Re: Debian "etch" hardware compability list?

2008-06-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 06:34:36PM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > > Hi all -- > > I regularly buy new machines for a computing cluster we > run, which we try very hard to keep both homogeneous and > stable. It's running Debian "etch" amd64 these days. > > Lately, I've been having trouble wi

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:12:46PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Actually, using two fingers for the second mouse button is very natural, as > is dragging around with two fingers as if you were dragging around the area > you are looking at. I originally thought the lack of a second and third > bu

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Owen Townend
On 13/06/2008, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 06/12/08 13:23, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> On 06/12/08 13

Re: xpdf-utils vs. poppler-utils conflict prevents aptitude safe-upgrade

2008-06-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 05:13:38AM +0200, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hi Aaron, > > What's this for kind of 'aptitude why' command you used? > > > frenesi: ~ % aptitude why poppler-utils > > i cupsys Depends poppler-utils | xpdf-utils > > When I tried 'aptitude wh

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 15:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/12/08 13:23, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 06/12/08 13:09, Paul Johnson wrote: > >>> About a year ago, though I had the misfortu

Re: Linux doesn't like DVD+R disks?

2008-06-12 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Ron, On 6/12/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mine is an ASUS DRW-1814BLT, and the disks (both DVD-R SL and DVD+R > DL) are Memorex. I'm on Debian Etch; dvd burner is Sony optiarc. I'm using Maxell SL DVD+R for backup purposes only without any problems. I remember though I had

Re: iceweasel 3 in sid

2008-06-12 Thread Deephay
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 22:49:41 +0800, Deephay wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >> Recently the iceweasel browser in sid updated to 3.0-rc2, everything >> is OK except every time I was trying to launch the browser it will p

Re: xpdf-utils vs. poppler-utils conflict prevents aptitude safe-upgrade

2008-06-12 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Aaron, What's this for kind of 'aptitude why' command you used? > frenesi: ~ % aptitude why poppler-utils > i cupsys Depends poppler-utils | xpdf-utils When I tried 'aptitude why poppler-utils', aptitude complained 'Unknown command "why"'. I' running Etch (aptitude 0.4.4-4). Could this

Re: .xsession-errors

2008-06-12 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Michelle, On 6/8/08, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Manon, > > Am 2008-06-07 02:16:31, schrieb Manon Metten: > > > On 6/6/08, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > xset: bad font path element (#71), possible causes are: > > > > Directory does not exist o

Re: pppoeconf does not work

2008-06-12 Thread Ding Honghui
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Star Liu wrote: > I tried it in this way: > 1. connect from my desktop to ADSL, it works fine > 2. disconnect the ADSL from desktop, and shutdown the desktop > 3. run pppoeconf in my laptop > 4. get the error message > it seems the laptop cannot commun

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/08 20:45, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] > > If Windows isn't a requirement, you could also consider an off-lease > business Thinkpad. In Kingston, Ontario, at Computer-Depot (a buisness > class place not a clone of home-depot) last I saw th

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Forsaken
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:58:53 -0400 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Depending on when you need it, take a look at this: http://www.everex.com/products/xt5300t/xt5300t.htm And keep an eye for it to pop back up on Newegg. I paid ~$500 US for mine (plus the $50ish for an extra 2 gigs o

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:21:12AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > But they're not cheap: we're talking about an analog modem that does V92 > protocol. NewEgg has 2: one for $76.99 and one for $244.99 both U.S. > Robotics. Ebay should have a USR/3Com Courier V-Everything for around $50. Doug.

assigning "best" gateway via DHCP

2008-06-12 Thread Rogelio
What might I do Linux-wise to create a "system" that looked at multiple gateways and then assigned (via DHCP) the gateway that was the least congested? Anyone have any good suggestions in this department? (I am planning on having a temporary wireless mesh with several satellite uplinks, and I

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:47:57AM -0500, p.daniels wrote: > Wow, that's an awful lot of money. Do some shopping on newegg.com, I > got my Lenovo Y510 for under $700. 2 Gb RAM, dual core Intel, card > reader, great wireless, webcam, the whole nine yards, and may I add it > works great with Deb

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:33:16AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > The contrarian in me would buy him a course in shorthand instead. > > (I remember that the very act of hand-copying blackboard notes -- > > while thinking about which were the most important -- most > > s

Re: text file from Linux to windows

2008-06-12 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > IIRC the numbers did not have to be sequential. That is, you could use 10 > 20 30 ... and then replace 20 with 15, 20, and 25 when you made a change. > The card sorter just put the cards in ascending order. Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Isn't that where line numbers came from? Since each

Re: swap space on a large system

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:51:08AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > Typically, we create a partition to capture a kernel dump when the system > crashes. Therefore, a system with 16GB of RAM will have a partition with > 16GB. > > How would I scale a system with 64 or 128GB of memory? Any thoughts? > Bigge

Re: Debian "etch" hardware compability list?

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 06:34:36PM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > I regularly buy new machines for a computing cluster we run, which > we try very hard to keep both homogeneous and stable. It's running > Debian "etch" amd64 these days. > > Lately, I've been having trouble with some of the ne

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/08 19:49, s. keeling wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 06/11/08 16:07, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 12:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> But does the modem work? >>> What modem? "Winmodems" aren't modem

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El jue, 12-06-2008 a las 15:35 -0500, Ron Johnson escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/12/08 13:23, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 06/12/08 13:09, Paul Johnson wrote: > >>> About a year ago, though I had the mi

Re: How to install a small graphic manager

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 02:42:55PM +0100, abelahcene wrote: > I have a miniPc, can't install the heavy gnome or kde on it . I want to > install a just graphic , in fact I want to use it , just to display a > window . Any small WM will be OK. > > So I have to install the system whitout X, and co

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 06/11/08 16:07, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 12:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > >> But does the modem work? > > > > What modem? "Winmodems" aren't modems, they're sound boards with the > > wrong audio connector. > > I think he w

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 04:47:50PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > IIRC, each [FORTRAN punch] card had a sequence number. > > Paul Scott writes: > > That a choice which got in the way of the development stage. Who wanted > > to punch a whole new deck for each small change

LaCie 2TB 2Big Dual + debian (LaCie SATA II PCI-Express eSATA cards)

2008-06-12 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am looking at expanding my disk space on my box. I have turned my eye to these little external boxes. I was wondering has any one else on the list used one of these. I was hoping to connect to it with esata (the reason for the lacie esata controller). A quick google brings me lots of adds t

Re: USB for potato

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:46:36PM -0500, Fabio Guerinoni wrote: > Hi, > I have an old computer, that I have resucitate not long ago, running > potato (Debian 2.2). I wanted to load a module, for a USB interface > storage. Apparently, nothing comes with the original distribution.. > .. and the p

Re: Server install questions

2008-06-12 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 01:23:49PM -0400, Tenant wrote: > 2. What will be the partitioning scheme? > > Damn if I know. I'd appreciate thoughts on whether to use 32/64 bit > versions, and are there any established partitioning schemes (I > always uesed defaults) > I think that the only apps tha

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:07:14PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 12:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > But does the modem work? > > What modem? "Winmodems" aren't modems, they're sound boards with the > wrong audio connector. This is not exactly correct. Both a sound ca

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/08 13:23, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 06/12/08 13:09, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> About a year ago, though I had the misfortune of managing a sizable >>> network of Apples about 10 years ago fo

Re: Streaming with Debian Testing

2008-06-12 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 01:12:24PM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote: As for MythTV, it is a wonderful product and it does streaming really well. If you are recording a show and then streaming it, the MythWeb Thanks for the tip. I tried mythtv and it is working for now. I had some problems configur

Re: debian sid & gnome

2008-06-12 Thread Joe
Daniel Burrows wrote: So, these are the dependencies it's trying to resolve. The big problems for you are probably the broken gnome-system-tools (which is required by gnome-desktop-environment) and the broken kdenetwork (which is part of kde). In the case of kdenetwork, you can't upgrade it

Re: iceweasel 3 in sid

2008-06-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 22:49:41 +0800, Deephay wrote: > Greetings all, > > Recently the iceweasel browser in sid updated to 3.0-rc2, everything > is OK except every time I was trying to launch the browser it will pop > up a dialog saying "Iceweasel is not currently your default > browser.."

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread owens
> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:13 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > >> It's clear to me that you are arguing this from a position of dedicated >> ignorance. When was the last time you tried to use a Mac? > > About a year ago, though I had the misfortune of managing a sizable > network of Apples about 10

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/08 13:09, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:13 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: It's clear to me that you are arguing this from a position of dedicated ignorance. When was the last time you tried to use a Mac?

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:21 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/12/08 13:09, Paul Johnson wrote: > > About a year ago, though I had the misfortune of managing a sizable > > network of Apples about 10 years ago for a few years. > > That makes no temporal sense. Sure it does. 9, 10, and 11 years ago

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/08 13:09, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:13 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > >> It's clear to me that you are arguing this from a position of dedicated >> ignorance. When was the last time you tried to use a Mac? > > About a y

Re: iceweasel 3 in sid

2008-06-12 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/12/2008 11:06 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: What happens, if there are two Sid partitions, sharing a common home directory. One of the Sid partitions stays at 2.0.0.14-2 and the other upgrades to 3.0~rc2-1. Will the iceweasel 2.0.0.14-2 have problems using a home dir with its .mozilla

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:13 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > It's clear to me that you are arguing this from a position of dedicated > ignorance. When was the last time you tried to use a Mac? About a year ago, though I had the misfortune of managing a sizable network of Apples about 10 years ago

Re: iceweasel 3 in sid

2008-06-12 Thread Robin
2008/6/12 Deephay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greetings all, > > Recently the iceweasel browser in sid updated to 3.0-rc2, everything > is OK except every time I was trying to launch the browser it will pop > up a dialog saying "Iceweasel is not currently your default > browser..". This never happe

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Brian McKee
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, if you sat down to use the mouse you'd find it worked just as you > expected. Oh come on... I've got a Mighty Mouse in my travel laptop bag because it's the most expendable mouse in the building. I and everyo

iceowl extension not working with icedove

2008-06-12 Thread H.S.
Hello, I just noticed that Debian has iceowl-extension package. I removed lightning extension that I was using (I had installed it from within thunderbird and thus was not a system wide install), and installed iceowl-extension: $> sudo aptitude install -V iceowl-extension .. .. The following

Re: Linux doesn't like DVD+R disks?

2008-06-12 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: Am I missing something simple? I've also hit a recent snag with DVD+R, single layer, disks. In my case I'm able to burn them but not mount them. I've also been wondering if I'm missing something simple but haven't dug into the problem too far yet.

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:21:12 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Hugo, > But they're not cheap: we're talking about an analog modem that does > V92 protocol. NewEgg has 2: one for $76.99 and one for $244.99 both > U.S. Robotics. Ouch! That's more than I expected. Here (UK),

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:49:00 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Andrew, > this is surely do-able. The very first modems were essentially a > speaker and a microphone that were connected to the telephone reciever > by a couple of rubber cup-like things. Acoustic Coupler

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 04:39:22PM +, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 12:12 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > Nope, the right-click is just the same as any other two-button mouse. > > Pushing the mouse down with a finger to the left of the top of the mouse is > > a left-click, pushi

Re: debian sid & gnome

2008-06-12 Thread H.S.
Dietrich Bollmann wrote: As I couldn't find any mails from other users about this problem, I finally wonder if there is something wrong with my system. Should I continue to wait for some more weeks until finally gnome can be updated again or is there some better way to proceed? This might hav

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Kent West
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:26:53AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Ah, the "good" old, slow, usually large, acoustic modem. If your handset didn't match the design of the modem, you were stuck. The *only* benefit to them was that you could use them with a pay phone.

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 12:12 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Nope, the right-click is just the same as any other two-button mouse. > Pushing the mouse down with a finger to the left of the top of the mouse is > a left-click, pushing the mouse down with a finger to the left of the top > of the mouse

Can't find a valid termcap

2008-06-12 Thread T o n g
Hi, One of me the application that I use uses the perl Term::Screen module. It was running fine before, but recently when I launch it, I get the following error: Can't find a valid termcap file at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Term/Screen.pm line 95 My term is xterm: $ env | grep TERM= TERM=xt

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 04:06:55PM +, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 11:54 -0400, Robert Baron wrote: > > > Mac input devices have come a long way. I have an older > > MacBook Pro in > > front of me and the bumps are on F and J. It also has a nice > >

Re: iceweasel 3 in sid

2008-06-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Deephay wrote: Greetings all, Recently the iceweasel browser in sid updated to 3.0-rc2, everything is OK except every time I was trying to launch the browser it will pop up a dialog saying "Iceweasel is not currently your default browser..". This never happened before the upgrade, and I do

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 11:54 -0400, Robert Baron wrote: > Mac input devices have come a long way. I have an older > MacBook Pro in > front of me and the bumps are on F and J. It also has a nice > touchpad which > maps the following: > > 1 fin

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Robert Baron
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Gregory Seidman < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:55:14PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 09:31 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > [...] > > > I love Debian, but for a laptop I'd go Mac and MacOS X every

Re: Linux doesn't like DVD+R disks?

2008-06-12 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 08:17:06 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:02:38AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 06/12/08 07:20, Bob Cox wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 21:11:15 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > wrote: > > > > > >>

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:21 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:57:58 +0200 Misko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Misko, is if I can make my regular soundcard force to behave like modem? Possibly, but why would you want to? When you'

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/08 10:25, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] > > How necessary is a modem really? Especially on a laptop? Seems like > wifi support would be faster, easier and all around more accessible in > this day and age. Spoken like someone who doesn't live

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:26:53AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/12/08 09:49, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:57:58PM +0200, Misko wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:07:14PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > >>> What modem? "Winmodems" aren't modems, they're sound bo

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 12:57 +0200, Misko wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:07:14PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > What modem? "Winmodems" aren't modems, they're sound boards with the > > wrong audio connector. > > I have read something like this many times. What am I interested in > is if I can

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/08 09:49, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:57:58PM +0200, Misko wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:07:14PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> What modem? "Winmodems" aren't modems, they're sound boards with the >>> wron

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 10:21 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:57:58 +0200 > > Misko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello Misko, > > > >> is if I can make my regular soundcard force to behave like modem? > > > > Possibly, but why would you want to?

Re: iceweasel 3 in sid

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:49:41PM +0800, Deephay wrote: > Greetings all, > > Recently the iceweasel browser in sid updated to 3.0-rc2, everything > is OK except every time I was trying to launch the browser it will pop > up a dialog saying "Iceweasel is not currently your default > browser.

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:57:58 +0200 Misko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Misko, is if I can make my regular soundcard force to behave like modem? Possibly, but why would you want to? When you're on-line using a WinModem the CPU has to do all the work of (en|de)coding dat

Re: Linux doesn't like DVD+R disks?

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:02:38AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/12/08 07:20, Bob Cox wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 21:11:15 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > >> I'm trying to burn an ISO to a dual-layer DVD+R disk, but these > >> programs instantly error out. gro

Re: KDE install issues

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:04:06PM -0700, Louis Cunningham wrote: > I am just going to stick with Ubuntu for now, Thank you all for your help. > This was a pain in Ubuntu too, but it's set up how I want it, one question > though; > I have grub running off of the Debian OS if I format it, will my sy

Re: Linux doesn't like DVD+R disks?

2008-06-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/08 07:20, Bob Cox wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 21:11:15 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > >> I'm trying to burn an ISO to a dual-layer DVD+R disk, but these >> programs instantly error out. growisofs successfully burns

iceweasel 3 in sid

2008-06-12 Thread Deephay
Greetings all, Recently the iceweasel browser in sid updated to 3.0-rc2, everything is OK except every time I was trying to launch the browser it will pop up a dialog saying "Iceweasel is not currently your default browser..". This never happened before the upgrade, and I do not have the pro

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:57:58PM +0200, Misko wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:07:14PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > What modem? "Winmodems" aren't modems, they're sound boards with the > > wrong audio connector. > > I have read something like this many times. What am I interested in > is i

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:55:14PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 09:31 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: [...] > > I love Debian, but for a laptop I'd go Mac and MacOS X every time. I'd even > > lean Mac for a desktop. > > I have reservations for Apple laptops in general because t

Re: debian sid & gnome

2008-06-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:59:08PM +0900, Dietrich Bollmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 21:21 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > What do you get if you run "aptitude -s full-upgrade"? (this won't > > modify your system at all) If it suggests removing packages t

Re: Where debian save iptables rules?

2008-06-12 Thread Brian Schrock
The way I do it... Create a file /etc/network/if-up.d/firewall.sh , make sure it is executable. In that file put all the iptables rules you want and since it is bash scripting you can get pretty fancy. Then in /etc/network/interfaces add the following line to one of the interface definitions, 'up

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:57:58 +0200 Misko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Misko, > is if I can make my regular soundcard force to behave like modem? Possibly, but why would you want to? When you're on-line using a WinModem the CPU has to do all the work of (en|de)coding data that would normally

Re: iceweasel crashing on bmw site

2008-06-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 15:17 +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: > Ron Johnson a écrit : > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 06/11/08 08:24, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> is there a way of viewing > >> > >> www.bmw-web.tv > >> > >> without having iceweasel cr

Re: Linux doesn't like DVD+R disks?

2008-06-12 Thread Bob Cox
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 21:11:15 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to burn an ISO to a dual-layer DVD+R disk, but these > programs instantly error out. growisofs successfully burns the > disk, but mplayer and vlc can't read them. > > Single-layer DVD-R disks work perfec

Re: OT: Winmodems are soundcards Was: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Misko
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:07:14PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > What modem? "Winmodems" aren't modems, they're sound boards with the > wrong audio connector. I have read something like this many times. What am I interested in is if I can make my regular soundcard force to behave like modem? What

Re: iceweasel crashing on bmw site

2008-06-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 PS: # update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun or # update-java-alternatives -s java-gcj does not seem to make a difference. Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIUQ3PC1NzPRl9qEURAr1PAJsFw4ISXTYVYOj5c0sXgcw

Re: iceweasel crashing on bmw site

2008-06-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-11 15:48, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/11/08 08:24, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Hi, > >> is there a way of viewing > >> www.bmw-web.tv > >> without having iceweasel crash? > >> I will report a bug, if these crashes get reproduced by othe

Re: debian sid & gnome

2008-06-12 Thread thveillon.debian
Dietrich Bollmann a écrit : Hi Daniel, On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 21:21 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:31:16AM +0900, Dietrich Bollmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: Hi, Since weeks I can't update debian sid as apt-get always wants to remove gnome: apt-get dis

Re: problem: GNU Screen within gnome-terminal

2008-06-12 Thread Vladimir Marek
[...] > I found that with 4.0.3-10 the screen is messed up when > there are Russian characters in mutt, although this version > does solve the messing-up problem with chinese utf-8 characters. I'm not sure if it's related, but screen can't handle utf-8 which is encoded in more than two bytes. --

Re: Linux doesn't like DVD+R disks?

2008-06-12 Thread thveillon.debian
Ron Johnson a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to burn an ISO to a dual-layer DVD+R disk, but these programs instantly error out. growisofs successfully burns the disk, but mplayer and vlc can't read them. Single-layer DVD-R disks work perfectly. Am I miss