Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

2006-11-26 Thread Alex Fernandez
My humble opinion as an occassional user of Debian-powerpc. One of the selling points of Free Software in general, and Debian in particular, is that the people doing the coding are the people in charge. If this fails to happen then the decision process must be refined. I have not followed the di

Re: About the computational power of g4 machines

2009-05-16 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi Rogério, 2009/5/16 Rogério Brito : >> Am Samstag 16 Mai 2009 09:59:50 schrieb Rogério Brito: >> > http://images.apple.com/movies/us/hd_gallery/gl1800/480p/gilmour_480p.mov >> > http://images.apple.com/movies/us/hd_gallery/gl1800/720p/gilmour_720p.mov >> > http://images.apple.com/movies/us/hd_ga

Re: StyleWriterII on non-PPC Linux

2005-09-13 Thread Alex Fernandez
linuxprinting.org is your friend: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Apple-StyleWriter_II On 9/13/05, Gunther Furtado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > This is probably a little off-topic but can anyone tell if and how it is > possible > to use StyleWriter II on a non-P

Re: Gimp Print missing after upgrade

2005-09-18 Thread Alex Fernandez
> After my latest upgrade (I am using deb testing) Gimp does not give me the > option to print. I found that the file /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-in/print is > gone in is not now provieded by the deb package. This is the file that > provides the printing plug-in for the Gimp. Does anyone know why it is

Re: Sound on powermac g3 blue and white

2005-10-22 Thread Alex Fernandez
> Well I got it to work finally :D.I had to install alsa-base,I also had > to change to 8bits sound,and I have to do a killall artsd before I > start some applications,but it seems to work great now.Time to go play > some quake 3. Hi Derek, If you are not going to use it, you should disable artsd

Re: Debian on a mac mini

2006-03-10 Thread Alex Fernandez
> It works just fine. Is suspend-to-disk working too? Thanks, Alex.

Re: WMV DLL for ppc.

2005-06-06 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi Federico, On 6/6/05, Federico 'Pain' Pistono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did anybody find a way to play these videos? > I know this video codec sucks, but often some videos are only reachable > with this format. Have you tried with vlc? It plays wmv: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.h

Re: WMV DLL for ppc.

2005-06-06 Thread Alex Fernandez
Oh crap, and I just subscribed to this powerpc list! On 6/6/05, Andreas Wuest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/6/05, Federico 'Pain' Pistono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > looks like I could not manage to find a way to play wmv under my debian > > sarge PPC. > > For what I understood is that

Re: Apple's Developer Transition Kit

2005-06-08 Thread Alex Fernandez
IBM, hopefully. Otherwise we will be left to hacking XBoxes and Playstations. :( On 6/8/05, Gabriel Paubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:53:32AM +0200, Colin Leroy wrote: > > Hi, > > > > http://developer.apple.com/transitionkit.html > > > > Looks like hackers can get an

Re: Sarge

2005-06-09 Thread Alex Fernandez
Well, I have been using it for a couple of years now, why change now it's stable? :) Thanks to all developers involved, good work indeed. On 6/7/05, Guillaume Florey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > Just wanted to say that sarge is out ! And I also like to know who is going to > use i

Re: Apple's Developer Transition Kit

2005-06-09 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi Johannes, > > I am totally confused on this, is the new mac gonna have an x86 chip > > in it, or is intel going to make a newly designed chip? > > They'll use x86 chips. Steve Jobs was talking about the future Intel roadmap. Probably you mean that they will use chips within the x86 family, ev

Re: g4 titanium powerbook install questions

2005-06-17 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi Alfredo, On 6/16/05, Alfredo Pironti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it seems that there is little for ppc, mostly for intel. > If you are talking about other distributions (Fedora, Mandrake, Suse, > Slackware), I agree. Last Fedora edition (core 4) is available for PPC as well. Mandriva has be

Re: Gnome vs. KDE with ALSA

2005-06-19 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi Mike, On 6/19/05, Mike S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please correct me if I am wrong, but in my searching I have concluded > that sound will not work in anything in gnome, unless you have the > proper device set in Desktop > Preferences > Multimedia Systems > Selector, which I gather sets the

Re: Porting ppc Linux to Xbox 360?

2005-07-02 Thread Alex Fernandez
On 7/1/05, Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 01 Jul 2005 10:56, Paul TT wrote: > > right. and if new xbox will be like it seems it will, be (good > > hardware-cheap $), and linux will run on it, then that does in addition > > please the consumer :- > > Only in the short term.

Re: Repositories

2005-07-10 Thread Alex Fernandez
See http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html See also sources.list(5) in the manual; i.e. type at the console: $ man sources.list For Sarge, it's enough to include the following: --- quote --- deb ftp://ftp.XX.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free deb ftp://ftp.XX.debian

Re: acroread+qemu

2005-07-30 Thread Alex Fernandez
On 7/30/05, Wojciech Owczarek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Give me one good reason for using acrobat reader and not Xpdf. Forms? Documents that render incorrectly / do not render? Searches? Alex.