No IceWeasel in etch?

I installed etch from a testing installer CD yesterday, and I wanted to install mozplugger after installing firefox, but it depends on iceweasel. Is it propagating down to testing? I did some googling, and people talk as if it was already in testing. Aside from that, I want to install mozplugg

Re: Not a Debian question, but you guys know this stuff...

>From "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" (which you would do well to read in its entirety at http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ): http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum : Be sensitive in choosing where you ask your question. You are likely to be ignored, or wr

Re: GMail like offline email client

=?KOI8-R?B?98nUwczJyiDp3cXOy88=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any any email clients with similar features as in gmail > online web interface > > 1) queues -- vital ;) Very handy feature I can't think of any Gmail feature called a queue, and I'm quite familiar with it. > 2) shortkuts

aptitude and my DVD drive

I added a few DVDs to my sources.list using apt-cdrom. I tried adding some new packages with aptitude, and it wanted me to "insert the following disc into drive "/cdrom/". I inserted the appropriate disc into the drive I had used apt-cdrom with, but aptitude didn't find it. As it happens, on tha

Re: Crashes and lock-ups in Sarge

I would do a clean install, if you don't have known-good backups to restore to the new hard-drive. Tracking down errors because of randomly corrupted files could be your worst nightmare. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Problem with dvorak layout

I haven't had the problem you're describing. I type Dvorak on sarge. (Which means I'm using XFree86 4.3.0, probably with Debian patches.) Here are the relevant bits of my X keyboard configuration: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard"

Re: How to tell a CD's filesystem format? (SOLVED)

Oops. I see you found the -s option. Maybe the standard input version will be useful or illuminating anyway, eh? ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to tell a CD's filesystem format?

Try the '-s' or '--special-files' switch to the file command. turingmachine# file -s /dev/scd1 /dev/scd1: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'FOO' My first thought worked, incidentally, which was more like: head /dev/scd0 | file - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: subscribing to d-u on a thread basis

Gmane (which I'm using, and actually posting this message through) carries debian.user as a newsgroup. Decent newsreaders provide sophisticated features for filtering messages. For instance, I'm using gnus, which can score articles. So, I'd say: * learn a good newsreader * find debian.user as a

Re: Why does Debian default to Gnome?

"Edward C. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why does Debian default to gnome? When I install a recent "testing", I believe GNOME sprang up partially in response to KDE using Qt, which had a non-free license at the time. Debian is heavily influenced by notions of software freedom, and even th

Xft, X Resources, TrueType Fonts

I can perfectly well start an xterm like this: xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera Mono" -fs 10 And actually get the Bitstream Vera Mono font in the selected size. But, xlsfonts and xfontsel don't show anything like this, and trying something like: XTerm*font: Bitstream Vera Mono in my .Xresources gets m

Re: Firefox help.

I found one of these on the web. Esc will close the find bar. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Firefox help.

There are a few things that have been annoying me about Firefox. One reason for asking here is that I'm using the version bundled with sarge and would rather not upgrade. First off, is there some way to close that god awful find bar with the keyboard? The one eating up screen real-estate at the

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

konsole: xterm + screen kate: xemacs kcalc: gnu calc, xcalc, bc, dc Xterm + screen won't give you clickable tabs, but if you use 'hardstatus alwayslastline %w', and change your shell prompt to modify the name of the window, you have something better and faster than clickable tabs, truthfully. Ema

Re: Linux and Solaris Mail playing nicely

some sort of static mail route needs setting up? Sorry I don't really have an answer for you, but maybe I can get your neurons firing in new directions on the problem. ;) -- Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exim question

roverbially wedded to exim, if I were you, unless it's got some killer feature you have to have. -- Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mount ntfs only readable?

m) the last time I checked. Blame Microsoft for their proprietary filesystem. -- Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Migrating from Windows to Debian - keeping email messages from Outlook Express

t of the PST file, or a Windows client (maybe Eudora; I don't really know) that will import Microsoft Outlook files and export to mbox or maildir format. (Windows clients in general, in my limited experience with them, are all plauged by proprietary formats and don't like to share.) --

Re: Need help with exim4 SMTP Auth [SOLVED]

SMTP auth and TLS encryption with appropriate configuration modifications. The heavy version pulls in a lot of ugly dependencies for a small mail setup. -- Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need help with exim4 SMTP Auth (I think)

google.com. I don't know if it came from a reverse DNS lookup or what. If you get some pretty mysterious failure, you might have something like that going on. -- Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: encrypting the users' folders

ally, so that you will not forget to run chmod 700 /home/newuser. -- Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help loading Debian

bian (slightly modified Debian) on it.) -- Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: isp service

pany's essential servers are *running* Linux. As an administrator at a very small ISP, I answered the Linux question with, "it'll work, but we don't support it." -- Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Good book about GNU/Linux structure

On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 05:58:21PM +0200, Nobrin ;-" wrote: > I would like to read an in depth book about GNU/Linux structure. I > mean, about how the parts works together in the big picture. http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Reading-List-HOWTO/ -- Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Can't upgrade from woody to sarge (sources.list problem?)

omething. There might be some configuration file holding everything in place. -- Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Easy way to browse package patches?

been applied to the software, etc. I know I can apt-get the source, but that's usually overkill. I found cvs.debian.org on Google, but unless I missed it, it doesn't seem to have CVS for individual packages. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: my messages to linux.debian.user take 40 minutes to show up

Email and newsgroups aren't intended to be real-time communication mediums. Sometimes they are, if they're working optimally, but if not, it wasn't the intention of the protocol anyway. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

On 5/22/05, Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Fabian wrote: > > >On 5/20/05, Leonard Chatagnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>more than 5 months old and has never been defragged but I'm still very > >

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

prone to fragmentation. I wasn't even aware there was an ext2 defragmenting utility, though. The traditional solution would be to use dump/restore. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Openwebmail package removed ???

There's always the tarball if you have to have Openwebmail.. ;) But I'd pay attention to the reasons it was removed from Debian... http://openwebmail.org/openwebmail/download/release/openwebmail-2.51.tar.gz -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Problem with NTFS drive

;s closed-source black-magic, but it worked for me. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: eth0: link down problem

probing the hardware, and if it fails, you have to add extra parameters to point it in the right direction, or stop probing for something, etc. It looks like the hardware was probed and discovered just fine and that the driver was loaded. -- Adam Fabian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])