Re: squeeze fails to install

2011-02-18 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> on 20:34 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius >>> wrote: >>> > on 19:30 Thu

Re: squeeze fails to install

2011-02-18 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 20:34 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius >> wrote: >> > on 19:30 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: >> >> On

Re: squeeze fails to install

2011-02-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 19:30 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius >> wrote: >> > I'll generally constrain my followup to the earlier thread rather than >&

Re: squeeze fails to install

2011-02-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > I'll generally constrain my followup to the earlier thread rather than > propogating two separate ones. > > on 18:11 Thu 17 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Dr. Ed Morb

Re: squeeze fails to install

2011-02-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 21:01 Wed 16 Feb, Neal Hogan (nealho...@gmail.com) wrote: >> I have another thread started that is not getting much traffic given >> the significance of the situation: installation. >> >> Every installation m

Re: squeeze fails to install

2011-02-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:06 PM, David Christensen wrote: > On 02/15/2011 04:43 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: >> I've tried the mini.iso and full net-iso for both the >> gnu/bsd and gnu/linux system (i386) and no matter what I try it fails >> to partition my drive. >>

squeeze fails to install

2011-02-16 Thread Neal Hogan
I have another thread started that is not getting much traffic given the significance of the situation: installation. Every installation medium that I've tried fails. Those trials include net-install-iso, mini-iso, full-diskOne-iso. . .with both linux and bsd kernels. What information do those th

Re: fresh squeeze install fails to partition

2011-02-16 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:14 PM,   wrote: >> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:46:55 -0800 >> David Christensen wrote: >> >>> On 02/15/2011 04:43 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: >>> > My goal was to install the debian GNU

Re: fresh squeeze install fails to partition

2011-02-16 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 11:14 PM, wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:46:55 -0800 > David Christensen wrote: > >> On 02/15/2011 04:43 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: >> > My goal was to install the debian GNU/bsd system, but things seemed >> > to be messed up. I've t

Re: fresh squeeze install fails to partition

2011-02-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: > Hi list, > > My goal was to install the debian GNU/bsd system, but things seemed to > be messed up. I've tried the mini.iso and full net-iso for both the > gnu/bsd and gnu/linux system (i386) and no matter what I try it fai

fresh squeeze install fails to partition

2011-02-15 Thread Neal Hogan
Hi list, My goal was to install the debian GNU/bsd system, but things seemed to be messed up. I've tried the mini.iso and full net-iso for both the gnu/bsd and gnu/linux system (i386) and no matter what I try it fails to partition my drive. eg. "[!!] Partition disks Failed to create

Re: No icons, help.

2010-09-07 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Doug wrote: > I'm brand new to Debian, but not to Linux, altho I still consider > myself pretty much a newbie after probably 12 years or so(!) > (Slackware, RedHat, SuSE, PCLinuxOs, and a quick look at Ubuntu, Kubuntu, > and Puppy)  For general use recently I've bee

Re: how to locate files on my computer

2010-09-02 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:00 PM, tom wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 19:44 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 7:39 PM, tom wrote: >> > I thought using the command: $ locate  would work, but >> > nothing happens, even if I su to root.  Any help appreciat

Re: Symlinks (was Re: Triple boot with MS XP)

2010-06-18 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/16/2010 10:03 PM, ABSDoug wrote: >> >> --- On Wed, 6/16/10, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>  > Symlink the NTFS iTunes directory to some place under >>  > $HOME. >> >> I've never heard this term "Symlink". I'm off to Google, but if you care >>

Re: Web browsers, Adobe Flash & Debian

2010-06-10 Thread Neal Hogan
yeah! On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:04 PM, ABSDoug wrote: > --- On Thu, 6/10/10, Neal Hogan wrote: > >> Fuck off! > > Now that I know Mr. Hogan here doesn't have anything intelligent to add, off > to the kill file with him! > > > > > --

Re: Web browsers, Adobe Flash & Debian

2010-06-10 Thread Neal Hogan
BTW -- I hope that your referee understands my English "curse-words," so that I can get ejected from this silly little game ;-) On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:39 PM, ABSDoug wrote: >> --- On Thu, 6/10/10, Mihamina Rakotomandimb

Re: Web browsers, Adobe Flash & Debian

2010-06-10 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:39 PM, ABSDoug wrote: > --- On Thu, 6/10/10, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > >> He will ask you the exact URL... > > If *I* was the person posting advice, *I* would have posted the URL. But then > I try to make things EASY when helping... as opposed to being difficult

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:57 PM, ABSDoug wrote: > --- On Tue, 6/8/10, Neal Hogan wrote: > > <<< When adding packages, your system needs to know where to look. To find > out, it looks at the list in /etc/apt/sources.list. Take a look at that. > You'll probably see

Re: Acer Aspire One wireless issue

2010-06-08 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:15 PM, ABSDoug wrote: > --- On Tue, 6/8/10, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Now wireless does’nt seem to work out of the box so you >> need to: >> >> Make sure that non-free and contrib are selected in the >> package list. >> >> Open a terminal and type the following: >> >> #

Re: GUI fails to start

2010-05-31 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Nathan Martin wrote: > Help! > > After the setup process for Lenny, the system reboots to start the new > installation but the GUI does not come up. The screen remains blank. I > checked the option for “Desktop” in the set up process. Everything seems to > go smoot

Re: daemonizing a command

2010-05-28 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Israel Garcia wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: >> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Israel Garcia wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I need to daemonize this command on a debian lenny? >>> >>>

Re: daemonizing a command

2010-05-27 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Israel Garcia wrote: > Hi, > > I need to daemonize this command on a debian lenny? > > ruby apd.rb > > It's a simple app for my network. > > I was thinking to use nohup ruby app.rb & at rc.local, but I want to > know if there's other ways to do it. It's been awhil

Re: [OT] teenage slang. was: Re: [OT] Help for non-Debian distributions (was How to read log files)

2010-03-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 29 March 2010 18:44:29 Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:51:08 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: >> > As for KKL, I needed a translation. >> >> This is *really* off-topic, but perhaps this is it: >> >> http://www.urbandictionary.com/def

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash

2010-03-18 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:43 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Neal writes: >> to use Adobe software without paying for it is stealing . . . money . >> .. . no? > > No.  It may be copyright infringement if you do so without Adobe's > permission, but copyright infringement is not theft according to the US >

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Neal Hogan
>>> >>> But can a "purist" accept such support and be a true linux user? >>> >>> "Linux" is not synonymous with "free".  "Debian" is not synonymous with >>> "Stallman".  Please keep these facts in mind. >>> >>> >> >> Sure . . . I was just curious to get some particular responses from users. >>

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-18 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Mark Allums wrote: > On 3/17/2010 9:03 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: > >> Most (if not all) software has some sort of license, like "use as >> you'd like but make sure you tell the next person the same" (BSD . . >> .as I understand i

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Enough DDs are sufficiently practical for there to be a non-free tree, and > Christian Marillat does yeoman's work with > http://www.debian-multimedia.org/. > "non-free?" I know that's what it's called, but I wonder how descriptive it is. B

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Wednesday 17 March 2010 20:15:51 Neal Hogan wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > Enough DDs are sufficiently practical for there to be a non-free tree, >> > and Christian Ma

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Neal Hogan
> The rub is that Debian doesn't officially know that Flash exists. Even if it did, too many DDs are morally opposed to closed-source to want to Depend on it. >>> >>> I highly suspect a flame-war here, but isn't against the >>> "Stallmanian-principle" for a linux machin

Re: (OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-17 16:35, Neal Hogan wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ron Johnson >> wrote: >>> >>> On 2010-03-17 10:40, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Instal

Re:(OT) gnash vs. flash (was Re: Why does installing gnome ...)

2010-03-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-17 10:40, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> >>> Installing Gnash screws up Flash. >> >> That is the core of the problem that needs to be fixed. >> There's no reason the two shouldn't be able to coexist peacefully so >> that each user on the

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-22 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: > >> On 22/02/2010 13:01, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: >>> (it is, isn't it? :-) ) >>> >>> So, yes, we are moving on from our 10year experience with gentoo, >>> and >>> are searching for our new environment. From my personal experience >>> I >>> would s

Re: Install date

2010-02-10 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Tim Tebbit wrote: > Is there a file generated with a time stamp that would show the age of > the current install somewhere? > > /var/log/dmesg > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Problems with alsaconf

2010-01-13 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:26 AM, surreal wrote: > All of a sudden my soundcard refused to work. I used 'alsaconf' and it > detected the card. I was able to use it but after a reboot all settings seem > to have lost. > Didi you save your settings? man alsactl look at the 'store' option. -- To

Re: How does a novice do this

2009-12-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:48 PM, A. Kane wrote: > I am a novice not at all a computer geek. I just want simple clean internet > and email with a good program like windows media center handling everything > else along with some axillary stuff. I am not a fan of Windows or the > Organization or of t

Re:[OT] Iceweasel annoyance

2009-11-22 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:41 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:19:58 -0500 > Patrick Wiseman dijo: > >> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: >> > JJJ, >> > >> > You need to slow down. > >> I don't have a

Re: Iceweasel annoyance

2009-11-21 Thread Neal Hogan
JJJ, You need to slow down. Yes . . . there is a period one needs to get used to a new system. If you have completely switched (i.e., wiped your ubuntu partition) to debian and aren't comfortable, shame on you. It's not that Debian is that much different, but it's that such a move is irresponsibl

Re: Is Squeeze right for me?

2009-11-21 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:44 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I have several years of experience with Ubuntu, but I have never looked > inside. I'm just a pointy-clicky desktop user. How things work has > never been of interest to me except when they don't work. Even then I > just learn enough to f

Re: Inquiry:What is the equivalent of "ping -f -l" on the Debian server?

2009-11-18 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 6:25 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > To find the optimum MTU size , on the MS Windows client , we need to try for > "C:\ping www.google.com -f -l 1472" and then do for trial and error to find > the optimum size . Can you please do me favor and let me know what is the

Re: debian won't load

2009-11-16 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Carol Walter wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm trying to install debian from CD.  All goes along fine until I get to > passed the selection of the groups of apps.  Then it says its selecting and > installing software and goes to 5%.  At that point, it just stops or hang

Re: Inquiry:How to enable Telnet & SSH on my Debian 3.1 server?

2009-11-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:14 AM, hadi motamedi wrote: > Thank you for your reply . Please be informed that I tried as the followings > : > #apt-cache search telnet > #apt-get install telnet > At now , my Debian server can telnet to my MS Windows client but my MS > Windows client cannot telnet to m

Re: install

2009-11-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:08 AM, chandrashekar sasnoor wrote: > i wanted to download the debain install but it dosen t allow me what should > i do Can you expand on that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Need to reconfigure sound on every boot

2009-11-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Andreas Ronnquist wrote: > > Hi! > > I need to do a alsaconf after every boot, otherwise I don't get any > sound. This is on a ABit motherboard, Nvidia nforce 590 chipset, with > built-in sound. How can I make it configure the built-in sound-card > automatically on

Re: Blank CDs Not Being Detected

2009-11-01 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Ed wrote: >     I went to try and burn a CD this morning (the latest ubuntu ;) ) and I > noticed my system does not recognize blank CDs anymore. How was your system before, when it did recognize them? What have you changed since you last stuck a black disc in? Per

Re: No "Shut Down..." option in "System" menu

2009-11-01 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > I have no "shut down..." option in my "System" menu (I am using GNOME > front-end). I am thus obliged to shut down using the terminal. How can > I make these buttons appearing? G

Re: [mutt] label mails with colored tags

2009-10-22 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Peter Jordan wrote: > Wayne, Thu Oct 22 2009 19:07:04 GMT+0200 (CEST): >> >> Peter Jordan wrote: >>> >>> Neal Hogan, Thu Oct 22 2009 18:41:58 GMT+0200 (CEST): >>> And how to label mails with tags? >>> >>

Re: [mutt] label mails with colored tags

2009-10-22 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Peter Jordan wrote: > Hello, > > I plan to migrate from thunderbird to mutt. > > In thunderbird it is possible to define custom tags (e.g. debian with color > red), so that the mails labeled with debian are highlighted red. > > Is that also possible with mutt? Su

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 04:10:35PM EDT, John Hasler wrote: >> CJ writes: >> > What exactly is on-topic to debian-user? >> >> The use of Debian. > > And therefore discussing _debian_ mailing-lists policy. > I'm curious . . . when you mention th

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-13 Thread Neal Hogan
My goodness! This and the other 50 threads on the same topic in the last two months need to stop. Really! Some have problems with receiving mail from certain providers. Others have problems with users of providers that have "acceptable" features. Others just like to keep threads like this going. I

Re: Someone help me in the right direction for networks <- Might be off topic

2009-10-12 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:45 PM, green wrote: > Dean Chester wrote at 2009-10-11 05:38 -0500: >>Now the main problem how would i go about >>configuring the workstations to allow home directries on any computer so >>users do not have to have specific computers and they can go in and use

Re: Someone help me in the right direction for networks <- Might be off topic

2009-10-11 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Dean Chester wrote: > Hi, > I've been asked to set up a network of between 6 and 10 computers, using > linux yet i don't know what to do. I've decided to allocate 2 as servers and > because we have to run our network with in another network so we are hoping > to ru

Re: Dual head config

2009-10-05 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: > Hi, > > I am using debian lenny in my Dell 640m Laptop. When I connect my > Samsung HDTV to the VGA output, I need to restart the X . And as soon > as I restart X, the display doesn't look normal in my Laptop but it is > great in the TV. How

Re: Hello! Please, I need your help! An advice of what I need to download to

2009-10-04 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:55 AM, guido mezzalana wrote: > >  Hi, > > I am trying to sort it out the folloing problem about Debian installation. > > The only problem I am getting is I have not sound! clickin on volume control > is telling me: > >  no volume control GS streamer plugins and/or devices

Re: Suggestions for video/tv capture?

2009-10-04 Thread Neal Hogan
> > For the OP, your requirements can be met quite well with a Haughpage > PVR-150 (which I use on my Mythbuntu box) or PVR-350 or PVR-500.  All > seem well supported.  I record from my DirecTV receiver using the > S-Video input on the PVR-150.  The PVR series mentioned are analog > capture only.

Re: Gmail again

2009-10-03 Thread Neal Hogan
> Your message goes where your MUA sends it.  If you don't want it to go > to the OP don't send it there. > -- > John Hasler Ya . . . the more I think about it, it makes better sense to inculde the OP's email, in case you want to take an OT post offlist . . . a practice that is underused, IMO. . >

Re: Gmail again

2009-10-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: > Another thing that really piss me off is when I want to reply a > message to the list. > Pressing `R` or clicking on `Reply` places the author of the current > email on the `To:` field, not the list address. > > Let me know if anyone ha

Re: Suggestions for desktop manager: [was Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system]

2009-09-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 29 September 2009 23:20:06 Preston Boyington wrote: >> Kevin Ross wrote: >> >> >> > If you want auto-login, and fast startup with minimal dependencies, then >> > skip the display manager, change your getty to rungetty and configure it >> >

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Hugh Lawson wrote: > Neal Hogan writes: > >> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Hugh Lawson wrote: > > >>> Yesterday, after running some .avi files with mplayer, my system lost >>> sound. Rebooting brought the sound back. >

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Hugh Lawson wrote: > > Debian lenny, alsa > > dpkg -l | grep alsa > > ii  alsa-base    1.0.17.dfsg-4      ALSA driver configuration files > ii  alsa-utils   1.0.16-2           ALSA utilities > ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa   0.10.19-2  GStreamer plugin for ALSA > ii  libs

Re: sudden power off ... ?!?

2009-09-21 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Dan wrote: > Hello List, > > It is few days that I installed (standard installation) Debian Lenny on > this pc. Which pc? If it's a harware issue, perhaps letting us know what hardware you have may help (dmesg?). Perhaps someone may have had similar issues wi

Re: [ANN] New mailing list for offtopic stuff

2009-09-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 00:19 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> The new list is d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org[1]. At the >> moment it is open for posting by anyone[2] and you are welcome to move >> any discussions to that list whi

Re: using hotmail.com or mail.live.com (movin' OT)

2009-09-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 21:00 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > On 2009-09-13 16:33, Peter Crawford wrote: >> >> >> >> September 10, 2009 1:06:03 PM

Re: using hotmail.com or mail.live.com (movin' OT)

2009-09-13 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-09-13 16:33, Peter Crawford wrote: >> >> September 10, 2009 1:06:03 PM Ron wrote, >> "Did you forget to write something?" >> >> >> Well I've updated the version number in about:config >> general.useragent.extra.firefox ... Firefox/3.0.9

Re: using hotmail.com ...

2009-09-13 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Peter Crawford wrote: > > September 10, 2009 1:06:03 PM Ron wrote, > "Did you forget to write something?"Well I've updated the version number in > about:config > general.useragent.extra.firefox ... Firefox/3.0.9 > >                         ... Peter Do you have

Re: [ANN] New mailing list for offtopic stuff

2009-09-13 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Hello, > > As some of you might recall I have been pushing for quite some time for > a debian-offtopic list (#425439, #427218). > > It seems I have managed to convince Holger Levsen, responsible for the > www.debian-community.org project, th

Re: Switching from GNOME to another window manager

2009-09-06 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Jason Hsu wrote: > I used the default install to install Debian on a laptop as the sole OS. > > It boots up in GNOME, which is too slow and sluggish.  How can I switch to > XFCE, Fluxbox, or some other lightweight window manager? You d'load/install the wm/de you wa

Re: Getting network connection

2009-09-06 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-09-05 21:24, Jason Hsu wrote: >> >> I successfully installed Debian on a laptop, but it's refusing to >> connect to the Internet.  It had no difficulty connecting during >> the installation process, but it's not connecting now.  How do I

Re: Reporting List Mail As SPAM

2009-09-01 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I think someone is reporting valid list mail as SPAM.  I got notified today > that one of the mails I sent to the list was identified as SPAM.  The Return- > Path on the message was: user=harvenahump=gmail@lists.debian.org>; the M

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-29 23:34, Neal Hogan wrote: >>>> >>>> I forget when we made this agreement :) >>> >>> Well before you started using the internet on a regular basis. >> >> Well, it must h

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-29 23:25, Neal Hogan wrote: > [snip] >> >> We don't have to think > > Arrrghhh!  The dumbing-down of American civilization!! > > Must... end... thread... now... before... write... mile... lo

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-29 Thread Neal Hogan
>> >> I forget when we made this agreement :) > > Well before you started using the internet on a regular basis. Well, it must have been against my will. > >>> If someone comes on here and starts asking us to forgive the >>> fact that they use different letters than we do, we're gonna say 'go f >

Re: Reason #14749 to hate gmail (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-08-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-29 23:06, Neal Hogan wrote: >> >> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Ron Johnson >> wrote: >>> >>> On 2009-08-29 22:45, Neal Hogan wrote: > > [snip] >>>> >>>>

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-29 23:02, JoeHill wrote: >> >> Neal Hogan wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> get over the email format! >> >> It's called being polite, and putting other people'

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:02 PM, JoeHill wrote: > Neal Hogan wrote: > >> >> >> get over the email format! > > It's called being polite, and putting other people's needs ahead of your own. > It's not a bad thing, it's a human thing. > &

Re: Reason #14749 to hate gmail (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-08-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-29 22:45, Neal Hogan wrote: >> >> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Ron Johnson >> wrote: >>> >>> On 2009-08-29 22:31, Neal Hogan wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-29 22:31, Neal Hogan wrote: >> >> >> >> get over the email format! > > I know.  Lost that war a long time ago... > >> gmail provides a nice gui-riffic format that many feel comfortable &g

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-29 Thread Neal Hogan
get over the email format! gmail provides a nice gui-riffic format that many feel comfortable using. I don't get where this complaining about client usage is going. If you a want more "pure" OS, then . . . u . . . go somewhere else. Ron (et al) . . . you seem to have no problem responding

Re: OT: TV Tuner

2009-08-19 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: > I recently emeraged from the dark ages and purchased a 23" LCD monitor. > Now I am wondering about purchasing a TV tuner and connecting the cable > box (Comcast) to the pc rather than replacing my 15 year old analog tv > set.  Nothing large

Re: Installing Lenny

2009-08-19 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Roman Gelfand wrote: > I have vista 64 and fedora 10 installed  The bootloader is GRUB.  I am > looking to install Lenny in place of fedora.  What would be the right > way to approach it? Back-up current stuff, d'load the .iso, burn it to cd and boot off of that d

Re: Installing a Wireless Card

2009-08-17 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:30 PM, wrote: > I would like some help in completing the installation with a wireless pcmia > card. > I just installed 502 from CDs on a Dell laptop. I did not have the Belkin > wireless pcmcia card (HSM model no. F5D7011. Chipset BCM4306/BCM2050) in > place during the in

Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18

2009-08-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Sandip Sandip wrote: > > > From: Neal Hogan > To: Sandip Sandip > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Saturday, 15 August, 2009 6:44:26 PM > Subject: Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18 >

Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18

2009-08-15 Thread Neal Hogan
> What else have you done? Did you just plug it in? > > > I also read up the network howto and tried things like putting eth0 in > /etc/network/interfaces, trying eth0 up, etc. > > No use - till now. > > > What does you system think of the card (eg, what is the output of > lspci | grep Realtek of d

Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18

2009-08-13 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Sandip Sandip wrote: > I am trying to install a realtek 8139 lan card on an old debian machine - > 2.4.18-bf2.4 > > The card is properly installed - as in when I connect the lan cable it the > lights on the card start blinking. > > However, I am unable to access int

Re: problem with installing wifi driver from source

2009-08-12 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:26 AM, a dehqan wrote: > In The Name Of God The compassion merciful > > Good day every body , Don't have anybody any opinion ? U . . . Chicago pizza is the best. Red is pretty. The Phish show that I went to last night was awesome! . . . need more? > > Regards dehqan

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
I referred to you as "it." On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,03.Aug.09, 17:03:01, Neal Hogan wrote: >> >> ok ,ok . . . I'll just be gender neutral from now on. I apologize for >> offending anyone. I wasn't referring to Mr

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,03.Aug.09, 23:57:06, Aioanei Rares wrote: >> > >> >Depending on country and/or language there can be rules to >> >determine if a name is female or male. For example in my language >> >I don't know of any male name that ends in "a". > >>

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-03 11:59, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> On Mon,03.Aug.09, 06:05:46, Neal Hogan wrote: >>  [...] >> >>> Mr. Popescu >> >> You're kidding, right? :) > > Unless Andrei is a fema

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,03.Aug.09, 06:05:46, Neal Hogan wrote: > > [...] > >> Mr. Popescu > > You're kidding, right? :) nah . . . you deserve respect! what do you want to be called? > > Regards, > Andrei > -- &g

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Scott Gifford wrote: > "Todd A. Jacobs" writes: > > [...] > >> Dell purportedly sells a netbook with Ubuntu on it, but I haven't tried >> it myself. > > I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 that came with Ubuntu pre-installed, and > it works quite well.  The only thing that

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-03 06:05, Neal Hogan wrote: > [snip] >> >> Mr. Popescu has kindly pointed out basic point-drag, drop, GUI-click >> help, which should have been found and "played with" upon install. >> There is

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-02 12:21, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 2009-08-02 05:59, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> >>> On Sun,02.Aug.09, 03:45:58, Ron Johnson wrote: > > My Xfce setup would be very familiar for a Windows 2k user ;) Can you send me (

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

2009-08-02 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:34 PM, fred basset wrote: > Hi All, > > I'll soon be able to spec. a new laptop for my new job.  Can anyone > recommend any systems that can run the latest Debian > and support all the hardware out of the box?  I prefer IBM and Dell > laptops myself. > It would be great to

Re: Installing via NFS - I think?

2009-08-01 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:37 PM, AG wrote: > Hi all > > I'm happy to follow up with the relevant reading, but I want some help in > defining the question so that I know what it is that I am looking at: > > I have an old laptop that runs Slackware 10.1 and its CD-R is kaput, and > Slackware 10.1 was

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-30 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Neal Hogan wrote: >> >> ... I think Mark has hit the proverbial nail-on-the-head ... > > Yes, with a top-posted HTML message, sent using Gmail.  :-) okay . . . maybe he bent the nail a bit. At lea

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-28 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-07-29 00:20, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 28 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> On 2009-07-28 13:09, Mark wrote: >>> [snip] When I feel adventurous one weekend I'll try a Debian install without the desktop

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-28 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Mark wrote: > Interesting thread.  From a Debian/Linux and Debian email list newbie's > perspective: I spent several months researching Debian (actually tried > openSUSE before Debian), printing/reading manuals, wiki's, doing multiple > installations trying differe

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-28 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Neal Hogan [2009 Jul 28 06:01 -0500]: > >> I appreciate the OP's sentiment that the lack of flaming is good . . . >> but, a good (hearted) laugh at another's expense is . . . fun . . . >> and seems

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-28 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 28 July 2009 11:59:00 Neal Hogan wrote: >> Why? What's the problem? A >> thick skin is an attribute, not a detrimment. > > Maybe.  But it is still not really reasonable to poke fun at someone and then > if

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-28 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,27.Jul.09, 16:53:54, Tim Beauregard wrote: >> I recently re-subscribed having been off for about four years.  The >> changes I have noticed are: >> >> 1. Much less traffic.  I previously got 250+ posts per day.  Now 50-100. >>  Could t

Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

2009-07-23 Thread Neal Hogan
> And thanks for reminding us of the essential role of gcc, glibc, and > binutils.  I'm too new to GNU/linux to remember.. but would anything > have been possible without them? yes > > CJ > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe".

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