Re: iceweasel

> Another good one is noscript,http://noscript.net/ > > After a while browsing you get to teach it which scripts to allow and > deny. It is surprising how many times google-analytics.com comes up! I learnt through this list to browse using privoxy and noscript. I totally agree with you, and it fee

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The laptop is XPS M1330. It's been configured with the > hibernate/suspend, wireless networking, cpu frequency scaling, >webcam, > and some other features working out of the box. I haven't tried the > fingerprint reader yet. I don't really want to spend time break

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

On May 12, 3:40 pm, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most > apps, very little screen estate is left for the actual stuff and most of > it is eaten up by the menubars, toolbars, and othe gui elements. I have > my gnome p

Re: Anti-gaming Behaviour of Keyboard Driver

On May 19, 12:40 pm, "Dmitryi & Elf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually the problem is more straightforward. Quake locks key input when > [Control] is pressed. That key is bound to fire, so until the fire action > is released, the game won't recognise any new keypresses. Looks like > scancodes g

OT: laptop keyboard broken

I was in the vecinity of Saturn when suddenly Celestia crashed (not that surprising). Some futile attempts of raising elephants didn't help so I hard rebooted. To my consternation my keyboard wasn't working anymore. Damn Small Linux showed me that the touchpad was still alive, but the keyboard...It

Sensible way to install packages from testing & unstable?

Hello I want to install the ntfs-3g driver, which I don't find in the Etch repositories. I read that I can add the "testing" and "unstable" distributions to my sources.list, make "stable" as the default in apt.conf and go for it. Is this perfectly all right or should I do something else? I remembe

Re: Building Okular without KDE 4

On Oct 17, 12:40 pm, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't use KDE 4 either. apt-get update + apt-get install okular offers > to install/upgrade 57 libraries and install okular. 113MB. That takes me > about 5 hours. If you have broadband takes you 5 minutes. > > Why don't you just d

Re: Building Okular without KDE 4

On Oct 17, 4:10 pm, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JoseC.Rodriguez writes: > > ...everytime the package and libraries get updated it'll have to be > > downloaded again and again (if you're on Sid). > > Why do you think you have to constantly update everything just because you > are runnin

kpdf disable font smoothing

Hi Is it possible to disable font smoothing/antialias in Kpdf? How? Thanks Jose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

how to maintain DRI packages built from git

Hi I built DRI from source since I needed some very recent fix. I don't know how long it takes for new code to reach debian unstable/testing repositories, which are the ones I'm using. The installation is as simple as copying the compiled libraries to the relevant places, so I couldn't (or figured

Re: wpa, passphrase, and keys

Jesus Arocho wrote: > > On Thursday 22 November 2007 11:04, Michael Pobega wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 08:01:11AM -0500, Jesus Arocho wrote: >>> I was trying to install wpa on a Dell inspiron 6000 and connect to a >>> Linksys WRT55AG and am now confused. I first updated the firmware on the >

Something accessing hard drive

Hi I have set my hard drive to standby after a given time through laptop- mode. The hd actually passes to standby mode but only for half a second or so after which it spins up again. If I issue hdparm -y /dev/ hda the same behaviour is observed. I checked the logs inmediatly after this happens bu

Re: Something accessing hard drive

On 2 Dec, 02:30, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 03:24:02AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have set myharddriveto standby after a given time through laptop- > > mode. The hd actually passes to standby mode but only for half a > > second or so after whi

Re: FLOSS VOIP Client Software

> I am trying to look for a decent FLOSS VOIP software that allows me to > communicate to Windows/Mac users. Skype is out of the question since it does > not even support Debian PPC (which I have). > > I have heard of Ekiga. How is that? Hi, Amit I too want to find a definite solution for this.