Re: ThinkPad fan

On Thursday 30 June 2016 01:13:48 Gener Badenas wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Francesco Montanari > > > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Thanks for the suggestions. I tried the following, which didn't change > > much the situation. Can it be that the CPUs just warm

Wheezy upgrade and Dell Inspiron 9300 (Intel Centrino)

Tomorrow I am going to upgrade a Dell Inspiron 9300, with an Intel Centrino, from Wheezy to Jessie. Hopefully it will go without a hitch. I upgraded my own desktop from Wheezy to Jessie last weekend and it was so trouble-free I was pinching myself. Is there likely to be a problem with Jessie

Re: Update: Last Linux kernel did not install correctly

On Tuesday 28 June 2016 17:23:13 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 10:14:48 AM Johann Klammer wrote: > > BTW: What is apper? I can't seem to find any package with that name on my > > system... > > apper is a GUI package manager for Debian--sort of a GUI version of > apt-get.  

Re: off topic: chromebook

On Friday 24 June 2016 13:23:53 Byung-Hee HWANG (.) wrote: > >What DO you want?? > > Dear Lisi, > > My words was lack to express my aim (translation-work[1][2]) with > chromebook. That gave people some confusion. > > And now i get all informations that i was needed for chromebook by > people's

Re: off topic: chromebook

On Thursday 23 June 2016 13:19:10 Patrick Wiseman wrote: > A Google search for 'emacs on chromebook' [snip] > On Thursday 23 June 2016 14:17:33 Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희) wrote: > However, possibly i like to install Emacs on Debian Linux or *BSD. But you said that you wanted to run it on a

Re: USB printer CUPS stalls on "Sending data to printer"

On Wednesday 22 June 2016 06:20:32 Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > <201606210831.24319.lisi.re...@gmail.com> > > Need a bit of help here. What am I supposed to do with this line > of um text? > > If there is an elegant method that wil

Re: USB printer CUPS stalls on "Sending data to printer"

On Tuesday 21 June 2016 22:29:36 Brian wrote: > Was the suggestion given not clear enough or too > involved? Emanuel doesn't like the idea of trying to do anything with the web interface. I had already suggested it for one of his problems earlier. <201606210831.24319.lisi.re...@gmail.com> Too

Re: Strange Email Bounce

On Tuesday 21 June 2016 09:26:02 Charlie wrote: > Then what sender? The sender of the bounce. The addressee? Lisi

Re: Strange Email Bounce

On Tuesday 21 June 2016 07:29:42 Charlie S wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:03:10 -0500 Don Armstrong sent: > > On Mon, 20 Jun 2016, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > I just replied to an email here on the debian-user list. I have > > > checked the debian-user list archive on debian.org, and the email

Re: USB printer CUPS stalls on "Sending data to printer"

On Tuesday 21 June 2016 03:51:23 Emanuel Berg wrote: > Emanuel Berg writes: > > File "/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertospl" not > > available: No such file or directory > > I found rastertospl it in the ULD archive, the > i386 directory. > > Now when I do print it first says

Re: ssh again

On Sunday 19 June 2016 22:15:50 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 15/06/2016 12:32 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > scp /path/to/file username@a:/path/to/destination > > use: > scp -p source destination > > Without -p, you get a new date/timestamp at the very least. Always a > g

Re: CUPS under jessie

On Sunday 19 June 2016 14:55:22 Rodary Jacques wrote: > I may be completely wrong: I had a canon printer once, and > canon had made a driver for Cups under MacOS but it doesn't > matter. After an OS upgrade, the driver didn't work anymore > and the driver used by Cups (gimp related if I remember

Re: ThinkPad fan

On Saturday 18 June 2016 09:41:36 Francesco Montanari wrote: > I'll ask > around if someone can lend me one of those fan pads to try it out. You do need a powered one. Which may necessitate a powered USB hub. :-( Lisi

Re: error trying to launch the first firefox window on Debian Jessie

On Friday 17 June 2016 21:33:52 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 17 June 2016 11:50:49 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 17 June 2016 16:29:51 Dalios wrote: > > > On 06/16/2016 08:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > snip > > > > > > > There

Re: error trying to launch the first firefox window on Debian Jessie

On Friday 17 June 2016 16:29:51 Dalios wrote: > On 06/16/2016 08:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > snip > > > There seems to be sort of a "quantum dis-entanglement" in this browser > > transition (and I am reading between the lines, thinking your problem is > > related to this) because in one swell

Re: ThinkPad fan

On Friday 17 June 2016 15:01:39 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 17 June 2016 08:22:02 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > On 6/17/16, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > On 6/17/16, Dan Purgert wrote: > > >> Francesco Montanari wrote: > > >>> I recently installed

Re: ThinkPad fan

On Friday 17 June 2016 13:52:51 cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > (I guess some logical solutions aren't under consideration.) I have yet to meet a dog-owner whose logical faculties extend to their dogs. :-/ Lisi

Re: ThinkPad fan

On Friday 17 June 2016 13:22:02 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > They're placed > so that they are not near the hottest parts of the laptop Provided they are not in any way obstructing airflow, then assuming they are metal ones you WANT them near or under the heat to help conduct it away. I am

[Hampshire] Portsmouth LUG Meeting on Saturday, 18th June, from 13:00 to 18:00

The next meeting of Portsmouth Linux User Group will be next Saturday, 18th June, from 13:00 to 18:00 at the Broadoak Sports and Social Club, Hilsea. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html You are all warmly invited. You wouldn't miss an England match, and it doesn't sound like very good

Re: Mailing-list configuration

On Thursday 16 June 2016 16:31:21 Dan Purgert wrote: > > In the end, however, we are all at each others' mercy. :-/ > > Indeed we are.  The people who send HTML messages often create "fun" > issues (as my client expects text alone).  But, "text only" is now > seemingly the "alternate" rather than

Re: How to download over https

On Thursday 16 June 2016 14:41:22 Matthew Davis wrote: > (Sorry about the lack of pleasantries in my previous email. I haven't used > these sorts of mailing lists before, so I just assumed it was all about > going straight to business like on Stack Exchange.) Both your emails seemed fine to me.

Re: Mailing-list configuration

On Thursday 16 June 2016 13:47:54 Dan Purgert wrote: > In addition, I feel that both parties in the original problem > (apparently Lisi and Nicolas -- please correct me if I'm wrong) each > have some fault in the matter.  Mainly, this seems to stem from each of > you assuming that the other's MUA

Re: Mailing-list configuration

On Wednesday 15 June 2016 21:23:07 Rodary Jacques wrote: > Not using any MUA, just a browser (Opera, which is BTW in the official > Debian list: https://wiki.debian.org/WebBrowsers, non-free but I don't know > why as it is a Mozilla clone; Mozilla isn't free and Google Chrome is :-D), > and I

Re: Fwd: ssh again

On Wednesday 15 June 2016 10:13:26 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Leon.37428 wrote on 06/14/16 19:28: > > > > With scp if you plan on using the same file-name, you don't need to > > specify it on the other end. You can simply go right ahead and just type: > > > > scp /home/whatever/file.jpg

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Wednesday 15 June 2016 08:41:25 Curt wrote: > On 2016-06-12, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It would be a lot easier if you didn't keep sending me personal copies. > > If you want to complain to someone who sent you a carbon copy when you > did not ask

Re: ssh again

On Tuesday 14 June 2016 18:08:45 Brian wrote: > On Tue 14 Jun 2016 at 16:06:17 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:53:17 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:48 PM Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tues

Re: ssh again

On Tuesday 14 June 2016 16:32:45 emetib wrote: > > That's my project after next - if I live that long!!! ;-) Probably a > > quick way of getting rid of the rest of my hair. And/or turning it grey. > > > > Lisi > > lisi, > > hopefully this is to the list and not private. :-)) It was. :-) > >

Re: ssh again

On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:53:17 Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:48 PM Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:40:22 Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:32:19PM +0100, Lisi R

Re: how to make bootable live wheezy USB that doesn't use isohybrid

On Tuesday 14 June 2016 13:50:28 Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > Can someone point me to a howto for making a bootable live wheezy > USB dongle that doesn't use isohybrid? From where are you going to get a non-hybrid Wheezy .iso? I have come across computers that won't boot from USB for

Re: how to make bootable live wheezy USB that doesn't use isohybrid

On Tuesday 14 June 2016 13:50:28 Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > I'd like to make a live wheezy USB dongle. I followed the instructions on > >https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#write-usb > > to make a live USB from > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/7.11.0-live/amd64/iso-hybr

Re: ssh again

On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:42:17 Lars Noodén wrote: > On 06/14/2016 05:32 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > peter@Nyx-II:~/Lisi$ cp Ken-Blue-10.jpg Lisi@192.168.0.2:~/Pictures/ > > cp: cannot create regular file ‘Lisi@192.168.0.2:~/Pictures/’: No such > > file or directory > >

Re: ssh again

On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:40:22 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:32:19PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > peter@Nyx-II:~/Lisi$ cp Ken-Blue-10.jpg Lisi@192.168.0.2:~/Pictures/ > > cp: cannot create regular file ‘Lisi@192.168.0.2:~/Pictures/’: No such

Fwd: ssh again

. (Logged into .3 from .2, copied from .2 to .3 - that's how that picture got there!!) Lisi -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: ssh again Date: Tuesday 14 June 2016, 15:32:19 From: Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Having got ssh working re

ssh again

Having got ssh working reliably oevr my home network, tahnks ot teh opatient help of thsi list, I am now trying to copy files aroind. I am on 192.168.0.2, but have sshed in to 192.268.0.3 (I must get hostnames working :-( ). The other day I successfully ciopied a pictiyure from .2 to .3, and

Re: Clock

On Tuesday 14 June 2016 07:20:28 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Richard Barmann wrote on 06/14/16 05:36: > > About once a week when I boot up I find the clock is exactly 4 hours > > slow. I am using Kubuntu 16.04. If I am asking the question in the wrong > > place please send me to the correct forum.

Re: Mailing-list configuration

On Monday 13 June 2016 23:31:11 Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/13/2016 04:09 PM, Erwan David wrote: > > Le 13/06/2016 à 23:08, Doug a écrit : > >> On 06/13/2016 02:36 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > >>> Le sextidi 26 prairial, an CCXXIV, Bob Holtzman a écrit : > >> > >> /snip/ > >> > >> Just what planet are

Re: Mailing-list configuration

On Monday 13 June 2016 22:08:36 Doug wrote: > On 06/13/2016 02:36 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > > Le sextidi 26 prairial, an CCXXIV, Bob Holtzman a écrit : > > /snip/ > > Just what planet are you writing from, Bob? I don't recognize the date > at all. It isn't Bob that put that date in - it's

Re: Mailing-list configuration

On Monday 13 June 2016 19:35:50 Dutch Ingraham wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 06:51:46PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 13 June 2016 18:09:23 Nicolas George wrote: > > > Le sextidi 26 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > > > meant to go to the mail

Re: Mailing-list configuration

On Monday 13 June 2016 19:35:54 Gene Heskett wrote: > And I am not sure that this tempest in a teapot is all about, the older > kmail that I use and the older TBird that I have unwillingly used way > back up the logbook now, both have a reply-to-list button.  This is a > list and I use that button

Re: Mailing-list configuration

On Monday 13 June 2016 19:24:43 ghe wrote: > On 06/13/2016 10:48 AM, Martin Read wrote: > > Solution 3: A makes the probably-smaller-per-incident effort to set up > > filters dropping on the floor any mail sent by the people whose MUAs > > have bad default behaviour on Debian mailing lists. > > >

Re: Mailing-list configuration

On Monday 13 June 2016 18:51:46 Bob Holtzman wrote: > I suspect (maybe wrong) that you > may be one of those individuals that wants to do it his/her way and the > hell with the CoC. Like I said, maybe I'm wrong. He has actually said that in so many words. He can't be bothered to follow CoCs.

Re: Mailing-list configuration

On Monday 13 June 2016 18:09:23 Nicolas George wrote: > Le sextidi 26 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > So tell us how. You have not done so. You have said: > > - > > Conforming to that attitude, I have documented my personal preferenc

Re: Mailing-list configuration (was: Big dummy at work again)

On Monday 13 June 2016 17:36:53 Nicolas George wrote: > Solution 2: A makes the moderate punctual effort to configure the MUA to > set the header correctly and directly reaps the benefits. > > Stated like that, it is pretty much a no-brainer. Except that you are continuing to refuse to explain

Re: Mailing-list configuration

On Monday 13 June 2016 16:42:40 Nicolas George wrote: > Mark Fletcher: > > You know we are not talking about running a nuclear reactor here, right? > > What is your point? > > > But this only works if all participants agree to use such headers, > > surely? > > No. The header I am referring to has

Re: Mailing-list configuration

On Monday 13 June 2016 16:12:57 Nicolas George wrote: > I gave the technical solution and headers I use. I asked what *I* needed to do, and how to do it, to avoid your replies. Not what you do to insist on replying to me. As you say, you have told me. I consider that one ought to "reply to

Re: Mailing-list configuration (was: Big dummy at work again)

On Monday 13 June 2016 15:17:19 Nicolas George wrote: > Le sextidi 26 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > I appreciate that. Thank you. But it isn't just my personal > > preferences, it is part of the CoC: > > And the mail headers state differently. Given contra

Re: Mailing-list configuration (was: Big dummy at work again)

On Monday 13 June 2016 10:57:05 Nicolas George wrote: > This time only, as a particular courtesy, I have edited manually the list > of recipients to adhere to your personal preferences. I appreciate that. Thank you. But it isn't just my personal preferences, it is part of the CoC: "When

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Monday 13 June 2016 01:31:10 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 12 June 2016 18:09:52 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 12 June 2016 20:08:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > A single 'q', and all hell took off and bombed my system, leaving > > > only that which was in memory &

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Sunday 12 June 2016 23:19:27 Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > Yes, OK. But it was the topic that I was answering to, not the > > individual. I was trying to keep the thread rational -- possibly > > unsuccessfully.

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Sunday 12 June 2016 23:10:13 Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > The thread was about running xterm inside a DE by all sorts of > > complicated methods instead of simply clicking a couple of buttons in > > Konsole-Tr

Re: ncurses screen corruption and terminals

On Sunday 12 June 2016 22:13:19 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I can attest that Debian jessie's Konsole doesn't work quite right in > every situation with the "TERM=xterm" and Debian's terminfo, for > example. Gene is in fact using, or not using, Konsole-Trinity, not KDE-Konsole. Lisi

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Sunday 12 June 2016 20:08:38 Gene Heskett wrote: > A single 'q', and all hell took off and bombed my system, leaving only > that which was in memory & running. It did not accept another q, nor a > ctl+c. Bad dog, no dinner. So you opened a terminal and typed: $ q and all hell let loose??

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Sunday 12 June 2016 20:15:08 Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > > If you go for medium or large font sizes, then using -fa / faceName and > > > an Xft name instead of -fn / font for an X11 fot is probably a good >

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Sunday 12 June 2016 15:45:51 Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 25 prairial, an CCXXIV, Siard a écrit : > > xterm*VT100.font: -efont-fixed-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-* > > If you go for medium or large font sizes, then using -fa / faceName and an > Xft name instead of -fn / font for

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Sunday 12 June 2016 17:42:51 Gene Heskett wrote: > not that I've found, but the sob is tearing down my system down even as I > gave it a q after looking at a list of packages it wants to remove. If I > cannot control it, it will NEVER be used here again.  It will take days > to re-install the

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Sunday 12 June 2016 16:18:18 Gene Heskett wrote: > with aptitude, like mc, whatever terminal its running IN, MUST DO ncurses > emulations.  And that is compulsory! Gene, that is rubbish. aptitude at the CLI is just that. At the CLI. Like any other CLI command. The n-curses interface is

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Sunday 12 June 2016 15:37:17 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 12 June 2016 06:08:54 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 12 June 2016 01:49:27 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > 2 > > > firefox > > > firefox-esr > > > And esr is a version 45 something, f

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Sunday 12 June 2016 15:17:42 Gene Heskett wrote: > Konsole can also be made usable I believe. The std "schema" needs a few > changes to its current defaults but it can be made quite usable, so its > a possible alternative. > > Regards Lisi. Konsole can very easily be made very usable. I use

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Sunday 12 June 2016 12:26:36 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:08:54AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > [...] > > > # aptitude purge firefox-esr > > (since that seems to be the one you don'

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Sunday 12 June 2016 01:49:27 Gene Heskett wrote: > 2 > firefox > firefox-esr > And esr is a version 45 something, figuratively speaking, a few months > long in the tooth. They are different. Uninstall the one you don't want. esr is long term support. # aptitude purge firefox-esr (since

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Sunday 12 June 2016 07:02:45 Gene Heskett wrote: > Basically, when you back up What does "back up" mean in this context? (Remember that pond, Gene - or is this Gene-speak or my aphasia???)

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Sunday 12 June 2016 01:49:27 Gene Heskett wrote: > Maybe, but that ncurses face on aptitube is a total turn-off, and will be > until aptitude figures out how to make ncurses redraw the whole screen > instead of leave a kilobyte of text covering 20% of the screen real > estate.  And it been that

[Hampshire] Portsmouth LUG Meeting on Saturday, 18th June, from 13:00 to 18:00

The next meeting of Portsmouth Linux User Group will be next Saturday, 18th June, from 13:00 to 18:00 at the Broadoak Sports and Social Club, Hilsea. http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/venue.html You are all warmly invited. Prue Amner will be talking about the dawn of computing. (She gave up

Re: Big dummy at work again

On Saturday 11 June 2016 22:24:40 Doug wrote: > On 06/11/2016 03:01 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings gui panel experts; > > > > After the first round of replacing iceweasel with firefox, since it > > pointed at the firefox-esr binary after that, I killed the iceweasel > > icon on the panel,

Re: Non-firefox browser?

On Saturday 11 June 2016 20:27:16 Leon.37428 wrote: > On 06/11/2016 03:20 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 02:40:26PM -0500, Doug wrote: > >> On 06/11/2016 08:00 AM, Alan McConnell wrote: > >>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:39:04PM -0400, Leon.37428 wrote: > Here's a list

Re: [SOLVED] Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

On Friday 10 June 2016 13:59:21 Zachary Tretter wrote: > Like this? (attempting to change subject) This isn't very informative - and there doesn't seem to be a thread attached. I imagine taht you may intend itr as an answer to yoru own:

Re: Touchpad, audio, and wifi not working

On Thursday 09 June 2016 17:10:26 Zachary Tretter wrote: > I upgraded to stretch, installed firmware-realtek, and set pci=noaer. > Everything in the title has been fixed. This thread can be renamed to > solved. :-) > > Thanks for the help. It would be a good idea to update your BIOS or UEFI

Re: Non-firefox browser?

On Saturday 11 June 2016 14:23:23 Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 11 Jun 2016 09:00:45 -0400 > > Alan McConnell wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:39:04PM -0400, Leon.37428 wrote: > > > Here's a list of others: https://wiki.debian.org/WebBrowsers > > > > I have been

Re: non-functioning cds

On Saturday 11 June 2016 11:28:14 Shailesh Pundlik wrote: > I wrote to the e-mail address given by you but > have not received any reply yet. I'm not sure who or where you mean by "you". You certainly haven't emailed me! Assuming that Thomas is correct when he says "I assume you mean

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

On Thursday 09 June 2016 23:01:16 Gene Heskett wrote: >  org.kde.kcalc-6112 Probably absolutely irrelevant - but why have you got kde-anything?? (For general info, Gene is running TDE 14, not kde.) Lisi

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

On Monday 06 June 2016 20:00:42 David Wright wrote: > On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 19:39:52 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 06 June 2016 19:16:41 David Wright wrote: > > > On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 18:56:07 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Monday 06 June 20

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

On Monday 06 June 2016 19:16:41 David Wright wrote: > On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 18:56:07 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 06 June 2016 18:49:50 David Wright wrote: > > > On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 13:12:33 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Monday 06 June 2016

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

On Monday 06 June 2016 18:49:50 David Wright wrote: > On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 13:12:33 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 06 June 2016 11:54:12 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > On Seg, 06 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > So the bottom line is that wheezy doesn't have a decent CAD

Re: June 2016

On Monday 06 June 2016 16:12:57 Glenn Holmer wrote: [snip] > What's with all the spam on this list? You don't see that on other > distros' mailing lists. And you have now made the job of the spam filters that much harder by repeating the spam. Not much spam gets through. Maybe other lists have

Re: First hint as to why kaffeine won't rx tv

On Sunday 05 June 2016 15:00:54 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 05 June 2016 06:49:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 05 June 2016 10:40:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Based on that, I am pointing my finger at the newer kaffeine now. > > > > Kaffei

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

On Sunday 05 June 2016 14:58:39 Gene Heskett wrote: > I find entirely too often on linux, that the help > tut from that menu pulldown is missing an annoying percentage of the > time. Well, it's open source, Gene. Learn how to use it then write the docs. Or pay a technical author to learn how

Re: First hint as to why kaffeine won't rx tv

On Sunday 05 June 2016 10:40:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > Based on that, I am pointing my finger at the newer kaffeine now. Kaffeine-Trinity, I take it? > But > its been years since I've filed a bug. No clue how to do it on wheezy at > what could be considered this late date. You can't. Security

Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages [SOLVED]

On Sunday 05 June 2016 03:18:38 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 04 Jun 2016 at 21:11:23 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 04 June 2016 17:49:02 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > > aptitude search '~g' > > > > And that returns an equally lengthy list, all prefaced with an 'id'. No > > clue

Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages

On Saturday 04 June 2016 19:06:01 Gene Heskett wrote: > Thank you for the link Lisi, I believe it was helpful in showing me that > at my age, I am finally in over my head, Many years ago now I had that salutary lesson - at a MUCH younger age. My six year old son was musically gifted. There is

Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages

On Saturday 04 June 2016 15:45:17 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 04 June 2016 05:53:17 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > The aptitude on your system is an older version (on sid it is 0.8.1), > > Yes, this is wheezy. 6.8.2 here. Which, according to " is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally

Re: CUPS under jessie

On Friday 03 June 2016 21:00:52 Alan McConnell wrote: > I would be very grateful for any aid.  Just to show how bad things > are:  I try to access  http://localhost:631 on my iceweasel and I get > the message:  Unable to connect.    ? ? ? ?    Aaaagghhh!! You said that you purged CUPS. Since

Re: Running without X was: Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Friday 03 June 2016 15:32:14 David Wright wrote: > I did discover that it's obvious if you try to Xorg -configure > while X is running There's a hole in the bucket, dear Eliza This is why I was trying to do it at single user level, to be *certain* that X wasn't running. :-) X is there,

Re: google-chrome-stable on Wheezy

On Friday 03 June 2016 15:45:43 Mike McGinn wrote: > I am buying a new laptop in February, this one will be eight years old > by then. Then I shall start clean with Jessie. By next February (9 months away), shouldn't you be thinking of Stretch? It will probably already be full-frozen, and

Re: dphys-swapfile why don't us fallocate to create swapfile

On Thursday 02 June 2016 09:50:31 basti wrote: > so why you don't use this? Why doesn't who use it? Lisi

Re: SOS

On Friday 03 June 2016 15:09:01 Stephen Allen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 02:12:52PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 07:05:44AM -0500, Michael Milliman wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > >It got there because his grandson put it there. (He said last time.). > > > > > >

Re: icons missing in kde 5 applications

On Friday 03 June 2016 15:04:50 Stephen Allen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 07:27:41AM -0500, Ariel Molinuevo wrote: > > Ok. I managed to fix it following the instructions from here: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Qt#Configuration_of_Qt5_apps_under_e > >nvironments_other_than_KDE > >

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

On Friday 03 June 2016 10:59:53 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Wheezy, i386. > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but it > cannot find its help docs. > > I do not see a separate docs package in the repo's. > > Does anyone have a clue where they might be

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Friday 03 June 2016 09:59:29 Lisi Reisz wrote: > I didn't know what foo was anyway. I meant that I didn't know specifically what foo was in that context. Lisi

Running without X was: Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Friday 03 June 2016 10:07:13 Lisi Reisz wrote: >  I wanted to log in without X > and runlevel 1 has no X. So I next tried to shut X down. I have tried this before without success, so I googled again, and gathered that what I needed to do in fact was shut down my dm. See:

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Wednesday 01 June 2016 18:52:40 David Wright wrote: > AIUI one can configure a box to run X in all runlevels but 1; > however, there's no need to do it that way. None of my machines > run X automatically at runlevel 2: I have to use startx. This is indubitably true, but irrelevant to the

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Wednesday 01 June 2016 14:43:29 Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:10 PM Dan Purgert <d...@djph.net> wrote: > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Tuesday 31 May 2016 23:56:02 Richard Hector wrote: > > >> On 01/06/16 07:31, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Wednesday 01 June 2016 23:07:55 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 31 May 2016 at 20:31:32 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 31 March 2016 15:08:24 Brian wrote: > > > On Thu 31 Mar 2016 at 13:27:35 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Thursday 31 March 2016 1

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

On Thursday 02 June 2016 22:56:08 Britton Kerin wrote: > On my old debian system I could ping as a normal user. The ping > binary had the suid bit set. Now I get: > > $ ping www.google.com > ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted > 2 $ > > presumably because the bit isn't

Re: SOS

On Thursday 02 June 2016 09:44:51 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [CCed, because probably not on list. Perhaps it's just a spam > trap -- so be it] He had already had two replies to the same question, which he is here asking for the second time, cc'd

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Wednesday 01 June 2016 01:20:52 John Hasler wrote: > Lisi writes: > > The pipe symbol doesn't work on the keyboard at present attached > > Then put the output of ps in a file and search that. The small part of the problem I am trying to solve at this precise minute is that I am working almost

Re: buntu kybosh

On Wednesday 01 June 2016 08:40:39 Lisi Reisz wrote: > That is why I said "of course".  And that is why I said *I* kyboshed it and > not *Ubuntu* kyboshed it. No I didn't. I said "*Ubuntu* kyboshed". Mea culpa. Lisi

Re: buntu kybosh

On Wednesday 01 June 2016 01:31:26 Felix Miata wrote: > > The word was a little stronger than is totally justified.  This is > > attached to a television.  I want to just turn it on.  Ubuntu boots but > > is unusable, so I have to hover over it, grab GRUB and get into Debian, > > because Ubuntu

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Wednesday 01 June 2016 00:42:47 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2016, at 19:25, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > ... > > Assuming that sshd is actually running at that stage, which it looks as > > though it isn't > > ... > > Looks as though I've given you mostl

Re: buntu kybosh (was: How to properly install...)

On Wednesday 01 June 2016 00:15:20 Felix Miata wrote: > Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-05-31 18:06 (UTC+0100): > > ...I have just kyboshed the computer I have attached > > to the television by trying Ubuntu MATE 16.04 as a dual boot. I am > > mentally working out the best

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

On Tuesday 31 May 2016 23:56:39 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2016, at 15:31, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > ... > > So I need static IPs fast! > > ... > > (The above was actually quoted from an earlier post). > If you want to convert your computers to use static

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