new podcast with stallman, allison and waugh

Hi all, Just released a new podcast. The first episode has Richard Stallman, Jeremy Allison and Jeff Waugh all answering questions from the community in a panel format. It's a really interesting listen in my opinion and covers a good range of topics! the url is http://questionsplease.org so

CD-icons

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to force cd icons on the desktop to launch in Totem rather than opening Nautilus? Regards, Jon NB, Using Debian Etch with Gnome... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

Re: unmounting usb disk from the commandline?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm pretty sure the command is: umount [device path] run man umount to make sure. Cheers, Jon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFQOyj+zIA+Re6e

Re: How to access primascan

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I got my usb scanner to work only yesterday but I don't think I'll be much help! You need to find the 'backend' for sane for your scanner. Unfortunately I've googled and I can't seem to find one for your model scanner (if you try using www.google.com

Re: how to play .wmv files on Debian..???

The long and the short...The short: install w32codecs package after enabling the repository http://www.debian-multimedia.orgThe long:As far as I'm aware, no matter whether you're using Gnome or KDE you need to do the following at the terminal (can probably be done with synaptic too but I find this

Re: Deleting a folder

I'm not certain but I think you can use this command:rm -R [folder name]check the man page...you can also remove files that begin/end with specific strings.-- Jon

Re: Firefox won't start

Also try checking in the system monitor to see if it is already a running process. I know for me when firefox crashes (this happens often for me and no body can tell me why!) sometimes it is left running as a process and I can't start a new session of the browser until I end the old process. -- Jo

Re:Log out problem?

Hey thanks, I've solved it now actually...Somebody else posted a similar problem and said they'd worked around it by setting AlwaysRestartServer to true in /etc/gdm/gdm.confThis fixed it! Thanks for the reply tho - hopefully this fix might help someone else too? -- Jon

Log out problem?

When I try to log out of debian (testing) it logs me out ok but rather than putting back up the log in screen i'm left with a blank pale blue screen with a white box (obviously where the text box would be). cursor still works etc but no controls. x won't shut down with ctrl-alt-backspace neither do