Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 12 December 2014 08:35:35 Richard Owlett wrote: Bret Busby wrote: On 12/12/2014, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2014 14:48:41 Richard Owlett wrote: The OP correctly phrased the question as How is typical home computer used

Re: New user question

2014-12-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 12 December 2014 09:21:31 Jeffrey Needle wrote: Hi. I'm pretty new to Debian. I just downloaded the 64-bit .iso and have just installed it. I have a question about the date display on the top panel. My understanding is that clicking on the date on the top panel should display my

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 12 December 2014 11:43:41 Ric Moore wrote: Is it just me or on an ext4 file system when was the last time anyone had an fsck? 2 days ago. Automatic. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: New user question

2014-12-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 12 December 2014 21:54:12 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com [2014-12-12 10:00 +]: On Friday 12 December 2014 09:21:31 Jeffrey Needle wrote: Hi. I'm pretty new to Debian. I just downloaded the 64-bit .iso and have just installed it. I have

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 12 December 2014 23:30:08 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:07:03 -0500 Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: So maybe we could consider a standard for home computer that it runs on 110V with less than X amount of watts? Except that for the greater part of the world

Re: Two monitors on a Matrox G450.

2014-12-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 13 December 2014 05:47:25 Ric Moore wrote: Our computers are the worst of mistresses. Logical, consistent, predictable, biddable ... oh yes, and demanding. ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Headset with Wheezy

2014-12-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
I am proposing to buy a headset for recording with Audacity and Wheezy. The earphones will presumably be fine provided that sound is working, but I am a bit worried about the mikes. These two Sennheiser headsets look promising, but I would value comments:

Re: Is Debian live 7.7 will run on athlon 5350?

2014-12-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 14 December 2014 12:12:16 German wrote: I am asking this because I was unable to boot the previous version a couple month ago. Thanks If it's live, suck it and see. (Just run it and see whether it runs.) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Is Debian live 7.7 will run on athlon 5350?

2014-12-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
be able to boot 7.7 live on athlon 5350 Oh. I see. I take it that you haven't got Knoppix. That will boot on anything. ;-) Lisi Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2014 12:12:16 German wrote: I am asking this because I was unable to boot the previous version

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 15 December 2014 09:22:50 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 08:01:07 + (UTC) Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: In Europe we have 220 Volts between phase and neutre, and 380 Volts between two phases (if your house is wired for three-phase current). Paraguay is in Europe

Re: Is something wrong with Debian mirrors today (12/15/2014)?

2014-12-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 15 December 2014 20:49:19 Jape Person wrote: A quick look at https://mirror.debian.org/status shows the mirrors to be unavailable. I cannot get to https://www.google.com, but http://www.bing.com comes up instantly. Just tried. There is no problem with google or bing, but a problem

Re: fsck on boot in Jessie

2014-12-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 15 December 2014 23:21:07 Jape Person wrote: Besides, it would be kind of hard to give you too much credit. You're one of the most helpful people on the list, and you manage to be one of the more tactful participants here, too. Hear, hear. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Headset with Wheezy

2014-12-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 17 December 2014 21:33:16 Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 14 dec 14, 10:51:07, Lisi Reisz wrote: I am proposing to buy a headset for recording with Audacity and Wheezy. The earphones will presumably be fine provided that sound is working, but I am a bit worried about the mikes

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 20 December 2014 20:05:43 Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote: On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Who said anything about running

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 20 December 2014 21:03:50 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sat, 20 Dec 2014, Brian wrote: . . . This shows you have the android correctly set up for printing.    not exactly: I said that I didn't have anything to setup: just launching the application and wait for 10 seconds.    I

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 20 December 2014 21:03:50 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sat, 20 Dec 2014, Brian wrote: . . . This shows you have the android correctly set up for printing.    not exactly: I said that I didn't have anything to setup: just launching the application and wait for 10 seconds.    I

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 20 December 2014 23:19:50 Gary Dale wrote: On 20/12/14 06:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 20/12/14 06:05 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: [snip] Why do we all have to like the same word processor? Lisi P.S. Sorry, Gary for the off-list just now. It wasn't aimed only at you and should

Re: LACK OF REPONSE TO REQUESTS FOR HELP WHY?

2014-12-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 21 December 2014 07:38:13 tom arnall wrote: about a week ago i posted a question to which no one has responded. i think it's a reasonable question for this list. clearly folks on this list don't think it's worthwhile to respond to it. Oh dear. :-( What on earth leads you to this

Inserting a field in a LibreOffice email subject line for a bulk mailing.

2014-12-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
Does one of the LO fans know how to insert a field in a LibreOffice email subject line for a bulk mailing? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 21 December 2014 19:46:55 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sat 20 Dec 2014 at 22:03:50 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:   I think that a so mature OS as Debian should provide the same   facility. It does.     the experience proves that it does not: otherwise, why nobody could    

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 21 December 2014 21:59:10 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 21 December 2014 19:46:55 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sat 20 Dec 2014 at 22:03:50 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:   I think that a so mature OS as Debian should provide the same   facility. It does.     the experience

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 22 December 2014 10:29:51 Tixy wrote: On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 16:46 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 19:30:39 + Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Only fly in the ointment is that gparted still complains that: Unable to open /dev/sdi read-write (Read-only

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 23 December 2014 18:14:00 Joris Bolsens wrote: On 12/23/2014 10:07 AM, Floris wrote: Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:58:48 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens jo...@linux.com: Is it Gnome that fails to start or gdm? Not sure what the difference is (sorry). When the system starts I get

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-24 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 24 December 2014 19:40:53 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sun, 21 Dec 2014, Brian wrote: . . . cups-browsed needs to be correctly set up on the server for the client to be able to see the advertised queues.listen 192.168.1.12 should not be the least bit necessary. . .

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 December 2014 09:58:02 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Wed, 24 Dec 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: Have you tried enabling server and client on all computers involved and using CUPS to print? This is what I do, and I have no problem. hi Lisi, I suppose that's the case for most

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 December 2014 14:32:21 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Thu, 25 Dec 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: No, but you have not explained why you dislike my solution so much that you are not even willing to try it! You may, of course, have a very good reason, but you have not explained

Re: remote printing for an USB printer

2014-12-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 25 December 2014 15:40:18 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Thu, 25 Dec 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: I did reply. I said both. In case I became blind, I looked for the word both in all your posts. I found it only once: in your last post !!! https://lists.debian.org/201412242151.04989

Re: Wheezy-Jessie upgrade: udev (pre)install issue

2014-12-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 27 December 2014 20:27:16 Matthijs wrote: Or is stopping the upgrade for these exotic cases better? Some people would probably be quite upset if their nice custom kernel was replaced without a by-your-leave. I would be if I had gone to the trouble of rolling one! Personally, I

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 28 December 2014 00:20:20 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:02:52 -0500 Jerry Stuckle stuckleje...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/11/2014 1:23 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 12:11:26 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: I often give presentations with my notebook. If I'm lucky, I

Re: Question about MultiArch and dependencies

2014-12-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 30 December 2014 23:47:18 Raphaël Halimi wrote: Stop trying to justify yourself Pot and kettle??? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 23 January 2015 12:42:15 Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 23 January 2015 05:47:13 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: On Friday 23 January 2015 03:25:42 Gene Heskett wrote: You haven't a clue what you are doing when you are partitioning, have you? Not really, I have

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 23 January 2015 19:24:45 Gene Heskett wrote: You are late to the party Lisi, Sorry, Gene. I find you very hard to follow. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Wheezy is installed, blowed up 2 minutes later.

2015-01-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 23 January 2015 12:48:47 Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 23 January 2015 07:39:44 Darac Marjal did opine And Gene did reply: On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:29:06PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 22 January 2015 14:50:43 Bob Holtzman did opine And Gene did reply: On

Re: No vi in rescue mode ?

2015-01-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 26 January 2015 16:58:32 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:49:12 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: As a Debian newbee, I was very surprised this week-end: on the first reboot after adding a second raid array to my newly installed Debian system

Re: No vi in rescue mode ?

2015-01-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 26 January 2015 16:26:12 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: As a Debian newbee, I was very surprised this week-end: on the first reboot after adding a second raid array to my newly installed Debian system, the reboot failed, could not recognize the UUID of the new array. So I give the root

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 04 February 2015 20:20:10 Ric Moore wrote: On 02/04/2015 06:26 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2015 07:35:29 Ric Moore wrote: As root user, apt-get install synaptic Let it install your programs for you. It's a great GUI package tool, that most use. And you

Re: Debian 7.1 root password issue.

2015-02-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 02 February 2015 14:17:30 Michael Collins wrote: SANG KIM sangkim8986 at msn.com writes: I recently installed debian 7.1 and I reinstalled it at least five times.  I've tried installing it with a root password created and without and Debian still won't let me log in as root.  It

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 04 February 2015 11:41:53 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Dejan Jocic wrote: [snipped 57 lines] aptitude why-not libcurl4-openssl-dev i task-kde-desktop Recommends system-config-printer i A system-config-printer Dependspython-cupshelpers (=

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 04 February 2015 07:35:29 Ric Moore wrote: As root user, apt-get install synaptic Let it install your programs for you. It's a great GUI package tool, that most use. And you have got your statistics from?? I would seriously query that most users, on this list anyhow, use

Re: 3rd new wheezy install

2015-02-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 04 February 2015 14:57:50 Gene Heskett wrote: My point in all this is that the installer WILL NOT ALLOW you, in any mode, to just format and label a partition and use it. Try to skip the partitioner and go on to the next step it will NOT allow. The only way you can get past that

Re: 3rd new wheezy install

2015-02-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 05 February 2015 11:08:51 Darac Marjal wrote: Now, IF you've been following that procedure AND your installer isn't behaving in the same manner, then hit a bug in the installer that hasn't been spotted in about 18 months of regular use by many people. I think if it were a bug, we

Re: 3rd new wheezy install

2015-02-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
Arch Linux doesn't even have an installer. You just do your own thing. That might suit you better. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide Lisi On Thursday 05 February 2015 22:08:38 Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday, February 05, 2015 04:09:58 PM David Wright wrote: Quoting

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 February 2015 16:36:43 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: errpurging Emacs24?  The only reason I added backports was to get the latest release of Emacs.  Well, I'd probably give up on doing anything with Rcurl/libcurl CRAN library which is a small price to pay.  It's not like I don't

Re: 3rd new wheezy install

2015-02-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 06 February 2015 15:10:29 Gene Heskett wrote: So I went back to the newest, wheezy based linuxcnc hybrid.iso you can get from linuxcnc.org and installed that. [snip lengthy tale, ending with statement of problems he is having under linuxcnc] I could use some clues?

Re: using gnome, hotkey problem

2015-02-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 07 February 2015 20:42:59 Brian wrote: On Sat 07 Feb 2015 at 15:24:50 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Where would I find the location in a config file that uses the F10 key to open a terminal file requester? It is blocking thne F10 key from getting to mc, and making a single

Re: 3rd new wheezy install

2015-02-07 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 08 February 2015 06:29:00 Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday, February 08, 2015 12:59:11 AM Bob Proulx wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: The alignment seems to be bad on every partition if you do it by hand, but if you just let it use the whole disk, the first parttition is good, but the

Re: 3rd new wheezy install

2015-02-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 08 February 2015 21:00:46 Gene Heskett wrote: Ah, no.  The ~30~ on the end of a message is newspaper speak  for the end.   Of this thread. :) That probably dates me. :) No, it labels you as using jargon: quote Language characteristic of a particular group. ] Speech or language that is

Re: incomplete update(?) trashed my system

2015-02-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 08 February 2015 20:55:33 Charles Blair wrote: Thank you for your help. if you have a lot of packages in /var/cache/apt/archives then you can clean them out and then apt-get will download any new ones you need when you install, update or reinstall. There are a lot of

Re: Recommendations for a AMD64 Jessie xfce/kde cd

2015-02-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 08 February 2015 13:45:26 Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 02/08/2015 03:22 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: Hi, Is there an official jessie cd with only kde/xfce? I'd like to use only kde or xfce and currently I can't seem to find an iso for it. The last one I downloaded had

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 09 February 2015 01:32:30 Ric Moore wrote: On 02/04/2015 04:03 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Ric Moore wrote: On 02/04/2015 02:13 AM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: How does one go about fixing broken packages? I've recently started using debian and apart some

Re: incomplete update(?) trashed my system

2015-02-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 09 February 2015 00:46:36 songbird wrote: it will do no harm to do the rm *.deb in But aptitude clean, or the apt-get equivalent, achieves the same thing far more safely. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:37:30 Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 Doesn't exist. Do you mean 7.8? And which disk? install on a disk with 4k sectors, this after researching and finding a partitioner utility that DOES know about 4k/sector disks. That

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 21 January 2015 00:02:41 Gene Heskett wrote: If there is a way, then maybe I'll try it again, but give me step by step I can printout and follow when there is no one in the room, or available via the net. Since the problem seems to be unique to you, perhaps your installation media

Re: Wheezy is installed, blowed up 2 minutes later.

2015-01-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 21 January 2015 20:05:23 Gene Heskett wrote: Yes, it can install, Yes, it can. but it cripples the disk its installed on if its a 4k/sector disk. No it doesn't. I fail to see what is so difficult to understand here. It is you who refuses to understand. Lisi -- To

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 21 January 2015 21:29:45 Bob Proulx wrote: What problem are you seeing?  Details? PEBCAK, but he won't accept it, so he won't try to understand what to do. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 17 January 2015 03:28:34 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using a DM? Display Manager. The GUI login interface. Where you enter your user name and password to login. Also where you choose the WM or DE to use on taht

Re: aptitude unhold how

2015-01-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 19 January 2015 05:30:40 Rusi Mody wrote: On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 10:50:04 AM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote: Running testing While trying to upgrade, listbugs was giving a bunch of critical/grave errors. Ran $ aptitude hold on all these packages then did upgrade.

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 19 January 2015 09:54:57 Gene Heskett wrote: But that leads to the next logical question:  What's the difference between using apt-get to do that, and synaptic? Synaptic would have literally torn down the system, removing libc6, most of build-essentials among many many others.  I

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 16 January 2015 08:41:29 Frédéric Marchal wrote: On Thursday 15 January 2015 21:28:30, Robert Latest wrote : Hi all, this is my umptieth Debian installation I've done on various PCs over the years, but this time the sound setup really has me stumped. I can't hear anything

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 22 January 2015 19:26:02 Brian wrote: Removing the boot partition removes the guarantee that boot related files will be within reach of the bios.  However, 50Gb is out of line as I have been using 1Gb for years, which has all sorts of cruft I haven't used in yonks in it.  So

Re: Wheezy is installed

2015-01-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 23:44:20 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: First question:  Does it take a reboot before you can select kdm at login? I did 2 or 3 logouts back in without being presented with a choice. It should normally start up automatically - it's just possible that kdm didn't get

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 17 January 2015 20:38:25 Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2015 13:04:09 Clive Standbridge did opine It's a bit late now, but you might have had much lighter download using the network installation CD. Three DVDs is about 13GB; I doubt that most installations would be

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 09 February 2015 20:02:23 Bob Proulx wrote: Hey if an old school dog like me can learn to deal with 'ip' instead of 'ifconfig' then you can too. The problem, anyhow for me, is that ifconfig is legible and ip is not. So I shall use ifconfig for as long as almost possible and then

Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

2015-02-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 09 February 2015 16:29:29 Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 16:07:51 + (UTC) Glyn Astill glynast...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hello Glyn, I think the issue is that the flash plugin version stops at 11.2 and there's been no further version. Adobe continue to backport security

Re: jessie upgrade sources.list entries?

2015-02-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 10 February 2015 09:02:42 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: And, if you do do it, do an #apt-get upgrade before the dist-upgrade. errmbefore which dist-upgrade?   And why? I am referrring to what you said. I'll quote: quote 2. followed by # apt-get update # apt-get

Re: Overflow of RX/TX Bytes on AMD64

2015-02-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 10 February 2015 14:57:51 Lisi Reisz wrote: Seriously, I can't read ip. I just had another try, and it has improved. Maybe by the time ifconfig is finally dead or useless, ip will be useful! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: disabling unneeded services?

2015-02-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 16 February 2015 16:01:12 Brian wrote: On Mon 16 Feb 2015 at 20:39:41 +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: As I had earlier posted, I have recently upgraded to Jessie. [snip] And where do I start reading to make my booting faster and make my system a wee bit more secure?

Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space

2015-02-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 12 February 2015 09:46:35 Jochen Spieker wrote: I'm not sure why the automatic partitioner didn't provide for enough space for future updates. See below for the relevant logs. There's been several complaints about similar issues on this list. I am not sure whether there were any

Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 14 February 2015 23:40:58 Ric Moore wrote: On 02/14/2015 05:41 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2015 21:50:15 Ric Moore wrote: On 02/14/2015 04:09 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday, February 14, 2015 03:15:49 PM Ric Moore wrote: On 02/14/2015 03:05 PM, Gene

Re: A big Thank You to Debian :-)

2015-02-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 17 February 2015 10:40:38 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: I see that there has been a fair amount of talk on this mailing list about system , Gnome 3 and some general dislike of Debian Jessie as a result. So I thought I'd throw in my 2 p I recently upgraded my main laptop (a fancy new

Re: disabling unneeded services?

2015-02-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 16 February 2015 17:54:34 Brian wrote: It looks like exim is redundant and could be purged. But what about local mail? There is a view that most users never look at it so exim should be dispensed with. You will have to make up your own mind about this. I install nullmailer. This

Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever

2015-02-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 15 February 2015 14:27:17 Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday, February 15, 2015 06:20:13 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2015 23:40:58 Ric Moore wrote: On 02/14/2015 05:41 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2015 21:50:15 Ric Moore wrote: On 02/14/2015 04

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 16 February 2015 21:31:19 Marco d'Itri wrote: On Feb 16, Alastair McKinstry alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie wrote: The breakage of compatibility of existing systems (e.g. with /usr on a separate partition) has left a sour taste. I spent a weekend repairing systemd introduces no such

Re: wifi driver problem

2015-02-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 16 February 2015 14:46:34 Ashish Kumar wrote: sir i have a prob in instaling my wifi driver i have bcm 43142 my laptop is hp pav p 027 kali linux 1.1.0 amd 64 plz help with a detail as i m very new to linux provide me with all command with package instalation command also...

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 16 February 2015 14:41:32 Christian Kastner wrote: On 2015-02-16 13:47, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Christian Seiler christ...@iwakd.de wrote: Am 16.02.2015 um 02:54 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton:

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-02-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 20 February 2015 09:06:32 Bret Busby wrote: (as reworded version of the quote from Hamlet; Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow... Sorry to quibble, but it's Macbeth. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: A big Thank You to Debian :-)

2015-02-18 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 18 February 2015 10:32:59 Martin Read wrote: On 18/02/15 07:29, Andrew McGlashan wrote: What I want from a DPL (another thread), is a DPL that will remove systemd (for starters), particularly as a system default. I didn't get Andrew's posting (???), so had to go to the

Re: glibc bug - time to patch

2015-01-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 28 January 2015 13:25:20 i...@thargoid.co.uk wrote: On 2015-01-28 12:27, Peter Viskup wrote: before considering downtimes and patching activities on production servers read these: https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/283

Re: glibc bug - time to patch

2015-01-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 28 January 2015 14:27:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2015 13:25:20 i...@thargoid.co.uk wrote: On 2015-01-28 12:27, Peter Viskup wrote: before considering downtimes and patching activities on production servers read these: http://seclists.org/oss-sec

Re: glibc bug - time to patch

2015-01-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 28 January 2015 14:31:23 Jochen Spieker wrote: Lisi Reisz: On Wednesday 28 January 2015 13:25:20 i...@thargoid.co.uk wrote: https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/283 especially the second link mention network-facing software which

Re: Fwd: New problem with GIMP plugin file-jpeg

2015-01-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 29 January 2015 14:52:53 Bret Busby wrote: There is this bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734519 That just gives me a web page that displays Redirecting you to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734519; that goes nowhere.

Re: Fwd: New problem with GIMP plugin file-jpeg

2015-01-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 29 January 2015 13:55:55 Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 29 January 2015 08:49:14 Curt did opine And Gene did reply: On 2015-01-29, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: There is this bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734519 That just

Re: apt-get / aptitude [g]libc update not to prompt for restart and not restart

2015-01-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 29 January 2015 13:35:49 Gene Heskett wrote: To get the fixes into use, you MUST reboot, no way around it.  To do otherwise WILL leave the machine vulnerable. No, you do not necessarily have to reboot. As various people have said, you can restart individual services; and you can

Re: Can't add pendrive stick as installation media (was: Network install)

2015-01-31 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 31 January 2015 16:49:46 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes: On Fri 30 Jan 2015 at 19:36:03 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes: By install Debian do you mean you go all the way through the installer menu and then finish the

Re: Minimal configuration for a laptop

2015-01-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 25 January 2015 13:50:32 Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:03:18PM +0200, Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: Two features that I looked for in my Thinkpad were that the screen is matte (not shiny/glossy), and opens up to 180 degrees. I like to lay it upside down on the edge

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-24 Thread Lisi Reisz
-in-paraguay.org wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:46:04 + Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Might I suggest that we put this to bed? It has long been OT. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 23 January 2015 03:25:42 Gene Heskett wrote: You haven't a clue what you are doing when you are partitioning, have you? Not really, I have only been doing it since 1985 or 6. :)   No doubt long experienced drivers of horse drawn carriages thought that they were well qualified to

Re: gedit slow with a 1.5Mb text file

2015-02-01 Thread Lisi Reisz
Sorry, Wayne. :-( This was meant to go to the list. I hope that someone can explain the answer! On Sunday 01 February 2015 12:42:00 Wayne Hartell wrote: I grabbed a 1.5MB text file from Windows (converted using dos2unix, not that it appears to make a difference) Why did a _text_ file need

Re: _COMPLETE_ instructions for debootstrap /or multistrap

2015-01-10 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 10 January 2015 15:25:02 Joel Rees wrote: stupid questions It has been said that there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Unable to join the Debian User Forum; appears that all IPs are being black-listed.

2015-01-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 09 January 2015 22:35:45 Bob Proulx wrote: And also good editor skills of trimming out unneeded excess quoting. Be brutal with removing excess quotes!  Personally I would rather see no previous quoted material rather than bad full quoting.  Want to see what the message looks like to

Re: Are these Jessie installer images hybrid images?

2015-01-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 09 January 2015 14:19:52 Steve McIntyre wrote: In article 201501091406.08420.lisi.re...@gmail.com you write: Are these Jessie installer images hybrid images? It appears not, but I thought all Debian installer images were now. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Thanks,

Re: wireless USB adopter installation

2015-01-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 12 January 2015 20:59:07 zaheer ahmed wrote: hi i am using compaq 32bit desktop. i am new user of debian 5. i am using wifi USB TL- WN727N its woks fine in xp but not working in debain5. i am new in linux debian5 plz tell me all steps which i follow and easily install driver. tell

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 13 January 2015 09:22:25 Andrei POPESCU wrote: This thread reminds me of https://xkcd.com/936/ and https://xkcd.com/538/ P.S. Sorry if these have already been posted, didn't go through the entire thread yet. :-)) Thanks Andrei. Loved the second. I already knew the first,

Re: One more try to post

2015-01-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 13 January 2015 10:37:55 Gene Heskett wrote: Recent debian wheezy install here.  Where in the configs, can I get rid of the F10 key stealing by the terminal emulator so it can revert to being the mc exit key? Which DE? Which terminal emulator? What is it doing? Lisi -- To

Re: One more try to post

2015-01-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 13 January 2015 10:56:59 Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 05:47:53 AM Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: On Tuesday 13 January 2015 10:37:55 Gene Heskett wrote: Recent debian wheezy install here. Where in the configs, can I get rid of the F10 key

Re: Unable to join the Debian User Forum; appears that all IPs are being black-listed.

2015-01-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
Sorry, Wayne. I have done it yet again. Clicked reply in the Debian list. I should have pressed l and replied to the list, not you personally. :-( Lisi Hi, Wayne, Welcome to Debian! Good choice! And also welcome to the list. On Friday 09 January 2015 06:07:52 Wayne Hartell wrote:

Are these Jessie installer images hybrid images?

2015-01-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
Are these Jessie installer images hybrid images? It appears not, but I thought all Debian installer images were now. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Thanks, Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

2015-02-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 08 February 2015 13:15:16 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: I think I'm confused whether I should remember that some bits of software are from backports and it's incumbent on me to track all this while upgrading to Jessie or installing anything else from stable.  I really don't want to do

Re: theme editor?

2015-02-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 10 February 2015 04:01:10 David Wright wrote: Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): [...] dm-tool sounds like something I should look at, but it is not in the repo's I address. Fixable? Thanks Petter. I don't understand this. Earlier in the thread you posted:

Re: theme editor?

2015-02-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 10 February 2015 07:46:33 Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 02:41:48 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 10 February 2015 04:01:10 David Wright wrote: Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): [...] dm-tool sounds like something I should look

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