Re: strange execute-command-as dialog pops up

2013-07-01 Thread Joel Rees
(erk) On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Joel Rees wrote: After the reboot, I decided to install the flashrom package, and after the install finishes, I find in front of me what appears

Re: strange execute-command-as dialog pops up

2013-07-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: (erk) [...] So, alternatives to gdm3 include kdm (pulling in all of that), lightdm (another gnome project), slim (which is the one I was using before, but was removed during upgrade), wdm (afterstep fun stuff), ldm

Re: bc is not in linux-source debs.Recommended, neither in Documentation/Changes

2013-07-01 Thread Joel Rees
-source:Documentation/Changes. ? http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/269395 is a similar issue in Gentoo. -- Joel Rees

really slow shell -- kernel debug package?

2013-07-01 Thread Joel Rees
Just wondering, does having the kernel debugging symbols loaded slow bash down? (I installed them because I thought having the debugging symbols already loaded might make getting backtraces faster, or something like that.) -- Joel Rees

Re: Dotfiles

2013-07-02 Thread Joel Rees
? As in, mv all the .files to a backup directory and see which ones get re-created in the course of your usual daily activities? (Then mv them back, one by one.) Should there be? Sounds like a feature request (or a chance for a DIY). -- Joel Rees

Re: Dotfiles

2013-07-02 Thread Joel Rees
who they are when they want to drop persistent store, maintaining a database of legitimate apps and their persistent store. And we need to do this for more reasons than just to keep the home directory clean of dotfiles. -- Joel Rees

Re: bc is not in linux-source debs.Recommended, neither in Documentation/Changes

2013-07-02 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Regid Ichira regi...@nt1.in wrote: On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 08:14:40 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: 1. What exactly are you concerned about that we can do something about on the users list? Has bc been dropped from being a default part of the most basic install

Re: How do you manage encrypted mail?

2013-07-02 Thread Joel Rees
that doesn't point to answers. HTH -- Joel Rees

Re: Dotfiles

2013-07-02 Thread Joel Rees
it. For someone's definition of fun, and that's fine by me. On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 6:28 AM, shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 02 July

Re: strange execute-command-as dialog pops up

2013-07-05 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.comwrote: On Lu, 01 iul 13, 20:35:53, Joel Rees wrote: Maybe I should win the lottery so I can afford to write a decent *dm for XFCE. There is lightdm. Yes, it's there. I'm using it now. It's not my favorite. -- Joel

audio packages not authenticated?

2013-07-05 Thread Joel Rees
are not authenticated. Are we still in the middle of shifting from non-authenticated packages to authenticated packages, or are the audio packages just like this? -- Joel Rees

Re: audio packages not authenticated?

2013-07-08 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Joel Rees wrote: After the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy, sound doesn't work. Sound can be very frustrating. I have had my own share of problems with it lately. Hmm. Did I blog about it last time? I should check

Re: audio packages not authenticated?

2013-07-08 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Joel Rees wrote: After the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy, sound doesn't work. Sound can be very frustrating. I have had my own share of problems

Re: audio packages not authenticated?

2013-07-09 Thread Joel Rees
.) On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Joel Rees wrote: After the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy, sound doesn't work

Re: [not really solved] how to un-mute audio (was audio packages not authenticated?)

2013-07-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:58:11AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: FWIW, after installing several different mixer/controller widgets, I finally found one that allowed me to un-mute the output. (Top-post seems

Re: About download speed

2013-07-10 Thread Joel Rees
to set up mirrors and http://www.debian.org/mirror/official discusses how to become an official country-wide mirror. You can buy Debian DVDs from many places; the ones listed here: http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ who ship internationally are marked as such. -dsr- -- Joel Rees

Re: About download speed

2013-07-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 06:31 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: Can apt-get be configured to use bt? Does it already, and I just haven't noticed? http://wiki.debian.org/DebTorrent And I find this tid-bit: ISPs have

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-10 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.netwrote: On 07/10/2013 02:53 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.netwrote: [...] Now I am really confused. I have two systems; one with an Intel P4, 3GHz, multi-thread

stuttering and snow in xfce4-terminal

2013-07-11 Thread Joel Rees
including repeated character output. Anybody else seen this? Have an idea what's going on? I'm assuming/hoping it's some setting I need to fix. -- Joel Rees

Re: command line hesitations and pixel fuzz (blit leakage?) in xfce4-terminal

2013-07-12 Thread Joel Rees
More information: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Ever since the update to wheezy, xfce4-terminal has been slow to respond to a carriage return, and sometimes it leaves graphical update trash in the screen. In other words, rastor update trash

Re: command line hesitations and pixel fuzz (blit leakage?) in xfce4-terminal

2013-07-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Mike Kupfer m.kup...@acm.org wrote: Joel Rees wrote: Anybody else seen this? Have an idea what's going on? I haven't seen this, nor do I know what's going on, but here are some things I would check if I were seeing that sort of video breakage: Thanks

Re: command line hesitations and pixel fuzz (blit leakage?) in xfce4-terminal

2013-07-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Mike Kupfer m.kup...@acm.org wrote: Joel Rees wrote: Anybody else seen this? Have an idea what's going on? I haven't seen this, nor do I know what's going on, but here are some things

Re: Catching up on Graduate Education Programs - A Business Resource

2013-07-17 Thread Joel Rees
Gates push outlook and its ilk on us before we could define a proper set of general e-mail protocols for non-geeks?) Joel Rees

Re: command line hesitations and pixel fuzz (blit leakage?) in xfce4-terminal

2013-07-18 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Selim T. Erdogan se...@alumni.cs.utexas.edu wrote: Joel Rees, 16.07.2013: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Mike Kupfer m.kup...@acm.org wrote: Joel Rees wrote: Anybody

Re: [Solved] X11 slowness, command line hesitations, and pixel fuzz (blit leakage?) in xfce4-terminal

2013-07-18 Thread Joel Rees
as a reference point.) (Leaving the end-point of the thread for reference:) On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:18 AM, Selim T. Erdogan se...@alumni.cs.utexas.edu wrote: Joel Rees, 16.07.2013: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Joel Rees joel.r

Re: Continuous brute force attempt from own server !!! (OT question)

2013-07-29 Thread Joel Rees
careful, because you are not putting the keys out to be discovered. -- Joel Rees

Re: Continuous brute force attempt from own server !!! (OT question)

2013-07-29 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 09:16:50PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Switching to a new one and disposing of the older one is, for whatever reason

Re: testing wants to install systemd

2013-11-20 Thread Joel Rees
=724731 https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/10/msg01998.html (Are you trolling?!) Sorry to be obtuse, Tom, but what's your point? -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: testing wants to install systemd

2013-11-20 Thread Joel Rees
. If Lennart had not been so insistent that everyone had to test his baby now, on their production systems, we might have had time to refine the framework as a community. As it is, I'm not as optimistic about it as Ralf. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart

Re: testing wants to install systemd

2013-11-20 Thread Joel Rees
allowed some flexibility in log generation. With systemd, logs will be required to conform, or be unsearchable. Or you could also use grep anyway, as long as the logs remain text based. If you happen to know what the new logs look like in the part you need to look up. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-23 Thread Joel Rees
it's a new generation of sophomoric programmers, or maybe we have moles in our ranks. The sky is not falling, but it sounds like I don't want to waste my time with Clang yet. And I probably need to go make myself persona non-grata again in some C language forums -- Joel Rees Be careful where

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-23 Thread Joel Rees
before B or even Algol. The guys responsible for optimization sometimes forget that falsifying an argument is not falsifying the conclusion, among other things. On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 8:17 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Deja gnu? On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Andrew McGlashan

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-23 Thread Joel Rees
, mass copying, and going back and overwriting the members that are subject to issues like deep copy. Remember that memcpy() is able to copy an odd number of bytes, so the size calculation contains a bit more than is obvious to the programmer.) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-23 Thread Joel Rees
where I played with it. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-28 Thread Joel Rees
warnings about system dependent behavior at a higher priority than arbitrary optimizations. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-28 Thread Joel Rees
Ick. On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Wade Richards w...@wabyn.net wrote: [...] I'm taking a course in embedded programming at the local employment training center to brush up on skills I never lost, for reasons that I

Re: sudo security Was: Reporting missing package during install

2013-12-16 Thread Joel Rees
into dropping a script on my desktop and running it with sudo. The keylogger postpones the result, but the probability of success is greater. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: sudo security Was: Reporting missing package during install

2013-12-16 Thread Joel Rees
clues behind. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAr43iMy_sw7OZ

proper use of sudo (Re: sudo security Was: Reporting missing package during install)

2013-12-17 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Gian Uberto Lauri sa...@eng.it wrote: Joel Rees writes: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Gian Uberto Lauri sa...@eng.it wrote: [...] Maybe I failed expressing that I am not completely against sudo, there are several good sudo usages and even caching

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2013-12-23 Thread Joel Rees
run to leave as little owned by root as possible.) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Off-topic: Gmail Grrrr.

2013-12-24 Thread Joel Rees
described it a couple of years ago: http://reiisi.blogspot.jp/2011/08/simple-sandbox-for-firefox.html I'd be interested in comments. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

apache as a system shell ( Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour)

2013-12-31 Thread Joel Rees
other thoughts on the subject, but my wife says we have to go do the family new-year's stuff. Be interested in comments. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: apache as a system shell ( Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour)

2013-12-31 Thread Joel Rees
Are we going to find ourselves talking around each other again, Jerry? On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 12/31/2013 8:43 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I just want

Re: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
!, or they want an excuse to throw the problem back in your lap. If you want to humor them, boot a live CD to test the speed, or shut down X11 and use a textmode browser like lynx. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: apache as a system shell ( Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour)

2014-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Jerry Stuckle drunkensot9...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/1/2014 2:52 AM, Joel Rees wrote: [...] On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 12/31/2013 8:43 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Raffaele Morelli

Re: [OT] non technical Q: bad or worse. Was: To do the same as Windows safe mode...........

2014-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
using an Oz dialect. (It's somewhat common in certain other places, too, such as west Texas. Climate might have something to do with it?) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: apache as a system shell ( Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour)

2014-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 1/1/2014 7:20 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Jerry Stuckle drunkensot9...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/1/2014 2:52 AM, Joel Rees wrote: [...] On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2014-01-02 Thread Joel Rees
that. Purely hypothetical, of course. -- Joel Rees Logic kills. How logical do you want to be? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAr43iNy63YfReTiM

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2014-01-03 Thread Joel Rees
://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/stow.html#Introduction And here is an article about using it. http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to-manage-your-dotfiles.html I've kept ignoring those, I think it's time to take a look sometime soon. Thanks. -- Joel Rees Be careful

Re: Debian Wheezy Compromised - www-data user is sending 1000 emails an hour

2014-01-05 Thread Joel Rees
goodness, there is.) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: permissions: can you force ACL to be effective over unix perms?

2014-01-10 Thread Joel Rees
the users' home directories! Or whatever.) Otherwise, take the time and go back and make sure that you understand the results of your initial experiments, even if it means service overtime. (Or if the boss has been getting too much service overtime from you, ) -- Joel Rees Be careful where

Re: permissions: can you force ACL to be effective over unix perms?

2014-01-14 Thread Joel Rees
. [...] -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAr43iMsi8yKzrRrXeqkc=vhtqlsh

Re: permissions: can you force ACL to be effective over unix perms?

2014-01-17 Thread Joel Rees
. [...] -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAr43iOfofOw6=niajyo8-6tpnj

Re: Preserving LVM across builds

2014-01-17 Thread Joel Rees
? Questions like that should help him plan his strategy. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: sad but true, Linux sucks, a bit

2014-01-17 Thread Joel Rees
on the closed-source, anti-freedom (non-)solutions side of the fence. -- Bob Holtzman Your mail is being read by tight lipped NSA agents who fail to see humor in Doctor Strangelove Key ID 8D549279 So it is a bit of navel-gazing, perhaps, but I think it's on-topic navel-gazing, myself. -- Joel

Re: sad but true, Linux sucks, a bit

2014-01-17 Thread Joel Rees
problem. If you don't see what I mean, consider, who pays for the server space and internet bandwidth, why, and with what money? -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: V Taller Internacional de Tecnologías de Software Libre y Código Abierto

2014-01-17 Thread Joel Rees
conference on the adaptation of open source software, that information would be appreciated. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: V Taller Internacional de Tecnologías de Software Libre y Código Abierto

2014-01-17 Thread Joel Rees
del 17 al 28 de febrero del 2014. Ver www.uci.cu -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Connot load Wheezy in a virgin desktop -- FAILURE

2014-01-17 Thread Joel Rees
now; there does not seem to be any other option. Ken Heard You said you were in Thailand. Have you considered your power source (wall power)? I know parts of Thailand have good power, so this is just a guess. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart

Re: Connot load Wheezy in a virgin desktop -- FAILURE

2014-01-17 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Ken Heard kensli...@teksavvy.com wrote: On Jan 18, 2014 9:41 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: You said you were in Thailand. Have you considered your power source (wall power)? I know parts of Thailand have good power, so this is just a guess. Yes

Re: permissions: can you force ACL to be effective over unix perms?

2014-01-18 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: I have a little more time to work through what you originally wrote, sans certain assumptions I had when I originally responded. (And I didn't intend to post this off-list, so I'm posting it again, on list. Note -- if you

Re: Minimizing shell access on my VPS

2014-01-18 Thread Joel Rees
locking down somebody's login shell on a system? Just thought I'd pick the brains of the debian-user list and see what I can come up with! ;) Thanks, --Aubrey -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: sad but true, Linux sucks, a bit

2014-01-18 Thread Joel Rees
to be, however each creative effort is as unique as your DNA. This is not philosophy, its physics. Kare [...] I'm assuming that was an intentional pun, given the direction Ralf sent the thread ... (Worth a chuckle or two.) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-24 Thread Joel Rees
me before it started the install, so I have a chance to hold the install off when I need to reboot it quick or something. Not telling you what to do with your computer, of course, just thinking out loud. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart

Re: gambas3 does not work in Sid

2014-01-24 Thread Joel Rees
by looking up the package. (A link to this thread in the mail archives might also be useful.) Debian packages are here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages But looking up gambas debian package maintainer on google also brought up a bit of the information you want. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Joel Rees
is it and how did it get there? -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAr43iOW5sbK

Re: You lazy son-of-a-guns out there! (Was: May I introduce to you)

2014-02-02 Thread Joel Rees
. Hmm. I think I am not the only one who read Sharon's slightly over-the-top introduction of the BBS media player and wondered what Justin-what's-his-name had to do with Debian. But that was droll, Bob. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart

Re: creating virtual users

2014-02-07 Thread Joel Rees
, in cascading style ) There is (was?) a distro that puts every app in its own directory and sets the login users' path to point to a /home/user/bin directory that only has links to the executables the user is allowed to run. I forget what it was called. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-07 Thread Joel Rees
, but backup is usually better. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-10 Thread Joel Rees
are trained to work on MSWindows, they are trained not to fix anything that's too hard. Time is money, etc. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-10 Thread Joel Rees
, and if you only have one hard drive that is dedicated to LVM, you should only need one each of the physical and logical volume groups. (I've tended to think of the volume groups as LVM equivalent of RAID, but that's an over-simplification.) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-10 Thread Joel Rees
plugged in when you are booting a live image or an install image, given the history you've described, I'm going to suggest giving it about 10% odds that the HD was already failing. Not positive, but a possibility. Joel Rees -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-10 Thread Joel Rees
not to wander off into politics here. Did I manage to skip the rant about Microsoft's monopoly practices above?) Anyway, it's great you got the HD back up, and are ready for more adventures. ;-) [...] -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Joel Rees
been there before, and there are tricky crossings up there. Metaphorically speaking. I'm not sure how robust today's motherboards are, but back in the day, it would have been easy to toast a motherboard while you were searching for the right timings.) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy

Re: How to `echo' the core # a bash script is running on?

2014-02-10 Thread Joel Rees
the core? Or maybe even cycled back again? But, I guess if the OP's purpose is just to prove that scripts are not confined to a single core, I guess it doesn't matter. (I can't say that I can think of any other reason for the question, now that I think of it. Hmm) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Joel Rees
, but I would hesitate to run it that way for extended periods of time, unless your manual says it's supposed to handle such a configuration. The kernel relies on the BIOS, as Stan Hoeppner reports, and so Linux fails to recognize all the RAM. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-11 Thread Joel Rees
, you probably need to go back and make it. And the installer should complain if you don't. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: [...] Your suggestion that it is the 8G + 1x4G which is being recognized Not quite what I was trying to suggest. I was oversimplifying significantly

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-12 Thread Joel Rees
is not having room to move things around. As Joel advised (thanks) I made a big 565 GB primary LVM partition. and then created partitions as advised by Joel again. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-13 Thread Joel Rees
to know I don't want to do that. You don't fix a broken leg by putting a bandaid on it. [...] Anyway, thanks for the heads' up, Ralf. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Debian se queda con systemd, bueno o malo??

2014-02-13 Thread Joel Rees
. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caar43infsdrf4tfr596kundmnub2maqwjqffan52u

Re: How to `echo' the core # a bash script is running on?

2014-02-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Marco Ippolito maroloc...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 Feb 2014, at 04:09, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Chris Davies ch...@roaima.co.uk wrote: Marco Ippolito maroloc...@gmail.com wrote: How can I `echo', in `bash', the core

Re: systemd: some more questions

2014-02-15 Thread Joel Rees
, and that is one small example of why we don't want to follow the Microsoft way. (Sorry to get back up on the soapbox again.) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: [OT] KDM No Longer In KDE ?!?

2014-02-18 Thread Joel Rees
could at least talk about sending layers of protocol, so that your arguments could be more visible for what they are? -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

2014-02-21 Thread Joel Rees
is eclectic. YMMV I assume you know the answers to these questions? -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian repository available on USB flash rather than CD/DVD sets?

2014-02-21 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Joel Rees wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: [...] As I write this a interesting question arose, Could I find software to emulate a Z80 CPM machine

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Joel Rees
the [...] Just for the record, I consider this post to be a reverse shill, an attempt to get all arguments against systemd painted with the broad brush of fanatacism, misplaced fundamentalism, and sheer lunacy. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart

scnner drivers -- Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd troll

2014-03-03 Thread Joel Rees
, published by Pan Books, 1992 -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Joel Rees
square wheels, just because we haven't figured out how to make the wheels round without destroying them. So t speak. This is very much an evolving technology. I'm not defending Microsoft, by the way. They go way too far. But computer technology is still very much evolving. -- Joel Rees Be careful

Re: Need suggestion about what's going on

2014-03-06 Thread Joel Rees
confused. Any suggestion about what's going on. Well, there is also the possibility that you are reading the referrer field. Or maybe someone is spoofing your, or maybe you have something untoward that has gotten itself loaded and running on your laptop. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see

Re: questions about password safes

2014-03-07 Thread Joel Rees
a bit confused when switching between git and svn. I'm sure I'm supposed to have set something up in the svn configurations to tell wallets and such to stay the longest way away from my authentication chain.) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart

Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?

2014-03-07 Thread Joel Rees
.) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caar43ipm8

Re: Brainless Debian Stable installation and usage?

2014-03-08 Thread Joel Rees
to socialize and it may provide the sort of good-feeling reinforcement that would lead some of them to try again later. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

2014-03-18 Thread Joel Rees
, hardly any of them are, statistically speaking. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart.

Re: Fonts providing emojis?

2014-03-18 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum bg271...@yahoo.com wrote: What Debian font packages provide emojis? 絵文字? Come to think of it, have you looked at the emoji page on wikipedia? http

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Joel Rees
, unintentional fenestration seems a bit like perforation to me. (And I would personally like to see the defenestration of the guys who brought us Microsoft.) -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart.

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-20 Thread Joel Rees
-helpful in the areas that are shaping up to be tomorrow's battlefields in the intellectual paucity wars. Near as I can tell. -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart.

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-20 Thread Joel Rees
that explain why people don't seem to be using LVM together with the non-LVM RAID packages? This probably is tangled up in the hardware RAID vs. software RAID argument? -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart.

Re: Security Implications of running startx from command line - was Re: Startx: was Great Debian experience

2014-03-22 Thread Joel Rees
in my mind of you and your colleagues standing in the bathroom and admiring each others bezels. Hmm. Home office. Colleague? Hmmm, yeah. Nothing wrong with admiring that particular colleague's bezel, I think. ;- -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own

Re: Debian commercial support.

2014-03-28 Thread Joel Rees
for commercial space in a mall, ... -- Joel Rees Be careful where you see conspiracy. Look first in your own heart.

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