Re: [OT] English language

2011-04-04 Thread Francis Southern
On 4 April 2011 13:41, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2011 04 Apr 03:21 -0500, Lisi wrote: >> On Monday 04 April 2011 01:24:03 David Jardine wrote: >> > I just love the spelling of "Advertiser". ;) >> >> Do Americans spell it with a zed? > > Mostly, yes. > I don't think so, I'm fairly sure ``adverti

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-18 Thread Francis Southern
On 18 February 2011 16:39, shawn wilson wrote: > > > as some have mentioned in this thread, even some of the "Thinkpad"s are sold > with cheaper keyboards and other hardware. but, if you read some reviews, > spend a little (~$1k should do imo), you'll end up with a solid portable. > 1,000 USD

Re: Gnash killing my CPU

2011-02-17 Thread Francis Southern
On 16 February 2011 22:49, Noah Duffy wrote: > I finally noticed a tend today.  Whenever I have a web browser open, > my laptop's fan goes nuts and the temperature shoots up to a level I > don't like it to be at when I'm ONLY browsing the web.  I opened up > the system monitor and one of my proces

Re: [OT] Re: E-business and Linux

2010-12-28 Thread francis southern
On 28 December 2010 20:23, John Hasler wrote: > Yuwen Dai writes: >> The situation is the same in all countries... > > I get along fine using only Debian here in the USA. > -- > John Hasler > Actually, Camaleón said that, not Yuwen Dai. You should be careful with your quoting! And, I've had no

JFTA? (was Re: Upgrade to Squeeze failed)

2010-10-26 Thread francis southern
On 26 October 2010 03:15, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/26/2010 02:42 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> On Lu, 25 oct 10, 22:56:03, lrhorer wrote:08:16 <@morrow> (i assume?) It might be related to modesetting, which can be disabled by kernel parameters. >>> >>> OK, which parameters.  A

Re: Awkward alt-key problem...

2010-09-07 Thread francis southern
>I use irssi a lot and when I use the Alt-(num) to swap between windows I >get... Funky characters. That is, I get subscript 2 for alt-2, subscript >3 for alt-3, mu for alt-4, etc... And it gets rather irritating. Is this using XTerm? I've got two lines in my ~/.Xresources file which I think are j

Re: install lenny on Dell

2010-08-31 Thread francis southern
On 31 August 2010 09:10, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Onetime I needed +R to make recovery disk for a laptop, I got a five disc > pack and still have four left over, I always use -R for everything I do they > work great for data, music and burning ISO's, I don't know why but I can't > get RW disk to

Re: Debian FS structure.

2010-07-30 Thread francis southern
Is it my imagination or has no one mentioned 'man hier'? I suppose it's not the most detailed account, but it's got a nice overview and a link to the Filesystem Hierarchy standard; I was happy when I found it. Francis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-27 Thread francis southern
On 27 April 2010 06:45, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 00:29 -0500, francis southern wrote: >> On 14 April 2010 17:09, Wolodja Wentland >> wrote: >> > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 22:06 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> >> After a large set

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-26 Thread francis southern
On 14 April 2010 17:09, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 22:06 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> After a large set of updates today on testing, xorg no longer picks up >> my udev rules file. A few months ago hal stopped working, as a change to >> udev was required (see also the lis

Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

2010-04-14 Thread francis southern
On 14 April 2010 16:51, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 22:06:41 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> After a large set of updates today on testing, xorg no longer picks up >> my udev rules file. A few months ago hal stopped working, as a change to >> udev was required (

Re: Running GNOME with 128 MB RAM - Painfully slow?

2010-04-04 Thread francis southern
You could also try Tiny Core Linux. http://www.tinycorelinux.com/ I haven't used it much myself, but I've heard it described as "the next Damn Small Linux". On 5 April 2010 00:20, Greg Madden wrote: > On Sunday 04 April 2010 08:28:53 pm Tech Geek wrote: >> >You can try adding swap but I doubt it