Re: Sound Went Away...

Kent Borg wrote:
> P.S.  Possible related hint: Just noticed today my jpilot syncing also
> stopped working in the last few days

And I have the jpilot syncing working!

Giving myself more group memberships fixed that too.  So strange, can't
imagine how I bumped myself from all those groups.  Ideas?

Thanks,

-kb

Re: Java Environment (7.04)

On Tuesday 31 July 2007 15:50, Dick Dowdell wrote:
> Yop can download Sun's Java JDK1.6.0_02 from Sun
> (http://java.sun.com) and Eclipse 3.2 (the best Java IDE)

http://www.netbeans.org/

Don't hide your eyes from the Eclipse, come where the Sun shines :P

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Re: Gaim setup issues - program shuts down when trying to add buddies?

<div>
<br><br>
Thanks for the basic's...<br>
Here's what I see ...<br>
Gaim active Icon goes to toolbar, I click on Buddy list<br><br>
Screen opens with nil buddies so I click on Buddies and look for Add buddy however these are all greyed out!<br><br>
On the top line I click Friends, Add buddy and the whole program shuts down!<br><br>
The tool bar below that shows My MSN - "Available - waiting for network connection"<br>
So I wait...............<br><br>
I've looked at plugin's but unsure what i really need?<br><br>
Ideas anyone??<br><br>
TIA<br><br>
Chris<br><br><br><br>
</div>

openoffice broken on gutsy?

> See the "How to fix error messages when starting Openoffice" thread.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/128211
ok, so in order to get OpenOffice working again & according to the advice of Erik Harren, I deleted a
libgtk2.0 library by doing  dpkg --force-depends -r libgtk2.0-0

this worked, but now I can't reinstall the right libgtk2.0 package:

if I do sudo dpkg -i libgtk2.0 and try tab completion, it won't work. 

Guessing the libgtk's version won't work

and dpkg-query libgtk2.0 will yield the following list:
libgtk2.0-common: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-common/NEWS.gz
libgtk2.0-cil: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-cil/changelog.gz
libgtk2.0-dev: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-dev
libgtk2.0-bin: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-bin
libgtk2.0-cil: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-cil/copyright
libgtk2.0-cil: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-cil/changelog.Debian.gz
libgtk2.0-common: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-common/changelog.Debian.gz
libgtk2.0-common: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-common/changelog.gz
libgtk2.0-common: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-common/copyright
libgtk2.0-common: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-common/NEWS.pre-1-0.gz
libgtk2.0-cil: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-cil
libgtk2.0-common: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-common/README.gz
libgtk2.0-common: /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-common

all of which cannot be installed obviously, because _version_numbers_ are lacking from the always
slightly incongruential dpkg or apt mess... 

How can dpkg actually expect from its user to know the _exact_version_number_ to install a package. I am
truly amazed by this.

can I still install libgtk2.0.. one might just get the current version number or so.

thank you.
Bram

PS: I think apt and dpkg are both in need for some, how do we say it, embellishment. Tab completion would be
great for dpgk... info on version numbers would be great for apt.

How to edit stage2_eltorito ?

dear all,

I made live cd, need to edit stage2_eltorito (/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc)
How to do that ?

TIA
/soesilo.wijono

Re: Mounting question

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 10:30 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Is there a way to do this on the fly, as in, "the file is need is on 
> XXXX, so I need to mount that share..." instead of putting into the 
> fstab (which if I am reading it right would mount it at boot time, but
> please correct me if I'm wrong!)?

Look at smbget (sudo apt-get install smbget). It's a wget for shares...

Regards, K.

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Re: Java Environment (7.04)

Dick Dowdell wrote:

> I'm fairly new to Ubuntu myself, but I'm a very old hand at Java
> development.  For some reason Kaffe is distributed with Ubuntu rather than
> the Sun JDK/JRE.  I've not found it a good choice.
> 
> Yop can download Sun's Java JDK1.6.0_02 from Sun (http://java.sun.com) and
> 
> On 7/31/07, jack <jdangler <at> terremark.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have 7.04 running and came across this page which details building a
>> java dev environment on ubuntu feisty...
>>
>> http://blogs.sun.com/coldrick/entry/java_development_on_ubuntu_part
>>
>> After d/l'ing the jdk, the author says to execute this as a normal user
>> fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-6u2-linux-i586.bin

These are both very obsolete - just use the sun-java* packages from
multiverse.  No muss, no fuss.

Kaffe isn't actually "distributed with Ubuntu", it's just that some apps
requiring Java will specify a preferential jre - like 
"depends kaffe | java2-runtime", and if you don't have anything else that
provides "java2-runtime" you'll get kaffe.  In my case, I got gcj - which
is equally useless.  Usually, installing a late sun-java will allow you to
remove kaffe or gcj or any other lesser java without removing the packages
that caused them to be installed in the first place.
--

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derek

Re: Java Environment (7.04)

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<p>Good info. Thanks.<br><br></p>
<div>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 7/31/07, Derek Broughton &lt;<a href="mailto:news <at> pointerstop.ca">news <at> pointerstop.ca</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote">
Dick Dowdell wrote:<br><br>&gt; I'm fairly new to Ubuntu myself, but I'm a very old hand at Java<br>&gt; development.&nbsp;&nbsp;For some reason Kaffe is distributed with Ubuntu rather than<br>&gt; the Sun JDK/JRE.&nbsp;&nbsp;I've not found it a good choice.
<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Yop can download Sun's Java JDK1.6.0_02 from Sun (<a href="http://java.sun.com">http://java.sun.com</a>) and<br>&gt;<br>&gt; On 7/31/07, jack &lt;<a href="mailto:jdangler <at> terremark.com">jdangler <at> terremark.com
</a>&gt; wrote:<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; I have 7.04 running and came across this page which details building a<br>&gt;&gt; java dev environment on ubuntu feisty...<br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/coldrick/entry/java_development_on_ubuntu_part">
http://blogs.sun.com/coldrick/entry/java_development_on_ubuntu_part</a><br>&gt;&gt;<br>&gt;&gt; After d/l'ing the jdk, the author says to execute this as a normal user<br>&gt;&gt; fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-6u2-linux-i586.bin
<br><br>These are both very obsolete - just use the sun-java* packages from<br>multiverse.&nbsp;&nbsp;No muss, no fuss.<br><br>Kaffe isn't actually "distributed with Ubuntu", it's just that some apps<br>requiring Java will specify a preferential jre - like
<br>"depends kaffe | java2-runtime", and if you don't have anything else that<br>provides "java2-runtime" you'll get kaffe.&nbsp;&nbsp;In my case, I got gcj - which<br>is equally useless.&nbsp;&nbsp;Usually, installing a late sun-java will allow you to
<br>remove kaffe or gcj or any other lesser java without removing the packages<br>that caused them to be installed in the first place.<br>--<br>derek<br><br><br>--<br>ubuntu-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users <at> lists.ubuntu.com">
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Re: Long Time Samba No Work-Need Expert Help On SAmba/Networking-Ahhh, Some Success

On Mon, 2007-30-07 at 23:45 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> . All default setups/conf files should just work out
> of the box(windows does, 
Which Windows are you talking about here?  Many default Windows setups
don't even work with other versions of Windows - and never was any
concern given to working with an outside vendors product.....
Witness the millions of Windows help related groups out there.
And work for who as a default?  There's just too many options to make it
always work.  Who wants my way or the highway from their OS?

As for out of the box - I recently installed XP and Dapper on three
different machines back to back to back - Guess which ones worked 'out
of the box' and which ones didn't?  Drivers, licensing issues and codecs
were all much more time consuming with XP - and then I had to install
3rd party software like antivirus products before I could let them loose
on unsuspecting users....

When you have spent years using Windows it's easy to mistake hard earned
knowledge for 'easier' - the pain is often mostly forgotten.

Now on the other side of the fence Samba is a bit of a monster - it's
very powerful with many many options.  It could be dumber - it could be
easier - it could be set up brain dead out of the box - but the way it
is you can make it do what you want - not what the vendor wants.

Better tools require more commitment to learn.

I've often heard the 'if you want to take over the world' speech - I
think Bug#1 is b...aloney.   Who cares if Linux is #1?  I just want an
OS that will do anything I can dream of....  I'm willing to add some
manual reading and elbow grease to make it happen.

Brian

PS  OK - I have a cranky baby here - so I'm probably overly cranky
myself....  Sorry if this came out harsh....

On Mon, 2007-30-07 at 23:45 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> . All default setups/conf files should just work out
> of the box(windows does, 
Which Windows are you talking about here?  Many default Windows setups
don't even work with other versions of Windows - and never was any
concern given to working with an outside vendors product.....
Witness the millions of Windows help related groups out there.
And work for who as a default?  There's just too many options to make it
always work.  Who wants my way or the highway from their OS?

As for out of the box - I recently installed XP and Dapper on three
different machines back to back to back - Guess which ones worked 'out
of the box' and which ones didn't?  Drivers, licensing issues and codecs
were all much more time consuming with XP - and then I had to install
3rd party software like antivirus products before I could let them loose
on unsuspecting users....

When you have spent years using Windows it's easy to mistake hard earned
knowledge for 'easier' - the pain is often mostly forgotten.

Now on the other side of the fence Samba is a bit of a monster - it's
very powerful with many many options.  It could be dumber - it could be
easier - it could be set up brain dead out of the box - but the way it
is you can make it do what you want - not what the vendor wants.

Better tools require more commitment to learn.

I've often heard the 'if you want to take over the world' speech - I
think Bug#1 is b...aloney.   Who cares if Linux is #1?  I just want an
OS that will do anything I can dream of....  I'm willing to add some
manual reading and elbow grease to make it happen.

Brian

PS  OK - I have a cranky baby here - so I'm probably overly cranky
myself....  Sorry if this came out harsh....

Re: yaboot question for mac ppc

On Tue, 2007-31-07 at 08:25 -0400, Barry wrote:
> Does yaboot depend on the pram settings of the machine -- if yaboot is
> installed on the default startup disk?
> 
> I ask this because I have a useful Mac G4 with a failure in the pmu
> circuitry. The only way the machine will begin the startup procedure
> via the button on the box is to reset the pmu, which puts all the pram
> settings back to the default. The machine would be on continually, and
> restarted cold only rarely.

I'm 75% sure that you are right - IIRC resetting the PRAM (the old
apple-option-P-R routine) meant that yaboot volumes no longer showed up
as the boot volume in the Open Firmware.

OTOH, Holding Option down at startup still provides you with the linux
choice - so as long as you are physically there on boot up to hold down
that key you should be fine.

Please note - I'm not 100% - but it sounds right to me.
Brian

On Tue, 2007-31-07 at 08:25 -0400, Barry wrote:
> Does yaboot depend on the pram settings of the machine -- if yaboot is
> installed on the default startup disk?
> 
> I ask this because I have a useful Mac G4 with a failure in the pmu
> circuitry. The only way the machine will begin the startup procedure
> via the button on the box is to reset the pmu, which puts all the pram
> settings back to the default. The machine would be on continually, and
> restarted cold only rarely.

I'm 75% sure that you are right - IIRC resetting the PRAM (the old
apple-option-P-R routine) meant that yaboot volumes no longer showed up
as the boot volume in the Open Firmware.

OTOH, Holding Option down at startup still provides you with the linux
choice - so as long as you are physically there on boot up to hold down
that key you should be fine.

Please note - I'm not 100% - but it sounds right to me.
Brian