Re: Booting Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on MacBookPro 8.2

2014-09-21 Thread Andrew Winnenberg
On Sunday, September 21, 2014 05:43:40 AM Lars Noodén wrote:
 I've installed Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.6 (wheezy) from a mini.iso CD 
image
 on a MacBookPro 8.2.  The installation seemed to go smoothly, including
 installing Grub, but when it is time to boot, the machine only ever
 shows a blinking folder with a question mark, indicating no system.  The
 system can be booted from the installation CD via the choice to boot
 from first hard disk, so that part of the installation worked.
 
 What additional step is needed so that the system boots on its own from
 the internal drive without intervention from the installation CD?
 
 Regards,
 /Lars

It sounds like the install went okay, but the mac is unsure what device to 
boot from. Try holding down the left 'option' key during boot and see if you 
can select your hard disk from the list that appears.

Andrew

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Re: when an xterm starts, it always starts in ~/Documents

2012-02-27 Thread Andrew Winnenberg
On 02/24/2012 05:59 PM, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
 Whenever I start an xterm, I notice that it starts in ~/Documents rather
 than in the home directory. Why is that? Where is it set?
 
 And can it be set to the HOME directory?
 -- 
 Sian Mountbatten
 Algol 68 specialist
 
 

I noticed similar behavior using emacs in KDE4 a while back.

The quick and dirty solution was to open system settings, navigate to
account details, select paths, and set my documents path to my home
directory (I think this is what Hans was trying to suggest you do).

-- Andrew


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Re: editing pdf files

2012-01-14 Thread Andrew Winnenberg

On 01/13/2012 01:50 PM, richard wrote:

Greetings,


Is there any free app which can edit pdf files.
Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read
it with another copy of evince and you can see the alterations.
Open it on a poxy winblos machine with acrobat or acroread, and the edited
sections are as the original.
xpdf also shows the original before editing..
help 

TIA

Richard




I've had good luck with Okular. At least, I haven't had any of the 
issues you describe above when taking the document to a Windows machine.


Andrew


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Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-05 Thread Andrew Winnenberg
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On 11/5/10 8:56 AM, John Hasler wrote:
 ZephyrQ writes:
 Lately, though, Debian seems 'stale'.
 
 If you are talking about a desktop and want to be on the bleeding edge
 use Unstable.  It's quite usable.

Consider installing apt-listbugs if you're going to run sid. It gives
you a little list of bugs against packages you're installing/upgrading
so you can decide if you want to go through with the install. I've been
saved from catastrophe more then once by that little package.

Drew
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Re: ad blocking squid

2010-03-28 Thread Andrew Winnenberg
On Saturday 27 March 2010 08:53:12 am Jozsef Vadkan wrote:
 I want to block ads on the client side. [i mean when the people surf the
 net, they shouldn't see any ads]
 
 Can anyone post a link to a good howto, how to set up a transparent
 squid proxy, that can filter ads? [on client side! - router isn't
 running openwrt, etc.]
 
 Thank you!
 

I haven't used it myself, but the adzapper package appears to be an ad-blocker 
for squid.


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Re: Comparison of using Sidux as opposed to Squeeze

2010-03-22 Thread Andrew Winnenberg
 Anyone had any experience using Sidux and how usable was it compared to
 Squeeze?

I have both a Sidux and a Squeeze install at the moment. Usability
wise they're roughly the same, though Sidux is generally faster about
getting fixes in place. Neither Sidux nor Squeeze will be as stable
as... stable, however.

I think choosing between the two really comes down to what you want
from your distro. Sidux provides a pre-configured desktop install with
a later kernel and a few nice usability scripts. If you want a
pre-configued KDE4 or XFCE install and don't mind doing some
maintenance then Sidux is worth exploring. If not, then I personally
wouldn't bother. Their spices are nice, but hardly necessary if
you're used to running vanilla Debian.


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Re: [semi-SOLVED] Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

2010-03-20 Thread Andrew Winnenberg
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:24:11 -0500
 Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:

 ...

 For example, which apps to use open jpeg files, PDF files, ODF, DOC,
 XLS, etc, whether I'm in Thunar, Thunderbird, Evolution, Mutt,
 gentoo or any of a dozen other file managers.

 There should be a freedesktop standard for file associations.

 I guess you're right.  It would be nice to be able to set that sort of
 thing once, and then have all applications respect the choice, at least
 by default.

 Well, a quick search seems to indicate that some DEs already have this,
 e.g. Gnome, with its /etc/gnome/defaults.lst.  I guess you want
 something that's DE independent.

 Celejar


I may be mistaken, but isn't that functionality provided by shared-mime-info?

--Drew


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