Re: OT (for the debian-list): Re: [Rosegarden-user] Questions about audio playback and MIDI connections

2020-06-30 Thread davidson
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/30/2020 10:16 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: (Intentionally cross posted) This reply is to Debian List with BCC to OP so he would have my email address The following quotes are from an email to a rosegarden mail list -- Rosegarden is a music no

Re: OT (for the debian-list): Re: [Rosegarden-user] Questions about audio playback and MIDI connections

2020-06-30 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, June 30, 2020 01:00:41 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/30/2020 10:16 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > For us non-musical Debian users, we need: >1. informational links to Rosegarden and mcow Sorry, mcow is an acronym that I use, not sure how widely it might be used, it stands for

Re: OT (for the debian-list): Re: [Rosegarden-user] Questions about audio playback and MIDI connections

2020-06-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/30/2020 10:16 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: (Intentionally cross posted) This reply is to Debian List with BCC to OP so he would have my email address The following quotes are from an email to a rosegarden mail list -- Rosegarden is a music notation (mcow) program. A user is describi

OT (for the debian-list): Re: [Rosegarden-user] Questions about audio playback and MIDI connections

2020-06-30 Thread rhkramer
(Intentionally cross posted) The following quotes are from an email to a rosegarden mail list -- Rosegarden is a music notation (mcow) program. A user is describing a problem in which it appears the MIDI ports (connected via USB ports) change on each boot (or maybe even each start of the Rosega

Re: New user questions

2011-04-13 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 10:22 Wed 13 Apr, Freeman (hew...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 03:45:10PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 13:03 Tue 12 Apr, Freeman (hew...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:38:47PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > > on 10:15 Mon 11 Apr, Michael (mmorse...@g

Re: New user questions

2011-04-12 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 13:03 Tue 12 Apr, Freeman (hew...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:38:47PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 10:15 Mon 11 Apr, Michael (mmorse...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > I used Debian about four years ago and enjoyed it. The computer I > > > had it on died and my wife wouldn't l

Re: New user questions

2011-04-12 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:38:47PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 10:15 Mon 11 Apr, Michael (mmorse...@gmail.com) wrote: > > I used Debian about four years ago and enjoyed it. The computer I > > had it on died and my wife wouldn't let me put it on our shared > > computer. Well, I have another

Re: New user questions

2011-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/11/2011 03:38 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: on 10:15 Mon 11 Apr, Michael (mmorse...@gmail.com) wrote: I used Debian about four years ago and enjoyed it. The computer I had it on died and my wife wouldn't let me put it on our shared computer. Well, I have another hand-me-down (laptop) that I'

Re: New user questions

2011-04-11 Thread chris
On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 15:23 -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 09:53 Tue 12 Apr, chris (che...@gmail.com) wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 13:38 -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > > on 10:15 Mon 11 Apr, Michael (mmorse...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > > I used Debian about four years ago and enjoyed it. Th

Re: New user questions

2011-04-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 09:53 Tue 12 Apr, chris (che...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 13:38 -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > on 10:15 Mon 11 Apr, Michael (mmorse...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > I used Debian about four years ago and enjoyed it. The computer I > > > had it on died and my wife wouldn't let me put

Re: New user questions

2011-04-11 Thread chris
On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 13:38 -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > on 10:15 Mon 11 Apr, Michael (mmorse...@gmail.com) wrote: > > I used Debian about four years ago and enjoyed it. The computer I > > had it on died and my wife wouldn't let me put it on our shared > > computer. Well, I have another hand-me

Re: New user questions

2011-04-11 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 10:15 Mon 11 Apr, Michael (mmorse...@gmail.com) wrote: > I used Debian about four years ago and enjoyed it. The computer I > had it on died and my wife wouldn't let me put it on our shared > computer. Well, I have another hand-me-down (laptop) that I've put > Debian on but am having some issue

Re: New user questions

2011-04-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/11/2011 10:15 AM, Michael wrote: I used Debian about four years ago and enjoyed it. The computer I had it on died and my wife wouldn't let me put it on our shared computer. Well, I have another hand-me-down (laptop) that I've put Debian on but am having some issues. First, is this the corr

Re: Debian New User Questions

2002-11-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 09:38:54AM +, Martin Hooper wrote: > I have installed Woody and got up a minimal GUI interface using wmaker. > > I installed with the bf24 kernel. > > I need answers to a couple of questions: > > 1. How do I create /dev/usb/lp1 for use with Cups? http://qref.sourc

Debian New User Questions

2002-11-02 Thread Martin Hooper
I have installed Woody and got up a minimal GUI interface using wmaker. I installed with the bf24 kernel. I need answers to a couple of questions: 1. How do I create /dev/usb/lp1 for use with Cups? 2. X is displaying some rather large fonts than would be normal. How would I change the font

Re: user questions

1997-11-19 Thread Sten Anderson
Torsten Hilbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A third proposal: > > > > 3) Write a "Debian Novice Guide" (lets get rid of that ugly > >n... word!), and make this guide a frequent posting to this list. > > Take a look at > > http://w

Re: user questions

1997-11-19 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A third proposal: > > 3) Write a "Debian Novice Guide" (lets get rid of that ugly >n... word!), and make this guide a frequent posting to this list. Take a look at http://www.linuxpress.com/debuser.htm I havn't read the document yet but

Re: user questions .. Thanks

1997-11-19 Thread tko
John Scroggins writes: > > the discussion on help for novice users of Debian is of great importance > to me, as I am a > "that person" . John, everyone has to start somewhere 8-) > i have monitored this user list and have to say there IS a lot of > assistance out there i have well over 9

Re: user questions.

1997-11-17 Thread tmalloy
One of the posters to this thread noted that even if a question has been posted 500 times the 501 questioner is entitled to an answer. I agree with this. However a lost opportunity occurs when the same people reanswer the question. Answering questions is itself edifying. Ask anyone who has taugh

user questions .. Thanks

1997-11-17 Thread John Scroggins
the discussion on help for novice users of Debian is of great importance to me, as I am a "that person" . i have monitored this user list and have to say there IS a lot of assistance out there i have well over 900 pieces of mail in my mail folder. This is not a list which is used time to ti

Re: user questions

1997-11-17 Thread Will Lowe
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > folks go away with an answer, but an unsatisfied feeling. I suspect for > some the name debian-user implies that only users subscribe to the list, > making it a 'chat room'. Hmm. Yes, it seems that some don't understand that debian-user is meant for th

Re: user questions

1997-11-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
t the question was.) As I am a limited human, there are some messages that I just plain miss in the flood of other messages. This becomes increasingly difficult when there is a volumous, irrelevant, thread (or two) going on at the same time that you post your request for help. Even though I work ha

Re: user questions

1997-11-17 Thread Sten Anderson
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I like to read and answer questions on both -devel and -user. But > since (i think) most newbie questions have been answered 500 times already > (why else would we call them newbie questions?) what we need is a way to > direct people to these answers

Re: user questions

1997-11-17 Thread Will Lowe
On 16 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sten Anderson writes: > > A list only for us newbies would result in a lot of questions and no > > answers. We need a list that is read both by newbies and experienced > > users. > > As I recall, the idea was that experienced users would explicitly assig

Re: user questions

1997-11-16 Thread Mark W. Eichin
>The best chance of an answer is probably to post the questions >to one of the developer lists, if that is where the experts are Actually, I've always made a point of ignoring user questions on the developers list, but I've *also* started putting more time in on debian-user. (I&

Re: user questions

1997-11-16 Thread john
Sten Anderson writes: > A list only for us newbies would result in a lot of questions and no > answers. We need a list that is read both by newbies and experienced > users. As I recall, the idea was that experienced users would explicitly assign themselves to read and answer questions on debian-n

Re: user questions

1997-11-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On 16 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I see questions about Debian in the newsgroups I usually email an > offer of help. Often the only help I can offer is the suggestion to ask on > debian-user. Often the response is "I tried that but nobody answered me". > Posibility 1 : Noone knew t

Re: user questions

1997-11-16 Thread Sten Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >From a recent posting on comp.os.linux.setup: > > > Support from the Debian list was practically non-existant. One reply came > > on the mailing list in response to a question: not very helpful. > > This guy dumped Debian in favor of Red Hat. > > When I see question

user questions

1997-11-16 Thread john
>From a recent posting on comp.os.linux.setup: > Support from the Debian list was practically non-existant. One reply came > on the mailing list in response to a question: not very helpful. This guy dumped Debian in favor of Red Hat. When I see questions about Debian in the newsgroups I usually

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-24 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > When there is a standard admin tool, then the packages that do > have a config script shall doubtless do so ;-) I expect to be able to announce a tool pretty soon. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Lukas" == Lukas Eppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lukas> When the postconfig went wrong, there should be a standard Lukas> place/method to rerun the config, which should be as clear as Lukas> installing. Lukas> I would like to invoke dpkg --setup on a package to invoke the Lukas> script,

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"john" == john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: john> Couldn't the postconfig script register the configuration utiliy john> with an admin tool so that the utility would appear in a menu john> when the admin tool is run? When there is a standard admin tool, then the packages that do

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-24 Thread Daniel Martin
On 22 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, I'm fairly familiar with it, having used it to (among other things) > configure cnews since the early 1980's. However, I was responding to > someone who claimed that every Debian package includes a config tool. > Having read the original post, I was

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Daniel" == Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> So... Does diety attempt to integrate the configuration tools Daniel> that do come with some of the Debian packages? And what about Daniel> the question earlier of having the configuration menus that Daniel> appear during initial

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-24 Thread Lukas Eppler
On 21 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lukas Eppler writes: > > This is also better for debian, because every package comes with its own > > config tool. > > This is news to me. What config tool comes with cnews? with suck? with > pppd? You're right, I should have said it the other way: ever

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-24 Thread Lukas Eppler
Hi, Daniel Martin pointed out exactly what I wanted to say, but in better words. Thanks. On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: > Having read the original post, I was under the impression that this would > be a desirable state, not necessarily an expression of the current state. On 23 Oct 199

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-24 Thread john
Manoj Srivastava writes: > ...as it stands, most packages arrange to invoke the configuration > utility/script out of the postconfig script anyway; so the config script > is run by dpkg with no assistace from Deity. > ... > Any enhancements to configuring packages, thus, has to be implemented by >

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-22 Thread john
I wrote: > What config tool comes with cnews? with suck? with pppd? Jason Costomiris writes: > I've got this great one. It's flexible in its operation, and very > extensible. > vi. Yes, I'm fairly familiar with it, having used it to (among other things) configure cnews since the early 1980's.

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-22 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 07:32:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : This is news to me. What config tool comes with cnews? with suck? with : pppd? I've got this great one. It's flexible in its operation, and very extensible. vi. -- Jason Costomiris <><| "VMS is about as secure a

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-21 Thread john
Ted Harding writes: > I'd argue, in the *nix fashion, that a bunch of little, specific, > WELL-DOCUMENTED admin tools is better -- one for net, smail, sendmail, > etc... I agree. The general admin tool would just provide centralized access to these. Lukas Eppler writes: > This is also bette

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-21 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Ted Harding wrote: > ... > I'd argue, in the *nix fashion, that a bunch of little, specific, > WELL-DOCUMENTED admin tools is better -- one for net, smail, sendmail, > etc... A great example is the "tzconfig" script -- it's small,

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-21 Thread Carey Evans
Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd argue, in the *nix fashion, that a bunch of little, specific, > WELL-DOCUMENTED admin tools is better -- one for net, smail, sendmail, > etc... A great example is the "tzconfig" script -- it's small, does it's > work well, and doesn't involve trem

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Ted Harding wrote: > >But perhaps it is just better (and more efficient) to write more and good > >documentation, instead of more and bad code... > > > do even something simple correctly. This is why people call for software > admin tools: you can hope that the tool has the kn

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread Ted Harding
On 20-Oct-97 Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > >But perhaps it is just better (and more efficient) to write more and good >documentation, instead of more and bad code... > >Just my 2 cent on this. >Marcus This comment is spot-on. Linux is now so complicated (and varied) that, if you don't know it already

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 20, 1997 at 08:10:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > George Bonser writes: > > I, for one, would much rather have some sort of a tool so I can get back > > to enjoying my system and not spend as much time configuring it. > > So would I. Can we get a project going to create one? A

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread john
George Bonser writes: > I, for one, would much rather have some sort of a tool so I can get back > to enjoying my system and not spend as much time configuring it. So would I. Can we get a project going to create one? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread Stuart Krivis
At 09:19 PM 10/19/1997 -0700, George Bonser wrote: > >On 20-Oct-97 A. M. Varon wrote: >> >>Example, to change the hostname, you could do that with lisa. But the >>truth is, you could easily edit /etc/HOSTNAME and it would give you the >>same effect. Please note that this apply not only to linux but

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread George Bonser
On 20-Oct-97 A. M. Varon wrote: > >Example, to change the hostname, you could do that with lisa. But the >truth is, you could easily edit /etc/HOSTNAME and it would give you the >same effect. Please note that this apply not only to linux but other >variants of unix as well. So knowing this is a ve

Re: PPP [was Re: new debian user questions]

1997-10-20 Thread Cameron Lowe
At 10:49 PM 19/10/97 -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: >On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Stuart Krivis wrote: > >> For example, I can get a new Caldera install up and on the net within >> minutes. Debian was not so accommodating. No modem. No modemtool app. No >> LISA. Ok, MAKEDEV cua1. Dial... connected... ping

Re: PPP [was Re: new debian user questions]

1997-10-20 Thread Matt Thompson
> > For example, I can get a new Caldera install up and on the net within > > minutes. Debian was not so accommodating. No modem. No modemtool app. No > > LISA. Ok, MAKEDEV cua1. Dial... connected... ping junior.apk.net --- > > network unreachable > > cua1 is bad, don't use it. Not good with fi

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread A. M. Varon
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Stuart Krivis wrote: > For example, I can get a new Caldera install up and on the net within > minutes. Debian was not so accommodating. No modem. No modemtool app. No > LISA. Ok, MAKEDEV cua1. Dial... connected... ping junior.apk.net --- > network unreachable Hi Stuart, I

PPP [was Re: new debian user questions]

1997-10-20 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Stuart Krivis wrote: > For example, I can get a new Caldera install up and on the net within > minutes. Debian was not so accommodating. No modem. No modemtool app. No > LISA. Ok, MAKEDEV cua1. Dial... connected... ping junior.apk.net --- > network unreachable cua1 is bad,

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-20 Thread Stuart Krivis
At 04:37 PM 10/19/1997 -0700, George Bonser wrote: >> >>There was an effort to outline a configuration (administration) tool on >>debian-admintool, but the discussion was very hot and then cooled down to >>silence. >> >>However, the goal was much higher than expanding the install menu. >> > >Still,

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-19 Thread George Bonser
> >There was an effort to outline a configuration (administration) tool on >debian-admintool, but the discussion was very hot and then cooled down to >silence. > >However, the goal was much higher than expanding the install menu. > >Marcus > >-- >"Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." >Marcus Brinkmann >[E

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Oct 19, 1997 at 10:04:32AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > On 19-Oct-97 Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > >> Now for the tough part. :-) > >> > >> I want to be able to use some of the things I've grown used to with > >> Caldera. In particular, LISA (Linux Installation and System Adminstration) >

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-19 Thread George Bonser
On 19-Oct-97 Marcus Brinkmann wrote: >> Now for the tough part. :-) >> >> I want to be able to use some of the things I've grown used to with >> Caldera. In particular, LISA (Linux Installation and System Adminstration) >> is a life-saver. It allows me to easily change hardware and network >> set

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Stuart Krivis wrote: [ Thinking of a Caldera -> Debian switch ] > FreeBSD has an excellent package management system and it would be right up > my alley. The problem is that it's BSD and that's not the direction I want > to go in. So, I'm looking at the debian distribution. I'

Re: new debian user questions

1997-10-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello Stuart! On Sun, Oct 19, 1997 at 08:11:33AM -0400, Stuart Krivis wrote: > I'm currently thinking about making the move to debian. Ok, let's talk about debian :) > I've been using Caldera Network Desktop, and now Caldera Open Linux, for a > while now. It has shielded me from many of the nit

new debian user questions

1997-10-19 Thread Stuart Krivis
I'm currently thinking about making the move to debian. I've been using Caldera Network Desktop, and now Caldera Open Linux, for a while now. It has shielded me from many of the nitty-gritty tasks that are necessary to keep a unix system healthy. However, it has also let me get my work done with a