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I thought I read somewhere that Iceweasel was Firefox without the branding. If I had known that Iceweasel was lacking other things beside the Firefox name, I would have never bothered with it.

Now, I wonder where it was that I read that they were one and the same? Hmmm...

I just switched from Iceweasel to Firefox proper. Now everything just works. Hmmm... Aren't Iceweasel and Firefox supposed to be the same thing? Weird...

Personally, I don't see how people could find Debian so difficult. There are MAN pages that give you details about the program and what options are available. There's a DOC directory that contains very EXTENSIVE documentation files -- there's even a file in there that tell's you how to make coffee f...

blogtv.ca will just have to port their client-side VBScript to JavaScript. I have no idea why they'd use VBScript anyway. Bastards.

I was hoping there would be another alternative to doing that, but it appears that there isn't. I thought that I had found an option with gambas, but that turned out to be a deadend. Looks like Windows emulation/virtualization or a dual boot system is what I'll have to do. Darn.

At what point is a subject so thoroughly covered that any additional information only provides unnecessary redundancy? Is it really necessary to post the same information ad nauseum in some vain attempt at saving users from clicking on just one more link?

For a home LAN with around ten machines, I wouldn't even bother with a straight caching DNS. There's really no point. If you figure that it's unlikely that all ten machines would be in use at any given time, and that few of the active machines would be making redundant name resolution queries, the b...

What is it that you're trying to do with the partition that you've mounted? You say that you want to "read/write as a user." What do you mean by that? If the partition is mounted to your filesystem, the problem is probably with your permissions for the directory where /dev/sdb2 is mounted ...

If your machine is serving up your webpages, it can do DNS piece of piss.. DNS doesnt do that much. Be sure to put it in a chroot though. Is chroot really necessary for a DNS service that the outside world doesn't get access to? I didn't bother chrooting my bind9 installation... I didn't even bothe...

Anyway to run VBScript in a Linux browser? I've encountered a website that uses VBScript. Does anyone know if there's anyway to get this to work in Debian? Thanx.

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Easiest way to do this, is to create your HFS (Mac OS) partition and leave the rest of your disk as unallocated space. In other words, DO NOT create your Linux partitions from within Mac OS. Launch the Linux installer and do as directed. When you get to the part where it asks if you want to use the ...

A monitoring computer connected via a switch will not see all the traffic unless you can mirror the port, something most SOHO gear cannot do. That's correct. You will have to use a hub or a switch that will mirror all active ports to the port that is doing the logging. A hub will send all packets t...

Yeah, there's definitely some warped logic being presented by this guy. What floor's me, is his concern with the availability of support for a dvorak keyboard. Of course, we all know that dvorak keyboards are the 'standard' layouts in the 'real world'. So anybody coming to Debian from the 'real worl...

As for KDE or GNOME, I cant stand gnome, and none of my recruits to date (without a push from me, really) can either. I honestly, not trying to be insulting, cannot understand how anyone can like using GNOME...but again this is the wrong topic for this discussion. Most of my recruits want at least ...

btw can anyone who uses the desktop task (i don't) comment on how newbie friendly the result is. Is it possible to configure everything the typical newbie would want to configure (network connection, screen resoloution, add/remove software, edit menus etc) without resorting to the command line. I s...

I am in " kind of " Hell I have been looking for a solution for using debian and an Ati card , for 2 weeks no hope, Ati simply doesn't care about us "the costumers" . Perhaps if you removed your costume? I dunno, but I think it's difficult to be taken seriously while you're wear...

Vergil wrote:I would say don't buy ATI or NVIDIA because they don't release free/open source drivers, but that is just me......

Okay, so what should people buy then? Should we just sit in front of headless machines and pretend that we can see a nice fancy display?

There's a bunch of things that will do it. I'm curious however, why do you want to know which sites your users are going to? Sounds a bit 1984ish. :lol: Anyway, try tcpspy. It's a little daemon that you can install on your gateway machine to log tcp connections. All tcp connections are logged to /va...

Aye, captain. I forgot that there was a world outside of Linux... And that Linux doesn't always get the latest greatest when everyone else does. We didn't even get a Flash 8... Went straight from Seven to Nine. Should have went straight from Seven to Ten.