On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 02:39:11PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
Right, which one?
root@tal:~# apt-cache search bumblebee
bumblebee-nvidia - NVIDIA Optimus support using the proprietary NVIDIA
Yes, this one.
root@tal:~# lsmod | grep video
Output:
uvcvideo 57744 0
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:55:30AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
For Arch there isn't an entry video and running it as quasi chroot,
the Arch X anyway will be the used X, so I can't see the Debian's output
yet. Perhaps it's different for Debian and there are always video
entries.
Then
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:35:45AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On 2/15/14, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote:
Trying to set up a Tor relay node, and the tor package recommended
tor-arm, which I installed too.
Running arm gives the following warning:
17:27:19 [ARM_NOTICE] Arm is
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 03:09:51PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sat, 2014-02-15 at 13:57 +, Robin wrote:
After running dpkg -i do:
apt-get -f install
which should help resolve straightforward issues.
Good idea, but perhaps the OP needs to run
dpkg -i --force-depends PACKAGE
Not
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 03:39:30PM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
Am I the only one there who readed this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unix_Programming_Environment?
(once reading this you think that the .sh suffix is not only
unnecessary, it is UGLY!)
Well, it does save using the
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 06:13:51PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2014-02-12 06:12 +0100, Chris Bannister wrote:
I tried systemd - booted really fast, but it didn't honor any console
font settings I had. I groaned and reverted back realising, after seeing
quite a bit of discussion
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:58:48AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 13/02/14 10:24, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote:
Hello List
I was very alert for almost 14 years,
snipped
Great, but I think you're posting to the wrong list.
Try trollsrus.org or witlingfools.org
[Paul, please don't post in html]
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 06:42:38AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On 02/13/2014 05:37 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
I just did the init=/lib/systemd/systemd on the linux command line as
a oncer and noticed.
You snipped what I noticed.
Now:
root@tal:~# ls
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:12:11PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 11:29 +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
Another question. Systemd will continue to let me use the systemv
scripts?
Perhaps Debian makes this available during the transition. I use Debian
without systemd.
[James, please don top post on this mailing list.]
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:48:37AM +, James Allsopp wrote:
Is there a document that summarises what developers thought the pros and
cons of each were? I've read LP's comments on systemd, but that hardly
falls into the balanced camp.
A
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 05:49:38PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 11/02/14 17:20, Pablo Zuñiga wrote:
Dear,
We
Plural? (not one face painter?)
have completed the preparation of the 3.14-rc2 kernel, is cooked and
stored in
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:56:41PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On 2/11/14, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote:
On Tue 11 Feb 2014 at 10:10:37 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
I'm wondering:
1) how to easily clean known_hosts
ssh-keygen with the -R option.
$ HOST=raptor
$ ssh-keygen -r
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:55:17PM +, Brian wrote:
On Tue 11 Feb 2014 at 23:45:45 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 00:24 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Let the flames begin...
I'm aware that it isn't off-topic, anyway, I strongly recommend to
discuss systemd at
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 04:40:10PM +0530, Mahesh Rajpurohit wrote:
Sir/Madam,
I download from
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.4.0/amd64/iso-dvd/
here it having 4.4G download
[image: [ ]] debian-7.4.0-amd64-DVD-2.iso
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 07:55:38PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
Hello everyone, I have got some good news.
The hdd is now back from the dead,alive and working well.
Alright!
I went to my friend who had that casing. He attached my hdd to
his windows 7 machine and as usual, it didn't show up.
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 11:24:54AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
What happens if you post the laptop, then engage the hard drive after you
boot into a Linux live usb?
You mean to say, I should remove my hdd, boot my laptop using a usb,
and then connect the hdd live into the laptop?
Can it
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 06:29:27PM -0500, Brad Alexander wrote:
What versions of gcc is it safe to remove? I have gcc 4.{1..8} installed on
a box, and I'm fairly sure I can get rid of at least 4.1 - 4.6. Also, what
associated packages should be removed with it? Should I get rid of
equivalent
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 08:55:50AM +, Joe wrote:
On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 15:10:09 +1300
Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:07:34PM +, Joe wrote:
You can also remove any kernel metapackage e.g. linux-image-amd64.
Apt will not normally attempt
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 07:57:51AM +, Roelof Wobben wrote:
Oke,
I will do a re-install of my 80G box.
What will be a good partition scheme for normal desktop use?
Did you read my previous post?
I'd just give it the whole disk - one partition. Although, you may want
a separate home
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:38:36AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
I face a question now:
1) Should I take time to learn a new twm, or should I install both twm and
xfce.
apt-cache show twm, there is only one! :)
--
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 12:27:55AM +, Klaus wrote:
On 07/02/14 23:42, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:38:36AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
I face a question now:
1) Should I take time to learn a new twm, or should I install both twm and
xfce.
apt-cache show twm
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 09:50:21PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 06/02/14 21:32, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
I meant an example of stuff which should be in / but are in fact in /usr.
Sorry. I'm curious about that too.
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 11:26:37PM +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
On 02/07/2014 11:19 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote:
Hello,
I want to block the kernel updates because they cannot be installed ny lack
of space.
How can I block them ?
if the problem is disk space why your primary
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:07:34PM +, Joe wrote:
You can also remove any kernel metapackage e.g. linux-image-amd64. Apt
will not normally attempt to replace whatever kernel you have
installed, as it is a bit risky, and as you say, needs quite a chunk
How is it risky? Anyway, you're
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 09:19:59PM +, Roelof Wobben wrote:
Hello,
I want to block the kernel updates because they cannot be installed ny lack
of space.
I think that is the wrong solution. Personally, I'd do a reinstall in
your position. I'd backup home AND any configuration files you
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 08:31:57AM +, Roelof Wobben wrote:
On 02/05/2014 04:16 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote:
When I did today apt-get dist-upgrade it fails with this message :
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 146026 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing
CC'ing debian-boot
Seems as though Roelof is now in space trouble.
He says he followed the d-i's suggestions
Thread starts here:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/msg00269.html
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 01:08:39PM +, Roelof Wobben wrote:
Was that the default partitioning layout
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:46:07PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
Because when my computer boots up, it takes like 25 seconds more
to get started after entering the username and password. That is 25 seconds
of more wait after logging in.
Is that logging in at the tty prompt or through a GDM, if
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 11:20:12AM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
2014-02-05 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com:
On Du, 02 feb 14, 13:58:54, Rick Macdonald wrote:
What about running 32 bit windows and apps in wine or VMWare?
I've had issues with *sid* amd64 and skype. Would
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 07:07:22PM -0500, Jon N wrote:
Hi,
I've built a new machine and installed 64bit Debian testing on it. I
also installed MythTV from the deb-multimedia repository. My old
This is the wrong list for questions about 3rd party packages. Also
you'll find that mythtv has
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 03:37:48PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 02/02/14 14:12, Man_Without_Clue wrote:
Viber just won't start.
Presuming you are running a 64-bit Debian release. After installing it
with:-
# dpkg -i viber.deb
did you get any useful messages?
have you tried
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 02:06:45AM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote:
On Sat, 1 Feb 2014, Doug wrote:
On 02/01/2014 02:30 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Saturday 01 February 2014 17:58:45 Doug wrote:
On 02/01/2014 08:13 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote:
May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing,
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 01:02:16AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Fri, 2014-01-31 at 09:48 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
Have you edited ~/.config/Terminal/terminrc to enable xfce4-terminal
to issue the beep?
The relevant line is:
MiscBell=FALSE
Set it to TRUE.
Neither my Arch
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 05:16:15PM -0500, Wally Lepore wrote:
No advertisement at all. I'm a member of this debian user group and
have wheezy installed with the kind help of other members on this
mailing list. I'm fairly new at this and simply suggesting a clone
software that I have used in
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 08:38:52PM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 1/28/2014 3:00 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:18:56PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
and if it exists, scrape the page for the license e.g.:-
$ curl -s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viber|html2text|grep
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 05:00:03PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 08:38:52PM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 1/28/2014 3:00 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
Licence - is the noun
License - is the verb
Not in the United States.
sigh yep! /yep
ooops, should
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 08:28:29AM +0100, Ralf wrote:
Hello Chris
The global information right after these introduction lines
detailed information within your mail: answer after each question
(console rights, recovery mode xkbcomp)
OK so you have no deb-multimedia packages installed now?
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:18:56PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
and if it exists, scrape the page for the license e.g.:-
$ curl -s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viber|html2text|grep License|head -n1
That will pick up bad grammar, maybe better is:
curl -s
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 07:13:13PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 28/01/14 19:00, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:18:56PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
and if it exists, scrape the page for the license e.g.:-
$ curl -s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viber|html2text|grep
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:47:33AM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Thanks in advance for any hint about how to make me able to boot
windows anew.
Is os-prober installed?
--
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:53:28AM +0100, Ralf wrote:
Could you explain this a litte better? Which file did you
chmod, and how
do you launch X in recovery mode?
under init2/3 here are the laptop's values:
tty [1-6] have group set tty in rw
tty0 remains set on
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:35:44PM +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:
Hi,
I want to connect my Samsung Galaxy S4 mini mobile phone with my Debian
SID desktop system through an USB cable to transfer files from phone to
Debian system. How can I do that?
Search the archives, there has been a few
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 07:53:28PM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote:
Why oh why do I ever choose the package maintainer's config for a
package I have already config'd? It's one of those questions that
plagues perennial philosophy. But I digress...
It can bite you both ways! e.g. if a major new
CC'ing de...@lists.debian.org
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 08:39:42PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Now, when I change the sources.list to point to local file:///
sources, commenting out the iiNet sources, and _not_ doing an apt-get
update, then package long descriptions disappear! Even though
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:59:28AM +, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:39:47 +1300
Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
Hello Chris,
keep my own version of the config file, which led to my crisis.
Now if I had known to compare the new '/etc/vim/vimrc' with my one
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 09:09:43PM +0100, Ralf wrote:
Hi,
Three days ago wheezy began to freeze at the login prompt: no keyboard
and often no mouse, it's a i915 laptop from asus.
xorg.log loads the intel sandy bridge driver correctly, also
other stuff like vesa_drv et fbdev_drv. AT the
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:37:08PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On 1/25/14, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote:
Now these are the only two uncommented lines in /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian wheezy main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:42:50PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On 1/25/14, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:37:08PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On 1/25/14, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote:
Now these are the only two uncommented
Sorry about the broken thread, there appear to be issues with regards
to my ISP being regarded as legit. :(
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 03:17:29PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Oh, and add the Debian multimedia repository to your package sources
(gives you MMX instructions and other goodies and
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 09:30:55PM -0800, Go Linux wrote:
On Fri, 1/24/14, Chris
Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
Subject: Re: fastest linux distro To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Friday, January 24, 2014, 11:21 PM
I
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 01:06:21PM +0100, Stefan Ott wrote:
Hi
Have you seen this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/poulsbo
Section Screen
Identifier MainScreen
DefaultDepth24
SubSection Display
Depth 24
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 05:29:22PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
I suggest these options.
1) Install firmware-linux-nonfree and hope it handles your hardware.
2) Install the latest backports kernel and drivers and firmware.
3) Install Squeeze which had better legacy hardware support.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 06:00:53PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 14:38 +0100, Denis Witt wrote:
Or think about machines in mills, sorting out single grains of poor
quality while they are falling down like a waterfall into the
millstone granting a better flour quality than
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:37:30PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
once you build me, but nowadays I'm more gifted than you humans.
You humans only where able to get the knowledge about the theory of
^
You are going to have to do better than that MACHINE!!
Take an educated
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:32:41AM +0700, Diogene Laerce wrote:
Err, Ralf.. Did you take your pills this morning ? ;)
Machines don't need pills! Get with it man.
--
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:01:53AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
Near as I can tell, uci.cu is the correct domain for Universidad de
las Ciencias Informáticas. I did not investigate much further, but if
you know that V Taller Internacional de Tecnologías de Software Libre
y Código Abierto is not a
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 04:47:24AM -0500, Jeff Bauer wrote:
On 01/18/2014 03:12 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 06:00:53PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 14:38 +0100, Denis Witt wrote:
Or think about machines in mills, sorting out single grains of poor
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 07:45:04PM +0200, Cristian Baboi wrote:
În data de Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:36:09 +0200, Iain M Conochie
Gazing into my crystal ball, there will be a 3D interface that
will blowus all away, and the kids will laugh at us for using a
mouse / keyboard.
There would not be
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 07:13:17PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Certainly humans have technology, and gadgets, and technological power
(awesome chariots, ...
Mmmm, so the last chariot I saw wasn't on Ben Hur?
--
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 01:38:08PM -0800, cletusjenkins wrote:
I'm not arguing one is better than the other, just in all situations
neither is the best. You said in another reply that we haven't created
a computer that can create as we do,
What do yo mean we? Just because one person is a good
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:32:07AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
As food for thought, it seems to me that the other problem, while I
assume it's the one you reference in your comment about rules,
involves principles of human condition which parallel the computer
security problem. If you don't see
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 08:55:51PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
xscreensaver-command -version is getting called every 30 seconds. This
causes my xscreensaver unlock/password dialog window to open up all
the time...
Any idea how I can find out what's calling this command every 30 seconds?
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 11:56:35AM +0100, François Patte wrote:
Le 06/01/2014 11:30, Erwan David a écrit :
You may comment out everything in /etc/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs until it
is fixed.
# ls /etc/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbug
/bin/ls: cannot access /etc/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbug: No such
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 06:51:07PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Tuesday 07 January 2014 17:38:18 Nitebirdz wrote:
In any case, isn't it strange that Linux won't boot because it
can't correctly detect memory map on a system with only 1GB of
memory? Are we sure that's the root of the problem?
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 12:17:37AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
OK, time for some cannons:
I wrote a brief wrapper script for xscreensaver and
xscreensaver-command, and redirected the /usr/bin/ versions to my
versions which output two lines to a log file. Heres some output:
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 06:50:28PM -0500, Long Wind wrote:
On 1/5/14, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
To grub config add the mem parameter, e.g.
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.X ro root=/dev/sdXX mem=1024M
--
Stan
I have tested mem= option with 2 Linux Install CD
one CD
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 10:27:42PM +, T o n g wrote:
First of all, let’s recap why this is the best method for ad blocking.
Are you sure you sent this to the correct list?
--
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 10:13:00PM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 1/4/2014 9:57 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 08:56:14PM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
Setting up a phpmyadmin config file is hardly system
administration. It's configuration affects only itself, not the
entire
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 03:35:42AM -0500, Long Wind wrote:
the install CD says during installation:
not enough memory to load specified image
According to memtest I have only 688k memory at first
I really have 1 G memory
In memtest I select configuration, Memory Sizing,
and use probe
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 10:31:35PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Friday 03 January 2014 14:16:34 Brian wrote:
The '-s' can be omitted if more than one package is to installed.
i.e., if you are requesting more than one package, it will tell you
what it is going to install before doing it
[Please don't top post on this mailing list.]
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 03:34:58PM +, Balint Szigeti wrote:
Hello
I'm so sorry to cite from a website but when I tried to send the
link of the site I got a bounce error from lists.debian.
That is weird! I suggest it wasn't just a simple
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 08:56:14PM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 1/1/2014 10:24 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
System administration is hardly mundane. It is often misunderstood
(as in this thread) but very important work.
Setting up a phpmyadmin config file is hardly system
administration. It's
On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 06:02:48PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 01 January 2014 17:49:59 Brian wrote:
If 'less worse' is a colloquialism it has no charm or character to
lift it out of the lazy speaking category.
:-)
Ain't that the truth! :-) (Sorry.)
--
If you're not careful,
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 12:22:57PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Sunday 29 December 2013 00:38:30 Weaver wrote:
On Sat, December 28, 2013 3:49 pm, Lisi Reisz wrote:
[..]
It is perfectly possible to lose all or part of one's memory
without an accident. All it requires is old age and the
[How about trimming your posts mate! makes it a lot easier to read!]
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:54:12AM -0500, Long Wind wrote:
Even though I don't think it can be solved, I follow your instruction anyway
I use wheezy
(I run your commands with motherboard's sound chip enabled)
lspci | grep
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 02:32:44PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 30/12/13 14:15, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:54:12AM -0500, Long Wind wrote:
dpkg --get-selections | grep 'alsa\|pulse'
libpulse0:i386 install
What
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 02:43:11PM +0400, Reco wrote:
And storing banking information outside someone's head is wrong on so
many levels that I don't even know where to start ;)
If you have a nasty accident and lose parts of your memory is a damn
good reason, and that is just as a start! :)
--
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:25:25PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Sid is called unstable because it is a rolling release and you get
package updates 4 times per day.
Vice versa for Wheezy.
--
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 03:01:23PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Hi Brian
On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 13:51 +, Brian wrote:
On Sun 22 Dec 2013 at 02:40:09 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
How can I change the wallpaper to
/usr/share/wallpapers/Grass/[...]?
Use the full path?
This
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 08:25:56PM +, Brian wrote:
Put
exec fvwm
after the xterm command in .xsession. This command does not complete and
.xsession doesn't close. You've summoned X, give it a chance to show off
what it can do :).
EXERCISE: You decide 'exec fvwm' is a splendid
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 02:13:18PM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
Chris Bannister writes:
This is in a tty, so don't know what will happen in an xterm or other
virtual terminal.
The virtual terminals usually honour ANSI escape sequences. For sure
xterm, the rxvt family and the libvte
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:23:48PM +, Brian wrote:
On Thu 12 Dec 2013 at 00:21:18 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
The man page for Xsession documents ~/.xsessionrc and ~/.xsession. It
says that ~/.xsessionrc is only for setting variables and the
~/.xsession is for executing commands. (But
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 09:21:19AM -0500, Wally Lepore wrote:
Hi Scott,
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Scott Ferguson
scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/12/13 00:59, Wally Lepore wrote:
http://www.aboutdebian.com/packages.htm
Wow! What a... site :/
Not sure I
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 03:11:47PM -0200, André Nunes Batista wrote:
might have and you will be able to use dpkg which stands for
de-package to install it on your system. Otherwise you will have to
Just wondering what your source was for that info. e.g:
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:50:00PM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
What makes root special is not the name but the numerical user id and group
id, bot set to zero. See /etc/passwd.
Don't you have to be logged in to do that?
The issue was that there would be only one exploitable account, if
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 06:40:40PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 06:35:57PM +0200, Siard wrote:
Anubhav Yadav:
Chris Bannister:
Can't you just treat it as a normal USB stick?
e.g.
Plug it in
select connect to PC on phone.
then
# mount /dev/sdb
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:11:34PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Tuesday 10 December 2013 06:39:17 Tom H wrote:
You can't trust yourself with sudo but you can trust yourself with
su or login root access...
I have to make a conscious effort to become root. This reduces the
risk that I will
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 06:25:16PM -0800, Gary Roach wrote:
automatically (I think). I found the Debian README confusing,
especially in regards to setting up a special shell that I don't
think I need.
Are you referring to the postgres user?
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On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 10:14:24PM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
Commands are usually bound to keys on a mnemonic basis (problem:
mnemonic but in English only), with many command operating on
character, word or paragraph according to the use of Control, Meta
(aka Alt) or both.
Exactly! This
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 06:06:09PM +0200, Ivan Kovnatsky wrote:
When trying to remove either libdrm-nouveau2 or libdrm-radeon1 I obviously get
a message that this required packages. Thing is I really do not need them.
What options do I have to get rid of them like normally using apt/aptitude
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 08:06:42PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Sometimes there are insane hard dependencies, but what's bad with those
dependencies? Take a look at the modules compiled into the default
kernel, most modules are unneeded on your machine ;).
Huh? That is not insane at all! It
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 07:31:28PM -0500, Brad Alexander wrote:
I remember reading a report in the mid-90s stating that one of the biggest
life-shortening properties of powering on and off was heating and cooling
of the hard drive bearings. Now, that said, I do not know how much change
has
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:29:47PM +0100, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
Chris Bannister writes:
Exactly! This makes it impossible to drink a cup/mug of coffee whilst
using the keyboard. Whereas with vim you can drink coffee *and* enjoy a
coffee at the same time.
Aaaarrrgggh!
Not this true
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 04:20:57PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 01:54 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 08:06:42PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Sometimes there are insane hard dependencies, but what's bad with those
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 09:03:33PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Fr, 2013-12-06 at 15:20 -0200, André Nunes Batista wrote:
Panel 0 and Panel 1 were such an cool way to teach gui users to count.
The saner style is to call the first panel panel one instead of panel
zero. To name it panel zero
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 08:16:00PM +0100, Slavko wrote:
My daughter has similar problem. I investigated it remotely only, but
it seems, that the CD/DVD drive is not recognized at boot time. Then it
is not a DE's related problem. I cannot tell more yet.
Occasionally I have a similar problem
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 04:52:06PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Many threads will wonder a bit and everyone accepts this. Just try to
Agreed! Also ... wander. :)
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On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 05:21:38PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Don't believe a claim that something should be the best MUA, that are
just our opinions for the way we use MUAs.
Yeah, but some suck less than others! :)
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On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 04:39:35PM +, Tom H wrote:
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Scott Ferguson
scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:
Please note - this has *nothing* to do with Debian, I've marked it OT
accordingly.
Unless you are asking about Debian peculiarities or
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 07:20:04PM -0500, Doug wrote:
Stable means the producers of the distro believe that the bugs have been
all removed. That does _not_ mean that they won't change it tomorrow,
and for some applications, you might have to upgrade--i.e.,
install a new release of that system,
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