Avocent 100 KVM switch problems

2012-08-13 Thread Gary Roach
I just purchased an Avocent Switchview 100-4 KVM+Audio switch. I have 2 Debian systems and 1 Windows 2000 system. Everything works fine except that the scroll lock key will not switch channels when connected to a Debian system but works fine when connected to the Windows system. Further, the

Changing to digest form

2012-08-17 Thread Gary Roach
Hi I'm presently using the standard form of this mailing list and wish to change to the digest form. Can I just re-subscribe to the digest form or do I have to unsubscribe from the standard for as well. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Changing to digest form

2012-08-22 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/21/2012 11:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 13:51 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Camaleón wrote: Gary Roach wrote: I'm presently using the standard form of this mailing list and wish to change to the digest form. If you want to post replies, I

Re: Changing to digest form

2012-08-23 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/22/2012 02:16 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Gary Roach wrote: OK, OK I'm convinced. I'll stay with the normal list. :-) I just needed to get used to the difference. I am so very used to seeing threaded message discussions that not having those would drive me crazy. I

Xsane error with Workforce 645 printer

2012-09-07 Thread Gary Roach
Hi everyone Our old epson printer just threw a rod so we replace it with a new Epson Workforce 645 printer. Nice printer. I am trying to get the scanner to work with Xsane and keep getting the error Failed to start scanner:Error during device I/O The printer is setup as a stand alone

workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets

2012-09-10 Thread Gary Roach
Earlier I was complaining about Xsine not working with this new printer but the main problem seems to be that the printer doesn't see any of the computers on the hardwired network. I am running Squeeze, Wheezy and Win2K on various systems on the hardwired part of the LAN. I have Samba

Re: [OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets

2012-09-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/11/2012 09:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: El 2012-09-11 a las 09:26 -0700, Gary Roach escribió: (please, reply to the list) Sorry. I'll be more careful in the future. On 09/11/2012 07:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:02:42 -0700, Gary Roach wrote

Re: [OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets

2012-09-12 Thread Gary Roach
OK. Lets start over. Configuration: 1. Epson Workforce 645 All in one 2. Network mix of hardwired Win2K and linux computers and an XP wireless. All with fixed IP addresses. 3. 645 now hardwired to router. Fixed IP address set in router and 645. 4. Router - Actiontec M1424-WR plus Cisco

Re: [OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets (SOLVED SORT OF)

2012-09-14 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/13/2012 08:58 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:14:09 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: OK. Lets start over. Configuration: 1. Epson Workforce 645 All in one 2. Network mix of hardwired Win2K and linux computers and an XP wireless. All with fixed IP addresses. 3. 645 now hardwired

Re: [OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets (SOLVED SORT OF)

2012-09-15 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/14/2012 09:19 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:20:30 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/13/2012 08:58 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) Next time, instead giving your money to Epson that shows no interest in Linux, consider twice another alternatives (HP has a nice job

Film scanner software / hardware.

2012-09-20 Thread Gary Roach
After review a gazillion scanners I have concluded that the Plustek OpticFilm 7400 is my best choice for my needs and my budget. Unfortunately, they don't support Linux. Vuescan doesn't support this Plustek scanner. Does anyone know of a software solution to this problem or know of a scanner

Using Debian icedove to automatically send mail

2012-10-03 Thread Gary Roach
Is there any way to setup Icedove to automatically send out a monthly message. System: Debian Sqeeze KDE Desktop Icedove mail client I have tried to setup Exim several times with no success. I don't want to go there. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Adding user to dual boot laptop

2012-10-09 Thread Gary Roach
I have a Toshiba Qosmio with 2 60 GB hard drives, one with Windows XP and the other with Debian Squeeze. I just decided to add my wife as a user to the linux side. For some reason the login screen won't work. I set up her account in passwd and group and I set up her home directory. I can log

Fwd: Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop

2012-10-09 Thread Gary Roach
Original Message From: - Tue Oct 09 19:43:56 2012 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 0080 X-Mozilla-Keys: Message-ID: 5074e0eb.6080...@verizon.net Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:43:55 -0700 From: Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net User

Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop

2012-10-10 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/09/2012 04:53 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I have a Toshiba Qosmio with 2 60 GB hard drives, one with Windows XP and the other with Debian Squeeze. I just decided to add my wife as a user to the linux side. For some reason the login screen won't work. I set up her account in passwd and group

Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop

2012-10-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/11/2012 11:32 AM, Curt wrote: On 2012-10-10, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: 3. Permissions, owners and structure for files passwd, shadow and group are exactly the same as my entries. How about user home directory and other user file permissions (which shouldn't

Re: Adding user to dual boot laptop

2012-10-13 Thread Gary Roach
On 10/12/2012 09:34 AM, Joe wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:03:04 + (UTC) Curtcu...@free.fr wrote: On 2012-10-11, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/11/2012 11:32 AM, Curt wrote: On 2012-10-10, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: 3.

Clobbered digest volumes

2012-06-14 Thread Gary Roach
I am pasting in a sample of what I am receiving from you. This problem has been around for about a month. I have no idea what is going on. I use Icedove on a Debian Squeeze system and a verizon.net provider. Any help will be appreciated. Gary R. Message as received: ForwardedMessage.eml

Clobbered digest volumes (more info)

2012-06-15 Thread Gary Roach
Looking closer at the problem, (see Clobbered digest volumes in Volume 2012 #1342) I find that I occasionally receive a correct message. The returns of my own are correct and some others. The bad messages all have the header information after the text and trigger the error message: Error:

BackupPC restore problem

2012-11-14 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all I sent a copy of this to the backuppc mailing list but response is a bit slow. So if someone has some experience with backuppc and can help, it will be sincerely appreciated. I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery

Re: BackupPC restore problem

2012-11-15 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/14/2012 05:53 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 11/14/12 12:48, Gary Roach wrote: I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts didn't work so I reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system. What do you mean

SD card formatting problem

2012-11-17 Thread Gary Roach
I have a 32GB sd card that I have been trying to use as a transfer disk for a 19GB file. Each time, the file copies (cp command) to 4GB and stops. I tried to reformat to vfat with the same results. The df command shows the card has 32GB. I thought that vfat was only good to 4 GB but the card

Can;t fix doc-base installation problem

2012-11-20 Thread Gary Roach
Hi everyone: I've had to restore one of my systems from cold iron. Aptitude seems to be hanging up when trying to install / purge / update doc-base. I've tried Aptitude, dpkg and apt-get including the -f switch with no joy. Below is a typical example: root@mycomputer:/home/gary#

Re: SD card formatting problem (SOLVED)

2012-11-20 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/17/2012 02:47 PM, Greg Madden wrote: On Saturday 17 November 2012 10:36:07 you wrote: I have a 32GB sd card that I have been trying to use as a transfer disk for a 19GB file. Each time, the file copies (cp command) to 4GB and stops. I tried to reformat to vfat with the same results.

Re: Netflix on Debian Linux

2012-11-20 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/20/2012 11:13 AM, Mark Allums wrote: Hi Guys, Last month I signed a netflix account just to be amazed it did not work nor give support to linux. It requires Silverlight, which Microsoft never ported to Linux. Silverlight requires Dot Net, and while Mono works really well, it

Re: Netflix on Debian Linux

2012-11-20 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/20/2012 02:33 PM, Beco wrote: Hi Ralf, yes I agree: using software that is not stable sucks. I won't try this fix and bang my head to have some version of wine and silverlight to work. Nah... Thanks Gary D., for the link. I see your point, and I was angry when I discovered they didn't

Re: Guide / Tools

2012-11-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/21/2012 06:02 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Crypticmofo wrote: Hello I'm new to debian and i hang out in the irc channels .. i realize that irc is there really for support so i wanted to take my question here .. From the more exprienced Debian users can you guys paste or post a list

Re: Can;t fix doc-base installation problem

2012-11-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/20/2012 10:49 AM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi everyone: I've had to restore one of my systems from cold iron. Aptitude seems to be hanging up when trying to install / purge / update doc-base. I've tried Aptitude, dpkg and apt-get including the -f switch with no joy. Below is a typical

Re: Can't fix doc-base installation problem (DONE)

2012-11-22 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/22/2012 03:46 AM, Tom Furie wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 04:19:28PM -0800, Gary Roach wrote: root@mycomputer:/etc/doc-base# aptitude reinstall doc-base It seems that some files are missing (install-docs?) but I can't determine what they are or where they are. Some help

Re: Guide / Tools

2012-11-22 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/21/2012 06:02 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Crypticmofo wrote: Hello I'm new to debian and i hang out in the irc channels .. i realize that irc is there really for support so i wanted to take my question here .. From the more exprienced Debian users can you guys paste or post a list of

Re: screensaver recommendation

2012-11-23 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/23/2012 10:52 AM, Javier Vasquez wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:03 AM, Darac Marjalmailingl...@darac.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:42:33AM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, I wish to have a screensaver. Thanks ahead for recommendation. Below are some background info.:

Restore problems with backuppc and apache

2012-11-23 Thread Gary Roach
I have a Wheezy system setup with backuppc to back up 3 computers - all ext3/4 systems. I have been trying to restore to a cold iron system. Every time I try to create a restore.tar file the process stops at 331KB when the file should be about 21GB. The file contains the directories and no

Restore problems with backuppc and apache

2012-11-23 Thread Gary Roach
I have a Wheezy system setup with backuppc to back up 3 computers - all ext3/4 systems. I have been trying to restore to a cold iron system. Every time I try to create a restore.tar file the process stops at 331KB when the file should be about 21GB. The file contains the directories and no

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

2012-11-24 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/24/2012 05:06 AM, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 11:02:42AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 11/24/12, Andrei POPESCUandreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Vi, 23 nov 12, 07:25:29, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2012 23 Nov 05:43 -0600, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2012-11-26 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/26/2012 07:10 AM, Curt Howland wrote: Hi. I have a HP inkjet printer, PSC2100 from 2003, which still works fine but something in Debian has changed. It used to print graphics and photographs very well. But a year or so ago graphics stopped being nice and started being grainy and speckled,

Messed up root

2012-11-26 Thread Gary Roach
I've done the unthinkable. I accidentally changed root to qroot in my /etc/passwd file and then proceeded to log out of root. All of the files in /etc were changed to owner qroot and the root password doesn't work any more. I have a new Knoppix CD and a new Debian network install CD. Can I use

Re: Kobo or Kindle

2012-11-30 Thread Gary Roach
On 11/30/2012 05:46 AM, Johann Spies wrote: On 29 November 2012 15:36, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com mailto:kelly.clow...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: Dear fellows, I have a Kobo and I like it pretty well. One issue I do have

Re: Messed up root (SOLVED)

2012-11-30 Thread Gary Roach
/ alright , as we go now ... chroot /mnt/ /bin/bash and now is on your debian and you can change the owner to root ... chown -hR root /etc On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 04:43:29PM -0800, Gary Roach wrote: I've done the unthinkable. I accidentally changed root to qroot in my /etc/passwd file

Apt-get hangup

2012-12-06 Thread Gary Roach
I just had to do a major restore on one of my systems and am having trouble with updates. Openoffice.org seems to be the biggest problem. There is a whole bunch of partially configured packages and I can't seem to do any of the aptitude, apt-get, dpkg-reconfigure or apt-cache functions. A

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/11/2012 07:50 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Mark Panenmark.pa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am replying to all, not used to sitting in the dark with the light of the notebook to type only, Out here in the sticks there are always power failures when it rains.

Re: Apt-get hangup (SOLVED)

2012-12-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/06/2012 11:03 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Gary Roach wrote: I just had to do a major restore on one of my systems and am having trouble with updates. What happened? And what did you do when you say you did a major restore? Setting up openoffice.org-core (1:3.2.1-11

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/11/2012 09:10 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: The first thing I would do is run a post check on the motherboard. If you are lucky your board has a built in post card Uh, what? I would not call that luck, I

KDE kickoff launcher problem

2012-12-11 Thread Gary Roach
Hi again (still?): Debian Squeeze system. After hammering down all of the problems caused by my abortive restore operation, I am left with problems with the KDE Kickoff launcher. Some of my software packages work fine with either the kickoff launcher or with desktop icons. Others won't work

Re: Apt-get hangup (SOLVED)

2012-12-12 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/12/2012 01:10 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Gary Roach wrote: The restore problem is a long story. Lets just say that what i've got is all I'm going to get. Ouch. Sorry to hear. But good to hear that things have moved forward for you. Things have changed since I started

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

2012-12-18 Thread Gary Roach
On 12/16/2012 07:50 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 12/12/2012 8:02 PM, Mark Panen wrote: The OP should be experienced with soldering multi-layer boards really why should he be? Are all IT personal hardware fundies as well? I started late in the IT business with a totally different previous

Combining Icedove data

2013-01-05 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all; I am trying to combine the information from my laptop version of Icedove into the icedove copy on my home PC. I have the import / export addon installed on the PC copy. Both files presently reside at /etc/.icedove/x.default on the PC. I am presently using Debian Wheezy and

Re: Combining Icedove data

2013-01-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/05/2013 03:45 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 01/05/13 13:27, Gary Roach wrote: I am trying to combine the information from my laptop version of Icedove into the icedove copy on my home PC. Inside Icedove, I keep my e-mail messages in local folders named after my username and year

Re: Combining Icedove data

2013-01-06 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/06/2013 05:03 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 01/06/13 13:57, Gary Roach wrote: Unfortunately, I have two of the .default directories that need to be combined into one. Have you tried the file system copy and paste method I outlined? Did it work? If it didn't work or doesn't meet

icedove's auxiliary functions not working.

2013-01-12 Thread Gary Roach
Debian wheezy Icedove 10.0.11 Recently Icedove quit following url's to the web browser and quit playing embedded videos. I can't seem to find the source of the problem. I've checked all of the settings on both iceweasel and icedove and couldn't fine anything wrong. Iceweasel works fine. Any

Re: icedove's auxiliary functions not working. (Solved)

2013-01-12 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/12/2013 01:30 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Gary Roachgaryro...@verizon.net wrote: Debian wheezy Icedove 10.0.11 Recently Icedove quit following url's to the web browser and quit playing embedded videos. I can't seem to find the source of the problem.

Re: icedove's auxiliary functions not working.

2013-01-12 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/12/2013 12:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Debian wheezy Icedove 10.0.11 Recently Icedove quit following url's to the web browser and quit playing embedded videos. I can't seem to find the source of the problem. I've checked all of the settings on both iceweasel and icedove and couldn't fine

Grub infinite loop problem on dual boot system

2013-01-28 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all; I have a Toshiba Qosmio laptop that has 2 60 GB drives. I formatted one with the Windows XP that is needed to run all of the bells and whistles that the Qosmio provides. I installed Debian Squeeze on the other drive and used Grub as the boot loader. This setup worked fine. I recently

Re: Grub infinite loop problem on dual boot system

2013-01-28 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/28/2013 02:57 PM, sp113438 wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:15:07 -0800 Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Hi all; I have a Toshiba Qosmio laptop that has 2 60 GB drives. I formatted one with the Windows XP that is needed to run all of the bells and whistles that the Qosmio

dxsamples contains no samples

2012-01-22 Thread Gary Roach
I am trying to use Opendx in squeeze. For some reason aptitude install dxsamples only loads the following in the /usr/share/doc/dxsamples directory: changelog.Debian.gz changelog.gz copyright No sample programs are included. Anyone know whats wrong. There should be a

Bug reporting

2012-02-01 Thread Gary Roach
I've been using Debian for years and still can't seem to submit a bug report successfully. One of the main problems is that I have no mail server active on my system. I use Icedove. I have tried to setup exim several times and have always given up in disgust. The instructions for reporting by

Backup System

2012-02-02 Thread Gary Roach
I have 3 computer running on Debian Squeeze. One has an unused hard drive that I wish to use as a backup disk for all 3 computers. Is there a simple way to do this that can be completely automated. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Backup System part deux

2012-02-09 Thread Gary Roach
Thanks for all of the help last time . I installed Backupninja easily. After getting it running I realized that it didn't quite do what I wanted. I was looking for a package that could be installed in the server with little need for additional programs to be installed on each machine. So,

Font intensity on desktop

2012-03-05 Thread Gary Roach
Hi I have two systems running Debian Squeeze and have essentially the same setup. I am running an ATI Radeon HD 5450 on my main system which has good readable print on both the desktop icons and on the bottom panel. My other system (older) is running an ATI Radeon RV250 and has lousy

vsftp problems

2012-03-13 Thread Gary Roach
Hi Setting up vsftp should be a snap. Just follow the howto. Right. With listen=YES in the .conf file and try to ftp the server from another system on my network, I get: On the server: root@x2:/etc# service vsftpd start Started FTP server: vsftpd Note: ps xaf doesn't show vsftpd to be

Re: Re: vsftp problems

2012-03-15 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: Try running /usr/sbin/vsftpd by hand (as root) from a session on your server. Does it print any diagnostic output? OK. Now I have 3 machines that are setup identically. The vsftpd.conf files have the following settings: Listen=YES

Re: Re: vsftp problems

2012-03-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: On 16/03/12 01:50, Gary Roach wrote: 500 OOPS: could not bind listening IPv4 socket Are you attempting to start it by hand as root? If so, can you try lsof -ni:21? It looks like something else has bound to your port 21. Good suggestion

Re: vsftp problems

2012-03-18 Thread Gary Roach
On 03/18/2012 08:11 AM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Gary, OK. Now I have 3 machines that are setup identically. The vsftpd.conf files have the following settings: Listen=YES #Listen_IPV6 Anonymous=YES #Local_enabled=YES #Write_enabled=YES Setting

Re: vsftp problems (SOLVED)

2012-03-19 Thread Gary Roach
Well, isn't this embarrassing. Nowhere does it say that you may have to reboot your systems after installation of vsftpd. When I found that a script for vsftpd had been installed in the rc*.d files I decided to see what would happen if I rebooted the system. This fixed the problems on every

icedove password problem

2012-03-26 Thread Gary Roach
I had to change the password on my verizon email account. Now verizon email refuses to accept email I send to one of my accounts because the password Icedove is sending is wrong. How do I go about fixing this. Preferences - Security - Saved Passwords displays the passwords for my other account

Re: Re: icedove password problem (Solved)

2012-03-27 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:35:17 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I had to change the password on my verizon email account. Now verizon email refuses to accept email I send to one of my accounts because the password Icedove is sending is wrong. How do I go

ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-07 Thread Gary Roach
I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I try. The reason is that it can't find the WD600BB, 60 GB hard drive. A second try usually fixed the

Re: Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-08 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 08/04/12 09:41, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I try

Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-08 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I

Re: Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem (CLOSED)

2012-04-10 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: El 2012-04-08 a las 20:26 -0700, Gary Roach escribió: (resending to the list) On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely

What files to backup

2012-04-10 Thread Gary Roach
I have three standard Debian Squeeze systems and am setting up Backuppc to backup to an extra hard drive I have on one of the systems. I plan on backing up the following directories: /etc /home /var/www (An Apache server resides on one of the systems) Is there anything else that

Iceweasel mess with this mailing list

2012-04-25 Thread Gary Roach
I'm not sure where the problem lies, but all of the mail I am receiving from this mailing list is coming in as attachments to attachments to a blank email. This mailing list is different than the others to which I subcribe in that after the index all of the messages are attachments. All my

Re: Iceweasel mess with this mailing list (Solved)

2012-04-25 Thread Gary Roach
Sorry about the Iceweasel. Yes I meant Icedove. I was mucking around with the settings and ran across Display Attachments Inline under the View menu. I checked it and the problem went away. I'm not sure why this should make such a difference but it does. The package now works as it should.

Second acount on iceweasel

2011-01-05 Thread Gary Roach
I have this iceweasel account (debian machine) for technical stuff and another acount (thunderbird) on a win2k machine for my normal email. I want to transfer the win2k account to this machine. How do I do that without getting the two accounts intermingled. Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Two email accounts

2011-02-16 Thread Gary Roach
I am trying to consolidate most of my applications onto a new machine. I have two separate email accounts, one for technical stuff and one for general email. I wish to have these two accounts on the same machine but completely separated. I'm running squeeze on an i5-750 system with kde desktop

Cups - software cant find

2006-12-30 Thread Gary Roach
Hi I have a 3 computer, plus linksys switch, home network. Two of the computers run Win2K and one uses Debian Linux. One of the Win2K systems is acting as my print server. I use Samba on the Debian box to tie everything together. The network works fine. The CUPS installation on the Debian

Re: Mapping version number to version name

2006-12-31 Thread Gary Roach
Ottavio Caruso wrote: Hi all, Happy New Year! I know I can get my Debian's version number in /etc/debian_version file. But how I map this to its name (Sarge, Potato, Woody)? Thank you Happy New Year to You too. There is a list of releases with numbers at http://www.debian.org/releases/ but

CUPS - application software cant find CUPS

2007-01-01 Thread Gary Roach
Hi (Originally CUPS - software cant find) This is a re-issue of the same problem. I had no takers on the first round and am still having serious problems. I have tried everything in the debian mini HOWTO to no avail. I have a 3 computer, plus linksys switch, home network. Two of the

Re: CUPS - application software cant find CUPS

2007-01-01 Thread Gary Roach
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 06:29:33PM +, Gary Roach wrote: HP 940C fine. Not one single piece of application software on the Debian box can find CUPS. Do you have the cups-bsd package installed on your Debian box? Regards, -Roberto Thanks for the reply

MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

2007-01-03 Thread Gary Roach
Check out a couple of not so on topic entries. exacting Schooolgirls doinng splendiferous suckiing. susan 12/30/2006 2:00PM and YOUR INHERITANCE FUNDS OF $15.5MMike Dana Will 01/02/2007 4:30AM Im not exactly a prude but it does clutter up the group. The advertising just

Transfering iceweasel bookmark files to new system

2010-07-21 Thread Gary Roach
Hi; I am replacing my oldest 1GHZ box with a new 2.65 x 4 GHz box. Both are running Debian Squeeze. How do I transfer the iceweasel setup from the one computer to the other and combine the bookmarks from the two units. As an aside, is there any way to determine the purpose of all of the

Re:Tranfering iceweasel bookmark filest to new system (SOLVED)

2010-07-22 Thread Gary Roach
Thank you one and all for the help especially Kelly Clowers' missive. Gary R. -- 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/4c4876ce.9060...@verizon.net

Intel P55 chip set sound missing

2010-07-22 Thread Gary Roach
Another installation problem for my new DP55KG motherboard with an i5-750 4 core cpu. No Sound!. The chipset is the P55 set and supports AC-97 and HDA protocols. I used the latest Debian Squeeze Network Installation Disk. Neither the onboard jacks or the front panel jacks work. I've checked

Re: Intel P55 chip set sound missing (SOLVED)

2010-07-22 Thread Gary Roach
Sorry. The PCM Control was off. I missed it. Gary R -- 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/4c48a40b.7020...@verizon.net

KDE Desktop Themes

2010-07-26 Thread Gary Roach
I have 2 identical Debian Linux setups, one on an old system and the other on a brand new system. The desktop themes for the new system are listed as: Air Aya Blend Elegance Heron Oxygen Silicon Slim

Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

2010-08-04 Thread Gary Roach
Hi; I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc. Examples are notes on harware, sources for stuff, notes on possible projects, book that I might want to buy in the future and on and on. This has generated

Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

2010-08-05 Thread Gary Roach
Thanks for all of the responses. I thought that since they were so wide ranging that a condensed list might be helpful to others. Obviously I'm not the only one with the problem. In no particular order: Run own (private, locked-down) Mediawiki installation - this allows access where

Samba Difficultidw

2010-08-12 Thread Gary Roach
I have a mix of Win2K and Debian Linux computers. My cable router/switch is acting as a DHCP server and a DNS server for my internal 19.168.1. network. My new computer Lzit1 is acting as a smbd, nmbd and winbind server. My Lzit2 is acting as a samba client. Wzit3 and Wzit4 also exist. When

Re: Samba Difficultidw

2010-08-12 Thread Gary Roach
= printable = Yes printer name = epson I am thoroughly confused. Can any one help. Thanks Gary R. On 08/12/2010 01:08 PM, Gary Roach wrote: I have a mix of Win2K and Debian Linux computers. My cable router/switch is acting as a DHCP server and a DNS server for my internal 19.168.1. network. My

Re: Samba Difficultidw

2010-08-13 Thread Gary Roach
Hi: Thanks for the replies. First hdb/ is an extra drive that is being used for backup files and is not usually accessed. The permissions are the same as /home/gary. Second Camaleon's ? comments about samba have made me re-evaluate my approach to the network transparancy problem. I have

Cups+gutenprint color balance shot.

2010-08-21 Thread Gary Roach
Hi; I have been doing all of my color printing on my Win2K system directly attached to an Epson stylus photo RX680 printer. All is well. I just installed a new computer on my office network that runs on linux. I am using Samba and Cups+gutenprint v5.2.5 with the Win2K/Epson printer as my

Re: Cups+gutenprint color balance shot.

2010-08-21 Thread Gary Roach
Thanks for the return. The RX680 is listed as one the printers in the Cups setup program. Here is the file you requested. # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.4.4 # Written by cupsd # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING Printer epson Info Epson Stylus Photo RX680 Location Here

Mailing list protocol

2010-08-25 Thread Gary Roach
Hi; This is kind of an embarrassing question considering I have been subscribed to this list for several years. What is the protocol for a reply. Though I have bumbled through the process in the past, I am not sure how it should really be done. I searched for about a half hour on google and

Re: Installing mysqldump

2013-08-09 Thread Gary Roach
On 08/09/2013 08:05 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - I am trying to install mysqldump. Here is what I get - apt-get install mysql-client-5.5 Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to

Kate plugins

2013-08-22 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I need to install Python and Django plugins for Kate. I downloaded a file from the KDE git repository. It installed a directory tree of files in my home directory. I transfered the directory tree (Kate-plugins) to usr/share/apps as suggested in the documentation.The plugin list in

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/20/2013 08:40 PM, drew craig wrote: On Friday, September 13, 2013 10:00:03 AM UTC-4, Lisi Reisz wrote: The problem has arisen since I upgraded. Sound was fine in Squeeze. Now, when I run alsamixergui: lisi@Tux-II:~$ alsamixergui I get an error box saying: alsamixer: function

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-21 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/21/2013 02:39 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:46:45AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: root@mysystem:/etc# service alsa-utils restart [ ok ] Shutting down ALSA...done. [] Setting up ALSA...warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-22 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/21/2013 04:18 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 2012 /var/lib/alsa root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /root drwx-- 15

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-23 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/22/2013 10:35 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/21/2013 04:18 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 29 2012 /var/lib/alsa root

Re: Sound problems on Wheezy upgrade

2013-09-24 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/23/2013 10:59 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/22/2013 10:35 AM, Gary Roach wrote: On 09/21/2013 04:18 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 04:07:49PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: In reply to your question: root@mysite:/var/lib# ls -ld /var/lib/alsa drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

Debian setup for python django development

2013-10-28 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all, I have been trying to set up a python, django, mysql development project and am really confused. All of the documentation seems to ignore the apt-get installation methods used by ebian and its derivatives. Does pip install the same as Aptitude ( I don't think so). If I use

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