Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-21 Thread Doug
On 11/21/2017 05:04 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: Kent West wrote: I've recently discovered sweethome3d, and have enjoyed designing a new house for myself. sweethome3d is in my repos but it says it is an "interior" design application and what I need is an "exterior" ditto :) No sign of DraftSight

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Norton composed on 2017-11-21 21:28 (UTC-0500): >>That's weird. The original mail, and all of Dan's mails to the list, have >>only a single html part. An incredibly badly constructed html part at >>that. > All? How far back? Just this thread (all written with Earthlink web mail), until this,

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-21 Thread Dan Norton
-Original Message- >From: Tom Furie >Sent: Nov 21, 2017 3:25 AM >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Installer Can Not Find Root > >On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 05:47:55PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >> That's weird. I don't see that on my end. The original email looks as >> nor

Re: OT plain text missing from web mail (was: Installer Can Not Find Root"

2017-11-21 Thread Felix Miata
Tom Furie composed on 2017-11-22 01:05 (UTC): > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 03:37:03PM -0500, mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: >> As this will be, it was sent using >> X-Mailer: EarthLink Zoo Mail 1.0 >> with >> Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 > You came through fine

Re: OT plain text missing from web mail (was: Installer Can Not Find Root"

2017-11-21 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 03:37:03PM -0500, mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: > As this will be, it was sent using > > X-Mailer: EarthLink Zoo Mail 1.0 > > with > > Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 You came through fine as text/plain. Shame about breaking the threadi

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-21 Thread Emanuel Berg
Joe wrote: > It looks to be a general-purpose CAD program, > with no obvious house/garden object library, > so I wouldn't have thought it would be much > of an improvement over LibreCAD (formerly > QCad). $ aptitude show librecad LibreCAD is an application for computer aided design (CAD) in two

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-21 Thread Emanuel Berg
Joe wrote: > If you really need 3d, then you might try > openSCAD, where you basically write > subroutines and the graphic bit renders them, > not terribly photorealistically. But there > are lots of libraries for it, which may > include some useful garden stuff. You can > probably also find garde

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-21 Thread Joe
On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 23:04:14 +0100 Emanuel Berg wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > I've recently discovered sweethome3d, and > > have enjoyed designing a new house > > for myself. > > sweethome3d is in my repos but it says it is an > "interior" design application and what I need > is an "exterio

Re: Any Sound Card Recommendations?

2017-11-21 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 09:42:01AM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > I bought an Asus Xonar DSX expecting it to work with my Debian Stretch > system, there was a recommendation on the Internet from someone using Mint > who said it worked right out of the box. Mine didn't. > > I would like a really goo

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-21 Thread Emanuel Berg
Kent West wrote: > I've recently discovered sweethome3d, and > have enjoyed designing a new house > for myself. sweethome3d is in my repos but it says it is an "interior" design application and what I need is an "exterior" ditto :) No sign of DraftSight tho so how would one acquire and install t

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-21 Thread Kent West
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:05 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > What software is typically used to do outdoor > drawings with houses, gardens, etc.? > > I know about Dia, Gimp, and such but was > wondering if there is specific software? > > It can be either "kid style" when you drag and > drop items (as

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-21 Thread Doug
On 11/21/2017 12:05 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: What software is typically used to do outdoor drawings with houses, gardens, etc.? I know about Dia, Gimp, and such but was wondering if there is specific software? It can be either "kid style" when you drag and drop items (as long as the proportions

Re: OT plain text missing from web mail (was: Installer Can Not Find Root"

2017-11-21 Thread mrmazda
Tom Furie composed: > On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 05:47:55PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> That's weird. I don't see that on my end. The original email looks as >> normally expected from Debian lists. :) > That's weird. The original mail, and all of Dan's mails to the list, have > only a single

Re: Any Sound Card Recommendations?

2017-11-21 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/21/2017 09:42 AM, Thomas George wrote: I would like a really good sound card for my system and don't want to make the same mistake twice. Any recommendations? USB headphones seem to always work. I have a USB 7.1 sound device that works a charm as well. ALSA/Pulse seems to love them b

Re: Installer Can Not Find Root

2017-11-21 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 05:47:55PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > That's weird. I don't see that on my end. The original email looks as > normally expected from Debian lists. :) That's weird. The original mail, and all of Dan's mails to the list, have only a single html part. An incredibly badl

Re: (solved) Re: need help on VPN

2017-11-21 Thread Jeroen Mathon
Well, Azire is located in Sweden, so latency will always be a problem from China. Do not expect 1GB/ps or 100GB/ps internet speed from a public VPN service, I am not sure how the internet exchange points are in China but i think it could be that they rate limit outgoing and incomming traffic. Che

software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-21 Thread Emanuel Berg
What software is typically used to do outdoor drawings with houses, gardens, etc.? I know about Dia, Gimp, and such but was wondering if there is specific software? It can be either "kid style" when you drag and drop items (as long as the proportions are correct), or basically whatever tools prof

Re: [OT a bit] -- OpenVPN and mobile safety

2017-11-21 Thread Joe
On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:35:24 +0900 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > What I'd like to do now is have the option to set things up so that > the tablet has NO CHOICE but to do all its interaction with the > internet over the VPN. > > In other words, it should conect to local untrusted WiFi as normal, > g

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-21 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:00:54 -0500 schrieb Stefan Monnier: > I highly doubt that TRIM would help. IOW, it's just a gut feeling you > have, but I strongly doubt you have concrete data that can show it might > be related to the presence/absence of TRIM-support. May be you are right. I hope so... ;

[OT a bit] -- OpenVPN and mobile safety

2017-11-21 Thread Mark Fletcher
All This is a little bit OT but has some roots in Debian. More than anything I am looking for pointers to where I should be looking for tutorials or other help, as I am pretty sure there is info out there on what I want to do but am not sure what to search for. Most of my searches so far have

Re: two graphics cards and two monitors

2017-11-21 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 16 Nov 2017 at 08:45, Don Armstrong wrote: [...] > I *think* you should be able to use Reverse PRIME if you do the > following: > > xrandr --setprovideroutputsource 1 0; > > and then xrandr --query; should show the other source. Not sure what Reverse PRIME means but, in any case, yo

Any Sound Card Recommendations?

2017-11-21 Thread Thomas George
I bought an Asus Xonar DSX expecting it to work with my Debian Stretch system, there was a recommendation on the Internet from someone using Mint who said it worked right out of the box. Mine didn't. I would like a really good sound card for my system and don't want to make the same mistake tw

Re: Power settings, turn screen back on

2017-11-21 Thread Ulrich Marckmann
Here is the output of 'lshw': BTW, ctrl+alt+F1 will get me to the login screen. latituded505 description: Portable Computer product: Latitude D505 vendor: Dell Inc. serial: 10Y2F61 width: 32 bits capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3 configuration: boot=normal chassis=portab