Re: heads-up: me considering to run another favourite FLOSS poll

2010-11-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:29, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > So I've been running this poll for a few years now, and am considering > doing it yet again. > > Don't hesitate to reply if you have suggestions. I've asked for a better way to do this: http://ask.debian.net/questions/please-allo

Re: Mozilla products in Debian (was: A question for the list:)

2010-11-06 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 05. 11. 2010 23:30:19 je Kamaraju S Kusumanchi napisal(a): Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 05. 11. 2010 15:10:44 je Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napisal(a): > >> No. That's NOT what those who know and love Debian stable want. The >> lack of >> upstream changes is one of the main reasons I use stable

Re: Problems configuring wireless with wicd on amd64 lenny

2010-11-06 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen writes: > : ifconfig wlan0 up > succeeds, do not print anything. > : iwlist wlan0 scan > wlan0 No scan results. There is a problem at this point. It should have been listing available

Re: Mozilla products in Debian

2010-11-06 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:11:51 -0400, Doug wrote: >> On 2010-11-05 15:38 +0100, Camaleón wrote: >> > /snip/ >> >>> I see only one reason to force the upgrade of a stock package with a >>> newer version and is precisely the lack of support (nor patches) from >>> upstream packager. >> > /snip/ You ar

Re: Mozilla products in Debian

2010-11-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:05:44AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > The ideal is that improvement of all Debian programs is done in collaboration > with upstream. That not always the case, then DDs have to fill that role or > drop the package. (Disregarding all the packages where Debian o

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 06:43:34AM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > ZephyrQ put forth on 11/4/2010 9:50 PM: > >> If you could not/did not use Debian (either Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid), > >> which other distribution would you use and why? > > > > What situation are you in that motivate

Re: Mozilla products in Debian

2010-11-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-11-06 12:42 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > Is there a procedure in place for dropping a package from stable? Yes, this actually happens from time to time. > Do the rules allow it? Yes, but currently only at point releases. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Quod Libet font size

2010-11-06 Thread Rob Owens
I'm not sure if this is an application-specific question, or if there is a single mechanism for all applications. I'd like to increase the font size on the Quod Libet music player. I'm displaying it on a low-definition television, and it's a little hard to read. Any tips on how to do it? -Rob

(semi-solved) Re: No hidden/backup files in desktop (GNOME)

2010-11-06 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:08:01 +, Camaleón wrote: > Hidden (".my_hidden_file") or backup ("my_backup_file~") files cannot be > displayed on the desktop but they can be viewed/managed/accessed/deleted > within nautilus file manager, MC or command line (ls -l). Replying to myself: It's a unsolve

Re: New DNS serwer - hardware

2010-11-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
pch0317 put forth on 11/5/2010 4:29 PM: > Hi > > I must buy new DNS servers (hardware) to our company. > Now DNS (bind on debian) works on PC machine (3 identical NS servers). > > How to check number of DNS request to current DNS machines (how to check > current DNS load). > How to match new serv

Re: Quod Libet font size

2010-11-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:00:47 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > I'm not sure if this is an application-specific question, or if there is > a single mechanism for all applications. > > I'd like to increase the font size on the Quod Libet music player. I'm > displaying it on a low-definition television, an

Re: mount IDE via USB-bridge

2010-11-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:22:14 +0100, Bernd Kloss wrote: > I need to import my data from my former IDE-hd and thought it might be > easily done with an usb-bridge. > But mounting does not work. > > This is my old disk: >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 *

Re: Quod Libet font size

2010-11-06 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:00:25PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:00:47 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > > I'm not sure if this is an application-specific question, or if there is > > a single mechanism for all applications. > > > > I'd like to increase the font size on the Quod Libet

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Re: mount IDE via USB-bridge

2010-11-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 15:21:48 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message : > On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:22:14 +0100, Bernd Kloss wrote: > > > I need to import my data from my former IDE-hd and thought it might > > be easily done with an usb-bridge. > > But mounting does not work. > > > > This is my old d

Re: getting rid of errors in Xorg.0.log

2010-11-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:20:15 -0400, Kamaraju wrote in message : > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > >> ii xserver-xorg-video-radeon1:6.13.1-2 > >> X.Org X server -- AMD/ATI Radeon display driver > > > > You need a newer kernel, probably the one from squeeze. > > Could you please elabora

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:57:28 -0500, John wrote in message <87lj57y4x3@thumper.dhh.gt.org>: > Arnt Karlsen writes: > > ..IME, it's "Unstable", it and "Experimental" doesn't quite live up > > to the expectations of adrenaline kicks you want from these PR'y > > buzzwords. ;o) > > Don't try to i

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2010-11-06 Thread Зaкoнoдательство
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Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-06 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Don't try to install Experimental, though. It is not intended to be a > complete distribution: just an archive for experimental packages. Arnt Karlsen writes: > ..why not? Progress takes _somebody_ pushing forward, and, Chuck > Yeager made it thru ok in his Experimental rides. ;o) Ye

Re: browsing icons in gnome

2010-11-06 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 02/11/10 Camaleón said: > Not in lenny :-? > > Can you browse "/usr/share/icons" using Nautilus and see/open the files > or subfolder in there? Yes, I can. > When you want to change the icon of a shorcut the showed window shell > explorer is the same as Nautilus so it should not present a

Re: A question for the list:

2010-11-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:36:23 -0500, John wrote in message <87bp62xeoo@thumper.dhh.gt.org>: > I wrote: > > Don't try to install Experimental, though. It is not intended to > > be a complete distribution: just an archive for experimental > > packages. > > Arnt Karlsen writes: > > ..why not?

Re: Size of minimal Debian installation

2010-11-06 Thread s. keeling
Bob Proulx : > Jason Hsu, embedded engineer, Linux user wrote: > > I have a minimal Debian installation ... > > You might be interested in reading through a discussion that is > happening right now on debian-devel: > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/10/threads.html#00310 > >