Re: Music software

2012-01-24 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
d > debian-multimedia). Does anyone have either a suggestion for how to > get the sid package working or another package that will do the job > for me? > > Thanks, > > Mark I'm using the upstream source package. Wiki: http://www.mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/compiling_on_linux

Re: [VERY IMPORTANT] How to undo updates....

2011-10-08 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Op Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:12:44 -0400 m...@neidorff.com schreef: > Hi, > > This morning synaptic reported some 32 packages to update. So I > updated the packages. After the update I can no longer login (KDE) > as myself. I can login as myself in a terminal login. I can also > login as root under

Re: Debian balloons

2011-08-17 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
; > See: http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110816 -- Jens Van Broeckhoven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110818021048.05be5...@squeeze.telenet.be

Re: What is the future for Debian on (Android) tablets?

2011-07-09 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Op Sat, 9 Jul 2011 14:25:42 -0700 Mark schreef: > A friend is looking into tablets, and one of the main drawbacks we've > found for Android based tables is that there is no scheduled support > timeline - i.e. an Android 2.1 tablet isn't necessarily upgradeable > to 3.0 if Google or the manufactur

Re: Anyone ever tried a downgrade?

2011-03-07 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Op Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:23:36 + (UTC) Camaleón schreef: > > If disk space is not a concern, I'd go for a parallel installation. > In the event something goes wrong with the new install (or upgrade, > if you made a full image of the currently installed system), you only > have to boot with the

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-02-28 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Op Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:34:04 +0200 Andrei Popescu schreef: > [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user] > > [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439] > > Hi, > > Being the stubborn person that I am,

Re: Squeeze. 'Buffer I/O error' message has flooding tty opened as root

2011-01-24 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Op Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:24:05 +0300 Mark Goldshtein schreef: > Hello, list! > > I am working as a root in a pure console (/etc/init.d/gdm3 stop, > trying to bring to life VIA8623 graphics) and there are flood of > messages: You don' need gdm or anything X related for plain console usage. > [time

Re: Debian or Mint for Games?

2011-01-08 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Op Sat, 8 Jan 2011 12:02:12 + teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net schreef: > Andrei Popescu said: > > You said nothing about the games you intend to play. > > [Snip] > > -- > > I apologize, I am mainly refering to windows based games, rpg's fps's > and console emulators. > > I do from time to

Re: Squeeze.GNOME. Correct compiz configuration.

2010-11-18 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Op Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:52:13 + Mark Goldshtein schreef: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Jens Van Broeckhoven > wrote: > > Op Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:37:41 + > > Mark Goldshtein schreef: > > > > > >> Yes, this is a first link I have checked, but the

Re: Squeeze.GNOME. Correct compiz configuration.

2010-11-18 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Op Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:37:41 + Mark Goldshtein schreef: > Yes, this is a first link I have checked, but there about xorg.conf > also. I can not find that file in /etc/X11 anymore. Actually, I cannot > find it at all. Run "X -configure" to create a new xorg.conf #X -configure #mv ~/xorg.con

Re: Extracting Dependencies of a deb package which is not a part of DPKG system

2010-03-16 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 20:24:53 Tech Geek wrote: > > Alternatively, if anyone can suggest a better method on how to achieve that > would be great. > gdebi does this: http://packages.debian.org/sid/gdebi PS: Opera has Debian repo: http://deb.opera.com/ Jens. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Why doesn't iceweasel work with iceape

2010-02-27 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
estion actually is, > you'll know what the answer means." > - Deep Thought, >Chapter 28 of Book 1 of >"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: >A Trilogy In Four Parts", >written by Douglas Adams, >published by Pan Books, 1992 >

Re: avi to dvd

2010-02-06 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
On Saturday 06 February 2010 20:49:56 Bogdan wrote: > Hey, > > Can someone point me to a decent GUI [i don't want to go through the > command line for this] avi to dvd converter? I've Googled a little and > found some references for DeVeDe and ManDVD, but i'm not able to make a > documented decis

Re: don't upgrade grub or grub-pc ! what's wrong with LILO ?

2010-02-01 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
On Monday 01 February 2010 16:24:58 Brian Denheyer wrote: > Imagine by surprise when I finished upgrading unstable and ended up > with a system that wouldn't boot. > > And I'm not the only one, judging from the bug list. > > So notice to those running unstable, DON'T UPGRADE GRUB ! > > So you're

Re: kdm not working after upgrade from KDE 3.5 to 4.3.4

2010-01-19 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:45:27 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:09:47 Rémi Moyen wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > (this is my first post on this list, please excuse me if I make any > > mistakes...) > > > > I have a Debian testing system on which for a long time I kept old KD

Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?

2009-12-19 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
On Friday 18 December 2009 04:39:49 Nick Boyce wrote: > That's good to know. Now maybe I can remove the wrapper script for > apt-get that I put on some of our Debian boxes at work for the benefit > of other sysadmins who were accustomed to using apt-get, which simply > displays "You probably want

Re: FF 3.5 in Unstable?

2009-07-04 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
On Saturday 04 July 2009 20:12:33 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > Im running Debian Unstable, and had hoped that the new version of FireFox > would be in Unstable pretty quickly. But its not there yet. > > Im using it happily on my Mac system, and i'd really like to get it on > Debian as wel

Re: status of backports?

2009-03-21 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
My apologies for the bad cut-and-paste work in my previous post. I didn't have X installed and removed the wrong parts from aptitude's output. Anyway, I can still update and install (tmw is just some random game) from backports. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: status of backports?

2009-03-21 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Ian Zimmerman wrote: Jens> Did I miss something? Why would it be "in trouble"? i...@matica:~$ httping -t 5 -h 194.8.57.6 PING 194.8.57.6:80 (http://194.8.57.6:80/): timeout receiving reply from host timeout receiving reply from host timeout receiving reply from host timeout receiving reply from

Re: status of backports?

2009-03-21 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Ian Zimmerman wrote: Is it just me, or is backports.org in trouble? Did I miss something? Why would it be "in trouble"? Their website seems to be down (atm) but it's all still working for me. Jens. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: DVD authoring

2009-03-19 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Frank McCormick wrote: Running Squeezeand lookng for a comprehensive DVD authoring software. There doesn't seem to be much in the repositories , at least nothing with a nice GUI front-end. I am also looking for software to convert some mpeg4 files I have to avi's. Anyone got any suggestions

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Jens Van Broeckhoven wrote: Sander Marechal wrote: Nuno Magalhães wrote: I think most people top post in corporate enviroments 'cos they just click and type and don't really care about proper use of email or computers in general. It's just the thing to send messages.

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Sander Marechal wrote: Nuno Magalhães wrote: I think most people top post in corporate enviroments 'cos they just click and type and don't really care about proper use of email or computers in general. It's just the thing to send messages. Actually, top posting makes some sense in a co

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-11 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
puter. I am willing to use non-Ext3 filesystems, I just want RWX-RWX-RWX-style file permissions. Why so many difficult answers? If you normally use ext3, use ext2(ext3 without journalizing) on your flash drive. Even Windows supports it. -- .''`. Jens Van Broeckhoven : :'

Re: GUI crashes in the last few weeks (caused by iceweasel??)

2009-02-01 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
On Sunday 01 February 2009 23:48:25 Alon Horn wrote: > hi, > in the last couple of weeks i've experianced a few gui crashes, ie > screen blinking for a few seconds until some blue sreen with a > Xorg-something error shows up. it seem to be since an iceweasel & xorg > updates that were made 14/1, an

Re: unable to get kde4.2

2009-02-01 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
On Sunday 01 February 2009 15:50:39 raman narasimhan wrote: > i'm having lenny/sid system, with kde4.1, i'd like to upgrade to kde4,2, > but both aptitude and apt-get say, my kde is already the latest one > available... pls go throught the following and tell me whats wrong.. > > > > debian:~# aptit