Re: please help test 2.7 pre-release (in VCS)

2012-06-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 19/06/2012 16:24, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, I've fixed 2 bugs in VCS: * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670687 * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667068 I would like to release this perhaps this time tomorrow. Would you mind testing the 3 com

please help test 2.7 pre-release (in VCS)

2012-06-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I've fixed 2 bugs in VCS: * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670687 * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667068 I would like to release this perhaps this time tomorrow. Would you mind testing the 3 commands: NEW, DETAILNEW, and DESCRIBENEW commands. Otherwise

please test wajig in VCS

2012-04-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, Can anyone here using wajig test the version in VCS. If you find issues, please report back at wa...@googlegroups.com. setup: $ wajig install devscripts $ hg clone https://wajig.googlecode.com/hg $ cd wajig build + install: $ debuild -us -uc -b $ sudo debi I want to make sure it's solid bef

Re: How to stop receiving xorg-related mails

2011-06-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
I get just the bug reports for xterm and xserver-xorg. I used to be subscribed to debian-x, and have now stopped the receiving the mails since unsubscription. I've unsubscribed from both xorg and xterm from the PTS, but am still getting these bug reports. I looked at BTS info, and it appears ther

How to stop receiving xorg-related mails

2011-06-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
I've unsubscribed from xorg-related mailing lists, but I'm getting some xorg-related bug reports (e.g. xterm and xserver-xorg). What am I missing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: another favourite FLOSS poll

2011-04-14 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 16:32, green wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote at 2011-04-04 05:39 -0500: >> I've asked for removal, due to inactivity. >> >> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 00:06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe >> wrote: >> > Depending on response, I may come ba

Re: another favourite FLOSS poll

2011-04-04 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 00:06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > Although I often enjoyed the process of doing the yearly polls, it was > rather time-consuming, I decided to do this on a Shapado instance > (http://favourite-floss.shapado.com/). Please head over there and c

Re: Missing files in home-directory

2011-01-23 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Ummm... he deleted them? On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 18:22, Matthias Andersson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi! > > My dad called me yesterday regarding a problem on his machine running > Debian Lenny. He said he had installed the updates sometime last week > and notic

Re: Basic questions about Debian package tools

2011-01-10 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 16:11, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 10 Jan 2011, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> pt3...@gmail.com: >> > >> > Is it true I should avoid APT and use some other frontend or, better, >> > dpkg directly? >> >> Never use dpkg directly if you don't have to. Apt-get and aptitude are >> bot

another favourite FLOSS poll

2010-12-01 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, Although I often enjoyed the process of doing the yearly polls, it was rather time-consuming, I decided to do this on a Shapado instance (http://favourite-floss.shapado.com/). Please head over there and cast your vote, while taking note of the FAQ. Changes: * It won't be a yearly poll, but wi

Re: heads-up: me considering to run another favourite FLOSS poll

2010-11-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:29, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > 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. I've asked for a better way to do this: http:

heads-up: me considering to run another favourite FLOSS poll

2010-11-05 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
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. -- blog: http://tshepang.tumblr.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: LibreOffice repositories

2010-10-04 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 22:29, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 05:56:36PM +0100, AG wrote: >> Hey list >> >> As many here are probably already aware, due to Oracle buying out Sun, >> the OOo developer community has forked the project as a pre-emptive >> protection against Oracle doing th

Re: question/answer website for user support: shapado.debian.net

2010-10-04 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:24, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Dear followers of the -user mailing list, >  you might be interesting in knowing that since yesterday there's a new > Debian experiment ongoing in the area of user support: > >  http://shapado.debian.net/ > > which is a multi-language quest

Re: question/answer website for user support: shapado.debian.net

2010-10-04 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:31, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:24, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> Dear followers of the -user mailing list, >>  you might be interesting in knowing that since yesterday there's a new >> Debian experiment ongoing i

Re: Problems Installing Pacemaker and Heartbeat in Lenny

2010-09-26 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 18:01, Chen Stormstout wrote: > Thanks for the tip, but didn't work. > I've already done the upgrade before try to install. > These are the results of your sugestion: > > #aptitude safe-upgrade > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state inf

Re: how to display duplicates between 2 repos

2010-09-25 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 21:04, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:10:21 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> I got 2 repos locally. One is a copy of Squeeze and another is one >> managed by repoupdate (and has stuff not available in Debian official >> repos, but

Re: Problems Installing Pacemaker and Heartbeat in Lenny

2010-09-23 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 14:30, Chen Stormstout wrote: > Hi, > > There is any problem with cluster stack in debian lenny? > I'm trying to install but receive the errors above. I've posted this issue in > pacemaker list too, but with no answers. > > This is my entire sources.list: > > #deb cdrom:[D

how to display duplicates between 2 repos

2010-09-23 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I got 2 repos locally. One is a copy of Squeeze and another is one managed by repoupdate (and has stuff not available in Debian official repos, but also has stuff from Sid). Are there ready-made tools that would generate a list of duplicate packages between the two? I plan to use this list to

warning regarding an upcoming wajig upload

2010-09-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I am current active developer of wajig and version 2.0.49 is going to change some of its behavior, so have a look at http://code.google.com/p/wajig/source/browse/debian/changelog to see if your scripts/usage habits are going to need some changing. sidenotes: * Dont hesitate to report defects

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-12-12 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:56, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:18, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>>> sidenote: >>>> this year has had probably the worst participation since I've started >>>> this poll in 2005 :-( >>> >>

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 13:59, Allen wrote: > On Tuesday 17 November 2009 06:31:33 am Avi Greenbury wrote: >> Allen wrote: >> > And YAST2 is probably the best system tool ever done. >> >> Hmm, Yast made me want to hurt small things the last (and first) time I >> used it. I'm increasingly wondering

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:25, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I actually once did, but am sure I'll be swamped if I try now - Ubuntu >> is massive! It would be nice though to compare the response >> (favourites) from both camps. I'll limit myself to Debian for now; >> maybe next year :-( >> > > Would you li

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:17, Allen wrote: > > desktop environment OR window manager: KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Window Maker, > Enlightenment, FVWM, FVWM2, FVWM Crystal (Yes, I do in fact use every one of > those, all the time. I like having options on how my desktop will behave at > any given time, and s

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:18, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> sidenote: >>> this year has had probably the worst participation since I've started >>> this poll in 2005 :-( >> >> I noticed that as well. Kinda sad. Any thoughts as to why? >> >> my .02 is that the list doesn't seem to have quite the breadth o

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 03:31, Tim Tebbit wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> >> I noticed that as well. Kinda sad. Any thoughts as to why? >> >> my .02 is that the list doesn't seem to have quite the breadth of >> traffic it has had before. But that's a cursory observation at best. > > This

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
hi, thanks for ur votes; unfortunately I had already posted the results since the weren't votes for about 4 days On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:16, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 05 Nov 2009, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites If s

results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-16 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, Following is the results of a poll that has been running for over a week, one which questions readers of debian-user to list their favourite FLOSS -> Free (Libre) or Open Source Software. There's the usual stars in the form of Firefox/Iceweasel, GIMP, aptitude, and OpenOffice.org's word proce

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-13 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
desktop OR window manager: * GNOME development: * Geany, Python misc utilities: * grep, Sudo, debmirror, Lsof, less, Meld, Uptimed, wc, top, Tracker, Ex Falso, wajig, GNOME system monitor applet spreadsheet: * gnumeric terminal emulator: * GNOME Terminal text editor: * Geany non-free: * GMa

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 13:46, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > - Anonymous contributors can I liken this to one-time patch senders? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 18:42, Chris wrote: > web browser: Firefox (Not IceWeasel) am curious: what's wrong with Iceweasel? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 15:04, Aioanei Rares wrote: >> non-free:flash :( Are you referring to the browser-plugin? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 13:48, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> instant messenger: skype (not floss? so make something this good in floss!) Surprising to find that there's no FLOSS competitor. I thought Skype was big on popularity, not features. What's missing in what you've tried? What comes close? -- my

heads-up for upcoming "favourite FLOSS" poll

2009-11-03 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, For the past few years I've been running a "favourite FLOSS" poll and will do so this year too (real soon). You may check out the results for previous years, and comment with suggestions for improvement: 2008 results - http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/12/msg00031.html 2007 results - ht

Re: Iceweasel address completion non-working?

2009-03-16 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> Thanks for the suggestions, but they didn't help. The problem looks a >> bit worse, since even my history seems lost (but still got entry >> autocompletion like my GMail log

Re: Iceweasel address completion non-working?

2009-03-16 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Matthew Smith wrote: > Quoth Tshepang Lekhonkhobe at 2009-03-16 19:10... >>> >>> I booted into Friday's Sid this morning to find that there's no >>> address completion in Iceweasel and upgraded to latest Unstable, and >&

Re: Iceweasel address completion non-working?

2009-03-16 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > I booted into Friday's Sid this morning to find that there's no > address completion in Iceweasel and upgraded to latest Unstable, and > still no pleasure. Where can I look? Last I checked, on Frida

Iceweasel address completion non-working?

2009-03-16 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I booted into Friday's Sid this morning to find that there's no address completion in Iceweasel and upgraded to latest Unstable, and still no pleasure. Where can I look? Last I checked, on Friday, there was no problem. -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: pbuilder trouble -- bingo!

2009-01-28 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
For some reason, I only saw this mail now. Thanks much for the mouthful: On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 7:38 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 07:26:38PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > ... >> >> Running (c)debootstrap alone gives no problems so I d

Re: kde Lenny testing

2009-01-01 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Sonny Jordan wrote: > Just want to say I have been slowly & patiently waiting for the stable > release of 'Lenny". > I have been trying others for fun. I decided tonight to go ahead & download > the testing release of the KDE Lenny. I AM SO GLAD Y'ALL DID NOT USE T

Re: pbuilder trouble

2008-12-27 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:34:42AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm having trouble getting "pbuilder create" run with the following error: > ... >> My /etc/pbuilerr

Re: pbuilder trouble

2008-12-27 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
anyone who can help with this? On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting "pbuilder create" run with the following error: > > > [...] > I: Configuring initscripts... > I: Configuring sysvinit..

Re: pbuilder trouble

2008-12-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:34:42AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm having trouble getting "pbuilder create" run with the following error: >> >> >> [...] >

pbuilder trouble

2008-12-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I'm having trouble getting "pbuilder create" run with the following error: [...] I: Configuring initscripts... I: Configuring sysvinit... I: Unpacking the base system... W: Failure while installing base packages. This will be re-attempted up to five times. W: Failure while installing base p

Re: trouble with my repo?

2008-12-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi > > I ran the following command, "debootstrap sid temp > http://localhost/sid"; which aborts on the following problem: > > > I: Unpacking wget... > I: Unpacking whiptail... > W: Failure while

Re: building entire Lenny from source

2008-12-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You'll also need to keep a repository of the packages you built. reprepro >> is nice for a small repo, but if you go for the whole Debian archive, >> the standard Debian one (dak) w

Re: trouble with my repo?

2008-12-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-12-11 12:42 +0100, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I ran the following command, "debootstrap sid temp >> http://localhost/sid"; which aborts on the followin

trouble with my repo?

2008-12-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi I ran the following command, "debootstrap sid temp http://localhost/sid"; which aborts on the following problem: I: Unpacking wget... I: Unpacking whiptail... W: Failure while installing base packages. This will be re-attempted up to five times. when chrooting into environment, and issuein

Re: building entire Lenny from source

2008-12-10 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to build the whole of Lenny from source and am looking for >> advice on the easiest tools to use. I looked at pbuilder an

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2008)

2008-12-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> What does "x9" mean? To an American reader, it means "multiply by 9", and >> that doesn't seem to make sense. >> > > I guess it is the number of votes received for that application. Sorry, for I t

results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2008)

2008-12-01 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, Following is the results of a poll that has been running for about 2 weeks, one which questions readers of debian-user to list their favourite FLOSS -> Free (Libre) or Open Source Software. There's the usual stars in the form of Firefox/Iceweasel and GIMP, as well as aptitude, and great growt

Re: building entire Lenny from source

2008-11-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any reason you don't follow-up on the list? That was not my intention... > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 03:17:35PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Tzafrir

Re: building entire Lenny from source

2008-11-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Emanoil Kotsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to build the whole of Lenny from source and am looking for >> advice on the easiest tools to use. I looked at pbuilder and r

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-28 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
I see the poll has cooled and in that case I'll post my own favourites. It's still open if you there's any late entries, and I will post the results early next week. Here goes: desktop OR window manager: * GNOME development: * Geany, Python, GTK2 misc utilities: * grep, Sudo, debmirror, Lsof, le

building entire Lenny from source

2008-11-27 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I'd like to build the whole of Lenny from source and am looking for advice on the easiest tools to use. I looked at pbuilder and rebuildd and nearly had a headache. Are there tutorials out there? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: accessing wlan without non-free firmware?

2008-11-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Winfried Tilanus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/20/2008 Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Hi, > >> Debian doesn't distribute such and that means folks installing from >> discs won't get their wireless working out-of-the-

Re: accessing wlan without non-free firmware?

2008-11-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-11-19 11:00 +0100, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> I struggled to get 4965 wireless working on my TravelMate 6592, and >> succeeded only once having installed firmware-iwlwifi from non-fr

accessing wlan without non-free firmware?

2008-11-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I struggled to get 4965 wireless working on my TravelMate 6592, and succeeded only once having installed firmware-iwlwifi from non-free. Is there a way to achieve this without going the non-free route? Here's the relevant line from "lspci -v": 06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PR

what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-13 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and there's a couple of nice editions to last year's categories: audio editor: audio player:

heads-up for upcoming "favourite FLOSS" poll

2008-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, For the past few years I've been running a "favourite FLOSS" poll and will do so this year too (real soon). Please check out the results for last year's, http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/12/msg00144.html, and comment as you please, perhaps with suggesions for improvement. -- my place

Re: wine problems?

2008-06-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After having upgraded to lenny i386, the two applications I used with wine > have problems. One (a chemical drawing package) does not start any more. The > other one (a database) starts, though functionalities are grea

Fwd: trans

2008-04-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
forwarding to a correct mailing list -- Forwarded message -- From: nidhinrag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:45 PM Subject: trans To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi, where can I get simple hello translator ? please send me the link. regards nidhin -- my place on the we

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS

2007-12-10 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Dec 3, 2007 12:57 AM, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:36:08 +0200 > "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > Tomboy. The most favourite non-free piece remains Adobe Acrobat, and > > one wo

results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS

2007-12-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi debian-user, Here is a summary of the mini-poll that I conducted recently on Debian-user: Firefox/Iceweasel and GIMP reign supreme for the third year running but are now joined by aptitude, each having 21 votes. I was surprised by Quod Libet receiving one vote but more surprising was F-Spot wh

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-12-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Before releasing the results, here's out my own favourites: desktop OR window manager: * GNOME development: * Python, GTK2 finance: * Gnumeric misc utilities: * grep, Sudo, debmirror, Lsof, less, Meld, Uptimed, sort, du, wc, top, svn, mencoder, Tracker, apt-show-source, APTonCD, File-roller pa

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 16, 2007 11:41 PM, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2007-11-14 15:28:32, schrieb Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: > > On Nov 13, 2007 1:52 PM, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > anything unreleased and anticipated: > > > >

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 15, 2007 2:20 AM, M. Baldinelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > Interesting. Does this run on Debian, and if so, how? > > I tried it with gxmame frontend (I think now it's discontinued, because > it's in Obsolete and Locall

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 14, 2007 10:09 PM, Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I meant I saw it listed under mathematics. I already saw someone who > > listed Python under mathematics, and maybe it's because she uses it as > > a calculator. What about you? > > > > Numerical analysis of various kinds - less

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-14 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 13, 2007 1:52 PM, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > anything unreleased and anticipated: > > DFSG debian free software guidelines? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-14 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 13, 2007 1:52 PM, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > image editor: > > gaim mistake? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-13 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 13, 2007 9:52 PM, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, I agree with you and the others about the value of the poll. I > like seeing what others, especially those who are much more experienced > and knowledgeable than I, use and recommend. Thanks much... -- my place on the web: flos

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-13 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 13, 2007 10:37 PM, Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On Nov 11, 2007 12:22 AM, Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> mathematics: > >>> > >> R, g++, Octave > >> &g

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-13 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 11, 2007 12:22 AM, Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mathematics: > R, g++, Octave g++? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-13 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 11, 2007 2:05 AM, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you should, in the future, include a 'backup' category. That shouldn't have limited you since I asked that you may your own category. Anyways, it will only be valid if there's enough voters for such a category, and if not so it

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-13 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 10, 2007 11:30 PM, M. Baldinelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > games: > MAME (uhm, perhaps this is non-free in Debian sense so it should go > below... - I don't remember.) Interesting. Does this run on Debian, and if so, how? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To U

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 8, 2007 11:03 PM, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here here! Great to get participation from users! I would suggest that > this poll and others be added to the debian-community.org site as a > feature. That way you can just point to a URL and let a wider audience > have a say. I was

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 8, 2007 7:38 PM, John Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16:45 Thu 08 Nov , Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > > This is the third poll I've run, of course asking the same question of > > "what's your favourite FLOSS", and I haven'

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 11:35 PM, Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > spreadsheet: > > * > > > impress Did you mean OOo Calc or do you want this under another category. -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 8, 2007 1:03 AM, John Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do not presume to psychoanalyse me. I see the Debian Users list as an > invaluable source of information and advice, to which I attempt in my > own small way to contribute. Posts requesting opinions as to which is > the best software

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 8:34 PM, Robert Jerrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > evince, xpdf How come this is? What's the limitations of each? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 7:58 PM, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tag editor: > > * > etags (or is there some other kind of tag?) What's that? Me not understand. -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 8:34 PM, Robert Jerrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-11-06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > > add missing categories: > > > > audio

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 5:54 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:59:53PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > emacs (comes with a fre

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 5:13 PM, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> emacs (comes with a free operating system) > > > > Me don't und

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 10:19 AM, Emre Sevinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anything deserving great honours (EG. GCC): > gcc, tex, latex Should I suppose that TeX and LaTeX is about the same thing? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 4:32 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > It is not clear as to whether we should reply to you personally or post it > on the d-u list. So I will just post it to the list... The list is better actually. > >

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 4:32 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > web browser: > lynx, konqueror, + iceweasel (in i386 chroot for flash, javascript, plus > a couple of sites that won't work on konq). This makes me curious why i386 chroot? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > emacs (comes with a free operating system) Me don't understand. > killer app: > screen -x > > killer app enabler: > ssh Interesting categories, but would it not be appropriate to put these two in "anything deserving great

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 6, 2007 11:27 PM, Keith O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >--} word-processor: > * Vim/OOo Do you regard Vim a word processor, or is there something more? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 6, 2007 11:18 PM, Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >--} mathematics: How does this work? Is it a mistake? > * Lyx > >--} > >--} misc utilities: > * Dia, VYM, K9copy, CDcat, Gkrellm, Kerry Beagle, Quanta, Unclutter, probably probably? Where does one get that? -- my place on the we

2006 results for debian-user's favourite FLOSS

2007-11-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Last year (and the year before) I asked debian-user which of the thousands of available FLOSS was their favourite. I 'd like to do the same for this year (on another mail, so hurry not with your picks). Here's last year's results: audio editor: * audacity (8) -> 2005 winner audio player: * xmms

debmirror md5sum failure

2007-10-28 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, debmirror fails when given the following command: /usr/bin/debmirror \ --verbose --host=ftp.debian.org \ --root=debian/ --method=http --progress \ --passive --dist=sid --arch=none \ --ignore-release-gpg --section=main \ --pdiff=none \ /home/wena/sid The errors it prints are the followi

Re: "apt-cdrom add" using an ISO image

2007-10-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/19/07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/20/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:57:28AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 07:35:07AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: &

Re: "apt-cdrom add" using an ISO image

2007-10-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 9/20/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:57:28AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 07:35:07AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'd like to loop-mount an ISO i

Fwd: Simultaneous AC3/DTS passthrough & stereo analog output

2007-10-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
I saw this on a Debian mailing list and maybe you may help: -- Forwarded message -- From: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 11, 2007 5:15 AM Subject: Re: Simultaneous AC3/DTS passthrough & stereo analog output To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue

Re: "apt-cdrom add" using an ISO image

2007-09-20 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 9/20/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:57:28AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 07:35:07AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'd like to loop-mount an ISO i

"apt-cdrom add" using an ISO image

2007-09-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I'd like to loop-mount an ISO image and do an "apt-cdrom add" from it. I looked around and couldn't find the option. Is it possible? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?

2007-07-04 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 7/4/07, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A few days ago I by chance realized that the DVD-RW I had used for months to do may backup was probably damaged: apparently it was not, because I could burn my data onto it without problems; but when I tried to copy its content into a hard disk

Re: svn checkout via a web-browser?

2007-07-04 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 7/4/07, Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:20:57AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 7/3/07, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 2007-07-03 16:26:40 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> On 7/3/07, Vin

Re: svn checkout via a web-browser?

2007-07-04 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 7/4/07, Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:20:57AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 7/3/07, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 2007-07-03 16:26:40 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> On 7/3/07, Vin

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