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Site: Debian User Forums - General Discussion (site profile, domain info debian.org)
Title: General Discussion
Url: http://forums.debian.net/viewforum.php?f=20&sid...
Users activity: 37 posts per thread
Forum activity: 53 active threads during last week
 

Posting activity on General Discussion:

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Threads: 53 157 417
Post: 155 594 1,558
 

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Name
Posts
Paulfocused
11
user's latest post:
Goodbye Debian!
Published (2009-12-13 17:17:00)
sir fer wrote: YAST is awesome *ducks* *Cocks pistol* What'd you say?
sir fer
11
user's latest post:
What Web Browser do you use?
Published (2009-12-13 21:38:00)
jheaton5 wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. I do like Lynx. No worries I'm using Firefox 3.6beta4 in testing and it is noticeably quicker than 3.5
julian67
7
user's latest post:
Installing random debs from the...
Published (2009-12-12 18:38:00)
edbarx wrote: @ bugsbunny You are putting some emphasis on social engineering . I use facebook to communicate with my younger relatives (sons and daughters of my brothers and sisters). Is facebook OK or not? No. Stop it immediately. But first give me your log-in ID and password so I can check you haven't been hacked.
jjmac
6
user's latest post:
A poll on your commandline skills
Published (2009-12-10 08:33:00)
Howdy all, Penguin Skinner wrote: [quote] >> And, yeah, I even boot to a login shell and launch my chosen DE with startx. >> [/quore] (grin) , yes, I do find it comforting to know that i'm not the last of the people who prefer 'startx'. I was beginning to think that, at times . I've also found it somewhat strange this thing people have about guis. I always seem to find that they will present some...
em4r1z
6
user's latest post:
Installing random debs from the...
Published (2009-12-09 21:12:00)
I think it should be in the Gerber section but it's important to remind ourselves to be cautious. During my daily GNU/Linux news reads, I've seen many "advices" about how to install packages not included in the repositories. Yours is an odd case but it shows an important issue of manual administration of packages.
refracta
6
user's latest post:
Debian forum NOT on main Debian...
Published (2009-12-12 15:51:00)
Damn....you found us.... I think having to search for something instead of it being shoved in your face is a good thing...and is the perfect introduction to debian...
nadir
6
user's latest post:
Debian forum NOT on main Debian...
Published (2009-12-12 23:39:00)
dbbolton Lingua latine colores non facile describuntur. I have a Langenscheidt Latin dictionary. That's where I got the term fuscus for "brown". For the record, I trust Telemachus' judgment on the matter of Latin vocabulary above my own and perhaps even above that of this dictionary's publishers. But, whether I chose the wrong word or not, it seems that nadir ultimately got my intended meaning. I made that my...
thorne
5
user's latest post:
When will lenny stable use kde 4?
Published (2009-12-11 14:25:00)
O,I will not use kde 4 untill it is offically souported by lenny i am just courious about this issue
akhenaton
4
user's latest post:
Can i really write in...
Published (2009-12-07 19:03:00)
craigevil wrote: Sure you can edit /etc/resolv.conf the problem is /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf overrides it. Edit your dhclient.conf and on the prepend domain-name-servers, uncomment it and add the nameserver you want to use. I use OpenDNS so mine has prepend domain-name-servers 208.67.222.222,208.67.220.220; and my resolv.conf looks like domain gateway.2wire.net search gateway.2wire.net nameserver 208.67.222.222 nameserver 208.67.220.220...
craigevil
4
user's latest post:
Debian forum NOT on main Debian...
Published (2009-12-12 16:15:00)
http://www.debian.org/support this forum is listed under websites.
 

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Started 2 years, 7 months ago (2007-05-10 22:41:00)  by actionM
I use iceweasel because I would die without the foxmarks plug-in.
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Started 1 day, 20 hours ago (2009-12-13 19:18:00)  by vrkalak
Welcome to Debian!! Which version of Debian are you using? Stable, Testing, Unstable Which desktop environment / window manager do you prefer? Are you thinking of modifying it radically?
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Started 6 months, 3 weeks ago (2009-05-25 00:52:00)  by julian67
There are other distributions?
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Started 1 month, 3 weeks ago (2009-10-23 21:03:00)  by AdrianTM
Have fun!
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Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-12-07 03:42:00)  by dilberts_left_nut
When squeeze becomes stable.
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Started 3 days ago (2009-12-12 15:51:00)  by refracta
Damn....you found us.... I think having to search for something instead of it being shoved in your face is a good thing...and is the perfect introduction to debian...
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Started 1 week ago (2009-12-08 12:51:00)  by Telemachus
edbarx wrote: Some crackpot imagined I run an all important server just because I run Debian! Not likely. Much more likely is that it's a script kiddie, who had no idea that he was targeting your machine in particular (nor what os you use). These sorts of attacks are like spam: they just hit every ip they can in a series.
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Started 1 week, 5 days ago (2009-12-02 18:58:00)  by Penguin Skinner
Hopefully you'll accept this as constructive criticism, but it doesn't seem to me that your poll questions are particularly representative of what many Linux users do from a shell. For example: I script a great many of the things that I prefer to do from a shell, such as backups using rsync and tar, iptables firewall and firewall log checking, burning CDs, and stuff like launching gphotofs to ...
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Started 5 days, 18 hours ago (2009-12-09 21:12:00)  by em4r1z
I think it should be in the Gerber section but it's important to remind ourselves to be cautious. During my daily GNU/Linux news reads, I've seen many "advices" about how to install packages not included in the repositories. Yours is an odd case but it shows an important issue of manual administration of packages.
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Started 1 year, 9 months ago (2008-03-06 09:42:00)  by sashk0
This's so cool!.. I dream about Nokia N800. _________________ MSI Megabook M670 and Debian Lenny
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Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-12-07 03:42:00)  by dilberts_left_nut
When squeeze becomes stable.
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Started 5 days, 18 hours ago (2009-12-09 21:12:00)  by em4r1z
I think it should be in the Gerber section but it's important to remind ourselves to be cautious. During my daily GNU/Linux news reads, I've seen many "advices" about how to install packages not included in the repositories. Yours is an odd case but it shows an important issue of manual administration of packages.
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Started 2 years, 7 months ago (2007-05-10 22:41:00)  by actionM
I use iceweasel because I would die without the foxmarks plug-in.
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Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-12-07 15:38:00)  by pendrachken
akhenaton wrote: I need to set static default DNS addresses and something erase everything i place inside /etc/resolv.conf each time i reboot the machine. In the file, it says DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN !!! Every web page i found describing how to set DNS addresses say that i must edit this file !... Obviously, this is not the right way to go ! How ...
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Started 3 days ago (2009-12-12 15:51:00)  by refracta
Damn....you found us.... I think having to search for something instead of it being shoved in your face is a good thing...and is the perfect introduction to debian...
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Re: Goodbye Debian! - 11 new posts
Started 1 month, 3 weeks ago (2009-10-23 21:03:00)  by AdrianTM
Have fun!
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Started 6 months, 3 weeks ago (2009-05-25 00:52:00)  by julian67
There are other distributions?
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Started 1 week ago (2009-12-08 12:51:00)  by Telemachus
edbarx wrote: Some crackpot imagined I run an all important server just because I run Debian! Not likely. Much more likely is that it's a script kiddie, who had no idea that he was targeting your machine in particular (nor what os you use). These sorts of attacks are like spam: they just hit every ip they can in a series.
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Started 1 week, 5 days ago (2009-12-02 18:58:00)  by Penguin Skinner
Hopefully you'll accept this as constructive criticism, but it doesn't seem to me that your poll questions are particularly representative of what many Linux users do from a shell. For example: I script a great many of the things that I prefer to do from a shell, such as backups using rsync and tar, iptables firewall and firewall log checking, burning CDs, and stuff like launching gphotofs to ...
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Started 1 year, 9 months ago (2008-03-06 09:42:00)  by sashk0
This's so cool!.. I dream about Nokia N800. _________________ MSI Megabook M670 and Debian Lenny
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