Iceape/Seamonkey and Iceweasel/Firefox - was Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-16 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Scott Ferguson wrote: I understood that some of the functionality (subroutines/modules/whatever) did not comply with the Debian philosophy, and so were removed, to make the resultant applications compliant with the Deb

Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-16 Thread John W Foster
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 18:25 +, Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > JFYI, Adobe released a "preview" of the Flash player plugin for 64 bits > systems: > > http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ > > Now let's see how long it takes to put the "vulnerable" flag on it again > >:-) > > Wel

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-16 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 16 September 2010 23:14:03 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) > compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? > > Thanks. aptitude search pdf: diffpdf available in squeezeandsid you may have alook at backport. Thierry

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/13/10 01:33, Merciadri Luca wrote: Klistvud wrote: Dne, 13. 09. 2010 09:49:17 je Merciadri Luca napisal(a): Is one obliged to simulate a crash to save its Iceweasel session? 'Simulate'? Isn't it supposed to crash, erm ... automagically? Well, I generally kill the iceweasel process to

Re: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

2010-09-16 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Doug on 2010-09-16 21:52:00, in Message-Id <4c92d7d0.4000...@optonline.net> > > I have a medium-age Fry's computer that I bought new but on the cheap > with Lindows, or something like that instead of Win. It was a real > Linux without any aps, and you had to _buy_ any aps you wanted. It

Re: Iceweasel stability issues after reading the browser straw poll

2010-09-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/12/10 23:35, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 13. 09. 2010 06:40:24 je Marc Shapiro napisal(a): I am running Firefox 3.6 on Lenny and I still have sound problems. I think the problems are more due to flash games that my daughter runs than to youtube, but flash seems to be the culprit in any case. Y

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-16 Thread Dale
Hi All, I have done some fixing and theses are the fixes I have done, * Fixed the fade on the menu * Adjusted toolbar, window title bar, menu bar heights from 14 to 18 * Adjusted font sizes to suit. I have also added and overlay example to the wiki page[1] of some overrides to the theme, and upd

Re: Updating files in /etc Remotely (and automated)

2010-09-16 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:31:12 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > . . . someone sent it to me > privately a little while ago. While I like what Rob Owens suggested, > I'm leaning toward this. I think it's possible that I could send up the > minimum information in a file and have the cron job be a Perl s

iwlagn log spam

2010-09-16 Thread Bill Wohler
With my recent installation of squeeze, I am now getting the following log message several times a second: Sep 16 20:41:01 olgas kernel: [859531.773469] iwlagn :03:00.0: GF was set with SGI:SISO I tried to JFGI but came up with zero hits. Has anyone figured out what this message is and ho

Re: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

2010-09-16 Thread Doug
On 9/16/2010 9:20 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: For about two years now, the Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) on the mainboard in an old IBM NetVista Type 6578-RAU has produced no sound for ALSA in Lenny and currently in Squeeze. Settings in alsamixer appear OK. Sk

Re: My lenny picks the wrong resolution whereas squeeze is right

2010-09-16 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:55:38 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > if you'd > like to avoid using a custom mode line, please post the entire > /var/log/Xorg.0.log file, along with its corresponding > /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, and I'll see if I can figure out what needs to > be changed to get it to work wi

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-16 Thread Nuno Magalhães
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Re: [News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-16 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:25:44 +, Camaleón wrote: > JFYI, Adobe released a "preview" of the Flash player plugin for 64 bits > systems: Thanks for the heads up, was waiting for it to happen for a while. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xp

Re: Simplest and cheapest RAID

2010-09-16 Thread Doug
On 9/16/2010 5:57 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Thursday 16 September 2010 08:14:53 T o n g wrote: Hi, How practical is to create a simplest and cheapest RAID, using 2 partitions on the same disk, combining them as a RAID drive? By "practical" I meant, - I would assume less than 0.01% people

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-16 Thread Doug
On 9/16/2010 4:47 PM, Phil Requirements wrote: On 2010-09-16 18:35:14 +0930, Dale wrote: Hi All, I have been working on a new Fluxbox style[1] for Debian and hopefully come the default theme for a release like squeeze, or the next the next Debian release. Comments and/or suggestions more than

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2010-09-16 Thread emails
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Re: new squeeze

2010-09-16 Thread Doug
On 9/16/2010 4:12 PM, AG wrote: On 10/09/10 03:30, Doug wrote: I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the .iso onto disk. Before I do something silly, I want to make sure that this is designed to live with other os's on the hd. (I remember one older version of Ubuntu that took

Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

2010-09-16 Thread peasthope
For about two years now, the Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) on the mainboard in an old IBM NetVista Type 6578-RAU has produced no sound for ALSA in Lenny and currently in Squeeze. Settings in alsamixer appear OK. Skype, speaker-test and VLC allow the device to

Re: Simplest and cheapest RAID

2010-09-16 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:14 +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > How practical is to create a simplest and cheapest RAID, using 2 > partitions on the same disk, combining them as a RAID drive? It is not practical at all since if you loose the drive, you loose both partition, thus defeating the purpos

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/09/10 04:15, James Zuelow wrote: > LOL. If anyone thinks this thread has been extremist or hateful, you need to > get out more. :) *nod > That being said, I think some people have lost track of the thread. What are you trying to say James? :-) Surely every post has focused on solving

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/09/10 02:48, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> >> And you probably don't see pro-Ubuntu posts/whines on a Debian mailing >> list as trolling either... ;-p > Not at all. Definitely not whining. > ;-p I didn't take you comment on Ubuntu as whining

Re: Simplest and cheapest RAID

2010-09-16 Thread Greg Madden
On Thursday 16 September 2010 08:14:53 T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > How practical is to create a simplest and cheapest RAID, using 2 > partitions on the same disk, combining them as a RAID drive? > > By "practical" I meant, > > - I would assume less than 0.01% people would do that so I can't find >

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-16 Thread Donald MacKinnon
Dale wrote: Hi All, I have been working on a new Fluxbox style[1] for Debian and hopefully come the default theme for a release like squeeze, or the next the next Debian release. Comments and/or suggestions more than welcome Regards Dale [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Debian_LibS

Re: How can one compare two PDFs?

2010-09-16 Thread alois.mah...@zxcvb.cz
Dne Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:14:03 +0200 Merciadri Luca napsal(a): AFAIK, PDFs cannot be compared directly. Can diff (in Lenny repos) compare two PDFs? Are there any other solutions? What about printing both to PostScript and diff-ing the results? Al. -- Tato zpráva byla vytvořena převratným pošt

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-16 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2010-09-16 18:35:14 +0930, Dale wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been working on a new Fluxbox style[1] for Debian and hopefully > come the default theme for a release like squeeze, or the next the > next Debian release. > > Comments and/or suggestions more than welcome > > Regards > Dale > > [1]

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-16 Thread AG
On 10/09/10 03:30, Doug wrote: I just downloaded debian-testing i386 Net Inst and burned the .iso onto disk. Before I do something silly, I want to make sure that this is designed to live with other os's on the hd. (I remember one older version of Ubuntu that took over the drive, and wiped ever

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-16 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2010-09-16 12:27:35 -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Phil Requirements wrote: > >On 2010-09-10 18:56:03 -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > >>Phil Requirements wrote: > >>... > >>>GNU/Linux has an *improved* method of inputting these special > >>>characters. In Windows, you have to memorize these four

Re: HP LaserJet 5L - cannot print postscript from cmd line

2010-09-16 Thread michael
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 17:50 +0200, deloptes wrote: > michael wrote: > > > It is local on this machine's parallel port (I've just been in the habit > > of lpr rather than lp but will that matter?). My lpstat -a gives > > $ lpstat -a > > laserjet accepting requests since Wed 15 Sep 2010 22:23:14 BST

Re: Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

2010-09-16 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:57:43 +1200 Bruce Ward wrote: >(Note this is a "toy" laptop - 48MB RAM - running > Lenny with a PCMCIA wireless card with a Marvell chip) > Bruce ;) -- Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97 signature.asc Description: PGP signatu

Re: Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

2010-09-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:42:46 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: Hello Scott, > Are you implying I should assume something? ;-p No, merely inferring. ;-) OTOH, some people say - "Never assume: It makes an ass of u and me" > Not that it actually matters which version he's running - ndis is {snip}

[News] Flash player plugin (64 bits) comes back!

2010-09-16 Thread Camaleón
Hello, JFYI, Adobe released a "preview" of the Flash player plugin for 64 bits systems: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ Now let's see how long it takes to put the "vulnerable" flag on it again >:-) Well, it's better than nothing... Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCR

RE: new squeeze

2010-09-16 Thread James Zuelow
LOL. If anyone thinks this thread has been extremist or hateful, you need to get out more. :) That being said, I think some people have lost track of the thread. Tom H is the one who said, and I'll paraphrase here: "If you use the debian installer, and it asks you if you want to use the ent

Re: Squeeze. No WiFi WPA in installer?

2010-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:40:20 +0400, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > Is there a possibility to use WiFi network with WPA encryption during > the installation process? It seems only WEP is supported :-? *** 2.1.6. Network Connectivity Hardware http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/i386/ch02s01.html.en#n

Re: Simplest and cheapest RAID

2010-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:14:53 +, T o n g wrote: > How practical is to create a simplest and cheapest RAID, using 2 > partitions on the same disk, combining them as a RAID drive? > > By "practical" I meant, > > - I would assume less than 0.01% people would do that so I can't > find any doc

Re: My lenny picks the wrong resolution whereas squeeze is right

2010-09-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:04:57 -0400 (EDT), Tong wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> Specifying "Modes" in the Display subsection of the Screen section, or >> specifying the virtual desktop size, has always been sufficient for me. > > No, that don't work for me. Specifying a bigger mode than the dis

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-16 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >  On 16/09/10 12:17, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Klistvud wrote: >>> Dne, 15. 09. 2010 11:36:48 je Lisi napisal(a): I find the hand-holding, suitable-for newbies, so-called-easy Ubuntu installer utterly i

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-16 Thread Daniel Barclay
Phil Requirements wrote: On 2010-09-10 18:56:03 -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: Phil Requirements wrote: ... GNU/Linux has an *improved* method of inputting these special characters. In Windows, you have to memorize these four digit codes that don't mean anything. In GNU/Linux, I memorize two-let

Re: Problems probing a LVM device with GRUB2

2010-09-16 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Alberto Luaces wrote: > > I'm trying to install GRUB2 to a disk that has an ext2/3 filesystem into > a LVM partition. I can even start the system from GRUB2 and a boot disk, > so it should work. > > The problem is that `grub-install' displays `no such disk' errors.

Simplest and cheapest RAID

2010-09-16 Thread T o n g
Hi, How practical is to create a simplest and cheapest RAID, using 2 partitions on the same disk, combining them as a RAID drive? By "practical" I meant, - I would assume less than 0.01% people would do that so I can't find any documents. - Having 2 partitions might not give me much adva

Re: Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

2010-09-16 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Bruce, On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 08:57:43PM +1200, Bruce Ward wrote: > I get this message: > FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. On Lenny, you would usually want to build this dependent kernel module using module-assistant, which automates installation of prerequisite packages, the process of c

Re: My lenny picks the wrong resolution whereas squeeze is right

2010-09-16 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:15:22 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > Specifying "Modes" in the Display subsection of the Screen section, or > specifying the virtual desktop size, has always been sufficient for me. No, that don't work for me. Specifying a bigger mode than the display driver can handle ca

Re: HP LaserJet 5L - cannot print postscript from cmd line

2010-09-16 Thread deloptes
michael wrote: lpr -P HP_LJ_5L -o InputSlot=Default -o Resolution=300x300dpi -o PageSize=A4 the only application I'm using lpr with is acroread. I don't remember when I did configure it (it was years ago), so I don't remember why I choose those options. most of them are self explanatory. you nee

Re: anacron mail encoding

2010-09-16 Thread Malte Forkel
Am 16.09.2010 15:28, schrieb Sven Joachim: > > Indeed you can't, you would have to write the code to insert the > Content-* headers in the first place. Look at the launch_job function > in runjob.c in the anacron source. > That looks just like the right spot. Thanks, Sven! I wrote to anacron's

Re: HP LaserJet 5L - cannot print postscript from cmd line

2010-09-16 Thread deloptes
michael wrote: > It is local on this machine's parallel port (I've just been in the habit > of lpr rather than lp but will that matter?). My lpstat -a gives > $ lpstat -a > laserjet accepting requests since Wed 15 Sep 2010 22:23:14 BST > and I know it's connected okay (it just prints the p/s file

Re: FW: SILO

2010-09-16 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Jennie: On Thursday 16 September 2010 16:09:09 Jennie Kingsland wrote: > Hi, > > I have copied the Debian 5.0.6 ISO and began installing this to a SPARC > V240 server. > > However almost at the end of the install and an error occurs 'The Silo > package failed to install into /target, installin

Re: Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

2010-09-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/09/10 23:53, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:11:43 +1000 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Hello Scott, > >> I've looked (with bleary eyes) but can't see where you say "which" >> Debian you're running :-) > I could be wrong, but reference to ndiswrapper 1.53* implies it's Lenny. > Are

FW: SILO

2010-09-16 Thread Jennie Kingsland
Hi, I have copied the Debian 5.0.6 ISO and began installing this to a SPARC V240 server. However almost at the end of the install and an error occurs 'The Silo package failed to install into /target, installing SILO as a boot loader is a required step' I have searched forums with a res

Re: Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

2010-09-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:11:43 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: Hello Scott, > I've looked (with bleary eyes) but can't see where you say "which" > Debian you're running :-) I could be wrong, but reference to ndiswrapper 1.53* implies it's Lenny. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly

Re: My lenny picks the wrong resolution whereas squeeze is right

2010-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:15:22 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:11:16 -0400 (EDT), Tong wrote: >> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:00:50 +, Camaleón wrote: >>> >>> you can try with "cvt" tool to get the correct "Modeline" and then add >>> it to your "xorg.conf". Restart and check if i

Re: anacron mail encoding

2010-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:11:51 +0200, Malte Forkel wrote: > Am 16.09.2010 13:00, schrieb Camaleón: > >> As per "man 5 crontab": (...) >> Which does not comply with your e-mail (provided that there is no >> "Content-Type:"). So if "anacron" is using the same routine to send e- >> mails than "cron"

Re: anacron mail encoding

2010-09-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-16 15:11 +0200, Malte Forkel wrote: > I think I have to convince anacron to use Content-* headers. But I'm not > sure I can do that with the environment variables that cron uses. Indeed you can't, you would have to write the code to insert the Content-* headers in the first place. Loo

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Re: My lenny picks the wrong resolution whereas squeeze is right

2010-09-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:11:16 -0400 (EDT), Tong wrote: > On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:00:50 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> you can try with "cvt" tool to get the correct "Modeline" and then add >> it to your "xorg.conf". Restart and check if it got the right >> resolution. > > Yep, that works. Thanks All'

Re: Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

2010-09-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 16/09/10 18:57, Bruce Ward wrote: > I get this message: > FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. > > Further investigation leads me to the web page for the Debian package > ndiswrapper-source (1.53-2). On that page is found: > > 'This package provides the source code for the ndiswrapper kernel >

Re: anacron mail encoding

2010-09-16 Thread Malte Forkel
Am 16.09.2010 13:00, schrieb Camaleón: > As per "man 5 crontab": > > *** > (...) > > By default, cron will send mail using the mail "Content-Type:" header > of"text/plain" with the "charset=" parameter set to the charmap / > codeset ofthe locale in which crond(8) is started up - ie. eith

Re: Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

2010-09-16 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 16. 09. 2010 10:57:43 je Bruce Ward napisal(a): Problem: I cannot find "pre-compiled modules" anywhere on the Debian site. Do they exist, or are they just a myth? Bruce [code] aptitude search ndiswrapper [edoc] -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverfl

Re: anacron mail encoding

2010-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:12:33 +0200, Malte Forkel wrote: > Am 16.09.2010 10:54, schrieb Camaleón: >> >> But the interesting part should be in the e-mail "header" not the >> "body" of the message (I would like to see "Content-Type:" and >> "Content-Transfer- Encoding:" part). Better if you send (or

Squeeze. No WiFi WPA in installer?

2010-09-16 Thread Mark Goldshtein
Hello, list! Is there a possibility to use WiFi network with WPA encryption during the installation process? Thanks! -- Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Can't locate ndiswrapper module!

2010-09-16 Thread Bruce Ward
I get this message: FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. Further investigation leads me to the web page for the Debian package ndiswrapper-source (1.53-2). On that page is found: 'This package provides the source code for the ndiswrapper kernel module. If you use a standard distribution kerne

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-16 Thread Angus Hedger
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:35:14 +0930 Dale wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been working on a new Fluxbox style[1] for Debian and hopefully > come the default theme for a release like squeeze, or the next the > next Debian release. > > Comments and/or suggestions more than welcome > > Regards > Dale >

Problems probing a LVM device with GRUB2

2010-09-16 Thread Alberto Luaces
Hello, I'm trying to install GRUB2 to a disk that has an ext2/3 filesystem into a LVM partition. I can even start the system from GRUB2 and a boot disk, so it should work. The problem is that `grub-install' displays `no such disk' errors. I have tracked it down to `grub-probe': $ ls /dev/mapper/

Re: anacron mail encoding

2010-09-16 Thread Malte Forkel
Am 16.09.2010 10:54, schrieb Camaleón: > > But the interesting part should be in the e-mail "header" not the "body" > of the message (I would like to see "Content-Type:" and "Content-Transfer- > Encoding:" part). Better if you send (or upload to pastebin¹) the whole > message intact, just delete

Re: Creating Video DVDs from VOB files only

2010-09-16 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 02:54 +0200, godo wrote: > > > > > Try kdenlive, dvdauthor or devede. I've been using devede and it works just fine. It's very simple... but gets the job done... very easy to use. You can save the result to an ISO file, watch it on Movie Player before burning to the DVD. It

Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-16 Thread Dale
Hi All, I have been working on a new Fluxbox style[1] for Debian and hopefully come the default theme for a release like squeeze, or the next the next Debian release. Comments and/or suggestions more than welcome Regards Dale [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Debian_LibStick -- [WWW]

Re: anacron mail encoding

2010-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:02:14 +0200, Malte Forkel wrote: > Am 15.09.2010 10:51, schrieb Camaleón: >> >> Mmm, can you upload a sample of the e-mail you are getting so we can >> take a look into the header? Of course, the e-mail sample should not >> contain private data :-) >> > Sure. Here are the

Re: Why can't ID3 tags be modified in GNOME file's properties?

2010-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:18:21 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Anyway, I found that -generally speaking- in Linux world, developers >> like small programs for dedicated actions (but performing well) instead >> bloating programs with lots of functions with high predisposition to >>

RFC: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-09-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I've collected several rules that upstreams should follow to make distro maintainer's life much easier: http://www.metux.de/index.php/de/component/content/article/57.html Free feel to comment on it :) cu -- -- Enr

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-16 Thread Angus Hedger
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:17:19 -0400 Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Klistvud > wrote: > > Dne, 15. 09. 2010 11:36:48 je Lisi napisal(a): > >> > >> I find the hand-holding, suitable-for newbies, so-called-easy > >> Ubuntu installer utterly incomprehensible. > > > > +1 > > I find b

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-16 Thread Angus Hedger
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:13:00 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Bret Busby wrote: > > I understood that some of the functionality > > (subroutines/modules/whatever) did not comply with the Debian > > philosophy, and so were removed, to make the resultant applications > > compliant with the Debian philosop

Re: HP LaserJet 5L - cannot print postscript from cmd line

2010-09-16 Thread michael
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 08:57 +0200, deloptes wrote: > michael wrote: > > > Folks, I've tried and tried but have failed to get my HP LaserJet 5L, > > connected by parallel port, to print postscript from the command line. > > It will print a page from say iceweasel but just isn't having > > lpr test

Re: anacron mail encoding

2010-09-16 Thread Malte Forkel
Am 15.09.2010 10:51, schrieb Camaleón: > > "Anacron" or "cron"? It seems they are two different packages :-? > Yes, they are. As far as I understand it, anacron makes sure that cron jobs are run even if the machine is not up 24/7. > > Those bug reports are for "cron" and should be already fixe