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I have read that there is a bug in gedit when there is a null character sequence 00 00, which prevents editing. However the file in question ended with hex 00 0a When I first encountered this issue, the message dialogue: "gedit has not been able to detect the character encoding ..." offere...

I have now discovered that I have both computertemp and sensors-applet installed, and my earlier comments relate to computertemp and not to sensors-applet. My apologies if this has caused any confusion. The sensors-applet does work and I am using that for now. I tried the following experiment: apt-g...

Hi, I am used to being able to view html files in gedit under lenny, but cannot do that in squeeze. My /etc/mime.types file contains these entries: text/x-sh sh text/plain asc txt text pot brf text/html html htm shtml I have found gedit.desktop files in /usr/share/app-install/desktop and in /usr/sha...

Many thanks Gerowen for your comment. I went through the procedure you suggested, and sadly it makes no difference. I have now tried re-running sensors-detect. The module coretemp is indeed in my /etc/modules file and I have also checked that it is loaded using the lsmod command. However, the applet...

Hi, I have recently upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze with very few problems. However I cannot get the sensor-applet on the panel to work. In Gnome->Add to Panel, the applet does appear and gets added to the panel but crossed out in red. Right click on the applet and there is no preferences option - al...

Does anyone know where to get: The Debian System 2nd Edition: Concepts and Techniques by
Martin F. Krafft 2010?

It came out in the summer and seems to be sold out already! I wonder if No Starch press will print more soon?

I much appreciate your responses, they have helped me solve the problem. jheaton5 I don't know anything about Epiphany. I use Iceweasel, but instead of setting a default search engine, I set google as my home page. That certainly is one solution, but I feel I should be in control of my search engine...

I have been using Epiphany for about 10 days now. It seems that suddenly my search engine was changed from Google to VirginMedia. I cannot find any option to set the default search engine, either in Epiphany preferences or in gconf-editor. Can anyone explain how this change has occurred or how I mig...

I added [global] client lanman auth = yes as you suggested and re-started Samba. Now Debian cannot access 'match' - I get an empty list of connected computers. XP's response to accessing the 'match' work group was a message saying that I do not have permissions to connect. I tried rebooting everythi...

I realise this ought to be trivial, but for some reason this installation is not working for me. 1. Install adblock 0.7.5.5-3 from Debian Lenny Synaptic 2. Restart IceWeasel I expected to see Adblock plus listed in Tools>Add-ons>Extensions, but that page is empty. Also Edit>Preferences>Main>Manage A...

Many thanks for your confirmation - and as a result I have now made some small progress. I have changed all the Windows machine names, the Windows workgroup name, and the Linux domain. The Windows network list now displays quickly when I access it from the Linux box - so there is some improvement! H...

Thank you very much Absent Minded for your quick response - it is much appreciated :) I guess I have been getting severley confused as to what exactly the host name and domain names are. I have been trying to set these from System>Administration>Network on the General tab. Currently it shows: Host n...

Hi, I am also having host + domain problems in Debian Lenny (my first Debian installation after using Ubuntu). When I was installing Lenny, I was asked for a domain name (I gave it 'star.mat') and a hostname (I gave it 'graphical'). I am trying to set up a simple filesharing LAN with debian talking ...