On Thursday 25 May 2006 08:39 am, Magnus Therning wrote:
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 06:36:23PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
sorry, just testing my account -- the last 3 messages I sent to the
list don't seem to have made it all the way!
Lately I've been having problems with this too. Well over 12
On Thursday 18 May 2006 08:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I purchased a used laptop with Windows operating system, but I don't have
the disk.
Can I install Linux directly over Windows? Will it wipe out Windows and
everything in the computer?
I had exactly this situation except the machine
On Thursday 27 April 2006 09:05 pm, Mike McCarty wrote:
You seem very angry that someone doesn't like GPL. If you want
to make your software free, then do so. But don't hamper the
freedom of those to whom you give it. And don't live under
the illusion that GPL'd software is free.
Mike, surely
On Friday 28 April 2006 08:18 pm, Mike McCarty wrote:
[snip]
mm If the fit is good, then fine. For me, the fit is not good, so I
mm don't use it. For people who try to make a living writing
mm software, who are not members of the idle rich, and who cannot
mm afford to donate a
On Friday 28 April 2006 08:34 pm, Mike McCarty wrote:
'll respond to the very last sentence first. I don't know. But
you might ask Benjamin Franklin, because he put everything he
did into the Public Domain, and lobbied hard to have neither
Copyright nor Patent Law in the USA. He lost his
On Friday 28 April 2006 03:34 pm, Steve Lamb wrote:
Andy Streich wrote:
Just the other day I was watching a Senate
hearing where a songwriter was saying she could not make a living without
the copyright and IPR laws. And I've wondered a long time about how the
economy might have
On Sunday 08 January 2006 10:30 am, Steve Lamb wrote:
Chris Howie wrote:
And if that's the case then you select both of them during the install.
On an advanced install that's exactly what you do.
Except that Debian put Gnome there when all I selected was Desktop
environment. Come
On Sunday 08 January 2006 05:02 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
I was trying to put up something like this at
http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html but never got
time to finish it up. Would you mind if I copy some lines (word by word)
from your previous email and work on it?
Please, what is the common way for java development under debian sarge?
Is it better to develop under solaris
and simply run and test it under debian ?
netbeans and eclipse are both open source, so they should qualify
for debian.
I'm using Netbeans 4.1 from:
On Friday 06 January 2006 10:57 am, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:04:12 +
Cold Fusion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry if this is in fact included in the install manual, but I have a
computer I'd like to install Debian on, it's presently got windows, and I
don't like that
On Friday 06 January 2006 10:12 am, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[snip]
Having said all that, I agree that the prevalence of help help emails is
a good sign and its incumbent upon us, as a community to reach out to these
people and help them in whatever way we can. First, of course, talk them
On Friday 06 January 2006 12:48 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
Andy Streich wrote:
In addition to the other suggestions on how to improve the newbie
experience, I would add creating yet another mailing list specifically
for people trying to establish a stable installation. Like other
On Friday 06 January 2006 12:46 pm, Clive Menzies wrote:
On (06/01/06 12:18), Andy Streich wrote:
I really appreciate this topic and am delighted to see experienced Debian
users responding positively to the help, help emails. Andrew's
question is the critical one: is Debian for newbies
On Friday 06 January 2006 06:11 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
Andy Streich wrote:
Agreed. I use a similar strategy. I just want to give the newbie the
option to do that -- after they have a solid working setup. Until then,
a debian-newcomer list (or debian-how-in-the-heck-do-I-get
On Friday 06 January 2006 02:41 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:46:18 +
Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On (06/01/06 12:18), Andy Streich wrote:
I really appreciate this topic and am delighted to see experienced
Debian users responding positively
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 01:26 pm, Katipo wrote:
Mark Crean wrote:
However, in my experience running a website is a great deal of hard
work and many people start to flag after three months or so. Many
other people enjoy running their own show and wouldn't want to combine
into a
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 05:26 pm, Josh King wrote:
So, the question is still open. What is all the Debian-related material
we all wish for? At least in your view? I've received several inputs on
this, both on and off this list. Its given us a good direction to start
with, but I'd like to
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 03:09 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
Hello,
There has been an interesting number of responses on this thread. I
like it because it helps me explore some other FLOSS (or not so FLO)
out there which I might otherwise find superior to my own favourites.
I would
On Friday 25 November 2005 01:52 pm, Steve Lamb wrote:
I tend more towards the Bastiat view expressed at the beginning of The
Law.
What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual
right to lawful defense.
Collective organization of the /individual/ right to
On Monday 14 November 2005 09:21 am, s. keeling wrote:
Stability is what Debian was trying to produce when Murdock friends
began. That's still a cornerstone value. Considering all the
downstream distributions based on Debian, that strategy is working well.
I agree. But as a relative newbie
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 11:20 pm, Nate Duehr wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Well, I may not be the best one to ask, since I've been out of
telecom for about three years. But so far, I do not see Linux
making much if any entry into telecom. Blue Hat has made some
progress, but not much.
On Monday 07 November 2005 05:28 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
I doubt many people on this list have much experience working in
high-volume, financial transaction environments where minutes of downtime
correspond to millions of dollars lost. It's not reasonable IMO to
expect OSS to
On Sunday 06 November 2005 06:19 am, John Hasler wrote:
I don't like to have to restart my browser. I lose all my tabs.
the list saved me from adding to the already long list of bugs for
firefox
It's still a bug.
The development team knows that good bug reports are like gold. John is
On Friday 04 November 2005 09:11 am, Mike McCarty wrote:
On the whole, I'm happy with Linux. But in a side-by-side comparison,
IMO Solaris is superior.
No flames, please.
You are wise to include the no flames request. As always this is as more of
an emotional issue for many people than an
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 08:05 am, Mark Grieveson wrote:
300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I
had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I
was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. Is
there a way to list
On Sunday 23 October 2005 10:20 pm, Steve Lamb wrote:
AFAIK, there is not a single vendor of PC's that provides a robust system
out of the box that includes a ready-to-go backup/recovery procedure.
It's always something left to the user. It's like selling a car
without a spare and a
On Sunday 23 October 2005 05:53 pm, Mark Grieveson wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion of using alien to install OpenOffice.org on
Sarge. It worked flawlessly.
Someone else mentioned it need updated libraries from unstable. Is that not
the case or did you selectively update?
--
To
On Sunday 23 October 2005 06:27 pm, Paul Johnson wrote:
This is a straw-man argument. Anybody who actually cares about their data
keeps a good set of backups anyway.
Then you are not familiar with the legions of PC users who know nothing of
making backups, care a lot about their data, and
On Thursday 20 October 2005 02:15 pm, Bob Hynes wrote:
Hello, is there a way to reconfigure a sound card? Mine works in
Windows, but it isn't working in Debian...it's old, but I'd rather try
to use it than buy another one if I can.
Need more info. Have you installed alsa or tried alsoconfig?
On Monday 17 October 2005 10:08 am, Enrique Morfin wrote:
PS: I can't connect to:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
since saturday. Anyone else have the same problem? or
just me?
me too
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On Friday 07 October 2005 11:56 pm, Malcolm Lalkaka wrote:
2. all updates and packages were installed with synaptic
As far as I know, RealPlayer doesn't have an official Debian package.
Therefore, I would suggest that you go to the RealPlayer website
(http://www.real.com) and
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 07:57 pm, enediel gonzalez wrote:
Hello
I need to install a sofware who requires the following commands to work
properly, the installation detects that they aren't installed yet.
ypcat rusers ypwhich xhost
?How could I know the package's name who contains a
Hi,
Just installed sarge on a P4 box, then ran synaptic and upgraded to etch
during which I got this:
* Configuring debconf
* unpacking replacement locales
* preparing to replace 2.3.2.dsl-22 (using libc6_2.3.5-i386.deb)
* [snip]
* Name Service Switch update in C Library...
* [snip]
* gdm
On Thursday 29 September 2005 12:11, valdyn wrote:
you could pin udev to whatever version you have from sarge or you could
grab a 2.6.12 kernel image from sid and install that one. Example(s) for
pinning to some version are in 'man apt_preferences'.
Thanks. I've pinned udev. Any hint on how
On Thursday 29 September 2005 09:40 pm, Gautam Bakshi wrote:
On 9/29/05, Don Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting article on BBC news:
** Sub-$100 laptop design unveiled **
Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
outlines blueprints for a
On Friday 16 September 2005 12:55 pm, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
Most importantly, this is _debian_-user. If you want to advocate
other distributions willy-nilly, it's not the place.
That kind of isolationism is something I think you will find very little
support for in the free software
On Thursday 15 September 2005 05:55 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
My tenth grade english teacher taught it like this:
If you can't replace the semicolon with a period and make two coherent
and complete sentences, then it doesn't belong.
Best grammar advice I ever received.
It can also
On Thursday 01 September 2005 07:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I used java-package along with Sun's Java 5. Instructions here:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/142
Great article! That works for me. Thanks for your help.
Returning to my original question of free Debian
On Monday 29 August 2005 11:33 am, Roel Schroeven wrote:
Either I don't understand what you're saying or you didn't understand
the linked website: this mailing list was added to Gmane already a long
time ago, and the link above links directly to its blog interface on Gmane.
Thanks, that
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 02:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Debian users,
I'm wondering which Debian package(s) I should install for Java
plugins for opera and mozilla. Most of the documents I found on
the net talk about downloading J2RE from a Sun site. Does this
mean there aren't
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 03:52 am, Jon Dowland wrote:
I'd like to suggest should rather than can - if you can find the
time to rant on this list, you should spare at least the same amount of
time ranting productively :)
I'm rather surprised to be perceived as ranting. I'll certainly take
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 01:51 am, Björn Lindström wrote:
The blog interface is comparatively new, and lacking in some areas. If
you have suggestions for improvements, you can post them on
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.discuss
Thanks for link, Bjorn.
On Monday 29 August 2005 01:15 am, Björn Lindström wrote:
Andy Streich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Agree. Hence the suggestion entailed a blog and the existing email
list as two views on exactly the same data.
Gmane has something like this.
http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user
On Sunday 28 August 2005 04:18 pm, Mark Crean wrote:
I suspect an important reason for the popularity of web boards is that
they provide a greater sense of community than a mailing list and
become, for some, a place to hang out. At present, though, I don't think
anyone's really cracked the
On Saturday 27 August 2005 08:12 am, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
I am looking for a drawing (vectorial) program, i read about:
Sodipodi
Skencil
Karbon14
Any other?
Any suggestion about which is better?
I've been using Inkscape (SVG vector illustrator lately) and have been pleased
with the
On Saturday 27 August 2005 01:25 pm, David Christensen wrote:
debian-user:
Here's the final tally:
clearly voted reply to list6
clearly enough voted reply to sender 2
clearly abstained1
other ~86
Anders, Roman, Roberto: Thanks very much for your advice.
For the record I'm running Sarge and had no problem with KDE or GNOME, rather
liked them both in fact. Just looking now for ways to free up resources for
big apps -- and spending a lot of time learning to be a linux admin for my
On Friday 08 July 2005 01:44 pm, Tom Allison wrote:
I love punch cards. Did you ever use the paper tape?
I used punch cards to program a Burroughs mainframe in the mid-70's and
programmed a CNC lathe (machine tool) with paper tape -- what a rush!
Hi,
Based on advice on this list to maestro I'm considering switching to
windowmaker:
I no longer have time to spend hours tweaking config files, and thus
prefer an integrated desktop environment, but GNOME and KDE are too
bulky for my PIII-650 / 320MB workstation
I'm even resource-poorer
Hi again,
I'm wondering if there is any awareness in the Debian community of the jEdit
editor? I writing a plugin for jEdit that enables people, some of whom are
non-technical, to create and maintain websites and would like to get a sense
of how wide-spread jEdit usage/awareness is among
On Thursday 07 July 2005 07:45 pm, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
The trouble is that everybody has different standards: some
like inline quotes, some like top-posting, and some like
bottom-posting. Rather than get exercised about others'
aesthetic choices, we should let our programs format our
mail
On Saturday 02 July 2005 05:29 pm, Glenn Davy wrote:
Hi all
Can anyone tell me how I can get firefox to open as my browser when I
click on a URL in an email in evolution? At the moment a shell pops up,
retrieves file with wget and opens the source in vim.
Thanks
Glenn
I have the same
On Saturday 02 July 2005 06:42 pm, Glenn Davy wrote:
I thought it might have something to do with the 'preferred
applications' in gnome, and or /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser, but
changing these (which are set to firefox anyhow) make no difference.
when you say 'same question' are you
On Saturday 25 June 2005 11:42 pm, Dominik Margraf wrote:
In 10-15 years time, Do you think that Debian will dominate the
desktop and the server market to the extent that most desktops/laptops
sold in department stores will be preinstalled with Debian (just like
today's M*Shit Windows)?
One
Since it is now Monday I'm hoping somebody who might help will be back at work
reading their list email. (Forgive me for resending. I'm quite stuck. Even
a pointer to an obscure or embarrassingly obvious doc would be appreciated.)
On Saturday 18 June 2005 05:30 pm, Andy Streich wrote:
I'm
On Friday 17 June 2005 07:28 pm, Kent West wrote:
These might be a good start:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/index.html#contents
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/user/
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/network-administrator/
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/
Thanks,
I'm running Sarge with the 2.4 kernel and need help accessing my USB cdr
drive.
I have this line in /etc/fstab:
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
mount tells me it is mounted:
polar:/etc/hotplug# mount usbfs
mount: usbfs already mounted or /proc/bus/usb busy
mount: according
Can anyone point me to web-based documentation for newbies that would contain
tips, hints, and lead-me-by-the-hand directions on configuring my new Sarge
install? Or have I just made a big mistake in choosing Debian over, say, any
one of the 100's of other distributions? I am familiar with
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