Re: Cut an paste from iceweasel email messages

2013-06-07 Thread George Standish
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:17:23PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > I keep having the situation where I want to cut and paste a section > from an email to another document. Is there any way to cut and paste > from iceweasel to the clipboard to a text document? I've personally butted heads against this

Re: Apt says it's okay to remove chromium, but I use it

2011-07-09 Thread George Standish
On 10/07/11 12:40 AM, William Hopkins wrote: `apt-get install chromium` will mark it as manually installed. On squeeze: chromium - transitional dummy package for chromium-bsu On wheezy onwards, I take it, chromium points to the browser. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: gnome-mplayer does not play videos in the correct aspect ratio

2011-07-09 Thread George Standish
On 09/07/11 11:32 PM, Eden wrote: When I try to watch a video it does not cover the entire screen. Sometimes it is a small box playing in the center when it is full screen other times there are large chunks of black space on both sides of the monitor. Try changing the Video Output. From comman

Re: Youtube flash not working

2011-07-06 Thread George Standish
On 06/07/11 09:05 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: Is anyone else hee experiencing Flash problems on Youtube? It affects both Chrome and Firefox - but they seem to be able to play Flash videos on other sites. Are you using Ubuntu by chance? It's a common issue on #ubuntu (freenode) today. Seem di

Re: Plug in with FIREFOX

2011-06-10 Thread George Standish
On 10/06/11 01:47 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: Can you watch this video with gnash? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwZLFTW4OGY&feature=related This video works with HTML5 on Iceweasel 4 on "free" squeeze. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: ia64 and i386

2011-05-30 Thread George Standish
Shouldn't the subject be "AMD64 and i386"? On 30/05/11 03:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:21:37 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2011 21:14:38 +0530 Mihira Fernando wrote: Adobe flashplayer comes to mind as well. While there is a 64 bit player, I've found that the 32bit on

Re: uid & gid problem restoring ubuntu made backup to new squeeze install

2011-04-21 Thread George Standish
On 21/04/11 06:16 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: ..Debian uses the same values as Ubuntu does. Good. I'm sure you mean, Ubuntu uses the same as values as Debian does ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread George Standish
On 21/04/11 03:51 PM, Erwan David wrote: Le Thu 21/04/2011, George Standish disait On 21/04/11 03:27 PM, prad wrote: one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using debian/freebsd. i understand that zfs works well with freebsd, so presumably it would with debian/freebsd as well. ZFS only

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread George Standish
On 21/04/11 03:27 PM, prad wrote: one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using debian/freebsd. i understand that zfs works well with freebsd, so presumably it would with debian/freebsd as well. ZFS only has user space support on gnu/linux, thus it's not "ideal". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread George Standish
On 21/04/11 12:04 PM, shawn wilson wrote: if you still have that vm up :( No sorry, I've deleted it already. I couldn't even boot up the system in recovery mode. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread George Standish
On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote: So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by altering my APT sources? I was interested if this had any chance of working, so I tried in a VM to go from Ubuntu 10.10 to Squeeze. I failed miserably (possibly due to user error

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread George Standish
On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote: The upcoming train-crash that is the Unity UI, and some over-political decision making in the community has led me to jump back to a more sensible and technology-led distro.. Unity is what brought me to Debian. Recent Canonical decisions only encour

Re: Keyspan USA-19QW USB-to-serial dongle

2011-04-10 Thread George Standish
On 10/04/11 11:30 AM, Rolf Brudeseth wrote: - After I plug in the USB-to-serial dongle (dmesg): [ 2615.044105] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 [ 2615.189670] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=06cd, idProduct=0118 [ 2615.189678] usb 3-1: New USB device strin

Re: 64 bit debian, 32 bit app and libaio.so.1 dependency

2011-04-07 Thread George Standish
On 11-04-07 04:10 PM, Bob McGowan wrote: Hi, all, I have a Perl based application tool set that uses DBD::Oracle libraries from the Oracle 11 instant client package. The DBD was compiled in a 32 bit environment. Now there's a user who wants to run it on a 64 bit system, which at least requires

Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...

2011-04-05 Thread George Standish
On 05/04/11 01:04 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On 2011-04-05 11:51:13 George Standish wrote: If you need more support than Debian provides and<= 5 years, install an Ubuntu LTS. Just to clarify, Ubuntu LTS releases are 5 years for the server version, 3 years for the desktop vers

Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...

2011-04-05 Thread George Standish
On 2011-04-05 09:56:13 Mark wrote: If you need more support than Debian provides and<= 5 years, install an Ubuntu LTS. Just to clarify, Ubuntu LTS releases are 5 years for the server version, 3 years for the desktop version. George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: My posts to list not echoed

2011-04-03 Thread George Standish
On 03/04/11 03:46 AM, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 03 April 2011 02:54:17 George Standish wrote: On 02/04/11 09:11 PM, Ken Heard wrote: I have noticed that recently my posts to the list have not been echoed back to me; so I have no confirmation that a given post has been received by the list and

Re: My posts to list not echoed

2011-04-02 Thread George Standish
On 02/04/11 09:11 PM, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have noticed that recently my posts to the list have not been echoed back to me; so I have no confirmation that a given post has been received by the list and distributed. I used to have all my posts echoed a