In <4cd53045.4000...@gmail.com>, farid wrote:
>*How do I get an upgrade of Openoffice. My new Debian 5 still has office
>2.4. Please help.
New upstream versions are not included in normal updates to a released version
of Debian. You could use one of the unreleased versions of Debian--
testing/Sq
In , Camaleón wrote:
>I prefer having no extensions at all than browsing the web with an
>unsupported browser :-).
Iceweasel 3.0.x isn't unsupported; Firefox 3.0.x is.[1] Security groups don't
stop disclosing vulnerabilities when Mozilla decides to stop supplying patches
and the security team (
Hello List,
On 06/11/10 12:31, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
www.gnulib.org
I made a mistake here:
http://gmplib.org
Computing billions of π digits using GMP:
http://gmplib.org/pi-with-gmp.html
hth,
Jerome
On 06/11/10 01:10, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Arthur Bela writes:
Does anyo
www.gnulib.org
On 06/11/10 01:10, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Arthur Bela writes:
Does anyone has a "generate-pi.c" source code?
Answer to your homework is here[1]. Also you can find a couple million
digits of pi as a text file on the web.
Regards.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org
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> Hi,
>
> wicd just parses the outputs of ifconfig/iwconfig/iwlist/wpa_supplicant
> commands. Maybe manually executing this sequence may help you to spot
> the problem. Here it goes:
>
> # ifconfig wlan0 up
>
> Now, you should be able
Hi all,
I'm running a Windows XP guest in KVM. After enabling the audio support
(-soundhw es1370) the CPU load of the KVM process in the host system
goes up to 100%.
Tested with: qemu-kvm-0.13.0 Debian 0.13.0+dfsg-1
KVM start command: kvm -m 512 -hda xp.img -soundhw es1370
Did you experience s
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 08:07:13PM +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:48:04 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
> > On 2010-11-05 17:48 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
> >
> >> Do you think Debian packages include all these bug fixes?
> >>
> >> http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/f
Squeeze
KDE 4.4.5
Hello,
I need to import my data from my former IDE-hd and thought it might be
easily done with an usb-bridge.
But mounting does not work.
This is my old disk:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 38298 307628653+ 83
On 11/5/2010 12:00 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-11-05 15:38 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:10:44 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
/snip/
I see only one reason to force the upgrade of a stock package with a
newer version and is precisely the lack of support (nor patches
Klistvud wrote:
> Dne, 05. 11. 2010 15:10:44 je Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napisal(a):
>
>> No. That's NOT what those who know and love Debian stable want. The
>> lack of
>> upstream changes is one of the main reasons I use stable on servers.
>
> +1
> You can say that again.
>
+2
Seriously! I d
Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
>> ii xserver-xorg-video-radeon1:6.13.1-2
>> X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display driver
>
> You need a newer kernel, probably the one from squeeze.
Could you please elaborate why I need a new kernel? Where is the
incompatibility?
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On 2010-11-05T22:29:01, pch0317 wrote:
> How to check number of DNS request to current DNS machines (how to
> check current DNS load).
The first step is to identify the dns server (software like bind)
you use, then you want to consult the documentation for said
software to answer your question o
Hi
I must buy new DNS servers (hardware) to our company.
Now DNS (bind on debian) works on PC machine (3 identical NS servers).
How to check number of DNS request to current DNS machines (how to check
current DNS load).
How to match new server components like processor, memory and other to
thi
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 07:01:28 + (UTC)
Camaleón wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:35:31 -0400, Celejar wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:48:30 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> >> with mbox and searching strings in Icedove is bit slow if mbox files
> >> are big (measured in GiB :-
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 10:27:45PM -0300, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
> I have just installed lenny from cd-1 (5.0.6), but I cannot get wireless
> network
> to work. I have installed wicd from lenny-backports, and followed the
> instructions on
> the page
> http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowTo
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:53:05 -0500
John Hasler wrote:
> Celejar writes:
> > Someone who was doing ordinary stable upgrades would see the warnings
> > in the release notes, but it was pretty easy to get bitten by this if
> > you were just tracking Sid.
>
> Which is why you should not "track" Sid
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:04:08 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 11/05/2010 12:18 PM, Camaleón wrote:
(about the 4 GiB space limit per folder in Thunderbird...)
> how do you know if you are reaching the 4GiB limit?
I would expect a warning message written in old arcane gibberish stating
that yo
Celejar writes:
> Someone who was doing ordinary stable upgrades would see the warnings
> in the release notes, but it was pretty easy to get bitten by this if
> you were just tracking Sid.
Which is why you should not "track" Sid at all. Since any DD can upload
to it at any time (that is what "un
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:48:04 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-11-05 17:48 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
>
>> Do you think Debian packages include all these bug fixes?
>>
>> http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox30.html
>
> No, MFSA 2009-11 is not fixed (that is a Firefox-only
On 11/05/2010 12:18 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> oh, ow, I did not know that. so, is archiving the answer?
> I hate archiving (I hold "fresh" e-mails dated on 1999) :-P
I also note that archiving is ONLY for IMAP folders, so it is useless to
me, because I have everything filtered to LOCAL folders.. Tyou
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:50:08 +0100
Klistvud wrote:
...
> Among the distros I did try out - Knoppix, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Mandriva,
> and some minor ones - there is not a single one I'd be willing to
> revert to. I guess there's a reason I'm staying with Debian after all
> ;-) ... Ideological
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 18:19:55 +0200
Andrei Popescu wrote:
...
> I don't recall the last time sid was broken so that manual intervention
> was needed to get the system running, but individual applications can
> have annoying bugs.
Let's consider something like the kernel switch to the libata dri
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 18:19:55 +0200
Andrei Popescu wrote:
...
> I don't recall the last time sid was broken so that manual intervention
> was needed to get the system running, but individual applications can
> have annoying bugs.
I've been using Sid for years, and while it's usually perfectly u
Arnt Karlsen writes:
> ..IME, it's "Unstable", it and "Experimental" doesn't quite live up to
> the expectations of adrenaline kicks you want from these PR'y
> buzzwords. ;o)
Don't try to install Experimental, though. It is not intended to be a
complete distribution: just an archive for experimen
>
>
>
> Original Message
>From: jozsi.avad...@gmail.com
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: RE: how to generate pi in c
>Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 17:40:27 +0100
>
>>Does anyone has a "generate-pi.c" source code?
>>
>>Thanks.. :D :\
>>
>>
GIYF
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/classes/soft_
On 2010-11-05 17:48 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:00:13 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> That is true, but the Debian iceweasel/xulrunner maintainer and the
>> security team backport security fixes.
>
> How is that possible? :-?
>
> As soon as Mozilla stopped offering security
I hate to ask the question this way, but in terms of
problems/fixes/downtime--approximately how often do you find that you
have to 'fix' something in Sid? 1x week, 1x month? (I know that my
MMV, but if I start playing with either testing or unstable, I don't
want to get into a problem/find fix
On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 01:10:14 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Camaleón:
>
>> How is that? Are you saying that you cannot boot a Pentium III using
>> i686 kernel? It is designed explicitly for that architecture :-?
>
> No. I say that it is impossible to load the kernel packaged for i686 on
> Pentium CPU
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:17:12 -0400, Andrew wrote in message
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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 an
I really
want
Thunderbird and Firefox, with their familiar icons, on my screen, not the
goofy clones that Debian has come up with.
Why not install Firefox and Thunderbird in /opt?
I was looking to
replace
SuSE 10.1, because it wouldn't play music; none of the SuSEs I have had
ever
would.
That'
Camaleón:
> How is that? Are you saying that you cannot boot a Pentium III using
> i686 kernel? It is designed explicitly for that architecture :-?
No. I say that it is impossible to load the kernel packaged for i686 on
Pentium CPU - not Pentium III CPU. You are right, - it is packaged for
the Pe
Hello,
I am hitting an strange behavior in both lenny and squeeze systems.
Hidden (".my_hidden_file") or backup ("my_backup_file~") files cannot be
displayed on the desktop but they can be viewed/managed/accessed/deleted
within nautilus file manager, MC or command line (ls -l).
Needless to say
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 07:14:18 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message
:
> On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:52:44 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
>
> > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón:
> >
> >> No, I cannot see any i586 kernel (i686 is the right one for
> >> pentium).
> >
> > AFAIK the kernel will not
ZephyrQ writes:
> I hate to ask the question this way, but in terms of
> problems/fixes/downtime--approximately how often do you find that you
> have to 'fix' something in Sid? 1x week, 1x month?
Once every year or two (but I use neither Gnome nor KDE). The fix
usually consists of waiting for a
On 05/11/10 16:40, Arthur Bela wrote:
Does anyone has a "generate-pi.c" source code?
Thanks.. :D :\
Don't cross post like that, your just doubling up on people doing your
own research for you
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Iceweasel was an unsupported browser. The fix was to modify the
User-Agent string. I'm not sure if this will help the OP or not, but
the Docs issue was discussed (with instructions for changing your
User-Agent string) here:
http://
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Arthur Bela writes:
> Does anyone has a "generate-pi.c" source code?
Answer to your homework is here[1]. Also you can find a couple million
digits of pi as a text file on the web.
Regards.
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> I hate to ask the question this way, but in terms of
> problems/fixes/downtime--approximately how often do you find that you
> have to 'fix' something in Sid? 1x week, 1x month? (I know that my
> MMV, but if I start playing with either testing or unstable, I don't
> want to get into a problem/f
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:00:13 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-11-05 15:38 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
>
>> What happens with Mozilla packages (more exactly with
>> Firefox/Iceweasel) is that upstream version correct security flaws,
>> meaning that right now, Debian's lenny stock version of Iceweas
On 05 Nov 2010, ZephyrQ wrote:
>
> I hate to ask the question this way, but in terms of
> problems/fixes/downtime--approximately how often do you find that you
> have to 'fix' something in Sid? 1x week, 1x month? (I know that my
> MMV, but if I start playing with either testing or unstable, I do
Does anyone has a "generate-pi.c" source code?
Thanks.. :D :\
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Vi, 05 nov 10, 10:18:04, John Hasler wrote:
Drew writes:
Consider installing apt-listbugs if you're going to run sid.
Good point. Also, don't feel that you should "track" Unstable. Upgrade
individual packages as needed and do an occ
I'd go for clearing cookies and cache first, and making sure you're
not blocking any scripts.
HTH
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On Sex, 05 Nov 2010, "B. Alexander" wrote:
I'm having a weird problem on my workstation at home. I can't do
anything on gmail any more. I can pull the site up and look at emails,
but I can't compose, I can't go into the settings and my chat contacts
are gone. This started happening about 2 days a
I'm having a weird problem on my workstation at home. I can't do
anything on gmail any more. I can pull the site up and look at emails,
but I can't compose, I can't go into the settings and my chat contacts
are gone. This started happening about 2 days ago. I'm running 32-bit
sid (with an amd64 ker
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010, Volkan YAZICI writes:
> Now cross your fingers and hope wpa_supplicant do the rest:
>
> # wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0 -d
>
> The debugging output should tell you more. Inform us about the progress,
> maybe we can help you further.
And
On Vi, 05 nov 10, 10:54:23, ZephyrQ wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Vi, 05 nov 10, 10:18:04, John Hasler wrote:
> >> Drew writes:
> >>> Consider installing apt-listbugs if you're going to run sid.
> >> Good point. Also, don't feel that you should "track" Unstable. Upgrade
> >> individual pa
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:52:50 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 11/05/2010 11:43 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>> And that remembers me the third of the Thunderbird's annoyances:
>> storage files for each folder cannot go beyong 4 GiB).
> oh, ow, I did not know that. so, is archiving the answer?
I hate
On Fri November 5 2010 08:54:23 am ZephyrQ wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Vi, 05 nov 10, 10:18:04, John Hasler wrote:
> >> Drew writes:
> >>> Consider installing apt-listbugs if you're going to run sid.
> >>
> >> Good point. Also, don't feel that you should "track" Unstable. Upgrade
> >>
On 05/11/10 02:50, ZephyrQ wrote:
If you could not/did not use Debian (either Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid),
which other distribution would you use and why?
Since I don't use debian for everything and it depends what I'm doing, I
can't really answer that. For firewalls, load balancers, routers (wher
Hi,
wicd just parses the outputs of ifconfig/iwconfig/iwlist/wpa_supplicant
commands. Maybe manually executing this sequence may help you to spot
the problem. Here it goes:
# ifconfig wlan0 up
Now, you should be able to see the available list accessible APs:
# iwlist wlan0 scan
If everythi
On 2010-11-05 15:38 +0100, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:10:44 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>
>> On Friday 05 November 2010 08:13:41 Camaleón wrote:
>
>>> > Thirdly, the policy of no new upstream versions after release isn't
>>> > changed for volatile. (It is changed for volati
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Vi, 05 nov 10, 10:18:04, John Hasler wrote:
>> Drew writes:
>>> Consider installing apt-listbugs if you're going to run sid.
>> Good point. Also, don't feel that you should "track" Unstable. Upgrade
>> individual packages as needed and do an occasional dist-upgrade if y
On 11/05/2010 11:43 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> You can set "auto-compact" your folders by defining so under Preferences/
> advanced/network and disk space.
thank you!!
> "Compacting" is another of the annoyances of Thunderbird but is a "must-
> do" task (if you avoid doing so your mailbox files will gr
On Vi, 05 nov 10, 10:18:04, John Hasler wrote:
> Drew writes:
> > Consider installing apt-listbugs if you're going to run sid.
>
> Good point. Also, don't feel that you should "track" Unstable. Upgrade
> individual packages as needed and do an occasional dist-upgrade if you
> feel the need to cl
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:31:28 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 11/05/2010 04:15 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>> Also, you can try (just in case) to "rebuild index" and/or "compacting"
>> the offending folder. Thunderbird (Icedove) sometimes can go nuts with
>> its internal bd and hides e-mails or does wei
On Vi, 05 nov 10, 15:12:28, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
> see below.
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x
> 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)
> [8.953484] ath5k_pci :03:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
> [8.958255] ath5k
Drew writes:
> Consider installing apt-listbugs if you're going to run sid.
Good point. Also, don't feel that you should "track" Unstable. Upgrade
individual packages as needed and do an occasional dist-upgrade if you
feel the need to clean things up.
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On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:07, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Jo, 04 nov 10, 22:27:45, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
>> I have just installed lenny from cd-1 (5.0.6), but I cannot get wireless
>> network
>> to work. I have installed wicd from lenny-backports, and followed the
>> instr
From: Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:27:45 -0300
> ... wicd does not recognize the wireless network
Do you have a twisted pair adapter for the machine? PCMCIA or USB.
Might help to get a wired connection working first.
Regards, ... Peter E.
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Dne, 05. 11. 2010 15:10:44 je Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napisal(a):
No. That's NOT what those who know and love Debian stable want. The
lack of
upstream changes is one of the main reasons I use stable on servers.
+1
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On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:10:44 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Friday 05 November 2010 08:13:41 Camaleón wrote:
>> > Thirdly, the policy of no new upstream versions after release isn't
>> > changed for volatile. (It is changed for volatile-sloppy.)
>>
>> And that is what people wants to
On 11/05/2010 08:56 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> An IMAP server (Dovecot) can be run in the local machine but it is still
> and IMAP account and so having its glitches (it can experience a
> different behaviour than local ones). Just check if the same happens for
> local messages.
MOST of the problems
On 11/05/2010 04:15 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> Also, you can try (just in case) to "rebuild index" and/or "compacting"
> the offending folder. Thunderbird (Icedove) sometimes can go nuts with
> its internal bd and hides e-mails or does weird things :-)
ok, I JUST had a new message in a folder. Hit "N"
On Friday 05 November 2010 08:13:41 Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:54:29 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > In , Camaleón wrote:
> >>On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:30:11 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >>> There is a third choice, I guess: Ship firefox / thunderbird in
> >>> non-free
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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'r
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:54:29 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In , Camaleón wrote:
>>On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:30:11 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>>> There is a third choice, I guess: Ship firefox / thunderbird in
>>> non-free. Support for non-free is best-effort, which basically means
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.
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In <4cd3ede6.20...@sbcglobal.net>, ZephyrQ wrote:
>Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> ZephyrQ put forth on 11/4/2010 9:50 PM:
>>> If you could not/did not use Debian (either Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid),
>>> which other distribution would you use and why?
>>
>> What situation are you in that motivates this questi
In <20101105090054.gc4...@wasteland.homelinux.net>, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
>> In <4cd3921a.5090...@optonline.net>, Doug wrote:
>>> One thing I
>>> really _don't_ like about Debian is its fear of the copyright. I really
>>> want
>>> Thunderbird and Firefox, with their familia
On 05/11/2010 00:12, Bob Proulx wrote:
Johan Scheepers wrote:
Standalone laptop using debian squeeze freeze on a dsl modem
connected by cable.
All my internet applications work but evolution send/receive greyed out.
This is another one of those annoying bugs related to network-manage
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:55:46 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 11/05/2010 07:25 AM, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> Maybe you can find something there that make your bells ring :-?
>>
>> P.S. Just out of curiosity... does it happen only with imap mailboxes
>> or also with local stored messages?
> no
In , Camaleón wrote:
>On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:30:11 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> There is a third choice, I guess: Ship firefox / thunderbird in
>> non-free. Support for non-free is best-effort, which basically means
>> that if upstream is willing to fix it then the security team /
>> mai
Dne, 05. 11. 2010 12:50:14 je ZephyrQ napisal(a):
> gNewSense.
>
How stable/solid is it? I've looked at it and am intrigued...
I must have misunderstood your question. I have never tried gNewSense,
I was just pointing out that, personally, the only distros I would be
willing to try out a
Hello,
On 05/11/10 19:43, ZephyrQ wrote:
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
ZephyrQ put forth on 11/4/2010 9:50 PM:
If you could not/did not use Debian (either Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid),
which other distribution would you use and why?
What situation are you in that motivates this question?
Not a specific
Dne, 05. 11. 2010 12:43:34 je ZephyrQ napisal(a):
I realize that Debian's 'stableness' contributes to its 'staleness',
It doesn't just "contribute". There's a reason why there's only a small
"b" of difference between "staleness" and "stableness".
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On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:04:46 +, Chris wrote:
>
> >> How about "volatile"? :-?
> >>
> >> ClamAV packages are there for that precisely reason (they need to be
> >> updated -security fixes- very often).
> >>
> > Why not simply grab the package fr
On 11/05/2010 07:25 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>> ah, I think I found it under folder properties.. repair Folder?
> Mmm, it should be called "rebuild index", even in "plain English" :-P
>
> http://raisedbyturtles.org/wp-content/uploads/tb-rebuild-index.png
>
> Not sure if that will help with your "phantom
Klistvud wrote:
> Dne, 05. 11. 2010 03:50:07 je ZephyrQ napisal(a):
>> If you could not/did not use Debian (either Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid),
>> which other distribution would you use and why?
>
> gNewSense.
>
How stable/solid is it? I've looked at it and am intrigued...
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Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> ZephyrQ put forth on 11/4/2010 9:50 PM:
>> If you could not/did not use Debian (either Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid),
>> which other distribution would you use and why?
>
> What situation are you in that motivates this question?
Not a specific situation, merely an exploration.
I
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 06:49:43 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 11/05/2010 04:15 AM, Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> Also, you can try (just in case) to "rebuild index" and/or "compacting"
>> the offending folder. Thunderbird (Icedove) sometimes can go nuts with
>> its internal bd and hides e-mails or
On Jo, 04 nov 10, 22:27:45, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
> I have just installed lenny from cd-1 (5.0.6), but I cannot get wireless
> network
> to work. I have installed wicd from lenny-backports, and followed the
> instructions on
> the page
> http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse
> but wicd
On 11/04/2010 11:52 PM, Johan Grönqvist wrote:
> Yes, I have seen this, without filters, but for a newsgroup account
> (news.gmane.org), and it seems to happen when I fetch new messages
> several times before reading through the new messages, and even then I
> only see it sometimes.
I haven't done
On 11/05/2010 04:15 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> Mmm... so you have a folder with no unread messages but still stating
> there is (1) unread messages (marked in bold) in the folder's pane. Right?
correct.
> Could it be that you are applying some kind of rules for displaying only
> messages that matches
On Ma, 02 nov 10, 21:54:43, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Can someone please help me on how to configure X to get rid of the following
> errors.
>
> $ grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
> (
On Ma, 02 nov 10, 16:43:46, patrick wrote:
>
> if a system is using the bigmem kernel:
>
> uname -a
> Linux buddy2 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 18:52:29 UTC 2009
> i686 GNU/Linux
You should probably just install the linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem package,
which depends on the latest -686-b
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:04:46 +, Chris wrote:
>> How about "volatile"? :-?
>>
>> ClamAV packages are there for that precisely reason (they need to be
>> updated -security fixes- very often).
>>
> Why not simply grab the package from mozilla and install under /opt Sent
It lacks system integrat
Why not simply grab the package from mozilla and install under /opt
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From: Camaleón
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:38:21
To:
Subject: Mozilla products in Debian (was: A question for the list:)
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:30:11 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith J
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
> In <4cd3921a.5090...@optonline.net>, Doug wrote:
>>
>> One thing I
>> really _don't_ like about Debian is its fear of the copyright. I really
>> want
>> Thunderbird and Firefox, with their familiar icons, on my screen, not the
>> goofy clones that Debian has come up with
Hello List,
On 05/11/10 03:35, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
According to the man page, it seems initex and virtex are now replaced by
tex -ini
and
tex
according to the same man page:
"If they exist, then both initex and virtex are symbolic links to the tex
executable."
The issue is rath
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:30:11 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
(...)
> There is a third choice, I guess: Ship firefox / thunderbird in
> non-free. Support for non-free is best-effort, which basically means
> that if upstream is willing to fix it then the security team /
> maintainers will pac
Hi,
So I've been running this poll for a few years now, and am considering
doing it yet again.
Don't hesitate to reply if you have suggestions.
Here's a list of older results: http://tshepang.tumblr.com/post/654031894.
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On Lu, 01 nov 10, 20:45:49, gun_sm...@shellium.org wrote:
> I agree, it has been a while for me as well. I only remember gcc
> coming in
> with build-essential on my end, which I always need.
> (headers|make|gcc|etc)
build-essential should be installed on a user system only as a
dependency of dk
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:55:30 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 11/04/2010 07:37 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> Why do you think the problem of the shortcut ("N") for going to the
>> next unread messsage has any connection with the filters? :-?
> hm.. not sure, I just ASSuMEd..
X-)
Anyway, when you sus
>
> > If you could not/did not use Debian (either Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid),
> > which other distribution would you use and why?
>
Occasionally PClinuxOS on desktops, and occasionally CentOS in server room.
Regards
Roman
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 22:57 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> Good day,
>
> Standalone laptop using debian squeeze freeze on a dsl modem connected
> by cable.
>
> All my internet applications work but evolution send/receive greyed out.
Quick answer, edit the file /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-se
Dne, 05. 11. 2010 03:50:07 je ZephyrQ napisal(a):
If you could not/did not use Debian (either Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid),
which other distribution would you use and why?
gNewSense.
Failing that, anything from http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
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