Re: Before I install Debian

2017-02-11 Thread Bob Holtzman
gt;No. > > > >Grüße, > >Sven. > > > Have you looked at Master PDF Editor 4? It's better than Adobe in that they have a current version for linux. They are, however, closed source. -- Bob Holtzman "Bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round...

Re: Do have programs have poor documentation? (was ... Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal")

2017-01-02 Thread Bob Holtzman
on purpose. > > "%(&_++**!& I've often thought that. -- Bob Holtzman "Bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round...

Re: "command not found"

2016-12-07 Thread Bob Holtzman
account but that doesn't necessarily mean you explicitly own it. > > > > On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 16:21:23 > > > From: Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> > > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > Subjec

"command not found"

2016-12-06 Thread Bob Holtzman
and when someone points it ought I will ram my head into a wall in self-disgust. -- Bob Holtzman "Bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round...

downloading mail

2016-11-27 Thread Bob Holtzman
word "" mimedecode mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f -" Tried a few other cominations including .fetchmail and .fetchmairc with no better results. I'mmissing something obvious, but what? -- Bob Holtzman "Bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round...

Re: Can't set up network on Debian 8 fresh install [was: Unidentified subject!]

2016-10-23 Thread Bob Holtzman
28 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:66231 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:66231 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:18252784 (17.4 MiB) TX bytes:18252784

missing subject

2016-09-28 Thread Bob Holtzman
Sorry. Hit the send key too soon. Subject should have been network configuration. -- Bob Holtzman A man is a man who will fight with a sword or conquer Mt. Everest in snow. But the bravest of all owns a '34 Ford and tries for six thousand in low.

Re: IceWeasel (Firefox) Update?

2016-08-07 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 11:37:00PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 06 August 2016 23:23:22 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 12:24:43AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Thursday 04 August 2016 20:48:41 afamilyofbetatesters hendersonpark > wrote: >

Re: IceWeasel (Firefox) Update?

2016-08-06 Thread Bob Holtzman
om backports. My bank is bitching at me to udate my browser. I can d/l from the mozilla site but I would rather get a binary from a repo. -- Bob Holtzman A man is a man who will fight with a sword or conquer Mt. Everest in snow. But the bravest of all owns a '34 Ford and tries for six thousand in low.

Re: password problem

2016-07-13 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 01:23:32AM +, der.hans wrote: > Am 11. Jul, 2016 schwätzte Bob Holtzman so: > > moin moin Bob, > > >Running a new hard drive in my Thinkpad 420 laptop and trying to install > >jessie. Everything went fine until it failed to configure the net w

password problem

2016-07-11 Thread Bob Holtzman
into this before and it always ended in a reinstall, which didn't always solve the problem. -- Bob Holtzman A man is a man who will fight with a sword or conquer Mt. Everest in snow. But the bravest of all owns a '34 Ford and tries for six thousand in low.

Re: Guygyyiy g the same time I see you e

2016-07-04 Thread Bob Holtzman
rt t it > >toy round to 45 t murk unruffled hy upright a fr d c as d. > >H r g d > > > >Sent from my iPhone > > > Is it legal to send encrypted messages over the Internet? What in the world ever gave you the idea it wasn't? -- Bob Holtzman A man is a man who will fight

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-14 Thread Bob Holtzman
me. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- Bob Holtzman A man is a man who will fight with a sword or conquer Mt. Everest in snow. But the bravest of all owns a '34 Ford and tries for six thousand in low.

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-14 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 06:31:11PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/13/2016 04:09 PM, Erwan David wrote: > >Le 13/06/2016 à 23:08, Doug a écrit : > >> > >>On 06/13/2016 02:36 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > >>>Le sextidi 26 prairial, an CCXXIV, Bob Holtzman a écri

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-14 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 09:36:05PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le sextidi 26 prairial, an CCXXIV, Bob Holtzman a écrit : > > I have always found that when using mutt, as we both seem to do, "L" > > replys to a message and sends that reply to the list only. > >

Re: Mailing-list configuration

2016-06-13 Thread Bob Holtzman
s/her way and the hell with the CoC. Like I said, maybe I'm wrong. -- Bob Holtzman A man is a man who will fight with a sword or conquer Mt. Everest in snow. But the bravest of all owns a '34 Ford and tries for six thousand in low.

Re: Big dummy at work again

2016-06-12 Thread Bob Holtzman
> xterm *does* have a configuration menu, it's just hidden behind a rather > obscure (and painfully "vintage X11") UI gesture. (Control + right-drag). Works like a charm except that the changes aren't persistent. -- Bob Holtzman A man is a man who will fight with a sword or con

Re: Posting picture files

2016-05-03 Thread Bob Holtzman
directly > into their email message. That said, the site didn't seem to be set up very > well for pictures. At least that is my first impression. Wouldn't be the > first time that that was wrong though. Run a search on "pictures pastebins". -- Bob Holtzman A man is a man who will figh

Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!]

2016-04-19 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 05:19:46PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:23:08PM +1000, Paul Trevethan wrote: > > > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 14:48:56 -0700 > > > Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote:

Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!]

2016-04-18 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 02:23:08PM +1000, Paul Trevethan wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 14:48:56 -0700 > Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 09:34:05AM +1000, Paul Trevethan wrote: > > > On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 15:27:17 -0700 > > &

Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!]

2016-04-17 Thread Bob Holtzman
l be viable by then, but I doubt it. Or Debian will offer a > > choice of inits as a standard option during installs on future > > releases, but I very much doubt it. > > > > B > > > > If you want a rock solid Debian based system with no systemd - check >

Re: cannot use debian because of too many problems...

2016-04-16 Thread Bob Holtzman
anner"? Believe me they're not all programmers. I'm a living example. -- Bob Holtzman A man is a man who will fight with a sword or conquer Mt. Everest in snow. But the bravest of all owns a '34 Ford and tries for six thousand in low.

Re: installing icedove from backports

2016-03-20 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 08:49:47PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 08:04:19PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > >> Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: > > >> > apt-get -t jessie-backpo

Re: installing icedove from backports

2016-03-20 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 08:04:19PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: > > > apt-get -t jessie-backports install icedove gives "icedove is already > > the newest version". Same with icedove-extension. > > > The installed ve

installing icedove from backports

2016-03-19 Thread Bob Holtzman
apt-get -t jessie-backports install icedove gives "icedove is already the newest version". Same with icedove-extension. The installed version is 38.6.0-1~deb amd64 and the version in jessie backports is 38.7.0-1~deb8u1 Comments, pointers, help, derision, etc appreciated. -- Bo

Re: Radeon trouble Jessie 8.3. [drm:radeon_pci_probe] *ERROR* with firmware-linux-nonfree installed

2016-03-13 Thread Bob Holtzman
wrong post. It was meant for Udeesha Dilshan. -- Bob Holtzman A man is a man who will fight with a sword or conquer Mt. Everest in snow. But the bravest of all owns a '34 Ford and tries for six thousand in low.

Re: Radeon trouble Jessie 8.3. [drm:radeon_pci_probe] *ERROR* with firmware-linux-nonfree installed

2016-03-13 Thread Bob Holtzman
settings, but dmesg > stille gives the same error. > *ERROR* radeon kernel modesetting for R600 or later requires > firmware-linux-nonfree > > What can I do about this? Install the firmware-linux-nonfree package? *Hint* check the repos or just use apt-get. -- Bob Holtzman A man

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

2016-02-10 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 04:01:12PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 02:49:20PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > > > > >As root journalctl produces a long list, tail journalctl produces > > > > > > > >"tail: cannot

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

2016-02-10 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 04:28:16PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Bob Holtzman writes: > > Read the first line of my post. > > You wrote: > > As root journalctl produces a long list > > Which we, of course, read as "When I run the command journalctl a

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

2016-02-10 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 10:54:30PM +, Brian wrote: > On Tue 09 Feb 2016 at 14:50:40 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 05:52:27PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > > Bob Holtzman writes: > > > > As root journalctl produces a lo

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

2016-02-09 Thread Bob Holtzman
Saw that. > > Regardless, you can pipe journalctl output through tail, e.g.: > > I get the same result (as root) with "tail journalctl" -- Bob Holtzman A man is a man who will fight with a sword or conquer Mt. Everest in snow. But the bravest of all owns a '34 Ford and tries for six thousand in low.

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

2016-02-09 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 05:52:27PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Bob Holtzman writes: > > As root journalctl produces a long list, tail journalctl produces > > > "tail: cannot open ‘journalctl’ for reading: No such file or directory". > > > Now

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

2016-02-09 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 06:35:27PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 08/02/16 06:27 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:32:43AM +, Brian wrote: > >>On Mon 11 Jan 2016 at 00:51:24 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: > >> > >>>On Sun,

fdupes

2016-02-08 Thread Bob Holtzman
file? -- Bob Holtzman A man is a man who will fight with a sword or conquer Mt. Everest in snow. But the bravest of all owns a '34 Ford and tries for six thousand in low.

Re: vivaldi?

2016-02-08 Thread Bob Holtzman
I do not like it because it > comes from google. That's not the only reason to dislike it. I found it impossible to lock it down like I can with iceweasel/fireffox -- Bob Holtzman A man is a man who will fight with a sword or conquer Mt. Everest in snow. But the bravest of all owns a '34 Ford and tries for six thousand in low.

Re: vivaldi?

2016-02-08 Thread Bob Holtzman
lashplugin-nonfree, but > browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash instead. > It makes the Pepper Flash plugin from Chrome available for NPAPI web > browsers such as Iceweasel and Seamonkey, using the latest Flash > version, which is 20.0.0.228 at the moment. Which, at a guess, means it

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

2016-02-08 Thread Bob Holtzman
ess the systemd journal with 'journalctl'. If you are being thrown > into emergency mode there must be something seriously wrong. Lines of > priority ERROR and higher are colored red. As root journalctl produces a long list, tail journalctl produces "tail: cannot open ‘journalctl’ for readin

Re: Font size for Iceweasel's menus, bookmark bar, etc

2016-02-02 Thread Bob Holtzman
> > That is a GTK2 setting. Font and font size can be set in ~/.gtkrc-2.0, > it should contain a line like this: > > gtk-font-name = "Sans 11" > > I have "Liberation Sans 11" myself. That would be great if only I had that file in my Jessie install. Running l

Re: updating debian 8 (jessie) stable to permanent testing - SOLVED?

2016-01-26 Thread Bob Holtzman
aptitude figure into that)? I don't use aptitude, I'm > used to apt-get. .snip Sorry, you must have taken a wrong turn. Hand holding is down the hall on the left. Which is to say that many of your questions can be answered with a search without resorting to this list. h

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-22 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:06:29PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 21 January 2016 20:58:11 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 05:50:07AM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:36:52 -0700 Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: > >

Re: problems running backup

2016-01-22 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 09:54:27PM +0100, Ulf Volmer wrote: > On 01/20/2016 10:33 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > >>On 12/3/15, Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: > > >>>rsync: mkdir "/media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop" > >&

Re: problems running backup

2016-01-21 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 04:14:58AM -0500, ken wrote: > On 01/21/2016 12:33 AM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 04:59:05PM -0500, ken wrote: > >>On 01/20/2016 04:33 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > >>>>2) Target partition was mounted BUT had quietly been aut

Re: problems running backup

2016-01-21 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 01:13:04AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 21 January 2016 00:33:45 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 04:59:05PM -0500, ken wrote: > > > On 01/20/2016 04:33 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > >>2) Target partition w

Re: Books Inquiry

2016-01-21 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 05:50:07AM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 14:36:52 -0700 Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 06:43:31PM +, mohammad Harun wrote: > > > Sir > > > > > > Is there any book/g

Re: problems running backup

2016-01-20 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 04:59:05PM -0500, ken wrote: > On 01/20/2016 04:33 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > >>2) Target partition was mounted BUT had quietly been auto-renamed by > >>>my system k/t that another partition was already bearing the same > >>>label name

Re: problems running backup

2016-01-20 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:25:46PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 12/3/15, Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: > > Just installed Jessie and I'm still picking my way thru it. When I tried > > invoking "scripts/backup" as root I get: > > > > r

Re: Fw: Books Inquiry

2016-01-20 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 06:43:31PM +, mohammad Harun wrote: > Sir > > Is there any book/guide/tutorial about how to use GUI (graphical user > interface) or Mouse in Debian ? > > It's hard to know how to download Debian ? though I tried many links on your > download page but still don't

no wifi on jessie install

2016-01-18 Thread Bob Holtzman
Finally got around to installing jessie (clean install) on a thinkpad 420 and all seemes to go well except there is no wireless, only ethernet. lsmod shows iwlwifi but I can't get the radio to turn on. Installed firmware-linux-nonfree with no results. Any help appreciated.

Re: no wifi on jessie install

2016-01-18 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:42:23AM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > Finally got around to installing jessie (clean install) on a thinkpad > 420 and all seemes to go well except there is no wireless, only ethernet. > > lsmod shows iwlwifi but I can't get the radio to turn on. > >

Re: no wifi on jessie install

2016-01-18 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:24:32PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 18 January 2016 18:42:23 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > Finally got around to installing jessie (clean install) on a thinkpad > > 420 and all seemes to go well except there is no wireless, only ethernet. > > &g

Re: Mounting a Windows Share

2016-01-17 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 03:59:57PM +0200, Moreanu Robert - Nicolae wrote: > hi > i'm looking to resolve this problem when I want to install debian 8.2 or > 8.1. I receive this message after it's take to Grub install > > " the 'grub-pc' package failed to install into /target/ " > after the

Re: DenyHosts

2016-01-17 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 03:33:05PM +0200, Moreanu Robert - Nicolae wrote: > hi, > i'm looking to resolve this problem when I want to install debian 8.2 or > 8.1. I receive this message after it's take to Grub install > > " the 'grub-pc' package failed to install into /target/ " > after the

Re: vivaldi?

2016-01-04 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 11:33:05PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 03 January 2016 22:43:36 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 05:21:17PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Sunday 03 January 2016 15:02:59 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > S

Re: vivaldi?

2016-01-03 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 05:21:17PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 03 January 2016 15:02:59 Gene Heskett wrote: > > So I installed googles chromium, > > Which? Google Chrome or chromium (debian package). > > > but it crashes and you have to use the > > reload button, hundreds of times a

OT Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-20 Thread Bob Holtzman
not a very admirable species. I don't really > like people, as a group. Some of them, taken individually are just > dandy. but as a group -- feh. Which makes it all the more difficult > to do justice to them, which they need, and which we need to > attempt. > > Best regards, > > -- > Bob Bernstein -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning.

Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-18 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 09:49:59AM +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 17 Dec 2015 at 12:59:47 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 07:18:31PM +, Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 16 Dec 2015 at 11:05:22 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-17 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 07:18:31PM +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 16 Dec 2015 at 11:05:22 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:06:14AM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > > Please post your .fetchmailrc, obfuscating any identifying > > > informati

Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-16 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:06:14AM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > Please post your .fetchmailrc, obfuscating any identifying > information in it. > > Scripts can yield up a "command not found" when the nfg executable > is not the script itself but, say, some utility called in the > script. (Think:

command not found

2015-12-15 Thread Bob Holtzman
Running Wheezy (7.9) on a reinstall after launching Jessie thru a wall. Reinstalled all my s/w including msmtp and fetchmail. I brought .fetchmailrc over from my backup as well as .msmtprc. Both had been working flawlessly on the previous install. Now when I run "fetchmail" I get "command not

Re: command not found

2015-12-15 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:12:56PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 11:07:58PM +, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 15 Dec 2015 at 15:02:33 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > > Running Wheezy (7.9) on a reinstall after launching Jessie thru a wall. >

Re: command not found

2015-12-15 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 05:37:23PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > On 15/12/15 05:02 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > >Running Wheezy (7.9) on a reinstall after launching Jessie thru a wall. > >Reinstalled all my s/w including msmtp and fetchmail. I brought > >.fetchmailrc over f

Re: command not found

2015-12-15 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 04:53:09PM -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> writes: > > > Running Wheezy (7.9) on a reinstall after launching Jessie thru a wall. > > Reinstalled all my s/w including msmtp and fetchmail. I brought > > .fetchmail

Re: KDE "libplasmacomponentsplugin.so is not a valid Qt plugin" after crossgrade?

2015-12-11 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 06:51:17PM +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 10 Dec 2015 at 11:33:07 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 07:50:28PM +, Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 09 Dec 2015 at 11:19:00 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: KDE "libplasmacomponentsplugin.so is not a valid Qt plugin" after crossgrade?

2015-12-11 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 04:10:25PM -0500, Neal P. Murphy wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 12:53:33 -0700 > Charlie Kravetz <c...@teamcharliesangels.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:33:07 -0700 > > Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: > > > > >

Re: KDE "libplasmacomponentsplugin.so is not a valid Qt plugin" after crossgrade?

2015-12-10 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 07:50:28PM +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 09 Dec 2015 at 11:19:00 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 01:17:25PM +0100, Christian Brunotte wrote: > > > > > `> $ ldd > > /usr/lib/kde4/imports/org/kde/plasma/com

Re: KDE "libplasmacomponentsplugin.so is not a valid Qt plugin" after crossgrade?

2015-12-09 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 01:17:25PM +0100, Christian Brunotte wrote: > Hello > > I've just crossgraded my desktop computer from i386 to amd64, using the wiki > recipe and got everything working so far. > > The only problem: > On the lower right corner I have to white/red "do not enter road sign

failure to send mail-jessie

2015-12-06 Thread Bob Holtzman
I'm getting the famous "Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error)." I have *spit* Ubuntu 14.04 on the same HDD and it works perfectly. The .msmtprc files are identical: # Set default values for all following accounts. defaults #tls on

failure to send mail-jessie

2015-12-06 Thread Bob Holtzman
I'm getting the famous "Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error)." I have *spit* Ubuntu 14.04 on the same HDD and it works perfectly. The .msmtprc files are identical: # Set default values for all following accounts. defaults #tls on

Re: Differences Between ThinkPad Models

2015-12-05 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 06:07:15PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 04 December 2015 17:46:52 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 09:36:59AM +0100, mourik jan heupink wrote: > > > On 12/04/2015 05:28 AM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: > > > >I currently have

Re: Differences Between ThinkPad Models

2015-12-05 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 08:41:23AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 04 Dec 2015, Bob Holtzman wrote: > [snip] > > > So first and last lenovo for me. > > > > My exact thoughts. My T420 is so flexible that you have to be careful > > when you pick it up so as

Re: Differences Between ThinkPad Models

2015-12-04 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 09:36:59AM +0100, mourik jan heupink wrote: > > > On 12/04/2015 05:28 AM, Erick Ocrospoma wrote: > >I currently have one T440p Lenovo. It's a rock solid, with a nice > >keyboard. In depends mostly on > >your needs, T series are for long usage (uptime). Supported on Linux,

problems running backup

2015-12-03 Thread Bob Holtzman
Just installed Jessie and I'm still picking my way thru it. When I tried invoking "scripts/backup" as root I get: rsync: mkdir "/media/cf0a98ed-3c11-4107-b61e-f5139d024396/Jessie-laptop" failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(674) [Receiver=3.1.1]

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-24 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:02:56PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 23 November 2015 19:03:04 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 09:38:02PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: snip... > > > > > > Or maybe I just remind you of your Freshman

Re: pointless linguistic one-upmanship (was Re: "operating system")

2015-11-23 Thread Bob Holtzman
subject, or better yet, > take it off-list? Taking it off-list would deprive us unwashed multitude the benefit of Marios' endless, convoluted, and oh so pompous missives. -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning.

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-23 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 09:38:02PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2015 20:32:30 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:51:00PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Saturday 21 November 2015 22:37:27 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > On Sat, No

Re: The word 'should'

2015-11-22 Thread Bob Holtzman
ou disapprove. > > And you dare to call us "misbehaving children". At least I now know that > everything from you need only be treated with the contempt it clearly > deserves. Well said! -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning.

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-22 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:51:00PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 21 November 2015 22:37:27 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 09:00:36AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 20 November 2015 23:23:56 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > > > On Fri, No

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-21 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 09:00:36AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 November 2015 23:23:56 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:10:38PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > So the operations are simply setting up an environment for doing the > > &

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-20 Thread Bob Holtzman
plete system, e.g., with bash. > > In the meantime I've downloaded the first CD of the Debian live CD's. > Ross Wanna bet? -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning.

Re: [OT] Free software vs non-free, here we go again

2015-09-30 Thread Bob Holtzman
ree" would be, I would bet that he'd > say, "You don't have to pay for it." But the average American/German/Spaniard/Austrain/etc is not a linux user. Neither is the American Heritage Dictionary. -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning.

Re: [OT] Free software vs non-free, here we go again

2015-09-29 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 01:22:09PM -0400, Doug wrote: > > > On 09/27/2015 04:12 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 02:58:20PM +0300, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > >>On 27/09/2015 13:47, Reco wrote: > >>> > >>>>>The above is one

Re: [OT] Free software vs non-free, here we go again

2015-09-27 Thread Bob Holtzman
the benefits? You're making the mistake of linux non-free soft ware with proprietary software. I suggest you read up on open source software. .snip -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning.

Re: An issue with the Debian installer

2015-09-27 Thread Bob Holtzman
ronment > > > (GNOME). > > > > Maybe you didn't tell it to install it? I don't remember if DE is > > selected by default during installation. Probably not cause at least > > netinstall has many choices for DE/VM. > > > > -- > > Antti Talsta > > > > -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning.

Re: Debian's contact info

2015-09-12 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 01:35:06PM +, Uroš Jarc via Brewster wrote: Next time post in plain text. -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning.

Re: Re; Okay, that's too much now!

2015-09-08 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 06:05:26AM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 8/09/2015 5:09 AM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 05:29:14PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >> On 7/09/2015 7:15 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> I gather Devuan is doing wel

Re: Re; Okay, that's too much now!

2015-09-07 Thread Bob Holtzman
such > > distress. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." > > And re-branding Monsanto is still ... Monsanto. Renaming is just hiding > the facts or at least making them harder to be seen. Maybe I'm misreading your post but Devuan isn't simply renamed Debia

Re: help trouble shooting

2015-08-13 Thread Bob Holtzman
the existing one. Posting a new message is the only way to start a new thread. -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning.

Re: eth0 : no such device

2015-07-30 Thread Bob Holtzman
or how to get this answer from the /lspci -n/ output. Why did you write /lspci -n/ when the instruction was lspci -n? Did you try it without the fwd slash? -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Off topic, but has lists.sourceforge.net hung itself for good?

2015-07-20 Thread Bob Holtzman
://lists.debian.org/nycvar.QRO.7.75.3.1507200014370.481@arjgebyy.ybpnyqbznva -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-14 Thread Bob Holtzman
://lists.debian.org/14062015192429.8481c2ebb...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: CLI download interface/tool for Google Images?

2015-05-24 Thread Bob Holtzman
a directory with the name tmp instead of using the input data to make a name; it doesn't work; and, it has the following line in the documentation: gmp hot chicks drinking beer. *plonk* /sarcasm on/ My God you must be wonderful. /sarcasm off/ *plonk* -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result

Re: out of the box wifi adapter

2015-05-19 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 04:40:19PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Bob Holtzman wrote: Ric Moore wrote: Please don't top post. Thanx, Ric That's standard format on Earth, Sol system, Alpha quadrant, Milky Way galaxy, Virgo supercluster Sorry but it's not. Top posting isn't the standard

Re: out of the box wifi adapter

2015-05-17 Thread Bob Holtzman
on Earth, Sol system, Alpha quadrant, Milky Way galaxy, Virgo supercluster -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: xfce autostart command not running

2015-05-07 Thread Bob Holtzman
(and yes it is checked). Have you checked the permissions for /usr/bin/setxkbmap? -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: suscribe joc...@gmail.com

2015-05-03 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 05:16:02PM +0200, Abraham Pérez wrote: Sorry, that won't do it. See the footers. -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Is anyone else having trouble sending mail from Jessie?

2015-04-29 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 08:31:06AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 29 April 2015 01:04:47 Bob Holtzman wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 09:09:03AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 28 April 2015 01:23:41 John J. Boyer wrote: I did not have this problem with Ubuntu. Ubuntu

Re: Is anyone else having trouble sending mail from Jessie?

2015-04-28 Thread Bob Holtzman
about Marvelous Mark's dictatorial attitude? That's reason enough for me. -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Wheezy wifi problems

2015-03-30 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 07:48:38PM -0500, David Wright wrote: Quoting Bob Holtzman (hol...@cox.net): After figuring out how to get iwlwifi installed and now being able to turn on the transciever, the problem becomes being asked for authentication as in a password or encryption key

javascript in iceweasel

2015-03-28 Thread Bob Holtzman
up virtually nothing useful. The few relevant hits talked about going to Tools - Options which doesn't exist on my copy. Any pointers appreciated.. -- Bob Holtzman A fair fight is the result of poor planning. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: javascript in iceweasel

2015-03-28 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 09:15:03PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 14:07:10 -0700 Bob Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: Hello Bob, talked about going to Tools - Options which doesn't exist on my copy Found there in Windows, IIRC. In Linux it's Edit menu - Preferences

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