On Thursday 25 May 2006 08:39 am, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 06:36:23PM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> >sorry, just testing my account -- the last 3 messages I sent to the
> >list don't seem to have made it all the way!
>
> Lately I've been having problems with this too. Well over
On Thursday 18 May 2006 08:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I purchased a used laptop with Windows operating system, but I don't have
> the disk.
>
> Can I install Linux directly over Windows? Will it wipe out Windows and
> everything in the computer?
I had exactly this situation except the mach
On Friday 28 April 2006 03:34 pm, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Andy Streich wrote:
> > Just the other day I was watching a Senate
> > hearing where a songwriter was saying she could not make a living without
> > the copyright and IPR laws. And I've wondered a long time about how
On Friday 28 April 2006 08:34 pm, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 'll respond to the very last sentence first. I don't know. But
> you might ask Benjamin Franklin, because he put everything he
> did into the Public Domain, and lobbied hard to have neither
> Copyright nor Patent Law in the USA. He lost his ba
On Friday 28 April 2006 08:18 pm, Mike McCarty wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > mm> If the fit is good, then fine. For me, the fit is not good, so I
> > mm> don't use it. For people who try to make a living writing
> > mm> software, who are not members of the idle rich, and who cannot
> > mm> afford t
On Thursday 27 April 2006 09:05 pm, Mike McCarty wrote:
> You seem very angry that someone doesn't like GPL. If you want
> to make your software free, then do so. But don't hamper the
> freedom of those to whom you give it. And don't live under
> the illusion that GPL'd software is free.
Mike, sur
On Sunday 08 January 2006 05:02 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> I was trying to put up something like this at
> http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html but never got
> time to finish it up. Would you mind if I copy some lines (word by word)
> from your previous email and work on i
On Sunday 08 January 2006 10:30 am, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Chris Howie wrote:
> > And if that's the case then you select both of them during the install.
>
> On an advanced install that's exactly what you do.
>
> > Except that Debian put Gnome there when all I selected was "Desktop
> > environment
> >> Please, what is the common way for java development under debian sarge?
> >>
> >> Is it better to develop under solaris
> >> and simply run and test it under debian ?
> >>
> >> netbeans and eclipse are both open source, so they should qualify
> >> for debian.
I'm using Netbeans 4.1 from:
On Friday 06 January 2006 02:41 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:46:18 +
>
> Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On (06/01/06 12:18), Andy Streich wrote:
> > > I really appreciate this topic and am delighted to see experienced
On Friday 06 January 2006 06:11 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Andy Streich wrote:
> >Agreed. I use a similar strategy. I just want to give the newbie the
> > option to do that -- after they have a solid working setup. Until then,
> > a "debian-newcomer" list
On Friday 06 January 2006 12:46 pm, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (06/01/06 12:18), Andy Streich wrote:
> > I really appreciate this topic and am delighted to see experienced Debian
> > users responding positively to the "help, help" emails. Andrew's
> > question
On Friday 06 January 2006 12:48 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Andy Streich wrote:
> >In addition to the other suggestions on how to improve the newbie
> > experience, I would add creating yet another mailing list specifically
> > for people trying to establish a stable inst
On Friday 06 January 2006 10:12 am, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[snip]
>
> Having said all that, I agree that the prevalence of "help help" emails is
> a good sign and its incumbent upon us, as a community to reach out to these
> people and help them in whatever way we can. First, of course, talk
On Friday 06 January 2006 10:57 am, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:04:12 +
>
> Cold Fusion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sorry if this is in fact included in the install manual, but I have a
> > computer I'd like to install Debian on, it's presently got windows, and I
> > don't
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 05:26 pm, Josh King wrote:
> So, the question is still open. What is "all the Debian-related material
> we all wish for"? At least in your view? I've received several inputs on
> this, both on and off this list. Its given us a good direction to start
> with, but I'd li
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 01:26 pm, Katipo wrote:
> Mark Crean wrote:
> > However, in my experience running a website is a great deal of hard
> > work and many people start to flag after three months or so. Many
> > other people enjoy running their own show and wouldn't want to combine
> > into
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 03:09 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Hello,
> There has been an interesting number of responses on this thread. I
> like it because it helps me explore some other FLOSS (or not so FLO)
> out there which I might otherwise find superior to my own favourites.
> I would
On Friday 25 November 2005 04:15 pm, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Andy Streich wrote:
> > What's being "defended" in the above? Is it bodily integrity, personal
> > space, property (whose definition?), a contract, ...?
>
> Short answer: Well, you'll just h
On Friday 25 November 2005 01:52 pm, Steve Lamb wrote:
> I tend more towards the Bastiat view expressed at the beginning of "The
> Law".
>
> "What, then, is law? It is the collective organization of the individual
> right to lawful defense."
>
> Collective organization of the /individual/ r
On Monday 14 November 2005 09:21 am, s. keeling wrote:
> Stability is what Debian was trying to produce when Murdock & friends
> began. That's still a cornerstone value. Considering all the
> downstream distributions based on Debian, that strategy is working well.
I agree. But as a relative new
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 11:20 pm, Nate Duehr wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> > Well, I may not be the best one to ask, since I've been out of
> > telecom for about three years. But so far, I do not see Linux
> > making much if any entry into telecom. Blue Hat has made some
> > progress, but not
On Monday 07 November 2005 05:28 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > I doubt many people on this list have much experience working in
> > high-volume, financial transaction environments where minutes of downtime
> > correspond to millions of dollars lost. It's not reasonable IMO to
> > expect OSS
On Sunday 06 November 2005 06:19 am, John Hasler wrote:
> I don't like to have to restart my browser. I lose all my tabs.
>
> > the list saved me from adding to the already long list of bugs for
> > firefox
>
> It's still a bug.
The development team knows that good bug reports are like gold. Joh
On Friday 04 November 2005 09:11 am, Mike McCarty wrote:
> On the whole, I'm happy with Linux. But in a side-by-side comparison,
> IMO Solaris is superior.
>
> No flames, please.
You are wise to include the "no flames" request. As always this is as more of
an emotional issue for many people than
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 08:05 am, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> > 300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I
> > had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I
> > was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something went wrong somewhere. Is
> > there a way to l
On Sunday 23 October 2005 10:20 pm, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > AFAIK, there is not a single vendor of PC's that provides a robust system
> > out of the box that includes a ready-to-go backup/recovery procedure.
> > It's always something left to the user. It's like selling a car
> > without a spare an
On Sunday 23 October 2005 06:27 pm, Paul Johnson wrote:
> This is a straw-man argument. Anybody who actually cares about their data
> keeps a good set of backups anyway.
Then you are not familiar with the legions of PC users who know nothing of
making backups, care a lot about their data, and on
On Sunday 23 October 2005 05:53 pm, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion of using alien to install OpenOffice.org on
> Sarge. It worked flawlessly.
Someone else mentioned it need updated libraries from unstable. Is that not
the case or did you selectively update?
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On Thursday 20 October 2005 02:15 pm, Bob Hynes wrote:
> Hello, is there a way to "reconfigure" a sound card? Mine works in
> Windows, but it isn't working in Debian...it's old, but I'd rather try
> to use it than buy another one if I can.
Need more info. Have you installed alsa or tried alsoconf
On Monday 17 October 2005 10:08 am, Enrique Morfin wrote:
> PS: I can't connect to:
>
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
>
> since saturday. Anyone else have the same problem? or
> just me?
me too
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On Friday 07 October 2005 11:56 pm, Malcolm Lalkaka wrote:
> > 2. all updates and packages were installed with synaptic
>
> As far as I know, RealPlayer doesn't have an official Debian package.
> Therefore, I would suggest that you go to the RealPlayer website
> (http://www.real.com) and downloa
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 07:57 pm, enediel gonzalez wrote:
> Hello
>
> I need to install a sofware who requires the following commands to work
> properly, the installation detects that they aren't installed yet.
>
> ypcat rusers ypwhich xhost
>
> ?How could I know the package's name who contains
On Thursday 29 September 2005 09:40 pm, Gautam Bakshi wrote:
> On 9/29/05, Don Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Interesting article on BBC news:
> >
> >
> > ** Sub-$100 laptop design unveiled **
> > Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
> > outlines blueprint
On Thursday 29 September 2005 12:11, valdyn wrote:
> you could pin udev to whatever version you have from sarge or you could
> grab a 2.6.12 kernel image from sid and install that one. Example(s) for
> pinning to some version are in 'man apt_preferences'.
Thanks. I've pinned udev. Any hint on ho
Hi,
Just installed sarge on a P4 box, then ran synaptic and upgraded to etch
during which I got this:
* Configuring debconf
* unpacking replacement locales
* preparing to replace 2.3.2.dsl-22 (using libc6_2.3.5-i386.deb)
* [snip]
* Name Service Switch update in C Library...
* [snip]
* gdm
On Friday 16 September 2005 12:55 pm, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> > Most importantly, this is _debian_-user. If you want to advocate
> > other distributions willy-nilly, it's not the place.
>
> That kind of isolationism is something I think you will find very little
> support for in the free softwa
On Thursday 15 September 2005 05:55 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> My tenth grade english teacher taught it like this:
>
> "If you can't replace the semicolon with a period and make two coherent
> and complete sentences, then it doesn't belong."
>
> Best grammar advice I ever received.
>
It ca
On Thursday 01 September 2005 07:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I used java-package along with Sun's Java 5. Instructions here:
> > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/142
>
> Great article! That works for me. Thanks for your help.
>
> Returning to my original question of free D
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 01:51 am, Björn Lindström wrote:
> The blog interface is comparatively new, and lacking in some areas. If
> you have suggestions for improvements, you can post them on
> http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.discuss
Thanks for link, Bjorn.
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 03:52 am, Jon Dowland wrote:
> I'd like to suggest "should" rather than "can" - if you can find the
> time to rant on this list, you should spare at least the same amount of
> time ranting productively :)
I'm rather surprised to be perceived as ranting. I'll certainly
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 02:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello Debian users,
>
> I'm wondering which Debian package(s) I should install for Java
> plugins for opera and mozilla. Most of the documents I found on
> the net talk about downloading J2RE from a Sun site. Does this
> mean there a
On Monday 29 August 2005 11:33 am, Roel Schroeven wrote:
> Either I don't understand what you're saying or you didn't understand
> the linked website: this mailing list was added to Gmane already a long
> time ago, and the link above links directly to its blog interface on Gmane.
>
Thanks, that
On Monday 29 August 2005 01:15 am, Björn Lindström wrote:
> Andy Streich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Agree. Hence the suggestion entailed a blog and the existing email
> > list as two views on exactly the same data.
>
> Gmane has something like th
On Sunday 28 August 2005 04:18 pm, Mark Crean wrote:
> I suspect an important reason for the popularity of web boards is that
> they provide a greater sense of community than a mailing list and
> become, for some, a place to hang out. At present, though, I don't think
> anyone's really cracked the
On Saturday 27 August 2005 01:25 pm, David Christensen wrote:
> debian-user:
>
> Here's the final tally:
>
> clearly voted "reply to list"6
> clearly enough voted "reply to sender" 2
> clearly abstained1
> other
On Saturday 27 August 2005 08:12 am, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
> I am looking for a drawing (vectorial) program, i read about:
> Sodipodi
> Skencil
> Karbon14
>
> Any other?
> Any suggestion about which is better?
I've been using Inkscape (SVG vector illustrator lately) and have been pleased
with th
On Friday 08 July 2005 01:44 pm, Tom Allison wrote:
> I love punch cards. Did you ever use the paper tape?
I used punch cards to program a Burroughs mainframe in the mid-70's and
programmed a CNC lathe (machine tool) with paper tape -- what a rush!
Anders, Roman, Roberto: Thanks very much for your advice.
For the record I'm running Sarge and had no problem with KDE or GNOME, rather
liked them both in fact. Just looking now for ways to free up resources for
big apps -- and spending a lot of time learning to be a linux admin for my
syst
On Thursday 07 July 2005 07:45 pm, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> The trouble is that everybody has different standards: some
> like inline quotes, some like top-posting, and some like
> bottom-posting. Rather than get exercised about others'
> aesthetic choices, we should let our programs format our
>
Hi again,
I'm wondering if there is any awareness in the Debian community of the jEdit
editor? I writing a plugin for jEdit that enables people, some of whom are
non-technical, to create and maintain websites and would like to get a sense
of how wide-spread jEdit usage/awareness is among Debi
Hi,
Based on advice on this list to maestro I'm considering switching to
windowmaker:
> I no longer have time to spend hours tweaking config files, and thus
> prefer an integrated desktop environment, but GNOME and KDE are too
> bulky for my PIII-650 / 320MB workstation
I'm even resource-poorer
On Saturday 02 July 2005 06:42 pm, Glenn Davy wrote:
> I thought it might have something to do with the 'preferred
> applications' in gnome, and or /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser, but
> changing these (which are set to firefox anyhow) make no difference.
>
> when you say 'same question' are you
On Saturday 02 July 2005 05:29 pm, Glenn Davy wrote:
> Hi all
> Can anyone tell me how I can get firefox to open as my browser when I
> click on a URL in an email in evolution? At the moment a shell pops up,
> retrieves file with wget and opens the source in vim.
> Thanks
> Glenn
I have the same q
On Saturday 25 June 2005 11:42 pm, Dominik Margraf wrote:
> In 10-15 years time, Do you think that Debian will dominate the
> desktop and the server market to the extent that most desktops/laptops
> sold in department stores will be preinstalled with Debian (just like
> today's M*Shit Windows)?
On
Since it is now Monday I'm hoping somebody who might help will be back at work
reading their list email. (Forgive me for resending. I'm quite stuck. Even
a pointer to an obscure or embarrassingly obvious doc would be appreciated.)
On Saturday 18 June 2005 05:30 pm, Andy Streich wr
I'm running Sarge with the 2.4 kernel and need help accessing my USB cdr
drive.
I have this line in /etc/fstab:
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
mount tells me it is mounted:
polar:/etc/hotplug# mount usbfs
mount: usbfs already mounted or /proc/bus/usb busy
mount: according to
On Friday 17 June 2005 07:28 pm, Kent West wrote:
> These might be a good start:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/index.html#contents
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/user/
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/network-administrator/
> http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/
Thank
Can anyone point me to web-based documentation for newbies that would contain
tips, hints, and lead-me-by-the-hand directions on configuring my new Sarge
install? Or have I just made a big mistake in choosing Debian over, say, any
one of the 100's of other distributions? I am familiar with Uni
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