[vox-tech] dvdrecord questions - sao/dao and sessions

2005-03-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
I can't find an option to set SAO on dvdrecord. From the manpage, it *appears* that SAO and DAO are one and the same. Is that true? How could they be? How can burning a dvd in DAO mode be multisession? It seems that -dao and -multi are orthogonal, but the manpage seems to hint that they're

Re: [vox-tech] YAST equivalent on Debian?

2005-03-14 Thread Josh Parsons
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 08:25 -0600, Jay Strauss wrote: What's strewth? Short for God's truth as in Strewth, mate, me sheila's nicked off with all me tinnies this arvo! -- Josh Parsons Philosophy Department 1238 Social Sciences and Humanities Bldg. University of California Davis, CA 95616-8673

Re: [vox-tech] dvdrecord questions - sao/dao and sessions

2005-03-14 Thread Ken Bloom
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:24:59 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Jay Salzman) wrote: I can't find an option to set SAO on dvdrecord. From the manpage, it *appears* that SAO and DAO are one and the same. Is that true? How could they be? How can burning a dvd in DAO mode be multisession? It

Re: [vox-tech] dvdrecord questions - sao/dao and sessions

2005-03-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 14 Mar 05, 8:59 AM, Ken Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:24:59 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Jay Salzman) wrote: I can't find an option to set SAO on dvdrecord. From the manpage, it *appears* that SAO and DAO are one and the same. Is that true? How could

Re: [vox-tech] YAST equivalent on Debian?

2005-03-14 Thread Bob Scofield
On Sunday 13 March 2005 09:34 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:47:06PM -0600, Jay Strauss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, since wajig was mentioned in the apt-get thread, thought I'd ask. What kind of GUI configuration/administration tools are available for

Re: [vox-tech] YAST equivalent on Debian?

2005-03-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 14 Mar 05, 9:31 AM, Bob Scofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Of course I do not expect much sympathy from Debian users for this type of computing. But after Ken's answer to my question about apt upgrading to new versions of open source applications (eventually to Open Office 2.0, for

Re: [vox-tech] Apt-get vs. Dselect

2005-03-14 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 08:21:45PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: snip Back to aptitude, the basic advantages are outlined by Joey Hess: Nine reasons why you should be using aptitude instead of apt-get or dselect. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/04/msg11344.html snip Well,

Re: [vox-tech] Apt-get vs. Dselect

2005-03-14 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 08:21:45PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: snip More info at: http://www.togaware.com/wajig/ (Scrolling down to the screenshot of 'Gnome JIG'...) AGH! MY EYES! The goggles do nothing! -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list

Re: [vox-tech] YAST equivalent on Debian?

2005-03-14 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:09:08AM -0800, Josh Parsons wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 08:25 -0600, Jay Strauss wrote: What's strewth? Short for God's truth as in Strewth, mate, me sheila's nicked off with all me tinnies this arvo! Two recent 'classic' episodes of Simpsons that aired in

Re: [vox-tech] YAST equivalent on Debian?

2005-03-14 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:31:35AM -0800, Bob Scofield wrote: I've just been wondering about Jay's question for the last two days. For the heck of it, I just typed aptitude install webmin to see what would happen. I was told that apache would be installed. I'm just a desktop user with no

Re: [vox-tech] YAST equivalent on Debian?

2005-03-14 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Bob Scofield wrote: I've been doing a lot of thinking about the use of Debian for newbies and bewbies. Bill's directions to Pete on how to set up My Computer on KDE takes care of one thing. Something like YAST would take care of another. And something that partitioned as easily as YAST and

Re: [vox-tech] YAST equivalent on Debian?

2005-03-14 Thread Josh Parsons
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 10:06 -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: Short for God's truth as in Strewth, mate, me sheila's nicked off with all me tinnies this arvo! ... a cockney british accent. Obviously my attempt at a comedy *aussie* accent fell flat. I need to figure out how to use accent

Re: [vox-tech] YAST equivalent on Debian?

2005-03-14 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Bob Scofield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I've just been wondering about Jay's question for the last two days. For the heck of it, I just typed aptitude install webmin to see what would happen. I was told that apache would be installed. I'm just a desktop user with no need for apache.

Re: [vox-tech] Apt-get vs. Dselect

2005-03-14 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Bill Kendrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): http://www.togaware.com/wajig/ (Scrolling down to the screenshot of 'Gnome JIG'...) AGH! MY EYES! The goggles do nothing! They really _do_ need a button that says Don't press this button again, n'est-ce pas? Or maybe Don't Panic in big,

Re: [vox-tech] YAST equivalent on Debian?

2005-03-14 Thread Bob Scofield
On Monday 14 March 2005 12:22 pm, Rick Moen wrote: Non sequitur. For example, you can point a Debian box at Xandros's apt-source hosts, but that will not fetch you some key pieces provided only in the shrink-wrapped boxed sets of Standard Edition and Deluxe Edition. I have read that apt

Re: [vox-tech] Apt-get vs. Dselect

2005-03-14 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Karsten Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com): My point is that apt-get and dselect are tools at different levels of ^^^ dpkg abstraction. Comparing them is like comparing carburetors with Chevrolets -- except that carburetors by themselves aren't much

Re: [vox-tech] YAST equivalent on Debian?

2005-03-14 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Bob Scofield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have read that apt can be set up for any rpm-based distro. This is thanks to third-party package repositories, and the porting work done by Conectiva. (Essentially, the back-end code to make the various apt tools able to deal with rpm-format tools is