On Sun, 12 May 2013, Siard wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
[about the Kobo Touch e-reader]
Actually, I had read you don't have to create a Kobo account. Just
click out of it. But it will pester you to set one up every time you
boot.
I created an account with a fake e-mail address
Patrick Bartek wrote:
[about the Kobo Touch e-reader]
Actually, I had read you don't have to create a Kobo account. Just
click out of it. But it will pester you to set one up every time you
boot.
I created an account with a fake e-mail address (x...@xx.xx) which made
it work and then never
On Mi, 08 mai 13, 15:31:54, Patrick Bartek wrote:
Partitioning isn't the problem. It's space. The HD is only 12GB. I
have 2.8GB for W2k, 256MB for swap, and about 8.5 left for Linux.
Three primary partitions. The problem is the Windows partition where
I'd put the Debian ISO file only has
On Fri, 10 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Mi, 08 mai 13, 15:31:54, Patrick Bartek wrote:
Partitioning isn't the problem. It's space. The HD is only 12GB.
I have 2.8GB for W2k, 256MB for swap, and about 8.5 left for Linux.
Three primary partitions. The problem is the Windows
Patrick Bartek wrote:
Guess I'll keep pestering Kobo until they fix it.
I've got a Kobo Glo. When connected via USB, the 'Connect' interface
immediately shows up, also with Linux. Looks like they did already fix
it.
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On Thu, 09 May 2013, Siard wrote:
Patrick Bartek wrote:
Guess I'll keep pestering Kobo until they fix it.
I've got a Kobo Glo. When connected via USB, the 'Connect' interface
immediately shows up, also with Linux. Looks like they did already
fix it.
I have the Touch model, purchased
Patrick Bartek:
Siard:
I've got a Kobo Glo. When connected via USB, the 'Connect'
interface immediately shows up, also with Linux. Looks like they
did already fix it.
I have the Touch model, purchased last year, and even with the latest
software--updated yesterday to 2.5.1--it doesn't
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Siard shiems...@kpnplanet.nl wrote:
Patrick Bartek:
Siard:
I've got a Kobo Glo. When connected via USB, the 'Connect'
interface immediately shows up, also with Linux. Looks like they
did already fix it.
I have the Touch model, purchased last year, and
DRM ebooks will not work that way (unless you strip them of course),
and the publishing industry has not yet followed the music industry on
DRM
Anyone who runs Wine can install Adobe Digital Editions, which will allow
download of compatible files without the Kobo software. Also, the Debian
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote:
DRM ebooks will not work that way (unless you strip them of course),
and the publishing industry has not yet followed the music industry on
DRM
Anyone who runs Wine can install Adobe Digital Editions, which will allow
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 05:03:42PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
Anyone who runs Wine can install Adobe Digital Editions, which will allow
download of compatible files without the Kobo software. Also, the Debian
version of the Kobo software runs fine on 32-bit, I have it installed on
my AMD64
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote:
DRM ebooks will not work that way (unless you strip them of course),
and the publishing industry has not yet followed the music industry on
DRM
Anyone who runs Wine can install Adobe Digital Editions, which will allow
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 05:03:42PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
Anyone who runs Wine can install Adobe Digital Editions, which will allow
download of compatible files without the Kobo software. Also, the
Debian
version of the Kobo software runs fine on 32-bit, I have it installed on
my
On Thu, 09 May 2013, Siard wrote:
Patrick Bartek:
Siard:
I've got a Kobo Glo. When connected via USB, the 'Connect'
interface immediately shows up, also with Linux. Looks like they
did already fix it.
I have the Touch model, purchased last year, and even with the
latest
Am 07.05.2013 um 23:23 schrieb Patrick Bartek:
Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't
boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter.
Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or internal hard drive. (I
said this thing was ancient. ;-) ) And except for
Le 07.05.2013 23:23, Patrick Bartek a écrit :
Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't
boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter.
Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or internal hard drive. (I
said this thing was ancient. ;-) ) And except for the
Le 08.05.2013 09:48, Helmut Wollmersdorfer a écrit :
Am 07.05.2013 um 23:23 schrieb Patrick Bartek:
Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't
boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter.
Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or internal hard drive.
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Le 07.05.2013 23:23, Patrick Bartek a écrit :
Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't
boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that
matter.
Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or internal hard
drive. (I
said this thing
On Wed, 08 May 2013, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
Am 07.05.2013 um 23:23 schrieb Patrick Bartek:
Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't
boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter.
Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or internal hard
On Wed, 08 May 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Le 08.05.2013 09:48, Helmut Wollmersdorfer a écrit :
Am 07.05.2013 um 23:23 schrieb Patrick Bartek:
Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't
boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter.
On 08/05/13 06:05, Patrick Bartek wrote:
FWIW, when I originally thought of installing Linux on the Thinkpad 7
years ago, and noted the inherent problems, I did tried several
floppy-based boot managers/utilities, but none of them worked. The
external CD drive was either never recognized or was
and my Kobo Touch eReader absolutely
refuses to interface with Linux or even Windows XP running in
VirtualBox. Kind of hypocritcal of Kobo since the OS that drives
the reader is Linux.
B
There is a .deb available unofficially for Kobo from Kobo. They will send you
a dropbox link for it
On Wed, 08 May 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Le 07.05.2013 23:23, Patrick Bartek a écrit :
Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't
boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter.
Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or internal hard
On 9 May 2013 08:31, Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote:
I think you've got me mixed up with someone else here. Oh! You mean
my Kobo eReader. Yeah. It doesn't like Linux. Doesn't show up at
all, either as a mass storage or anything else, when connected via
USB. When first
On Wed, 08 May 2013, Mark Allums wrote:
and my Kobo Touch eReader absolutely
refuses to interface with Linux or even Windows XP running in
VirtualBox. Kind of hypocritcal of Kobo since the OS that drives
the reader is Linux.
B
There is a .deb available unofficially for Kobo from
Andrei POPESCU:
On Lu, 06 mai 13, 10:43:02, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Mon, 06 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Could you please provide a reference for that? The collective wisdom
on this list recommends to always use 'upgrade' and 'dist-upgrade'
only if really required (e.g. packages not
Le Mar 7 mai 2013 14:41, Chris Bannister a écrit :
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 01:54:30AM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org
wrote:
I have a very old computer too. I will not claim to use it on a
daily basis of course (I have only 2 arms, so I can not manage all my 3
keyboards :p)
Ahhh!, but
On Tue, 07 May 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Le 06.05.2013 19:55, Patrick Bartek a écrit :
On Mon, 06 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
[forgot I wanted to comment on the other paragraph as well]
On Du, 05 mai 13, 19:30:00, Patrick Bartek wrote:
I never use the
On 07/05/13 22:23, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Tue, 07 May 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't
boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter.
Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or internal hard drive. (I
On Wed, 08 May 2013, Dom wrote:
On 07/05/13 22:23, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Tue, 07 May 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't
boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter.
Natively, it can only boot
On Du, 05 mai 13, 15:19:56, staticsafe wrote:
Forwarding to list as it was sent directly to me.
Original Message
Subject: Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 20:05:20 +0100
From: James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com
To: staticsafe m
On Du, 05 mai 13, 19:30:00, Patrick Bartek wrote:
All that's required now is to cease using 'dist-upgrade' for upgrading.
Dist-upgrade was recommended in the user install manual while Wheezy
was still Testing. Now, that it's Stable, 'upgrade' is the recommended
method.
Could you please
[forgot I wanted to comment on the other paragraph as well]
On Du, 05 mai 13, 19:30:00, Patrick Bartek wrote:
I never use the Stable name any more. Learned my lesson a
few years ago when I upgraded an install of Etch--sources set to
Stable--not realizing that Lenny had just become the new
On Du, 05 mai 13, 10:08:56, Gary Dale wrote:
If your current system uses Stable, you might want to switch that to
Squeeze for a while. I wouldn't advise upgrading servers, etc. to
Wheezy until you've had the chance to test the upgrade on things that
aren't critical.
... and read the
On Du, 05 mai 13, 23:44:36, Carl Fink wrote:
That's really odd. Reinstalling Debian from scratch only takes an hour at
most, after all. (I use dpkg --get-selections selections.txt to record
which packages I had installed.)
BTW:
+section id=dpkg-set-selections
Hi,
What I meant was I wan to upgrade an existing system from Squeeze to Wheezy
but replacing Gnome2 with XFCE, which seems a more natural upgrade path.
I'd rather not have the grief of trying to remove a load of gnome3
libraries. I think I'll have to install XFCE then remove Gnome2 before the
Le Lun 6 mai 2013 10:37, James Allsopp a écrit :
Hi,
What I meant was I wan to upgrade an existing system from Squeeze to
Wheezy
but replacing Gnome2 with XFCE, which seems a more natural upgrade path.
I'd rather not have the grief of trying to remove a load of gnome3
libraries. I think I'll
On 5/6/2013 2:21, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Du, 05 mai 13, 19:30:00, Patrick Bartek wrote:
All that's required now is to cease using 'dist-upgrade' for
upgrading. Dist-upgrade was recommended in the user install
manual while Wheezy was still Testing. Now, that it's Stable,
'upgrade' is the
1. Listen to the advice from knowledge.
2. There is no guessing. It really is documented how to upgrade. Follow
instructions.
http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
(or whatever link suits your platform)
If you follow this guide, and stop reading junk
On Mon 06 May 2013 at 08:45:30 -0400, staticsafe wrote:
On 5/6/2013 2:21, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Du, 05 mai 13, 19:30:00, Patrick Bartek wrote:
All that's required now is to cease using 'dist-upgrade' for
upgrading. Dist-upgrade was recommended in the user install
manual while
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 08:45:30AM -0400, staticsafe wrote:
Hmm, I'm following this -
http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
- as an upgrade guide.
It suggests `apt-get upgrade` first (after changes your sources of
course).
Umm, that'll be second,
On 5/6/2013 12:00, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 08:45:30AM -0400, staticsafe wrote:
Hmm, I'm following this -
http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
- as an upgrade guide.
It suggests `apt-get upgrade` first (after changes your
On Sun, 05 May 2013, Carl Fink wrote:
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 07:30:00PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
I never use the Stable name any more. Learned my lesson a
few years ago when I upgraded an install of Etch--sources set to
Stable--not realizing that Lenny had just become the new
On Mon, 06 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Du, 05 mai 13, 19:30:00, Patrick Bartek wrote:
All that's required now is to cease using 'dist-upgrade' for
upgrading. Dist-upgrade was recommended in the user install manual
while Wheezy was still Testing. Now, that it's Stable, 'upgrade'
On Mon, 06 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
[forgot I wanted to comment on the other paragraph as well]
On Du, 05 mai 13, 19:30:00, Patrick Bartek wrote:
I never use the Stable name any more. Learned my lesson a
few years ago when I upgraded an install of Etch--sources set to
On Lu, 06 mai 13, 10:43:02, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Mon, 06 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Could you please provide a reference for that? The collective wisdom
on this list recommends to always use 'upgrade' and 'dist-upgrade'
only if really required (e.g. packages not upgraded).
On Mon, 06 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 06 mai 13, 10:43:02, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Mon, 06 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Could you please provide a reference for that? The collective
wisdom on this list recommends to always use 'upgrade' and
'dist-upgrade' only if
Le 06.05.2013 19:55, Patrick Bartek a écrit :
On Mon, 06 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
[forgot I wanted to comment on the other paragraph as well]
On Du, 05 mai 13, 19:30:00, Patrick Bartek wrote:
I never use the Stable name any more. Learned my lesson a
few years ago when I upgraded
Noted with pleasure Wheezy is officially Stable.
Guess it's time to switch from dist-upgrade I've been doing all
these months during the transition to Stable to upgrade.
Thanks to the developers for all their hard work.
B
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Dne, 05. 05. 2013 18:13:07 je Patrick Bartek napisal(a):
Noted with pleasure Wheezy is officially Stable.
Guess it's time to switch from dist-upgrade I've been doing all
these months during the transition to Stable to upgrade.
Thanks to the developers for all their hard work.
B
+1
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Subject: Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased
Dne, 05. 05. 2013 18:13:07 je Patrick Bartek napisal(a):
Noted with pleasure Wheezy is officially Stable.
Guess it's time to switch from dist-upgrade I've been doing all
these months during the transition to Stable to upgrade.
Thanks
On 05/05/13 19:08, Gary Dale wrote:
If your apt-sources use Wheezy and not Testing, there is no need to do
anything different. If they use Testing, I'd advise switching to Stable
or Wheezy for a few months until the new Testing becomes stable enough
to use reliably.
If your current system
On 5/5/2013 12:13, Patrick Bartek wrote:
Noted with pleasure Wheezy is officially Stable.
Guess it's time to switch from dist-upgrade I've been doing all
these months during the transition to Stable to upgrade.
Thanks to the developers for all their hard work.
B
The news post -
On Sunday 05 May 2013 18:29:50 Tony van der Hoff wrote:
On 05/05/13 19:08, Gary Dale wrote:
If your apt-sources use Wheezy and not Testing, there is no need to do
anything different. If they use Testing, I'd advise switching to Stable
or Wheezy for a few months until the new Testing becomes
Forwarding to list as it was sent directly to me.
Original Message
Subject: Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 20:05:20 +0100
From: James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com
To: staticsafe m...@staticsafe.ca
Hi,
Is there an up to date upgrade guide
On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 15:19 -0400, staticsafe wrote:
Forwarding to list as it was sent directly to me.
Original Message
Subject: Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 20:05:20 +0100
From: James Allsopp jamesaalls...@googlemail.com
To: staticsafe m
Excerpt from Tony van der Hoff:
On 05/05/13 19:08, Gary Dale wrote:
If your apt-sources use Wheezy and not Testing, there is no need to do
anything different. If they use Testing, I'd advise switching to Stable
or Wheezy for a few months until the new Testing becomes stable enough
to use
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 03:44:35PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
It's very easy to install XFCE. Drill down in the graphical installer
to other desktops and make your selection
Or:
sudo apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
-dsr-
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Subject: Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased
Dne, 05. 05. 2013 18:13:07 je Patrick Bartek napisal(a):
Noted with pleasure Wheezy is officially Stable.
Guess it's time to switch from dist-upgrade I've been doing all
these months during the transition to Stable to upgrade
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 07:11:40PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 03:44:35PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
It's very easy to install XFCE. Drill down in the graphical installer
to other desktops and make your selection
Or:
sudo apt-get install xfce4
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 07:30:00PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
I never use the Stable name any more. Learned my lesson a
few years ago when I upgraded an install of Etch--sources set to
Stable--not realizing that Lenny had just become the new Stable. I
ended up with a hybrid system, a mix
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