On 11/12/2011 08:58 AM, Douglas Saylor wrote:
> ...installing VLC player. I'm using a UBS flash drive on my netbook, so
> no CD. Advice please?
Please paste the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list here, as I
suspect a setup removable media still hanging around in the settings.
I hope you have netwo
...installing VLC player. I'm using a UBS flash drive on my netbook, so no
CD. Advice please?
I'd like to keep using the panel from GNOME 2. I like its world clock,
the menu and a couple of applets.
Is this still in unstable at all? The replacement seems to be less
functional (at the moment).
Otherwise is there a compatible panel available that can use the GNOME 2
world clock?
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On 11/12/2011 07:19 AM, Douglas Saylor wrote:
> New to Debian. So the "Browse the Web" icon ...I want to change this to
> point to Chromium. How do I do that? I can't word it correctly to get
> Google to find the answer lol! Thanks!
"Preferred Applic
New to Debian. So the "Browse the Web" icon ...I want to change this to
point to Chromium. How do I do that? I can't word it correctly to get
Google to find the answer lol! Thanks!
On 12/11/11 11:56, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Scott Ferguson writes:
>
> I've only responded to this one question just yet because I'm working
> from your other input to get this done... thanks.
The NFS.org page is the most useful - see the HowTos
>
>> That's not a lot of examples - what did you wa
Scott Ferguson writes:
I've only responded to this one question just yet because I'm working
from your other input to get this done... thanks.
> That's not a lot of examples - what did you want to use if for?
Exchange of files between debian desktop and solaris zfs servers.
So it will be both
Alberto Luaces writes:
>> Here is my .gnus file:
[...]
>> (setq imap-log t)
>> Here are the messages from my *Messages* buffer:
[...]
You've gone beyond my tiny store of possibly helpful input except to
suggest once more that you will definitely get expert help on this
question if you post it
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:51:16 +0100
"Ralf Mardorf" wrote:
> Hahaha :D
>
> GNOME 3 what an odd DE.
> Missing features (weather, restart option etc.), Evolution doesn't work,
> because it can't connect to
> the network, it tries to force us to install pulseaudio, it completely breaks
> the workfl
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:02:52 +0100
Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 11/11/11 13:36, Richard wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How do you get synaptic to list available packages in alphabetical order ?
> >
> Click on the "Package" heading of the list.
>
Thanks Guys, that's soo easy but not obvious.
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On Fri 11 Nov 2011 at 20:47:07 +, HEDDY, WILLIAM wrote:
> I downloaded and installed Debian on my computer last night and I rebooted
> the computer and now all that comes up is a white cursor on a black screen.
> Did I just completely kill my Windows 7 operating system?
Probably not, unless y
Hahaha :D
GNOME 3 what an odd DE.
Missing features (weather, restart option etc.), Evolution doesn't work,
because it can't connect to the network, it tries to force us to install
pulseaudio, it completely breaks the workflow of sane users.
Is there a way to get back a panel that enables to swi
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:47:07 +, HEDDY, WILLIAM wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> I downloaded and installed Debian on my computer last night and I
> rebooted the computer and now all that comes up is a white cursor on a
> black screen. Did I just completely kill my Windows 7 operating sys
I. wrote:
Dan B. wrote:
Raf Czlonka wrote:
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 12:50:57AM GMT, Bob Proulx wrote:
Dan B. wrote:
I tried swapping the left Control key and Caps Lock key by modifying
the XKBOPTIONS value in /etc/default/keyboard, ...
...
XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:swapcaps"
...>
Hey, I just noti
Dan B. wrote:
Raf Czlonka wrote:
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 12:50:57AM GMT, Bob Proulx wrote:
Dan B. wrote:
I tried swapping the left Control key and Caps Lock key by modifying
the XKBOPTIONS value in /etc/default/keyboard, per instructions that
said it would take effect for both the virtual cons
On 11/11/2011 02:47 PM, HEDDY, WILLIAM wrote:
To whom it may concern,
I downloaded and installed Debian on my computer last night and I
rebooted the computer and now all that comes up is a white cursor on a
black screen. Did I just completely kill my Windows 7 operating system?
Thanks for
On 12/11/11 08:04, Eric Galaxy wrote:
> I just installed django on my system. �Following the install
> instructions
> (http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-django-on-debian-lenny-apache2-mod_python),
> I ran the following line:
>
> /usr/share/python-support/python-django/django/bin/django-admi
To whom it may concern,
I downloaded and installed Debian on my computer last night and I rebooted the
computer and now all that comes up is a white cursor on a black screen. Did I
just completely kill my Windows 7 operating system?
Thanks for any help
Brandon Heddy
I've been looking at Fedora's latest move and I think it's a good
innovation.
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-launches-community-knowledge-base-1376531.html
Innovation applies as much to community as it does to development.
By extending this communication reach out into the wider c
Raf Czlonka wrote:
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 12:50:57AM GMT, Bob Proulx wrote:
Dan B. wrote:
I tried swapping the left Control key and Caps Lock key by modifying
the XKBOPTIONS value in /etc/default/keyboard, per instructions that
said it would take effect for both the virtual consoles and X.
I
I just installed django on my system. Following the install instructions (
http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-django-on-debian-lenny-apache2-mod_python
), I ran the following line:
/usr/share/python-support/python-django/django/bin/django-admin.py
startproject mysite
*
*
to start a project.
I used Debian once before, years ago & at the time Debian seemed difficult
to configure & software was way behind the times. I don't know if I'm just
getting older & more cranky, but I *think* I'd rather have older but stable
& "just works". For now, I'll have the option to boot into either Debian
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:20:46 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote:
- For the non-visible indicator problem:
Run this from a terminal (don't worry, it is harmless, you are only
requesting for a variable value):
gsettings get org.gnome.libgnomekbd.indicator show-flags
And put here the result.
I alrea
Weaver wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:17:10 -0500
Celejar wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:20:33 -0600
Paul Johnson wrote:
...
Here's my angry rant:
I'm an old timer, can remember time when "startx" would just call a
window manager and start a terminal, before Gnome, KDE, etc
existed.
I sti
El 2011-11-11 a las 10:19 -0600, Dennis Wicks escribió:
(sending back to the list)
> Camaleón wrote the following on 11/09/2011 06:26 AM:
>> On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:17:09 -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>>
>>> Somehow the workspace manager and the index which appeared at the lower
>>> right of the scre
Philipp Tölke wrote:
> Can't you tell firefox to use a socks proxy?
Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Chris Davies wrote:
> >Bob Proulx wrote:
> >>Yes. I use it regularly. The -D option sets up a socks server. But
> >>that is a socks proxy not an http proxy. It is awesome for socks
> >>forwarding th
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:42:38 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
You may be referring to the gnome-shell, not gnome3 :-P
> When I configure my display areas and select the external screen to be
> above my internal one, I am unable to move windows to the external
> screen.
>
> When the setup is left/right
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:40:10 +0100, Olav Lavell wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:42:56 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>>> Sadly, in my case typing ' simply produces ' (single quote). In other
>>> words, it does not wait for the second keystroke.
>>
>> Does it work for a new user account?
>
>
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 08:54:39PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
.snip.
>
> So I'm thinking maybe I need some kind of initialization string for the
> modem. Are they specific to a certain model of modem? Is there
> something else I should be trying?
See if this helps: http:/
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 05:47:21PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > > A .deb package for firefox? Where?
> > >
> > > The Debian Mozilla team makes Firefox deb packages available for
> > > Stable that tracks the current release.
> > >
> > > http://moz
Sian Mountbatten writes:
> Harry Putnam writes:
>
>> Sian Mountbatten writes:
>>
>>> Having loaded gnus into emacs23, in the group buffer I keyed ^
>>> and got a list of servers. Two entries caught my attention:
>>>
>>> {nnimap:Opera} (denied)
>>> {nntp:nntp.aioe.org} (opened) (agent)
>>>
>>> Wh
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno:
>> 3. W/ tap - You have seen already the problem - some unknown to me
>> permission problem - do You know why is it so?
>>
>I can make a guess:
>
>$ ls -l /dev/net/tun
>crw-rw 1 root kvm 10, 200 Nov 9 21:36 tun
>$ groups
>aschuring users kvm [..]
>$
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:42:56 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote:
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:06:13 +0100, Olav Lavell wrote:
I decided not to resist futilely and to go along with the recent
Gnome
upgrade in Wheezy. So now I can't type anymore :(
Longer version: I depend on the "International (with dead
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Atminos, ka toreiz tu man minēji, ka vēlies kaut ko foršāku kā vienmēr.
Es te bišku parakājos internetā un atradu, manuprāt, ļti labu, variantu:
http://northstarpads.co.uk/generic-webuser/action/last.php
Un atsauksmes arī OK, bārs, lab
Thank You for Your time and answer, Arno:
>Sthu Deus (sthu.d...@gmail.com on 2011-11-08 14:44 +0700):
>>
>> >> /usr/bin/kvm -localtime -m 256 -no-reboot
>> >> -cdrom ./debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst/debian-6.0.2.1-amd64-netinst.iso
>> >> -boot d -hda ./da -net nic -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no
>>
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:54:39 -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> Thanks for the tips, everyone. But it seems I have forgotten more about
> modems than I realized.
>
> I'm now using gnome-ppp as a dialer, which uses wvdial as a backend (I
> think). I'm also using martian-modem, which provides a driver for
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:18:53 +, T o n g wrote:
> Well, not exactly now but at lease Adobe flash is dead for all mobile
> devices:
>
> Adobe confirms Flash Player is dead for mobile devices
> http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/adobe-confirms-flash-player-is-dead-
> for-mobile-devices/
>
> Ste
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:45:06 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote:
> Hola!
Hi! :-P
> I have debian Wheezy 64 bit installed, and just installed the new skype
> for 64bit debian.
AFAIK, there is no such a version. Skype only provides 32-bits binaries
for linux.
> It works OK, but it cannot
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:06:13 +0100, Olav Lavell wrote:
> I decided not to resist futilely and to go along with the recent Gnome
> upgrade in Wheezy. So now I can't type anymore :(
>
> Longer version: I depend on the "International (with dead keys)"
> keyboard layout, as configured in System Setti
On 11/11/11 15:03, Chris Davies wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Yes. I use it regularly. The -D option sets up a socks server. But
that is a socks proxy not an http proxy. It is awesome for socks
forwarding though. I use it with the dante socksify program. Works
great.
Last time I looked, fire
On 11/11/11 23:40, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Dan Ritter writes:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 01:34:47PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>> On one site (the one cited above) I noticed said something about
>>> having to change kernels. I'm currently running wheezy with
>>> 3.0.0-686-pae. Will that need to
Bob Proulx wrote:
> Yes. I use it regularly. The -D option sets up a socks server. But
> that is a socks proxy not an http proxy. It is awesome for socks
> forwarding though. I use it with the dante socksify program. Works
> great.
Last time I looked, firefox, at least, supported proxying v
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:54:39 -0500 (EST), Rob Owens wrote:
> ...
> I'm also using martian-modem, which provides a driver for my
> Agere WinModem.
> ...
By the way, I forgot to mention that your winmodem is one of the
best ones, in my humble opinion (i.e. the best of a bad breed),
since it provides
Harry Putnam writes:
> Sian Mountbatten writes:
>
>> Having loaded gnus into emacs23, in the group buffer I keyed ^
>> and got a list of servers. Two entries caught my attention:
>>
>> {nnimap:Opera} (denied)
>> {nntp:nntp.aioe.org} (opened) (agent)
>>
>> Why was Opera denied? Will there be a lo
On 11/11/11 13:36, Richard wrote:
Hi,
How do you get synaptic to list available packages in alphabetical order ?
Click on the "Package" heading of the list.
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> Hi,
>
> How do you get synaptic to list available packages in alphabetical order ?
>
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Dan Ritter writes:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 01:34:47PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> On one site (the one cited above) I noticed said something about
>> having to change kernels. I'm currently running wheezy with
>> 3.0.0-686-pae. Will that need to be changed?
>
> No.
>
> aptitude install nfs-k
Robert Blair Mason Jr. wrote:
> ...the cause was a hard disk error...
> ...I swapped the drive in as a slave...
> ...I don't get promising results from the standard disk tools...
> ...the store and they claimed it had a broken read/write head...
A broken head is relatively unusual. Short of openi
I found nntpget and found out how that's supposed to work. I think unless
there's a real good reason to use trn rather than tin or slrn I'll leave
trn off of this system. I don't have a problem going up complex learning
curves if there's a good reason to do so but in this case based on what I
The news reader goes to localhost and expects to find news there in all
cases when first started up. So far as I was able to find no
configuration file for it exists in the package and no way exists to make
a configuration file using the package contents or downloading another tar
file from th
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On Nov 11, 2011, at 12:09 AM, B. L. Jilek wrote:
> Hi!
> everyone was worried about me this helps me s
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