Re: Printing Long Edge (Standard) with HP DeskJet 990C - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.2 does not work

2010-09-18 Thread Gary Roach
I assume that you are using an Xwindows system and have a web browser installed. Try http://localhost:631/ to pull up the Cups aministration page. Set your printer defaults there and lp will follow. I find lp too arcane for my tastes being lazy. At the main page select: Add printer

Exim4 setup for LAMP web site.

2010-09-22 Thread Gary Roach
I hope this is not a duplicate. I'm not sure whether this is a Drupal web editor problem or a Debian Exim problem but when automatic messages are sent by my new web site (in early development) they go nowhere. The pertinent Exim4 log entries are: 2010-09-22 08:29:36 exim 4.72 daemon started:

Re: Re: Exim4 setup for LAMP web site.

2010-09-23 Thread Gary Roach
. = On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:27:57 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I hope this is not a duplicate. I'm not sure whether this is a Drupal web editor problem or a Debian Exim problem but when automatic messages are sent by my new web site (in early development

Re: Re: Exim4 setup for LAMP web site.

2010-09-24 Thread Gary Roach
to fix it. I use Verizon Fios with an M1424WR router if that is any help. Gary R. On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, deb...@kulisz.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/09/10 21:35, Gary Roach wrote: Well, you were correct about the authentication being a problem. I fixed

Graphic card utilitiy

2010-11-01 Thread Gary Roach
I use a KVM switch to run 3 computer off the same monitor. I need a way to change size and position on each graphic card separately. I have an ATI Radeon 9000, a Sapphire RV250 and an onboard Intel DP55KG mother board. The ATI is a Win2K box and has an ATI Catalyst Control Center. The two

All hung up over netatalk

2010-11-11 Thread Gary Roach
I have a dual boot Toshiba Qosmio laptop? that I am upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze. Everything worked fine (Using Aptitude) until the installation of netatalk started; a program that I really don't need. I get: Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ...

Re: Re: All hung up over netatalk

2010-11-12 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: I have a dual boot Toshiba Qosmio laptop? that I am upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze. Everything worked fine (Using Aptitude) until the installation of netatalk started; a

Re: All hung up over netatalk

2010-11-13 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: I have a dual boot Toshiba Qosmio

Upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-11-16 Thread Gary Roach
I have a dual boot Windows XP / Lenny Toshiba Qosmio G25 laptop. I have it setup for dual boot with XP on one hard drive and Linux on the other. I wanted to upgrade to Squeeze. I ran an Aptitude upgrade by changing Lenny to Squeeze in the /etc/apt/source.list file and then running the usual

Re: Upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

2010-11-16 Thread Gary Roach
Sorry Simon. When I said that my boot files were trashed I meant that neither XP or Linux was working anymore. The laptop was a boat anchor. Gary R. On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Simon Hollenbach wrote: - Original message - I have a dual boot Windows XP / Lenny Toshiba Qosmio G25

Unison-gtk profiles removal

2010-11-20 Thread Gary Roach
I just installed Unison-gtk 2.32.52 (squeeze) sync tool on a KDE, Squeeze system. How do you delete or edit a profile. There seems to be no provisions for either. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Unable to download tar.gz file with iceweasel

2010-11-23 Thread Gary Roach
Iceweasel 3.5.15 has been running on a Debian Squeeze system for ever, with no problems. I have been trying to download FreeFileSync_xxx_tar.gz for Ubuntu from Sourceforge.net. Each time I try the download window opens normally and the load indicators work normally. When the loading finishes

iPAQ connection to Debian Squeeze

2010-11-26 Thread Gary Roach
There are tons of articles out there on this subject, nearly all of them either wrong or hopelessly out of date. It's driving me crazy. The switch from KDE3 to KDE4 has changed everything. So lets start with the very basic task of getting the linux system to recognize the existence of the

Archiving Selected emails from icedove

2013-03-13 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all; I need to archive to disk all of my emails from one organization for the year of 2012. I wish to burn them to CD in a format that others could read much later. Can anyone tell me how to do this.I think that the real problems are getting the selected emails out of icedove and then

Data Archiving

2013-04-07 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I have a records archiving problem and don't know where to start. There are 100 years of records that include hand written material, type written hard copy, photos and a lot of email. I would like to have a system based around mysql (if possible) that would allow flexible data

Re: Data Archiving

2013-04-08 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/07/2013 05:56 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 4/8/13, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Hi all, I have a records archiving problem and don't know where to start. There are 100 years of records that include hand written material, type written hard copy, photos and a lot of email.

LVM mounting problems

2013-05-13 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I needed to expand my Debian Wheezy system by adding a 1 TB drive and decided to switch over to LVM2 in the process. I rolled up my old 160 GB drive into the 1 TB drive and called the whole thing bigdisk and chopped the drive into 3 logical volumes. Everything seemed to work until I

GRUB2 error

2013-05-21 Thread Gary Roach
Hi My wife let her Debian machine get over 450 packages behind before I caught it. What a mess. The last problem is that when booting up the Welcome to Grub notice appears and then: error:file not found Entering rescue mode grubrescue If I run ls I find that the root

Re: GRUB2 error

2013-05-22 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/21/2013 04:24 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi My wife let her Debian machine get over 450 packages behind before I caught it. What a mess. The last problem is that when booting up the Welcome to Grub notice appears and then: error:file not found Entering rescue mode

Re: GRUB2 error

2013-05-22 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/22/2013 11:20 AM, Gary Roach wrote: To all the questions. I reinstalled grub2. The same problem persists. I have run update-grub2 (a stub that runs grub-mkconfig for grub2) several times with no improvement. i also ran grub-mkconfig directly. Same results. See listing below. I've had

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

2013-05-22 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/22/2013 04:45 PM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Thank uou Frank and Klaus. As you surmised, it was a typo : I meant to say /dev/sda to be sure I repeated the grub-install and the version given by bootinfoscript if 1.99 though AI have 2.00-14. When I use grub rescue and type set

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

2013-05-22 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/22/2013 05:51 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 05/22/2013 04:45 PM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Thank uou Frank and Klaus. As you surmised, it was a typo : I meant to say /dev/sda to be sure I repeated the grub-install and the version given by bootinfoscript if 1.99 though AI have 2.00-14. When

Re: GRUB2 error (Solved)

2013-05-23 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/21/2013 04:24 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi My wife let her Debian machine get over 450 packages behind before I caught it. What a mess. The last problem is that when booting up the Welcome to Grub notice appears and then: error:file not found Entering rescue mode

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

2013-05-23 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/23/2013 11:30 AM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Thank you Klaus. /dev/sda is hd0 and is the permanent hard disk. It has the MBR on which I want to install Grub. /dev/sdb is the removable hard disk.Its first partition is, as you say, hd1,msdos1 on which grub2 is installed under

WDIDLE.EXE use on WD10EZRX disk

2013-05-30 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I have found multiple warnings about Linux and the short head parking time of the WD Green drives. I have seen multiple instances of the use of the wdidle.exe package to reset this to say 30 seconds. But Western Digital emphatically states that that utility in only for about 3

WDIDLE.EXE use on WD10EZRX disk

2013-05-30 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I have found multiple warnings about Linux and the short head parking time of the WD Green drives. I have seen multiple instances of the use of the wdidle.exe package to reset this to say 30 seconds. But Western Digital emphatically states that that utility in only for about 3

Re: WDIDLE.EXE use on WD10EZRX disk

2013-05-30 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/30/2013 04:19 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 31/05/13 11:03, Lisi Reisz wrote: That's a dangerously selective quote. The for all you know, is rather significant. Oh, come off it! Dangerous? All he said was that the choice of those particular words, that particular mode of expression

Re: WDIDLE.EXE use on WD10EZRX disk (SOLVED)

2013-06-01 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/30/2013 12:34 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, I have found multiple warnings about Linux and the short head parking time of the WD Green drives. I have seen multiple instances of the use of the wdidle.exe package to reset this to say 30 seconds. But Western Digital emphatically states

Re: Dangerously high Load_Cycle_Count on my Thinkpad T61 Hitachi drive

2013-06-03 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/03/2013 06:23 AM, Pertti Kosunen wrote: On 3.6.2013 15:53, Celejar wrote: Isn't that for WD drives? Mine's a Hitachi. Yes, sorry didn't read whole post. Hi all, The method used to fix the idle time on WD drives won't work for the Hitachi. You may want to look at the following url,

Cut an paste from iceweasel email messages

2013-06-07 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I keep having the situation where I want to cut and paste a section from an email to another document. Is there any way to cut and paste from iceweasel to the clipboard to a text document? All help will be sincerely appreciated Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Cut an paste from icedove email messages

2013-06-07 Thread Gary Roach
My error. I meant icedove not iceweasel and I am using Wheezy. The center wheel nor the shift+insert work for icedove. (See subject change) Sorry Gary R (the dyslexic typist) On 06/07/2013 02:42 PM, George Standish wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:17:23PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I keep

Re: Cut an paste from icedove email messages

2013-06-10 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/08/2013 12:50 AM, Kailash wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:17:23PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I keep having the situation where I want to cut and paste a section from an email to another document. Is there any way to cut and paste from iceweasel to the clipboard to a text document? Hi

Re: Cut an paste from icedove email messages

2013-06-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/10/2013 02:11 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/06/13 03:39 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 06/08/2013 12:50 AM, Kailash wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:17:23PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I keep having the situation where I want to cut and paste a section from an email to another document

PHP code won't run

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Roach
Not being able to find another mailing list that seems worthwhile I'm hoping I can get a quick answer here. The following doesn't work. System info: wheezy Apache2 php5 mySQL 5.? My test web page: !DOCTYPE html html head meta charset=utf-8 author=Gary L. Roach/ titlePHP

Re: PHP code won't run

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/21/2013 01:21 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 6/21/2013 3:54 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Not being able to find another mailing list that seems worthwhile I'm hoping I can get a quick answer here. The following doesn't work. System info: wheezy Apache2 php5 mySQL 5.? My test web page: !DOCTYPE

Re: PHP code won't run

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/21/2013 02:43 PM, David Guntner wrote: Gary Roach grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 06/21/2013 01:21 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Does your web page have a .php extension? What do you have in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled? The web page has an .html extension. Is a .php extension necessary

Re: PHP code won't run

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/21/2013 02:58 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 6/21/2013 5:37 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 06/21/2013 01:21 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 6/21/2013 3:54 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Not being able to find another mailing list that seems worthwhile I'm hoping I can get a quick answer here. The following

Re: PHP code won't run

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/21/2013 03:51 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 6/21/2013 6:41 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 06/21/2013 02:58 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 6/21/2013 5:37 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 06/21/2013 01:21 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 6/21/2013 3:54 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Not being able to find another

Re: PHP code won't run (SOLVED)

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Roach
I found the problem. When using Blowfish I just click on the browser button to view the page. Blowfish is using the URL file:///var/www/ to access the files. The index.html file doesn't work right when accessed this way. If I hand enter localhost/index.html everything works fine. I don't

Re: PHP code won't run (SOLVED)

2013-06-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/21/2013 05:28 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 6/21/2013 8:25 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I found the problem. When using Blowfish I just click on the browser button to view the page. Blowfish is using the URL file:///var/www/ to access the files. The index.html file doesn't work right when

Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel

2013-07-07 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all. How can I get KDE to default to iceweasel and not Konqueror. Debian Wheezy version. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel

2013-07-08 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/07/2013 01:54 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:21:31PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all. How can I get KDE to default to iceweasel and not Konqueror. Debian Wheezy version. Does wheezy include Preferred Applications? If so, call it up and follow your instincts

Re: Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel (SOLVED?)

2013-07-08 Thread Gary Roach
*To:* debian-user@lists.debian.org *Sent:* Sunday, July 7, 2013 4:54 PM *Subject:* Re: Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:21:31PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all. How can I get KDE to default to iceweasel and not Konqueror. Debian Wheezy version. Does wheezy include

Re: Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel

2013-07-09 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/09/2013 11:47 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 07:08:47PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/07/2013 01:54 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:21:31PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all. How can I get KDE to default to iceweasel and not Konqueror. Debian

Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-09 Thread Gary Roach
I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system with a 3Ghz multithread (2 processors?) processor and 4 GB ram. I am running Debian Wheezy with a KDE desktop. My present kernel is Linux-3.8-1=686-pae. From reading, I think I need to change the kernel to the bigmem version but all of the packages shown

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-10 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/09/2013 11:40 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:46:05 you wrote: I just upgraded my old Intel P4 system with a 3Ghz multithread (2 processors?) processor and 4 GB ram. I am running Debian Wheezy with a KDE desktop. My present kernel is Linux-3.8-1=686-pae. From reading, I

Re: Replacing Konqueror with iceweasel

2013-07-10 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/10/2013 10:39 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 02:33:13PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/09/2013 11:47 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 07:08:47PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/07/2013 01:54 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 12:21

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-10 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/10/2013 02:53 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net mailto:gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: On 07/09/2013 11:40 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Tuesday 09 July 2013 13:46:05 you wrote: I just upgraded my old Intel

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/11/2013 01:47 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Now I am really confused. I have two systems; one with an Intel P4, 3GHz, multi-thread and one with an Intel i5-750. Both are running Wheezy with a KDE desktop. The i5-750 system recognizes the 4GB of memory

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/11/2013 11:03 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 7/11/2013 12:05 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Well I rebooted the system and went to Bios setup. The Bios shows 4, 1GB memory modules. When boot starts the bios memory test ratchets up to 2.5 GB and stops. The problem seems to be with the bios

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/11/2013 06:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2013 6:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I've already done this with all possible permutations. They all seem to be working fine. If I install a pair they show 2GB no matter which pair I pick. Per the motherboard manual I should be getting

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-13 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/12/2013 07:52 AM, Rob Owens wrote: - Original Message - From: David Guntnerda...@guntner.com I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my system to a second hard drive in the computer,

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-13 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/12/2013 12:35 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2013 9:49 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/11/2013 06:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2013 6:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I've already done this with all possible permutations. They all seem to be working fine. If I install a pair

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-13 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/12/2013 12:35 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2013 9:49 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/11/2013 06:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2013 6:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I've already done this with all possible permutations. They all seem to be working fine. If I install a pair

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-13 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/13/2013 03:17 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/13/2013 3:09 PM, Gary Roach wrote: And don't forget that as the BIOS self tests it only finds 2.8 GB even though all 4 memory chips are detected. Finally we're getting somewhere. The entire length of this thread I was assuming you were seeing

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-16 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/14/2013 03:39 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/13/2013 7:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/13/2013 03:17 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/13/2013 3:09 PM, Gary Roach wrote: And don't forget that as the BIOS self tests it only finds 2.8 GB even though all 4 memory chips are detected. Finally

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem (SOLVED?)

2013-07-18 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/17/2013 10:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/16/2013 6:30 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I can't say that the memory is absolutely good but can say with a high degree of certainty that it is the correct memory for the system. I gave you the exact JEDEC specs the 4x 1GB DIMMs need to be, and you

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-18 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/18/2013 09:54 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 07/17/2013 10:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/16/2013 6:30 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I can't say that the memory is absolutely good but can say with a high degree of certainty that it is the correct memory for the system. I gave you the exact JEDEC

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-18 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/17/2013 10:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/16/2013 6:30 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I can't say that the memory is absolutely good but can say with a high degree of certainty that it is the correct memory for the system. I gave you the exact JEDEC specs the 4x 1GB DIMMs need to be, and you

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/06/2013 01:56 AM, Reco wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:35:30AM +0100, François Patte wrote: with acroread (on start): (acroread:30504): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: xfce, The acroread needs i386 libraries from gtk2-engines-xfce package. If I try to

Re: Goodbye GNOME, Hello XFCE

2013-12-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/06/2013 02:44 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 14:04 -0800, Gary Roach wrote: After reading through this topic I find myself ask what happened to KDE. I know its old and is probably bloated. But, with 500 GB of disk space, 4GB of RAM and a 4 processor CPU, who cares. Its

Re: Toshiba Satellite U940

2013-12-07 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/07/2013 08:17 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:19:32AM +0100, ha wrote: Anybody tried installing Debian on Toshiba Satellite U940? Any know issues? I cannot find much information on the net. I can see that some Toshiba laptops are not very Deban-frendly

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

2013-12-07 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/25/2013 02:38 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2013-11-24 at 23:04 +0530, AP wrote: DEB vs RPM This are 2 of several formats that are handled by package managers. I prefer DEB over RPM, but what I like the most, is the package format used by Arch Linux. Yes, Linux is the kernel, but the

Postgresql setup on Debian system

2013-12-10 Thread Gary Roach
I just switched from using PHP and Mysql to Python / Django and Postgresql. I am having trouble with the setup of Postgresql permissions. I am locked out of some parts of the system and am unsure when to use postgres login vs user login. Most of the Postgresql instructions are written for

Re: Postgresql setup on Debian system

2013-12-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/10/2013 11:13 PM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2013/12/11 Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net mailto:gary719_li...@verizon.net I just switched from using PHP and Mysql to Python / Django and Postgresql. I am having trouble with the setup of Postgresql permissions. I am locked out

Grub2 menu editing

2013-12-25 Thread Gary Roach
Would someone tell me how to edit the grub2 menu. I have over 10 items showing including versions of the OS that I don't even use anymore. Further, the items are out of order and I have to be careful when rebooting or the wrong OS gets loaded. I'm using Debian Wheezy and AMD 64 OS with an

Re: Grub2 menu editing (solved)

2013-12-28 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/25/2013 12:14 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Would someone tell me how to edit the grub2 menu. I have over 10 items showing including versions of the OS that I don't even use anymore. Further, the items are out of order and I have to be careful when rebooting or the wrong OS gets loaded. I'm

libc-bin, libc-bin-amd64 conflict

2014-04-23 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I am running an Intel i5-750, 4 core processor with Debian 3.2.54-2 x86-64 OS and Debian Squeeze. Recent attempts to update the system, with Aptitude (and dpkg), have failed because of a conflict between libc-bin and libc-bin-amd64. I have not been able to resolve the conflict. My

Re: libc-bin, libc-bin-amd64 conflict

2014-04-25 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/23/2014 03:43 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 23 apr 14, 11:58:49, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, I am running an Intel i5-750, 4 core processor with Debian 3.2.54-2 x86-64 OS and Debian Squeeze. Recent attempts to update the system, with Aptitude (and dpkg), have failed because

Re: libc-bin, libc-bin-amd64 conflict (Solved)

2014-04-26 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/26/2014 02:57 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 25 apr 14, 17:29:13, Gary Roach wrote: When running Aptitude, a red bar in the bottom half of the screen says Unable to resolve dependencies. If I hit g after I update package list and Mark Upgradable, the top of the screen lists: iB

iceweasel bookmarks gone

2014-04-29 Thread Gary Roach
Hi All, Somewhere along the line all of my iceweasel bookmarks disappeared. The backup copy is still in the system but doesn't appear to contain any of my old bookmarks. Would the old bookarks be stored someplace other than .mozilla/firefox/hxwu63mv.default/bookmarkbackups#? Or am I just out

Re: iceweasel bookmarks gone

2014-04-30 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/30/2014 11:20 AM, Curt wrote: On 2014-04-29, Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Somewhere along the line all of my iceweasel bookmarks disappeared. The backup copy is still in the system but doesn't appear to contain any of my old bookmarks. Would the old bookarks be stored

Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-15 Thread Gary Roach
Hi All I have given up on Wine for running some of my Windoz only software. Too many glitches. I am trying to install Virtualbox and am getting installation errors as follows: root@supercrunch:/home/gary# aptitude install virtualbox The following NEW packages will be installed: dkms{a}

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-16 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/15/2014 08:43 AM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi All I have given up on Wine for running some of my Windoz only software. Too many glitches. I am trying to install Virtualbox and am getting installation errors as follows: root@supercrunch:/home/gary# aptitude install virtualbox The following

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/17/2014 01:27 AM, Filip wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2014 12:06:51 -0700 Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Here is an attempt to answer all of the questions and suggestions: I am definitely installing Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 ( I checked the grub config files) You'll have to stop

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/17/2014 08:49 AM, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:23:07AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I thought I had. --print-architecture = i386, --print-foreign-architectures = amd64 And there it is - you are running a 32-bit system with a 64-bit kernel. Cheers, Tom And how do I

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/17/2014 11:04 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 17 mai 14, 10:29:43, Gary Roach wrote: On 05/17/2014 08:49 AM, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:23:07AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I thought I had. --print-architecture = i386, --print-foreign-architectures = amd64

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/17/2014 01:14 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 17 mai 14, 12:34:12, Gary Roach wrote: On 05/17/2014 11:04 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 17 mai 14, 10:29:43, Gary Roach wrote: On 05/17/2014 08:49 AM, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:23:07AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry

Re: interpreting Gkrellm charts

2014-06-04 Thread Gary Roach
On 06/01/2014 11:51 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 01/06/14 02:20 PM, Curt wrote: On 2014-06-01, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: Curious. I noticed that nepomuk-server and dolphin both had a number of zombie processes (around 16 each) attached. I killed the parent processes then did a reinstall

Slow mirror connections

2014-07-01 Thread Gary Roach
I have a Verizon Fios 50 MBs connection but have noticed of late that any significant updates (using Aptitude) start out at about 4-5 mBytes/s and after about 15 - 20% of the files have been transfered the transfer rate drops to about 1/20th of normal speed. Does anyone have any idea why this

Re: Slow mirror connections

2014-07-02 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/01/2014 07:07 PM, Donald Norwood wrote: On 07/01/2014 08:45 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I have a Verizon Fios 50 MBs connection but have noticed of late that any significant updates (using Aptitude) start out at about 4-5 mBytes/s and after about 15 - 20% of the files have been transfered

excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response from my system. As an example, it takes 2 1/2 minutes to drag and drop 80 files from my email inbox to the trash bin in icedove. It has taken as high as 5 minutes for iceweasel to load. This problem is not just these

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-28 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/21/2014 11:54 AM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response from my system. As an example, it takes 2 1/2 minutes to drag and drop 80 files from my email inbox to the trash bin in icedove. It has taken as high as 5 minutes for iceweasel

Re: excessive CPU usage (SOLVED)

2014-10-03 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/21/2014 11:54 AM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response from my system. As an example, it takes 2 1/2 minutes to drag and drop 80 files from my email inbox to the trash bin in icedove. It has taken as high as 5 minutes for iceweasel

segfaults and error 4 in ld-2.13.so with soffice.bin and kate

2014-10-07 Thread Gary Roach
After cloning my bad drive to a new one and installing the new drive (see previous messages titled excessive CPU usage) i am left with the following problem: Kate and libreoffice.writer refuse to open and give the errors soffice.bin[10369]: segfault at 7ffe25921b1c ip 7ffd559f97c3 sp

Re: segfaults and error 4 in ld-2.13.so with soffice.bin and kate

2014-10-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/07/2014 03:00 PM, Gary Roach wrote: After cloning my bad drive to a new one and installing the new drive (see previous messages titled excessive CPU usage) i am left with the following problem: Kate and libreoffice.writer refuse to open and give the errors soffice.bin[10369]: segfault

Re: segfaults and error 4 in ld-2.13.so with soffice.bin and kate

2014-10-12 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/11/2014 06:28 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Gary Roach wrote: After cloning my bad drive to a new one and installing the new drive (see previous messages titled excessive CPU usage) i am left with the following problem: Kate and libreoffice.writer refuse to open and give

Re: segfaults and error 4 in ld-2.13.so with soffice.bin and kate

2014-10-12 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/11/2014 06:28 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Gary Roach wrote: After cloning my bad drive to a new one and installing the new drive (see previous messages titled excessive CPU usage) i am left with the following problem: Kate and libreoffice.writer refuse to open and give

Re: segfaults and error 4 in ld-2.13.so with soffice.bin and kate (SOLVED)

2014-10-15 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/12/2014 09:30 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 10/11/2014 06:28 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Gary Roach wrote: After cloning my bad drive to a new one and installing the new drive (see previous messages titled excessive CPU usage) i am left with the following problem: Kate

proofing searchable pdf files

2014-10-30 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, Problem: I am working on an archiving project and wish to archive documents to searchable pdf files but can't seem to figure out how to proof read and correct the text overlay. Any suggestions. System: Debian Wheezy Intel i5-750 processor HP Officejet Pro

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

2014-10-31 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/30/2014 05:47 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, Problem: I am working on an archiving project and wish to archive documents to searchable pdf files but can't seem to figure out how to proof read and correct the text overlay. Any suggestions. Tesseract seems to do a really great job

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

2014-11-01 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/31/2014 04:15 PM, Doug wrote: On 10/31/2014 06:31 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 10/30/2014 05:47 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, This is part of a medium sized, low budget archiving project that will process serveral thousand documents, all done by low tech volunteers. So I really need

Re: proofing searchable pdf files

2014-11-03 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/01/2014 06:35 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 31/10/14 11:47, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, Problem: I am working on an archiving project and wish to archive documents to searchable pdf files but can't seem to figure out how to proof read and correct the text overlay. Any suggestions. I'm

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-08 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/07/2014 06:20 PM, golinux wrote: On Fri, 11/7/14, Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com wrote: Subject: Re: Joey Hess is out? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, November 7, 2014, 7:49 PM Anyone else read the subject line and think, Why would I care that Joey is gay?

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-08 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/07/2014 06:20 PM, golinux wrote: On Fri, 11/7/14, Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com wrote: Subject: Re: Joey Hess is out? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, November 7, 2014, 7:49 PM Anyone else read the subject line and think, Why would I care that Joey is gay?

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-08 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/08/2014 06:01 PM, golinux wrote: Subject: Re: Joey Hess is out? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, November 7, 2014, 7:49 PM Anyone else read the subject line and think, Why would I care that Joey is gay? Did you actually

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-12 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/08/2014 04:19 AM, Keith Peter wrote: Hello Bret and All Mr Hess was writing to the 1000+ Debian developers so the subject line *may* have made instant sense to them, but I take the wider point. We had better explain the 'so long and thanks for all the fish' quote as well (looking at your

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-27 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/26/2015 06:24 AM, Jonathan Copeland wrote: Hi Debian Community I am a student and need to have Debian installed on my Mac for my degree, What is the best and most secure way of doing this? Thank you so much ___ Jonathan Michael Copeland *M *// (+27) 82 857 1349

Re: Installing Debian on a Mac

2015-01-27 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/26/2015 06:24 AM, Jonathan Copeland wrote: Hi Debian Community I am a student and need to have Debian installed on my Mac for my degree, What is the best and most secure way of doing this? Thank you so much ___ Jonathan Michael Copeland *M *// (+27) 82 857 1349

Re: Debian right for my use?

2015-01-04 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/02/2015 10:42 AM, John L. Ries wrote: Debian might well work for your purposes as it's relatively easy to set up and has a huge software repository; but your problem appears to be memory. If your CAD software was sluggish even when you were running Windows 7 directly, it's not going to

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