"Christofer C. Bell" writes:
>> Would that mean anybody who wants to build their own kernel would need
>> to buy a signing key?
>
> Not at all. You can generate your own key and load it into your UEFI.
> It's no different a situation than using self-signed ssl certs
> without buying one from a c
Andrei POPESCU writes:
> But still, those attacks wouldn't be prevented by Secure Boot, so Nate's
> argument (Secure Boot won't improve Windows security) still stands.
That's why the whole thing seems so creepy... even if they --
currently! -- allow it to be disabled:
It really won't make compu
Scott Ferguson writes:
>>> You can't disable the code signing requirement on ARM.
>>
>> ... which is a great deal more worrying.
>
> Yes. And no.
> I'd hate to see a situation where it was impossible to buy an ARM (or
> other CPU based board) without UEFI that can be disabled - but I support
> de
"Christofer C. Bell" writes:
>> Again, let MS rot in its malware hell. I don't care! Perhaps if MS had
>> been a bit more proactive a couple of decades ago we would not be having
>> this discussion. MSFT issues are not for us in the Debian or wider
>> Linux community to resolve.
>
> Comments li
It may also be a problem with your service provider -- I had a problem
(back when I still used PPP) where the connection was getting dropped
mysteriously, and [after much frustration trying to figure out what
was happening] it turned out my provider didn't support TCP header
compression; turning of
Sven Joachim writes:
>> No, Debian dropped working PS/2 equipment for versions ex stable a
>> long time ago.
>
> Unfortunately I did not know this, and my PS/2 keyboard and mouse
> continue to work as they did in the past 14 years.
Hmm... at work I'm using the same PS/2 keyboard I've been using f
James Allsopp writes:
> I want to update from Squeeze to Wheezy but want to avoid Gnome 3 at
> all costs, is there a way of doing this successfully?
Hmm, can't you just run it in "compability" mode or whatever it's
called...? [if you want to avoid gnome-shell... I don't see much
obvious differen
Jon Dowland writes:
> I grudgingly use GIMP but wish I didn't have to. Dependencies on
> DBUS and gconf2 are the least of its problems (if you consider those
> problems at all). "MyPaint", which has been packaged, looks like a
> possibly replacement.
Hmm, if having almost no functionality at al
Doug writes:
>>> I like PCLinuxOS, which is a rolling release, and is always up to
>>> date, if you just remember to update it once a week or so.
> >
>> sounds like debian/testing :-)
>> With debian/stesing there is a benefit: You can stop updating once
>> "testing" is declared "stable".
>
> At th
Curt Howland writes:
> The only thing I did for "Linux compatibility" was to not get on-board
> graphics. I bought an Nvidia-based graphics card that was not
> "bleeding edge", even though it's got 3D acceleration. The card has
> it's own RAM, so system RAM is not shared, which is a very good thin
Richard Owlett writes:
> Back in the 70's DEC had an enclosure for the LSI-11 irreverently dubbed
> the "Hitachi".
> Five sides were cast aluminum with large fins o get rid of ~100 watts of
> heat. The sixth side was a heavily gasketed piece of cast
> aluminum.
Are you sure it wasn't "The Hibachi
Bilal mk writes:
> I am using xfs filesystem and also did the fsck. DMA is enabled.
> Also perfomed xfs defragmentation( xfs_fsr). But still an issue not only rm
> -rf but also cp command
Traditionally XFS is super slow when deleting lots of little files --
much, _much_, slower than ext3, for ins
Harry Putnam writes:
> Running wheezy - kde plasma desktop
>
> I want to get rid of pulseaudio. I almost never even use sound in
> linux and I see it always chugging away at 5-8 % cpu. That seems a
> bit extreme some how.
It seems worth reporting a bug if it's really consuming that much CPU on
Scott Ferguson writes:
>> My apologizes, this is the first time someone has mentioned that my mail
>> appears like it was in HTML formatting from my email client, but I can
>> tell you the email was sent as Rich Text message. Perhaps your email
>> client is interpreting emails from me as HTML inco
Lisi writes:
>> > One man's meat is another man's poison! The Conversations are the single
>> > thing I most dislike on GMail. They make such a mess of threading.
>>
>> I don't understand this comment. That's what conversations *are*, threaded
>> messages. It's just another name for "message th
Camaleón writes:
> There you have it: blame the browser :-)
> You can also try Google Chrome, it is also known to be fast.
I've found that on most web pages, especially "modern" ones (lots of
javascript, etc), FF 7 is usually signficantly _faster_ than chrome.
FF after 6 became really, really, fa
"poenik...@operamail.com" writes:
> Can anybody suggest a Usenet server? I am in the UK.
http://news.individual.net/
Not free, but very cheap (10 euro / year), and very good.
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Frank writes:
> Another update came through laterabout 8 new packages and now at
> least the desktop loads. Half the stuff is still missing. We'll see what
> happens in the days ahead. I rarely use Gnome anyway. But now I am
> curious.
My main complaint is various settings seem to now be ign
Mike Hore writes:
> Hmm... no replies. I take it then that NOBODY is running Debian on one
> of this year's iMacs?? Maybe I should just go away and try again in a
> few months?
Hmm, remember only a fraction of debian users actually use the mailing
lists... (and I suppose even some devs may not
lsut...@libero.it writes:
> After a dist-upgrade on wheezy (amd64( only some gtk applications have a
> weird look different from the system default, e.g. gnome-terminal (the
> preferences menu), gcalctool, empathy browser. On the other hand some
> other GTK applications are just fine and as expecte
lina writes:
> just guess ... might be wrong, might lots of people coming for WD,
> so the stores only sold WD.
Dunno, but I've had extremely good experiences with WD drives in the
past, so I'd definitely favor them when I buy a new one...
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Camaleón writes:
> I don't trust USB external enclosures that claim not needing
> external power other than the common port or that use another USB
> port to fetch it from there. They tend to lie... well, not "they"
> but USB ports which do not always provide the full required voltage
> and then i
Camaleón writes:
> Another possibility is having an external optical unit, but it requires
> and extra power supply (that means more cables around)
Hmm, actually modern optical external drives don't seem to need a
power supply, at least those that run off USB.
I bought the _cheapest_ external o
Josselin Mouette writes:
>> [Argh, even though I'm the original bug reporter for #631116, I didn't
>> get any of the email followups...]
>
> No, this is because of #434257. The debbugs developers don’t want to fix
Argh...
> As mentioned in the bug log, SCIM doesn’t provide a GTK3 module.
Hmm, s
Chris writes:
> According to a reply to bug #631116, installing ibus-gtk3 solved the
> typing issue for me. But the bad style is still here. A reboot makes
> no difference.
[Argh, even though I'm the original bug reporter for #631116, I didn't
get any of the email followups, so I didn't seem thos
lee writes:
> Isn't ant-aliasing supposed to make fonts more pretty and easier to read
> instead of messing them up and making them very straining for the eyes?
It generally does, but like anything, YMMV. Anti-aliasing parameters
can have a big effect on the final look (e.g., subpixel rendering
Mahesh T Pai writes:
>>> WHich version of libgnomekbd?
>>
> > 2.91.91-2
>
> I use 2.30.2-2
>
> Probably, that makes a difference.
Upgrading (and then rebooting) that doesn't make any difference.
Indeed, AFAICT, gnome-terminal doesn't seem use libgnomekbd:
$ ldd /usr/bin/gnome-terminal | g
Harry Putnam writes:
> I'm trying to compile emacs-24 on a newly installed squeeze system.
>
> I get the error C compiler cannot create executables
Since emacs-24 uses autoconf, you can look at the file "config.log" to
see more details about what went wrong running configure... look for the
actu
Mahesh T Pai writes:
> > somewhat different hardware (AMD + radeon + USB keyboard vs. Intel +
> > i915 + PS/2 keyboard -- I mention those details because it might be
> > related to X / input handling...).
>
> WHich version of libgnomekbd?
2.91.91-2
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Mahesh T Pai writes:
> > I have this problem too:
>>
> >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631116
>>
> > Very annoying (there are a lot of decent terminal programs in Debian,
> > but gnome-terminal is still the nicest I've found).
>
> I use same version - 3.0.1-1 and I have n
Chris writes:
> Hi, I'm a user of gnome-terminal. Currently the version is 3.0.1-1.
>
> Now if I try to type any characters, I just get part of them typed
> in. For example, if I type "ls", only "s" typed in. If I continuously
> type "asdf", only "as" typed in. The result seemd to be random.
I ha
teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net writes:
> I would interject that Blackberrys are widely considered Smartphones, in
> fact really being the first of the bread, but only one Blackberry Model
> contained a touch screen interface...
"smartphone" seems to be a bit more of a marketing term than something
pr
What defines a "smartphone" anyway?
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Klistvud writes:
> c) the *fact* of going private is indication enough of the person's
> intention
Sadly, it is not. There are a lot of people that are not very facile
with their MUA...
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Stan Hoeppner writes:
> XFS beats EXT4 hands down in nearly every category, at least for server
> workloads. EXT4 may have some advantages on single user workstations
> simply from a familiarity standpoint WRT tools, and slightly better
> performance with some single user workloads.
I had an acc
Camaleón writes:
>> Maybe something like "Debian4Smartphones". "SmartphoneDebian". ?
>
> Hum... I vote for "Debianoid" :-P
"Debdroid"?
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Ron Johnson writes:
> On 02/28/2011 01:36 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
>> Ron Johnson writes:
>>>> I do program development, compiles, etc. and have to say that for me
>>>> 64-bit is definitely faster, to wit:
>>>
>>> Have you tried Tiny CC? When i
Ron Johnson writes:
>> I do program development, compiles, etc. and have to say that for me
>> 64-bit is definitely faster, to wit:
>
> Have you tried Tiny CC? When it's sufficient for the task, it's compile
> times are pretty fast.
>
> http://global.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=profile&u=staalmann
Robert Holtzman writes:
>> LOL LTS is much buggy then non-LTS. 9.10 was the only stable version i have
>> used.
>
> That's the biggest bunch of BS I've seen in a long time. I've used the
> last 3 LTS releases and they have been completely stable.
So your experience is different. Great.
> Your p
jida...@jidanni.org writes:
> Furthermore, it only affects the keyboard. Working with just the mouse
> you would never discover the problem. But once you try to type
> something, you realize the window isn't listening yet, and you have to
> ALT-TAB away and back to be able to type anything. Quite a
Thomas Dickey writes:
>> yes... (I noticed this a while back, and it's on my to-do list - appears
>> to be due to an xorg change, since it doesn't happen on my older systems).
>
> ...or application change - for example
>
> http://www.archivum.info/opera.linux/2008-10/00096/Opera-stealing-focus-(at
Camaleón writes:
> Mozilla products are memory/CPU hogs, yes. I hope newer versions can
> correct that.
I find that chromium actually seems to use _more_ memory for a given
amount of content.
However with chromium it's really easy to reduce the usage by closing
tabs; with FF (etc) that doesn't
Sven Joachim writes:
>> Iceweasel (3.6.9) tends to grab memory and keep it (closing tabs may
>> free some memory, may not), but eventually reaches a stable point and
>> seems to do OK with memory once it reaches that (it may have long term
>> leaks, but I generally close my browser every few hours
Klistvud writes:
> Epiphany is (marginally) better than Iceweasel/Firefox. Internet
> browsing on GNU/Linux, frankly, just plain sucks -- I mean, it sucks up
> all my CPU and all my RAM, permanently. It also makes my machine(s)
> heat up and my fans roar like a fully loaded B-52.
My god, wh
Kelly Clowers writes:
> f-spot (picasa-like photo management, digikam (KDE) is really the only
> comparable thing I know of, but EOG and gthumb are good image
> viewers with somewhat more limited abilities)
I recommend "geeqie" for image/image-directory viewing/management.
For doing the "convers
Brent Clark writes:
> I think if you run Testing, its no different if you run / use FreeBSD
> ports. You just need to know, and guess if its safe to do a dist-upgrade
> or upgrade only certain packages, but 99% of the time, I just
> dist-upgrade, and as said .. no problems here. Even Ubuntu, Ive
Dave Witbrodt writes:
> Camaleón wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:28:19 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
>>> I wasn't speaking of the independent xorg devs (although they also do a
>>> good job), I was saying AMD is doing a very good job.
>>
>> In what way is doing a very good job? A good job could be
AG writes:
> As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the
> scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with
> these, or because they are no good, or possibly because they are
> superfluous from the perspective of an experienced sid user?
I think such thi
Ron Johnson writes:
> However, if you feel strongly about it, install popcon and mononono
> (from http://tim.thechases.com/mononono/).
Thanks for the link!
I've been wondering if there's a way to do that
(in retrospect it's trivial, of course :).
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Alex Samad writes:
>> I don't understand what you mean about mono. I don't think that I have
>> any mono stuff on my system, and IIUC, Debian won't install it unless
>
> isn't the new gnome package going to bring in mono as a default
The "gnome" meta-package has "depends: tomboy | gnote", where
Miles Bader writes:
> Actually shouldn't ext4 do _better_ (than ext3 etc) in such a case,
> since it does allocate-on-write, allowing it to allocate contiguous
> storage despite the user writes being small?
btw, I meant allocate-on-write-to-the-disk, aka delayed allocat
"Todd A. Jacobs" writes:
> by default, rsync copies a file in small chunks, so copying an entire
> filesystem to a drive that is actively in use could certainly cause
> fragmentation.
Actually shouldn't ext4 do _better_ (than ext3 etc) in such a case,
since it does allocate-on-write, allowing it
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes:
>>As a side note, it took quite a few steps to setup LVM + a larger /.
>>By default / is only ~6G, who in the world can live with that when my
>>/home is 650G ? Anyway system seems to be fine now.
>
> My desktop has a / that is 1GiB, but that's far too large, becau
Andrei Popescu writes:
> ia32-libs is going through a lot of changes at the moment, there is a
> huge thread about it on debian-devel. You *might* be able to fix stuff
> if you downgrade relevant packages to testing/squeeze.
I downgraded some packages to testing (ia32-libs, gcc, gcc libs, libc6
Tapani Tarvainen writes:
>> What load of gunk will be dumped into / to take it bigger than 500 MB?
>
> I've got a box where /lib takes 200MB now, of which /lib/modules is
> 140MB - and that's per kernel, during kernel updates it temporarily
> doubles, taking /lib to 340MB or thereabouts.
>
> I do'
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The "radeon" driver in experimental works fine with the builtin video on
> the 780G -- just no acceleration.
Oh, and just to be explicit: the last time I tried (maybe a month ago),
the "radeon" driver in unstable _did
brumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > - Motherboard: Sapphire mATX 780G
...
>> > - Video: Ati HD3450 HM PCI-E 2.0
>>
>> I wouldn't hold my breath. x.org needs DX9-capable cards like
>> nvidia 73xx series cards.
>
> I understand. Thank you very much.
The "radeon" driver in experimental works
"Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thank you Ron, that is a great point. Just last week I had a big fight
> with Western Digital because they require Windows to update the
> firmware of their harddrives. I will document this on my personal site
> sometime soon.
What's your website URL?
[
ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I didn't realize that until I joined a Google Group for Rails, went to my
> profile page and saw that Google could quickly display every post that I'd
> ever made to the debian list. Kind of scarey to think that all of my posts
> to a list were being kept on
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> /links/ is obsoleted by /links2/.
The ecosystem of "links" derivatives kind of complicated
Here's a page that explains some things; don't know how up-to-date (or
accurate) it is:
http://elinks.cz/history.html
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Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why has no one in this thread mentioned Lyx? I've just used it to
> produce two books for Lulu and have found it good for that purpose.
Last time I tried Lyx it crashed every 5 minutes even with fairly simple
documents...
"Texmacs" is kind of interes
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Struggling to keep up with your typing? Slow page reformatting as
> you scroll?
I've tried abiword many times over the years (mostly because it does
seem so much more svelte and pretty than OO), but I always seem to end
up going back to ooword
Usuall
Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Generic kernels include drivers for all sorts of things, most of which
> you don't have.
>
> This can reduce the size of the kernel, which can translate into
> faster operations, as well as reduced space needed to hold it (and the
> modules you build, if an
Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Important! You should _not_ upgrade using telnet, rlogin, rsh, or from
> an X session managed by xdm, gdm or kdm etc on the machine you are
> upgrading. That is because each of those services may well be terminated
> during the upgrade which can result
js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Pros:
> - It's Debian!
> - It's Free!
> - Great environment for Programming (better than ssh to linux development
> style)
> - More open source softwares support
- Pisses off all the mac users on slashdot
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David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Ergonomic" is not a word I'd use to describe the computers and
> terminals I'm familiar with from the late 70s. Most had truly awful
> keyboards. The Apple II, TRS-80, and VT-100 all had keyboards that
> just hit bottom, plastic-on-plastic, with no ta
My work has a combo copy-machine/fax/printer that works great with
windows (and seems really fast), but I can't seem to get it working
properly with debian/cups.
The printer model is: "Canon iR C4580F"
I managed to locate it on the net, and configured it with cups'
webpage-configuration stuff, a
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've used aptitude since 2004 and, despite noise on the lists to the
> contrary, I've never had a problem with it.
Seriously. Upgrading within X works just fine.
[People offer all _sorts_ of "advice" on this list, much of it is good,
but much of it is crap.]
Claudius Hubig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Debian just "re-branded" the Firefox because the name and the logo
> are not accepted as "free" by Debian. (or something like this...)
The mozilla corp would not let them use the firefox name/logo without
(unacceptable) restrictions.
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"Michael M. Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yep, that's the problem with the DE's. You either accept the GNOME/KDE
> ways of doing things or you probably run into some incompatibilities
> somewhere down the line when you try to use other things.
I have no clue what you are talking about here
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> See my other reponse to this thread. ~/bin at the front of $PATH is a
> security risk.
No it's not.
It an attacker is able to install stuff in ~/bin, they can (and almost
certainly would) also modify your .profile (etc) to change PATH
themselves.
-Miles
"Kelly Clowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> "This" being?
>
> "This" being the idea that gmail has no way to detect that this
> is a mailing list.
You're right, gmail can detect _that_.
> Based on this gmail could add a "reply to list button"
... and it could add a button with that ("reply to
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> About what? Gmail did the right thing, given the information available.
>> The peculiar constraints of this mailing list are just that; gmail has
>> no way to detect them, so it's up to you as the reader to follow them
>> (or instruct your MUA to do so).
>
"Kelly Clowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sorry about the To/CC thing, I was so busy writing that
> I forgot gmail is stupid about mailing lists.
>
> Note to self: time to bug google about that again.
About what? Gmail did the right thing, given the information available.
The peculiar constra
Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I think you missed someting? like the -n flag? If you do a normal sort,
>> its alphabetic. With -n, it is done numeric.
>
> That's true but it doesn't help anyway. 57K will sort larger than 2M.
You could do it in two stages, first without -h, to sort, th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) writes:
> dpkg seems to rely on dselect for some reason:
It did a lonnng time ago, but it doesn't anymore.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg --purge dselect
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of dselect:
> dpkg depends on dselect.
When's the last time you
"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That's true, but that wasn't what he asked. Martin wanted to know if it
> is safe to use aptitude after having used dselect up to now, and the
> answer is "no"--unless certain steps are taken in aptitude.
Christ Mumia, would you stop spreading this clueles
"Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> make uninstall is rarely supported and most often doesn't work.
There are certainly a fair number of packages that don't correctly
support "make uninstall", but I'm not sure it's accurate to say it's
"rarely supported" or "most often it doesn't wo
You could also use the "seq" program instead (which comes with
coreutils):
for i in `seq 1 $TEST`; do ...
I'm not sure if that's more or less portable than using all these
various bash features...
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"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Some people find that mixing aptitude and apt-get leads to trouble.
Some people think the earth is flat.
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You need to install the package "libsasl2-modules".
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"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> using WordPerfect. When I switched to Linux, I was overwhelmed with the
> thought of learning LaTex. So I tried Lout. I found it great after a
> while. Think of it as a stripped-down LaTex.
"... written by a language lawyer."
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Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Wow. Mike takes the time to offer a common courtesy of informing the
> Debian community of how it's being perceived by Jane Average Girlfriend,
> and the community jumps all over him about various aspects.
Why was it courteous?
Despite the "polite" tone, it
David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For printers on UNIX hosts, you probably want to use lpr:// with the
> host's address in the URL. Of course, the host has to be configured to
> allow remote printing, and you'll need to know the queue name.
Wow, that worked!!
[I could only find addre
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> even 708 old hardware seems to be running it fine for me.
>
> My objection is to having on my machine at all.
I object to having python and tcl on my machine.
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Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The conventional wisdom seems to be that the kernel, libc, and various
> other compilation sensitive packages, such as mplayer, are indeed
> available in multiple, optimized flavors, and that for most other
> packages there isn't much to be gained by tweaking t
In case anybody remembers, I was previously having problems with
booting the debian standard kernel on my machine (a custom compiled
kernel works fine). In that case, the problem was intermittent:
sometimes it would dump me into the emergency shell, where I could
just mount the root filesystem by
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The word "humbug" basically contains an implicit smiley
>
> Bullshit
>
> Read the novel which keeps it alive today. He was complaining
> that Christmas is a fraud.
>
> Put an implicit smiley on that.
In the 1800s perhaps, but most people do not use t
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Lighten up, Mike! You are reading into my reply a connotation which I
>> did not intend and which is not supported by the context.
>
> If you want people to take you lightly, then add a smiley.
The word "humbug" basically contains an implicit smiley
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The archives are replete with very valid reasons why people don't
> trust aptitude.
Not really. A lot of vague rumors flying about though.
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Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> my dirty little secret is that I've *never* had trouble with CUPS and
> don't understand all the problems that people have. Some of it I think
> is just inertia (used lp* for a long time why should I change) which
> is perfectly reasonable, IMO. A
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>(don't use aptitude on a non-stable distro!)
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> Could you elaborate on this? I have been using aptitude on sid for about
> two years without problems.
Various people seem to have a bug up their butt about aptitude
("if apt-get was good enough for Jesu
"Masatran, R. Deepak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The DPI of my Debian Testing system has changed. The change, I inferred from
> "xdpyinfo", is that Stable is at 96 DPI while Testing has unexpectedly changed
> to 75 DPI. Is this an intentional change, or is it a bug?
I think the gdm init files _
libcgal-dev looks really handy
... but then on the website (www.cgal.org) I noticed it uses the
obnoxious[1] "QPL" license, so I thought "oh I can't use it with my
(GPL) app."
... but then I noticed some parts of cgal actually use the LGPL,
including the functionality I want to use (surface subdi
Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> And forget ATI cards, their driver has... some discrepancies.
Unless it's one of the older ATI cards which the free drivers
support... those older cards are maybe not the right thing for the
latest balls-to-the-wall games under windows, but for runnin
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But what if you've been using Ubuntu for seven months now, you have
> all your applications install, with all the libraries with version
> numbers like "2-3.2-ubuntu-1"?
Sure, it's not really a big deal. Those usually don't seem to be any
more incompat
Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>--} Freedom's just another word, for nothing left to lose --Janis Joplin
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> I thought Kris Kristofferson wrote that song?
Yes, he did. Janis sang it.
-Miles
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I'm a cancer screening away
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Unless you REALLY know what you're doing, upgrading from Ubuntu to
> Debian (And vice-versa) is nearly impossible and unsupported by the
> Debian community (If you did try it, we probably wouldn't be able to
> help you). Too many things are done differen
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"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> AFAIK, docbook is designed for creating manuals that can be
> turned into ps, pdf, text, or html without using external packages or
> requiring a huge meta-package install.
Docbook also seems to have been designed by masochists it's so
horribly
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