Re: Slow bash script

On Sunday 09 September 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:35:12PM -0400, Marty wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 04:23:42PM -0400, Marty wrote: > >>> The following script seems to run abnormally slow on a 400Mhz Sarge > >>> system, get

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Firefox and Time Zones

va Web Start... well, there is an ia32-sun-java-foo-like package, which should work, but I've never ever seen Java WS in reality. -- Regards, Thomas Jollans GPG key: 0xF421434B may be found on various keyservers, eg pgp.mit.edu Hacker key <http://hackerkey.com/>

Re: format grep ouput

On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 14:29 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/15/07 13:40, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > > I'm playing with recursive grep. Still fairly new to Etch. > > > > When I grep text files and get a dozen or so results, they print to > > the screen as a dense block of text. I found the color

Re: Why apache do not respct charset on web page ?

hink it's possible that you need a capital W. Are you sure you want to use an old windows code page in the internet at all ? I think UTF-8 is a better choice, and Wikipedia agrees with me <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1250> -- Regards, Thomas Jollans GPG

Re: svn checkout via a web-browser?

it isn't, why > > don't you install a svn client? > > I failed: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00075.html > And help didn't help: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00162.html [guessing] "GSSAPI authentication error" — are http-proxy-use

Re: Kernel 2.4 on Etch

ware, you use an adequately old OS, e.g. sarge. (as Kumar indirectly pointed out, http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#s-incompatible-2.4 looks like this is actually as good as impossible) -- Regards, Thomas Jollans GPG key: 0

Re: No Internet, but Email

On Friday 29 June 2007, TW wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe it's just my day. I'm trying to get onto the internet but I > can't. I do netstat and see that I'm receiving packets. I'm able to > get on email (obviously). Did I mess something up? It happened after I > did the chkrootkit command. I don'

Re: kernel 2.4 with debian etch?

linux 2.6 works well ;-) -- Regards, Thomas Jollans GPG key: 0xF421434B may be found on various keyservers, eg pgp.mit.edu Hacker key <http://hackerkey.com/>: v4sw6+8Yhw4/5ln3pr5Ock2ma2u7Lw2Nl7Di2e2t3/4TMb6HOPTen5/6g5OPa1XsMr9p-7/-6 signature.asc Description

Re: I can't find this network cable!

Noland Oakley wrote: > Please help, I have been looking everywhere online but I cannot find a > wireless network cable, where can I locate one? > This joke works on your mom (TM), not us. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: SSH through another computer

Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I am forced to SSH to host1, and SSH from there to host2. > > How can I do this in a single command? > > I have a private key in localhost, which is accepted for SSH by host2. How > can I use this key in host2 without storing it in host1? > ssh -t host1 ssh host2 t

Re: Which software to copy and edit video from MiniDV camcorder

Urs Thuermann wrote: > I want to copy video recordings from my MiniDV camcorder to a Linux > machine, edit it, convert it to MPEG2, and burn it to DVD. What > software is available in Debian for these tasks. I have read > something about kino, installed it, but it seems to be quite > instable. c

Re: Unix-ify File Names

Frank Terbeck wrote: > Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [...] > > zsh, yay! :-) > Just a few remarks. > >> #!/bin/zsh >> >> FS=" >> " > > IFS, I suppose. But: Why do you set it? ugh... good question. I wrote this ages a

Re: Unix-ify File Names

Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Since I frequently receive files from Microsoft Windows users, is there any > utility to unix-ify file names, that is, use lower case exclusively, use > hyphen as separator, etc.? > I wrote this little zsh script once; it unixifies all file names in the current and su

Re: network problem on a dell machine

William Xu wrote: > The problem is that i'm unable to connect to the internet > directly(execpt for google, weird..). ping, dns, traceroute, netstate > all look fine. this paragraph is self-contradictory; Are your problems limited to the world wide web ? If so, have you tried using a different we

Re: Copying files to a windows XP partition (mtools?)

On Sunday 25 March 2007 21:25, Wackojacko wrote: > > If you dont have/cant make a vfat partition there is another option. > There is a windows driver for ext2 (1) (assuming that's what you use) > which enables you to copy from linux to windows when in windows. > This can also be used with ext3 part

Re: Any feedback on Icedove?

On Saturday 24 March 2007 23:35, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > icedove is debianised version of Mozilla Thunderbird (the same software, > > but > > different name due to licensing issues). so I'd say MANY people use it. > > Only to be mathematically rigorous: not only the name, but some o

Re: spam originating from this list !

On Wednesday 21 March 2007 11:07, Joe Hart wrote: > Best thing to do with Spam is to ignore it (or eat it if you like canned > meat). or feed it to spamassassin or something else that helps you ignore it. spammers, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is where the spam goes. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Weird apache2 issue

erves pages from /var/www/apache2-default > > Does anyone have any idea why using www. would serve pages from the > correct location but ommitting the www. serves them from the default > apache2 location? they're two different hosts names. If you are using name-based vhosts,

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 13:55, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:15:18 +0100 > > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Exactly. So, if you want to keep your software current and run > > Ubuntu, then you need to reinstall the operating system every six > > months. If you run Debia

Re: host aliases

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 03:44, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:58:57 +0100 > > Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 19 March 2007 14:48, Celejar wrote: > > > I don't, in general, know the IP

Re: vi, vim, and update-alternatives [solved]

On Monday 19 March 2007 22:22, Paul E Condon wrote: > Now, I think I have never actually used vi. Instead, I have always been > using versions of vim that were loaded when I typed 'vi'. My ignorance is > revealed, but I learn, slowly. The closest free piece of software you can get is, AFAIK, nvi (

Re: host aliases

On Monday 19 March 2007 14:48, Celejar wrote: > I don't, in general, know the IP address. I have a system on my LAN, ^ if it's on your LAN, why can't you just give a static internal IP address ? If a DHCP server supplies certain

Re: Graphics cards

rmance, just something that is fully supported under Linux. not-too-recent ATi cards are fully supported, and, compared to other options (Matrox, what else is there...), more used and probably cheaper. Thomas Jollans pgpDHSRMJkS9O.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

n I'll put my full name here, without a fullstop, and see what > turns up. > > Nigel Henry By way of "serious debugging", I am using the newsgroup gate way for this message with a Tyler-style sig. -- Regards, Thomas Jollans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

d never have been Tyle...) Let's see (also, I won't GPG sign this message as for the test being more authentic) -- Regards, Thomas Jollans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: audiocd utility in gnome?

On Saturday 17 March 2007 20:19, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I'm wondering if there is a similar utility to konqueror's > audiocd:/ utility in gnome? Does nautilus have a similar utility? If > not, I'll just install konqueror, and use it. I don't know what audiocd:/ does, but I know that gri

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

On Saturday 17 March 2007 22:38, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Saturday 17 March 2007 21:50, Tyler Smith wrote: > > On 2007-03-17, Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (just wildly guessing) try appending a line feed to your signature > > > for that= to=20 b

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

On Saturday 17 March 2007 20:48, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Tyler Smith, as noted in my signature. I was wondering why > people were often referring to me as Tyler Smit, or previously as > Tyle. Then I realised that my signature was getting truncated by one > letter. I'm using slrn, wi

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

On Saturday 17 March 2007 20:31, A. Ben Hmeda wrote: > I have searched ubuntu forums to no avail. Why don't you ask there ? debian mailing lists have nothing to do with ubuntu support. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: How to install PHP5 using aptitude?

On Saturday 17 March 2007 20:44, Kelly Jones wrote: > shows that all PHP5 packages are "virtual"-- they're only used to > satisfy dependencies. I'd just install the virtual packages and see whether it works. They might have dependencies on the actual PHP which mortals are unable to find. Thomas

Re: tar vs

On Saturday 17 March 2007 17:08, Frank McCormick wrote: > What is Linuxs "obsession" with tar ? What is (are) the advantage(s) of > tar over ZIP/RAR for example. it works, that's all. ZIP and RAR aren't available everywhere and, AFAIK, are unable to represent UNIX permissions. Also, the separ

Re: A silly question about tar

On Saturday 17 March 2007 14:45, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 02:35:01PM +0100, Thomas Jollans wrote: > > On Saturday 17 March 2007 13:58, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 05:00:21AM -0500, Adam Porter wrote: > > > >

Re: A silly question about tar

On Saturday 17 March 2007 13:58, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 05:00:21AM -0500, Adam Porter wrote: > > Thanks for your replies, everyone. It seems to me that there might be a > > market for a simple script frontend to tar that would handle > > shell-expanded wildcards; perh

Re: Cedega and chroot

On Saturday 17 March 2007 03:54, José Sánchez wrote: > 2007/3/16, Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Friday 16 March 2007 23:17, José Sánchez wrote: > > > E:F1 2007-03-16 05:32:27,575 CRITICAL Unable to load GTK2 Python > > > bindings: could not open displa

Re: Cedega and chroot

On Friday 16 March 2007 23:17, José Sánchez wrote: > E:F1 2007-03-16 05:32:27,575 CRITICAL Unable to load GTK2 Python > bindings: could not open display that sounds like an X11 permission problem. Run % xhost local:localhost outside the chroot (non-root...) and try again. Thomas pgphKid7GFUpL

Re: cheap LCD display

On Friday 16 March 2007 17:37, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > I am looking for a cheap (DVI ?) LCD display > for my Etch boxes (macbook or macmini): > any advice is more than wellcome ! what size are you thinking of ? Thomas pgpFQIJg3UhCL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Backup

Jan Dinger wrote: > Hallo, Ich möchte ein backup machen: > > 1/woche Fullbackup > 6/woche inkrementel > > Habe es bis jetzt immer via Script gelöst (selber geschrieben), das > wollte ich aber diesmal nicht machen und bin auch der Suche nach einem > geeignetem Backupprogramm, ich habe nur erfahrun

Re: farewell mp3 :(

roberto wrote: > [snip] >> 4. When did it start? After upgrade maybe? > after the last upgrade it was ok, probably after realplayer > installation, but, sorry, i'm not sure of this > >> 5. Do other sound formats (OGG, WAV, etc.) and applications that produce >> sound (games for example) work fine?

Re: new user with installation problem

On Friday 07 July 2006 23:12, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Andrea Maffei wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would like to install Debian. I have downloaded > > > > debian-31r2-ia64-netinst.iso > > > > and I made an iso copy on a CD. But when I when I start the computer (I > > have checked on the BIOS that

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > testing is a train station in the Denian line. etch is the train car > currently parked at the testing station for repairs and modifications. > if you choose testing you will sooner or later be looking at the next >

Re: rhythmbox

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Hardy wrote: > Just did a general upgrade in etch and accepted all bugs and have > problems now with rhythmbox, which won't play any MP3s now. it'll play > OGG files, but not MP3s. > Trying to fix it, I came across some directions for testing file

Re: mplayer packages for offline install

Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Debian user, I am taking the first eight CDs of Debian Sarge to a low bandwidth location for install. These CDs have most of the software I need. Now, I know that mplayer insn't in Sarge. What I would like to know is, which packages are to be taken so that all dependen

Re: Best Linux Laptop

On Monday 13 March 2006 22:13, Michael Schurter wrote: > I know I've seen lots of posts on this before, so I'm sorry for asking > the same questions over and over. > > Someone just asked me what the ideal laptop would be to purchase to > install Debian Linux onto. The main thing is WiFi support an

Re: distribution upgrade question

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 11:39, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 05:16:02AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >For now I'm restricted to console mode until or unless I restricted ? I see no restrictions here. Just a little less eye candy *lol* > > First off, Sarge is the stable release

Re: fluxbox and screen blanking

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 16:33, Ishwar Rattan wrote: > I am running a debian derivative system details ? > with fluxbox > window manager. The screen does not blank and I have failed > in finding how to do it? you may want to install Xscreensaver and start it in your ,xsession . I believe blanki

Re: Intel Xeon EMT64

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 11:09, Beat Zimmerli wrote: > Hi everybody > > I want to run a webserver on an Intel Xeon machine. Which release do I have > to install? AMD64? Is it save? > Any suggestion apreciated. first of all, it's called EM64T. You can run wither the i386 or the amd46 version of sar

Re: Could you do me a favor?

On Monday 20 February 2006 00:47, Serena Cantor wrote: > I am in mainland China, can't visit the site below: > > www.chinaleadershipmonitor.org > > because the government block it. Could you visit it > and get the latest issue and sent it to me (about 6 > pdf files, about 100k in total)? Thanks! >

Re: File System - a stupid question ;)

On Friday 17 February 2006 16:38, Wodzu Wodzowski wrote: > I want to install Debian on laptop, but I want to have ReiserFS/Reiser4 or > XFS file system. I've found that I can convert/create partition with one of > above file system. Can I install Sarge on Reiser/XFS partition?? > ReiserFS and XFS

Re: Confused about 64-bit architectures.

On Friday 17 February 2006 11:02, Adam Funk wrote: > I'm planning to buy a new home computer soon and am considering Xeon, > Athlon 64 and Opteron 64, but I'm not sure about the relevant Debian > architectures, ia64 and amd64. Which one applies to which of those > processors? > > I'm also concerne

Re: good dual head x tutorial

On Thursday 16 February 2006 21:56, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > my problem: > > the analog (vga) output and monitor is a little off. let me explain: > the horizontal size of X is a little to wide for the monitor and the lcd > doesnt provide a mechanism to adjust the size of the display, just the > po

Re: C++: Math function round() does not compile - why?

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 11:48, Oliver Elphick wrote: > [snip] > sprintf(tmp, "%.4f", round((double) newqty * price * discpc) / 100.); > [snip] > orderimpl.cpp:84: implicit declaration of function `int round(...)' this is indeed wierd. %.4f should expect a double, not an int. You could try %

alsa lag in IA32 chroot on AMD64 ?

Hi, When playing games in an IA32 chroot on my AMD64 system with ALSA sound I am expieriencing a considerable framerate drop compared to OSS or no sound. Why ? Can I fix this ? I am running debian unstable. The problems do not occur in native amd64. thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: please help me....

rozita reza wrote: > im going to use linux as my server for windows clients what distro > should i use out of Debian and Redhat or Fedora core.? > i prefer Debian but i doubt... > please help me, thank you .. > debian is the most stable. debian has this great community. loads of people a

Re: Controlling eth0,eth1,... assignment order?

Stefhen Hovland wrote: >i think ifrename will do what you are asking, you can specify that >eth0 always be bound to x, and eth1 always bound to y, etc.. > > >http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/ifrename > >stefhen > >On 12/29/05, Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>With the new w

Re: firefox - how to change menu font

LeVA wrote: >Hi! > >Is it possible to change firefox's (1.5) font, which is used to display it's >menus and dialog windows? >Thanks! > >Daniel > > > I don't think so. A while ago I filed this as a bug in mozilla-firefox. (1.0.7 then) I got no response I am aware of. it's bug #326270. I am not c

[OOT] windows multimedia format incompatibilities (was: Re: [OT] MPEG2 on Windows)

Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: >On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:45, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >>kino (which is a non-linear video editor) *might* be able to do >>it, as onw of it's side functions. >> >> > >Tangential on this topic, I encoded a movie from and AVI created by my >digital camera on my Sar

Re: problème vidéo

Pueblo wrote: > Bonjour, > j'ai une vidéo en mpg sur laquelle j'ai un petit décalage entre le son > et l'image. Aprés quelque recherches infructueuse autour de mencoder, > je n'arrive toujours pas à resynchroniser le son et l'image. > Quelqu'un aurait-il un tuyau ? > Merci d'avance. > > demandez à

Re: [audio problem] Audio skips

belbo wrote: >Peter Nuttall wrote: > > >>On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 10:41:25PM +0100, belbo wrote: >> >> >[...] > > >>>Yes, my Xorg has -10 priority. And Gnome is quite slow even with -10. X How >>>can >>>I put value down? Which value can I try? Does it make any sense increase >>>player >>>

Re: How do I get my Kernel Back?

David R. Litwin wrote: Do to the recent problems with yaird and the new Kernel Image (suffice it to say), I have... removed my one and only kernel image. How do I get it back? I tried to do this from Knoppix but it doesn't seem to work. I will try again soon and give more details. Unless som

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

John Hasler wrote: Gnu_Raiz writes: This is one program that I believe is worth buying the license for. This is especially true if you have any windows machine's around. If you use Usenet for any amount of time you will find that this program is a must have. Interesting. I've been on

Re: postfix + osCommerce problem

Almut Behrens wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:30:48PM +0100, Thomas Jollans wrote: I am creating an osCommerce-based webshop and am having probems with postfix. the mail below gets returned by the mailer. (things in square brackets were left because they are unimportant and/or to protect

postfix + osCommerce problem

Bestellung From: "[OWNER NAME]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[CUSTOMER NAME]" <[EMAIL ADDRESS]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: osCommerce Mailer Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

Scott wrote: >Kent West wrote: > > >> >> >>>3- OpenOffice 2 was recently added to Debian Unstable. >>>Is it likely that OpenOffice 2 will be added to >>>Debian Stable. If so when? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>No. Stable does not get new packages, other than bug/security fixes and >>the like. >>

Re: Is Debian ready for the desktop?

Ueli Meier wrote: >Im thinking of getting Debian Linux, currently I use Mandrake but I need >to upgrade. >On the web I could not get the Information I was looking for. >I read an article that was a bit confusing. >It says if you want a Linux Desktop rather use coral Linux or Suse. >Check the link

Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

Mitch Wiedemann wrote: >Greetings all, > >Our local Free Software User Group has a large number of donated >computers, each having 64MB of RAM and a PII or PIII processor. We are >intending to configure these computers with a useful set of software and >make them available for use by low-income p

Re: Ready to join the club..

Greg wrote: I'm a noob to Debian but I'm ready to install Debian to my current machine. (PIII, 512MB Ram, 2 HDs; 60 MB - main and 80 MB secondary). The first HD contains WinME (don't laugh) and the second will contain Debian in one partition and Windows files (mp3s, JPEGs) in the other. I've al

Re: Firefox - No Scrollbars

Hendrik Boom wrote: -- but only in etch. In sarge -- same box, same set of home directories, but different / -- everything works fine. She's using mozilla under KDE in both systems. are sarge and etch using the same mozilla version ? If they use the same /home, the themes will be the same,

Re: problem with gaim

wood wood wrote: hi i installed gaim by 'apt-get installed gaim' i am using sarge kernel 2.4 on compaq laptop. i have nvidia audio driver and realtek ethernet card. now the problem is when i am chatting with somebody, with each message sent and each message received, i get this error on my t

Re: apt gui

Oliver Lupton wrote: Max wrote: Dear All, When installing Sarge this morning I chose the option for manually choosing which packages to install. There was a simple GUI where I could see which packages were available and select which I wanted. Was that synaptic? Regards, Max I'd g

Re: How to install X for 915 chipsets?

Li Weichen wrote: Hi everyone, I am installing X for my desktop whose main accessories are CPU: 2.66g em64t; RAM: 512M*2 DDR; Mainboard: intel D915GAV with integrated graphic card; Monitor: 17" LG LCD. I want to install Debian on my PC but when I get to the xfree86 setup, I don't know which

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

Marc Shapiro wrote: Can anyone suggest a way to network/connect all four to possibly distribute the load among them? http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/ sounds like what you're looking for. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Should I try Etch?

Redefined Horizons wrote: I'm still rather new to Linux, Then it's probably better if you stick to stable for a while at least. stable doesn't break, but testing and unstable break all the time (at the moment at least) [2] Are there other advantages I'll get from running Etch, other than

Re: A problem with my apt-get

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, -- As apt-get uses dpkg program, I can ask a question about apt-get install here:). Here the command line and the associated error: lucifer:/home/metan# apt-get install bb snip : french apt-get output saying that it depends on l

Re: iPodder wont start

Roger Creasy wrote: On 10/2/05, *Roger Creasy* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On 10/1/05, *Jules Dubois* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Saturday 01 October 2005 20:36, Roger Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNOME "other" menu

Titus Barik wrote: Hi all, A long time ago, GNOME used to have an "other" menu or something similar in the 'start menu' that had non-gnome applications in the list. Sometime ago, this had dissapeared, and I'm wondering if there's a way to get it back. I'm running Debian unstable. Regards,

Re: small characters on some windows, like OOo

Csanyi Pal wrote: Hello! Debian Sarge kernel-2.6.8 Window Maker I set up my X Window to have largers characters in some applications: ThoughTracker, URxvt, .. I edit for example the /etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt-lite to get largers character in rxvt-unicode xterm window. I use too Switch t

Re: installing debian on home network

michael wrote: I'm sure this has been covered before but I can't find it in the archives so all pointers welcomed! I've a Debian box (2.6, unstable) connected to the Internet via USB Broadband modem (I'm in the UK). ie it's nto a router/modem but the mobo does have a network port. I've another

Re: installing debian

steef wrote: hi all, a friend of mine asked me to install debian_sarge on his machine: with the netinstaller; for the first time. he is getting fed up with xp.he has got an empty hd on a usb-port. my question: does the installer recognizes: sees this usb_harddisk? or is this something for

Re: Help! - simple solution

The installer should have asked you if you want to install a "Desktop Environment" , "Web Server" etc. To get to that screen: log in. type "su" and press enter. type in your 'root' or admin password (you typed it in during install). you will become the *S*uper *U*ser type "tasksel" and press ent

Re: changing window managers

Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: Sorry if the question is stupid, but: What is a session manager, and how does it get involved? THX AFAIK the session manager is a program that a) starts the programs of a desktop env (gnome needs nautilus,metacity,gnome-panel and maybe more) b) starts certain ot

Re: Seeing a wierd behavior with Sarge, Gnome, Thunderbird, Firefox, and to an extent, KDE.

Andy Peed wrote: My problem is this: I would like to click on a link in a message I am reading in Thunderbird and have it opened in a Firefox browser window. (I'd prefer a new tab in an existing Firefox window, if there is one, but I'd settle for a new Firefox window.) However, any link I c

Re: distcc problem - Gentoo client - Debian sarge server

Tony wrote: Attempting to speed up my laptop Pentium II emerges. Set up distcc as specified in the Gentoo guide: Bear in mind that this is a _debian_ list. Now, back to gentoo. I personally speeded up my emerges by switching to debian and apt-get. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC