Re: Banning a user from posting to Debian lists

2024-02-19 Thread Charles Kroeger
just checking -- CK

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-11 Thread Charles Kroeger
> you refused to recognize that the sub-heading contradicts with the > so-called package's description Yes yes, so file a bug report as recommended. > three decades younger than you but you don't have to sound patronizing or > condescending. You started the war. What's wrong with being old?

Re: systemd-timesyncd

2024-01-07 Thread Charles Kroeger
> Quit using Google search. Use DuckDuckGo. Use StartPage instead, aka ixquick.com -- System Information GTK 3.24.39 / GLib 2.78.3 Locale: en_US.UTF-8 (charset: UTF-8) Operating System: Linux 6.6.9-amd64 (x86_64)

Re: systemd and timezone

2024-01-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
apt-listchanges: News - tzdata (2023d-1) unstable; urgency=medium From 2023c-8 on the tzdata package ships only timezones that follow the current rules of geographical region (continent or ocean) and city name. All legacy timezone symlinks (old or merged timezones

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

2023-12-08 Thread Charles Kroeger
> Try xpdf, but be aware it doesn't support forms nor other special stuff > in PDF like video. qpdfview is awfully simple. #apt install qpdfview (does well with trixie and sid) It prints well with CUPS that provides a driver for my Kyocera FS-920 b laser printer. That printer is 15 years old.

Re: PATH question

2023-11-17 Thread Charles Kroeger
> apt-get -f install dpkg --configure -a I had to use that this morning after the many nvidia related updates that failed to build the module required to set up the packages in waiting. -- CK

Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443"

2023-11-17 Thread Charles Kroeger
> If you ever do find one, please let me know. The lack of such a thing is > the primary reason why I don't do E-mail on Android *at all*. https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail I use this. It is what you want. -- CK

Re: No 6.5.8 RT kernel image?

2023-10-31 Thread Charles Kroeger
I don't know this image. I run Trixie and Sid and have 6.5.0-3-amd64 -- CK

Re: Can't upgrade my desktop

2023-10-23 Thread Charles Kroeger
> I can't upgrade, I cant' fix--broken install, I mean that whatever I > try, same error message ... I have seen these responses before when I didn't have all the apt repositories I needed listed in /etc/apt/sources.list e.g. trixie sources. This is what they look like these day: deb

Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues

2023-08-26 Thread Charles Kroeger
I just have a really large list of UTF-8 characters and if I need one I copy it and zap it in. I suppose this is not cool but, chacun a son gout. a fun site if you want to write someone in UTF-8 runes. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt ⅩⅩⅥ - Ⅷ - ⅯⅯⅩⅩⅢ -- ☢ ➛ ☠ ➛ ♺

Re: Package policy?

2023-08-08 Thread Charles Kroeger
It's the Lord's will Hans, you have to accept it. Follow the prophet sid. -- Deo Soli Debianea Invicto Seculari

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Charles Kroeger
> As far as I know, apt is pretty much apt-get If you're using Debian 12 then the -get is gone. #apt [a command] & #dpkg [a command] Should cover any package management you would want. -- salve Debian invictus pgpK1eYZBjaIa.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-15 Thread Charles Kroeger
When you have things going your way, why not just image the whole disc and sleep well. I have used this for years. It is proprietary yes, and runs on an old version of Linux. https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux/ I have no interest in these people, I don't get a commission for

Re: nvidia-driver gets a code 1

2023-03-09 Thread Charles Kroeger
deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main non-free non-free-firmware not deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware ? -- CK

Re: nvidia-driver gets a code 1

2023-03-09 Thread Charles Kroeger
Ah so a typo. A small thing causing big problems. Once that was corrected the necessary files from firmware were included in an apt update and eventually the full-upgrade without nvidia-kernel-dkms being held back. Everything resolved after that. Thanks -- CK

Re: nvidia-driver gets a code 1

2023-03-09 Thread Charles Kroeger
/apt/sources.list the entry was accepted until I got to the word firmware and that was whited out and deb can't be resolved. So, the cart is before the horse maybe, but there is more we cannot see. -- Charles Kroeger

nvidia-driver gets a code 1

2023-03-07 Thread Charles Kroeger
System Information GTK 3.24.36 / GLib 2.74.5 Locale: en_US.UTF-8 (charset: UTF-8) Operating System: Linux 6.1.0-3-amd64 (x86_64) aka Debian 12 bookworm/testing I ran nvidia-detect: ~# nvidia-detect Detected NVIDIA GPUs: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP108

Re: Firewall blocking my new Debian 11 server ports 80 and 443

2022-05-29 Thread Charles Kroeger
> Maybe I should remove all firewall progs and start from zero. I would suggest you install Shorewall. it is not the pain in the arse that's been the theme of this thread so far.

Re: setting path for root after "sudo su" and "sudo" for Debian Bullseye (11)

2022-05-22 Thread Charles Kroeger
> There is no silver bullet that makes your system secure. I get a login shell with $su --login I don't have sudo installed is there something heretical about that, I should know?

Re: ogg123, ALSA and Pulseaudio

2022-05-17 Thread Charles Kroeger
> PulseAudio is waning and Pipewire is waxing; > WirePlumber is a session manager for Pipewire. ah, just so, I am glad it is.

Re: ogg123, ALSA and Pulseaudio

2022-05-17 Thread Charles Kroeger
>Note: I'm using Debian/unstable. I'm using Bookworm as well. I was just happy at first that I had some reliable sound again. but I don't use my desktop with Bluetooth or headphones as you've described in your bug report. Pipewire is waning and WirePlumber is waxing. I'll put it that way.

Re: ogg123, ALSA and Pulseaudio

2022-05-16 Thread Charles Kroeger
from a google search: In Debian 10, PipeWire 0.2. 5 is available, and should not need to manually be installed, as it's usually brought in as a dependency by applications that make use of it. In Debian 11, PipeWire 0.3. 19 is available, and can be experimentally used as a substitute for the ALSA

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

2022-03-23 Thread Charles Kroeger
I use dphys-swapfile this is a system service that auto configures a swap at boot without requiring a static partition. it computes the size of an optimal swap file and or resizes an existing swap file if necessary. it mounts, dismounts, and deletes the swap if not wanted. it doesn't

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2022-02-22 Thread Charles Kroeger
replace the GPU card Gene it's kaput. C

Re: vipw and vigr default editor

2018-01-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
if you're in a hurry in this situation try: apt-get remove --purge nano problem solved? -- CK

Re: Cannot connect to WiFi.

2017-11-15 Thread Charles Kroeger
you can edit the: # /etc/network/interfaces file and put your key there in the appropriate place if it does not start on its own try: #service networking restart see if you can connect that way. sorry I don't use 'network manger,' I never like it. -- CK pgpTzbktm3yMv.pgp Description:

Re: suspend/resume device

2017-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
> That "apt-listchanges" package comes in handy thanks for that tip, I have it installed now. -- CK pgp0IIh2byNkp.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: /tmp/.X0-lock

2017-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
> Does the PID in the lock file correspond to a running process? > > ps -f `cat /tmp/.X0-lock` I get nothing from that command > Are there any running instances of an X server? > > ps -fC Xorg UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 2994 2812 0 17:36 tty7 00:01:23

Re: suspend/resume device [SOLVED]

2017-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
thank you Cindy-Sue, I did have both of those files but the one with RESUME in it and it did list a mysterious UUID device number (I don't know where it got that as this is a desktop but it does get a lot of dist-upgrades I'll admit) so that's the one I removed and added 'none' in its place. the

Re: /tmp/.X0-lock

2017-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
>ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 20480 May 5 18:58 /tmp (looks good) >ls -l /tmp/.S0-lock -r--r--r-- 1 root root 11 May 5 17:36 /tmp/.X0-lock >df /tmp Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 245996848 42724396 203256068 18% / > If /tmp/.X0-lock

systemd-fstab-generator failed to create mount

2017-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
the whole error message is: systemd-fstab-generator failed to create mount unit five /run/systemd/generator/-.mount as it already exit possible duplicate entry in /etc/fstab? I've enclosed my fstab file: # proc/proc procdefaults0 0

suspend/resume device

2017-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
on a normal boot I get a long wait (30 seconds +-) whilst the cursor winks then the message: waiting on suspend/resume device, before resuming the steps to boot to a login prompt. -- CK pgpPyMPjo4Wft.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

/tmp/.X0-lock

2017-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
running freshly upgraded kernel image 4.9.0.3 on normal boot with startx command but getting the following error message from (X server) xorg: could not create lock file in /tmp/.X0-lock (the contents of, are the numbers 2994) unable to connect to the X server: connection refused there's a lot

Re: Issues running VLC on Xserver

2016-03-24 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 06:00:02 +0100 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I have been using VLC for playing videos, as it scales up the video to fit > the screen even if the size of video doesn't match the screen size. This > was done using "Always fit windows" settings. However,

Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

2016-02-10 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Mon, 08 Feb 2016 19:10:01 +0100 "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: > > If that does not help, please share the output of vlc -vvv. > > Well, I did... You might as well try this: $ vlc --reset-config -- CK

Re: getting sound in Sid

2016-01-21 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:00:02 +0100 Floris wrote: > Op Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:25:20 +0100 schreef Haines Brown > : > > > I apparently have ALSA on Debian Sid on a Thinkpad, or at least > > alsa-mixer seems set up correctly. But $ speaker-test makes no sound.

Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

2016-01-21 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:30:03 +0100 Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 20 January 2016 22:25:55 Charles Kroeger wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:50:02 +0100 > > > > Jarle Aase <j...@jgaa.com> wrote: > > > I just wanted to share > &

Re: Latest NVIDIA driver (346.96) issue

2016-01-20 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 13:10:01 +0100 Pascal Obry wrote: > Since yesterday update of NVIDIA 346.96-1 I get an error about uvm > module: > > The module is compiled (dkms): > > $ ls -la /lib/modules/4.3.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms/nv* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11730792 Jan 20 09:08

Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

2016-01-20 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:50:02 +0100 Jarle Aase wrote: > I just wanted to share Where's Stan Hooper when you need him? I miss your hardware critiques Stan better weigh in here. -- CK

Re: error message after apt-get update

2015-11-28 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 05:20:01 +0100 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, November 28, 2015 8:50 pm, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > I was hoping someone might know what this message means after running > > apt-get update: > ... > > Reading package lists... Done > > W

error message after apt-get update

2015-11-28 Thread Charles Kroeger
I was hoping someone might know what this message means after running apt-get update: Reading package lists... Done W: Problem unlinking the file q - Clean (21: Is a directory) I cannot find any directory named 21 or Clean. A search with dpkg -l | grep q Clean or 21 turns

ALSA mystery

2015-10-13 Thread Charles Kroeger
I have recently had to replace my old Nvidia graphics card so I got a: GeForce GT730 soon as I did this and a few kernel upgrades later (currently) Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 my sound card listed in lspci: Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] (that's the

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch [OT]

2015-09-07 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 07:30:02 +0200 Gene Heskett wrote: > You may well be correct, but to my grandfather they were loaned. I do > know that when they left, each was equipt with a good sturdy tag/label > bareing the owners name & address, well sealed against the elements. He

Re: network configuration

2015-06-24 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 22:30:02 +0200 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Perhaps someone else on the mailing list will have additional suggestions. Hopefully they will be better than my poor contributions here. I would suggest getting into the depths of the

Re: out of the box wifi adapter

2015-05-17 Thread Charles Kroeger
This seems like a great alternative: https://tehnoetic.com/tehnoetic-wireless-adapter-gnu-linux-libre-tet-n150 (I haven't tried it myself though). /Andreas gus...@gusnan.se mailingli...@gusnan.se So it does, and I use the libre-Linux kernel 4.03 -gnu myself; however, it should be

[SOLVED]Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-10 Thread Charles Kroeger
wlan0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:c0:ca:72:68:d4 This also does not happen here. Nor here. The OP's system has failed to get an IP address on the wlan0 interface and has been provided with one by avahi. Maybe the router and/or DHCP provision need exploring as

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 06 May 2015 01:10:02 +0200 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Please post the outputs of ifconfig -a and lsmod | grep ath root@mundo:/home/charles# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1b:21:4f:60:49 inet addr:192.168.0.102 Bcast:192.168.0.255

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 05 May 2015 15:10:02 +0200 David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: What do /sbin/iwconfig and /sbin/ifconfig show? ^?ELF^B^A^A^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^B^@^@^A^@^@^@\^Y@^@^@^@^@^@@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@Xb^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@@^@8^@

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 05 May 2015 12:10:02 +0200 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: The non-free firmware-atheros package has the firmware for the adapter. I have the 'firmware-atheros' package installed. I take it that's the free non-working version of the non-free package I have non-free sources in my

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 05 May 2015 22:30:02 +0200 David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Perhaps I wasn't clear! iwconfig and ifconfig are programs that you run. Because /sbin isn't in the user's $PATH, you need to prefix with the pathname. I get this from #ifconfig root@mundo:/home/charles#

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 05 May 2015 21:30:02 +0200 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: You could try ifconfig wlan0 up to activate the interface before following the remainder of the advice given. I tried that but it complained about not being able to find wlan0 -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-04 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 05 May 2015 04:00:02 +0200 David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: Does dmesg | grep -i firmware show the firmware being loaded? root@mundo:/home/charles# dmesg | grep -i firmware[1.400040] platform microcode: firmware: agent loaded amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin into memry[

Re: Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-04 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 05 May 2015 03:10:01 +0200 James bjloc...@lockie.ca wrote: What is the output from sudo lsusb? root@mundo:/home/charles# lsusb Bus 007 Device 003: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n that's it there David Wright ask: Do you use anything like wicd to manage the

Penguin Wireless N USB Adapter TPE-N150USBL

2015-05-04 Thread Charles Kroeger
After using this adapter for a few months (18 months ago) I committed out all my wireless lines in /etc/network/interfaces and stopped using it because it kept breaking the connection at odd times. I have to take a trip and this computer goes with me where I'll need to use WiFi and so I

Re: Is this an April Fool joke running early ? (Systemd to fork the kernel)

2015-03-31 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:50:03 +0200 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: You're not going to get it. The whole thing was an April Fool joke released early. It will live in memory like the spaghetti trees. Those were the days. They were singing while they harvested the spaghetti too. This

Re: Bank draft code 16471

2015-03-13 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:30:02 +0100 Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com wrote: Dr.Jim Ovia. Bank Name : Zenith Bank Plc Isn't that Dr. Ovia from Port Harcourt, Nigeria? -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-04 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 22:30:05 +0100 Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: I would like to upgrade to Gnome so my desktop looks/feels a bit nicer You seem to be saying you're tired of the minimalist life and want to splash out a bit so there's only XFCE for that. That would be the next step up

Re: remove me from this list

2015-01-11 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 08 Jan 2015 16:30:03 +0100 Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: Well that looks like spam. If a few people mark it as spam it will probably be removed from the archive. Lennart, HEY ! Welcome to the snake pit -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: wordperfect 5.1 for unix, and debian?

2014-12-20 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 18:20:02 +0100 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: Still don't know what you have against LibreOffice. It's almost certainly superior to WP51 in every significant way. WP5.1 users have to have 'reveal codes' or they can't use anything else. -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

2014-11-03 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 11:50:01 +0100 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Why reboot, you can just use 'mount -a'? By the way, 'auto' and 'rw' are default, no need to set them explicitly. Thanks for this information -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

2014-11-03 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:30:02 +0100 Peter Nieman gmane-a...@t-online.de wrote: no one has mentioned autofs in this thread No, but I will put it in my list of options for /etc/fstab entry. I assume entries like 'autofs' and 'nofail' will soon be obsolete when 'systemd-fstab-generator' becomes de

Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

2014-11-03 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:00:02 +0100 Eric Sharkey e...@lisaneric.org wrote: autofs isn't an option for /etc/fstab, it's a completely separate way to specify mounts. For something like an sd card, you would add it to something like /etc/auto.misc instead of /etc/fstab. autofs filesystems are

Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

2014-11-02 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 20:10:01 +0100 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com wrote: I see from other messages in this thread that I'm not the only person to think it equally ludicrous to have a workflow that involves rebooting the entire machine just to mount and

Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

2014-11-01 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:30:02 +0100 The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: I suspect that /dev/sde1 exists, but /dev/sde1/ (with the trailing slash) does not - i.e., /dev/sde1 is a device node, not a directory. Yes, the extra forward slash was there (indicating a directory)..interesting.

Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

2014-10-31 Thread Charles Kroeger
I have a line in my /etc/fstab file: #/dev/sde1/ /media/lumix-photos vfat users,rw,auto,iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 Anytime I want to add photos off the SD card in my camera, I comment out the hashmark add the SD card to the reader, and reboot the computer. The SD card is mounted

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-28 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:40:02 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: opera might be closed source and unmaintained on linux, it's still my favorite. It's very maintained on linux. I suggest you try Opera beta. It's the best browser I've used in a long time. Version:26.0.1656.8 -

Re: Error code 1...........

2014-10-23 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:10:01 +0200 Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Probably a meaningless suggestion, but have you tried apt-get clean ? Yes once in a while, but I use: apt-get autoclean instead and that's before making a weekly image using terabyte image for Linux. (and windows

Re: Error code 1...........

2014-10-22 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:30:02 +0200 Charlie aries...@ipstarmail.com.au wrote: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) When I encountered this error (which was mentioned on this list a few days ago) I purged the linjpeg-turbo-progs package (on which apparently nothing

Re: How To Prove Systemd Can|Cannot Be Jessie Default

2014-10-22 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 02:10:01 +0200 David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com wrote: Let's use our keyboards to launch test cases in preference to soapbox rhetoric that likely proves nothing. Let's let the code speak for itself for a while. I've not had many problems with systemd excepting my

Re: Bibletime encoding problem

2014-09-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
Just output like this: 27 x�͒ 28 x�͒ 29 x�͒ 30 x�͒ 31 x�͒ Looks like Bibletime Mandarin -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Irony

2014-08-13 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:50:02 +0200 John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: Churchill: If you're not a liberal when you're young there's something wrong with your heart. Hummm..that's interesting I lived in Britain for 13 years from the late 60's through the seventies and heard that expression

Re: Irony

2014-08-12 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:50:02 +0200 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Debian isn't as special as you think, at least not from this perspective. Everybody earns money and needs money in this development. Organizations like Debian go forward by people with jobs volunteering time and expertise. I

Re: Irony

2014-08-11 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 21:50:01 +0200 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: I had understood that Debian is in this, as in many things, different from most Linux distros. Yes you're right, that's what makes Debian special, passion always trumps money. Look what happened to M$. I happen to know

Re: Irony

2014-08-10 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 01:00:02 +0200 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: honestly, does anyone care why any user chose to change from Ubuntu or if their expectations were met? A skillful writer might weave a soap opera around the unsettling notions of systemd yet always there, an undercurrent of

Re: clean up my system

2014-08-09 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 00:00:02 +0200 Floris jkflo...@dds.nl wrote: I want to clean up my system You could always install: bleachbit That will clean you out -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Netflix in chrome-unstable on Debian Sid

2014-08-09 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 02:30:01 +0200 John Holland jholl...@vin-dit.org wrote: working in Debian Sid VM by jtotheh @slashdot http://entertainment.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5512583cid=47639701 netflix is going into Europe where Linux is widely used, especially in Germany. I believe they will

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-08 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 09:40:02 +0200 David Guyot david.gu...@europecamions-interactive.com wrote: I would suggest you to reinstall sysvinit Thanks I'll do that and thanks for the explanation regarding the binary file If that doesn't work, that result could be a false positive That could be the

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-08 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 09:40:02 +0200 David Guyot david.gu...@europecamions-interactive.com wrote: I would suggest you to reinstall sysvinit, Just to follow up on your suggestion of yesterday after a reboot today, yes the 'infected' warning in chkrootkit still appears after the sysvinit

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-05 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 14:30:02 +0200 David Guyot david.gu...@europecamions-interactive.com wrote: Anyone saying that Debian and its software are flawless lies or doesn't know what's he is talking about. How true. And by the way, I have had chkrootkit installed for a long time and the other day

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-25 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 24 May 2014 15:20:01 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: There are uncountable illegal copies of Madonna's noise pollution, she still owns too much money, while other people die of hunger. That's not Madonna's fault Ralf, that's just bad government. There's a lot of

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-08 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 07 May 2014 00:50:01 +0200 Glenn English g...@slsware.net wrote: I've always installed from a netinstall, without the GUI, so that GUI init doesn't exist on my machines. This is the case with me too but Francois Patte also ask: I can't find any tuto for grub2 installed on my system. I

Shorewall blocks Internet on boot-up

2014-04-28 Thread Charles Kroeger
I'm running a Jessie/ Sid mixture and after a recent dist-upgrade Shorewall blocks all Internet access unless it is 'stopped' and restarted: root@mundo:/home/charles# shorewall stop Stopping Shorewall Processing /etc/shorewall/stop ... Processing /etc/shorewall/tcclear ... Running

Re: Duplicate sources.list entry

2014-04-16 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:50:01 +0200 Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Someone asked that same question only about 1.5 hours ago with the same subject line. :) strange isn't it..looks like a clear case of simultaneous unconsciousness. -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Duplicate sources.list entry

2014-04-15 Thread Charles Kroeger
This is a curious message: #apt-get update Reading package lists... Done W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_main_binary-amd64_Packages) W: Duplicate sources.list

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-15 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:00:03 +0200 shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 14, 2014 11:01 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 01:55:04AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I read https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/04/heartbleed.html

Re: no eth0 connection

2014-03-31 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:30:03 +0200 François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: # lshw -class network root@mundo:/home/charles# lshw -class network bash: lshw: command not found -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:10:02 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: fenestral hordes. I rather like your description of them but wouldn't it have been more proper to use the term 'fenestrated' it is an adjective. In anatomy, this would apply to 'having perforations, apertures suggesting

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:30:03 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: You must be American! I'm awfully American but I once lived in your country for many enjoyable years. Tell me this, are you English Scottish Welsh Northern Irish or just British I got the original from a reference to

Re: Great Debian experience

2014-03-19 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 02:10:01 +0100 Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: or *cough* Orkadian *cough* :) The selkie that deud no' forget Ae time langsine, Mansie Meur wus pickan' lempeds i' the ebb, on the wast side o' Hacksness i' Sanday, whin he wus stunned tae hear some

VLC media player 2.1.2 Rincewind (revision 2.1.2-0-ga4c4876)

2013-12-18 Thread Charles Kroeger
apropos to nothing but after reinserting these locations in my sources.list: deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org testing main non-free deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid main non-free deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org experimental main and getting an upgrade to VLC the first time to use VLC,

Re: VLC media player 2.1.2 Rincewind (revision 2.1.2-0-ga4c4876)

2013-12-18 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 21:00:01 +0100 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: A bug report where? Not to Debian, we hope. No just write those guys in France. It's up to you. Please see the first sentence in this post. A 'downgrade' might result in an upgrade to something which works better for you.

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 19:40:02 +0100 Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: The terminal just says: Ignoring unknown interface eth1=eth1 I didn't see anywhere suggested you just change the name to wlan0 On my /etc/network/interfaces I have these two interfaces eth0 and wlan0 that both

Re: Wireless Controller Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG in a Dell Inspiron 9300

2013-12-06 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 01:50:02 +0100 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Network-manager and wicd depend on wpasupplicant. Personally I would rather deal with the organ grinder than one of the monkeys. The best advice I would give if you have Network-manager installed is to edit:

Re: 3D printer

2013-11-03 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 07:10:01 +0100 Beco r...@beco.cc wrote: Hi guys, This is an open thread, if that is allowed. I would like to start a topic on 3d printers. Does anyone here have experience in using such printers with debian/linux? What brand would you recommend? How about kits?

Re: Building computer

2013-10-01 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 06:40:01 +0200 Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: it's nothing like the prices shown unloaded, above. .21 cents is nothing like .22 cents, who knew. -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Building computer

2013-10-01 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:40:01 +0200 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: People convinced against their will are of the same opinion still. Stan, you know what Jesus said: cast your pearls before swine and they will turn on you and tear you to pieces. There are opinions and facts. Many

Re: Building computer

2013-09-30 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 00:00:03 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: in Germany in 2012 was around 0.26 €/kWh. (0.26 EUR = 0.351604 USD) In Western New York last bill was circa 0.21$/KWh In West Texas for September circa 0.14 $/KWh 1.00 EUR = 1.35229 USD Mid-market rates:

Re: building computer

2013-09-26 Thread Charles Kroeger
. In a message yesterday, (to you not the list) Charles Kroeger mentioned that part of Connected-standby was an inability to enable CSM. This answer suggests the board can do either. With the release of Windows 8 in October 2012, Microsoft's certification requirements now require

Re: package help

2013-09-25 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 07:10:01 +0200 paulmars paulgm...@gmail.com wrote: Im emailed a bug report. I got no response. I been trying to convince myself to try again, but I have doubts. I dont want to loose my XP install again. I need dual boot and i also need a recovery option if Debian fails

Re: Building computer

2013-09-24 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 22:10:01 +0200 Catherine Gramze rhia...@gmail.com wrote: there was no option in the BIOS to boot to the hard drive, or even to the EFI partition It surprises me to think you cannot select in your own BIOS the choice of booting from a CD. What kind of BIOS is that? With the

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