Scott Ferguson Said:
That's a rather complicated, and *deprecated*, way of doing what can be
applied with a style element, or by just inserting a line break. :-)
HTML 5 and CSS do not *depreciate* tables. It simply is a cleaner way to
structure a page vs. The *everything* needs to be writ
Sian Mountbatten said:
I have a description list which has a number of items which document
values in a program. I want to group the items such that the groups are
separated by a bit of vertical space. How do I do that? That is, I want
a bit of vertical space in a definition list. Do I create an
I have a "laptop" computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think
it is 5), installed.
I will also add, I am not sure which partition you had grub booting from.
Ubuntu or Debian...
But the version of grub that was installed is important. Debian Testing or
"Wheezy" is using G
Bret Busby Ask:
Hello.
I have a "laptop" computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think
it is 5), installed.
With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown on
the computer.
Since that shutown, each time that I reboot the computer, it takes me to
the GRUB promp
Steef writes:
hi list,
bought my self a hp mini-netbook, included windoze7 and a very strong accu, 10
hours of life.
i put sid on an usb-stick, included fluxbox and wicd(-curses).
wifi = (lspci) brcm4313. (type 5.60.350.6)
loaded/installed the according the debian broadcom- (broadcom 43xx wir
Andrei POPESCU Said:
[re-wrapped to 72 characters]
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Sorry about that, I send list mails from my cell phone, very small screen, not
much I can do about the text length.
Otherwise thank you for the reply. Just curious, are the 32bit Libraries that
can be installed upon need in a 64bit ins
Ron Johnson Said:
The M2V has an AM2 socket, and all such chips are 64-bit capable, so
both 2.6.39-1-686-pae and 2.6.39-1-amd64 *should* work.
(I think you'd get a different error if the kernel was incompatible with
the CPU.)
The first thing I noticed about these two Kernels was the one i
Giovanni Said:
Smartphone == a hardware object which contains a programmable computer,
with memory & a touch screen user interface, and also contains cell
phone system connection ability, upon which potentially a properly
designed Debian GNU(Linux) subdistro could run.
I would interject t
Miles Bader ask:
What defines a "smartphone" anyway?
-Miles
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Tom Allison ask:
I have some computers here that haven't been turned on for what looks
like 2 years and 3 months.
And so there are a few things I need refreshers on. But I'll get to
those later. Right now I am not sure where all my sources are or should be.
ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ has probl
Aaron Toponce said:
Thanks for hijacking the thread. Next time, fork it instead, and change the
subject line.
Thanks,
Awww, I'm just being playful, and the thread has been going in the direction of
who uses what os for what; I don't think it was a hijack.
But whatever, sorry for interr
In regards to the Mac vs. Windows vs. Linux/BSD Holy War,
...Not really on topic, but I got a chance to upgrade my Back|Track 4R2
laptops to version 5 released a couple days ago. Very Exciting, I tell you
that's some Hot GNU on Linux Action there!
I run Back|Track on my laptops for War Drivin
Camaleón said:
>
> It's nearly impossible to infer whether the sender meant the message to
> be private or not.
No, it is not.
I am writing to a public mailing list and I expect that any reply to any
of what I wrote on it is kept the same -public- and directed to the
mailing list.
So as I am n
Jeroen privately mailed a reply to my message as well, in which he completely
ignored every validation to the points I made, especially the ones about
helping others before you go off trying to dictate group policy...
I find emailing somebody off list like this, especially after one user in the
I try to ignore threads like these, but here's a few thoughts...
This list receives a good 100 messages any given day, and your complaining
about a couple bogus messages that make it through?
Consider the other side of this policy, say an individual uses Debian and is
getting a given error, he
Your welcome, glad I was actually able to help somebody ;P
TeddyB
-Original Message-
From: lina
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:09:32
To:
Cc: Debian Lists
Subject: Re: locate something not exist
Thanks,
it works,
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:06 PM, wrote:
>
> I believe you need to run
>
I believe you need to run
#updatedb
If I am not mistaken (updatedb may work for different search command if memory
is faulty)
But if I'm not mistaken, updatedb will refresh the database locate uses to find
results...
TeddyB
-Original Message-
From: lina
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:5
George Standish said:
Ubuntu regularly has issues upgrading from one version to another, now
you expect it to "upgrade" to a new distro... This idea doesn't seem
like a good idea to me.
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I agree with this assessment though any ubuntu head will challenge any
statement like this with such
David Sanders said:
So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by
altering my APT sources? I've seen a few blogs saying it works, and I
do have a lot of customised stuff on my main laptop which I'd prefer
not to have to recompile. I'm pretty technically-adept and don't mind
Rico Secada Said:
Hi.
I'm currently looking into groupware solutions on Debian mainly for
sharing a calendar such as Thunderbird + Lightning.
Anyone who can provide some real life experience of pros and cons?
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I develop web pages using PHP, as such I have access to a web server capable o
Boblitz John Said;
Setup.exe? Is that really a Debian file?
I thought, but wasn't sure, so didn't want to say, that no Debian boot CD would
contain an .exe file. As these are a Microsoft Windows Format and by and by
Linux as an Operating System only acknowledges their existence by def
I guess that's one way to find gullible people to scam
Just ask em' to admit to being stupid and totally failing at the internetz
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Well Viruses and Vulnerabilities aren't exactly one and the same.
Most of the Vulnerabilities mentioned have weaknesses in the applications or
pure stupidity of the users.
Something I regularly gripe about, Leave stupid people on their own platform,
don't dilute mine.
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Ed Morbius ask;
Does anyone have actual or apparent performance comparisons between vbox
and VMWare?
Why would one chose one over the other?
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I would say VMWare's market share is in the Corporate environment,
Either for the few features it has over VirtualBox
or for the same reasons Red
Jason Hsu said:
Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu, so I don't know how you can pan Ubuntu but
praise Mint. No distro can be good at everything, but there's no denying the
impact of Ubuntu. It has moved the Overton Window in the Windows-vs.-Linux
shift.
Technically, Linux Mint has
The problem with Ubuntu is it's the half-baked answer to a question that nobody
was asking in the first place...
The BIG Complaint: because Debian supports So many hardware platforms their
release cycles are too slow.
So they come up with the system of releasing LTS's about every two year
Just be sure to comment the unstable repos from your sources list after the fact
AFAIR, if you are running testing it is recommended to have testing AND
unstable repositories listed in your sources.lst.
[..]
To flush the repository system, do it now so you don't forget and do an
upgrade by ac
AG said:
Actually it was deceptively simple: added a line for unstable in my
sources.list, updated, and then installed vlc. Hopefully this will not
come back to bite me, but all went very easily.
Just be sure to comment the unstable repos from your sources list after the fact
# apt-get c
I was thinking about the reply I read to the restarting sound server question
suggesting removing the modules and re inserting them, forgive me author of
that post, I forget who suggested it...
Anyway I having not attempted this method before was thinking about how to go
about it. I would assu
Nate Bargmann ask;
I notice that when I am logged into my desktop remotely via SSH that I
get frequent pauses sometimes lasting for up to a half a minute or so.
Generally it's not too problematic although it is annoying when typing
an email (I log into my home box to read and send mail so it's all
Rick Pasotto ask;
How can I restart sound without rebooting the whole machine?
---
If your using Alsa, there is an alsa-utils file in /etc/init.d/
# /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart
Should do something for you, may also use commands stop / start instead of
restart if you want to say stop the ser
Tom H said;
It's not a Debian change but a split away from Oracle.
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Why? I was afraid Oracle was gonna screw up a bunch of Sun's open projects, but
they have been doing good as far as I have been able to tell (the latest ver.
of Virtual Box is awesome and yummy open source goodness...
Why would you love to "upgrade software incrementally all the time"??
Its stable/tested, CERTIFIEd to work fine, that's all..
Move to another distro like fedora if you love to "upgrade software
incrementally all the time".
kn
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Or, run Testing, I run Testing and almost never have issues
Try Synaptic ;)
Works fine even on KDE systems, is better organized, offers better search, ...
... no I don't get payed for this writing :D
KPackage is not worth loosing a word about it. Just *imho* of cause ;)
kind regards
Gero
I personally never liked synaptic, but then that's why I h
Isn't messing with volatile /tmp somewhat a moot point, given that the
Linux memory manager manages virtual memory anyway? I mean, if /tmp is
heavily used by your system, it will be cached in memory anyway. With 4
GB of RAM (as mentioned by kellyremo), you'll end with probably your
entire
Curt Howland said:
HOWEVER, I run Unstable, by choice. Sid breaks all his toys, so I
expect to have problems like this once in a while.
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He He He He He He
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Hi Hi Goldielocks
I am a Bear...
But just a cute fuzzy baby bear; you no hafta run away!!!
*giggles*
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deloptes said:
One thing I'm missing not in trinity but in debian sid is ktorrent. is it
really not working? Because it is not working for me since I've upgraded to
kde4.
It seems I can not use it with a proxy server. Is there a chance to install
the old one (ktorrent2.2) or is it better to setup
I think what we mainly should take from all this is Western Digital sucks and
we should never buy their crap...
I know there are some who will disagree with this, so no flames needed...
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Neil Youngman said:
OK, I'm obviously missing something here. Sid is testing, squeeze is in
testing, I thought sid and squeeze were essentially the same thing?
Essentially I changed the priorities to make testing the default and did an
apt-get dist-upgrade, although I had previously upgraded a f
I've been seeing a lot of random freezes on a number of Debian systems
(testing and unstable) over the last few months. Resources shouldn't
be an issue--one is a quad core system with 8GiB memory and very fast
discs. But I regularly see X programs freezing for tens of seconds,
even in konsole and
Andrei Popescu said:
You said nothing about the games you intend to play.
[Snip]
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I apologize, I am mainly refering to windows based games, rpg's fps's and
console emulators.
I do from time to time play linux based games, but when asking this question I
was referring to / thinking of
Klistvud;
Thank you for the info and links,
I will spend some time pouring over em.
If anybody is interested; I, for the time; am still useing my old evga geforce
6600, w/ 128 GB RAM, if I really get into it I may invest in a better graphics
card but for now this one will do...
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Hi:
Last night at the 2600 group I managed to score a deal on some basic hardware,
though not all that impressive, a major leap forward for my desktop.
Anyways; I have been a Debian fan for quite awhile but I do believe there are
different distros for different things.
My roomate has been ravi
An operating system should have reliable backup policies
built-in; for example, it should backup the entire /home subtree to
rewritable DVDs, or a network share, on a weekly basis. When installing
the system, the user should be asked where to and how often the backups
should be made, just
Maybe the MKVs are corrupt ? does mplayer fare any better ?
I got an AMD with a Geforce 7000 with nividia drivers and stock Xorg
conf with whatever settings the nvidia-config sets at the time of
installation and MKvs with h264 plays just fine on both VLC and mplayer.
Both players using whatever th
Hello;
I am about to kill my computer...
I have an older AMD Atholon64 3200 With 2GB RAM and an EVGA Geforce 6600
Graphics card (128 mb Graphics Memory)
I am running Testing with current Kernel 2.6.32-5-686
I have some .mkv video files containing H.264 in VLC I get Audio and Solid
green scree
You posted the same link twice, and the .png file has a big black block
over most of it on my system (I think I may have an X-related video
glitch on my box), so I can't see what it's supposed to be.
-
I got the black box too, on my NON X related Blackberry,
Though phone browsers aren't the
No, she didn't. She thought that because she had used the program Picasa,
then Picasa would magically produce her 'photos. She did not have them
online. There was only the one copy on her computer. She just usually
viewed them with Picasa.
I did paid support. I had to support no matter how
I don't mean to sound dogmatic,
But when will the Multi Billion dollar corporations understand that the harder
they go DRM the more they entice people to break it
Nowadays they have to worry about not only people who wish to pirate their
media taking a crack at their stuff
You have people wh
Miles Fidelman writes:
> Ahhh... so that's an essential qualification for using Debian? :-)
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Well, Technically, Squeeze could mean a lot of things to a lot of diffrent
people...
Just putting that out there
I've gone way past helpful this time;
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Rumors are, there is a Debian based operating system out there,
that numbers it's releases year/month and gives them
alphabetically ascending code names...
flori
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To me, it seems reasonable to talk about this as newcomers (me included)
are not aware of the inners of these naming decisions, but my vote would
go for the current system.
[SNIP]
Camaleón
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Camaleón, a newcommer???
I just don't see that, you are able to like help almost everybody who p
On Tuesday 21 December 2010 22:16:42 Mark Goldshtein wrote:
It is, however, easier if the names are in some easily remembered progression
(e.g. Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty etc.) than if they are random (Woody, Sarge,
Etch, Lenny ...)
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I always found Ubuntu's system more confusing in terms of ac
Jim Pazarena said:
what possessed the debian people to tack names on to the OS?
having actual version/release numbers seems so much clearer.
And there does appear to BE release numbers. So why promote the
goofy naming system which throws the novice?
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Windows 98, 2000 Pro., ME, XP, Vista, S
You can instruct the OS to boot into a diffrent run level by editing the kernel
line before you boot it in grub. It will affect only that boot.
I don't have the comand syntex infront of me, but a google for it should
produce the info.
-Original Message-
From: Juan Ignacio Gaudio
Date
Ressell Gadd said
so I think I should start with
a clean system. At present I use Lenny (AMD64) with a couple of
backports (maybe they are part of the problem), although I do
multiboot several OS's and I can install another easily. So I think I
may install another OS just for this project (which
Jansen napisal(a):
> Greetings,
> The flushing of buffers for devices plugged into a USB port
> is problematic. When writing data to a USB stick it usually took two
> attempts to write a directory to a USB stick. The first attempt
> didn't show the directory was there when it was re
Chris Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 12:15:33PM EST, deloptes wrote:
>> Chris Jones wrote:
>>
>> > I am trying to set up a USB sound bar on someone else's laptop running
>> > ubuntu 10.10 with a gnome desktop.
>>
>> what is this sound bar? something to eat :-)?
>
> No, a place where they
Finding the data is coincidence because you have created partitions with
same sizes, still you have corrupted some entries in the partition table
and you need to repair it. partition magick and alike tools do it.
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What I don't get is this, if you are able to access the data, doesn't matte
Below...
> If people really feel they NEED desktop
> widgets either make it add on software or make a third party desktop
> environment based off the main environment. The way it is now KDE and
> Gnome, the two biggest are competing for 'most bloat award' and the
> sleek fast environments like lxd
I agree Nuno Magalhães;
I use to use KDE, I loved the incredible functionality and customization you
got from it. Now I've switched to Lxde, not because I like it, but because KDE4
is complete tripe, sure it looks pretty, but there is really no customization
to it, which background image do yo
Hmmm, I learned sometin'; I didn't know about the whole map/hide triggers.
Good call Camale=F3n!
Glad it's working now Long Wind.
TeddyB
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From: Long Wind
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:02:31
To:
Cc:
Subject: (solved)Re: can grub on one disk boot OS on another disk?
You
Well that's good! It's what I would expect it to do if it didn't find the boot
partition specified.
You say Sda1 is the Win 98 OS In question? Are you certain of this??
the partitions on the hda device boot with (hd0,#) and there are no other disk
drives??
TeddyB
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The (hd1,0) structure is right, sorry for syntax error, was working from memory.
Looking at your list entry, it should work. The two drives are the only ones in
the machine right? And you said if you boot it with (hd1,0) it gives you same
os as configured for (hd0,0) ??
H, if this is all a
Well what does the partitioning on the SCSI disk look like?
It's odd for the system to boot into the HDA device using hd[0,#] AND hd[1,#]
even if hd[1,#] was incorrect for the SCSI device, it should give you a can't
find error, devices 0 AND 1 shouldn't work for the same OS in any case.
If we'
Not really an answer, but I disliked transmission.
I've had far better luck with qbittorrent
Just a thought
TeddyB
-Original Message-
From: Dotan Cohen
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:50:13
To: Arthur Bela
Cc: Debian User Mailing list
Subject: Re: how to kill a process that is "defunct"?
The hd[#,#] doesn't refer to the device type (i.e. scsi disk sda) grub operates
BEFORE the OS and so that doesn't come into play.
If your IDE device is hd[0,#] than your SCSI device is going to be hd[1,#]
Obviously you must substitute the second # with the partition number your Win
98 OS is on
Running etch your most likely running grub1. If this is the case you must edit
your
/boot/grub/menu.list
There are entries for each item on your boot menu. You must create an entry for
Windows 98, you define the location of your installation via the hd[0,1] entry.
The first number is your di
You know; I have to side with Sthu on this. I run a testing install on my AMD
64 3200+ which is maxed out at two gigs of ram.
My system runs fine without any problems and I use Ice Weasel, mind you, I also
save bookmarks and such and though I run some tab nowhere near 200. Though I
also often
How Rude...
Are you really confused as to why you haven't received a reply to this question
on web based forums?
I really doubt you have put any effort at all into finding the answer on your
own given you apparently didn't read the mailing list rules and the references
it made to foul languag
Jesús;
Your argument is bogus, how many threads do you sit on and are you arguing
about this? How many OS's are you trying to convince???
What you seem to be missing, and has been pointed out over and over is yes
Debian as a Distribution is developed by volunteers, yes you can go around
tryin
I'm assuming you checked this already;
But is the disk filthy or scratched to heck and back??
I dunno that I've ever seen LBA Errors from a CD... Is this disk original
manufacture's disk or home made "burned" copy?
TeddyB
-Original Message-
From: Hugo Vanwoerkom
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 201
Your primary method of installing programs is going to be apt-get, especially
if your new to linux. Apt is in essence a front end that runs ontop of dpkg and
uses remote repositories to fetch, install, remove, and upgrade programs,
including the dependences of those programs. This is a major ad
To answer my own questions...
Grub2 seems to store it's configurations in /boot/grub/grub.cfg
But this file is not meant to be manually configured, it can be, but is
discouraged and is read-only by default.
Standard manual menu edits should be done in /etc/grub.d/40_custom
This is a module sy
Hmmm, I coulda swore my testing/squeeze install had one.
That's the thing I hate, everything always moving around.
Grub2 has to have a config file somewhere that's comparable to menu.list to
fetch it from, what is the new config file and where is it?
Second, I haven't been a fan of the uuid t
I have had grub do this sortta thing before...
Check your menu.list file and see if the entry for windows is still there, I
have seen it disappear or somehow be eaten.
/boot/grub/menu.list
I don't have an example code in front of me but you can look it up and verify
it, mostly you just need t
This is more of an F-MY-I question, but if the /tem dir is a separate partition
and your using a mount command in fstab, could you limit the execute
capabilities via umask?
I would think umask=111 would set the directory world read and write with no
Execute permissions
*NOTE* I don't fully u
You know;
I know this is an unenlightened response, but sometimes it's easier than de
bugging.
I would apt-get purge the gnome packages you have installed (purge removes
config files too) and then apt-get install the gnome-core package mentioned
earlier; which should install and config x as we
My roommate says your issue is most likely ACPI and alternate OS's such as
windows are likely to have same issues.
He said it's a common problem with aging toshibas and he hasn't found a
workable solution.
He suggest testing with other OS's such as windows or a live cd distro to
verify chip is
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