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was wondering what kind of email to send to the list-server to do this
for the mailling lists I've subscribed to.
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I've figured out how to modify the colour scheme of the unlock dialog for
xscreensaver, though I'm wondering if it only supports a certain colour
palette. The one thing I can't change, however, is the god-awful
computer-on-fire icon from 1985. I'd like to just replace that with a copy
o
I read somewhere that although optimize for size will decrease the size of
the kernel on the disk, not optimizing for size will increase the
performance of the kernel, at least during the boot stage, as it won't be
compressed and can be read without having to uncompress it first. Is this
mistaken?
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Tom Furie wrote:
> Hi Arthur,
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:16:05AM -0600, Arthur Machlas wrote:
>
> > I've figured out how to modify the colour scheme of the unlock dialog for
> > xscreensaver, though I'm wondering if
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On 2009-12-31 at 12:37:33 -0500, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > Not all BIOSes have built-in network boot support, though. For those who
> > don't, but can boot a CD-ROM, you can boot this CD and it will then
> > continue to a network boot
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:56 AM, John Hasler wrote:
> Paul E Condon writes:
> > In fairness to Google, no one who is a party to this conversation
> > knows that Google sent the spam.
>
> Perhaps, but the headers are pretty convincing. I suggest that Roman
> take the matter up with Google.
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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Aioanei Rares wrote:
> Arthur Machlas wrote:
>
>> Guys, have you heard about this? It's called hotmail. You want to write a
>> letter to your friends? Just click compose, write, send. Need to send a
>> recipe to a friend? Look at th
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:50 AM, George wrote:
> I just installed Debian on my laptop and I notice that the CPU fan is
> working much more than it used to work on windows. It must be that
> Debian changed the temperature threshold. How can I change it back?
My guess is that you haven't enabled f
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Klistvud wrote:
> Dne, 07. 01. 2010 16:08:40 je George napisal(a):
>
> On 1/7/10, Arthur Machlas wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:50 AM, George wrote:
>> >
>> >> I just installed Debian on my laptop and I notice that
>
> On 01/10/2010 12:15 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
>> On Tue,05.Jan.10, 13:41:18, Mark Allums wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I guess your sarcasm meter is broken today. Better get it service.
>>> (The hotmail post is satire, guys.)
>>>
>>>
>> Quote from RFC 1855, section 2.1.1 (emphasis mine):
>>
>> "Rememb
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Sthu Deus wrote:
>
> Why I have such situation:
>
> $ sudo /sbin/ifdown eth0
> SIOCDELRT: No such process
>
> $ /sbin/ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:53:34:18
> inet addr:192.168.0.125 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
>
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2010-01-19, Paul Scott wrote:
> > Liam O'Toole wrote:
> >> On 2010-01-19, Paul Scott wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Wicd is mostly not working for me on networks using WPA2 including a
> >>> Linksys WRT54G2 router I configured myself for W
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Mark wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install the firmware for an Intel ipw2100 wifi card on a
> Dell Latitude D800 laptop (the driver is supported in the Lenny kernel, just
> not the firmware). According to this page
> http://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200(note bold
Greetings, I want to install and run SPSS for linux. It needs to be
installed by root, but run by a normal user. I want to install it such that
it has no access to my system as a whole. I believe the method to achieve
this is a chroot environment. From my readings so far I also need to look
into ma
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Mark wrote:
> Oh, and if I boot to an Ubuntu Live 9.10 CD it connects no problem. What
> the what??
>
Hi, me again. You know, the guy who said it wasn't worth the trouble. That
it's better to use aptitude after the fact. Yeah... hey.
Good news is I eventually
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:37 PM, giovanni_re pontificated:
> Hi - thanks for your work on the debian mailing lists. :)
>
> I include some notes here about several improvements to the debian
> website, regarding mailing lists. They 1) communicate more quickly the
> _most imortant_ information, &
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On 2010-01-22 at 09:00:54 -0500, Javier Barroso wrote:
> > Seem like gfxpayload is the substitute, but now I can't find where is the
> > doc (it doesn't appear in kernel-parameters.txt).
>
> I'm really going out on a limb when I talk about
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Nima Azarbayjany
wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've got an annoying problem with my laptop which is a Pavilion dv5. I
> have the latest kernel 2.6.32.
>
> The problem is that at reboot the speakers make a loud noise which I fear
> may damage hardware. This problem exist
It seems that whomever logs in first on the gnome-desktop, user1,
user2 or user3 has exclusive control of network manager, even though
I'd like all three to be able to control it.
Is there a workaround for this?
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Arthur Machlas
wrote:
> It seems that whomever logs in first on the gnome-desktop, user1,
> user2 or user3 has exclusive control of network manager, even though
> I'd like all three to be able to control it.
>
> Is there a workaround for this?
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Klistvud wrote:
> Dne, 22. 12. 2010 20:55:14 je Arthur Machlas napisal(a):
>>
>> It seems that whomever logs in first on the gnome-desktop, user1,
>> user2 or user3 has exclusive control of network manager, even though
>> I'd like
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Arthur Machlas
wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Borden Rhodes wrote:
>> I'm not quite sure how to debug or report this one which is why I'm
>> mentioning it here. I was moving to a new hard drive and copying
>> /home/ fil
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Mike Bird wrote:
> If the Apache configuration needs DNS to start, Apache silently
> and without logging anything fails to start in Squeeze. This
> used to work correctly under the old startup mechanism in Lenny.
Create a new group in /etc/insserv.conf, and name
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not developer of insserve ...
>
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 01:37:48AM -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
>> On Wed December 29 2010 00:13:04 Camaleón wrote:
> ...
>> Thanks for looking into this. I still fail to see why saving half a
>> second
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> It's not my fault that you don't know how to debug a non-booting service
> nor that you don't know how "insserv" and "sys-rc" works. It's neither my
> fault that you don't want to help your distribution to correct the lacks
> you are finding in do
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Thu December 30 2010 16:24:19 Tom H wrote:
>> As an aside, you refer to the pre-insserv setup as "Snn/Knn startup
>> mechanism" but insserv doesn't deviate from that style. insserv
>> creates the Snn/Knn symlinks dynamically in an order determ
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Arthur Machlas
wrote:
>>
>> We're trying to figure out the cleanest way to stop insserv from
>> throwing away all the Snn/Knn information that Debian Developers
>> have created over the years. Then we'll attempt to reset t
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Mike Bird wrote:
>> But then they abuse the Debian packaging system by "requiring"
>> instead of "recommending" unnecessary packages so that people are
>> forced to use their silly hacks.
>
> The new APT default is that Recommends are the same
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
wrote:
> On Ter, 04 Jan 2011, Brian wrote:
>>>
>>> Because anyone nearby with a laptop can sniff the traffic, unlike with a
>>> regular cabled internet connection or a password protected wireless
>>> network (in which traffic in encrypted)?
>>
>
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Wed January 5 2011 13:37:59 Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>> > mgb-deb...@yosemite.net :
>> > The issue is that insserv throws away
>> > years of work by Debian Developers,
>>
>> That is not always bad.
>> Computers have improved during the la
> Hi,
Hi
> I am in a hidden wireless network with this settings:
If you have control of this network, change it from hidden to visible.
First, because it provides no security benefits, and second because
"the 802.11i specification amendment (which defines WPA2, discussed
later) even states that
> If you have control of this network, change it from hidden to visible.
> First, because it provides no security benefits, and second because
> "the 802.11i specification amendment (which defines WPA2, discussed
> later) even states that a computer can refuse to communicate with an
> access point
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Marcelo Laia wrote:
> Unfortunately, I don't have access to the access point to change from
> hidden to visible.
>
> So, or I connect to, or I don't use the net on my debian box!
>
> Any clue?
No. But perhaps a troubleshooting option. I'd try two things:
1) Insta
No. No problems using the AMD64 DVD1.
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That cd with firmware isn't obviously useful, in that, I installed via
DVD 1 and when prompted to insert additional discs it was unable to
read from it. If I wanted to go around my friends and family house and
upgrade their computers, I'd have to basically integrate all firmwares
into a custom dvd
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
wrote:
> In <20110209093337.ga13...@furie.org.uk>, Tom Furie wrote:
>>On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:20:04PM -0800, Mark wrote:
>>> Thank you, Rob. This is very very helpful. In step 2, you not only
>>> changed "lenny" to "squeeze" but also "deb
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Andrei Popescu
wrote:
> On Mi, 09 feb 11, 20:13:06, Arthur Machlas wrote:
>> SNIP
>> would set them up properly. Doesn't make sense for a clean install of
>> Debian 6 to put invalid repositories in your sources.list
>
> If this th
Ughn.. think google just discarded my post instead of sending. Don't
want to retype; but here's the link:
http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm
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> YMMV, I currently only use schroot to run the 32-bit (only) ICAClient for
> work.
I tried to set up the same client and noticed it needed all kinds of
32bit libraries and was considering my options. Any link or sketched
outline about the steps you took to do this?
If you are inclined to respond
I've built kernels without an initrd a number of times, but never
before on a system with full-desk encryption. When installing Squeeze
on a laptop I used the assisted setup and created a ful-disk
encryption setup, that has a separate /boot partition, the rest of the
disk LVM and whatever encryptio
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
wrote:
> On Monday 14 February 2011 11:59:08 Arthur Machlas wrote:
>> > YMMV, I currently only use schroot to run the 32-bit (only) ICAClient for
>> > work.
>>
>> I tried to set up the same client and notice
Greetings list,
I have created a simple init script to apply custom vid values to my
cpus via the phc_intel module, which
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On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Arthur Machlas
wrote:
> Greetings list,
>
> I have created a simple init script to apply custom vid values to my
> cpus via the phc_intel module, which
>
Sorry about that, I just discovered there is a keyboard shortcut to
send an email in gmail.
To
>On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Alexander Batischev wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 11:36:18AM -0700, ABSDoug wrote:
>> I do know I want to stick with "stable" Debian
>>
> In my opinion, there's no need to do so. Squeeze is close to freeze, soon it
> will became stable. You better run it. Pe
First, regarding my earlier email, which I cannot reply to directly
(apologies), as it has been downloaded off of gmail, I *think* I've
gotten the ordering to work correctly.
I changed my lsb header in the custom script (/etc/init.d/phc_vids) to:
# Require-start: $acpi
Then under /etc/insserv.con
>On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> On 2010-06-09 16:48 +0200, Arthur Machlas wrote:
>>
>> Then ran:
>> dpkg-reconfigure insserv
>
> This is a no-op in Squeeze, you want to run the "insserv" command so
> that the order o
> So should I just delete my CONCURRENCY addition to the /etc/defaul/rcS
> file and it will return to default, or should I switch it to makefile?
Nevermind. I just removed the line and can see in my bootlogs that
runelevel S and 2 both use "makefile-syle concurrent boot"
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On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA256
>
> If someone needs a work-around, a friend on IRC found that this German
> mirror is still up: http://debian-multimedia.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/
>
It's always struck me as a bit crazy
Greetings,
I just purchased a 1.5 WD sata II HD and enclosure connected via USB
after an unfortunate incident involve rm -rf, something called "home"
and a bicycle. It's purpose will be two-fold: As a back-up device for
two laptops (HD sizes 500GB and 120GB), and as a central storage
device for mo
What's the point of the switch in your setup?
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On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Arthur Machlas
wrote:
> What's the point of the switch in your setup?
>
Silly me, sent before I was done pontificating. Also wanted to add
that you should check your router for the latest firmware updates,
most residential routers are rushed out the
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:53:09 -0400
> vr wrote:
>
>> On 6/25/2010 3:27 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>> > Might be that, but how could my ISP guess that I'm using a router?
>> >
>>
>> The first few characters of a MAC address are registered to a compan
>> 1) ext2 to image / from my debian install. 50GB so I could have two or
>> three "snapshots"
>
> Why ext2? I don't see any reason to use something less than ext3 for
> "regular" operations.
>
Ext2 because who needs journaling? It will have three, maybe four
files on it, each about 10GB. Correct
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Lisi wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 June 2010 17:30:42 Joey Hess wrote:
>> sasha mal wrote:
>> > The bug exists, the iceweasel package maintainer is lazy and refuses to
>> > handle it.
>>
>> No, iceweael's maintainer has applied basic debugging logic and
>> deduced that t
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Merciadri Luca
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm installating Debian Lenny on an old P2 350 Mhz to make a server.
>
> tried a first Debian install, which stalled at 5%. I then re-tried, and
> here I am: stuck at 5% for a long time (~3 hours). I did not mess
> anything with the
> On Vi, 02 iul 10, 00:49:53, Keith Mitchell wrote:
>> I decided to build a Linux box instead of emulating Linux using
>> VM-Ware under Windows. I heard Debian was the way to go. I have
>> created Red-Hat and Ubuntu Linux boxes in the past with no problems.
Who did you hear this from? Irrelevant,
I just recently setup encrypted mail for my personal mail account,
using icedove and enigmail. I'm curious about a general feature of
"signing" the email. Why can't I just copy the "signature" portion of
the email, which many people on this list attach to their posts, and
paste it at the bottom of
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 13:52:47 -0500
> Arthur Machlas wrote:
>
>> I just recently setup encrypted mail for my personal mail account,
>> using icedove and enigmail. I'm curious about a general feature of
>> "sign
> The problem is that sometimes the xinput id of the touchpad differs and having
> it in .xinputrc sometimes turned off the track point and sometimes even the
> keyboard which really hinders its usability. Is there some automatic way to do
> this in a secure fasion like using the name returned by i
> I just got a new dell 580s with windows 7 and I3-530 processor. I
> partitioned the drive within windows and proceeded to install debian using
> the latest x86 net disk (I burnt the latest 150M ISO to a CD for the
> installation). Everythng goes fine except that it fails to detect the
> ethernet
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Tom H wrote:
> There is now an official grub2 manual:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
Great news!
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greetings,
Using squeeze, with gnome and evolution 2.30.2, and trying to
customize the categories list, no changes can be made to the default
categories list.
For example, I create a new contact, called "John", then click
categories. I delete every category but favorites and anniverssaries.
Then
post, insserv.con should be conf.
On 7/15/10, Arthur Machlas wrote:
> On 7/11/10, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
>>> I am having trouble getting it to run at the right place in the shutdown
>>> sequence. It used to work, but recently stopped working for no a
On 7/11/10, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
>> I am having trouble getting it to run at the right place in the shutdown
>> sequence. It used to work, but recently stopped working for no apparent
>> reason.
## Changes to init script
# Required start:
# Required stop: $custom
## Ad
Greetings,
According to the spec sheet on the Atom N450 it has a single core,
though it does support two threads. However, linuxinfo (replaces
cpuinfo I suppose) says two unknown processors.
r...@hpm210:/home/arthur/Misc/Linux/2.6.34-1# linuxinfo
Linux HPm210 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Tue Jun 1 04:59:4
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Arthur Machlas put forth on 7/28/2010 11:14 PM:
> In "make menuconfig":
>
> These last two are probably the reason for the "unknown", especially given
> you're running 2.6.34 which has all the CPU m
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:49 AM, hugo vanwoerkom wrote:
> Mitchell Laks wrote:
>> Hi i have a script in /etc/init.d/ctnscript
>> with a symlink
>> in /etc/rc2.d/S99ctnscript
>> when i tried to install gpm then i got a series of errors
>> insserv: Starting ctnscript depends on stop-bootlogd and the
Experienced something similar a week or so ago with a weekly build I
think it was. A DVD of squeeze. It couldn't detect hard-disks. Daily
netinst worked fine.
Meh, broken installers in testing isn't really news, or surprising, is it?
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On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Arthur Machlas put forth on 7/29/2010 12:01 PM:
>
>> Things are running nicely, but the problem I hoped
>> to resolve hasn't been. Namely, the lowest frequency my cpu can reach
>> is 1Ghz... instead of the 800M
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Christian Jaeger wrote:
> How do you read the possible cpu frequencies?
>
> Your kernel needs cpufreq support and ondemand, powersave, etc.
> governors; check with
> cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
> cat /sys/devices/system/cp
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Vi, 06 aug 10, 14:07:43, John W Foster wrote:
>> Just got my new AMD 64 bit system to working well. Still have an issue
>> with NO CONSOLES using F1 F2 etc. I really miss this ability using
>> testing dist. I am VERY used to using a consol
> If you've looked at my kernel building web page,
> http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm, you will see that I
> don't cover this. That's because I don't use it when I build my
> own custom kernels. I do use it when building a "regular"
> Debian package, but for some reason I've never both
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Tixy wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 15:44 -0500, John W Foster wrote:
>> Anyone know the best way to completely back up Evolutions files mail,
>> contacts etc. There does not seem to be a way built in. Will gladly be
>> proven wrong. I, lost all my files 2 times in
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:33:12 -0400 (EDT), Bob Proulx wrote:
>> Then log out. At login you will be set to those additional groups.
>> With those in place you can work as yourself in those areas. Safer
>> than using root since as yourself yo
> The latest version of my kernel building web page, revised yesterday
> (http://www.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm), recommends unpacking,
> configuring, and compiling the kernel from its default location
> as a non-root user which is a member of group src. It can be the
> system administrator'
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Angus Hedger wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:27:50 -0400 (EDT), Arthur Machlas wrote:
> The only issues I ran into when building headers via make-kpkg where as
> follows,
>
> Make
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Angus Hedger wrote:
> Hey!
>
>> I don't use the -j3 switch, and I don't think that -j3 switch works
>> like you think it does when using make-kpkg, at least, not if that's
>> meant to utilize multiple processors when building. I'm at work right
>> so this is all fr
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Joel Roth wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:57:01AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
>> On 8/30/2010 1:05 AM, Joel Roth wrote:
>> >I just did an apt-get upgrade. Hundreds of packages
>> >were held back.
>
> [snip]
>
>> apt-get dist-upgrade
Aptitude equivilant is ..
>> > The reason being, on my laptop, the
>> >
>> > - Fn-F4 key suspend
>> > - lid close
>> >
lid close is dealt with by the acpi-support package AFAIRemeber, gonna
have to look into it myself tonight since I just switched to openbox.
xfce's powermanagement is a mess.
with fluxbox you don't need a
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> I welcome
> further review and feedback, especially from those who wanted an Nvidia
> example. Is this the kind of thing you were looking for? Or did I miss
> the mark?
Under Introduction: "...recommendation was *make* for simplicity's
sa
I'm glad this was cross posted otherwise I would've missed it. Even if
there are technical hurdles it's an exciting idea and I'm looking
forward to reading the devel mailing list for follow-ups. The point
about eating your own dog food is well made i thought, though whether
there is any interest in
The thing of it is, this doesn't sound like a Debian problem/question.
And most every suggestion is given with that in mind. So if you wanted
to see if it was a Debian problem, then you'd do things like try it in
another VM. Of course, this isn't possible for whatever reason -
doesn't matter - ther
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 9/20/2010 11:29 AM, Arthur Machlas wrote:
>>
>> The thing of it is, this doesn't sound like a Debian problem/question.
>> And most every suggestion is given with that in mind. So if you wanted
>> to see
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Scott Ferguson
wrote:
> On 20/09/10 10:15, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> This is a new install of Lenny on Windows 7 Virtual PC. I basically
> Perhaps some of the links off this link might be useful
> http://blogs.msdn.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?q=linux§ions=4122
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Curt Howland wrote:
> Hi. Up to date Squeeze, compiling the latest 2.6.36-rc4 kernel.
>
> Last time the problem was compiling the kernel at all, which is
> working just fine now thank you Debian-User.
>
> fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version -curt1.0 --initrd ke
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:16 PM, T o n g wrote:
> However, I'm wondering if it OK to install RH packages directly using rpm
> instead of going through alien convention.
> Do you have any similar experiences?
Yes, one time my girlfriend put diesel into our gasoline powered car.
I didn't think th
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Lisi wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 September 2010 08:33:41 Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> Which remembers me
>
> Scott,
>
> That's not fair. :-(
>
> Lisi
Yes, to which I would add that even though Scott's command of the
English language is far superior, or so I am given to u
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:10 AM, T o n g wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:25:58 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> Huh? AFAIK, pm-utils never depended on HAL; it used to recommend it,
>> but it does not do this anymore.
>
> "pm-utils is the new suspend and powerstate setting framework. It is
> usually
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Mark Goldshtein
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Javier Vasquez
>> wrote:
>>...
>>
>> If you have couple of minutes, would you, please, to expand your
>> comments about a system without deskto
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>> Lots of useful info in there Javier. Also worth mentioning, though it
>> doesn't seem you use it, is laptop-mode-tools.
>
> I did include it in the ones I have installed, :-) The original list
> had it with some words as well, so I thought
>>> FYI, the request has been rejected with
>>>
>>> - I don’t think it is worth splitting. - need a better rationale
>>> - WTF is that debian-user Cc?
>>>
>>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598448
>>
>> Mmm, it hasn't been rejected (at least by now). DD asks you a reason for
>> ac
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:33 PM, James Allsopp
wrote:
> Instead of Word and Endnotes, use Latex and bibtex, bit of a learning
> curve, but much better results,
> James
I'd recommend iceweasel with the zotero extension, and openoffice with
the zotero plugin.
There is always R for your statistical
>> I'm struggling to understand the autoremoval behavior of aptitude
>> 0.6.3. Let's say I have a virtual package A provided by A1 and
AFAIK, it gets autoremoved it it was automatically installed AND if
there are no other packages on the system that depend AND/OR recommend
it, depending on your pr
2010/10/12 Stanisław Findeisen :
> 3. This is not the first time I am having problems with NetworkManager
> here on Debian, so I think I will get rid of it. The question is how to
> switch between available WiFi connections without NetworkManager.
>
> For instance I could store network connection p
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Wolodja Wentland
wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 22:48 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
>> It works perfectly with eduroam and
> Let me elaborate on the eduroam configuration.
>
> For eduroam you choose "PEAP with TKIP/MSCHAPV2
>
> Identity: u...@host.tld
> Pa
For those wanting to "lighten up" the gnome desktop, alt+f2,
gconf-editor, ctrl+f the following:
low_resource (enable)
workarounds (disable)
animation (disable all that come up)
The difference between xfce and gnome, for me is negligible, and
losing a decent screensaver, gdm and powermanager not
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Wed October 13 2010, Arthur Machlas wrote:
>> For those wanting to "lighten up" the gnome desktop, alt+f2,
>> gconf-editor, ctrl+f the following:
>>
>> low_resource (enable)
>> workarounds (d
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:18:12 -0500
> Arthur Machlas wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> The difference between xfce and gnome, for me is negligible, and
>> losing a decent screensaver, gdm and powermanager not worth it. Once
>
&g
> There is something to be said about stuff that puts functionality over form.
> XFCE is likely to be more stable and safer than anything KDE or Gnome.
1. The two are not mutually exclusive. A!!Y being a good example,
which gnome wins hands down over XFCE.
2. The biggest threat to a system, IMHO,
Did a network install of Squeeze the other day, on a computer without
wireless. Normally I remove everything but lo in
/etc/network/interfaces, but after resume from suspend network-manager
reported disabling device eth0 for reason 2, whatever that meant, and
the only way to bring it back up was to
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