Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-10 Thread arijit sarkar
t, if graphical needed) > > > video player: mplayer > web browser: firefox, elinks > > > word-processor: OO.org Writer > Favorite gui app not mentioned above: Tomboy -- arijit sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: docx files

2007-11-09 Thread Arijit Sarkar
; is not a standard format, it's not possible for many soft wares to offer read/write support. If possible, tell him to send the document in some ISO standard document format like, Open Document Format. If not possible, then at least in Office2003 format. -- Arijit Sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Which browser is better, firefox?

2007-11-04 Thread Arijit Sarkar
uot;Seems" in quotes because it > has to be proven to be so in order to actually be faster... > > Hugo > I use both. And personally I feel Opera bit faster. After opening multiple tabs (around 10-12 tabs), opera's responsiveness is still better than firefox. -- Arijit

Re: Asus motherboard and Sound

2007-09-16 Thread arijit sarkar
then edit (as root) '/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base' file, add the following at the end of the file. "options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 model=3stack" save and reboot. try now. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vote for Debian on Lenovo

2007-09-08 Thread arijit sarkar
just bought a linuxcertified.com lappy. oh well. > > A voted for debian. thanks for the information. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

2007-07-31 Thread arijit sarkar
Paul Johnson wrote: On Jul 30, 8:30 pm, arijit sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As far as I know, Iceweasel is Firefox without the "Talkback" component, which is not open and matches debian-philosophy. The name and logo are also nonfree in Firefox. thanks fo

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

2007-07-30 Thread arijit sarkar
Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: Greetings, I am aware that Iceweasel uses the same engine as Firefox for the operation, however, there seems to be problems with using Iceweasel on sites like Ebay. When you are creating an item to sell and you get to the product description section, you do n

Re: searching for graphical torrent client

2007-07-27 Thread arijit sarkar
haps bittornado-gui, or maybe bittorrent-gui, would be good for you. Mark Ktorrent is working for me fine. No crashing. You can use transmission. It's simple. It doesn't have many options like other clients have. But it works. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

UUID naming for devices

2007-07-08 Thread Arijit Sarkar
change ? /dev/sda4 /media/xfs xfs defaults0 1 -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

2007-07-07 Thread arijit sarkar
respect to flash based sites. So, you must have latest flash installed, but you can install JRE 6.0 instead of v6.1 or even you can use JRE 5. It won't create any problem. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude wants to remove these. Do I need them?

2007-07-04 Thread arijit sarkar
if you find that necessary) is a breeze. It > might not be the case if you are running sid though! But if you are running > sid, I assume you know what you are doing... My rule of thumb: 1. install 'deborphan' package. 2. run it. 3. you can safely remove the packages listed by

Re: [OT] google desktop on Debian

2007-07-04 Thread arijit sarkar
to Linux, i use beagle. and to me both are same. i don't want to use google-desktop because, when there are open-source/free alternatives present I always go for it. in this case beagle. :) -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get Stumble Upon to work with Iceweasel, Any tips?

2007-06-28 Thread arijit sarkar
all as an extension. When I > recently upgraded my stable boxes from sarge to etch Stumble no longet was > installed into iceweasel, though it is installed on the system. It just does > not show up. Any tips?? > Thanks! > -- > John W. Foster > > -- --- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India ---

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-26 Thread arijit sarkar
involved in them, created them, sometimes violate their own standards. Make > everything completely original and thus maintain complete personal control. > No one else will want to read the thing anyway :-) > > -- --- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India ---

my DVD is'nt recognized or automounted but k3b detects it perfectly

2007-06-23 Thread arijit sarkar
information if required. Note: That DVD is burnt using Nero7 from Windows XP long ago before I switched to linux. It worked in windows perfectly. - Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India 'Debian Testing' GNU/LINUX -

Re: Can I resize my partition after installation ?

2007-06-21 Thread arijit sarkar
hed to linux just recently (it's been six months), I never had any idea about LVM. I'll do that soon. I'm learning new things everyday. ----- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India 'Debian Testing' GNU/LINUX -

Can I resize my partition after installation ?

2007-06-20 Thread arijit sarkar
common swap and home partition. but in that article, partitioning has done while installing first OS, which I didn't. So, can i resize my /home now to make space for second root. or I have to reformat and do it again. ----- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India 'Debian Testing' GNU/LINUX -

Re: Mixer use kills ALSA

2007-06-20 Thread arijit sarkar
3stack" (withour quotes) After step 1, force-restart alsa module and see if it works or not. 2. edit: /boot/grub/menu.lst add "noapic" option at the end of the kernel options. reboot the machine. everything should work fine. - Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India 'Debian Testing' GNU/LINUX -

problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg [SOLVED]: CONFIRMATION

2007-06-15 Thread arijit sarkar
problem is solved now. thanks to, Eeltje, execute the following command as root, # cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers # gcc -shared -o nvidia_drv.so nvidia_drv.o Then restart X. thats all. everything will be fine again. no need to reinstall nvidia-driver again. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread arijit sarkar
em monitor' shows ~885mb. check out your BIOS settings. :-) -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Debian GNU/Linux <>

Re: problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg

2007-06-13 Thread arijit sarkar
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 21:41 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jun 12, 11:20 am, arijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've just updated Xorg packages though synaptic. > > But after system restart, i am unable to start X-server. > >

problem: nvidia module not loading after updating Xorg

2007-06-12 Thread arijit
-- How can i solve this? I was using "nvidia-glx", NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver version: 1.0.8766-4 -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Evolution on Debian testing

Re: Problem installing Wine

2007-06-12 Thread arijit
d the repository to your system's list of APT sources: sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/etch.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list Now, just run sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get install wine you'll have latest version of Wine. It did works for me

Re: Synaptic- status is shown as local or obsolete

2007-06-10 Thread arijit
; > Liam > These packages are common in Synaptic(local/obsolete) section as well as in 'deborphan'. libbind9-0 liblwres9 libntfs-3g0 -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Evolution on Debian testing

Synaptic- status is shown as local or obsolete

2007-06-10 Thread arijit
Hi all, In synaptic window, i've one status named Installed (local or obsolete). There are few packages under this status. Why these are so? I am confused with "obsolete" status. How can I remove that status message? thanks, -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Evolution on Debian testing

Re: [SOLVED] Re: KDE clock showing 1 hour ahead

2007-06-10 Thread arijit
m in Gnome, since i am using debian. now it's solved. thanks everybody. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Evolution on Debian testing

Re: I want to install lenny from scratch

2007-06-06 Thread arijit
elpful for me. also latest version of media players, openoffice. can I do it? will it be okay? -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Gnome on Debian GNU/Linux

Re: I want to install lenny from scratch

2007-06-06 Thread arijit
e' and 'lenny' is usable for regular users now. I can understand that something will break sometimes. since I am using linux at my home pc, i am okay with that. By the way, since I am new to debian, I always plays with it and sometimes it breaks even in etch (i am a newbie). so I'l

Re: I want to install lenny from scratch

2007-06-06 Thread arijit
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 21:22 +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On 6/7/07, arijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pretty much yes. You might want to replace with 'lenny' instead of > testing, so that things will be smoother when lenny is released, but > there is some time fo

I want to install lenny from scratch

2007-06-06 Thread arijit
tch" DVD and then I install packages from "lenny" repositores? If yes, then what are the steps I have to follow? thanks in advance, -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India Gnome on Debian GNU/Linux