wine + opengl 32 bit libs

2017-07-03 Thread Dennis G
Hello, thank's for your time reading this. I use wine(playonlinux wine 1.6.1) + 32 bit opengl libs (no closed-source drivers) for an application (game). (It runs almost perfect on debian 8 (jessie)) If I dist-upgrade to debian 9 (stretch) game has campaign map textures problem which make it almost

Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

2008-05-08 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
NN_il_Confusionario wrote the following on 05/08/2008 10:48 AM: On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:11:26AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: NN_il_Confusionario wrote the following on 05/07/2008 09:46 AM: less /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/README.Debian (this is a useful general rule) that is nowhere near

Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

2008-05-08 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
y, thanks for the help! Dennis NN_il_Confusionario wrote the following on 05/07/2008 09:46 AM: On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:50:10AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Then aptitude install big-cursor Nothing changed Is there something else I need to do? less /usr/share/doc/big-cursor/README.Debian (this is a

Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

2008-05-07 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
H.S. wrote the following on 05/07/2008 12:26 AM: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Manu Hack wrote the following on 05/06/2008 01:11 PM: Sorry, I tried both suggestions and I don't see any changes of differences in anything. Dennis Could you list the steps and actions you tried? As per

Re: How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

2008-05-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Manu Hack wrote the following on 05/06/2008 01:11 PM: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Greetings; Search as I may I can not find how to do this. I am running gnome and a hi-res screen. My curs

How do I change cursor/mouse pointer?

2008-05-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; Search as I may I can not find how to do this. I am running gnome and a hi-res screen. My cursor and mouse pointer are too small to see easily on the screen. How do I make them bigger? Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: wine: Problem running some programs

2008-05-01 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
pedxing wrote the following on 05/01/2008 03:14 AM: Paul Johnson wrote the following on 04/29/2008 02:33 PM: I sure would like to see a Pagemaker equivalent that is as good as OpenOffice is to Word/xcel/etc. and GIMP is to PhotoShop. Both OO and GIMP are the superior packages for my money. Hav

Re: wine: Problem running some programs

2008-04-30 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Paul Johnson wrote the following on 04/29/2008 02:33 PM: On Tuesday 29 April 2008 11:31:23 am Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Still don't find wine really usable. So far can't adjust the resolution and for some reason some programs just won't install. Well, they install, but won&

Re: Bochs? Anybody {using,used,know anything about} it?

2008-04-29 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Paul Johnson wrote the following on 04/11/2008 09:07 PM: On Friday 11 April 2008 06:21:39 pm Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I found bochs to be exceedingly difficult to use compared to other alternatives, such as virtualbox-ose, which runs fantastically and is fairly simple to use. Note that

Re: How about LVM?

2008-04-29 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Mark Maas wrote the following on 04/26/2008 10:35 AM: On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 08:43 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Makes sense. How many are there? Is it worth putting your backup process as a drbd set? (Network Raid) so you can install some HA for your backup? That way you could install two

How about LVM?

2008-04-26 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; What do you think of LVM? Is it stable and reliable enough to use for a backup repository? I have several 250GB drives I am thinking of using for backup but administering the assignment of data to drives would be a headache. I am thinking that LVM might solve that by letting me m

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: Re: cupsys does not print: update

2008-04-26 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Mark Maas wrote the following on 04/26/2008 07:08 AM: On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 11:02 +0200, Francois Bottin wrote: You may subscribe his address to any mailing list that asks confirmation through mail: the responder doesn't change the subject... You're wicked... And I love that ;-) There i

Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

2008-04-24 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Mumia W.. wrote the following on 04/24/2008 12:06 PM: On 04/24/2008 11:40 AM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: [...] I don't know if I have a system that qualifies as a "good" system right now! :-( What do you mean when you say they don't have a "full" set of package

Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

2008-04-24 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Damon L. Chesser wrote the following on 04/24/2008 08:09 AM: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have four Debian systems and a couple of them seem to have gotten in the state that they don't have a full set of packages for some reason. Is there any way to do a refresh or reinstall o

How to refresh Debian to install software set

2008-04-24 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I have four Debian systems and a couple of them seem to have gotten in the state that they don't have a full set of packages for some reason. Is there any way to do a refresh or reinstall of the system to make sure everything is there? Short of an install from the beginning that

Problem: ldconfig: /usr/lib/xxx... is not a symbolic link

2008-04-22 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; Well, locales is installed and working, I guess. Now I am getting screens full of messages like > ldconfig: /usr/lib/libgnutls-openssl.so.11 is not a symbolic link I was installing a bunch of packages and it seemed to repeat, but not with every program. Anybody know how to fi

Re: locale problems

2008-04-22 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
s. keeling wrote the following on 04/21/2008 08:29 PM: Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I keep getting these message while running aptitude. Any idea what I need to do to get rid of them? I can't find anything. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please

Which backup package?

2008-04-21 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; It is time that I started getting serious about backing up my systems. I have nine systems on my network, one will be used just for backup & restore (Debian/lenny) I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? As usual, many TI

locale problems

2008-04-21 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I keep getting these message while running aptitude. Any idea what I need to do to get rid of them? I can't find anything. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_US:en_GB:en", LC_ALL = (unset),

Re: Bochs? Anybody {using,used,know anything about} it?

2008-04-12 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Paul Johnson wrote the following on 04/11/2008 09:07 PM: On Friday 11 April 2008 06:21:39 pm Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings, Just stumbled over some software known as Bochs. It sounds as if I could install that on my Debian 4.0 system and then be able to run Win 2k as needed in a "part

Bochs? Anybody {using,used,know anything about} it?

2008-04-11 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings, Just stumbled over some software known as Bochs. It sounds as if I could install that on my Debian 4.0 system and then be able to run Win 2k as needed in a "partition" when needed. Is Bochs fast enough to be practical? I have a P4, 1.5GB mem. What I do right now is use several ne

Re: Difference between bind and bind9

2008-04-10 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Sven Joachim wrote the following on 04/10/2008 09:55 AM: Hello Dennis, On 2008-04-10 16:37 +0200, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I was just doing some reading about DNS and came across a reference to bind9. I find that there are packages for both a bind and a bind9 in the dist. What is the difference

Difference between bind and bind9

2008-04-10 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I was just doing some reading about DNS and came across a reference to bind9. I find that there are packages for both a bind and a bind9 in the dist. What is the difference between them? Any particular preferences? TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

How do I get aptitude to unhold???

2008-04-05 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Yeah, it should be simple, but it isn't doing it! I have a whole bunch of packages held from back when I had a buggy apt-get and aptitude and now I want to upgrade and I can't get them unheld. Where is that list at? Is there any way I can just go delete the list/file? This is what I do:

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Simon Jolle wrote the following on 03/26/2008 06:06 AM: 2008/3/26, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, Hi Wei The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most famous search engines. This indicates t

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

2008-03-17 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 03/17/2008 07:42 PM: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 14:57, Steve Lamb wrote: On Mon, March 17, 2008 7:29 am, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/

Errors installing dansguardian

2008-03-17 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I am trying to install dansguardian and it won't go. I have tried renaming and removing file & directories to no avail. I always get these errors from aptitude install. Setting up dansguardian (2.8.0.6-antivirus-6.4.4.1-2) ... grep: /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf: No such fil

Re: Icedove shuts down after send

2008-03-16 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 03/16/2008 05:17 PM: > > This is the error, I think. There are a few work-around possibilities. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=466527 > Yes, that is the one, but I don't see any fixes. Several people have the problem with no extensions

Re: Icedove shuts down after send

2008-03-16 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 03/16/2008 04:45 PM: > On 03/16/08 16:14, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> Greetings again; > >> Well, this seems to be a known problem which isn't >> getting fixed. > >> So, can anybody tell me how to backout the last update &g

Re: Icedove shuts down after send

2008-03-16 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings again; Well, this seems to be a known problem which isn't getting fixed. So, can anybody tell me how to backout the last update to Icedove? It is really inconvenient to have to restart it every time I send an email! :-( TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Icedove shuts down after send

2008-03-16 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote the following on 03/16/2008 11:19 AM: > Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> I just updated icedove via aptitude install icedove and >> now everytime I do a send icedove shuts down. No >> messages that I can find. I can start it bac

Icedove shuts down after send

2008-03-16 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I just updated icedove via aptitude install icedove and now everytime I do a send icedove shuts down. No messages that I can find. I can start it back up and it works fine until I try to send another message. I am running gnome and; > Icedove 1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1-0etch1 kernel >

Re: Firewall suggestions?

2008-02-14 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Andrei Popescu wrote the following on 02/14/2008 06:24 AM: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:52:42AM +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > >> Is combination (proxy and anti-virus) reliable enough for other programs >> except web browsers and ftp clients ? >> >> I mean programs such as instant messengers f

Re: Firewall suggestions?

2008-02-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Georgi Naplatanov wrote the following on 02/13/2008 10:44 AM: > Ipcop is a good choice too, but i can not understand why you need > antivirus on firewall/router machine. > > http://ipcop.org/ > > Regards > Georgi I need anti-virus because I have five (today) Windows systems behind the firewall a

Firewall suggestions?

2008-02-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings! It seems the time has come to build a dedicated firewall machine for myself. The win 2k machine I have been using is getting too flaky. I have a P-II HP box that was a pretty solid performer that I think will do for the hardware. (Agree/disagree?) I need some suggestions for the firew

How do I upgrade to sid?

2008-02-10 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
IIRC somebody said they were running sid and had no problems with Iceweasel so I'm thinking that upgrading might be the answer to my problems. How do I do it? Is it as easy as aptitude dist-upgrade ?? What do I have to change to get to sid instead of etch? TIA for any help! Dennis -- To

Re: Iceweasel problems - 3 of 3

2008-02-08 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/07/2008 08:25 AM: > On 02/07/08 08:00, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/07/2008 06:49 AM: >>> On 02/06/08 15:06, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >>>> Well, this is the third of the most aggravating problems

Re: Iceweasel problems - YouTube infiltration

2008-02-07 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Mihira Fernando wrote the following on 02/07/2008 04:13 AM: > Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> Well, just ran into a another frequent problem. >> >> I just re-booted and restarted Iceweasel. (22 windows, >> I don't know how many tabs.) I had a

Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3

2008-02-07 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/07/2008 06:33 AM: > On 02/06/08 15:00, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> When I restart Iceweasel it reopens all the windows and >> tabs as designed with one not-so-small problem. It >> opens *every* window or tab that was ever opened >>

Re: Iceweasel problems - YouTube infiltration

2008-02-07 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/07/2008 06:53 AM: > On 02/06/08 16:27, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> Mike Bird wrote the following on 02/06/2008 04:05 PM: >>> On Wed February 6 2008 13:42:55 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >>>> Everytime I try to get an internet page, eith

Re: Iceweasel problems - 3 of 3

2008-02-07 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/07/2008 06:49 AM: > On 02/06/08 15:06, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> Well, this is the third of the most aggravating problems. > >> Iceweasel will just "go to sleep". I have clicked on a >> link or pasted a url in the address

Re: Iceweasel problems - YouTube infiltration

2008-02-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Mike Bird wrote the following on 02/06/2008 04:05 PM: > On Wed February 6 2008 13:42:55 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> Everytime I try to get an internet page, either refresh >> or new link, I get the following message, and no page. >> >> Not Found >> >>

Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3

2008-02-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Davide Mancusi wrote the following on 02/06/2008 03:28 PM: > Dennis G. Wicks ha scritto: >> When I restart Iceweasel it reopens all the windows and >> tabs as designed with one not-so-small problem. It >> opens *every* window or tab that was ever opened >> before, nopt j

Iceweasel problems - YouTube infiltration

2008-02-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; Well, just ran into a another frequent problem. I just re-booted and restarted Iceweasel. (22 windows, I don't know how many tabs.) I had a bad feeling as soon as I saw that all the favicons were YouTube. Everytime I try to get an internet page, either refresh or new link, I get the f

Iceweasel problems - 3 of 3

2008-02-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Well, this is the third of the most aggravating problems. Iceweasel will just "go to sleep". I have clicked on a link or pasted a url in the address bar and it is doing nothing. It displays "STOPPED" in the status bar and will not load any pages, either i'net or local network. The system monitor

Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3

2008-02-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
When I restart Iceweasel it reopens all the windows and tabs as designed with one not-so-small problem. It opens *every* window or tab that was ever opened before, nopt just the ones that were open when it crashed or was shutdown. It doesn't seem to know or care that those particular items were clo

Iceweasel problems - 1 of 3

2008-02-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
OK, here is the first one. Iceweasel will just shutdown on its own. All windows and tabs are gone, for no reason. Sometimes when I come back from eating or getting a cup of coffee it will have happened. The latest was while I was in another session. (Ctl-Alt-Fx) I was using VNC to do some work on

Iceweasel problems - where to report them?

2008-02-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I have several serious problems with Iceweasel. Where do I report them? It seems every thing I have found is for Firefox problems. Tnx! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: su doesn't work "Authentication failure"

2008-01-31 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Kevin Buhr wrote the following on 01/31/2008 12:50 PM: > paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It is possible to do 'su someuser' from root but it's not possible to >> get back to root then using just 'su' or change from a normal user to >> another user account. > > [ . . . ] > >> Jan 31 15:44:18 m

Re: Errors trying to do aptitude upgrade

2008-01-30 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Daniel Burrows wrote the following on 01/30/2008 09:31 AM: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:51:35AM -0600, "Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> Greetings; >> >> I am running aptitude upgrade after aptitude update and >> everything

Errors trying to do aptitude upgrade

2008-01-29 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I am running aptitude upgrade after aptitude update and everything works fine up to a point. Everything is downloaded and after it starts the installs I get messages like this. This is the first set. > Preparing to replace util-linux 2.12r-19 (using > .../util-linux_2.12r-19etch1_i38

cpan doesn't work after etch upgrade

2007-12-14 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings, I just did an upgrade on etch and got perl 5.8.8 and when I do cpan -v I get /usr/local/bin/cpan script version 1.9, CPAN.pm version 1.9102 When I try to run cpan by any method, ie. either just cpan or perl -MCPAN -e shell I get the following: - - - - - -

How to install from .deb file

2007-11-30 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I seem to remember that I installed programs/packages directly from .deb files that I downloaded from SourceForge etc. but I can't recall the procedure. Can anyone refresh my memory? TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-09-01 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
David Brodbeck wrote the following on 08/28/2007 01:32 PM: On Aug 28, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Raquel wrote: I also understand that when the hard disks get power that the platters torque just a tad, if not causing heads to come into contact with the platter, at least causing wear on bearings. In th

Re: Help - Gnome won't rune

2007-07-14 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote the following on 07/14/2007 08:08 AM: On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 08:02:49AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Seriously though, it is nice to be able to separate things by workspace within a session, but I like to have a different sessions for root and similar functions

Re: Help - Gnome won't rune

2007-07-14 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 07/14/2007 07:51 AM: On 07/14/07 07:33, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 07/14/2007 05:49 AM: Dump gdm (or whichever is the display manager of your choice). From that command line, su and remove [xgk]dm and reboot. Then you&#x

Re: Help - Gnome won't rune

2007-07-14 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 07/14/2007 05:49 AM: Dump gdm (or whichever is the display manager of your choice). From that command line, su and remove [xgk]dm and reboot. Then you'll get a console and log in using that, and type "startx" to get to GNOME. Thanks! That got me back o

Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

2007-06-21 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Here is how to do it. I posted this back on 31 March 2007. This illustrats the value of searching the archives first. Good Luck! Dennis 1. Open a terminal window. 2. Click "Edit" 3. Click "Current Profile" 4. Select "Title and Command" tab 5. Mar

Re: Printers won't run

2007-06-09 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 19:16:01 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:24:08 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: [ snip: We are trying to solve a problem with CUPS when printing on a remote printer which is shared on a Windows machine

Re: Printers won't run

2007-06-08 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:24:08 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: [ snip: We are trying to solve a problem with CUPS when printing on a remote printer which is shared on a Windows machine. ] Seems to work fine. dgwicks:~$ smbclient -N -L joyce Anonymous login successful

Re: Printers won't run

2007-06-08 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:58:55 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: After following the suggestions of Florian and Samuel the Epson CX7800 prints now. But it won't print test pages. (?) That may have been the only problem with it to begin with. The HP (remote) still do

Re: Printers won't run

2007-06-07 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
After following the suggestions of Florian and Samuel the Epson CX7800 prints now. But it won't print test pages. (?) That may have been the only problem with it to begin with. The HP (remote) still doesn't print. Test pages or otherwise. I could swear that I attached some files sometime back,

Printers won't run

2007-05-31 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I have two printers. I set both of them up using the Add Printer Wizard in/from Gnome. I have printed test pages but they are stuck in the queue with a status of job-stopped. The first printer is a windows printer, HP Deskjet 6540, IP connected, and all of my windows computers can

Re: Oh-NOOOOS: Microsoft says "Linux" infringes 235 of its Patents.

2007-05-14 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
David Baron wrote: On Monday 14 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty much as expected, *IT* is going to use more Patent FUD to try to kill Linux. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/1000338 67/index.htm But then, PJ at Groklaw is a bit pessimistic. http://ww

Re: escape characters in sed

2007-05-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Hans du Plooy wrote: Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans du Plooy escribió: Hi guys, I'm trying to do a search/replace on some text. Looks like this: 1.2.3.4(1.2.3.4) To my mind, this should replace the '(' with a space sed 's/\\)/ / But

Re: More Iceweasel strangeness

2007-05-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2007 05:08:15 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: un1xer wrote: Try to backup your .mozilla folder and delete the original, start Iceweasel and test it out, if the problem is gone than you know its something related to your profile settings and n

Re: More Iceweasel strangeness

2007-05-12 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/07 08:26, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; Very often when I click on a link on a web page or in an email Iceweasel will give me a 404 that purports to be from the server on the remote host. But, if I paste the same

More Iceweasel strangeness

2007-05-12 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; Very often when I click on a link on a web page or in an email Iceweasel will give me a 404 that purports to be from the server on the remote host. But, if I paste the same url into Opera it pops right up with the page. Then if I go back to Iceweasel and click the GO button or do a re

Re: default email program

2007-05-11 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Nigel Henry wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007 23:26, Jesus Arocho wrote: I am using debian etch. When I click on an email link on a web site the system will try to launch evolution. How can I change the default email program to something else, kmail in my case? I'm in KDE, but IIRC, in Gnome you

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-10 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Mumia W.. wrote: On 05/10/2007 11:08 AM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Problem Update: I have my system repaired so I have several browsers that I can use but I still have the same problem. (Keep reading!) I contacted the vendor and they said that my clock was wrong, I didn't accept cookies, a

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-10 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Celejar wrote: On Wed, 09 May 2007 16:14:44 -0400 Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-10 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Problem Update: I have my system repaired so I have several browsers that I can use but I still have the same problem. (Keep reading!) I contacted the vendor and they said that my clock was wrong, I didn't accept cookies, and my Internet sharing proxy was blocking cookies. I have verified that

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-10 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Problem Update: Thanks to every one! I created a new user and the programs that were getting floating point exceptions ran! I went back to my normal id and deleted a lot of .x files and directories. Now all those programs work there too. The only bad thing is that I got too enthusiastic and del

How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-08 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I think I have something basically wrong with my system. Programs that nobody else has problems with fail with a floating point exception. Web pages that work fine for everybody else don't work on my system and throw a bunch of javascript and java errors. I upgraded from Sarge accor

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-08 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Celejar wrote: On Mon, 07 May 2007 09:22:28 -0500 "Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] I guess I will give up and do what I have been thinking about for a couple of weeks. Set up a windows machine and stick it down in my server room. Then I can VNC to it to d

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-07 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Atis wrote: If I open a terminal session then; dgwicks:~$ konqueror Floating point exception dgwicks:~$ That's not normal. Can you describe what system you have - hardware and software (sorry, maybe you said distro somewhere before, but i'm too lazy to follow). Can you provide output of: apti

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-07 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:22:28AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I was afraid that it would turn out to be something along this line. I guess I will give up and do what I have been thinking about for a couple of weeks. Set up a windows machine and stick it down

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-07 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Vibhav Sharma wrote: David Claughton wrote: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: - These web sites work *on*all*other*systems* I have accessed them from For example? - These are *big*corps* with 1000s of users/customers. If it were a problem on their side I think they would have found and fixed it

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
I appreciate the help and the effort, but come on people! - I *am* running Iceweasel/FireFox. - These web sites work *on*all*other*systems* I have accessed them from, and have done so for weeks, months, and years. It has to be a problem with Debian, Iceweasel, their implementation of JavaScri

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-05 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Dennis. Dennis G. Wicks, 05.05.2007 15:02: I am having problems with some web pages not working. (Not working means just that. The details vary from page to page.) When I check the error console I find a lot of messages like: Warning: assignment to undeclared

Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-05 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I am having problems with some web pages not working. (Not working means just that. The details vary from page to page.) When I check the error console I find a lot of messages like: Warning: assignment to undeclared variable speed Warning: assignment to undeclared variable l

Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Thanks! That did the trick. And I didn't even have to reboot! :-D Andrew J. Barr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; Is there some way to change which browser Iceweasel claims to be? I know I have ran across this feature before,

How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; Is there some way to change which browser Iceweasel claims to be? I know I have ran across this feature before, but I haven't had any reason to need it until today. Many TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Opera won't run

2007-04-23 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; Just reinstalled the latest version of Opera but when I start it I get dgwicks:~# opera http://www.debian.org ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. Floating point

Need ftp client

2007-04-16 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Does anyone know of an ftp client for Debian or linux similar to the windows pkgs cute-ftp or FileZilla? These are GUI packages that have stored profiles, socks & proxy capabilities, and other handy features. I have been working on making FileZilla work with wine but it is turning out to be far

Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker

2007-04-14 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Just in case you are interested, the problems I had with scribus-ng seem to be caused by the package maintainer not updating the dependencies when they went from sarge to etch. It was still calling for sarge qt3 libraries and they weren't available, and it wouldn't work with them if they were avai

Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker

2007-04-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/07 14:27, Adam Frank wrote: Here's an interesting read about Scribus on Debian: http://www.scribus.net/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=4&page=1 That page is out-of-date, at least as far as Sid is c

Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker

2007-04-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Adam Frank wrote: I zipped up the strace output and attached it. Hope that is OK. It is way too big to just paste it in! Looks like your missing some stuff... what does "ldd /usr/bin/scribus-ng" say? I was just going to post that on the scribus bug list, but since you asked ... dgwicks

Re: Next time you make a trace file... ( was Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker)

2007-04-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/07 13:05, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: [snip] I zipped up the strace output and attached it. Hope that is OK. It is way too big to just paste it in! please try to remember to add .txt to text file names. It makes

Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker

2007-04-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greg Folkert wrote: Are you using Etch/Stable or Lenny/Testing or Sid? Please try this, additionally: strace scibus-ng Please paste the output and send it here. I am using etch upgraded from sarge after etch went to stable. I zipped up the strace output and attached it. Hope that

All Read!! Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker

2007-04-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: No big mystery there. "Session" follows [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux dgwicks 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scribus-ng --help Floating point exception [EMAIL

Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker

2007-04-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Kevin Mark wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:25:09AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:00:06AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I need a DTP program to functionally replace PageMaker. I installed Scribus but it

Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker

2007-04-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
David Goodenough wrote: On Friday 13 April 2007 15:25, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:00:06AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I need a DTP program to functionally replace PageMaker. I installed Scribus but it doesn't

Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker

2007-04-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:00:06AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I need a DTP program to functionally replace PageMaker. I installed Scribus but it doesn't work on my system. I reported the bug but after a few hours of activity I haven't hear

Need DTP to replace PageMaker

2007-04-13 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I need a DTP program to functionally replace PageMaker. I installed Scribus but it doesn't work on my system. I reported the bug but after a few hours of activity I haven't heard anything from them for several days. Is there another package I could take a look at or try out? It would

Is there a C# for Debian-Etch?

2007-04-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
I was trying to install a package, Gnome-RDP, and it popped up a message that it can't find c#. Is there one? If so where? Can't find one on debian.org. (Gnome-RDP is a ssh client with profiles, and other neat stuff ... It sounds like it anyway.) As always, many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Re: Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

2007-04-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
I have tried nearly everything and no joy ... yet! I have faith in you guys! I created a new account and it works fine. So does root. Nautilus seems to work fine. I have a couple of launchers in a side panel that do "nautilus /H/hunters/public_html" or similar and they work fine. Also /apps/naut

Help! My gnome desktop has been cleared!

2007-04-06 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
I rebooted and my desktop has been cleaned off. All the icons for the computer, my home dir, mounted drives and some launchers I had set up are gone. I have been searching and doing diffs to try and locate the problem, but no luck. Too many differences. Also, right-clicking on the desktop does n

Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-05 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
I think my Firefox/Weasel browser has been hi-jacked. Regardless the url it displays a page that says "* The Web site for the supplied URL is under construction. Please come back and visit soon." and an ad for making web sites for funeral homes! If I use Galeon or lynx I get to the real site.

Re: How to get profile to run when starting gnome terminal

2007-03-31 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Michael Pobega wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:52:01AM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I know there is a way to do it, but I haven't found the right piece of doc yet I guess. How do I get /etc/profile and friends to be run when gnome starts up a terminal session? TIA! Dennis

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