Why isn't MPlayer in Debian?

2004-12-23 Thread James Foster
able under a free license, why wouldn't it be in non-free? Not that it causes any major problems for me that MPlayer isn't in Debian, but I'm asking out of curiousity. I don't see why it shouldn't be in Debian, so by asking this, I'm about to learn something more abo

Re: Copy protected CD's

2005-06-20 Thread James Foster
> So will the gov be banning felt markers under the terms of the DMCA then? :D No, as the primary (most common) use of a marker is not circumventing copy protection. I don't think the DMCA is a good set of laws, but so many people seem to think it covers things that it doesn't, such as this.

Re: Will Debian grow and stay?

2004-11-15 Thread James Foster
> 1. The volunteers decided that there should be some financial reward for > their work. They could accept an offer by a well established enterprise to > 'buy' over their work or they could collectively decide to form a > corporation. This can't happen on most packages (the exception is "non-free

Re: apt-get install problem

2004-06-29 Thread James Foster
very experienced, though, so there may be an easier way that I do not know of. One alternative is GAIM, which is available from 'stable' apt sources. It has a plugin that will let you connect to MSN. Good luck, James Foster On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 22:49:22 -0700 (PDT), Umar Draz <[EMAIL

Re: Trick to burning a bootable Debian CD?

2004-07-15 Thread James Foster
Are you just looking for a way to check that the disc is 100% correct, or are you actually having problems booting off the burned disc? If it is the latter, you most likely burned it as track-at-once rather than disc-at-once. Which CD burning program are you using? On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 01:26:40 -0

Re: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged?

2004-07-27 Thread James Foster
> The log will be _enormous_ and I mean __enormous__ It seems to me that the log won't necessarily be very large. It really depends on how the connection is being used, doesn't it? An hours worth of log from a dialup connection couldn't be very large, for example. Of course, on a broadband conne

Re: Kernel Panic while booting from 2.6.3

2004-06-25 Thread James Foster
Try turning off the CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED option, if you happen to have that on. On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 02:39:53 -0700 (PDT), Ajitabh Pandey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently compiled 2.6.3 kernel. When I try to boot > from it, after lots of messages, I get the following > mess

Diagnosing faulty hardware

2004-09-14 Thread James Foster
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A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread James Foster
e=9797 Thanks, James Foster

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread James Foster
On 11/3/05, Mitch Wiedemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Foster wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I'm using the latest mozilla-firefox (1.0.4-2sarge5) on Debian Sarge, > >and whenever I attempt to visit a particular page, I'm finding that it > >

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-02 Thread James Foster
On 11/3/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Copying & pasting the source of that page into the W3C validator results > in 188 violations of HTML 4.0 Transitional coding. > > I suspect that if web sites would just LEARN TO CODE TO STANDARDS!! > (sorry, lost my head there for a moment), we wou

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-03 Thread James Foster
Thanks for the responses. I looked into submitting this as a bug, but came across a couple of bugs that appear to have the exact same effect, but on different pages. Bug #335708 cites the following URL as producing the same behaviour: http://www.suomenpankki.fi/fin/1_suomen_pankki/1.1_tiedotteet/1