Re: Help in understanding XDMCP required

2006-07-29 Thread Bob Smither
and run VNCviewer there to display your complete desktop session back to your laptop. A little indirect, but it does work. HTH, -- Bob Smither, PhD Circuit Concepts, Inc. = "... if we f

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-27 Thread Bob Smither
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 14:24 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:26:34PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > > > >>How about this: > >> > >>If the file you're trying to print doesn't have proprietary > >>or trade secret info in it, I volunteer to try printing

Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive

2006-07-08 Thread Bob Smither
On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 14:20 +0100, Stephen Fahey wrote: > I've been a debian etch user for less than a week, all was going very > well until after installing Firestarter firewall, which went well, I got > the updates available window and went ahead with updates resulting in an > error message, w

Using remote apps on local X server

2006-07-04 Thread Bob Smither
suggestions as to why I can't run the remote app and see it locally? Thanks! -- Bob Smither, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same O

Re: Etch Beta 2 / USB Floppy

2006-07-03 Thread Bob Smither
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 14:41 +0100, George Borisov wrote: > Bob Smither wrote: > > > > I am trying to install the testing distribution on a PIII Sony Viao > > laptop. The laptop cd drive cannot be used to boot from (3rd party > > PCMCIA drive) and the floppy is a usb

Re: Etch Beta 2 / USB Floppy

2006-07-02 Thread Bob Smither
On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 13:11 -0400, Colin wrote: > Can you boot from a USB flash memory drive? You can try and install > Debian that way. I should have mentioned this in my first post - The bios does not support booting from a pen drive. Thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Etch Beta 2 / USB Floppy

2006-07-02 Thread Bob Smither
know I can install stable and then upgrade to testing, but that has its own set of problems on this laptop. Is there a way around this? Thanks! -- Bob Smither, Ph.D. - Linux User 281-331-2744; fax:-4616 [EMAIL PROTECTED