Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-16 Thread Mitja Podreka
Bernie Betlach wrote: I'm new to Linux but have a little programming experience.  Which should I install Ubuntu or Debian??? I think you can easily go with Debian. It will allow you more freedom than Ubuntu. I switched from Window$ directly to Debian and I had no problems wit

Trying to do network install of sarge

2005-07-16 Thread Dick Steflik
I have a Toshiba Portege 3015ct that I've een running a very old install of woody on and have been trying to upgrade to sarge. I have to do this by booting from floppies as there is no CDROM. I've made the four floppies from the current release (and the march one also), when I boot the boot disk, g

Re: What's wrong with debian?

2005-07-16 Thread Johann Beretta
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 05:40:06 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote: >> Well you can use sarge, seems stable enough, however no >> security. Thats a major issue in my mind. > >Could you explain that in newbie-ease? I seem to be getting updates for >sarge from security.debain.org. Why do you say

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-16 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2005-07-16, Sebastian Luque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > >> What's with the question marks? (Non-ASCII characters?) > > As Hal, I don't seem them in his post either, so some decoding variable > probably needs correcting on your system. I didn'

Re: What's wrong with debian?

2005-07-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 16 July 2005 06:35 pm, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Glenn English wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:02 -0700, mike wrote: > > > FWIW, I would pay for a subscription if it meant faster time to > > > market for package updates. > > > > I'd pay for a subscription for not

Re: Running KDE

2005-07-16 Thread Alan Ezust
I would recommend never deleting files from /etc/init.d, but instead deleting the symlinks that are pointing TO those files, which you can find in for example, ls -l /etc/rc5.d (if runlevel 5 is your default runlevel). you can find your default run level by doing this: grep default /etc/initta

OT: Beating a dead horse [Was: What's wrong with debian?]

2005-07-16 Thread Kent West
Jude DaShiell wrote: > Well, consider the alternatives for a few. My experience < ... snip ...> > > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > >> Caveman wrote: >> >>> I could not agree more. < ... snip ... > >> >> I don't think people would be so sensitive < ... snip ... > > And _that's_

Re: exim4, sa-exim, clamav

2005-07-16 Thread Steve Å
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 01:26:20AM +0100 or thereabouts, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (16/07/05 19:40), Steve Å wrote: > > 'X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on barnyard.sweetpig.dyndns.org); SAEximRunCond > > expanded > > to false' > > > > Shouldn't that be postive ? If so, I can't seem to find the command

Re: What's wrong with debian?

2005-07-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:18:23PM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > >Well you can use sarge, seems stable enough, however no > >security. Thats a major issue in my mind. > > Could you explain that in newbie-ease? I seem to be getting updates for > sarge from security.debain.org. Why do you say "no

Re: Cd writing tool under Linux

2005-07-16 Thread Benjamin Sher
On Saturday 16 July 2005 02:09 pm, Greg Madden wrote: > On Saturday 16 July 2005 03:15 am, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > On Saturday 16 July 2005 04:28 am, Dave Ewart wrote: > > > On Friday, 15.07.2005 at 19:47 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > > > The most popular is K3b. If you distro doesn't carry it,

Re: What's wrong with debian?

2005-07-16 Thread John Fleming
Well you can use sarge, seems stable enough, however no security. Thats a major issue in my mind. Could you explain that in newbie-ease? I seem to be getting updates for sarge from security.debain.org. Why do you say "no security"? I elected to stay with sarge as it went stable FOR the secu

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 16 July 2005 03:59 pm, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:10:18PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > What's with the question marks? (Non-ASCII characters?) > > His encoding is ISO-8859-1. I've not figured out how to get > all ISO-8859-1 characters to display properly when I

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 16 July 2005 06:15 pm, Mr Mike wrote: >Well, MAYBE Libranet. I've chatted with a fellow in this > group that is a libranet tester and he 'swears' it's 100% compatible with > debian packages... If anyone knows better, let me know before I make > mistake numero-two-oh.. Libranet uses

Re: What's wrong with debian?

2005-07-16 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Glenn English wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:02 -0700, mike wrote: > > FWIW, I would pay for a subscription if it meant faster time to market > > for package updates. > > I'd pay for a subscription for not much reason at all -- just to help > keep Debian fat and happy. H

Re: What's wrong with debian?

2005-07-16 Thread Glenn English
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:02 -0700, mike wrote: > FWIW, I would pay for a subscription if it meant faster time to market > for package updates. I'd pay for a subscription for not much reason at all -- just to help keep Debian fat and happy. And I'd gladly chip in a one timer to get murphy.debian.

Re: to not read spam emails on debian MLs

2005-07-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 20:15 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:22 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > > > >>As a user, I cannot obviously dictate how the spam filters are setup in > >>Debian related mailing lists. At the same time, I am not

Re: Need help switching to cyrus21

2005-07-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 10:33:56AM +0200, Stefan Immel wrote: > Hi > > currently I'm using debian 3.1 with the old cyrus and I like to switch to > cyrus21. But I need to keep my old mailboxes, so what exactly do I need to > do? > Read the documentation in the new packages :-) Seriously, the pack

Re: dvd region and libdvdcss

2005-07-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 09:56:06AM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > Hello: > > I have some region 1 dvd's and some region 4 dvd's. > > I can't see region 1 dvd's in my laptop (region 4 > plays great). I'm using libdvdcss, but still say me: > "can't open /dev/dvd, or dvd contains no data". > > But

Re: Installing software from source...need a .dsc file.

2005-07-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:27:28PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > I've got a couple of programs I'd like to install on my Debian Sarge > system that are only available in source code. There is no .dsc file > for download. I'd like to install the software via APT/Synaptic. Is > there a way I can

Re: What's wrong with debian?

2005-07-16 Thread mike
FWIW, I would pay for a subscription if it meant faster time to market for package updates. I think there are still some glibc/libc6 updates that are "fixed" but waiting to be released that could help me immensely, and at the current rate, the only indication I saw of an update for it is "Septembe

Re: What's wrong with debian?

2005-07-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
Well, consider the alternatives for a few. My experience has been with screen reader enabled versions of linux and covers debian; slackware, and what's now called fedora formerly redhat. I have subscriptions to slackware and maybe debian might do well to offer subscriptions in future too. Fe

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-16 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:15:22 -0500 Mr Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, MAYBE Libranet. I've chatted with a fellow in this group that > is a libranet tester and he 'swears' it's 100% compatible with debian > packages... If anyone knows better, let me know before I make mistake > numero-two

Re: exim4, sa-exim, clamav

2005-07-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/07/05 19:40), Steve Å wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:53:39PM +0100 or thereabouts, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I posted some notes to the list: > > Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 01:05:06 +0100 > > Subject: Re: mail server > > > > I found this very useful: > > http://blogs.papercutsoftware.com/mat

Re: to not read spam emails on debian MLs

2005-07-16 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:22 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: As a user, I cannot obviously dictate how the spam filters are setup in Debian related mailing lists. At the same time, I am not proficient enough to create spam filters of my own. The following method is what

Re: exim4, sa-exim, clamav

2005-07-16 Thread Steve Å
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:53:39PM +0100 or thereabouts, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I posted some notes to the list: > Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 01:05:06 +0100 > Subject: Re: mail server > > I found this very useful: > http://blogs.papercutsoftware.com/matt.doran/page/2/ I just noticed in my headers i

Re: exim4 update

2005-07-16 Thread Steve Å
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:53:02PM +0100 or thereabouts, Mark Crean wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 15:04 -0400, Steve A wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:29:49PM -0400 or thereabouts, Steve A wrote: > > > Hey folks: > > > I've installed sa-exim, but I can't find anything on Google on how to >

Re: exim4, sa-exim, clamav

2005-07-16 Thread Steve Å
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:53:39PM +0100 or thereabouts, Clive Menzies wrote: > > >fetchmail: SMTP error: 451 /usr/libexec/exim/sa-exim.so: cannot open > > >shared object file: No such file or directory > > I posted some notes to the list: > Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 01:05:06 +0100 > Subject: Re: mai

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 02:15:16PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: [huge snip] > However, like many Debian based distros, Mepis uses mixed sources that are > neither Stable, Unstable, or Testing. At one time that didn't mean that much > to me, but now I really value the dependability of the Stable b

Re: HP LJ 1000 printer unsupported under linux?

2005-07-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:42:43PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 7/16/05, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > > Using Fedora Core 2 on an Intel P-4 with an Intel D845 Motherboard. > > > > Then why are you asking questions on the Debian GNU/Linux Users mailing > > list? > > Because I trie

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-16 Thread John Hasler
Sebastian P. Luque writes: > As Hal, I don't seem them in his post either, so some decoding variable > probably needs correcting on your system. I see them here with Gnus, but not in other articles that use double spaces after periods, such as my own. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: exim4, sa-exim, clamav

2005-07-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/07/05 18:27), Stephen Allen wrote: > OK having lots of problems here. Unfortunately, I've mis configured this > setup. Can someone help me out here ? > > I have the following enabled in my exim4.conf (monolithic); > > # Dynamically loadable local_scan rules! :-) > #local_scan_path = /usr/

Re: exim4 update

2005-07-16 Thread Mark Crean
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 15:04 -0400, Steve A wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:29:49PM -0400 or thereabouts, Steve A wrote: > > Hey folks: > I've installed sa-exim, but I can't find anything on Google on how to > configure > this properly. Everything I find is all over the place and not concise a

Enabling DRI on Matrox doesn't seem to work

2005-07-16 Thread David E. Fox
I am running into some problems enabling dri so far in Debian sarge. I have an older Matrox Millenium G450 (no dualhead) and I've noticed that dri is disabled. Looking into the problem in the XFree86 log file, I notice that it can't open any dri devices underneath /dev/dri: (snip) (OprU) (WW) MG

Re: to not read spam emails on debian MLs

2005-07-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 18:22 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > As a user, I cannot obviously dictate how the spam filters are setup in > Debian related mailing lists. At the same time, I am not proficient > enough to create spam filters of my own. The following method is what I > used to have a

Re: A Unified KDE-Gnome Desktop -- A How-To for Newbies

2005-07-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 06:43 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 07:02:03AM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > As an experienced newbie but still a newbie, I thought this might interest > > a > > new member of Debian who would like to harmonize his desktop, especially > > his > > KD

exim4, sa-exim, clamav

2005-07-16 Thread Stephen Allen
OK having lots of problems here. Unfortunately, I've mis configured this setup. Can someone help me out here ? I have the following enabled in my exim4.conf (monolithic); # Dynamically loadable local_scan rules! :-) #local_scan_path = /usr/lib/exim4/accept.so # You don't *really* need to turn S

to not read spam emails on debian MLs

2005-07-16 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
As a user, I cannot obviously dictate how the spam filters are setup in Debian related mailing lists. At the same time, I am not proficient enough to create spam filters of my own. The following method is what I used to have a spam-free emails from Debian related MLs. 1) Create a separate gmai

Re: openoffice suggestion

2005-07-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 20:59 +0200, Glennie Vignarajah wrote: > Le Friday 15 July 2005 14:57, Ganeshram Iyer(Ganeshram Iyer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) disait: > > Hello all, > > Hi, > > > I had a quick question regarding OpenOffice2 that is available in > > Debian Experimental. Has anyone installed t

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-16 Thread Mr Mike
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:15:16 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Saturday 16 July 2005 12:10 pm, Carl Fink wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:59:21AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> > Yes and no. ?Ubuntu is a flavor of Debian and uses the Sarge installer, >> > but they use their own packages. ?In Debian

Re: completely inane AOL questions

2005-07-16 Thread roach
On Saturday 16 July 2005 14:50, Nicos Gollan wrote: <...> > Anyone else for blocking all mails to the list that have a "From" header > ending in "@aol.com"? AOL has become quiet good at fighting spam coming from their network, no need to punish them. > The spam filter seems to need a small^Wcomp

pygtk version mixup driving me nuts to say the least!!

2005-07-16 Thread Mr Mike
I'm tired of 'f'ing around with this STUPID pkgconfig carp. YUP, I'm upset... Been going round and round with this all damn day. The following error is what I get when I run hal-device-manager.. ** ERROR **: PyGTK (2, 6, 0) required, but (2, 4, 1) found. aborting... Aborted But.. cat /usr/lib

Re: Captiva USB MP3 Player support?

2005-07-16 Thread Dom
On 7/16/05, wim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dom wrote: > > I've searched and searchd for the module for this device without > > success. But I wouldn't have searched if the next thing hadn't > > happened... > > > > I was able to mount the usb drive easily in root, but when my brother > > tried to

Re: completely inane AOL questions

2005-07-16 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Nicos Gollan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 7:50 AM Subject: Re: completely inane AOL questions Agreed - Perhaps we could filter profanity as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: completely inane AOL questions

2005-07-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Nicos Gollan([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Saturday July 16 2005 14:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I need to retrieve my old password and change it please. I am not good on > > computers, need help. > > This is new and frightening: AOL idiots looking for help with password >

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-16 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:10:18PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > What's with the question marks? (Non-ASCII characters?) His encoding is ISO-8859-1. I've not figured out how to get all ISO-8859-1 characters to display properly when I'm using UTF-8. Is there any cleverness I'm not aware of? -- Steph

FIXED: nvidia binary driver locks up computer

2005-07-16 Thread darin strait
I poked around on Andrew Schulman's site [http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/troubleshooting.html.] for a while, then settled in and spent an hour reading the readme file. In Appendix C, there is a listing of installed components, including files. I started poking around in those directo

Re: Cd writing tool under Linux

2005-07-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 16 July 2005 03:15 am, Benjamin Sher wrote: > On Saturday 16 July 2005 04:28 am, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Friday, 15.07.2005 at 19:47 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > > The most popular is K3b. If you distro doesn't carry it, just > > > find an rpm or compile it from source tarball. Afte

Illegal instruction on Gimp startup

2005-07-16 Thread strawks
Hi I have installed Gimp 2.2.8 on a Pentium 2 and when it starts, just after initializing script-fu, it says : (script-fu:24106): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read(): error Illegal instruction I tried version 2.2.7 and 2.2.6 from testing and stable with nearly the same result, it cras

Re: exim4 update

2005-07-16 Thread Steve Å
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 12:29:49PM -0400 or thereabouts, Steve Å wrote: > Hey folks: > > This morning I decided to upgrade to exim4 from exim3 on my Sarge box. During > teh installation, I chose to use the monolithic configuration, and to manually > update from exim3 conf. I ran 'exim_convert4r4'

OT: Grammar (Was: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma)

2005-07-16 Thread Kent West
Hal Vaughan wrote: >I use a standard 2 spaces after a period at the end of the sentence > Not to nitpic[1], but everything I've read in the past few years says that 2 spaces after a period at the end of a sentence is no longer the "standard". Of course, I'm no expert. Footnotes: 1. Yet tha

Re: mysterious change in /tmp permissions

2005-07-16 Thread Glennie Vignarajah
Le Friday 15 July 2005 17:24, Marty(Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) disait: Hi, > I found that I couldn't log into X and /tmp permissions > were set to 755 instead of 1777. Then I turned up this > message in a list archive: Haven't you unpacked a .deb using 'dpkg --extract mydeb.deb' /tmp? If you

Re: openoffice suggestion

2005-07-16 Thread Glennie Vignarajah
Le Friday 15 July 2005 14:57, Ganeshram Iyer(Ganeshram Iyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) disait: > Hello all, Hi, > I had a quick question regarding OpenOffice2 that is available in > Debian Experimental. Has anyone installed this version to their > satisfaction? I've been using this release for few w

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-16 Thread Sebastian Luque
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > What's with the question marks? (Non-ASCII characters?) As Hal, I don't seem them in his post either, so some decoding variable probably needs correcting on your system. I've had similar problems before, and had to check that the MUA's settings were

Re: Mouse resolution

2005-07-16 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
> > or give xset a spin: > > To set mouse acceleration and threshold: > m [acc_mult[/acc_div] [thr]]m default > > > There are probably other ways. > > > /Allan > > > BodyID:18319176.2.n.logpart (stored separately) > > This works very well thnx. I have one more questi

Re: HP LJ 1000 printer unsupported under linux?

2005-07-16 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Deboo ^ wrote: > Is this printer unsupported under linux? Zu dem Thema gibt es einschlägige Seiten im Netz: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1000 Und da steht sogar, was du machen mußt, damit der Drucker läuft. Und damit man das nicht immer wieder schreiben muß...

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 16 July 2005 12:10 pm, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:59:21AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > Yes and no. ?Ubuntu is a flavor of Debian and uses the Sarge installer, > > but they use their own packages. ?In Debian, if you use the Stable > > (currently Sarge) branch, you get

Re: Mouse resolution

2005-07-16 Thread Allan Wind
On 2005-07-16T19:44:27+0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > I have a nice optical mouse with a 800 dpi (i think) resolution. When > using it in gnome or kde, the cursor move too fast even with mouse > acceleration (or whatever) set to 1x. GNOME | Applications | Desktop Preferences | Mouse or give xset a

Mouse resolution

2005-07-16 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
I have a nice optical mouse with a 800 dpi (i think) resolution. When using it in gnome or kde, the cursor move too fast even with mouse acceleration (or whatever) set to 1x. I tried to set the XF86 option "resolution" for the mouse, but it doesn't work. In the documentation it is said that this op

Re: programming environment

2005-07-16 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2005/7/16, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ken keanon wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am new to programming in C and X Window. My web > > search for a programming environment brought me to > > xwpe, a package for X Window Programming Environment. > > The GUI is quite basic and I am not able to increase > > t

Re: HP LJ 1000 printer unsupported under linux?

2005-07-16 Thread Deboo ^
On 7/16/05, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2005 at 08:47:36AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Using Fedora Core 2 on an Intel P-4 with an Intel D845 Motherboard. > > Then why are you asking questions on the Debian GNU/Linux Users mailing > list? Because I tried usin

Re: X-window driver

2005-07-16 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La DANEYE ha escrit, a 16/07/05 16:11: > My machine is an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.16 GHz 1.50 GB RAM > > > > My display is a Philiphs 19” LCD (190 SS), 60Hz > > Display card is NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 > > > > What X-window driver shall I select when installing > > Debian 3.1 (stable versio

Upgrade and repartition advice

2005-07-16 Thread Ken Januski
Hi, I'm about to upgrade my Debian install to Sarge. I've always done this online before but it's been slow since I use dialup. This time I bought a set of CDs for a work pc so I'd like to do the upgrade from them. BUT, many months ago my Windows 2000 partition self-destructed during a serv

exim4 update

2005-07-16 Thread Steve Å
Hey folks: This morning I decided to upgrade to exim4 from exim3 on my Sarge box. During teh installation, I chose to use the monolithic configuration, and to manually update from exim3 conf. I ran 'exim_convert4r4' aftewards. I can send out via my smarthost OK (as this message attests to). Howev

Re: how do I get fullscreen mplayer - fun

2005-07-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:24:35 +0200 Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vegard|drageV wrote: > > Where do I go from here to make th option '-vo xv' default? > > You need to edit MPlayers config file to make it default. > Add vo=xv to /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf for system wide changes, or in

Re: HP LJ 1000 printer unsupported under linux?

2005-07-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 12, 2005 at 08:47:36AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > Hi, > > Using Fedora Core 2 on an Intel P-4 with an Intel D845 Motherboard. Then why are you asking questions on the Debian GNU/Linux Users mailing list? I have no special information on Fedora, but you might check here: http://sourcefo

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:59:21AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > Yes and no. ?Ubuntu is a flavor of Debian and uses the Sarge installer, but > they use their own packages. ?In Debian, if you use the Stable (currently > Sarge) branch, you get packages that have been tested about as thouroughly as

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 16 July 2005 10:31 am, Alan Ezust wrote: > I thought Ubuntu was a flavor of debian, so when you install ubuntu, you > get debian at no extra charge :-) > > On 7/16/05, Bernie Betlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >  I'm new to Linux but have a little programming experience. Which should

Re: Cd writing tool under Linux

2005-07-16 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 16.07.2005 um 06:15 schrieb Benjamin Sher: > Those are not my instructions but those of the author, who very explicitly > requires that K3b always run as root. And what do you think, why the k3b authors wrote "k3bsetup", which sets up all of cdrecord, cdrdao, growisofs, etc. in a way to be us

Re: programming environment

2005-07-16 Thread Colin
ken keanon wrote: > Hi > > I am new to programming in C and X Window. My web > search for a programming environment brought me to > xwpe, a package for X Window Programming Environment. > The GUI is quite basic and I am not able to increase > the font size. Is this the best for what I intend to >

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-16 Thread Alan Ezust
I thought Ubuntu was a flavor of debian, so when you install ubuntu, you get debian at no extra charge :-) On 7/16/05, Bernie Betlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm new to Linux but have a little programming experience.  Which should I install Ubuntu or Debian???   Thanks   I appreciat

Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-16 Thread Bernie Betlach
I'm new to Linux but have a little programming experience.  Which should I install Ubuntu or Debian???   Thanks   I appreciate your opinions and advice.   Bernie

X-window driver

2005-07-16 Thread DANEYE
My machine is an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.16 GHz 1.50 GB RAM   My display is a Philiphs 19” LCD (190 SS), 60Hz Display card is NVIDIA GeForce FX5200   What X-window driver shall I select when installing Debian 3.1 (stable version; kernel 3.4)?   My display is 1280 x 1024 /dan

mouse-device kills etch

2005-07-16 Thread steef
hello folks, upgraded from sarge to etch. since then my machine gets stuck completely on unpredictable moments; especially when scrolling webpages in mozilla 1.7.8 and firefox 1.0.4-2. so i have to start up anew. my (good, i think) guess is a conflicting ps2 mousedriver with flash in both

Re: Cursor acting strangely

2005-07-16 Thread wim
Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, A small problem I have with my mouse is that every once in a while the cursor suddenly flies across the screen. This usually happens when I am moving the mouse around and suddenly the cursor gets out of control and flies (usually the opposite way) across the screen.

Re: A Unified KDE-Gnome Desktop -- A How-To for Newbies

2005-07-16 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 07:02:03AM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > As an experienced newbie but still a newbie, I thought this might interest a > new member of Debian who would like to harmonize his desktop, especially his > KDE desktop by making the Gnome applications look more like those in KDE.

Re: Cursor acting strangely

2005-07-16 Thread Kent West
On 7/15/05, Leonid Grinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A small problem I have with my mouse is that every once in a while the >cursor suddenly flies across the screen. This usually happens when I >am moving the mouse around and suddenly the cursor gets out of control >and flies (usually the oppos

Re: how do I get fullscreen mplayer - fun

2005-07-16 Thread Sven Arvidsson
Vegard|drageV wrote: > Where do I go from here to make th option '-vo xv' default? You need to edit MPlayers config file to make it default. Add vo=xv to /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf for system wide changes, or in ~/.mplayer/conf (create the file if it doesn't exist) for your user only. -- Cheers,

Re: how do I get fullscreen mplayer - fun

2005-07-16 Thread Vegard|drageV
On 7/16/05, Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...snip...] > > > You simply need to use "xv" as the video output. Launch mplayer with > > > "-vo xv", or set it to xv in the preferences if you use the GUI. > > This helped. > > mybox# mplayer -vo xv -fs baby.mpg > > xx> It seems there is

Re: How do I get the '/usr/X11R6/include' folder?

2005-07-16 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-07-15 23:25:24, schrieb Vegard|drageV: > When running ./configure before installing ksubeditor, I get this > errormessage: > > checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please > check your installation and add the correct paths! > > I googled around and found that the fo

Re: completely inane AOL questions

2005-07-16 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Saturday July 16 2005 14:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to retrieve my old password and change it please. I am not good on > computers, need help. This is new and frightening: AOL idiots looking for help with password problems on this list. Anyone else for blocking all mails to the lis

Re: Cursor acting strangely

2005-07-16 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 7/15/05, Leonid Grinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > A small problem I have with my mouse is that every once in a while the > cursor suddenly flies across the screen. This usually happens when I > am moving the mouse around and suddenly the cursor gets out of control > and flies (us

Re: A Unified KDE-Gnome Desktop -- A How-To for Newbies

2005-07-16 Thread Benjamin Sher
On Saturday 16 July 2005 07:18 am, TreeBoy wrote: > On Saturday 16 Jul 2005 13:02, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear friends: > > > > As an experienced newbie but still a newbie, I thought this might > > interest a new member of Debian who would like to harmonize his desktop, > > especially his KDE des

forgot my password to get into aol due to auto memory

2005-07-16 Thread Glyndo4
I need to retrieve my old password and change it please. I am not good on computers, need help.

Re: A Unified KDE-Gnome Desktop -- A How-To for Newbies

2005-07-16 Thread TreeBoy
On Saturday 16 Jul 2005 13:02, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > As an experienced newbie but still a newbie, I thought this might interest > a new member of Debian who would like to harmonize his desktop, especially > his KDE desktop by making the Gnome applications look more like those in

A Unified KDE-Gnome Desktop -- A How-To for Newbies

2005-07-16 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: As an experienced newbie but still a newbie, I thought this might interest a new member of Debian who would like to harmonize his desktop, especially his KDE desktop by making the Gnome applications look more like those in KDE. I wrote this little how-to originally when a member o

Re: Problem with mounting sda zip drive

2005-07-16 Thread Benjamin Sher
On Saturday 16 July 2005 05:59 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 7/14/05, Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > On 7/13/05, Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Dear friends: > > > > Thanks to your help, I am making progress step by step. My next issue has >

Re: Cd writing tool under Linux

2005-07-16 Thread Benjamin Sher
On Saturday 16 July 2005 04:28 am, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Friday, 15.07.2005 at 19:47 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > The most popular is K3b. If you distro doesn't carry it, just find an > > rpm or compile it from source tarball. After you install it, be sure > > to run the Setup or click from the

Re: Problem with mounting sda zip drive

2005-07-16 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On 7/14/05, Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 7/13/05, Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear friends: > > Thanks to your help, I am making progress step by step. My next issue has to > do with my zip drive. When I try to mount it, I am told tha

Re: Cd writing tool under Linux

2005-07-16 Thread wim
Lian Liming wrote: Hi all, I wonder if there are any GUI cd writing tool available under Debian. What I find so far is "cdrecord" which is a command line CD writing tool. Thanks in advance! I use xcdroast and gcombust. wim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Captiva USB MP3 Player support?

2005-07-16 Thread wim
Dom wrote: I've searched and searchd for the module for this device without success. But I wouldn't have searched if the next thing hadn't happened... I was able to mount the usb drive easily in root, but when my brother tried to use it in his account we discovered only root can mount a device.

Problems with MySQL 4.1.x on Debian-AMD64 (threading?)

2005-07-16 Thread mike
I've tried a variety of configure and 'make' options, all of which have been giving me shoddy results. Also, someone finally told me today that they've heard that debian-based distros are still having problems with some threading (pthread) libraries - and MySQL relies on them heavily. LinuxThread

is it possible to use dict with http://www.thefreedictionary.com

2005-07-16 Thread bxuefeng
Hi Debianers, I found http://www.thefreedictionary.com to be very powerful and useful. (no advertisement intended:) Is there a way to use dict search words from this site? Also, the dictionaries I am using for dict are quite outdated (webster 1913) are there any dict native dictionaries that I

Re: how do I get fullscreen mplayer - fun

2005-07-16 Thread valentin_nils
Excellent ips, This was annoying me for over a year and never had the time to follow up on it. Thanks a lot to everyone. Nils > > hi ya vegard > > On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Vegard|drageV wrote: > >> > Commonly this problem is if you haven't glx enabled with direct >> > rendering enabled: >> direct r

Re: Cd writing tool under Linux

2005-07-16 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 15.07.2005 at 19:47 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > The most popular is K3b. If you distro doesn't carry it, just find an > rpm or compile it from source tarball. After you install it, be sure > to run the Setup or click from the Help menu and Test Your System. > Remember to ALWAYS run it

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Win 2 Prados with Al-Sayer

2005-07-16 Thread Al Sayer Group
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programming environment

2005-07-16 Thread ken keanon
Hi I am new to programming in C and X Window. My web search for a programming environment brought me to xwpe, a package for X Window Programming Environment. The GUI is quite basic and I am not able to increase the font size. Is this the best for what I intend to do or are there better ones? Ch

Re: Wireless PCI Cards - Which Work?

2005-07-16 Thread Nate Duehr
Thomas H. George wrote: Actually I know my Netgear MA311 works but we just moved to a new house and the little antenna for the card was lost. I purchased a Netgear WG31l ($50) and Sarge with a 2.6.11 kernel didn't recognize it. The antenna fit the old MA311 card so I am out $50 but back on li

Re: customizing xterm?

2005-07-16 Thread Angelina Carlton
Ð∂äđ vÎяũŞ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hey, can someone tell me how to customize xterm? i want to make it have a > transparent background but i dont know how, all the things i have read on it > refere to haveing either of 2 files which i dont have, .xdefaults and > .xresources are the 2 files