audio / video system

2006-12-04 Thread Adam Hardy
I'm aiming to put together a PC with Etch as the OS, to use in my living room as a hifi, TV and DVD player. I've been surfing around alot looking for interesting sites or mailing lists where people are doing this, to find out more about the software and the hardware involved, but I'm not havin

Re: opening URLs in Firefox from Thunderbird using upstream programs

2006-12-04 Thread Adam Hardy
Marc Shapiro on 04/12/06 01:38, wrote: I am running Etch and want to continue to use the branded Firefox (2.0) and Thunderbird. I do not want to switch to Icedove and IceWeasel. I have been running the upstream Firefox 2.0 for a while, now, with no problems. When I switched from debian-thund

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-04 Thread Ken Irving
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:17:10AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > ... I can easily > configure/use aptitude such that the "installation" and "garbage > disposal" actions are carried out in separate steps, but I choose not to > do so. So... That sounds pretty much what I was trying to find, a way

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 03:33:39 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Damon L. Chesser wrote: > >Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > [install and delete stuff with apt-get and aptitude] > > >>$ aptitude search '~i' | md5sum > >>06f9da945e91f95eb2913ed081809159 - > >> > >>I rest my case. > > > But you have f

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-04 Thread David Baron
On Monday 04 December 2006 00:05, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/03/06 13:00, John Hasler wrote: > > David Baron writes: > >> just maybe I could get jpegs out of this thing ... > > > > No one would use lossy compression on medical x-rays. > > But those little bits of noise make life so interesting!!!

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-04 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe escribe: > I don't know if we both on page 20, but Windows users are often at > luck because because there far more Windows 'experts' than GNU ones; > Windows help is easily at hand; Windows software is all over the > place; Also, my brother loves Debian (except that he wouldn'

High Availability E-Mail Solution? Seeking Recommendations

2006-12-04 Thread Tim Post
Hello to all on the list :) I'm looking for a high availability e-mail solution that would suit a single (or several) domains easily deployed across a farm of 5 or 6 identical servers. I've tried the following things : 1 - exim/qmail on a single system image (Open SSI with CVIP/LVS using weight

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [install and delete stuff with apt-get and aptitude] $ aptitude search '~i' | md5sum 06f9da945e91f95eb2913ed081809159 - I rest my case. But you have failed completely to notice that installation and garbage collection/disposal are conceptual

The same hardware different ethernet device names

2006-12-04 Thread Marcin Giedz
Hello, I've got several Intel server platforms on every platform I upgraded BIOS to the latest version and installed Debian Etch. On five of them I have two ethernet interfaces eth0/eth1 but ONLY one has eth1 eth2 actually eth2/eth1 - this order. debian:~# cat /proc/net/dev Inter-| Re

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-04 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 03 December 2006 22:56, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 21:57 +0200, David Baron wrote: > > So I tried off Sid medcon (command line converter) and xmedcon (with GUI > > and viewer). Segmentation faults, probably in common library used by the > > two programs. Will try some o

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Ken Irving wrote: On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:38:46AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061202 06:26]: On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 05:34:23AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: Does synaptic do something better than apt-get? It doesn't appear to be very usable on a co

Re: Newbie trying to install FrostWire.

2006-12-04 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Kelly, On 12/3/06, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/2/06, Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if it is the time of the night here or whether it's > because I am a newbie, but I can't seem to sort this out in my head. I > thought I should write this before I do

Re: How to install Google Notebook on Iceweasel?

2006-12-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 22:40:17 -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: [...] > (Incidentally, I'm on a Debian Etch/testing system and Firefox is still > Firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060830 > Firefox/1.5.0.7 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2)); Iceweasel is nowhere to be

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 17:55:08 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 07:01:07PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > - Do you alternate between running as root and running with "sudo > > aptitude"? That causes confusion with the configuration file. > > You keep saying this. No one h

managing multimedia lab

2006-12-04 Thread roberto
Hello i need to know if anyone is aware of some opensource software similar to the non open source SupportNet School: http://www.netsupportschool.com/new_features.htm i need to install it in a multimedia lab to migrate from Windows to GNU/Linux thank you! -- roberto OS: GNU/Linux, Debian Sarge

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