Ogg in Firefox
Fri, 4 Sep 2009 23:25:35 +0100
Recent versions of firefox always try to play ogg files (and seem to
think they are videos) even though I have *all* options set to 'Always
Ask'. Anyone know how to defeat this and regain control?
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Will J G ...
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Naive debian packages questions
Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:20:39 +0000 (UTC)
I have some very naive questions stemming from an annoying problem
with fetchmail. I just wanted to run them past this newsgroup to see
if I understood the situation correctly.
I just upgraded from debian etch to lenny (lenny is now debian stable)
and precisely one thing broke: fetchmail. My fetchmail was upgrad ...
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SELinux preventing game running ?
Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:23:03 +0100
Centos 5.3 2.6.18-128.7.1
I'm trying to run a game called BrainTrain as su -
If SELinux is set to "Permissive" the game runs OK using
sh run.cmd If however SELinux is set to the usual default setting of
"Enforcing", then I get the following response...
./BrainTrain: error while loading shared librar ...
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Ubuntu and FaceBook
Thu, 3 Sep 2009 13:26:23 +0100
I'm trying to persuade my wife to use Kubuntu instead of Windoze. It's sad
I know but she plays games on FaceBook like Farm Town and some rollercoaster
thing. I chose Kubuntu because the browser therein (Konqueror) provides the
vertical scroll bar in the Farm Town store whereas FireFox does not (a known
bug ...
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ripping CDs
02 Sep 2009 15:42:58 GMT
Have ubuntu 9.04 installed and wanted to rip approx 200 CDs to MP3.
Any recommendations what to use that's fast, not CLI ie has a GUI, and
produces decent quality files.
I couldn't find Sound Juicer (google search recommended) in the repos and
just tried using K3b which took 15 minutes to rip to ogg whereas, ...
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capturing audio en video with Xandros eee-pc
Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:21:46 -0700 (PDT)
I'm still trying to find out the best way to record video and audio
together with standard Xandros on my eee-pc.
I recently started experimenting with ffmpeg and found out the
recorded video is of very good quality. Unfortunately I can't figure
out how to include audio recording with ffmpeg itself. I already tried ...
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Deleting Users
Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:19:05 +0100
Linux newbie here. I installed Ubuntu on my wife's laptop and, like an
idiot, I entered her account details first instead of setting up an overall
admin account. After installing I created an admin account thinking that
I'd be able to delete the original account and re-create it. It allowed me
to delete the ...
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loading album covers in amarok broken?
Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:56:32 +0100
I've loaded many album covers in amarok using the 'fetch album covers'
option, but today it doesn't find anything?
Is it just me or has amazon (the source of album covers) changed
something to stop this? TBH I don't blame them, but it was mighty useful. ...
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WINE on Ubuntu
Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:52:18 +0100
Is there an idiot's guide to installing WINE 1.0.1 on Ubuntu? Everywhere I
look I can only find the latest Beta. Linux newbie here, idiot's guide
required :)
Thanks.
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Talking to a Windows Mobile PDA from Fedora 10
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:20:47 +0000 (UTC)
I've just been trying to talk to my Binatone X.350 PNA from Fedora 10
without success. Here's what I see in /var/log/message:
kernel: usb 5-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 34
kernel: usb 5-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
kernel: ipaq 5-2:1.0: PocketPC PDA converter detected
ker ...
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