m.
The optical drive on the computer, is a CD drive; it is an HP Vectra
server, at least 10 years old.
Thank you in anticipation.
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
How do you use the CD rom for installing the packages through Dselect. In
the screen to select the device to be used, it asks for the block id. What
is that?
Bret Craw
Maintenance Renewal
I need to alter anything by hand, please
tell me how to do that. I really don't know what I am doing.
Bret Craw
Maintenance Renewal
am a fish out of water without one. Just let me know what I type to get
the editor going and how to bring up the file I want to configure.
Thanks,
Bret Craw
free
internet access that depends on a advertising bar that is a Windows program.
Unless someone knows how to adjust this for Linux.
Bret Craw
Maintenance Renewal
bored. Where do I go to alter the characteristics of the pop up menu for
the WMs?
Bret Craw
Maintenance Renewal
y the file, extracting the file to Linux, but nothing seems to work.
Is there a program that may make it easier? Also, I am extremely new to
Linux, and am more comfortable in XWindows.
Bret Craw
Maintenance Renewal
as been dragging people into Emacs since the dark ages
I highly recommend Xemacs for the unwashed.
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System Administrator | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Would appreciate a direct to a list of devices which are conmpatible
with Debian. My particular interest at the moment is 3Com 509 vs 905
cards.
thanks for the info,
Bret
ant to search for a dutch
seamonkey mailing list.
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ir setup and/or *actually* unsubscribe
instead of just thinking they have unsubbed.
I believe that the solution is simple, and, what the list
administrator(s) of the Debian User list will not do; simply disallow
messages posted to the list, from non-subscribers.
It is simple, will minimise spur
ated, in fact, in 70s. Is that new to you?
Interesting, given that The Internet did not exist in the 1970's...
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On 11/10/21 3:19 am, Bret Busby wrote:
On 11/10/21 3:05 am, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
piorunz wrote on 10/10/2021 at 19:45:12+0200:
On 10/10/2021 17:13, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
Hi Piotr,
No - it's a nuisance. In this instance, it's an isolated nuisance -
one VPS host in OVH
h, is
simply divisive, and, apart from being divisive, can cause issues to be
raised separately, with the same solutions sought, and, needing to be
provided, in each applicable medium, leading to much (the multiple sense
of the word) duplication.
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f your business having
its own assets. On the face of it, it seems comparable to embezzlement.
I also wonder how Leibniz is relevant to this scenario - my
understanding is that Leibniz is a symbol structure used in differential
calculus as an alternative to Newtonian differential calculus symbo
Cindy :)
Have you viewed Simple Screen Recorder?
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something else?
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, it appears to be a problem not
limited to Debian installations of firefox.
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x27;t like it, so went with LXDE.
Had you tried MATE?
I have been using MATE since the gnomes abandoned the users and imposed
gnome3.
I have MATE configured so that the interface is like (I believe) gnome
2 or MS Win95 or fvwm (as it was back in about 1993).
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West
of the uppercase characters, in
the "DID" that you did post, is questionable).
Of more concern, and, something for you to consider, in considering your
grammar, is the "should of been" in your "corrective" post, which
instead, should have been "should have been"...
:)
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es
that indicate what websites are responsible for Internet traffic; if I
notice sustained downloading of over half a megabyte per second, all
that I can do, is turn off the networking, for a couple of hours, and,
check to see whether it resumes the unsolicited traffic.
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Bret Busby
Armad
provision for customisation.
I also find Vivaldi to be quite slow, in comparison to firefox.
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On 9/5/21 5:36 am, Weaver wrote:
On 09-05-2021 07:03, Bret Busby wrote:
On 9/5/21 4:05 am, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sat, 08 May 2021 11:13:34 +0200
deloptes wrote:
Fujitsu ESPRIMO Q520 when opening some sh*tty web sitesin firefox the
fan gets extremly noisy.
I have a similar problem with
hanks.
--
Ottavio Caruso
Did you search for a thunderbird mailing list, before saying that none
exist?
https://groups.io/g/ThunderbirdEmail
https://groups.io/g/thunderbird
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ps://wiki.debian.org/Seamonkey
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uitously choose the more difficult path, that is your prerogative.
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dashboard for each of the closest three weather
stations, and select the one that seems most appropriate.. Also, looking
at the weather forecast options available, for the particular weather
station, is interesting; forecast for the next ten days, or, for each
hour of the current or next day.
ion, insofar as I am aware.
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On 31/5/21 4:24 am, Bret Busby wrote:
On 31/5/21 2:29 am, fxkl47BF wrote:
for a few decades i have used pine/alpine.
i'm considering a new mail application.
there are more out there than you can shake a stick at.
what are your thoughts of thunderbird.
I use thunderbird for skimming th
sages from developers, with no
support component for users.
Just an observation.
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..
nd, that also applies, if provision for coloured text is commented out,
in the .bashrc file.
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On 23/6/21 1:42 am, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 12:27:17AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
And, that also applies, if provision for coloured text is commented out, in
the .bashrc file.
There's nothing in .bashrc which controls the terminal's interpretation
of color escape
On 23/6/21 2:39 am, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 02:27:04AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
On 23/6/21 1:42 am, Greg Wooledge wrote:
There's nothing in .bashrc which controls the terminal's interpretation
of color escape sequences. Or in bash, anywhere.
Excerpt from .b
on dragonflyBSD
(if not the other BSD distributions, also).
So, I wonder about the worthwhileness (?) of setting up a new MATE users
mailing list.
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Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..
On 27/6/21 5:07 am, Bret Busby wrote:
On 27/6/21 4:30 am, Richard Owlett wrote:
Can icons placed on desktop be in a regular geometric pattern.
I think it tries to do that. But over the years I've had differing
monitor geometries. Does operator have any control over where next
icon is p
Connection security" and "Authentication method"?
You might be interested in subscribing to, and, posting your query (and
other applicable queries) to, the two Thunderbird users mailing lists at
groups.io .
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West Australia
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..
cument, does Debian 11 support
nVIDIA Optimus?
And, does Debian 11 support the Intel i7 Haskell architecture?
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have they upgraded to
the latest stable version of whatever they are running)?
It still may be worth composing the email, and, sending it, putting
those two questions...
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West Australia
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g to Fronius inverters)
https://awesomeopensource.com/projects/inverter/php
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fslurp/
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Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..
://computingforgeeks.com/install-vivaldi-web-browser-on-ubuntu-debian-linux/
https://www.osradar.com/install-vivaldi-debian-11/
?
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Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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mail users mailing list?
https://lists-claws-mail.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
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Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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On 13/3/22 5:47 am, Charlie wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 04:09:23 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
https://lists-claws-mail.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
Hello Bret,
I won't send a return receipt, but will just say this doesn't
work for me?
Charlie
On 13/3/22 5:47 am, Charlie wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 04:09:23 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
https://lists-claws-mail.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
Hello Bret,
I won't send a return receipt, but will just say this doesn't
work for me?
Charlie
Try this
f course, other people's opinions may differ from mine.
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hboard/pws/IWESTERN754),
as the local Weather Underground is within about a kilometre, and, the
weather bureau closest weather station, is about 10-15 kilometres away.
The Weather Underground PWS dashboard updates, usually,about every
10-20s, I think.
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Armadale
West Australia
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.com/deb stable InRelease: The following signatures
were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 1F3045A5DF7587C3 Skype Linux Client Repository
"
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West Australia
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On 23/5/22 9:54 am, Charles Curley wrote:
On Mon, 23 May 2022 04:58:19 +0800
Bret Busby wrote:
How then, do I deal with this (slightly different) problem involving
MS keys?
Did you try what I suggested above? Search on the problematic key?
Whilst I had not interpreted what you had
its Red Hat Certifications, Oracle Linux certifications
are available, and, otherwise, apparently, Linux systems administration
certifications are all-encompassing; covering (supposedly) all
distributions of Linux.
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Armadale
West Australia
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Sound
Whilst this is on a UbuntuMATE system, I expect that you should, if you
are using the MATE desktop environment, have access the same way, to the
same functionalities.
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Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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On 19/8/22 03:04, David Griffith wrote:
On Fri, 19 Aug 2022, Bret Busby wrote:
On 19/8/22 01:32, David Griffith wrote:
My reply is at the bottom. Please put your reply there too.
On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, Bret Busby wrote:
On 18/8/22 16:15, David Griffith wrote:
There is the continuing
On 19/8/22 01:32, David Griffith wrote:
My reply is at the bottom. Please put your reply there too.
On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, Bret Busby wrote:
On 18/8/22 16:15, David Griffith wrote:
There is the continuing problem of built-in speakers on laptops being
too quiet when running Linux. I managed
and, check the specifications for any printer, before you buy it, to
confirm compatibility), shows them (or, the ones I recently
investigated, when we needed to replace one of our Samsung MFP's) to
be compatible with Linux (and, via WiFi, with Android and iOS
cellphones and tablets).
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e bottom of
the screen, and it is the most like MS Windows 95, and, gives my the
interface that I prefer.
In the applications that I run, the title bar of the active window, is
dark(ish) blue, and, for the inactive windows, it is grey.
Try this theme, and advise whether it eliminates the prob
On 22/8/22 16:34, Bret Busby wrote:
On 22/8/22 16:03, Victor Sudakov wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
Sorry for asking a Ubuntu-specific question. Please redirect me to a
better mailing list if you feel it right.
I was using ubuntu-mate 20.04.4 with MATE 1.24.0. Now I have switched
to 22.04.1 with
On 22/8/22 16:43, Bret Busby wrote:
On 22/8/22 16:34, Bret Busby wrote:
On 22/8/22 16:03, Victor Sudakov wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
Sorry for asking a Ubuntu-specific question. Please redirect me to a
better mailing list if you feel it right.
I was using ubuntu-mate 20.04.4 with MATE 1.24.0
On 22/8/22 18:02, Victor Sudakov wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
On 22/8/22 16:03, Victor Sudakov wrote:
The titlebar colors of active and inactive windows are the same which
is very inconvenient. In the previous version of Ubuntu/Mate, the
color of the active window's titlebar was distinct.
On 22/8/22 18:46, Victor Sudakov wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
[dd]
I use the Theme named "TraditionalOk", with the panel at the bottom of
the screen, and it is the most like MS Windows 95, and, gives my the
interface that I prefer.
I don't have any "TraditionalOk" th
running Ubuntu with your hardware.
I am no expert, and, after about 20-25 years of using Linux, I still
regard myself as a learner - this opinion is based solely on my personal
experience.
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Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..
tScr" on it. Press that,
and see what happens, and, reply, stating whether that produces the
result that you want.
If you are not using a standard 101 key USA format keyboard, examine the
keys on your keyboard, and look for a key that has the label "PrtScr" or
"Print Screen", and, try that.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..
, might not be available in another country.
And, what may be not "hugely expensive" in one country, may be
otherwise, in another country.
Like the friendly little robot (Number four?), is known for saying,
"More input!"
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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On 20/10/22 06:19, Bret Busby wrote:
On 20/10/22 05:51, William Torrez Corea wrote:
On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 3:34 PM Jude DaShiell <mailto:jdash...@panix.com>> wrote:
This is likely inaccurate information.
What output returns when you run:
lsblk /dev/sda?
First re
believe) a 32GB swap partition.
Is the HDD, MBR or GPT?
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Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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On 20/10/22 06:57, William Torrez Corea wrote:
On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:32 PM Bret Busby <mailto:b...@busby.net>> wrote:
On 20/10/22 06:19, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 20/10/22 05:51, William Torrez Corea wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 19,
On 20/10/22 07:58, Bret Busby wrote:
On 20/10/22 06:57, William Torrez Corea wrote:
On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:32 PM Bret Busby <mailto:b...@busby.net>> wrote:
On 20/10/22 06:19, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 20/10/22 05:51, William Torrez Corea wrote:
>>
>
On 20/10/22 22:58, David Wright wrote:
Perhaps Bret will be back to explain.
"Le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle"
No, I am not french.
Due to the hostile response to what I have posted in this thread, I have
abandoned the discussion.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..
s, so,
maybe it needs four boxes?
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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On 1/11/22 23:40, Bret Busby wrote:
On 1/11/22 23:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 10:57:17AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
Jude
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
Ahhh... these are the boxed distributions?
Cheers
Someone did say that the
On 2/11/22 01:40, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Bret Busby wrote:
Someone did say that the full distribution comprises of many disks, so,
maybe it needs four boxes?
The four jewel case edition is here:
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-bd/
for 25 GB Blu-ray discs
person using a bad PC?
If the PC is bad, surely, the simple solution is to get rid of the PC,
and use a decent PC.
If the PC is bad, that may be the source of the problem.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..
ous and deceptive content
Block dangerous downloads
Warn you about unwanted and uncommon software,
is selected
and
2. In Tools -> Add-ons and Themes, search for, and install Bluhell
Firewall. If I find a URL to be blocked by that, if, and, only if, I
sufficiently trust the URL, I then o
searched on the three word combination - open
source macos - I found, in the results, the above URL.
So, as an observer, I wonder whether licencing restrictions apply, to
running MacOS on Linux, as a virtual machine.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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to form either macOS
or iOS from it. Both - macOS and iOS - are proprietary OSes where you
have strict license terms to fulfill to use it. One of them is - AFAIK
- buying Apple Hardware and running the OS only on Apples Hardware.
hede
All the more reason to run only Linux.
:)
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Bret Busb
kindest regards, William.
Suggestion/question: which version?
Inclusion of this information, can be helpful.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..
://www.theregister.com/2021/12/10/friday_foss_fest/).
I hope that this is a helpful, and useful, start, to consider.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..
d last year. I doubt it was possible to
use one of these with Red Hat Enterprise Linux ootb in the beginning of
this year before RHEL 9 was released. ;-)
hede
Perhaps, the original poster should install and use, Debian Experimental?
It seems fitting...
:)
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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e bootloader, on system boot, offers the user the options of
which of the two OS's to boot?
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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, and stable, email
application that I have encountered. I think that I have been using it
for about thirty years.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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bian.org/debian/pool/main/v/vlc/libvlc-bin_3.0.16-1_amd64.deb
404 Not Found [IP: 199.232.98.132 80]
Is this bug or operator error?
TIA
Have you tried apt install ?
I recently installed a package using apt install,m that synaptic did not
find by searching.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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ays updated, before attempting to either upgrade the
system, or, to install any additional packages, as a standard operating
procedure.
Could someone please confirm or correct this perception?
Thank you in anticipation.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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about 9 years, now.
And, I am now running different computers, with different nVIDIA
configurations - some with Optimus, some without Optimus, with no
problems relating to nVIDIA.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..
oks,
to find how to run the applications.
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Tri
ing the
two most recent directories.
It appears to have retained the directory hierarchy, and deleted about
1.3GB of photographs with an average file size of about 1MB.
Is there something viral in this File Browser?
I have not encountered anything like this in Debian 3.1 .
--
Bret Bu
designed to use up all of the
RAM, regardless of how much RAM is available and how many browser
windows and tabs ar open, leading to crashes in the application, the
windows manager, and, sometimes, the operating system.
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Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 23:20:41 -0700
From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Query about Iceape, Iceweasel
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:56:31PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
Who is responsib
:30 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
[...]
The "untitled windows" appear to open as pop-ups, although I have a setup
configuration of the web browsers, to block pop-ups, which obviously does
not work within the software.
The problem also appears to occur, apart from when I open links in either
nts, that you are quite happy to drive a car
with no brakes, that, when a driver slightly depresses the accelerator
pedal, automatically accelerates the engine to the red line, and does
not allow the engine speed to decrease without turning off the engine.
Uh-huh. Yep.
Nate
And I wish y
t;user-friendly", as with
the term "friendly" itself, appear to be concepts with which you are
not familiar.
Perhaps, you may be due for your next rabies shot?
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Armadale
West Australia
..
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
e problem, and to
apologise for having behaved inappropriately on the list, as I have
described.
I hope that my apology is accepted, and that we can move on.
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Armadale
West Australia
..
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what
Iceape is now unstable (should it belong in the version of Debian,
named Sid ?).
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Armadale
West Australia
..
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchh
s-mate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Are you sure ?
The latest (etch) is version 1.5.0.14pre (20080208)
So is mine (etch)
You must be looking at the wrong package. The latest stable
Iceape/SeaMonkey is 1.1.x. The development version is
2.0a1pre (2.0 pre-alpha) - there is no 1.5 version at
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, mess-mate wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
In the last week, Debian etch (4.0) advised me that updates were
available, the updates on a particular occasion, being Iceape.
So, being a good linux user, I did the upgrade, to keep my system up
to date, and as stable and secure as
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Bret Busby wrote:
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, mess-mate wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
In the last week, Debian etch (4.0) advised me that updates were
available, the updates on a particular occasion, being Iceape.
So, being a good linux user, I did the upgrade, to keep my
nerability, and, the failure to work, of
that option, makes the application unstable.
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Armadale
West Australia
..
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The
quot;), is something for the software maintainers
to investigate, but, the software is insecure and deceptive, in falsely
pretending to "Block unrequested popup windows".
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
yo
when it is
installed, and, updated by the orange star icon that shows updates are
available, does it not appear in the Applications menus?
Thank you in anticipation.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
Hello.
I have Firefox installed on my system (Debian 4.0), and today an update for
firefox showed, and was installed using the system update system.
With the recent problems with Iceape, I thought that I would try Firefox
hello.
Is an OCR package available for Debian 4.0, in .deb form, that can read
from PDF files, to allow text to be extracted from PDF files?
In looking at what is available in Synaptic, I could not find such a
package.
Thank you in anticipation.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Bret Busby wrote:
hello.
Is an OCR package available for Debian 4.0, in .deb form, that can read from
PDF files, to allow text to be extracted from PDF files?
In looking at what is available in Synaptic, I could not find such a package.
Thank you in anticipation
atest available stable version of Acrobat Reader installed (version
number that you have installed?), and how the speed of whatever version
of Acrobat Reader you have installed, compares with your envied
colleague's Acrobat Reader.
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Armadale
West Australia
..
"
loppies when I bought it in 1989.
- Nate >>
Ah, yes.
But, would it be able to run Debian 4.0?
;)
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Armadale
West Australia
..
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28
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