Data from a serial port

2014-09-27 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I have an Avery Berkel POS [Point Of Sale] scale which I wish to integrate into a POS system. The output is sent to a RS232 port. I do not know how to extract the data. Here is what I have about the RS232 port: ethan@meow:~$ dmesg | grep tty [0.00] console [tty0] enabled

Re: Brainydeal Receipt Printer

2014-09-08 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
to perpendicular. How do I change it? TIA Ethan -- Ethan Rosenberg, PhD /Pres/CEO/ *Hygeia Biomedical Research, Inc* 2 Cameo Ridge Road Monsey, NY 10952 T: 845 352-3908 F: 845 352-7566 erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Installing Thunderbird

2014-05-27 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 05/26/2014 04:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 26 May 2014 21:09:50 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: The object is to be able to close Thunderbird, leave the computer on, and read my email via webmail w/o any extra manipulations. Yes, but is not usual for Icedove to run in the background

Installing Thunderbird

2014-05-26 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - Will you please give me instructions how to install Thunderbird. I've tried multiple methods listed on the web to no avail. I am not satisfied with Icedove; eg, never have been able to start from the desktop icon, inability to prevent it from running in the background, which

Formatted Disk

2013-08-15 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I have a usb drive, with data on it, that I [stupidly!!] tried to name using fdisk. Of course, it erased the data. I have not used the drive since then. I think there is a method to unformat a drive. What shall I do now? TIA Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Quoting Style Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I appreciate your CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. I surely do not wish to have my posts unanswered. Introduction - Industrial standard I think is, top quoting and styled email. This is the way my Thunderbird is set. Mail list requirements are the reverse as I well know. Therefore, I

Re: Quoting Style Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-14 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Oops, sorry, too many cats and mice. Jerry wrote: Tom wrote: Itchy wrote: Scratchy wrote: I'm hungry. [snip] I'm too. Let's cook Tux under the grill. No, let's eat tofu. Regards, Jerry CORRECTIONS: First SCRATCHY wrote that he's hungry, then Itchy replied to be hungry too, while

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-13 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
with Thunderbird since other people use it successfully. Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: env COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l | grep mysql-server I had asked for the 'env COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l' so that the columns would not go out too far and would not be hard to read. iU mysql-server 5.5.31+dfsg

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-13 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 8/13/2013 6:33 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Those two are problems that need to be fixed

Re: Installing mysqldump - SOLVED

2013-08-13 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 8/13/2013 6:33 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: snip === Dear List - I am sorry - the mysql log did not have any entries. I remember changing the local host definition to 127.0.0.1 in my.cnf I am going to erase my.cnf and see what happens. I have backed up the data files. I'll

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-12 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
snip if the database is in the same PC, then you still have problems as the local mysql service is not running. check logs (syslog , mysql log) to see why its not running and attend to that. Here is part of syslog. The rest is just a repeat of the first line.. Aug 12 14:38:45 meow

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-12 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: When I try to to run mysqldump, I receive the following message: ERROR 2002 can't connect to local mysql server thru socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) That tells me that you do not have mysql running. I am a newbie and do not lhow to interpert the log

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 08/09/2013 08:05 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I am trying to install mysqldump. Here is what I get - apt-get install mysql-client-5.5 Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... You might want to run 'apt-get -f install

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Friday 09 August 2013 19:51:25 Bob Proulx wrote: Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: I am trying to install mysqldump. Something is broken in your sources.list file. Fix it first. A month ago Ethan had both Squeeze DVDs and wheezy http's enabled simultaneously in his sources.list. So he

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Sunday 11 August 2013 19:58:14 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Here is my sources file -- [snip many commented out lines] deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib #deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Friday 09 August 2013 19:51:25 Bob Proulx wrote: Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: snip Further, I tried to run mysql and receive the following message- ERROR 2002 can't connect to local mysql server thru socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) TIA Ethan === Dear

Installing mysqldump

2013-08-09 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am trying to install mysqldump. Here is what I get - apt-get install mysql-client-5.5 Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet

Re: No Desktop - Anyone else??

2013-08-06 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Anyone else want to chime in? TIA Ethan = Hi Ethan :) On 07/31/2013 07:29 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: I just upgraded using a sources list from a computer running Debian7. I think that Mate is installed, but now have no desktop! What does it mean, that you now have

Re: No Desktop

2013-08-02 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Hi Ethan :) On 07/31/2013 07:29 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: I just upgraded using a sources list from a computer running Debian7. I think that Mate is installed, but now have no desktop! What does it mean, that you now have no desktop? Doesn't start X? Doesn't start the display manager

Re: No Desktop

2013-08-01 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Hi Ethan :) On 07/31/2013 07:29 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: I just upgraded using a sources list from a computer running Debian7. I think that Mate is installed, but now have no desktop! What does it mean, that you now have no desktop? Doesn't start X? Doesn't start the display manager

Re: Mysql

2013-07-31 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - This is a combined answer to your questions... #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Squeeze_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20110322-15:11]/ squeeze contrib main #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Squeeze_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-2 20110322-15:11]/ squeeze contrib main deb

No Desktop

2013-07-31 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - This is an interesting day!!! I just upgraded using a sources list from a computer running Debian7. I think that Mate is installed, but now have no desktop! Here is the sources list - # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Squeeze_ - Official i386 DVD #Binary-1 20110322-15:11]/

Re: Installing Mate

2013-07-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Mon 29 Jul 2013 at 20:07:44 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I am sorry I have to revisit this, but for starters I am running squeeze. So you are installing many packages which are meant for Wheezy! snip === Brian - Thank you. -- So you are installing many

Mysql

2013-07-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I attempted an upgrade and now Connect Error (2002) Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2 From bad to worse!!! TIA Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Mysql

2013-07-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 7/30/2013 3:32 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I attempted an upgrade and now Connect Error (2002) Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2 From bad to worse!!! TIA Ethan Is the MySQL server running? ps aux | grep mysql

Re: Mysql

2013-07-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 30/07/13 21:30, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 16:16 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Is the MySQL server running? ps aux | grep mysql --- ethan@meow:~$ ps aux | grep mysql ethan 3043 0.0 0.0 3300 772 pts/0S+ 13:12 0:00 grep mysql-- ps aux does show all

Re: Installing Mate

2013-07-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Tue 30 Jul 2013 at 12:58:48 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: -- So you are installing many packages which are meant for Wheezy! I was thinking about that. How do I upgrade? I wouldn't bother upgrading (unless you have other reasons, of course) if I were you. I tried having deb http

Re: Mysql

2013-07-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 00:23 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Now that we have established that mysql is not running, how to I restart it? Doesn't it work, if you follow the Debian Wiki? https://wiki.debian.org/MySql It's the second hit when searching for debian start mysql by Google.de

Installing Mate

2013-07-29 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am sorry I have to revisit this, but for starters I am running squeeze. Here is what happened: apt-get install mate-core The following packages have unmet dependencies: mate-core : Depends: mate-control-center (= 1.6.0) but it is not going to be installed

Re: Duplicate Icons in Panel

2013-07-26 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 21:07 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: In the bottom tray of what? Bottom Panel in Windows (ugh..ugh). In Debian (Hooray..Hooray) a panel. GNOME 3, right? Take a look at the things you put to the panel. You doubled one. I can't help since I'm using Xfce

Re: UPC Fonts

2013-07-25 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 23/07/13 06:00, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I hope that this is not too much off topic. Does anyone know the name of the UPC font that is used for example: grocery packages? Where can I download the fonts? TIA Ethan Would the barcode package do what you need: www.gnu.org

Duplicate Icons in Panel

2013-07-25 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I have duplicate icons in the bottom tray. I've tried a google search, with no luck. Any ideas? TIA Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Duplicate Icons in Panel

2013-07-25 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:59:36 -0400 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: Dear List - I have duplicate icons in the bottom tray. I've tried a google search, with no luck. Any ideas? In the bottom tray of what? It helps

Re: Duplicate Icons in Panel

2013-07-25 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:59:36 -0400 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: Dear List - I have duplicate icons in the bottom tray. I've tried a google search, with no luck. Any ideas? In the bottom tray of what? It helps if you tell us you're desktop environment

UPC Fonts

2013-07-22 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I hope that this is not too much off topic. Does anyone know the name of the UPC font that is used for example: grocery packages? Where can I download the fonts? TIA Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Sound on Skype (sid)

2013-07-15 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
You could check if Skype is using pulseaudio. If so, you could try alsa. Regards, Vivek. - Original Message - From: Ethan Rosenberg, PhD erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com To: Debian Users List debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 10:49:24 AM Subject: Sound on Skype

Sound on Skype (sid)

2013-07-14 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - The sound on Skype (sid) is impossible!! It is so chopped up that it is impossible to make a call. The sound recorder and audio streams [YouTube, video on Wall Street Journal] work perfectly. Any suggestions? TIA Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Installing Mate

2013-07-12 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - My apologies for starting another thread. Anyway .. Corrected the typo, updated, installed, accepted w/o verification, rebooted IT INSTALLED and WORKED YIP, YIP, YIPEEE! Thanks to all Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Installing Mate

2013-07-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - With the new Gnome desktop, I am up against a brick wall. For some reason I cannot get apt-get to work. I have also tried the irc channel, with no results. I have read the Wiki, followed it with no luck. This is the output from apt-get: root@meow:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# dpkg

Installing Mate

2013-07-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - Thanks for your suggestions. I followed them, and it solved some errors, but some remain... root@meow:/etc/apt# apt-get update snip Get:4 http://repo.mate-desktop.org wheezy Release.gpg [836 B] Hit http://repo.mate-desktop.org wheezy Release Ign http://repo.mate-desktop.org

Installing Mate - Sources List

2013-07-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - You will probably need my sources list to help with my previous question. Here it is: root@meow:/etc/apt# cat sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Squeeze_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20110322-15:11]/ squeeze contrib main # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a

Re: Update - SOLVED

2013-07-10 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 09:31:39AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I am a newbie am running version 6 [squeeze]. My update fails with the following message. I am totally confused. This probably ISN'T a failure. It looks to my like the output of apt-listchanges. You're being

New Gnome in Wheezy

2013-07-10 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I updated and now have the new Gnome. The desktop is impossible, and almost unusable. I do not have the old desktop entries, and cannot find Google Chrome. How do I get the old desktop back? Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: New Gnome in Wheezy

2013-07-10 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
to do everything I might have thought couldn't be done. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: Dear List - I updated and now have the new Gnome. The desktop is impossible, and almost unusable. I do not have the old desktop entries

Re: New Gnome in Wheezy - more info

2013-07-10 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
to do everything I might have thought couldn't be done. On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: Dear List - I updated and now have the new Gnome. The desktop is impossible, and almost unusable. I do not have the old desktop entries

New Gnome in Wheezy - irc

2013-07-10 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I would like to try another modality to try to solve this mystery. How do I get to and use irc #debian-mate channel on FreeNode? I have never used irc befpre. TIA Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Update

2013-07-09 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am a newbie am running version 6 [squeeze]. My update fails with the following message. I am totally confused. Starting with the eglibc package version 2.13-5, the libraries are shipped in the multiarch directory /lib/triplet instead of the more traditional /lib,

Re: Starting Google Chrome - Resend --SOLVED

2013-07-09 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 2013-07-07, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: google-chrome-stable : Depends: gconf-service but it is not installable Depends: libgconf-2-4 (= 2.31.1) but it is not installable

Re: Starting Google Chrome - Resend

2013-07-07 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 2013-07-07, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: google-chrome-stable : Depends: gconf-service but it is not installable Depends: libgconf-2-4 (= 2.31.1) but it is not installable

Re: Starting Google Chrome - resend

2013-07-06 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Friday 05 July 2013 18:03:01 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: locate google-chrome | less --- gives no results. [except the files in the Downloads directory]. Are you changing into the directory where you have placed the .deb before typing the command? Otherwise you need to give the whole path

Re: Starting Google Chrome - Resend

2013-07-06 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - These are the errors I get on the dpkg install. - The following packages have unmet dependencies: google-chrome-stable : Depends: gconf-service but it is not installable Depends: libgconf-2-4 (= 2.31.1) but it is not installable

Re: Starting Google Chrome - Resend added info

2013-07-06 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - This is what I tried next 1. Open a terminal window. 2. Type in the following commands then hit Enter after each. For 32-bit systems: wget -c https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb dpkg -i google-chrome-*.deb apt-get install -f These are

Starting Google Chrome - resend

2013-07-05 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
I'm not sure that this ever got to the list, so I am resending. Dear list - I apologize for having to revisit this, but I can't get it to work, which I cannot understand. I followed the instructions I used previously, and no luck. Download from Google. cd

Re: Starting Google Chrome - resend

2013-07-05 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Friday 05 July 2013 17:14:20 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: I'm not sure that this ever got to the list, so I am resending. Dear list - I apologize for having to revisit this, but I can't get it to work, which I cannot understand. I followed the instructions I used previously

Owner change on USB stick

2013-07-04 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I formatted a usb stick on my desktop into two partitions, vfat and ext2 and then setup a directory structure in the Linux partition. I then moved the usb stick to my laptop and inserted files into the directories that were created. When I moved the sub stick back to the

Re: Apache2

2013-07-01 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:09:54PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - There is an error with Apache2, I cannot remove it or install it. From the terminal: dpkg --configure -a Setting up apache2 (2.4.4-6) ... * Restarting web server apache2 [fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2

Apache2

2013-06-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - There is an error with Apache2, I cannot remove it or install it. From the terminal: dpkg --configure -a Setting up apache2 (2.4.4-6) ... * Restarting web server apache2 [fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action restart failed. dpkg: error processing apache2

Re: Apache2

2013-06-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
dpkg --configure -a Setting up apache2 (2.4.4-6) ... * Restarting web server apache2 [fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action restart failed. dpkg: error processing apache2 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered

Re: Apache2

2013-06-30 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Understood. For purpose test, try to move SXXapache2 to other location and see if dpkg recreate a new (stable) init symbolic link. Pol === Pol - Beautiful!! Worked!! Thanks a million Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Problem with flash drive - SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2013-06-23 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
n 06/22/2013 11:56 PM Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 06/21/2013 04:00 AM, Klaus wrote: Ethan, when you create a new partition table on the device, then the kernel needs to know about it. With a flash memory card, just unplug and re-plug it. You don't need to run fdisk first, since you copy

Keyring

2013-06-23 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I get this message when the Keyring appears. The password that you use to login to your computer no longer matches that of your login keyring What can I do? Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Tray Icon

2013-06-22 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
2013/6/21 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com: Ralf - Tried it all. No luck. Any other ideas? Ethan === On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 19:26 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: How do i get the icon that indicates there are updates to download to return? Perhaps it's

Re: Problem with flash drive

2013-06-22 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
-- 1 klaus klaus    36 Jun 21 08:48 test.txt On 21/06/13 05:29, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Ken - Tried what you said, but I cannot make it work. Here is what I did: fdisk /dev/sdb

Problem with flash drive

2013-06-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear list - I am trying to copy FreeDOS to a flash drive. I can't make it work. This is what I have done - Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 4051 MB, 4051697664 bytes 125 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders, total 7913472 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size

Tray Icon

2013-06-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - How do i get the icon that indicates there are updates to download to return? Thanks. Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Problem with flash drive

2013-06-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
a t and .std to that.fil conditio.n i e follow.ing ilename1.] [ Loads a.pro ?.ng prompt t.he sage pa.cke tch prog.ram tring is. sp Thanks for everything, but I am still stuck. Ethan = On 06/20/2013 07:22 PM Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - I am trying to copy FreeDOS

Re: Tray Icon

2013-06-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Ralf - Tried it all. No luck. Any other ideas? Ethan === On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 19:26 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: How do i get the icon that indicates there are updates to download to return? Perhaps it's provided by update-manager*? I don't like it, but I remember I

Starting Google Chrome

2013-04-16 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear list - This will be a combined reply to all the suggestions I received: ethan@rosenberg:~/Desktop$ ls -l /usr/bin /usr/local/bin | grep -F chrom -rwxr-xr-x 1 rootroot3256 Apr 2 09:30 chromium lrwxrwxrwx 1 rootroot 32 Apr 6 01:13 google-chrome -

Starting Google Chrome

2013-04-15 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear list - Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. 1] No desktop icon 2] Wish to be able to start from command line so that I can start it with a specific file. A search on Google gives the start command as google-chrome. I can't make it work.

Re: Starting Google Chrome

2013-04-15 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 04/15/2013 07:25 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:09:28PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. 1] No desktop icon 2] Wish to be able to start from command line so that I can start it with a specific

Re: Starting Google Chrome

2013-04-15 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 04/15/2013 07:37 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 04/15/2013 07:09 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. 1] No desktop icon 2] Wish to be able to start from command line so that I can start it with a specific file. I

Re: Starting Google Chrome

2013-04-15 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 04/15/2013 07:59 PM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 07:48:39PM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Kumar - Thanks. It would be useful to know how you installed Google Chrome. If you have installed it from the deb file, google-chrome should be the executable. Package

Re: Starting Google Chrome

2013-04-15 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 04/15/2013 09:41 PM, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/15/2013 07:09 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - Installed Google Chrome. Can start from the applications dropdown list. 1] No desktop icon 2] Wish to be able to start from command

Re: Starting Iceweasel -- Any more Ideas?

2013-04-13 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 04/11/2013 10:42 AM, Verde Denim wrote: On 04/11/2013 12:41 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - Thanks for all your help. Finally, I can start Iceweasel from the command line [sort of]: iceweasel -no-remote localhost/choice.php width $1280 height $800 The above works

Re: Starting Iceweasel

2013-04-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 04/11/2013 10:42 AM, Verde Denim wrote: On 04/11/2013 12:41 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - Thanks for all your help. Finally, I can start Iceweasel from the command line [sort of]: iceweasel -no-remote localhost/choice.php width $1280 height $800 The above works

Starting Iceweasel

2013-04-10 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear list - Thanks for all your help. Finally, I can start Iceweasel from the command line [sort of]: iceweasel -no-remote localhost/choice.php width $1280 height $800 The above works. But ... in a store.desktop multiple windows are opened. #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open [Desktop Entry]

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas -- SOLVED

2013-04-08 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - Finally solved!! I had removed the Bios battery [so I thought] {incorrect pictures and information on the internet #$%@}. I then removed the real BIOS battery and the problem was solved. My apologies for running you around a tree. I learned a great amount from all of you.

Modifying Iceweasel Start Parameters

2013-04-08 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am trying to start Iceweasel with a specific program. The following sort of works from the command line, iceweasel -No-Remote localhost/choice.php -width $1280 -height $1024 but throws a bunch of errors, and does not start in full screen. If I use this #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

Migrate from Icedove to Thunderbird.

2013-04-08 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear list - How do I migrate my 1] email 2] filters 3] mailboxes 4] address book from Icedove to Thunderbird? Thanks Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - Back from vacation. HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. The laptop would not boot from the stick. Set the boot parameters to boot from the usb stick. Computer freezes. Noticed that the laptop recognizes the usb stick at

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - Back from vacation. HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. The laptop would not boot from the stick. Set the boot parameters to boot from the usb stick. Computer freezes. Noticed

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Wednesday 03 April 2013 21:54:27 Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - Back from vacation. HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. The laptop would not boot from the stick. Set

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On Wed 03 Apr 2013 at 13:00:05 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. At this stage we are left to guess. 1. What do you mean by formatting the usb stick? If you used dd afterwards, any formatting was a waste

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-04-03 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/04/13 04:54 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/04/13 01:00 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - Back from vacation. HEADACHES!! I formatted the usb stick as FAT16 loaded the DOS OS and the Bios update. The laptop would not boot from the stick. Set the boot parameters

Re: Fwd: Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/21/2013 08:17 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 13:03 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 11:28 +, Brian wrote: You have the opportunity to learn how to from posts in this thread. :)

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
are nearly there! On Thu 21 Mar 2013 at 00:20:39 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: br I'm doing something wrong and can#8217;t figure it out.br br br Downloaded and unzipped -br rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -lhbr total 32Mbr -rw-r--r-- 1 root

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/21/2013 09:54 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 08:34 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:17:14 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Others and I asked Ethan several times not to post HTML

Re: SSDT - Any More Ideas

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - Copied the executable to the usb stick and can't find it - rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# cp ../Downloads/D630_A18.exe /dev/sdf1 rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1 rosenberg:/home/ethan/DOSutil# ls -la /dev/sdf1 brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 81 Mar 21 10:29 /dev/sdf1

Re: SSDT - Any More Ideas

2013-03-21 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am going to be on vacation until 3 April. We'll continue this thread then. Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image of FreeDOS {If this is not a Good Question, please tell me how to improve it.} Here is what I did: 1] Plugged and unplugged the USB stick /var/log/messages told me it was /dev/sdf 2] Downloaded the image:

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
See Below... Dear List - I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image of FreeDOS {If this is not a Good Question, please tell me how to improve it.} Here is what I did: 1] Plugged and unplugged the USB stick /var/log/messages told me it was /dev/sdf 2] Downloaded the

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas - Problems

2013-03-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - I am not trying to spam the list. I am afraid that this message was not noticed/read since you might have thought it was a restatement of previous messages. It outlines the problems that I am having with the USB stick. Thanks. Ethan == See Below... Dear List - I am

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-20 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/20/2013 11:34 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/03/13 05:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: See Below... Dear List - I am having problems writing and performing bunzip on the image of FreeDOS

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-18 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/18/2013 03:58 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 21:33 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Please be careful when you write that image to the USB stick, make sure to not get the /dev/sdX device name wrong, or you can cause data loss. Good advice! It can't harm to

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/17/2013 06:27 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 00:16 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/16/2013 05:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi Ethan :) 1. In your position, I would follow the advice to reset the BIOS settings. 2. Can you run the Parted Magic live media

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/17/2013 12:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/03/13 12:29 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/16/2013 11:27 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: Dear list - When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message SSDT not found. How do I fix it? Thanks. Ethan

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-17 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/17/2013 04:53 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 20:13:58 +0100, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: On 03/17/2013 12:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/03/13 12:29 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: On 03/16/2013 11:27 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: how old

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-16 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/16/2013 05:40 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi Ethan :) 1. In your position, I would follow the advice to reset the BIOS settings. 2. Can you run the Parted Magic live media? http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/files/partedmagic/ Or a similar light weight Linux live media?

Re: SSDT - Any more ideas??

2013-03-16 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
On 03/16/2013 11:27 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: Dear list - When I boot my Debian [6.0.1] I receive a message SSDT not found. How do I fix it? Thanks. Ethan Did you check the media that you booted from and make sure that it passedthe MD5SUM or other

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