Debian Wheezy, stock kernel, ULD tarball downloaded from the Samsung
website and compiled.
I am getting the following error message:
quote
The components listed below are necessary for proper Unified Linux
Driver operation. Click Cancel now, install these components from
your Linux
On Wednesday 15 January 2014 17:08:22 y...@marupa.net wrote:
This is practically trolling.
Practically?
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On Thursday 16 January 2014 02:06:23 Ma Xiaojun wrote:
I guess Unix junkie can claim xterms with whatever window manager a
desktop.
You are being hamstrung by your own definition of desktop. It's basic
meaning is something (in this case a computer) that sits on top of
your desk. It does not
On Thursday 16 January 2014 09:37:21 Lisi Reisz wrote:
It's basic
meaning
Ouch! Its basic meaning
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On Friday 17 January 2014 21:45:40 Scarletdown wrote:
SHO-RYU- EMP -KEN!!!
???
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On Saturday 18 January 2014 09:45:29 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Most probably sexuality is not taboo for some/many/most people
reading debian-user, but there is a good chance that it is not
appropriate for at least some readers.
Sexuality is not taboo. But it seems to me that detailed descriptions
On Thursday 23 January 2014 13:52:39 Darac Marjal wrote:
runlevels 0 (halt) and 6 (shutdown)
runlevel 6 is surely reboot? Whereas shutdown needs further
information: e.g. shutdown -r reboot, shutdown -h halt
http://linux.101hacks.com/unix/shutdown/
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I am wanting to use the CLI to copy some files from dirA to dirB. I
want to exclude all hidden files. Will this command achieve it? :--
cp -Rp /path/to/sourcedir/A/* /path/to/destinationdir/B
Thanks,
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On Sunday 26 January 2014 14:40:26 Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Your command will exclude files and dirs beginning with period
('.'), in the directory /path/to/sourcedir/A/
but not hidden files in subdirectories (I note your -R/-r
option). If you really are only copying files, then -r is not
On Sunday 26 January 2014 14:49:31 Felix C. Stegerman wrote:
On 2014-01-26 15:26, Lisi Reisz wrote:
I am wanting to use the CLI to copy some files from dirA to dirB.
I want to exclude all hidden files. Will this command achieve
it?
:--
cp -Rp /path/to/sourcedir/A/* /path
Sorry for sending this off-list, Gord. Resending to where it ought to
have gone in the first place.
On Sunday 26 January 2014 15:09:10 ghaverla wrote:
Your requirement (to skip hidden files and directories) is what is
usually required.
But, as a generic rule, you can use the echo command to
On Sunday 26 January 2014 16:53:17 Brian wrote:
On Sun 26 Jan 2014 at 16:05:52 +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
As I said to Zenaan, it is obviously time for me to bite the
bullet of rsync. It seems a significantly better tool for the
purpose than cp.
The Midnight Commander (mc) is worth
On Sunday 26 January 2014 14:26:18 Lisi Reisz wrote:
I am wanting to use the CLI to copy some files from dirA to dirB.
I want to exclude all hidden files. Will this command achieve it?
:--
cp -Rp /path/to/sourcedir/A/* /path/to/destinationdir/B
I have been away from my computer for a while
On Tuesday 28 January 2014 10:27:45 lina wrote:
On Tuesday 28,January,2014 06:19 PM, darkestkhan wrote:
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:16 AM, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com
wrote:
ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied
d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs
a# rm -rf .gvfs
On Tuesday 28 January 2014 11:05:33 Lisi Reisz wrote:
# rm .gvfs
ERRATUM!
# rmdir .gvfs
sorry. :-( Typo, I'm afraid. The whole point was that it is difficult
to remove a directory that has things in it.
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On Saturday 01 February 2014 17:58:45 Doug wrote:
On 02/01/2014 08:13 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote:
May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing,
upgrade to ‘get-iplayer’!
The BBC has some superb radio and TV programmes, some of which
they have released into the public domain
On Sunday 02 February 2014 04:28:52 Doug wrote:
On 02/01/2014 02:30 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Saturday 01 February 2014 17:58:45 Doug wrote:
On 02/01/2014 08:13 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote:
May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing,
upgrade to ‘get-iplayer’!
The BBC has
On Sunday 02 February 2014 07:06:45 Bob Bernstein wrote:
On Sat, 1 Feb 2014, Doug wrote:
On 02/01/2014 02:30 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Saturday 01 February 2014 17:58:45 Doug wrote:
On 02/01/2014 08:13 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote:
May I introduce to you ‘beeb’ the all-singing, all-dancing
On Sunday 02 February 2014 15:44:14 Sharon Kimble wrote:
Are there any potential problems with permissions? e.g.:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2010/03/bbc_iplayer_conten
t_protection.html
I know of none,
Apart, you mean, from the fact that you are posting this on an
On Wednesday 05 February 2014 06:33:35 Anubhav Yadav wrote:
2) As you can see in the screenshot, gparted shows that the hdd is
only 698 gb whereas when purchased it was 720 GB. Any ways to
recover the lost sectors back?
No, it does not say that you have 698 Gigabytes (decimal), it says
that
On Wednesday 05 February 2014 08:43:15 Anubhav Yadav wrote:
Also, does it just wait as though it is checking your
credentials, or do you actually login, but get a spinning cursor
or something else?
Yes, spinning cursor! Exactly!
As you suggest yourself, ditch GNOME 3.
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On Thursday 06 February 2014 05:43:45 Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote:
I want to know what is the basic difference between *apt*, as in
/apt update/ and *apt-get*, as in /apt-get update/.
Can one do apt update? I have never heard of it, which could easily
be my ignorance, but Google can't find it
On Saturday 08 February 2014 09:40:43 Chris Bannister wrote:
AFAIUI, if the package has a different name, as newer releases of
kernels do, then APT won't consider it an update, it is just
another package.
aptitude has just upgraded me automatically from 3.10-x bpo to 3.11-x
bpo then to 3.12-0
On Saturday 08 February 2014 12:29:30 Tom H wrote:
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com
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On Saturday 08 February 2014 09:40:43 Chris Bannister wrote:
AFAIUI, if the package has a different name, as newer releases
of kernels do, then APT won't consider
On Saturday 08 February 2014 20:48:14 Tom H wrote:
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Saturday 08 February 2014 12:29:30 Tom H wrote:
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Lisi Reisz
lisi.re...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Saturday 08 February 2014 09:40:43
On Saturday 08 February 2014 10:21:07 Anubhav Yadav wrote:
Something really bad happened. I went to format all my partitions
from the windows 8 installation menu (Bootable usb) and when I went
to format boot partition of windows 100 mb,the installer hanged
(typical of windows) After waiting
On Saturday 08 February 2014 23:40:59 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Sb, 08 feb 14, 22:43:41, Lisi Reisz wrote:
I'm quite happy to let it go on upgrading itself as it has so
far. If I mess with it I shall only cause myself problems. The
developers know way more than I do!
Installing newer
On Sunday 09 February 2014 18:05:52 darkestkhan wrote:
Personally I'm dubious if using `jessie` instead of `testing` atm
should even work - considering that it is basically testing for the
time being.
The beauty of using the name, Jessie, instead of Testing is that when
Jessie becomes Stable,
On Monday 10 February 2014 01:25:10 Jon N wrote:
Well, the choice of jessie or testing doesn't seem to explain the
trouble I was experiencing with the lack of updates.
No, I was answering darkestkhan, not you.
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On Wednesday 12 February 2014 12:13:23 Scott Ferguson wrote:
(emphasis and guessed spelling correction mine).
Scott - the original strikes me as being correct, and
oyur correction strikes me as being wrong.
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On Thursday 13 February 2014 19:33:26 Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
Hay, come on... I thought that I had asked a legitimate
question, I didn't want to start a war.
You didn't start a war. As you say, you asked a reasonable,
legitimate, though possibly slightly OT, question. The war was
On Monday 17 February 2014 13:34:36 Anubhav Yadav wrote:
Anubhav Yadav, please reply to the list only, don't Cc.
I am using gmail and it has two options, reply and reply to all.
If I hit reply your name is there as the sender, if I hit reply to
all then debian user list is there in cc and
On Monday 17 February 2014 18:18:40 Erwan David wrote:
But I need remote display. I use it every day, and saying is not
yuseful will not make the need disapear. If the feature disapears
it is a REGRESSION. Nothing else
Give Trinity a chance - it still has kdm-trinity.
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On Tuesday 18 February 2014 16:55:35 Ron Leach wrote:
What do others on the list use to play similar video material on
Wheezy?
I've done a couple of Futurelearn courses, and have just tried the
video on yours. I can use both Iceweasel and Google Chrome. I
haven't tried any other browser for
On Wednesday 19 February 2014 04:04:40 Bob Bernstein wrote:
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote:
I have just finished one on the brain.
Now, and I have a reason for asking this, after taking that
brain course, were you left feeling more, or less,
comfortable with your brain
On Friday 21 February 2014 12:32:00 Richard Owlett wrote:
I have *NO* internet connectivity.
You must have some internet connectivity, somewhere, in order to be
able to converse with this list. :-/
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On Monday 24 February 2014 19:22:38 digiphoenix wrote:
auto io eth0
iiface eth0 dhcp
surely:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
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On Monday 03 March 2014 07:05:22 Doug wrote:
It would seem that XSane is smart enough to scan
without any other drivers
This is very much not my experience. I have always found that XSANE
needs drivers, and if they are not available says that it cannot find
the scanner.
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On Monday 03 March 2014 09:10:46 Bret Busby wrote:
The device is a Samsung CLX3185FW, and it had drivers that worked
with Debian 5.
Contact Samsung. If you have difficulty in getting through to someone
who speaks Linux mail me off-list and I'll give you a name.
A client had bought a Samsung
On Monday 03 March 2014 09:49:13 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
I strongly advise that on your next buy (not necessarily MFPs) you
also consider how well that device is supported with Linux. Bonus
if the manufacturer contributes to that support. If enough of us
are doing the same it might eventually
On Monday 03 March 2014 12:51:18 Brian wrote:
What rabbit do you expect Debian to pull out of the hat to fix a
closed source driver? You could always run your CLX3185FW with
Debian 5. :)
Samsung does supply later drivers.
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On Tuesday 04 March 2014 06:55:48 Bret Busby wrote:
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Bret Busby wrote:
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 19:04:20
From: Bret Busby b...@busby.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Date: Mon
On Tuesday 04 March 2014 08:13:39 Bret Busby wrote:
Perhaps, you could clarify your gratuitously hostile response?
Gratuitously??
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gratuitously
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On Tuesday 04 March 2014 09:09:56 Zenaan Harkness wrote:
So you are insisting on using that particular piece of software.
Which works well on Wheezy.
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On Tuesday 04 March 2014 08:29:52 Bret Busby wrote:
Can you show that the Samsung Unified Printer Driver, with all of
its functionality, and, its encapsulated device drivers, that
worked on Debian Linux 5, works on Debian Linux 6?
Yes, and on 7. I have used it with great success. But you
On Thursday 06 March 2014 15:31:34 Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
Is this Gnash/GreaseMonkey stuff really a viable alternative to
Adobe Flash? Maybe resistance is futile here, and I just need to
be assimilated by Adobe. Say it isn't so.
I have never really found Gnash a viable alternative to Flash.
On Friday 07 March 2014 01:16:05 Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
wrote:
Hi all,
I have several friends, with Windows XP, who are now considering
moving to Linux because of XP's impending stoppage of support.
Normally, I'd just tell them to install Xubuntu. But some of these
people have
Erratum - I omitted something.
On Friday 07 March 2014 08:19:06 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Friday 07 March 2014 01:16:05 Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
2: Tell them how to use the network install CD to install Debian
sans GUI.
Why? Why not install *with* GUI? If you (briefly) venture
On Friday 07 March 2014 08:47:27 Joe wrote:
To get back on topic, I'm fairly sure that in the past, an expert
Stable install has offered me LXDE and Xfce desktops in addition to
Gnome and KDE,
Still does.
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On Friday 07 March 2014 14:06:54 Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
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So Patrick, Jonathan's right: Don't be afraid to ask any questions.
Ignore any useless answers.
I was told, when I was a genuine newbie ( as opposed to a perennial
one) and apologising for asking terribly rudimentary
On Friday 07 March 2014 20:27:56 Mr Queue wrote:
On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:28:21 +0100
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Sounds like I'll have to ask to the admin of my mail account to
implement something to have some filters, or to bother with mess
and spams for ages ( other solution is
On Monday 10 March 2014 00:15:18 Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
Really, calling the OP a nub ( whatever the hell he means by
that) isn't an insult?
nub, short for newbie, i.e. new user. And no, it is not an insult.
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On Sunday 09 March 2014 15:13:43 LOwens wrote:
I could go on and on, but my saying you're a nub, and a mean one at
that, is no better for this list than your treatment of the
original poster.
You may think that Stan is mean - that is your prerogative. But he is
not a newbie. Far from it.
On Monday 10 March 2014 14:34:43 Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
It's pretty damn sad that a 'certain' type of new users join this
list, and the first post they see from me is one of my rare tough
love posts such as in this thread. And even though said new
users are not the recipient of the
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 07:42:00 Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 01:10:11PM +1100, Charlie Schroeder wrote:
Life isn't about second guessing if you write or speak to someone
if they will take offence surely? Isn't it so that you say your
piece and people can take it or
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 00:21:18 Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
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if somebody doesn't yell and scream
Nobody yelled and screamed. And what is going on now is *far* more
likely to drive people away.
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On Tuesday 11 March 2014 10:12:24 pch0...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi List,
I have problem with my wireless connection - when wifi card is
enable via hardware button it freeze network manager (metwork
manager, wicd and iwconfig). I can't use my AP :-/
It sounds as though you have too many different
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 13:30:06 Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 09:11:57AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 07:42:00 Jonathan Dowland wrote:
[1]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2014/02/msg00069.html
What happened to: Assume good faith?
It's
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 17:01:27 Paul E Condon wrote:
In the meantime, I'll
use deselect, or apt-get in situations where I can't see important
details because of inappropriate visual rendering in Aptitude.
Or even aptitude at the CLI?
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On Tuesday 11 March 2014 20:26:53 Ста Деюс wrote:
I think there is no need to ask for freedom, but rather fight for
it -
Why do you need to fight?? What is stopping you from just forking
Debian if you want to? It is FLOSS. Anyone can fork it, so long as
the fork too is FLOSS.
Those working
On Wednesday 12 March 2014 08:12:11 Benjamin DE DARDEL wrote:
I think about upgrading the stable kernel with the testing kernel.
I don't know if it's a good idea !!!
Why not try using backports first? I have done this. Currently I
have:
3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64
If you think that the problem may be
On Wednesday 12 March 2014 22:06:15 Benjamin DE DARDEL wrote:
$ uname -a
Linux mataiva 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.54-2 i686 GNU/Linux
It is still the old kernel. how can I add it to the grub config ?
You have to restart to use a new kernel after an upgrade. Did you do
so?
HTH
Lisi
On Saturday 15 March 2014 11:33:50 Tom Furie wrote:
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:22:10PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 05:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
If another OS had not been available but I knew the root
password, is there some way I could have gained access as
On Saturday 15 March 2014 02:37:10 Chris Bannister wrote:
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 09:30:48AM +0400, Dmitrii Kashin wrote:
Didn't I ask you not to send me a carbon copy? :/
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
* If you want to complain to someone who sent you a carbon copy
On Sunday 16 March 2014 17:52:02 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
When you boot in Recovery mode you get a
root shell without supplying any password.
Is Recovery mode not the same as single user? I have always been
asked for the root password to log in to single user in Debian.
I have just rebooted
On Sunday 16 March 2014 22:42:17 Brian wrote:
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 18:50:22 +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Sunday 16 March 2014 17:52:02 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
When you boot in Recovery mode you get a
root shell without supplying any password.
Is Recovery mode not the same as single user
On Tuesday 18 March 2014 15:47:47 Anubhav Yadav wrote:
Can I change my subject header and all [SOLVED] to it? Because last
time I did it, the mail went as a new thread on the mailing list!
No, it went as a new thread on Gmail. Gmail routinely breaks
threading. It's a pain. :-( It's one of
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 11:25:44 Stephen Powell wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:31:46 -0400 (EDT), Steve Litt wrote:
...
I also unchecked the Debian Desktop selection.
...
Then I did the following:
apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
apt-get install synaptic
apt-get install
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 12:22:14 André wrote:
When using the automatic partition scheme, Debian creates a root
partition of about 320Mb.
This is why I never choose automatic partitioning. ;-)
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On Wednesday 19 March 2014 12:51:38 André wrote:
On 2014-03-19 12:45, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2014-03-19 13:22 +0100, André wrote:
When using the automatic partition scheme, Debian creates a root
partition of about 320Mb.
It maybe enough to start, but this is too small after a while,
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 15:50:41 Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
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And last but
not least, booting to CLI and using startx gives me that nostalgic
feeling for when I was a young whippersnapper using Red Hat 5.1.
:-)
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On Wednesday 19 March 2014 17:47:20 Charles Kroeger wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:10:02 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
fenestral hordes.
I rather like your description of them but wouldn't it have been
more proper to use the term 'fenestrated' it is an adjective. In
anatomy
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 19:45:58 Stephen Powell wrote:
Perhaps you suggested this in another thread, but I don't see it it
this thread, Lisi.
Probably - I didn't check. I was just referring to your reference to
the information being too late for thsi install.
But I believe that the
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 23:18:09 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 17:47:20 Charles Kroeger wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:10:02 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
fenestral hordes.
I rather like your description of them but wouldn't it have been
more proper
Reposting to try to get this in the correct thread.
On Wednesday 19 March 2014 17:47:20 Charles Kroeger wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:10:02 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
fenestral hordes.
I rather like your description of them but wouldn't it have been
more proper to use
On Thursday 20 March 2014 00:12:53 Charles Kroeger wrote:
I'm awfully American but I once lived in your country for many
enjoyable years. Tell me this, are you English Scottish Welsh
Northern Irish or just British
I'm a European British English Cockney. Well, I would be if the
Germans hadn't
Hi, Ken,
On Thursday 20 March 2014 13:33:17 Ken Heard wrote:
I think having new hardware newer than available drivers probably
did contribute to some of my problems. I did not however want to
try something new like one of the buntus, even though they are
based on Debian; so I stuck with
On Thursday 20 March 2014 14:51:25 Ken Heard wrote:
I also seem to
remember that about a year ago you had trouble activating sound in
your machine. I will work on that problem when I have time.
Yes. :-( And my husband's sound is still not working - he only wanted
it for the first time the
On Friday 21 March 2014 04:29:25 Ken Heard wrote:
I discovered just a few minutes ago (c. 11:00 2014-03-21 Friday
where I am) that the latest kernel in wheezy-backports is
3.13.0.bpo1-amd64
Thanks for the heads up Ken. Have just run full-upgrade. Though I
will have ot resatrt to change
On Friday 21 March 2014 05:06:52 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
However, if you
are running amd64 (64 bit) instead of i386 (32 bit) those kernels
will not be available for you to install via apt-get.
I get them via aptitude on Wheezy. I initially installed the
backported kernel (new hardware), and
On Friday 21 March 2014 09:05:37 Ron Leach wrote:
I want to record some radio programs and DST and BST don't start
and stop at the same times.
The way you do this is you start whatever you're using to record
the programs with TZ=Europe/London instead of changing
/etc/localtime
Seems
On Friday 21 March 2014 11:06:03 Robin wrote:
If someone has physical access to your
machine can't they just power off and go into single user mode and
change the root password?
The default on Debian since I have been using it is that the root
password is required for access via single user
On Friday 21 March 2014 20:02:38 Ron Leach wrote:
The OP might want to keep in mind
that the time he thinks he has set his recording to start may be 35
seconds adrift from when the broadcaster might start. At least, he
might want to check what time he uses, and what time the
broadcaster of
On Friday 21 March 2014 20:43:37 Ron Leach wrote:
And, like the OP, I don't want to miss the start of radio
programmes because the time isn't correct, aligned, or understood.
Never listen to the BBC then.
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On Wednesday 26 March 2014 22:14:05 Nils Erik Svangård wrote:
Well I installed from unstable (I think). I have debianmultimedia
in my sources.list, but I think XBMC comes from the debian servers.
I did quite a bit of googling before posting. I didnt find anything
really relevant. I looks like
On Monday 31 March 2014 21:19:32 Martin G. McCormick wrote:
I was the one who wanted to record a couple of radio
shows from the BBC and not have to remember to juggle chrontab
files for the several weeks when the US is using DST and the
UK isn't. This occurs in the last week of October
On Tuesday 01 April 2014 11:58:30 Brad Rogers wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:42:41 +0100
Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Lisi,
Also for the record, when I set my system time to Europe/London/
(my hardware clock is set to UTC), my system, for some obscure
reason, determinedly
On Tuesday 01 April 2014 11:57:03 Stephen Allen wrote:
In my opinion no - expecting new users to Debian to read an install
report is problematic. Using the net-install I wasn't prompted for
what I wanted in terms of a Desktop Environment. Xfce4 isn't what
most users with modern hardware would
On Wednesday 02 April 2014 02:18:18 Stephen Allen wrote:
Lisi said:
Newbies would be ill-advised to start off with Jessie, IMHO.
Stable is a better place to start, especially if the putative
newbie has no help.
Disagree - most probably would want testing or SID. Stable is well
suited
On Wednesday 26 March 2014 14:25:08 Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
wrote:
* You do the network install
* Choose Expert install or whatever it's called
* Say yes (default is no) to install nonfree software
Thanks, Steve. I had failed to realise that. :-( Useful.
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On Saturday 29 March 2014 19:15:42 Frank Stachyra wrote:
The apparent list of commands at the bottom of the page (e.g., ^G
for Get Help, ^X for Exit, ^etc, etc) produce no result when typed
in, except that they appear as text.
What are you typing? Are you typing (sorry, I shall have to use
On Wednesday 02 April 2014 19:31:59 Stephen Allen wrote:
Yes know about the CDs and the DVDs - I'm talking about what
happened during a net-install using the defaults. Geesus do really
expect a new user to jump through hoops? You're mad if you do. LOL
Since you are so unhappy with Debian's
On Friday 04 April 2014 08:05:51 Chris Bannister wrote:
You can't send money through the post
Since when? An elderly relative used often to do so. (She is dead
now, hence the past tense.)
Lisi
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On Friday 04 April 2014 08:05:51 Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:00:09PM +0100, Brian wrote:
Electronic mail is rapidly becoming a toy communication system.
How many people would tolerate their usual postal services (Royal
Mail in my case) making any decision whatsoever
On Friday 04 April 2014 18:45:59 Brian wrote:
Is there an 'Oldie Badge' to display for some members of this list.
:-)
Perhaps have a female version? A pendant perhaps?? ;-)
Lisi
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On Saturday 05 April 2014 14:44:27 john s. wrote:
ps. sorry about multiple copies.
If you know that you are doing it, why are you doing it? The
postings are from 3 different addresses, which has presumably got
something to do with it. Whatever the reason, once is enough.
Lisi
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On Saturday 05 April 2014 17:13:58 Curt wrote:
he asked the wrong question (3 times, and will be shot at dawn by
Lisi)
;-)
Sorry - I have an awful cough at the moment (birch pollen) and am
getting very little sleep. :-( So it did come out a bit grumpy. I
am a bit grumpy at the moment. But
On Saturday 05 April 2014 17:05:36 ray wrote:
I did find an article to edit the default desktop manager
Which desktop manager are you using? Once we know, one of us will be
able to tell you how to switch.
I'm sure that you don't need to edit anything.
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On Saturday 05 April 2014 17:16:06 ray wrote:
How do I switch between them?
Via your DM when you log on.
Lisi
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On Saturday 05 April 2014 18:04:18 Tony van der Hoff wrote:
OK, a bit OTT, but surely not worth making a fuss over...
No. Mea culpa. Would that I could give up the birch twigs!! My
husband looked at me this morning and suggested going abroad
somewhere for a few weeks - somewhere where they
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