Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-08 Thread John Masters
On 16:45 Thu 08 Nov , Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > This is the third poll I've run, of course asking the same question of > "what's your favourite FLOSS", and I haven't ever seen a flame war > incited by it. In fact I have found it pretty helpful since it tends > to reveal various hidden ge

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread John Masters
On 15:16 Wed 07 Nov , Nate Duehr wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2007, at 2:24 PM, John Masters wrote: > >> On 13:15 Tue 06 Nov , Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >>> Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to >>> add missing categories: &g

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread John Masters
On 13:15 Tue 06 Nov , Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories: > > Sorry but here's where I unsubscribe for a couple of months while the same stuff is rehashed as it was a few months ago. Does this totally

Re: Programmers Text Editor

2007-11-03 Thread John Masters
On 17:02 Sat 03 Nov , Richard wrote: > Looking to get into programming for linux, > would like to do: Java, Perl & Lisp > > What editors (IDE or RAD) environment application would work > or if needed to run 2 or 3 different editors that would be fine too. > > (please no: emacs or vi (or comm

Re: WINE under Lenny

2007-11-01 Thread John Masters
On 15:14 Thu 01 Nov , Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 05:42:08PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > > > I couldn't figure WINE out. I'm in a similar situation, needing to run > > a few Windows programs on a regular, if limited basis. I tried > > crossoveroffice, which installed without a h

Re: F-spot error

2007-10-16 Thread John Masters
On 22:50 Tue 16 Oct , Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:17:49 +0000 > John Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 20:40 Tue 16 Oct , Liam O'Toole wrote: > > [...] > > > >f-spot is strongly coupled to

Re: F-spot error

2007-10-16 Thread John Masters
On 20:40 Tue 16 Oct , Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:29:26 +0000 > John Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 08:13 Tue 16 Oct , Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:40:07 + > > > John Masters <[EMAIL

Re: F-spot error

2007-10-16 Thread John Masters
On 08:13 Tue 16 Oct , Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:40:07 +0000 > John Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've just tried to install F-spot on my desktop machine running Etch. > > Seemed to install OK but when I try to start it

F-spot error

2007-10-15 Thread John Masters
I've just tried to install F-spot on my desktop machine running Etch. Seemed to install OK but when I try to start it I get the following error message:- An unhandled exception was thrown: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bu

Re: postgres install fails on sid

2007-10-07 Thread John Masters
On 19:14 Sun 07 Oct , Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 16:35:44 +0000, John Masters wrote: > > On 16:04 Sun 07 Oct, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 13:49:11 +, John Masters wrote: > > > > I have posted

Re: postgres install fails on sid

2007-10-07 Thread John Masters
On 16:04 Sun 07 Oct , Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 13:49:11 +0000, John Masters wrote: > > I have posted this to the Postgres list also. > > > > Cannot get Postgres 8.2 working on Debian sid using the Debian package. > > At the config stage I get

postgres install fails on sid

2007-10-07 Thread John Masters
I have posted this to the Postgres list also. Cannot get Postgres 8.2 working on Debian sid using the Debian package. At the config stage I get a message telling me to run:- pg_createcluster 8.2 main --start Doing this (as root) produces the following output:- Creating new cluster (conf