Re:[Solved] youtube error msg & html5

2017-09-12 Thread Whit Hansell
For grins, I tried restarting Firefox w/o plugins. Then went to youtube and tried a video. Worked perfectly. So knew it was a plug-in. Turned out to be "You tube flashplayer - html5." disabled it and Voila' it worked. Thank you all for your help. Much appreciated... Reg

Re: youtube error msg & html5

2017-09-12 Thread Whit Hansell
On 09/12/2017 06:48 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:40:40AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: apt-get install youtube-viewer cclive youtube-dl Indeed. One of those 3 should solve it. youtube-dl is good for seamless integration with mpv, which is why i prefer it. Reco

Re: youtube error msg & html5

2017-09-12 Thread Whit Hansell
button in the video frame. It no longer works Thanks. Whit Hansell On 09/11/2017 06:40 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 12/09/17 09:34, Whit Hansell wrote: Does anyone know what to do abouut this error messagfe on YouTube.??? Your browser does not currently recognize any

youtube error msg & html5

2017-09-11 Thread Whit Hansell
Does anyone know what to do abouut this error messagfe on YouTube.??? Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available Thanks. I've searched for the answer but nothing makes any sense and many of the answers are very old The youtube screen points

Re: Laser Printer recommendation...

2017-07-07 Thread Whit Hansell
On 07/07/2017 07:14 AM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 07/03/2017 02:41 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I am interested in finding one as i am sick and tired of buying ink ev

Re: Laser Printer recommendation...

2017-07-03 Thread Whit Hansell
On 07/03/2017 05:45 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Mon, 3 Jul 2017 11:54:34 -0400 Whit Hansell <skippe...@comcast.net> wrote: On 07/03/2017 10:41 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, July 03, 2017 07:41:31 AM Whit Hansell wrote: Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner)

Re: Laser Printer recommendation...

2017-07-03 Thread Whit Hansell
On 07/03/2017 12:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 03 July 2017 10:41:13 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, July 03, 2017 07:41:31 AM Whit Hansell wrote: Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I

Re: Laser Printer recommendation...

2017-07-03 Thread Whit Hansell
On 07/03/2017 03:22 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 07/03/17 04:41, Whit Hansell wrote: Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I am interested in finding one as i am sick and tired of buying ink every mo

Re: Laser Printer recommendation...

2017-07-03 Thread Whit Hansell
On 07/03/2017 02:46 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 12:39:06PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 03 July 2017 10:41:13 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, July 03, 2017 07:41:31 AM Whit Hansell wrote: Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer

Re: Laser Printer recommendation...

2017-07-03 Thread Whit Hansell
On 07/03/2017 01:41 PM, Tom Dial wrote: On 07/03/2017 05:41 AM, Whit Hansell wrote: Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I am interested in finding one as i am sick and tired of buying ink every month e

Re: Laser Printer recommendation...

2017-07-03 Thread Whit Hansell
On 07/03/2017 10:41 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, July 03, 2017 07:41:31 AM Whit Hansell wrote: Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I am interested in finding one as i am sick and tired of buy

Re: Laser Printer recommendation...

2017-07-03 Thread Whit Hansell
On 07/03/2017 08:05 AM, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 07:41:31AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I am interested in finding one as i am sick and ti

Laser Printer recommendation...

2017-07-03 Thread Whit Hansell
Can anyone recommend a monochrome (black toner) laser printer that is currently available and reasonably priced (<$300). I am interested in finding one as i am sick and tired of buying ink every month even when I'm not printing much. Have tried the Brother 2270DW but can't get it to work.

Re: apt WAS:var is full...

2015-11-19 Thread Whit Hansell
Thanks for the info J. I use autoclean instead of clean and it shows certain packages deleted list after the upgrade. My normal update/upgrade regimen goes thusly: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get autoclean updatedb I don't know if that is the bestest and greatest way to do it but

var is full...

2015-11-18 Thread Whit Hansell
Hey y'all, my Var directory is 100% full. I have googled abouit it and reallly haven't gotten a decent idea of what I can safely delete from var. I have bot tmp and cache subdirectories and can easily fump the tmp but it is very small and won't really give me much room. Can anyone with

Re: var is full...(Solved)

2015-11-18 Thread Whit Hansell
To all, [Brad, Hans, Jorg-Volker, Brian and David] Thank you all for your replies. I just got done moving free space from Home to my var partition, again.Darn Debian installer uses too small a var partition as mentioned in my OP. Let me apologize for those who thought I meant I could not

Re: {SOLVED}virtualbox-usb printer not recognized

2015-09-10 Thread Whit Hansell
On 08/25/2015 06:19 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: On 08/25/2015 12:48 AM, Seeker wrote: On 8/24/2015 6:27 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: Well, I've got the new virtualbox set up and all is good except my usb hP 5600 series printer is not recognized so I can print and scan with it. My webcam works

Re: virtualbox-usb printer not recognized

2015-08-25 Thread Whit Hansell
On 08/25/2015 12:48 AM, Seeker wrote: On 8/24/2015 6:27 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: Well, I've got the new virtualbox set up and all is good except my usb hP 5600 series printer is not recognized so I can print and scan with it. My webcam works. My usb keyboard works. My wifi usb mouse

virtualbox-usb printer not recognized

2015-08-24 Thread Whit Hansell
Well, I've got the new virtualbox set up and all is good except my usb hP 5600 series printer is not recognized so I can print and scan with it. My webcam works. My usb keyboard works. My wifi usb mouse works. But my printer isn't recognized. I have all the info in the usb filter setup

Re: Request virtualbox setup advice

2015-08-21 Thread Whit Hansell
On 08/21/2015 09:00 AM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: On Friday 21 August 2015 10:33:23 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2015 20:56:39 Whit Hansell wrote: Please advise. I would love to have a good working version of Windows on my Linux box for the few times it is needed. I personally would

Re: Request virtualbox setup advice

2015-08-21 Thread Whit Hansell
On 08/21/2015 05:33 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2015 20:56:39 Whit Hansell wrote: Please advise. I would love to have a good working version of Windows on my Linux box for the few times it is needed. I personally would avoid all risk of conflict and purge VB with your

Request virtualbox setup advice

2015-08-20 Thread Whit Hansell
Hey guys, Been reading the virtual noob posts and a statement there intrigued me. Someone said Oracle recommended using the virtualbox files from their site rather than from the distro(Debian 8 - Jessie-AMD64). I have used virtualbox in the past and had difficulty with I/O(usb) and found out

Re: Help-Install not compatible with my PC

2015-07-24 Thread Whit Hansell
On 07/24/2015 02:55 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 24/07/15 02:11 PM, Chris wrote: Hi, I've looked every where but cant find anything other than people saying try the net install I've tried the net install and it still has the same problem. The problem is when the installer gets to Detect and

Re: 'motion' does not save movies, only still pics

2014-09-25 Thread Whit Hansell
On 09/25/2014 11:34 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 26/09/14 00:12, Rob Owens wrote: I tested 'motion' on Wheezy yesterday. It detects motion and takes still shots, but it is not creating movies out of the still shots. I have set: # Use ffmpeg to encode mpeg movies in realtime (default: off)

loss of I/O on some websites

2014-05-11 Thread Whit Hansell
Am getting frustrated. On the internet today there are so many sites that have taken on so much advertising that it is killing my desire to go to various sites. I mean specifically news sites. My box is a relatively new AMD quad core over 3 Gh, 16 Gb Ram and a video card w. 1 Gb memery on

Re: [SOLVED]loss of I/O on some websites

2014-05-11 Thread Whit Hansell
On 05/11/2014 09:30 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 08:59:41AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Am getting frustrated. On the internet today there are so many sites that have taken on so much advertising that it is killing my desire to go to various sites. I mean specifically

Re: apt-get vs. aptitude

2013-10-08 Thread Whit Hansell
On 10/08/2013 08:57 AM, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: On 2013-10-08 Florian Lindner wrote: What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get or aptitude? Last time I read about it, it was aptitude, due to better dependency checking. What is the current state? apt-get or aptitude? Does

Re: Questions about installation

2013-06-17 Thread Whit Hansell
On 06/17/2013 05:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 16 iun 13, 19:27:42, Whit Hansell wrote: Just a suggestno. I had the same problem w. my win7 laptop trying to put Debian on it. I shrank the W7 hd size using live CD of gparted and then formatted the balance of the drive as ext 3 I

Re: Questions about installation

2013-06-16 Thread Whit Hansell
On 06/16/2013 05:38 PM, Vadim Kolchev wrote: В Вск, 16/06/2013 в 15:17 -0600, Yongbo Zuo пишет: Hi All I have a new PC, I am planning to install both win7 and Debian, My hardware is as following: CPU: intel i4770k, 8 core, 3.5GHz GPU: AMD HD7970 Motherboard: Gigabyte Z87X-UD4H during the

[OT] politically incorrect web hosts......

2013-04-24 Thread Whit Hansell
Guys and gals, I am looking for a web host where I can do some blogging and a website w/o having to worry about being thrown off because I am not politically correct. Is there such a web host of which anyone might be aware? I know they are out there but just have no idea how to find one.

Re: [OT] politically incorrect web hosts......

2013-04-24 Thread Whit Hansell
for web hosts that are labeled off shore these generally have very lenient TOS. Also normally were warez are hosted. If you cannot find any, another place to look would be web hosts based in the Ukraine as they have very little internet regulations. On Apr 24, 2013 10:46 PM, Whit Hansell

Re: Debian Live to USB on Windows

2012-10-06 Thread Whit Hansell
Regarding dual drives wincows and linux. I have done it in the past w. the windows the first drive on the cable and linux second as slave but in the menu system having Linux as the first menu item. That way if you boot grub from the mbr it goes to grub and your menu and you're good to go.

Re: bug report to icedove or iceweasel??

2012-08-05 Thread Whit Hansell
On 08/03/2012 11:38 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:19:18 -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: (please, no html posts here, thanks) Needing to send in bug report as I cannot find the answer to this specific problem. As explained before, I can get to Iceweasel from Icedove when I click

bug report to icedove or iceweasel??

2012-08-02 Thread Whit Hansell
Needing to send in bug report as I cannot find the answer to this specific problem. As explained before, I can get to Iceweasel from Icedove when I click on a link but I can only get to my homepage. I have changed homepages to see if that may be the problem but it makes no difference. Example

Re: links won't open using icedove/wheezy

2012-08-02 Thread Whit Hansell
On 08/02/2012 05:48 PM, chymian wrote: hi whit, Also, you mention in user_prefs, the line in pref.js user_pref(network.protocol-handler.external.http, true); Well, I don't have that specific line in my user_prefs. Did you add the line or just change the false to true? I probably

Re: links won't open using icedove/wheezy

2012-08-01 Thread Whit Hansell
On 07/31/2012 07:17 AM, chymian wrote: hi everybody, Just checking to see if others are having the same problem. yes indeed. I had 2 mailthreats about this on the debian-user-german. 1. icedove does not open external links. it opened the browser, but did not handover the URL. I had to got

Re: links won't open using icedove/wheezy

2012-07-31 Thread Whit Hansell
Gunter Thanks for the reply but I checked to see if anything you mentioned was even possible and it came out I don't got none of that stuff. G On 07/31/2012 07:17 AM, chymian wrote: Just checking to see if others are having the same problem. yes indeed. I had 2 mailthreats about this on

Re: links won't open using icedove/wheezy

2012-07-31 Thread Whit Hansell
On 07/31/2012 04:04 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: On 07/31/2012 12:01 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: snip I checked my file associations and could not find anything about this in that system settings setup. Hunted all over. Nothing. 2. I changed in the .icedove/profile/prefs.js ??? On my working

links won't open using icedove/wheezy

2012-07-28 Thread Whit Hansell
Just checking to see if others are having the same problem. Using Wheezy and a couple of months ago (guessing) I did a dist-upgrade and all of a sudden my links would only open a new iceweasel window and only to my home page. I have been patient waiting to see if this bug would get fixed but so

Re: unique install question? (Squeeze audio install using the Wheezy-di from a USB drive)

2012-06-13 Thread Whit Hansell
Karen, I believe I can help you but am asking if it's ok to contact you off list to discuss. I also have a vision problem so am somewhat aware of your difficulty. Just reply to the list or to me private and I'll do what I can to get you up and running and learning Debian. Regards, Whit Hansell

Re: putting audio files onto a DVD

2012-05-10 Thread Whit Hansell
and again, thanks so much for your help. Best regards and Cheers. Whit On 05/10/2012 11:37 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 09 May 2012 20:11:50 -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Sorry for the interruption but have tried to find a linux program which will allow me to put andio files onto DVD's. I have one

putting audio files onto a DVD

2012-05-09 Thread Whit Hansell
Sorry for the interruption but have tried to find a linux program which will allow me to put andio files onto DVD's. I have one particular file which is just too large to fit on a CD and so wanted to put it on a DVD but haven't been able to find a way to do it. The files is an .mp3 and I

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-02-29 Thread Whit Hansell
Tom, thank you for the info. I agree w. sending in bug reports. It's just that there is such a learning curve w.Gnome 3 and KDE4 which I had tried before I changed over to Gnome 2.30.x previously. I have gone ahead and done the full apt-get dist-upgrade and played w. the new Gnome and found

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-02-27 Thread Whit Hansell
On 02/27/2012 04:26 AM, Monsieur Louk wrote: I think you'll find every thing you need in the Debian doc: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_aptitude_literal Quote: The difference between

Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-02-26 Thread Whit Hansell
OK, Y'all. Confusin', confusin', confusin. Been safely running Wheezy on my home desktop and lovin' it even w. the occasional slight breaks, etc. But a while ago, I upgraded and lost my admin and system submenus under the System menu at the gnome top panel. Really not been a big pain

Re: please update patches / investigate build failures for gcc-4.7 snapshot builds

2011-12-18 Thread Whit Hansell
On 12/18/2011 06:55 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: Please have a look at the gcc-4.7 package in experimental, update patches (hurd, kfreebsd, ARM is fixed in svn), and investigate the build failures (currently ia64, but more will appear). Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Newbie in AMD64

2011-11-26 Thread Whit Hansell
Jose, Have Wheezy on pretty much the same type of hardware as you are installing onto and works fine. I always try to use current netinst or card sized iso as it makes more sense to bring files over net rather than make a bunch of dvd's and then find a problem halfway thru w. one of the

webcam/mouse conflict

2011-10-30 Thread Whit Hansell
Hey folks, First, thanks to all who help on this list. It is much appreciated by all. Have run into a problem and don't know to whom to report it. Running Wheezy. Have wireless Logitech mouse. Have usb style webcam of offbrand type but it has worked fine before so the driver is recognized

Re: odd network error - wireless drops when browsing with mc over ssh

2011-10-18 Thread Whit Hansell
On 10/18/2011 08:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:30:34 +0100, andy baxter wrote: On 15/10/11 12:30, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:07:46 +0100, andy baxter wrote: I've just been trying to reproduce the error to give you some more information, and at the moment it's

[SOLVED]Re: Recent Changes in CUPS and Foomatic Causing All-Black Printing from Browsers?

2011-10-04 Thread Whit Hansell
On 09/13/2011 07:51 AM, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 09/12/2011 06:36 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: I'm using Wheezy too and had the same problem w. getting a black page in the browser but it printing ok elsewhere. Now, after today's upgrade, I no longer get a black page. I get nothing. It won't

Re: how stable is lenny

2011-09-23 Thread Whit Hansell
On 09/23/2011 08:21 AM, Long Wind wrote: sometime I can't shutdown lenny after using it for some time (I mean lenny doesn't respond to my key strokes) has anyone have similar experience? I install and run some no open source software as a no-root user it shouldn't cause problem I've had the

Re: Console access using F1 etc

2011-09-14 Thread Whit Hansell
On 09/14/2011 06:59 PM, John Foster wrote: I recently had to do a new installation of squeeze on a production server. Its been a LONG time since I did that and I see a few things are different since my last time. I can not access the consoles by hitting ctrl,alt, delete. I recall a couple of

Re: Recent Changes in CUPS and Foomatic Causing All-Black Printing from Browsers?

2011-09-12 Thread Whit Hansell
On 09/12/2011 01:06 PM, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: Hi, I'm reluctant to even bring this up because it's so darned weird. I've got an HP OfficeJet 6310 (multi-function network device: printer, fax, scanner) that has worked flawlessly for a couple of years under Debian stable and testing. I

Re: virt terminal font problem

2011-09-06 Thread Whit Hansell
On 09/05/2011 06:21 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 04:12:31PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Please select the size of the font for the Linux console. Simple │ │ integers corresponding to fonts can be used with all console drivers. │[snip] Some general points

Re: virt terminal font problem

2011-09-05 Thread Whit Hansell
[Having to resend this as I originally only sent it to Ivan - this is to the user group] Thanks for the reply Ivan. Shawn mentioned trying dpkg-reconfigure console-setup so I tried that first and got nowhere but it did give me a notice when I set it in certain setups, as in VGA. It came up w.

Re: virt terminal font problem

2011-09-05 Thread Whit Hansell
and that the driver I seem to be using is the problem. Again thanks for your suggestion. Much appreciated. Whit On 09/05/2011 04:00 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 04 Sep 2011 at 21:17:14 -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: as anyone any knowledge of manipulating font size in Virt Term in snip Your first port of call should

Re:[SOLVED] virt terminal font problem

2011-09-05 Thread Whit Hansell
On 09/05/2011 04:12 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: [Having to resend this as I originally only sent it to Ivan - this is to the user group] Thanks for the reply Ivan. Shawn mentioned trying dpkg-reconfigure console-setup so I tried that first and got nowhere but it did give me a notice when I set

Re: [SOLVED]virt terminal font problem

2011-09-05 Thread Whit Hansell
on various things and it helped but since Wheezy is so new in so many ways, I felt there had to be another answer. And actually had not even thought about it. Thanks again. Your aid is very much appreciated. whit On 09/05/2011 04:21 PM, Whit Hansell wrote: Thank you Brian . I did the dpkg

Re: virt terminal font problem

2011-09-05 Thread Whit Hansell
On 09/05/2011 06:24 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: [Please don't top-post. Thanks.] On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 06:17:57PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Ivan and group. I went ahead and tried resetting the radeon modeset] to 0 which is linux for [OFF], and voila' it worked. Shazaam! What do you know

virt terminal font problem

2011-09-04 Thread Whit Hansell
Maybe someone can help me here. I've googled all over and cannot find an answer to my problem. I had been running Lenny before Squeeze went stable, then installed Wheezy testing because I wanted to get back to running testing again instead of stable. I've been running Debian Linux since

test

2011-06-25 Thread Whit Hansell
Sorry but testing to see if still subscribed. Am seeing on activity since the 17th June. Whit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Fwd: warning from list@jaxlug.org

2011-06-21 Thread Whit Hansell
I received the same email but w. only one number listed. Actually since the email bounce date was June 7, I wonder what this is all about. Actually, there has been so little activity on the board, I think I had somehow been unsubscribed so subscribed again a few days ago and started

Re: Desktop performance problem

2011-06-14 Thread Whit Hansell
may or may not help but I've done the following. Put a process metersystem monitor in the taskbar and when it shows something working in the background, as in, a program did not quit(some online video stuff does this among other items), I can tell something is still hogging cpu time and then

Re: Problems installing squeeze netinstall

2011-05-29 Thread Whit Hansell
On 05/29/2011 12:21 PM, William Hopkins wrote: On 05/29/11 at 11:50am, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: At 11:33 AM 5/29/2011, William Hopkins wrote: On 05/29/11 at 11:00am, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: At 09:25 AM 5/28/2011, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:45:09AM -0400, Ethan Rosenberg

updating question...

2011-04-14 Thread Whit Hansell
Guys, Using Wheezy, debian. In the past I have always done my updates w. #aptitude update #aptitude safe-upgrade #aptitude autoclean #updatedb Everything is working just fine and no problem except the updatedb command. I know it used to actually update the file database and sometimes it

Re: updating question...

2011-04-14 Thread Whit Hansell
for the reply and I appreciate it a lot. Helps w. my understanding of things. Regards, Whit On 04/14/2011 10:35 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 08:51:34AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Guys, Using Wheezy, debian. In the past I have always done my updates w. #aptitude

Re: obtaining copy of debian

2011-04-10 Thread Whit Hansell
Re Windows and ISO's. 'Doze don't do ISO's. IOW you can't use a native Windows MS product to burn ISO's to CD. There is a free program out there, can't remember the name, that you can use. Google is your friend. Advise using the businesscard ISO as I had to do a 'Doze download and burn

Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-23 Thread Whit Hansell
Hendrik, Don't worry about it. Been using amd64 for a few years and had really no problems user wise. I did install ia32 libs in addition to the normal 64 bit libs and it has caused no probs. Had used Lenny for a few years, then the new version came out, Squeeze and since back when I had

Re: Printer Driver Issue

2011-03-15 Thread Whit Hansell
Michael, Probably not a help but I run AMD64 Debian Wheezy and also besides having the 64 libs running, I installed the ia32-libs and ia32-libs for GTK for any items which need the i386 libraries. Don't know if this will help or not but worth looking into if you already haven't. HTH Whit

Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....

2010-12-08 Thread Whit Hansell
Michael, I've got a dual boot. Linux on one drive and WXP on another. Very easy to set up. But as I remember, when I installed Windows, I disconnected the Linux drive while doing the install, then put the WXP drive on middle connector of ATA cable when I had that situation. But now I have

Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....

2010-12-08 Thread Whit Hansell
Michael, I just re-checked my instructions I had for myself elsewhere and found I had made a mistake. In the menu.lst file make sure there IS a space between the (hd0) and (hd1). Sorry about that. HTH's Whit Whit Hansell wrote: Michael, I've got a dual boot. Linux on one drive and WXP

Re: Changing from stable to testing.....

2010-10-26 Thread Whit Hansell
Thanks Brian. Info much appreciated. Whit brian m. carlson wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:39:52PM +0200, sigi wrote: last time I tried to dist-upgrade to squeeze, I got stuck in an (for me) unresolvable loop: The system wanted to upgrade the kernel-image and udev in one run - which

Re: Changing from stable to testing.....

2010-10-24 Thread Whit Hansell
Hey Sam, Thanks for the reply. It's helpful. Gracias Whit Sam Varghese wrote: On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:35:31PM -0400 Whit Hansell said: Just thinking that since Squeeze is coming up to be the new stable and have been running Lenny since March of 2009, I was wondering about how

Re: google voice w. linux....

2010-10-08 Thread Whit Hansell
between its use would not vary much between different platforms. I'm thinking I'm missing out on something here though... On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Whit Hansell skippe...@comcast.net wrote: Just wondering if anyone has used google voice w. linux and what you think of it or have heard about

Re: xscreensaver cannot lock: no screensaver running on display

2010-08-31 Thread Whit Hansell
If your running KDE, go the K(Start button, lower left of screen and at the bottom along with switch user and log out, you will find lock session. reg exes wrote: Hello everyone, I upgraded my system from Etch to Lenny a looong time ago... just noticed something odd. When trying to lock my

Re: SFTP on Fedora 12

2010-08-24 Thread Whit Hansell
Mike, Just a guess but check your file permissions Maybe. Whit Mike Rathburn wrote: I've upgraded from F10 to F12. Now for some reason can't seem to make SFTP connections to the machine as a non-root user. SFTP worked fine in F10 before the upgrade. Made no changes in sshd_config (nor

Re: netinst cannot install grub

2010-05-03 Thread Whit Hansell
Great! Glad you got it working., Cheers, Whit Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Whit Hansell skippe...@comcast.net mailto:skippe...@comcast.net wrote: Unless I'm wrong, I believe grub is installed from the iso cd. It might be bad right at that point. Do

Samba printer setup w. KVM winxp install

2010-04-30 Thread Whit Hansell
I'm wondering if anyone has successfully set up samba for an xp install? I'm going nuts trying to figure out how to do it. Any help will be much appreciated. I've got CUPS installed on my system just fine and using two printers. One an HP720C and the other an HP PSC1500 AIO. Both running

Re:[SOLVED} WXP Guest KVM CD problem

2010-04-20 Thread Whit Hansell
the install. What a deal. Now trying to figure out how to set up printing. One thing after another. Darn. I'll get it tho'. ;-) Whit Whit Hansell wrote: OK guys, I'm big time stuck and need help. Got WXP Pro loaded as guest using KVM and can access and it using the Virtual Machine Manager

WXP Guest KVM CD problem

2010-04-18 Thread Whit Hansell
OK guys, I'm big time stuck and need help. Got WXP Pro loaded as guest using KVM and can access and it using the Virtual Machine Manager BUT can't use the CD at all. Truth is that the guest will NOT come up unless I have a cd in the cd/dvd drive. A blank one works but there must be a cd in

Re: KVM storage

2010-04-02 Thread Whit Hansell
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 07:26:29AM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Hey guys, Am trying to set up KVM on my Lenny AMD64 box and need recommendations from those who have set up KVM regarding storage memory. Following is my df -h: FilesystemSizeUsed

KVM storage

2010-03-30 Thread Whit Hansell
memory in /var or what would you do in this case. I have been recommended to even use a symlink from the storage area to a location where I have sufficient memory as in /home but am concerned about debian's hierarchical limitations in that. TIA for any recommendations. cheers, Whit Hansell

Re: Debian AMD64 resuce disk??

2009-06-24 Thread Whit Hansell
Thanks Doug, Good to know. The INSERT disk was pretty current but maybe I needed a different version of rescue disk. Anyway, Ill keep that in mind. Again, thanks. Whit Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:32:20PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote

Re: Debian AMD64 resuce disk??

2009-06-19 Thread Whit Hansell
Diehl wrote: On 19.06.2009, Whit Hansell wrote: Anyone have any ideas? http://www.sysresccd.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Debian AMD64 resuce disk??

2009-06-18 Thread Whit Hansell
Is there such a thing available? No, I don't need it yet. Would like to know if there is one I could have on hand, tho' if necessary. I downloaded INSERT and fired it up but it only gave me a very limited number of available programs to use. I believe there were 8 -10 or so. No GUI(no

Bug#480178: Bug 480178

2008-05-14 Thread Whit Hansell
and reinstall the printer but I guess I was wrong. Wanted to let you know so that unless someone else has also had a problem that this is related, this bug can be removed w. the instruction of anyone having the problem to remove and reinstall the printer as a fix. Thanks for all your good work. Whit Hansell

Bug#480178: upgrade-reports: print jobs not getting to printer after dist-upgrade

2008-05-08 Thread Whit Hansell
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-486 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Bug#480178: upgrade-reports: print jobs not getting to printer after dist-upgrade

2008-05-08 Thread Whit Hansell
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-486 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Bug#439615: Debian/Testing, dangling links caused browser closing problems....

2007-08-27 Thread Whit Hansell
Davide Viti wrote: Hi, On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 08:26:30PM -0400, Whit Hansell wrote: Package: ttf-dejavu State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 2.19-1 Priority: optional Section: x11 The Upgrading commands I use are: aptitude update - aptitude dist-upgrade - aptitude

Bug#439615: Debian/Testing, dangling links caused browser closing problems....

2007-08-25 Thread Whit Hansell
Package: ttf-dejavu State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 2.19-1 Priority: optional Section: x11 Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force [EMAIL PROTECTED] Uncompressed Size: 7307k Depends: defoma Description: Vera font family derivate with additional characters DejaVu provides an

Bug#439260: Addinfo - Iceape browser and mailnews closing

2007-08-24 Thread Whit Hansell
Mike Hommey wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 01:56:55AM -0400, Whit Hansell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whit Leye kaput Reye DSEK 11/27/06-Dr. Bowden, Jacksonville, FL Mike Hommey wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:06:22AM -0400, Whit Hansell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's

Bug#439260: Addinfo- Iceape browser and mailnews

2007-08-24 Thread Whit Hansell
Mike, I don't know how to do an actual uninstall of the gcj plugin so I found the two instances of the plugin filename and renamed them and restarted iceape and checked the about plugins menu item and that java plugin was no longer listed so hopefully nothing is calling anything in that

Bug#439260: Debian/Testing, using mouse in IceApe browser and mail causes program to close

2007-08-23 Thread Whit Hansell
Package: iceape-browser New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 1.0.10~pre070720-0etch3+lenny1 Priority: optional Section: web Maintainer: Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: iceape-mailnews New: yes State: installed Automatically

Bug#439260: Add info - Iceape Mailnews closing

2007-08-23 Thread Whit Hansell
To tie down the problem w. the mailnews mouse situation, when I click on an email message sent from Earthlink, the mailnews and browser both close immediately. Just clicking on it. Both new and old messages from same sender. There may be additional problems I haven't run into yet but this

Bug#439260: Addinfo - Iceape browser and mailnews closing

2007-08-23 Thread Whit Hansell
It's gotten worse on the browser side. I've been going to various sites and can't scroll down much from the top of the page before the browser closes totally. I can open a number of pages but if I try to read down the page of any page even using the scroll bar in stead of the wheel mouse,

[discuss] Request new feature for OOo Project.....

2005-07-16 Thread Whit Hansell
Dear Sirs, I use OOo on a Linux OS. I want to reeeques a featurre addition to your fine product. It is a customizable file list possibly put under Options/Preferences. As it is now when we use the product and want to open a recently used file we are only able to see tge kast 4 files we

[users] Request new feature for OOo Project.....

2005-07-16 Thread Whit Hansell
Dear Sirs, I use OOo on a Linux OS. I want to reeeques a featurre addition to your fine product. It is a customizable file list possibly put under Options/Preferences. As it is now when we use the product and want to open a recently used file we are only able to see tge kast 4 files we