Re: dselect alternatives

2004-07-14 Thread ricktaylor
From: Steven Satelle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:57:43 +, ricktaylor wrote: Personally, I'd use kpackage or synaptic in X and dselect in a terminal {mainly because synaptic and kpackage are easier to read... the I've always found that unless I stick to one

Re: dselect alternatives

2004-07-14 Thread ricktaylor
From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Aptitude, apt-get and dpkg are more than enough to help me out in a command line environ. Actually I do not use any other interfaces for package management. Then... Why are you complaining? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: dselect alternatives

2004-07-14 Thread ricktaylor
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yesterday apt-get maliciously lunched my install (okay, okay, I was trying to upgrade firestarter even though apt-get told me to file a bug report because it thought the install was impossible... more on that coming up soon). :} I'd think

Re: Gallery

2004-07-17 Thread ricktaylor
From: Thijs Koetsier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Why are you wasting your time installing Linux, when you could buy a working PC out-of-the-box with Windows, at your local supermarket? I thought those all ran Linspire. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: recommendation for digital camera

2004-07-17 Thread ricktaylor
From: Adam Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 07 July 2004 03:40, Chris Metzler wrote: I don't own a digital camera, unfortunately; so take any advice I may give with a block-o-salt. But I've seen several people here who *do* own digital cameras suggest the purchase of a USB

Re: Installing a downloaded .deb ?

2004-07-17 Thread RickTaylor
http://annys.eines.info/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+dpkg Hi, I'm familiar with apt-get install blahblah.deb but having downloaded 'blahblah.deb' how do I now install ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... This message has been brought to you in part by a grant from Columba. -- To

Re: recommendation for digital camera

2004-07-18 Thread RickTaylor
On Saturday 17 July 2004 09:40, Adam Funk wrote: I have a digital camera and I agree with this. I've never bothered to hook the camera up to try gphoto. I just put the cards in the card reader and copy the jpg files to my hard drive. Anyway, I have an Olympus C750 (now

Re: help setting up sound

2004-07-18 Thread RickTaylor
http://www.cmedia.com.tw/download/OS_e-cmi9739_index.htm Michael B. Levy wrote: Folks, I'm having trouble figuring out how to configure my sound card (I'm running Sarge), due to the fact that I can't quite understand the specs of my motherboard. My computer's specs seem to indicate a

Re: Installing a downloaded .deb ?

2004-07-18 Thread RickTaylor
Thanks Rick. I solved it by downloading source but the link comes in very useful as my knowledge of dpkg so far has been very close to zero. Dpkg is a bit easier... I like stuff compiled from source a little better... with Dpkg you can try out stuff a lot easier. :} Believe it or not there's

Re: [linux-audio-user] Virtual Mixing Desk

2004-07-19 Thread RickTaylor
On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 20:12, R Parker wrote: R Parker wrote: colorful approach : A little square which is white for 0, black for 1, and taking a scale of gray colors for intermediate values. You'd ajust it the same way as a knob, pressing the mouse button and going

Re: [linux-audio-user] Virtual Mixing Desk

2004-07-20 Thread RickTaylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How 'bout those little number like they use in high endish graphics programs? ...Where you have a row of numbers that it looks like they pulled out of a slot machine and you can either click on them and enter a new number, use the up and down arrows on the

Re: [linux-audio-user] Virtual Mixing Desk

2004-07-20 Thread RickTaylor
Stefan, that sounds almost like blenders slide buttons . they basically like that (if it doesn't get mangled): /\ | 0.800 | \/ you can: a: click on the edges to change the value step by step (ctrl+click for larger steps) b: click and move your mouse to

Re: [linux-audio-user] Mellotron

2004-07-20 Thread RickTaylor
Ryan, It's not *impossible* I bet someone with a lot of patience could set some reasonable loop points. The mellotron is a neat sounding instrument, I'd be really excited to have digital copies of the original tape loops. But each of these key presses is about a minute long and the

Re: [linux-audio-user] Virtual Mixing Desk

2004-07-20 Thread RickTaylor
Olivier, But about color scale squares, just imagine how compact it can get : 8 tracks with 4 levels each, that's 32 little square on a gtk drawing area. I believe white to black would be very efficient, and rolling over a level or adjusting it, the status bar would get you some

RE: dpkg/apt question

2004-07-23 Thread RickTaylor
we are now going to roll out these changes to all our machines in this complex (30+) and another 15-20 machines in two satellite offices. thanks all, Preston There are a large number of utility programs just in case you're unaware of them. Stuff to let you do ongoing package management,

Re: Debian install breaks on 'Configuring Locales'

2004-07-23 Thread RickTaylor
This probably isn't proper form, kosher or even cool... but... It's a quick way around the problem. Hit control-c at the screen, run dselect with ftp as the method {set it in the first dselect screen} and update the system. Alternately, restart the machine, hope it comes back up and do the

Re: [Csnd] Debian install breaks on 'Configuring Locales'

2004-07-23 Thread RickTaylor
This probably isn't proper form, kosher or even cool... but... It's a quick way around the problem. Sorry about that... I didn't realize this was crossposted to csound. {Why is this crossposted to sound?} ... This message has been brought to you in part by a grant from Columba. -- To

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-26 Thread RickTaylor
Vijaya, Thanks but i crashed my machine while playing around with lilo.So i am reinstalling it all over again. First is mandrake then debian But i have a doubt while installing debian there is an option make system bootable At the end of the install it will offer you the option to add all

Desktop

2004-07-26 Thread RickTaylor
Is there an HTML desktop for linux? That's all I want to run... an HTML desktop {like active desktop} and a lightweight windowmanager. Is it possible to imbed Mozilla somehow? Dillo? A plain HTML canvas? ... Brought to you by jEdit ...Which rocks massively. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: svg support under Linux

2004-08-02 Thread ricktaylor
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/ -Original Message- From: John Taber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: svg support under Linux 1) do any of the browsers support SVG or support the Adobe plug-in ? 2) do either gtk

Re: new to debian

2004-07-12 Thread ricktaylor
From: Michael B. Levy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) I was going to copy my old /etc/fstab to the new installation, but I don't think that will work since to the best of my knowledge Debian doesn't use supermount or magicdev. Is this correct? I've never compiled a kernel before, and the idea

Re: dselect alternatives

2004-07-13 Thread ricktaylor
From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apt-get has MUCH MUCH better dependency handling (yes I know about that How's that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dselect alternatives

2004-07-13 Thread ricktaylor
From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apt-get has MUCH MUCH better dependency handling (yes I know about that How's that? Mainly apt-get doesn't screw with things that way