Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 09:53:00PM +0530, AP wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Catalin Soare lolinux.so...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there! Then, come back to Debian. Unless you choose any testing or non-stable variants, you will notice that it truly is stable and once setup, things

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 04:33:18PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 26 November 2013 16:25:08 AP wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Much depends on whether you (AP) are ready to get your feet wet and use the CLI (command line interface).

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 07:22:54AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Doug, are you thinking apt-get install packagename or dpkg install filename? The latter is rarely used (even by 'power' users) these days, and the former is not what you wrote - perhaps this clarifies something useful for

Re: Toshiba Satellite U940

2013-11-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 09:40:53PM +1100, Charlie wrote: Trouble with the very touchy touchpad which was making me go crazy, so dropped everything out of it except that it's as touchpad. I like it like that. But it still does some scroll things I don't like when I don't want them. A

Re: Question about bogofilter -R

2013-11-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:33:00AM -0800, pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: I'm trying to understand Bogofilter better. Wrong place to ask. Try the following: http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml http://www.bogofilter.org/mailman/listinfo/bogofilter Archives

Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-11-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 11:04:27PM +0530, AP wrote: Hello, Hi, I want to use Linux in my daily works which are simple like office works (documentation) and web surfing because I am in the job which is no more related with computers..So this is just my hobby part. You can use

Re: upgrade on comp without internet connection

2013-11-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 03:06:48PM +0200, andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: hi everybody! i have installed debian version 6.0.2 on computer without internet connection. Also i have full set of DVD with 7.2.0 version. So - i want to upgrade the system. Im going to perform next steps: 1)

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:55:50PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote: Mark kept threatening to shut down the email-based User list for some time. At least that is what the moderators kept telling us. Do you mean listmasters here? Otherwise, the last bit doesn't make sense. IOW, if there are moderators

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

2013-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 05:07:52PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 16:52:44 + Ron Leach ronle...@tesco.net wrote: Hello Ron, Jonathan, thank you for the note. I've rechecked. I think Jonathan was directing his comments to Emilio, not you. It's difficult to know for

Re: Install Google Chrome

2013-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 07:42:10PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder - How I keep from going under. Have you seen the movie Shutter Island? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving

Re: message formatting [was Wheezy/XFCE/VNC}

2013-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 02:26:21PM +0100, Andre Majorel wrote: On 2013-11-19 21:54 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 05:07:52PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: I think Jonathan was directing his comments to Emilio, not you. It's difficult to know for sure as he didn't use

Re: Debian 7 installation

2013-11-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 07:32:04PM -0800, Atari McBits wrote: Hello, I am having some problems installing Debian 7 on a old laptop of mine. So, I press Install and then after a few minutes, the screen just goes black and I have no idea what is going on. Right. Could you tell us a bit more

Re: software for (reminder) recommendation

2013-11-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 01:54:19PM +, Curt wrote: Or you can use the old tried and true method of tying a string around your finger, perhaps the first digital reminder technology known to man. ;-) Doesn't work, ... what's this bit of string doing round my finger ... ... :-)

Re: software for (reminder) recommendation

2013-11-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:09:37PM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, Which package I can be installed which may serve as calender, Just remind me when, where and what I need attend or prepare? root@tal:~# apt-cache show remind Package: remind [...] Suggests: tkremind, wyrd Description-en:

Re: who uses dual boot? [was: How to start using a free OS]

2013-11-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 09:31:48AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 00:59 +, José Silva wrote: I think there are ways of overcoming this, inserting the key in the VM bios, but I doubt it's legal. Is it legal to have a monopoly and to force people to pay for an OS to

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 03:40:18PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: The real problem is that the number of people who install any operating system from scratch at any time is very small: - probably less than 1% As in LFS? (I think I know what you mean, i.e from disk? ) - people have been

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 01:04:27PM +1100, David wrote: On 11 November 2013 02:17, thomas aylward grasslandsc...@gmail.com wrote: how does a novice begin with debian? Tom In addition to other replies, a local linux user group can be a good source of inspiration and assistance. I'd say

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 06:26:08PM +0100, Slavko wrote: then ask for CC is base way do get the responses. Please, do not use the Reply to All, or use MUA, which can identify MLs and post replies ^^ That 'or' should be 'but' because it read as: Please, do not use an

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 06:41:42PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: way: I always use reply all, and it does not seems to send mails to the sender too. Policy is to reply to list ONLY. On the other hand, if I use the normal reply, it only reply to the sender. That is the

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:24:39PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 11/10/2013 10:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: [...] +1 -1000! -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. --- Malcolm X

Re: Permission issue

2013-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 04:12:31PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 03:18 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 11:24:39PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 11/10/2013 10:26 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: [...] +1 -1000! :D It's possible, I once

Re: Procedure to uninstall nvidia drivers and restore nouveau

2013-11-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 04:50:36PM +, Curt wrote: On 2013-11-11, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: I suspect that xorg.conf will not be removed, even not when using purge. Will the nouveau driver be unblacklisted after the purge? Ask yourself - Would you, as system

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 09, 2013 at 11:40:04AM +0200, Itay wrote: Yes, I have to sweat on doing simple things, like configuring exim4 to send out email to my public address. You'll have that problem no matter what distribution you choose. But the good thing in Debian for me is: I feel that once Ilearn to

Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

2013-11-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 02:20:17PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: In a new box where the Wheezy OS will be freshly installed I want to install all the packages which I presently have in a box with Squeeze. Why can't you just upgrade? IOW, unlikely that you'll get any help with your jump through the

Re: 3D printer

2013-11-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 09:21:58AM -0500, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 03:59:37 -0200 Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: Hi guys, This is an open thread, if that is allowed. What's an open thread? At a guess, opposite to a closed thread IOW anyone can contribute, although the terms don't

Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

2013-11-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 07:56:27AM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 11/4/2013 7:19 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 02:20:17PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: In a new box where the Wheezy OS will be freshly installed I want to install all the packages which I presently have in a box

Re: Installing same packages in a Squeeze installation in a new Wheezy installation

2013-11-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 01:03:58PM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: So what I'm going to do is build a new server, install the same software that's on the current one, then reply the modifications to the configuration files. Once it is thoroughly tested, I will replace the old one with the new

Re: Only in America! ? (was ... Re: sudo and UNIXes (was: audacity export wma format[1 more question]))

2013-11-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 09:35:16PM +, Curt wrote: On 2013-10-31, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: So you could shoot kids in halloween costumes for illegally being on your property? Only if they've been through your underwear (_very_ puritanical country

Only in America! ? (was ... Re: sudo and UNIXes (was: audacity export wma format[1 more question]))

2013-10-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 03:38:12PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Case 1: I find that someone in my family who lives in my house has rumaged through my underwear drawer. A violation of trust has occurred. I am unhappy and will talk with them and give them a harsh lecture. This is not appropriate

Re: Debian setup for python django development

2013-10-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:07:37PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 28.10.2013 18:12, Gary Roach a écrit : Hi all, I have been trying to set up a python, django, mysql development project and am really confused. All of the documentation seems to ignore the apt-get

Re: apt-get aptitude dependencies purge

2013-10-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 08:42:18AM +0100, Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:55:57 -0600 ruckusrogue ruckusro...@gmail.com napísal: Anyone know the proper tool (shell) to best remove (purge) packages and their dependencies after installing? There are three types of

Re: another dependency question

2013-10-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 05:56:17PM +0200, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I needed to install acroread and I did from deb-multimedia repo. No We cannot help with problems caused by third party repositories. A search via google regarding Debian multimedia problems should shed more light on the

Re: another dependency question

2013-10-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:24:23AM +0400, Reco wrote: On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 22:14:56 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 23:55 +0400, Reco wrote: 2) Embedded movies I hope they require Adobe's original flash player and a DRM registration on the

Re: aptitude misconfigure?

2013-10-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:19:32AM -0400, Jape Person wrote: On 10/26/2013 01:18 AM, Glenn English wrote: There are several Debian machines around, and some of them do an odd thing in Aptitude: lqk xReally quit Aptitude?x x [ Yes ][ No ]

Re: another dependency question

2013-10-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:07:17PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 12:00 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: About the fact that adobe should maintain their products... I can only agree. That's the whole point. Other distros and Debian give you and me the libre to

Re: another dependency question

2013-10-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:20:06AM +0200, François Patte wrote: Le 26/10/2013 08:02, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 05:56:17PM +0200, François Patte wrote: Bonjour, I needed to install acroread and I did from deb-multimedia repo. No We cannot help with problems

Re: Messed up audio settings

2013-10-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:55:44AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: problem. Using Epiphany, I visited the YouTube site and played a music video. The sound didn't sound right. The voice sounds quieter, and like the singer is singing under water! I canceled out of it, launched iceweasel, and

Re: vim doesn't have python support?

2013-10-26 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post on this list] On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 03:54:22PM -0400, Dale Harris wrote: I had to install vim-nox (or one of the other variants), to get python support. Might be nice if vim-python-jedi required that. Wishing for it doesn't make it happpen. Looks you have found a bug

Re: XFCE without GNOME/KDE parts (Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1)

2013-10-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 07:50:40PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I really take a lot of care when I install a new software, and avoid bloated ones when it is possible. Excepted for the web browser, I am quite successful in that heroic quest. But web browsers still beat me, I

Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

2013-10-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 04:39:46PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: surprised that the original mouse had developed problems when its only 10 months old, but it was made in china so who knows what quality-control they have there! You mean that you can actually buy products that aren't made in

Re: out to get out of an apt-get problem...

2013-10-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:55:19PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: APT tries hard to tidy up anything broken. Because there are broken dependencies on your system apt is going to do nothing else until those broken items are fixed. If a car has a flat tire then you can't drive anywhere until the

Re: Choosing Debian version or derivative to run Wine when resource poor

2013-10-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 06:14:20PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2013-10-24 at 18:47 -0400, Doug wrote: You should consider an os using the kde desktop, since it is quite similar to Windows, which is what most people are accustomed to. Windows 98, XP etc., I guess

Re: Choosing Debian version or derivative to run Wine when resource poor

2013-10-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:15:00PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 25.10.2013 01:14, Richard Owlett a écrit : Unless I'm totally lost, I suspect any DE /or WM can handle that. Sorry for that, but it's your own words: you are completely lost ;) Sorry, you are! Any DE can,

Re: Choosing Debian version or derivative to run Wine when resource poor

2013-10-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:34:50AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 11:21 +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: Don't know the answer to your question but have you considered using those PCs as disk-less X terminals using LTSP or similar ? That might be easier to admin. And you

Re: Hp Proliant 460c drivers

2013-10-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 02:57:21PM -0500, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: Hi list, I have installed Debian 7.1 on a few hp proliant blade servers, after installing I've seen that network is not working properly. It recognises around 8 interfaces, mii-tool says that there is not any link present.

bug not sent (was ... Re: Debian Wheezy - HP Pavilion dm1)

2013-10-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 09:18:28AM -0400, Sureyya Sahin wrote: Take a look if Suse by default does use hdparm for this purpose. I doubt this! There for sure is a reason that the HD's default is as it is. The distros that do cause the issue on your machine has to be informed about it. If

Re: Jessie Minimum Kernel Requirement

2013-10-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:30:46PM -0300, Beco wrote: Yep, I confirm. I did this on my personal computers and two servers a while back. Kind of confusing... I almost lost one of the servers. I hope as time and Debian evolves, these procedures go safer and safer. Several transitions may take

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-19 Thread Chris Bannister
[How about being a bit more proactive with the trimming, guys.] On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 02:19:13PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Take windows, and say honestly that it does not contains applications? explorer, mspaint, calc, msconfig, notepad, etc. Those are applications,

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:46:48PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 03:43:21PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I know I wont teach that to anyone here, but modems are not computing stuff, at all. They are simply here to transform numeric

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 03:43:21PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I know I wont teach that to anyone here, but modems are not computing stuff, at all. They are simply here to transform numeric signals to analogical ones, and vice versa. I wonder why someone would explicitly call

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 02:38:40PM +, Curt wrote: On 2013-10-14, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Now that you say it, it's obvious. I was simply thinking that HTML was the source of the problem, because I only noticed such problems with HTML

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:10:09AM -0300, Marcelo Lacerda wrote: Just to make it clear in my normal package management these are *all* commands that I use: # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade # apt-get dist-upgrade # apt-get install foo-bar # apt-get install -f # apt-get remove|purge

Re: mediatomb install fails on wheezy

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 08:42:29PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/other/stable.html thank you for this useful link. how come mediatomb is not listed here. It should be in category: Number that have a fix prepared and waiting to upload:

Re: Sharing Internet to Android Devices

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:08:34PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 15:23 +0530, J B wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:29:38 +0600 Muntasim-Ul-Haque tranjees...@inventati.org wrote: Hi, I want to share Internet from my Debian to my Android phone. How can I do that?

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 01:10:14PM -0300, msl09 wrote: Oh I have fond memories of aptitude breaking my system. Once it suggested me to remove most of my system, including apt, I thought it was going to upgrade it so I confirmed it. I had to reinstall apt from the debian packages website. In

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 02:56:13AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 19:40 -0400, Tom H wrote: I suspect that the problem's in the examples above are simply PEBKAC. Likely, since the libre to break a system temporarily sometimes is needed to fix issues, or to make

Re: which MTA to choose for a simple client?

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 02:05:23PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: May be 3 years ago now, but I tried various options back then, and mpop was the fastest (really fast compared to fetchmail) which did not have other problems for me, at that time. Three years is a long time for a piece of

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:11:01AM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: If you own a system you control it and can do whatever you like with it. You can give yourself whatever label you want (sysadmin, superuser, top dog etc) - it matters not. How about Debian Despot? Oh, of course,

Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 09:19:18PM +0100, Joe wrote: though most include routers and other useless stuff. ..when it is normally customary to refer to them as routers. Pedants might call them modem-routers, but nobody else does. Um, you can get routers without a modem, so the difference

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 04:48:12PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: This has nothing to do with Windows. You need to set your MUA to use word wrap. Stop bitching about Windows and fix your MUA. Umm no. The above is what *YOU* sent! Official third party repository :D. Your MUA is broken,

Re: ukash hijacked iceweasel

2013-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:54:41PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I've got Ghostery installed, I'm using Ghostery to detect trackers, but I can't find how to use it to disable scripts. Install the extension/addon 'noscript' -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people

Re: Ethernet bonding mode 5 only using one Slave adapter.

2013-10-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 02:41:12PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i am using bond mode balance-alb. and here is my /etc/network/interfaces file ## # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug

Re: What does 'apt' in /etc/cron.daily do?

2013-10-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 07:57:46AM +, Curt wrote: On 2013-10-06, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: I think that comment was basically that /etc/cron.daily/apt doesn't have anything to do with log rotation. So you are barking up the wrong tree. Maybe he thought that given the apt

Re: What does 'apt' in /etc/cron.daily do?

2013-10-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 12:09:27PM +, Curt wrote: On 2013-10-07, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Remember what Benny Hill said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6jaKkE0RsI but not an assumption a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion

Re: What does 'apt' in /etc/cron.daily do?

2013-10-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 10:39:38AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: Logrotation is not happening for some reason, so stumbling around What is output of: apt-cache policy logrotate investigating and ran up on /etc/cron.daily/apt Are we on the same page here? What is the /etc/cron.daily/apt script

Re: Mounting a Samsung Galaxy S3.

2013-10-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 10:34:20AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 which I am attempting to connect to ... [..] anyone got any ideas of what I could try next to mount my phone please? If you have a wireless router, have a look at the app AirDroid. -- If you're not

[OT] Trim your posts. (was ... Re: ...)

2013-10-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 07:46:11PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: [Dunno, tl:dr] How about taking time to trim your posts instead of allowing them to build into an unreadable mess. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Mounting a Samsung Galaxy S3.

2013-10-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 01:28:32PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: Yes Chris, I have and 'airdroid' does work well, but it requires you to have the webpage for it to be opened and airdroid running on the phone all at the same time, and the webpage does eventually time out. Whereas pcmanfm works

Re: mediatomb install fails on wheezy

2013-10-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 05:09:21PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, Trying to install mediatomb on wheezy, I got: serious bugs of mediatomb (- 0.12.1-4) marked as done in some version #677959 - mediatomb: fails to build against current version of libavformat (Fixed:

Re: Re: How to install latest VLC 2.1.0 in debian

2013-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 11:15:05AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Actually, I just changed the subject of another thread and it came up as a different thread on mailing list! I will try out the deb-multimedia repository. Thanks! Just be aware of the problems in doing so. -- If you're not

[OT] List software, duplicate mail, or not. (was ... Re: Building computer)

2013-10-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 05:44:44AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 10/03/2013 05:11 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: No apology necessary. I'm on many open lists (LKML) where hitting reply-to-list only goes to the sender. So I've been guilty myself a few times. so that is list specific... I

Re: [OT]Re: any utility to change ip

2013-10-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 11:12:35PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 23 September 2013 12:54:42 Chris Bannister wrote: Here, some people (esp. the media) have this annoying habit of saying dub dub dub instead of WWW What about dubya dubya dubya? I always hear that as Dubya (i.e. a name

Re: unsuscibe

2013-10-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:35:46PM +0100, Marc Stephan Nkouly wrote: how do i go out of the list ??? the subject is not within my knowledge, thanks The subject, unsuscibe is not within mine either. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being

Re: Problem with kernel-image-3.10-2-amd64

2013-09-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 02:57:54AM +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 09/30/2013 02:03 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 09/29/2013 05:24 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 11:52:00AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: add 'rootdelay=5'(w/o the quotes

Re: DRBD protocol A understanding.

2013-09-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:10:35PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: just asking for understanding/learning, i have been using DRBD Protocol C for quite some time. however it is said that Protocol A, is for WAN. and my question is why it is suitable for WAN. Wrong list! -- If you're not

Re: Problem with kernel-image-3.10-2-amd64

2013-09-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 05:16:38PM +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: I had impression that 'rootdelay=5' had solved your problem and that is why I gave you that link. If you read the thread, you will see it was not me. Also note, it was another poster (Hugo) who suggested that the OP try

Re: duplicate emails

2013-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:43:57AM -0400, Catherine Gramze wrote: But what is this unusual formatting of which you speak? Is it me using RTF instead of plain text as my default setting, perhaps? See above, no line breaks. Putting that aside for a minute, you should set your mailer to plain

Re: Problem with kernel-image-3.10-2-amd64

2013-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 11:52:00AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Shane Johnson wrote: I have been fighting this all night and was wondering if anyone else has been having problems as well? I am doing a new install via debootstrap to a lvm2 volume via the wheezy rescue disk. I got it

Re: cron and package upgrade

2013-09-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 03:45:01PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-09-29 at 01:15 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:20:39AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: During important upgrades such as locales, I avoid doing things like starting an xterm... Usually

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

2013-09-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 03:15:57PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: So is it ok to post such a link? It does say that swearing is illegal on packet radio, which some people use to read the ML. So understanding that, and also that swearing is unnecesary on a support ML, I'd say you have your answer.

Re: cron and package upgrade

2013-09-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 02:20:39AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: During important upgrades such as locales, I avoid doing things like starting an xterm... Usually, already running applications You do system upgrades WITH X running? :( If there is a problem with the upgrade of X, you could

kernel compilation (was ... Re: Building computer)

2013-09-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:57:43PM -0300, Beco wrote: On 26 September 2013 22:22, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: (I've compiled a kernel on a netbook; you'd better have a few hours to spare...) Questions for people who compile kernel and their machines: You are better off

Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:33:26PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Btw. fxg a sheep in Germany is allowed, so claiming asylum should http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct * Do not use foul language; besides, some people receive the lists via packet radio, where swearing is

Re: any way to get the mouse position on two places on the screen?

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 05:34:22AM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: You can tell ffmpeg to screen capture one area of the screen and make a clip JFYI, apt-cache show ffmpeg [...] This package contains the deprecated ffmpeg program. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating

Re: find'ing files containing certain words (all of them) ...

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:00:54PM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: I have come to believe this is one of those problems that is not to be optimally solved with a script, but a programming language What's the difference? OK, you give a script to the cast and a program to the audience, but other

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:13:37AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 18:56 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:33:26PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Btw. fxg a sheep in Germany is allowed, so claiming asylum should http://www.debian.org/MailingLists

Re: [OT]Re: any utility to change ip

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 04:41:53PM +, Curt wrote: What's really interesting is that people say WWW (nine syllables), instead of World Wide Web (three). Here, some people (esp. the media) have this annoying habit of saying dub dub dub instead of WWW Akela should feed them to the wolfpack

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:50:02PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 12:55 -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: don't trim quotes Some days ago I trimmed quotes on Linux audio users/developers and was ask to quote everything, because out of context the quotes would be manipulating

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 09:46:51AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 9/23/13, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: _Please_ people. The idea is that we should help each other and that that help should be available in the archive for searchers to find. We need to be both legible and

Re: Broken threads and missing quotations

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 05:56:45AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 09:46 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Please avoid breaking threads To add this line won't help, because _most_ users aren't aware what breaking a thread does mean. They'll soon learn. The idea is not to

Re: Code Of Conduct (was ... Re: Security?)

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 01:45:37PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 23:31 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: I still miss an answer, if it's allowed to post such links, that contain words as the unwanted word I quoted from the link. I suggest to censor them ... i.e. bas%#@d, f

Re: What is location for building/ installing system-wide software?

2013-09-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:00:53PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: In the past, I found that the Debian packaged FreeCiv was buggy. Since then, I've downloaded and built from source. Did you report a bug, like a good citizen? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating

Re: Mutt / addressbook

2013-09-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:03:25PM -0700, Josef Bailey wrote: Hello I'm trying to use the abook app to add an anddressbook into mut (If im correct it uses alias) [...] Any ideas The mutt mailing list is really the list you should be using: http://www.mutt.org/mail-lists.html -- If

Re: any utility to change ip

2013-09-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 01:01:41PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Did you forget the Enter key? 1 i 2 p 3 SPACE 4 a 5 ENTER root@tal:~# echo ip a|wc -m 5 Ahh! implicit ENTER -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving

Re: a question concerning rxvt-unicode and update-alternatives

2013-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:46:22PM +0100, Matej Kosik wrote: Hi, I would like to set rxvt-unicode program as x-terminal-enulator. Is this supposed to be possible? The rxvt-unicode program is now already installed,

Re: a question concerning rxvt-unicode and update-alternatives

2013-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:46:22PM +0100, Matej Kosik wrote: Hi, I would like to set rxvt-unicode program as x-terminal-enulator. Is this supposed to be possible? Oops, disregard my mail about reporting a bug. I was a bit too quick reading the thread. :( -- If you're not

Re: Choosing among Desktop Enviroments and/or Windows Managers

2013-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:57:54PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Desktop environments lean towards over kill. In that case, have a look at fvwm. http://www.fvwm.org/ -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are

Re: find and copy [Solved]

2013-09-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:19:39PM -0500, Craig L. wrote: On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 12:52:09PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: You should be bonza, fab, good to go :) [...] Well I don't know about bonza, and I thought fab was back in the sixties :).

Re: One-Stop Debian Box Config Tool: Call for Collaborators!

2013-09-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:34:35PM -0700, Jarrod O'Flaherty wrote: I'm thinking along the lines of a Wiki style system where the (expert user) community contributes the recipes to the database, in much the same way that they currently contribute to the message board database by answering

Re: where is pryzor pkg

2013-09-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 09:16:17PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: I read in several places that there is a debian pkg for the mail filter tool `pryzor', however aptitude can find no hint of it. aptitude search pryzor Turns up no hits. Maybe I need something added to my sources.list.

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