On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 02:53, Ryan Nowakowski wrote:
> On Windows, by default, there's no restrictions on who (or what) can
> install or run software. That's partially why MS is it such deep
> trouble right now in terms of security. However, if you prefer that
> level of convenience while knowingl
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 03:51, G D Roux wrote:
*snip*
> This morning, I booted up and tried to run K-Mail. The Gnome desktop
> had gone, but my mouse cursor froze, my hard drive light went on full
> time, and my whole system went totally sluggish. First message I got
> was that Nautilus was searching
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 14:33, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> I have a few cups questions. I have a CUPs printer set up successfully
> on a central server. The central server can print just fine. Now, I want
> 30 or so odd desktops in the office to also use this printer. I had
> assumed you were suppose to se
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:02, BruceG wrote:
> My experience with the wonderful world of Linux and end users
> - or normal people. My sister needed a laptop to help her
> start a new business writing grant proposals. I figured I'd
> help by buying her a laptop (used,
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:30, Jigga Man wrote:
> Its seems like a night mare to be for the simple
> reason that windows has this capability built into it
> and debian being far better than windows lacks such a
> basic thing?? are there any apps are written to over
> come this ?
The timezone setu
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 05:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to run Gnome and XFree86 on my
> Debian box, a Dell Precision.
>
> The Debian command line works great.
> However, I can't get Gnome working properly no matter
> how many times I try variations on apt-get install
> . I
llows;
Athlon 1600, 256 MB DDR, nForce1 board, nForce1 sound, AGP GF4MX,
generic networking (Realtek I think).
Cheers
Edward Murrell
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Since I can't reply to everyone, I'll reply to myself.
Peter - Cheers for the link to table of equivalents. Much Appreciated.
;) http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/
Several things to note;
I'm not buying Libranet. While I support what they're doing, it's more
than the guy wants to spe
ndard-desktop
stuff that my desktop does - Hence my request for suggestions of
packages.
Regards
Edward Murrell
(Original poster of thread :)
P.S. Of course, some of this thread has turned into which is the better
distro for newbies / Joe-Average without any support.
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 03:19, Be
Hi,
I'm currently burning a bunch of CD's of Debian for a guy out in the
wops. One of the things he's requested is a bunch of the more up to date
packages like GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice, xine, and so on. Since he's on
28.8k due to line quality issues, updating everything with
apt-get/unstable sources
05 Oct 2003 16:22:12 +1300
> Edward Murrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to
> > assemble a CD, but so far I've either come up with building the
> > Packages.gz by hand, or just dumping the .deb files into one big
> > directory on th
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:52, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> But I'd rather my daughter played with computers than watched TV. She is
> not even 2 but already has memorised many advertising jingles. I know we
> live in a consumer society but this is disgusting.
Solution. Ditch the TV (or remove it's ab
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:35, Oki DZ wrote:
> What is the equivalent of Keyman (http://www.tavultesoft.com/) on Linux?
To my understanding, there is no direct equivalent, because Linux
supports all keyboards (and if it doesn't, it's fairly easy to add
support). For other Languages/char sets, the id
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 01:56, David Palmer. wrote:
> But as all of this is going to applied later in a commercial
> environment, I was wondering if anybody would be able to advise as to a
> decent make of commercial standard Nics.
First off, avoid anything with a realtek chipset. That should avoid
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 02:02, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> When i try the smtp method i get this as error message:
>
> 2003-10-09 14:27:33 rejected EHLO from arthur.camelot [192.168.0.1]:
> syntactically invalid argument(s): .ddts.net:
That should be HELO, not EHLO. Either someone/thing has modifie
Recently, I have been working over strategies for Linux on the desktop.
In particular, I've been comparing usability of system administration
tasks to Windows 2K/XP and Mac OS X, the main contenders on the desktop.
System administration tasks are done by almost everybody who owns a
computer. It's
Since they're not crucial packages (by crucial, I mean things like bash,
and init), I would suggest forcing the removal of all of them, and then
apt-get the new ones.
Edward
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 23:21, ZekeVarg wrote:
> I just ran dist-upgrade on my sid-box and I got problems with:
> python2.3-g
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 00:53, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> This sounds awfully like an extended version of stow. It'd be nice to
see
> that.
Hmm, having looked up stow, I see what you mean. The only thing is that
stow, as far as I can tell, tries to do it for everything, which
apt/dpkg already does bett
Generally, anything that the Linux kernel supports, Debian supports.
However, SATA support last time I checked was non-existant in
Linux/Debian. Blame the manufactures.
As for ATi. Go with nVidia, same yourself the pain.
Edward
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 01:38, Henk Vuijk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have
8-17 at 05:01, Pigeon wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:36:28AM +1200, Edward Murrell wrote:
> >
> > As for ATi. Go with nVidia, same yourself the pain.
>
> I would point out that while "My ATI 9000 isn't working" has come up a
> few times on the list re
You'd think that since it's a mirror, it would work fine right?
Apparently not. Last time I tried this stunt, I nearly toasted 45 GB of
data.
Edward
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 23:19, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering can I set up raid when a partition is mounted?
> e.g. hda3 is /home
First question - Can you ping it, or can the debian box access the
network and/or Internet.
For user/groups see commands adduser, and addgroup (you can get the
manual pages for these by typing in man adduser, and man addgroup
at the console).
There's also a couple of tools under GNOME and KDE to
Try chmod 770 /dev/hdc
Other than that, try running it as root. One thing you may find useful
as a side note is the digital CD plugin for XMMS.
apt-get install xmms-cdread
It enables reading of CD's so the digital-analog conversion is done on
the sound card instead of in the CD drive, and transmi
apt-get install mozilla-xft
(ttf-freefont will probably help as well)
Regards
Edward
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 14:46, Oki DZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It is said that Galeon uses Gecko, the Mozilla's rendering system. But
> the Sid's Galeon couldn't display the fonts nicely. Is there anything
> that I sho
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:32, Marc Wilson wrote:
> But as long as there aren't equivalents to Photoshop (and I'm sorry, but
> Gimp ain't it, not while it doesn't do something basic like CYMK), InDesign
> or the equivalent (and TeX ain't it either), Office (yes, OOo may be there
> someday, but it isn
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 07:15, Nathan wrote:
> Sometime in the last few days my OpenGL (or SDL, I'm not sure) has
> stopped working. I use OpenGL primarily for gaming, so not having it
> hasn't killed me. The error message I get when starting up Unreal
> Tournament (and UT 2003) is:
>
> Opening SDL
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 12:13, Gustavo Perro Boksar wrote:
> Hi, I have a Debian Woody (2.4.18-bf2.4) over a Compaq Presario 1267.
> I'm fighting to install my soundcard with no success :(
> I know that the correct module is snd-card-es18xx.o which I downloaded form
> the Internet but all versions
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 12:23, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> > I haven't come across packages that install into /opt. For source
> > packages, I use ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/packagename
> > and have "stow" handle the symlinking to /usr/local/bin, etc.
> >
> >
>
> The OpenOffice.org binary t
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 16:38, Braxton Neate wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> I know this is a question that gets asked a lot, but googling around I
> can't seem to find a good answer.
> I'm re-installing a web/sql server which currently has one large root
> partition and a swap partition.
> This is obviously
> With that in mind, I would divy up your drive as follows
> (the following assumes that the server doesn't have any major mail
> server roles (/var/), that /usr/local/ will be free of anything major,
> that there's no NFS mounting, and that the server will run a database
> that will keep things so
The wavtools package has wavp, which will do what you ask.
It seems to be strangely missing from unstable though. *shrugs*
Edward
http://packages.debian.org/stable/sound/wavtools
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 09:26, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> Back on SuSE, I could play a wav file just by entering "pl
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 04:35, yuvrajspatil wrote:
> Respected Sir/Madam,
>
> On my debain server I am not able to configure
> printer which is installed on a remote windows
> machine.
>
> I am using a debain server - Ver 3.0 for my project.
> It is connected to the windows machine in network.
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 06:48, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> On a stock debian sarge, fresh install, I can enter these two lines into
> fstab:
>
> /dev/sda /mnt/pendrive autodefualts,user,noauto,umask=002 0 0
> /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbdrive auto defualts,user,noauto,umask=002 0 0
>
> I can then
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 10:43, David Baron wrote:
> On Thursday 01 January 2004 21:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > You need to be using a kernel that either has ext3 compiled in
> > or has ext3 module available on its initrd.
> >
> > I'm not aware of a debian kernel 2.4.22-xfs, so I assume that y
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 05:49, Paul Schwartz wrote:
> I just made and installed my first kernel [2.4.18]! and booted too!
> One problem is that the network initialization that used to occur
> [2.4.18-bf24] doesn't.
> The ether net card is recognized but my machine no longer does an
> inquiry to the
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 15:37, Jacob S. wrote:
> Is it just me or is it hard to find a good external hardware modem
> (non-win/linmodem) these days?
>
> I'm looking for one for a friend that's using Linux and not ready to pay
> for broadband yet. He needs a non-pcmcia, preferably external but PCI
>
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 20:07, John Felix wrote:
> Has anyone seen this problem before, any help ?
> on debian sarge 2.4
*snip*
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cd0
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> /dev/sr0, or too many mounted file systems
> and /var/log/messages gives as a re
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 20:25, ^Wei Hong^ wrote:
> Hi i am trying to startx but i keep getting this same error message.
>
> (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device.
> (EE) No devices detected
> Fatal server error
> no screens found
> X conection to :0.o broken (explicit kill or
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 06:15, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote:
> I'm using foomatic (although I have many other print services at my
> disposal if I need them) to install a local and networked printer. The
> local printer is a Canon BJC-2100 and is detected just fine. The only
> problem is when I send
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 09:10, Cecil wrote:
> I am curious as to what the pros and cons would be of picking just one
> desktop and deleting the other. Please tell me which you prefer, and
> resons why. I have bothe kde and gnome now. Thanks,
>
> Cecil
>
It's really a case of how much you want t
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 13:09, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:36:13PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:47:01PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Given this, I'd expect the machines to be fairly similar in speed.
> > >> While I know that gent
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 07:16, Jens Benecke wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I'm starting to wonder how much difference gentoo's optimization actually
> > makes. The labs at uni where I'm writing this from have near identical
>
> > Kernel at labs is 2.4.25 versus 2.6.3 at home. Both use Reis
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 10:48, Mark Roach wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 13:47 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [...]
> > gains, It shouldn't make that much difference. Things like GNOME and
> > Nautilus start somewhere in the order of 10 to 15 times faster than on my
> > machine at home.
>
> gnome
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 19:35, Alexander B. Cheng wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I've just compiled kernel 2.6.3 and have things running pretty well.
> However now when I try to start XMMS I get the following error:
>
> libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
>
> ** W
The mixer will have the 'SB Live Analog/Digital Output Jack'
set to to digital output (UnMuted). Mute it with alsamixer to fix this.
Edward
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 15:56, Paul William wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to get my soundblaster live card to work using alsa. I get
> sound out of the lef
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 12:29, Rolando Abarca wrote:
> I just one to upgrade a few packages fron woody to testing, not all of
> them, for instance, mysqlserver, apache and X...
> What's the easiest way to do this without having to upgrade my entire
> system to testing?
>
> salud! (cheers!)
> funkast
On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 12:23, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote:
>Is there a way i can make my USB Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick work
> in linux? No, right ?
>Thanks
>-- Fred
I have one on my desk, it's worked fine ever since the generic USB
joystick (since that's what it is) drivers g
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 01:02, Marc Hultquist wrote:
> Hey All
>
> I just got hold of a us robotics 56k message modem and am busy trying to
> install it under linux however, I hit
> a huge snag, I cant find a driver for it, and I dont have a origional cd
> from it :\ I tried probing for it but as of
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 02:49, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
>
> > There's a logic3 5.1 surround sound USB sound card going on eBay,
> > which looks like exactly what I was after:
> > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2785283904&category=3701&sspagename=STR
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