Re: dumb question about multi-core processors...

2007-02-17 Thread Michael M.
at, with 64-bit processors due within a few months, and Linux being the only OS that was ready, this would be a huge boon for Linux adoption by the masses, who would leave Windows behind in droves because it couldn't take advantage of the extra processing power. Yeah right. -- Michael M. ++

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-18 Thread Michael M.
hey upgrade their equipment, and individuals do as well. Free Geek also does other Linux-promoting stuff like offering cert courses, and it hosts our [2] local user group's monthly Linux clinic. IMO, it's a shame there aren't more organizations like Free Geek around. [1] http://freeg

Re: The success of an Etch

2007-02-18 Thread Michael M.
A.2.5. Booting from hard disc) -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jackson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-21 Thread Michael M.
etc. I'd use the side for comments and corrections and the > back for flow charts and such. And here I thought the whole point of computerizing was to save the trees. My illusions are shattered! So much for the mythical "paperless office." -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-21 Thread Michael M.
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 17:48 -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:47:06 -0800 > "Michael M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > FreeBSD uses UFS (or UFS+ or UFS2, something like that) by default and > > unfortunately there is no

Re: Command Line (was Re: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-22 Thread Michael M.
If you are going to provide a "Preferences" menu and an item there called "Preferred Applications" that purports to allow the user to select a default browser, then it ought to work. Otherwise, don't bother. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-23 Thread Michael M.
is a great place to start. If you just want to pick and choose the core components then feel free to remove this package. . Homepage: http://www.xfce.org/ Tag: admin::configuring, role::program, scope::utility, suite::xfce, uitoolkit::gtk, use::configuring, x11::application Task: xfce-deskto

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-23 Thread Michael M.
the -l option just lists some information about the package, but unless I'm missing something, it doesn't actually indicate whether you have the package installed on your system. >From the man page: dpkg -l | --list package-name-pattern ... List packages matching given pattern. dpkg -

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-23 Thread Michael M.
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 06:51 -0800, Michael M. wrote: > On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 14:35 +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > Le jeudi 8 février 2007 23:56, Mathias Brodala a écrit : > > > Hello Nelson. > > > > > > Nelson Castillo, 08.02.2007 23:52: > > > >&g

Re: how to add kde applets on gnome desktop

2007-02-23 Thread Michael M.
"+Add to Panel..." If you select that option, a pop-up appears with a list of applets you can add (things like Deskbar, Disk Mounter, Force Quit, Workspace Switcher, etc.). His KDE applet does not appear in that list, so the question is, how does he add it? Applets, as a rule, don'

Re: cdrdao question

2006-05-18 Thread M-L
On Friday 19 May 2006 09:39, Jude DaShiell wrote this for perusal by us all: >---> The examples in the man page don't appear to cover this job unless I'm >---> reading something and it's just flying by.  How could cdrdao be used to >---> burn an already existing iso image to a cdr disk?  cdrecord i

Re: switching from apt-get to aptitude

2006-05-19 Thread Michael M.
"aptitude show kde" in Sid shows that the "x-window-system-core" package is a suggests, not a recommends or a depends. Also, in Sid, the new X server metapackage "xorg" does not install any WM, not even twm. The package description states "It should be

Re: mixing aptitude and synaptic

2006-05-22 Thread M-L
On Monday 22 May 2006 17:39, Chris Lale wrote this for perusal by us all: >---> Black Dew wrote: >---> >---> > kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >---> > >---> >> Is it OK to mix aptitude and synaptic? I know that it is not good to >---> >> mix apt-get and aptitude. But what about using synaptic sometimes

Re: T-bird outgoing filters?

2006-05-30 Thread Michael M.
you want it resorted. Not fully automatic, but not exactly a major inconvenience if you really find it useful to have your mail sorted that way. Or, you know, just use Gmail. :-) -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-05-30 Thread Michael M.
Iran. Americans are only Pirates... Hmmm they should be stoped! Greetings Michelle Konzack Michelle, do you have to try hard to be so offensive, or does it just come naturally? -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under con

Re: Quad Monitor nVidia on Etch -- UNSTABLE

2006-06-05 Thread M Laks
On Thursday 01 June 2006 13:50, James Wiggs wrote: > Folks, > >I am trying to get a quad-monitor system running using the PNY > Quadro NVS 440 PCI Express x16 video card. Here are the system > specs: > > Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI > P/S: Aspire ATX-AS520W Blue 520 Watt > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64

Re: Debian stable & SATA drive

2006-06-10 Thread Michael M.
y releasing Sarge. See Ian Murdock's blog post of May 08: http://ianmurdock.com/?p=329 -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream."

Re: Debian stable & SATA drive

2006-06-20 Thread Michael M.
Owen Heisler wrote: On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 14:19 -0700, Michael M. wrote: Owen Heisler wrote: This doesn't really answer my question; maybe you misunderstood (didn't understand my babbling). I just want to know how long it will be (date/release/revision) until Debian stable

Re: Replying to list

2006-06-21 Thread Michael M.
es => Advanced => Offline & Disk Space No more manual steps! -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jackson -- To UNSUBS

Re: X Windows not installed

2006-06-25 Thread Michael M.
(the two packages conflict) because whatever documentation I'd read said you need 'discover' if you want auto-detection. I never saw anything about 'discover1.' But I kinda figured the system knew best what it needed ... at least, I hoped so. It seems to me a simple

Re: Two versions

2006-06-25 Thread Michael M.
quot;? When I installed Etch, the Grub menu list entry it created for itself makes no mention of "Etch" -- just "Debian GNU/Linux" and the specific kernel appear in the title. Of course you can easily change that. I'm just not sure if the installer will identify t

Re: force stable package if avail

2006-06-30 Thread Michael M.
ckage from testing or unstable. For example: Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 90 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 80 It's not, strictly speaking, necessary, but it might prevent an oopsie. -- Michael M. +

Re: impressed with etch

2006-07-04 Thread Michael M.
tive wallpaper. Bring back the red spiral logo! ??? The spiral is the default wallpaper in Gnome. It's debian-background.svg. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katyd

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-07-13 Thread M-L
On Friday 14 July 2006 03:47, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote this for perusal by us all: >--> Sean Perry on Thursday 13 Jul 2006 01:37 wrote: >--> >--> > That said, most laptop batteries degrade performance significantly if >--> > left plugged into the mains 24/7. So only plug in for refills. >--> >--> T

Re: Monitoring Net Traffic From the Console or Another Comptuer

2008-06-20 Thread M. Piscaer
Hal Vaughan schreef: I have a workstation and several other computers on my LAN, all running Linux -- either Debian or Ubuntu (Kubuntu for the workstation, Sarge on the rest -- please don't start on the version, I'll be updating it in my copious amounts of free time one year). I am connecting

Any backport of iceweasel 3.0 for etch?

2008-06-22 Thread Josep M.
Hello. If someone knows any backport of iceweasel 3.0 for etch, please post here the repository. Thanks Josep -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bandwidth tool

2008-07-07 Thread M. Piscaer
Mag Gam schreef: Is there a tool to measure network traffic? I am using ifstat but its reporting wrong statistics. I am trying to get something similar to eth0 , 16Mb/sec eth1, 10Mb/sec etc.. I need something simple :-) TIA I use nload. It gives you an grafic of the past half minute. Reg

network traffic scheduling

2008-07-08 Thread Jayakrishnan M
Hi, I was playing around with the LARTC stuff for sometime. Main goal is to see if we can send bursts of packets at regular intervals. I have a gigabit ethernet card and I am trying to send a burst of packets at a specified interval. I tried many combinations of the queueing disciplines and classe

Re:SOLVED network traffic scheduling

2008-07-10 Thread Jayakrishnan M
, 2008 at 02:52:25PM +0530, Jayakrishnan M wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was playing around with the LARTC stuff for sometime. Main goal is >> to see if we can send bursts of packets at regular intervals. >> I have a gigabit ethernet card and I am trying to send a burst of &

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2008-07-29 Thread M . Piscaer
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Re: your mail

2008-07-30 Thread M. Piscaer
M. Piscaer schreef: Hi, I have problems sending emails to this list. I tryed it several times but they dont reach the destination. Regards, M. Piscaer -- Digidiensten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +31 77 7501700 Fax: +31 77 7501701 Hi, First of all, thank you for giving an good reaction. In

Re: Network Bandwidth Monitoring

2008-07-30 Thread M. Piscaer
s the case you can use that to monitor your users. Regards, M. Piscaer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +31 77 7501700 Fax: +31 77 7501701 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network Bandwidth Monitoring

2008-07-30 Thread M. Piscaer
s the case you can use that to monitor your users. Regards, M. Piscaer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Very slow install

2008-08-21 Thread Jayakrishnan M
Hi, I am not sure what the issue might be (hard to guess with no much info on your setup). Just noting down something that came to my mind: I had seen one person facing similar issue (on an AMD64 machine). He had to disable USB devices in BIOS to get his installation working. Wierd, but that is wh

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2006-07-19 Thread Tandiono M
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kmail won't send attachments.

2006-07-24 Thread M-L
Using Kmail in Sarge and it won't send attachments, only text mail. Deleted ~/.kde and ~/.kderc from the home directory and reconfigured kde, but didn't make any difference. Got Kmail from backports but that didn't change the behaviour. Googled and found a reference to a bug filed back in 1998,

Re: Laptop freeze after 'end current session' or 'shutdown'

2006-07-30 Thread M-L
On Sunday 30 July 2006 14:25, Bruno Costacurta shared this with us all: >--> Hello, >--> >--> my laptop often freeze after end 'current session' >--> or 'shutdown' operations. I'm using etch on an Acer Aspire 9100. >--> >--> Difficult to give more details as nothing is displayed but computer >--> i

serverauth files - Never before seen..

2006-08-05 Thread M-L
Using Debian Etch on an Acer 3614 WLCI lappy In my /home directory these files are created:- .serverauth.3861 .serverauth.3862 .serverauth.3863 etc., etc., What process creates them, and why? Though the answer might be the one, and why do they keep building up in number and never being deleted

Re: /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrw both point to the writer

2006-08-08 Thread M-L
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 08:58, H.S. shared this with us all: >--> Whenever I reboot my Debian Etch, running 2.6.15 or 2.6.16, both >--> /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrw links point to the same device /dev/hdd which >--> is a CD writer. The CD reader drive, /dev/hdc, is apparently not >--> detected to h

Re: cups newbie

2006-08-10 Thread M-L
er just hangs with the message "Waiting for localhost...". >--> >--> I have try the hard way, without the webadmin interface, but without >--> any luck. Anything I do ends up with errors. For example thinks like >--> "lpadmin -p printer -E -v device -m ppd" gi

Re: How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500

2006-08-15 Thread M-L
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 16:41, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: > > José Alburquerque wrote: > >> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >>> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Is there a utility to check ink levels on HP Deskjet series > printers? I looked

Re: How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500

2006-08-15 Thread M-L
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 16:41, Marc Shapiro shared this with us all: >--> Marc Shapiro wrote: >--> >--> > José Alburquerque wrote: >--> > >--> >> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >--> >> >--> >>> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: >--> >>> >--> >>> >--> Is there a util

Re: How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500

2006-08-15 Thread M-L
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 03:11, José Alburquerque shared this with us all: >--> M-L wrote: >--> >--> >On Tuesday 15 August 2006 16:41, Marc Shapiro wrote: >--> > >--> > >--> >>This tells me where the printer is, but I still do not know how t

Why are sarge-ISO's not signed with the ftpmaster-key???

2006-08-21 Thread m . shukov
My question is, why sarge-ISO's are not signed with the ftpmaster-key. I want to download a Sarge DVD and verify the Signature of the MD5SUM-File to see if it's not manipulated an I can check the md5-Sums with it later. gpg tells me, that the signature can not be verified, because I don't have the

Re: Scanner rights messed up: please help!

2006-08-24 Thread M-L
On Thursday 24 August 2006 19:10, Christof Hurschler shared this with us all: >--> No one responded to my last post, so I'll try it again. A previously > working scanner is no longer accessible for the group "scanner". It works > under root. Something seems to have changed in a recent dist-upgra

Dial-up modem terminal........

2006-08-31 Thread M-L
Using pon to dial my external Maestro Woomera modem, I don't know how to bring up a terminal to talk to it in Debian etch. When using KPPP I could get into a modem terminal window. With pon, I have no idea. I need this so that my phone line can be checked, apparently. Thanks in advance, Charli

Re: Dial-up modem terminal........

2006-08-31 Thread M-L
On Friday 01 September 2006 11:11, M-L shared this with us all: >--> Using pon to dial my external Maestro Woomera modem, I don't know how to > bring --> up a terminal to talk to it in Debian etch. >--> >--> When using KPPP I could get into a modem terminal window. W

Quanta Plus have become unwieldy.....

2006-09-03 Thread M-L
I use Quanta Plus with Debian Etch and of late it has become very slow. It uses 96% of the CPU with every keystroke, and each keystroke uses this much CPU for several seconds. Making the program impossible to use. I was wondering if anyone else finds this problem and if so, may have discovered

Re: Quanta Plus have become unwieldy.....

2006-09-03 Thread M-L
On Sunday 03 September 2006 19:16, Thierry Chatelet shared this with us all: >--> M-L wrote: >--> > I use Quanta Plus with Debian Etch and of late it has become very > slow. --> > >--> > It uses 96% of the CPU with every keystroke, and each keystroke uses > thi

Kmail new account created - keeps asking password

2006-09-12 Thread M-L
I had occasion to create an extra, new account in Kmail, and at every boot, or every time that Kmail is shut down, then restarted, it asks me for the password of that new account. I am using Kwallet, and that might be the problem. Has anyone any idea where I might find a fix for this? I have ne

Re: Linux Will Get Buried (Off)

2006-09-14 Thread M-L
On Friday 15 September 2006 07:03, Derek shared this with us all: >--> I dont see how anything apple puts out can bury linux.Ive been using OS > X --> since 10.1 came out,its really nothing special.I much prefer my Linux > box. --> Support OS X as well as Linux? Sounds fair. -- Registered Linux

Vmware 6.0.3 and usb drivers

2008-04-06 Thread Josep M.
Hello. I installed vmware workstation 6.0.3 in a etch host and complains me every time about that i must upgrade the usb drivers of my etch for have good performance abd stability, and with my 4gb usb pen drive is giving me a lot of problems if i use usb2, i had to put some parameters in the .vmx

Spamassassin don' t find perl

2008-05-08 Thread Josep M.
Hello. I have installed spamassassin from www.backports.org and runs well, but when I want stop this gives me a message error that perl is not found. I have all ok in my system, and perl is in the right place, what can I do here? Here is all details debianet:/etc/postfix/system/backup# /etc/ini

SASL AUTH problem

2008-05-16 Thread Josep M.
" but "passwordgoodX" is accepted too! Butfor example "passwoCCrdgood" is NOT accepted debianet:/home/krasher# cat /etc/default/saslauthd START=yes MECHANISMS="pam" MECH_OPTIONS="" THREADS=5 OPTIONS="-c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run

Re: SASL AUTH problem

2008-05-18 Thread Josep M.
e first 8 > characters... > > Till > > Josep M. wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I try the following: > > > > testsaslauthd -f /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux -u test -p > > passwordgood (pass OK) This is OK > > testsaslauthd -f /var/sp

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-30 Thread Michael M.
at just means another long freeze down the road. All the more reason to look about for an acceptable alternative, if there's one out there. Sid is too unstable and fast-moving for me. I tried it for a while before I settled on Etch. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live or

Re: Which OS? Was "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-31 Thread Michael M.
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 09:51 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 05:41:45AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > > > What has made Debian a great fit for me over the past months is its > > beefed up efforts to make testing a more viable option for users (f

Re: Which OS? Was "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-31 Thread Michael M.
7;t aim for that. But it looks like Sidux uses KDE. Would it work just as well with Gnome, or are some Sidux alterations so KDE-oriented that there'd be no point to using the distro if you weren't a KDE user? (I'm not.) [1] http://sidux.com/index.php?module=pnWikka&tag=whysidux

Re: Which OS? Was "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-31 Thread Michael M.
ol characters. ^G^L Anyone who reads Slashdot even semi-regularly has seen it often enough. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S

Re: Which OS? Was "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-31 Thread Michael M.
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 22:57 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > "Michael M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I knew, for example, that for up to six months out of every two > > years, testing will be frozen, I could live with that. If that were > > Please

Re: Debian User List

2007-03-31 Thread M-L
On Sunday 01 April 2007 07:34, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi sent this for all our perusal: >---} David Baron wrote: >---} >---} > Most recently, how much of the heavy traffic on this list has had > anything ---} > to do with Debian? With Linux? With computers? >---} > >---} > The price of bread, love or

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-04-01 Thread Michael M.
, most of the time, too old for the hardware they were selling. Furthermore, they don't have to move up to the latest release every six months -- Ubuntu supports its regular releases for 18 months, its LTS release for five years. An OEM could easily upgrade the distro they offer once a yea

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-03 Thread Michael M.
ion off testing. IMO, it would fill a gap and be a good alternative for those of us for whom Ubuntu, Sidux, etc., are too bleeding-edge and bug-prone but get frustrated by the long periods of stagnation in Debian testing. I'd be happy enough if there was backports.org-type project for testin

Re: GPL v3?

2007-04-04 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 10:36:28 AM -0400, Greg Folkert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am both for and against the GPLv3. I am all for updating it, but > the wording and additional restrictions are appalling, none the > least the motivations for updating it, and now the attitude RMS has > against any

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Michael M.
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, > RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can c

Re: dns cambia sempre

2007-04-05 Thread M. Fioretti
(suggesting the OP where to find an Italian support group) On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 11:27:14 AM +0200, Armando Sambäk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ho installato debian etch (sono newbie) il browser parte solo, se > cambia (sempre- dopo cca 10 minuti) il dns, il nummero mio non > rimane, qualcuno mi p

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-07 Thread Michael M.
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 07:29 -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, > > > RedHat

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-08 Thread Michael M.
many of these types of apps won't work well (or at all) in that environment. Just something else to consider. [1] http://xwinman.org/ [2] http://tronche.com/gui/x/icccm/ [3] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications [4] http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie -- Michael M. ++ Por

Re: Youtube on non X86 platforms.

2007-04-10 Thread Michael M.
I can't do anything like this on Galeon, > but I guess I could keep Iceweasel around for YouTube. > > Now I can watch YouTube AND keep Adobe's flash player off my system! :D Maybe you could give the bookmarklet version of the script a try? I haven't tried it myself (I

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-14 Thread Michael M.
und, you might find something you like better than GBookmarks. As for the privacy concerns, I have pretty much put my faith in Google. Google knows all about me. Google is Borg. I have been assimilated. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist

Re: my experiences trying to install Etch

2007-04-19 Thread M-L
On Friday 20 April 2007 13:00, D. Hugh Redelmeier sent this for all our perusal: >---} I was trying to install the Debian for the first time and ran into > several ---} issues. >---} >---} I would send this to installlation-reports but I seem to need a >---} running Debian system for that. >---} >

Re: Exim4 EHLO/STARTTLS/AUTH and buggy client

2007-04-22 Thread Michael M.
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 13:11 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > To be honest, this is an exact kind of message for the Exim Mailing > list... only *DO NOT* tell them you are using DEBIAN. You will be shot > on sight. Why? What's the issue the Exim folk have with Debian? -- Michael

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-25 Thread Michael M.
me I'm not looking at the desktop. I tend to run most apps full-screen and find it a hassle to minimize everything to check some info on the desktop. And I don't like leaving space for things like gkrellm or gdesklets; doesn't strike me as an effective use of screen real estate. Th

Re: [OT] Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Michael M.
ust pointing out the way it is on my system. Here in Oregon, if it's December 4th, it's probably raining. OTOH, if it's April 12th ... ... it's probably raining. I'm not seeing the difference! :-) -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism c

Re: edit the subject line of a thread?

2007-04-26 Thread Michael M.
hread breaking in Gmail and Kmail, I am not sure > of other frontends, like those who read the list from a news reader > Knode (using gmane's servers). > I am sure people might agree/disagree but I think it is worthwhile to > argue. Let your opinions flow Editing the s

Re: GRUB launch a CD?

2007-04-28 Thread M-L
On Saturday 28 April 2007 22:49, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with us all: >--} On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:28:02AM +, David Dawson wrote: >--} > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >--} > >--} > sbm (smart boot manager) >--} > It comes on the Debian install disk as a floppy image which you dd to > a --

Re: GRUB launch a CD?

2007-04-28 Thread M-L
On Sunday 29 April 2007 09:38, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with us all: >--} On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:56:22AM +1000, M-L wrote: >--} > On Saturday 28 April 2007 22:49, Douglas Allan Tutty shared this with > us all: --} > >--} On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 06:28:02AM +, Da

Re: edit the subject line of a thread?

2007-04-29 Thread Michael M.
ct line, check if the In-Reply-To header is removed, or > > whether it is threaded in a proper way with whichever MUA you use at > > your end.. > > I wonder if this is something that Google knows is wrong with GMail or not? Well GMail *is* in beta, after all! :-) -- Micha

Re: Etch 32-bit system w/ AMD64 proc.

2007-04-29 Thread Michael M.
installed the -486 image. Some time ago I switched to the -k7 image, then to the -amd64. All have worked without issue. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are suppos

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-29 Thread Michael M.
ike to run in a borderless, (pseudo-)transparent gnome-termimal; some things in an xterm; some things in a regular gnome-terminal (default profile; i.e., what starts when I just click on the terminal icon on my panel or select "Terminal" from the Gnome Applications menu). You have to s

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-30 Thread Michael M.
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:28 +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > Michael M. wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 18:13 +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > >> Amy Templeton wrote: > >>> somethin2cool wrote: > >>>> Well, If I type "lynx" into I expect >

Re: For KDE: Re: how to hide the mouse pointer

2007-05-04 Thread M-L
On Friday 04 May 2007 19:18, Johannes Wiedersich shared this with us all: >--} The following works fine for KDE: >--} >--} 11:16:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ more .kde/Autostart/unclutter >--} #!/bin/bash >--} /usr/bin/unclutter >--} >--} $ chmod u+x .kde/Autostart/unclutter >--} >--} HTH someone ;-D >--}

Re: what's with epiphany?

2007-05-04 Thread Michael M.
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 07:02 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-05 at 22:50 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > Man, I'm getting a bit annoyed with Epiphany. Very frequently, when I > > visit http://www.thestar.com, and click a news link, it crashes. What > > is up with that? After the init

Re: (solved)Re: why these files can't be displayed properly by gv

2007-05-07 Thread Michael M.
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 08:09 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Figuring out how to do things is one of the best ways to learn. Not > reading a dry book. > > Although, books and other documentation are quite valuable nothing beats > "getting your hands dirty". > > > > > --- Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, May 08, 2007 15:49:54 PM -0400, Amy Templeton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey all, > > Can anybody recommend a *really, really convincing* source of > information I can give people/my college that will aid in deterring > them from trying to force people to use MS-Office files (by sendin

Re: [OT] SWF to MP4 converter

2007-05-09 Thread Michael M.
rt in one go, but since I really only convert maybe 10% (if that), I haven't bothered. -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jac

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-09 Thread Michael M.
and conquer". Well the party in power certainly makes a difference on some issues. There have been some significant changes here in my state since the Dems took control of the legislature. Just don't expect party change to work miracles, in and of itself. -- Michael M. ++ Portland,

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-15 Thread Michael M.
ion of personal sacrifice while nonetheless condemning the practice of animal sacrifice. The religious types can sort out what's moral or immoral; personally, I think animal sacrifice is distasteful, disrespectful, and just one of many unappealing aspects of the Christian bible. -- Michael M. ++ Po

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-17 Thread Michael M.
ing Virginia's anti-miscegenation law, which the Supreme Court overturned.) -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jackson -

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-18 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, May 18, 2007 16:41:49 PM -0400, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Frans, Cord, Martin, Pascal, > > I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become > nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to > read our user lists) due to volume and offensiven

Re: (OT) Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 01:50:10 AM -0500, Gnu_Raiz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ROFL Those are some true words short and sweet and to the point! > Nice! I consider this like the newspaper how many people read the > whole paper cover to cover? One main difference is that the real cost of the newspap

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 10:28:19 AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I guess the question is where to draw and then who draws that line. Roberto, please don't try to go all philosophical on us acting and pontificating as if you didn't understand what and who Joey was talking a

Re: (OT) Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 11:18:22 AM -0500, Gnu_Raiz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What it comes down to pretty much is some people want a moderated > debian-user list! The only choice left is to see if you can > change, the list type to moderated, or add more to the code of > conduct. I don't kno

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-19 Thread Michael M.
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 20:21 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 04:25:26PM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > > > > Given the current status of gay marriage in the U.S., we plainly do not > > have an unambiguous right to the pursuit of happiness -- not w

Re: (OT) Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 14:34:50 PM -0400, Greg Folkert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > That changes many thing. First off BANNING is not the answer. It > will be seen a a "bad thing" by the blogosphere and some journalists > that see only bad things. You mean more bad than "the main support forum of o

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 15:12:51 PM -0400, Hal Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Not true. For example, I'm having trouble with Firefox >crashing Asking here could help a great deal with that. Of course. But rambling for months about religion or internal USA politics has nothing to do with i

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 17:19:31 PM -0400, Miles Fidelman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > M. Fioretti wrote: > >No, sorry, the problem is a concrete, objective one: > > > >* everybody with any metered connection _pays_ real money every time > > these characters rerun the

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 17:33:41 PM -0400, Hal Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Saturday 19 May 2007, M. Fioretti wrote: > > * everybody with any metered connection _pays_ real money every > > time these characters rerun their show > > How do I pay real money? It doe

Re: OT: Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, May 19, 2007 17:55:34 PM -0400, Miles Fidelman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Please avoid this kind of technical suggestions in this thread: > > > >* it is still the same unacceptable "since you can buy ear plugs, I > > can yell whenever I want" attitude. See my previous messages > > >

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sun, May 20, 2007 22:15:34 PM +0300, Andrei Popescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > If the volume of messages in an off-topic thread is large enough that > > an entire separate list is being considered, the off-topic diversion > > is

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