Hi Michael,
> On 03/10/2013 07:23 PM, Michael wrote:
>> My display is skewed to the right about 1/4 inch. While in a terminal
>> window, I run sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and it comes back to the
>> prompt after about two seconds.
On 11 March 2013 00:02, Wayne Topa wrote:
> It would be h
>> Em 05-03-2013 15:30, Timothy Magee escreveu:
>> I like Debian because I can download the DVD's of the software and take it
>> home because I don't have internet at my house.
> On Tuesday 05 March 2013 19:59:03 João Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:
> I mostly run Wheezy on my computers now. But if
On 5 March 2013 18:53, Andy Hawkins wrote:
> There's no date set yet. However, there's no reason why you can't install
> Wheezy now. Now that it's in freeze, it's pretty safe to use I'd have
> thought.
I've got two machines running Wheezy, and haven't experienced any
problems at all for months (s
On 5 March 2013 00:53, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 10:59:18AM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote:
>
> snip
>
>> I'd like to leave you with one reflection that may cause pause. If tomorrow
>> Debian were to suddenly become twice as popular as it currently is
Hi Miles,
>> He has managed to hog the whole list, and get a lot of technical
>> expertise for free, for days now - by displaying the attitude of a
>> particularly badly-behaved child.
>> What a d!ck.
> but it has been fascinating, in a train-wreck, troll-baiting kind of way :-)
Oh absolutely! I'
On 2 March 2013 10:58, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 08:20:32PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote:
>>
>> João, kindly stop responding to this thread. I want help, not noise.
>
> Bloody cheek!! Did you behave this way on other distro support lists?
Watching this from afar, what I find
On 28 February 2013 16:30, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Harvey Kelly wrote:
>> [SNIP]
>> Please, for your own sake, go to Linux Mint's site, grab an iso and
>> try that installation. 99% of hardware is fully supported with Mint -
>> at least try that. If something goes
On 28 February 2013 14:21, Martin McCormick wrote:
> There was once a fellow on a list I belong to whose postings
> were one tale of woe after another...
Yes, this whole thread/tale is reminding me of when I first installed
a Linux system (SuSE 6.2, back in 1999). It took about 5 or 6 hours as
I
> On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 09:09 +, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Is it possible to make the fn key act as a control key inside of linux?
> (I'd like to keep the functions of the fn key combinations if
> possible).
Are the keys recognised? Have you checked?
When you run this command:
xev | grep -A2 --
On 27 February 2013 20:24, Mark Filipak wrote:
> What a nonsensical statement. I've never successfully installed any
> distribution of Linux
You fibber. You installed Squeeze on your amd64 machine according to
this thread (earlier this month):
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/02/msg0025
On 27 February 2013 17:49, Claudius Hubig wrote:
> Steven Grunza wrote:
>> Err http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/debian/ squeeze/main libpoppler5 powerpc
>> 0.12.4-1.2+squeeze1
>> 404 Not found
>> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with
>> --fix-missing?
>
> try to restore backup but the e-mails didn't have restored
Ah, sorry. I didn't know you were already importing the backup in
maildir format. I do think this is an upstream problem too: I got so
frustrated last year I even installed Fedora and Arch, before
returning to Debian, all due to the pro
Hi Carlos,
> i'm having trouble updating my system to wheezy.
> I'm testing on VMs with disposable emails, but not having good results:
I had a similar problem going from Evolution 3.0 -> 3.4. Oddly there
was no such problem from 2.30 - > 3.0.
Evolution's mail is stored in maildir format - where
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 03:19:17PM -0500, frank ernest wrote:
> I have decided to use the various distros and seek out differences
> but this is an imperfect way of going about this so I am additionaly
> asking you.
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/best-distro-2012.html
http://www.techsupport
Hi there,
> I'll look at Xfce4. Its for my wife, who works in an M$ environment,
> and is really accustomed to Ubuntu/Gnome2 as an alternative at home.
> (Unity is just not going to work out for her-I use fvwm2, myself; the
> lack of an icon/auto mount for fvwm2 and Enlightenment is kind of a
> sh
Hi Ralf,
On 12 February 2013 14:12, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> Btw. I experienced on other distros that PA today is easy to remove and
>> don't use a dummy package anymore
I've uninstalled pulseaudio - that went when I uninstalled Gnome -
sorry for any confusion (and yes, libpulse is indeed still in
Hello all,
After a full day's hard googling, I posted this to debian-laptop
yesterday, but haven't had a response, so maybe here is a more
appropriate place? Apologies in advance if not.
I'm running Wheezy and the multimedia/volume keys don't work in
Windowmaker (they work fine with Gnome and Xfc
Can you open up dconf-editor ('apt-get install dconf-tools' if it's
not installed), then use it to navigate to
'org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences theme', what does it say under
'theme'? (You can edit the value to 'ambiance' or whatever you want it
to run.
> I installed ambiance theme in wheezy (fro
No trouble since installing resolvconf. Surely it
should be installed be default...
--- Harvey Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Steven,
>
> No I didn't(!), so I've apt-gotten it and I'll see
> if
> that works...
>
> --- Steven <[EMAIL PROTEC
Hi Steven,
No I didn't(!), so I've apt-gotten it and I'll see if
that works...
--- Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:07:05 +0100, Harvey Kelly
> wrote:
>
> > No matter what, /etc/resolv.conf will get
> overwritten with
&
Hi all,
I've seen this problem whilst looking through the
archives, but can't find a solution...
No matter what, /etc/resolv.conf will get overwritten
with
nameserver 127.0.0.1
I added the lineprepend domain-name-servers
80.189.94.2;
in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf but it's still getting
overwrit
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 20:18, Tinus Kotzé wrote:
> How does your /etc/X11/XFree86-4.conf look?
>
> On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 21:44, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > >>>>> "Harvey" == Harvey Kelly &l
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>>>> "Harvey" == Harvey Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Harvey> Maybe I'm missing something, but upon booting-up,
> Harvey> NVIDIA-kernel doesn't auto-install, and
But, and please forgive my newbie-ignorance :) why do you want him to
switch? Surely the fact that he's running SuSE and seems happy with it
should be enough? Debian and SuSE are both Linux after all - different
flavours of course, but not that far apart.
Now if he was running Mandrake, then I
Hi everyone,
Oh dear. A repartition, a reinstall of Woody, and...
Maybe I'm missing something, but upon booting-up, NVIDIA-kernel doesn't
auto-install, and I have to su and cd ./NVIDIA_k* and then make install
every time. There's no problem with the NVIDIA_GLX though.
It worked okay last time,
Have a look at http://www.apt-get.org/ - pretty much anything you'd want is
there.
Harvey
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:39:14PM +, Vanilla wrote:
> Please can anyone give me a bigger list, for my sources.list.
> I only have 3:
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-fre
On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 15:51, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:11:36PM +0000, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> > Don't know what has happened. Wasn't doing anything unusual yesterday.
> > But now after I type startx I don't get a window manager (and I've
Hi All,
Apologies: I'm using Mutt instead of KMail to write this (due to reason listed below)
and can't remember how to get vim to wrap. Sorry.
Don't know what has happened. Wasn't doing anything unusual yesterday.
But now after I type startx I don't get a window manager (and I've tried
kde, g
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 08:56:14AM -0500, Jason Wojciechowski wrote:
> Dennis Stosberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > But still I wonder why anyone should want to use Mozilla instead of
> > Mutt...
>
> I can understand wanting a point and click client, but there are
> ... well, there's at least
Genius!! Well almost, I had to delete the Local Folders folder and put
a symbolic link to ~/Mail, but hey it works.
Thanks!
Harvey
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 09:17:17AM +0100, Roman Joost wrote:
> This will work lovly. Point your mozilla¹ to your local mail folder, where your
> mutt is saving your
Hello All,
I know this might be a stupid question, but can I read Mutt mail/folders
with Mozilla? The only import option is for Netscape 4 :( but is there
a plugin perhaps - I fancy using nice graphics instead of command-line
for a bit.
Thanks,
Harvey
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:45:23PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote:
> Jonathan Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Try fluxbox, for a different take on the blackbox idea. I prefer it
> > solely as it has a a better name.
>
> The version in Sid is a bit buggy when it comes to resizing Emacs.
> D
Hi everyone,
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:52:06PM -0800, nate wrote:
> George L Smyth said:
>
> > So can anyone give me some pointers on installing Debian? I am close to
> > the give-up stage, but am hoping that someone can speak in baby words that
> > will allow me to get this thing running (it's
Nope. I get lots of inodes from July (?), the partition is unmounted, but
not for long - got to get on with it haven't I? Price of an education
and all that.
Thanks anyway,
Harvey
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:27:58AM +, Brian Potkin wrote:
> As far as I am aware debugfs can cope with an ext3
Damn.
I'm starting the blasted essay again.
Thanks to Craig too.
Harvey
Mark Ferlatte wrote:
begin Harvey Kelly quote on Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:05:10PM +:
Do you think I should start writing to essay again - or would it be
possible to convert the partition to ext2, and use re
Hiya,
Do you think I should start writing to essay again - or would it be
possible to convert the partition to ext2, and use recover? Or am I
just being overly hopeful?
And yeah, point taken about backing up.
Harvey
Craig Dickson wrote:
Harvey Kelly wrote:
Oh my. I cannot believe what
Dear All,
Oh my. I cannot believe what I did.
# rm -rf *
Whilst in my /home directory - I thought I was in /floppy.
I've been digging around and stumbled across recover, but seem unable
(?) to get it to work, though I have ext3, not ext2 on the drive. I run
as root:
recover -a
Scanning d
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:32:02AM -0500, dman wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:02:23AM +0100, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> | On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:37:49PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> | > On Thu, 30 May 2002 02:19:51 +0100
> | > "Harvey Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTE
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:27:20AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 02:14:28AM +0100, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 05:42:06PM -0700, ben wrote:
> > > yeah, this is a debian list and the guy is looking to hire people
> > > with deb
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:37:49PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2002 02:19:51 +0100
> "Harvey Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > As in there was nothing asking for a suitable forum. Duh.
>
> On Wed, 29 May 2002 16:45:49 -0700 (PDT
> > Yes, but there was no such question.
>
> Perhaps you failed to read the entire message.
As in there was nothing asking for a suitable forum. Duh.
I stand firm: I don't wanna receive commercial postings thank you.
Harvey
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On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 05:42:06PM -0700, ben wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 May 2002 05:09 pm, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 05:04:03PM -0700, ben wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 04:45 pm, Andrew Sweger wrote:
> > > > I need to locate individuals
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:21:11AM +, Pollywog wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2002 01:09:55 +0100
> "Harvey Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Yeah, but I don't wanna be receiving this kinda post on a regular basis.
> > This is a Debian l
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 05:04:03PM -0700, ben wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 May 2002 04:45 pm, Andrew Sweger wrote:
> > I need to locate individuals in the Irvine, California area with Debian
> > skills for hire. Is this an appropriate forum to seek such folk? (I don't
> > want to be accused of advertis
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:17:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Mmm. So I formatted (well, what can I say), reinstalled Potato, changed
> > sources.list to unstable, apt-get update and then apt-get apt dpkg
> > debconf, and I've got the same problem. Can you upgrade from Potato to
> > Sid? When i
Well, I haven't got anything else to do tonight...
Reinstalled Potato - hey it's just like windoze with all this
format/reinstalling :) - changed sources.list to Woody, apt-get install
apt dpkg debconf. I'd saved the debs from Sid, and used them in
/var/cache/apt/archives, I had to download anoth
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 12:22:38PM +0100, kellyh wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 11:18:15PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > > I uninstalled pretty much everything from potato - and left just a
> > > skeleton system for the upgrade. Apt-get -f dist-upgrade and then
> > > waited. After downloading ap
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 11:18:15PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > I uninstalled pretty much everything from potato - and left just a
> > skeleton system for the upgrade. Apt-get -f dist-upgrade and then
> > waited. After downloading apt freaked out (I can't remember at which
> > point), so I used d
Hello all,
Yes, I know it's foolish to go from Potato to Sid in a single bound, but
hey.
I uninstalled pretty much everything from potato - and left just a
skeleton system for the upgrade. Apt-get -f dist-upgrade and then
waited. After downloading apt freaked out (I can't remember at which
poin
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:45:09PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote:
> > > > > [1] There's a difference between American beer and Oregonian
> > > > > beer, though, Widmer Brothers and McMenamins are still good;
> > > > > Henry Weinhards used to be good until they sold out to Miller,
> > > > > they're b
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:39:06AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, May 15, 2002, Harvey Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:45:53AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > > on Fri, May 10, 2002, Harvey Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > >
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:45:53AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Fri, May 10, 2002, Harvey Kelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > I've upgraded to XFree 4.0.2 from a Libranet CD and the screen is fine
> > except it is an inch or two off-centre.
>
> Why n
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 06:25:32PM +0100, Harvey Kelly wrote:
Forgot to add XF86Config :)
> Dear All,
>
> I've just installed Potato 2.2r6 and can't get my screen right. I had
> this problem a year or so ago when I last installed Debian - but I can't
> remember ho
Dear All,
I've just installed Potato 2.2r6 and can't get my screen right. I had
this problem a year or so ago when I last installed Debian - but I can't
remember how I did it.
I've upgraded to XFree 4.0.2 from a Libranet CD and the screen is fine
except it is an inch or two off-centre. I used x
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
Two minutes after sending this e-mail I searched under gnumeric and
fonts, and I got the solution.
Sorry - I'll try to be a bit more patient!
Harvey
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 08:44:38PM +0100, kellyh wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I know this is an old topic, but can anyone
Hello everybody,
I know this is an old topic, but can anyone remind me of the *subject*
for upgrading to XFree 4.1 and GTK/Mozilla fonts going haywire?
Actually it is only Gnumeric and Mozilla that have freaked out - AbiWord
is still fine.
I've searched under different combinations of GTk fonts u
Dear All,
Being a rather late convert to the joys of AbiWord, I've hit a rather
annoying snag...
I've got AbiWord-0.7.14 from Ximian, but it doesn't seem to interact
with a spellchecker. I have ispell installed (and it's the same when I
tried aspell too) but when I click for AbiWord to check my
On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 03:41:20PM +, Vittorio wrote:
> I have an almost pure potato 2.2r3 installation (only 2.4.9 kernel is a
> stranger!) and now I need to download gimp 1.2 which is part of woody &
> testing.
> Issuing 'apt-get install gimp1.2' from woody I see that it requires to
> dow
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 02:25:31PM -0700, Dmitriy wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:22:18PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I was wondering if there is Mozilla package somewhere that is newer than
> > the Debian M18 that is in the standard mirror locations. I want to try
> > multizilla
Hello again,
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:08:14PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Harvey Kelly([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I'm trying to configure X - but the problem is that I can get everything
> > fine, except the scree
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to configure X - but the problem is that I can get everything fine,
except the screen is way off to the left. I use xvidtune to alter it so it's
perfect, but how do I save my changes? Can I?
I've trying editing XF86Config-4 with the info from xvidtune, but when I
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