb question about blu ray drive configuration and playing blu ray movies etc....

2010-12-28 Thread Michael Fothergill
it to a blu ray disk in some way or other and I don't see why it couldn't involve a PC burning it using a blu ray drive. Can you burn blu ray disks in debian? Sorry about the first post I sent it in before finishing by mistake. Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
tried downloading a different file and got a similar set of errors a while back. Comments appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill not avaialable in Lenny as far as I can tell. clive is available for Lenny, and should behave in the same way. However, I can not vouch for it because it's

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
Op Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:51:08 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: I tried getting flashplayer-nonfree to work with youtube but it didn't quite succeed. Flashplayer-nonfree 9 is known to have some glitches, but 10.2 beta, downloadable from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Re: dumb question about blu ray drive configuration and playing blu ray movies etc....

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
Thanks a lot for enlightening me about this On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Roland Rosier rrdeb...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Hello Micheal, I have attempted to create a HTPC using Debian recently and one of the biggest problems was trying to play Blu-Ray disks. Whilst I

Re: dumb question about gnash youtube-dl and watching youtube videos...

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
browser support should continue to use Flash Player Square.' 'Download Flash Player Square' Thanks for the help. I installed flashplayer and it is working.. Michael Fothergill PS I also installed youtube-dl and it does work. I tried using totem and it didn't work. Neither did

making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread Michael Fothergill
welcome. Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktiktnwswvjaxjc_vomr4viltusnavo2bc_1jb...@mail.gmail.com

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread Michael Fothergill
this set of commands are doing here a bit more clearly while being glad that they worked. Thanks for the help. Regards Michael Fothergill On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:46 AM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: Converting your scans to text (ocr) might yield you some improvement. Ymmv depending

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread Michael Fothergill
Suggestions welcome. Michael Fothergill Just in the last day or two, someone wrote to the list (probably this one) that there are a couple of repos you can get to from Debian that hold proprietary software, and probably Adobe Acrobat.  Either scan for that info, or maybe someone

Re: EXT4 File system viewer for Windows 7 pro 64 bit

2011-01-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
on Windows and use it to get stuff from the Debian file system??? Michael Fothergill John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1294419033.5148.4.ca

weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Fothergill
it? I am using Firestarter and AMD64 Lenny. Comments appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Fothergill
the key ring installation and fix this? Thanks again Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTikYdzju4d28VdAc6QNq_E7G6n7sAJdQ55OJ1dm

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Fothergill
The message wording is correct. Regards Michael Fothergill I got a key expired warning for opera on one machine. Could you please post the exact message (copy-paste)? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman

lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

2011-02-06 Thread Michael Fothergill
of commission for a while but I think it is working again now. Comments appreciated. Michael Fothergill P.S. The window managing program that starts xwindows automatically from the login prompt doesn't seem to have installed so I am having to type startx at the terminal but then gnome fires up OK

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

2011-02-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
of the other instructions and then finally do the aptitude dist-upgrade and see how it goes. The other machine had no important work files on it. Regards Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

2011-02-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
? Regards Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktiknxs7n5zrx4ddvnntlji3uktqqoo0ec7urk...@mail.gmail.com

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

2011-02-10 Thread Michael Fothergill
switched to using Gnomebaker. I will try to copy what I can and then do the upgrade. Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi

udev grumble after lenny squeeze upgrade...

2011-02-11 Thread Michael Fothergill
this the upgrade went OK. Regards Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTinHKjG91d5AtquQ6wtcT0qb=xz0hcom7a1yv...@mail.gmail.com

dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

2007-04-05 Thread Michael Fothergill
land). Is there a file converter that is preferred by Debian users? Suggestions welcome. Regards Michael Fothergill _ MSN Hotmail is evolving - check out the new Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.co.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

2007-04-05 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:13:36 -0400 On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 17:08 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, I created a flow chart in Open Office

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

2007-04-05 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:27:40 +0200 On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 17:08 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: There are websites and software packages that I think

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

2007-04-05 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:58:24 +0200 Michael Fothergill wrote: The file will need to be edited... So open OO.o, select New Presentation, copy/paste

dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-13 Thread Michael Fothergill
these days? Is there a Debian video user list? End of dumb questions. Regards Michael Fothergill _ Match.com - Click Here To Find Singles In Your Area Today! http://msnuk.match.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dumb questions about video editing and camcorders...

2007-04-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
? Are the companies making it difficult for the free software folks to produce free drivers? If so is a big problem or can a sneaky workaround be figured out eventually by some means or other? Regards Michael Fothergill coriander maybe whats needed: Description: control IEEE1394 digital

dumb question about nvidia nforce and geforce cards and AMD boxes....

2007-04-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
you could you save money on games software, the OS software and other things by dumping Windows for high end gaming? What linux based applications could give a geforce 8800 GTX graphics card a serious 3D work out? Sorry about all the dumb questions. Regards Michael Fothergill

reluctance to switch from Windows XP to Vista, Dell and Linux

2007-04-23 Thread Michael Fothergill
to carry on with XP or even Windows 2000 in some companies I work with. Your comments on these trends are appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill _ Could you be the guest MSN Movies presenter? Click Here to Audition http

running an MSExcel add-in under linux spreadsheet.....

2007-05-05 Thread Michael Fothergill
basic and linux but not much about running MS add-ins under linux... Comments appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill _ Txt a lot? Get Messenger FREE on your mobile. https://livemessenger.mobile.uk.msn.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98......

2007-05-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
? Your comments on the merits of qemuctl and qemu-launcher would be appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill _ Txt a lot? Get Messenger FREE on your mobile. https://livemessenger.mobile.uk.msn.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

running qemu on an AMD64 box to guest Windows 98......

2007-05-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
Sorry I should have titled the email running qemu on an AMD64 box to guest Windows 98 NOT host Windows 98.. From: Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98.. Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 16:00:28 + Dear

Re: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98......

2007-05-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Michael G. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98.. Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 18:33:45 +0200 Michael Fothergill wrote: The instructions for a 32 bit i386 Linux host guesting what I assume is 32 bit

reconfiguring grub to see windows partition etc....

2007-05-21 Thread Michael Fothergill
me the option of firing up either Debian or Windows 98... Your suggestions on achieving this would be appreciated. I have discovered that Windows can be tough to install relative to most Linux distributions. Regards Michael Fothergill

Re: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98......

2007-05-25 Thread Michael Fothergill
Linux to copy the Windows program exe files etc to the Windows fake partition created by qemu and then go into Windows under qemu and then get it to install the software? Or are you not supposed to do it that way? Your comments are appreciated. Michael Fothergill

sound cards, real time kernels and 64studio.......

2007-06-08 Thread Michael Fothergill
kernel optimisation concerns Regards Michael Fothergill _ The next generation of Hotmail is here! http://www.newhotmail.co.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

burning a CD for distro from an archived iso file...

2007-06-12 Thread Michael Fothergill
for this distro? If not I will go back and download it again with wget and get a single iso fiel and avoid the pesky and unpredictable archive beastie. Comments appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill _ Need a break? Find your

Re: burning a CD for distro from an archived iso file...

2007-06-12 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Miguel J. Jiménez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: burning a CD for distro from an archived iso file... Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:18:30 +0200 Michael Fothergill escribió: Dear Debianists, I downloaded an iso file

Re: burning a CD for distro from an archived iso file...

2007-06-12 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Miguel J. Jiménez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: burning a CD for distro from an archived iso file... Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:57:44 +0200 Michael Fothergill escribió: OK, I went in the /tmp area and to my

testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian....

2007-06-25 Thread Michael Fothergill
manual stuff as well. Comments appreciated. I guess if I can get one of these deb files to work it could also be billed as a new Etch deb file. Regards Michael Fothergill _ Who's that on the Red Carpet? Play win glamorous

respectful slightly dumb question about 64 bit computing.....

2006-10-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
is: how much performance increase in database applications is typicall seen using 64 bit computing? Regards, Michael Fothergill _ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk

RE: Why is the debian BitTorrent tracker down ?

2006-11-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
/~steve/software/JTE/ for some alternative ways of downloading files. Michael Fothergill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Be the first to hear

Re: jigdo-newbie question

2006-11-09 Thread Michael Fothergill
to share with Sarge 3.1 r3 as a function of the total number of files in the Etch release? Thanks.. Michael Fothergill. Now you are talking. That is a persuasive advantage. A neat trick is to use jigdo to download DVD images, rather than CD images, even if your need is for CDs and even

dumb question about blind upgrades....

2006-11-22 Thread Michael Fothergill
in many situations and save a lot of time and money. Comments appreciated. Michael Fothergill _ Find Singles In Your Area Now With Match.com! msnuk.match.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

fairly ignorant jigdo question....

2006-11-23 Thread Michael Fothergill
Etch iso file? Should I use CD-R or CD-RW disks? I currently use CD-R ones. Regards. Michael Fothergill P.S. could scan in Sarge CD images but then create the Etch DVD images with jigdo? _ Windows Live™ Messenger has arrived

fairly dumb question about icewm floppy icon and desktop software....

2006-11-30 Thread Michael Fothergill
on how to get this system to work about as well as can be expected given the old hardwre would be appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill _ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http

trying to get a Benq4300U USB scanner working .....

2006-12-01 Thread Michael Fothergill
. Let's see if I can tweak it to do this. Here goes. I tried but I can't seem to get any further with it. I just get the no devices error again. Suggestions on getting further with it appreciated. Michael Fothergill _ Windows Live

alternatives to sane in scanner software.......

2006-12-02 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, I have given up on sane with my scanner. I tried Vuescan for Linux and it worked immediately. But it costs money. What alternatives to sane do you recommend that are proper free software? Are any of them on the Sarge 3.1 r3 CD set? Regards, Michael Fothergill

Re: alternatives to sane in scanner software.......

2006-12-02 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Andrew Malcolmson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: alternatives to sane in scanner software... Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 13:28:59 -0500 On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 12:10:18PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I have given up

dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

2006-12-03 Thread Michael Fothergill
these are 3 single layer 4.4 GB DVDs. Once Etch comes out and everyones starts to work on Lenny, then maybe it could get to thirty CDs or 4 or 5 DVDs. Once it gets to that size would dual layered DVD iso images be considered to be parked in the repositories? Regards Michael Fothergill

apt-cdrom and dvd's

2006-12-04 Thread Michael Fothergill
to the appropriate CDROM number in the Sarge CD set. It would be nice if I can tweak it to default to the DVD number (either 1 or 2) instead. Sorry about the dumbness and laziness and non manual bedtime reading and ignoring Eric S Raymond etc. Regards Michael Fothergill

OS may not have recognised my DVD....

2006-12-05 Thread Michael Fothergill
on my machine perfectly and I used the installer to check the integrity of the two DVDs I burned. They are fine. So at some level Debian can see this DVD drive perfectly well starting from scratch using the installer. Comments appreciated. Michael Fothergill

Re: OS may not have recognised my DVD....

2006-12-05 Thread Michael Fothergill
: Unable to stat the mount point /dev/hdc/ - stat (20 Not a directory) E: Failed to mount the cdrom. OK, I am ignorant, please help me. Regards, Michael Fothergill hdd: LITE-ON LTR-48246K, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM

Re: [man-lug] Minimal Linux Distrib

2006-12-06 Thread Michael Fothergill
it so GOODBYE Novell ... So now the Difficult Bit What distro do I Use Use Debian.. It recognizes old hardware well. Michael Fothergill It only needs to store mail and maybe ldap or ftp So I don't need X... The Hardware Spec Is AMD 586Dx4 100 66BogoMips WOW 32Mb EDO RAM Floppy

recommended Debian package for burning CDs...

2006-12-06 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, What is the recommended Debian package for burning CDs (and DVDs)? On Fedora I think I have been using Nautilus. Regards Michael Fothergill _ It's Hotmail's 10th Birthday! Come and play Pass the Parcel

reinstalling Sarge 3.1 r4 from a DVD....

2006-12-06 Thread Michael Fothergill
only and no cheating with any CD images?? Regards Michael Fothergill _ Find Singles In Your Area Now With Match.com! msnuk.match.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
. But maybe there is some smart way to combine the apt-cdrom -d/media/cdrom1 stuff with apt-get install so that I can specify the DVD drive. Suggestions are welcome here... Regards, Michael Fothergill _ Be the first to hear what's

Re: alternatives to sane in scanner software.......

2006-12-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
even really crappy alternative? What is xscanimage? Does it work? Is it in the packages? Even an abacus connected to the scanner would be better than nothing. You coujld GPL it. Regards Michael Fothergill I'll have to try it more seriously, but my first impression is that it's

Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install. Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:28:39 -0800 On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:16:24AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: But maybe there is some smart way

Re: alternatives to sane in scanner software.......

2006-12-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: alternatives to sane in scanner software... Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:27:04 -0800 On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:24:35AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Hello after a while on this. I have tried

Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-09 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install. Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 17:03:51 -0800 On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:42:20AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL

dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks....

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Fothergill
install kernel-image-2.6.17-6-686 kernel-source-2.6.17 kernel-headers-2.6.17-6-686 cd /usr/src tar xjvf kernel-source-2.6.17.tar.bz2 rm linux ln -s kernel-source-2.6.17 linux Where would I find a guide that you feel is kosher? Regards, Michael Fothergill

Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks....

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:53:30 +0200 On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:47:42PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I am running

Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks....

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:58:18 +0200 On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:47:31AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: First you should try installing

reinstalling has messed up the printer configuration.......

2006-12-12 Thread Michael Fothergill
is going good and I am pleased that DVD situation now works as it should do. My next project is to learn to use jigdo. But I can't move on to this if I can't figure out what sort of rat poison has got to the printer config.. Feeling smarter and dumber at the same time, Michael Fothergill

installing gutenprint on Debian

2006-12-12 Thread Michael Fothergill
to see the driver when it is installed by the above recipe if I end up having to use it. Comments appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill _ It's Hotmail's 10th Birthday! Come and play Pass the Parcel http://www.msnpasstheparcel.com

dumb question about installing etch....

2006-12-13 Thread Michael Fothergill
to install Etch. Suggestions appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill _ Find Singles In Your Area Now With Match.com! msnuk.match.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: dumb question about installing etch....

2006-12-15 Thread Michael Fothergill
Lale wrote: Michael Fothergill wrote: If I wanted to install etch as a net install, how do I do this? On the installation web page there is a choice of a weekly snapshot or a daily built image. The daily built image has a netinstall CD in it. Is there a netinstall CD for the weekly one

dumb question about jigdo and i386 and AMD 64 versions of Etch......

2006-12-16 Thread Michael Fothergill
. It seems as though the jigdo download manager program isn't much use for doing this at present. Correct me if I am wrong. Regards, Michael Fothergill _ It's Hotmail's 10th Birthday! Come and play Pass the Parcel http

question about using jigdo....

2006-12-16 Thread Michael Fothergill
image. I am using a CD-R disk and so no rewriting is possible. I most definitely need jigdo to write the new file to the hard disk... Comments on this appreciated. Michael Fothergill _ Think you're a film buff? Play

dumb question about gnome bittorrent...

2006-12-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
routine that you have to go through thbat is Debian specific to do it or could I copy the instructions I sed in Fedora to ape this correctly? Regards Michael Fothergill _ Think you're a film buff? Play the Movie Mogul quiz and win

general question about jigdo, OS architectures and server load/space....

2006-12-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
maximum use of jigdo in the ways I am describing or would it be a beaurocratic nightmare or a waste of time with no benefit, or worse would it cock up and interfere with the development of Lenny? If you think this a garbage idea feel free to say so. I don't mind. Regards Michael Fothergill

odd error with jigdo,,,

2006-12-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
are there and the servers are working. Something is wrong at my end... jigdo sees the jigdo file for the DVD image and reads it in OK as far as I can see. I press return to get past the CD/DVD scan because I am not using it. Suggestions welcome here Regards, Michael Fothergill

Re: odd error with jigdo,,,

2006-12-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: odd error with jigdo,,, Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 07:50:53 -0800 On Sun, 2006-17-12 at 14:02 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I have been using jigdo to download the Etch RC1 first

Etch froze me out....

2006-12-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
. I think it was still running jigdo. More keyboard tapping and mouse waggling made no difference. So I rebooted. The system seems OK again. Is this serious? Regards Michael Fothergill _ It's Hotmail's 10th Birthday! Come

Re: Etch froze me out....

2006-12-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Etch froze me out Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:15:53 -0600 Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I was running jigdo downloading a DVD image and I had a few other packages and windows open. I

jigdo says the checksums don't match on my Etch DVD download...

2006-12-18 Thread Michael Fothergill
the instructions patiently until I have fixed the problem. Loading an OS with a corrupted CDROM or DVD is a waste of time. I have learned this in the past. Regards, Michael Fothergill _ Think you're a film buff? Play the Movie Mogul quiz

dumb question about mounting iso file as loop device....

2006-12-18 Thread Michael Fothergill
to take ages for the DVD to be scanned by jigdo before it can get around to making the CD iso. Would it be faster using the iso file on the hard drive together the loop command? I don't need to update the DVD iso itself just make the CD images from it? Regards, Michael Fothergill

DVD#1 of Etch RC1 does not contain all the files for CD#2 of Etch RC1

2006-12-18 Thread Michael Fothergill
command and supply more files to continue * Comments appreciated, Regards Michael Fothergill _ It's Hotmail's 10th Birthday! Come and play Pass the Parcel http

the three missing files........

2006-12-18 Thread Michael Fothergill
to wait. OK: Checksums match, image is good! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Regards Michael Fothergill _ It's Hotmail's 10th Birthday! Come and play Pass the Parcel http://www.msnpasstheparcel.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

making Etch RC1 CD images from DVD using jigdo contd.

2006-12-19 Thread Michael Fothergill
RC1 from DVD#1 Etch RC1. I will keep you posted on this. Regards Michael Fothergill _ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

more farting around with jigdo and Etch RC1...

2006-12-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
have as a starting point to grind out new updated iso files. I will then use them to make a new set of CD images as before. Suggestions on doing the above more efficiently in the future are welcome. Regards, Michael Fothergill

RE: Linux friendly colour printer?

2006-12-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
Samsung also have Linux drivers. Regards, Michael Fothergill Good print quality Plain paper and consumables that don't have too short a shelf life. Doesn't have to be the cheapest printer on the market, but I am not looking for a professional machine designed for heavy

RE: New User Information Request

2006-12-20 Thread Michael Fothergill
. Hope this helps a bit. Regards Michael Fothergill Thanks _ Think you're a film buff? Play the Movie Mogul quiz and win fantastic prizes! http://www.msnmoviemogul.com

upgrading from Sarge to Etch on an old PC...

2006-12-25 Thread Michael Fothergill
set of commands. I could just wipe Sarge and install Etch from scratch to get around this problem, but I would like to try and make the upgrade work. Your suggestions are appreciated. Regards, Michael Fothergill _ Windows Live

Re: testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian....

2007-06-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:20:24 -0700 On Mon, 2007-25-06 at 13:54 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Sorry, this was meant fort the list.. :) Dear

Re: testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian....

2007-06-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
is termed a virtual package... What does that mean? Comments appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill P.S. What is a pseudo package? There is a psuedo-package in Debian called WNPP and you file a special bug called an ITP or RFP. ITP is intent to package, meaning that you

libktable-dev and tktable-dev

2007-06-30 Thread Michael Fothergill
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pdf document viewer problem in espacenet

2007-07-11 Thread Michael Fothergill
the original images but you need some weird tiff plugin that iceweasel scored a blank on. Comments appreciated. Michael Fothergill _ The next generation of Hotmail is here! http://www.newhotmail.co.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

RE: pdf document viewer problem in espacenet

2007-07-11 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: pdf document viewer problem in espacenet Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:36:42 + Dear Debianists I have been searching on the espace patent web site. You can get the original patent document from the site

can't get the login window to appear after leaving machine...

2007-07-21 Thread Michael Fothergill
repeatedly I can't get the machine to respond at all. I can't log back in to save myself. The only solution is to reboot. Can anyone think of a solution to this? Regards Michael Fothergill _ Win tickets to the sold out Live Earth

Re: can't get the login window to appear after leaving machine...

2007-07-21 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: can't get the login window to appear after leaving machine... Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:52:52 +0300 On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:27:32AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, I am running ADM64

dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat....

2007-07-28 Thread Michael Fothergill
aptitude etc how to find it? Then I can get the package from the internet. Comments appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill _ The next generation of Hotmail is here! http://www.newhotmail.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat....

2007-07-28 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Tommi Asiala [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:52:50 +0300 Hi Michael, To us to help you with the installing from tarball we would have to know what

Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat....

2007-07-28 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Tommi Asiala [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:30:00 +0300 Michael Fothergill wrote: I suggest you should try this new thing called Searching the web

Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat....

2007-07-28 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:37:23 -0500 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/28/07 13:20, Michael Fothergill wrote: From: Tommi Asiala [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat....

2007-07-28 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:47:24 -0400 On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 05:45:24PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: I tried installing Adobe Acrobat from a tarball

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