Re: still no macromedia flash support?

2005-01-26 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette matinée ensoleillée du vendredi 21 janvier 2005, vers 09:53, William Xuuu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait: > Firefox complains "Install Missing Plugins" now and then, though as > directed, i installed it, but it still complains. Looking into > `~/.mozilla/plugins', i found that libfla

Re: X Client Errors over SSH

2005-01-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 21:00 +, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > > Has anyone been getting problems forwarding X over SSH recently? I > remember a while back there was an xlibs upgrade and since then I have > had problems running programs on my PB over SSH to my x86 box. Half of > the time things

Re: G3/300, OS X and Darwin..

2005-01-26 Thread teefour
Nathan Templeton wrote: for setting up things like booting, the netbsd pages list several of the specialities of macs (ie, helped me to get debian running on 8600, 8550 and 7600). http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html hth, teefour -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Status so far Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
the other thing is, it wouldnt make sense to western union money transfer it to me as im in australia. What's the problem with Australia, BTW? Are you aware that Ben is living in Australia ATM? No im not stalking him ;) thats great that he is. are you ben? where? probably next door :) thats grea

Re: Status so far Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 23:46 +0100, Colin Leroy wrote: > On 27 Jan 2005 at 09h01, Dean Hamstead wrote: > > > the other thing is, it wouldnt make sense to western union money > > transfer it to me as im in australia. What's the problem with Australia, BTW? Are you aware that Ben is living in Aust

Re: Status so far Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Colin Leroy
On 27 Jan 2005 at 09h01, Dean Hamstead wrote: Hi, > the other thing is, it wouldnt make sense to western union money > transfer it to me as im in australia. pay pal would be the way, but > im investigating if apple store will magically let more than one > person pay for an item. assuming people

Re: Status so far Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
in response to myself, 512mb ram costs an extra $75. $1ghz costs an extra $325. which makes no sense. other options include dvdrw for an extra $100 wireless internal bluetooth and airport extreme or combos therewith. obviously airport express is unsupported. unless ben feels like some serious rever

Re: Status so far Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
i think i mentioned that i havent quite formulated just how im going to get the money together. if apple store let you pay off items that would be ideal from the donations thus far we may even be able to get hmm the larger of the two models ben has said that of course he wants a free computer but w

Re: Fwd: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
im not complaining. Mac mini seems to be aimed at just getting macosx on peoples desktops. It doesnt ship with a keyboard, mouse or monitor and they are making noise about how it will use your existing peripherals. they havent replaced their existing lines, just added a new one to try and make mone

Re: Status so far Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Me, well my small company, is up for donating $100 if I can do it easily by card. Thanks, Rory On 26/01/05, Dean Hamstead ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > thus far we have (im assuming US dollars here people) > > Dean Hamstead > $50 > > Keving Hendricks > $50 > > Barry Hawkins > $50 > > Harvey Us

X Client Errors over SSH

2005-01-26 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, Has anyone been getting problems forwarding X over SSH recently? I remember a while back there was an xlibs upgrade and since then I have had problems running programs on my PB over SSH to my x86 box. Half of the time things like evolution won't start because X says there was a bad reques

Re: Status so far Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Paddy de Búrca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is a small price to pay for all the work being done. Count me in for $50 as well. I can pay by PayPal. Paddy. On Jan 26, 2005, at 12:19, Dean Hamstead wrote: thus far we have (im assuming US dollars here people) Dean Hamstead $50 Keving Hendricks $

Re: Questions about Open Firmware

2005-01-26 Thread Brad Boyer
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:19:15PM +, Joerg Sommer wrote: > some questions about Open Firmware. > > Can Open Firmware read a msdos partition table? Doesn't look like my G5 has it, but I think my 7600 had it. I don't have it online at the moment. > Is it true, that OF can read ext2? > http://

Re: Fwd: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Karl Klug
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:19:39 -0600, Tommy Trussell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:14:49 +1100, Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > would seem that sound doesnt work and the hard disk is > > a laptop hard disk > > > > (5400rpm, 2mb sounds laptop to me) > > Yes, other p

iBook G4 and Kyocera FS-1550

2005-01-26 Thread Carsten Friede
Hello. I've bought a iBook G4 and still want to keep my Kyocera laser printer. I know that this model is a little bit old fashioned, but it produces fine results. With my other linux box (x86-PC(already sold) with Debian 3.0)I had no problems to get it running, but now some have occured: - Is th

Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Colin Leroy
On 27 Jan 2005 at 00h01, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Hi Ben, > Hehehe :) Well, in fact, what I need the most at the moment isn't a > mini, which I would surely like having, but also seems to be a trivial > platform to support (basically an iBook G4 with a few changes), but There's a macmini d

Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 13:56 +0200, Nathan Templeton wrote: > Just became part of the list, but from what I've read, Ben deserves > one.. I'm in for $50.00 however, I don't have a paypal acct, being that > I live in Turkey at the present... If he can help me get Debian running > on my G3/300 I'll

Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 08:07 +0100, Philipp Kaeser wrote: > hej, > > count me in for another $50. > > > ideally it would be good if apple's store had some sort > > of method of ordering and paying off. although they may > > have figt vouchers (which would be the way to go). just > > buy the gift v

Re: Fwd: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Tommy Trussell
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:14:49 +1100, Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > would seem that sound doesnt work and the hard disk is > a laptop hard disk > > (5400rpm, 2mb sounds laptop to me) Yes, other places have reported that. Some have even reported exactly which model it is. Apple probably

Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Nathan Templeton
Just became part of the list, but from what I've read, Ben deserves one.. I'm in for $50.00 however, I don't have a paypal acct, being that I live in Turkey at the present... If he can help me get Debian running on my G3/300 I'll even up it to $75! lol -hth -nathan On Wednesday, January 26, 20

Status so far Re: Buy benh (or other) a minimac Re: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
thus far we have (im assuming US dollars here people) Dean Hamstead $50 Keving Hendricks $50 Barry Hawkins $50 Harvey Ussery $50 Dylan Beaudette $10 Philip Kaeser $50 Wilhelm Fitzpatrick $50 so $310, we are about 4 donations short Dean Dean Hamstead wrote: Actually, ive been meaning to make some so

Re: Fwd: Hi question about mac - mini

2005-01-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
would seem that sound doesnt work and the hard disk is a laptop hard disk (5400rpm, 2mb sounds laptop to me) Dean Tommy Trussell wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:44:15 +1100 (EST), Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: has anyone even put linux on the mac-mini yet? Here's a blog of a guy who did,

Re: gramofile wav format not accepted by other sound programs

2005-01-26 Thread Martin Habets
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:43:43PM +0100, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:27:10PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > My guess is that gramofile uses its own WAV file writing code instead of > > using something proven like libsndfile: > > > > http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsnd

Questions about Open Firmware

2005-01-26 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi, some questions about Open Firmware. Can Open Firmware read a msdos partition table? Is it true, that OF can read ext2? http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_boot.html (Section "Bootloader" or search for ext2) If so, why yaboot needs an extra partition? Bye, Joerg. -- Geld allein macht