Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-11 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: ... > Didn't get to it as soon as expected. > Just copying /etc/apt/sources.list and /var/lib/apt/lists is not enough. > Using either synaptic or apt-get I get an error message telling me to run > apt-cdrom so the cdrom can be recognized. > The information about what package

Re: Question about wifi web service with debian

2017-02-11 Thread Doug
On 02/11/2017 11:02 PM, Billy O wrote: hello my name is William O'Brien I have been using and researching debian for alittle while now and have been trying to access wifi I have tried several different ways and researched many tutorials and help sections with very little success and was

Question about wifi web service with debian

2017-02-11 Thread Billy O
hello my name is William O'Brien I have been using and researching debian for alittle while now and have been trying to access wifi I have tried several different ways and researched many tutorials and help sections with very little success and was wondering if you might be able to assist me with

Re: DNS hits

2017-02-11 Thread Glenn English
Sorry, Andy. Here's another try, but to the list... On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 8:40 PM, Glenn English wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > > If your nameserver offered recursion then it was most likely scanned >> and added to a

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/11/2017 05:22 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: You didn't ask for advice so take it or ignore it. IMHO, in this day and age, there is no reason not to run raid 1. Two disks, identially partitioned, each parition set up as a raid 1 partition with two copies. When a disk dies, you remove it from

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread John Culleton
On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 14:13:20 -0700 Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 03:54:34PM -0500, Doug wrote: > > > > > > On 02/10/2017 03:45 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > > >John Culleton wrote: > > > > > >>All I need from Debian is Adobe Acrobat

Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Feb 2017 at 16:25:50 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/29/2017 01:18 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >On 01/29/2017 10:26 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > >>On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 09:17:34AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>>I'm tracking down some problems related to chosen install

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-11 Thread Felix Miata
Marc Auslander composed on 2017-02-11 20:22 (UTC-0500): IMHO, in this day and age, there is no reason not to run raid 1. Are you sure? Laptops have been outselling desktops for years. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living

Re: DNS hits

2017-02-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Glenn, On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 04:11:13PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > Does your DNS answer recursive queries? > > > > Oh, my lord. I didn't think it did -- I tried to configure BIND to do > recursion only from my net. I just tried it from an external IP, and sure > enough, it gave me an

Re: archive.debian.org returning 403 Forbidden

2017-02-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:23:00PM +, GiaThnYgeia wrote: > Andy Smith: > > Took a stab at reporting it to ftpmas...@debian.org for now. […] > ohh ... wait it just came back UP again > http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/binary-amd64/ > It is all there now! ftpmaster

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-11 Thread Marc Auslander
You didn't ask for advice so take it or ignore it. IMHO, in this day and age, there is no reason not to run raid 1. Two disks, identially partitioned, each parition set up as a raid 1 partition with two copies. When a disk dies, you remove it from all the raid partitions, pop in a new disk,

Re: DNS hits

2017-02-11 Thread Igor Cicimov
On 12 Feb 2017 4:59 am, "Glenn English" wrote: Is anyone else getting thousands of hits on DNS? I am, largely from Amazon's AWS. I've emailed Amazon's abuse (from whois), Amazon's customer support, and added all the IP nets to my packet filter. But AWS isn't the whole

Re: archive.debian.org returning 403 Forbidden

2017-02-11 Thread GiaThnYgeia
Andy Smith: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 01:18:31PM +, Andy Smith wrote: >> Is this intentional? >> >> If not, who should the problem be reported to? > > Took a stab at reporting it to ftpmas...@debian.org for now. > > Cheers, > Andy it seems that the only think reachable on that server is

Re: DNS hits

2017-02-11 Thread Glenn English
On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 10:58:54AM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > > Nothing about Debian. > No, but I've been a Debian user for several years, and the place I know to ask to get to competent advice and such,

[FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/29/2017 01:18 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 01/29/2017 10:26 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 09:17:34AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm tracking down some problems related to chosen install options. I expect to be making _multiple_ clean installs. Besides

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-11 Thread David Christensen
On 02/10/17 23:39, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/08/2017 05:32 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 02/08/17 15:59, Marc Shapiro wrote: So how do I lay down a low level format on [the new 1 TB] drive? I would use the SeaTools bootable CD to fill the drive with zeroes: On 02/03/17 23:13, David

Re: Fwd: Re: Advice / recommendations on Inexpensive Managed Ethernet Switches

2017-02-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Basically anything that can run Debian and has two suitable > ethernet ports will do. An old laptop? One of the shiny little > Raspberry-Pi style devices? (Probably not the Pi itself; it only > has one ethernet port.) I use a BananaPi for that. It has 3 network interfaces: - the ethernet one,

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 11/02/17 10:09, Floris wrote: but the default pdf-reader in Debian is Evince Perhaps for Gnome, but not for all desktops supported in Debian. I use qpdfview under XFCE. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Davies Director Transient Software Limited New

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread deloptes
Patrick Bartek wrote: > And no guarantee it will work 100% with > today's PDF generated files. It works

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 03:54:34PM -0500, Doug wrote: > > > On 02/10/2017 03:45 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > >John Culleton wrote: > > > >>All I need from Debian is Adobe Acrobat Reader. Is this available with > >>Debian? > >No. > > > >Grüße, > >Sven. > > > Have you looked at

Re: DNS hits

2017-02-11 Thread Henning Follmann
On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 10:58:54AM -0700, Glenn English wrote: Nothing about Debian. Anyway... > Is anyone else getting thousands of hits on DNS? Hits how?. Do you run a DNS server with openly available zones? > > I am, largely from Amazon's AWS. I've emailed Amazon's abuse (from whois), >

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 Feb 2017 at 14:27:20 -0500, John Culleton wrote: > The culprit in this case is the online company who does my taxes. > They send them direct to the Feds and the State of Maryland but offer > me the opportunity to view them on line and print them out for my files. A good service. > But

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread John Culleton
On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 11:32:45 +1100 Keith Bainbridge wrote: > Have I missed something here? > > .pdf files are portable, right? > > > How can I as a creator specify that you as the reader MUST use a > specific program to read them? > > Keith Bainbridge > >

Re: DNS hits

2017-02-11 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat Feb 11, 2017 at 10:58:54 -0700, Glenn English wrote: >Is anyone else getting thousands of hits on DNS? Yes, but that's because I host DNS for popular domains. >But AWS isn't the whole problem -- just the worst offender. And my little >T1 has been, sometimes, DoS'ed by the

Re: Petició de consell - Processament de correus "en massa"

2017-02-11 Thread Pedro
Sí!! gràcies a tots per les vostres contribucions, molt útils! Us en dic un altre, la solució podria ser un owncloud o nextcloud, són molts fàcils d'instal·lar, si esteu familiaritzats amb el apache amb php, baixar-se els fitxers i posar-los a /var/www/html si no m'erro. he comprovat que el

Re: Petició de consell - Processament de correus "en massa"

2017-02-11 Thread Orestes Mas
El 08/02/17 a les 23:20, Orestes Mas ha escrit: >> Benvolgudes, >> >> A l'escola del nano volen fer un llibre amb fotos per final de primària. >> A tal efecte s'ha demanat a totes les famílies que envïin correus amb >> fotografies adjuntes a una bústia creada a tal efecte, la qual és >> accessible

Re: Petició de consell - Processament de correus "en massa"

2017-02-11 Thread Orestes Mas
El 09/02/17 a les 08:53, Sisco Garcia ha escrit: > > El 09/02/17 a les 02:00, Orestes Mas ha escrit: >> Ei, no us hi escalfeu el cap. He trobat un complement per l'Icedove que >> fa molt aproximadament el que busco. > Bon dia Orestes, > > Pots dir-nos quin és per si podem aprofitar-lo la gent

DNS hits

2017-02-11 Thread Glenn English
Is anyone else getting thousands of hits on DNS? I am, largely from Amazon's AWS. I've emailed Amazon's abuse (from whois), Amazon's customer support, and added all the IP nets to my packet filter. But AWS isn't the whole problem -- just the worst offender. And my little T1 has been, sometimes,

Re: xerrada de com s'organitza Debian a Sobtec

2017-02-11 Thread Alex Muntada
Mònica Ramírez Arceda: > Si mireu el guió de la xerrada [2] hi ha un últim punt que es diu > DebianCat. La meva idea és que anaquest punt presenti una mica la > comunitat catalana de Debian. Voldria saber si alguns de vosaltres > vindreu per tal que en aquest punt enlloc de parlar jo sigui un

Re: Problem with Mate's Top Panel

2017-02-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/11/2017 08:21 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2017-02-11, Curt wrote: On 2017-02-11, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] I now have only the "Main Menu" icon. It has Applications, Places, and System as submenus. I wish to return to the original configuration.

Re: Problem with Mate's Top Panel

2017-02-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/11/2017 09:47 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-02-11, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2017-02-11, Curt wrote: On 2017-02-11, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] I now have only the "Main Menu" icon. It has Applications, Places, and System as

Re: Stretch stable and jessie testing - repositories listed

2017-02-11 Thread GiaThnYgeia
thank you very much David Wright: > On Sat 11 Feb 2017 at 12:35:00 (+), GiaThnYgeia wrote: >> Jimmy Johnson: >>> On 02/10/2017 05:49 PM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 10 Feb 2017 at 16:00:13 (-0800), Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Hello, > Take a look at Synaptic Menu you can select a

Re: RESOLVED - was [Re: Problem with Mate's Top Panel]

2017-02-11 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: > songbird wrote: ... >> >> click on the panel >> >> then add to panel. >> >> both the main menu and the menu bar are >> there in the list. > > Yes, but with a "gotcha" ;) > The description of "Main Menu" is "The main MATE menu". > The description of "Menu Bar" is "A

Re: Stretch stable and jessie testing - repositories listed

2017-02-11 Thread GiaThnYgeia
Joe: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 12:35:00 + > GiaThnYgeia wrote: > >> One thing I have not been able to find in synaptic or elsewhere is a >> way to keep track of what has been installed and when. If you know >> where such a log habitates or can be created let me/us

RESOLVED - was [Re: Problem with Mate's Top Panel]

2017-02-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/11/2017 08:10 AM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: After a default installation of Mate under Jessie there had been one icon and three text labels on the left end of the top panel. The icon was the same icon associated with "Main Menu" in "Add to Panel". The three text labels were

Re: Problem with Mate's Top Panel

2017-02-11 Thread Curt
On 2017-02-11, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2017-02-11, Curt wrote: >> On 2017-02-11, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [...] > >>> I now have only the "Main Menu" icon. It has Applications, Places, >>> and System as submenus. I wish to return to

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread rhkramer
Thanks for accepting that in the good (I hope, or at I tried) humor that was intended! regards, Randy Kramer On Saturday, February 11, 2017 08:52:49 AM Michael Lange wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 08:00:08 -0500 > > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > I should resist, but the chance to make two (or

Re: Stretch stable and jessie testing - repositories listed

2017-02-11 Thread Joe
On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 12:35:00 + GiaThnYgeia wrote: > Jimmy Johnson: > > On 02/10/2017 05:49 PM, David Wright wrote: > >> On Fri 10 Feb 2017 at 16:00:13 (-0800), Jimmy Johnson wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> Take a look at Synaptic Menu you can select a package and

Re: Stretch stable and jessie testing - repositories listed

2017-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Feb 2017 at 12:35:00 (+), GiaThnYgeia wrote: > Jimmy Johnson: > > On 02/10/2017 05:49 PM, David Wright wrote: > >> On Fri 10 Feb 2017 at 16:00:13 (-0800), Jimmy Johnson wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> Take a look at Synaptic Menu you can select a package and then go to > >>> Package >

Re: Problem with Mate's Top Panel

2017-02-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/11/2017 07:44 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-02-11, Richard Owlett wrote: After a default installation of Mate under Jessie there had been one icon and three text labels on the left end of the top panel. The icon was the same icon associated with "Main Menu" in "Add to

Re: Problem with Mate's Top Panel

2017-02-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2017-02-11, Curt wrote: > On 2017-02-11, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] >> I now have only the "Main Menu" icon. It has Applications, Places, >> and System as submenus. I wish to return to the original >> configuration. How? > > Reinstall for the umpteenth

Re: Problem with Mate's Top Panel

2017-02-11 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: > After a default installation of Mate under Jessie there had been one icon and > three text labels on the left end of the top panel. > The icon was the same icon associated with "Main Menu" in "Add to Panel". > The three text labels were Applications, Places, and System. >

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread Michael Lange
On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 08:00:08 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I should resist, but the chance to make two (or three?) smart ass > comments to one post is tough to resist--no offense intended to > anybody. Sorry! > > On Saturday, February 11, 2017 07:32:44 AM Michael Lange wrote: > > On Fri, 10

Re: [hs] MySQL : utf8_general_ci ou utf8_unicode_ci ou utf8mb4_unicode_ci

2017-02-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
On lundi 30 janvier 2017 00:03:41 CET Safranil wrote: > Si vous êtes dans le second cas, je vous > conseil l'utf8mb4_general_ci qui gère parfaitement la langue française. D'après Tom Christieansen [1], utf8mb4_general_ci est cassé. Il faut utiliser utf8mb4_unicode_ci. utf8mb4_general_ci est

Fwd: Re: Installatie Debian voor PPC op ibook G4

2017-02-11 Thread Mark Eijkman
Beste Paul, Bedankt voor je antwoord. Zie ook mijn reactie aan Geert. Het ene bestand heet, zoals in die bugmelding stond, apm_emu, het andere weet ik niet meer, er zat 'therm' in de naam. De thermometer die temperatuur van de cpu meet? Dank voor je suggesties, alleen, hoe kom ik daar? Ik kan

Re: Problem with Mate's Top Panel

2017-02-11 Thread Curt
On 2017-02-11, Richard Owlett wrote: > After a default installation of Mate under Jessie there had been one icon and > three text labels on the left end of the top panel. > The icon was the same icon associated with "Main Menu" in "Add to Panel". > The three text labels were

Re: archive.debian.org returning 403 Forbidden

2017-02-11 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 01:18:31PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Is this intentional? > > If not, who should the problem be reported to? Took a stab at reporting it to ftpmas...@debian.org for now. Cheers, Andy

archive.debian.org returning 403 Forbidden

2017-02-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, Some time in the last 24 hours, archive.debian.org started returning 403 Forbidden when used as an APT repository: $ sudo apt-get update Ign http://archive.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg Ign http://archive.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/contrib Translation-en Ign

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread rhkramer
I should resist, but the chance to make two (or three?) smart ass comments to one post is tough to resist--no offense intended to anybody. Sorry! On Saturday, February 11, 2017 07:32:44 AM Michael Lange wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 23:27:12 -0500 > Doug wrote: > > I

Re: Stretch stable and jessie testing - repositories listed

2017-02-11 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 12:35:00 + GiaThnYgeia wrote: (...) > One thing I have not been able to find in synaptic or elsewhere is a way > to keep track of what has been installed and when. If you know where > such a log habitates or can be created let me/us

help needed with openssl please

2017-02-11 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi, I have some of my documents encrypted with openssl bf-cbc for confidentiality. I however see that after a dist-upgrade my new system is refusing to decrypting the data whereas my old systems are still decrypting the docs fine. on my new system: $ cat a.enc | openssl bf-cbc -d > /tmp/a

Problem with Mate's Top Panel

2017-02-11 Thread Richard Owlett
After a default installation of Mate under Jessie there had been one icon and three text labels on the left end of the top panel. The icon was the same icon associated with "Main Menu" in "Add to Panel". The three text labels were Applications, Places, and System. I had a flaky mouse that

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread Michael Lange
On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 23:27:12 -0500 Doug wrote: > > > On 02/10/2017 08:11 PM, Michael Lange wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 11:32:45 +1100 > > Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > >> Have I missed something here? > >> > >> .pdf files are portable,

Re: Stretch stable and jessie testing - repositories listed

2017-02-11 Thread GiaThnYgeia
Jimmy Johnson: > On 02/10/2017 05:49 PM, David Wright wrote: >> On Fri 10 Feb 2017 at 16:00:13 (-0800), Jimmy Johnson wrote: >>> Hello, >>> Take a look at Synaptic Menu you can select a package and then go to >>> Package > Force Version, you can only force one package at a time >>> but, yes you

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread Joe
On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 02:10:00 + GiaThnYgeia wrote: > > I have yet to find a single pdf document (and for many languages) that > can not be handled for reading by the document-viewer (evince) open > and free. I received one from my accountant last week. Having

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread Curt
On 2017-02-10, John Culleton wrote: > > My tax company insists on Adobe. I hve spend three days fighting > this problem. Installed Windoze 7 but it couldn't get on line. > Anyone have a linux Adobe Acrobat Reader. I had it once but the computer > died. > I have the Adobe

Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread Joe
On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 11:32:45 +1100 Keith Bainbridge wrote: > Have I missed something here? > > .pdf files are portable, right? > PDF is a container format, using a Post-Script-like language. PS was originally developed as a page description language for use with

Re: Software collections in Debian?

2017-02-11 Thread Curt
On 2017-02-10, Jeremy Voorhis wrote: > > I've used Software Collections for deployment of server software, and I can > say they do a lot less than tools like flatpak or snap. Besides being Less or more? Or is less more, more or less? > agnostic to

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