Confused about netinst

2009-05-09 Thread Muzer
I'm a little confused about the netinst CD, on whether or not it supports WiFi cards. Your site says it doesn't, yet I've seen lots of forums and bug reports in which people seem to install it correctly. Can someone claify this? Thanks! Muzer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Installing bash 4.0 alongside bash 3.x

2009-05-19 Thread Muzer
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I see that bash 4.0 is now in experimental, but I don't want to break compatibility with any package that may require bash 3.x. Is there a way to install them both, and use the alternatives system to make bash 3.x the default? Sorry Todd, I seem to have replied to you ac

Re: Questions regarding bash and sh.

2009-05-20 Thread Muzer
re likely to be more secure due to the fewer features. But there isn't really much of a difference, so don't worry. As for your last question, see above. Sh-compatible bash loads different startup scripts to bash bash. Hope this helped, Muzer -- -

Re: Questions regarding bash and sh.

2009-05-20 Thread Muzer
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,20.May.09, 21:09:02, Muzer wrote: Damn, I did it again, sending it to one person rather than everyone! I really need to get used to this mailing list lark. There's a reply-to-list extension for Thunderbird. Regards, Andrei Thanks, I'll

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Muzer
rand...@songshu.org wrote: And easier to navigate when they have been converted to html, e.g. http://manpages.courier-mta.org/mansection1.html You should keep in mind that these are likely not current or in sync' with your system. http://manpages.debian.net/ is pretty much in sync i guess. th

Re: Is gnome built on top of twm?

2009-05-27 Thread Muzer
Foss User wrote: 4. Can someone share the equivalent 'aptitude why' output from a system running KDE? On Kubuntu (which I know isn't debian, but it's all I have at the moment): mu...@muzer-desktop:~$ aptitude why twm i kdm Recommends kdebase | x-session-manager

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Muzer
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <4a1d6a99.9040...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Barclay, Daniel wrote: Muzer wrote: KDE can convert manpages to HTML on-the-fly (just browse to man:/[()] (where the <> denotes a required argument, [] an optio

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-27 Thread Muzer
lee wrote: On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:23:35AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <20090526144742.gd5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: Even if I wanted to run an RDBMS because it's needed for something I want, I'd think at least twice about it and look for another solutio

Re: Digital Picture-Frame

2009-05-27 Thread Muzer
David Baron wrote: These are the latest fad. Comes with USB connector and a windows program (which wine will not run). Connecting the USB yields the usual vfat file system. It mounts read-only-- left to it own devices, KDE will mount it in /media/disk. How might I use this contraption. Maybe (

Re: Does the vfat partition need defrag under Gnu/Linux ?

2009-05-28 Thread Muzer
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:41:09AM -0300, Hashimoto wrote: I have an external disk actually using one vfat partition type, so I'm wondering if it's necessary to defrag it since I used to save and remove a lot and large files. This isn't really a Linux question;

Re: Lenny printing competition -- still open?

2009-05-28 Thread Muzer
Miguel Obliviemo wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In , Miguel Obliviemo wrote: I just noticed the "Print to Win" or "Print 2 Win" promotion in the HOWTO directory I have no idea what you are talking about and couldn't find a reference to

Re: What hardware to use for Debian Firewall/Gateway or server?

2009-05-28 Thread Muzer
Csanyi Pal wrote: Alex Samad writes: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:35:02AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Jan Willem Stumpel writes: Csanyi Pal wrote: What is the recommended new hardware for firewall/gateway or for a web, mail, file & printer server at a small home networ

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-05-29 Thread Muzer
I am testing a bunch of window managers. Thanks. Dunno about Sid, but in Kubuntu, you type as root: dontzap --disable And it permanently re-enables Ctrl + Alt + Backspace. Hope this applies to Sid too! Muzer -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/CM/IT d>++ s+:- a

Re: konqueror, fish, stalled

2009-05-30 Thread Muzer
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:19:13PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Whenever I tried to copy file(s) bigger than 900 MB using fish protocol, it stalled. Any way to prevent this? Try a different protocol. Use rsync or scp (or mc with shell link) from a command lin

Re: aptitude or apt-get: how to use the jolly character?

2009-06-01 Thread Muzer
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In <878wkcdobs@gmail.com>, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Suppose that I want to remove all the packages beginning with `texlive', that are a lot in my system. If I do: `aptitude purge texlive*', the system complains that no package has that name. Right, the s