Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-21 Thread Stephen Fishpaste
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 09:26:17AM +0800, Huang, Tao wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:30 AM, ABS Doug absd...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I rent a room. The router is in a different part of the house. WiFi is included in the rent. I already asked about moving the router, but that isn't gunna

Re: Clarification: Opinions why: What's the best DVD setup for Debian AMD64 system

2010-07-11 Thread Stephen Fishpaste
Well that took care of the worst of the flash issues. I suppose I will just have to wait until Adobe gets their crap together realizes that Linux users are a rapidly growing percentage of the software using market. The results arw that using the 32bit libs plays the video streams; but there

Re: Testing: Weekly Build - 7/26/2010

2010-07-30 Thread Stephen Fishpaste
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 09:51:59PM -0500, Chris wrote: Greetings folks, I downloaded the above DVD (i386) and installed it to my HP / Compaq nx6325 laptop. [ ... snipped] This was an outstanding install without any issues. If this is shades of what 6.0 will be like, I can't wait.

Re: Mailing list protocol

2010-08-26 Thread Stephen Fishpaste
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:30:21PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: [...] seem to be a soul who understands how to read email text, and how to properly reply to a technical list (probably because they're all using the crappy Gmail MUA): It's not that bad; I've actually grown fond of it and I'm a

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-11 Thread Stephen Fishpaste
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:16:26AM -0400, B. Alexander wrote: I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have memory

Re: Fwd: [Mw] Gmail accounts

2010-09-29 Thread Stephen Fishpaste
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 01:09:46AM -0400, Doug wrote: This from the amateur (ham radio) microwave list, for your information. (Previous message) Folks It appears that the GMAIL server is not accepting microwave list mail when you are the originator of the message. I will have my ISP look

Older Toshiba won't restart only halt

2010-11-09 Thread Stephen Fishpaste
Greetings! I've had this issue for some time with this laptop through the various incarnations of Debian. This is a Toshiba Satellite 1800 circa 2004 with maxed out ram 512 Mb and it runs just fine with LXDE on it. Presently I'm running Squeeze, with proposed Sid updates. I've never been able to