Re: Laptop left in unusable state

2012-12-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 09:04:13AM -0500, Agbefia wrote: To whom it may concern: I have a Dell laptop Studio that runs on Win7 operating system.i tried to install Debian but something went wrong and my laptop cannot boot and it seems all my data on the hard drive were erased and I cannot

Re: [APT::Clean-Installed 0;] doesn't remove packages from experimental repos

2012-12-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:15:53PM +0530, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote: Is there any way to clean the apt cache for the packages that I am not currently using? I tried using this config root@localhost:~# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Clean-Installed 0; // auto-remove breaks on meta packages

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 09:36:00AM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: Note that I use oggenc here, because I'm not familiar with the command to convert to mp3, although I imagine ffmpeg would do it. If you find avconv in Debian, ffmpeg is deprecated. root@tal:~# apt-cache show ffmpeg [...] This

Re: X-posting alert: Multiple songs playing simultaneously (Amarok)

2012-12-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 02:11:14PM +, AG wrote: I may be stepping all over some or other netiquette, for which I apologise. I don't see how; your message to this list wasn't cross-posted I thought that the Debian user community might want to be aware of the response from one of the Amarok

Re: Wheezy Driver for Intel RMS25CB080 RAID Controller

2012-12-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 05:02:49PM -0800, Ron wrote: Setting linux kernel boot parameter pci=conf1 allows my Intel RAID Controller-RMS25PB080 (LSI 2208/Fusion based) to be detected, and the FW to transition to Ready state. Without this setting the Card FW responds only with 0xF000 Fault

Re: admin password?

2012-12-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:51:38AM +0200, Dionyssis Goulimis wrote: Hi, I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember my Admin password, what is the best way to stop using an Admin password? You mean the root password. It might be quicker to reinstall, and don't

Re: how to buy an ideal laptop RAM module?

2013-01-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 10:16:05AM +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote: This indicates that the RAM capacity of your laptop is already utilized. What lets you think it can use 8 gb of RAM? hi Jörg-Volker, the toshiba website link clearly states 8 gb ram :

Re: when new versions will be available at wheezy ?

2013-01-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 12:47:52PM +, darkestkhan wrote: Wheezy :-) Only after release testing will start receiving new packages once again. Next version will be called Jessie (but if you plan to use constantly testing then just put testing in place of Wheezy in your apt preferences). Not

Re: New wheezy and problems setting up alsa for mpd

2013-01-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 02:16:07PM +, Sharon Kimble wrote: Jan 08 13:46 : output: Failed to open MPD ALSA [alsa]: Failed to open ALSA device default: Connection refused Jan 08 13:46 : player_thread: problems opening audio device while playing

Re: when new versions will be available at wheezy ?

2013-01-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:28:30PM +, darkestkhan wrote: On Jan 8, 2013 3:01 PM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz Not a good idea. Once wheezy is the new stable, the flood gates will open for the next testing (jessie) and it will be chaotic for a while. And in my personal

Re: New wheezy and problems setting up alsa for mpd

2013-01-08 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post: http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html] [ fixed up as best I could.] On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:02:39PM +, Sharon Kimble wrote: On 8 January 2013 15:06, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nzwrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 02:16:07PM +, Sharon Kimble

Re: Using wheezy or squeeze.

2013-01-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 10:58:01AM +, Darac Marjal wrote: This is the whole point of the testing distribution, AFAIUI. You run 'stable' on your production server and 'testing' on your development server. Really? Wouldn't you want your development server/environment to be setup as close

Re: New wheezy and problems setting up alsa for mpd

2013-01-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 12:14:42PM +, Sharon Kimble wrote: On 9 January 2013 03:07, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: As I have no experience with mpd (yet) I don't know what may be causing this, but ... * Can you play local files with mpd/ncmpcpp? No * Can you

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-01-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 05:05:12AM +0800, Hormatzhan Yiltiz wrote: This page, as you pointed out, is more than a guideline. Can someone please polish this up a little bit? That would be a wonderful and appreciative. Huh? Start here: http://wiki.debian.org/FrontPage?action=newaccount -- If

Re: version mismatch between library and the -dev

2013-01-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:23:05AM -0500, brian wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgtkglext1-dev : Depends: libgtkglext1 (= 1.2.0-2) but 1.2.0-3 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Re: version mismatch between library and the -dev

2013-01-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:20:33AM -0500, brian wrote: On 01/14/2013 01:13 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:23:05AM -0500, brian wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgtkglext1-dev : Depends: libgtkglext1 (= 1.2.0-2) but 1.2.0-3 is to be installed E

Re: version mismatch between library and the -dev

2013-01-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:22:27PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 14 ian 13, 22:15:07, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:20:33AM -0500, brian wrote: brian@brian:~$ apt-cache policy libgtkglext1 libgtkglext1: Installed: 1.2.0-3 Candidate: 1.2.0-3

Re: Install from DVD set

2013-01-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 02:00:10PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I also discovered that the screen shots in the Synaptic help do not match the actual synaptic display. As Squeeze is only getting security patches and I do not have access to wheezy [I'm on dial up] should I file a bug report?

Re: upgrade squeeze - wheezy (issues)

2013-01-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:28:48PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm top posting because nobody should be expected to go through all that stuff. And what is wrong with deleting the parts that nobody should be expected to go through? The process is called trimming. -- If you're not careful, the

Re: how to buy an ideal laptop RAM module?

2013-01-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 01:25:59AM -0500, Doug wrote: On 01/16/2013 12:27 AM, vishnu vardhan wrote: i have contacted toshiba i am stumped by their reply : 3.The RAM can be extended up to 8 GB in your laptop. Hence, you need to contact to the service center regarding the same. 4.

Re: how to buy an ideal laptop RAM module?

2013-01-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:57:46AM +0530, vishnu vardhan wrote: i have contacted toshiba i am stumped by their reply : 3.The RAM can be extended up to 8 GB in your laptop. Hence, you need to contact to the service center regarding the same. 4.The Ram details :- 204-Pin DDR3

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 08:48:10PM +0800, lina wrote: It's well maintained, at least far better than other boxes I met before. Just it might be my fault, long long time ago, I might chmod blindly at that time. I thought of chmod, so why not just try chmod/chown back? You might still get

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 09:29:46PM +, Joe wrote: [...] and there's still nothing Open Source that comes close to Access. Which is good to know. -- 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

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:04:15PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 22 ian 13, 15:50:19, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 09:29:46PM +, Joe wrote: [...] and there's still nothing Open Source that comes close to Access. Which is good to know. [...] IMNSHO

Re: how to install touchegg in debian ?

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 04:01:00PM +0530, J B wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:09:59 +0200 I tried to install touchegg_1.0-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb and I get dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of touchegg: touchegg depends on libutouch-geis1 (= 2.0.1); however: Package

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 06:38:03AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: At the end-user level I think Debian has a logical flaw. You are assuming all end-users are equal. It presumes that all software is always available in a repository (be it FOSS/proprietary, trusted/untrusted, whatever

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:28:58AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: Right, and you authenticated it how? Essentially in the same manner as you do any time you walk into a Mom Pop restaurant in a strange city. You observe it and make a judgement call. And if you miss

Re: Client daemon for sorting e-mail via IMAP

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:10:07AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: My regular user account runs fetchmail via cron every so often, which goes out via secure (encrypted) IMAP connections to my various mailboxes scattered across the Internet. :-) That, in turn, feeds the mail to Postfix for

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 05:52:26PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Lisi writes: Seriously Richard, we know your age by now. :-) Oh I was born about ten thousand years ago... Did you write the very first song? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being

Re: dselect fun

2013-01-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:54:17AM +, Darac Marjal wrote: chime in with a reminder that dselect is considered discouraged these days. It's spiritual successor (a TUI interface to apt) is now aptitude. That depends on who you ask. For newbies, I certainly wouldn't recommend dselect, but if

Re: Customized Debian - Was: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:28:58AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 06:38:03AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: At the end-user level I think Debian has a logical flaw. You are assuming all end-users are equal. No. I was contrasting the generic end

Re: [APT] how to debug Hash Sum mismatch?

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:54:16PM -0500, Tom Roche wrote: did `sudo aptitude update`, and got W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/watson.nci.nih.gov_cran%5fmirror_bin_linux_debian_squeeze-cran_Packages: Hash Sum mismatch So I changed my sources.list - deb

Debian Unstable now has FVWM 2.6.5

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, http://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm@lists.math.uh.edu/msg16819.html -- 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Client daemon for sorting e-mail via IMAP

2013-01-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 01:36:56AM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Lázaro wrote: aptitude search sieve|grep mailutils I have old mail that needs to be re-sorted. While I could re-sort everything periodically this is resource intensive (with a lot of mail) and would be

Re: [OT] Language(No programming language ) question

2013-01-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 02:55:05AM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 27.01.2013 00:53, John Hasler a écrit : ...only English is acceptable on this list. People do occasionally post here in other languages, but they are in error in so doing. They are not in error: there is no

Re: [APT] how to debug Hash Sum mismatch?

2013-01-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 12:45:30PM -0500, Tom Roche wrote: Without knowing all your details, I'd probably: rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* rm /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/* then try updating again. Unfortunately, no fix: me@it:~ $ sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* rm: cannot remove

Re: [OT] Language(No programming language ) question

2013-01-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 02:57:34PM +0100, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: Could this thread please move to off-topic discussions? That is why I never read or post to the German user list: the pedantic people over there try to put everything really interesting into the offtopic

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 03:48:00PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Now I only want to mention, that making updates for Debian, is different to making updates for e.g. Ubuntu and that there's a difference between personal experiences and universal validity, that some issues overlap, e.g. the Debian

Re: [APT] how to debug Hash Sum mismatch?

2013-01-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:25:22PM -0500, Tom Roche wrote: [ https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/6841) suggests] Just as an aside, I don't remember putting square brackets [ and ] around the url. I consider it unethical/bad practice to alter the quoted text but make it look like

Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze

2013-01-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 09:48:13PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: needed, since dependencies for stable are much to old, it easily could happen that Debian becomes buggier (and more buggy ;) than Ubuntu. You can bork any system if you really try. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have

Re: enlighten scribes docs, books etc

2013-02-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 07:27:52AM -0800, james gray wrote: would like to find any thing that has actual content and is actually informative in light of the OS structure and system calls in GNU Debian. When you say system calls do you mean: System calls (functions provided by the kernel) as in

Re: How to purge removed package?

2013-02-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 08:41:05AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: to clean them up. Everything *except* dovecot-common went away. When it got to dovecot-common, it just gave me an error message. Oh, and it deleted /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf for me before erroring out. Oops. This might be a

Re: Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 09:06:55PM -0600, zxcvbob wrote: I have a different model Chromebook with an Atom processor and a SSD. It should run Debian just fine; I have Debian on an older netbook, but good luck installing it! (My info is about a year old and from memory) Chromebook BIOS is

Re: PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

2013-02-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 05:11:15PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 03.02.2013 15:28, Carl Fink a écrit : So PulseAudio continues to be buggy to the point of infuriation. Developers, after years of work, have signally failed to fix it. Is eSound still usable? Mabye ALSA?

Re: how to get missing multimedia packages

2013-02-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 02:49:22PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Rob Owens wrote: I recommend you use the third-party deb-multimedia repository for those packages. I have them both installed from that repo and I've never had any problems. In fact, that repo has never

Re: how to get missing multimedia packages

2013-02-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 07:04:27PM +, Tixy wrote: There seems to be a lots of packages in both repos, deb-multimedia has its own version of loads of the AV libraries and it uses a higher epoch in the version number to force them to be preferred over the official libraries. Yeah, not nice

Re: [Possibly OT] Hauppague WinTV card lost sound

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 03:05:09PM -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: I know it is bad form to respond to one's own post, but I have swapped the Hauppague card, and have exactly the same symptoms. I suspect it is something with either pulse. Suggestions? Purge the packages, but take note of which

Re: PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 09:09:42AM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Is eSound still usable? Mabye ALSA? Anything? I do not understand... for which use alsa does not work? It works perfectly here... He is not saying ALSA doesn't work for him. I understood that phrase like he

Re: how to get missing multimedia packages

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 12:22:03PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: Just be aware that if you strike any bugs and any dmo packages are involved, it will be closed without any further ado. The deb-multimedia repository is toxic to a healthy wheezy

Re: Real words

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 11:18:45PM -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: On Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:30:17 -0500 Corrupted_flame82 corrupted_flam...@yahoo.com wrote: Some motherfuckers do not beleive that revengeance is a real word. I would like you to prove to said fucker of mothers that indeed it is

Re: Moving mdadm raid volume to new OS install

2013-02-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 07:03:52PM -0700, Shane Johnson wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Shane Johnson wrote: Sam Martin wrote: ...174 lines snipped... It would be super awesome if you would trim the previously quoted material to just the

Re: [OT] computer security (online) training

2013-02-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 09:15:26AM +0100, Morel Bérenger wrote: I'm curious to look at other replies. A good place to post would be d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the

Re: Where do `pr_warning()`s end up?

2013-02-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 08:10:31PM +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: Hello GTOTD, I'm trying to make sense of some kernel driver code and I noticed some `pr_warning()` calls. From kernel.h I know pr_warning is an `eprintf()` macro: #define pr_warning(fmt, ...) \ eprintf(0,

Re: No aptitude download.

2013-02-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 04:58:48AM -0800, Weaver wrote: I now have the original number of packages reinstalled and only 35845 new packages to look through to find out what I am missing. I think I'll just call it a night. What is the output from apt-get update, and apt-get upgrade, wrap it

Re: Poll GNOME 3 + Shell usage

2013-02-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:56:22AM -0500, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:11:00 +0100 Gernot Super superger...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear fellow debian-users, since there are no concrete numbers how many people actually use GNOME 3 with Gnome-Shell (in debian) i set up a poll

Re: why my simple ? hasn't get answered?

2013-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 03:12:22PM +0800, Long Wind wrote: I repeat: which command to start xmms2's GUI interface? http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#I_asked_my_question_according_to_the_directions_written_at_the_.22How_should_I_post.22_question.2C_but_I_still_don.27t_get_an_answer --

Re: why my simple ? hasn't get answered?

2013-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 04:59:32AM -0500, Long Wind wrote: I am really surprised to find so many help in such a short time. Thanks to all those who reply! I install gxmms2 and abraca They don't work as I expect I am still unable to play a file, attached in this mail Tried the url from that

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 03:35:01PM +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: (Finally, as we know, there's only 10 kinds of people...) Yeah, those that put people into categories and those that don't :) -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 02:41:47PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: On 13/02/13 14:32, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/12/2013 4:43 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Assumed you'll build a fence, 10m long and every 1m there should be 1 fence post, how many fence posts do you need? 11 :) Depends how

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 09:24:36AM +, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 03:56:58PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 03:35:01PM +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: (Finally, as we know, there's only 10 kinds of people...) Yeah, those that put people

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 08:20:45AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 16 February 2013 03:20:54 Jerry Stuckle wrote: When dealing with computers, it's powers of 2.  When dealing with distances, it's powers of 10. Not so. Manufacturers of hard drives normally (frequently?) give the size

Re: Apache's mod_userdir resets global per-user permissions, when redefined in VirtualHost

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 08:58:24PM +0400, Dmitriy Matrosov wrote: Hi. UserDit /home/Public/*/www ^^^ huh? UserDir enabled UserDir disabled root [...] VirtualHost *:80 .. UserDit /home/Public/*/www/wiki ^^^ VirtualHost/

Re: Boot and shutdown routines frequently abort in Squeeze

2013-02-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:06:25AM +0700, Ken Heard wrote: I have a Lenovo R61 laptop which I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze at the end of November last. Ever since that upgrade the boot routine frequently aborts. The kernel is installed, and the boot routine continues as far as the point

Re: Debian 7

2013-02-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:51:17PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Some people will say that unstable is better for security issues, because it is harder to exploit flaws when the software changes constantly. Really??? They obviously don't understand the meaning of stable. (Hint,

Re: Debian 7

2013-02-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:28:36PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:51:17PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Some people will say that unstable is better for security issues, because it is harder to exploit flaws when the software changes constantly.

Re: [OT] possible USB virus?

2013-02-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 02:36:13PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 23 February 2013 13:38:16 lina wrote: Few days ago, a guy borrowed my USB. Why?? Surely lending one's USB is asking for trouble! Personally I would reformat, but then I am paranoid. Any .exe is probably a Windoze

Re: OT: Answering your own question (Was: Clamav update failed)

2013-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 08:14:04PM +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: I think that even if you actually knew the answer before you asked, it's still better for community to pretend that you ask and answer than to keep it all to yourself. Are you serious? Imagine the thousands of posts like, What does

Thinking about using Debian (was ... Re: How to match last part of fullpath in ...)

2013-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 07:48:10PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: Thanks for the encouragement, Hugo, but I'm not real keen on freeware. Open source is great, but free generally means not good and not supported - and a user forum is not support. I don't like forums either. Yes, this is a mailing

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 07:07:02PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/2/27 6:53 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: First off... stop this bs of sending replies personally (or sending dups to both the list and me). Why do you keep sending me messages that contain both email addresses? You are

Re: Adobe Reader 9.5.4 on 64 bit Linux

2013-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:24:42PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2013 18:59:06 Claudius Hubig wrote: Dear Lisi, Lisi Reisz wrote: There has, I know, been quite a lot about 32 bit on 64 bit systems recently. But I am not clear where I should start with this one.

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:26:01PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 03:52:24PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: On 2013/2/27 3:45 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2013 27 Feb 14:25 -0600, Mark Filipak wrote: What a nonsensical statement. I've never successfully installed any

Re: I wish to advocate linux

2013-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please keep attributions, I presume you are not answering yourself!] On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:39:09AM +0100, Morel Bérenger wrote: what? That's absurd. The only people I know who have their OS installed at a shop are Apple users. Sounds like an ideal country. In France, even if it is

Re: Adobe Reader 9.5.4 on 64 bit Linux - SOLVED

2013-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:20:49PM +, Claudius Hubig wrote: Dear Lisi, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2013 11:00:36 Brian wrote: You could do but try getting ia32-libs-gtk before you go down that route. Brilliant! Thank you, Brian (et al of course). I now have a

Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]

2013-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 08:34:57AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Fair enough, but... I have to say it Back in my day, we not only had to walk to school, uphill, in both directions, in the snow, but we also had to build our computers by hand, from TTL logic gates. :-)

Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]

2013-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
[Sorry, posted previous post too soon! :D] On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 12:23:01PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Fair enough, but... I have to say it Back in my day, we not only had to walk to school, uphill, in both directions, in the snow, but we also had to build our computers by hand,

Re: Installation failed - again - why am I not surprised

2013-03-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 08:20:32PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: João, kindly stop responding to this thread. I want help, not noise. Bloody cheek!! Did you behave this way on other distro support lists? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline OOPS

2013-03-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 11:46:42AM -0800, Thomas D. Dean wrote: On 03/01/13 11:35, Thomas D. Dean wrote: The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline export TERM=ansi80x25 printf \033[4masdfasdfasdf produces green text, not underline text as stated in the

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:23:49PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: From the directory that the deb is in: dpkg -i wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.deb If it complains that there are missing dependencies, curse, wish you had used aptitude, and install them. Get the dependencies the same way you got

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 02:53:37PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: My objective: Install WiFi driver into Debian+LXDE so that I can connect to the Internet. To be more exact, the wifi driver is installed so the kernel can talk to the wireless hardware. IOW, the procedure is the same whether you have

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 07:06:13PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: I tried to install wicd. [...] I see that there are uninstalled dependencies: wicd-daemon (= 1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3) wicd-gtk (= 1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3) wicd-curses (= 1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3) wicd-cli (= 1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3)

Re: Windows XP option not showing up after fresh install.

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 03:16:07AM +0100, Johan Grönqvist wrote: 2013-03-04 03:08, Michael skrev: I installed and during installation it found both the Win XP and the Linux Mint installations. After booting, the Mint shows up but not the XP. How do get the XP option do show up upon boot?

Re: future of dbmail in Debian

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 11:04:03AM +0100, Sergey Spiridonov wrote: Hi Debian I am using dbmail package [1] at home and at work for many years already. I just noticed that dbmail is not in Wheezy and is also kicked out from Sid (for i386). I found bug [2] telling that maintainer is not

Re: Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC

2013-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 09:49:12AM -0500, Steven Grunza wrote: Hello. I would like to install Debian on a laptop with 256 MB of RAM. Is this possible? I was previously running Ubuntu but there are problems in the Ubuntu X11 server code that cause the touchscreen to be unusable. Installing

Re: Missing Driver isci

2013-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 08:18:27AM +0100, arne wrote: On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 04:54:10 +0100 sposkpat sposk...@telfort.nl wrote: Do NOT REBOOT. Linux is known to run for years. Until you are sure. If you upgrade a kernel you should reboot afterwards. -- If you're not careful, the newspapers

Re: Help please - install the WiFi driver

2013-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 10:17:11AM +, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 06:49:34PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 11:23:49PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: From the directory that the deb is in: dpkg -i wicd_1.7.0+ds1-5+squeeze3_all.deb

Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]

2013-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 10:56:18AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: What I like about *nix is that it builds on the experience of 3 decades plus a lot more sound theory. Nobody has scrapped anything that is truly useful to cut corners and that is what I find impressive. I don't

Re: Corrupted security update package files

2011-12-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 03:01:05PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: Bill Wohler woh...@olgas.newt.com wrote: I still got a zero-sized Packages file: Those are for contrib and non-free, which might be expected. The error was in the main

Re: Dual Boot.

2011-09-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 05:26:12AM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Heddle Weaver weaver2wo...@gmail.com wrote: If you state as you seem to be , that Microsoft don't enter into grubby strategies of monopoly control, it ain't me that looks 'silly at best'. Everyone

freeing up iceweasel .sqlite file size (was: Re: regards the /)

2011-09-30 Thread Chris Bannister
[Sorry for the late post, but thought this might be useful.] On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 04:24:10PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:45:00 +0800, lina wrote: 356M./.mozilla/firefox 356M./.mozilla (..) But I would carefully watch your /.local/share/Trash and your Firefox

Re: freeing up iceweasel .sqlite file size (was: Re: regards the /)

2011-09-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 08:42:48PM +0200, Steven wrote: I have written a small script (3 lines) to keep track of that: for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do ls -lh $f ; done time for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite; do sqlite3 $f 'VACUUM;'; done for f in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/*.sqlite;

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 02:29:42PM +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 02/10/2011 11:54, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 01:22 -0400, Doug wrote: [...] My English is completely broken Pulling your leg, of course :) (BTW is that idiom still in fashion now-a-days?) Ahh! the

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 12:44:01AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: Electricity didn't go much of anywhere without AC - I recall Edison tried with DC. Can't remember alternators - would that be Seimens?? For crossing large distances DC is used, whereas AC is more useful for local distribution.

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 07:56:22AM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 02:35:59 +1300, Chris Bannister mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz wrote: For crossing large distances DC is used, whereas AC is more useful for local distribution. I thought, that DC is better

Re: OT: Totem tty's

2011-10-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 03:08:00PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 02:46:32AM +0200, Mark Panen wrote: in that case there should be separate mailing lists for stable, testing, etc *?* For sure and there should be lists for mixes of stable + testing and testing +

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 02:34:39PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:57 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: Without disabling plasma? I switched from KDE3 to KDE4 and then, since I'm unable to stand KDE4 to GNOME2. GNOME2 is dying :(, I'll need to watch out for a new DE. Try

Re: incorrect url in apt lists squeeze

2011-10-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 11:15:22AM +0100, Richard wrote: Hi, I was having a problem with the listed url for the United Kingdom ftp debian site. kept giving errors. The correct country designator in the url for the UK is uk not gb. ie. ftp.uk.debian.org NOT ftp.gb.debian.org Where is this?

Re: how to gather info for reporting problem

2011-10-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 05:18:37PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Attempted to install a full kde setup today but landed in the soup once it was done. Are you running stable testing or unstable? I just get a black screen with a terminal emulator running, no menus are available with mouse

Re: installing dependencies along with deb package

2011-10-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:53:57PM +0530, karunakar medamoni wrote: Hello. This is karunakar. I was developed one package. i want convert that package into deb package. i was created deb package with my source code. i got the error when i install that package. it saying this package needs

Re: How to direct output into the LibreOffice Calc

2012-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:06:48PM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, Hi, I wonder: 2] Don't know about libreoffice, sorry. Is it possible to do a quick sum calculations for some output on terminal. like the sum of 3 16 3 3 9 root@tal:~# cat tt 4+6+7 root@tal:~# bc tt 17 root@tal:~#

Re: unsuscribe

2012-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 09:28:29AM +1100, pastor alexander wrote: endless crap, too much. is there a chat room for one-on-one irc.freenode.net #debian -- Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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