Re: Booting Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on MacBookPro 8.2

On Sunday, September 21, 2014 05:43:40 AM Lars Noodén wrote: > I've installed Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.6 (wheezy) from a mini.iso CD image > on a MacBookPro 8.2. The installation seemed to go smoothly, including > installing Grub, but when it is time to boot, the machine only ever > shows a blinking

Re: when an xterm starts, it always starts in ~/Documents

On 02/24/2012 05:59 PM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Whenever I start an xterm, I notice that it starts in ~/Documents rather > than in the home directory. Why is that? Where is it set? > > And can it be set to the HOME directory? > -- > Sian Mountbatten > Algol 68 specialist > > I noticed simila

Re: editing pdf files

On 01/13/2012 01:50 PM, richard wrote: Greetings, Is there any free app which can edit pdf files. Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read it with another copy of evince and you can see the alterations. Open it on a poxy winblos machine with acrobat or acror

Re: A question for the list:

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/5/10 8:56 AM, John Hasler wrote: > ZephyrQ writes: >> Lately, though, Debian seems 'stale'. > > If you are talking about a desktop and want to be on the bleeding edge > use Unstable. It's quite usable. Consider installing apt-listbugs if you'r

Re: ad blocking squid

On Saturday 27 March 2010 08:53:12 am Jozsef Vadkan wrote: > I want to block ads on the client side. [i mean when the people surf the > net, they shouldn't see any ads] > > Can anyone post a link to a good howto, how to set up a transparent > squid proxy, that can filter ads? [on client side! - ro

Re: Comparison of using Sidux as opposed to Squeeze

> Anyone had any experience using Sidux and how usable was it compared to > Squeeze? I have both a Sidux and a Squeeze install at the moment. Usability wise they're roughly the same, though Sidux is generally faster about getting fixes in place. Neither Sidux nor Squeeze will be as stable as... st

Re: [semi-SOLVED] Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:24:11 -0500 > Ron Johnson wrote: > > ... > >> For example, which apps to use open jpeg files, PDF files, ODF, DOC, >> XLS, etc, whether I'm in Thunar, Thunderbird, Evolution, Mutt, >> gentoo or any of a dozen other file mana