Gnome Control Panel Is there one?

2011-11-08 Thread John W. Foster
I have Linux Mint Ubuntu Installed, at one time I tried KDE, all as I recall have a control panel for changing a lot of the hardware configs as well as preferred apps desktop layout. Is there a similar app for Gnome in Debian Stable? A search of the words control panel have not turned up what

Evolution still crashing in stable---WHY???

2011-10-11 Thread John W. Foster
Its stable...so why is evolution crashing every time I send a message or add to my address book. EVERY TIME!! I dumped everything incl the ./evolution files in /home/myusername/.evolution; I imported the files that I needed back into the new install cleaned up everything. It's still crashing. Any

More Evolution nonsense-- .db question

2011-10-11 Thread John W. Foster
I need to import the addresses.db file from my old evolution installation. Lo behold..Evolution itself will not import a .db file. Any ideas? SQLite browser says its NOT a SQLite file so any guesses as to what ir is. Also can not open it in a browser or text processor. frosty -- To

Re: Evolution still crashing in stable---WHY???

2011-10-11 Thread John W. Foster
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 16:42 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:22:35AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: Its stable...so why is evolution crashing every time I send a message or add to my address book. EVERY TIME!! Debian uses the term 'Stable' in the 'Steady, Unchanging

Re: More about ATI

2011-10-01 Thread John W. Foster
suggest Cosme Have you tried installing the firmware upgrades from the proposed updates repository for stable. If your running other than stable I don't know what to tell you. -- John W. Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: alien or another???

2011-09-28 Thread John W. Foster
driver fglrx on Squeeze: http://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary That should give the best results. Bob -- I', running this driver from a native .deb package that I got from the stable updates repository. its in the firmware updates. -- John W. Foster

Evolution Crashing OFTEN

2011-09-28 Thread John W. Foster
Anyone else having this issue. Evolution from Stable is crashing a lot, when I add something to the databases, contacts, calender, etc. when I submit a message to be sent. Any ideas other having this issue?? -- John W. Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

cssed plugins

2011-09-28 Thread John W. Foster
Anyone know a debian way to get cssed plugins. I can get it done using the tarballs, but I don't want that on my system. -- John W. Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Kompozer plugins

2011-09-28 Thread John W. Foster
Any advice on getting plugins into Kompozer from stable. I tried to follow the basic process from within Kompozer but it defaulted to firefox plugins which would not install on it. Said pages did not exist then tried to install them in iceweasel. -- John W. Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread John W. Foster
, for a hosting company as a part of a hw raid system, to be used for a cluster or... A most accurate description will provide you the better responses. Greetings, -- Camaleón Currently running Debian Linux on that exact drive with no issues at all. -- John W. Foster

Re: installation successful

2011-09-21 Thread John W. Foster
non-free main I left the cdrom stuff just in case I need to use them again. Eventually you can erase them. I also use synaptic to manage my systems you can change the sources.list easily from there, using the repositories functions. best wishes. -- John W. Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Two Ethernet adapters Question

2011-09-21 Thread John W. Foster
W. Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1316619326.5314.8.ca...@beast.johnwfoster.com

MediaWiki 1.17.0 new stable release from Wikimedia

2011-07-20 Thread John W Foster
There is a new stable release from Wikimedia of MediaWiki 1.17.0 Any idea when we will see it packaged for Debian. It is said to support substitution// {{subst}} {{safesubst}} // so that the error message we are getting with Ver. 1.15 will be resolved. It is an important upgrade for those of us

Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

2011-07-01 Thread John W Foster
I want to thank all of you who replied to my question. As usual I got many different viewpoints and as such have decided to install LibreOffice give it a go. As for those concerned about my implied failure to do my own discovery...well that is exactly why I've been a participating member of the

OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

2011-06-29 Thread John W Foster
1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few days ago? 2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported? 3. What makes LibreOffice better than OpenOffice? These questions are not intended to start a flame war! I have never even looked at LibreOffice, as I did not need to.

gedit flaw need to be addressed

2011-06-22 Thread John W Foster
I've used gedit as my quick editor for some time on my Debian 'stable' production server. Primarily for a quick revising of mediawiki articles. I use the find and replace feature a LOT! Recently after some upgrades that feature does not work properly. i.e. if I click on the drop down arrow in the

Re: gedit flaw need to be addressed

2011-06-22 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 16:29 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:16:01 -0500, John W Foster wrote: I've used gedit as my quick editor for some time on my Debian 'stable' production server. Primarily for a quick revising of mediawiki articles. I use the find and replace feature

Mediawiki extensions for Debian

2011-04-20 Thread John W Foster
I'm looking for more Mediawiki extensions packaged for Debian..stable Mediawiki 1.1xxx Any suggestions? And of course I know I can install them myself, just lazy want to keep the system all Debian. TIA: John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: 64bit vs 32bit on a 64bit System

2011-02-09 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 11:57 +0100, Boblitz John wrote: We are internally debating whether to install the 64bit port on our 64bit machine. Are there any reasons to NOT use the 64bit port? Cheers, John Boblitz I,m running a mixed stable/testing system with as many 64 bit apps from

OT: Sort Of Re: USB stick Security

2011-01-13 Thread John W Foster
I recently lost a USB stick. It didn't have any thing of a security concern on it but got me to thinking. Does anyone know of an application that will; encrypt the drive completely; start at boot time; ask for a secure log in if after say 2 or 3 tries; with appropriate warnings of impending doom;

EXT4 File system viewer for Windows 7 pro 64 bit

2011-01-07 Thread John W Foster
I have to use Windows 7 Pro 64 bit for some work I do. i want to know if anyone knows of a viewer or file manager that I can install in Windows 7 64bit that will allow me to peruse or copy to from a Debian EXT4 file system. I have both on the same machine but ofcourse only run one at a time,

Re: GRUB2 boot issue

2010-12-20 Thread John W Foster
On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 14:36 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:26 PM, John Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a new one for you GRUB2 gurus. I left my office attended by my 2 (5 7 yr. old very curious) grandsons. When about 3 minutes later I returned, my system (

Re: Logitech G110 keyboard

2010-10-11 Thread John W Foster
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 16:41 -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/30/2010 02:42 PM, John W Foster wrote: I have a Logitech G110 keyboard installed on a mixed testing unstable system. I have been searching for a driver for this gameboard

Logitech G110 keyboard

2010-09-30 Thread John W Foster
I have a Logitech G110 keyboard installed on a mixed testing unstable system. I have been searching for a driver for this gameboard for a month to no avail. I am wondering if anyone else has this board has been able to get it to work in Linux. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-17 Thread John W Foster
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 18:25 +, Camaleón wrote: Hello, JFYI, Adobe released a preview of the Flash player plugin for 64 bits systems: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ Now let's see how long it takes to put the vulnerable flag on it again :-) Well, it's better

Re: Iceweasel blackout??

2010-09-15 Thread John W Foster
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 09:03 +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:58:08 -0500, John W Foster wrote: After a recent update that seed doomed from the start in my slightly mixed Squeeze/(Sid for video card) system I noticed that Iceweasel starts OK then a second after the browser

Re: Iceweasel blackout??

2010-09-15 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 15:12 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:15:50 -0500, John W Foster wrote: On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 09:03 +, Camaleón wrote: Did you try to start Iceweasel from an empty profile? Does the same happen with Epiphany? If by 'empty profile' you mean

Re: Iceweasel blackout?? Solved for now...

2010-09-15 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 18:29 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:18:47 -0500, John W Foster wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 15:12 +, Camaleón wrote: If by 'empty profile' you mean that I should clear the .iceweasel file start over...No. I can do that will , however I see

Iceweasel blackout??

2010-09-10 Thread John W Foster
After a recent update that seed doomed from the start in my slightly mixed Squeeze/(Sid for video card) system I noticed that Iceweasel starts OK then a second after the browser opens a page, it goes black. I can get it to show but only when I run the cursor over it with the button pushed down.

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-09 Thread John W Foster
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 00:58 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: Hello all, Here's what happening. After boot: normal console font (about 80 characters wide) After startx: small console font (maybe 132 characters?) A little later: no display in console at all (Alt-F7 still gets me back to X)

Whats up with Squeeze??

2010-08-25 Thread John W Foster
My last update, yesterday removed synaptic aptitude from my systems as part of the process. I tried again this morning it also had removed dselect. I reinstalled dselect but aptitude synaptic neither one will install due to unmet dependencies. This is a first for me after many years of using

Re: No Consoles???

2010-08-13 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 18:00 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: On 08/10/2010 10:48 AM, John W Foster wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:49 -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Andrei Popescuandreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Vi, 06 aug 10, 14:07:43, John W Foster wrote

Re: No Consoles???

2010-08-10 Thread John W Foster
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:49 -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Vi, 06 aug 10, 14:07:43, John W Foster wrote: Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc

Re: No Consoles???

2010-08-10 Thread John W Foster
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 23:36 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 06 aug 10, 14:07:43, John W Foster wrote: Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. I really miss this ability using testing dist. I am VERY used to using a console

Re: No Consoles???

2010-08-10 Thread John W Foster
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 14:14 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:48 AM, John W Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:49 -0500, Arthur Machlas wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Vi, 06 aug 10, 14:07

Evolution Backup ??

2010-08-10 Thread John W Foster
Anyone know the best way to completely back up Evolutions files mail, contacts etc. There does not seem to be a way built in. Will gladly be proven wrong. I, lost all my files 2 times in the last few years its a PITA. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: No Consoles???

2010-08-09 Thread John W Foster
Good catch!! This is the entire file. I pulled it up opened with gedit. # /etc/inittab: init(8) configuration. # $Id: inittab,v 1.91 2002/01/25 13:35:21 miquels Exp $ # The default runlevel. id:2:initdefault: # Boot-time system configuration/initialization script. # This is run first except

Re: No Consoles???

2010-08-08 Thread John W Foster
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 08:29 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: John W Foster wrote: Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. I really miss this ability using testing dist. I am VERY used to using a console screen to manage my

Re: No Consoles???

2010-08-08 Thread John W Foster
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 03:44 +, T o n g wrote: On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:07:43 -0500, John W Foster wrote: Still have an issue with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. How did you access consoles? F1 F2 directly? -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net

Re: No Consoles???

2010-08-08 Thread John W Foster
., on different partitions. Greetings, Martin. Alan Ianson schreef: On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 08:29 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: John W Foster wrote: Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. I really miss this ability using

Re: No Consoles???

2010-08-08 Thread John W Foster
on the same AMD64 p.c., on different partitions. Greetings, Martin. Alan Ianson schreef: On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 08:29 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: John W Foster wrote: Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. I

Re: No Consoles???

2010-08-08 Thread John W Foster
On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 10:28 -0500, John W Foster wrote: On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 08:29 -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: John W Foster wrote: Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. I really miss this ability using testing dist

No Consoles???

2010-08-06 Thread John W Foster
Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. I really miss this ability using testing dist. I am VERY used to using a console screen to manage my system. Something has disabled thosr consoles. Any tips to correct are appreciated. Thanks!

Re: Missing key issue

2010-07-12 Thread John W Foster
On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 17:41 +0200, Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 08:57 -0500, John W Foster wrote: Anyone know how to get rid of this issue. I,m getting this message with every reload of Synaptic. W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze Release

Re: Clarification: Opinions why: What's the best DVD setup for Debian AMD64 system

2010-07-11 Thread John W Foster
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 01:47 +0100, Angus Hedger wrote: On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:30 AM, John W Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 21:57 -0500, John W Foster wrote: Opinions why: What's the best DVD setup for Debian AMD64 system. I have a DVD Player thet simply does

RE: Re:Clarification: Opinions why: What's the best DVD setup for Debian AMD64 system

2010-07-11 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 16:43 -0800, James Zuelow wrote: Original Message From: John W Foster [mailto:jfoster81...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 4:31 PM To: Debian Users Subject: Re:Clarification: Opinions why: What's the best DVD setup for Debian AMD64 system On Tue

I need a patched lib for a Logitech G110 keyboard

2010-07-11 Thread John W Foster
Any one have an already patched libg15.c lib for the Logitech G110 keyboard. It works for the most part out of the box, but the macro keys are yielding the same output codes as the F1,F2 etc. keys. I read that there is a way to patch this g15 lib which is in squeeze for amd64 to handle the G110

Missing key issue

2010-07-11 Thread John W Foster
Anyone know how to get rid of this issue. I,m getting this message with every reload of Synaptic. W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907 Thanks John -- To

Re:Clarification: Opinions why: What's the best DVD setup for Debian AMD64 system

2010-07-07 Thread John W Foster
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 21:57 -0500, John W Foster wrote: Opinions why: What's the best DVD setup for Debian AMD64 system. I have a DVD Player thet simply does not work with Debian. I've never used one b/4 on Linux so I'm wondering what is the best DVD player from Debian to use. I have tried

Opinions why: What's the best DVD setup for Debian AMD64 system

2010-07-06 Thread John W Foster
Opinions why: What's the best DVD setup for Debian AMD64 system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1278471429.9298.1.ca...@beast.johnwfoster.info

F1 through F6 console screens disappeared

2010-07-01 Thread John W Foster
I have a new Debian AMD64 installed system mixed squeeze with a touch of sid (Chromium browser) I just installed the drivers management console for my ATI Radeon 5450 video card had to make a xorg.conf file then run aticonfig for that setup. I now have full control of the ATI card from the

Re: fglrx blacked iceweasel?

2010-07-01 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 17:17 -0700, Frank Miles wrote: Yesterday's squeeze update included the non-free fglrx driver. At least I think that is what is causing iceweasel to erratically blacken/erase/wipe many of the pages. Are others experiencing this? The browser has become almost

Need dependency bug workaround for pulseaudio.

2010-06-28 Thread John W Foster
I need dependency bug workaround for pulseaudio. I'm getting this error when I try to install pulseaudio. pulseaudio: Depends: libpulse0 (=0.9.21-1) but 0.9.21-1.2+b1 is to be installed Recommends: pulseaudio-module-x11 but it is not going to be installed Recommends: pulseaudio-esound-compat

Re: New amd64 system needs flash player

2010-06-27 Thread John W Foster
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 18:55 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:32:40 -0500, John W Foster wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 10:31 +, Camaleón wrote: If got that file (libflashplayer.so, pure 64-bits) installed in my system (it's about 9.1 MiB and *is vulnerable* to some

Re: New amd64 system needs flash player

2010-06-27 Thread John W Foster
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 14:46 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: On Saturday 26 June 2010 14:32:40 John W Foster wrote: Thanks send it I,ll look at it. I have what is 'supposed' to be a pure 64 bit libflahplayer.so that I got from Ubuntu. It will not install. I tried just placing the lib in ~/lib64

repositories for AMD 64 apps

2010-06-27 Thread John W Foster
TO ALL: anyone that knows of ANY applications, drivers, that are designed to run in native 64bit AMD architecture especially those with GPLed source code available...Please send me the site of the apps, if they are your creations I would like to package them for Debian. I am not a Debian developer

New amd64 system needs flash player

2010-06-26 Thread John W Foster
I just built a new squeeze amd64 system. I need a flash player to run some games. I can not get the testing dist to download and install from adobe. gnash does NOT work at all. adobe currently does not support their own native 64 bit apps. Does anybody know of a site with a native 64 bit app for

Re: New amd64 system needs flash player

2010-06-26 Thread John W Foster
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 10:31 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:52:17 -0500, John W Foster wrote: I just built a new squeeze amd64 system. I need a flash player to run some games. I can not get the testing dist to download and install from adobe. gnash does NOT work at all

Re: Evony Age II does lot load: why?

2010-05-27 Thread John W Foster
-Original Message- From: Mark Allums m...@allums.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Evony Age II does lot load: why? Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 16:16:43 -0500 On 5/26/2010 8:22 AM, JW Foster wrote: Evony Age II does lot load on Iceweasel. It stalls at 27% every time. when I

RE: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-20 Thread John W Foster
-Original Message- From: James Zuelow james_zue...@ci.juneau.ak.us To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: Unable to connect to my home wireless Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 15:13:35 -0800 I hoped at least the first part of the mail would be helpful to

Re: Broken dependencies

2010-05-01 Thread John W Foster
-Original Message- From: Alois Mahdal alois.mah...@zxcvb.cz To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Broken dependencies Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 17:20:56 +0200 Hello, because a stupid mistake, I have interrupted apt-get during early stage of dist-upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze. Now I

Re: Blank page after every page when printing PDFs with evince - Debian Lenny, CUPS, HP Paintjet (pj)

2010-04-25 Thread John W Foster
-Original Message- From: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com To: Debian [en] debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Blank page after every page when printing PDFs with evince - Debian Lenny, CUPS, HP Paintjet (pj) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:28:14 +0200 El 2010-04-25 a las 09:05 -0500, John W

Re: Trunk version of linux-image ISSUE: SOLVED!Thanks to all who responded

2010-04-21 Thread John W Foster
-Original Message- From: Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Trunk version of linux-image ISSUE Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 12:49:27 -0400 (EDT) On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:37:30 -0400 (EDT), JW Foster wrote: Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .

Re: need help with xorg.conf

2010-03-12 Thread John W Foster
-Original Message- From: Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: need help with xorg.conf Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:42:16 -0700 I have a cheap flat screen monitor on one of my computers. I works nicely, but not perfectly with Lenny. But in a much

Re: Getting no reply from this mailing list

2010-03-10 Thread John W Foster
-Original Message- From: surreal firewal...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Getting no reply from this mailing list Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:40:04 +0530 Its a couple of times I have noticed that I am not getting reply in my inbox.. I had raised some queries and

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-16 Thread John W Foster
-Original Message- From: Sam Varghese s...@gnubies.com Reply-to: s...@gnubies.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:05:45 +1100 (EST) the kernel image listed above was added to my system (testing on an ibm thinkpad) during a

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

2009-12-02 Thread John W Foster
-Original Message- From: Daniel Dalton d.dal...@iinet.net.au To: luv-main luv-m...@luv.asn.au Cc: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: The purchase of a new laptop on debian Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 22:56:08 +1100 Hi All, I'm looking to buy a knew laptop. I have been

Re: GUI Digital Camera Application

2009-08-27 Thread John W Foster
-Original Message- From: S. Fishpaste s...@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid Reply-To: marathon.duran...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: GUI Digital Camera Application Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:44:30 -0400 On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:51:35 -0400, Charles Kroeger in

Re: Evolution mail; Dumb question but I need answer

2009-08-20 Thread John W Foster
-Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Evolution mail; Dumb question but I need answer Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:24:55 -0500 In 4a8d8e01.1080...@cox.net, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-08-20 12:25, Boyd Stephen

Re: aptitude problems

2009-07-15 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 10:53 -0400, Charles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:26:10 -0700 Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:26:32AM -0400, Charles was heard to say: I'm running Debian testing --- in Synaptic

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

2009-07-12 Thread John W Foster
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 16:24 -0700, SteveM wrote: Fellow Debians, I have seven systems scattered around the house. I thought a NFS and a shared /home would solve my file sharing problems but it doesn't help with desktop app configs. What I'd like is a Universal Desktop Experience, i.e.

Re: Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-07-01 Thread John W Foster
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 23:18 -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: John W Foster wrote: I need to know how to keep gmail/ or maybe my own mailing list setting, from filtering out replys to posting on debian user and other debian lists. scenario: When I post an answer or a questions to this list

Re: Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-07-01 Thread John W Foster
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 11:31 +0200, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: Hello, John W Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com writes: I need to know how to keep gmail/ or maybe my own mailing list setting, from filtering out replys to posting on debian user and other debian lists. For this, I usually

Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-06-29 Thread John W Foster
I need to know how to keep gmail/ or maybe my own mailing list setting, from filtering out replys to posting on debian user and other debian lists. scenario: When I post an answer or a questions to this list or any debian list. I do not recieve the replies that are sent to my mailbox at

Driver for video card question

2009-06-28 Thread John W Foster
Any one know of a .deb Debianized version of the ATI Catalyst driver for The ATI All-in-Wonder™ HD 3600 series of video cards chipset is radeon 3650 , the specific card is the VisionTek card (Visiontek ATI All-in-Wonder™ HD 3650)of the same type. I am aware that ATI/AMD supply this driver. Just

Visiontek ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder Delux card

2009-06-25 Thread John W Foster
Any one here using this card effectively with Linux? -- John Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: install isomaster from DEbian on Ubuntu

2009-06-21 Thread John W Foster
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 07:31 +, sai ram wrote: install isomaster First of all you really need to put in a subject. I only look at blank ones when they happen to be the first in line the preview feature on evolution opens them automatically. As to the problem. I have some small experience

OT:Need to locate Debianistas that are TIVO hackers

2009-06-20 Thread John W Foster
Any of you who are TIVO hackers Debianistas; please contact me via e-mail off the lists. If you reply on the list I will not see it as freakin GMail scrubs the replies with my name in the header. That's a whole other issue. I am starting a personal project to design a process for using Debian to

Command line question involving webmin cron job;

2009-06-18 Thread John W Foster
I have been experimenting a bit and have tried this command line for upgrading my system; apt-get -y update; apt-get -y upgrade It works fine if issued from a root terminal. However as a command line issued as 'root' from webmin it fails with this error; -

Best way to stream shows from www.myeasytv.com

2009-06-01 Thread John W Foster
I am currently using debian lenny with backports. I want to use my linux box to play TV shows from myeasytv.com others. It plays them in most cases but does a very poor job. I have talked to the Verizon FIOS folks and it seems that in a very short time they will begin offering a massive amount of

Drupal6 on Lenny:Access Denied error

2009-04-24 Thread John W Foster
I got drupal installed and it seems to be working though the installation took a lot of effort to get it working since there are not any debian instructions that tell you exactly what to do. Now the issue is that having set up the admin user and being able to log in as that user, I can NOT get to

Online contest software recommendations??

2009-04-20 Thread John W Foster
I am interested in running some online contests with awards involved. What I need: open source preferably free login for membership/entry; process for accepting payments databased backend able to provide contest standings to entrants as available must run on linux web based interfaces for all

Re: Blank CDRW wierdness

2009-04-17 Thread John W Foster
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 14:16 +0300, Aioanei Rares wrote: John W Foster wrote: I have Debian Lenny on a box that I use to burn Data CD's on I have recently noticed that when I burn one and for some reason need to read it on the Debian box, it says I have inserted anothe 'blank' CD

Re: are these hacks?

2009-04-09 Thread John W Foster
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 12:20 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: Occasionally on some websites I visit daily I'll get one of two incorrect results: 1) The home page for www.sogosearch.com 2) A page with nothing but the words It works! on it This is most likely the default page of the server. It

Re: are these hacks?

2009-04-09 Thread John W Foster
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 11:02 -0700, David Fox wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Rick Pasotto r...@niof.net wrote: Occasionally on some websites I visit daily I'll get one of two incorrect results: 1) The home page for www.sogosearch.com 2) A page with nothing but the words It

Re: OT: ERP/CRM for small refrigeration service shop.

2009-04-08 Thread John W Foster
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 09:46 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-04-07 04:55, Adrian Levi wrote: 2009/4/7 John W Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com: On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 20:10 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: I am looking for a open source software solution for a service trade business. I have found

Re: OT: ERP/CRM for small refrigeration service shop.

2009-04-06 Thread John W Foster
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 20:10 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: I am looking for a open source software solution for a service trade business. I have found OpenbravoERP and Postbooks. Both of these solutions look like way too much overkill for a 2 -10 van company. I'm looking for something that does

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-04-06 Thread John W Foster
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 13:06 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Michael Biebl wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi I've never been pissed off at Debian before but I guess there is always a first. That's usually not a good way to start a discussion (admitted, you said

Re: Printer Setup Problem

2009-04-03 Thread John W Foster
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 09:04 +0900, 김정환 wrote: Hi, everyone I'm trying to setup a printer in network environment. My printer is HP Laserjet 3015 PCL6. In MS Windows, the printer is set up as follows : Port : DOT4_001 Generic IEEE 1284.4 Printing Support HP Laserjet 3015 PCL6 In

Re: announcement

2009-04-02 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 23:30 +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote: hello all, I have a good news to announce. I have started a Fundamnetal Research(as i call ) on Installers and Builders. You can see the scratch work at http://www.trueangle.org/ and http://www.gnuresearch.com/ All support in

Re: announcement

2009-04-02 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 18:25 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:30:10PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote: hello all, I have a good news to announce. I have started a Fundamnetal Research(as i call ) on Installers and Builders. You can see the scratch work at

Iceweasel question?

2009-03-30 Thread John W Foster
I recall a while back that with Mozilla and its predecessors, you could have the bookmarks organizer perform a real connection test on all of the entries. That does not seem to be the case now. I recently imported several bookmark files that I have had for some time to my recently reinstalled

Re: My confusion about lenny and sid

2009-03-26 Thread John W Foster
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 15:33 +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: Okay. This is my sources.list deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib I updated my system 2 days back.

Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread John W Foster
I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently the mouse is taking unexpected leaps around on the screen. By that I mean it jumps from say the bottom right to the top left or elsewhere. It is irregular. Has anyone noticed this behavior? I upgraded stable about 2 days after

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 22:05 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,25.Mar.09, 14:54:35, John W Foster wrote: I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently the mouse is taking unexpected leaps around on the screen. By that I mean it jumps from say the bottom right

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 17:18 -0600, green wrote: John W Foster wrote at 2009-03-25 16:31 -0600: All of the responses were possible candidates, however it seems the real culprit was far simpler. My wife had swiped my very old, very highly decorated, very large, very soft, MOUSE PAD

Re: Mouse Jumping around??

2009-03-25 Thread John W Foster
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 19:41 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-03-25 17:31, John W Foster wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 22:05 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,25.Mar.09, 14:54:35, John W Foster wrote: I have a solid, well established Lenny Stable server system. Recently the mouse

Blank CDRW wierdness

2009-03-18 Thread John W Foster
I have Debian Lenny on a box that I use to burn Data CD's on I have recently noticed that when I burn one and for some reason need to read it on the Debian box, it says I have inserted anothe 'blank' CD. It will no longet read it. I have been using GnomeBaker to do this. I can read them just fine

Re: any software for 3D surfaces visualization in debian sid?

2009-03-15 Thread John W Foster
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 21:31 +0800, Star Liu wrote: I'm looking for a free software which can draw 3D picture if I setup mathmetical equations and specify its scope, it's an important part of my current project. thanks! -- My platform is AMD64 with Debian sid and gnome. Currently not in

Re: mediawiki-extensions - package... strongly suspect bug, wonder about adv. of deb packages...

2009-02-23 Thread John W Foster
(145): MWException-report() #11 /usr/share/mediawiki1.7/includes/Exception.php(179): wfReportException(Object(MWException)) #12 [internal function]: wfExceptionHandler(Object(MWException)) #13 {main} - Lastly: top posting is frowned upon within this list: Good luck! -- John W. Foster

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