Debian

video playback and beamers
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-14 19:15, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 18:27:19 +0200, Bernd Kloss wrote: Beamer (clone-mode). For instance *.flv: You get the full picture on the lfp problem when they want to show videos in a beamer-based presentation, so s/... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

cpu constantly busy on debian sid without doing anything...
Since some time the two cpu's of my system (Debian sid running on a thinkpad laptop x60s) are constantly busy up to the point that even the key-repeat (pushing down some key for repetitious input) doesn't work anymore when using an external usb keyboard. the system monitor shows for example: CPU History: ... c... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

Evolution, a Maildir style mailbox, and folders
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:13:32AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:34:31PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 15:09 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/27/06 14:05, Owen Heisler wrote: I think I've figured out how to get Evolution to work without using imap... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

Any isencrypted function available?
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:56 PM, buyoppy <buyoppy(a)yahoo.co.jp> wrote: I saw a webpage of Solaris's 'isencrypted' function which inspects some data in a buffer is encrypted or not using some algorithm including statistical analysis. But now I cannot find that page on the Inter... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

Debian (Stable Version)
Hi, I've always been a Debian stable user, using Gnome as my desktop manager, currently using Etch and have always wondered about the following: Sometimes there are software that I want to use but they are not yet in the Debian stable repositories. I can compile them from source into .deb package and install... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

Iceweasel upgrade - can I go back?
On 2008-06-18 01:39 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: I am running Sid, and in the past couple of days it upgraded iceweasel. Now I can't run firebird - essential for development of some facilities on my web site. I suspect that should read fire*bug*, since firebird does not seem to be related to iceweasel.... 19 Jun 2008 13:42

OpenOffice.org Quick Start
How do you use the OpenOffice.org quick start functionality? I have installed the package openoffice.org-gtk which says in its description: It also contains a QuickStarter for the "notification area". How do I make this QuickStarter work? I could not see any reference to it in the README files that came wit... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

Mysql fails to install after "aptitude purge mysql-server --purge-unused"
Hi, For some reason mysql fails to install after running "aptitude purge mysql-server --purge-unused". I want a clean, fresh mysql installation and don't care about what happens to the old mysql data/config files/etc. It appears the install scrip is looking for the old "/etc/mysql/conf.d/old_passwords.cnf" and fa... 19 Jun 2008 21:56

rendering Postscript fonts
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:05:59 -0400, I wrote: Groff makes the PS, and then I use gs to make a PDF. What I believe is that people reading this document (likely on Windows) will call up their local font definitions when they view this. These definitions are used to draw the characters, but the spacing is a... 19 Jun 2008 01:20

eth0: no IPv6 router present
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 19:32, Thomas H. George <lists(a)tomgeorge.info> wrote: When the bootup is complete I replace the interfaces file with a copy of the parent machine's interfaces file and run /etc/init.d/networking restart. Wouldn't this try to configure it with the same address as the "parent" machine? ... 20 Jun 2008 10:11