CD-ROM: inappropriate ioctl

2020-01-18 Thread jeremy bentham
Using the eject command I get the following message: eject: unable to eject, last error: Inappropriate ioctl for device This is new: I used the drive to install the OS (jessie? Debian 9, anyway) and I've actually--not too recently--listened to a CD on it. Feeding The Duck the message didn't

CD-ROM: inappropriate ioctl, addendum

2020-01-18 Thread jeremy bentham
The drive also does not respond to the physical control on the case. -- Dave Williamsd...@eskimo.com

Re: looking for a piece of software that will take an url (say to a blog post) and email me the contents

2016-11-06 Thread jeremy bentham
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 03:01:14PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: > Does anybody know of a piece of software that you can give an URL to, > and it will then fetch the url and email the contents to you? > > This could be a stand-alone app on the desktop, or a plug-in to a > browser, or a web site, or some

Re: Vim help, tags, sudo

2016-10-24 Thread jeremy bentham
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 05:24:34PM -, Frank Miles wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 18:30:02 +0200, jeremy bentham wrote: > > > This could be a vim question, but since sudo's involved I'll > > start here. > > > > I am thrashing about, trying to get wheezy going o

Vim help, tags, sudo

2016-10-24 Thread jeremy bentham
This could be a vim question, but since sudo's involved I'll start here. I am thrashing about, trying to get wheezy going on a new machine (well, new to me. I think the huckster term-of-art is "pre-owned": I had the pleasure of wiping dollarbill inc's crap off it). Anyway, I got vim installed,

Re: lynx - not all sites readable

2016-09-15 Thread jeremy bentham
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:18:59PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi list, > > can someone explain, why lynx sometimes forbid websites or supresses websites? > > I needed a driver from Nvidia. As I had no X available, I tried download > using > lynx. Many sites block lynx, because it can be used as a

Re: bash, dash and sh

2015-04-23 Thread jeremy bentham
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:43:17PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: On Apr 22, 2015, at 9:22 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: jeremy bentham wrote: I am finally abandonning my fifteen-year-old computer and Lenny for a six (?) year old used Gateway 2802 (as a Bad Consumer (tm) I never

bash, dash and sh

2015-04-22 Thread jeremy bentham
I am finally abandonning my fifteen-year-old computer and Lenny for a six (?) year old used Gateway 2802 (as a Bad Consumer (tm) I never buy anything new if I can avoid it) and, right now, it has a start at Wheezy on it. I happened to read on another list, and then verified for myself, that

[SOLVED, but...] mounting a Nikon camera

2014-08-03 Thread jeremy bentham
Thanks for the replies. I can now peruse my photos with digikam, but I am not sure what it cost me; I suspect I'll find out when next I reboot. Installing digikam resulted, apparently, in pulling in half of kde--cruft to me--*and* a new initrd! I think I've had it with apt; dpkg from now on,

mounting a Nikon camera

2014-07-26 Thread jeremy bentham
From time to time threads appear here describing troubles mounting digital cameras. I never paid much attention to them, because I didn't have a digital camera and had no intention of acquiring one. Time makes liars of us all, I guess. I now have a Nikon L30, and I can't get my Lenny machine

Re: sarge, aptitude, archives

2008-11-19 Thread jeremy bentham
On Nov 19 you wrote: On Mon,17.Nov.08, 19:32:42, jeremy bentham wrote: My sources.list deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ sarge main contrib non-free per the README at the archive site. That README is wrong, since there is no debian-archive directory

Why sarge? (was:) sarge, aptitude, archives

2008-11-19 Thread jeremy bentham
On Nov 19 s. keeling wrote: jeremy bentham [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please, no {advice, orders} to upgrade to etch. Consider this a question about aptitude/sources.list/archives. That does look kind of trollish. Sorry. Post in haste, repent at leisure. Fine. Why would you expect Sarge

sarge, aptitude, archives

2008-11-17 Thread jeremy bentham
I can't use aptitude anymore. It was working, pre-sarge-archive. Typing aptitude on the command line gives me this: W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.debian.org_debian-archive_dists_sarge_ main_binary-i386_Packages) -

Re: sarge, aptitude, archives

2008-11-17 Thread jeremy bentham
On Nov 18 you wrote: On 2008-11-17 23:44 +0100, jeremy bentham wrote: I can't use aptitude anymore. It was working, pre-sarge-archive. Typing aptitude on the command line gives me this: W: Couldn't stat source package list http://archive.debian.org sarge/main Packages (/var/lib/apt