Switching from Arch to Debian Sid.

2009-08-14 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Hello all, I'm an ex-Debian user who has been using Arch for the past 6 months or so. Some annoyances with it have prompted to give Sid a shot. I used testing for years but got fed up of waiting for updates. I have a few questions. 1. How stable is AMD64 Sid in general? I'd like to hear users'

Re: Re: OT: Looking for free email service with disposable emailaddresses

2008-11-21 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Hmm..actually AOL does support server side filtering. It only seems to have problems with subfolders. Ananda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Looking for free email service with disposable email addresses

2008-11-18 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Celejar wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:11:13 -0500 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, are there any good alternatives to Gmail? I can't really afford to purchase mail space, or a web host, so I'm kinda stuck to free services. Check out lavabit.com. There's a free account option,

Re: OT: Looking for free email service with disposable email addresses

2008-11-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Michael Pobega wrote: Well, are there any good alternatives to Gmail? I can't really afford to purchase mail space, or a web host, so I'm kinda stuck to free services. If it's IMAP you're after AOL - don't laugh, I'm serious and GMX. I'd probably recommend AOL though. Both support. IMAP

Re: OT: Looking for free email service with disposable email addresses

2008-11-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Michael Pobega wrote: That's a matter of opinion. I use Google's IMAP services and I love it, especially because all of the filtering is done server-side so it saves me time and energy. I really don't see what's so "atrocious" about it. It's off topic but you asked: It uses labels instead o

Re: OT: Looking for free email service with disposable email addresses

2008-11-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Michael Pobega wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: By default, original emails to the list are not echoed. This may be list wide or is a google policy to prevent duplicate mails. Google gets your message back from the list server, but it hides it by default.

Re: OT: Looking for free email service with disposable email addresses

2008-11-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
David Fox wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: By default, original emails to the list are not echoed. This may be list wide or is a google policy to prevent duplicate mails. It's a Google policy and it makes using mailings lists very difficult indeed.

Re: Wrong screen resolution on startup, need to restart

2008-11-16 Thread Ananda Samaddar
You're not using the proprietary ATI driver by any chance are you? Ananda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Claws Mail not encrypting to self when using pgp-mime

2008-05-25 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Sun, 25 May 2008 15:52:58 +0100 Ananda Samaddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a problem with Claws Mail. Since the Claws Mail pgp > plugins were updated from 3.40-1 to 3.40-2, sent messages are not > being encrypted to self. This is even though I am enabling th

Test e-mail please ignore and delete

2008-05-25 Thread Ananda Samaddar
This is a test for my new e-mail account. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Claws Mail not encrypting to self when using pgp-mime

2008-05-25 Thread Ananda Samaddar
and I don't know where to start so I thought I'd post here before submitting a bug report. I'm using Lenny, AMD64. thanks, Ananda Samaddar signature.asc Description: PGP signature

bsh-gcj package breaks Iceweasel javascript functionality.

2007-09-14 Thread Ananda Samaddar
scribed to either of the mailing lists I've posted this to. thanks, Ananda Samaddar. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WPA support for ipw2200?

2007-07-08 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Saturday 07 July 2007 18:50, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I can't locate a good how-to for implementing WPA support in Etch or > Lenny, and IIRC the gnome network manager doesn't support WPA. Gnome Network Manager DOES support WPA and WPA2 in Etch, if your wlan card uses the Linux Wireless extensio

Re: IPW3945 With Etch

2007-06-25 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Monday 25 June 2007 19:14, Tom Grove wrote: > It seems as though I am able to install the modules via module-assistant > and I receive an eth1 with wireless properties. The problem is that no > matter what I set my AP to I can't connect to it. I typically just run > with WEP but regardless or

Help needed with fglrx on Testing

2007-06-14 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Hello all, The latest updates to testing upgraded by fglrx drivers to 8.37 which do not work. I need to know how I can downgrade back to 8.35 which did work. Unfortunately one of the xorg packages depends on fglrx => 8.37. Alternatively if anyone knows how to fix Xvideo problems with 8.37 o

Re: Etch AMD64 fun and excitement

2007-05-11 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Fri, 11 May 2007 16:27:09 -0400 "Curt Howland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I have a new machine that I'm setting for my mother, a HP Pavilion > 6305. AMD Turion-64x2, which seems to be very nice. > > I only ran Vista long enough to make a restore DVD, and even that one > exercise ran smac

Init replacements e.g. upstart

2007-04-26 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Hi there, does anyone know if there are any plans to replace init with upstart or something similar in Debian like Ubuntu has? The reason I'm asking is that I've managed to get my wireless working via /etc/network/interfaces rather than network-manager-gnome. The only downside to this is that th

Re: Configuration of a Powerbook G4

2007-04-24 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:08:44 +0200 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, I am a new user so please forgive me if I ask you silly > questions in poor english. > > I have a problem after installing Debian 4.0 on my Powerbook G4 (you > can find in this link all the specs > h

Re: UTF8 problem with BitTornado in Ubuntu 7.04

2007-04-23 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Christian Matschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am a linux newbie, sort of. After upgrading from > Ubuntu 6.10 to 7.04, I suddenly experience a problem > with my bittorrent client (Bit Tornado) when there are > German umlauts in the torrent name.

Re: Warning to ATI's proprietary fglrx users using Testing / Lenny

2007-04-22 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:08:11 +0100 Peter Hillier-Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew J. Barr wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Ananda Samaddar wrote: > >> Slightly off-topic but does anyone know of any efforts &g

Re: custom kernel on etch?

2007-04-21 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On 21 Apr 2007 12:10:05 -0700 BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using Debian Etch since December. Solid, as advertised. > I'm looking for a link that would discuss the repercussions and > benefits of a custom kernel. > > For instance, does a custom kernel mean

Warning to ATI's proprietary fglrx users using Testing / Lenny

2007-04-21 Thread Ananda Samaddar
a hand to such an effort. The sooner fglrx can be dispensed with the better. It's plain evil. For those of you questioning why I'm using it in the first place, X would only work with the VESA driver which is just not good enough for my needs. regards, Ananda Samaddar -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Realplayer doesn't play, reeally.

2007-04-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On 18/04/07, Ed Jabbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On April 17 2007 17:19, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:11:37 -0400 [snipped] > > > > > Just got MPlayer to play the Real Video sites you mentioned > > > (CSPAN and BBC) under AMD64 Etch! I woul

Re: Realplayer doesn't play, reeally.

2007-04-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:21:51 +0200 Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 22:19 +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > Are you using the MPlayer / plugins from debian-multimedia.org with the > > binary codecs from the MPlayer website? As I've said

Re: Realplayer doesn't play, reeally.

2007-04-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:11:37 -0400 Ed Jabbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On April 17 2007 02:06, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:32:53 -0400 > > > > Ed Jabbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In the last few days, Realplayer won'

Re: Gnash issues which package needs a bug report?

2007-04-17 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:08:15 +0200 Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 07:41 +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > Is this a bug in the Iceweasel package that should create a symlink > > from the Firefox plugin directory to the Iceweasel one or

Re: Realplayer doesn't play, reeally.

2007-04-16 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:38:10 +0100 Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17 Apr 2007, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > Just got MPlayer to play the Real Video sites you mentioned (CSPAN and > > BBC) under AMD64 Etch! I would suggest you try it. There some

Gnash issues which package needs a bug report?

2007-04-16 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Hi all, I'm using AMD64 Lenny and I notice a minor issue with the gnash mozilla plugin. Basically the mozilla-plugin-gnash package install the plugin in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins . In this location Iceweasel doesn't recognise it and 'about:config' has no information about Gnash. If I copy libgna

Re: Realplayer doesn't play, reeally.

2007-04-16 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:32:53 -0400 Ed Jabbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last few days, Realplayer won't play any files in a browser. At > CSPAN, e.g., neither the embedded videos nor the standalone option will > run. Realplayer is called, but nothing happens. Video at the BBC also

Re: Realplayer doesn't play, reeally.

2007-04-16 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:36:12 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ed Jabbour wrote: > > In the last few days, Realplayer won't play any files in a browser. At > > CSPAN, e.g., neither the embedded videos nor the standalone option will

Re: XGL support available at all?

2007-04-14 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:21:48 +0100 Ananda Samaddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > does anyone know if any release of Debian has support is planning to > include support for XGL? I know it's a bit sad but I'd like to get > Beryl / Compiz or whateve

XGL support available at all?

2007-04-14 Thread Ananda Samaddar
TI gfx card and therefore there is no AIGLX support available for me. thanks, Ananda Samaddar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network Performance Issues.

2007-04-14 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:02:17 +0100 Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have spent all day looking for clues as to how to debug network > performance issues without success. Nobody seems to answered my > previous post on this subject - so I thought I would try again. > > The problem I

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-13 Thread Ananda Samaddar
ose this is how proprietary products become standards. Free Software is not the be all and end all but it's definitely a step in the right direction. Many developing countries, not to mention the OLPC project could not be where they are now without Free Software. Ananda Samaddar -- To UNSUBSC

Re: iceweasel/iceape/epiphany/galeon download manager problems (etch)

2007-04-13 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:03:43 +0200 "Andreas Goesele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > having moved from sarge to etch I now have a big problem with the > browsers in the subject line: Downloading a page is incredibly slow or > even makes the browsers hang: > > In all case it takes a long tim

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-13 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:49:01 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 04/09/07 22:17, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > [snip] > >> think of this? I personally find it shocking that

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-11 Thread Ananda Samaddar
ts.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash-dev/2007-04/msg00015.html So I think my original question has been answered, Free software flash players are not looking too hopeless. regards, Ananda Samaddar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ipw3945 Etch amd64

2007-04-11 Thread Ananda Samaddar
terminal) and do a search for ipw3945 if you install all the packages found it should work. regards, Ananda Samaddar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Youtube on non X86 platforms.

2007-04-10 Thread Ananda Samaddar
r and the MPlayer Mozilla plugin as well as Greasemonkey installed to use the script. I'm using the unofficial Marilliat MPlayer on Etch AMD64 and it works fine for me! regards, Ananda Samaddar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-09 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:30:02 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:17:47AM +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > After one of my usual bored web b

Re: Netgear WPN311 Madwifi WPA2 Configuration Help

2007-04-09 Thread Ananda Samaddar
. Like I said though you'll be better off asking the on the official Ubuntu support channels rather than the Debian ones. regards, Ananda Samaddar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-09 Thread Ananda Samaddar
OSS Flash player would go some way to remedying such a reliance on a proprietary product? Am I clutching at straws? We already have Gnash and swfdec but they are as of yet not fully Flash 9 compatible. Will the Tamarin project be of any use to them? regards, Ananda Samaddar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Get Amilo Pro V3205 to see Intel Pro Wireless 3945abg -- Etch

2007-04-03 Thread Ananda Samaddar
> # > > > > Ananda > --- > Hi all ;) > > Can you specify that little more? > > I just did that (*) but the system will not load the ipw3945 > driver. Is there something I am missing? > > ipw3945d and the firmware are installed. > > / Jiri > You also need to install ipw3945-modules-x

Re: Evo vs. Icedove (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)

2007-04-02 Thread Ananda Samaddar
s all the functionality you'll probably need (except html mail). It stores mail in the mh and not mbox format so it doesn't mess up like Thunderbird / Icedove does if you have a mailbox with a lot of messages in it. Tried Evolution but found it to be too slow and unstable. Ananda Samaddar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Get Dell D810 to See Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG -- Etch

2007-04-02 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 14:02:27 -0500 "Bruffey, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --Repost due to user error in first post--sorry all.-- > > I need instructions to get an Intel Pro Wireless set up in Etch on a > > Dell D810. System sees wired ethernet connection just fine. I have > > located and t

Re: Mactel questions...

2007-02-11 Thread Ananda Samaddar
you visit www.mactel-linux.org ? > > Jerome > > Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > Hello everyone, this was originally posted on the Debian forums but I > > thought I'd give the user list a try as well. > > > > I'm thinking of getting an Intel based IMac and th

Mactel questions...

2007-02-11 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Hello everyone, this was originally posted on the Debian forums but I thought I'd give the user list a try as well. I'm thinking of getting an Intel based IMac and the only information I could find on the 'net was about six months out of date so I thought I'd post a topic here. I've got a lot o

Etch on X86-64

2007-01-28 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Hello there, my desktop computer recently bit the dust and I'm thinking of getting a Core 2 duo system. What is the status of Debian on the X86-64 platform? Is it usable? I'd love to hear from people using this particular port and their experiences. I've heard various things here and there

Re: ISA AWE64 not detected

2001-11-01 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Why don't you use the isapnp support in the actual kernel (version 2.4.x). This works a lot better with my modem and with the souncard on my dad's computer than the isapnp tools. Hope this helps -- Ananda Samaddar e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]