On 2016-02-03 21:56, Brad Rogers wrote:
> The d/l link is greyed out, and clicking it repeats the OS warning
> and asks me if I wish to d/l for either Mac OS or Windows OS. Not
> that I have a need to try the extension in any case, as I can read
> the menus well enough.
https://addons.mozilla.
On 2016-02-02 23:11, Brad Rogers wrote:
>> Iirc, that changes fonts only in the displayed page, not in the
>> menus, dialogs, etc.
Not true. It does exactly what you need, everywhere.
> However, the Mozilla site tells me it's not compatible with my OS
> which is odd, given that it's being sugges
On 2016-02-02 00:37, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> I know how to tweak font sizes for displayed web pages, but how do I do
> that for the apparatus of the browser window itself?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/theme-font-size-changer/
is maybe what you've been looking for.
HTH, ändu
On 2014-12-07 06:02, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Sure, that might as well be the case! But it is not the topic of this
> thread. My intention is to get a working version of Skype on this
> Debian machine. I do not want this thread to become a platform for
> another OS flamewar.
I was simply tryin
On 2014-12-06 22:31, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Andreas Weber
> wrote:
>> On 2014-12-06 05:28, Gary Dale wrote:
>>> The problem is that Skype uses proprietary codecs and closed-source
>>> code. They're simply not very go
On 2014-12-06 05:28, Gary Dale wrote:
> The problem is that Skype uses proprietary codecs and closed-source
> code. They're simply not very good at keeping it working with Linux.
Skype _is_ the problem. Try out Iceweasel/Firefox 34 and its built-in
WebRTC - it works perfectly. At the moment you do
On 2014-12-05 19:18, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>> To the best of my knowledge, the Mac Mini you've got *is* EFI
>>> capable, but doesn't work in quite the way we'd normally expect.
IIRC Apple's EFI is (was) not exactly what now is known as UEFI
"standard". None of my Mac Minis did work with the Debia
On 2014-07-24 17:36, Nelson Green wrote:
I have a new, novice Debian user running the XFCE desktop on his PC.
I
would like to be able to share his desktop to me so that I can see
what he is seeing and offer instruction and advice.
You already have a Google account and my guess is so does your
On 2014-05-20 07:11, Carl Fink wrote:
> The Media Transfer Protocol is not working correctly on my Jessie system,
> updated yesterday. Here's a transcript of syslog when I plug in my
> MTP-enabled phone:
MTP is "not working so well" under Linux IMHO.
> Any suggestions? If I don't find a solution
On 2014-01-02 16:40, Siard wrote:
> Andreas Weber wrote:
>> Whatever variant you pick, it seems to me that the whole MTP
>> implementation is still a bit buggy and slow.
>
> This is what I noticed as well. And I see that mtpfs has been removed
> from stable and testing. I
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On 2014-01-02 01:13, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> What I need to do is to be able to back it up to the external SD
> card, which I can then dismount, remove it from the mobile and
> mount it on my linux box. From there I can rsync it, but I was
> hoping for
On 2012-08-22 17:03, Camaleón wrote:
> Asus used to be in my list but since my good P2B-S and CUV4X (both for
> Pentium III) I've only read but problems and issues with their new boards
> and Linux. You know, all that fancy "turbo-mega-hyper-silent-green-dual-
> bios-fast-recovery" stuff that can
On 2012-07-31 04:43, Mark Panen wrote:
> Could some please point me to step by step instruction on installing a
> nVidia driver for a GTS250?
http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers/
and the this
http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers/#Use_DKMS
as the easiest approach.
HTH, ändu
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On 2012-07-03 19:23, Camaleón wrote:
> There was a discussion at the devel mailing list:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/01/msg00168.html
Thanks for this, hadn't seen it yet.
> And also an article from the same person who started the above thread:
>
> http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/
Hi
Does any of you have some knowledge on how to install Debian testing
with UEFI?
I looked via search function of the web sites in
- debian.org
- wiki.debian.org
with 0 hits. I found some links that described the howto, but they seem
outdated:
- install via MBR and grub-pc (works)
- install g
On 2012-04-25 22:03, Dan wrote:
> What is the advantage of booting Linux directly with EFI instead of
> using rEfit? The performance is improved if the system is booted with
> EFI?
No, once running the performance is the same.
> Or it is just that it will boot up faster. I do not have a mac,
> bu
> Is there anything else that should be included.
If you want to quickly reinstall after ... whatever, then save your
installed packages before applying the file copy:
dpkg --get-selections | grep -v 'deinstall$' >
'/home/example/installed_packages.txt'
HTH, ändu
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Funny enough nobody talked about energy consumption yet. If you would
buy a car or any other device, this would immediately be a point worth
considering, wouldn't it?
I suggest you buy a Mac Mini (-Server if you like to have 2 disks).
- works fine with Debian
- uses only a fraction of power compa
On 2012-02-04 09:05, Paul E Condon wrote:
> It seems that it is not run when I log into a host using ssh or more
> exactly its pid is not exported to an ssh login process. Could I add
> something to the .profile script? If this is possible, it surely
> has been thought of before me and better and w
On 2012-01-24 02:08, Ashton Fagg wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how the Microsoft Natural Ergonomics 4000 keyboard
> works with Debian (and if possible, also with XFCE) in regards to the
> multimedia keys etc? I'm not afraid of having to deal with Xmodmap.
It works perfectly. After fiddling with Xmod
> My question: is it really worth the trouble of learning a new way of
> typing, if you are already a moderately competent touch typist on the
> QWERTY keyboard?
No, it's not. Only if you always work on your own hardware. But as soon
as you have to touch different machines ... QWERT is everywhere
> technology. We have both Linux/windows environment but max. is Linux.
> Could any one suggest a good online guide as well as GUI clients for
> quick starting the git
Use
git command line
gitk
git-gui
and you'll be happy. Most of the GUI stuff can be done in gitk and
git-gui. If you really real
On 2011-11-24 16:02, Walter Hurry wrote:
> Ah, right, thanks. I didn't know that - I tend to stick with HP as I've
> always had excellent results with their printers and HPLIP.
I did the same for a long time, too.
Finally I gave Epson a try and I like it, actually because of 1 special
option (be
Hi
On my testing box, the ssh-agent gets started by settings in
/etc/X11/Xsession.options. This works as expected.
However, the environment is not set when I start Konsole (yes, KDE
user). IMO this should work out of the box without my patching whatever,
but maybe I missed something?
TIA, ändu
Thanks Scott, appreciate your input, but it didn't. Unfortunately: "Been
there, done that, ...".
On 2011-07-12 16:28, Scott Ferguson wrote:
> Try this - it may help:-
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/03/msg00690.html
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198155#c4
This worked for some t
On 2011-07-11 15:30, Sthu Deus wrote:
> I have up-to-date Debian6 w/ KDE 4.4.5. The problem is that I can not
> use shortcut keys - for clean experiment I did so under a new user - no
> effect. If it works in the named version, what I can do to make it
> working?
The problems with shortcut keys in
On 2011-06-28 19:20, Dan wrote:
> But I do not like that their hardware is so closed. I read somewhere
> that linux has to boot in BIOS compatibility mode because Apple do
> not release everything about their EFI loader.
EFI has been invented by Intel and will be used by lots of manufacturers
in
On 2011-06-25 17:17, Dan wrote:
> I would like to buy a laptop. And I love the Macbooks pro. But I will
> mainly run Debian. Is it worthy to buy a mac to run Debian?
Of course!
> I look into the documentation of rEFIT and it looks like a "hack" to
> emulate the BIOS. It is a pity that there is no
On 2011-06-13 18:29, Camaleón wrote:
> For simple setups, you can avoid amavisd-new and use instead spamd, but
> the latter has its drawbacks.
Use spampd which should do exactly what you want.
HTH, ändu
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On 2011-06-13 11:39, Mike Hore wrote:
> I should have added, that in all cases I installed GRUB on my Linux
> partition (/dev/sda2), not the MBR. Also I always set the bootable flag
> on that partition to "on". Is this what I should be doing?
Install Grub in the MBR, that's the trick! What else
On 2011-06-13 11:19, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> Afaik the audio codec skype uses is open now, but I too doubt that this
> goes for the whole protocol. I doubt the situation will get better with
> skype in the hands of ms.
Ok, I didn't express myself clear enough, sorry for that.
Forget Skype. I
Hi list
Has any of you experience in using psi instead of Skype?
If been using it for years now for chat with huge success, but of course
it didn't find the broad mass of users as Skype did. But now times
somewhat changed, guess why - you guessed right. ;-)
Multi-platform, chat, voice calling, v
On 2011-06-12 04:26, Mike Hore wrote:
>> 3. Install rEFIt on the Mac. Don't forget to run enable-always.sh.
>
> It's installed, but I don't know what you mean by enable-always.sh.
> Sorry, I'm new to this.
In MacOS, open up a terminal, go to /efi/refit/ and run
'enable-always.sh' so rEFIt is invo
On 2011-06-11 14:14, Mike Hore wrote:
> I've installed EFI to control which partition to boot off.
Do you mean http://refit.sourceforge.net/ ? You can't install EFI, it's
already on the machine like BIOS was on old hardware.
> There's a Wiki article about Intel Macs, but it talks about custom
> k
On 2011-05-23 05:28, Ron Johnson wrote:
> What about running memtest86+?
And use memtester as well. RAM I had to change 3 days ago showed no (!)
problems with memtest after long hours and many passes, but still it
didn't work.
Seems like Git and Torrents indicate memory faults pretty well, too. ;
Use Git for your /etc or whatever.
On 2011-02-14 22:34, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
>> Automagic merging is difficult. Trying to guess what I meant with my local
>> config changes would likely drive someone mad :). Well, unless they read
>> my documentation and changelogs. You do document local config
On 2011-01-27 00:20, Rob Owens wrote:
> I would try to get a list of those applications that you really care
> about.
I fully agree with Rob, having done what you want to do already several
times.
- the selections and print them
- use an old-school pencil to mark what you want
- install your new
On 2010-11-30 13:48, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Any idea ?
Try evince? It even works great and simple without fuss on my M$ box.
HTH, ändu
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On 2010-11-24 22:18, w f wrote:
> and got a message saying that "... no bootable disk can be found
> ..." During installation of Debian, my HW (500.1 GB ATA Toshiba
> MK5055GS) was detected w/o issue. Before trying rEFIt, I used the
> installer disc in "recovery mode." I successfully mounted / and
On 2010-10-26 16:42, Camaleón wrote:
> Users like many things (i.e., Hotmail/Livemail :-P) but and admin has
> also to care about another things (server requirements, performance,
> stability and security).
It's stable, since years and with many concurrent users. And the
support efforts for expl
On 2010-10-26 14:13, Camaleón wrote:
>> * spamassassin (in case I ever decide to work around the port 25 block)
spampd is your friend.
>> * roundcube for webmail
> As an alternative to Roundcube (I avoid webmail as much as I can) I would
> take a look into Squirrel.
RoundCube is simply great. A
On 2010-10-21 22:48, lee wrote:
> On a side note: Someone once asked me why the text is moving up when
> you move the scrollbar down. Where´s the logic in that? Why isn´t the
> text moving up together with the scroll bar?
Seriously? It indicates the position in the document, and so it behaves.
>
Mark Allums wrote:
> That works on disk-like devices, not so much on other things. Some
> people are scared of shared folders as possible attack vectors, thus
> security risks.
This is absolutely correct, my answer was too shortsighted, sorry for that.
I must confess that for the last 2 years I
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Except for USB the package virtualbox-ose in Debian will meet all your
> requirements. (OSE stands for Open Source Edition)
>
> If USB is a must you can use the repos from Sun (the USB stuff is
> non-free).
If USB is a must, stick the device in, mount it and open a share
Wayne Topa wrote:
> just upgraded icedove on 686 & AND64 Squeeze.
>
> It runs on 686 but segfaults on AND64, my main system.
Don't upgrade yet if you're using Engimail!
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=569804
'Hold' is your friend unless this one is fixed.
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On 2010-04-14 16:51, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
It is based on the fact that the 'official installer' overwrites files
belonging to debian packages. When those packages someday get upgraded,
they overwrite what the nvidia driver installed, and then things break.
I have helped enough people fix that
On 2010-04-13 23:53, Charles Kroeger wrote:
> anyone having problems with their Nvidia card and drivers should first
> consult Lennart Sorensen's HOWTO:
>
> http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.html
I did it, thanks to the author. Lean and clean written. However, I
disagr
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Please forgive me if my choice of words offended you. That wasn't my
> intention at all. I was speaking figuratively, not literally.
No problem, thanks for your feedback. Your point is clear and I can very
well understand your disagreement with my recommendation.
> My poi
On 2010-04-04 01:42, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Telling the OP to throw out a multi thousand dollar 24 port managed GigE
> switch due to a minor issue with one PC or server is not very sage advice.
I said "try changing", not "throw out" (reading and quoting is a basic
skill). Having sold many _multi-t
Alejandro Esteban Galvez wrote:
> Hi, users. I have the Debian Lenny 5.0 and a Advanced Layer3 9924T
> switch, but when i connect the pc to the layer3, the switchs blocks
> the network. Any idea?
I had the same once with a switch. It could be a problem of hardware
incompatibility.
Try changing th
Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> The nvidia installer from upstream will give you issues.
Actually I can't confirm that, using the Nvidia installer for quite a
long time now. My experience is more like 'a walk in the park' to
install it. Very easy, even if rollbacks are needed, eg. at the moment
when 195
Stephen Powell wrote:
> Slow for what purposes? 3D graphics? Real-time animated games?
> I don't do either of those things. I mainly use X for web browsing.
> I also sometimes play a simple 2D game like Solitaire.
> Is the proprietary Nvidia driver really going to make a dramatic improvement
> f
Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> I post
> this just to suggest the same solution to others who have experienced
> the same frustration. (And my next Linux laptop will not have Nvidia
> video, however good it is - and it is - when it works.)
I'm curious what exactly the problems were that you faced. When
Hi guys
This line in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf did the job for me:
options snd-usb-audio index=-2
I stumbled over it because I had to do the same in order to make sound
on my Mac Mini work. This doesn't render the device unusable AFAICS, so
blacklisting it isn't needed. Thanks for your hint
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