> I would like to see how VirtualBox stands up against the others. It seems to
> be the fastest emulator when it comes to Windows. Although this is only one
> person's opinion and there is no "scientific" evidence it just feels faster.
>
> -Tom
>
VB runs great here. I'm virtualizing Arch,
uestions I know - Thank you.
Have learned a lot from this list over the past year already.
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well, just more of the same rip off, business loves the UK.
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$350 ? I was working in market research when colour laser printers were
just starting to penetrate the market for home users and were about
$4000 (or pounds, can't remember).
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t I'll replace
the Breezy Badger on two machines when it's come up to it's end of
support early next year and go back to Debian.
2 thumbs up, and thanks.
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correctly.
If I'm sounding a bit dismissive here, sorry, but respect to your
dedication and stamina to try "the best part of a month" just to run
this fine distro.
Have fun with it now. BTW which DE(s) did you choose?
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Sorry if this seems basic, but do you have a folder in /media pointing
to your storage devices?
I had this problem recently and sometimes forget to check this in a new
install as pointers are not always created automatically.
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Try the Gparted live cd, I believe it's only a 3MB or so download, in
any case much smaller than a full Knoppix.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gparted
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Have changed it to
/dev/sda /media/usbkey ext2 rw,user,noauto 0 0
still won't mount. The error I'm getting is
mount: mount point /media/usbkey does not exist
Error: could not execute pmount
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>
> after some experimenting my fstab entry for mounting a pendrive now
> looks like this
>
> dev/sda/media/usbdrive autorw,user,noauto 0 0
>
> but it still doesn't work (obviously or would not post).
> Before wasti
anyway)
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formless,
are you inferring you would argue for such an authority to be set up?
This is a good point, but get M$ to agree to it. Good luck.
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with a su
it
seems.
But spyware/adware is explicitly designed for Windows and mostly IE,
just like all but 6 (or 11 - depending on the school of thought)
viruses.
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Never mind, he's just a troll. Even the subject is designed to be
inflammatory.
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On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 01:43 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> "B.Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 15:50 -0700, formless void wrote:
> > > LinuxWorld has got a business registration number
> > > (ISSN) to show that
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 04:58 -0700, formless void wrote:
> I'm bothering with this site, as I mentioed that there
> is no registration details with it's governing body
I'm afraid I'll soon have to put this down as a case of don't feed the
troll.
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Xandros and Linspire among others are produced by companies,
Debian is not. It's a community effort many distros are using to base
themselves on, and this in itself is your much longed for 'credibility'.
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ht or might not indicate interest
in those.
That's all it does and it does not claim to do anything more.
And please don't top post.
>
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> > Their raw data can even be downloaded for your own
> > calcula
es trends.
Their raw data can even be downloaded for your own calculations should
you wish so.
As for physical address: You only need to go on 'About Distrowatch'
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=about and right at the bottom
are physical contact details. So easy.
What sort of IT person are you - or just coming here to make us do all
the work for you?
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> Eriberto
>
>
Hmmm... doesn't your monitor have controls for this?
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xfce and fluxbox. Although I like them
all three fluxbox does not seem more leightweight than xfce which seems
more functional and is incredibly fast. It actually takes fluxbox longer
to start up.
Will probably remove it in the end 'cos two wm's are enough, but I like
its very minimalist
חינם!!!
<אם לא תתקשרו לא תבינו כמה הפסדתם!!!
<
<077-6633677 שירות כלל ארצי
> www.compix.co.il
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>
And because I've got this incredibly polite streak today - why don't you
just sod off?
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ense...but I probably should
stick to the old saying 'never discuss politics in the pub' and shut up
now.
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Debian/Linux is an upgrade, which implies
that it is technically superior.
Interesting choice of words.
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an ftp client would have pre-empted that I guess as most use
anonymous by default.
But I couldn't be bothered to try type something in the browser box if I
don't want it anyway.
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gt;
True, this feels a lot faster now. But startup time does not seem much
improved.
Thanks.
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On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 12:09 +0100, B.Hoffmann wrote:
> Hello,
> I imagine the performance gain will probably be negligible on a desktop
> at home, or are there other benefits like better media support?
>
> Thanks again.
>
Not to worry, I'll just try out if it actually
Hello,
forgive my uneducated question, but what exactly is the benefit of using
a K6 kernel instead of i386?
I imagine the performance gain will probably be negligible on a desktop
at home, or are there other benefits like better media support?
Thanks again.
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> On Sat, 2006-04-01 at
Can we please leave it now? Broccoli and pineapples have become the
major source of what I regard as spam on this list.
Never mind the original question, it woulda been manageable if not for
all the replies and new threads that followed.
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On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:25 +0100, B.Hoffmann wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 11:41 +0530, Rajasekaran J. wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > I want to install debian package by double clicking mouse or keyboard
> > like rpm package .do the needful.
> >
> > Rajasekaran
install with dpkg -i
if you can't find something in the repository - which is rare enough in
my experience.
Even myself managed to do this and I've only seriously been using linux
now for about 9 months.
And you can change your terminal to some flashy colours and watch the
output scroll by
xperimental
> Pin-priority:250
> i cannot find any packet for mplayer player, even i try apt-pinning with
> stable , also i cannot find any w32codecs packet with both method, thanks.
>
>
You need to add Christian Marillat's repository. I'm afraid I haven't
got t
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> Florian
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>
Great. All cleaned up nicely.
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On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 13:09 -0600, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
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> B.Hoffmann wrote:
> > [...]
> > it is continuing to report that 'circles' could
> > not be loaded (this is the error I get) for graphical login, that's why
> > it's re
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 14:33 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> Hi B,
> maybe try wdm, I used to use it.
> apt-get install wdm
> cheers,
> Kev
Will check that out. Thanks!
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 21:32 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> B.Hoffmann wrote:
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> [...]
>
> &g
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 20:25 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> B.Hoffmann wrote:
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> [...]
> > Tried to start gnome-session from the command line after logging in and
> > get "Gtk-WARNING**:cannot open display:"
> >
> > Is there a way to edit gdm.conf fr
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> > Being at the command line, is there a command structure to reverse what
> > I posted in the first post? I mean to reverse
> > ln -s /home//.themes /root/.themes
&g
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Oh yes, and here's the URL that I blame:
http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Desktop_EyeCandy
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have been unable to edit the file as it's write protected.
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n do it in xine?
When I have time I'll do more searches on the use of the plugins for
gstreamer you mentioned to find out if that makes a difference.
Thanks!
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like heresy to some but it really just feels like a
waste of space to me.
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> That said, those customization options no longer seem available on the
> relevant purchase pages.
>
> -c
>
>
On the SUSE or Novell website there's a link somewhere to order Dell
servers with SUSE Enterprise pre-installed or on disk.
Upon looking it up I found Dell give
delete it.
>
Hi Ron, I am getting following error running it:
File "popdel.py", line 18
from_pattern = re.compile("^from\:")
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Any ideas?
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ones and then delete unwanted
messages and spam from the server. So next time I access the account
from a different machine (I keep all messages on server for a year) all
the junk won't download again 'cos it's gone.
I know, maybe I should just centralize it and run a mail server on
> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 22:05 +0000, B.Hoffmann wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > does anybody know of a utility/package that would perform what I'm
> > looking for?
> > Would like to be able to remotely and selectively delete messages while
> > they are st
sages.
Similar to the remote functionality offered by Foxmail on Windows since
many years, and I hear since recently in Outlook as well...
Thanks for any suggestions.
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Good luck.
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 15:23 +, Mathew Freeman wrote:
> I am a bit puzzled about the supported architechtures for Debian, and
> which one that I should get!
>
> I have a GigaByte GA-7VA-A with an Athlon Xp Processor. Can anyone
> help???
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>
Just plug in a different keyboard. Proof m$ft doesn't like us?
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> >
> > If any body could give me some advise on learning to use Debian wisely, I
> > would appreciate it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
>
>
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>Thank you, this did the trick and I got a bit further this time, but now it's complaining about
>
> checking for headers required to compile python ext
As long as we do not get posters to this list like on the Slackware group where one p'd off guy with a personal grudge flooded it with several hundred messages of utter nonsense for several days every day we should be alright... I hope.
like Debian?
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On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 04:35:32PM +0000, B.Hoffmann wrote:
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
Do you have g++ installed?
how to install GNUsTicker.
Still relatively new to Linux as you can probably tell and I've never had to compile anything before, but would really like the newsticker so I don't have to use Kde only for that reason.
Please let me know if the config.log would help.
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Thank you very much! Great (and so quick).
Bernhard
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 21:10 +0100, Mladen Adamovic wrote:
B.Hoffmann wrote:
I recall that whenever Debian is starting up I had Appletalk service coming up as well which prolonged the boot process considerably. Is there
Hi,
I recall that whenever Debian is starting up I had Appletalk service coming up as well which prolonged the boot process considerably. Is there a way to install without this or is the only solution to compile a custom kernel?
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it worked fine on other sites.
Unfortunately I have no idea how to disassociate gxine and associate RealPlayer with rm files.
Anyone sharing how to do this - thanks in advance.
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On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 13:04 +, B.Hoffmann wrote:
> with free calls from the UK to the US
> where their support centre was
Sorry, I believe Quantex were a Canadian company actually.
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some drivers sent
that were not on the cd. They even sent out regular driver update cd's
every 6 months or so - shame Quantex folded.
As for Dell - as you can tell this is still bugging me and their only
chance in my eyes is to come up with a very good linux offering for me
to
even look at th
" "640x480"
> >>Correct if you ask me...
> >>
> >>On the other hand, could it be that GDM still uses the XF86Config-4
> >>file and gnome the xorg.conf file? Probably a silly thaught. But the
> >>XF86Config-4 file is still resident.
&g
ably a silly thaught. But the
> XF86Config-4 file is still resident.
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It's using the highest possible resolution, you need to get rid of
"1600x1200" in your config.
I had this problem about 6 months ago and this fixed it.
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er or have
more complex needs.
I'm running it behind a NAT router/firewall but it's probably good
enough as a stand alone software firewall.
B.Hoffmann
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> That looks easier, when I tried it was a few years ago and I had to use a
&g
up menu in gnome -> security -> allow configuration from the login screen, so these mistakes do not happen again.
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uence.
Please bear in mind I am not familiar with how to configure that on your devices -presumably web interface.
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