Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
On 9/26/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joel Peter William Pitt wrote:>> 2. Not logging into X as root is another benefit. Running a single X> client/app as root is different than running all of X as root.>>> You can run su within a terminal in X, no one

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-25 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
On 9/26/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve Lamb wrote:> On a single user machine or for when the person who is pretty much the>>de facto administrator and they know to just su root, run the command and get>the hell out of dodge there is *NO* benefit of sudo. >1. Training oneself not to

Re: postscript/ghostscript

2005-09-18 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
If your printer understands postscript then it will work in Linux to some extent. Check the printer manuals/specification to see if it does... You may want to check/search google for the "Linux Printing Howto" Cheers, joelOn 9/18/05, linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hello alli have a mac and am

Re: OT: English usage. Was: Re: No Starch Press releases _The Debian System_ by Martin Krafft

2005-09-15 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
Bah, semicolons are for ending C expressions, not english ;P JoelOn 9/15/05, Andy Streich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 15 September 2005 05:55 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:> My tenth grade english teacher taught it like this:>> "If you can't replace the semicolon with a period and make t

mozilla apps have wrong timezone

2005-09-04 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
Hi all, This is a problem that I've been having some time now. Mozilla thunderbird and Firefox display my timezone as -1200 resulting in all my email displaying dates a day into the future when they arrive, and Firefox getting warnings from sites about incorrect system time. I'm in New Zealand,

Re: Netware login from linux without IPX

2005-09-04 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I'm not an admin, just a debian user in a MS/Novell environment trying to get by. Since I can't change accounts I guess I'll just have to do things the long way and copy files to public windows boxes before printing them. JoelOn 9/2/05, Jason Clinton <[EMAIL P

Netware login from linux without IPX

2005-09-01 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
Hi all, I was wondering if anybody knew how to get Netware interoperability in linux working when the network uses TCP/IP instead of IPX for communication? All the netware tools I have (nprint, slist, pqlist), and that other people reference only seem to support IPX. I'm specifically interested i

Re: proxy on synaptic

2005-09-01 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
On 9/1/05, Franco Gorziglia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2005/9/1, belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:> Hi,> I haven't a direct access to the net, I go thru a proxy,> synaptic gives the possibility to put the proxy server, > but there is no input for username and passwd, which required when I try> to upda

Re: OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
Don't mean to be overly pedantic, but just because something has a small memory footprint (which I assume you mean) it doesn't make it quick. Some programs sacrifice speed in order to use less memory and vice versa. I do concede that small footprint probably means faster start up time tho :) Joe

Re: kernel source and gcc-4.0

2005-08-30 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
>From the make-kpkg manual page: "You may control which version of gcc used in kernel compilation by setting the Makefile variables CC and HOSTCC in the top level kernel Makefile. You can do this simply by % MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-2.95" make-kpkg ... " Cheers, JoelOn 8/30/05, Jerome BENOIT

Re: kernel source and gcc-4.0

2005-08-29 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
On 8/29/05, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello List,I have jsut tried to build a kernel 2.6.11 with make-kernel on the daily update Etch box:while I could do a few weeks ago it without difficulty,I get now error messages: I suspected thatgcc-4.0 finds code errors where gcc-3.x finds no

Re: Programming language for financial modeling

2005-08-07 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
Before going into the general purpose scripting and programming languages, there are a bunch of languages designed purposefully for modelling. If you are doing simulations there is SIMULA. R (http://www.r-project.org/), the statistical app., also allows you to create scripts and modules useful fo

Re: Using a novell shared printer from debian.

2005-07-28 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
Hi I just got printing to a printer on a Novell server working (after giving up on it ages ago, hurray for small successes!). Used LPRng as the spool daemon and magicfilter as the filter. printcap entry: lp|:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/filter:\ :af=/var/spool/lp

Re: MS Access and .mdb files

2005-07-26 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
Not sure if there is a debian package, but check out: http://mdbtools.sourceforge.net/ -Joel On 7/26/05, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am confronted with a need to see what is inside a MS Access database. > I don't need to change anything, just need to off-load table contents, > a

Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking'' (was:Re: MS Project 2003)

2005-07-25 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
Ok, this is my first foray into debian-user and this behaviour doesn't impress me. I'm not a newbie, I've been using debian for the past 6 years after changing from redhat. Did you actually bother to find anything out about MS Project? If it is indeed in clear text then 'less' is a useful suggesti